Six Hundred and Fifteenth Chapter Knife Leader Wenger

On the evening of December 2, Etihad Stadium, Manchester.

When the referee Chris Foy blew the whistle at the end of the game, Gao Shen laughed from ear to ear.

Even in front of the live broadcast camera, he did not hide his happiness.

The scoreboard shows the final result of the game, four to zero!

The home team is Manchester City and the away team is Arsenal.

Yes, that's right, Manchester City beat Arsenal with four goals at home!

This is one of the quarter-finals of the League Cup. After winning, Manchester City directly entered the semi-finals.

In fact, from seeing Arsenal's starting lineup, Gao Shen already knew that the suspense of this game was not big.

As the league is in full swing, both teams are playing as substitutes.

But there is still a big difference between the bench and the bench.

Manchester City's bench lineup is 4231.

Goalkeeper: Shay.

Defense: Gareth Bale, Gary Cahill, Mika Richards and Trippier.

Midfield: The double midfielder is a combination of De Jong and Henderson, with Robinho, Ireland and Sturridge in front.

Center: Giroud.

As far as this lineup is concerned, although it is not too luxurious, it is also the first-line level of the Premier League. Even if it is like Ireland and Mika Richards, they were the main players of Manchester City last season.

The smallest card in the entire starting lineup is Trippier, but this teenager has performed well.

Arsenal's starting lineup is also 4231.

Goalkeeper: Fabianski.

Defence: Traore, Sylvester, Alexander Song and Eboue.

Midfield: Merida, Wilshere, Rosicky, Eastmond and Ramsey.

Forward: Bella.

It is not difficult to see from Wenger's starting lineup that his purpose is to train newcomers. The only main player in the team's starting lineup is Alexander Song, but Wenger pulled him to the back line and played as a central defender.

The young players of the Gunners are indeed very experienced in cup competitions, and Wenger and Ferguson have always used cup competitions to train newcomers. For example, Cesc Fabregas, who had just joined Arsenal, first played in the cup competitions to train.

But it is obvious that Manchester City is stronger in the same bench lineup.

Also, it's much stronger.

Just three minutes into the opening, Robinho had a shot from the front of the penalty area, threatening Arsenal's goal.

After that, Manchester City launched a series of offensives. In the 16th minute, Sturridge grabbed Sylvester in front of the bottom line on the right and then knocked back. Giroud was near the penalty spot and was unguarded. hit the left column.

Manchester City launched wave after wave of offensives against Arsenal, but unfortunately, Giroud and Sturridge missed great opportunities successively, until the second half, after Manchester City stole Rosicky's ball, Gareth Bell cut into the left side of the penalty area from the left and shot with his left foot, opening the scoring for Manchester City.

This goal is exactly the same as the three previous goals against Manchester United.

In this area, Bell's footwork and play are really solid.

After that, Giroud once again missed an unguarded empty goal, which made Gao Shen on the sidelines extremely depressed.

Knowing that Big Giroud's shots are not efficient, but it's too low!

Fortunately, Giroud's tactical role is still very reliable.

In the end, Manchester City beat Arsenal 4-0 at home with goals from Sturridge, Robinho and substitute Adam Lallana.

...

"Do you know how I feel now?"

After the game,

Gao Shen and Wenger stood side by side on the sidelines, chatting word by word.

Although the age difference between the two is a lot, they are both head coaches and they still have a common language.

The most important thing is that before Gao Shen took office, there was news that Manchester City would vigorously poach Arsenal, but after Gao Shen took office, he did not do so, but changed his strategy, so Wenger's impression of Gao Shen is still good.

The premise is that it is not during game time.

Before he could answer, Wenger sighed, "I feel like I'm a bus."

When Gao Shen heard it suddenly, he was still smiling, and he almost said: It's still an electric bus with a bad battery.

Fortunately, he temporarily stopped complaining.

In fact, Wenger is not easy.

Many fans only remember his squeak, and only remember his madman, but few people have noticed what happened to Arsenal's management during his coaching years.

After Arsenal switched their home stadium from Highbury Stadium to Emirates Stadium, they started to build real estate on the original Highbury Stadium plot, and ambitiously wanted to use real estate projects to make a lot of money.

But who would have thought that the subprime mortgage crisis broke out in the United States, and then Europe triggered the European debt crisis, which directly turned Arsenal's real estate project into a black hole of funds, so Wenger is also struggling to support, barely able to keep Arsenal's top four positions.

To a certain extent, Wenger is really benevolent and righteous.

During this process, the hugely wealthy shareholder from Russia on Arsenal’s board of directors once wanted to complete the acquisition of Arsenal, which gave the Gunners the opportunity to become a major player in the Premier League, but unfortunately, it failed due to various reasons.

Arsenal's current lineup is not strong, and even according to the information obtained by Gao Shen, Arsenal players have already begun to be moved.

why?

Because the gunmen are underpaid.

Perhaps seeing this, some people will say: fart, Arsenal has always been one of the most profitable teams in the Premier League and even Europe. Their ticket prices are the highest in European football, and their turnover last season was as high as 310 million. Three million pounds, how can there be no money?

Yes, that's true, but behind the high turnover, Arsenal also has a debt of 300 million pounds.

So far this season, the highest-paid players in the Arsenal team are Cesc Fabregas and others, with a weekly salary of 80,000 pounds, which is nothing in the current Premier League, and their total annual player salary is 100 million pounds. .

How many other teams are there?

Chelsea is £172 million.

Manchester City has not announced it to the public, but Gao Shen knows that Manchester City is higher than Chelsea.

In the entire Premier League, Wenger's salary control is really quite good, and the ratio of input to output is definitely worthy of his title of world famous coach.

Many people accuse Wenger of being stingy, but they never thought that if they really want to hit a big name, the annual salary will definitely reach the top, and it will definitely lead to a substantial increase in Arsenal's entire salary structure. The Gunners can get so much money. ?

I still remember that in the 2021 year of high-level travel, many authoritative institutions, including Deloitte, and many authoritative media have published articles, arguing that the debt of European football has reached a rather alarming level.

Among them, the most amazing debt ratio is Barcelona.

why?

Because Barcelona is burning money like crazy, spending 100 million to 100 million at every turn, even with Neymar's crazy transfer to Paris Saint-Germain's income, it will not be able to withstand such crazy money burning, as well as the huge annual salary of the superstars.

And Manchester United, after Ferguson left, how much money did they burn in a few years?

Before the time-travel, Gao Shen was a fan and enjoyed watching it, but after the time-travel, he stood in the Premier League in December 2009. He really felt that it was a crazy era and an unsustainable era!

But in professional football, many things are involuntarily, and are carried forward.

Others burn money, do you burn it?

burn?

Who can guarantee that they will be able to burn out the effect?

The transfer itself is a high-risk investment. What if it burns into Sandezi and Bartomeu?

not burn?

Then look at Wenger now, and directly turn himself into a bus!

So far this season, Arsenal's achievements in strong dialogue can really be described in words.

In this game, if Giroud's scoring efficiency was too low, if Robinho and Sturridge didn't take good chances, they could really score another big score.

Sometimes Gao Shen thinks that if he is to be replaced by Cesc Fabregas, it is estimated that he will have to leave.

Don't go, there is no hope!

It can also be seen from this point that Florentino is really rare.

In other words, in this crazy game, he is one of the few operators who still have reason and calm analysis.

...

"That dead fat Ancelotti has been fanning the flames as early as a week ago. You have almost wiped out the strong teams now. There is no reason to let him go, right?"

After Wenger cleaned up his mood, he secretly stabbed Ancelotti in the back.

Gao Shen was stunned.

Master Ganqingwen is not a stingy sect, but the leader of the slasher sect.

However, Ancelotti has always been yin and yang strange before the game, and the reason is very simple. On the one hand, it is the game factor, and on the other hand, Gao Shen did not play cards with him before.

"Don't worry, I will definitely avenge you for that zero-to-three one-shot revenge." Gao Shen said very indignantly.

Wenger's eyes twitched, how could he feel as if he owed a huge favor to Gao Shen?

Little brother, he beat me three to zero, but you don't seem to be polite to me, do you?

It's obviously your grievance with Ancelotti, how do you make it sound like you're helping me?

Am I begging you to fuck Ancelotti?

Wenger pointed at Gao Shen and was speechless for a long time.

"It's not easy to learn, but learn from that damn old man!"

Wenger shook his head and sighed with an expression of hating iron.

Gao Shen looked at his back and couldn't help laughing.

Wenger's ability is unquestionable, but the world has changed.

This set of his has worked well in the past, but it won't work anymore.

From Chelsea to Abu Dhabi, and later Paris Saint-Germain, even teams such as Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur will embrace the new era one after another.

That is an era of big capital!

And Wenger is like a craftsman in a traditional era that is about to be eliminated. He is still clinging to the belief that he has persisted and persistent in his whole life.

What is ruthless is that his persistence and perseverance, although admirable, are destined to be eliminated by the trend.

This is actually quite normal.

Just like lofty, he can't guarantee that he will be able to shine like this forever.

Therefore, he cherishes all that he has now.

He wants to shine the most dazzling light at the peak of his coaching career!

Only in this way, no matter how many years later, fans will still remember him!