Chapter 460 Premier League, here we come!

When the referee finally blew the whistle to end the game, the score of four to one was finally recorded on the electronic scoreboard of Yongming Stadium, shocking everyone present.

Is this still a newly promoted team in the Premier League?

Is this really the Saints team that was still sinking in the English League One two years ago?

In just two years, this team has acquired the strength to compete with the top European giants?

Even defeated the powerful Barcelona 4-1?

Draw with Manchester United, beat Bayern Munich, beat Real Madrid, and eliminated Juventus...

The International Champions Cup is undoubtedly of great value.

Just for the high appearance fees and the mouth-wateringly generous bonuses, all the top teams are willing to try their best.

Southampton stood out in such a fierce competition, defeated one opponent after another, and won the championship trophy of this warm-up match, which shocked everyone.

The broadcast cameras at Yongming Stadium kept switching back and forth, from the jubilant Southampton players to the Barcelona players who lost the game and looked extremely depressed.

Each of them had a look of dissatisfaction on their faces, yet they were helpless.

Gerard Pique sat down on the grass almost exhausted.

Unfortunately, his excuse of having his period wasn't enough to convince Vilanova.

Perhaps he couldn't say it at all.

Who knows what happened in the locker room?

Anyway, in the second half, Vilanova replaced Puyol with Argentine player Mascherano, but kept Pique on the court.

As a result, the poor Barcelona central defender was beaten to a pulp by Drogba.

Looking at him sitting on the grass, with a look of grievance and sadness on his face, one can't help but wonder how many people raped him?

Vilanova stood on the sidelines depressed, looking at Bielsa in the distance with no expression on his face.

He lost

It's not because of the players, but because he himself is not as skilled as others.

For Vilanova, who was finally promoted from Barcelona's assistant coach and is ambitious to stay in Barcelona for more than one game, admitting this is undoubtedly a very painful thing.

But the facts are the facts

In this game, Bielsa defeated him with tactics

In the stands of Yongming Stadium, Yang Huan laughed and watched Peter Nian, Ron Gourlay and others accepting congratulations from the crowd.

Although this is just a warm-up cup match, it is also a championship, isn't it?

Besides, the prize money brought by this championship is quite good.

But Yang Huan was even happier about the team's progress in getting along very smoothly.

In the second half, Bielsa made major changes to the team when the team was leading 3-0.

By the 60th minute of the game, all 11 starting players had been replaced.

Including goalkeeper Neuer, they were all replaced by the newly joined substitute goalkeeper, Brazilian national goalkeeper Julio Cesar.

This was just a few days ago when Southampton announced the player they had brought in from Inter Milan. Cesar took a pay cut to join Southampton.

The person in charge of this transfer is Italy's chief agent, Raiola.

Another midfield configuration, the combination of Isco, Matic and Pogba, is also very eye-catching.

After Barcelona took advantage of Southampton's drastic substitutions to pull one goal back, Drogba's header that beat Pique at a crucial moment came from a cross from Ravelle Morrison on the right.

But before that, Pogba's long shot from outside the penalty area hit Mascherano and bounced to the right.

Hazard's performance on the left was also remarkable. Although not as good as Neymar, it was also quite good.

Yang Huan is quite satisfied with the progress of the team being able to work together to this extent.

At the same time, we are full of confidence in the new season of the Premier League.

It took us two years to finally get back to the Premier League. If we can't win more than one game, we'll be letting ourselves down.

Looking at the podium, the chairmen and owners of several other competing teams all had serious expressions, which was undoubtedly the greatest compliment to Southampton.

Yang Huan is now full of confidence and anticipation for the new Premier League season.

Premier League, here we come

Southampton stunned the world by defeating Barcelona 4-1 in the International Champions Cup final

This is not an unpopular team. Even in the past two years, countless fans and non-fans are very familiar with this team.

However, no one would have thought that this team would perform so strongly.

In the past season, Southampton won two domestic cup titles and one Europa League title, but everyone knows that domestic cup competitions are not taken very seriously, and they did not encounter any strong top teams in the Europa League.

But this time it's obviously different

Among the eight teams participating in the International Champions Cup this time, Real Madrid and Barcelona are recognized as the two strongest teams in today's football. Bayern Munich is the winner of the Champions League last season. No one has any dispute about the strength of Ferguson's Manchester United.

Juventus has been steadily improving in strength in recent years and has risen very quickly. The team has superstars such as Pirlo and Buffon.

Although Manchester City is a wealthy upstart, this team was the Premier League champion last season.

Although Arsenal is not strong, it is also a team that can reach the knockout stage of the Champions League.

This kind of cup competition configuration is beyond the description of luxurious.

That's Champions League level.

However, Southampton defeated strong opponents one after another in such fierce competition and won the final championship.

How can this not shock and amaze people?

Overnight, almost all the media in the world were reporting and paying attention to this team, this final, and this cup competition.

It's incredible, isn't it?

A newly promoted team in the Premier League actually defeated so many top teams. Is there anything more dramatic than this?

As a result, in newspapers and on the Internet, countless fans' eyes turned to Southampton.

But at the same time, an even larger group of people are following another grand event on the Internet.

That is the third generation of the divine song "Little Apple" co-produced by goddess Lin Yuner and bird uncle Du Ziteng

Among the more than 70,000 fans at Yongming Stadium, quite a number of them went there to see Psy and Yoona.

Their focus is obviously not on the game. The International Champions Cup is more like a gift. Psy and Yoona are the protagonists they care about most.

This can be seen on social networks.

Over the past month, the International Champions Cup has become a hot topic across the United States, but the group of people who are talking about it the most are not the football fans.

But they are the fanatical fans of Psy and Yoona.

They care about the schedule even more than those die-hard fans. The reason is simple. Before each game, the organizer will arrange for one of Psy and Yoona to perform on stage, and sometimes both of them will perform at the same time.

Moreover, the songs they sang were all new songs from the new album, which could be called global debuts.

This has greatly excited fans, who either go to the event in person or wait in front of the TV, hoping to witness this moment.

Coupled with the conscious promotion by the organizers, the entire event has caused a frenzy in the United States.

Because of this, James Murdoch attaches so much importance to the broadcasting rights of the event in the next three years.

After more than half a month of preparation and preparation, the enthusiasm was finally ignited in the finals.

On the Internet, less than ten minutes after Little Apple finished singing, Psy, Yoona and Little Apple became the most popular keywords on WeChat, Twitter and Facebook, and thousands of netizens were discussing this song.

When Miracle Media first released Little Apple's song on the Apple Store, the song topped the Apple charts in less than half an hour, which is a very amazing number.

Early the next morning, news about Psy, Yoona, and Apple, as well as Southampton and the International Champions Cup, appeared on major websites and headlines on the front pages of major newspapers, once again triggering a frenzy.

Fox Sports also benefited from this.

The reason is simple. They used drones for the first time during the live broadcast and shot several full HD videos from the high altitude of Yongming Stadium, which showed the entire singing process of Psy and Yoona, as well as some clips of the game with incredible clarity.

As soon as these videos were posted on the Internet, they were immediately pushed to the top of YouTube's hot list by crazy fans.

But if that were all, then that would be nothing.

On the third day, Miracle Media held a press conference in Miami to announce the fruitful results of the first International Champions Cup.

First, Manchester United reached a sponsorship agreement with Chevrolet, a brand under General Motors. The six-year contract has a total value of 300 million pounds, which is equivalent to 560 million US dollars.

Southampton followed closely behind, announcing that American casual clothing brand TMHIFA would become the Saints' official partner for a period of five years, with a total amount of up to 30 million pounds, or 6 million pounds a year.

At the same time, the famous chip company Intel also sponsored the advertisement on the inside of Southampton's jersey. In the next five years, Southampton will put the Intel logo and the TV11ine logo on the inside of the jersey.

To this end, Intel will pay Southampton a total sponsorship fee of 25 million pounds.

Apple also announced that it will become Southampton's official consumer electronics partner for a period of five years, with a total amount of up to 25 million pounds, a small part of which will be paid through Apple's electronic devices.

The famous American MetLife also announced that it would sponsor the advertising space on the left and right sides of the Southampton jersey for a total of 50 million pounds over five years. This is also an exclusive sponsorship. MetLife will become Southampton's global senior partner and the only insurance company authorized to use Southampton's trademarks and star portrait rights.

The latter will also launch a series of products featuring Saints and Southampton stars.

Following Southampton, Miracle Media also announced that Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and Arsenal have signed sponsorship contracts during the International Champions Cup, including giant companies such as Microsoft.

At the end of the press conference, Sun Yue said that the first International Champions Cup not only achieved great success in event operation, but also achieved astonishing results in commercial operations.

"We have signed a total of ten sponsorship contracts for participating teams, with a total value of more than 500 million pounds. At the same time, there are more than a dozen contracts that are currently being followed up and are expected to be signed in the near future."

This immediately shocked the whole world

Everyone knows that Americans are rich, but who would have thought that American companies are so rich?

In just over half a month, a contract worth 500 million pounds was signed.

This is simply incredible.

When the news reached Europe, almost all of Europe was shocked.

When Europe encountered the European debt crisis and the income of countless sports teams dropped sharply, the big gold mine of the United States suddenly appeared in front of everyone. It was so dazzling and glittering. How could anyone not be tempted?

For a time, the International Champions Cup was no longer a warm-up cup match in everyone's eyes.

It has become a money-printing machine and the best platform for all European teams to enter the American market.

In less than a day, the phone at Miracle Media's headquarters in London, England, was almost flooded with calls from European professional sports teams who had heard the news.

All teams are asking one thing: will the tournament still be held next year? Will the tournament be expanded? Are there still teams missing?

That grand occasion once again triggered a huge hype among media around the world.

At the same time, the seven top teams that had signed five-year contracts were secretly delighted.

At least now we don't have to fight for the ball like other teams do, right?

But some teams regret it so much that they are green with regret

Especially Galliani of AC Milan and Abramovich of Chelsea.

Why is it that when others go to the United States to participate in competitions and we also go to the United States to participate in competitions, they make a lot of money, but I get nothing?

More importantly, they are planning to go again next year, what about you?

Whether the North American Invitational will be held next year is still unknown.

It’s really depressing to think about it. Why did I get so obsessed and reject Miracle Media in the first place?

Now that they have become famous, even if you come to them and ask for money, they may not pay any attention to you.

The International Champions Cup is very popular now, but is your team still missing?

A newspaper in the London area broke the news that Abramovich severely scolded Marina Granovskaia and Bruce Buck at Stamford Bridge.

After Galliani returned to Milan, he was also called over by Berlusconi and severely criticized.

Barbara even took the opportunity to ask him to hand over more power, further weakening Galliani's influence in the Rossoneri.

However, these news did not attract much attention from fans and the media.

The reason is, of course, that something more worthy of their attention has emerged.