six finger demon

Chapter 425 The New Era of the Premier League
"In England, there were two little kids. They played together in the street for 12 years and it was deadlocked."

"Now, a third kid has come in and is doing better than these two kids."

"Then the previous two children will of course be unhappy!"

This is what Chelsea CEO Kenyon compared in his comments on the hypocrisy of Manchester United and the Gunners after the win.

In Kenyon's view, it is already an important part of Chelsea's branding.It is not difficult to understand that a great team must have its great enemies.

Manchester United and Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United; Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Milan and Juventus.Chelsea need a great enemy, or even several, to make themselves a great team.

From the outside world, Kenyon is making enemies for the team.

Chelsea won the league championship last season, and the Blues still don't seem to want to let go this season.

Magic Bird needs the limelight, Chelsea needs the limelight.

But this limelight comes from tradition, from the accumulation of the past.

Manchester United and Liverpool are the biggest enemies in the history of British football, and in the past ten years, the competition between Manchester United and Arsenal has attracted more attention.

Historically, Chelsea has never been able to find such an opponent or an enemy for themselves. The reason is that their own strength is not enough.

Before the Magic Bird moved in, the enemies of the Blues were more enemies at the level of football hooligans, such as Millwall, such as West Ham.

What Chelsea has is the present and even the future, but the debts of the past cannot be repaid in a day or two.Kenyon also admitted that turning Chelsea into a club like AC Milan is a long-term project.

But what Abramovich's Chelsea wants is fast, as fast as possible, and what Kenyon did, and what he should do, is to use all means to make Chelsea grow quickly.

So there was Kenyon's secret meeting with Eriksson, Kenyon's illegal contact with Ashley Cole, and Kenyon's secret interview with Leo Ferdinand.

It is indeed unscrupulous!

Now, Kenyon is talking about the hypocrisy of Manchester United and Arsenal, saying that Chelsea will defend the league title.

Still unscrupulous!
In the eyes of outsiders, Kenyon's words do have a provocative meaning.

But it doesn't matter, because there are already many Blues fans who regard it as a canon.

Think about the grievances between Arsenal and Manchester United. Isn't the most eye-catching factor in it the players on both sides always ready to fight, Ferguson and Wenger's rhetoric?In the black and white football world, it is the black pieces that attract people, or attract many people.Those who are rude, even rough, those who are bloody, we often say that they have a part of character.

In the new season, the Premier League undoubtedly has a huge point of view-has the Premier League entered the "blue age"?
The defending champion Chelsea needs to establish a new Premier League "dynasty" through the new season.

Although compared with other clubs, Chelsea still appears rich and powerful. For example, in the competition for Wright Phillips, Chelsea knocked out all opponents with a bid, causing the player's price to soar blindly.

But now Chelsea are no longer as big spenders as they were before, and they are getting rid of the image of "upstarts".

In the summer transfer market, Chelsea's signings have been greatly reduced, and they also expressed that they do not want to be "taken advantage of" by others.

Chelsea have more patience in the transfer market precisely because their current lineup is already quite neat and strong.

In fact, Chelsea's lineup has almost no weaknesses and is full of thickness.

The two powerful "arrows" of Crespo and Drogba, plus the powerful winger group composed of Robben, Duff, Joe Cole and Wright Phillips, are enough to form two completely different sets of firepower. "Trident".

In the midfield, Lampard, Terry, Cech and others played all the key games last season, and their state is extremely stable.Coupled with the extremely rational coach Mourinho, just judging from the lineup, the Premier League powerhouses may feel that "it is easy to shake mountains, but difficult to shake Chelsea".

Just when the fans were overwhelmed by the luxury of the second-generation blue battleship, and when Manchester United and the Gunners fans were talking about the "blue threat theory", in another venue, another unique red battlefield, there was a burst of Cheers.

On 8 August, at Anfield.

After thinking about it several times, Bei Tu came up with a semi-main lineup.

It is said to be a semi-main lineup because Tang Wu is still standing on the last line of defense.Gerrard, Alonso, Luis Garcia, Riise, Morientes and Hamann were all ruled out of the starting lineup due to injuries and other reasons.

Except for the three familiar faces of Tang Wu, Hyypia, and Cisse, almost all of them were substitutes and new faces.

In the history of the Champions League, CSKA Sofia has eliminated the defending Champions League champions three times.They are Ajax, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool in the 81-82 season.

But even though Bei Tu played a "semi-main" lineup, the thousand CSKA Sofia fans who came from afar still had a sense of sadness.

They didn't seem to come to see the team advance, but more like to see how the team took a bite out of Liverpool.

After the opening game, CSKA, who hoped to repeat history, planned to take advantage of the field, but even without Gerrard, Alonso and Hamann in the midfield, the red giant Liverpool still did not fall.

We have TOM, does the attack need to go through the midfield?

Watching the ball flying forward in the sky again and again, Liverpool staged waves of classroom-style defensive counterattacks in front of fans all over the world.

Simple, fast, precise and efficient.

No one could stop Tang Wu's big feet like cannonballs, and no one could stop Xisai from running like a whirlwind.

Over and over again, over and over again.

Gradually, CSKA was numb to Liverpool's simple mechanical counterattack.

But at this time, is the real opportunity for Liverpool!

In the 68th minute of the second half, Cisse ran to the ball at the fastest speed.Lift the left foot to the outside, and the ball lands accurately on the outside of the left foot.

The Frenchman took advantage of the opportunity to pick the ball over the head of Todorov who was grabbing.

After a simple and gorgeous goal, the French striker found that there was a large blank in front of him.

One step, two steps, three steps.
When he was about to take the fourth step, the Frenchman suddenly slowed down.

I saw the toe of his right foot lightly twitched under the ball, and the ball drew a beautiful arc in the air and landed accurately in the gate behind the goalkeeper.

Then, amidst the "Firebird" waving all over the sky and the singing of "You will never walk alone", the Red Army double-killed CSKA Sofia with a 4-0 record in two rounds and successfully advanced to the Champions League.

At the press conference after the game, Benitez was in good spirits and beaming.

When facing the reporter about the ownership of this season's league champion, Bei bald touched the top of his shiny head and said into the microphone.

"champion?"

"Sorry, it's the beginning of the season, I don't want to talk about the end of the season."

"But you just reminded me that Liverpool will soon win their first championship of the new season!"

It wasn't until the BBC advertised with the headline "Liverpool is about to win the first league championship" that people discovered that the sky in the Premier League hadn't completely turned blue.

(End of this chapter)