"The youngest manager in the history of the quarter-finals of the Champions League!"

After playing the home game against Galatasaray, it was not only the English media that reported it, but even many European media outlets.

Because after playing four games, many of the top eight teams have already come out. The first to come out are Bayern and Blackburn Rovers in Group C, Real Madrid and Arsenal in Group D.

The appearance of Bayern and Blackburn Rovers is not too surprising. But Group D is a group of death, and it was a surprise that Real Madrid and Arsenal were able to break through so quickly. But even if it was an accident, they couldn't compare to Blackburn, especially George.

Why?

Because Blackburn has something that interests a lot of the media. That's Blackburn Rovers head coach George. Levy, who is only thirty-two years old this year.

It's not uncommon for someone in their early thirties to be a head coach, but it's already very rare. In their early thirties, it is even rarer to be able to lead the team to the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup. No, it should be said that no one has been able to lead the team to the quarter-finals of the Champions League at the age of 32.

What's more, the coach led Blackburn Rovers to the UEFA Cup last season.

All the media realize that the birth of a world-class coach is already unstoppable.

The "Team Newspaper" even made a column about George's coaching experience as a young coach. These include George's success as Burnley manager and his later achievements at Burnley. So much so that later George led Burnley, who were still in League One, to win the League Cup and FA Cup.

After that, it was George to Blackburn.

George's results at Blackburn Rovers have also been quite impressive, one step at a time.

Fourth in the league in the first season, qualified for the League Cup.

Second place in the league in the second season, winner of the UEFA Cup. Qualified for the Champions League.

In the third season, he finished first in the Premier League, the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and the final of the League Cup. A number of results show a steady increase in Blackburn Rovers over the past few seasons.

Unlike the English tabloids controlled by Murdoch, the Squad is a very serious newspaper in Europe. They rarely have any sensational news, and as long as their news is reported, it is true.

As soon as George appeared in the "Team Newspaper", George's name immediately began to resound throughout European football.

Although Blackburn had some luck in the draw for the Champions League group stage this time, they were not selected into the group of death. But Blackburn's ability to break through to the group stage twice and reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League has shown that Blackburn are strong and George is capable of it.

Even the always serious "Team Newspaper" attaches so much importance to Blackburn's entry into the quarterfinals, and George's is highly praised.

Not only these newspapers, but even the character profile in this issue of the UEFA official website is George. George in Istanbul, Turkey, in front of the media, a photo of him talking about it is on the UEFA website.

The evaluation on UEFA's official website is "A talented coach from England! 》。

Now that the entire European media is chasing George's news, it is conceivable that the English football world has an evaluation of Blackburn Rovers and George's attention.

UEFA says George is a talented coach, but English football has directly given George the title of famous coach.

In the past, some media also believed that George only had some achievements in English football. If you want to become a real coach, you have to be supplemented by European results. Because of his dominance in his own league, there is no shortage of coaches in the history of European soft-footed shrimp.

But apparently George is not one of those people.

George played the League Cup for the first time last season and led the team to League Cup glory. This season is also the first time to play in the Champions League, and it has already reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Such an achievement, even if it is said to be a famous handsome, is not too much at all.

George was already hot and hot in English football at this time. Coupled with the news that Chelsea chairman Bates was willing to offer George an annual salary of £3 million a few months ago, George instantly became a favorite in the coaching world.

A lot of the media started to catch the whistle and associate George with a lot of clubs.

The first person to be contacted by George turned out to be Alex Ferguson's Manchester United. Many media outlets have made it clear that Ferguson will soon retire. His chosen successor is current Blackburn head coach George Rovers. Levy.

Ferguson did have the idea of retiring.

But George knew that Ferguson was an old man. Not to mention retirement, the future will be more than ten years in football, and I will still be in good spirits. There is no sign of retirement at all. More than ten years later, I don't know how many coaches and clubs are waiting for Ferguson to get out of here. But people are good to stay in the Manchester United manager's position.

The second one to be involved with George was a wealthy family from Italy. It's from Inter Milan.

George didn't even know if it was true. Anyway, that's what the media said, Moratti thinks that Giorgio is an amazing coach. Maybe it will be able to reverse the decline of Inter in recent years.

But George can only shrink his neck, and he will not go to Inter at this time to kill George. Inter at this time, that is a black hole. It's not just a black hole for stars, it's a black hole for coaches. No matter how good the coach is, when you get to Inter, you just wait to go to Waterloo.

The third club to be linked to Giorgio is from Italy. This time it's the Italian Lazio club. This one is even more outrageous. Even if Lazio carried the sedan chair eight times, it was impossible for George to go to Lazio.

In the end, there are things like Liverpool and Tottenham are on the list.

Some media even swore that George had already met with Moratti. Or maybe Daniel and George had an agreement or something.

It's as if George has become a cult target for all clubs. In fact, until now, George himself has not received an invitation. This also made George understand what it means to make something out of nothing.

But no matter what, Blackburn Rovers reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and George has completely become a young coach in European football.

There are a lot of such rumors, and many of them are dazzling.

If George wasn't an insider, even George would think it was true just by looking at their newspaper. That's what I'm talking about. Their pen is absolutely top-notch. George sometimes thinks that if these journalists change careers in the future, they can write online novels for a living.

This ability to imagine is absolutely incomparable to others.

But the rumors quickly faded away.

Because Blackburn Rovers held a press conference on the night before the Carabao Cup final.

Williams has announced on behalf of Blackburn Rovers that contract extension talks between Blackburn Rovers and George have come to an end. George will sign a three-year contract extension with the club. Williams didn't say anything else, other than the news of a three-year contract extension.

No other questions from the media were answered. Finally, he said: "Coach Levy is the head coach of Blackburn. Blackburn Rovers built the team entirely on the ideas of Coach Levy, and both the club and Coach Levy want to maintain their current relationship. ”

"I would say that Coach Levy will definitely stay at Blackburn. He will create a legend of his own in Blackburn, and he will also lead Blackburn to create a new history that belongs to Blackburn. ”

Not only was a press conference held, but the news was announced on the front page of Blackburn's official website.

The news spread like wings in English football.

Many people are speculating about what George's annual salary will be this time. But Williams did not announce it.

However, many media still broke the news that George's annual salary for this contract renewal exceeded 2.5 million pounds. Some media say it's £3 million, while others say £3.5 million. Anyway, none of the speculative media are talking about two million pounds.

Don't say £3 million, £2.5 million, even if it's £2 million, that's the first annual salary of the current Premier League manager. Surpassing Ferguson and Arsene Wenger.

In fact, these media are superb.

George's contract extension with Blackburn Rovers has reached an annual salary of £2.7 million. This is just a fixed salary, and there are many other aspects of the bonus problem. Even with this kind of contract, Alan is not satisfied.

Allen thinks that if George wasn't in too much of a hurry, he could have gotten a better contract for George.

But George was already happy with the contract. Although George is arrogant, he doesn't dare to say that he is stronger than Ferguson and Wenger. Or more so than their place at the club.

To be able to get 2.7 million pounds, such a high annual salary is quite high for George.

At the moment, there is no one happier than the Blackburn fans. They didn't care what George's salary was, they just knew that George would stay at Blackburn for the next three years. When they heard the news, they all celebrated. George stayed, and Blackburn fans believe that Blackburn will definitely not lack champions in the future.

And Steven. Yellen spoke highly of the contract extension in the Blackburn Evening News. "Blackburn's Georgian era is coming soon!" ”。

Anyway, the contract renewal before the League Cup final made the Blackburn players feel relieved at once.

When George was interviewed by reporters, he smiled in the face of the reporter's annual salary: "This annual salary is indeed very high, and I am very surprised." It's almost the Carabao Cup final and I'm under a lot of pressure. ”

The reporter was stunned, could George also say that he was under a lot of pressure.

"You have to be worthy of your salary. The salary is so high, I'm embarrassed not to win the championship. But luckily, I think I'm lucky to have a League Cup title at this juncture. ”

Hearing George's words, those reporters realized that George was making a championship declaration in a roundabout way.

It's fun, it's so fun. George had dealt with Houllier many times, but this was the first time he had challenged so head-on.

(To be continued)