Football’s First Defender

For Liverpool and Chelsea fans, the last day of this winter window transfer is really full of surprises and surprises.

According to the normal transfer operation in European football, in fact, in the winter transfer window, most of the transactions are made by some strong teams to make up for the lineup. Transfer operations to the star level.

After all, compared with the summer transfer window, the major teams will have player turnover at that time, the player choices in one position will be more abundant, and there will be longer negotiation time to ensure the interests of the team.

The winter transfer window is more like a strong buy and sell. Because of the obvious loopholes in the record or the team lineup, it is usually the rich teams who forcibly poach people and use high prices to ensure that the team's strength is effectively replenished.

But no matter how high the price is, it is actually difficult to compare with the blockbuster transfers in the summer window, because the original team will never release the superstar players for the sake of their own record. Things that weaken the strength of your own team.

As for generals with average strength, although the price of the final transaction will be a little higher due to forced poaching, they will never reach the superstar level.

But this year's winter transfer window, on the last day, Liverpool and Chelsea jointly created two major winter window transfer transactions.

Torres, who left Liverpool for Chelsea for £50m, is a well-deserved headline. Except for Gerrard, Liverpool's biggest player, the absolute first-class striker in the Premier League in recent seasons, has actually completed the transfer between the Premier League in this way!

Although at the beginning of this season, due to the limited reinforcement of Liverpool's lineup, Torres has already expressed his dissatisfaction. Unable to keep their rankings, they went straight to the middle of the league.

This also made Torres completely lose his fantasy about Liverpool. After all, Torres has followed the strong rise of the Spanish national team and has won almost all the national team awards in recent years. In the league and the Champions League, there is better development, to win more teams and personal honors!

But even if Torres wants to leave so much, the outside world generally believes that it should be in the summer after the end of this season, under the looting of many giants, Liverpool can sell Torres for a higher price.

No one expected that, before the start of the season, Chelsea, who were shrinking and dieting, would be so decisive in forcibly poaching in the middle of the season when the two major strikers of Drogba and Anelka were in a downturn. The ultimate offer, bought Torres, a top striker.

For recent seasons, Torres, a top striker comparable to Didier Drogba, has joined the team. Chelsea fans are very happy.

The problem of Chelsea's weak offensive line can definitely be solved after Torres joins.

After all, imagine that the team can play Drogba, Torres, and Anelka's luxurious front trident in the game. On the offensive end, such an excellent striker on paper is one of the best in world football.

In contrast, although Yang Feng left as an equally outstanding central defender, in Chelsea, everyone loves Yang Feng very much for the position of central defender, but he is the most popular central defender in the team and the most affectionate central defender. , It must still be the old team captain Terry who has played for Chelsea for many years.

It has only been two and a half years since Yang Feng joined the team. Fans can love Yang Feng just like other players. In the end, the Chelsea fans also understood, and they just turned it into a wish for Yang Feng's future, and continued to devote themselves to the intense Premier League season, to see if Chelsea, which has now completed its reinforcements, can regain its recent performance in the Premier League. disadvantages in.

Although Chelsea bought Torres at a price of 50 million pounds, the outside world

It seems that some prices are a bit expensive. After all, the 50 million is a real pound, which is close to 60 million when converted into euros. The summer transfer bid king, Villa, who went to Barcelona half a year ago, was only 40 million euros.

In terms of Villa's performance in Valencia and Barcelona in the past two seasons, as well as in the Spanish national team, Torres' current worth of 60 million euros is definitely not worth it.

But having said that, on the other hand, Liverpool bought the seriously injured Yang Feng for 35 million pounds, which also made everyone dumbfounded.

Under the circumstances that defenders are generally worthless, the "crazy" Mourinho spent 50 million pounds in the summer and failed to get Yang Feng, but now he was bought by Liverpool at a "low price" of 35 million pounds.

The difference of 15 million pounds seems to make Liverpool very happy.

But not to mention that Mourinho himself was a fool with a lot of money in the summer. He spent a player who could buy a top midfielder to buy a defender that most teams didn't urgently need.

At a price of 50 million pounds, no giant will make such an offer to Chelsea for Yang Feng, a central defender, in today's era.

That was Mourinho's super high offer in the summer considering all aspects. Firstly, it was because Real Madrid's own defense was not very stable. Mourinho needed a player who was good enough and had already proven himself. Defender, bring him to the Bernabeu to improve the team's defense.

Secondly, as the new coach of the Bernabeu at that time, Mourinho also needed to use his own direct line players on all lines, instead of using the "veteran" who stayed at Real Madrid before, to avoid the former players giving themselves in the locker room. Create trouble.

When the purchase of Yang Feng was fruitless and there was no first-class defender who could join and use it, after half a year of sorting out, Mu Niao finally adjusted Real Madrid's original Pepe Ramos combination. So in winter, even if Mourinho is still optimistic about Yang Feng's potential, he only offered an offer of 30 million pounds!

Mourinho has always been very discerning when it comes to buying defenders, and he seldom misses the point. However, Mourinho always uses an offer that is higher than the psychological bottom line of other giants, and completes the offer as soon as possible. The team clearly knew the identity of this player, but due to the high price, it was not easy to snatch it.

Everyone knows Yang Feng's defensive talent, and everyone knows that Yang Feng, who plays with his brain, can definitely be cultivated as the cornerstone of the team's defense line. Although he suffered a serious injury, even if Yang Feng's athletic ability has declined, after recovery, he is still world-class without accident. centre-back.

However, Mourinho's offer of 30 million pounds through the media actually exceeded the psychological expectations of most giants.

Not only because of a huge transfer fee, but after paying such a large transfer fee, Yang Feng's personal contract must also be based on the standard of his worth, which will put a lot of pressure on the team's finances.

This is also the reason why many teams wanted Yang Feng very much during the winter window, but they still hesitated to spend a huge sum of more than 30 million pounds in the winter window.

Only the vicious Mourinho and the rich and powerful Manchester City are willing to pay.

It's just that for Manchester City, which is obviously an upstart in the Premier League, when Chelsea sold Yang Feng, a central defender, they still didn't dare to capitalize on the enemy.

It is really that Manchester City has spent too much money in the past few seasons. Manchester City, which looks like it is not bad for money, has almost been equipped with wealthy players in the midfield and frontcourt after several seasons of crazy investment. For Chelsea, although Negotiating with Manchester City, it is entirely possible to make a bigger rip off on the price, but Manchester City, which has been strongly supplemented in the defense, may affect Chelsea's own Premier League record starting next season.

And without Yang Feng's negotiating chip, Torres' negotiation would not be finalized so quickly, so Chelsea finally chose to agree to Liverpool's offer.

For Liverpool, although the money that the team has poached in the past few seasons has been used to buy people, the American owner who has just taken over Liverpool is destined not to spend a large amount of money in a certain season like other giants Complete the rapid update of the team lineup.

Therefore, with the serious loss of Liverpool's main force in the midfield and frontcourt, even if they get Yang Feng, an excellent central defender, they can effectively make up for the team's inadequacy in the midfield and backcourt. In terms of overall strength, Liverpool still cannot be said to improve significantly, and the threat to Chelsea is not that great.

Moreover, it is not so easy for Liverpool to complete their rise again. I did not see the Ferguson Ferguson in Manchester City, using the Red Devils in his hands, to attack Liverpool everywhere in the Premier League, especially when Manchester United is rented or sold to major Premier League clubs. The players in the team are still the same as they were in the Manchester United era, and they are excited to play Liverpool.

This is also the reason why Liverpool has been unable to make progress in the league these years. It has hindered the team too much, making every game of Liverpool a tough battle. In the long season, there are no easy games.

Chelsea is not worried. After Liverpool gets Yang Feng, they will complete their backlash against themselves in a short time.

Unlike Chelsea fans, who were happy about getting Torres, Liverpool fans were disappointed and dissatisfied after seeing these two big deals.

Of course, this kind of negative sentiment is not aimed at Yang Feng, a new player who is about to come to Liverpool, but at the team's management.

Over the years, the absolute main players of the team have left one by one. Harvey Alonso and Mascherano have been poached by Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively, resulting in the once powerful Liverpool midfielder now being left with only one Liverpool child, Jay Ladd!

And today, the ace striker Torres, who the team was counting on to attack the city, also left. Liverpool fans feel that the team has barely reached a small peak in the past two years, but it has not really broken the spell of no Premier League champions. Like a flash in the pan, it fell quickly.

Although everyone has been saying that Liverpool's defense is unstable and Liverpool's defense needs to be improved, this improvement cannot be based on the team giving up their best striker.

The striker is gone, whoever scores the goal! Where can Liverpool find a plug-and-play forward!

In the past few years, Liverpool has spent a lot of money on the front line, but big names such as Keane have no sense of scoring goals after coming to Liverpool. After all these years, Torres has been at home in Liverpool, and now he has lost such an outstanding player. Forward, where does Liverpool's future go from here?

Just when some Liverpool fans were still giving up Torres for the team and wanted to get together to denounce the management, in the transfer market, Liverpool officially announced two more blockbuster transfers!

After buying Yang Feng for 35 million pounds, Liverpool's management finalized two striker deals.

In fact, after Torres officially submitted a transfer application to the team during the season, Liverpool was already looking for a possible spare tire for Torres.

Although Liverpool did not intend to sell Torres in the winter window at the beginning, but for the purpose of investigating forward players in advance, Liverpool scouts have been following several favorite forward players, recording the performance and growth of these forwards in real time.

After substantial progress was made in the negotiations with Chelsea, on the one hand, Liverpool negotiated in detail with Chelsea on the price difference between Yang Feng and Torres after swapping clubs. To ensure that the team has an excellent striker this season, who can fill the vacancy left by Torres.

Although there is still a big gap between Liverpool and the Champions League this season, it is for the fans and for the coach to have more time to adjust the team and work hard next season. It is also to prevent other teams from falling in the summer. At that time, he stepped in and snatched his favorite forward player. After Liverpool got a transfer difference from Chelsea, they directly started the poaching process.

Originally, Liverpool's original plan was actually just to buy a striker. Although two clubs were quoted, they just wanted to have a spare tire.

But both teams agreed to Liverpool's offer, which really made Liverpool unexpected. And because the fans were very resentful about the sale of Torres, after some consideration, Liverpool overturned the original plan to add a striker in the winter window and buy another striker in the summer. Instead, directly this winter, he spent real money and bought two forwards with different styles into the team.

At a price of 35 million pounds, Liverpool dug up the opponent's pillar Andy Carroll from Newcastle. As England's local striker, Andy Carroll has scored 11 goals in the Magpies in half a season , Carroll, who has proved himself in the Premier League, is Liverpool's first choice.

Although the player's reputation is not as good as Torres, but with the blessing of the account book, Liverpool executives believe that Carroll can quickly replace Torres' position in the hearts of Red Army fans as long as he guarantees his scoring status.

After buying Carroll, because Carroll and Torres are forward players with very different styles, Liverpool also deliberately poached Uruguayan striker Suarez from Ajax for 22.7 million pounds. Team strength.

In fact, these two players are the targets of the attention of the major Premier League giants, but no one thought that before the peaches were picked in the summer, Liverpool would wave their checkbooks in the winter and forcefully buy and sell!

Newcastle and Ajax didn't have any resistance to Liverpool's lucrative offer, and they were very happy to let them go.

The two big deals officially announced at the last moment made Liverpool fans so happy that they seemed to fly into the clouds.

The happiest people in the winter window must have been Chelsea fans. With a price difference of 15 million pounds, they exchanged a central defender who was reimbursed for one season for Liverpool's ace striker Torres, and the team had previously paid 30 million euros to make up for the vacancy left by Yang Feng's injury. Bought Benfica's talented central defender, the Brazilian David Luiz, it can be said that Chelsea fans are very pleased with the team's generosity.

But now, Liverpool fans have discovered that their own team, after changing to an American owner this season, can unexpectedly buy a lot of money!

A full transfer fee of 92.7 million pounds was spent, and two outstanding strikers were purchased, as well as the best central defender in the Premier League (yes, after the transfer was completed, Liverpool fans certainly believed that Yang Feng was the best in the Premier League. I definitely agree with the fans to give up the reputation of the Premier League's first defender to Yang Feng), although Torres is gone, but the team seems to be stronger next season, even this season, with the help of two strikers with complementary styles , Liverpool may not be able to soar in the second half of the season!

After the news of three consecutive purchases, Liverpool fans also began to get excited. Well, it seems good to change to an American owner, at least the team is on the right track!