Football’s First Defender

The action of the team's summer transfer window will not affect some of the main players. For example, Yang Feng stays at home with peace of mind and lives his own life!

However, most of the Premier League players, although they are still on vacation, are not too relaxed. They all hope that after the start of the new season, they can have an outstanding performance and can reach new contract options with the team!

Because in the second half of next season, to be precise, starting in April of the decade, the UK will implement a new tax rate system!

In April 2009, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Darling stated that, starting in April 2010, local workers with an annual income of more than 374 million pounds will be heavily taxed. The tax rate will be increased from 40% to 40%. Fifty percent in April 2010!

In fact, the annual salary of most professional players exceeds this taxation line!

For Premier League players, the wage options in signing professional contracts are generally the so-called pre-tax wages, which means that at the end of the season, the players will have their original contracts unchanged. , It will lose one-sixth of its after-tax income, and if the team wants to ensure that the players get the same income after tax, they have to spend 20% more money!

Not only the changes in tax rates have had a huge impact on the players’ pockets, but also because Premier League clubs use the British pound as the settlement unit, so when the pound has continued to depreciate in recent years, most players have also exchanged euros or other currencies. , The money in hand has shrunk a lot! The increase in the tax rate and the fluctuation of the pound sterling may cause as much as one-third of additional losses to players for the execution of the original contract!

Therefore, many European players have begun to expect to use the euro instead of the British pound as the currency settlement unit in contract negotiations with the Premier League team, and the depreciation of the pound can be transferred to the team!

This is also the reason for the entire summer window. Although Premier League clubs have money in their hands, there are really not too many foreign players willing to come to the Premier League. The high after-tax wages they require, for the Premier League clubs, the pre-tax money that needs to be paid is real. It's too much!

The reason why Real Madrid and Barcelona are able to recruit a large number of stars even when all clubs are tightening money or want to guarantee their own team players has a lot to do with Spain's tax rate system!

Unlike the 50% tax rate that will be implemented in the Premier League, Spain’s tax rate for non-Spanish citizens is only 25% for working in Spain in the first five years. This means that players are subject to the same pre-tax salary. Playing in Spain can earn half the after-tax salary than playing in the UK!

From a purely economic perspective, it is reasonable for Ronaldo, Xavi Alonso, Aveiroa and other players to join Real Madrid instead of sticking to the Premier League!

But after all, the new tax rate will be implemented in April 2010. For most of the new season, the player's salary will not be affected too much!

However, in view of the impact of wages in the last one or two months, in order to stabilize the players' hearts and minds for the new season, the Chelsea Club stated that it will use the bonus situation to supplement the players' after-tax wages to the previous level!

Although the first round of Chelsea's Premier League will not kick off on August 15, Chelsea are still preparing to assemble early for training. They will go to the United States to play a series of warm-up matches this summer. This is not only to promote the North American market, but also a plan. Under the good grass conditions in North America, prepare for the preseason run-in!

Chelsea’s first team players, after enjoying a holiday of more than a month, gathered at the Chelsea training base in London on Monday, July 6, and after two days of training and physical tests, Chelsea’s The team will fly to the United States on Wednesday to start a training trip to North America!

Yang Feng flew to London on Saturday, mainly because he was afraid of delays in international flights!

For the physical test on Monday, Yang Feng still has nothing to worry about. Although his training volume during the holiday is definitely not as good as during the game, Yang Feng is still very sure about the control of his diet. At least his weight has definitely not increased as rapidly as some players. , The belly is almost fat into a swimming circle!

When Yang Feng came to the training ground on Sunday, he already saw that many new faces had already started training ahead of time!

These are all newly introduced players from the team, as well as some Chelsea’s own youth training system players! Among them, Matic and Sturridge Yang Feng knew their achievements in the future. As for Zhirkov, who also worked **** the sidelines, in Yang Feng’s impression, it seemed that Chelsea proved to be an absolute Parallel players!

Regardless of the future fate of these people, under the background of Yang Feng's participation, perhaps the fate of these people will also change.

Just like many Chelsea players, Yang Feng knows that these old boys, in a previous life, for a Champions League champion, forcibly played at Bayern's Allianz home field, ruining Bayern's perfect plan to win the cup in the Champions League held at his door!

That year, Drogba was 34 years old, Lampard was 34 years old, Terry was 32 years old, Ashley Cole was 32 years old, and Essien was 30 years old. Chelsea, with these "old guys" as the team, just like this. Overturned Bayern Munich, which was in full swing at the time!

However, they won the Champions League three years in advance. For these players in their 30s, it is unknown whether they will be able to defend themselves in the new season for the Champions League!

Many players are over 30 years old, their physical functions will slowly decline, and their running ability will be insufficient, which will make it impossible to run in a wide range as before!

In the development of football to the present, a strong team requires players to meet a lot of running requirements in the overall tactical link. This also means that although the medical conditions are also improving, the players are still not too big after 30 years of age. Way, you can maintain the previous competitive state!

The fundamental reason is that football tactics are becoming more and more detailed, and the requirements for players are getting higher and higher, especially for the top European giants. What they need is to strive for excellence to ensure that they can surpass their opponents and become the strongest team in Europe!

And the older midfield players may not necessarily have the physical strength and the mental will to run desperately, keeping up with the influx of young players!

The experience and mentality of the veterans are indeed a huge advantage, but after getting enough honor, whether the veterans can maintain the desire for honor and struggle is up to them!

At the time of the weekly inspection, most of the players were in good control. After all, the team has changed to a new head coach in the new season. Everyone will not joke about their career. Everyone intends to leave a good new coach impression!

For players who relax for a holiday, the first period of resuming training is naturally a boring physical training. They have to take back their hearts and return to the game state!

On Wednesday, the Chelsea team packed up and flew to the United States for pre-season training this season!

After renting a venue for an American League football team, Chelsea officially started a training trip to North America!

Because of the sponsor's contract, when going to the United States, Chelsea will of course need to undertake a series of business activities in addition to training! However, there is no delay in Chelsea's training. The team will carry out the planned public activities after the afternoon training to promote the Chelsea brand and complete the official sponsor activities!

For this kind of commercial activities, Yang Feng heartily refused, but this is the overall sponsorship of the team. As a member of Chelsea, Yang Feng still had to join the team!

Fortunately, because Chelsea has been training in the United States for a long time, so because of ample time, the daily activities are not too much and will not affect the rest time of the players after training!

On July 19th, Chelsea played the first friendly game of the new season with the Seattle Gulfers of the American League!

In the end, Chelsea’s main lineup last season took a 2-0 lead at halftime. Drogba and Anelka scored a goal each. In the second half, almost all of them were replaced and replaced with substitutes. Chelsea, a youth team player, failed to continue to expand the advantage of the game. Chelsea got a good start to the warm-up match of the new season 2-0!

Three days later, Chelsea played against Inter Milan who was also invited to the United States for pre-season training!

This summer, Inter Milan originally planned to invest heavily in expanding the lineup. Dad Moratti had prepared his own pockets, but Ibrahimovic, who was not loved by Mourinho, left directly in the summer, and Barcelona spent nearly 70 million euros to pick up the offer, and Inter Milan suddenly became rich!

Sneijder, Eto'o, Lucio, Milito, Motta and many other players have been sent to Inter Milan, making Mourinho's lineup even harder and the team's strength stronger! The key is that Inter Milan, which has clearly strengthened, has made a net profit of several million euros throughout the transfer window!

However, Inter Milan's current problem is of course the running-in of the lineup, especially Mourinho actually intends to put several new players directly into the starting lineup, Inter Milan is destined to take a long running-in period in the new season!

As the former AC Milan coach, Ancelotti will not let go of the opportunity to beat his enemies, even if it is just a warm-up match. On the basis of very small changes in the team, Chelsea has a tacit understanding of the team. In the first and second half, Chelsea scored a goal each and defeated Chelsea's meritorious coach 2-0 and Inter Milan under Mourinho!

On July 25, Chelsea met the second opponent of the World Championship, Ancelotti's old club, AC Milan!

Today, AC Milan has no rich background. The 65 million euros sold for Kaka were not used to introduce players. The team management shouted "If you don't introduce players, AC Milan can also win the league championship." slogan!

But in fact, the entire AC Milan, not only lost Kaka, but also lost Gourcuff, and the departure of Beckham and Shevchenko on loan expiration, plus the retirement of the old captain Maldini, eight With the departure of coach Ancelotti in the year, now AC Milan is facing internal and external troubles, and the strength has fallen to the bottom!

Ancelotti was still merciful. In this game, many players were rotated, but Chelsea's soldiers still played normally, and they defeated AC Milan easily 2-1!

Three days later, against the Mexican American team, this was the last battle before leaving the United States. The attitude of the Chelsea team ~www.readwn.com~ As the league is approaching the start time, they all started to become more straight. Chelsea attacked nothing in the first half. Under the circumstances of improvement, Ancelotti directly replaced Drogba, Zhirkov, Lampard and other major offensive players in the second half. In the second half, Lampard scored two goals in a row and defeated 2-0. Mexico America!

In the World Challenge, Chelsea, with three wins and three wins, won the first place in this warm-up event!

Counting the previous games with the Seattle Gulfers alone, in the four warm-up games, Ancelotti made a complicated exchange of the team's center back position and cooperated. No center back can play the entire game. , Mainly in the position of central defender, Chelsea's staff reserve is too rich!

Terry, Yang Feng, Carvalho, Alex, and Belletti who can play as a defender or on the side!

Although the combination of Terry and Yang Feng in the second half of the team performed very well last season, Ancelotti, as the head coach, still wants to give other players more opportunities to ensure that the team's substitute players can You can also play on the court!

Belletti was directly placed on the side bench by Ancelotti because of the lack of wing personnel, and after several rounds of training, Ancelotti is still more inclined to Yang Feng. Or Carvalho to partner with Terry!

Alex's advantages and disadvantages are too obvious, although he can be qualified for the position of central defender, but when the main force is a bit frizzy, it is not as safe as Yang Feng and Carvalho!

As for the next game, what kind of central defender combination to use is the trouble of Ancelotti's own happiness...

After the warm-up match, without too much delay, the Chelsea team flew back to the British Isles. They have to make the final preparations for the upcoming Premier League season!