Chapter 615 Internal and External Difficulties

On the afternoon of December 22, Anfield Stadium.

Liverpool fans were on the pitch earlier than usual ahead of their home game against Portsmouth in the 18th round of the Premier League.

Because they know that before the game, the team will have a special celebration.

Yang Yang, who just received the World Player of the Year from the Zurich Opera House in Switzerland, will show all Liverpool fans the World Player of the Year trophy and the European Ballon d'Or trophy to all Liverpool fans at Anfield Stadium.

Liverpool fans are also full of expectations for this, and everyone came to the stadium early.

Before the game, before the referee brought the players of the two teams into the stadium, Yang Yang held a trophy in one hand and, accompanied by the club's general manager Rick Parry, came out of the player tunnel and came to the middle of the stadium.

In an instant, the whole Anfield stadium burst into applause, and more than 50,000 fans cheered in unison.

This is the first world footballer in the history of the Premier League, and even the English top league. This honor will always belong to Liverpool, just like Owen was the first to win the European Ballon d'Or for the English top league.

All this is Liverpool's glory, in the history of the club.

Although it has been three days since he won the award, Yang Yang still looks very happy. He raised the trophy with both hands high in the stadium and swung it towards the fans in the stands, showing the results of his hard work in the past season.

Liverpool fans were long, continuous cheers and applause.

The commentator of the stadium also kept introducing Yang Yang's contribution to the team in the past year, as well as the honors and championships he has won for the team since he joined the team, which made the fans in the stands change. more excited.

Fans began to shout out the league championship one after another, and more and more, the momentum was getting bigger and bigger.

In the hearts of Liverpool fans, the Premier League title has extraordinary meaning.

In fact, in the eyes of Premier League teams, the weight of the Premier League champion is not lost to the Champions League.

Of course, this is not to say that the Champions League is unimportant, but because the Premier League champions have a very large harvest, and the benefits are not even lost to the Champions League, plus local fans attach great importance to the Premier League. The weight is not lost to the Champions League.

But for Liverpool, the league title is not just about money, it's about Liverpool's revival.

When more and more fans were shouting for the league championship, many fans also put up banners, telling the Americans to get out of the way, which made Rick Parry's expression very embarrassing.

Liverpool's recent financial situation is not ideal, and the two American bosses have basically stopped coming to Anfield.

The reason for all this is that, not long ago, Wachovia Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland announced to the public that they had temporarily shelved the loan plan of the two American owners of Liverpool, which amounted to 350 million pounds, for a period of up to a year.

In other words, before 2009, the bank will not approve the loan plan of the two American owners of Liverpool.

Back in February, the two American owners bought Liverpool with a £220 million loan from the Royal Bank of Scotland, and announced that they would spend £60 million to build a new stadium with a capacity of 70,000 fans.

But half a year later, after layers of media disclosures, especially after the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, everyone gradually discovered that the two American bosses simply did not have that much money to run such a large project.

Especially after this bank loan of up to 350 million pounds was put on hold, it caught Liverpool by surprise.

The construction approval for the new stadium has been issued, but the loan has not been approved, especially after the media digging deeply, it was found that the two American owners had bankruptcy experience before, and their finances were not at all rich. The bank was not at ease with them. .

It is said to be shelved, but in fact it is basically impossible to approve.

Just like the relationship between Manchester United and the Glazer family, the two American owners are in financial crisis, and Liverpool is also not much better. According to the current debt situation, Liverpool has to pay up to 30 million every year since 2008. Interest in the pound, which will put a heavy operating pressure on Liverpool.

Even, with the arrival of the winter break transfer, the outside world has been rumored that Liverpool does not rule out selling a number of players such as Crouch and Riise in exchange for considerable funds to improve the club's operating conditions.

As Liverpool's most valuable player, the outside media has been rumored that if Liverpool receives a suitable offer, it is not ruled out that Yang Yang will be put on the transfer market, but Liverpool will at least get a transfer fee of more than 80 million euros.

Even before the media revealed that Liverpool rejected Barcelona's offer of 60 million euros.

In this case, let alone the fans, even the team captain Gerrard was very annoyed, because he had welcomed the two American bosses with both hands before, but who would have thought that the final result would be like this?

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Rumors from the outside world are disturbing, and the Liverpool team is also panicking.

As the team's number one star, Yang Yang is also duty-bound.

Just this morning he held talks with Rick Parry, Benitez, Gerrard and Carragher at the Hope Street Hotel.

Rick Parry solemnly promised on behalf of the club's management that the club currently has no plans to sell any players, except for Mohamed Sissoko, who has long wanted to leave the team.

The general manager of the club also reassured Yang Yang, saying that the team would never sell Crouch, which was a false rumor in the media, and also did not receive an offer from Barcelona, ​​because according to the rules, the club should notify the player's agent after receiving the offer.

If an offer is not received, the player will not be sold.

Rick Parry also solemnly promised that the club's finances will not affect the operation of the team, and even if the team performs better this year and can perform in the Premier League and the Champions League, the club will pay for it. Considerable financial income was put into the summer transfer market, which continued to strengthen the overall strength of the team.

As for the winter break, the club is in full swing to finalize a central defender.

Of course, with the current situation of Liverpool, it is impossible to break into the first-line central defenders of the four major leagues.

Simply put, just keep scratching the lottery.

After introducing the club's operating conditions, Rick Parry also hopes that Yang Yang, Gerrard and Carragher can play a role in stabilizing the players in the dressing room to ensure that the outside world will not affect the team's performance on the field. .

Rick Parry also secretly revealed that the club is negotiating a takeover with a DIG consortium from Dubai, which had been interested in buying Liverpool as early as February, but lost to Gillette and Sigg in the competition. s.

Now, Liverpool are in financial trouble and they are making a comeback.

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Yang Yang is also quite helpless about the situation of Liverpool.

Capital operation is a major feature of the Premier League, not only Liverpool, Manchester United, but also Arsenal and other teams, unless they are like Chelsea, with a big money, but even so, Abramovich also Also tighten money.

If the giants are like this, other teams are even more unbearable.

For example, Everton in the same city, they even mortgaged Rooney to the bank before in exchange for funds to run the team.

Yang Yang is not familiar with this kind of capital operation, nor is he interested.

Liverpool's current situation was something he didn't expect when he joined, because at that time he didn't know that Liverpool would be acquired by the Americans, nor did he know that there would be a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, which would cause the assets of the two American owners to shrink significantly.

But in any case, now that the team has encountered such a situation, it can only continue to move forward.

For public and private purposes, Liverpool can't be messed up.

It's really messed up, it's not good for the club or Yang Yang himself.

But what's even worse is that Yang Yang's physical condition has not been good for the past two days.

There is no injury, but the state feels a bit uninspiring.

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This pre-match celebration seemed like a false boom, but it was actually an undercurrent.

But under the auspices of Yang Yang, Gerrard and Carragher, Liverpool's dressing room is as stable and harmonious as ever. Even Mohamed Sissoko, who is determined to leave the team, still trains and prepares for games as usual every day.

In the eighteenth round of the Premier League, Liverpool's opponent is Portsmouth.

Pompeii is undefeated with one win and three draws in the past four games, and Redknapp's team has played fairly solidly.

Benitez is also doing his best to play in this game.

In the thirteenth minute of the opening, Yang Yang dribbled the ball into the penalty area and picked a pass. Kuyt followed and hit the goal, opening the scoring for Liverpool.

Three minutes later, in a quick counterattack by Liverpool, Yang Yang took the ball from the front of the penalty area and hit the goal directly. .

In the 37th minute, Mascherano made a straight pass after stealing the ball in the midfield. Yang Yang entered the penalty area from the left, and the inverted triangle returned to the middle. Crouch kept up with the push and hit it three to zero!

After securing the victory, Liverpool began to play more securely.

Everyone can clearly see that the financial crisis of the club has little effect on the performance of the players on the pitch.

Yang Yang also played very hard in the game and tried very hard to find opportunities. After he contributed two assists and created an own goal, he even tried hard to get a goal.

Because he has scored in every game except the first round of the league so far this season, and he hopes to continue this state.

But until the 70th minute of the second half, when Benitez replaced him, Yang Yang failed to score.

But the Liverpool fans at the scene still sent him warm applause and cheers, shouting his name.

Although he didn't score, but with two assists, Yang Yang's performance was still very eye-catching.

After Yang Yang came off, Portsmouth scored a goal, and Liverpool followed suit by Gerrard, finally beating Portsmouth 4-1 at home.

But Yang Yang's continuous scoring momentum was interrupted.

I'm sorry, there was something at home this morning, and it was too late to update, please forgive me!