And Gerrard, who joined Barcelona, rejected AC Milan's sincere request for his red and blue blood!

If he had gone to Serie A, his future might have been different.

Because at that time, AC Milan and Gerrard belonged to the same position contender Gennaro Gattuso did not have any outstanding performance, and there was a high probability that the competition would not win against Gerrard López.

That is, starting from Gerard López, Barcelona has a tradition of poaching Valencia players, and in the future, they will successively poach players such as Villa, Alba, Andre Gomez, Paco Alcacer and other players from the Bat Army, including many superstars.

Under this wave of output, Barcelona spent all the "Figo's stinky money", and even lost more than 10 million, which satisfied the fans.

Barcelona firmly believe that with such a strong recruitment, they will have a bright season!

But no one would have thought that Barcelona spent so much money that it couldn't occupy a transfer headline after Figo's transfer dust settled.

Because on the other side of the Impberian Peninsula, a transfer of Sporting Lisbon shook Europe.

"Sporting Lisbon Club Official Website: Warmly welcome FIFA's first World Footballer of the Year, Mr. Ballon d'Or and German Footballer of the Year Lothar Mateus to Sporting Lisbon! 》

Thundered!

Thunder rolls!

With such a piece of news, ask who else?

Sporting Lisbon is unremarkable.

Mateus is also already a twilight superstar, and there is not much traffic.

But when a star who everyone thought would retire suddenly announced that he would fight again, there were still many fans who were excited.

It's the same shocking announcement that Torres is coming back in 2022 after years of retirement, even if it's just an advertising campaign.

Then related news continued to burst out, and "Record" gave almost all first-hand information, once again dominating this summer.

"Mateus mysteriously joined, and the salary is only the original maximum salary of Sporting Lisbon! Compared to the Bayern era, the price is on sale! 》

"Mateus joins Sporting Lisbon for the first reason: Trigra and Marksa are good coaches, and I want to work with a good manager! 》

"Mateus joins Sporting Lisbon for the second reason: Although the German team is out of the group stage of the European Championship, Deng Kai did not tell me in advance that he predicted this result, otherwise we may play even worse. It's my gratitude for helping Deng Kai and Sporting Lisbon. 》

"Mateus joins Sporting Lisbon for the third reason: I want to lead a group of young people to the championship and prove that Bayern and Germany did not fail because of me. 》

All kinds of news flew all over the sky.

The Sun, which has a large network in England, was quick to refute several of the Record's stories.

The Sun: "The biggest promoter of Mateus joining Sporting Lisbon is Deng Kai! The star's wife will play a key role, we previously judged that Mateus was ready to join Manchester United, but now it seems that Deng Kai has been preparing for this day! ”

"On the eve of Mateus' arrival at Sporting Lisbon, he attended a meeting of the wives of the stars in Buckinghamshire, which was called by Victoria and Hathaway, and Marlene also brought Mateus to attend."

"There were other heavyweights who were also at the party, two Frenchmen and one Spaniard!"

The Sun always knows how to play with traffic.

Two Frenchmen and one Spaniard simply whetted the appetite.

Everyone speculated.

But soon, one of the Frenchmen surfaced.

Sporting Lisbon took away French champion Didier Deschamps from Chelsea! The transfer fee is 3.5 million euros! 》

"Didier Deschamps admitted that he attended the Wives of the Stars, but he didn't reveal the identity of the other Frenchman!" 》

Found it! Zidane and Beckham filmed an advertisement for a certain brand on the same day, and the location was in England! 》

Zinedine Zidane: I was invited to the party, it was the girls' home stadium, and we players just gathered around and chatted. 》

"French football: Zidane may choose to leave, his contract renewal with Juventus has been unnegotiated, and the star's wife will make him shake Juventus? 》

Marca: Florentino is very interested in Zidane! Real Madrid need all the best superstars! 》

Juventus: I am very happy to have Zinedine Zidane sign a new contract, he was the most important player for Juventus in 2005! 》

Good guy, Deng Kai said that the news of "The Sun", how could it be "French Football" to pick up, and how could Spain's "Marca" follow the trend.

Now that I look at it, this is Zidane's commotion to put pressure on Juventus and make Juventus agree to his high-salary contract renewal conditions.

The point is that even Juventus can't say half a word of complaint.

Because Zidane was very cooperative from beginning to end.

It's Real Madrid and the star's wife.

How else to say that Zidane is a smart man.

You are really forcing the palace team on the surface, even if you sign a contract, in the eyes of the high-level, in the eyes of the fans, in the eyes of your teammates, can you still be the perfect Zidane?

Of course, after this incident, Deng Kai called Zidane and praised Qi Zu's operation.

Zidane continued to pack garlic, but in the end he made it convenient for Deng Kai and asked Deng Kai for a few phone numbers in France and Italy.

Both expressed their satisfaction with this "cooperation".

As for the Spaniard who attended the party, he still didn't hide it.

Pep Guardiola was found by the media.

In this regard, Guardiola generously admitted: "I was invited by Deng Kai to go, but it was only for life outside of work, and we talked about some ideas about investing in opening a restaurant in England. ”

"We don't talk much about football, mainly because I sign more."

Pep Guardiola has dispelled the doubts of Barcelona fans.

But there is one thing to say, Barcelona bought Petit, which shows that Guardiola is not so reliable in their eyes.

Especially since '97 and '98, Guardiola seems to have had more injuries.

Last season, he missed several games where the manager wanted him to play, citing maintenance reasons, which caused fans to bombard Guardiola at the time.

But Guardiola's explanation for this is that his sports medicine specialist advised him to rest, otherwise he could suffer a major injury.

People never care about what "happens", they just care about what happens.

Pep Guardiola lost a wave of trust at the time.

There are even Barcelona fans who said at the star's wife meeting, why didn't Guardiola go to Sporting Lisbon?

With Petit and Gerrard, Guardiola is actually dispensable at Barcelona.

This made Guardiola angry.