878 The Crown of the King
It seems a bit too much to say that Arsenal has worked hard for another year in vain, but it is almost the truth.
It's already April, and it seems that Arsenal has no hope in the league. Although Arsenal has achieved some improvement by introducing Arshavin, at most it has suppressed other teams and maintained its fourth position, and has no competition with the other three teams.
The British League Cup, the FA Cup, and Arsenal have all been eliminated. In this game, the hope of qualifying for the Champions League has also been stifled. Arsenal's future is bleak no matter how you look at it.
Not having a championship in four years is a bit too cruel for a strong team. Although everyone says that Arsenal has a future and can win in the future, in fact, people have to admit that such a future seems to be out of reach.
Arsenal is cultivating talents, but other teams rely on direct introduction of talents. In Real Madrid's frontcourt, except Raul, everyone else was bought by them, but they still played well. Compared with such opponents, how can they train talents to succeed? Arsenal's hope is not great no matter how much.
"I heard that Manchester City is now offering a price to buy Arsenal's Toure and Adebayo." Seeing the game getting worse and worse, Leinkell couldn't help but speak, "And Wenger is also interested in selling it. It is said that Toure and Gala are not in a match, and Wenger prefers Gala, which is why he wants to sell Toure, but Adebayo leaves purely because he wants to leave."
"Because Manchester City gives a lot of money?"
"Yes, what Manchester City gave him was a weekly salary of £170,000."
"Why do I suddenly feel that anyone can get a weekly salary of £170,000?" Hansen complained, "When thinking about it now, it's really not worth it. Even Adebayo has a weekly salary of £170,000..."
"This is not the point I want to say," Leinker smiled bitterly. "The point I want to say is that there seems to be a problem in Arsenal's model. Relying on Wenger's good eyes to see young and good players, they cultivate young players and win the championship with young people. It has always been considered the best team building model. However, it seems that there are problems now. Look at Arsenal. When the team cannot win the championship, their young people are not thinking about how to help the team win the championship, but how to change the team and replace a group of good teammates to win the championship. Such things have to be hidden at that time, but now, having ambition is already their public reason, and it is still a reason for being open and honest."
"After the Boseman Act, the connection between the team and the players can no longer be found as it used to be. In the past, the team was everything about the players. The team had jurisdiction over the players, which also made the players not think about matters outside their team. But now, everyone is naked in the relationship between merchants and commodities, so naturally there is no emotion like before. Since the players are no longer tied to the team, but can have their own choices, then there is naturally no loyalty at all." Hansen replied.
"So, is it possible that this Arsenal team will all fall apart one day in the future?"
"It's not impossible. There is really a day when the players leave enough money for the team when they leave."
"But with Arsenal like this, there really is no hope..."
In fact, they all understand that since the UK promulgated a new tax law this season, British football has been over. The 40% tax rate has risen to 50%. In addition, the depreciation of the pound has two things in hand. The players' income has dropped sharply. Who is willing to stay here to play football?
The economy determines everything - in the 1990s and even at the beginning of the century, what level was Serie A? Why? The Italian tax law at that time had loopholes and could evade taxes, so Italy could offer people an annual salary of more than 7 million yuan and only pay taxes of 2 million yuan. But in the new century, as soon as the new tax law was announced, the loopholes were blocked, and Italian football was completely ruined. The better three could still support it, but Rome, Lazio, Parma and Florence, with a poor economic foundation, really ran away and fled.
Now, it's England's turn. Spain has the Beckham Act, which can give players high salaries. Now, England is facing a great crisis. After the new tax law is promulgated, what can we use to confront Spain?
After this season, I’m afraid that in the future, it will be the era of Zhao Yaning’s rule.
On the court, Real Madrid had scored the fourth goal. This time, Zhao Yaning, who got the ball, ran back and sent the ball into the penalty area and gave Raul, while Raul assisted the ball back to Ibrahimovic, allowing Ibrahimovic to score a goal. Arsenal was completely powerless to make the day come back, and the game was over.
"Maybe, it will be really hard for us to win the championship in the future. No wonder these players all want to escape. What are players without the championship?"
"I don't think the championship is the whole thing to evaluate a person." Hansen shook his head, "Alan Shearer has no great championship, but he is still the best striker in the Premier League. Batistuta has no great honor, but the fans remember his strength in their hearts. It is an extremely stupid idea to think that having a championship means having everything. Whether the players really have strength depends not on the number of champions, but on the court performance."
"It doesn't seem right to say this..."
"Of course, the strength has come true, the championship is a proof. For example, Zhao Yaning, who won the Champions League, is enough to prove that he is the world's number one. But except for him, Tevez, Rooney, Lampard and others have won the Champions League, no matter how many Champions League they have won, it has nothing to do with the world's number one player. And for example, the World Cup champion, that thing, a specific person, is the king of football. For example, Ronaldo in 1998 and Ronaldinho in 2006. But it was not them, even if they were not that characteristic time, even if they performed well, it had nothing to do with the king of football. In 2002, Ronaldo won the World Cup, no one said that he was the king of football - time has passed, and opportunities are not waiting for anyone. The champion's trophy is the crown of the king of the champion, the Champions League is the crown of the world's number one, and the World Cup is the crown of the king of football. A king without a crown is a regret, but it is also a king of uncrowned. But those who are not wearing the crown are all kings."
"So, how many times has Zhao Yaning worn the crown?"
"How can different teams and different eras calculate uniformly? Unless it is the dynasty of the Champions League, what kind of crown is it?"—
Real Madrid easily defeated Arsenal in their home court.
At home, Arsenal was suppressed 3-1, and almost no power to fight back. Zhao Yaning played an extremely beautiful game. Not only did he rely on his own ball control, he forced Arsenal to change his team shape and lose his offensive power. At the same time, he also relied on his own involvement to get enough opportunities for his teammates, and even broke through to the penalty area and scored a goal. He did these things and received extremely high praise after the game.
"Real Madrid is very strong, and they deserve a victory." Wenger admitted in an interview after the game that his team was not as strong as others. "In the last game, we should have done better, but that mistake made us unable to seize the opportunity. The game shifted from what we expected, and it also caused the final defeat..."
Wenger is still resentful of the performance of Zhu Lu in the Champions League that was not worthy of his life. In fact, if it weren't for Zhu Lu's nonsense, judging by Ibrahimovic's mistakes, Arsenal would have really been able to win. Although this game at the Bernabeu was completely defeated, what if he won in the first leg? Maybe everything would change.
But now, Arsenal has to accept that the fate of losing all four major ones in the year is another.
"We will not sell any players, whether Adebayo or Toure, will stay on our team. Arsenal has a future and we can do better."
Although Wenger once again emphasized his confidence after the game, these words were scoffed by many media: It’s not about whether you want to sell or not, but about whether the players are willing to leave behind. Adebayo has already contacted Manchester City for the sake of money, and Fabregas is also distracted. What did Wenger think that everyone is willing to accompany him loyally and guard the Emirates Stadium?
Real Madrid once again advanced to the Champions League semi-finals and became the team in the semi-finals.
At this time, the games of several other teams were almost completed at the same time.
Manchester United and Barcelona are both pressureless in qualifying. Because the opponents they play are players of the Portuguese Super League, they play very easily and easily. Although Benfica and Porto are both considered giant teams of the Portuguese Super League, they have an essential gap compared with Premier League La Liga teams. Manchester United and Barcelona almost chose to rely on substitute lineups to fight in the game. However, neither Benfica nor Porto made a wave and were directly eliminated by them.
In the last game, Chelsea and Liverpool were born again. Although the battle between the two sides was very fierce in the Stamford Bridge game and played a rare 4-4 battle, because Torres and Mascherano were absent in Anfield, Chelsea defeated Liverpool 2-1, which also made Liverpool withdraw again.
And this time in the Champions League, La Liga and Premier League each account for half of the country. Manchester United plays against Real Madrid, Chelsea plays against Barcelona, and they each meet their own old enemies. Real Madrid wants to avenge the elimination last season, and Chelsea and Barcelona are born with disagreements. The two teams' two-team fight has become the focus of everyone's attention.
At this time, Zhao Yaning was also happy and puzzled by another news: Although he did not go back in the national team game, he still won.
These two games of the national team are in February and at the end of March. Once in the King's Cup, the weekly double-game period is the intensive period of the King's Cup, and the other is at the end of March, before the match against Arsenal. These two periods are really awkward. They have to fly back to Asia to play in the national team in a week. No matter how you look at it, they are a little tired.
Because the opponents in these two games, one is playing against North Korea at home and the other is playing against Qatar away, is not considered a particularly strong team, coach Gao made the decision and told him that he doesn't have to go back to China.
What surprised Zhao Yaning was that he actually won both games.
"I remember right, it seems that Qu Bo and Zheng Zhi have been unable to survive abroad this season, and have returned to China, right? The strength of the national team should have weakened a lot, why did they play a good ball instead?" Zhao Yaning was a little puzzled by this. After the game, he specially found the game video tape and watched it several times, and the final result was that the overall performance of the national team seemed to be better than what he usually saw.
Chapter completed!