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Chapter 140 Halfway

Chapter 140 Halfway

This game with Blackburn is also a half-way battle in the league.This game took place in the 19th round of the Premier League.

Many leagues like to conduct an inventory in the middle of the season, summarizing the changes in the league in this half-season.

In this half of the season, if you choose two key words, then it is burning money and changing coaches.

Not in terms of burning money, the Premier League is already the best in the world.According to statistics, this summer, the sum of all signings of all Premier League teams has reached a staggering 5.11 million pounds.

The Spanish Football League, which ranks second, only has 3.28 million euros.

And the result of burning money is obvious.Manchester City is one of the most conspicuous teams.

After his letter came, Manchester City waved the check frantically. Duncan spent more than 8000 million pounds on signings to replace the lineup left by Pierce. Duncan used Shevchenko, Elano, Petrov, Cole Luca and other foreign aid.This allowed Manchester City to increase several levels of intensity both offensively and defensively.

Although they experienced two consecutive losses at the beginning of the season, the subsequent wave of 12 consecutive victories brought Manchester City to the second place in the league.Since then, Manchester City has never fallen from the top two positions in the league.

Moreover, in these 19 victories, Manchester City has achieved a record of 11 wins and 11 wins at home, and conceded 7 goals at home, which is equal to the leader Arsenal.More importantly, with the emergence of the team in the UEFA Cup, Thaksin announced another 3000 million signings for the team.

For a time, the whole world was jealous of Duncan.

Even Ferguson said sourly that if he had the strong capital of Manchester City, his Manchester United would have won the Champions League for N consecutive times...

Another impressive mid-table team is Portsmouth.Who is the away king so far this season?It's not Arsenal, which is good at reversal, nor is it Manchester City, which is the best at home, but Portsmouth!The Pompeii Legion scored 11 points in 7 away games with 1 wins, 3 draw and 22 losses, surpassing Manchester City and Arsenal. In the same period last season, they only scored 3 points.

The rise of Portsmouth is also due to the team's investment and signings.The joining of Utaka, Muntari and other African internationals has greatly increased the offensive power of Redknapp's team. Not only has it broken the record for the highest score in a single game in the Premier League, Zimbabwean striker Mwaluwari has also led the scorer list several times.

In addition to the upstarts, the old overlords are also burning money.

Manchester United's investment of more than 5000 million pounds is the highest in the Premier League, but Ferguson burned the money on the spot.Carlos Tevez is embedded between Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo, so Manchester United has a new trident comparable to Charlton, Law and Best; Nani and Anderson are reserved for the future. After half a season of tempering, their successors have begun to appear elegant demeanor.Of course, Barry, who joined Manchester United as a midfield barrier, did not perform so well in line with the expectations of Dream Theater fans...

In addition to those who burn money, there are naturally those who don't burn money.

Arsenal's biggest signing of the season was just 800 million pounds to buy Da Silva, but relying on a stick of youth, Arsenal's youth storm swept across the Premier League.

There are those who burn money and land well, and naturally there are those who burn badly.On the contrary, when Chelsea and Liverpool burn money, they burn themselves, and life is not going well.

At the beginning of the season, Chelsea did not burn a lot of money, but paid the price for the money-burning culture led by Abramovich.After class, Mourinho explained the core idea of ​​the money-burning culture: everything is based on the interests of the employer, and whoever disobeys may catch fire.Now Grant is trying his best to make up for the gap left by the Blues. In the winter transfer market, Chelsea is likely to burn again.

Liverpool, which burned a lot of money, also did not burn to the point.The internal friction at Anfield is: Benitez thinks that the American boss is still willing to burn money, but Gillett and Hicks are waiting to see the effect after the first money is burned.Employers and employees have different starting points, so how can they wait for the harvest?Now 12 points behind Arsenal, Liverpool really "burned" themselves.If the only harvest, then it is the shining performance of Spain's golden boy Torres.

In addition to the topic of burning money, it is changing coaches.

In the past half season, with the expansion of capital, the competition has intensified.Among the 20 teams in the Premier League, seven teams changed their head coaches halfway through the league.

Such a result is easy to imagine.

Capital seeks returns, and businessmen will never do things that are not profitable.

Since they have invested a large sum of money, what is required is naturally the team's good results.

This pressure to pursue good results fell heavily on the team.This is why, halfway through the season, seven head coaches have left their posts, and three of them are new coaches this season.

Of the seven head coaches who dismissed get out of class, the first one who dismissed get out of class was also the most eye-catching, naturally Mourinho.

No one expected that Mourinho would leave Chelsea. The meritorious coach who led the Blues to win two Premier League titles, one FA Cup and two League Cups, finally due to poor results at the beginning of the season, and Some grievances between the boss Abramovich and the management broke out intensively, and finally "peacefully broke up".Mourinho took away a generous termination fee, but that weekend left for his successor, Chelsea football director Grant, to face the mighty Manchester United.In the end, Grant, who lacked many main players, lost 0 to 2. At this time, Chelsea was facing an abyss.

Immediately after the end of get out of class, it was Sammy Lee from Bolton.Megson, who succeeded him, was not actually the No.1 choice, but the coach who had led West Bromwich Albion to upgrade twice, brought Bolton to the top 16 of the UEFA Cup for the first time, and sold the top scorer Anelka Under the circumstances of leading the team to relegation, it can be regarded as a dark horse among the coaches.Tottenham coach Jol was fired on October 10, and his replacement was already planned by Sevilla coach Juande Ramos.

Since then, Birmingham's Bruce was poached by Wigan chairman Whelan for £300 million, while Wigan coach Jewell was fired a week ago.But Jewell did not disappear. A month later, he joined Derby County.The latter fired Billy Davis.

Fulham are deep in the relegation circle. They fired Laurie Sanchez. The 60-year-old former Inter Milan coach Hodgson came here to assume the responsibility of relegation.

There were originally only six people above, but during the Christmas period, a scandal broke out in the Newcastle team. Due to the introduction of too many players, there were many internal conflicts. Allardyce did not continue his "lucky" experience and was fired on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve is not only the night of coaching changes, but also the night of scandals.

The center of the scandal came from Manchester, which has two teams.

On Christmas Eve, there will naturally be some young players who "go to the streets to let their dreams fly", and then find girls to play flying chess on PATTY.But it was this pure "Flying Chess Night" that caused a scandal.

Manchester United players are young and rich, so they are naturally fans of this "Flying Chess Night". However, on the second day of Christmas Eve, a girl claimed that she was raped by Manchester United players.Although the suspect Evans was exonerated due to insufficient evidence, the debauched behavior of Manchester United players is a fact.It is said that the celebration cost 10 pounds. Apart from the team members, many unidentified girls entered the private room of the club. As for the victim, after being drunk, she is more likely to be unable to remember which Manchester United player. relationship.

This matter made Sir Ferguson a little anxious.

Just before the season, the scandal of Ronaldo's "recruitment of prostitutes" was quelled. As a result, after only half a season, the players couldn't hold back?

Ferguson suddenly had the urge to castrate all the players into father-in-laws.

Like Manchester United, Manchester City is also uneasy.This news even overwhelmed Manchester United's "recruitment-prostitutes" and became the headlines of major newspapers during the New Year.

What's the news?

The most eye-catching news in the world is nothing more than pillows and fists.

The thing that can crush a pillow is naturally a fist.

On Christmas Eve, Barton beat two 17-year-old boys alone.And it is said that one of them was seriously injured and was still in a coma in the hospital...

Because of this incident, the Manchester police arrested Patton and interrogated him. Patton confessed to the crime he committed.

This matter caused an uproar, because just half a month ago, the Manchester City club had just signed an agreement with Aston Villa to sell the core Joey Barton.

At the time, it seemed that it was a very appropriate calculation to be able to buy the team's midfield core for the next ten years for 2000 million.There are even outside media who signed Button for "such a low price" for Aston Villa, saying that they were lucky.

After all, Barton's suspension period is only two months. Although he has a big temper, his flaws are not concealed.

However, after the scandal broke out, the wind in the outside world suddenly changed, and everyone agreed that Manchester City's voice was beautiful.

Being able to get rid of such a "scandal cancer" as Barton, and make a net profit of 2000 million pounds, this business is definitely worth 32 likes.

As for Martin O'Neill, he could only pinch his nose and admit it. The only thing he hoped for was that Barton would not be sentenced.

It is only a few days before the opening of the winter transfer window. Buying the "time bomb" of Button, Aston Villa will definitely become the laughing stock of the whole of Europe.

Because the transfer window is only a few days away, Button will become a de facto Aston Villa player soon, so this matter has long had no impact on Manchester City.

What's more, Barton has been training in the reserve team this month, and has less and less interaction with the first team.

After the inventory, Manchester City will usher in the two most difficult games of the Christmas schedule.

On December 12, they played against Liverpool at home.

On January 1, an away game against Middlesbrough.

The two games are only two days apart, but they are two tough battles.

In this game against Liverpool, there is actually only three days away from the game against Blackburn, so Manchester City can be said to have three games in eight days.

This is a test for the team's physical fitness.

However, in the previous game against Blackburn, Manchester City has already exposed their physical disadvantages and core problems.

This encounter with Liverpool, who knows that the tactician Benitez will not make any targeted tactical arrangements in this situation?

All eyes are on the battle of focus on December 12.

(End of this chapter)