Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

After the initial negotiation and contact, Li Ang finally understood that Abu just wanted to spend money to buy peace of mind.

Or maybe there is a layer of intention to make Real Madrid retreat in spite of difficulties.

Didn't "Marca" also report before that Cristiano Ronaldo's talks with Real Madrid's top management collapsed because he failed to get a salary increase?

Cristiano Ronaldo wants an after-tax annual salary of 30 million euros, but Lafayette is not willing to give it to him.

Chelsea directly offered Li Ang an annual salary of 35 million euros after tax!

Abramovich didn't believe it. Lafayette, who was worried about the salary structure of the team, still dared to follow the bet.

Li Ang didn't know what to say to his boss's wealthy and willful behavior.

However, he felt that it was not appropriate to directly accept this first annual salary in football.

The reason is simple. Even Real Madrid is afraid that giving Ronaldo too much a salary increase will eventually cause the club's salary structure to become chaotic or even collapse.

Chelsea's current commercial promotion and profitability around the world are not comparable to Real Madrid.

By forcing him to have an annual salary of 35 million euros after tax, Chelsea can indeed bear the temporary consequences.

But there is no need to look at it in the long run. Even if it is just one or two seasons in the near future, the agents of other stars in the Chelsea team will cause trouble openly or covertly.

Li Ang has a very close relationship with most of his current teammates on the team, but only if there is no conflict of interest between them.

The human heart cannot stand the test, and Li Ang has never felt the need to test the human heart. It is simply causing trouble for himself.

Besides, his character is not as stubborn as Luo Ge. While getting enough honors, he also has to prove that he is better than others in terms of salary.

It is most reliable to get more and more practical benefits in your hands.

Li Ang's current after-tax annual salary in the Chelsea team is already 20 million euros.

Adding it to 35 million euros, the extra annual salary he gets is just the endorsement fee he gets for signing two more commercial endorsements in one year.

By then, if his salary increase causes disunity within the Chelsea team, it would be impossible to complete three consecutive Premier League championships.

Then his lost income is not just 15 million euros.

For Li Ang, the stability of the team and continued harvest of championship honors are much more important at this stage than renewing the contract and increasing the annual salary.

If he wins one more Premier League championship, his endorsement income next year will be tens of millions more euros!

Whether it’s playing football or transferring, or doing things as a person, it’s always right to take a longer-term view.

That night, Li Ang rejected Chelsea's senior management's proposal to extend his contract to a salary increase of 35 million euros after tax.

But in the face of Abu's kindness, Li Ang also gave his sincere reply.

"I have no objection to signing a new contract extension. Three years is also appropriate, but the annual salary does not need to increase that much. If it must be increased, I think 25 million after tax is a better number..."

Li Ang took the initiative to lower the after-tax annual salary requirement for the new contract extension, which made the Chelsea negotiators at the scene look at each other.

They have negotiated with all kinds of players and the financial teams behind them over the years.

But this is really the first time for them to see an alternative player like Li Ang...

Li Ang's contract extension with Chelsea went very smoothly.

On the morning of July 25th, it was the day before Chelsea played the International Champions Cup in the United States.

Chelsea's current CEO Maria suddenly held a press conference at the Chelsea team's hotel to officially announce that Li Ang had successfully renewed his contract with Chelsea for three years.

As soon as this news came out, all the previous transfer scandals surrounding Li Ang died down, and the Chelsea team was completely settled.

Because reporters from all over the world have spent their energy inquiring about the amount of Li Ang's new contract extension with Chelsea.

Other Chelsea players no longer need to be asked by reporters in America every day whether they know the inside information about Li Ang's transfer.

Mourinho even felt that the quality of the team's training that day had improved a lot.

On July 26, Chelsea ushered in their first opponent in the International Champions Cup, Paris Saint-Germain.

In this friendly match, the Chelsea coaching staff still set the goal of the game to further develop the tacit understanding between the forward players.

It happened that the coaching staff of Paris Saint-Germain also had the same idea. The two teams hit it off immediately and directly staged a battle for the American audience at the scene.

Before the game, Li Ang chatted and laughed with Higuain and Di Maria, who successfully escaped from Manchester United and transferred to Paris.

Brother Face was injured during pre-season training and did not make it to the Real Madrid brothers meeting.

There was no atmosphere of excitement between the two teams throughout the friendly match, and they settled for a 3-3 draw amid laughter and laughter.

Li Ang once again only played half of the friendly match.

In other words, except for the three starting players on the front line, the rest of Chelsea's starting players were replaced by Mourinho after only half the game.

On the back line, Mourinho even used three different central defender partners in one game.

They are Maguire partnering Thiago Silva, Gary Cahill partnering Karas, and Karas partnering Zouma.

Overall, the partnership between Maguire and Silva is the most stable.

The central defender combination of Gary Cahill and Karas is also very effective. It can play the same complementary role as Maguire and Karas last season.

Although Kalas is not yet able to replace Silva in the starting lineup.

But in the new season, he will basically be the first substitute at center back and right back, and he will have plenty of playing opportunities and time.

In comparison, Bertrand at the left back position gave Chelsea's coaching staff some headaches.

Bertrand played very well last season.

Although his ability is not among the top in football at his position, he and Hazard cooperate very well, and the left offensive line formed by the two is also very sharp.

But after completing the defense of the Premier League and successfully winning the Champions League, this guy's indulgence throughout the summer window was a bit too much.

I don’t know if it’s because Ake has been loaned out by Chelsea again and the fact that he is the only current left-back in the team makes him lack some sense of competitive crisis.

Mourinho tolerated him in a friendly match, but his performance in the second pre-season friendly match still did not meet the expectations of the coaching staff.

Li Ang doesn't know what actions Mourinho will take in the future, but Li Ang feels that Bertrand will definitely not get through so easily this time.

Before the second International Champions Cup friendly match with Barcelona, ​​Chelsea finally completed the second signing of this summer window.

Li Ang also welcomed an "old friend" at the hotel where he was staying.

Fernando Llorente.

To be honest, Li Ang did not expect that he would one day be teammates with Llorente.

It's not that he doesn't recognize Llorente's strength. On the contrary, he likes Llorente, a high center forward who has an outstanding fulcrum role and is good at fighting tough battles.

But he never expected that Juventus, which had signed Llorente before, would choose to let him go in this summer window.

It may be because Llorente wants a more guaranteed long-term contract, but now that Juventus has corrected Morata, they don't want to continue to invest too much salary costs in him.

Li Ang was not clear about the reason behind the incident. He only knew that after Llorente's agent spread the news that he was leaving Juventus, Psy immediately asked the club to follow up the negotiations.

After almost two weeks of negotiation, Chelsea signed Llorente free of charge on a three-year contract.

This is also a high-quality signing for Chelsea. Mourinho's love for high center forwards is well known.

This summer window, many veterans such as Ibrahimovic, Drogba and Torres have left the team.

Now with the reinforcements of Suarez and Llorente, Chelsea's striker strength in the new season is still among the top in the Premier League.

However, although he has joined the main force, Llorente still did not get the chance to appear in the International Champions Cup friendly match with Barcelona.

Chelsea also suffered its first defeat in this U.S. training camp in a friendly match with Barcelona.

After Mourinho confirmed Suarez's strength, he began to conduct "sorting experiments" in the midfield and backfield.

After a game, Chelsea's midfield and backfield have been constantly making substitutions.

Azpilicueta even played at left back for 30 minutes. I wonder if the coaching staff was giving Bertrand eye drops...

In this case, Chelsea is purely conducting a tactical experiment, and winning or losing is completely unimportant.

After passing the physical examination at the local hospital, Llorente flew back to London with the team before he had time to get familiar with his new teammates.

In four days, the Community Shield will start, and Chelsea and Manchester City will have a first-round clash before the official start of the new season.

The British media and a large number of Premier League fans are still very concerned about this "double blue battle".

Mourinho didn't want to have a bad start to the new season, so as soon as he led the team back to London, he devoted himself to the intense pre-match preparations.

Chelsea's final transfer work of this summer window has also begun to accelerate.

The first is the transfer of Little Warcraft Lukaku.

To be honest, Mourinho does not want to sell Lukaku now. After two seasons of training Little Warcraft, he has become an important part of Chelsea's offensive system.

Lukaku cannot play the starting center position, but he can become an all-round bench gangster.

He can play left, center and right on the front line, and his impact is strong enough. No coach would be willing to sell such a young player.

However, Lukaku also has his own normal demands.

He has been working hard as a substitute at Chelsea for two seasons.

In addition to his naturally poor positional sense, which is really difficult to correct in a short period of time, he practiced whatever the Chelsea coaching staff asked him to do without any hesitation.

But rather than remaining a bench gangster, he still wants to get a starting position and further prove himself.

His request is very reasonable, but it is a pity that Chelsea cannot give him a starting commitment.

After many negotiations failed to reach an agreement, Mourinho could only let him go and find a powerful team that could give him a platform.

Lukaku cannot play the main role at Chelsea, but his total number of goals in the past two seasons has been very impressive, and there are also dazzling performances on the field.

So as soon as Chelsea released the news that Lukaku was to be sold, many powerful teams in the four major leagues immediately sent out offers.

There are a lot of competitors, so Lukaku's experience team is naturally not in a hurry and has been helping him choose slowly.

Originally, Lukaku's agent had a heated fight with Everton Club some time ago.

But after Manchester United, which held a huge amount of money, stepped down, the transfer quickly came to another ending.

After Li Ang knew that Manchester United was disrupting the game, he still had a heart-to-heart talk with Little Warcraft out of good intentions and helped him analyze the pros and cons of choosing to go to Manchester United now.

But obviously, I don’t know if Lukaku, who has already received a verbal commitment from Van Gaal, is now thinking about wanting to be the number one club in the former Premier League.

Seeing this, Li Ang could only give up the persuasion decisively and wish Lukaku good luck in the future.

Chelsea and Manchester United have basically entered the final stage of confirming transfer fees and terms and conditions.

If nothing else, the transfer cost Chelsea 60 million pounds to Manchester United, which is considered too small.

After Lukaku's whereabouts became clear, Chelsea also cut through the mess quickly in the transfer market.

First, they spent 5 million pounds to introduce from Arsenal the young winger Gnabry, who has been followed up and observed by the scout team before and is currently only 20 years old.

Then he won the competition with Tottenham and spent 6 million pounds to introduce young full-back Trippier from Burnley who performed well last season.

These two signings don't cost much. One is a bet on the future of the player, and the other is a bet on the coachable present of the player.

It's definitely not possible to use them to top Chelsea's current starting lineup, but if they just supplement the strength of the bench, it's not bad.

The day before the start of the Community Shield match against Manchester City, Chelsea almost completed the last important signing of this summer window.

When Chelsea officially announced the introduction of Oblak, the best goalkeeper in the Portuguese Super League last season, from Benfica.

British media reporters from all walks of life looked at the 22-year-old Slovenia national goalkeeper with scrutiny.

The transfer fee of 26 million euros disclosed by the media is not a small number.

Chelsea also made a big bet on a young goalkeeper who has never proven himself in the four major leagues.

Originally, Courtois, who played extremely well at Atletico Madrid last season, was the obvious choice for Chelsea's new generation of goalkeepers.

But this guy has nothing to learn, he insists on imitating Terry's lust...

Mourinho will definitely not give up De Bruyne for Courtois now.

Therefore, continuing to loan Courtois to Atletico Madrid and finding an opportunity to sell him for a big price is the only possibility for Chelsea's front office.

Li Ang still did not intervene in the team's transfer matters. Looking at the "future stars" that the uniform team added to the team one after another, he couldn't help but sigh:

Chelsea’s scouting team and uniform team are awesome!

On the afternoon of August 2, in the familiar Wembley Stadium, Chelsea and Manchester City, who have re-adjusted their team personnel, are about to start the first fateful showdown of the new season.

Li Ang put on the Chelsea captain's armband for the first time in the player tunnel, looked forward, and felt a heavy sense of responsibility in his heart.

He could feel the expectant eyes of his young teammates behind him!

He knows that his brothers all want to once again challenge for the top honors in football in the new season!

This is another golden age for Chelsea.

They want to use three consecutive Premier League games to announce the birth of the Blues dynasty, and they also want to ambitiously complete the great feat of defending the Champions League that Bayern has yet to complete!

In the second decade of football in the new century, the embers of the Real Madrid dynasty have not yet dissipated, and Bayern's short-lived glory ended in regret.

Now it is Chelsea's turn to represent the Premier League and rise.

Faced with the pressure of responsibility, Li Ang will not back down, but will only continue to move forward!

Times have always made heroes, but he wanted to create a wave of ambition and swallow up this golden age of football!

Man, this is how it should be!