i want to be king

Chapter 830 This winter is extremely cold!

On the afternoon of December 17th, in the No.[-] round of the Premier League, Manchester City went south to London to challenge West Ham United away.

When the game progressed to No. 30 minutes, David Silva took a corner kick and Su Dong scored a header in the penalty area, opening the scoring for Manchester City.

Just 4 minutes later, Di Maria made a cross from the left, and Toni Kroos' long shot from the front of the penalty area gave Manchester City another victory.

After changing sides in the second half, Su Dong scored a through ball from the front of the penalty area of ​​Toni Kroos.

Then David Silva and Di Maria scored for Manchester City to help the team lead [-]-[-].

At the last moment of the game, West Ham United managed to pull back a round and saved face at home.

Manchester City finally defeated the Hammers [-]-[-] and scored three points again.

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Also in London, Chelsea drew [-]-[-] with Tottenham Hotspur in an away game, and encountered the embarrassment of five consecutive rounds of invincibility.

Manchester United beat Arsenal [-]-[-] at their home court, scored three points again, and continued to chase Manchester City.

Ferguson once again launched a psychological warfare after the game, saying that Manchester United has made sufficient preparations.

"I am sure City will drop points in the Christmas fixtures and the winter break."

Liverpool lost [-]-[-] to Newcastle in the away game, and they still haven't been able to get out of the shadow of defeat.

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A week later, in the No.18 round of the Premier League, Manchester City played against Everton at home.

According to the meaning of Guardiola and the coaching staff, Buenaventura strengthened the team's training, and the game lineup was also rotated. Su Dong failed to enter the squad for the first time.

Manchester City was originally determined to win this game. After all, Everton's performance this season was not ideal, and Manchester City was playing at home. Guardiola was also full of confidence in the game, so Su Dong was rotated.

As a result, only 4 minutes into the game, there was a defensive error in the defense, and Cahill opened the scoring for Everton.

This made Manchester City a little anxious. In the No. 19 minute, Leighton Baines scored another goal for Everton.

Now it's embarrassing.

The England international, who was rumored to be with Manchester City, seemed to want to show his strength in front of Manchester City, and directly pushed Manchester City to a desperate situation.

Although Manchester City launched consecutive attacks afterwards, they were still unable to score. It was not until the No. 80 second minute of the second half that Sanchez pulled back a goal for Manchester City, but this could no longer prevent Manchester City from losing at home.

In the end, Manchester City was upset by Everton [-]-[-] at home.

This is Manchester City's first defeat in the Premier League in the new season, and it is also the second defeat after being eliminated in the League Cup.

At the post-match press conference, head coach Guardiola publicly stated that he was willing to take responsibility for the loss.

"I underestimated our opponents. Everton is not as vulnerable as he has shown in the league rankings. Moyes' team showed a lot of quality at our home ground and gave them a very big threat."

Guardiola said that the coaching staff did not do a good enough job in terms of rotation.

Su Dong's absence dealt a heavy blow to Manchester City's offense, which led to the home defeat.

At the same time, Guardiola also said that the team will introduce strong support during the winter break.

The media revealed that Manchester City's potential targets include Wolfsburg's center Dzeko and Ajax's striker Luis Suarez.

If Dzeko is not introduced, Guardiola will sign Suarez from Ajax.

When Manchester City was upset by Everton, Manchester United defeated Chelsea [-]-[-] away, successfully shortening the gap with Manchester City.

Ferguson said proudly after the game that he had already guessed that Manchester City would lose points.

"This is just the beginning!"

"As I said, the cold snap in the UK this year came very early and was very cold!"

Ferguson's implication is that Manchester City will continue to lose points.

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Losing to Everton at home, Manchester City did not receive too much blame.

This is the first defeat of the new season, and if this is to be blamed, then all other Premier League teams should commit suicide.

More importantly, Manchester City's leading position still cannot be easily shaken.

In other words, Manchester City still has the capital to continue to die!
After the loss to Everton, Manchester City's still-operating signings finally saw results.

Begiristain personally went to Barcelona to negotiate, and finally succeeded in signing Barcelona midfielder Thiago.

This player cost Manchester City a total of 500 million pounds, and he also joined Barcelona's youth team teenager Bellerin.

Together, the two players became Barcelona's first pick during the winter break.

One of the important reasons why Thiago joined Manchester City is that he was not reused by Mourinho in Barcelona.

Everyone knows that Mourinho is not good at using this kind of technical midfielder.

The Barcelona management wanted to bring Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas back to Camp Nou, and even offered 5000 million euros, plus an offer from Thiago, in an attempt to persuade Wenger to let him go.

This made Thiago's father feel ashamed. He felt that his son was also the core of the Spanish national youth team and should not be a supplement to the transfer of other players. Just at this time Guardiola extended an olive branch, so Thiago hit it off.

The remaining thing is to convince the Barcelona management to let them go. This is obviously not an easy task. After all, there is a natural confrontation between Manchester City and Barcelona. Whether it is the competition between Guardiola and Mourinho for the Barcelona coaching position, or what Cruyff said now that Barcelona is orthodox in Manchester City, these two teams have deep grievances.

Everyone can see that today's Manchester City is actually replicating the success of Barcelona back then, from the management to the coaching staff to the players, and this is what Russell does not want to see.

But under the insistence of Thiago and his father, Barcelona finally chose to compromise.

Fifteen million pounds is a high price for a young player who can't play many games in the first team. As for Bellerin, he can only play for the youth team at present.

It is worth mentioning that both players, Thiago and Bellerin, are Arsenal Wenger's targets, and Thiago has also been favored by Manchester United Ferguson. Now, these two players have been cut off by Manchester City, which makes Wenger furious.

After Manchester City announced that they had reached a consensus with Barcelona and officially signed the two players after the transfer market opened on January [-], Wenger immediately accepted the media and said that he would never sell Fabregas to Barcelona.

It's so bullying!
It was clearly agreed to use Tiago as a head extension, but I just wanted to raise the price again, but it turned out to be good, you sold him directly to my competitor, are you sincere?
In fact, Wenger also understood that Fabregas is not familiar with him, and he will leave the team sooner or later.

Even though he is now wearing the captain's armband of Arsenal, he is always thinking about Barcelona in his heart. This feeling of being in the same bed makes Wenger feel that there is a Hulunbeier prairie above his head.

Originally, he could bear it for the transfer fee and Thiago, but now even his carefully selected spare tire is put into the arms of his competitors. How can Wenger accept it emotionally?

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After signing Thiago and Bellerin, Manchester City technical director Begiristain did not return to Manchester from Barcelona, ​​but flew directly to Billy to conduct final negotiations with Belgian team Genk.

This deal has also been discussed for a long time, and Manchester City is even more generous. After the agent Mendes received the news early, he has been pulling the needle for Manchester City, and now he finally persuaded Henk.

For 500 million euros, Manchester City successfully packaged two young players in the Genk team, De Bruyne and Courtois.

These two players have received intense attention from Premier League teams including Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. Among them, Chelsea even arranges scouts to go to Belgium every week to spy on the two players' games.

With the help of Mendes' relationship, Manchester City preemptively packed these two players, but one of the conditions is that Manchester City must loan these two players back to Genk.

This Belgian team has performed well this season and is currently employing people, so one of the conditions for agreeing to Manchester City's transfer is that the two players continue to play in Belgium in the second half until the end of the season.

There is even a clause in the terms, if Henk feels it is necessary, he can negotiate with Manchester City and continue to rent De Bruyne for next season after the end of this season.

It's also in Manchester City's interest.

At present, Blue Moon's midfielder is actually not short of people, mainly because of the lack of goalkeepers.

Guardiola's evaluation of Courtois is not bad. Although it is very different from the characteristics of Neuer, the type of goalkeeper he most wants, Courtois is from the wing, with good footwork and good passing.

The signing of two Belgian players was also considered by the Manchester Evening News as a wake-up call for Joe Hart and Given.

"Guardiola used this signing to remind the two goalkeepers of Manchester City that they had better show a better state, otherwise, maybe next season, they will completely lose the position of the main force and the second goalkeeper."

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First signed Thiago and Bellerin, and then signed De Bruyne and Courtois. Manchester City's consecutive signings before the winter break were all talented young players, which annoyed rivals such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal at the same time.

These are all young talents they have been paying attention to for a long time, and now they are all paid by Manchester City.

Wenger publicly appealed in the media that Manchester City's finances should be reviewed.

The Frenchman said that he believes that Manchester City's way of operating is a kind of destruction of the virtuous circle of professional football.

Chelsea, on the contrary, is currently caught in a coaching crisis under coach Ancelotti. The team failed to get out of the quagmire of six rounds of invincibility, and there is no time to deal with Manchester City.

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Four new aids were signed one after another, and Manchester City also organized a Christmas dinner by the club before Christmas.

This should be Su Dong's first time as the captain to participate in a large party organized by this club.

(End of this chapter)