Chapter 1137 The Flames of War Rise Again in the 1516th Season

The smoke from the America's Cup is gone, and summer is basically coming to an end.

Every Premier League team has almost recruited players.

When Dong Fangzhuo returned to England, he was half happy and half disappointed.

Because the Van Dijk he expected Manchester United to get did not come to Manchester United in the end, but came to Southampton.

This made him dumbfounded. Ferguson brought Mbappe but not Van Dijk.

But this still means that the good news has not flowed to outsiders. Van Dijk belongs to Southampton after all.

Manchester United's defense still hasn't changed much, but in the midfield, Ferguson still kidnapped Bastian Schweinsteiger.

He seems to have great trust in the German midfielder. Although Dong Fangzhuo feels that Bastian Schweinsteiger will not be accustomed to England, he also believes that he should be able to perform at the same level in the hands of Ferguson. After all, Ferguson is not the same Van Gaal, and Manchester United Isn’t it that he, Dong Fangzhuo, is in charge?

Returning to England, he accepted an interview with the news media for the first time, and a reporter from the "Manchester Evening News" had the honor to interview him.

As the captain of the team, Dong Fangzhuo is still very ambitious when talking about the new season, "I absolutely believe that we can go very far in the new season. I believe that we can win three consecutive league championships. If you take a good look at our second half of last season We’ve scored nearly all the points in all the games we’ve played, and we can do the same this season.”

"We have transferred many new players in the new season, and these players are all championship-level. Winning the Premier League is our goal, and winning the Champions League is also our goal, because we are Manchester United!"

"Although this year's Premier League is more intense than in previous years, and two of the best players in the world are here, we are still very ambitious."

When talking about this, Dong Fangzhuo mentioned Messi and Ronaldo.

"Being able to compete with Ronaldo and Messi in the same league is the most incredible thing. I feel full of motivation now. This is also the happiness of fans all over England."

"This is going to be the craziest one yet, and I think the three of us are ready for it."

He did not mention anyone else. Obviously in his eyes, only Messi and Ronaldo are qualified enough to compete with him. This is extremely confident.

They are currently the three strongest players in international football, and other players are indeed beyond their reach.

Judging from the winning odds offered by gambling company William Hill, Manchester United's prospects are still better than Chelsea and Manchester City. This is of course because of the existence of Dong Fangzhuo.

However, the three teams are basically looking for new players, and it is still unclear what the prospects for the new season will be.

But reporters were more interested in his Southampton side.

"Dong, do you think Southampton will have a chance to compete for the championship?"

"Why is it not possible? Southampton is also full of stars. Rooney, Gerrard, Terry, and Carrick are all top players in the Premier League. Plus practical players such as Van Dijk and Mane, they may really You can surprise everyone, I'm not kidding. Even Ranieri's Leicester City team could do wonders."

Dong Fangzhuo is naturally very familiar with the Premier League in the 1516 season. This season Leicester City won the final league championship, although there is no problem in being awesome. He also believes that Leicester City will perform very well this season, but do they want to win the championship? It's almost impossible this time...

The main reason is that the arrival of him, Messi and Ronaldo changed everything, and it is impossible to follow the previous plot.

Other than that, the other players in the Chelsea and Manchester City lineups have not changed much, except for the addition of Messi and Ronaldo, but the addition of these two guys is very scary, because the two of them can change the situation alone...

However, the English media are not so optimistic about Manchester United.

The Times wrote an article saying: The much-anticipated 2015-16 Premier League season is about to kick off. After recruitment this summer, 20 teams have reloaded.

They will fight for their goals. Giants such as Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Liverpool will compete fiercely for the championship, and the Champions League qualification, Europa League qualification, and relegation battles will also be exciting. At present, it is difficult for Manchester United to achieve the same smooth sailing as last season on the road to the championship, and many Premier League giants have opportunities.

In fact, their analysis is very objective. The battle for the Premier League championship is the biggest attraction. From the perspective of lineup strength, there are no more than five giants that have the ability to challenge for the championship, namely Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Liverpool. Last season, Manchester United claimed the Premier League title two rounds ahead of schedule, and basically encountered no effective resistance in the second half of the season. Ferguson's team stayed at the top of the list for a total of 125 days, which shows how strong Manchester United is. However, after the start of the new season, Manchester United may not be able to achieve smooth results.

In this summer transfer window, the Premier League giants have chosen to significantly strengthen their teams. Among them, Liverpool has the most signings. New coach Klopp’s team has introduced 8 new signings including Danny Ings, Klein, Benteke, Firmino and Milner. Among them, at the center position On the other hand, the Red Army has made up for its weakest link and its lineup has been greatly strengthened. They are expected to return to the level of the 2013-14 season. Therefore, the Red Army will not be underestimated.

Manchester City did not make many signings this summer, but the arrival of Messi and Sterling is enough to make their frontcourt super luxurious, with any three of Messi, Sterling, David Silva and Aguero. The trident can make the entire Premier League tremble, and Manchester City's lineup is already super luxurious, so they have more confidence to win the championship.

While competitors were all recruiting heavily, Chelsea didn't make many purchases. They bought Manchester United's abandoned players Falcao and Begovic. Of course, the most awesome thing is the purchase of Cristiano Ronaldo and the return of Mourinho! Chelsea's biggest hidden danger should be the defense, because Terry and Felipe are gone, leaving them with only 5 people in the defense. If there is no influx of new blood, Chelsea will have huge hidden dangers.

Relatively speaking, Wenger's team is much shabby. The Gunners introduced Cech this summer. The lineup has no shortcomings, but the star quality is not very high. But if you are a senior Premier League fan, it is impossible to have any hope for Wenger's team. They will not pose any threat to the championship. Every year they are struggling in the fourth place. This season they have to play Europa League…

However, bookmakers believe Arsenal has such potential. The reason they gave is very good: the main structure of the lineup has not changed, which means that compared with some giants that have more entries and more exits, Arsenal does not have a running-in period after the official start of the new season, and the lineup's play style has matured. Be better than other competitors.

So which team has the championship potential? At least that seems to be a lot to see from the preseason.

Especially Arsenal. Arsenal's performance in the warm-up match was as fierce as a tiger.

Arsenal played a total of 5 warm-up matches this summer, beating Singapore Stars 4-0, Everton 3-1, Lyon 6-0, Wolfsburg 1-0, and Chelsea 1-0. , just looking at the score is enough to prove that Arsenal has done a good job in preparing for the game this summer. In fact, this is indeed the case. Many main players have gradually regained their feeling for the game through warm-up matches. For example, young players like Iwobi and Akpon are also like many seniors. The most important thing is that the new aid Cech has established a tacit understanding with the defense generals.

It is a pity that Ronaldo did not appear in the last game against Chelsea and was not convincing. If they beat Chelsea with Ronaldo, then this Arsenal would be really scary...

Another down-and-out giant, Liverpool, went to Asia to hunt for gold, but Uncle Zha's first year in Liverpool was not optimistic.

In the Asia-Pacific region, Liverpool played four warm-up matches and achieved 3 wins and 1 draw. Although the games are all commercial in nature, Liverpool still exposed many problems. In the game against Brisbane Roar, Liverpool's conceding goals were repeated last season. The top of the penalty area lacked the protection of the midfielder, whether it was Mir Neither Na nor Henderson can do this, which will be a fatal hazard in the new season. What's worse is that Liverpool has not added anything yet. In addition, in the four games, except for showing offensive firepower against the Thai Star Team, the rest of the games were still weak. Origi and Ince have proven to be unusable in the warm-up matches. If you want to achieve good results in the new season, you must not count on them.

Fortunately, there are many players in the frontcourt who stay at the Melwood training base, such as Firmino and Benteke. It remains to be seen whether they can solve the problem of Liverpool's weak forward; at least compared to the weak defense. , Liverpool is still exciting on the offensive level.

As for Chelsea, Mourinho knows this team so well that it is almost seamless. Cristiano Ronaldo has also directly adapted to Chelsea's system. He started every game in the first four warm-up games and averaged 2 goals per game. His performance is amazing. In the fifth game against Arsenal, Uncle Bird froze Cristiano Ronaldo. As a result, Chelsea lost 0:1 to Arsenal. This also shows that Chelsea now plays games around Cristiano Ronaldo. It is completely different with or without Cristiano Ronaldo. There are two levels. Finally, why not let Ronaldo play against Arsenal? Maybe it is to protect Ronaldo and fear Arsenal's revenge?

But Cristiano Ronaldo is not the most eye-catching player. Messi, who has returned from vacation, is still the guy with the strongest performance. Messi also played four games, but Messi scored hat tricks in two games. He scored twice in the game, beating Ronaldo. After Guardiola took charge of Manchester City, he quickly copied the tactics he used in Barcelona and built a new Manchester City around Messi.

And Messi quickly found happiness here.

When Messi was interviewed for the first time by The Times, he immediately said: "I am very happy here, I love it here, Barcelona is a thing of the past, and the fans of Manchester City also love me very much, which makes me flattered! Guardiola knows how With me, we can definitely achieve something this season and I can't wait to start the new season."

Messi indeed quickly conquered the fans of Manchester City, and the limelight was unmatched for a while.

However, Dong Fangzhuo and Manchester United seem to be in a little trouble.

Their results in the preseason warm-up were very unsatisfactory, and their opponents were really average.

Compared with the other four teams, Manchester United's lineup has changed the most and is also the youngest. They have been adjusting the lineup in four games.

New players Bastian Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin were entrusted by Ferguson with important tasks in the defensive midfielder position. Dong Fangzhuo was in front of them. There were three young melons on the forward line, Rashford on the right and Jia Jia on the left. Nuzaj, center Martial, or Mbappe on the right, center Rashford, and Januzaj on the left.

The first friendly match was against Guangzhou Evergrande. Manchester United and Evergrande tied at 3:3. The three-goal lead was tied by Evergrande. Ferguson was unhappy with the defense and brought Mata on for the second game.

In the second game against SIPG, they fell behind 0:3, but Manchester United pulled back to 3:3. Ferguson had no temper at all.

Manchester United's performance is too inconsistent.

In the third game against Guoan, Manchester United finally played a good game, 6:2, but the defense was still not very good.

In the fourth game against Kashima Antlers, Manchester United scored 4:3.

The point is, Dong Fangzhuo has appeared on the court. He only averages one goal per game. More offensive opportunities are left to young people. He mainly organizes offense in the midfield.

But Manchester United mainly showed two weaknesses, the defense and forward were unstable.

Ferguson finally realized that Manchester United should really defend the defender, but there was really not much time left for them...

For this reason, according to the latest betting odds of winning the championship, Manchester United was suppressed by Manchester City and Chelsea.

Manchester City is the most favored, followed by Chelsea, and Manchester United is ranked third.

"Manchester United's replacement is too serious, and it is a huge disadvantage for Manchester United. If they don't make up for the defenders, then Manchester United's prospects in the league this season are not optimistic."

"The average age of the first four guys is not less than 20 years old. How can they play? This is no longer the Premier League ten or twenty years ago. Ferguson's ideas are too naive."

Innocent?

I don’t know if Ferguson was out of anger, but instead of buying a defender, Ferguson suddenly poached Di Maria! Di Maria suddenly landed at Manchester United from Real Madrid.

Even Dong Fangzhuo was very surprised. Instead of buying a defender, he bought a midfielder. This means that Ferguson only focused on offense and no longer wanted to defend?

The old man's thoughts are becoming more and more elusive...

But Dong Fangzhuo has no objection. Manchester United has never relied on defense to win championships...

"The Times" bluntly said: "Crazy, Sir Alex is too crazy. What on earth are Manchester United going to do this season? Can Manchester United, which is strong in offense and weak in defense, really perform well this season? This is too risky. Ferguson must have lost his sight. Gained sanity.”

What to do?

You know what will happen in the Community Shield Cup, and the opponent is still the unlucky Liverpool...

The whole of England is focused on this game, wanting to see what kind of result Manchester United and Klopp's Liverpool will produce.