What is the concept of a weekly salary of 150,000?
Kane's current weekly salary is 70,000 euros. This is because of Kane's outstanding performance in the past two seasons. Levi has just increased him to this amount.
And this is actually not too low among Tottenham.
Currently, those who are higher than him are captain Hugo Lloris, as well as the recently purchased Son Heung-min, Alderweireld and a few others.
But this weekly salary is very shabby when compared to the Chelsea team.
That is to say, he is a little taller than Zuma, Loftus-Cheek and other youngsters!
Therefore, Chelsea is richer than Tottenham, or perhaps more generous.
They offered Kane a weekly salary of 150,000, which is very sincere.
Although this salary in the Chelsea team is still lower than that of captain John Terry and number one Eden Hazard, it is still at the forefront.
This is even much higher than William, Mikel, and Ramirez who just left the team, because their weekly salary is between 110,000 and 130,000.
And if it were placed at Tottenham, a weekly salary of 150,000 would be the maximum salary!
Because Lori, who currently has the highest salary in Tottenham, is only 135,000 euros.
Therefore, this is still very attractive to the Kane family, especially Katie.
This is equivalent to you currently working in a small company for many years, and suddenly a large company ranked first in the same industry comes to poach you and offers you more than double the salary...
It is impossible not to be tempted.
Therefore, no matter what aspect you consider, Katie supports Kane's move to Chelsea!
Who doesn’t want their husband to make more money and have a great career development?
But Harry Kane is still a little hesitant.
Because in his heart, he is still a bit like a person who would rather stay in a small company until death than move anywhere.
Even if you have not left London, even if the distance from White Hart Lane to Stamford Bridge is only a few dozen kilometers...
At this moment, Harry Kane's cell phone rang again.
"It's John. John Terry." Harry Kane said in surprise, and then he understood, "He must be here to be a lobbyist."
Terry is the captain of Chelsea and the veteran captain of the England national team.
Even though he has retired from the England national team, his status in English football is still very high, and juniors like Harry Kane also respect him very much.
Sure enough, Terry praised Chelsea and Pan Yi on the phone. The core idea was, Brother Kane, if you don't come to Chelsea, you will definitely regret it.
Just hung up the phone on Terry.
Harry Kane's phone rang again.
"It's Gary. Gary Cahill." Harry Kane shook his head in confusion.
Just as he had guessed, Gary Cahill was also here to be a lobbyist.
This time it’s a conversation between two current England national team teammates!
As a veteran player who was selected for the national team in 2009, Gary Cahill takes great care of Kane, a rookie who just played for the national team for the first time this year.
He also spoke from his own experience and talked about his experiences and feelings at Chelsea in the past few years, especially after coach Pan Yi came, how harmonious the team atmosphere was, how high the training level was, and the team's tactical level was as high as a three-story building.
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In one word: great!
Just got off the phone with Gary Cahill.
Harry Kane's phone rang again.
It was Lingard who called.
Lingard and Harry Kane are of similar age and were born at the same time, so they have a better relationship with each other.
He was also selected for the same England team as Kane a few months ago.
And his experience is even more representative.
Before the winter window of last season, Lingard was still a fringe player who could not play football at Manchester United, and was even criticized by Manchester United fans online.
But after moving to Chelsea, Lingard quickly grew into an important player for the Blues and became a Premier League and Champions League champion!
And he was also selected for the England team with his outstanding performance.
From a fringe player in the club to a member of the national team, it only took half a season!
Lingard talked on the phone for a long time: Coach Pan Yi is so good, so powerful, and so magical. It is a pleasure to play under his hands...
Just hung up the phone with Lingard.
Harry Kane's phone is ringing again.
This time it was Chik, the youngest member of the national team in the last issue, who called...
After hanging up the phone, Harry Kane couldn't help but complain:
"Why are you England internationals at Chelsea leaving me to do team building?"
Harry Kane is dumbfounded.
But he also had to admit that he did have a sense of satisfaction in being taken seriously.
His wife Katie covered her mouth and kept laughing.
Then, when Harry Kane finally received a call from Pan Yi personally, the English rookie knew that he could no longer refuse Chelsea's invitation.
"You can make a formal transfer request to the club, but I'm not sure if they will agree." Kane finally said to Pan Yi on the phone:
"Mr. Levi talked to me a few days ago and said that I am absolutely not for sale. The team will be built with me as the core and eventually become a strong team that can compete for the Premier League championship and even the Champions League championship."
"This is also the reason why I have been hesitating. If Tottenham Club is really unwilling to sell me, I can only forget your favor for me and dedicate myself wholeheartedly to the club..."
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"Chelsea signs new England international Harry Kane for 85 million euros!"
"Harry Kane has become the top bidder of this summer's transfer window! The previous highest transfer fee was De Bruyne's 80 million euros from Bayern to Manchester City."
"Harry Kane becomes the second-highest player transfer fee in Tottenham's history after Gareth Bale!"
"Pan Yi spends money like water! This transaction has created the highest price for Pan Yi to buy a player. Pan Yi said: This is just a task given by Abramovich's boss."
"Tottenham fans asked Levy why he sold young core player Kane, Levy: They gave too much..."
In the next few days, major British media and even major European sports media were full of news headlines like this.
Yes, Levy sold Harry Kane.
Selling in every sense of the word.
Under Pan Yi's unblinking effort to throw money at him, Levi really couldn't stand it.
In fact, he won't really support it. After all, there is no real thing in the team that is not for sale.
If so, it must be that the price is not right.
Let’s just talk about Bale back then. Wasn’t he also hailed as the new banner of Tottenham Hotspur and the superstar?
Real Madrid waved the check and took him away.
The number written on this check is: 100 million euros.
So, today Harry Kane’s 85 million euros seems to be less than Bale’s?
In fact, this is already a very, very high price.
After all, Bell's achievements in the Premier League were much higher than those of Kane now.
As early as the 2010-11 season, Bell ushered in his breakout season with Tottenham. In the Champions League match against Inter Milan, he performed a classic long-distance run to score breakthrough assists. At the end of the season, he also won the PFA Premier League's Most Valuable Player Award.
Best player.
In the 2012-13 season, Bell won all the Premier League awards at the end of the season: Premier League Player of the Year, Player of the Season and Best Young Player selected by the English Footballer and Players Association.
And Harry Kane is currently just a Premier League bronze boot and the second best young player.
Including Manchester City and Manchester United, they also backed out when they learned that Chelsea would spend 85 million euros to buy Kane.
For a horizontal comparison, another important transfer was also completed in the summer window. De Bruyne's switch from Bayern to Manchester City cost Manchester City 80 million euros.
The 24-year-old De Bruyne is already the core of Hamburg's midfield when they won the Champions League and Bundesliga championships. He is also a core member of Bayern's team that regained the Bundesliga championship and leads the Bundesliga in assists.
Based on this comparison, do you think De Bruyne's deal is more cost-effective for Manchester City?
Therefore, the check that Pan Yi threw at Levi's face this time was something he couldn't refuse.
For Levy, this is simply the perfect deal, and Chelsea are the one who took advantage of him.
Harry Kane is gone, is the team missing a center?
If you take another ten to twenty million out of these 85 million, wouldn't you be able to buy a high-quality and low-priced striker?
For the 100 million yuan he got from selling Bale, Levi bought seven new players including Eriksen and Lamela.
It doesn’t matter if you didn’t buy it. Didn’t you just buy Son Heung-min? Just put it on top.
On the other hand, because Levy was so decisive in selling people, this also disillusioned Harry Kane's last vestiges of Tottenham Club.
I originally wanted to give my heart to Mingyue, but Mingyue wanted to exchange me for money!
He is now firmly a new Chelsea man!
He is also more eager to perform well in the new season, so as to tell Tottenham and Levi that their approach is wrong!
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After finalizing Harry Kane, Pan Yi began to consider Chelsea's main lineup for the new season.
After having two young and promising forwards, Lukaku and Kane, it would be a waste to let anyone play as a substitute, so the new formation will be a two-forwards-based play style.
For players like Marcos Alonso, their power will be greatly reduced if they play as traditional full-backs, so they still have to stick to the wing-back or full-midfield style.
In addition, the team is already very comfortable with the three-centre-back system, including young players such as David Luiz, Terry, or Ake, Zouma, etc., and there is no need to change it.
Therefore, a new formation has emerged——
No, it’s -2!
In fact, the difference between the two formations is not particularly big.
Whether it is -2, the configuration in the midfield is a combination of two wing-backs and three midfielders;
The difference between the two is that they prefer to use a defensive midfielder, an all-around midfielder and a pseudo-winger. This is a bit like the position of Pirlo + Pogba + Vidal in Juventus' formation last season.
And -2 is two defensive midfielders, plus an attacking midfielder. This formation is actually a little outdated in today's world football, and not many coaches are used.
If you want to give an example, Paris, which later owned MMN, used this formation, allowing Messi to play as an attacking midfielder, with Mbappe and Neymar in front.
But about fifteen years ago, this -2 formation with two defensive midfielders was very popular, with two wide midfielders and an attacking midfielder in the middle.
Especially in the 2002 World Cup finals in Korea and Japan, the starting lineups of the Brazilian national team and the German national team, the head coaches of both sides of the game arranged such a -2 formation.
Take the Brazilian team as an example. The goalkeeper is Marcos. The three central defenders are Lucio, Roque Junior and Edmilson. The wing-backs on both sides are double cards, Cafu and Carlos. The double midfielders in the middle are
Gilberto Silva and Kleberson, midfielder Ronaldinho, forwards Rivaldo and Ronaldo.
Germany's side also has a double forward combination of Klose + Neuville, but the absence of Ballack behind them has a great impact on the German team's offensive firepower.
This final also represented the peak of the -2 formation in the history of world football formations. The Brazilian national team finally relied on its powerful 3R striker combination to successfully win the World Cup.
But such a configuration would do more harm than good to ordinary teams.
The offensive midfielder will inevitably be closely marked by the opponent, making it difficult to organize an effective attack.
The inability to organize an effective attack in the frontcourt will put the team into trouble, causing the wide midfielders to retreat to the backcourt under defensive pressure, turning the formation into a realistic 5-back formation.
And once the offensive end is affected, the team's defensive end will also be dragged down by the weakness of the offense.
This is why Paris, with Messi, dares to use such a formation...
But not every team has Messi, and when Messi is in poor condition or is looked down upon, the team's performance will still not be very good.
So, a coach thought of a change.
Later, a new formation represented by Juventus appeared.
The new formation has made certain adjustments to the midfield deployment, from the original double midfielder with two midfielders on both sides and a single offensive midfielder to a configuration with a single midfielder, two midfielders on both sides and two offensive midfielders.
These two attacking midfielders, or sometimes central midfielders, can spread the opposition's markings and make it easier to launch attacks from the front row.
However, this improvement also has its drawbacks. When the number of defensive midfielders is reduced to one person, the pressure on the player in the defensive midfielder position suddenly increases. He must be responsible for the vast area in front of the three defenders alone.
When attacking, the midfielder also plays an important role, so for this formation to be fully effective, there must be an excellent midfielder - in Juventus, this person is Pirlo.
When I arrived at Chelsea, it was Pan Yi’s favorite player, Kante.
Although the two have different characteristics, they can also play the role of the single defensive midfielder in the formation.
And for such a person, Pan Yi also has a clear understanding.
Its advantages are somewhat similar to , but also different.
The same thing is that by adding a central defender, the defensive pressure on the two full midfielders is reduced, which is reflected in both the offensive and defensive ends.
When attacking, the two wide midfielders (wing-backs) can press for assists without any worries, and at the same time, they can also enhance the team's control in the midfield;
When defending, the midfielders (wing backs) on both sides will form a 5-back defense system with the three central defenders at the back to maximize the width of the field.
The difference is that the formation is a formation that attacks the center. In this formation, most of the players are distributed in the middle of the court.
From the center backcourt to the frontcourt, the three center backs plus three midfielders and two forwards are almost all in the middle of the court. This means that the two-wings flying routine often used in the original Chelsea formation needs to be modified somewhat.
Changes, the positions of some players will also change accordingly.
For example, Hazard may move more towards the center and be used as an attacking midfielder.
In addition, in addition to having a numerical advantage in the middle, the formation also has a more hierarchical personnel arrangement in the middle.
Usually, football formations are roughly divided into three lines: back line, midfield line, and forward line, but the 352 formation has 4 lines.
The difference between it and other formations is that in the midfield, the formation has two lines in the midfield, while other formations have only one line in the midfield.
This extra line can often create an advantage for the formation.
For example, the single defensive midfielder in the formation wanders between the back line and the midfield line, and this area is often a position that cannot be taken care of by some parallel midfield formations, such as the 442 parallel midfielder, 343 formation, etc.
Of course, every formation has its shortcomings, and formations are no exception.
First of all, it is still the same as before. The inherent flaw of the three-back formation is the peripheral space on the flanks of the formation. The space on the flanks of the formation is extremely easy to be used by opponents to maneuver back and forth.
Because the formation accumulates a large number of troops in the center of the team, there are only two left and right wingers left on the wings for protection.
When the team retracts to the half court for deep defense, the full midfielders cannot take the risk to attack at this time, so there is a large space on the wings of the formation, and the opponent can take advantage of this to target the formation.
Carry out left and right scheduling to find a breakthrough.
Secondly, the areas on both sides of the single back waist are easily overlooked.
Looking at the formation as a whole, its inherent flaw is that the left and right wings of the formation are exposed to huge gaps. From an individual unit perspective, the single defensive midfielder in the formation is undoubtedly the weakest link.
The new and improved formation has only one deep-lying defensive midfielder in the midfield, and the area on both sides of the defensive midfielder's midfielder is also the area where the opponent focuses on attacking.
As the last barrier in front of the three central defenders, he must not only have sufficient defensive ability, but also have a strong ability to organize offense. If a very good defensive midfielder cannot be selected for this position, then the team's
Both offense and defense will be limited.
Chelsea now has Kante, so this problem is not a big problem, but Pan Yi needs to consider how to adjust or change the lineup if Kante is absent, just like in the Champions League final.
As long as there are no major changes to Chelsea's current group of players, the new season will be completely successful.
First of all, the three central defenders, whether it is David Luiz, Terry, Ake and others, have all proven their abilities.
Since the formation has strong control in the midfield, it usually attacks from the backcourt and does not easily choose long passes or defensive counterattacks.
The attack is initiated from the backcourt, which requires the players in the midfield and backfield to have certain passing skills and ball protection ability. Then, through passing the ball back and forth in the midfield and backfield, and gradually penetrating, the numerical advantage in the midfielder and frontcourt can be utilized.
Give full play to it.
The distance between the three central defenders should be kept reasonable and as wide as possible. They also require a certain ability to protect the ball. They not only determine how the team's offense should be launched, but also affect the mutual protection and support of the team's defense.
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The left central defender and the right central defender need to have a certain ability to dribble and protect the ball, and the ball from the back must also be accurate.
Because when they spread out to the wings, there is no one behind them when they receive the pass from their teammates. They must maintain possession of the ball under such conditions. If they lack a suitable passing route or the pass is too slow, they can easily be caught by the opponent.
Live in a hole.
Obviously, the current Chelsea central defenders can meet these requirements, otherwise they would not be able to play clearly before.
The midfielder needs a certain ability to organize and connect, because the midfielder, who is deep in the midfield where the opponent's marking is relatively weak, is responsible for organizing the offense through accurate passing.
This position not only requires players to have the ability to participate in defense and actively run on the field, which has little to do with personal skills, but more importantly, they need to maintain a broad vision, grasp the situation on the field at all times during the game, and adjust their positions.
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Of course Kanter has no problem.
The two full midfielders in the formation sometimes do not need to attack too much, but stand conservatively on both sides of the midfielder to protect the midfielder and avoid counterattacks after the opponent steals the ball. The half of the field is empty and there are few people.
situation occurs.
If you press forward blindly and are intercepted by your opponent, you will only have one defensive midfielder and three central defenders behind you, with a total of 4 players defending, and your defensive strength will be stretched thin.
Therefore, the full-backs in the formation do not need to risk participating in the attack every time, so coaches generally choose full-backs who are good at attacking to play as wide-forwards.
Then, Marcos Alonso, Azpilicueta and others are good candidates for this position, and they can even thrive in this system and become even more powerful.
In addition, it can be "sideways, middle, front or back", making it an ideal choice for the front waist position.
The range of activities of the attacking midfielder in the formation is relatively wide. When the team organizes the ball from back to front, the attacking midfielder sometimes needs to retreat to help the defensive midfielder players organize.
When attacking in the frontcourt, the attacking midfielder must also seize the opportunity to come to the wing to cooperate with the wide midfielder and forward players and finally send a cross into the penalty area.
And "can be on either side or in the middle, can be in front or behind" is a perfect sentence to describe Seat B.
He can play any position in the midfield or frontcourt, and his versatile attributes in the frontcourt make him the best candidate for the midfielder position in the formation.
When Seat B needs support from the midfielder, he can retreat and use his long-passing footwork to solve the team's difficulty in sorting out the ball in the backcourt. At the same time, he has certain lethality in the center and on the wing.
In other words, in the new season of Chelsea, Seat B needs to be moved from the winger position to the middle, or even further back, just like Hazard did in Seat B in his previous life at Manchester City.
The location is the same.
As for the other young players, whether they are Gnabry or Lingard, they are originally playing as attacking midfielders, and there will be no problems at all.
Finally, there is the forward position, where flexibility is the key.
The forward players need to cooperate with the two attacking midfielders, because the attacking midfielders will send the ball. Sometimes they can wait for the pass with their backs to the goal depending on the situation, and break through the opponent's back line through high-position support tactics;
Sometimes it is necessary for the four players in the frontcourt to break through the opponent's defense through continuous passing passes. Therefore, the forwards of the formation must have high personal skills and be able to pass the ball quickly and accurately to the next person after receiving the ball.
And now Chelsea's main center Lukaku is very suitable for this position.
He can not only use his strong body to hold his opponents and protect the ball with his back, but he can also quickly cooperate with his teammates while dribbling the ball.
Although Lukaku is tall, this does not affect Lukaku's ball-holding speed and agility at his feet. He even has the attributes of a center and a winger. His flexibility on the court is the key to the formation's offensive end.
A prerequisite for effective operation.
Another center, Harry Kane, can perfectly complement Lukaku.
Due to the presence of Kane, the English can often go behind to get the ball, and Lukaku can go to the front with more confidence and get closer to the goal!
And once the forward is needed to use faster speed to tear apart the opponent's defense, Mbappe can come in handy.