On December 25, Christmas Day, Chelsea Club held a press conference to officially announce a transfer news.

The news is that Chelsea has reached an agreement with the Bundesliga team Wolfsburg, and the 24-year-old German international Schürrle will officially transfer from Chelsea to Wolfsburg.

This transfer transaction will take effect immediately after the winter transfer window officially opens on January 1.

Chelsea Club did not disclose the specific content of the transaction, but according to "Bild", his transfer fee will be as high as 32 million euros, and there will also be a floating fee of 5 million euros linked to performance. He will sign a contract with Wolfsburg

A four-and-a-half-year contract.

"Bild" also reviewed Schürrle's career.

Schürrle can play both forward and winger positions. He started his career with Mainz. From 2009 to 2011, he played 66 times for Mainz and scored 20 goals;

He then joined Bayer Leverkusen for £6.5 million, played 65 times and scored 18 goals;

In 2013, Chelsea paid 18 million pounds to bring him to Stamford Bridge. So far, he has played 44 times and scored 11 goals.

Schürrle was selected for the national team for the first time in 2010 and has played a total of 40 times and scored 17 goals.

Of course, his greatest achievement in the national team was to represent the team in winning the 2014 World Cup, and it was he who assisted Gotze to score the winning goal against Argentina.

"Such an excellent winger was sold by Chelsea immediately, which also shows how sufficient their personnel reserves are now!" Bild said in the end.

The personnel reserves are sufficient, which is indeed why Pan Yi decided to sell Xu Sanduo.

The main reason is that there are too many people who can play winger.

Currently, Chelsea's main wingers are basically Hazard on the left and Seat B on the right.

On the bench, both Oscar and William, including the versatile Ramirez, can play the winger position well.

Even including two centers, Lukaku and Bamford can also play out wide.

As a result, there is indeed a bit of redundancy in personnel at this position.

Of course, if Wolfsburg hadn't sincerely offered an offer of nearly 40 million euros, Pan Yi wouldn't have wanted to sell him.

Although Schürrle's salary is indeed a bit high, is Chelsea a club short of money?

Raising a player with a weekly salary of 230,000 is not a big problem.

But since Wolfsburg sincerely wanted to buy it, Pan Yi reluctantly let him go.

After all, then again, using players with a weekly salary of 230,000 yuan as substitutes is a bit of a luxury...

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One day later, just after Christmas, Chelsea ushered in the 18th round of the Premier League, a home game against West Ham United.

Facing this team that was in excellent form and currently ranked fourth in the Premier League standings, Pan Yi did not dare to neglect and sent out his best players.

After all, he didn't want to repeat the situation he faced against Stoke City.

But games during the Christmas period are always tough.

The tough style of the "Hammers" has never been easy to mess with, and they don't want to let go of the opportunity they have to enter the Champions League this year.

In the first half of the game, they took advantage of the cooperation of the two strikers on the front line, Enzo Valencia passed the overhead ball, and high center forward Carroll scored with a header, and actually led Chelsea in the away game.

Chelsea only got a goal back in the 65th minute of the second half, after a pass from Oscar to Lukaku.

But after that, the two teams entered the offensive and defensive mode. West Ham United did not expect to win three points at Stamford Bridge, so they put all their players at the front of the penalty area, just to defend a draw.

Time passed by, and the fourth official had already raised the electronic sign indicating three minutes of stoppage time, which also made Chelsea fans extremely anxious.

"Lukaku was brought down by Kouyate at the edge of West Ham United's penalty area and Chelsea got a free kick."

"The three minutes of injury time are about to run out. This may be Chelsea's last chance to attack."

"If Chelsea still cannot score this time, they will draw with West Ham United. This will also be their second draw in the Premier League this season, and also their second draw in a row."

"Although Chelsea's lead in the standings is still obvious, if they fail to win in the two games before and after Christmas, it will inevitably affect the team's morale and make people doubt whether they can maintain the championship.

A state of invincibility."

"After all, neither Stoke City nor West Ham United are traditional strong teams. If they can remain unbeaten against Chelsea, then other teams can do the same!"

At this time, West Ham United fans were also singing and dancing in the away team stands at Stamford Bridge.

Being able to escape from Chelsea in an away game makes them very excited.

And this precious point can also allow them to maintain their fourth place in the standings and avoid being caught up by Southampton, Arsenal and other teams behind them.

"Oscar is standing on the penalty spot. For a free kick from this distance, it seems Chelsea is not going to let David Luiz take the elevator kick, but let Oscar, who has more delicate footwork, take the curve kick."

"Most of Chelsea's players have entered West Ham United's penalty area, including Terry, David Luiz, Cahill, Matic and other players who are good at fighting for headers."

"Pan Yi was standing on the sidelines. He looked expressionless. I wonder if he was also nervous inside..."

The referee's whistle sounded at this time.

Oscar starts running.

step!

Two steps!

His right foot hit the football.

The football lifted off the ground and jumped over the wall.

A beautiful arc, spinning towards the upper left corner of the goal.

"Oscar! Shot! Adrian made a diving move to save the ball... He didn't save it! The ball went in! It went in! It went in!!!"

"GOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!"

"Oscar! He took a beautiful free kick and the ball hit the dead center of the goal!"

"2:1, the score now becomes 2:1! Chelsea overtook the score at the last moment!"

"Oscar's performance today was phenomenal. He used a perfect pass and a shot to help Chelsea win!"

The Stamford Bridge stadium, which had been quiet just now, suddenly erupted into huge and crazy cheers.

All Chelsea fans are shouting! This is the excitement of a final victory!

The West Ham United fans fell silent.

After scoring the goal, Oscar happily ran along the sideline, but within a few steps he was hugged by his teammates who rushed up to him. He was then flipped over and entered the stacking mode.

Pan Yi cheered on the sidelines, and Chelsea's bench was also in jubilation.

On the other side, West Ham United coach Allardyce kept shaking his head and smiling bitterly.

His team performed very well today, fully reflected his tactical intentions on the court, and almost got the results he wanted.

But in the end, he lost to this free kick.

When Oscar stood at the penalty spot, Allardyce had a bad feeling.

Because stars like Oscar really have the ability to change the game at critical moments.

Now, this bad premonition has come true...

Allardyce was depressed and wanted to get angry, but he didn't know who to get angry at.

This is completely a reflection of the top star's personal ability. This goal is really helpless.

As the Chelsea players' celebration ended, the referee also blew the final whistle.

In the end, with Oscar's free kick goal at the last moment of injury time, Chelsea defeated West Ham United and took all three points!

"Congratulations to Pan Yi, congratulations to Oscar, and congratulations to Chelsea! This victory also proves to the world that even in the most difficult Christmas schedule, Chelsea can still defeat strong opponents!"

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As January approaches, the top players in the Premier League are busy playing games and at the same time operating intensively in the transfer market. They are clearing out redundant personnel where they should be and reinforcing where they should be strengthened.

Of course, compared to the summer window, there will always be less news in the winter window. After all, not all teams want to make too many changes to the lineup in the middle of the season.

Manchester City spent 28 million pounds to buy Ivory Coast striker Bony from Swansea, and Arsenal spent 11.3 million pounds to buy Brazilian central defender Gabriel (not the current Gabe beast) from Villarreal. These are already actions.

It's relatively big.

At present, the biggest move is Chelsea's sale of Schürrle to Wolfsburg of the Bundesliga, which has become the highest price ever sold by a Premier League team.

So, are Chelsea ready to transfer players?

Pan Yi was not in a hurry.

He is quite satisfied with his lineup now. If there are no accidents, he will treat it as if it does not exist in this winter window. The most he can do is clean up, rent out some youth team players, and live a "taxi" addiction.

However, on this day, as expected, there was an accident.

As soon as Pan Yi arrived at the office at the Cobham training base, he saw two documents on his desk.

After flipping through it, Pan Yi had a slightly surprised expression on his face.

Because one of these two documents was actually a purchase fax from the Dragon Kingdom Shanghai SIPG team!

Shanghai SIPG officially wants to buy Chelsea's attacking midfielder, Oscar!

Pan Yi couldn't help scratching his head.
To be continued...