It has to be said that wherever Southampton players go, they are the center of attention.
In Group D of this World Cup, many people originally thought that Italy and England should join hands to qualify. Uruguay may have some impact, while Costa Rica is obviously the bottom team...
As a result, after three rounds, Costa Rica won two and drew one, scoring four and conceding one in three games, qualifying from this group with an unbeaten record!
The goalkeeper Navas, who plays for Southampton, performed extremely well. He made a lot of saves in every game, showing the qualities of a top goalkeeper!
Uruguay lost to Costa Rica, but defeated England and Italy consecutively, qualifying second in the group.
Italy won one game against England and lost to Uruguay and Costa Rica, ranking third in the group. England only drew one game against Costa Rica, finishing at the bottom of the group...
This news immediately shocked everyone. Another shocking news was that Suarez, who had been good for a year, bit someone again in the group stage. He bit Italy defender Chiellini. Although this scene was dismissed by the referee
He ignored it, but was suspended for nine games after the game and was unable to participate in any football activities for four months...
Ji Ya almost wanted to vomit a mouthful of blood.
This means that although the next month or so is the offseason, Suarez will not be able to play for Southampton before the end of October...
Although there are not many games scheduled in the first half of the season due to the impact of national team match days, it also means that Suarez will miss at least the first nine rounds of Southampton's league and the first three rounds of the Champions League.
Plus all cup matches during this period.
However, Ji Ya and the Southampton Club did not add insult to injury, but expressed sincerely that although Suarez's incident occurred in the national team, since he is a member of the Southampton Club, the Southampton Club will
Bear the consequences with him.
Suarez also apologized the next day, saying that he was indeed hot-headed at the time and would like to apologize to everyone.
"I hope this guy can be more mature." Ji Ya thought to himself speechlessly.
In terms of performance, Suarez's performance was still very good. In the game against England, he scored twice to help Uruguay defeat England with two goals. However, this exaggerated foul made all his achievements disappear.
But apart from Suarez, the performance of Southampton's other players was okay.
Luke Shaw is the main force in the England national team and his performance is acceptable, while Klein only got one chance to play. It is difficult for the full-back to perform well in the overall sluggish situation.
Needless to say, Navas's performance was the most eye-catching goalkeeper in the group stage. He also performed well in the quarter-finals. He made seven effective saves in the game with ten men.
He abruptly helped the team enter the penalty shootout. In the end, Costa Rica eliminated Greece and advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Cup, creating Costa Rica's best result in the World Cup!
In the quarter-finals, facing the powerful Netherlands, Navas once again made seven wonderful saves in the game and dragged the game into a penalty shootout. Although Costa Rica ultimately lost in the penalty shootout, Navas was still criticized.
For the best player of the game, this is enough to prove Navas's outstanding performance!
Otamendi became Argentina's main central defender. Together with Mascherano, he helped Argentina reach the World Cup finals with excellent defense. Although they lost in the end, Otamendi's performance was also quite good.
Wundt played three times in the World Cup group stage, and his performance was mediocre. Portugal was unfortunately eliminated and failed to enter the knockout stage. De Bruyne and Lukaku performed very well, and they won the trophy in the group stage.
With an unbeatable record, it was De Bruyne and Lukaku's goals in the knockout rounds that helped Belgium advance to the quarterfinals, where they eventually lost to Argentina, who eventually reached the World Cup finals, in the quarterfinals.
Klose was not the main player in Germany, but he scored two golden goals, which allowed him to surpass Ronaldo and become the player with the most goals in the World Cup. Casemiro and Coutinho are in the Brazilian national team.
None of them were the main force. They saw their team being slaughtered by Germany seven to one on the bench...
Of course, the one whose performance is most surprising is James Rodriguez.
He scored three goals in the group stage and three goals in the knockout rounds. He finally won the top scorer of this World Cup with six goals, and the goal he scored against Uruguay was an extraordinary goal.
, finally won this year's Puskas Award. Although many people thought that Van Persie's exaggerated diving header counted, many judges and experts still gave this award to Ronaldo.
Although he only led Colombia to the quarterfinals, his performance of six goals in five games was eye-catching enough!
When the dust of the World Cup settled, everyone was shocked to find that Southampton, as the new Champions League champions, in addition to contributing 12 international players to the World Cup, they also contributed some of the best players, although they did not have
French players, however, have several highlights, such as Navas, Suarez, Klose, De Bruyne, Lukaku, Ronaldo... They are all from Southampton, which is shocking enough in itself!
And such a shock will of course bring huge attention and endless... poaching.
Southampton had been prepared for this for a long time, but even Ji Ya did not expect that poaching would come so fiercely and so quickly.
"This season, it is normal for us to sell people, but we cannot sell most of the main lineup like last season. That is too exaggerated. You know, we are the Champions League champions now. If we face poaching, we should just let it go.
If the attack is successful, then we won’t do anything." Ji Ya said to Benali and the others.
"Then you have to know who can and cannot sell," Frye reminded Ji Ya.
Ji Ya nodded. He basically already had an idea of these things. Some players who have been at Southampton for many years and whose wages have been raised a lot and who have no room for improvement can cash in at a high level and only joined last season.
These players can stay, especially Suarez. His performance last season was extremely surprising. He scored 38 goals in the league and is certain to win the European Golden Boot. In such a situation
Under such circumstances, we cannot let him go.
The same is true for Lukaku, his performance is not as good as Suarez, but he is also very eye-catching in the World Cup.
And De Bruyne, such a young midfield core, can stabilize the team for many years.
These few people are determined not to sell, plus there are some players in the main lineup who will not leave, so the overall situation is relatively stable.
Of course, it is also very necessary for some players who are on the cusp of cashing out at a high level.
