Chapter 399: Qualifying for the World Cup
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Liverpool celebrated a day as a whole, and almost one in five men didn't show up for work the next day for some reason.
A week after winning the championship, there was another exciting news on Liverpool's official website - Tang Wu decided to renew his contract with Liverpool!
In fact, Tang Wu has three years left on his contract, and he has only been in Liverpool for one season.
But I can't stand Tang Wu's good performance and honors this season!
Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Napoli, Roma and other teams have thrown olive branches to Tang Wu.
Coupled with Raiola's "getting in the way", Liverpool's upper echelons are simply stirred up.
But fortunately, no matter how much Raiola makes trouble and threatens, Tang Wu's decision is irreversible. In the end, the two sides only renegotiated Tang Wu's business allocation, salary and liquidated damages, and then Tang Wu stayed at Anfield as the vice-captain.
Tang Wu stayed, and Gerard was reluctant to go.
Unlike Owen, who called to congratulate him after the game, although Gerrard has also been scandalous in the past two seasons, he still led the team to the highest honor in Europe. Even in the Champions League final a few days ago, it was the captain Steven Gerrard who took the lead and sounded the horn of a counterattack.
"To be honest, I wanted to give Don the captaincy but he turned down to be Liverpool's youngest captain. I asked him why, and he said he wouldn't be the captain and would stay at Liverpool because we haven't tasted the Premier League yet..."
At the end, a happy smile appeared on Gerald's face: "That's right, Don's idea is my idea." We have agreed to join forces to win Liverpool's first Premier League trophy! ”
As soon as this news came out, the whole of Liverpool was blown up.
Fans marched through the streets again as if it were a holiday. Those who did not know why also put down their affairs after hearing such news and joined the march.
The two have used one season to prove that Liverpool can do without Owen and without Husky, but they can't do without Gerrard and Tang Wu.
The club was in ruins, and after the treble, they began to steadily follow the road to revival, and even the veteran Hamann was offered a new one-year contract for the first time - and his performances in the Champions League final made him impress the club's hierarchy once again.
According to conservative estimates, the win over AC Milan in the final alone brought in £4.5 million for the Liverpool club. According to the latest statistics from the world-renowned Deloitte accounting firm, Liverpool's direct income in this Champions Cup is as high as 30 million pounds, far exceeding last season's winner Porto.
Liverpool's success in the Champions League this season, knocking out Premier League leaders Chelsea and Serie A leaders Juventus makes it more convincing for sponsors to estimate the club's commercial impact and potential value.
Coupled with the renewal of the contracts of Tang Wu and Gerrard, the sponsors are even more scrambling to break in.
Following the title, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery, Liverpool's main shirt sponsor, has announced a three-year contract extension with Liverpool for £5 million a year.
Carlsberg has been working with Liverpool for 13 years, and due to Liverpool's sluggish results in recent years, the company originally planned not to renew his contract at the end of this season, but the treble has given the company a new perspective on the Reds.
Not only that, but the naming of Liverpool's modern 60,000-capacity stadium at Stanley Park is also at a critical stage of negotiations.
With the three sycamore trees of the Triple Crown, there is no need to worry about attracting the Golden Phoenix.
Due to the continuous rise in the price of raw materials such as steel over the past five years, the current expenditure on Stanley Park has far exceeded the initial budget of 80 million pounds, and the final cost of the stadium is estimated to be as high as 140 million pounds.
Arsenal's new stadium naming rights were sold for £3 million a year, and if Liverpool's new stadium naming rights can bring in the same amount of money, it will undoubtedly be important for the stadium construction to be completed on schedule.
Liverpool FC's earnings last season fell 11 per cent to £91.6 million, with a whopping £22 million pre-tax loss, largely influenced by the previous season's failure to play in the Champions Cup.
But the "initiator" Tang Wu has fought for the three championships for the Red Army this season, and he has far made up for the shortfall, and even has a surplus.
Interestingly, the Reds' stunning comeback became a nightmare for British bookmakers, with around 100 people at Lad-Brokes alone betting on the Reds at 100 to 1 at half-time to win the title, resulting in a total post-match payout of £2 million across the betting industry.
"We made around £10 million in bets over the course of the tournament, which was the biggest bet in history, but we also lost a lot,"
Ladbrokes spokesman Lush revealed: "There was a fan from Cocoby who bet £50 on Liverpool at half-time to win and we thought he was crazy and he won £5,000. ”
Some people are happy and some people are worried, and at half-time, a gambler from Norway put £10,167 on the net to buy Milan to win the cup, and even if it did, the payout was only £102 (Milan won at odds of 101 to 100), but the end result was that he still lost all his money.
Fans who had been convinced a few months ago that the Reds would win the title were just as happy, with Preston's Buscher winning back £40,000 for £500, as the odds were still 80 to 1 in December.
It is worth mentioning that the Reds' champion Karach has also become the bookmaker's "enemy" - he and his father bet £100 on this odds, and now they have happily received £8,000.
Despite returning to Liverpool with a £100,000 winning bonus for each player on the pitch, Carach was thrilled: "We bet a bit for fun and he has a friend who also bet £100, so I'm sure there will be plenty of celebrations after the game."
Liverpool's victory was not only praised by the Queen of England, but also congratulated by Owen and Houllier.
"My sister and I went to Istanbul to watch the Champions Cup final, and she told me at the time; You should be on the field! 'Of course I would have liked to be able to play for my old club in such a big game, but you can't judge my decision to move to Real Madrid last summer after the fact! ”
'If I'm still Liverpool's main striker, but I'm not the same as Barosh. Who can guarantee that Liverpool will also qualify for the final? People will say that the timing of my departure from Anfield is doubtful, but how did I or anyone else know that Liverpool would miraculously reach the final? ”
Although Owen's speech sounded seamless, judging from his expression, it was undoubtedly a little sour.
Everyone knows that Liverpool did not win this season by attacking, but because of the addition of a Great Wall of China in the back.
If Owen is still around, then he is definitely not a "burden" for Liverpool. With Tang Wu's assistance, he will even become the sharpest sword in all European football.
The day after Liverpool's title, reporters called Houllier. After six years at Liverpool, the first thing he said was "I'm as happy as a fan".
Yes, he has always been a Liverpool iron. It's just that the reporters can tell from the tone that the enthusiasm in Houllier's heart is not as simple as that of an ordinary fan. After all, it was his replacement, Rafael Benitez, who led the team to the top honours.
On the other side of the microphone, the 57-year-old coach was obviously still interested in this passionate battle: "Although we all know that everything is possible in just one game, but to be able to equalize at 0-3 in the first half, as a Champions Cup final, is so exciting, even almost crazy." There is no pressure, but it is better to play. Two of my favourite players in this Liverpool team, one is Steven Gerrard, without whom he would not have won the game, and I remember it was his goal in the group stage that led to the victory over Olympiacos, and the other was Tom. Back when he first met me, I knew how tough this guy with eleven fingers could be! ”
Houllier has repeatedly stressed that he is happy that Liverpool can finally succeed, saying that the victory reminded him of his years in charge of Liverpool, but how to listen to the feeling of "Liverpool I plant trees, Benitez takes the shade".
In the end, Houllier's "congratulations" finally paid off: five days after Liverpool's title, he was named the new manager by Ligue 1 champions Lyon, and he has finally returned to the pitch since leaving Anfield in May last year.
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After renegotiating the contract with Liverpool, Tang Wu did not stay in the UK, but rushed to the capital on a plane non-stop, because the World Preliminary Tournament was about to start.
On June 4, Tang Wu watched the national football team face Uzbekistan at home from the stands of the Beijing Gongti Stadium.
In the first half of the three games, the national football team won one win, one draw and one loss. Overall, there is still a chance to qualify, but it is not so safe.
After the news of Tang Wu and Liverpool winning the championship, the domestic football atmosphere soared.
Tang Wudu is back, we are still at home, what is there not to win?!
In addition, the fans in the capital saw Tang Wuhou waving to the camera from the big screen, and the cheers of the Gongti Stadium were even worse.
Damn, everyone has won the Champions League and gone home, are we embarrassed to pull people back at home?
So at the beginning, the national football team fought fiercely.
In the shouts of "Beijing-style cheering", the national football players actually pressed through the half as a whole, forming a siege trend.
What's even more interesting is that Liu Yunfei, who served as the goalkeeper of the national football team, actually rushed out of the big penalty area and stood at the top of the arc of the penalty area and the middle of the middle circle like Tang Wu.
Such a high-profile forward position naturally caused bursts of shouts from the fans at the scene.
In the end, with two goals from Shao Jiayi and Li Datou, the Chinese team won the fourth leg of the second stage of the World Cup qualifiers 2-1.
Four days later, Tang Wuyou traveled with the team to Bangkok, a neutral venue, to play the North Korean team in the fifth round of the qualifiers.
This time, although Tang Wu wore special gloves and a goalkeeper uniform, he only appeared on the bench.
Even the substitute goalkeeper who made the list had few chances to play.
But even so, the national football players and fans are excited.
Tang Wu on the bench is like a large signal tower with a full-attribute buff, and every wonderful moment of the players on both sides, the cameraman will give Tang Wu a close-up.
How did Tang Wu react when the North Korean team shot, what happened to Tang Wu's face when the Chinese team shot and hit the plane, did Tang Wu have any instructions for the North Korean team to get a free kick in the front court, and if the Chinese team repeatedly failed to score, would Tang Wu show a trace of annoyance?
But the organizers and fans of the stadium were destined to be disappointed, Tang Wu still looked happy, and every time he laughed and chatted with Xu Liang and Dewey beside him, he didn't seem to take the opponent in his eyes.
After Liverpool won the championship, goalkeepers all over the world were learning from Tang Wu.
Both Liu Yunfei and the goalkeeper of the North Korean team rushed out of the penalty area during the attack and cruised in the position of the scavenger.
In the second half, Alihan adjusted the forward line, using Yan Song and Xu Liang to form a northeast partnership on the left side, and used speed and long passes to impact the opponent's defense.
In the 73rd minute, the North Korean team's No. 2 Lee Myung-chan's header was not far away, and Shao Jiayi, who was following quickly, quickly fell to the ground and shoveled the ball to the feet of Yan Song.
The black boy Yan Song raised his eyebrows, and shot when he met the ball.
The ball passed through the five fingers of goalkeeper Kim Myung Gil and went straight into the net, opening the door to victory for the national football team.
After taking a one-goal lead, the national football team played more relaxed, and the North Korean team, which was not willing to go out early, also launched an active attack.
At the last moment, Ali Hanko replaced the main striker Hao Dacang, and just when many people thought that the game had entered garbage time, the game ushered in a new climax.
In the 88th minute, substitute striker Black General Yan Song shook a defender in the penalty area, and in the face of the goalkeeper, he shot hard, and the goalkeeper of the North Korean team, Kim Myung-gil, flew to save the ball.
After the corner kick, the North Korean team's counterattack was broken in the midfield, and the rapid counterattack of the national football team was Xu Liang's long pass to find Yan Song, who took the ball into the penalty area, and faced the attacking goalkeeper with a swing and a buckle, shook the attacking goalkeeper, and pushed the empty goal.
It has been many years since the Chinese team had such a wonderful goal, and few strikers have such a calm mind at such a moment.
In the final moment, Alihanko replaced the main striker Hao Dacang, and just when many people thought that the game had entered garbage time, the game ushered in a new climax.
In the 88th minute, substitute striker Black General Yan Song shook a defender in the penalty area, and in the face of the goalkeeper, he shot hard, and the goalkeeper of the North Korean team, Kim Myung-gil, flew to save the ball.
After the corner kick, the North Korean team's counterattack was broken in the midfield, and the rapid counterattack of the national football team was Xu Liang's long pass to find Yan Song, who took the ball into the penalty area, and faced the attacking goalkeeper with a swing and a buckle, shook the attacking goalkeeper, and pushed the empty goal.
It has been many years since the Chinese team had such a wonderful goal, and few strikers have such a calm mind at such a moment.
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