Chapter 608 No Way!
At ten o'clock in the evening, the game ended and Southampton defeated Stoke City 4-0 at home.
At half past ten, the whole city of Southampton was boiling!
This port city on the south coast, which has always been known for its tranquility and comfort, turned into a paradise for revelers that night!
Countless fans took to the streets, and the entire city was filled with beautiful fireworks!
University City, Royal Docks, St. Mary's Stadium...
Every corner and every place in the city is filled with the cheers of Saints fans.
This is Southampton's first Premier League championship trophy in more than a hundred years, the first in the lifetime of countless Saints fans, and the only Premier League championship trophy so far. How can we not be happy and excited?
That night, Southampton completely turned into a city that never sleeps. Drunk people wearing Saints jerseys could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys.
In fact, it was not until the next morning that many fans found themselves sleeping on the streets and under overpasses like homeless people.
At ten o'clock in the morning, twelve hours after winning the championship, the team's championship parade began on time.
Southampton is not a big city, and the Saints fans' parade float started from St. Mary's Stadium, circled the entire city, and finally gathered in front of the square leading to the seven-star underwater hotel.
After that, of course, there was another round of crazy celebration with lots of eating and drinking.
The news that Southampton reversed Manchester United and won the Premier League championship, creating the only miracle in the history of the Premier League where a newly promoted team won the championship, began to spread around the world through the Internet and the media.
On the same day, another Premier League make-up match was held in London.
Chelsea suffered a 1-2 defeat at home to Everton, and the Blues ultimately missed out on next season’s Champions League, and even missed out on the Europa League because of their sixth place ranking.
This is also the only season since Abramovich took over Chelsea that he failed to participate in European competitions.
It is rumored that the Russians were furious and all the people, including acting head coach Zenden, were fired.
There are reports that Portuguese coach Mourinho will announce his return to Stamford Bridge in the near future.
On the third day, the entire city of Southampton was deserted. The scene of the team's floats and the city's parade and celebration spread across the world again, once again shocking all the fans in the world with this group of fanatical Saints fans.
The scene of hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets to welcome the winning float was even featured in Reuters' best picture of the month.
For a time, Southampton Saints' popularity skyrocketed and the number of fans increased rapidly.
In the following days, news about Southampton Saints was endless, filling the sports sections of major media and websites around the world.
The most shocking news to the world was that some media revealed that after Southampton won the Premier League, FA Cup and Europa League trophies this season and achieved the Treble, the club management distributed over 100 million pounds in bonuses.
This piece of news immediately caused an uproar around the world!
Over 100 million pounds, given out as bonus?
This is probably not just the work of the rich, it's simply going against the will of heaven!
As a result, media and websites all over the world immediately started digging for the inside story, full of motivation!
After a few days of hyping the Saints, news from La Liga soon came again.
As the dark horses dominate the Premier League this season, the La Liga is also dotted with dark horses this season.
After being acquired by a mysterious Chinese consortium at the beginning of the season, Atletico Madrid has made massive signings and strengthened its strength. This season, it has been invincible in the La Liga and eventually defeated Barcelona and Real Madrid with a slight advantage to win the La Liga championship!
This is the first time that a team other than the two giants of La Liga has won the La Liga championship again since Benítez's Valencia won the La Liga championship in the 2003-2004 season.
At the same time, this is the first time that Atletico Madrid has won the La Liga championship again after 17 years since the 1995-1996 season.
More importantly, the rise of Atletico Madrid this time is completely different from the 1990s and the championships of teams such as Valencia, Deportivo La Coruna and Real Sociedad.
Because this time, Atletico Madrid has the support of a powerful and substantial capital consortium!
In the 1990s, under the management of the Hill family, Atletico Madrid performed well on the field, but its financial situation was a mess, which was the same as the short-lived rise of teams such as Real Sociedad, Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia.
That's a flash in the pan!
But this time, Atletico Madrid has a strong capital consortium as its backer and is ambitious to make a difference. Naturally, it is impossible to be like the 1990s or other teams like the Bats.
Just after winning the championship, Atletico Madrid announced that the team had purchased Santos’ talented newcomer Felipe Anderson.
After Neymar and Ganso left Santos, the No. 10 jersey of the Brazilian team was given to Felipe Anderson. This player has become the focus of Santos' cultivation and is also recognized as a future rookie in Brazil.
After announcing the introduction of Felipe Anderson, Atletico Madrid soon announced again that the team had introduced Isco, a recognized future talented midfielder in Spain, from Southampton.
Although the specific transfer amount has not been announced, Spain's Marca newspaper speculates that the transfer amount will not be less than 20 million euros.
Although Isco is not an absolute starter in Southampton, his performance is not bad at all. Moreover, under the guidance of Bielsa, his progress is quite rapid. He has become the core midfielder of the Spanish national teams at all levels and has been selected for the national team.
In this case, if Atletico Madrid wants to sign Isco, it is probably impossible to do so without 20 million euros.
Isco, together with Koke and Illarramendi of Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid's young generation of midfield combination is about to emerge!
But just when everyone thought that Atletico Madrid should at least take a break, the Colchoneros announced another major signing, which was the introduction of Polish midfielder Krychowiak from Ligue 1 team Reims.
The transfer market has just opened, and three or four major signings have been made, all aimed at further strengthening the team. The various measures taken by the Atletico Madrid management have made everyone clearly see the Colchoneros' ambitions for the new season.
Relatively speaking, Southampton is not bad either.
When the aftermath of the Saints' championship victory had died down a bit, they once again used Suarez's blockbuster transfer to put themselves back on the front pages of major media and websites around the world.
The super transfer of 40 million pounds successfully made the Saints the top bidder in the transfer market!
Although this is only temporary, it is not bad to be the top bidder!
What's more, everyone knows that the biggest favorites in the European transfer market this season are the new Premier League champions, Southampton's devilish wingers, Gareth Bale and Neymar.
Earlier, AS broke the news that Real Madrid offered a sky-high price of 120 million euros for Neymar.
But Charlene Lahery, a famous reporter from the Southern Echo in the UK, further revealed the news in her column, saying that Real Madrid did make an offer, but Southampton rejected it.
"Southampton's chief operating officer Ron Gourlay said in an interview with reporters that 120 million pounds can only buy one thigh of Neymar. If you want to buy another one, no way!"
As a result, the whole world was shocked!
One hundred and twenty million pounds, can't convince Southampton to let him go?
With the help of this season's treble and the glory of the past three seasons, the value of Southampton's players has naturally risen. Any substitute can be sold for tens of millions.
For example, Gary Cahill’s transfer to Tottenham Hotspur is worth 20 million pounds, and that’s not even a discount!
Isco transferred to Atletico Madrid. The team did not disclose his value, but everyone knows that it starts at at least 20 million pounds.
Perhaps, given Southampton's shady nature, they are likely to slaughter Atletico Madrid, a fat sheep, and bleed to death, so they dare not even disclose the transfer fee!
It can be seen from this that anyone who wants to buy Southampton players must first consider their own wallets.
If you don’t have any weight, you don’t even have the qualifications to sit at the negotiation table!
With the successive big moves by teams such as Southampton and Atletico Madrid, the entire European transfer market has also become booming.
Arsenal is eyeing Real Madrid's Higuain, while Real Madrid wants to sell Higuain and other players for a high price to raise money to buy Southampton's Neymar.
Chelsea is looking for a center forward all over the world.
From Lewandowski of Dortmund, to Benzema of Real Madrid, to Mandzukic of Atletico Madrid, and even the new beast Mitrovic, the scorer of Monaco, the newly promoted team in Ligue 1 this season, have been targeted by Chelsea.
There are even media reports that Mourinho wants to invite Drogba from Southampton to return to Stamford Bridge.
But Drogba himself firmly denied it when he was interviewed by the media, saying that it was absolutely impossible for him to return to Stamford Bridge.
"Maybe I will return to Stamford Bridge, but I will definitely appear as a rival of Chelsea!"
Drogba's determination hurt some Blues fans.
But they did not blame Warcraft, but instead directed their anger more towards Abramovich.
If Abramovich had not ruthlessly expelled Drogba, how could the Ivorian King of Elephants have gone to Southampton with such despair? And how could he have such a decisive quarrel with Chelsea?
Thinking of this, the fans suddenly became furious, especially because they were unable to participate in European competitions this season.
It would be fine if we couldn't make it into the Champions League zone, but we didn't even win the Europa League.
What is even more hateful is that, also in London, Arsenal snatched Chelsea's Champions League qualification, while Tottenham Hotspur snatched Chelsea's Europa League qualification. The two arch-rivals both went to play in European competitions, leaving only Chelsea.
Oh no, there's West Ham United!
But when did Chelsea fall to the point of earning a sense of superiority from West Ham United?
So, the Blues fans began to feel dissatisfied and started to make trouble!
Relatively speaking, Manchester United is much more low-key.
Ferguson had to retire with great regret, while Moyes entered Old Trafford with a glorious record of defeating Chelsea.
Moyes has a lot of problems facing him, including how to transform the team, how to carry out transfer operations, and which specific players to introduce in which positions. Moyes needs to quickly draw up a set of plans and programs.
But the problem is that Moyes is not familiar with Manchester United's situation and needs time to get familiar with and adapt.
As for Manchester City, they have set their sights on Gareth Bale as their summer signing.
The Manchester Evening News revealed that Manchester City executives even offered Southampton a sky-high price of 70 million pounds to bring the Welsh winger from the Saints, which is twice as much as when Gareth Bale joined the Saints last year.
Southampton officials have rejected the transfer rumors, but Gareth Bale's agent has come out and said the player is willing to consider accepting offers from other teams.
This undoubtedly casts a thick shadow on Gareth Bale's future prospects in Southampton.
In fact, many fans are generally worried that Southampton is likely to be poached by multiple teams again.
As a result, the Saints' prospects for the new season have become confusing again! r1148