Entering August, the European transfer market is gradually coming to an end.
Especially in the Premier League, basically all the players that should be introduced have been introduced.
This is also affected by this season's Premier League schedule.
At noon on August 14, the opening game of the Premier League will be held at White Hart Lane in London.
The opening game of the season is Tottenham Hotspur hosting Manchester City.
This is undoubtedly a very interesting game.
But six days before this game, the sophisticated Manchester City will play an off-site derby with Manchester United at Wembley Stadium.
This is the Premier League's annual Community Shield match, where the league champion faces the FA Cup champion.
It can be said that as soon as the new season of the Premier League started, it entered the fast lane, and the wealthy teams and the strong teams immediately started fighting to the death. This kind of schedule is enough to make fans all over the world enjoy watching it.
In the second round, Manchester City will return to home to face another strong opponent, Benitez's Liverpool.
This season, Manchester City will participate in the Champions League and compete on two fronts. In addition, the competition in the Premier League itself is extremely fierce. This will be a very big challenge for Manchester City's rotation and the thickness of the team's bench.
After bringing in Robin van Persie, Manchester City invested 122 million euros in the transfer market, making it the team that invested the most in the entire European transfer market this summer, and it was far ahead.
In the Premier League, among the traditional top four, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea have all increased their recruitment efforts. Obviously they feel that the competition in the Premier League this season will be very fierce, but only Arsenal.
Losing qualification for the Champions League, the Gunners lost tens of millions of euros in revenue, which forced the Gunners, who were already in financial difficulties, to sell Robin van Persie. And just after the time entered August, Arsenal once again announced a surprising transfer.
meeting.
Adebayor finally got his wish and moved to Real Madrid in La Liga.
The transfer fee is 25 million euros.
This has made Real Madrid the third-largest team to invest in the transfer market this summer, second only to Manchester City and Barcelona.
The impact of the economic crisis on professional football can be clearly felt around the world.
But as the Guardian's analysis of the transfer market said, Manchester City is like a catfish, disrupting the entire Premier League, forcing teams such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool to bite the bullet and follow Manchester City's investment.
"No one wants to become the second Arsenal!"
More importantly, in addition to Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur are also ambitious.
This North London team suffered from weak forwards last season. The team's top scorer was winger Duff, who scored 18 goals, but including Robbie Keane and Crouch.
Many forwards in the team failed to score double figures, which is seen as the crux of Tottenham's failure to reach the top four in the league.
This summer, Tottenham have been linked with Huntelaar, Dzeko and other famous players early on.
Redknapp even made harsh words early on, saying that Tottenham must solve their forward problem this summer.
After bringing in Van der Vaart from Real Madrid, Tottenham directly targeted Wolfsburg's Bosnia and Herzegovina center Dzeko.
In August, when Arsenal announced the sale of Adebayor for 25 million euros, North London's arch-rival Tottenham Hotspur announced that it would acquire Wolf from the Bundesliga for a high price of 25 million euros.
Fortuna introduces Dzeko.
Redknapp said excitedly that the addition of Dzeko will greatly enhance Tottenham's offensive firepower in the frontcourt. The addition of him and Van der Vaart will help Tottenham strive for the top four in the league.
Obviously, after years of accumulation, Tottenham saw the opportunity to hit the top four, and at the same time, Tottenham's management also showed the courage to hit the top four in the league.
After all, once they reach the Champions League, the annual income of tens of millions of euros is an irresistible temptation for any team.
Dzeko, Van der Vaart, Gallas, Sandro, Micah Richards...
Tottenham have invested heavily this summer, and their overall strength has been significantly improved.
The Guardian believes in its season preview analysis that Manchester City, relying on its strong lineup, is highly likely to win the top four and even defend the Premier League title.
Judging from the transfer signings this summer, Tottenham also has a good chance of reaching the top four in the league.
Then the problem comes.
There are only four places in the Champions League. Arsenal will not make much signings this summer, but Wenger's training skills are still very good. There is a chance to return to the top four. With Tottenham added, who will be left behind?
With four spots and six teams vying for it, plus other strong teams that may become dark horses at any time, the competition in the new Premier League season has become unprecedentedly fierce. No one can predict the trend of the Premier League.
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Gao Shen doesn't have much interest in paying attention to the situation of the Premier League in the new season.
For him, it makes no sense to pay attention to these. With this time, it is better to study how to solve the problems exposed by the team and help the players grow and improve.
In his opinion, as long as Manchester City does their best, that is enough.
In fact, he has always done this.
Although his record in warm-up matches has always been criticized, Gao Shen has not changed even in this season.
Played four games in the United States, winning one, drawing two and losing one.
You know, the opponents are all weak, but Gao Shen really played too hard.
After returning to Europe, Manchester City played three warm-up matches in one go, including many strong opponents like Dortmund and Valencia. As a result, no need to guess, Manchester City suffered three consecutive defeats.
So much so that even Gao Shen himself felt a little guilty and mocked himself on Twitter: "Usually the worse the warm-up results are, the better the performance in the official competition."
Compared with last season, the British media have learned their lesson now and do not plan to compete with senior players in warm-up matches.
But as Martin Samuel of the Daily Mail said, "Everyone is working hard and waiting to see Gao Shen embarrass himself in the new season. As soon as Manchester City loses, they will immediately be submerged in everyone's attention."
In the mouth."
After returning to Manchester, Manchester City entered the final preparation stage before the new season.
Next, Manchester City will travel south to London to challenge Manchester United at Wembley Stadium.
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The Community Shield is not an official game, but it is known as the prequel game of the Premier League and is always held one week before the first round of the Premier League.
But despite this, Manchester City still went south to London one day early.
At the pre-match press conference announcing the Community Shield match roster, Gao Shen said that the reason why he made such a decision was to show the importance he attached to the Community Shield Cup.
"In fact, we are full of interest in the champion of every event!" Gao Shen said ambitiously.
In the history of Manchester City, the last time they won the Community Shield was in 1972. Thirty-eight years have passed since then. It can be said to be quite a long time ago, so Manchester City fans are also full of hunger for this championship.
thirsty.
Regarding the new season, Gao Shen said that Manchester City will still be the most competitive favorite to win the Premier League.
"We are the defending champions, and we will still be the most competitive team in the coming season. I believe that even our opponents will not doubt this, and we also have such confidence."
Gao Shen said that Manchester City will insist on fighting on multiple fronts and will not give up on any front easily.
"Anyone who is familiar with me knows that that is not my style. My team and I will try our best for every championship!"
The Premier League in the new season is very fierce, but Gao Shen said that there are only four teams capable of challenging for the league championship.
Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea.
As for Arsenal, Gao Shen said that Wenger's team suffered heavy losses in the transfer market this summer, and its strength has declined slightly compared to last season. It has a chance to break into the top four in the league, but it will be difficult to launch an impact on the league championship.
For the new season, Gao Shen made it clear that the Champions League will be the team's main goal.
"I have led two teams to win the Champions League, so I know what kind of team it must be if it wants to compete in the Champions League."
"I have a very strong feeling and confidence that we at Manchester City have such strength!"
Gao Shen made no secret of his pursuit of the Champions League.
He wants to win the third Champions League, which will make him surpass Ferguson and others and become the first active head coach.
More importantly, there is no better stage to prove his coaching ability than the Champions League!
This is not only the desire of the senior team, but also the desire of the Manchester City coaching staff and all the players of Manchester City. It is also the expectation of Mansour and Mubarak, because only after winning the Champions League can Manchester City truly join the ranks of Europe's top teams.
Just like the G14 that many people are very familiar with.
Although this organization has long been a thing of the past, the ticket to the G14 is the Champions League.
What?
Why can Arsenal enter the Champions League even if they don't have one?
The depth of this... is unknown.
Maybe, the European Cup Winners' Cup also counts.
But from this point we can also see the gold content of the Champions League in European football.
Even Chelsea is still pursuing the Champions League tirelessly.
There is news that Abramovich's request for Ancelotti is the Champions League.
Everyone knows that Ancelotti is one of the few coaches who has won two Champions League gold medals.
Although full of desire for the Champions League, Gao Shen still emphasized that the team also attaches great importance to the league.
"We are also full of confidence in defending the league title!"
As for the so-called curse of the Community Shield Cup, atheist Gao Shen sneered, saying that he did not believe in such a statement and did not think that winning the Community Shield Cup would mean that he would miss the league championship.
"It turns out that this so-called curse often fails."
"But it doesn't matter. I believe that my team will prove that it is not reliable at all in the next Community Shield Cup and league."
"Or any so-called curse has no effect on us at Manchester City."
"We are powerful enough to destroy all curses!"
Regarding the upcoming Community Shield Cup, Gao Shen said that he had not carefully studied the warm-up match of his opponent Manchester United.
"Of course, this is not because I am blindly bullish, but I think that as long as we play our own football well, the only headache we should have is our opponents!"
“A word about the upcoming season?”
Gao Shen first smiled, and then said in a serious voice: "Premier League opponents, are you ready?"
Media reporters can also easily feel Gao Shen's strong confidence in his team.
