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Chapter 290 Divide the feast

This season's Premier League championship, runner-up and third place were won by teams from London. This result naturally made these major media located in London feel extremely satisfied. Although they must spare no effort to support all English teams participating in European competitions for the honor of British football, when returning to the domestic arena, these London media are naturally extremely unhappy about Manchester United's dominance of the league battlefield for many years. And now, they finally have the opportunity to celebrate at the end of the season!

As the Premier League was settled in the 2004-05 season, Chelsea became the new Premier League champion, and West Bromwich became the first team to successfully relegate in the previous half-time league deputy squad leader, the entire English football world was excited. For those who were already tired of watching Manchester United and Arsenal's duo, now they can finally break the blockade and take over the league championship by the two teams. Needless to say, the excitement and excitement in their hearts. As for West Bromwich, who created the miracle of relegation, was praised by fans and the media. His head coach Brian Robson took this opportunity to become famous and became one of the most promising local coaches among the new generation to advance to the ranks of famous coaches!

However, while the fans were cheering for Chelsea's championship and West Bromvic's magical relegation at the last moment, all the players who stayed in the Premier League turned their attention to the three clubs, Southampton, Norwich and Crystal Palace, who had been confirmed to be relegated from the Premier League arena, and were preparing to use their knife and fork as usual to divide the high-quality assets owned by these three unlucky guys!

Not to mention, among the three teams relegated from the Premier League this season, there is also a club like Southampton with an excellent youth training system, which undoubtedly aroused other teams' interest in dividing up the assets of the relegated team!

After Henry with 21 goals, Crystal Palace striker Andrew Johnson, who won the Premier League silver boot this season, Norwich midfielder Damien Francis, the team's top scorer, and defender Gary Doherty, have all become the key targets that many Premier League teams are pursuing after the end of the league. As for Southampton, who has long been famous, from the biggest discovery of this season, Peter Crouch, who scored 12 league goals with just 17 starts, to former Premier League Golden Boot winner Kevin Phillips, to midfielder Rory Delapp, Belgian young player Van Damer, and main goalkeeper Andy Nemi, etc., all have been rumored to leave the team this summer!

West Ham United in 202-03, Leeds United in 2003, Southampton in 2004-05... These young guards with great strength have been relegated one after another. While making other Premier League clubs feel full of oil, it also proves a fact that with the implementation and deepening of the Boseman Act, how to adapt to this new era has become something that all football clubs need to learn and focus on!

In addition to three unlucky players who were unfortunately relegated, Newcastle, who fired Bobby Robson, was also facing a similar situation at this time. The Magpie, who invited Liverpool legend Sones to coach this season, did not achieve the performance as Shepard claimed. Instead, it declined all the way, and did not even get a seat in the League Cup. Such an ending disappointed Magpie fans, but also caused Shepard, who served as the chairman of Newcastle, to face widespread doubts. In order to calm the outside world's doubts about him (and to ensure ticket sales), Shepard swore in an interview with the media that he would invest every penny he earned from the club into the transfer market, bringing powerful new players to the team!

This means that in the upcoming summer, Shepard will increase efforts to clean up the players left over from the old Robson era in order to achieve his so-called goal of "improving the team's strength". Judging from Shepard's usual poor performance in the transfer market (for example, in the winter transfer window of this season, Peruvian international Solano was sold to Aston Villa for 1 million pounds, and Cruivet, who is beginning to decline with a high salary), other teams can take this opportunity to kill Shepard, or take advantage of Newcastle!

Laurent Robert, Bellamy, Lee Bowyer, Dale, Babayaro... These familiar names for fans have been put on the transfer list by Sones and Shepard!

The former British overlord Liverpool was unable to survive this grand feast. The current situation of missing the Champions League for two consecutive seasons and being mediocre on other fronts has greatly affected the Reds' image as a top giant and its appeal to stars, making Liverpool unable to compete with Manchester United and Chelsea in the transfer market in the Champions League.

To make matters worse, many Liverpool players, including Gerald and Hypia, began to think of transferring and leaving the team in the summer because they were reluctant to see the hope of the team's revival!

Especially after Irving left, Gerald, who has become Liverpool's number one star, publicly stated in an interview that he would "seriously consider" the renewal of the contract with the club. The premise for Gerald and Liverpool to complete the contract renewal is that the club must show sufficient ambitions and ensure that the team can be in a stable championship group!

If Liverpool cannot guarantee these things, then even if Gerald is loyal to the Reds, he will not intend to follow Matthew Leticel and spend time at Anfield for the reputation of a loyal minister!

Unlike Everton, the Toffees players did not make it their goal to qualify for the Champions League at the beginning of their franchise. They could be satisfied by getting a ticket to the League Cup at the end of the season. Therefore, although Everton's league ranking is one place lower than Liverpool (due to the butterfly effect brought by George, Liverpool in this life can invest more energy in the league, resulting in Everton not being able to beat the Reds in the standings like he did in his previous life), but what Moyes needs to deal with is not as annoying as Benitez.

However, the biggest problem facing Liverpool now is that in terms of strength, they are not opponents of the top four teams in the standings at all; in terms of financial resources, the Reds do not have enough funds to compare with George and Abramovich, and in terms of reputation, Liverpool is also not as attractive as teams such as Chelsea and Tottenham. This means that the Liverpool club basically cannot achieve the contract renewal requirements put forward by Gerald on the return of the league championship group!
Chapter completed!
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