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.
Oscar did eventually go to Shanghai SIPG and stayed there for many years. He naturally knew about it.
It just seems like it shouldn’t be so early?
Turning on the computer, Pan Yi checked the information and finally understood some of it and recalled some of it.
Just over a month ago, on November 18, SIPG Football Club held its founding ceremony, officially announcing that Shanghai International Port Co., Ltd. had completed the overall acquisition of Shanghai East Asia Football Club.
Soon, large sums of money began to be invested.
They first invited the famous Swedish Eriksson as the club's head coach, and Xi Zhikang as the team leader and assistant coach.
Then, powerful domestic and foreign players such as Sun Xiang, Dawei, Jin Zhourong, Kong Ka, Yu Hai, Shi Ke, Yang Boyu also joined Shanghai SIPG, and recruitment began.
Then, they are ready to buy Oscars.
In the normal timeline when Pan Yi was still an ordinary fan, SIPG bought Oscar as a substitute for Conca after he left Shanghai.
but now……
That's right, this Shanghai SIPG team does not have Wu Lei! So they lack a strong winger! Because Wu Lei is still playing for Hamburg.
In other words, they bought Oscar because they saw his outstanding performance as a winger at Chelsea and wanted to buy him back to play the position of Wu Lei in his previous life!
After all, Oscar is like Wu Lei. His best position is in the right half of the frontcourt, or in the shadow forward position. He is an enhanced version of Wu Lei.
This butterfly effect is indeed interesting.
So, can Oscars be sold?
Pan Yi touched his cheek and started thinking.
In fact, this player has very outstanding advantages and disadvantages.
Oscar's advantages are that he has good dribbling skills, has a certain perspective on the overall situation, is very imaginative in passing, and has a long shot.
Of course, his free kick skills are also very good, as his performance against West Ham United has proved this.
Well... maybe it was because of his pass-and-shoot performance in the last game that the senior management of Shanghai SIPG made up their mind to make an offer.
However, Oscar also has many shortcomings.
His body is too thin, his confrontation ability is seriously lacking, and his defensive awareness and defensive skills are also relatively poor.
On the court, he basically can only deliberately avoid those tall defenders, otherwise his technical movements may be squeezed out of shape.
When they were eliminated by York City in the League Cup, not only because the venue was too bad, but also because Oscar was the top center forward but couldn't make a fulcrum, it was also one of the important reasons.
Although Oscar used his free kick to equalize the score at the last moment of the game, it is also true that it is difficult for Chelsea to gain more ball rights in the frontcourt battle.
"It seems like..."
Pan Yi thought and opened another file on the desktop.
This is the transfer request submitted by Oscar himself to the club!
Obviously, Shanghai SIPG's purchase of Oscar and Oscar's transfer application are definitely not two isolated incidents.
It is conceivable that Shanghai SIPG has had private contact with Oscar or his agent and received a positive response.
As for Oscar, he must have received the promise of SIPG's big contract.
If I remember correctly, when Oscar transferred to Shanghai SIPG in his previous life, his annual salary was about 25 million euros (nearly 200 million RMB!), which is equivalent to a weekly salary of almost 500,000 euros!
This is at the level of the top players in the world, and is twice as high as Chelsea’s top-paid Eden Hazard!
"I come from a poor family in Brazil..."
In the transfer application, Oscar described his slum life to express how important this transfer was to him.
really.
Although he now has a weekly salary of 200,000 yuan at Chelsea, as long as he jumps to Shanghai SIPG, he can immediately multiply his salary by 2.5 times. This temptation is indeed not something that everyone can resist.
And playing in the Dragon Country, with his level, obviously there is less work pressure.
The so-called "more money, less things to do and close to home" is just one short of "close to home" from this standard.
"In this case, we can only leave it to him." Pan Yi shook his head gently.
Everyone has his own ambitions.
After all, not everyone has great ambitions, such as winning the Champions League or the World Cup.
For many people, supporting their families, or making more money and enjoying a better life, is the ultimate goal of playing football.
For a kid like Oscar who was kicked out of a Brazilian slum, you can't say he doesn't love football, but in many cases, playing football is their only choice to survive in this world.
This can also understand why many stars gave up the mainstream European leagues in their early playing years and went to the United States, West Asia, and Dragon Country...
Even Vardy gave up Hamburg, where he could play in the Champions League, and went to Leicester City, a newly promoted Premier League team, partly because of economic problems.
To be fair, if you are working in one company and suddenly another company comes to poach you with double, triple, or even five times the salary, wouldn’t you be tempted?
After thinking for a moment, Pan Yi looked at the purchase fax from Shanghai SIPG and dialed the number above.
Although Wu Lei originally sold Hamburg from Dong Ya, it was considered a favor to Pan Yi.
But now this is SIPG, not the poor East Asia, and there is no direct connection between the management of the two.
The most important thing is that their boss, Chairman Chen, is the future tyrant of the Football Association nicknamed "Programmer" and the prisoner king of his generation!
How can such a big dog be worthy of himself, the world's top football manager, if he doesn't give him a good deal?
In his previous life, Oscar was transferred to Shanghai SIPG for a sky-high transfer fee of 60 million euros during the 2017 winter transfer window.
Now, Oscar is still two years younger and has been cultivated by Pan Yi's "holy hands". How can it be more expensive?
"80 million euros, not a penny less." Pan Yi directly stated his intention after getting through the call with SIPG's top executives.
"Okay, I will ask Director Chen for instructions immediately and prepare relevant documents. Thank you Coach Pan Yi for your support of Longguo Football!"
After hanging up the phone, Pan Yi looked blank.
Damn, you underestimated their wallets!
These guys feel much richer than Abu, and they don’t even have any counter-offers!——
Although Oscar's best position is the attacking midfielder, in Pan Yi's 3-4-3 formation, since there is no conventional attacking midfielder position, he mainly plays as a winger.
After it was confirmed that he was leaving the team, plus Schürrle, Chelsea lost two wingers at once.
In this case, Pan Yi really needs to consider recruiting additional personnel.
After all, the winter transfer window hasn't officially opened yet, so just two people left, and I don't know what it will be like in a month!
It is said that Wenger is also interested in William, and another Chinese Super League team, Jiangsu Sainty, has also received an investment from Suning Group and is pursuing Ramirez's idea.
If everyone has to leave, the staff gap will become larger.
After all, Pan Yi has never liked to force players to stay. As long as you want to leave, I won't keep them. This can be regarded as a continuation of his habit from playing FM games in his previous life.
Of course, it is actually very easy for Pan Yi to find candidates to replace them.
Let’s talk about wingers. Didn’t Scaloni have been asked to seduce Arsenal youngster Gnabry a long time ago?
This guy never got many playing opportunities when he was at Arsenal, and he basically spent time in the second team or on loan.
Later, he moved to the Bundesliga and slowly played out, and was selected for the German national team.
Finally, he moved to Bayern Munich and became the "King of London"...
Therefore, it should not be difficult to get him to Chelsea at this stage.
As for why Wenger failed to train Gnabry, Pan Yi believes that an important reason is that Wenger regarded Gnabry as an attacking midfielder and asked him to become a frontcourt organizer.
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But Gnabry's characteristic doesn't actually lie in that.
The physically strong Gnabry is good at dribbling the ball quickly from the wing and has excellent shooting skills.
He has perfect rhythm and excellent dribbling skills, as well as strong strength and speed. Isn't he a natural winger?
Therefore, the direction of teacher training is wrong.
But under Pan Yi, there will be no such problem, and we will definitely develop in the direction of maximizing our potential!
Thinking of this, Pan Yi immediately called Scaloni to his office, and then got straight to the point:
"You should follow up on Gnabry's matter and try to get him over during the winter window."
Now as the most influential figure in Chelsea Club, Pan Yi has more authority than just himself.
He can also choose to leave some player transfer and negotiation tasks to people he trusts, such as Scaloni.
This can be regarded as training and training for them.
Of course, an inconspicuous little character like Gnabry is also easy to negotiate, so he can be used as a good practice.
If we were talking about a business worth hundreds of millions in total like Schuerle and Oscar, Pan Yi would still have to come in person.
"Okay, no problem." After Scaloni heard Pan Yi say that he wanted to sell the Oscar, he quickly understood Pan Yi's instructions and nodded in agreement.
Scaloni is just a rookie when it comes to who to sell and who to buy, and he will not have any doubts about Pan Yi's decision.
He would only think: Would I doubt a head coach who has always shocked people in the transfer market in the past few years? Am I worthy?
Since the league match against Arsenal, Scaloni has been in contact with Gnabry according to Pan Yi's instructions, keeping in touch with each other, introducing the situation at Chelsea, etc.
Firstly, Gnabry really has no chance at Arsenal. Secondly, he has always been fascinated by Chelsea, which has created a 16-game winning streak in the league. Thirdly, Pan Yi is really attractive to players...
Therefore, there will definitely be no problems with Gnabry regarding this transfer.
The only difficulty may arise with Wenger.
After all, Gnabry is also a young talent he likes. Wenger is sometimes reluctant to give up until it is fully proven that he can't play.
One of the most typical examples is Japanese star Ryo Miyaichi, who still belongs to Arsenal but is on loan to Dutch team Twente this season.
He was spotted by Arsene Wenger in 2010 and then signed to Arsenal.
Then Miyaichi Ryo has been troubled by injuries and has been unable to fulfill his talent.
Wenger did not give up on training him, but loaned him out to Feyenoord, Bolton, Wigan Athletic and other teams for training.
But this Japanese with an "Injury Proneness 20" would tear the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee, and then tear the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee...
He is probably the only one who has suffered a torn cruciate ligament three times in his career and still continues to pursue a career.
In short, Wenger finally had to bear the pain and let him leave the team.
Therefore, Pan Yi's main task for Scaloni is to talk to Wenger to see if he can understand the situation with emotion and reason, and give Gnabry a broader future!
"But, I feel like adding one player is not enough? After all, we have to leave at least two people. And we will have to fight on three fronts in the second half of the season." Scaloni raised his question.
Pan Yi nodded.
What Scaloni said makes sense.
Not to mention the possibility of Willian and Ramirez leaving the team, just speaking of Gnabry, although he will definitely be very strong in the future, at this stage, Pan Yi cannot improve to what level he can in a short period of time.
confirm.
Therefore, it would be safer if we could get another one.
As for this person, first of all, the position he can play should be similar to Oscar and Schürrle. It is best to play any position in the frontcourt;
This person may not need to be very talented, but he must be very hardworking and active on the court;
He can always run without hesitation in the game, and he is full of fighting spirit. Whether he is a substitute or the main player, no matter what position he plays, he has no complaints;
He'd better have a better personality so that he can quickly integrate into the locker room and even bring more joy to the team, both on and off the field...
Of course, he also needs to be younger so he can be more malleable.
Pan Yi's mind flashed with a list of players who met these conditions.
Suddenly, a name stuck in his mind.
The more Pan Yi thought about it, the more reliable it became.