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Chapter 172 Relegation? I’m going to compete for the championship directly! [Please subscribe! ]

When Leicester City defeated Manchester United at home and became the big news in the fifth round of the Premier League,

And with the defending champion Manchester City tied with the Blues Chelsea at home, all the games in the first five rounds of the league were declared over.

As for the standings, some are happy and some are sad:

Ranked at the top is the “Blues” Chelsea, which was favored by the public before the season!

With the targeted signings in the summer transfer window and the tactics of the “madman” Mourinho, the Blues have been unstoppable from the beginning of this season!

Fabregas and Diego Costa cooperated well, Hazard gradually got better, Terry and Cahill built an iron-blooded defense

Four wins and one draw, 13 points!

In the second year of Mourinho, the Blues, with the addition of BUFF, were invincible!

The second place was not the defending champion Manchester City, nor Arsenal, which continued to strengthen this season, but the dark horse of last season, “Saints” Southampton!

Last season, under the leadership of Argentine coach Pochettino, Southampton, which had Lallana, Luke Shaw, Lambert, Lovren and others, achieved a good eighth place in the league.

In this summer transfer window, this young army was almost dismembered!

It was thought that with the loss of a large number of main players and the head coach being poached, Southampton’s performance this season would definitely plummet, and even fall into the relegation quagmire.

Unexpectedly, with reasonable signings and the leadership of the new coach Ronald Koeman, the Saints, who have undergone a major lineup change, continued to show shocking combat effectiveness in the new season!

Although the start was not smooth, they first lost to Liverpool and then tied with West Brom.

However, in the next three rounds of the league, the Saints, whose team was running-in smoothly, directly won three consecutive victories!

Among them, the new players such as Sadio Mane, Serbian commander Tadic, Italian center forward Pelle, and Chelsea loaned fullback Bertrand performed well, helping the team to kill the second place in the standings.

And the super promoted “Blue Fox” Leicester City, which showed the posture of a dark horse this season, has won three wins, one draw and one loss in the first five rounds of the league after returning to the Premier League after ten years!

With a performance beyond everyone’s expectations and a goal difference advantage, it ranks third in the league standings!

This season, Leicester City’s performance is obvious to all.

Especially in terms of offense!

No one expected that Leicester City, which swept all the teams in the Championship, would still dare to hold high the banner of offensive football after being promoted to the Premier League!

Thanks to the high-pressure offensive tactics and the tacit performance of the front four, the team’s offensive firepower was fierce, and it scored thirteen goals in five rounds!

Second only to Chelsea, who scored sixteen goals!

On the other hand, the other two teams that were promoted this season with Leicester City, Burnley and Queens Park Rangers, ranked second and third from the bottom.

This made many football experts and fans have the same doubts:

Both are promoted, why is there such a big gap? !

It is worth mentioning that the traditional giants this season have had some bumps at the beginning.

Among the top six teams in the standings, except for Chelsea at the top and Arsenal at the fifth, the other four teams are unexpected dark horses.

Southampton, Leicester City, Aston Villa, Swansea!

Among these four teams, only Southampton was ranked in the top half of the standings last season.

The defending champion Manchester City is only ranked seventh, and last season’s runner-up Liverpool is ranked eleventh.

Among all the powerful teams, the most disappointing performance is the “Toffee” Everton, which was ranked fifth last season!

In the first round, Leicester City beat them 4-2, and in the third round, Chelsea beat them 3-6 away from home, which almost destroyed their confidence.

The number of goals lost in five rounds reached an astonishing 15, and the average number of goals lost per game reached an astonishing three!

The defense is like a window paper, which can be broken with a poke.

The points ranking also directly achieved a big decline, temporarily ranking 17th in the standings, becoming the goalkeeper in the relegation zone!

Of course, there are a total of 38 rounds in the Premier League.

It is too early to draw a conclusion because only five rounds have been played now.

However, judging from the current performance of the three promoted teams, most people believe that Leicester City will have no problem staying in the league this season!

It can even impact an upper-middle position!

And in carrying

After the first five rounds of the devilish schedule, Leicester City will usher in a relatively easy schedule:

The opponents from the sixth to the tenth rounds are Crystal Palace, Burnley, Newcastle, Swansea and West Bromwich Albion!

These five teams, except for Swansea, which has also performed amazingly this season, are basically mid-to-lower-level teams.

As a newly promoted team, in order to stay in the league, in addition to defeating several direct competitors for relegation, it must also score as many points as possible from the mid-to-lower-level teams.

After the first five rounds of the league, both Pearson and the Blue Foxes have accumulated great confidence.

Stay in the league?

I’ll go directly to the championship!

Of course, this is just a little ridicule and a beautiful vision in Ling Feng’s heart.

Although personal confidence is bursting, the team’s state is also explosive.

However, with the current depth of Leicester City’s lineup and defensive strength, let alone the Premier League championship, the top six is ​​also a bit of a stretch.

What’s more, the team returned to the European war after 53 years, and also took on the task of impacting the Europa League!

In the bonus distribution plan for the Champions League and the Europa League announced by UEFA in September, the total bonus for the Champions League reached an astonishing 900 million euros!

The bonus is divided into two parts, a fixed part and a floating part.

The fixed part is 500 million euros, which is distributed according to the performance of the 32 participating teams.

The floating part is distributed according to the team’s TV broadcast share.

And each team that enters the Champions League can get a guaranteed 8.6 million euros.

In the group stage, each win is 1 million euros, and each draw is 500,000 euros.

Qualifying from the group will get a bonus of 3.5 million euros.

Continue to advance, and the bonus will increase.

A statistical agency has calculated that if a team maintains a perfect record in the Champions League group stage and can eventually win the Champions League Big Ear Cup.

Then the champion team will receive a participation bonus of 37.4 million euros!

And this does not include the TV broadcast share!

Considering that the winning team often has very high ratings, the winning team must have made a lot of money.

This is the big pie that all teams want to share!

This is also why the teams in major leagues are fighting for the Champions League qualification and Wenger must fight for the top four every year!

Of course, the Champions League has nothing to do with Leicester City.

And the prize money for the Europa League is not as much as imagined.

Compared with the 900 million euros of the Champions League, the total prize money of the Europa League is only 200 million euros.

Among them, 120 million euros is a fixed part and 80 million euros is a floating part.

There are 48 participating teams in the Europa League, and the guaranteed prize money for each participating team is 1.3 million euros.

Compared with the guaranteed prize money of the Champions League team, it is far from it.

In the group stage, the Europa League team will receive a prize of 200,000 euros for each win and 100,000 euros for a draw.

The prize money for the first place in the group stage is 400,000 euros, and the prize money for the second place is 200,000 euros.

Roughly speaking, if the champion team wins all the way from the beginning of the group stage to the end, the final total prize money is less than 10 million euros.

Even so, countless teams are proud to participate in the Europa League.

After all, although the Europa League is not as good as the Champions League, it is also a European war!

When two teams compete for the same player, the team that is qualified for the European war will definitely have more advantages.

For a Premier League promoted team, being able to come to a European stage like the Europa League is a hundred benefits and no harm.

In addition to making money, you can also compete with strong teams in other leagues to hone the team’s combat effectiveness.

Most importantly, it can greatly enhance the team’s popularity and influence!

Therefore, Pearson confessed to the players before the start of the season that he would focus on the league and the Europa League this season.

However, even if the FA Cup and the League Cup are strategically abandoned, the Blue Foxes, whose lineup is weaker, will definitely suffer a huge test in the double-line battle, the later the season is.

Once the main players are injured, the team’s strength and state will definitely fluctuate seriously.

Therefore, we still have to take it step by step.

As for where the league will be ranked in the end, we will know after the last game of the season!

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The club is excited about the team’s excellent performance in the Premier League.

Thanks to the team’s outstanding performance, both the club’s market value and the stock price of the tourism group behind Vichai have skyrocketed!

After defeating Manchester United, a top club with the highest popularity and influence in the Premier League and even in the world, the number of Leicester City fans has also skyrocketed.

For this reason, Vichai specially organized a luxurious

Dinner.

Various seafood and Thai food made the coaches, players and staff of the club feast.

Just as the atmosphere of the team was peaceful, Ling Feng also received two good news.

First, after a few days of interviews, he found a suitable bodyguard and a private chef.

The bodyguard was a former special forces soldier who had served in the SAS (Special Air Service Regiment) named John.

When Ling Feng first saw this bearded old man, he once suspected that his last name was Price.

SAS spoke, with a big beard, named John

Perhaps it was these coincidences that Ling Feng finally chose this taciturn old man.

The private chef was a 32-year-old Chinese named Jack Zhou.

It is worth mentioning that this old man’s resume!

With 17 years of cooking experience, he was a chef in Noma, a Michelin three-star high-end restaurant known as the “Nordic cuisine ceiling” and ranked first in the world restaurant rankings four times.

He could cook all kinds of dishes at will, and the delicious food he made was mouth-watering.

However, perhaps because he had different opinions on food with the chef, he fired the chef directly in the end.

Generally speaking, a chef of his level can easily find a job in any Michelin restaurant in the world.

However, he was tired of listening to the chef do this and that, and decided to become a chef who could make his own decisions!

So, during the interview, he put forward a condition of his own.

That is, Ling Feng could not specify what dishes he should cook, but let him play freely!

Of course, as a private chef, he would make corresponding nutritious meals according to the needs of Ling Feng, the employer.

After tasting the other party’s craftsmanship, Ling Feng accepted this condition without hesitation.

Compared with Lao Zhou’s delicious and healthy food, he suddenly felt that the food in the base canteen was nothing!

With the arrival of bodyguards and private chefs, plus Sofia, the life assistant, his private team has reached three people.

Of course, the expenses of a professional team are not cheap.

The annual salary of a private chef is 200,000, and the bodyguard is 300,000.

Adding Sofia’s annual salary of 200,000, Ling Feng has to spend 700,000 pounds a year just to support these three people!

However, for Premier League stars with an annual income of more than 5 million pounds, this money is still affordable.

What’s more, this 700,000 is definitely worth the money.

These three people can improve Ling Feng’s quality of life off the court and make him more efficient, so that he can focus more time and energy on the green field.

In addition to the expansion of the star’s team, another good news is that someone has sent him money again:

Mendes called him and said that the head of Burberry saw him at Milan Fashion Week and thought that Ling Feng’s image was very suitable for Burberry, and wanted to invite him to become the brand’s global brand ambassador!

Burberry, also known as Burberry, is a British luxury brand. Its main products are men’s and women’s clothing, cosmetics, perfumes, etc.

Among them, Burberry’s trench coat is the most famous in the UK.

And such a company paid Ling Feng 1.5 million pounds for endorsement!

1.5 million a year, two years of contract!

With his initial success in the Premier League, Ling Feng’s value in the business field has also risen.

If Nike had waited until now to sign with Ling Feng, the price would definitely have doubled!

It is worth mentioning that after signing with Burberry, Ling Feng became the second football player after Beckham to cooperate with a high-end fashion brand!

Using the free time after daily training, Ling Feng quickly shot a series of men’s clothing advertisements and photos for Burberry.

On September 26, after finishing the Burberry shooting, Ling Feng took a bus to the hotel where the team was staying and joined the rest of the team

Tomorrow, they will go to Croydon in South London and play against Crystal Palace in the sixth round of the league at Selhurst Park!

At the same time, in a studio somewhere in London

After six or seven hours of shooting, Barbara Palvin also completed all the tasks of shooting for a fashion magazine.

Sitting in front of the dressing table, Barbara, who was having her makeup artist remove her makeup, heard the voice of the female assistant ringing in her ears:

“Barbara, we don’t have a shoot tomorrow, do you want to go around London?”

“Okay.”

“By the way, do you like watching football games?”

Hearing this, Barbara seemed to suddenly remember something, raised her eyebrows, and suddenly asked back:

“Do you mean the Premier League?”

“Yes, tomorrow is a match day, London’s

Several Premier League teams have games. For example, Chelsea vs. Villa, Crystal Palace vs. Leicester City.”

Before she finished, she heard Barbara suddenly interrupted:

“Leicester City!”

“I want to watch this game!”

(End of this chapter)