This year's World Footballer of the Year is the least suspenseful one in history.
Because no operation can erase Lu Yang's performance in the past year.
This has also made many fans express doubts about the current award system of the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer.
In recent years, the World Footballer of course has been much fairer than the Ballon d'Or.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t have a dark history before.
They are now at the height of their power simply because they made the right bet. They supported Lu Yang in the first place, so now they are reaping the dividends from Lu Yang's rise.
But at the end of the day, is there a big difference between the World Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or?
Obviously not.
This isn't just an insider's operational issue.
It’s also about the system.
Although the end of the year is a summary of the year in a normal year, the end of the year is meaningless in the football world.
Because the season is only half over at this time.
If you don't refer to the table games in the second half of the season, wouldn't it be meaningless for the players to play in this half of the year?
It's not fair to the players.
But if you really refer to the performance of the first and second half of the year on average, what about the end of the season in the first half and the summer competition? No extra points for consideration? Are there no honor bonuses for championships and various individual awards?
Nor should it.
Therefore, it is not scientific at all to place the top honors in football at the end of the calendar year.
It is meaningless except that it allows the awarding agency to have both sides of the problem, and the extra half a year of operation time can give the awards more room to operate.
If you want to create an award that is as fair and just as possible, the most appropriate time for the award is late August or early September.
Looking at a player's performance throughout the season is the most convincing.
Otherwise, A will win the Champions League, B will have a huge scoring explosion in the second half of the year, C will win the individual season award, and D will be the half-time champion again in the new season... This is simply a created difference.
There is a solution.
Of course, neither the Ballon d'Or nor the World Footballer have thought about making changes in this regard.
Because only during this time period is the stage where they have the greatest control over the awards.
Don't look at how diligently the World Footballer awards have been given to Lu Yang in the past two years.
In the future, when someone actually spends a lot of money to publicize them, they will most likely abandon Lu Yang because of profits.
Make money, don't be embarrassed.
This is the saying that good fortune and misfortune depend on it.
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"Okay, hello everyone in front of the TV, what you are watching now is the red carpet entrance ceremony of the World Footballer Award Ceremony, I am Luo Cheng."
"Red carpet entry, now officially begins."
"More than 300 media outlets were present today, and more than 300 million people watched the awards ceremony online around the world!"
"This is also the largest award ceremony in the history of World Footballer. In addition to inviting the President of FIFA and UEFA, they also invited the President of the Swiss Confederation and the Prime Minister of Italy to the scene!"
"Twenty young talents in football have already entered the stadium. Although their faces will be somewhat unfamiliar to everyone, in a few years many of them will appear at the red carpet ceremony we are watching now."
"Okay, coming towards us now is Poklan center who plays for Bayern, Pałowski! He is one of the most versatile centers in today's football and helped Bayern win five consecutive Bundesliga titles!"
"In the past two years, he has gradually ushered in the golden period of his career. While playing for Bayern, he won the Bundesliga Golden Boot three times in four years and scored 35 goals in the Bundesliga for two consecutive years! 40+ goals in the season!"
"If it weren't for Lu Yang's horrific number of goals in recent years, Pawlowski might have been regarded by fans as one of the top players!"
"Of course, Pawlowski has been reluctant to leave the Bundesliga to accept new challenges, which is also an important reason why he has never been able to win major honors."
"Oh, Areola appeared in our footage. He is the 49th star selected by World Footballer this year. He showed great strength during his time at Manchester United."
"During the World Cup, he also became the main goalkeeper of the Italian national team and made great contributions to the team. Being able to make the 50-man roster, the Hercules Cup will give Areola a huge bonus!"
After that, the 48th was France’s second winger Luborg.
Forty-seven is former Manchester United star and German international Stiller.
Forty-six is the Belgian Mateo-Incitens.
The rankings of these three superstars have dropped a lot than before.
But neither the fans, coaches nor the players themselves think that their strength has declined significantly.
The core reason why they went from the top ten or twenty to the bottom of this list is the reason why their honors have withered in recent years.
This is the embodiment of prosperity.
But that kind of superstars are dying and young people are taking over, which belongs to a normal era.
Those who can still dominate young people after the death of superstars belong to the era of sluggishness.
The prosperous age is the era of greatest competition and the most exciting era.
Ranked 44 and 45 are two AC Milan stars, Soger and Andres.
The former is this year's World Cup winner. With the bonus of major competitions, he has finally entered the ranks of top stars.
The latter is the well-deserved core of the AC Milan team, and is also the soul of the midfielder in the Portuguese national team.
The 43rd place is Brazilian central defender Lucimar. His highlight performance in the World Cup made him directly airborne on the list.
Forty-two, Manchester United center back Turan.
Turan joined Manchester United from Juventus that year. Although his strength, performance, and honors did not increase, his own football reputation suddenly rose with Manchester United's high popularity and reputation, and it was logical to join the 50-man roster.
Forty-one, former Tottenham Hotspur and now Manchester City left back and French international Gerbert.
If the French team can win the World Cup this year, his quota will be greatly improved, at least in the top 30.
But it's a pity...
Next, the stars ranked from 31st to 40th are:
Argentina's Angel Wings Miguel!
April, the first guard in the world before being knocked down by Lu Yang!
Italy's ageless center back Bernulini!
Real Madrid and France's dual main center back Landene!
Aveiro, Prince of Manchester United, Red Devils!
Highlander, the second bidder for this summer window!
White is the cornerstone of defense for both Arsenal and England!
Blues Chelsea captain Tesri!
Hernandez, the common brain of Barcelona and Spain!
Ceballos, the former number one talented Italian player!
Among them, there are four players under the age of 25: Landene, Aveiro, Highlander, and Ceballos!
Hernandez is only two years older.
The rising stars in world football are seizing the glory and position of the older generation of stars.
Of course, the 50-man roster is exclusive to the World Footballer.
Players that people truly consider to be superstars are generally selected to the thirty-man roster multiple times.
The stars from twenty-one to thirty are in order:
The new zebra prince, Kolber, joins the Red Army Liverpool.
England's number one striker superstar, Mike Loughlin.
German cannon, Stiepelmann.
The world's number one left back, Junior! Real Madrid's three consecutive unbeaten seasons, coupled with the title of World Cup runner-up, finally allowed Junior to completely overwhelm all competitors and temporarily occupy the world's No. 1 throne.
French alien, Nerka.
The double surprise of Spain and Real Madrid is the winger, Enriquez.
Former Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year winner, Chelsea abandoned general, Uzbek and Polish nuclear warhead Gutierrez.
Ashley Gordon, the premier left back in the Premier League.
Real Madrid and France double meritorious center, Alpha.
The double insurance of Spain and Barcelona, Ortiz.
Portuguese King, Madeira.
In this list, Kolber, Enriquez, and Alpha are on the rise very quickly.
And the reason is because... they are Lu Yang's teammates in the club or the national team.
As for other stars, in the past few years, you could only find their names in the top fifteen or even top ten categories.
Their strength has not declined either, including Junior, who has even gone further.
This fully shows that if there were ten people in the top ten in football, now there are more than thirty.
As for Gutierrez, he is an exception.
He was hacked by Jin Yuan, and countless people said that he was a pirate, and his ranking plummeted as a result. But in the final analysis, he is definitely a top-20 superstar player!
The twentieth star is Audi!
If the World Cup hadn't been injured too early, Audi would have entered the top fifteen.
Nineteenth, Joseph.
One of the two best defensive midfielders in the world.
Eighteenth place, Talista.
The famous bounty hunter, San Remo, and Chelsea, Lu Yang's lifelong enemy, eventually became a superstar.
Seventeenth place, Gerondo.
Captain of the Red Army.
Sixteenth place, Louis.
Real Madrid and Spain goalkeepers!
Fifteenth place, Dominguez.
One of the top centers in the world and the new hope of the Blues.
Fourteenth place, Ludwig.
Apart from Robery, there is no player Bayern can rely on the most.
Thirteenth place, Red Clapp.
The soul of the Blues Chelsea team, one of the two best midfielders in England.
Twelfth place, Praxedes.
The great Italian left-back who played for AC Milan.
Eleventh place, Perrotta.
The King of the Red Wolves, the backbone of Italy's forward line!
It took a long time to walk on the red carpet, and finally the ones who came out were Ancarelli, Placa, Mateo, Moreira, and Robelli.
This also means that their rankings are tenth, ninth, eighth, seventh and sixth respectively.
Ancarelli made another comeback and entered the top ten.
The last time was when he won the European Cup with Italy.
As the highest-ranked player among Italian stars at one time, he was a benchmark.
He is ranked high, and a series of Italian stars behind him are ranked high.
His ranking is low, and it is difficult for the stars behind him to rise.
Pracha’s ranking is well-deserved.
The only difference between Joseph and Platsa was luck.
In order to stop Lu Yang, the Golden Globe Awards strongly favored Pracha, even though Pracha's Golden Globe Award is known as the most prestigious in history.
But it’s the Golden Globes after all.
Once you win the first prize, as long as your performance is not too bad, you are guaranteed to be in the top ten.
Joseph must rely on major awards to reach the top ten.
But the strength of the two has always been considered to be indistinguishable.
This is the importance of luck.
Although Mateo's Barcelona is mediocre, it is unintentional. His national team won the third place in the World Cup this year.
In addition, he is a representative of the technical players of the Mesozoic era. His gorgeous playing style has impressed countless fans and professionals. He is a first-level official, and there is basically no problem in the top ten.
The rankings of Moreira and Robery are considered normal.
But...the scary thing is that if they are not even in the top five, then who is in the top five?
There is none for Izellet, as he has barely played in the past year.
Although the highlights in the World Cup alone are enough for him to reach the top 30, it is too unfair to other stars, so the World Footballer will leave this report card based on percentages for the next year's Izelet selection.
This is a choice that benefits both parties.
Finally, the five stars walked the red carpet independently without ranking.
The first one to show up was the Brazilian superstar, Alien Lima.
Followed by French superstar Zizo.
Then there is Argentinian superstar Carlisle.
This is also the highest award ranking Carlisle has received in his career.
For the first time in his life, he reached the top five.
Finally, Lu Yang and Moliqi attended the event together, triggering a flash frenzy at the scene.
Yes, there is Moic!
He actually made it into the top five!
Facing so many flashes of light, Moric said he was not comfortable with it.
There is obviously no similar playing experience.
But Lu Yang was much calmer. After all, he had already experienced such a scene last year.
The entire awards ceremony process is not complicated, but because there are many stars, it lasts longer.
However, during this period, the awards became more and more popular across the Internet.
Lu Yang's award at the end is nothing new.
However, the top five rankings still make many people gasp in surprise.
Moric ranks fifth in the world footballer rankings.
He recognized this ranking and said he would continue to work hard.
Lima finished fourth, with the club's performance dragging him back.
Carlisle scored twice for the third time. After third place in the World Cup, he also ranked third in the World Footballer. It can be said that he is satisfied.
Qi Zuo second.
If he can win the World Cup, he will be number one.
Because he also holds the club's undefeated treble of the season!
Unfortunately, it was Lu Yang who lifted the trophy.
At this point, the king is crowned.
Compared with last year, Lu Yang's rise to the top of world football this year is even less suspenseful.
If last year was a rip-off, it would damage the award and the image of Lu Yang, the first place winner.
So this year is a crushing one, with Lu Yang winning everything and the Golden Globe losing everything.
Under such a huge blow, the sales of "France Football" were greatly affected, and the staff responsible for the Golden Globe Awards program resigned one after another.
No one has the confidence to continue fighting against the World Footballer of the Year and Lu Yang next year.
The two major financial backers Ake and Nadidas also officially announced that they would withdraw 90% of their funding from "France Football" and the Ballon d'Or.
Just like they did to the World Footballer before, they fell to the opposite side.
Poor performance, lack of funds, and messed up flagship projects, followed by various accountability and internal struggles.
The fat outside is no longer available. If you want to keep your income from decreasing, you have to take it from the mouths of other people inside.
"France Football" frequently exposes high-level scandals, high-level officials criticize each other, and more and more dirty information is exposed to public view.
After an organization enters this stage, the people who can still do well in the organization have nothing to do with their professional abilities.
Only those who are sneaky, slippery, and good at dancing can survive to the end.
Many truly professional elites have lost their original benefits, had their benefits stolen by sycophants, or even lost their jobs altogether.
However, these people often find invitations from the Sun, Tuttosport, Sanremo Evening News, Live Football and other media in their mailboxes.
Some of these media are professional football media with high priority in the industry, such as "Live Football Report".
There is also a world-renowned large-scale media, "Torino Sport".
There is also a home team newspaper in a small town that lacks professionalism but has very impressive sales, "Sanremo Evening News".
and some unscrupulous media.
But it is precisely these four types that almost include all the directions that the leavers want to go.
If you want the name of a big company, go to Turin.
If you want to stand out from the crowd, go to Sanremo.
Respect professional football and go live.
If you want female votes, oh no, if you want to communicate intimately with the largest number of fans, go to the Suns.
At the same time, a magazine called "My Football" is in contact with a number of newspapers and periodicals affiliated with French Football and has related acquisition plans.
For French football, these things are all trivial. As long as they can bring enough benefits to the top management, they can be sold casually.
After all, there is the fact that the Golden Globe Award is in decline, and all the senior executives who take office will be fired after a month or two.
You have the right to use it and it will become invalid upon expiration, so you might as well take the opportunity to earn more.
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December 26th, the 18th round of the Premier League.
Newcastle challenged West Bromwich Albion away from home and beat their opponents 4-1.
Two days later, the 19th round of the Premier League was held.
While everyone else is taking a winter break, the Premier League is experiencing its most intensive schedule.
Teams whose rosters are not thick enough deserve to suffer.
Newcastle drew 2-2 with Burnley at home.
At this point, Newcastle refreshed their unbeaten record in the Premier League.
Undefeated in ten rounds!
This is also Newcastle's longest unbeaten streak in all competitions, thirteen games unbeaten!
A year has passed, and on January 1st of the new year, Newcastle has a happy start.
Lost to derby rival Sunderland 2-3.
Black Cat succeeds in revenge.
The turning point of this game was Manjujovic's injury.
Although Lu Yang scored a goal after moving to the center position, Fenio, who appeared as a substitute in the midfielder position, was too soft. In just five minutes, he was penetrated three times by Sunderland, allowing others to complete two goals. Goal.
The bad news is that Manjujovic's injury will require about a month of rest.
Newcastle are short of people.
The center position is so critical.
This is the lower limit of the team and the basic guarantee of the team's ability.
Although Lu Yang can improve the team's lower limit by going to the front and solve the goal problem.
But as mentioned before, Newcastle's striker can still score goals without Lu Yang.
But without Lu Yang in Newcastle's midfield, it would be difficult to win.
What's more, Lu Yang can still score goals even if he's not on the front line.
So when he plays center, there is no bonus for him. But for Newcastle, it is a huge weakening.
Newcastle's signings are imperative.
Their signings will be made soon.
Because the Premier League has jointly blocked Newcastle's trading market, Newcastle can only look for signing opportunities outside.
However, Newcastle's football system was previously underdeveloped, and it was difficult to find suitable candidates in a short period of time.
Most of the youth players who want to join Newcastle have contracts at the end of the season.
Very few contracts expire in the middle of the season.
But this person, as long as he does something, he will definitely gain something.
Life is not a road in vain, every step counts.
Just when many people were ridiculing Newcastle's two-front operation, which brought down the lineup that was not deep enough.
Newcastle have also received good feedback from the Europa League.
Their group has a strong opponent, the Bundesliga relegation team Hamburg.
Hamburg did not perform well in the UEFA Cup, especially the second time they played against Newcastle. They simply gave up the game and entered a pure substitute and youth training lineup.
It was this game that made Lu Yang and Flick have a unanimous interest in Hamburg's substitute center back Vincent Gombani.
This is a big central defender with a height of 1.93 meters. He is the tall man Newcastle needs.
And he also has the ability to play the ball as a central defender, which Newcastle particularly emphasizes.
Although his long ball is inferior to Sasso, it is not much worse than Deas.
And Deas... to put it bluntly, his long passing skills are much better than the team's left back Boyle and right back Reese.
If these two wingers can pass passes at Beckham's level, Newcastle's main lineup will be even more powerful.
So on the day the winter window opened, Newcastle made an offer for Gombani.
Five million euros.
For the Bundesliga, this is already the price of an ordinary main player.
After all, Hamburg is just a newly promoted team from the Bundesliga.
And Gombani is just a substitute player for Hamburg.
You know, transfer fees of 40 to 50 million in the Premier League are commonplace.
The most frequent transaction amount in the Bundesliga at the beginning of this season was more than 10 million.
Less than 20 million yuan.
Thirty million is the standard.
Do you think burgers are exciting?
"Our subsequent use of Gombani is very planned." Hamburg's reply was relatively implicit, but also easy to understand.
Need to pay more.
Newcastle immediately said, seven million euros!
Hamburg still has an ambiguous attitude.
This has met their psychological expectations.
But... if you give it a try, the bicycle will turn into a motorcycle!
"Lu, Hamburg rejected our offer." Tang Yuqin came to Lu Yang with two reports in his hand.
One of them belongs to Gombani.
"Wait a minute, let me ask." Lu Yang called Jessica and Hans one after another, and used their resources in the press to confirm something.
Later, Lu Yang called Qi Zuo.
Finally, Lu Yang called the Hamburg team's sports director and communicated directly with him.
The next day, Hamburg announced that substitute centre-back Vincent Gombani had left the team.
Dezhuan immediately followed up on the relevant news.
"The Bundesliga relegation favorite Hamburger SV's substitute center back moves to Newcastle for 5 million euros! 》
Five million euros, lower than Newcastle's previous guaranteed price of seven million euros.
Tang Yuqin, who witnessed Lu Yang's operation, was extremely impressed.
It turns out that Lu Yang saw Hamburg's current situation through public data such as the Bundesliga standings.
Second to last at the halfway point, with a high probability of being relegated.
The detailed data illustrates some problems.
Lola said that Hamburg's defense is actually good, and this change of direction confirms the strength of Gombani that Newcastle is interested in.
Hamburg's problem is up front.
Several of their forwards have not scored more than five goals in half a season.
They desperately need a player with good scoring ability.
At the very least, a strong lottery ticket is required.
Lu Yang then called Qi Zuo and asked Qi Zuo to help find a player in football who has good scoring ability and needs to be loaned.
Zizzo asked around and finally recommended Monaco's backup center David Treguet.
The biggest feature of this player is his strong scoring ability.
But the disadvantage is that he is a point-grabbing center, lacking non-shooting creativity and lack of fulcrum support ability.
He didn't fit in with Monaco's tactics, so he never got many chances to play.
Of course, one of the reasons is that his competitors Menchar and Nick Young are too good.
Treguet desperately hopes to get a loan opportunity, and Monaco does not want this young talent to die in their hands. At the same time, they are reluctant to sell it, so they also hope to rent it.
After Lu Yang and Hamburg's sporting director reached an agreement, Monaco loaned Tregai to Hamburg.
Hamburg got a chance to solve their own front weakness problem.
Then, they sold Gombani to Newcastle for a flat price of 5 million.
After the young Gombani learned that he had the opportunity to join Newcastle, he also very much hoped to facilitate the deal. In the end, the deal linking the three parties was completed perfectly.
Of course, Newcastle's current lineup cannot be solved by just introducing a backup central defender.
They still have some spots to fill.
Coincidentally, while tracking Gombani's performance, the scouts learned that Gombani is a youth training player of Anderlecht, the giant of the Belgian First Division.
I stopped by to take a look at the Anderlecht players.
As a result, in the report sent to Lu Yang, there was a youth training player who was favored by Lu Yang.
Boringoli Lucatu!
Anderlecht's youth center.
He is very unique, because at the age of sixteen, he looks like he is twenty-six or even thirty-six years old.
Black and strong.
At 1.91 meters, he is taller than Manjujovic.
Do you dare to say that this is a sixteen-year-old player?
You know, Lu Yang, who is currently 1.87 meters tall, was only 1.78 meters tall when he was 16 years old. People once questioned him as being too short to be a central defender.
Lu Yang suspected that Lukatu had lied about his age.
But it doesn't matter.
The important thing is that this player has something Newcastle need.
He is hardworking enough and has certain foot skills and shooting ability.
So after Newcastle went through a lot of pulling and pulling, they took away the 16-year-old Lucatu from the Anderlecht youth training team at a high price of 3 million euros.
In other aspects, Newcastle is also continuing to make efforts.
However, as time passes, the probability of them receiving strong support becomes smaller and smaller.
Even for bench players, those teams always sell their core players at the same price.
If you insist on buying Newcastle, you can do it.
But this head cannot be opened.
Chelsea was taken advantage of back then, and they paid high prices for the next ten years.
Newcastle is not Chelsea, and Lu Yang is not willing to burn his own money.
Newcastle only have full-priced players.
This is Newcastle's future label.
What 120 million? Come less!
Unless you can match Lu Yang.
Finally, seeing that the winter window was not done, Lu Yang set his sights on Italy.
As long as they survive the first year, Newcastle will be better off in this summer window.
In order to overdo it, Lu Yang called his old teammates after referring to Laura's analysis.
Soon, Udinese officially announced that right back Matias, who had played for the team for three years, would leave the team for free for 2 million euros.
In his life, Mathias is a portrayal of many ordinary players.
Before the age of twenty-six, he had been struggling in the lower-level football leagues. At the age of twenty-six, he was still only a substitute for the Serie B team.
But that year, he and team captain Palacios joined a newly promoted Serie C team called Sanremo.
Since then, Mathias has reached the highlight of his life and won various championships.
In his two years at Sanremo, he won the Italian Cup and even the Europa League.
But as more and more young talents joined the team, Mathias found that he could not keep up with the team's progress.
In Sanremo's Serie B season, he served as the depth of the lineup for Sanremo and was a key figure in Sanremo's second Italian Cup.
After that, he moved to the Serie A team Udinese, got the last big contract of his career, and worked hard for three and a half years.
Now, he still has half a year left on his contract.
After playing for half a year, he may announce his retirement at Udinese.
He is incomparable to top players like Bernoulini. He is at the level of an ordinary player in the five major leagues. As he gets older, he is no longer adaptable to high-intensity games.
However, he did not expect that in his bleak career, the only bright moment in his career would turn around again at the end of his career.
Lu is looking for him!
Matthias is nearly ten years older than Lu Yang.
But Lu Yang is his captain.
When the old captain called and asked: "Hey, Mathias, I need your help. Newcastle is now short of a backcourt, and you are the best candidate I can think of."
"The salary is based on your current two-year contract. After two years, you can transform into the team's assistant coach or youth training coach. Newcastle needs a group of staff that they can trust, and they will continue to carry out internal changes in the next few years."
Lu Yang told some inside stories.
He believed that Matthias would understand what he meant.
Many of the players who retired at Sanremo have become Sanremo's middle managers or even senior managers.
When they gathered together, they all expressed explicitly or implicitly that this was related to Lu's respect.
Although they cannot confirm it, they believe that Lu Yang has a great influence on the top management of the team.
Newcastle's situation is very similar to that of Sanremo.
so……
Matthias didn't hesitate.
Whether in the future or now, the Army has given too much.
Matias's salary was the last adjustment made the year before last. It was four million euros, which is quite good and belongs to the highest salary level in the Udinese team.
Serie A is no better than the Premier League, six to seven million euros is too much.
Udinese is not like Juventus or AC Milan. The more than 4 million in the team is enough.
The wave of gold dollars has not affected the salaries of small teams.
Udinese has been negotiating salary with Mathias for the past year, hoping that Mathias can take the initiative to reduce his salary by 50%. They are willing to extend Mathias' contract for two years for this purpose.
Matthias had no reason to agree.
As for Newcastle, not only will they not cut their salary, they are also willing to sign a two-year contract according to Matias's largest contract.
The escape route for Mathias was properly arranged.
Therefore, this old Sanremo teammate threw himself into the arms of Newcastle without hesitation, and was willing to sit on the bench to provide Newcastle with all help and enrich Newcastle's lineup.
At this point, Newcastle's winter window signings had to end early because they could no longer find anyone.
It doesn't cost much.
But the effect is not bad.
After they joined the team, Lu Yang also checked their ratings, and they were all as expected.
Center defender Gombani 85
Center Luka Tu82
Backcourt snake oil Matias 80
They will contribute to Newcastle's multi-front operations in the second half of the season.
But no media will be optimistic about these three junk transactions.
If the garbage is in your hands, Lu Yang, is it not garbage?
