The strongest winger

Chapter 528 Community Shield

Although there are many supporters for what Ai Luo said when he landed at Stamford Bridge, doubts and ridicule accounted for the vast majority, because since the restructuring of the Champions League, there has never been a club defending the Champions League, let alone a player leading a team to win the Champions League?
He is a man, not a god!

If it's really that easy, wouldn't the Champions League final, which is even more exciting than the World Cup final, be a joke?
Facing most of the doubts, Chelsea fans expressed their support for Aiello, because he represents the whole of Chelsea. Besides... As an excellent football player, if he does not have extraordinary ambitions, how can he be worthy of the great Blues?

Mr. 6000 million should have the aura of Mr. 6000 million.

Enrique Wien, editor-in-chief of "Valencia Sports Daily", gave Aiello full support in his column: "In a new place and a new environment, but Ai's ambitions still exist. I believe his life at Chelsea will be wonderful, because he is a young man full of passion, eager for championships and honors. This is why he was able to lead Valencia to win a European Champions Cup in just two years. Teammates bring different passions and let them fight for the championship..."

The old goalkeeper Canizares, who chose to retire after the end of last season, was interviewed by reporters and expressed his support for Aiello without hesitation: "He is a very good young man, he will do what he says! He said he would send me a farewell Champions League champion. In the end, he really did it, because you can never imagine that a player will score four goals in a row at the last moment like God, but he did it, so I believe Ai Luo can lead Chelsea to the top!"

Latinley, the new coach of Juventus, also took the initiative to talk about Eluo's prog & Blog in an interview: "I remember that he was still a young man who was lucky enough to choose the first team. No one believed that he would succeed. At that time, I didn't believe it, and asked him for a reason. He said that he wanted to become stronger and became stronger! Yifei rushed to the sky, last season, Last season, Lahandusia, which led the economic crisis, won the European Champions League. This is my answer ... "

Aiello's good friend, who is now Manchester United's offensive core Cristiano Ronaldo, accepted an interview with reporters that afternoon and declared war on Ailuo: "I am a very good friend with Ailuo. He can have such great confidence. I am very happy as a friend! I will also bless him!! But there is no friend in the honor of the championship. There are only enemies. In essence, our goal is the same, and we are all champions! But I must tell him, my good friend, the championship is mine!"

In the face of support and doubts, Ai Luo did not speak out, because he knew that the champion was not won by words, but by actions!

Premier League, Champions League, wait for me!

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Last season, Manchester United returned to the top of the Premier League under the rise of Cristiano Ronaldo and overwhelmed Chelsea to become the league champions. This season, Chelsea recruited and bought Aiello for a record 6000 million pounds.

In addition, after the end of last season, Arsenal left King Henry, leaving only immature players. The impact on the championship is definitely not as good as that of Manchester United and Chelsea, and the situation of the Red Army Liverpool is similar.

Or rather, remains to be seen.

Chelsea and Manchester United are different. The former has been very eye-catching since Mourinho took office, while Manchester United also completed the replacement of the old and the new perfectly last year, and their combat effectiveness has soared.

Therefore, many experts in the Premier League believe that this season's Premier League champion will be decided between Manchester United and Chelsea.

In other words, the battle for the Premier League title this season is the battle between Aiello and Cristiano Ronaldo. Whoever performs better will decide which side the championship trophy will lean towards!

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Before the official battle between Aiello and Cristiano Ronaldo, there is an appetizer, which is the England Community Shield at the new Wembley Stadium before the start of the 2007-2008 Premier League season-Manchester United VS Chelsea.

As the game draws near, not only the reporters in London and Manchester are full of interest in the game, but even most of the European media have expressed their concern about the game and sent a large interview lineup. They all want to know about Ai Luo's status in the new season.

The crazy media also made the officials of the FA feel proud. This is something they haven't seen for many years. In particular, Chinese journalists have signed up the most, which also allows them to see the dawn of perfect development of the Chinese market.

Therefore, when Chelsea applied for a labor certificate with the "genius special regulations" for Ai Luo, the FA, which is usually extremely inefficient, actually processed it on the first working day after Chelsea submitted the application, which made Chelsea's staff stunned.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about the Premier League’s harsh qualifications for non-EU players to apply for labor certification: the British Ministry of Labor stipulates that non-EU players introduced by British clubs must participate in 75% of the country’s national team’s international A-level matches in the past year, and the country’s FIFA ranking must be in the top 64.

But Ai Luo was directly and permanently expelled from the national team by Xie Yalong, so this is not feasible. Besides... the ranking of the Chinese national team in the past year was also below 80, which is not suitable.

Then the rest can only apply for a labor certificate with the "Genius Regulations", but this regulation of the British Ministry of Labor is only for talented players from football powerhouses, and it does not meet the requirements.

But... Rules are dead, but people are alive.

The British Ministry of Labor’s regulations are also to ensure the intensity and excitement of the Premier League. Aiello’s performance in the past two seasons is obvious to all in Europe. The single-season scoring records of La Liga and Champions League have been maintained. He has been the best player and top scorer in the Spanish First Division for two consecutive years.

A series of the best is enough for the British Ministry of Labor to issue a labor certificate to Aiello unconditionally.

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In the Community Shield game before the start of the 2007-2008 Premier League season, Mourinho did not put Aiello on the starting list as the outside world said, but on the bench.

Before the game between Manchester United and Chelsea, I have to mention the negotiation between CCTV and the Premier League. Facing the offer from Tiansheng and CCTV, the Premier League finally rejected Tiansheng’s sky-high price of 5000 million U.S. dollars for three years, and chose CCTV of 6000 million U.S. dollars for five years.

When the bidding results came out, there was an uproar in the Asian media.

From the perspective of the Premier League, a three-year contract with a sky-high price of 5000 million US dollars is undoubtedly the best choice, but this is only a superficial phenomenon, because Tiansheng seems to offer a high price, but it does not help the promotion of the Premier League much, and it is still pay TV.

The Premier League once conducted a study on the consumption index in mainland China. They believed that the Chinese people’s consumption psychology is unlikely to be willing to spend money to watch the Premier League. After all, there are high-level live broadcasts of European leagues every weekend. Why do people have to pay to watch the Premier League?
On the other hand, the five sets of CCTV are different. The popularity and coverage of sports broadcasts in mainland China are the most extensive, which is very conducive to the promotion of the Premier League in mainland China and the influence of the Premier League in mainland China.

That's why the Premier League chose the relatively low price quoted by CCTV. In addition, among the bids submitted by both parties, CCTV was more attentive and meticulous, so...the Premier League chose to cooperate with CCTV.

Before the Community Shield match between Manchester United and Chelsea, CCTV won the rights to broadcast the Premier League in mainland China for the next five years, which means that fans in mainland China who are used to watching CCTV live broadcasts can continue to watch the Premier League on CCTV-5.

CCTV has successfully negotiated with the Premier League, and CCTV-5 also needs to temporarily adjust its live broadcast plan.

And this temporary adjustment also caused most badminton fans to complain for a while, because it was the Thomas Cup held by the International Badminton Federation in Denmark at this time. Of course, this was only a small part of the complaints.

Ai Luo's popularity in China can already be compared with Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, in a sense, stronger!

The number of his supporters can kill badminton fans in seconds.

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Aiello did not enter the starting list for the Community Shield match against Manchester United, which also made domestic fans quite dissatisfied, but with Huang Jianxiang, who is temporarily in charge of live broadcasting Premier League matches in the new season, the complaints are not so strong.

After all, Ai Luo joined Chelsea in the new season, and his understanding of the team's usual style of play and tactics is not clear enough. It takes time to get used to it, just like a newly bought car, it always needs time to get used to each other before it can enter a stable stage. In Huang Jianxiang's words, Ai Luo will definitely have a chance to play in the second half.

£6000 million is not for buying a player to watch the drinking fountain.

The new Wembley Stadium was packed and the atmosphere was frenetic.

The frenzied atmosphere at the scene also drove the hard work of the players. Within 10 minutes of the game, both sides received two and three yellow cards respectively. No one thought that the Community Shield, which was equivalent to a lineup before the season, would play so fiercely.

In the words of Sky TV's Andy Gray: "The Community Shield, once considered the most boring, has kicked out its own value today!"

The game quickly entered a climax, because a goal was scored.

No. 15 minutes, Cristiano Ronaldo received Rooney's knockback from outside the penalty area, swayed away from Carvalho's block horizontally, and then took a long shot without hesitation. The football flew into the goal from Petr Cech's fingertips. Manchester United led Chelsea 1-0.

What's interesting is that the footage of the scene was first shown on Cristiano Ronaldo who scored the goal, and then on Aiello who was sitting in front of the bench.

Everyone knows it's a contrast.

Cristiano Ronaldo was the best player in the Premier League last season, and Aiello was the best player in Europe last season. The former has scored goals, while the latter is still sitting on the bench.

In other words, in the comparison of the new season, Cristiano Ronaldo is already ahead of Aiello.

(End of this chapter)