Football’s First Defender

The Premier League in the 10/11 season was still dominated by Manchester United.

With a record of 80 points, Manchester United has completed four Premier League titles in five years. Ferguson's red empire is still the most dazzling and successful club in the Premier League era.

Although Manchester City is the team with the most investment in the summer transfer window of 2010, the crazy investment for several consecutive years still cannot bring the most desired Premier League championship to the oil capital. There is a certain distance.

However, Manchester City's generous investment this season has paid off, that is, they finally used money to put themselves in the Champions League.

Manchester City's season-long record is 21 wins, 8 draws and 9 losses, which is exactly the same as Chelsea's record in the later stage. It is 9 points behind the champion Manchester United, ranking second and third in the standings.

Another Champions League seat was won by Arsenal, which has shown a trend of "fighting for the top four" in recent seasons.

After all, qualifying for the UEFA Champions League means a considerable amount of income from the broadcasting of the team. For Professor Wenger, who spends every penny in half, the Premier League title can be won without the strength, but he must keep the top four. .

Tottenham, which performed well last season, was obviously affected by the Champions League two-tier competition. Tottenham, whose team was not strong, lost to Arsenal and ranked fifth in the final battle with Arsenal.

As for Yang Feng's new team, Liverpool, in the late stage of the league, after Gerrard and Carroll were both injured one after another, they showed a weak posture and lost points in a row, completely losing the team's hope of competing for the top four.

Liverpool finally ranked sixth, all four this season, but under the leadership of "King" Dalglish, Liverpool fans are full of hope for the next season.

Sir Ferguson once again led his team to win the league championship. Although he has won the highest honor of the Premier League season, after the celebration banquet, for the old man, it is time to prepare for the new season. In the office, the old man will In one season, the most important imaginary enemy has changed from Chelsea, which has not changed over the years, to the team logo of Liverpool, which he hates the most.

Will the former Liverpool Red Empire revive while he is still in charge? Ferguson is looking forward to Liverpool's performance in the new season.

In the eyes of Sir Alex Ferguson, the threat of Liverpool is definitely not Dalglish, who is now in charge of the coach. Perhaps Dalglish was definitely a legendary superstar of Liverpool in the player era, and he was also very famous when he coached Liverpool.

But now is an era of rapid reform of football tactics. Ferguson has been studying Liverpool's tactics in the second half. Dalglish's tactics are still the old style of the year. It may be possible for a while, but it is too much. Ferguson doesn't think that today's players can really endure the huge physical consumption caused by continuous running throughout the season.

Times are different.

But the reason why Liverpool is currently listed as a threat is that Liverpool's entire central axis has been updated.

Yang Feng in the backcourt is actually a central defender that Ferguson has admired very much in the past two years. However, in view of Manchester United's strength, Manchester United did not think that Chelsea would dare to let Yang Feng come to Manchester United, so they didn't even bother to submit an offer.

After all, no one is like those teams in the Bundesliga, which provide unlimited supply of outstanding players to Bayern. It is not that simple to directly transfer stars among the Premier League giants. One exchange may be easy to operate. Buying people with money is definitely not an easy task.

The position of central defender is guaranteed by Yang Feng, and the midfielder is Gerrard. This Liverpool player is an absolute loyal player. Liverpool's obsession with winning the first Premier League title, Ferguson believes that he will continue to burn himself in Liverpool and do his best.

In the frontcourt, unlike everyone who is optimistic about Carroll's comeback from injury next season, the return of the king is different. In Ferguson's eyes, the most threatening striker for Liverpool is the Uruguayan striker Suarez.

South American players have exquisite footwork, numerous small movements, and various psychology of taking advantage of the rules. Although Suarez is not physically strong, he can always grab the goal in various situations by using his speed and agility. Space, coupled with his extremely good shooting skills, will definitely be the most threatening offensive point on Liverpool's striker.

With these three players as the central axis, and adding other players with good strength, as long as Liverpool can be kneaded into a whole in the summer, then the new season must not be underestimated.

Looking at the Liverpool team logo, Ferguson smiled again. He remembered the wild words he said back then, "The greatest achievement in my life is to kick Liverpool off the fucking throne".

"That's right, since I've been off the throne for so many years, then at the end of my coaching career, of course I won't let you have the chance to touch the throne again"!

Ferguson finished his glass of red wine and walked out of the office. Starting tomorrow is the preparation for the new season, and Liverpool, never think that they can rise easily.

In the summer of 2011, the Premier League tycoons, who had been silent for a long time, finally began to show their strong financial reserves, causing a bloodbath in the transfer market.

Ferguson, who has regained the Premier League title, aims to defend the Premier League title, and re-attack the Champions League, has carried out targeted reinforcements in the transfer market.

With Van der Sar's retirement, Manchester United urgently needs an excellent starting goalkeeper to guard the goal.

Ferguson fell in love with Atletico Madrid's young goalkeeper De Gea. And finally brought De Gea to Old Trafford with an offer of 20 million euros.

After that, Blackburn central defender Phil Jones was bought for 19 million euros to replace O'Shea, who was transferred due to his age.

Finally, at a price of 18 million euros, Ashley Young, the absolute main winger of Villa, was bought from Aston Villa. The goal is to continue to create a new round of the Red Devils dynasty.

The champion of last season is still recruiting, and other championship-hungry teams will naturally not be satisfied with the current lineup.

Dalglish received extensive support from the Liverpool team during the offseason. Even with a net investment of nearly 50 million pounds in the winter window, Liverpool still gave Dalglish enough transfer fees in the summer to develop the team. Lineup upgrades.

Dalglish first cleaned up some redundant players in the team who couldn't play, and got about 30 million euros in transfer funds. After that, he made quotations for many powerful players in the transfer market.

Liverpool has waited too long for their first Premier League title. They are eager to strengthen the team's strength through rapid reconstruction, re-improve Liverpool's team image, attract more fans' attention, and get better results. honor.

However, Dalglish, waving a checkbook, found that his journey of buying a man was not as easy as he imagined.

To buy players, to put it bluntly, one is to rely on enough money, and the other is to rely on the so-called football contacts.

Dalglish, who needs to strengthen multiple positions, naturally cannot spend unlimited money like Manchester City. After all, Liverpool's transfer funds are not as bottomless as oil capital.

But normal player offers have fallen into the sea with many Premier League teams.

As far as the results of player transactions are concerned, even a few players that Liverpool wanted were transferred to other teams at a price similar to Liverpool's offer, rather than being sold to Liverpool by the team owned by the player.

It can only be said that the establishment of a dynasty has always been all-round from on-court to off-court. Today's Liverpool, as a challenger, has encountered all-round targeting from the king.

The struggle has started since the transfer period, and several of Liverpool's signing targets have received interference from off-court factors.

In the end, although Dalglish made some reinforcements, according to his expectations, he was still a lot worse.

But there are only so many capable players, and Liverpool did not have the financial support to forcibly poach people with liquidated damages, so although there are not many reinforcements, Dalglish can only admit it.