Chapter 339 Brother Lion, Lead Us to Charge Again!

After the initial negotiation, Li Ang finally understood that Abramovich just wanted to spend money to buy peace of mind.

Or there was also a layer of thought that Real Madrid would give up.

Didn't Marca also report that Ronaldo's talks with Real Madrid's top management broke down because of the failure to increase his salary?

Ronaldo wanted an annual salary of 30 million euros after tax, but even Florentino Perez didn't want to give it.

Chelsea directly offered Li Ang an annual salary of 35 million euros after tax!

Abramovich didn't believe it. Florentino Perez, who was concerned about the salary structure of the team, dared to follow suit.

Li Ang didn't know what to say about his boss's willful behavior with his wealth.

However, he felt that it was not appropriate to directly accept the highest annual salary in football.

The reason is simple. Even Real Madrid is afraid that giving Ronaldo too much salary increase will eventually cause chaos or even collapse of the club's salary structure.

Chelsea's current commercial promotion and profitability around the world are not comparable to Real Madrid.

Chelsea can indeed bear the temporary consequences of forcing him to pay 35 million euros after tax.

But there is no need to look at it in the long run. Even if it is just one or two seasons in the near future, the agents of other stars in Chelsea will make trouble openly or secretly.

Li Ang has a close relationship with most of his teammates in the team, but the premise is that there is no conflict of interest between them.

People's hearts cannot stand the test, and Li Ang has never felt that there is no need to test people's hearts, which is purely causing trouble for himself.

Besides, his character is not as stubborn as Luo Ge, who must prove that he is better than others in terms of salary while getting enough honors.

It is most reliable to get more and more practical benefits.

Li Ang's current annual salary after tax in Chelsea is 20 million euros, which is a gap.

Increased to 35 million euros, the extra annual salary in the middle is just the endorsement fee he gets for signing two more commercial endorsements in one year.

If his salary increase incident caused disunity in the Chelsea team and failed to complete the Premier League three consecutive championships.

Then his lost income would not be just 15 million euros.

For Li Ang, the stability of the team and the continued harvest of championship honors at this stage are much more important than the annual salary increase after the contract renewal.

If he wins another Premier League championship, his endorsement income next year will increase by tens of millions of euros!

Whether it is football transfer or being a person and doing things, it is always right to look at the long-term.

That night, Li Ang rejected the Chelsea executives' proposal to increase his salary to 35 million euros after tax.

But in the face of Abramovich's goodwill, Li Ang also gave his sincere reply.

"I have no objection to signing a new contract extension. Three years is also suitable, but the annual salary does not need to increase so much. If it must be increased, I think 25 million after tax is a better number..."

Li Ang took the initiative to ask for a reduction in the annual salary after tax for the new contract extension, which made the Chelsea negotiators on the scene look at each other in bewilderment.

They have negotiated with all kinds of players and their economic teams over the years.

But this is the first time they have seen a different player like Li Ang...

The contract renewal between Li Ang and Chelsea went very smoothly.

On the morning of July 25, the day before Chelsea played in the International Champions Cup in the United States.

Chelsea's current CEO Maria suddenly held a press conference at the hotel where the entire Chelsea team was staying, announcing that Li Ang had successfully renewed his contract with Chelsea for three years.

As soon as this news came out, all the transfer rumors surrounding Li Ang died down, and the Chelsea team was completely settled.

Because reporters from all over the world have devoted their energy to inquiring about the amount of Li Ang's new contract renewal with Chelsea.

Other Chelsea players no longer need to be asked by reporters from America every day whether they know the inside information of Li Ang's transfer.

Mourinho even felt that the quality of the team's training that day had improved a lot.

On July 26, Chelsea ushered in the first opponent of the International Champions Cup, Paris Saint-Germain.

In this friendly match, the Chelsea coaching staff still set the goal of the game on further improving the cooperation and tacit understanding between the strikers.

It happened that the coaching staff of Paris Saint-Germain also held the same idea. The two teams hit it off and directly staged a battle of offense and defense for the American audience on the scene.

Before the game, Li Ang talked and laughed with Higuain and Di Maria, who successfully escaped from Manchester United and transferred to Paris Saint-Germain.

Brother Lian was injured in the pre-season training again and missed the meeting of Real Madrid brothers.

There was no gunpowder smell in the whole friendly match between the two teams. It was a 3-3 handshake in laughter.

Li Ang played only half of the friendly match again.

In other words, except for the three starting players on the front line, the rest of the Chelsea starting players were replaced by Mourinho after only playing half of the game.

On the defensive line, Mourinho even used three different central defenders in one game.

They were Maguire and Thiago Silva, Gary Cahill and Kalas, and Kalas and Zouma.

In general, the partnership between Maguire and Silva is the most stable.

The central defender combination of Gary Cahill and Kalas is also effective, and can play the same complementary role as Maguire and Kalas last season.

Although Kalas cannot replace Silva in the starting lineup yet.

But in the new season, he will basically be the first substitute for the central defender and right back position, and he will have no shortage of playing opportunities and time.

In contrast, Bertrand, who plays as a left back, is a headache for Chelsea's coaching staff.

Bertrand played very well last season.

Although his ability is not the best in the same position in football, he and Hazard have a tacit understanding, and the left-wing offensive line formed by the two is also very sharp.

But after completing the feat of defending the Premier League title and successfully winning the Champions League, this guy indulged himself a little too much in the entire summer window.

I don't know if it's because Ake was loaned out by Chelsea again, and now he is the only left back in the team, which makes him lack some sense of competitive crisis.

Mourinho tolerated him in a friendly match, but his performance in the second pre-season friendly match still did not meet the expectations of the coaching staff.

Li Ang doesn't know what kind of action Mourinho will take in the future, but Li Ang feels that Bertrand will definitely not pass the test so easily this time.

Before the second International Champions Cup friendly match with Barcelona, ​​Chelsea finally completed the second signing of this summer window.

Li Ang also welcomed an "old friend" in the hotel where he stayed.

Fernando Llorente.

To be honest, Li Ang did not expect that he would be able to be teammates with Llorente one day.

It's not that he does not recognize Llorente's strength. On the contrary, he likes Llorente, a center forward who plays a prominent role as a fulcrum and is good at fighting tough battles.

But he never thought that Juventus, which had signed Llorente for free before, would choose to let him go in this summer window.

Maybe it's because Llorente wants a more secure long-term contract, but Juventus doesn't want to continue to invest too much in him after Morata has been promoted.

Li Ang is not very clear about the reasons afterwards. He only knows that after Llorente's agent spread the word that he was leaving Juventus, Uncle Bird immediately asked the club to follow up on the negotiations.

It took only about two weeks of negotiation time before and after, and Chelsea signed Llorente for free with a three-year contract.

This is also a high-quality signing for Chelsea. Mourinho's love for center forwards is well known.

This summer, veterans such as Ibrahimovic, Drogba and Torres left the team.

Now with the reinforcements of Suarez and Llorente, Chelsea's forward strength in the new season is still the top in the Premier League.

However, although he has joined the main team, Llorente still did not get a chance to play in the International Champions Cup friendly match with Barcelona.

Chelsea also suffered the first defeat of this American training camp in the friendly match with Barcelona.

After Mourinho affirmed Suarez's strength, he began to do "ranking experiments" in the midfield and backcourt.

After a game, Chelsea's midfield and backcourt have been constantly changing players.

Azpilicueta even played at the left back position for nearly 30 minutes. I don't know if the coaching staff is putting eye drops on Bertrand...

In this case, Chelsea is purely doing tactical experiments, and winning or losing is not important at all.

After passing the physical examination at the local hospital, Llorente had no time to get familiar with his new teammates, and flew back to London with the team.

In four days, the Community Shield will start, and Chelsea and Manchester City will have the first round of clashes before the official start of the new season.

The British media and a large number of Premier League fans are still very concerned about this "double blue war".

Mourinho doesn't want to start the new season with a black door, so as soon as he led the team back to London, he devoted himself to the intense pre-match preparations.

Chelsea's last transfer work in this summer window has also begun to accelerate.

The first is the transfer of Little Monster Lukaku.

To be honest, Mourinho doesn't want to sell Lukaku now. After two seasons of training Little Monster, he has become an important part of Chelsea's offensive system.

Lukaku can't play the starting center position, but he can become an all-round bench bandit.

He can play on the left, center and right of the striker, and his impact is strong enough. No coach would be reluctant to sell such a young player.

But Lukaku also has his own normal demands.

He has been working hard as a substitute for Chelsea for two seasons.

In addition to his poor sense of position, which is difficult to correct in a short period of time, he practiced whatever the Chelsea coaching staff asked him to practice, without hesitation.

But compared to being a bench bandit, he still wanted to get a starting position to further prove himself.

His demands were reasonable, but unfortunately Chelsea could not promise him a starting position.

After many negotiations failed to reach an agreement, Mourinho could only let him go and let him find a strong team that could give him a platform.

Lukaku could not play as a main player in Chelsea, but his total number of goals in the past two seasons was very impressive, and there was no lack of dazzling performances on the field.

So as soon as Chelsea released the news that it was going to sell Lukaku, many strong teams in the four major leagues sent offers at the first time.

There were a lot of competitors, so Lukaku's experience team was naturally not in a hurry and had been helping him to slowly choose.

Lukaku's agent and Everton Club were in a hot fight some time ago.

But after Manchester United, which had a huge amount of money, left, the transfer quickly came to another end.

After Li Ang knew that Manchester United was going to disrupt the situation, he still had a heart-to-heart talk with Little Devil out of kindness and helped him analyze the pros and cons of choosing to go to Manchester United now.

But obviously, Lukaku, who didn't know whether he had received a verbal promise from Van Gaal, was now thinking about going to the former Premier League's top club to be the top player.

Seeing this, Li Ang could only give up persuading him decisively and wished Lukaku good luck in the future.

Chelsea and Manchester United have basically entered the final stage of confirming the transfer fee and terms and conditions.

If nothing unexpected happens, Chelsea will be too little for Manchester United to pay 60 million pounds for this transfer.

After Lukaku's destination became clear, Chelsea also cut the Gordian knot in the transfer market.

First, it spent 5 million pounds to introduce Gnabry, a 20-year-old winger who had been followed up and observed by the scout team before, from Arsenal.

Then it won the competition with Tottenham and spent 6 million pounds to introduce Trippier, a young full-back who performed well last season, from Burnley.

These two signings did not cost much, one was a bet on the player's future, and the other was a bet on the player's coachable present.

It is definitely not possible to use them to start Chelsea's current lineup, but it is not bad to just supplement the bench strength.

On the day before the Community Shield match with Manchester City, Chelsea almost completed the last important signing of this summer window.

When Chelsea officially announced the introduction of last season's Portuguese Super League best goalkeeper Oblak from Benfica.

British media reporters from all walks of life looked at the 22-year-old Slovenian national goalkeeper with scrutiny.

The transfer fee of 26 million euros disclosed by the media is not a small number.

Chelsea has also made a big bet on a young goalkeeper who has never proved himself in the four major leagues.

Originally, Courtois, who played extremely well in Atletico Madrid last season, was the only choice for Chelsea's new generation of goalkeepers.

But this guy has to learn Terry's lust...

Mourinho will definitely not give up De Bruyne for Courtois now.

So continuing to loan Courtois to Atletico Madrid and finding an opportunity to sell him for a high price later is the only possible operation for Chelsea's uniform group.

Li Ang still did not intervene in the team's transfer affairs. Watching the uniform team add one "future star" after another to the goal team, he could not help but sigh:

Chelsea's scout team and uniform team are awesome!

On the afternoon of August 2, in the familiar Wembley Stadium, Chelsea and Manchester City, who had re-adjusted their team members, were about to start the first fateful duel of the new season.

Li Ang wore Chelsea's captain's armband for the first time in the player's tunnel. Looking forward, he also had a heavy sense of responsibility in his heart.

He could feel the expectant and fiery eyes of the young teammates behind him!

He knew that his brothers still wanted to make another impact on the top honors of football in the new season!

This is another golden age for Chelsea.

They want to use the Premier League three consecutive times to announce the birth of the Blues dynasty, and they also want to ambitiously complete the unfinished Champions League defense feat of Bayern!

In the second decade of the new century's football, the embers of the Real Madrid dynasty have not yet dissipated, and the Hai-style Bayern ended with regret after a short period of splendor.

Now it is Chelsea's turn to rise on behalf of the Premier League.

Facing the pressure of responsibility, Li Ang will not back down, but will continue to move forward!

It has always been the times that make heroes, but he is ambitious to create a wave on his own and swallow up this golden age of football!

A real man should be like this!