Chapter Seventy-Five: Wenger's Change

"If only Arsenal could buy Li Qingshan..."

Wenger smiled bitterly, he couldn't come up with any panacea to deal with Li Qingshan after all.

And... Arsenal also can't afford to buy Li Qingshan.

Of course, it's not that you can't afford it, but Arsenal's stingy boss will definitely not pay for it - let's not talk about whether Manchester United sells it or not, even if Manchester United is brainless, Li Qingshan put it in the transfer market, with the current market situation, no 200 million euros are embarrassed to speak.

200 million euros?

Arsene Wenger has only spent €140 million in 20 years in charge of Arsenal, and most of it has been spent in the last two years – Arsenal first brought in German international Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid for £42.5 million, and then Arsenal brought in Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona for £35 million in 2014.

These two signings are also the top two of Arsenal's top two signings, and it turns out that there is really no money in professional football, after spending a lot of money to bring in strong reinforcements, Arsenal quickly ended the bad memory of nine years without a title, and they lifted the FA Cup for the sixth time in the 2014-2015 season.

However, just when Arsenal fans were looking forward to it, thinking that the team's top management had finally learned from the pain and decided to invest more resources in transfer reinforcements, Arsenal suddenly returned to their previous budget-conscious appearance - in the last transfer window, Arsenal at least brought in Cech, and in this transfer window, Arsenal hardly moved, but they bought three players, midfielder Xhaka, defender Heding, and striker Takuma Asano - in addition to Xhaka, The remaining two have yet to be included in Arsenal's eighteen-man squad.

Although Wenger is also helpless, as a head coach, his job is not to use the current personnel to arrange as reasonable tactics as possible, and have exerted their maximum power.

Then again, in fact, on paper, if you don't look at the bench players, Arsenal's main lineup is really not bad.

Speaking at the back, goalkeeper Petr Cech is one of the best goalkeepers in world football at the moment, and the Helmet's goal-line ability is enough to be the envy of other teams in the Premier League. Due to a rib injury to the main centre-back Mudesak, the current Arsenal centre-back is a combination of Mustafi and Koscielny, Mustafi is a German international level player who can occupy a place in the World Cup-winning team, although he is not the main central defender of the German team, but it is enough to show his ability. His partner Koscielny is an international player for the French national team and can also occupy a first-choice centre-back position in the French national team.

In terms of the three most crucial players in the backline, Arsenal's players cannot be said to be weak. And the wing-backs on the left and right, Bellerin and Monreal, the 30-year-old Spain international has a lot of experience, running up and down at left-back, and can attack and defend well. Bellerin is also a Spaniard, and despite his youth, the Spanish rising star has caught the attention of giants like Barcelona after a season of great performances.

In the midfield, Arsenal has a lot of available soldiers, and the most relied on is naturally Ozil, Germany's main international player, whose creativity in the midfield is the top existence even in world football.

And in the forward line, Arsenal also has famous players such as Chilean international Alexis Sanchez.

On paper, Arsenal's squad strength is at least in the top four in the Premier League.

However, it would be simple if football could declare who is the champion by comparing the strength of the books – if that were the case, Manchester City, with their owners from the Middle East, would have already won the Champions League.

Although on average, Manchester United's squad is not necessarily much stronger than Arsenal, but if Arsenal can't contain Li Qingshan's point, then it will be difficult for Arsenal to take advantage of it as a whole.

Arsene Wenger is well aware of this.

After thinking about it, Wenger decided to be conservative away from home, and at Old Trafford, he still played defensive counter-attacking tactics as much as possible, surrounding the opponent in the midfield, grabbing the ball and counterattacking on the spot, putting a Sanchez in front of him, and placing an Ozil behind Sanchez as a connecting node in the midfield.

When people mention Arsenal nowadays, they often blurt out "flashy attack" and "tofu dregs defense".

But the truth is that Arsene Wenger is not the manager who only seeks to attack flamboyantly as one might think. When Arsene Wenger took over Arsenal, Arsenal's defensive line and goalkeeper positions had a "back five", which was relatively solid, but the problem on the attacking line was bigger. After Wenger took over, the main thing was to introduce Henry, who could not play at Juventus, and to introduce Inter Milan star, Kanu, who was forced to transfer due to heart problems, which greatly improved the offensive line. In midfield, Arsenal have two wide players, Pire and Ljungberg. In the middle, there are the defensive vieira and Van Brommqvist.

Arsenal's time with Vieira was not as soft as it is now, but a hard-nosed team.

When it comes to defending, Arsene Wenger is not the kind of philosopher who has to cling to a tactical style.

The French are also flexible.

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On November 19, at Old Trafford, Manchester United's home match against Arsenal will begin in the 12th round of the English Premier League.

At this time, Old Trafford was already in full swing.

Arsenal is a rival that is familiar to Manchester United fans, in the early days of the Premier League, before Chelsea's rise, the main theme of the Premier League at that time was the battle between Manchester United and Arsenal - although United won most of the Premier League trophies, but in the heyday of Manchester United, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal also snatched three Premier League trophies from Manchester United's mouth.

It's an old rival.

For the old rivals, Manchester United fans naturally expressed a "warm welcome".

The loud cheers at Old Trafford hit the eardrums, which was a lot of pressure on the visitors.

The commentators in front of them were a little puzzled when they got Arsenal's starting line-up.

Because Arsenal's centre-forward Olivier Giroud was on the bench, and Arsene Wenger came up with a starting line-up like this:

Goalkeeper Cech, the center-back combination of Koscielny and Mustafi and Koscielny, the left and right fullbacks are Bellerin and Monreal, and Arsenal's changes appear in the midfield, Elneny, Coquelin, Xhaka, Ramsey, Ozil five midfielders, and in addition to Ozil, the other midfielders are quite defensive, as for the forward line, Wenger sent Sanchez.

What kind of formation is this?

Arsene Wenger's change of formation has sparked a lot of speculation, and no one knows what Wenger has in mind for this game, but from the fact that he has sent a few midfielders with defensive ability, at least Arsenal have put on an offensive posture.