Lvyin Fengmo

Chapter 48 Summer Warm Up

When Liverpool announced that they had bought Italian striker Mario Balotelli from AC Milan for £2000 million, their total investment this summer was close to £1.5 million, making them the club that spent the most in the summer window .

Compared with the history, they didn't buy any additional newcomers, but because the sellers drove up the prices openly, they spent at least 2000 million more than the history...

There are many other big transfers this summer:
The new World Cup Golden Boot and Colombian ace Ronaldo joined Real Madrid for 8000 million euros.

Di Maria, who had just made great achievements for the Galacticos in the Champions League final, had to switch to Manchester United.

Sanchez and Cesc Fabregas, who were frustrated in Barcelona, ​​joined Arsenal and Chelsea respectively, two London teams, and were called "Precise Poverty Alleviation from La Liga to the Premier League".

Mourinho poached the main striker Diego Costa, the main defender Felipe Luiz, and the main goalkeeper Courtois from Atletico Madrid at the same time, almost wanting to completely disband the sheet army.

Guardiola signed Bundesliga No. [-] center Lewandowski from league rival Borussia Dortmund for free, and introduced honorable Xavi Alonso from old rival Real Madrid, further strengthening Bayern Munich's dominance in the Bundesliga status.

Although Manchester United bought Di Maria, Falcao, Herrera, Luke Shaw, Blind, Rojo and other players in one go, and spent nearly 1.5 million, no one is still optimistic that they can be completely reborn in the new season.

Although Arsenal once again sold the team captain, they also spent 7000 million pounds on signings, which can be called Wenger's most prodigal year. However, apart from Sanchez, Debussy, Chambers, Ospina and others seem to be just acting as substitutes, hardly improving the overall strength of the Gunners.

Although the appearance of Lu Feng helped Liverpool win the first league championship in 24 years, and indirectly caused some players to sign a little earlier and the transaction price rose a little, but it did not have much impact on the entire football market.

After all...he has only played less than 100 minutes of professional games. Even if he wins the Toulon Cup championship and MVP, even if he shows some extraordinary scoring ability, he is just one of many hopeful stars.

He averaged 3 goals per game, broke the youngest record in the history of Barcelona in his first-team debut, broke the La Liga scoring record in the first season, and made countless people exclaim "ten times Messi". He has already been kicked out by his old club, and has been displaced in Rome, AC Milan, Ajax, and Stoke City.

There is no shortage of talents in the football world, but there are very few who can truly realize their talents.

Even the senior management of the Liverpool club, are they really optimistic about Lu Feng's long-term development in the team?
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Lu Feng didn't think about these issues for the time being, because he soon followed the club and flew to the United States beyond the ocean.

On July 7th, the 24 International Champions Cup will start soon!

Eight teams including Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United in the Premier League, AC Milan in Serie A, Inter Milan, Roma, Real Madrid in La Liga, and Olympiacos, the Greek overlord, gathered together and prepared to dedicate a wonderful football match for American fans. Deep-pocketed American spectators do well to sponsor European teams.

The first opener came from AC Milan and Olympiacos. Olympiacos, who originally thought it was just a point boy, beat Milan to the ground with a clean 3-0.

Immediately after Manchester United and Roma, although it was a pecking game, the score of 3-2 and the wonderful offensive and defensive scenes attracted warm applause from many fans.

Real Madrid drew 1-1 with Inter Milan, but the champions of the Champions League and the Galacticos were disappointed to be defeated by the sinking Inter Milan in a penalty shootout.

AC Milan, aiming to prove itself, ushered in a second opponent - Manchester City.

Then they were kicked 1-5 by Blue Moon, who lost the league title last season!

Although it was just a commercial competition, everyone saw the fact clearly:
Today's AC Milan is really just a commoner team, and it is far away from returning to its former peak...

Liverpool, the last to play, defeated Olympiacos 2-0 with a lineup that hadn't been adjusted at all. Sterling scored a lightning goal in the opening 10 seconds, and Lu Feng, who came off the bench in the second half, expanded his lead. Without the rhythm, Lu Feng might get an assist.

Inter Milan and Manchester United drew 0-0, and the Red Devils beat Inter 5-3 on penalties.

Roma relied on veteran captain Totti's flash of inspiration to beat Real Madrid 1-0. Although Galacticos changed eight players in a row, they still failed to equalize the score.

But Ancelotti at least has an excuse: because the main players such as Ronaldo, Benzema, Marcelo, and Varane did not play, the Red Wolves played the main force, and it is not a shame to lose only one goal.

After all, it is indeed a normal thing for La Liga No.3 to lose to Serie A No.2 last season.

Then, on July 7, Lu Feng got the chance to start the game for the first time in the new season.

Liverpool ushered in the second opponent of the International Champions Cup, Blue Moon Manchester City.

The grievances of last season perfectly extended to this warm-up match. Both Rodgers and Pellegrini sent most of the main players, and only players like Aguero who reached the World Cup finals got a chance to rest. .

Although it was the starting lineup, Lu Feng was assigned to the right wing position for the first time - the left wing of course belonged to Coutinho.

Brendan Rodgers, the best coach in the Premier League in the 2013-14 season, really deserves the name of a genius tactical master!
Seeing the bewildered Lu Feng, Rogers smiled in relief.

He must have been afraid that Lu Feng would be too inflated after winning the MVP of the Toulon Cup, so he reminded him that he can't eat the world with his left foot, but also practice his right foot!

Most people would not understand the pain of left-handers at all. It took Lu Feng a full 20 minutes to barely get used to the feeling of being on the right side, and by this time half of the first half had passed.

Compared with Coutinho, who frequently instigates attacks, his right flank is obviously much quieter, and he was penetrated behind by Manchester City's Keylor Navas several times.

Rogers shook his head, and rewrote a line of words on the small notebook he carried with him:

"Lu's defensive awareness and ability have hardly improved."

If Lu Feng knew the head coach's evaluation, he would definitely cry out in aggrieved way:

According to the data of the system, his defensive ability has increased from 21 a year ago to 26, a surge of 23.8%!

How can this be called no progress? !
Getting broken by Navas many times did not make Lu Feng secretly make up his mind to strengthen his defensive training in the future, but instead made him decide to fight fire with fire in the first place!

Somewhat unreasonably, he snatched the ball from Gerrard who was about to pass back, and then dribbled along the right!
Do you really think that only you, Navas, will break through? !

Give it to me!
Left-back Gail Cahill claims to be the Premier League's first full-back after Ashley Cole?
Can you prevent my move [Tengyun Assault]?
Give it to me!
The British Empire's first goalkeeper Joe Hart?
I'll shoot with my eyes closed, let's see if you can catch it!

Saw a Hartmon kick!
Liverpool lead 1-0!

(End of this chapter)