Volume 1 Chapter 38 The Season Begins
Many years later, when Mack retired, he recalled his career as a celebrity, and remembered the summer of 2007, which changed everything.
"Congratulations, Mark, lad, you've had a perfect summer ......," Parry smiled and raised his glass to him.
"I'm proud of you, Mark ......", that's Marco.
"Mark Mark, guess how much our prize money is? Haha, thousands of pounds, I'm finally ......," Valle shouted as she hugged him excitedly.
"Husband~, where have you been? ……”
"Soul is faint, do you know that because of your disappearance, the company's big project is yellow......"
The constant picture flashed in his mind, and he had a splitting headache, and Mark Qin would be the sales director of that company for a while, and then he would become a teenager who played football~
"Ah~", he woke up from his bed.
The morning sun was a little dazzling, and he was panting for breath, still in the familiar blue room, with a poster signed by Pirlo hanging on the wall next to the bed.
He stared blankly for a moment, then reached out and rubbed his face, he had drunk too much last night......
Champagne can also be intoxicating.
"Brother, brother~", the door was snapped open, Ai Ming ignored the topless Makqin, and sat down on the bed with a big grin.
"You're finally awake, I was so tired yesterday, you don't know how heavy you were drunk~", Emin cried out.
He grabbed his hair, slowly sobered himself up, took the water next to him and poured a few sips.
"What time is it?"
"It's almost eleven o'clock~", Ai Ming dragged him, "Go take a shower, the club has called Peter a few times, saying that there are domestic media who want to interview you~"
"Domestic media?" , He frowned and searched for his memory, and slowly Li Wei's appearance came out.
It has been five days since they won the championship, and as soon as they came back, Li Wei came to visit, and he had attracted widespread attention in China, and he said that CCTV might send someone over~
Li Wei? "Your family is an official?" , of course, this is his bad taste~
Yesterday I attended the celebration reception held by the club for them, and then I was poured too much......
David Moores paid a lot of attention to this matter, and he immediately saw a huge opportunity in it, for the Moores family, who made their fortune as a gambling chain, they were not short of money, so they did not rely on the club to make money.
But in David Moore's generation, Glory had to bow to capital, and for a businessman, it is not difficult to realize that these are not difficult, and Manchester United and Manchester City are trying to do this.
Therefore, the general manager Parry gave Duan Xuan a high standard when he received him, and he had already learned that Duan Xuan was a representative member of the Chinese state media, and dealing well with the official media would be of great benefit to the club's promotion in China.
Benitez was called back for an emergency meeting, the chairman, the manager, and the commercial director were all here, and Moores had already heard from Parry and was planning to have a meeting.
Parry turned to Benitez and said, "Rafa, this little player named Mark Hard, you can introduce the specific situation first"
Benitez took a few pages of information, flipped through them and said: "To be honest, I didn't pay much attention to him before, he was a young player promoted by Coke Bryant during our youth reform last year, and because he was still too young, I temporarily put him in the reserve team"
Then he said: "He performed well in the Guanqing Cup in the summer, well~, that's all." ”
Moores looked at Parry, and Parry said: "As a result of my communication with the Chinese media, they expect to make a comprehensive report on Mark first, mainly on how he joined the club and the youth training in recent years, and we can cooperate with the provision of information, and I have arranged this aspect."
Ayr continued: "After my investigation, there are currently three Chinese players in the Premier League, namely Manchester City's Jihai Sun, Manchester United's Fang Zhuo Dong, and Zhi Zheng, who has just been relegated with Charlton, and their domestic coverage in China is very strong, and correspondingly, the club's publicity effect has also been greatly improved"
Benitez nodded indispensably, "So ......?" ”
Murse said: "Rafa, we need him to play in the first team so that it fits with our Chinese propaganda strategy~"
Benitez was uncomfortable for a while, and he didn't have much idea to train a 16-year-old, and Rooney was at Everton because he could only follow the path of youth development.
I am in Liverpool, just to train young players, if the results are not good, will they take the blame for themselves?
But he is not a fool, so he can only nod and say: "I can transfer him to the first team, but whether he can play or not depends on the situation~"
He still has too much to do, so he can only take it first.
After the start of this summer transfer period, Liverpool quickly finalized several transfers: Cisse to Marseille for 6.5 million pounds, Bellamy for 7.2 million pounds to West Ham, Gonzalez for 4 million pounds to Betis, Pongler for 3 million pounds to Huelva, Dudek to Real Madrid on a free transfer, and Carlsen for Charlton for 2 million pounds.
Voronin joined Liverpool on a free transfer, while Benayoun moved to Liverpool from West Ham for 5.5 million pounds.
Two in and six out, Liverpool fans suddenly became worried, could it be that the club's economy has problems and wants to sell people to pay off debts? All kinds of tabloid news also caught the wind, claiming that Liverpool's debt has gotten out of control and a crisis is about to erupt!
Parry had no choice but to hold a press conference, emphasizing that Liverpool's finances were fine, and at the same time promising the media and fans that Liverpool was making several heavyweight transfers, and Liverpool has never been a club that survives by selling people, which dispelled the doubts of fans.
Then Liverpool announced two important signings: Lucas transferred from Gremio to Liverpool for 8.4 million pounds, and Jose Enrique joined Liverpool for 5 million pounds.
History has been changed, originally because Bei Bald did not sell Rieser this season, the pursuit of Enrique is not very urgent, but now that Beck has decided to sell Risser, it is necessary to find a replacement, originally Newcastle was pursuing him, and now after Liverpool joined, Enrique came to Benitez without thinking about it.
As soon as Enrique arrived, Reese finally gave up, signed a contract with Roma, and joined Roma for 4.8 million pounds.
Sissoko thought about it, and now there are iron-clad main players in the midfield, Alonso, Gerrard, and now Mascherano and Lucas, so he decided to go to Juventus, which can give him the main position, for a transfer fee of 8 million pounds.
Madrid, Spain, Torres' home.
Oraya was cooking, Torres was sitting on the sofa watching TV, when the phone rang, Torres glanced at Jose, so he turned off the TV and walked to the balcony with his phone.
As soon as I got connected, I heard Jose say excitedly: "Liverpool has officially made an offer for 22 million pounds, Fernando, you may become the transfer bid king this summer!" Liverpool is determined to win for you. ”
Torres was delighted, who wouldn't want to be a little more expensive, which illustrates their worth and success, and then asked: "What is the club's reaction?" ”
"Don't worry, I've communicated ......," he said on the other side of the phone.
Torres put down the phone and turned to see Auraya leaning against the door looking at her, walked over and smiled at her, and said, "Baby, we might be going to England"
Auraya put her arms around Torres's waist, looked at him and said gently: "As long as it is good for your development, I am willing to go wherever I go"
At the end of July, under the watchful eye, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid finally reached an agreement, and Atletico Madrid's golden boy transferred to Liverpool!
Liverpool fans are excited, Torres, he has made a name for himself in La Liga and Europe for so many years, and it is the year of play, Liverpool has suddenly found his ten-year sharp knife!
The two sides finally confirmed that Torres transferred from Atletico Madrid to Liverpool for 23.5 million pounds, and Luis Garcia transferred to Atletico Madrid for 6 million pounds!
Benitez has made a drastic rebuild this year, and finally basically completed the renewal of Liverpool! Now, just bring back Hyypia's replacement, Skrtel, and bring in a first-class touchline, and Benitez's transformation of Liverpool is complete.
Liverpool had a lively summer, and the media helped to calculate the accounts, and finally found out that Liverpool made a profit of millions of pounds this summer?
This is a big deal, and the British media have given Benitez full marks for this season's transfer operation, clearing a series of marginal people, in exchange for first-class superstars and young and strong potential newcomers, Liverpool's squad is suddenly reasonable.
Earn? Benitez is definitely not a serious concept, I am not a shareholder of the club, I am only responsible for the results! So Benitez has been wondering how to spend this money.
Now he has two choices, one is to bring Skrtel over, the other is to buy a good wing, choose one of the two, Benitez thought about it and decided to focus on Skrtel, after all, there are fewer and fewer good defenders, and there are always more good offensive players than good defensive players.
So a few days later, Liverpool brought Skrtel for a record transfer price of 6.5 million pounds for a defender.
Before the transfer deadline, the very reluctant Pennant transferred to La Liga Zaragoza for 3 million pounds, and Benitez used 2 million pounds to bring in Argentine left winger Leto, so far, Liverpool's summer transfer this season has been completed.
Compared to the previous two years, Liverpool has almost half of the team rebuilt this season, with more than 10 players in and out, and Benitez has also taken the opportunity to complete the process of rejuvenating the entire team almost compulsorily.
If he doesn't do it this year, he really doesn't know if the club will have a chance to go this way in two years, and Benitez has made this decision with great courage on the premise that it can be done now.
The final 25-man squad for Liverpool's 07-08 season was determined as follows:
Goalkeepers: No. 25 Reina, No. 30 Itanje, No. 40 Martin
Defenders: No. 3 Finnan, No. 4 Hyypia, No. 5 Ager, No. 12 Aurelio, No. 17 Aveloa, No. 23 Carragher, No. 37 Skrtel, No. 19 Jose Enrique, No. 48 Insua
Midfielders: No. 7 Colwill, No. 8 Gerrard, No. 11 Benayoun, No. 14 Alonso, No. 18 Macqin, No. 20 Mascherano, No. 21 Lucas, No. 33 Leto, No. 42 Zhar
Forwards: No. 9 Torres, No. 10 Voronin, No. 15 Crouch, No. 16 Kuyt