September 12th.

The University of Reading Business School in the UK has announced the latest market value rankings of 20 Premier League teams.

This list was counted from the 2003/2004 season, and until the 2010/2011 season, the revenue, profitability, loss data, net assets, stadium coverage, brand awareness and other items of the 20 Premier League clubs were included in the calculation range.

The final result shows that Manchester United has the highest market value in the top 20 Premier League.

The total value of the Red Devils reached £1.0604 billion.

Arsenal ranked second, with their total market capitalization of £942.9 million.

Aston Villa ranked third with a total market value of £560.3 million.

Chelsea ranks fourth with a total market value of £510.5 million.

Aston Villa squeezed out Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, and entered the top three, which was shocking.

The Independent, which disclosed the rankings of this list, believes that Aston Villa's total market value is actually higher than the value recognized on the list.

Aston Villa's total market value is "undervalued" because it is dragged down by Fang Jue's previous performance. In fact, Aston Villa's total market value may have exceeded 600 million pounds.

With a group of talented stars, the team's salary control is relatively successful.

He won the Premier League championship for two consecutive seasons.

Especially winning the UEFA Champions League, which makes Aston Villa one of the most valuable clubs in the Premier League.

In addition, the Independent believes that when the list was written, the transfer transactions of nearly 40 million pounds of Senegalese players of Aston Villa were not counted.

The reports from the UK have also attracted great attention in the country.

Mainstream sports websites even used the title of ‘Six Billionaire’ to report on this.

CCTV is also very interested in this and wants to invite Fang Jue to do an interview program. This is not a sports channel, but an international channel with a very heavy weight.

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Germany.

Dortmund Airport.

Aston Villa's entire team arrived in Dortmund, and the arrival of the defending champion attracted great attention from the German media.

The showdown between German clubs and Premier League teams was originally a highly anticipated confrontation in the Champions League.

Britain and Germany, which fought each other as opponents in both world wars, were traditional European rivals, and this confrontation even continued from a political level to football.

The English-German battle is always a classic on the green field.

In this season's Champions League group stage, all three teams in the Bundesliga were blocked by Premier League powerhouses in the group, and the English-German PK once again became the topic throughout the whole process.

Although England was inferior to Germany at the national team level, it was massacred by Germany in the South Africa World Cup last year.

But in the history of the Champions League, England teams have to beat Germany.

In the distance, the number of times the English club won the cup (12 times) is exactly twice that of the Germans (6 times).

In recent times, the Premier League teams participated in the last seven Champions League finals for 6 times.

In 2008, there was also a civil war between Manchester United and Chelsea, while the Bundesliga team was the only one who came to the end in 2010 and lost to Inter Milan in the end.

In the Champions League group stages in recent years, Premier League teams have not met many times, but whenever they meet, it is always difficult for Bundesliga teams to please.

Manchester United beat Wolfsburg.

Chelsea has bullied Bremen and Schalke.

Arsenal stepped on burgers.

Such a large-scale direct dialogue between the English and German teams in the group stage this season is quite rare in the Champions League in the new century, and the results of the grouping, at least from paper, are again in danger of the Bundesliga teams.

Bayern Munich, who has the strongest comprehensive ability in the European game, is the only seeded team in the Bundesliga, but they have met the third-level team Manchester City, whom they don't want to meet the least.

Although Manchester City is the new champion of the Premier League in the Champions League, it has the strength that is not inferior to any giants.

When Bayern encounters Manchester City, surrounded by Villarreal and Naples, not only is it difficult to guarantee the top spot in the group, but even if they are not careful, they may lose their qualifying tickets.

Last season's Bundesliga champion Dortmund played well in offensive football.

Interestingly, both German and English media believe that the tactics of the two teams are very similar.

From a tactical perspective, Klopp's Dortmund attaches great importance to the transition moment of offense and defense conversion.

The Germans attach particular importance to making the team's defensive transition perfect.

The specific approach is to quickly press the opponent after conceding the ball in order to regain possession.

This concept is called "Gegenpressing" or high-pressure pressing.

In short, the rhythm will be disrupted immediately after the opponent gets the ball.

This can help Dortmund quickly switch from defense to offensive mode: if the pressing work is done well, then you can take advantage of this chaos to regain the ball.

To execute their typical high-pressure press, the Hornets attack in a rather narrow formation.

They often attack through a wing on the court, with the goal of breaking through this side or regaining possession with a compact formation after conceding the ball.

This sideline even adds the effect of oppression as it reduces the opponent's pass choice.

This is very similar to Aston Villa.

When Aston Villa played against defending champion Inter Milan last season, Bale scored a goal, which was Aston Villa's counterattack after forming a crazy press against Inter Milan on the left.

Aston Villa's style of play is to prevent the opponent from making any penetrating passes, and then immediately launch a high-pressure press when appropriate.

A low-quality pass from the opponent, a mistake in possession, or a slow player in the receiver all means that they will be faced with Aston Villa's crazy pressing.

Dortmund also did a pretty good job in this regard.

The English media even directly said that Klopp was imitating and learning Fang Jue's tactical style.

Of course, this kind of remark made Klopp very unhappy.

In addition, with the collision between Aston Villa and Dortmund, there are many former subordinates of Fang Jue in the Ibiza period.

Hummels, Reus and Lewandowski, these three players are the absolute main players of Dortmund, and can even be said to be important core players.

In a sense, when the three players joined Ibiza, they were all unknown people.

Fang Jue discovered and cultivated them with one hand, and was their mentor.

This is also a major highlight of this game.

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On the match day.

Aston Villa's entire team arrived at Iduna Signal Park Stadium.

In the locker room corridor, Fang Jue met Dortmund players who were preparing to go out for a warm-up.

Reus and Hummels both came over and hugged Fang Jue enthusiastically.

Lewandowski hesitated and finally came over to embrace Fang Jue.

"Robert, are you not angry?" Fang Jue said with a laugh.

Reus and Hummels were happy to return to Dortmund from Ibiza.

German players are generally willing to play in the Bundesliga, and the two players do not have much intention to continue to follow Fang Jue.

Lewandowski is not the case. Compared with his two German teammates, he is more grassroots, so he is more grateful to Fang Jue for his appreciation and cultivation.

The Polish center is eager to continue to follow Fang Jue.

After Gleno joined Aston Villa, when chatting with Fang Jue, he mentioned that Lewandowski had complained before when he was in Ibiza that he had objections to Fang Jue not taking him to Aston Villa.

When Lewandowski heard Fang Jue say this, he scratched his head embarrassedly.

After a simple greeting, the Dortmund went to warm up.

Aston Villa also came to the stadium to warm up.

Fang Jue stood on the sidelines to watch.

He was observing Dortmund.

"Robert is very serious." Sebaslius said to Fang Jue.

Fang Jue smiled. Of course he could see and guess Lewandowski's psychology. This kid must have breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to cause as much trouble as possible for Aston Villa in this game.

This guy wanted to tell Fang Jue in this way: It was wrong not to take him to Vera and not choose him.

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CCTV broadcasts this game live.

When the live broadcast signal was cut in, players from both sides had already entered the field.

"This is the Champions League defending Champions League champion Aston Villa's debut in the Champions League this season, the collision between the Premier League and the Bundesliga champions, two teams with very similar styles of play."

"Let's take a look at the starting lineup of both sides first." He Wei said.

"Aston Villa, the goalkeeper is the old American goalkeeper Friedel."
To be continued...