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In fact, Chelsea really "accidentally" won the championship last season. No one would have thought that Chelsea, which did not have too many outstanding performances under Scolari in the first half of the season, would win the championship after only "firefighting" half of the season. Under Dink's coaching, he directly won the club's coveted Champions League!

So for the team's goals for the new season, the primary goal is of course to continue to hit the Champions League championship, and strive to take advantage of the situation to become the first team to defend the Champions League after the restructuring!

Since Hiddink has already made it clear that he will not choose to stay at Chelsea, he will retire after only half a year in charge of Chelsea!

As for the Chelsea management, although as early as the second half of last season, they were already looking for a possible candidate for a new coach. He left in half a year, but Chelsea boss Abramovich still plans to see if Hiddink can change his mind after the Champions League final. As for other candidate coaches, he is only in contact and has not discussed in detail!

Chelsea finally won the Champions League. Abramovich also talked with Hiddink in person during the team's holiday, but Hiddink still rejected Chelsea's coaching position, chose to leave, and returned to the Russian national team to concentrate on leading Russian football. Breakthrough, the new champions of the Champions League, Chelsea, have to solve their coaching problem first in the summer!

In Abramovich's eyes, the team under his rule has won the Premier League champion twice, and successfully defended the title for the second time, just like passing a stand-alone game. Over and over again, in one season, the individual Premier League champions are no longer interested. In this era, it is naturally an achievement to imitate Manchester United and win the league for three consecutive times, but it will take another three years to start again in the new season!

And the achievement that is easiest to achieve in a short period of time is to compete for the Champions League championship, to become the first team to defend the title after the restructuring of the Champions League, and to engrave Chelsea's name on the history of the Champions League forever! Even if it is as strong as Real Madrid back then, with 3 championships in 5 years, it has not become the first team to defend the Champions League after the restructuring!

In recent years, the European giants have invested more or less, but the lean camels are bigger than the horses. Although some giants lack absolute superstars in the team lineup, relying on the team's excellent youth training and background, Most of the giants can still compete in the European arena, and in the knockout rounds, no team can be confident that they can defeat all strong opponents, so for Chelsea's plan to defend the Champions League, it is still a heavy responsibility Way to go!

The team uniform team received instructions from the boss Abramovich. The requirement for the head coach candidate is to be good at playing cup games, especially the Champions League. It is better to have the experience of leading the team to win the Champions League!

In recent years, the coaches of the Champions League champions are all famous coaches, and all of them are the first choice of the head coaches of the major giants. For the requirements of the big boss Abramovich, Chelsea's management can only try to find and poach corners!

Not to mention, during the turmoil of the summer transfer window, there really was a head coach who left a wealthy team and gave Chelsea a chance to poach someone!

The AC Milan club in Italy, as a century-old giant, has always been a strong European team. Its experience of winning the Champions League 7 times is second only to Real Madrid, and firmly sits second in the number of Champions League championships in history!

The last two Champions League titles of AC Milan are inseparable from the careful training of the famous Italian coach Ancelotti. Winning the Champions League makes Ancelotti still the best head coach in European football!

However, although Ancelotti's previous contract with AC Milan will not end until 10 years, AC Milan's finances are already on the verge of collapse. This can be seen from the summer transfer window when he sold his core Kaka to pay off debts One spot!

With the sluggishness of the Italian economy, the financial situation of the entire Serie A is not very good. Only Papa Moratti, who is willing to pay out of his own pocket to subsidize the team, can continue to provide financial guarantees for Inter Milan!

And AC Milan, after the brilliance, has now entered a period of reconstruction, which has not reached an agreement with Ancelotti's coaching goals. After the end of the 2009 season, he chose to terminate the contract peacefully with Ancelotti, and then immediately took the post of Leonardo, a player of AC Milan's "Dream Team", as the head coach of the team!

And Ancelotti only stayed at home for a few days, and immediately had a chance to contact Chelsea, who was looking for a new coach!

Although there are many teams that want to ask Ancelotti to come out, Chelsea's wealthy background, team strength, and financial capabilities are far superior to other competitors. Chelsea is in an inherently advantageous position!

Finally, after some negotiations with the Chelsea uniform team, Ancelotti parachuted into Stamford Bridge with a salary of 20 million euros for three years, took over the coach from Hiddink, and became the new head coach of the Blues Chelsea!

Ancelotti also understands the goal of the team owner Abramovich. In the first year of leading the team, he must try to complete the feat of his predecessor in the Champions League and lead the team to defend the Champions League. This is indeed a big challenge, but Ancelotti is willing Try, and the Chelsea team has a very good foundation, which is very suitable for Ancelotti to review his tactical arrangements!

However, correspondingly, in order to achieve Chelsea's great ambitions next season with a high probability, Ancelotti still wants to get enough support from the club to strengthen the team and ensure that the team's strength can be further improved , especially on the offensive end!

Since Ancelotti officially took over the coach of Chelsea in June, Chelsea's transfer department has been working hard to complete Ancelotti's signing goal!

Over the years, Chelsea's wide players have been very lacking. Last season, Malouda was the only one who held up the position on the left side with few injuries, while the right side, in some games, simply Cameos by Kalou and Anelka!

Ancelotti also wants to make a fuss on the wing for Chelsea's lineup reinforcement, especially the need for a breakout point on the wing, so that in some strong games, he can open a breakthrough on the wing!

And the top wing breakers are actually those few. Ancelotti aimed at the core of Bayern Munich's wing, the Frenchman Franck Ribery!

Ancelotti attaches great importance to Ribery's breakthrough ability on the wing, and hopes to bring him to Stamford Bridge!

Although the funds in Abramovich's hands are a bit stretched, considering Ribery's practicality and the possible commercial returns as a big-name star, Abramovich agreed to the signing operation and planned to use his personal pockets to subsidize the team!

However, poaching among giants is very difficult. Chelsea offered Ribéry 40 million euros to Bayern, hoping to have a room for negotiation. Even if Bayern returned to 50 million, Abramovich said that he could support it with money!

But Bayern Munich only replied, "Forty million euros can only buy Ribéry's thigh", and they have no plans to sell their own star at all!

Ancelotti's favorite goal, so there is no room for manipulation!

In addition to the fact that the introduction of Ribery was not very smooth, Deco, who was introduced to Chelsea as a direct player of Scolari last season, also applied to the club for a transfer. He hopes to go to Inter Milan to reconnect with his former mentor Mu. Collaboration with Rino.

During Hiddink's coaching period, it was a difficult time for Deco for half a season. Except for playing in the unimportant league in the later stage, Deco basically had no playing time in important games. Compared with his unfamiliar Ancelotti, Deco still wants to cooperate with Mourinho, whom he is familiar with, at the end of his career, so as to make better use of his remaining heat!

However, as in AC Milan, Ancelotti, who emphasizes midfield control, Chelsea's midfielder is hard enough, but just lacks Deco's type of player. Although Deco may have passed his peak period, But for a long season, Deco remains an important addition to Chelsea's midfield.

After a long phone conversation with Deco, in the end, Ancelotti managed to persuade Deco to stay in the team, and promised to give Deco more playing time to allow Deco to participate in the team's midfield rotation , Complete the transformation of Chelsea's midfield formation!

However, the search for Ribery's transfer failed, and Ancelotti turned his goal to his old club AC Milan. He wanted to bring midfielder Pirlo to Stamford Bridge!

For Pirlo, who has turned 30 years old, under the instruction of Ancelotti, Chelsea offered a transfer fee of 12 million pounds, plus a generous offer from Peruvian striker Pizarro. According to local media reports in Milan, AC Milan's management is very satisfied with this offer. It can get 12 million pounds in cash and an excellent shooter who scored 17 goals in the Bundesliga last season (in the 08/09 season, Chelsea loaned Pizarro to the Leme), but, when the deal was about to be concluded, AC Milan's new coach Leonardo strongly opposed the deal, saying that Pirlo was an indispensable player for him, and forcibly rejected Chelsea's offer!

After missing two favorite players one after another, Ancelotti is a little confused about signings for the new season!

This is the status quo of European football. Sometimes, you have money in your hand, but you may not be able to persuade another team to release someone. And Chelsea's financial budget is currently not enough to offer a high enough annual salary, so that players can use their personal influence to force the team to release people!

After Ancelotti had no players in particular, Chelsea, according to Ancelotti's request, began to look for some unnamed players to supplement their strength on the bench!

First, at a low price of 1.5 million pounds, Serbian midfielder Matic was bought from the Slovakian team Kosice to strengthen the team's reserve lineup!

After that, there was another transfer fee of 5 million pounds, which took away the young and famous Sturridge from Manchester City to enhance the youthful vitality of Chelsea's striker!

And Boro's goalkeeper Turnbull, after the contract expired, chose to join Chelsea for free to strengthen Chelsea's goalkeeper reserves!

For Chelsea, since there are no big-name players to join, Abramovich simply reduced investment to ease his financial expenditure!

When he first signed the contract, the ambitious Ancelotti lost his hope of signing his favorite superstar players one after another, and he looked down on other players. Going to Chelsea may not be able to grab a chance to play, so saving money will save money!

However, for the wing position, Ancelotti still clearly needs a good combat power. Although Ancelotti intends to make a fuss about Chelsea's personnel in the midfield in the new season, but for the wide players, Ancelotti still wants to introduce an outstanding player who can play in the game and be competent for this position !

As for Abramovich, although he wants to spend less money, he also has a Russian complex. He wants to have a domestic player in his team. After missing Arshavin last season, in the summer window of this season, Abramovich directly paid for it. Here comes Zhirkov of CSKA Moscow!

Although Ancelotti's first goal is not Zhirkov, Zhirkov, who is known as the Russian Ronaldinho, is indeed a good player, and Ancelotti's supplementary wide players can be considered complete , Naturally, I will concentrate on preparing for the new season's Premier League games, and the most important Champions League group stage!

Although Chelsea did not buy too many people, except for Pizarro, who was loaned out last season and finally chose to transfer and leave, other than last season, Chelsea kept all the main players and substitute players who won the Champions League. , Although the age has increased by one year, many people are in their early 30s, but Ancelotti himself is good at training veterans, so Chelsea, which is properly reinforced, is still favored by many people!

Regarding whether Chelsea can defend the Champions League, under the prying eyes of the European powerhouses, especially under the background of the crazy signings of the two giants of La Liga, no one thinks that Chelsea will be able to break out of the encirclement.

But for the new season of the Premier League, countless professional footballers are more optimistic about Chelsea's ability to end Manchester United's dynasty and win the new season's Premier League championship!

It is really that the signings of the top three in the Premier League are too weak!

For Manchester United, the loss of frontcourt players was serious. Cristiano Ronaldo switched to Real Madrid at a sky-high price of 94 million euros, making Manchester United lose their most threatening core player in the frontcourt!

Afterwards, striker Carlos Tevez was poached by the upstart Premier League, fellow city brother Manchester City at a price of 25 million pounds!

Last season's striker line was extremely terrifying. Manchester United's striker line, which could play multiple lineups, suddenly lacked two superstars.

As for Manchester United, which holds huge sums of money, in the transfer market, it is difficult to make too much supplement when the strong players are not letting go!

Valencia came from Wigan with a transfer fee of 17 million pounds. Although Valencia is also a good wide player, but wants him to replace Ronaldo, and the role of Ronaldo on the field, but it is not enough. Some are overwhelmed!

Although Irving, the superstar of the year, came on a free transfer, considering Irving's state, he may not be able to play a big supplementary role for Manchester United's striker. Perhaps it is better to transfer from the Norwegian Super League team Molde. Senegalese striker Diouf from here!

Compared with Manchester United's huge loss on the offensive end, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal still continue to do their own shopping, and then sell people to repay the loan rhythm!

Throughout the summer window, Wenger only bought Belgian central defender Vermaelen from Ajax for a price of 11 million pounds. The introduction of the rest of the players was all based on loan recovery, and the promotion of his own youth team players!

In terms of players leaving the team, except for some unreused players who terminated their contracts and left, Arsenal sold the main central defender Kolo Toure and the main forward Adebayor for 15 million pounds and 25 million pounds respectively. Manchester City!

Under the circumstances of Wenger's discerning talents for several consecutive years, Arsenal once again achieved the task of making a huge profit in a single summer window!

In the transfer market, Liverpool, who are very blind, will continue their journey of digging high-value lottery tickets in the summer window!

After being taken away by Real Madrid's absolute midfielder Harvey Alonso and right back Arbeloa, Liverpool rejected Barcelona's offer for Mascherano and forcibly left a midfielder. After that, Liverpool spent 20 million pounds to buy midfielder Aquilani from Roma, and spent 18.5 million to buy defender Johnson from Portsmouth!

The rest of the signings are small operations, not worth mentioning!

Except for Chelsea, the other top three in the Premier League have lost their main players in this Xia Chuang transfer, and their signings are a bit weak!

On the contrary, Manchester City, which has been injected with oil capital, has been buying, buying and buying throughout the summer!

£24 million bought England international and defender Lescott from Everton! Bought central defender Kolo Toure from Arsenal for 15 million pounds!

Carlos Tevez and Adebayor both came from Manchester United and Arsenal at a price of 25 million pounds. With the addition of striker Santa Cruz who was transferred from Blackburn for 17 million pounds, Manchester City's front line Spending 67 million pounds, the upgrade of the forward line was successfully completed!

Aston Villa's midfielder Barry also came to Manchester City with a transfer fee of 12 million pounds to strengthen the strength of Manchester City's midfield!

In contrast, as many as 10 players left through transfers and contract terminations. Manchester City began to transform from the Premier League lift team back then to a wealthy team...

Under the ebb and flow, when Manchester City needs to adjust in a short period of time and cannot directly compete for the championship, Chelsea's signings have instead made it the strongest team on paper. In the new season of the Premier League, Chelsea will naturally Take advantage!

As for the Champions League, it depends on whether luck can stand on Chelsea's side this time!