Ultimate Demon Sword

Chapter 359 The Unique Existence Way of the Rich Family

The prospect of Wen Zhihao winning the European Golden Boy this year can be said to be very good, which also gave the Chinese media more hype.

Of course, for Simeone's remarks that Wen Zhihao may hit the FIFA Ballon d'Or, the attitude of the Chinese media is somewhat reserved, and they did not make too much fuss about these remarks.On the one hand, if Wen Zhihao successfully wins the European Golden Boy Award, it will already be a personal peak for Chinese players.The Chinese media still understand that rice needs to be eaten bite by bite.Wen Zhihao is still young, and as a demon star who won the European top league triple crown and the World Cup Golden Boot in less than a year, he still has a lot of opportunities to hit the Golden Globe Award in the future.

On the other hand, there are many uncertain factors in the selection of the FIFA Ballon d'Or. In addition to the media, all the national team captains and coaches of FIFA's associations participated in the voting.Since the combination of the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or in 2010 to set up this award, Messi and Ronaldo have taken turns as the final winners. With the lessons learned from Sneijder in 2010, the Chinese media is not so anxious.

Anyway, these two top players are over 30 years old and have entered the later stages of their careers. When they retire, Wen Zhihao will be 23 or [-] years old at most, which is the golden age of professional players. According to this trend, he will have a good chance to hit this highest honor in the future.

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The International Champions Cup is still going on. On the second match day of the China Division, Atletico Madrid will play against Chelsea. The two teams met once in the UEFA Champions League last season, but now Chelsea's lineup is much stronger than when the two teams met in the UEFA Champions League group stage last season.In the winter window at the beginning of the year, Arsenal spent 3500 million pounds to get Arsenal midfielder Chamberlain, and 2900 million euros to poach Roma defender Emerson. In this summer, many well-known media including Sky Sports and Mirror reported that Matic was infinitely close to returning to Chelsea.Obviously, last season's failure to defend the league title, and Conte's exit from the Champions League group made Conte a painful experience. In the upcoming new season, the Blues are preparing to make a comeback and do a lot.

Although it was just a pre-season warm-up in the end, Chelsea still attaches great importance to this game. The revenge sentiment against Atletico Madrid is only a small aspect of it. This is determined by the nature of the game, but Conte hopes to see the whole team in a good state.

Simeone's requirements for this game are different. As the last practice field to warm up and consolidate his state before the Super Cup, Simeone's more important requirement than the outcome of this game is not to get injured.

So in this game, Wen Zhihao deliberately slowed down the pace of possession in the midfield. Conte still borrowed his experience from last season's Champions League group stage and arranged for Kante to guard one-on-one. His mobility can keep up with Wen Zhihao.As long as he takes the ball, Kanter will not hesitate to get close to him immediately.

Wen Zhihao would not choose to fight head-to-head. Simeone asked the players to protect themselves. Of course, he would not be so stupid as to think that his confrontation ability could withstand the muscular and exploding Xiao Hei, so he directly passed the ball.

Wen Zhihao's choice on the field is a mirror of Atletico Madrid's tactical strategy. Seeing that Wen Zhihao almost avoids physical confrontation and uses passing to guide the offense, the media immediately knew that Simeone did not want to compete in this game.

Chelsea dominated the game for most of the game, but it was Atletico Madrid who won in the end.

Hazard took the lead in breaking the deadlock for Chelsea in the first half. However, Wen Zhihao scored a penalty kick to equalize the score in the 605th minute of the game. Then Cork, who came off the bench in the 807th minute, made consecutive breakthroughs in the left penalty area with a low shot from a small angle to help Atletico Madrid take the lead and win.

In the two International Champions Cups, Atletico Madrid has won four consecutive victories, and their toughness and control on the field are almost the same as last season.And this is still an unfinished lineup of signings, just like the Chinese media said with a smile after interviewing Wen Zhihao: Atletico Madrid is in this state, it is estimated that Zidane and Valverde will not be able to sleep well again.

At the end of the warm-up for the International Champions Cup, the Atletico Madrid team also attended a series of activities arranged by the organizers. Although Simeone was a little unhappy about this, thinking that such off-field activities would not be conducive to the players’ state adjustment before the Super Cup, he could only choose to cooperate. Whether it was due to the club’s emphasis on China or the characteristics of the International Champions Cup, a commercial event, packaging and publicity were essential. Moreover, Atletico Madrid, as the new European triple crown, has such attention in China. In any case, such activities cannot be avoided.

In this way, it was delayed for another two days before the Atletico Madrid team rushed back to Madrid. It was already August and the Atletico Madrid team could adjust for five days at most before leaving for Estonia, a small country on the Baltic Sea in Eastern Europe. According to UEFA's arrangement, this year's Super Cup will be held at the Estonian National Stadium.

In the last few days, even if Simeone did not do too much ideological mobilization, the players would adjust their bodies to the ready-to-fight state, especially the core players Wen Zhihao and Griezmann, who were arranged by the physical trainer Mendez to focus on a small focus. They trained like dead dogs every day, but ensured that the body would not be overloaded and cause injuries.

This kind of training is not cruel to Wen Zhihao, he just complained to Griezmann: "Da Ge, control your mouth, learn to swallow some words, the boss must think you are lazy, so let us all suffer with you."

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At the same time, the approach of the Super Cup means that Atletico Madrid's new season is about to kick off, and Atletico Madrid's signings, which the outside world is concerned about, have finally surfaced.

In this year's transfer, Atletico Madrid did not change their style because of the triple crown last season and the soaring attention they received, spending a lot of money to keep the championship.Champions, the club naturally still wants it, but signings still insist on a practical route.

On the same day, Atletico Madrid announced three season signings in one breath.The club's official announcement reads:
"We are very pleased to announce to all Atletico Madrid fans that the team's former hero Arda Turan has reached a three-year contract with the club, and welcome Arda home!"

"At the same time, the club has formally reached a transfer agreement with the Bundesliga Borussia Mönchengladbach and the Premier League Manchester City. Two World Cup champions will join us. Matthias Ginter and Ilkay Gundogan. Welcome! The team's defense will become even more impenetrable!"

European mainstream media focused on these three transfers for the first time, and most of the media agreed that Atletico Madrid is definitely the most unusual championship team. "Marca" said: "Compared to Real Madrid's previous £[-] million purchase of the Premier League Golden Boot Harry Kane, Atletico Madrid still continues their small-scale pragmatism even if they win the championship."

After these three signings, the club presidents Enrique Cerezo and Simeone stated at the same time that they are very satisfied with the team's current lineup. The subtext of this sentence is that Atletico Madrid's signings this summer have come to an end.

Compared to the frenzied recruitment of various giants waving banknotes, Atletico Madrid, as the defending champion of the Champions League, is definitely an alternative.A total of four players were introduced, Yan Junling's transfer fee was 350 million euros, Ginter's 750 million euros, Jing Duoan's 1000 million euros, and Turan's 800 million euros. The total cost was less than 3000 million euros, but the eight players who were leased or sold allowed Atletico Madrid to make a fortune through transfers in this summer window.

Although for the club, this is a way to maintain financial health, but the media often likes the big family like Real Madrid who likes to spend money and willful. If they disagree with each other, they will make a big deal of [-] million euros, which is enough to create topics for them. Atletico Madrid’s pragmatic style of living with pockets is not what they like.

Just like the Marca newspaper said, Atletico Madrid is "the least powerful giant that looks like a champion". This style of selling players and selling their blood to survive is more like a mid-range team that has been half-dead.

But not all media are not optimistic about Atletico Madrid. For example, "Aspen", which originally belonged to the Real Madrid camp like "Marca", gradually turned to support Atletico Madrid because of the rigid relationship with Real Madrid Chairman Florentino.

On the front page of "Aspen", an article signed by its editor-in-chief David Ruiz appeared, refuting this style of a wealthy family that relies on spending a lot of money to achieve results.

It is worth mentioning that the picture accompanying the article selected the picture of the moment when Wen Zhihao rode thousands of miles solo in the Champions League final last season to score Bayern's goal, and his position is already very clear.

In this article, David Ruiz argues that Atletico Madrid have long been different from the other giants.

"In La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona are the absolute focus topics, not only because these two teams have long monopoly championships, but also because of the winter windows and summer windows outside the field. These two teams will always have a shocking big deal. The same is true this year. Barcelona uses a sky -high price of 1.6 million euros to bring Liverpool core Cutinio to Nockeyo. Family Madrid won the Premier League Golden Boot Kane in the British Premier League. Kane is not weak. We are used to accepting a law: the difference between a giants and non -giants is whether we are willing to spend money and have money to smash. "

"Of course, the law always applies in most cases, but in the field of football, there are always exceptions. For example, Atletico Madrid has never spent as much money as Real Madrid, including the transfer fee for the introduction of Wen last season.

From the perspective of supporting Atletico Madrid, the Chinese media also summarized the three principles of Atletico Madrid's signings, and joked that "Atletico Madrid has opened up another way of existence of giants."

First of all, in Simeone's tactical system, players are more important than stars.Since Simeone took over Atletico Madrid, players including Thiago, Miranda and Courtois were not among the top stars in Atletico Madrid in these years. These players who can only play as substitutes in super giants can find their place in Simeone's overall tactical system. In the 2013-14 season, Atletico Madrid was able to break the championship monopoly of Real Madrid and Barcelona with a lineup that was not considered the top, relying on the overall combat effectiveness of one plus one greater than two.

Second, spirit is more important than ability.This is very obvious in Atletico Madrid. Almost every player who can gain a foothold in Atletico Madrid is a tough guy. Even Wen Zhihao, who has been winning with four or two tricks and skills, after Simeone's training, needs to show toughness.The Chinese media mentioned the just-concluded World Cup. If Wen Zhihao hadn't made such a change, when he faced the German team in the group stage, he would definitely not be able to withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the German team.Simeone's Atletico Madrid, when they are strong, they must compete for every goal has been a label that has lasted for many years. The spiritual attributes of this team allow them to do many things that seem impossible.

Finally, Atletico Madrid has always believed that signing strategies are more important than money.Even if Atletico Madrid is in the leading position this season, they have always adhered to this principle. The four signings are very targeted. Yan Junling’s joining is just in case and strengthens the second goalkeeper position of the team.

In addition, with the addition of Gundogan and Turan, the Chinese media regard Simeone as strengthening the midfield strength of the substitute lineup. When Wen Zhihao is not on the field, Atletico Madrid's offensive brain will be Turan.Once the all-round midfielder that Simeone relied on most, he will have no problem integrating into Simeone's tactical system.

When almost everyone is not optimistic about Atletico Madrid's prospects for the new season, the Chinese media really pointed out that Atletico Madrid can sell crop after crop of players and still maintain competitiveness.

Everyone expected that Atletico Madrid will have a difficult time this season. The defending champion will be regarded as the number one rival and focus on research by all opponents. However, out of the unconditional trust in Wen Zhihao, the Chinese media also have great confidence in Atletico Madrid. In their words, as long as Simeone does not dismiss get out of class and Wen Zhihao does not leave the team, Atletico Madrid will have the ability to challenge for the championship.It will definitely not be as ups and downs as Dortmund in previous years, let alone leave a group of players like Leicester City and change from a championship team to a relegation team.

Because Atletico Madrid's real confidence in being able to challenge the "Western Super League duo" comes from their way of existence that is different from other giants.

(End of this chapter)