Football’s First Defender

The European Cup in 2008 can be said to be the beginning of the establishment of Spain's football dynasty! This year's European Cup has not changed much from the game in Yang Feng's memory! After all, Yang Feng is an Asian, no matter how much a butterfly flaps its wings, there is nothing it can do about the European Cup!

Relying on the gradually maturing pass-and-control football, the Spanish team defeated the iron-blooded Germanic chariot German team 1-0 in the final with a goal from Torres, and stood on the top of Europe again after 44 years!

In addition to the champion Spanish team, the most eye-catching thing is the Russian team, which was once regarded as a football desert. In the final, the powerful Dutch team, who was unanimously optimistic about the strength to hit the championship, was eliminated 3 to 1!

Although in the semi-finals, they once again lost to Spain, the No. 1 team in their group stage, but that was the absolute restraint of the team's style, and there was really no way around it!

However, successfully reaching the semi-finals is a rare good result for the Russian team!

And in the team, the brightest star is of course Arshavin, the core player of the Russian national team!

After being shown a red card in the final game of the European Cup qualifiers and having to sit on the sidelines in the first two group matches of the European Cup finals, Arshavin lifted his ban in the third game against Sweden! And continued his outstanding performance in the club, successfully scored a goal, helping the team beat the Nordic powerhouse Sweden 2-0! Advance to the top 8 with the second place in the group!

In the subsequent knockout rounds, facing the star-studded Dutch team, Russia fought tenaciously with the Dutch team to a 1-1 draw within 90 minutes. In overtime, Al Chauvin continues his superb performance!

This is the first European Cup in which the silver ball and golden ball rules have been canceled. Arshavin was able to fully demonstrate his talent in the 30-minute overtime. One shot one pass at last! In the overtime game, relying on Arshavin's personal performance, the Russian team was successfully brought into the semi-finals! And Yang Feng also came to the scene to watch the game in person, not only to witness the classic battle of his friend's national team, but also to take a vacation in Switzerland and Austria with his girlfriend to relax!

But in the semi-finals, because of the huge gap in team strength, and the Spaniard's pass-and-control style of play, which perfectly restrained Russia's rough style, Arshavin's performance was not as impressive as before, but his previous 2 games with 2 goals and 1 assist, still The perfect performance of planning another 2 goals allowed Arshavin to be selected as the best team of this European Cup.

In addition, Arshavin is in the club, whether it is the Russian Super League or the European Cup, he has the same outstanding performance. After the European Cup is over, he immediately becomes a favorite in the transfer market, triggering fierce competition among countless giants!

After each competition, there will inevitably be stars who will detonate the transfer market. In the championship and runner-up teams Spain and Germany, players basically play for giants. Naturally, it has become the target of competition for many giants looking for offensive changes.

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Numerous price inquiries were rejected by Zenit! Even if it is like Skrtel's free transfer will definitely leave, Denisov will definitely leave because of the conflict with Danny, Arshavin, Tymoshchuk, Pogrebnyak, and Yang Feng all want to go higher platform!

But the goal of Zenit, who is also not short of money in Russia, is definitely not to become an upstart. Whether it is a favor offensive, a monetary reward, or a large number of signings in the summer to ensure strength, Zenit wants to go to the Russian Super League. Try to defend the title, and want to make a breakthrough in the Champions League in the second half of the year!

After all, they are veterans of the team. Arshavin and others finally chose to compromise because of the length of the contract and human factors. They will fight for the team for half a year. The window leaves the team!

However, for Yang Feng who knows the history, Zenit's performance in the second half of the year was not that good, so naturally he would not delay his time for half a year on this broken ship that is destined to leak for a while!

Under Yang Feng's repeated insistence, and after all, Yang Feng and Arshavin's agent is the same, and under the agent's request that Yang Feng and Arshavin must go one by one, Zenit still chose to keep Arshavin and let go. The transfer restriction on Yang Feng was lifted!

Perhaps Arshavin chose to stay behind, making many rich teams feel sorry, but Yang Feng, who performed well on the defensive end, is also the target of many teams!

However, because the transfer conditions were not clearly stated, many clubs came to inquire about the price, including the one who just took over Inter Milan. The defensive master Mourinho all sought offers, but Yang Feng now only wants to go to the Premier League!

The most active in the Premier League may be Liverpool, which has just signed a free agent Skrtel to supplement the defense! As a tactical master, Benitez can see that the original Zenit central defender combination of Yang Feng and Skrtel can be plug-and-play in the new season! The tacit understanding between the two has been cultivated for more than a year, and the two have complemented each other in style, which can definitely greatly strengthen their defense line strength!

It’s just that for the young Yang Feng, Liverpool’s high-level estimates are still somewhat conservative. At that time, they offered a transfer price of 6.5 million pounds for Skrtel in the winter window, but they were only willing to offer a price of 7.5 million pounds for Yang Feng!

For Zenit, which regards Yang Feng as the core of the defense team, this is definitely not a satisfactory offer!

The two sides have been negotiating on the price! Other Premier League teams have also sought offers, but such as Arsenal's £5 million and Tottenham's £6 million may be more like a joke! Yang Feng is destined to become a member of the temperature difference sign!

You must know the news that has been released. Although the outside world has always been optimistic, the young Spanish central defender Piqué, who did not play well in Manchester United, has returned to his old club Barcelona with a worth of 9 million pounds. Zenit does not think that he is already in. In the European war, Yang Feng, who played as the main force and proved himself, was worse than Pique! Less than 10 million pounds no discussion!

Compared with the Premier League team's conservative approach to outsiders, Mourinho, who has regained the coach in Serie A, is very optimistic about Yang Feng's potential. Although Inter Milan's defense is good in Serie A, who would dislike a player? There are so few talented players! What's more, there is a rich old Moratti waving a checkbook!

Inter Milan sent Zenit an offer of 10 million pounds, which just reached Zenit's psychological bottom line!

After all, the value of a defender is destined not to be as high as that of an offensive player!

Mourinho actually offered such a high price to such a young Yang Feng. It can be seen that he really recognizes Yang Feng's strength and is sure that he will have greater development in the future!

It's just that Luohua is ruthless. For Yang Feng, he would rather spend his own money to make up the difference and go to the Premier League like Arshavin in his previous life, than go to Serie A to follow the future Inter Milan to win the triple crown!

Although Mourinho is a good coach, he is unique in cultivating defensive players. For example, in Real Madrid, he still bought and trained two world-class central defenders in Pepe Ramos. Lane made Real Madrid claim the third of the world's top five central defenders at the time!

Real Madrid's subsequent dominance in the Champions League for many years is inseparable from the talent pool left by Mourinho!

However, Serie A is doomed to decline due to its own country's economic weakness, and the Premier League is the most intense and eye-catching league in the future!

Fortunately, just when Yang Feng was going to make up the difference with his own money before the trade deadline set by Zenit, an unexpected Premier League team sent an offer that Zenit couldn't refuse!

The newly promoted giants of the Premier League, the Blues Chelsea, made an offer of 11 million pounds for Yang Feng!

In fact, in Yang Feng's expectation, it may be that teams with defensive problems like Liverpool or Arsenal have greater desire for themselves. Even if the oil capital that has just moved into Manchester City buys itself, it is normal for Chelsea. It was not what Yang Feng expected, because the simple thing is, Chelsea's defense is too solid!

Not to mention the main central defender combination composed of England's main central defender Terry and Brazilian international Alexis, Portuguese international Carvalho and Brazilian marginal international Belletti are also sitting on the bench. For Yang Feng, the four major international-level central defenders , If you go to Chelsea, you may not have much playing time at all!

But Chelsea has a habit of collecting defensive players. Whether it is a midfielder or a defender, Chelsea has always been a large number of reserve talents.

Although there are 4 powerful central defenders, in fact, there are not many young central defenders in terms of reserves! Terry is 80 years old, Alex is 82 years old, and the other two backup central defenders are older, although they are both in their prime, and the position of defender, over 30 years old, can also be maintained with richer experience Defensive quality, but Professor Wen's theory is still good, that is, players who are over 30 years old, who knows when the state will suddenly decline!

For a team like Chelsea, which is determined to become a top giant and will focus on competing for the Champions League in the next few years, it is not necessary to spend money to train young central defenders who can be used in the next few years and even become the core of the defense. It's a waste of resources!

And although Mourinho has left Chelsea, Chelsea's management still believes in Mourinho's vision, especially his vision for defensive players! Now that Mourinho wants to buy Yang Feng after the end of the game, then Yang Feng must be a talented player in the back line. Even if he is not trained, his boss, Abrahimovic, is not short of that little money!