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For the players, the new season starts on the day of training.

But for the team's coaching staff and the team's management.

The new season starts the day after the last season ended.

Arsenal won the league title last season and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, which allowed team owner Kroenke to increase the transfer budget somewhat - from 50 million to 60 million.

Although 10 million is not too much in the transfer market of this era, for Wenger.

With the previous financial constraints, the additional budget of 10 million can actually be considered to be able to do a lot of things.

More importantly, because Arsenal won the Premier League championship and stabilized the minds of the main players in the team, no one had any thoughts of transferring and leaving.

For example, players like Arteta and Vermaelen want to see the team's investment in the transfer market and results this season before deciding on their future.

In addition, although Giroud has been reduced to a substitute, because the team will fight on multiple fronts next season, in fact, if he is just a substitute for Li Mo, he will still have quite a lot of playing opportunities, and there is no need to leave.

Therefore, without the loss of main players, the team can be regarded as a real "reinforcement" this season.

If playing two centers last season was a stopgap measure.

So this season, the team will center around Li Mo for striker matching.

First of all, with Li Mo's current ability, having Giroud partner with him as a double center will actually restrict his ability a bit.

After all, Li Mo is no longer an opportunistic forward, but a true all-around center.

In this case, it is logical to pair him with two wingers.

On the right, Arsenal have Theo Walcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain.

There is some weakness on the left, which is Podolski for the time being. After this season, Rosicky, who missed almost the entire season last season, and Gervinho, who had no position last season, have already decided at the end of the season. Left the team.

Therefore, the team still needs to add someone on the front line.

Forwards have always been very expensive, especially for a team like Arsenal. Prioritizing the transfer budget on the offensive end is the most cost-effective option.

Wenger is interested in Barcelona's left winger Sanchez.

As Barcelona officially announced the joining of Neymar.

One of the two wingers, Sanchez and Pedro, must go.

After all, both of them are very capable. If one of them plays as a substitute, the other one may not have much chance to play.

Therefore, many teams are eyeing Barcelona's two wingers, just waiting to get rid of them.

Arsenal is no exception.

In fact, Professor Wenger has long wanted to poach Sanchez.

When Sanchez was still playing for Udinese in Serie A, Arsenal competed with Barcelona, ​​but Sanchez chose Barcelona at that time.

So this summer, Arsenal's primary goal is to sign Sanchez.

Sanchez actually prefers a transfer.

And after receiving a call from Wenger himself, Sanchez quickly made a decision: he was going to Arsenal.

Arsenal's defeat of Barcelona last season gave Sanchez a little shock.

He was very excited at the thought of partnering with a center like Li Mo in the new season.

Driven by Sanchez.

The transfer was relatively smooth.

No matter how big a club Barcelona is, they won't care too much about it.

therefore.

On July 13, the day the team arrived in the Southeast Asian city of Jakarta.

The club officially announced that Arsenal has signed Chilean winger Sanchez for a price of 40 million pounds.

During the warm-up match between Arsenal and the Indonesian League Stars on July 14, Sanchez was already on the plane, preparing to fly to Arsenal's next destination, Ho Chi Minh City, to join the team.

After dealing with the winger.

The remaining 20 million pounds must be solved in the midfield.

Because Diaby is too glassy, ​​Arsenal decided to terminate Diaby's contract peacefully this season - otherwise, for the price of maintaining a main player with a salary of more than 70,000 per week, he would only be able to play a dozen games a season. ball.

This price/performance ratio is really too low.

Ramsey's defensive ability is not very good, and Kirkland is still too young.

Therefore, compared to the central defender position.

Arsenal still urgently need this position in the defensive midfield.

Wenger has his eye on two players.

The first choice is Slovenian player Kevin Kampl who plays for Red Bull Salzburg.

Kevin Kampl is a youth player from Bayer Leverkusen. He transferred to the Austrian league team Red Bull Salzburg last season for 3 million euros. Last season, the 21-year-old Kevin Kampl The performance was quite outstanding, and he contributed very impressive statistics in the defensive midfield position.

And it’s an all-rounder.

Not only is his defense excellent, but he also has strong running ability.

On the offensive end, he can also play as a left or right winger and an attacking midfielder.

The key is, he is still very young.

Therefore, Arsenal took the initiative to contact Red Bull Salzburg, hoping to bring Kevin Kampl to the Emirates Stadium.

But as soon as Red Bull Salzburg heard that it was a Premier League team asking for a price, they immediately seemed to have met a rich man. The offer was 40 million euros, which scared Arsenal's negotiation team.

In fact.

Arsenal's valuation of Kevin Kempel is 10 million euros, which is allowed to fluctuate, but it will definitely not fluctuate to the level of 40 million. If Red Bull Salzburg offers 20 million, then everyone can still talk about it.

The opening is so high.

Arsenal are not really wealthy.

They are willing to pay five or six times the price for Kevin Kampl, whose transfer price is only 8 million. Which club is so stupid?

It can also be seen from this price that Red Bull Salzburg is very optimistic about Kevin Camper and is not willing to let him stay in the team for only one season before letting him go.

Therefore, Arsenal can only implement Plan B.

Wenger's Plan B is Swiss international Granit Xhaka, who currently plays for Monchengladbach.

The introduction of Xhaka was relatively smooth.

Red Bull Salzburg has a wider opening than a lion.

Borussia's bid was much more sincere. Faced with Arsenal's offer of 15 million pounds, their return price was 20 million pounds.

Finally, after a period of pulling and pulling, the two parties reached an agreement on a price of 18 million pounds.

Xhaka himself also longs for a transfer to the Premier League.

As a result, Arsenal's second transfer of the summer window was the introduction of 20-year-old Swiss international Xhaka for £18 million.

In Wenger's vision, Xhaka will play higher than Cochrane, but they will also have to compete for the position-this is mainly because Xhaka's running and defensive abilities are stronger.

Ramsey is Arteta's substitute.

Coupled with the clearance of some marginal players.

The entire Arsenal lineup has also "slimmed down" a bit.

However, it is basically guaranteed that there are two available players for each position.

Centers Li Mo and Giroud.

Left winger Sanchez, Podolski.

Right winger Walcott, Chamberlain.

Midfielder Arteta, Xhaka, Ramsey, Kirkland.

Attacking midfielder Cazorla, Wilshere.

Left backs Monreal and Gibbs.

Right backs Sagna and Jenkinson.

Center backs Vermaelen, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Djurou.

The goalkeepers include Szczesny and Fabianski, plus Martinez who has returned from loan, which is enough. Martinez may also be loaned out in the new season, but it doesn't matter. Arsenal can recruit from the echelon. A goalkeeper came up and kicked three goals.

Anyway, the third goalkeeper is basically a training goalkeeper who does not need to play.

In this way, a complete 23-man roster was born.

Originally, Wenger planned to add a central defender.

Because Zhu Lu has little chance, he also hopes to transfer or loan out recently.

But Wenger let him stay.

Because Arsenal has no money

The transfer budget has been basically spent, and there is only two million pounds left to buy any capable defender.

Moreover, it is basically impossible to sell the fringe players in the team for any price.

For Diaby, basically the club and the player are discussing the termination of the contract. It would be good if he can be sent out to free up salary space, but it is impossible to collect some transfer fees.

With Sanchez and Xhaka joining the team.

Arsenal's series of warm-up matches in Southeast Asia and Japan also went very smoothly.

The integration of the two new players Sanchez and Xhaka was also very smooth.

On July 17, Sanchez, who had just arrived in Vietnam, made his debut in Arsenal's match against the Vietnamese national team and gave Li Mo two assists.

Li Mo later returned the favor and assisted Sanchez to score.

In the end Arsenal won 6-0.

Li Mo, who played only 45 minutes, scored a hat trick, and Sanchez also scored a goal.

The team then went to Japan and played two warm-up matches with local teams Nagoya Grampus and Urawa Red Diamonds.

They won by scores of three to one and four to one respectively.

In this series of warm-ups, Arsenal gradually determined their starting lineup.

Xhaka looked very dynamic as a defensive midfielder partner with Arteta in these two games.

One old and one young complement each other.

Everything is going in the right direction.

Until the Emirates Cup match after returning to London.

Wilshere tore ankle ligaments in the Emirates Cup match against Napoli.

Such a serious injury almost caused him to be ruled out for the first half of the season in advance.

The recovery period was at least three months, which made Wenger, who was originally in a good mood, extremely depressed.

Originally, in the attacking midfielder position, Cazorla and Wilshere took turns playing, and it seemed that there was no need for any signings.

But now that Wilshere is seriously injured, Wenger is beginning to worry about Cazorla, who is also somewhat fragile.

Ever since.

Now there is another problem before Wenger.

In the front waist position.

Arsenal. Still need signings!

But now he has no transfer budget.

If you want to sign players in this position, you can only seek visa exemption.

But where in this world are there players who are both capable and exempt from visas?

Wenger had a headache.

A piece of news caught his attention.

"Real Madrid President Florentino is very angry at Kaká's remarks. Real Madrid is very likely to terminate Kaká's contract!"

Real Madrid.

Termination.

Kaka? !

Wenger's eyes suddenly lit up.

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