Section 50: Figo's transfer
Zhao Yaning's transfer was announced to an end with Zhao Yaning's speech. At this time, Zhang Yuan also arrived at Liverpool and negotiated with the team about salary increases: these things made Zhao Yaning relieved. From the bottom of his heart, he still hoped to stay in the team, and now the team is going to give him a raise, obviously not to sell him.
Although the coach did something very unauthorized, the Liverpool team did not regret him after all. Moreover, the coach was just for professional reasons. He was born short-straight, which made him understand that emotions were too difficult. Zhao Yaning did not think that just for such a thing, he would feel that he was insulted and had to leave. If he had been playing for a year and could not even endure a friction, wouldn’t he have to transfer every year?
"You know that if you say this, you will not be able to become Real Madrid in this life, right?" Morientes was still worried about him.
"You know what I said is to vent your anger, right?" Zhao Yaning didn't care, "We just let it go. What Real Madrid likes to do, I don't care. This club is not the only one in the world. Besides, if the chairman is changed, who would remember that I scolded the current chairman? If it was not changed, how could the guy Florentino, who wanted to buy when he saw the footballer, retreat after being scolded? What are you afraid of when you kick me for this score? Only he begs me, no one to ask for his share."
Zhao Yaning dares to scold Real Madrid, so there is naturally his own reason. It is his motivation to vent his anger for Morientes, but it is very simple to say that confidence is: Real Madrid can even tolerate Barcelona players, so how can they care about their own abuse? If you really want to go with your current results, Real Madrid will wash the floor for him.
Football clubs, football is more important than anything else. When they regard anything else as more important than football, they will of course be bullied. No matter how good the footballer is, it is not football. If the footballer values the footballer more than everything, they will naturally be bullied.
"But, Spanish newspapers are really offended by you..."
"What are you afraid of? Actually, I am quite interested. Madrid newspapers, should I vote for me or Ronaldo this year?" Zhao Yaning smiled. The guys who bullied were these guys.
Although Zhao Yaning's transfer was not successful, the negotiations between Liverpool and Real Madrid continued. This is, this time, the protagonist is not Zhao Yaning anymore.
At this time, Liverpool, Benitez was also having a conversation with Valdano - but this conversation was not very pleasant to each other.
"Long time no see, Rafa."
When I saw the Valdano in front of me, Benitez's eyes became very uncomfortable. "Mr. Bartano, I don't think we are familiar with each other to call each other's names. Please call me coach Benitez."
"Don't talk to children, Rafa." Valdano looked at Benitez's expression and smiled, "You are not a child anymore, don't hold grudges so much. It was indeed me who knocked you out of Real Madrid, but if I hadn't forced you to leave, you wouldn't be the coach of the Champions League now! Castia can be taken care of, but only a person like you can achieve success is the glory of Real Madrid!"
"Castia, not everyone can take care of..."
"I'm not here to discuss this with you." Bardano interrupted him. "You don't have to care about Castia, I have something more important to say."
How could Castia be an unimportant thing? It is Real Madrid's youth training base! Benitez shouted in his heart.
"What I want to say is mainly the first team matter. I have limited energy and I can't worry about the youth training camp matters." Bardano explained to him, "The first question I want to ask is: Do you really don't want to go back to Real Madrid? What I'm talking about is the coach of the first team. As long as you go back, I will kick Luxenberg out immediately. I won't listen to the rumors they said, and those words are unreliable. I hope you will answer them in person."
"I won't go back." Benitez hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"Rafa, are you crazy? I'm talking about Real Madrid's coaching seat, the position where Bosque has sat, and the team you dream of coaching."
Benitez lowered his head and spoke after a while, "I won't go back. There are three reasons: First, Liverpool treats me well and I have no reason to leave. Second, your approach to Mr. Boske is heartbreaking. Third, you and I, and the Chairman you represent, have different ideas."
"Ideas? Those things are illusory and are not worth caring at all. This is the ridiculous thing I have ever heard."
"You are also ridiculous people in my eyes. Sir, we both look down on each other. I don't think we have a foundation for cooperation."
The two sides were cold for a while, but Bardano still laughed, "It's really... Rafa, you haven't changed much in so many years. Stupid, credulous, blind, and stubborn. Do you really think that Liverpool trusts you 100%? Like this time, the deal to introduce Figo has been negotiated, but have you seen the details of Figo's contract? Do you know what the price Liverpool paid to sign him?"
"A million, or two million, a fee? I'm not surprised, it's still a great deal."
"No, Real Madrid said they don't want money, so they naturally won't want money." Bardano smiled, "But Stephen Gerrard and Zhao Yaning are players that Real Madrid are interested in."
"They won't leave."
"But there will be that day." Bardano smiled, "What Real Madrid wants is their transfer priority."
Benitez was silent for a while before speaking, "Is this Florentino preparing for future elections?"
"It seems that I'm wrong, you've really become smarter."
"I don't want this kind of cleverness." Benitez shook his head, "It doesn't matter if you have priority. They won't transfer... Indeed, it was the transfer conditions I proposed, asking you to offer. However, Joey said that he would not leave, and I would respect his ideas."
"Let's see. Real Madrid's attractiveness to stars is always immeasurable." Bardano smiled, "You always have a common problem. You don't understand: football is not just a sport, but a business."
This is the conflict of our ideas. Benitez looked at Valdano without saying anything, so he let us see who is right and who is wrong-
On July 9, before the Liverpool match against Wilham, Figo announced a free transfer to Liverpool. This made Liverpool even happier, and they immediately had another outstanding footballer.
When Figo came to Liverpool, the first problem he faced was the number issue.
When Figo was at Real Madrid, he always had the No. 10 jersey. But after coming to Liverpool, it is hard to say what number his number was. Zhao Yaning gave up No. 10, but it was not prepared for him. Everyone knows that Zhao Yaning did this to prepare for Irving to come back. Although Irving almost became Liverpool's enemy last year, he played for Liverpool for many years and had a deep relationship with Liverpool. Now he expressed his intention to come back, and Liverpool senior management and fans are still happy to let him come back to play.
Although Figo is the No. 10 of Real Madrid, he is new to him after all and cannot compete with Irving for the number.
And the 7th is in the hands of Cowell and the 11th is in the hands of Garcia, so he cannot grab it.
But at this time, Figo chose the No. 22 jersey.
"I chose this number for my family and for Helen." Figo explained this to the media, "I hope I can be better for my family."
This explanation is reasonable. In fact, everyone understands that many people are like this. Once a veteran changes the team, he cannot keep the original number. In order to find a reason for himself, he likes to use some guise of family, relatives, etc.
After Figo came to Liverpool, he knew his position very clearly when he spoke. "I came to Liverpool to help Zhao Yaning lead him to better results. Moreover, I have a lot of experience and can teach Zhao Yaning some things. I think these are what he used."
At this time, Zhao Yaning was at the top of the Golden Globes selection and was when it needed fame. As the former European footballer, Figo said this, which was of great benefit to Zhao Yaning's fame. After all, the one who can help the Golden Globes winners must be a capable person.
And Figo didn't care at all and made it clear, "I think Zhao Yaning should be the winner of the Golden Ball Award. Ronaldinho is very good, but he has not won the highest honor in the Champions League after all. Looking at Zhao Yaning's performance in the national team and the Champions League, I think it's natural for him to win the Golden Ball Award."
Anyway, it doesn't cost money if you are cheap, Figo doesn't care. His evaluation of the other two campaigners Lampard and Ronaldo has changed a bit. "Lampard has played a good season, but it doesn't seem exciting enough. It's true that Ronaldo is the best player in the world, but I think he should use honor rather than media evaluation to justify himself."
"He is really good at speaking. He neither offends Ronaldo nor Lampard, and he is still saying good things about me." Zhao Yaning said privately to Morientes.
Although Figo is indeed good at speaking and Zhao Yaning is also fluent in speaking, he has known Moro for a long time after all. And although Figo said he was willing to make friends with Zhao Yaning, Zhao Yaning believes that it doesn’t matter to play football together, but making friends is still very important. After all, he is not very trustworthy about Figo, who has a history of Camp Nou. In comparison, Moro’s character is much more credible.
"He is very smart." Morientes smiled, "It makes people think: It's better to be stupid. It's true that he is greedy for money. But he is not greedy for football players? Figo has never given up any donations in various charity activities, and has always paid a lot. In this regard, he is not the most greedy one. What he was criticized is nothing more than the matter from Barcelona to Real Madrid. But to be honest, Barcelona had been in decline for a long time, and the upper class in the club was also full of contradictions. Didn't Guardiola leave Barcelona later? And he also had a lot of debts. Figo himself wanted to raise his salary and didn't come. He had no hope for competitive results and had nothing. Why didn't he think about leaving? Real Madrid had two Champions Leagues in three years, but the league's performance was unstable and he needed a strong winger the most. He transferred to Real Madrid to win both fame and fortune. Why didn't he come?"
Morientes sneered a few times when he said this, "And don't forget that when he came to Real Madrid, we paid a penalty for liquidated damages, and he did not help Real Madrid lower the price. After all, he has nothing to do to be sorry to Barcelona except joining Real Madrid."
Speaking of this, Morientes did not forget to add, "And Barcelona has problems with its own liquidated damages. The contract of 60 million liquidated damages was signed when Figo first arrived in Barcelona. At that time, 60 million liquidated damages were the highest in the world. By 2000, the transfer fee had been increased. In order to save their salary, they refused to pay the new contract. 60 million was worthless, so we paid the money. If they were willing to make a new contract and increase the liquidated damages to 200 million while increasing the salary, who could buy people? Isn't Barcelona itself greedy for cheap?"
"You are indeed Meilinge. Such things can be said to be Barcelona's fault..."
"Figo is wrong, and it is a cover-up. He is not open and honest enough to do things. And going to Real Madrid has hurt the feelings of Barcelona fans. But Barcelona refused to pay high wages and received 60 million yuan. He kept saying slandering and accusing players. This is the wrong thing for Barcelona - Figo is not a slave to Barcelona. Real Madrid never does such a thing as accusing players of disloyalty."
You can only take out loyal players... Zhao Yaning said something in his heart, but he didn't say it out loud. Didn't Benitez, a coach from Real Madrid, think of selling himself? Isn't these Espanyol's football concepts loyal?
It's really annoying...but soon, something even more annoying came.
Chapter completed!