Football’s First Defender

Although Chelsea won the Premier League title and the FA Cup double after the season, it is also a reality that the team did not achieve the ultimate goal of defending the Champions League.

And with the arrival of summer, there is a more realistic question, where is Chelsea's goal for next season?

For the fans, what they expect is actually very simple, that is, the championship, all kinds of championships, as big as the Champions League, the League Championship, as small as the FA Cup, and the League Cup.

But for the management, they need to consider the team's investment in the next season based on the team's real goals.

After all, real football is not a game, and every player in the team represents a huge salary!

Because Chelsea won the Champions League before, in front of the Chelsea boss, there is still a carrot of "the first restructured Champions League team".

But with being eliminated by Inter Milan this season, this carrot is gone. For Abramovich, it is now a lost goal.

Just like clearing a game, for Abramovich today, it seems that there are no more levels worth conquering in the next season, or in other words, there are no achievements that can be seen immediately.

As for the defending league champion, it was done in the Mourinho era.

The achievement of multiple championships can actually be won every season, and it is really difficult. With so many strong teams in the Premier League, Abramovich still has AC numbers in his heart.

So when there is nothing too desired, the lineup that Chelsea has spent a lot of money to defend the Champions League seems a bit too bloated, and the team's salary expenditure is also too much.

Abramovich is indeed rich, but no matter how rich he is, in the game of football, it is impossible to invest without a bottom line.

In recent years, Abramovich has started to focus on building Chelsea's youth training system, and using his financial resources and influence to build some satellite teams for Chelsea.

Especially the Eredivisie, a sub-level European league like the First Division, has become a training ground for the little monsters in Chelsea's youth training camp.

As Abramovich, who manages Chelsea as a business, his goal is to make Chelsea truly a wealthy family, not an upstart who has accumulated countless money.

So in the new season, Chelsea also need to think about it, cut expenses, and have a benign financial environment.

The first is to save a large transfer fee. With the team's overall tactical framework stable, and most of the main players still have long-term contracts, Chelsea will only focus on the league next season without any accidents, so Chelsea's lineup is definitely enough now.

The team will pay more attention to the construction of the new training base, as well as the emphasis on youth training, and create new blood for the first team.

It's just that although Chelsea has retained the overall framework of the team, too many players have been lost in the corners.

As soon as the season ended, Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti's heart ached for the confirmed departure list.

Among the first team, the loan training of teenager Matic did not attract Ancelotti's attention, but the free transfer of four players, Ballack, Belletti, Joe Cole and Deco, did let Ancelotti leave. Chelotti was heartbroken.

Especially Ballack and Joe Cole, who are effective supplements to Chelsea's midfield offense and have played a lot of playing time. The departure of these two will have a huge impact on Chelsea's offense and defense in the middle next season.

Afterwards, the agents of Alex, Carvalho, Kalu, and even Yang Feng, who were still in the team's plan, all applied to the team for transfers!

For Alex and Carvalho, the two central defenders whose playing time has been significantly reduced during the season due to Yang Feng's suppression, Chelsea can still understand that they choose to transfer and leave.

As for Kalu himself, leaving is also very simple. In the case that he can only be a substitute striker most of the time, Kalu, who already has enough team honors, really wants to go to a team that can play the main force and chase Better growth.

However, Chelsea's management didn't understand Yang Feng's application for a transfer. The first time he thought of it, it was Yang Feng's agent who wanted to sign a new contract for Yang Feng and increase his salary.

However, there is no need for Yang Feng's agent to urge him to raise wages. With two years left in the contract, Chelsea should indeed re-open a high-priced contract to retain the cornerstone of the team's future central defender.

However, Chelsea's new salary increase contract did not get Yang Feng's consent. It was not because the agent was playing tricks, but Yang Feng himself directly rejected it.

For Chelsea, Yang Feng certainly has feelings, but as far as the future direction of the team is concerned, Yang Feng actually does not intend to hang himself on the tree of Chelsea.

Although due to Yang Feng's butterfly effect, Chelsea won the Champions League early, but the future direction of the team, so far, does not seem to have changed much.

After Abramovich has completed most of the achievements, he is not so obsessed and invested, but Chelsea's own management also has a posture of internal division.

Moreover, with a group of meritorious veterans occupying positions, it is difficult for the team to give newcomers enough playing time.

Not surprisingly, in terms of Chelsea's current development trend, even with the addition of Yang Feng, the general trend of the team will not change in the future.

Yang Feng remembers that the invincible Chelsea team in the second period of Mu, and the glorious moments of the three-back Chelsea team in the Conte era, all disappeared after one season. The internal power struggle in Chelsea will affect Chelsea in the future. Good big club.

Yang Feng still wants to go to a team that can desperately strive for honor, a team that is full of vigor, and a team that can prove his strength even more.

The World Cup is in full swing, but Chelsea's transfer department has not stopped at all. On the one hand, they are paying attention to the new aid in the transfer market. After many main substitute players leave the team, the team must make appropriate supplements. On the one hand , They also face poaching from other teams.

Real Madrid, after getting the gossip that Yang Feng wants to transfer, directly offered Yang Feng a sky-high price of 40 million pounds!

Without any hesitation, Mourinho, who helped Inter Milan win the Champions League and won the Triple Crown and retired to Real Madrid, showed an attitude towards Yang Feng, a central defender.

The high transfer fee of 40 million pounds is definitely a huge sum of money in today's era of tight money, and it also broke the 30 million pounds that Ferdinand created back then. .

There has never been anything not for sale in football, not for sale, but the price given is not enough!

But for a core player like Yang Feng, the decision is still in the hands of the team's big boss.

Abramovich really wants Chelsea to become the kind of wealthy team that can make money by itself, but this does not mean that Abramovich is short of money and will completely turn Chelsea into a profit-oriented business place, even if the media reports about Yang Feng's high-priced transfer The news spread all over the world, but Chelsea eventually rejected Real Madrid's offer.

Even if Real Madrid later raised the price to 50 million pounds, which is about the same as last year's Kaka, the outside world thinks that Mourinho is crazy. Chelsea rejected the offer even more frantically. Yang Feng is not for sale of the team...

Although Yang Feng has no plans to start contract renewal negotiations for a long time, but Yang Feng still has a two-year contract, so there is no need for Chelsea to panic too much.

Chelsea's management still believes that they can keep Yang Feng, even if they give him a top salary in the Premier League, but Chelsea will not let go of this kind of central defender who can serve as the core of the future.

Kalou was bought by the Ligue 1 team Lille, Alex was transferred to Paris Saint-Germain at a low price, and Mourinho, who did not buy Yang Feng, still took away his former favorite player Carvalho.

Except for Yang Feng's failure, Chelsea is open to the departure of other players.

However, compared with the loss of many players, Chelsea did not invest much in the introduction of players.

Due to the iron man attributes of Yang Feng and Terry last season, Chelsea only introduced the Czech Kalas as a backup central defender at a low price for the central defender backup.

However, for the midfield position, Chelsea's supplement is still enough. Benfica player Ramirez joined Chelsea with a summer top ten worth of 22 million euros. With him came the former Liverpool player Benayoun, with two midfielders. With the addition of players, coupled with some young talents in the youth team, Chelsea believes that their team can still compete in the Premier League in the new season.

Although Yang Feng wants to transfer and leave, there is no accident, and he may have to fight for another season at Chelsea...