Chapter 230 Different ages
The taste of the championship is so intoxicating. Even the opponents of the last round of Manchester United, when they came out to prepare for the championship, many players couldn't help touching the Premier League championship trophy at the door of the passage.
With the great applause of more than 70,000 fans at Old Trafford, Manchester United players stepped into the field, and the players of Stoke City, the opponent of this game, also lined up to send their own applause to the championship this season.
Stoke City, which is also desireless, did not pose any decent threat to Manchester United at all in the game.
Manchester United celebrated the great moment of four consecutive championships with four goals and live fans.
At the same time, in the last round of kick-off at the same time, Chelsea vented all the grievances on Wigan Athletic at home. The poor Wigan swallowed eight bullets at Stamford Bridge, which was the most tragic team that lost in the last round.
The final whistle sounded, and the Manchester United club won the fourth league championship in four years. Head coach Ferguson entered the stadium to celebrate with the players, and a grand victory celebration of the Red Devils began.
In fact, before the end of the game, the championship suspense had been cracked, so that the stone in Ferguson's heart fell to the ground early. Almost all the time, he sat on the coach's seat with a smile, staring at the field. In the second half, a rare scene appeared. Ferguson, who almost sat on the whole game, got up early on the side of the field and headed to the four stands. The fans waved their hands.
This reminds me of the scene when Mourinho won the championship in the 2005-06 season. At that time, he led Manchester United 3-0 at home in the 37th round, and the Blues locked the championship. Mourinho walked to the Manchester United coach's bench in stoppage time, greeted Ferguson, and shook hands with the opponents there one by one. You know, the game is still Not over! Now Ferguson's celebration has also taken an "advance amount", but unfortunately Mourinho is not there.
The final whistle sounded, and the Manchester United players rushed into the stadium. Rooney and Li Yu joined hands to run to the stands, picked up the red headscarf thrown by the fans and put on their heads, jumping and jumping to meet the huge shouts of the fans. Ferdinand was interviewed, Nani climbed on his shoulder to make a joke, and the core of the Glazer family waved in the stands. He sang songs with the fans, while Ferguson clasped his fist in the center of the court to celebrate. After getting the trophy, Ferguson staged a ** scene. He had a big belly and held the trophy with Giggs and sprinted back and forth on the side of the court!
At the award ceremony, the military and police escorted the trophy to the entrance. Assistant coach Mike Perlan and the coaching team entered first. They took some players who were not eligible to receive medals because they did not have enough appearances. Next, the protagonist appeared. Ferguson took the main players to the podium and hung medals around their necks one by one.
In the finale, he is naturally the biggest star. Li Yu, Rooney and Neville's "Queen" in the team. Li Yu kissed the trophy first. Captain Neville and Rooney raised the trophy together. The great four consecutive championships. Manchester United tasted the league championship for the fourth consecutive year. How long will Manchester United's monopoly last? This may be a question that Manchester United fans want to ask.
Old Trafford Stadium is now an ocean of joy. Rooney opened the champagne and sprayed at his teammates, while Li Yu rushed into the fans to celebrate and was quickly pulled down by the security guard. The player's family also entered and joined the carnival team. Rooney's wife took their children to the center of the court, with a smile on her face. It seemed that Rooney's peach news from time to time had no impact at all.
The children are the last highlight. Scholes's children have been covering their ears in the huge cheers, and the shy look shows at a glance that this is the seed of ginger head!
As the captain, Neville had other tasks. He took a pair of sneakers and distributed them to the fans on the sidelines. As he walked to a stand, he ignored the shouts and summons of other fans. He directly handed the shoes to a little girl on the sidelines and got this precious gift. The little girl snuggled excitedly in her father's arms and cried. It will be an unforgettable moment for her.
Theseason is the most chaotic time in the Premier League in the past five years.
The impact from the midstream teams is far greater than in the past, especially the unprecedented competition for the fourth place.
Liverpool, which invested the least in the summer, got revenge that all four were empty. Not only were they far away from the trophy, but they were also deprived of the Champions League qualification, which had always covered the team's shame in the Benitez era. Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Villa formed a strong challenger group, and finally showed a more stable tactical performance. Tottenham laughed until the end, which fully established London's dominance in the Premier League. The decline of Liverpool is essentially the negative impact of investment and risk. The impact of the fall of the Red Army on the pattern of the Premier League is the same as the rise of Tottenham Hotspur. Liverpool's golden age during the administration of Benitez came to a complete end in this season, and it will be a more difficult season for Liverpool.
The Premier League curtain call for the 009/2010 season. In the last round, Chelsea beat Wigan 8-0 at Stamford Bridge, and finally watched Manchester United celebrate. And they have scored a total of 103 goals in the league this season, breaking Manchester United's previous record of 97 goals. This is the most chaotic Premier League, but it is also a crazy Premier League.
This summer, the traditional top four and the upstart Manchester City will begin to change their blood in an all-round way. After all, the champion team with an average age of more than 29 years old will not be able to maintain the advantage in any case. Waiting for Ferguson, it will be a more difficult season to defend the title. The high tax rate of the Premier League, the localized mandatory policy of 6+5, and the limited registration list of 25 people will greatly limit the strength of traditional rich families. Next year, a more chaotic and competitive Premier League is still waiting for them.
For the stubborn Ferguson, this season is another great success.
The injury made the substitute plan he prepared for C. Ronaldo's departure was useless, and Owen's performance can only be summarized by poor intentions at most!
Rooney's injuries from time to time make Manchester United only have one solution for many times, that is, Manchester United No. 9 alone supports the front line!
If it weren't for Li Yu at Manchester United, it was very likely that she would be the champion in the end. Rooney's data is gorgeous, but it can't be covered up. The fact that there are successive injuries in the final stage is still the top use of Manchester United No. 9 at the critical moment!
The blow of the financial crisis proves that when Manchester United cannot get enough supplements in the market, they will have a personnel crisis. What's more optimistic is that although blood exchange is a top priority, Ferguson may not be able to get the capital support he expects. The capital advantage from London and the further impact of Manchester City's local tycoons will start with this season and continue for a long time to come.
Although the Champions League was eliminated by his predecessor and old rival Mourinho, Ancelotti's Premier League experience is still perfect. The unprecedented 103 goals in the Premier League is his success in transforming Chelsea style. The Blues are no longer a symbol of the conservative dullness of the Mourinho era, but one of the most aggressive teams in Europe. However, Ancelotti also lost six league games, which is also unprecedented.
The only championship outlet left to Chelsea now is the FA Cup title, and they will definitely go all out to win this last hope.
Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham drove the Champions League next season, bringing London football back to the sight of Europe. However, there is another London club this season that deserves the respect of Europe, that is, Fulham, who was only playing in the amateur league 13 years ago, but was able to reach the final of the UEFA Europa League, Juventus and Hamburg.
London has 15 professional clubs and 26 amateur clubs. With historical achievements and tradition alone, West Ham is even more popular than Chelsea before the 21st century. In addition, the Queen's Park Rangers in the northwest, Crystal Palace in the South, Wimbledon and Millwall in the North, and even Charlton in the east have an impressive history. Fulham, invested only by the Egyptian rich businessman Fayez, did not enter the British football vision until the late 1990s, and did not enter the Premier League until 2001.
When West Ham and Charlton occasionally flashed, no one expected that Fulham, who had been struggling for relegation, would become the most surprising phenomenon after the three major football giants in London.
Hodgson, who took over the team in early 2008, brought a real miracle. Last season, Fulham's popular status was downgraded to 7th place, and for the first time in history, he qualified for the European game.
Fulham continues to make great progress this season. Although the league ranking has been relaxed due to its efforts in the UEFA Europa League in the second half, it reached the UEFA Europa League final with a civilian team, even more colder than Middlesbrough four years ago.
In contrast, Queen's Park Rangers and Crystal Palace are still struggling with the Championship, and Crystal Palace was even deducted 10 points due to financial problems and almost downgraded. Charlton, who once had a glorious time, fell into League One, while Wimbledon experienced the hardships of bankruptcy and restructuring, and now he is in the fifth league.
West Ham has been hit by the financial crisis. Although it was acquired by the former Birmingham gold owner, it is still difficult to recover in the short term. London, where seven teams played at its peak in history, has actually shown an intensive trend of football resources - the three giants have almost carved up all their resources. Under this cruel survival background, Fulham's success is even more respectable.
Ferguson strongly recommended Hodgson as the best coach in the Premier League of the season, but in the end, this title was given to Rednap, who led the team to the Champions League. In fact, isn't Fulham the fourth Champions League team in London? Who can imagine that under the absolute advantage of the Premier League ruling the Champions League semi-finals for three consecutive years and reaching the finals for six consecutive years, Fulham will fight for the Premier League in another European event.
Another thing worth mentioning is Manchester United's sworn enemy Manchester City.
With an investment of 300 million euros in two seasons and a salary of more than 100 million euros per season, Abu Dhabi Chief Mansour can only watch his blue moon mix in the Europa League? This is the cruel reality that Manchesterians must accept: Tevez's arrogant blue poster still shows the two obscure worlds of the city: the side that became rich overnight still failed to find another chance to fight against the red side in the Champions League after 42 years.
In addition to Real Madrid this season, Manchester City should be the real protagonist of the whole European football market in the past two years.
Rednap, who was lucky enough to take the lead, said it seriously: if Manchester City is qualified for the Champions League, the European football market will be bloody this summer. The cards of Manchester City's two coaches are good enough, but it's not the right time: at the beginning of the season, Santa Cruz and Tevez took turns to seriously injured, the team's attack power was insufficient, and the defense line has not been synthesized. Mancini, who changed coach halfway, caught up with the shootings of the Africa Cup and Togo. He finally looked forward to the recovery of Adebayo and Tevez, and the Argentine striker hit a young girl who was seriously ill. This quasi-tycoon, which urgently needs to score goals to make up for the weak defense, has to face the embarrassment of the front for 2/3 of the whole season.
Of course, the Arabs' eagerness for quick success also reflects the team's impetuous mentality.
Manchester City's team is no worse than Tottenham Hotspur, and even better than Arsenal and Liverpool.
But at the beginning of the season, Mark Hughes's team lacked stability and was tied by the weak team at home. It is particularly worth mentioning that the Manchester City derby was so hard that when Ferguson defeated with the customary "judge advantage", the Manchester City people lost their normal heart instead. Although the performance is not stable enough, it is Tottenham Hotspur who can always win the key game with Rednap's experience. Although Manchester City has doubled Chelsea and Arsenal this season, they have been double-killed by Tottenham in the most direct competition.
England's urban resources are limited, and Birmingham and Liverpool are not enough to maintain the size of the two top teams entering the Champions League.
In 2005, Liverpool earned Everton a chance to qualify for the Champions League as the defending champion, but the toffee was a failure. Although the three major urban agglomerations in the northwest have bred many clubs, most of them are small businesses that are struggling to maintain. The only one who can get a huge fortune like Manchester City, whether the Arabs can give Mancini more time will determine whether Manchester can become the power center of the Premier League again.
After all, it was Manchester City's high opening and low, which led to the pattern of resistance of the Two City Chambers, which turned into the center of gravity of London's top three squeezing the Red Devils.
Tottenham's success this season. On the surface, it is Rednap's wonderful pen, but in fact, it's because of the burning money. In the 2008/09 season, they burned more than 100 million yuan in the summer and winter market, introducing Modric, Paflyuchenko, Difu and other powerful people. This season, the team continues to quote Crouch and Bassoon at high prices. Last Wednesday at Manchester City's Chester Municipal Stadium, Lao Lei commanded a "English Second Team", including six valuable local players. The victory showed that Tottenham Hotspur is more like a whole than Manchester City, which depends on Lao Lei's finishing touch for 18 months and the strength of the club to continue to burn money.
The 2010 Forbes Global Rich List released a few days ago revealed that Joe Lewis, the head of White Deer Trail, has an asset of 3 billion, second only to Abu in the Premier League, surpassing Manchester United's Grezel family. Behind Lewis, there is also a Jewish consortium with rich family backgrounds. Due to historical and traditional reasons, he has been supporting Tottenham Hotspur as his responsibility for many years.
In the summer market, Tottenham Hotspur has the best reason to act first. After winning Manchester City, Lao Lei expressed his success as a "greater achievement" than Portsmouth winning the FA Cup that year. In addition to the joy of having a sweet rain after a long drought, it is also the bright "money" scene of 20 million pounds after entering the Champions League. Because of this historic step, Tottenham's advertising sponsorship of jerseys is also expected to rise to 10 million pounds next season. In the 2004/05 season, Everton replaced Liverpool in the Champions League, but due to the weakness of the team, he was easily defeated by Villarreal in the qualifying round of the Champions League. With a lesson from the past, Tottenham's summer moves will be more layered, but it is difficult to be prudent. After all, from the owner's blood replenishment to now being able to make his own blood, Tottenham has stood higher than Vera and Everton.
Looking forward to the summer market, Ferguson said, "Manchester City will definitely buy people, and so will Tottenham Hotspur, because they have entered the Champions League." There is no need to worry about seeing Tottenham Hotspur soldiers cheering at home. The Premier League "oil tanker" failed for a season, just because it burned more money later than the other party.
Manchester City ranked 14th in the league three years ago, but only 4 points more than the relegation zone. The Abu Dhabi consortium took over and splung 750 million yuan in the first two years. When someone gloated about Manchester City's four losses this year, the chiefs may see a sharp rise in the team's ranking from 10th last year to 5th this year.
Facts have proved that oil is hard currency. Oil prices have more than doubled in the past two years.
When Abu Capital shrank due to the crisis, oil and gold were still full of momentum. Taking this opportunity, Manchester City robbed Robinho from Chelsea and "pulled" Tevez from enemies in the same city.
Capital can become cruel in order to succeed. He beat Sunderland 3-4 at home before Christmas, and then coach Hughes said goodbye with a wry smile on the sidelines. As of the last round, Mancini scored 37 points in 20 games, averaging 1.85 points per game, which is not much higher than his Welsh predecessor's record of 29 points in 17 games (1.71 points per game). But for this slight improvement, the Arabs don't mind making a lot of money or even pushing it all over again. Cascarino predicted in The Times last week: "Recession? What recession? If Manchester City breaks Robinho's England transfer record of 32.5 million pounds this summer, I won't be surprised at all!"
The obstacle to Manchester City's bidding for world-class stars is that the club will not be able to win the Champions League. Last winter, they bid for Kaka at a price of 90 million pounds, which was rejected by the players and ridiculed by the European giants. In the past two years of changes in the transfer market, Manchester City has left a stupid and rich image for itself, but it is undeniable that it also marks a "golden route" for stars all over the world to fly directly to England.
Compared with this, Arsenal is used to living under the measure of income. Due to Liverpool's sluggish performance, the existing lineup is facing the prospect of being placed in a "supermarket". Torres' agent has come out and said, "Manchester City, Chelsea or Barcelona." In the face of the Spanish golden boy being speculated to 70 million pounds, Ancelotti said, "We have Drogba and Anelka."
In the conversion window in January, Ancelotti's words "If I buy someone, I will go to the Chelsea training ground to run naked" once made the British media laugh and cry. An Pang is also a helpless bet. Cech, Terry, Essien, Lampard and Drogba were the main force who led the team to win the championship four years ago. Relying on Ben, the Blues have tasted the benefits this season, but under the aggressive momentum of Manchester City's Tottenham Hotspur, the foundation of Stanford Bridge is also fading: they have been killed by Manchester City's total score of 6 to 3 this year, and it is only a victory or defeat against Tottenham. One each.
In Ferguson's opinion, Chelsea, who intends to continue to endure in the summer, will transfer more this summer than Manchester United. "Messi or C. Rona is impossible! Our Hernandez, Diouf, Welbeck and Machida may all become the top. Manchester United has only spent 20 million in the past year. The Red Devils, which are constrained by huge debt, have no intention of leading the transfer trend. The club agreed to the World Cup before talking about renewing the contract with Rooney, that is, there will not be too many signs of operation in the summer. Because of the competition, the transfer ** will be extended to the deadline. Who else will be the first to get the tide except Tottenham Hotspur Manchester City, which has just been inspired by good results?