After returning home from a full day of marching, Zhao Yaning was very surprised to find that he had received a call from an unfamiliar number.

"Hello, I'm Gerald." The person across from him had some very thick accents in his English, a bit like Scottish — and Zhao Yaning later learned that it was a typical Liverpool accent, "Steven Gerrard, I think you should have heard of me, I'm from the Liverpool team." ”

"Of course I've heard of you, excuse me, is there anything you can do?" Zhao Yaning was also a little surprised that Gerald would call him.

Liverpool are his new club, but he has always been because, even if he is contacted, it should be the manager of the team or the captain of the team who contacts him first. Now Liverpool's coach is Houllier, and the captain is Owen, how can he contact him instead of the vice-captain?

"Hello, first of all, congratulations on winning the Ligue 1 title and reaching the Champions League final." Gerrard's words sounded sincere, with some admiration, some admiration, and some nervousness in his tone, "As your future teammate, I feel the need to congratulate you. ”

"Well, okay, thanks." Zhao Yaning agreed.

"Then, on behalf of Liverpool, I want to say a word of welcome to you." Gerrard continued, "Then there is, if you need anything when you get to Liverpool, I can help you. ”

"Thank you." Zhao Yaning said perfunctorily. Gerrard on the other end of the phone heard his perfunctory words and explained, "We have a bit of a mess this season...... Michael's transfer has not yet been finalized, and Mr. Houllier is about to resign, you should have been contacted by the coach or the captain, but now, it is up to me. ”

Although this is a simple statement, it contains two messages.

The first, naturally, is that Houllier has already decided to resign. Zhao Yaning's transfer has always been handled by Houllier, and Zhao Yaning has always thought that he went to the Premier League and played with Houllier, but now at this time, he suddenly told him that Houllier had resigned, which inevitably made him feel a little confused.

And the second message is that it seems that Owen is really not ready to stay at Liverpool......

Zhao Yaning had heard someone mention Owen. He was an extremely intelligent person, not only with a high ball quotient, but also with a high IQ and emotional intelligence. Coupled with a handsome face and several highlight performances in major competitions, his name as a golden boy has always been very loud.

He has his own Owen promotion company, which focuses on his own image promotion and also pays attention to the relationship building with the media. It is precisely because of his cleverness that he was able to rank himself at the top of the Ballon d'Or in 98 with a goal against Argentina, and it is precisely because of his cleverness that he was able to make the 2001 Ballon d'Or selection, so that Raul, who had the advantage, lost to him because of a moral stain and the defeat of the UEFA Super Cup.

It is this kind of cleverness that has made Liverpool's image over the years change from a 'team built around Owen' to a 'team that Owen drags forward'.

The former is for everyone to sacrifice for him alone, and the latter is for him to sacrifice for everyone. The media never mentions that Liverpool even went to great lengths to get rid of Robbie Fowler in order to get him on the road. They will only mention that this team is Owen's team alone, and without Owen they are nothing - although no one has ever seen what Liverpool is like without Owen, but everyone thinks so.

These words are usually spoken when everyone chats in private. When Moreau said this, he was quite upset for Raul. After all, Raul really sacrificed a lot for Real Madrid, but he missed the Ballon d'Or. Morientes is Raul's best friend and certainly doesn't say good things about Owen. In fact, it stands to reason that Raul is not stupid, but when he does things, he is always not as decisive as Owen does, and he does a lot of publicity, but he can't play Owen as slippery, in Morientes's opinion, this is the only reason why Raul lost to Owen in the Golden Ball selection.

In the past two years, Liverpool has not changed much, and Owen's mind is not in Liverpool. Everyone is rumored that he is going to Real Madrid and become a new member of the Galaxy Battleship. But this has always been unbelievable. First, Liverpool is also one of the few heroes in Europe, although it is down, but it will not be poached by Real Madrid, especially the captain who is still from his own academy, and it is impossible to sell it for money. Second, it is also because Real Madrid has enough strikers and does not need to buy any more strikers, Owen went, is he on the bench or Raul on the bench?

But with Irving never renewing his contract, it looks like he's really ready to go.

"I didn't know what help you needed, and to be honest, I didn't try to help my teammates, and I wasn't very good as a vice-captain...... Michael is very good at dealing with these. Of us, only Reese is from Monaco and he should have some experience of living in Liverpool, so I'll go and ask him for you if you need it. ”

"Thank you no more."

After a few words of greeting, Zhao Yaning put down the phone. He understood what Gerrard meant, this call was just Gerrard's desire to determine what kind of person his future teammate was, a person who was easy to get along with, a proud person, or a grumpy person - Zhao Yaning's transfer value broke Liverpool's record, Liverpool really wanted to use Zhao Yaning as the main force, and Gerrard naturally had to know Zhao Yaning's temper.

But this conversation was quite pleasant. Zhao Yaning's temper is not bad, and listening to the tone of Gerald on the other end of the phone, he will not be a bad-tempered person.

For Gerald, Zhao Yaning doesn't know as much as he does about Owen after all. After all, Gerrard is too low-key in comparison, far less showy than Owen. He just knows that Gerrard also seems to be a very outstanding player, and since his debut, he has been hailed as a new generation of Premier League defenders on a par with Vieira and Keane - this evaluation is naturally quite high. And a person with such a high evaluation, Xìng Ge can still keep a low profile, which also makes Zhao Yaning feel that this person should not be too difficult to get along with.

Liverpool, shouldn't live in a bad environment, right?

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"I called." Putting down the phone, Gerald turned his head and said to the people around him, "It sounds good-tempered, it doesn't look like a slippery head or a violent temper, it shouldn't be too difficult to get along with." ”

"It's hard to say. At the age of less than twenty, he led the team to the Champions League final, and this kid's talent is also at the level of genius. The temperament of a genius is okay if it's weird, it's not weird like Michael, it's even more disgusting. The people next to him shook their heads, "Stephen, you're too gullible to trust people, that's not good." You still think Michael is a good person, and you know how accurate the good guy you say is. ”

"Jamie, don't say that. After all, Michael is a Golden Globe winner, and his pursuit is different from ours, and it is understandable......"

"He's from Liverpool!" The people around him were angry, "You, me and him, we are all Liverpool's academy!" Born in Liverpool, raised in Liverpool, died in Liverpool! G14's academy player, captain, Ballon d'Or winner left the team and defected before his own hit! Is there such a cowardly Golden Globe winner? Which wealthy family would have such a thing! ”

'He's an Everton fan......

"Me too! My whole family is! But so what? I'm playing for Liverpool for a day and I can't eat inside or out! ”

"Jamie, it's happened, stop complaining." Gerald looked at him and sighed, "I thought that Gerald, Carragher, Owen, these names could become a generation of memories for Anfield, but now ......"

"The fans will remember us." Carragher opened his mouth, "Those who are gone will naturally be thrown into the trash by the fans." ”

Gerald shook his head, he was powerless to refute anything. Owen, the captain of the team, is so determined to leave, and he is not going to Real Madrid, as a Liverpool youth academy, he colluded with Real Madrid to help Real Madrid lower the price and force Liverpool to sell him cheaply, which is really shameless.

Yes, he can have a thousand reasons why he didn't win the title at Liverpool, he can't see a future at Liverpool, and he influenced the Ballon d'Or winner to make a big splash at Liverpool – all of those reasons are justified. But as a professional player, refusing to renew the contract, and at the same time contacting other clubs, biting the bite of the mouth except for a certain club not to go, to help the other party squeeze their own club, this kind of thing, put on anyone, it is inevitable to have an unprofessional evaluation, not to mention, Owen is still the captain of the team, and he is the team's youth training, such an approach, not to mention a giant team like Liverpool, even if it is an ordinary team, the captain and other teams collude with other teams to try to reduce the price, it will be considered a loss of conscience.

However, Owen has no problem doing this. He is a smart man, and his ability to win over the media and build momentum for himself is not small at all. With his eloquence and mind, it is not too difficult to say that Liverpool is sorry for him.

"We can play in the Champions League next season." Gerald felt a little bitter when he thought about this question, "What's wrong with staying?" He is obviously also a Golden Melody Award winner, doesn't he want to lead the team to win the championship as a core identity? He stayed at Liverpool to win the Champions League and league titles, and he went to Real Madrid to win the championship, and his achievements are obviously different. ”

"It's not the same difficulty. Not everyone has the guts to play Hardmode. Carragher replied, "Some people are born without seeds. ”

"Don't say that...... "Gerard scratched his head, "and, speaking of which, would you be interested in going on a trip to Germany with me?" I'm going to go to the Champions League final and see what our new team-mates look like. ”

"Okay, I'll go with you." Carragher asked, "But don't expect too much from him. In my opinion, he just wants to use Liverpool as his springboard, and you better not expect too much from him. ”

"Jamie, we have to trust our teammates to play well." Gerald shook his head, "Let's not say that in the future, okay?" We don't have good players, we don't have the quality to play out, we don't have the superstars, but in the end, we can't throw it away. ”

"Thinking about solidarity right now?" Carragher laughed, "Do you already make yourself captain?" ”

"Whether I do it or not, I already am." Gerald turned his head, "Jamie, I'm not going to do what Michael did, so, be obedient to my captain, okay?" ”

Carragher looked at Gerald and nodded. Indeed, the person in front of him, ω· u(8) Update the fastest reading network