Chapter 404 Ideological Education Class

Chelsea still has three league games to play before mid-May, against Bolton, Fulham and Newcastle United. No one at Chelsea cares about the league. The trophy is in the display room, so the league has naturally become useless.

On May 7, Chelsea challenged Bolton away. Mourinho only arranged a few young players to play, and even three players from the youth team were put on the field. Due to the ban by the FA, he himself did not go to Bolton with the team, but only let assistant coach Clark be the team leader.

Bolton is now in danger of relegation, so they played hard at home. Their aggressive style made Chelsea's young players a little confused. As a result, Bolton succeeded, and the final result was 3:1. They snatched precious league points from Chelsea.

On May 11, Chelsea faced Fulham at home, and Mourinho still arranged these young players to play. However, the players who lost once away vowed to play with the momentum of the Blues at home. So as a West London derby, this game was very exciting. Chelsea's "youth team" finally defeated their city rivals Fulham 2:1, which made Fulham drop from 6th to 7th in the league and was overtaken by Tottenham Hotspur behind them. In this way, they completely lost the opportunity to compete for a place in the League Cup.

The most unlucky team is not Fulham, but Liverpool, which is about to enter the Champions League final.

A few days ago, Benítez was still worried about the upcoming Champions League final, but he had to focus his energy back on the league because Liverpool's performance in the league was not good and they were only ranked fourth. Middlesbrough, which was behind them, had achieved brilliant results under the leadership of McClaren and was only one point behind Liverpool.

And the league match on May 11th happens to be Middlesbrough’s home game against Liverpool!

A match between Mars and Earth!

The battle between 4th and 5th place in the Premier League can be compared to the battle for the championship, because the fourth place can participate in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, while the fifth place can only participate in the UEFA Cup. So the two teams are now at loggerheads, and Benítez and McLaren have frequently appeared in the media's attention, attacking each other.

What is not known is that this game is extremely important to McClaren, because officials from the English Football Association have assured him that as long as he can get Middlesbrough into the top four of the league, he will be able to replace the current Swede Eriksson as the head coach of the England national team in the summer. This offer is really huge!

Even for his own future, McClaren must lead Middlesbrough to defeat Liverpool. With only two rounds left in the league, this game becomes particularly important.

So, McLaren succeeded!

Liverpool played very passively in the away game. McLellan first let the team attack and try to score a goal, and then defended the goal. With this tactic, Middlesbrough finally won 1:0. Although the process was a bit shameful, Middlesbrough is now 2 points behind Liverpool and has advanced to the fourth place in the league.

As long as they can get a draw in the last round, Middlesbrough will be able to maintain their current ranking by relying on their goal advantage, and McClaren will be able to take over as the head coach of the England team.

Of course, where there is joy there is sorrow.

Liverpool, which was very popular just a few days ago, encountered a crisis in the league. Even if they can defeat Chelsea and win the supreme trophy of the Champions League, it is unknown whether they can continue to participate in the Champions League next season. This has affected the atmosphere of the entire team.

However, in this case, considering Liverpool's next season, Benítez and Liverpool's players are even more looking forward to the UEFA Champions League title, because before this, there was no team that could not participate in the Champions League after winning the championship trophy. If they won the championship trophy, perhaps they could apply to UEFA for an exception.

Unfortunately, the media were unaware of their thoughts. After the battle for 4th and 5th place, reports on Liverpool became even more negative. They couldn’t even maintain their league ranking, so how could they be expected to defeat Chelsea, who were at the top of their game, and win the supreme trophy?

At this moment, the Chelsea players' minds have completely flown to the Millennium Stadium in Scotland.

There is only one week left until the 21st, when they will win their third championship of the season - the FA Cup. Although this trophy is not as important as the Big Ear Cup, for English fans, this oldest season championship is even more important than the league championship. If they fail to win this championship, even if they win the treble this season it will be incomplete, because the Football Cup is the most important cup competition in England.

Although everyone on the team longs for the championship, Wang Li still sees a negative emotion besides self-confidence in this desire, that is, arrogance.

Chelsea's performance this season is too brilliant. Since the opponents in the two finals are Arsenal and Liverpool respectively, most players feel that the championship will definitely belong to Chelsea. Although this idea is confident, it will be extremely dangerous if it becomes loose before the game.

Before the game with Bayern, Wang Li noticed this problem and he mentioned it to assistant coach Clark. But even though the team is now doing closed training and the outside media cannot contact the players, in fact, almost all players have this kind of arrogant emotion to a greater or lesser extent.

Being arrogant before a war is definitely not a good thing. The atmosphere of the team directly affects the performance of the players. If the team encounters a little resistance in the game, it is very likely that they will not be able to find their form for a while, and then it will be too late to regret it.

Like him, head coach Jose Mourinho is also worried about the team.

Mourinho has experience in winning the Champions League, and he saw this from the last game against Bayern. However, in the face of Wang Li's reaction, he just smiled but did not say any countermeasures. But afterwards, Wang Li saw the Portuguese's wrist.

In the last round of the league on May 15, Chelsea will face Newcastle United at home.

In this game, except for Wang Li, Mourinho sent all the main players into the field, but the team finally lost 0:2 in front of more than 20,000 Chelsea fans at Stamford Bridge. Throughout the game, Chelsea players were completely out of shape and the team's atmosphere directly affected the state of the game.

Although many players can attribute the loss of the game to Wang Li not playing, indeed, Mourinho has to admit that as long as Wang Li played, then at least Chelsea would not lose. However, even without Wang Li, Chelsea would be at least one level higher than Newcastle United in terms of player configuration and tactics. It is not normal to play in this situation.

After the game, Mourinho said to reporters with a dark face: "I don't need to explain anything. Losing is losing. There is a problem within the team now. I think I should solve this problem as soon as possible."

Mourinho's attitude was very straightforward, and reporters were guessing what had happened to the team. The Daily Times, which supports Arsenal, directly revealed that a conflict had broken out between Wang Li and ordinary players. Judging from the fact that he sat next to assistant coach Clark throughout the game but did not get a chance to play, there must be some conflicts between him and head coach Mourinho.

This comment was recognized by many fans. Judging from the game scene and Wang Li's serious expression, this is indeed very likely.

The next day, in order to clarify the matter, Wang Li took the initiative to accept an interview. He said: "I have a good relationship with my teammates and the head coach. Please don't make random guesses."

But at this time, the Spanish media broke the news that Real Madrid has already started the summer transfer. The first target of their superstar plan this year is Wang Li. According to the "Madrid Sports Daily", "Real Madrid's board of directors has held a special meeting for the summer transfer. They have prepared a huge amount of 300 million euros and plan to invest it all in the transfer market. The first target of this galactic battleship is Chelsea's young player Alan Wang. They have submitted a transfer application to Chelsea. According to a staff member of the club, the transfer will be at least more than 200 million euros, and Real Madrid has already prepared a super giant contract with an annual salary of 35 million euros for Alan Wang. The contract is for 5 years and the penalty for breach of contract is an astonishing 500 million euros. In other words, if Alan Wang transfers to Real Madrid in the summer, his income will exceed 200 million euros in the next 5 years at least!"

This shocking report made fans all over the world crazy!

Before the summer transfer window opened, Wang Li's value directly messed up this year's transfer market. According to statistics, this report in "Madrid Sports Daily" caused the value of many players to directly increase by 20%.

This is not surprising. The transfer market is dominated by big clubs. When small clubs hear that a player's value has risen to 200 million euros, the value of their good players should of course also increase. It is impossible that dozens of outstanding talents are not as good as one Alan Wang.

Amidst this fanfare, some smart media outlets thought of Chelsea's recent internal problems. They felt they had found the real answer, so reports about Wang Li joining Real Madrid came out one after another.

Every newspaper will speculate on something, and will make a big deal out of the smallest thing, let alone the fact that this involves the transfer of England's and even the world's number one talent!

However, nothing happened inside the Chelsea club at that time. It was just that on the second day of the last round of the league, Mourinho secretly gathered them together and gave them a pure ideological education class.

The main lecturer of this class is Jose Mourinho, the assistant is assistant coach Clark, the co-lecturer is Wang Li, and the auxiliary tool is a "teaching stick" used in tactical classes in Mourinho's hand. All first-team and reserve team players need to participate, and the time is after the afternoon training.

In this ideological education class, Mourinho's face was dark, and the players in the audience were so scared that they all lowered their heads and dared not say a word. "Do you think that reaching the final is the mission accomplished? We can relax and go to Scotland or Istanbul for a trip, and then the two trophies will float to the club's display room, and you can easily get these two championship medals?"

None of the players who can make it to Chelsea are fools, and they certainly understand what Mourinho means.

"Do you think this season is over? Look at what you played in the last game, a bunch of shit! Shit! Do you know? That's how you are! Look at the fans who came to watch the game, everyone has a disappointed expression on their face. Did the team pay you just to let you go on the court and make a fool of yourself?"

At this time, the team captain John Terry stood up and said: "Sorry, boss, but the league is not important..."

In the team, Terry and Wang Li are the only two privileged figures, and only they dare to talk back to Mourinho.

However, facing Terry's question, Mourinho did not get angry with him, but just said lightly: "If you don't perform well now, can you guarantee a good performance in the next final? Arsenal is not a weak team. Do you really have 100% confidence in winning?"

After Mourinho finished speaking, he glared at the players who were lowering their heads and stopped talking. In fact, Mourinho was best at launching psychological warfare and arranging the team's tactics, but he was not good at scolding the players. He didn't know how to make these players change their minds without resistance and increase their confidence and motivation in the game.

At this time, the Portuguese took the cigar from Clark and started smoking, while Wang Li stood up and said: "Before we achieved our current results, no one believed that we had a chance to win the quadruple championship, even the media who strongly supported Chelsea, and the fans also regarded this goal as an encouragement for the team. But everyone knows that we had already established this goal at the beginning of the season."

"And now, we are very close to it." Speaking of this, Wang Li showed a burst of desire on his face. In fact, the purpose of his coming to the world of football is to strive for one championship after another. "We did everything well before. We won the league championship, but I think we can't relax. Even if the opponents are Arsenal and Liverpool, we should not underestimate them. Only when we beat Liverpool and get the trophy, that's the time for us to relax!"

"Brothers, we should celebrate after we win the championship. We can't afford to lose now! Think about it, as long as we win all the championships, we can definitely say to the outside world, 'We are the four-time champions!' Those reporters will only praise us without any doubts. Wait until that moment, it's time for us to celebrate, you can travel if you want, pick up girls if you want, and do whatever you want, no one will care!!!"

“And if we lose, fans walking on the street will blame us. They will say, ‘Look at this guy, he is a Chelsea player. They were so great for a season, but we won the championship in the end.’ Are you willing to accept this kind of ridicule!?” Wang Li said with a hint of sarcasm on his lips.

"I don't want to! Ai... Boss! Boss!"

After Wang Li finished speaking, Lampard was the first to stand up and respond. However, he suddenly found that Mourinho was also here, so he looked very embarrassed.

“We will be the champions!!”

"They are no match for us. Beat them 3-0!"

...After that, almost all the players stood up and responded. They felt that Wang Li’s words touched their hearts.

Seeing this situation, Mourinho couldn't help but give Wang Li a thumbs up. He realized that this black-haired boy actually had the talent to inspire people. He originally wanted to have a good talk with the players and tell them the importance and difficulty of the two finals, but now the players' attitudes seemed to have changed and they began to take it seriously, so he didn't have to say any more nonsense.

At the end, assistant coach Clark summed it up: "Only by taking every opponent seriously can we ensure that we can play to our full potential in every game. All we need to do is work hard and pay attention, and we will be the winners!"

The meeting ended successfully. The following few days proved that the results of the communication were good. At least the players were less lax in training and became more serious, and the atmosphere of the team finally returned to the normal atmosphere on the eve of a big battle.

At this time, the Arsenal team in North London was also preparing for this game. Coach Wenger also called the players together to give them psychological guidance and pre-war arrangements.

Compared to Chelsea, Arsenal's performance this season is not very good. They only got second place in the league, and were eliminated from the League Cup and the Champions League. Therefore, this Football Cup final at the Millennium Stadium is their last game of the season, and the Football Cup championship is also the only championship they still have hope of winning.

Therefore, Arsenal cannot attach any more importance to this game.

In fact, Wenger did not have much confidence in facing Chelsea, a team with an impressive record, but the team's will was unquestionable.

Before this game, Fabregas, who was injured in the 33rd round of the league, also returned to the team, which gave Wenger more chances of winning. After a season of hard work, the young player has firmly occupied the main position in Arsenal.

Henry was in very good form at this time. He scored 4 goals in the last two rounds of the league. This hot form also brought some hope to Wenger.

In any case, the curtain has fallen on the Premier League, other teams have been disbanded, and the players have gone on vacation. Only Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea are still in intense preparations. They also have to prepare for the Football Cup and the European Champions League finals respectively.

For Chelsea, now is the highlight of the season.

In order to win the quadruple title, they must first go to the Millennium Stadium to defeat Arsenal!

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(To be continued)