Chapter 499 Marcel, the farewell game is waiting for you

The most glorious transfer market in this summer is naturally Chelsea. After gaining nothing last season, Abram not only did not restrain himself, but also bought people in the transfer market even more crazily. Drogba 24 million pounds, Essin 24.4 million pounds, Cech 9 million pounds, Robben 12 million pounds, Ferreira and Carvalho combined 32 million pounds, and Kezman 5.5 million pounds. These seven people spent more than 100 million pounds in total, breaking the single-season transfer record of Premier League teams. The last record was also set by Chelsea. Leiden Oriental fell to third place in the previous record in the summer of 2000...

In addition to Chelsea, Liverpool, who also replaced new head coaches, spent the second most, but Cice, Alonso and Luis Garcia only spent more than 30 million pounds in total, Leiden Oriental's expenditure of 19 million pounds ranks third. Manchester United has only bought two people so far, Alan Smith and Argentine defender Heinze spent 12.9 million Ferguson, Pique and Giuseppe Rossi signed by them are both free signs, and Arsenal's expenditure on the surface is only 500,000 pounds from Amunia, and the transfer fees of Van Persie and Flamini were not disclosed.

Among other teams, the highest spending was Tottenham Hotspur, England's goalkeeper Robinson, Spanish defender Nebert, and Portuguese midfielder Mendes spent more than 10 million yuan. There were also many transfers that did not disclose the transfer fee, including West Ham United, who had never been able to advance to the Premier League, poached Carrick.

Chelsea's spending is higher than the other nineteen Premier League teams combined - this also makes Chelsea the target of all teams. Speaking of which, Leiden Oriental is also lucky. The two seasons they spent money were the worst of the European transfer bubble, so although Figo and Ronaldo spent a lot of money, it is not particularly dazzling. Although Xiao Ming can afford to spend money in these two seasons, it is not necessary, and Xiao Ming does not intend to steal the limelight with Abram. However, after watching Chelsea's transfer this season, he had to sigh that Mourinho is still Biranje.

Li must be able to spend money - although Chelsea's expenses this season are higher than last season, Drogba, Essin, Cech, Robben and Carvalho are definitely worth the money. Except for Ferreira and Kezerman are close to waste - Chelsea spent not much on these two people, much better than Peron last season - they bought it for more than 20 million yuan, and they loaned it to Inter Milan after spending a season. They didn't get a penny of transfer fee in the future. Crespo and Mutu performed quite well, but they were far from their value. When they left, they did not bring Chelsea a penny of transfer income.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Chelsea's first league game in the new season faces a traditional strong team - they will face Manchester United at home in the first league game, while last season, their first league game was against Leiden East away...

There is no doubt that this game was arranged in the last game of this round, and it is a veritable focus battle.

Leiden Oriental's first league game was to play at home, facing the dark horse of last season, and finally ranked seventh. This summer, Charlton was not very small in transfers because of Parker's transfer in winter. He signed Danish winger Romedal from Eindhoven for 2 million, bought forward Jeffers from Arsenal for 2.6 million, and bought two million from Liverpool for the former England national team and former Leiden Oriental's local midfielder Danny Murphy - poor Murphy was swept out after Benitez took office, but his performance last year was not very outstanding.

After buying these three attackers, Charlton's attack power in the frontcourt has increased a lot. Unlike in the Community Shield Cup game, Xiao Ming sent most of the main players in this game, and Ronaldo and Figo all appeared. The league is not as good as the Community Shield Cup game. One game is three points. Xiao Ming can train new players and strengthen cooperation with his teammates in the Community Shield Cup game, but in the first round of the league, no coach would do this.

This season, Leiden Oriental's home game was still held at Upton Park Stadium, which is another bad thing for West Ham United fans, especially last season, their team failed to advance to the Premier League, but their arch-rivals won the unprecedented achievements of four consecutive Premier League titles and three-time champions. It is really jealous, but they have no choice. After all, when they signed the contract, they signed a shared stadium for two years, and it is necessary to extend it for one year. For West Ham United, with average funds, even if they want to break the contract, it will be a huge blow to their economy. No one will do things that harm others and do not benefit themselves.

Before this game began, a grand ceremony was held at Upton Park Stadium, one to celebrate the four championships of Leiden East, the other to celebrate Xiao Ming's title of Premier League Best Coach last season with an unquestionable advantage, and the third was Deselli's farewell ceremony.

Originally, Deselli's farewell ceremony should have been held after the end of last season, but because of the tight time at that time, Deselli had to play the national team after the game of Leiden Oriental, so it was postponed to now. Half an hour before the game began, Deselli, who took off his jersey and put on a suit, came to the center of the stadium, raised his hands to signal to the audience. The applause and cheers of the fans of Leiden Oriental showed how much they loved this Leiden Oriental's main central defender and the captain of the French national team.

Deselli is the second player to retire after Leiden Oriental entered the Premier League, and the first player is Lombardo, a former Italian national team member. Last season, Lombardo has become a member of Leiden Oriental's coaching staff. After retiring, Lombardo practices coaching. According to his promise, he joined Leiden Oriental's coaching staff.

Deselli and Boban are the first world-class players introduced by Leiden Oriental. Although Gerald, Barack and others had already joined Leiden Oriental before, they were completely unknown when they joined Leiden Oriental. Xiao Ming finalized Deselli and Boban in his first season in the Premier League. At that time, their joining caused a huge sensation. After all, the World Cup champion member and the captain of the third place in the World Cup joined a newly promoted team. From a certain perspective, Leiden Oriental won a huge honor outside England for the first time.

After playing with Boban for two seasons, his condition declined and his transfer left to Spain for retirement, Deselli handed over all the last time of his career to Leiden Oriental. He also personally experienced all the championships that Leiden Oriental won, two Champions League champions, one Winners Cup champion, one League Cup champion, four Premier League champions, two FA Cup champions, two League Cup champions, two European Super Cup champions, two Community Shield Cup champions, one Toyota Cup champions, and the World Cup champions won by the national team, European Cup champions and Federation Cup champions, which also makes Deselli a rare Grand Slam player in the world football. Compared with Ronaldo and Zidane, he has one more winner of the Cup champions of the two teammates, and has more Champions of the Federation Cup and Champions League than Ronaldo...

It is no exaggeration to say that in Deselli, you can see all the honors of Leiden Oriental and the final witness of the Milan dynasty era. His experience can be written into the textbooks of world football. After several years, he was even able to become a fossil-level player in the world football. In some ways, Deselli was lucky, even more lucky than the two greatest players of the same era, Zidane and Ronaldo.

Unlike Boban, the Leyton Oriental mark on Deselli even surpasses the mark on AC Milan.

After retiring, Xiao Ming also came into contact with Boban, hoping that he would become the head of the scouting system of Leiden Oriental in the former Yugoslavia like Garney, but Boban refused. He planned to study and become a coach by himself, but Deselli had accepted a job from Leiden Oriental. He would become the general agent of Leiden Oriental in France, responsible for the scouting organization there, and also serve as a collaborator for some French teams. Deselli, who did not intend to become a coach, was very happy to accept this job. As a representative of the success of black football in France, he had a high prestige in France.

Faced with the warm welcome from all the fans, Deselli burst into tears. When he left AC Milan, he originally thought that he was just going to Leiden East to retire. After all, although Leiden East had excellent performance in the European arena and was able to participate in the Winners Cup, he was almost thirty years old at the time. He did not think that he could still win many honors in Leiden East, but what he did not expect was that he even won much more honors in Leiden East than in AC Milan!

From thirty to thirty-six, Deselli spent the most glorious period of his career in Leiden East.

When Deselli walked off the stadium, the players from both sides also lined up to applaud and welcomed him. Deselli walked off the stadium and hugged Xiao Ming tightly.

"Relax, Marcel, I'm almost breathless by you..." Xiao Ming said with a wry smile.

Deselli let go of his hand a little embarrassedly. He was a tough guy, but the tough guy also had a tender side.

"Don't make life and death separate... Yes, you left the football field, but don't forget, you will still call me the boss in the future." Xiao Ming happily patted Deselli on the shoulder. Deselli, who had played five seasons of high-level games in Leiden East after he was thirty years old, was indeed worth it. You must know that buying him at that time only cost Xiao Ming five million pounds...

"That's right, boss, I'm glad to continue working in Leiden East." Deselli grinned and called this man two years younger than him as his boss. Deselli was not embarrassed at all. He had been calling for a full six years and was used to it...

"Don't worry, Marcel, even if you retire, Leiden East will continue to be brilliant." Xiao Ming said.

"I'm just a little regretful. I haven't had the chance to play on the new court yet." Deselli shrugged.

"There is a chance." Xiao Ming blinked at him: "Have you not played the farewell game yet? With your physical condition, you should be able to play football next year, right? Next year, the French national team and Leiden Oriental will be invited to play a friendly match as the opening ceremony of the new stadium. How about it? I think it will be a football feast when it comes."

Deselli was stunned, and his calmed mood began to become excited again. He had no intention of playing farewell game, but Xiao Ming's proposal made him extremely moved...

For Leiden Oriental, Deselli's departure means the end of an era. There are not many players from the 68 generation still playing football now, especially the outstanding players in the South who have withdrawn from the football field very early. The players who are older than Deselli are still active on the football field, perhaps only the legendary Paul Martini of AC Milan are left, and even Jero has been to the Qatar League. In fact, Deselli has the opportunity to play in Qatar for a season, but Deselli, who is already satisfied with the honor, rejected the Qatar demands.

When Deselli disappeared from the player's channel, Leiden Oriental's first league game of the season officially began.

Compared with last season, Charlton's strength on paper has increased a lot. The main players did not leave, but instead added three offensive players. In theory, it should have performed better than last season. However, football games have never been a simple one-plus one combination. Even the same lineup is far from the same season last season.

This situation is most common in newly promoted teams, and of course, there are also cases where mid-range teams quickly become sluggish after making a splash. A large part of the former is because their opponents are not familiar with them, while the latter is because of the fluctuations in the performance of players.

In Charlton's situation, it is obvious that the latter is.

Although they performed well last season and did not change backcourt players much, in this game, Charlton's defense line was no longer as brave and tenacious as last season. It quickly became precarious under the attack of Leiden East. Their three newly introduced offensive players in the frontcourt worked quite hard, but the cooperation between them and Charlton's original players was not a tacit understanding, and it was easy to fall into the point of fighting each other.

Romedal and Murphy on both wings did not create any opportunities under the defense of Ashley Cole and Daniel. Jeffers, who could not play in the game, was even less able to get any opportunities under the attack of Campbell and Lucio. Charlton's offense was completely blocked by Leiden East's defense line, which also made Leiden East's offense even more worry-free.

Just like when last season started, Gerald performed extremely well. His back and forth attacks in the midfield brought great pressure to Charlton's defense. Unlike in the national team, he did not need to focus on defense. With Mark Lele behind him to finish, his offensive ability was fully demonstrated...

What's more, Ronaldo and Figo helped him share the pressure on both wings, and Ronaldo and Fanny were involved in the frontcourt. Gerald, who returned to Leiden East from the national team, is the real midfielder Gerald.

Just two minutes into the game, Gerald tested Charlton's goalkeeper Kelly with a long shot. Kelly flew to block the ball from the baseline and took a corner kick.

Next is the attack that made Charlton's defense line dazzling, Ronaldo's ghostly breakthrough, Figo's majestic breakthrough and cross, Fanny's steal in front of the goal, and Ronaldo's breakthrough in the middle...

The cooperation between these people in the frontcourt has been at least two years. For these players with excellent personal abilities and team consciousness, such a long time is enough to form a tacit cooperation. Even a few simple running positions hide enough murderous intent.

The eleventh minute.

Romedal dribbled the ball and planned to force the breakthrough of Daniel along the left. He was already vigilant enough, but Daniel still shoveled the ball with a fierce and neat flying tackle. After the tackle was successful, Daniel immediately stood up and then raised his foot to Figo in front before Romedal returned to grab it.

Leiden East's frontcourt attackers immediately rushed into Charlton's half at a level and immediately completed the offense and defense conversion.

Figo took a few steps forward, raised his foot and passed the ball to Van Nie in front. Van Nie jumped up and pushed the ball to Ronaldo on the left. Ronaldo dribbled the ball and forced a breakthrough to the side.

Charlton's two defenders blocked Ronaldo's route. Ronaldo slowly dribbled the ball forward. Seeing that Charlton's defense had been suppressed and shrank into his penalty area, he turned around and knocked the ball horizontally...

Gerald, who was inserted in the middle, stopped the ball, and immediately raised his right foot and shot hard at the top of the penalty area!

The ball passed through the crowd in the penalty area and then hit the net behind Kelly!

"gooooooooooooooooal! Steven Gerald! Leiden Oriental's first league goal in the new season! Beautiful cooperation!"

Gerald opened his arms and rushed to the bottom of the stands, then waved his hand to make the cheers in the stands warmer, and the noise in the court increased by several decibels. Gerald's goal always made fans of Leiden East feel bloody and refreshing!

Xiao Ming clapped and sat back on the coach's seat, then laughed and said to MacDonald: "Alvin, have you noticed? Whenever Steven was depressed in the summer, he would always perform extremely well at the beginning of the new season..."

When McDonald was stunned at first when he heard Xiao Ming's words, he felt that it was really the case...
Chapter completed!