Chapter Ninety-Seven: Anything Changes

I owe it to you.

After bidding farewell to the fans and relatives who were present. The players of Saint-Etienne waited for this sentence from Galtier.

There was no one who got drunk in the bar that night, and it was probably only Ebondo. Alcohol-allergic, he survived to the end.

Ding Yue was the one who was clinked the most glasses, so before the party half was over, he had already collapsed.

Not too many people were attacking the Saint-Etienne victory night revelry.

Many of the headlines the next day were busy analysing why Saint-Etienne won this year's French Ligue 1 title.

Most goals?

No, Lille have scored 89 goals in 38 league games, five more than Saint-Etienne.

Conceded the fewest goals, and Saint-Etienne was not the same, with Monaco conceding just 22 goals.

In fact, only 10 teams in Ligue 1 of the last 20 years have conceded the fewest goals of any Ligue 1 team that season, at 50. Of the Ligue 1 titles of the past 20 years, only seven teams have kept the most clean sheets that season.

20 goal strikers in the team. This point does not exist in the French League 1 of the data. Five teams have scored more than 20 goals this season.

And among the interesting strong dialogue records, Saint-Etienne has done a very good job in this regard. In a long league game, one win and one loss in the strong dialogue means 6 points, so it is easier to win the league championship by achieving the advantage in the strong dialogue of the league.

Saint-Etienne won one and drew one against Lille, and these two games were particularly crucial.

Over the past 20 years in Ligue 1, the champions have generally had a very good record in the small round robin of the top four, almost always finishing in the top two.

The age structure is reasonable. This seems to be a must-have option for Ligue 1 winners. The average age of the Premier League champions in the last 20 years has been 26 or 7 years old.

Burning the most money, it seems like this should also be a must-have option.

Modern football is impossible without money, but burning money doesn't necessarily mean winning championships. This year's winner illustrates this.

Winning the most penalties? Saint-Etienne have been fighting for relegation all season long, if they are ranked by the number of penalties.

A large list of analyses is nothing more than the coach's proper tactics, Payette, Ding Yue, Sako, Revelli, Matuidi....A large number of players have performed exceptionally.

In any case, Saint-Etienne is the champion.

This final outcome is both the result and the fate.

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Five days later, the victory parade took place as scheduled.

The sky is clear, and it is as clear as a wash.

Ding Yue enjoyed the highest level of treatment on the bus, and in every fan gathering place, as long as it was Ding Yue's turn to hold the trophy, the cheers must be the loudest. But at the same time, everyone is asking themselves in their hearts, next season, will he still be our people?

For fans, the details and performances on the pitch can be intuitively felt through the game, but the transfer operation of the club is difficult to know directly, coupled with the promotion of the media, the transfer drama is often confusing, and it is impossible to see anything in the fog.

On the third day after winning the championship, the team newspaper had a clear view of Ding Yue's summer soap opera, and Inter Milan intended to spend 19 million euros to buy the superstar from Saint-Etienne. A day later, the Bild newspaper said that Dortmund had paid 21 million euros.

In fact, veteran fans know that generally speaking, when the media breaks the news of a transfer, it must be the reporter who has obtained the information through the "informant" he has cultivated for a long time.

And sometimes different reporters and media will change in the exposure transfer price, and even after the official announcement, the media also have different opinions on the transfer fee.

The question is, are these exposures groundless or are they really true?

Fans of Saint-Etienne, immersed in the joy, don't want to think about it, but they can't help it. Including Payette, including Matuidi... There have been too many cases in history of an underdog's team being dismembered the following year after winning the championship, and their fears are not unfounded.

Ding Yue did not make any guarantees to the Saint-Etienne fans in front of the microphone handed by his teammates, no one forced him, but everyone went home with a dark cloud, waiting for the raindrops to arrive at a loss.

Galtier didn't say anything, maybe he knew that his words couldn't influence what the predators wanted to do... Or trade.

This is the best window, this is the worst window, this is the window of burning money, this is the window of austerity, this is the time of faith, this is the time of doubt, this is the season of light, this is the season of darkness, this is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment, there are all kinds of players in front of the market, there is nothing in front of the market, some people are going straight to heaven, some people are going straight to hell...... That's the romance and reality, joy and tragedy of the summer transfer window.

There's nothing like the European transfer window to encapsulate the ups and downs of the football world, where every small detail can make the big difference, and any unintentional mistake can undo all the hard work that lies ahead.

Ding Yue knows this, the Saint-Etienne club knows this, and the club that pursues Ding Yue... I also know the profound truth that these countless years of transfer transactions have taught them.

On the seventh day of winning the championship, Emalsen put the offers and sincerity of the three clubs on Ding Yue's table.

Borussia Dortmund in the German Bundeslique, Milan in the Italian Primera Division, Atletico Madrid in the Spanish Primera Division.

In addition to these three clubs, the other clubs are either still only in the stage of shouting, or they just can't get into the eyes of Emalson and Ding Yue.

Ding Yue is well aware of the Dortmund of this youth storm, in fact, this team's matches have appeared on his TV screen many times this year.

With goals from Barrios and Robert Lewandowski, they beat visiting Nuremberg 2-0 at the Westfield to seal the league title ahead of schedule, and their Bundesliga youth storm this season has finally been pushed to the extreme. Although Klopp's boys have had ups and downs in form, as well as injuries and other emergencies, they have finally succeeded in overcoming various difficulties and standing at the top of the Bundesliga again after nine years.

It's a bit like Saint-Etienne's, Borussia Dortmund's league start was a nightmare, with a 2-0 defeat at home to Bayer Leverkusen in the first round..... but it was this game that completely relieved the young men in their early 20s, with the club's sporting director Jork furious after the game, and the 44-year-old manager Jurgen Klopp telling all players to give up the idea of winning the title and fight one game at a time. Maybe it's this mentality that will adjust the mental state of young players to the best. In the following games, under the leadership of Klopp, Dortmund actually achieved a magical record of 14 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, won the Bundesliga halfway championship in one fell swoop, and was 10 points ahead of the second-place Bayer Leverkusen team! Needless to say, Dortmund's road to the title was much smoother than that of Saint-Etienne.

With the youngest squad in the Bundesliga with an average age of 24.6 years, Dortmund's games have always been passionate and talented. And this is precisely the biggest problem that Dortmund will continue to seek breakthroughs on various fronts next season: in the bags of the agents of players such as Shinji Kagawa, Shahin, Svende, Hummels, Reus, etc., invitations from major European clubs are like snowflakes, and whether or not they are willing to keep these leading players will become a serious problem for Dortmund at present.

In fact, this is a concern for expert fans, but for Ding Yue, he knows that in this summer window, Dortmund has only taken a big name from Shahin, and the main lineup has not actually suffered a big impact.

In this case, can going to Dortmund guarantee playing time? Although Dortmund next season will indeed still make a big move.

Ding Yue looked at the key points outlined by Emarson, the promises given by those Dortmund people, and even a few of them were made by coach Klopp himself. But is it really possible?

The vast majority of people, the vast majority of the time, are on their own.

Promises can be given, and others will keep them, but everything will change, especially promises.

Putting the yellow folder aside, Ding Yue took the other two folders, and he rubbed his somewhat swollen head... It's hard to choose.