Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 12 No Renewal of Contract (Second Update with Guarantee)
When the Liverpool players returned to the locker room in despair, they were surprised to find Chen Yingxiong inside.
"I thought you would be back soon, so I came here early. But it seems like this hit you a bit hard, so I waited here for a long time before I saw you." Seeing his teammates, Chen Yingxiong said .
He sounded like a head coach when he said this. But no one found it strange, everyone was used to it. Sometimes they can't even tell whether the head coach is Gerrard or Chen Yingxiong in the locker room.
As the oldest person in the team, it is normal for him to speak in an old-fashioned manner. You must know that at Chen Yingxiong's age, he can make a name for himself in the coaching world.
Gerrard also has no objection to Chen Yingxiong saying this about his team. In fact, in daily training and competition, Chen Yingxiong is indeed equivalent to half an assistant coach.
Otherwise it will not be easy for him to lead this team.
The teammates didn't care about Chen Yingxiong's tone and attitude. What they cared about was that Chen Yingxiong would show up in the locker room.
"I'm not here to comfort and encourage you. I'm here to apologize to you. Because of my impulse, we ultimately lost this championship..."
Hearing what Chen Yingxiong said, Gerrard stood up: "This is not your responsibility, hero. Regardless of victory or failure, the whole team should bear it."
Chen Yingxiong shook his head: "No, Stephen. This is my responsibility. Please let me take all the responsibility on myself. Because then when I come back next season, I will be full of strength. I am thinking here Let me tell you, it doesn’t matter if we lose the championship for one season, and it doesn’t matter if we don’t win fifteen consecutive championships. This is just a small episode. In the end, the fifteen league championships will definitely come to us, and it’s not far away, just next season! Wait until I come back next season and we will win the league championship together!"
Since being suspended, Chen Yingxiong showed his ambition in front of everyone for the first time.
Everyone originally thought that being suspended for nine months would definitely sap Chen Yingxiong's fighting spirit. After all, he is almost forty years old. At such an old age, without football for another nine months, it is easy to become tired physically and mentally.
The club said it would extend his contract for another two years, in everyone's opinion. It's more out of a desire to show his attitude, rather than really expecting him to play for another two years.
But now it turns out they were all wrong. Chen Yingxiong did not admit defeat. He was still the same Chen Yingxiong who was always full of desire for victory and championship.
This discovery is more exciting for the team than what Chen Yingxiong said.
For a time, Liverpool's backbone was found!
The frustrated looks on many players' faces disappeared and smiles began to appear.
Now they are full of expectations and motivation for next season.
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After all the players had finished rinsing and returned to the bus, Gerrard stayed in the dressing room, chatting and joking with the players. Chen Yingxiong said in a lively atmosphere: "Thank you, hero."
"Saying thank you is too foreign, Steve. Which one of us is following the other!" Chen Yingxiong said with a smile.
Gerrard also smiled and stopped continuing the topic. He turned to Chen Yingxiong and asked: "Are you really planning to renew your contract with the club for another two years?"
Chen Yingxiong gave him an answer that was both reasonable and surprising to him.
"No. I will not renew my contract with the club."
It is reasonable because Chen Yingxiong's contract expires next season. After it expires, he will be 41 years old. Any player should have retired at this age, so it is reasonable. What surprised him was that judging from his previous high-spirited Yang Zi, he originally thought that Chen Yingxiong would accept the team's kindness and continue to lead the team forward.
"I have said it a long time ago. The reason why I have repeatedly renewed my contract with the team and insisted on not retiring until I am forty years old is just because I want to help Liverpool break Manchester United's record of winning the Premier League. Fifteen championships, The most difficult thing is time. I can only win one every year. So I have to play until I am forty years old. I thought I could achieve this goal when I was forty years old, and then I just played casually in the last season. Who would have thought that I would win Such a thing happened...but fortunately, my contract with the team still has one year left, so I still have a chance. After this task is completed, I will retire directly."
Gerrard knew this, but he always thought it was just an excuse for Chen Yingxiong to want to play more football.
He has really never seen a player who is as eager to compete, eager to win, and eager to win as Chen Yingxiong. No matter how many championships he wins, this trait has never changed.
That kind of thing like losing motivation after becoming famous and sleeping on your laurels has never happened to Chen Yingxiong. Otherwise, he could retire directly at the age of twenty-three. Because at the age of twenty-three, he had won all the honors that a professional player could win in the club.
Hearing Chen Yingxiong say such words in a very sure tone, Gerald sighed: "What a pity."
Chen Yingxiong smiled: "A forty-one-year-old man is retiring. What's such a pity?"
"I thought you would play until you were fifty..."
"Then the FA and Platini will directly send killers to kill me, right?"
Both men laughed.
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At the post-match press conference, Gerrard attended as the team's head coach. He said that although Liverpool lost the league championship this season, the team will not stop pursuing the championship.
"We will come back next season."
When a reporter asked him whether the team's eventual loss of the league championship this season was related to Chen Yingxiong's suspension, he denied it.
"Whether it is victory or defeat, it is a matter of the whole team and has nothing to do with any one player."
The next day, all major media focused on Liverpool's loss of the league championship.
The tone of most of the media is gloating.
Because Liverpool has monopolized the championship in this league for long enough. They have been champions for fourteen consecutive years. Everyone is tired of aesthetics. Now Arsenal beat Liverpool and won the league title, causing everyone to cheer. As a loser, Liverpool will naturally be severely stepped on and trampled in the mud.
Everyone vented all the negative emotions they had accumulated for fourteen years, such as envy, jealousy, hatred, etc.
Eventually, a wave of cynicism was formed against Liverpool. The British took their cold humor to the extreme, and all kinds of jokes mocking Liverpool emerged one after another on the Internet.
The more serious media began to analyze the demise of the Liverpool dynasty and what the post-Liverpool dynasty era will look like. Looking at it now, in today's Premier League, no team has the absolute strength to dominate the Premier League, unlike the original Manchester United, nor like the later Liverpool. It seems that the future Premier League is likely to be the Warring States Period when all the heroes came together.
But this is a good thing for the Premier League.
Because competition has become more intense, and competition is an inevitable element of development.
"Everyone is bored and tired of the game where everyone fights to the death every season and Liverpool wins the championship. Then in the future we will see the thriving Premier League again! Liverpool can no longer monopolize the championship of this event, Chen The tyrant's dictatorship has been overthrown! Cheer, fans who love the Premier League all over the world, cheer for freedom, cheer for new life!"
one media outlet shouted excitedly.
In response to this phenomenon, reporter Bascombe of the Liverpool Echo wrote in a column: "The failure of a team did not receive sympathy and comfort, but instead received such large-scale ridicule and the most vicious attacks. .Liverpool fans should not feel frustrated and painful, or even angry, but should be proud. Because if we were not so strong, how could they be so crazy? As the hero said, the more ferociously the enemy attacks us, it shows The more they are afraid of us. This is the highest reward for us. There can be many championships, but being able to force everyone to put aside their differences and unite against us is the glory of Liverpool. This glory is in England. This has never happened before in the century-old football history! So Liverpool fans, raise your heads and face the cynicism bravely. Because the era created by us at Liverpool is unprecedented and unprecedented, and it is these clowns who use whatever means they can. What cannot be erased is that it is there, fourteen consecutive championships, there quietly watching the clowns who went crazy because of one of our failures!”
But even Bascombe did not say that Liverpool's future will be better, but chose the angle that past honors cannot be erased.
Obviously, he is not particularly optimistic about Liverpool's future prospects, so he chose to remain silent on this topic.
His silence seemed justified, and whose revelry seemed justified.
Because just two days after the end of the league, Chen Yingxiong's official spokesperson Vera officially announced through the media that Chen Yingxiong would not renew his contract with Liverpool Club for two years. His contract will expire on July 1 next year, and the expiration date will be when he retires!
Arsenal regained the league title after 24 years, and Liverpool's fourteenth consecutive championship came to an abrupt end... Such exciting news was eclipsed after Chen Yingxiong's statement and was quickly swept into the spotlight.
All media headlines were replaced by Chen Yingxiong’s statement. The news that he announced that he would not renew his contract and set a retirement date instantly became the focus of attention around the world. The popularity on the Internet even surpassed major world security events such as the Middle East peace process and the deterioration of the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Everyone is sensitively aware that after Chen Yingxiong's statement comes out, it means that an era is about to come to an end...! ~!
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