Chapter 3 The Change of Times

Although Chang Sheng and the fans came face to face, finally calmed the anger of these fans, Lotito also took the initiative to announce that Lazio FC would erect a statue outside Chang Sheng's new stadium.

However, the failure of Chang Sheng and Lazio's contract renewal still has a great impact on Lazio.

Soon Jose. Passarella announced on his personal website that he will also retire after the end of the season.

"I've thought about it and I'm going to be forty at the end of the season and it's time to say goodbye. So I decided to retire at the end of the season. ”

His announcement was as simple as that.

He didn't say why he wanted to retire, he didn't want to push the boss to the forefront again.

But those who are interested may be able to guess.

Take Jose. The relationship and affection between Passarella and Chang Sheng, who has just announced that he will not renew his contract with the club, Jose. Passarella announced that he was retiring, would anyone think it was a coincidence?

Just how long ago the training camp before the new season began, so many things happened, and the impact on Lazio was not insignificant.

“…… Before the start of the new season, Lazio had so many situations. It's really hard to look forward to Lazio's performance in the new season...... Lazio haven't won the title for two seasons in a row, so are they going to have three seasons in a row with no hands? ”

At the time of the pre-season training camp, the media had already begun to dismiss Lazio this season.

The main thing is that Chang Sheng and Lazio do not renew their contracts, which is really demoralizing.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Lazio is the ever-winning Lazio.

Many of these players are here for his name, and they are all cultivated by him with hard work, and they have cooperated together for many years, and their feelings for Chang Sheng are also very deep.

Arguably. Winning is the reason, if not the only reason, why they are willing to grit their teeth and endure much more intense training than other teams, and to be under so much pressure at Lazio.

Just because their boss is always victorious, and he is the one they are willing to follow with all their might.

This is the charisma of the ever-winning personality.

But if Victorious is gone, is it necessary for them to stay in Lazio?

Or even if they all stay in Lazio, will they still be able to train like this?

Even if no one leaves, is that still the Lazio that swept the world?

Many people feel bleak when they think about Lazio's future.

When a manager has been in a team for more than ten years, he is bound to leave a very deep imprint on the team. Even to say that this district team is his team, that's fine.

When this person leaves, the team will inevitably fall into a slump because they have lost their soul. They are going to find this soul again, and when will they find it. I don't even know if I can find it.

A typical example is Manchester United after Alex Ferguson's retirement, David Moyes' Manchester United and Alex Ferguson's Manchester United are simply two teams.

So this season, the last season of Chang Win in Lazio, is destined not to be stable and not calm. It's a season of trepidation.

Everybody is going to find a home for themselves this season.

You can't even blame these players because their manager, their boss, has already taken the lead in escaping first......

How can such a team still have combat effectiveness at all?

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Actually, for Lazio. It's really time for a refresher.

At the end of last season, thirty-five-year-old David. Silva opted to retire.

There are also a lot of old men in the current Lazio team, Jose. At the age of 39, Passarella is still Lazio's main centre-back, and the 36-year-old Modric is still struggling. Although most of the time he can only be used as a substitute for Lazio now.

The 37-year-old Handanovic is still Lazio's No.1, but he is no longer the main goalkeeper who can't be beaten. Now he's on the bench for Ter Stegen and can't play a few games a season.

The 34-year-old Cavani is also still at Lazio, but he is also playing as a substitute, and his role is now somewhat like that of Rocchi.

Jose. Passarella chose to retire, and these veterans may also leave in the next few seasons.

The time that belonged to them has passed, and it is time for them to make way for the newcomers.

Maybe someone was going to take the first step before they retired.

Someone will leave Lazio early this summer.

Leo. Lionel Messi, the former Barcelona champion, lost his place at Barcelona when he was 30 years old, so he was poached to Lazio. He played for Lazio for four seasons, the first two seasons as a regular player, and in the third season he began to develop injuries and play fewer and fewer games, until last season, when he did not play for almost the entire season and was constantly recuperating.

Before the end of last season, Chang Sheng planned to purge him, anyway, he was thirty-four years old, and he should also think about pension.

At the same time, this season, Lazio introduced Isco, who is 29 years old and is playing in his playing year, from Real Madrid, which can be regarded as completely cutting off Messi's "way of life" in Lazio.

In the Lazio team, there is no place for Messi anymore.

Lazio has been talking with other teams recently, Messi and Lazio have one year left on their contracts, and if they want to leave Lazio this summer, they still need to pay a transfer fee to Lazio.

Although Messi is thirty-four years old, with Lotito's habits, he still has to squeeze the last trace of his residual value out of Messi.

You must know that Lazio spent 40 million euros to poach Messi from Barcelona, although it will definitely lose money if it is sold now, but Lotito also hopes to lose less.

The transfer fee is what kept Messi from leaving Lazio in the first place.

Messi is also well aware that Lazio has no place of his own and that it is time to leave.

He doesn't complain that Chang Sheng's purge is too ruthless.

Because he's got what he wants at Lazio.

When he was at Barcelona, he was squeezed out of the heart by Neymar, who was five years younger than him. At that time, the media and fans of Barcelona thought that they had found a natural heir to Messi, so Messi naturally had no place.

They began to think about selling Messi for cash, and finally using Messi's residual value.

So Messi came to Lazio as a competitive loser.

When he left Barcelona, no one was saddened by his departure, and the whole Barcelona was busy cheering for the inner football king.

This is the tradition of Barcelona.

When a core shows its old state. will be ruthlessly abandoned.

Rivaldo and Ronaldinho are examples of his past, and now it's Messi's turn.

And it's really ironic that Ronaldinho took good care of him at the beginning, and after he became the core, it caused Ronaldinho's departure. Now he has been squeezed out by Neymar, who was supposed to be here to help him, and it's a perfect cycle......

Messi, who came to Lazio like a lost dog, won the European Champions Cup with the team in his first season at Lazio! And Lazio defeated Barcelona led by Neymar in the final! Messi even had a goal!

Messi completed a perfect revenge.

He felt that his move to Lazio had been achieved.

So in Lazio he still has happy memories.

Lazio gave him what he wanted, and he gave his strength.

According to the boss's words, the two don't owe each other. You can go if you want to, and you don't have to have any psychological burden.

So Messi decided to leave. He also wants to enjoy football in the last few years of his career, and Lazio, a place of intense pressure, doesn't seem to be for him anymore.

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Messi is leaving this matter. It didn't cause much repercussions in football.

If he is ten years younger, then his transfer is bound to cause a storm in world football.

Now...... A thirty-four-year-old veteran, who has been injured frequently and has just almost retired due to injury, is leaving...... Then let him go, who cares?

He is willing to stay in European football, or go back to Argentina to retire, or go to the Middle East, the United States, and China to make a final profit. Nobody cares anymore.

Thirty-four-year-old Messi no longer has the magic of the twenty-fourth year old on the court, and his market appeal has long degraded.

Even in the same team, there is Gotze who shines brighter than him. Even the twenty-year-old Ji Ming is a young star who is closely watched by the entire world football world.

Nowadays it's not Cavani, Handanovic, Modric and Jose. The era of the Passarellas is certainly not Messi's era.

The media did not pay much attention to Messi's departure, but they paid attention to the new signing Isco every day. Even Isco's change of hairstyle can be reported on half a page.

As the heart of Real Madrid's attack, Lazio pursued Isco for two seasons. After hard and excellent negotiations, he was finally taken down for a transfer fee of 60 million euros - in fact, the transfer fee is not high, 60 million sounds scary, but considering inflation, this is 2021, this is really not a high value.

To be able to poach the absolute main force of Real Madrid at this price, I have to say that Lotito is still quite capable.

Isco stole the limelight from Messi as soon as he arrived, which is quite normal.

Even Messi doesn't have a problem, it's the natural law of football, the old man always has to make way for the new - when the new newcomer to the team holds up the team's jersey and kisses the team emblem to please the fans, the old man who has done this kind of thing may be silently packing his luggage, and then quietly saying goodbye to his past few years at the airport alone.

When he arrived, he was welcomed by reporters and fans, and when he left, it was nice to have his friends in the team to see him off.

This is somewhat sad, but this is the norm in football, Messi has seen too much when he was popular, and when he was the core of Barcelona, he ushered in a lot of people, did anyone care about their psychological feelings at that time?

It looks like Messi will end his cycle at Lazio like this.

But at this time, fate suddenly went a little wrong......

A week into the start of Lazio's pre-season training camp, new signing Isco suddenly sprained his knee in training......

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