Although Liverpool ended the 04-05 season with only fifth place in the league and failed to qualify for the Champions League for two consecutive seasons, Liverpool owner David Morse has been in a pretty good mood in recent times. There is no other reason than that Benitez, who was brought in a lot of money last summer, has just led the team to win the UEFA Cup in the 04-05 season!

It is precisely for this reason that Morse can still have such a good mood when Liverpool is missing the Champions League. Because in Morse's opinion, a UEFA Cup title is enough for him to sell these players for a good price this summer to alleviate Liverpool's deteriorating financial situation!

You must know that during Houllier's five years in charge of Liverpool, although the Red Army had the glory of winning five crowns and was once the runner-up in the league by only three points, the French coach's lavish spending habits in the transfer market and the high salaries for signed players have also exhausted Liverpool's already rich savings, making the Reds' finances in a bad situation of making ends meet for a long time!

Although the League Cup is not as influential as before due to the expansion of the Champions League, the League Cup championship trophy is still very important, and the sales of players will be much better. Therefore, after Liverpool won the championship, Morse has been planning to purge these high-paid players left by Houllier as soon as possible to reduce the team's operating costs and reduce the club's financial burden!

Next, it only needs to take advantage of the team's League Cup victory, deal with these "legacy" left by Houllier little by little, and then bring in some players who are not bad at the time, and then use Gerrard as the core of the rebuild, then the team's rebuilding work can basically be declared complete!

"Boss, something is wrong!" Just as Morse imagined Liverpool's resurgence under his wise guidance, club CEO Rick Parry hurriedly barged in and said breathlessly, "Gerrard has just issued a statement through his agent, announcing the termination of his contract extension negotiations with us, and also publicly asking us to sell him to a team with enough ambitions!"

"What are you talking about?!" Morse was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Are you sure this is what Gerard himself meant?

"It's true!" Rick Parry nodded, his tone of voice with the utmost certainty, "I've investigated, and it's indeed Gerald himself." Now, there are already extreme fans who have learned of this and have started burning Gerrard's shirt, and some have even sent death threats to Gerrard online!"

"How could he do this! This is a betrayal! A naked betrayal!" Morse was furious in the office, eager to call Gerrard out and ask him face to face, "Has he forgotten who gave him the opportunity to become a professional footballer? Who trained him to become a world-class midfielder? Who entrusted him with the responsibility of being the heart and captain of the team at a young age? How could he voluntarily ask to leave the club at the most difficult time of the club!"

However, although Morse was extremely angry about this incident, he could only reluctantly accept this cruel reality. Because Morse knew that since Gerrard dared to make this statement publicly, it meant that he was ready to leave Anfield!

"Rick, get ready. Morse, who calmed down, said to Rick Parry with a wry smile, "I believe it won't be long before there will be a lot of transfer offers in front of us." ”

Although Morse has a low vision and some greed for money, as the owner of Liverpool, he has been dealing with the heads of other top giants for many years, and at least he still has the vision. Now, for example, Morse is soberly aware that there must have been a team that had made private contact with Steven Gerrard himself beforehand and agreed with him on the issue. Otherwise, with Gerald's character, he would never have been able to make such a ruthless decision!

Sure enough, as Morse had expected, after Steven Gerrard made the statement, offers from Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham appeared on Morse's desk at almost the same time!

After receiving these three offers, Morse didn't even look at them, and threw Manchester United's transfer offer directly into the trash - as the owner of Liverpool, he didn't have the courage to challenge the bottom line of the fans and sell Gerrard to Old Trafford at the risk of the world's disapproval!

As for the transfer offers made by Chelsea and Tottenham, Morse did not choose to accept it immediately. In order for Liverpool to earn more money on Steven Gerrard, Morse resorted to an old-fashioned but proven effective trick of having his men "inadvertently" reveal each other's offers to the two clubs separately during negotiations. In this way, in order to be able to successfully win the big fish of Gerrard, Chelsea and Tottenham, who are not short of money, will definitely start a fierce transfer battle!

Although Morse's calculation is very shrewd, he underestimates Kenyon and Marotta, who are responsible for bringing in Gerrard, and he doesn't know that Chelsea and Tottenham have already reached an alliance! After seeing through Morse's trick, the two first conducted some tentative negotiations with Liverpool respectively, and then tacitly bit the transfer fee at the price of 35 million pounds, and never paid even one penny more for Gerrard!

The reason why Kenyon chose to secretly communicate with Marotta in Gerrard's transfer, rather than continue to compete with Tottenham which side can spend more money, is not because of the alliance between the two clubs, but because of another important Chelsea signing, the transfer of Lyon midfielder Michael Essien has reached an impasse at this time!

Abu had money, but his money was not endless. With Aulas (the chairman of Lyon) making it clear that Chelsea must pay enough real money to take the Ghanaian buffalo, Kenyon, who has a limited budget and knows something about George's family, can only choose between the two!

If his stubborn move on Gerrard's transfer angers Tottenham, causing George to take action personally, retaliating by raising the price of Essien or even directly cutting off Hu, then Chelsea's summer recruitment work is bound to be greatly affected!

That's why Kenyon will maintain a tacit understanding with Marotta in Gerrard's transfer, rather than simply and rudely using money to solve the problem. Because he knows very well that if you simply compete for financial resources, Chelsea is really not an opponent for Tottenham!

At the same time, seeing this scene, where did Morse not realize that the ploy had been spotted by Kenyon and Marotta, and he was sure that an agreement had been reached between Chelsea and Tottenham on the issue of Steven Gerrard, otherwise how could they have so tacitly stuck the transfer fee on the figure of £35 million?

Despite his frustration with Chelsea and Tottenham's mutual communication, Morse also understands that if Steven Gerrard, who has two years left on his contract, is not sold as soon as possible this summer, Liverpool's losses will only get worse over time!

"Alas, if I had known this, I might have agreed to Tottenham's £50 million offer. Now it's a big loss!" Thinking so, Morse had no choice but to agree to the offers of Chelsea and Tottenham, allowing these two clubs to negotiate personal treatment with Gerrard!

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