136. Every family has difficulty chanting
After being unexpectedly eliminated in the fifth round of the FA Cup by Barnsley, the lower Championship side Barnsley, Benitez's Liverpool may have to start repeating the same path they have been sticking to for years. Compared with several other predecessors, the Spanish coach did a good job, winning the Champions League in his first season (2004-05) and reaching the final of the round of 16 every two years.
However, Liverpool's stumbling out of the group this season has already shown Liverpool's weakness. They now face Inter Milan, who are hungrier than they are for the European title, in midweek against Inter Milan, and given the stark difference between the two teams in their respective leagues, the Reds are in danger and Rafael Benitez is also in danger.
Even without this FA Cup Championship farce, Benitez's situation is worrying. In the first half of the season, his conflict with the two American owners was basically the biggest attraction for the Liverpool club, even more interesting than the Reds themselves.
And with the team's rankings declining and eliminated from all competitions, Benitez's own fate has become even more intriguing, especially in the face of the Dubai consortium, which is likely to be his new boss, and the Spaniard's recent performances are extremely inconsistent with his status as a Shijie manager.
Owners have always liked to break through the old and make the new, and if the team continues to slump, the countdown to Beshuai's days at Anfield will begin.
Now the media throughout England are talking about Benitez's problems, and they all believe that Benitez will not be able to stay at Liverpool anymore, and they believe that Benitez will definitely leave Liverpool this season because Liverpool's American boss has lost faith in him.
In fact, in the eyes of journalists, there is one thing that has confirmed the fact that Benitez will definitely leave Anfield. That is, before the winter break, Benitez had proposed a 50 million pound winter transfer fund to Liverpool's American owner, and he hoped to be able to strengthen it in the winter transfer season.
At that time, Benitez was very keen to add a quality centre-back, because at that time Daniel 61 was injured and Liverpool were in a centre-back crisis, and if they had the £50 million, they could find a very good centre-back in the winter transfer.
However, this winter, Liverpool have not made any moves, not even a single player has been brought in. That's not to say that Benitez doesn't want to bring in players, it's that he can't because he doesn't have the money in his hands.
At a time when the team needed a centre-back so much, Liverpool's American boss was indifferent. Then this shows a problem, they have completely lost confidence in Benitez, how unwilling they are to trust Benitez anymore, and of course even more unwilling to pay for it.
It is clear from here that Benitez is bound to leave Liverpool. As soon as the reporters exposed these things, the Liverpool club responded immediately, claiming that there is no such thing, Benitez will still be the manager of the Liverpool team, and now Liverpool has such and such instability, but now Liverpool is still on the right path, and now they have at least three titles to fight for.
The three championships that Liverpudlian people are talking about are the League Cup, the League and the Champions League, but in the eyes of all the media and some fans, Liverpool is now at most a chicken rib League Cup title, and other Liverpools want to win the championship, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream.
Let's not talk about the Champions League, let's just talk about the league, now Liverpool is ten points behind the Arsenal team, does Liverpool still want to win the championship? Is this possible? Everyone is laughing at the naivety of the Liverpudlians.
And then the Champions League, the Champions League and now Liverpool is playing against Inter Milan? Although Inter Milan is not as good as it used to be, almost everyone thinks that Inter Milan should have an easy time beating Liverpool, who stumbled out of the group. Champion? Don't think about it for you Liverpool.
Liverpool also said that during the winter break, Liverpool's American owner had already sent money to Benitez, and Liverpool also chased a number of central defenders during the winter break, such as Chiellini, Heinz and others.
It's not that Liverpool doesn't buy people, and people don't let people go, Liverpool can't sell people. If you can't buy players of these levels, why should Liverpool waste money on the transfer market? They can dig directly from the inside.
Liverpool people are adamant: "Mr Benitez will not leave Liverpool, he is still the manager of Liverpool. It is now and will be the same! ”
However, the outside world simply does not believe this, and they all believe that the countdown to Benitez's departure from Anfield has begun.
Qiu Ze stood up at this time to speak for Benitez and said: "Mr. Benitez is the manager of Liverpool at this stage, I don't know you all said he was leaving. However, as far as I can tell, Benitez is not leaving Liverpool, this season and the same next season! ”
Qiu Zezhan came out and said such a thing, which made Liverpool fans breathe a sigh of relief, now can not be chaotic at this time, now is about to go to the quarterfinals with Inter Milan, now Liverpool should devote themselves to preparing for the game, don't be distracted by these miscellaneous things.
At this stage, Inter Milan's situation is very different from Liverpool, in the last round of the league, Inter Milan easily defeated Livorno 2-0, Inter Milan has a point ahead of the second-place Roma team in the standings, and there is basically no suspense for Inter Milan to win the league three times in a row.
Inter are in good shape, they are in good shape, they are now in the league and they want to put all their energy into the Champions League, which is what they have been looking for. Now that the league title is basically in hand, of course it will be full sprint for the Champions League.
Now Inter Milan is in very good shape, they also know that Liverpool's current situation is very bad, they know that this is an opportunity given to them by God, they will definitely seize this opportunity, advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and even go to Zuihou.
However, at this time, the interior of Inter Milan is not twisted into a rope, and Inter Milan is actually secretly turbulent.
In the 44th minute of the last game against Livorno, Livorno made an offside mistake, Crespo received Suazo's pass and went straight to form a single knife, but the Argentine striker did not take credit and chose to cross Suazzo. However, the ball did not roll to Suazzo's feet, but was cut off by the opposition defender.
Although he didn't receive the ball and completed the fatal blow, Honduran striker Suazzo, who scored twice, thanked Crespo after the game: "I am grateful to Hernan for his kindness. ”
But Crespo was full of complaints: "Yes, I have been selfless for seven months, I have been hiding the sadness of dissatisfaction with fate in my heart, I am not used to this state of affairs. My team-mates shouldn't blame me because I was disturbing the atmosphere in the team and I knew it wasn't right. Everything the team and the fans do makes me feel pampered, but it's also hard to wear a mask all the time. ”
Crespo took aim at head coach Roberto Mancini: "I admit I'm unhappy at the moment and I don't want to hide it anymore. ”
"Maybe it's easy to blame the injury for it, but that's not true. Even though I was injured in the America's Cup in July, I'm feeling good right now. Especially compared to last season, I didn't expect to get so little playing time. I think I should be more involved in the team's game. As he said this, Crespo spoke in a very uneven tone.
Crespo scored 14 goals in 29 league games for Inter Milan last season, and the comparison with last season naturally made Crespo unwilling. And this season Adriano was also loaned by Inter Milan to Sao Paulo, Crespo always thought that he would be Inter's main striker, but he didn't, which made him very angry.
Crespo challenged Mancini: "A striker needs confidence, he needs to feel valued, Mancini was the first to say that I was affected by injuries, but he also said that as long as I am better, I will have a chance and the team will still need me. But now I'm fine, but I'm still getting a pitiful chance, and I don't know if Mancini remembers what he once said! If you don't remember, please let me go! I'm not young anymore and I can't afford to wait! ”
From Crespo's words, we can see that his resentment is very deep. But if you think about it, Crespo is also right, it is true that he is not young anymore, and he does not have so much time to waste and splurge anymore. If you don't need him, let him go!"
As soon as Crespo's remarks came out, the whole Italy was in an uproar, and no one thought that Crespo would choose to attack the team's head coach Mancini at this time, they thought that Crespo was very inauthentic and irresponsible.
Some guys even think that Crespo is forcing the palace, and they think that Crespo is not professional at all. Some Inter Milan fans have begun to oppose Crespo, they have begun to curse Crespo frantically, and many even shouted the slogan "Get out of here".
Mancini's reply was kind: "Crespo is injured and he needs to improve his fitness and he knows that. But he's been on the pitch for almost the whole game, which is the most important thing, and it seems that he is ready. ”
But Crespo was still a little unhappy with Mancini's reply: "Mancini said I was the most crucial on the pitch? I don't think I'm just a Champions League player, I still want to play in Serie A. I played 85 minutes in the last round, which is already a record for the season, but it's already February. ”
Crespo bombarded Mancini again, which made Inter Milan fans even more dissatisfied, and they even wanted to let this guy get out of the way immediately, Inter Milan doesn't need such a guy who eats inside and out, if you want to get out, get out of here.
Inter Milan fans are understandably very emotional, because Crespo bombarded the referee at the wrong time, because now Inter Milan is preparing for the Champions League quarter-final match with Liverpool, at this time Inter Milan internal discord, does this not affect unity and morale?
Inter fans even wondered if Crespo was sent by Liverpool to hide inside them.
However, Italian media reporters analyzed that Crespo stood up and bombarded Mancini at this time because this guy wanted to leave Inter Milan this summer, and he no longer wanted to stay at Inter Milan, so he dared to be so bold.