After playing in the FA Cup, Manchester City began to fully invest in preparations for the Champions League final.
Three days later, in the 37th round of the Premier League make-up, Manchester City challenged Newcastle away from home.
Yaya Toure scored twice to help the team defeat the Magpies 2-0 away from home.
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Over the weekend, the Premier League ushered in the most critical 38th round of the league.
Up to this battle, the top four in the league and relegation were still full of suspense.
Arsenal, Tottenham and Newcastle are all qualified to break into the top four. Queens Park Rangers, Aston Villa and Bolton are all still fighting for relegation, which makes the finale of the Premier League full of suspense.
Gao Shen said in a media interview that the team will not change its plan, but will play with a rotating lineup.
The main lineup is preparing for the Champions League final on May 19.
And Manchester City's last opponent is Queens Park Rangers.
With Robin van Persie's hat-trick, Sturridge, Jerome Boateng, Hazard, and substitute Giroud's goals, Manchester City beat Queens Park Rangers 7-0 at home.
Mark Hughes' team made a crazy counterattack after conceding the first goal, allowing Manchester City to seize opportunities again and again, and finally completely crippled Queens Park Rangers.
According to Sky TV commentator Andy Gray, "Gao Shen hopes to push Mark Hughes into the relegation zone!"
But it's a pity that Bolton is so incompetent.
Before this round, Bolton were ranked 18th, two points behind Queens Park Rangers.
In the away game against Stoke City, Bolton conceded a goal in the first half and quickly reversed it with two goals in a row. This was supposed to be a great situation.
But who would have thought that they actually conceded a goal in the second half.
In the end, they tied with Stoke City 2-2.
Queens Park Rangers couldn't be happier.
Originally they all thought they were destined to be relegated, but they didn't expect Bolton to be so useless.
What else can be done?
Gao Shen was really speechless.
As Ferguson said, he now begins to feel that he has overestimated the difficulty of relegation for Premier League teams?
Bolton deserved to be relegated after playing so poorly at the critical moment.
The other two relegated teams are Wolves and Blackburn Rovers.
As for the battle for the top four in the league, Arsenal and Tottenham finally had the last laugh.
These two London teams still withstood the pressure at critical moments, especially Arsenal, who finally made it back to the Champions League. Wenger's old face really turned into a chrysanthemum with a smile.
Both Liverpool and Chelsea have encountered problems this season, and coaching changes and reorganizations this summer have been put on the agenda.
The Red Army, in particular, has made bold claims before and plans to invest £150 million this summer.
After losing the top four in the league, both the Red Army and the Blue Army suffered heavy losses. It has become an urgent matter to reorganize the team, improve their combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and return to the top four in the league.
At the same time, Arsenal and Tottenham are also fighting to keep the top four in the league.
This fierce and exciting battle will explode in the transfer market this summer.
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The Premier League has come to an end, and the battle for the English Championship has also been settled.
The result still surprised Gao Shen.
In fact, as early as April 28, the English Championship had finished its regular league, followed by the promotion play-offs.
Leeds United led by Maurizio Sarri won the league championship with an overwhelming advantage and finally returned to the Premier League after an absence of eight years.
On the night when the team won the championship, the entire Leeds United was completely thrown into a carnival.
Countless fans took to the streets to celebrate Leeds United's return to the Premier League.
According to the Yorkshire Post, after the carnival night, the whole city was in chaos, almost like returning to the chaotic scenes after World War II.
Due to the lack of large-scale garbage disposal equipment, sanitation workers have to manually clean up the garbage.
For this matter, Leeds United also specifically called on its official website and Twitter for more fans to stay calm and rational, and to take to the streets to help these sanitation workers clean up the city's garbage.
Su Qing even personally led the management team to conduct demonstration work starting from the area around the Elland Road Stadium.
Many public-minded fans also recognized the club's actions and took to the streets to help.
Although there are still some doubts that this is a show by the Chinese management, but as Leeds United star Lucas Radebe said in an interview, we are not afraid of showing off, but we are afraid that we are not even willing to show off.
The three relegated teams in the English Championship this season are Portsmouth, Coventry and Doncaster. Among them, Portsmouth was under supervision due to debt problems and was deducted 10 points and was relegated. Otherwise,
, they are not yet there.
Gao Shen also took a special look at the lineups of these three relegated teams, as well as the three relegated Premier League teams. It has to be said that there is really not much to gain.
Last year's relegated team could be described as a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, but this year it is obviously much inferior.
This makes it difficult for Gao Shen to realize his wish to pick up losses.
But it’s normal, we are all a Premier League team, so I’m sorry to miss it again.
Your vision and thinking must also be raised to a higher level.
Well, pick up a higher-end one!
According to the rules of the English Championship, the top two teams in the league are directly promoted, that is, Leeds United and Reading.
But the four teams from third to sixth will enter the promotion play-offs.
What is different from Gao Shen's previous life is that due to the variables brought about by his appearance, especially the departure of two generals, Adam Lallana and Schneiderlin, Southampton is only ranked fourth in the British Championship this season.
position, not even as good as West Ham United.
You know, in Gaoshen's previous life, the saints were directly upgraded.
In the subsequent promotion play-offs, Southampton defeated Cardiff and entered the final, but lost to West Ham United 1-2 in the final and failed to qualify for promotion.
From a strength perspective, the Saints are indeed slightly inferior to West Ham United.
After the Saints failed to gain promotion, Leeds United made a decisive move and successfully signed Southampton's outstanding 28-year-old Portuguese central defender Jose Font for a price of two million pounds.
The season isn't over yet, but Manchester City can't wait.
This has also attracted the attention of many people in the industry.
Everyone knows that failure to achieve the top spot will inevitably lead to continuous turmoil, and Southampton is no exception this time.
Font is one of Southampton's best players in the Championship. It's not surprising that Leeds United is targeting him. What's really surprising is that Leeds United moves so fast.
Obviously, this must be a consensus reached with the Southampton team in advance. As long as the promotion to the Premier League fails, Southampton will agree to let Wundt transfer.
Two years ago, when Wundt transferred from Leighton Orient to Southampton, it only cost Southampton one million pounds.
Now, Leeds United has doubled the price to sign this 28-year-old "veteran", which seems to be a bad match.
Except for Su Qing, Lucas, Borrell and Sarri, no one else knew that this transaction was hand-picked by Gao Shen.
Jose Fonte is not only an outstanding central defender, but also an evergreen tree. He will also win a very awesome nickname in the future, the central defender incubator.
What does that mean?
It's that he can make all the central defenders who play with him better.
Doesn’t it sound unreliable? Bizarre?
At the beginning, Gao Shen thought the same way, but there are some things you can't help but believe.
The first time Wundt came into people's sight was in Southampton.
He made his debut at Sporting Lisbon, around the same time as Cristiano Ronaldo, but he was not as famous as Cristiano Ronaldo, and he didn't do well afterwards, so he moved to Oriental on a free transfer, and then became famous at Saints.
Count the central defenders that Fonte has played with in the Saints, Lovren, Alderweireld, Van Dijk...
Among them, Alderweireld was loaned to Southampton by Atletico Madrid. After a year of experience with Wundt, his value doubled. After returning to Atletico Madrid, he was bought by Tottenham Hotspur.
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Maybe after seeing this, many people will think, holy shit, what’s there to say?
Southampton was doing well at the time, and Wundt followed suit.
Don't worry, look down.
After playing for West Ham United for a year, Fonte came to play in the Chinese Super League, but soon moved to Lille in Ligue 1.
This time, I really excelled.
According to data from the German transfer market, since Fonte started playing for Lille, the value of Lille's central defenders began to rise irregularly. It took Gabriel two years to skyrocket from 540,000 euros to 23.4 million euros.
Arsenal.
During the same period, Adam Soumaro's salary skyrocketed from 2.7 million euros to 10 million euros.
In 2020, after selling Gabriel, Lille signed young player Sven Botman from Ajax for 7.2 million euros. Two years later, the Dutch central defender moved to Newcastle for 33.3 million euros.
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If the example in Southampton is not enough to illustrate the problem, then how to explain that during Font's time at Lille, this French Ligue 1 team continuously produced central defenders so efficiently?
There is only one answer, and that is that Wundt not only knows how to play football, but is not only good at playing football, but more importantly, he knows how to cooperate with his teammates and how to help them bring out the best in himself.
To put it simply, if you play next to Wundt, you can perform better and gain experience points faster.
The better you perform, the higher your worth will naturally be.
What's interesting is that when everyone focused on the teammates around Wundt, they ignored this old bean sprout.
This is very interesting.
Gao Shen currently has young central defenders such as Maguire, Koulibaly and Stones in the team. Woodgate has good abilities, but his body is too fragile. He urgently needs an experienced and strong veteran to lead him.
area.
There is no doubt that Wundt is the best candidate.
His strength has been proven by the Premier League in his previous life, and he can also gain experience points for the team's young central defenders, killing multiple birds with one stone.
Why don't you get such a good thing quickly and wait for the New Year?
Therefore, Gao Shen saw something was wrong with Southampton early on and immediately asked Lucas to contact him.
After the Saints failed to reach the Premier League, Leeds United immediately took action and successfully signed Font.
