Volume 1: Heroes Appear, People Pay Attention Chapter 5 Martin; O'Neal (Second Update, Please Vote for Me)

Chapter 5 Martin; O'Neal (Second update, please vote for me)

After attending Cassano's wedding, Chen Yingxiong went on vacation with Cabrera.

Their vacation was brief, especially considering Cabrera's situation - she still had to work. Therefore, Chen Yingxiong cherishes the time spent with Cabrera.

As a player, Chen Yingxiong still has a vacation after all.

The club's managers are not so relaxed.

Niang has been busy since the end of the season.

The first thing he needs to do is announce the new head coach.

Last season, many media have been speculating on who will be Liverpool's new head coach. They listed many candidates, and the bookmakers also offered odds. However, Liverpool Football Club has never announced their answer.

No matter which media or betting company it is, the first person they list is Martin O'Neill, the well-known English football coach. The candidates for second and third place are different. Some are optimistic about Mourinho, some are optimistic about Villas-Boas, who has been dismissed from Chelsea, and some are optimistic about former Manchester City coach Mark Hughes or former England coach Michael Ra. Lun.

Obviously everyone is most optimistic about Martin O'Neal, and it makes sense for everyone to be optimistic about him. Martin Orr, you are a well-known and capable head coach in English football. You have a good reputation and good coaching results in the past. He has experience coaching small teams such as Norwich and Aston Villa, as well as successful experience coaching Scottish Premier League giants like Celtic.

So coaching Liverpool is something I can safely do.

Secondly, O'Neill's reputation is not much lower than that of Ferguson, Wenger, Dalglish and others. He was also very successful as a player, so he has enough authority in the locker room to shock people.

In addition, Martin O'Neal has been unemployed at home. If the club invites him to come out, it does not need to pay liquidated damages to other clubs.

After calculating so many comprehensive factors, Martin O'Neill is indeed the most suitable head coach for Liverpool.

But everyone is just guessing, and no one has confirmed it from other channels.

Now that the season is over, the answer is revealed. Liverpool's new head coach is Martin O'Neill!

"We are very happy to announce this decision. Martin will become our coach. We believe that under his leadership, Liverpool will definitely gain new life!" At the press conference announcing Martin O'Neill's signing of Liverpool, the general manager of Liverpool Club, Ni Ang Lu said so.

Martin O'Neill next to him was smiling and nodding slightly.

The two men then stood up and shook hands, allowing reporters to take photos. Under the flashlight, the two people were smiling and the atmosphere was harmonious.

It looked like this handshake was a match made in heaven.

But in fact, the specific negotiation and signing process is definitely not as easy as this press conference showed.

Liverpool did not wait until it was announced that Dalglish was sacked before going to find the head coach. By then it was too late.

You must know that "Black Cat" Sunderland was also looking for a head coach at the time, and Martin O'Neill was their target.

If you wait until Dalglish is confirmed to be out of class before contacting Martin O'Neill, I am afraid that the Northern Ireland coach will have been snatched away by Sunderland.

Niang never fights unprepared. When he decided to drive Dalglish away, he had already started looking for Dalglish's attackers. And the search process did not last long, because candidates were easy to find and there were not many. As analyzed by the media, there is only one person who best meets Liverpool's requirements, and that is Martin O'Neill.

Therefore, not long after the start of the season, Niang had already contacted Martin O'Neill.

In May 2010, O'Neill had a conflict with the chairman of Aston Villa over the transfer issue, and finally resigned angrily. For the next year, he was unemployed and idle at home. So Niang has long been eyeing this coach.

He ran to talk to O'Neill, hoping that O'Neill could coach Liverpool.

If the negotiations are carried out in accordance with the requirements of traditional English clubs, there should be no problem with this signing. The club manager said to the head coach: "Come to us and be the manager." As long as the salary can be agreed upon, there will be no problem.

But Liverpool is different from other Premier League teams.

The person in charge of this club is an Italian. Italian clubs and English clubs are completely two different things.

Niang hopes to gain the decision-making power on transfers. He hopes to monopolize the power of transfers. The club's team building policy will follow his direction. He will sell and buy people.

But Martin O'Neill firmly disagrees with this approach. As a traditional British head coach and manager, Martin O'Neill is used to being the manager of the team. He has the say on all team-related matters for the entire team at the same age. Calculate.

As for the treatment issue, there is nothing to talk about. The price offered by Niang to Martin O'Neal is very high and will definitely satisfy O'Neal. But if these prerequisites cannot be negotiated, there will be no chance for the subsequent bidding part to be displayed.

The two sides have been in a stalemate on this issue for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that Liverpool is a traditional giant in English football and is still attractive to O'Neill, O'Neill might have signed with Sunderland long ago.

In fact, when O'Neill was at Aston Villa, he was not a powerful and monopolistic head coach, otherwise he would not have fallen out with the Aston Villa chairman over the transfer issue.

Before this, he had a happy relationship with the Aston Villa chairman. He knows Aston Villa's positioning - this is a mid-table team, so the club will inevitably use the purchase and sale of players to earn the difference in order to survive. Today's football is already an era of capital football, and he is not so stubborn that he thinks football cannot be tainted by money.

So he had a pretty good time at Aston Villa before. But this time the fall out with Aston Villa chairman Randy Lerner was because the American went too far. Randy Lerner not only does not plan to continue selling people to strengthen the team in the summer, but also plans to sell the team's core players.

In fact, Aston Villa also sold their main players in the past, but selling one every season was still within Martin O'Neill's affordability. After selling one, he could use his own abilities to create another one.

But this time Randy Lerner went too far. He actually planned to sell the team's two main wing players at one go, one was Milner and the other was Ashley Young. This was intolerable to O'Neal. For him, the club selling one main player every year can also be seen as a normal practice of letting hens lay eggs and then selling the eggs. But the current approach has become killing the goose to obtain the egg, and he cannot agree to it anyway.

He resigned in anger.

Niang has analyzed the detailed reasons for Martin O'Neill's resignation and believes that Martin O'Neill is not the kind of person who must insist on his power, and can actually be accommodating. Otherwise, he wouldn't have endured Aston Villa selling him one of his main players every year.

That's why Niang went to find Martin O'Neill. If O'Neal is a chaste and fierce head coach, he must get his own power, otherwise he would rather die than obey, and Niang will not look for him at all.

Since we can talk about it, it will be easy to handle.

The next thing is nothing more than a process of negotiation and compromise between the two parties. Martin O'Neill hopes to dig out a little more power from Niang, while Niang tries to poach O'Neill at the minimum cost.

The final agreement they reached was that Niang's transfer action must be dealt with by Martin O'Neill first. As the head coach, he has the right to make suggestions, while Niang promised to respect the head coach's wishes as much as possible. In this way, in fact, the main right to transfer is still in the hands of Niang. As compensation, Niang promised to vigorously introduce players to strengthen the team's strength, and will not easily sell the main players unless the head coach requests the sale.

Then in terms of contract benefits, O'Neal was given a price that satisfied him.

In this way, the two parties signed an agreement, but it has never been made public.

It was not until the end of the season that Liverpool officially announced the news.

This news is not surprising, everyone’s previous guesses were already correct.

Many people even think that judging from Niang's decision, although he is an Italian-Chinese, his understanding of English football is fairly reliable.

Liverpool's selection of Martin O'Neill is the best result. Better than the unrealistic Mourinho, right? In addition, Mark Hughes and McLaren are not as powerful as Martin O'Neill. It seems that Liverpool fans can really start to look forward to a stable morale.

When O'Neill was coaching Aston Villa, he helped the team qualify for the European competition for three consecutive seasons, keeping a weak team in the upper mid-table. If you look at Aston Villa without Martin O'Neill, who ranked ninth last season and missed any European competitions, you will know the level of Martin O'Neill.

Martin O'Neill, who studied under Brian Clough, is one of the few people who can achieve success both as a player and as a coach.

Coaching Liverpool is an important opportunity for him. If he can succeed at Liverpool, his reputation will not only be limited to England, but will spread to the European continent.

Who doesn’t have some ambition? Martin O'Neill naturally hopes to become as famous as Ferguson and Wenger. That's why he would rather give up some of his rights to coach Liverpool.

Whether a team is rebuilding or making changes, the most important person is the head coach.

If the head coach is unsure, the team's pre-season preparation plan cannot be carried out.

After Martin O'Neill signed for Liverpool, Niang could launch his own transfer offensive.

Of course, now he has to discuss it with O'Neal.