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For Rogers, this New Year is destined to be busy.

On the one hand, Shaheen took the initiative to ask the team to leave. Shaheen, who has never experienced the Premier League, could not bear it after staying in Liverpool for half a year.

There is no winter break, but it is more of a test to play during the Christmas period. The biggest difficulty is the Premier League's grasp of the foul scale, which is not conducive to the performance of a technical player like Shaheen.

Moreover, Shaheen has been suffering from minor injuries recently. Although it does not affect his performance on the court, such frequent injuries also make Shaheen worry that his career life will be greatly reduced in the rough stage of the Premier League.

In private, maybe Rogers just wanted Shaheen to strengthen his confrontation, and if it didn't work, he would find someone to replace him.

But as the player offered to leave, Rodgers also knew that it was not sweet to force him, so he could only agree to let him go, and then he went to find a suitable midfielder, or simply put Henderson in the starting lineup.

But the striker problem is the most troublesome thing for Rogers.

The striker in the Liverpool team, Carroll is definitely not suitable for this tactical system, and it is impossible for Rogers to rebuild the entire tactical system for Carroll.

Although Carroll as a substitute can play a role in fighting for high points in moments of crisis or stalemate, which is still useful, but with the pressure from Carroll's agent, if the team cannot guarantee that Carroll will The starting position, then it is better to rent or simply sell Carroll in the winter window. As a member of the England national team, Carroll does not want to waste time on the bench.

Perhaps at the beginning of the season, Carroll wanted to stay with the team, impress Rogers with his training and performance on the field, and win a starting position.

But in the past half season, Rodgers has eaten the weight and determined not to give Carroll a chance to start, but let him come off the bench occasionally.

Borini, who started before, did not perform well, but the successor turned out to be the younger Suso, not Carroll, which made Carroll completely give up, so of course he should go to other Premier League teams to prove his worth. main.

Compared with people like Shaheen and Carroll who have had a chance to play this season and asked to leave, which caused a lot of personnel troubles for Rodgers, Joe Cole, who has been unable to play because of injuries and poor state The application to leave, but Liverpool was the fastest to release.

Joe Cole left on a free transfer in the winter transfer window and went to West Ham United, which can be regarded as helping Liverpool save a sum of wages.

Who to find to fill the vacancy of player loss, it is best to solve the difficulties Liverpool is facing now by the way.

In his spare time, Rodgers has been searching for the most suitable player in his mind, especially the forward position.

There is no need to think about the famous players of some big teams, especially the main-level players. During this critical period of the winter window, no big team will sell their main-level players.

A striker who is more able to adapt to the confrontation intensity of the Premier League, has a certain technical ability at the foot, and can be integrated into the pass and control system. It is best to have a certain height and the ability to compete for landings, and such a striker with certain comprehensive capabilities , preferably not the team's starting choice, who else?

First of all, adapting to the intensity of confrontation in the Premier League made Rodgers set his first choice on the Premier League team, just like Shaheen. Different leagues have different game styles, as well as the referee's penalty scale, resulting in different situations. The ecological environment, so the players who are most suitable for the Premier League environment and can become immediate combat power are definitely the best players in the Premier League team. Players from other leagues, if they are suitable, must be the second choice.

Rodgers, who was looking for strikers back and forth on the rosters of many wealthy teams, as well as the rosters of other mid- and lower-level teams, finally looked at the influence data of several players in detail, and still aimed at the Chelsea lineup. players.

Chelsea's substitute striker this season, Sturridge!

Sturridge, who became famous at a young age, as a youth training player of Manchester City, had already played in the Premier League in 2006, but was eventually acquired by Chelsea and was Yang Feng's teammate for a period of time.

However, in Chelsea, which has a luxurious striker like Drogbag and Anelka, naturally there is no place for Sturridge to play.

Although talented, Sturridge's Premier League appearances are not many, and most of them are substitute players.

Originally, last season, Sturridge felt like an ugly daughter-in-law who became a mother-in-law. He played 30 times in the Premier League and seemed to be Chelsea's starting striker. However, this season, with the addition of many new players from Chelsea, Sturridge Qi's starting position was shattered again. After half a season, Sturridge, who has only played 7 times, has been suffering on the bench.

Sturridge's talent is indeed impressive, but his injury attributes are also well known in English football.

When he was in Manchester City that year, Sturridge, who had just signed a professional contract, suffered consecutive injuries and was absent intermittently for nearly 9 months.

Later in Chelsea, although there were plenty of talents on Chelsea's front line, Sturridge played less times, but Sturridge's own constant injuries were also one of the reasons why he could not guarantee the number of appearances.

There are no major injuries, but minor injuries. This is the embarrassment of Sturridge. Whenever he scores a goal in the league and has a period of excellent performance, it is when the injury finds Sturridge.

If the playing time cannot be guaranteed, then for the team, it is naturally not suitable as the key training object of the team. Can you imagine that the core players of a team cannot even maintain half of their healthy time every season?

Chelsea is now in the kind of tasteless state of Sturridge that is a pity to abandon and tasteless.

When Rogers' offer was handed over to Chelsea's management, the Chelsea management's first thought was whether Liverpool was coming to pick up the bargain again.

The exchange between Yang Feng and Torres at the beginning has proved that Chelsea has lost money to grandma's house, and now Liverpool has come to poach people from their own bowl.

Is this a rush to the doctor, or does Liverpool really believe in Sturridge's talent?

For Liverpool, both Borini and Suso have obvious weaknesses, which are already well-known in the Premier League, so it is no secret that Liverpool want to supplement strikers in the winter window.

The Blue Army executives were also very surprised to find the gun on Chelsea's head. In their view, going to small and medium teams and digging their leading forwards should be the most important consideration for Rodgers.

Although Sturridge can't play in the starting lineup, it is still enough to be a substitute player to enrich the team's tactics and provide a certain amount of firepower guarantee.

However, looking at Liverpool's offer of 10 million pounds, they are still very satisfied with the Blues executives.

For one thing, Sturridge's contract has only two years left, and the contract renewal work is not going well. After one year, the 10 million pounds may not even be worth it.

In today's games, there are still quite a few players who can actually play the role of a substitute striker. The most important thing is that Sturridge does not know when he will be injured again, and it is very possible that he will be reimbursed directly for the season after being injured in the second half of the schedule.

And in terms of the development of the youth training system, Chelsea is now definitely the champion of the Premier League.

Since Abramovich took charge of Chelsea, the investment in Chelsea's youth training has been maintained at the highest level. The local youth competitions in England can no longer satisfy the training of Chelsea's young talents.

Many teams in the Premier League Championship now have youth training players on loan from Chelsea, and for some international players, Chelsea also focuses on sending them to the Eredivisie and the satellite teams of the Premier League for training.

It can be said that Chelsea's current youth training system is like the network resources created by La Masia in La Liga and Barcelona and Castilla in Real Madrid. A large number of capable youth training have come out of Chelsea's youth training system. , into the five major league teams.

Therefore, for a substitute striker who is not in the team's future plan, as long as the interests are sufficient, then Chelsea is sure to let go. The reserve talent pool can provide a youth training at any time to prepare for the substitute.

"15 million pounds!"

This is a bargain made by Chelsea management!

Although there is a great demand for forwards, but since Sturridge is currently in Germany, and his worth is less than 10 million, Rogers still cannot bear Chelsea's naked money-grabbing behavior!

However, because he was afraid of having long nights and dreaming, and that Cheng Yaojin would be killed halfway to complete the interception, Rogers still raised the offer a lot, and his attitude was equally tough.

"12 million pounds! The final offer!"

I was also afraid that Liverpool, a big customer, would run away, and Sturridge would fall into his hands again. Faced with the price of 12 million pounds, Chelsea still agreed!

With the opening of the winter transfer window, on January 2, Liverpool and Chelsea officially completed the transfer of Sturridge, and Sturridge also rushed to Liverpool for medical examination, registration, reporting, and then directly joined the team in daily training.

Sturridge is here, and Rodgers is full of hope for him, expecting him to become a striker that fits the current tactical system!

And only Yang Feng knows that the famous 3s combination in the history of the Liverpool team has finally come together. He just doesn't know whether the 3s combination can follow the historical trajectory to kill the Quartet in the future!