Football: God-level striker, all teammates lie down

In the middle of the week, Manchester City officially announced that Everton's main central defender Stones joined Manchester City.

Because of the winter transfer window, all teams are reluctant to let go, so Stones's value has exceeded a lot.

55 million euros is still a bit shocking for a defender.

However, Manchester City's extremely outstanding record so far has made Guardiola and the management realize that the defense must be strengthened as soon as possible.

In this case, spending an extra 10 million euros is not a big deal for Manchester City.

Guardiola's other full-back, Kyle Walker, is determined not to be let go by Tottenham.

Unless Manchester City pays a transfer fee of 100 million euros.

Even if Manchester City is a sucker, it is not so crazy.

And Manchester City's powerful legal team has suggested that they can't spend any more money this season.

Otherwise, even they can't withstand UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act.

It's better to wait until the summer transfer window next season to buy people.

Another full-back that Guardiola highly values, Danilo of Real Madrid, also failed to join successfully.

Real Madrid still needs to maintain its competitiveness in the league and the Champions League, and they will not let Danilo, who is a major rotation player, go.

Of course, when Manchester City asked Real Madrid about Danilo's transfer, Florentino gave another plan.

They are willing to let Danilo join Manchester City in the form of a loan buyout, and are willing to provide an additional transfer fee of 220 million euros to buy Zhao Yi.

Moreover, Zhao Yi can play for Manchester City for a whole season and wait until the summer window to join Real Madrid.

In other words, let Zhao Yi play for Manchester City for free this season.

And give Danilo for free.

Real Madrid is also willing to compensate Manchester City in some form for Zhao Yi's salary this season.

The original words of the old man, "How sincere is this?"

The angry Manchester City management threatened that they would use a plane to load money to buy Ronaldo next season.

The first negotiation between the two sides ended in an unpleasant atmosphere.

This means that Manchester City's winter window reinforcements were not smooth, and only Stones was bought.

Manchester City beat Everton in the league, and as a result, Everton sold its main central defender to Manchester City.

Many people speculated that there might be a shameful deal.

For example, Manchester City will let Everton go in the second round of the League Cup semi-finals, allowing Everton, who has no results in the league, to advance in the League Cup.

Of course, these are some speculations of conspiracy fans.

Stones is tall, with good passing vision and forward ability.

But his frontal defensive ability is not good enough.

In fact, the defensive ability of Manchester City's defense is not strong.

Manchester City's real defense problem is still the two wingers.

As a result, no useful one was bought.

Manchester City wants to improve its defensive ability, so it can only start with ball control.

As long as less ball possession is lost, the pressure on the defense will be much less.

For this transfer, Manchester City officials gave Stones a lot of pomp, including a press conference and a welcome ceremony.

Unfortunately, the fans are not very satisfied. Manchester City fans are now eagerly waiting for the weekend league.

At the press conference, Stones expressed his blessings to Everton and his honor to join Manchester City.

"Manchester City is a very great club. Only by playing against Manchester City can you truly feel their strength.

It is an honor to work with such a group of excellent players.

I will do my best to help the club complete the next game tasks."

On January 16, the 22nd round of the Premier League kicked off.

Manchester City, sitting at the Etihad Stadium, ushered in the challenge of Crystal Palace.

In the first round of the league match between the two sides, Manchester City won a small victory away from home.

In the League Cup, Manchester City defeated Crystal Palace 5:1.

In this Manchester City home game, it is not difficult for Manchester City to win in the eyes of the outside world.

The focus is not the victory or defeat of the two sides, but another thing.

As long as Zhao Yi scores one goal, he can tie the Premier League single-season goal record.

This record is nothing to fans of other teams.

But this time is different. Zhao Yi played too few games.

So few that fans thought the Premier League had become La Liga.

Since the founding of the Premier League, there has been no such monster for decades.

So fans who follow the Premier League are more or less attracted by this game.

They all want to witness the birth of a new era of the Premier League.

Fans have waited for two rounds, but they didn't get what they wanted to see.

This has made fans a little impatient.

Crystal Palace head coach Alan Pardew said in an interview before the game that he knew what the fans wanted to see.

For fans, the outcome of this game may no longer be important.But he is a professional head coach, and winning is his only concern.

So, he will not give up the team's victory in order to block Zhao Yi like other teams.

He will treat this game as the most ordinary league game.

Zhao Yi's record has nothing to do with him.

The team's victory is crucial.

They will cause trouble for Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.

This is particularly domineering.

Guardiola has the same attitude. Zhao Yi's goal record is exciting, but the team's victory is more important.

He will make adjustments to the lineup according to the situation on the field.

Maybe Zhao Yi will be substituted in the game.

No one knows what will happen.

Before the game started, Manchester City fans had surrounded the Etihad Stadium.

There were passionate Manchester City fans everywhere outside the stadium.

Of course, there were fans wearing red jerseys.

These are fans who came all the way from Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Last time, they beat Manchester City fans with more people.

This time, there was no bloodshed.

Instead, they were warmly welcomed by Manchester City fans.

"If the Crystal Palace coach doesn't keep his word and deceives us, we will smash the Crystal Palace bus to pieces!" The head of the Wolverhampton Wanderers fans solemnly swore in front of a group of fans, and was greeted with cheers.

Among them, Manchester City fans were also making noises.

Manchester City fans are not good at fighting, but they are really good at being accomplices to the evil.

"We will be witnesses again!!!"

"One~three~" As the head of the fans shouted, the fans of Wolverhampton Wanderers waved their flags and shouted in unison.

The Manchester City fans nearby didn't know what kind of strange ceremony this was, but seeing their passion, they were also infected.

And this slogan is very simple, but it sounds very domineering.

Soon, the entire Etihad Stadium was filled with earth-shaking roars of "Long Live".

Even in the stadium, you can hear it clearly.

Zhao Yi stood in the player tunnel, the singing in the stadium was like a rainbow, and the shouts of "Long live" outside the stadium made his scalp tingle.

He didn't know who taught him this.