() Florentino’s phone call was just a small matter to Su Yun.
It's a small episode.
Because the Su Yun now is no longer the Su Yun a few years ago.
A few years ago, Su Yun looked up to Real Madrid. Real Madrid was the world's largest club at the time, and it had a fatal attraction for a young coach like Su Yun.
But it's different now.
Su Yun is a Grand Slam coach.
He has achieved various results. He even humiliated Real Madrid at the Bernabeu last season.
Now the position of Real Madrid's head coach is no longer so sacred in Su Yun's eyes. Currently, he is doing well at Chelsea. Although there are some internal frictions, it has not reached the point where Su Yun must leave.
Therefore, Su Yun never thought about changing jobs to Real Madrid. So he rejected Florentino. Su Yun thought it was normal.
Su Yun quickly forgot about it after putting down the phone.
Because I'm too tired.
Su Yun turned off the phone directly, lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, Su Yun simply forgot about the matter.
Su Yun returned to London without any rest time and took the team directly to Manchester.
In the seventeenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea challenged Manchester City away.
In the 16th round of the Premier League before going to the Toyota Cup, Chelsea easily defeated Newcastle 4-0 at home.
Souness became Newcastle manager after Robson left Newcastle this summer.
It's a pity that he performed poorly.
This meritorious player of the Liverpool dynasty was a very outstanding player in his playing days. Unfortunately, after becoming a coach, his results were not satisfactory. The example of "good players may not be good coaches" ridiculed by the English media is Souness.
Facing Newcastle, Chelsea won the game easily.
But this game is different.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve won too many championships and lost motivation, or if I’ve traveled too much this week, which makes the Chelsea players very tired. Anyway, the Chelsea players were a little drowsy in this game.
Su Yun did everything he could.
But the game still hasn't changed much.
In the end, Chelsea drew 0-0 away from home.
Su Yun was a little disappointed.
A rubbish opponent like Manchester City should be defeated.
After seven rounds of sluggishness, Arsenal finally regained its original strength in the past two rounds. Arsenal defeated Birmingham 3-0 in the 16th round of the Premier League, and in the 17th round of the Premier League, Arsenal
It was a 1-0 away win over Portsmouth.
The points gap between Chelsea and Arsenal has become six points.
Many people say that Arsenal is alive and finally out of its sluggish state.
In the eighteenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea faced Norwich at home.
This time Chelsea finally behaved normally.
In the game, Norwich were defeated 2-0.
But Su Yun felt a little bored.
Especially without Robben's breakthrough from the left, Su Yun always felt that something was missing. It should be said that he was missing a kind of passion.
When Robben is playing, you can always feel that he is constantly making breakthroughs.
It was causing a stir on the sidelines.
Competitions always make people feel angry.
Although he won the game, Su Yun still missed Robben very much.
It would be great to have Robben.
And Manchester City went crazy.
They had just drawn with Chelsea in the last round. Unexpectedly, they drew with Arsenal away from home in the 18th round of the Premier League.
Arsenal scored first. Anelka later equalized for Manchester City in the second half.
In this way, the gap between Chelsea and Arsenal became eight points again. Su Yun cursed Manchester City in the last round, but he did not expect that Su Yun would be so grateful to Manchester City this round.
Christmas is getting closer.
Premier League games are starting to get intensive. At this time, you can see the advantage of a team’s lineup thickness.
After December, Chelsea began to suffer from various injuries. Including Robben resting for a month and a half, Boboski being injured for three weeks, and Lucio also being injured for two weeks.
, of course Joaquin also rested for half a month due to injury.
The injuries gradually increased.
But Su Yun is confident.
Without Robben, there is Duff. Without Boboski, there is Joaquin. Without Lucio, Su Yun also has Panucci.
The thickness of Chelsea's bench can easily ensure Chelsea get through this devilish schedule.
But Arsenal is different.
The thickness of Arsenal's bench cannot be compared with Chelsea's. In December, their injuries began to increase. After Vieira returned from injury, he was injured again in December.
Including Pires and Bergkamp, their physical condition is not very good either.
The most unlucky thing about Arsenal is that Campbell is also injured. Not only that. The left back Clichy, who has risen sharply this season, is also a glass man. He was injured and rested for two months.
This has a huge impact on Arsenal.
Arsenal finally stabilized their position, but the problem of lineup thickness also began to arise.
They don't have any good players to replace the main lineup.
Just like Campbell and Clichy, these players are currently irreplaceable in Arsenal. In addition to Arsenal's main lineup, the substitute lineup is very poor. The gap with the main lineup is very big.
On December 20th, in the eighteenth round of the Premier League, Arsenal faced Birmingham away from home.
Without Campbell and Vieira, Arsenal could not withstand the impact of Birmingham. Especially Birmingham's Heskey. Faced with Toure and Senderos' cooperation errors, he scored two goals.
Senderos is an Arsenal superstar.
His personal strength is very strong. However, there are many problems with cooperation with Toure, because they have not cooperated well before. Due to Campbell's injury, Senderos and Toure, who temporarily replaced Campbell, made several cooperation errors.
Although Pires scored a goal, Arsenal still lost 1 to 2 away to Birmingham.
The problem of Arsenal's bench thickness slowly became apparent.
Because Arsenal really does not have a substitute lineup that matches the main lineup.
Chelsea, who also suffered a lot of injuries, are different.
In the eighteenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea was also missing four main players, Robben, Joaquin, Rosicky and Lucio due to injuries. But Su Yun was not in a hurry.
Su Yun set up a 4-4-2 formation.
The striker combination of Klose and Eto'o was used, and Duff, Lampard, Williams, and Boboski were used in the midfield. In the backcourt, Panucci was used instead of Lucio.
Shortage of people?
All teams in the Premier League may be short of players. Even many giants in Europe may be short of players. But this does not belong to Chelsea. The most important thing for Chelsea is players.
Su Yun spent so much money, there won't be any shortage of people.
Facing Everton, Chelsea played a bit dull.
But still defeated the opponent 2-0.
Half the season is not over yet, and Chelsea are eleven points ahead of Arsenal.
In the Premier League, Chelsea is getting stronger and stronger.
Su Yun, the Premier League champion, is destined to win.
After ten years in England, even counting from the time when he coached Sunderland and returned to the Premier League, Su Yun is now in his seventh season in the Premier League. But so far, Su Yun only has one Premier League championship in hand.
It's still a pity.
This year is the best opportunity. Strong teams such as Manchester United, Liverpool, and Newcastle have all fallen behind, and there is no chance of competing for the Premier League championship. There is only one opponent, Arsenal.
Arsenal is the team that just ended its unbeaten season.
Arsenal's results this season are also outstanding. Unfortunately, after ending their unbeaten run, they have fallen into a downturn in the past seven rounds. Without these seven rounds of downturn, their current points should be about the same as Chelsea.
But it was precisely because of that period of downturn that Arsenal was suddenly left behind by Chelsea.
Although they later adjusted their form, they could no longer keep up with Chelsea.
Therefore, Su Yun has great confidence in the Premier League this season.
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Su Yun has been in a good mood since December.
He won the Toyota Cup and became a Grand Slam head coach. Later he won the title of Best Coach in Europe. Now his lead in the Premier League is so huge, which makes Su Yun feel very good.
But as the draw for the Champions League quarter-finals ended, Su Yun's face became ugly.
Before Christmas, UEFA held the draw for the quarter-finals.
As the strongest team in the group stage, Chelsea achieved a record of five wins and one draw, easily emerging from the group stage.
But very unlucky.
Got a really bad draw.
Met Barcelona.
This made Su Yun very dissatisfied.
Su Yun is criticizing the Ballon d'Or. Ronaldinho's Barcelona has no honors, but it can become the second place in the Ballon d'Or. But Barcelona's lack of all four awards does not mean that they are weak.
Su Yun criticized Ronaldinho for not being qualified to win the second place in the Ballon d'Or. This does not mean that Su Yun underestimates Ronaldinho's strength.
Barcelona is very strong.
Really strong.
It is a bit too much to be hailed as the second generation of Dreams by the media. After all, Barcelona has just started their journey, so calling them the second generation of Dreams is a bit too much. But being named the second generation of Dreams in itself shows their strength.
Su Yun really doesn't want to meet Barcelona.
It would be great to meet teams like Bremen, Monaco, Lyon, PSV, and Porto.
One by one these teams will be eliminated.
Su Yun is not afraid of any of them.
It's a pity that we met Barcelona.
Su Yun cursed UEFA fiercely in his heart. Su Yun absolutely believed that there was something fishy in this, because when Barcelona and Chelsea were drawn together, it immediately became the first news among major European football media.
The level of attention is no worse than the games between Manchester United and Milan, Real Madrid and Juventus, Arsenal and Bayern.
One is an upstart. The other is one of the most beautiful teams in European football. Ronaldinho gave up Chelsea and chose Barcelona.
There is so much room for speculation.
Su Yun's expression was not good-looking. Rijkaard's expression was not good-looking either.
He didn't expect to meet Chelsea.
Chelsea is an upstart. But it was the winner of the Champions League last season. Their strength has only increased this season. Even Barcelona will find it difficult to deal with such a club.
Su Yun and Rijkaard both had the same idea.
Damn UEFA!
Chelsea and Barcelona were sacrificed for ratings.
