Chapter 427: Summer Window King NeymarRomano: Here We Go! Tottenham full-back Kyle Walker transferred to Chelsea for a transfer fee of around 5500 million euros.
L'Equipe - Chelsea is likely to buy 1-2 more players before the end of the transfer window, including Arsenal striker Giroud, Torino midfielder Zappacosta and Paris midfielder Matuidi. Tuchel told the management that he hoped to get Roma defender Rudiger, but after completing the transfer of Kyle Walker, Chelsea could no longer afford Rudiger's high transfer fee.
Bournemouth official: Chelsea defender Nathan Ake transferred to Bournemouth for a transfer fee of 2200 million euros.
"Germany Forward" - Chelsea is trying to push for a transfer for Roma defender Rudiger, who Tuchel sees as the answer to Chelsea's defense.
Chelsea reporter Bobby Vincent: If Rudiger's transfer cannot be completed, Tuchel may choose Umtiti. Barcelona's asking price for the player is 2500 million euros, which is lower than Rudiger's 4000 million euros.
The Sun's front-page headline: Kennedy's insulting incident against China has caused Jiang's attitude towards Chelsea to change. The club management is currently trying to find a solution to this problem. Some club executives believe that this incident may affect Jiang's contract renewal with the club.
Chelsea FC announced the punishment for club player Kennedy: the player is banned from playing in pre-season games and fined twice his weekly salary.
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After the game at the Bird's Nest, Jiang Yuan had a meal with his national team teammates in the hotel and then returned to the club to report.
There are only three days left until their next International Champions Cup warm-up match, which means that Chelsea players have to get up early tomorrow morning and take a flight to Singapore, where they have an International Champions Cup warm-up match against Bayern.
The first thing Tuchel did after arriving at the Singapore Hotel was to gather the players in the hotel as usual, and then emphasized some important things.
First of all, regarding the game, Tuchel made it clear during an internal meeting that the wins and losses of these two games are important, and they must continue to use the opportunity of the warm-up matches to try out three-center-back formations such as 343 and 352, including changes to the three-center-back formation. This is very important and far more important than an International Champions Cup.
"When does Kyle report in?"
Terry suddenly asked, Ake, who was playing with them last night, had already parted with them at the airport this morning because he was transferring to Bournemouth.
Bournemouth officially announced Ake's joining at noon BJ, but in the morning a Chinese reporter said Chelsea may have completed the deal for Ake.
Because he was the only one who took the flight back to London at the Capital Airport!
"He will come for the next game against Inter Milan. I will let him play after 80 minutes. You can get familiar with him a little bit."
Tuchel was a little unhappy when he spoke because the Chelsea management was really slow.
When the season ended at the end of May, Ms. Marina said that she would complete Kyle Walker's transfer. However, it is now the end of July and there are more than ten days left before the start of the next Premier League season.
The most exciting thing is that Chelsea still has several players that have not been finalized yet.
Even head coach Tuchel doesn’t know who their new central defender is!
"Jiang, come here for a moment."
After the meeting, Tuchel called Jiang Yuan away alone, and the two of them went to the lounge next to the hall.
Thomas
Jiang Yuan and Tuchel sat down on the sofa together. Jiang Yuan made himself a glass of orange juice, while Tuchel chose to drink cold water.
"I want to ask you about Kennedy. You seem to be still troubled by this matter?"
Tuchel took a sip of water and it was obvious that he was not very thirsty.
"There is no way, this incident has a serious impact"
Jiang Yuan put the cup on the coffee table: "I have the habit of watching some football apps"
“What app?”
"There is an APP in China called Dongqiudi. I like to use it. The comments tell me that my compatriots do not accept Robert's apology. I am the same. I read his article on Twitter. He doesn't seem to think he did anything wrong? Most importantly, why did he set a 24-hour deletion?"
There was something obviously wrong with Jiang Yuan's tone when he spoke, and this was mainly because Kennedy's actions were too outrageous.
At first, Kennedy sent an apology, but Jiang Yuan was not satisfied with it, so he deleted it and sent a second one, which was almost the same apology without any sincerity.
Not only were both apologies insincere, Jiang Yuan only discovered this afternoon that Kennedy had set an automatic 24-hour deletion for his second tweet.
That is to say, before the game started yesterday afternoon, Kennedy deleted all the content about the apology for insulting China on Twitter and Instagram. The earliest tweet was to celebrate the team's winning of the FA Cup (with a photo of himself), as if he didn't want others to know that he had apologized.
"But... we have already made the punishment"
Tuchel's intention is to make Jiang Yuan reconcile with Kennedy, otherwise he would not have applied to the club for a suspension against Kennedy.
"Thomas, punishment is punishment, apology is apology, they are different, right? If Robert can apologize sincerely, this matter can be over."
Jiang Yuan and Tuchel expressed their attitudes. Having been in the team together for two years, Jiang Yuan will definitely give Kennedy a chance to apologize.
"..."
Tuchel didn't say anything, but kept thinking. Based on his understanding of Kennedy, it would be very difficult to get this guy to apologize.
"so"
Tuchel took a deep breath and said: "Just tell me, if Robert doesn't apologize in the end, what do you want the club to do?"
"I can't expect the club to do anything, I only know what I would do"
"Then please tell me, Jiang, what would you do?"
Jiang Yuan looked into Tuchel's eyes and said seriously: "I have a feeling that I will be injured next season"
"..."
call--
Tuchel stood up from his chair: "I understand what you mean. But, Jiang, I need to tell you clearly that I really don't like players interfering in team management, so please promise me that this is the first and last time, okay?"
"I understand, Thomas."
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Romano: Chelsea and Hazard have signed a new contract, which will last until 2025, with a weekly salary of 30 pounds. This is a preparatory measure taken by Chelsea to prevent Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain from poaching players.
The Sun's front-page headline: Chelsea is negotiating a new contract with Jiang, in which Jiang may receive a weekly salary of more than 35 pounds, far exceeding the previous Premier League maximum salary of 26 pounds. Although Jiang has confirmed his stay, he has not yet completed the signing of the new contract, which makes the club management feel uneasy. They believe that Kennedy's "bad behavior" affected the signing.
The news that Hazard received the highest salary in the Premier League and renewed his contract with the team until 2025 became a hot topic on the search list of Dongqiudi. Also on the list was the news that Jiang did not change his contract with the team.
Chelsea pays Jiang Yuan a weekly salary of 35 pounds, which clearly shows that they want to create a god in the Premier League, a god whose weekly salary exceeds that of all other players.
As a result, because of Kennedy's incident, Jiang Yuan has not signed the contract yet.
He did not take the initiative to talk to the team management, but the management already knew his attitude.
[35 pounds, damn, Ronaldo is only pounds, Chelsea is really ruthless this time, they directly support Jiang Yuan, right?]
[There are two gods in La Liga, and Chelsea also wants to create a god in the Premier League. I have said before that Abramovich is very ambitious, and all Russians are like this]
[Actually, I feel Chelsea could offer a little more]
[There is no need to pay more, just to prevent Real Madrid from poaching him. Real Madrid only paid 36 pounds to Ronaldo]
[Kennedy is such an idiot. If I were a Chelsea executive, I would have wanted to fuck him right now]
[35 pounds a week? My opinion is that it is better for him to go to Shanghai SIPG. Shanghai SIPG offers Oscar an annual salary of 2500 million euros. If Xiao Jiang comes, he will have to offer an annual salary of 1 million euros at least.]
[From what I see above, you are a Shenhua fan. Jiang Yuan transferred to SIPG? Do you want to be beaten 0:10? ]
[Xiao Jiang is so angry? Although it’s not sincere enough, I feel that there is no need to be so angry… Damn it, Kennedy deleted the apology. How can this guy be so arrogant? ]
[Bad news: A Chelsea player insulted China; Good news: The player who insulted China plays the same position as Jiang Yuan. You can just wait and see how many minutes Kennedy can play next season]
During non-match periods, there are only these transfer news to look at. Jiang Yuan and Hazard are ranked first and second respectively in the top posts of understanding the team, with and 7000 comments respectively.
It would not be a big problem for this number of comments to remain at the top of the list for a day if one knows the team well. However, by the evening of that day, Jiang Yuan was still first, but Hazard had been squeezed to third.
AS: Neymar's legal representative came to the club office and paid a million euro termination fee on behalf of the player, and the contract between the two parties was officially terminated. The club has reported the details of the operation to UEFA to clarify the possible legal liabilities. The club's head said, "Neymar is no longer a Barcelona player."
15 minute later.
"Globo Sports" front page headline, all text in bold font - Paris Saint-Germain activated the penalty clause in Neymar's contract, creating a historical record with a transfer fee of million euros (about billion yuan). The Brazilian king will receive an annual salary of 3000 million euros in Paris, which is three times his annual salary in Barcelona.
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The transfer fee of million euros directly broke the previous record of million euros set by Bale's transfer from Tottenham to Real Madrid, and this record was broken exponentially.
While fans were marveling at the money-making power of the Paris owner, the professional players who saw the news were already shocked.
"What the fuck!"
In the hotel's steam room, Pogba raised his index and middle fingers: "You mean, million euros, million euros for a player?"
"It's million," Jiang Yuan corrected.
"Holy shit!"
Pogba, who had just stood up, recovered from the shock and sat down with his hands on the bed: "I can only envy you now"
"That million is for Barcelona, not for Neymar. What is there to be envious of?"
Hazard was lying on the bed with his eyes closed. If Jiang Yuan hadn't heard the sound, he would have thought that this guy had fallen asleep: "But an annual salary of 3000 million euros is indeed impressive."
"Has Paris contacted you?" Pogba suddenly asked a question. Hazard shook his head. Currently, only three teams in the top five leagues, namely Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, have contacted him.
"What about you? Jiang?"
Turning to Jiang Yuan, the latter stretched his legs and stood up: "I have looked for it before."
"What did they say?"
"They contacted me last month, but the club didn't agree, and I didn't really want to go."
"I contacted you last month?"
Pogba seemed to have heard some very exciting news, and then suddenly clapped his hands: "PSG said they wanted to buy Neymar in May, but they never did, so it's because of you, right?"
"Maybe, but I refused very straightforwardly, so it shouldn't have affected them."
Jiang Yuan said that during the Asian qualifiers, Paris sent someone to China to communicate with him, but Jiang Yuan did not chat much with the Frenchman who was sent.
Since the club was unwilling to let him go, it would be useless even if Jiang Yuan agreed.
"So how much did they quote you?"
"2 million, it seems a little more than 2 million. You should ask Marina for the specific details. I don't know."
As Jiang Yuan was talking, Pogba put his hands over his head and said, "Fuck, I wouldn't have talked about this topic if I had known. I mean, I feel like a clown now."
After marveling at Neymar's transfer fee for several minutes, I found out that Neymar was actually Paris' second choice, and the first choice was now in the bed next to him.
"So it's not that Neymar's value is exaggerated, it's that Paris has too much money"
Terry said with a smile. As one of the few older players in Chelsea, he couldn't help but sigh.
It has only been 20 years since Terry started playing professional football, and now transfer fees are in the billions.
It's really exaggerated!
"So you didn't agree?"
Hazard opened his eyes and sat up, asking Jiang Yuan his questions. Although the two of them had been together when they were in the club, Hazard was unaware of this matter because Paris contacted Jiang Yuan during the national team competition.
"I don't want to go to Ligue 1..."
Tsk tsk.
Pogba licked his lips twice. Jiang Yuan missed an opportunity to break the transfer fee record!
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The time came to July 7, the day of the International Champions Cup match between Chelsea and Bayern, at the Singapore National Stadium.
The starting players of Chelsea and Bayern stood in the player tunnel, and the Tencent Sports commentator began to introduce the lineups of both teams in this game.
"At Chelsea, we can see that Tuchel put Christensen in the middle of the three central defenders. In the summer window of 15, Mourinho, the then coach of the Blues, loaned the Danish player to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga. At that time, his value was 150 million euros."
"Two years later, when the summer transfer window returned, Christensen's transfer value had reached 2 million euros."
Hearing this, fans in the live broadcast room couldn't help but sigh.
Not to mention, Mourinho has made a lot of contributions to Chelsea. Take his second return to the club for example. Christensen, Kante, David Luiz are all very good investments, and even the most exaggerated one is Jiang Yuan.
According to reporters, Mourinho broke up with Chelsea peacefully, so he did not receive any penalty fee. In fact, this is not the case.
Only a few Chelsea executives knew that after Mourinho left the team, Abramovich gave him a bonus of £900 million (slightly lower than Mourinho's penalty clause) to thank the Portuguese for his contribution to the introduction of player talent.
It is precisely because of this £900 million bonus expenditure that Chelsea is now likely to give up Rudiger, who is worth nearly 4000 million euros, and turn its attention to Umtiti, who is priced at 2500 million euros.
What Tuchel wants is Rudiger, but if Chelsea buys Rudiger again, they will violate the Financial Fair Play Act!
"Then it's Bayern. Bayern also used their full starting lineup today..."
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1)
Goalkeeper: Stark
Defenders: Marco Friedel, Javi Martinez, Mats Hummels, Rafinha
Midfielders: Tolisso, Renato, Thomas Muller
Forwards: Franck Ribery, Robert Lewandowski, James Rodriguez
Head coach: Carlo Ancelotti
When the game started with a dead ball, the director directly gave the camera to Ancelotti who was chewing gum in front of the bench. There were rumors that the Italian was leaving the team in March this year, and Bundesliga fans were also quite concerned about this issue.
He is said to be going to Naples?
Of course, before the official announcement, these are just speculations from fans.
"Go forward a bit, and be sure to return to defense quickly!"
Compared with the calm Ancelotti, Tuchel outside the field seemed a little anxious, waving his hands and shouting.
Three days ago, Chelsea used a 352 formation to play against the Chinese national team, and today they used a 3421 formation, which confused Chelsea fans.
It is impossible to determine Tuchel's level before the game starts, but the only thing that is certain is that in the new season Chelsea will not have to play with only a 4231 formation like last season.
“Go forward”
Ibrahimovic stepped on the ball, pointed to the empty space on his right and made a straight pass. Jiang Yuan rushed up and confronted Rafinha on the wing.
"Chelsea has changed its head coach, but Jiang Yuan still maintains his fierce style. However, because the initial position was 3421, Chelsea's frontcourt offensive players are a little insufficient..."
The commentator had just finished speaking when Jiang Yuan directly took down Rafinha who was defending him alone on the wing.
The number of defensive players is greater than that of offensive players, and the offensive team is at a disadvantage. It doesn't matter. As long as the extra defensive player is shaken off, the offensive team can gain the advantage.
boom!
A quick left-foot cross was made and the ball flew past Hummels.
In order to prevent Hummels from stealing the ball, Jiang Yuan made the cross with great force, which resulted in not only Hummels failing to steal the ball, but even Pogba who ran up the middle failed to get the ball.
Arriving at the back point, which is the right side, William bypassed Tolisso, ran up diagonally, stopped the ball and started to move in the same place.
"William, come on your own. Jiang Yuan is already running into the penalty area. There are a lot of Chelsea players in the Bayern penalty area now. If Tolisso and Friedel fail to stop William, then Bayern's goal will be in great danger."
"Kante, come and help, let's take a look at William..."
"It's over! It's over!"
"William made a bull tail shot from the edge of the penalty area. Friedel didn't react in time. It was a crotch pass, a very clean crotch pass!"
The last line of defense was broken. If it was a formal game, Friedel should have reached out to pull the player, but thinking that this was a warm-up match, Friedel retracted his hand. William faced the goalkeeper and made a horizontal pass to Ibrahimovic in the middle.
"Snapped!"
With a push shot, Chelsea players got their first goal of the game.
Bayern fans were a little sad to see this scene, but Chelsea fans were already excited.
Goals are one thing, but the main thing is that today's Chelsea showed the fans what to expect in the new season.
Last season, Chelsea fell in William's position. Because of William's injury, Chelsea could only use Falcao and Kennedy on the right, and then Fabregas was brought up to play as a winger.
However, no matter whether it is Falcao, Kennedy, or Fabregas, they cannot play to the same effect as William, and they do not have William's ability to break through alone on the wing.
With the return of William, Chelsea in the new season will be stronger than last season in any way. The question for fans now is, to what heights can Tuchel bring this Chelsea?
The game continued, and Chelsea, who had scored a goal, quickened the tempo, trying to maximize the score advantage in the shortest possible time, but they soon paid the price for their impulsiveness.
In the 26th minute, Muller headed the ball from the right side of the penalty area and accurately passed it to Lewandowski who was waiting in the penalty area. The latter easily volleyed the ball into the Chelsea goal.
The camera turned to Courtois, and the Belgian goalkeeper sat on the ground and spread his hands to several defenders in the team: "Can't you come back soon?"
When Tuchel saw this, he kicked at the air.
Although the three-back system can give Chelsea a numerical advantage in the midfield, the disadvantages of this style of play are also very obvious. If the midfielders fail to return to defense in time, Chelsea will be in great trouble when the opponent counterattacks.
There was only one Christensen protecting the defense, but there were three offensive players rushing up from the opposite side.
How can this be prevented?
"N'Golo, watch your position!"
Tuchel shouted that in his tactical arrangement, Kante's running distance was very long. Kante should have stood beside Muller to prevent Muller from completing the header, but the Frenchman's attention was attracted by Rodriguez.
"Use your brain, everyone has their place!"
"Tactics, remember, playing football requires tactics! Tactis (tactics)!"
On the Chelsea bench, assistant coach Loew was observing the real-time offensive heat maps of both teams while pressing "alt" + "tab" to switch to the memo interface and write down what Tuchel emphasized during the game.
The first half of the game lasted a full 45 minutes, and Tuchel sometimes forgot what he needed to emphasize, and this is when the role of the memo came into play.
In the 32nd minute, it was still Bayern's goal. This was Lewandowski's second goal. The Southern King successfully brought the score to 2:1.
The camera turned to Tuchel, the only German in Chelsea began to get nervous.
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(End of this chapter)
