At the same time as Wensheng was working hard for Benatia, the second London derby of the season arrived.

Farmers Fulham have come a long way in two seasons under Fernandes, and they even came close to winning the Europa League final last season.

But when it comes to strength, it's hard to say how strong they are, strictly speaking, except for a few semi-finalists Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and a few stable teams in the top six teams, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, etc., other Premier League teams - as many as a dozen teams are actually part of the relegation army, and Fulham is also the same.

After Hodgson moved to Liverpool for the new season, Fulham brought in Mark Brown. Hughes, Mark. Hughes has a lot of coaching experience in the Premier League, of course, the level is difficult to comment, when the Middle East tycoon entered Manchester City, he was the manager of the Manchester City team, and the father of the gold owner gave a lot of money to buy players, who knew that after spending 200 million pounds, Mark. Hughes's side didn't even touch the title and were rightfully sacked by Manchester City in December.

Mark. Hughes didn't take over the team for a long time and didn't know Fulham very well, and he didn't play well in the first two games, winning two straight draws.

Wensheng's Crystal Palace momentum is much better than his team's, but in this game, the two sides played poorly, playing 2-2 at Selhurst Stadium, another draw, Wensheng did not know what to say about this game, in attack, Vardy still failed to get into the form, two goals one from Boateng's shot, one from Kevin De Bruyne's cross caused an own goal.

In the summer, it should be during last year's winter break, Manchester United and Fulham reached an agreement on the transfer of Smalling, and this summer Smalling officially reported to Manchester United, who grew rapidly under Hodgson last season and was the rock of Fulham's backline.

His departure from the team this summer had a big impact on Fulham's defence, and it happened that Fulham's free agent Sendros who was recruited from Arsenal suffered another injury, so Fulham conceded goals every game in the new season. As a head coach, Hughes' tweaking of the defense doesn't seem to be a strong point at all.

Crystal Palace also conceded two goals, both of which had a lot to do with Morgan and Onewu, who made two mistakes in quick space of ten minutes to bury Crystal Palace's good game.

From the whole game, their performance was okay most of the time, but it was their biggest mistake to drop the chain at a critical moment, and it also proved that they were not qualified, and they failed to pass in the ratings of Sky Sports after the game.

"Why?!" Wen Sheng also has a million whys in his head.

Why don't these two look like they are worse than Lawrence, but they just don't!

After watching the video several times over and over again, Wen Sheng found that these two people's understanding of the position was not in place at all, to put it bluntly, their roles and positions may be known in their heads, but their actions are not the same thing.

But regardless of their problems, Wensheng increasingly feels that the purchase of Benatia is imminent, and the transfer window is about to close, and he is now asking Morelli about the progress of the transfer every day.

Morelli and Zahavi went to Italy specifically for Benatia's business, and dealing with the Pozzo family was not an easy task.

Benatia is certainly one of the lottery tickets they want to scratch, and it is not so important, but if someone wants to buy it out on loan, they naturally want to make a good deal, even if they know that Crystal Palace bought Benatia only because of a serious injury to their main centre-back McCarthy.

"I really hate these damn Italians, they're too picky, they have to fight, I hate doing business with them!" Morelli complained to Wensheng on the phone.

"As long as the price doesn't exceed four million, you can do it!" Wen Sheng didn't care what Morelli meant, and said directly.

There is not always a consensus between the general manager and the head coach about the acquisition of the player, and there is no way Morelli will pay four million for the Benatia deal because it is not worth it.

He didn't know Benatia's future, so he wouldn't feel that Benatia's future was worth much more than four million.

Besides, in his eyes, no player is irreplaceable, Benatia is expensive, you can go to other players, why do you have to hang yourself on a tree?! No matter how tight the time is, it shouldn't be!

Wen Sheng believes that players are people, people do not copy, players also do not exist to copy, and it is impossible for every player to find a 100% replacement in the ball market! Benatia is irreplaceable, he is who he is, he is different from other players, there may be people who are better than him, maybe there are players who are worse than him, but there are certain characteristics of him that others do not have.

Once he takes a fancy to it, Wensheng will be very willing to give money, of course, there is still a necessary bottom line.

Benatia is bound to win, which is why he mentions his bottom line of £4 million.

But in fact, the so-called high price proposed by the Pozzo family is only a mere 2.3 million pounds, and this price is a point of contention between Morelli and Pozo.

Morelli wants a buyout fee of £1 million and a loan of £300,000.

Wen Sheng's statement was just to give Morelli confidence, not only to let him know his determination to buy Benatia, but also to let him know that Benatia was very good to him, and he was also an expert.

The deal eventually came to pass.

On the 30th, Crystal Palace officially announced that French defender Benatia will be loaned from Udinese for one season, with the right of first refusal next summer.

The right of first refusal is only a literal one, and in fact Crystal Palace will have to force a buyout of Benatia next year, paying Udinese a £2 million buyout fee.

When Morelli returned from Italy, Wen Sheng said to him: "You think you are forced by the Pozzo family, but in my opinion, they may regret this deal sooner or later, Benatia is definitely worth 4 million." ”

The money is given, what can Morelli do? I can only smile bitterly and hope that what Wen Sheng said will come true, his position as general manager is not very good, he is responsible for Parish, not Wen Sheng.

The night before the clash between Crystal Palace and Fulham, the draw for the Europa League was completed.

Crystal Palace are in Group K with Italian side Napoli, Eredivisie giants Utrecht and Romanian giants Steaua Bucharest.

This year's Europa League Premier League features three teams, Manchester City, Liverpool, and Aston Villa.

Crystal Palace are FA Cup winners and will qualify directly for the Europa League group stage according to the FA quota allocation, while Manchester City and Aston Villa will both play in the play-offs.

Aston Villa failed to beat Austria's Rapid Vienna in the final qualifying round, leaving only Manchester City and Crystal Palace to reach the Europa League main stage.

Manchester City has a lot of money, guns and cannons, of course, there is no need to worry about who the opponent of the group is, but Crystal Palace is different, what if the summer window spent more than 30 million or nearly 40 million, this can't change the nature of them being poor.

Manchester City has been waving a lot of cheques to buy people this summer, and Balotelli's transaction alone is worth 25 million pounds, and Crystal Palace's money is really a small case!

Wen Sheng felt that his luck was not very good anyway, the strongest in the group was Napoli, Napoli gradually recovered after De Laurentiis sat in the boss C position, and the more he played in Serie A over the years, he got better and better.

Of course, Wen Sheng also knew that Napoli was the most powerful challenger in the later period when Juventus dominated Serie A, but they did play to the extreme in the lineup and could not do anything.

Now the head coach of Napoli is Mazzal, the Napoli team led by Mazzali has stars such as Hamsik, Ravic and Cavani, and the offensive firepower is strong, Wensheng has to weigh whether his defense line is good!