Chapter 648 Who Is the First Brother?

On the third day after Liverpool beat Manchester City, Liverpool's local newspaper, the Liverpool Post published an appeal from Benitez, hoping that all parties could put aside their disputes and work together to negotiate a summer transfer plan.

At the same time, the Liverpool city government also quickly came forward to put pressure on it, calling on the British Ministry of Sports to intervene in Liverpool's management disputes as soon as possible, because the infighting between Hicks and Gillette has seriously affected Liverpool's city image.

"It's not just a football thing, we have to do something to maintain the image of our city."

The statement of the Liverpool City Government was also quickly supported by all parties.

A cross-party group of football MPs in the UK Parliament has publicly stated that it will re-investigate foreign owners' takeovers of British clubs, including the Liverpool board crisis.

The chairman of the panel, MP Alan King, said: "English clubs have achieved tremendous success in European football at the moment. We have won the Champions League semi-finals this season. This is an unprecedented success. There are a lot of problems, and it's a big problem for the development of football."

At the same time, the Liverpool police also officially stated that they will urge the Liverpool management to resolve the conflict as soon as possible.

"We've spent a huge amount of local taxpayers' money on removing the anti-Hicks graffiti around Anfield, not Liverpool's own business, but the city as a whole."

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Pressure from all walks of life forced Liverpool to respond.

Club general manager Rick Parry quickly met with Hicks and Gillette to communicate and coordinate on Liverpool's current situation, and then announced on the official website that the talks had made positive progress and would be resolved in the near future Disputes and contradictions.

At the same time, Rick Parry said that the team will formulate a summer transfer plan as soon as possible, and at the same time do its best to retain many players in the current team, including Yang Yang.

But almost at the same time, the media in Catalonia, Spain broke the news that Barcelona officially made an offer to Liverpool, hoping to introduce Yang Yang this summer.

The British Sun also quickly followed up, saying that Barcelona did make an offer, but it was rejected by Liverpool, because Barcelona’s offer was not the 80 million euros rumored by the outside world, but only 70 million euros.

"Liverpool insiders say it's impossible for Liverpool to agree to such an unrealistic offer."

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In the two days after the team disbanded, Yang Yang remained at Liverpool to deal with some things.

When Barcelona sent an offer fax to Liverpool, Raiola also appeared at Liverpool for the first time and brought first-hand information to Yang Yang.

"The current situation is still chaotic, intricate and unclear at all."

The Italian fat man is obviously also having a great headache, because Liverpool is like a mess right now, and he has no idea what is going on at all. It can only be said that it is very chaotic.

The management is chaotic, the club can't come up with a clear transfer plan, and the summer transfer is also impossible to start.

"I even doubt that if the trouble continues like this, it is estimated that this summer transfer will not be expected."

Raiola shook her head with a wry smile.

Who would have thought that Liverpool would suddenly have so many problems in such a successful season.

Of course, these problems did not appear out of thin air, but accumulated over the past one or two years, and now they have all erupted suddenly, such as the financial crisis of two American bosses.

"What news did you hear?" Yang Yang asked with concern.

Raiola can become Yang Yang and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's agent, and he does it well. Naturally, he has his own unique set of survival methods and secret news channels.

Meet him, talk and reach a consensus, which is why Yang Yang is still in Liverpool.

"I received news that Hicks promised to give Benitez a transfer fee of 30 million pounds. In addition, the income from the transfer during the winter break, as well as the income from the sale of the team this summer, can be put into the transfer operation. , but there is a premise."

When Yang Yang heard this, he didn't have to think about it, "He wants Benitez to support him."

"Yes." Raiola praised with a smile.

Liverpool's achievements in the past few seasons have been outstanding. Benitez has won two Champions League titles, one Premier League title and several other cup titles in the past four years. Especially in the past two seasons, after Yang Yang joined the team, the team's performance The results are even more brilliant, which also allows Benitez's status in the club to reach new heights.

If Benitez publicly endorsed Hicks, it would undoubtedly make Gillette appear more vulnerable and passive on the board.

"Benitez didn't agree?" Yang Yang guessed.

If Benitez agreed, then he did not need to be interviewed by the media the day before yesterday to clarify the talks between himself and Hicks. The reason why he clarified was that he did not want to be misunderstood.

"Benitez is a ball idiot, but he is not a fool. Getting involved in the boardroom disputes for no reason does him no good, not to mention he knows very well that even if Hicks agrees, how can he convince Ji List?"

Yang Yang smiled, the Americans underestimate Benitez too much, do you really think that empty words can trap the Spaniards?

"I also received news that Benitez has always had a good relationship with Gillette."

Yang Yang nodded, "Yes, Gillette first wanted to acquire Liverpool alone, so he first contacted Rick Parry and Benitez, and their relationship has always been good, but these two Americans are Half a catty eight taels."

In the face of huge interests, Hicks and Gillette are both mercenary businessmen, but relatively speaking, Gillette will be relatively friendly to Liverpool, but Hicks, he is desperately trying to put his own Maximize the interests, even at the expense of Liverpool's interests.

"You're right. In this matter, whether it's the club's general manager Rick Parry or the former owner Morse, they've all taken the bait." Hearing Raiola's tone, it seemed that I really appreciate the operation of the empty-handed white wolf of the two American bosses.

The reason for being fooled is because the two Americans had set up a holding company to acquire Liverpool. Through this holding company, they had borrowed a large sum of money from the Royal Bank of Scotland and spent 220 million pounds. David Morse successfully bought Liverpool.

To say that Rick Parry and David Morse are not stupid, they are both die-hard Liverpool fans, and they naturally know how to protect the team, so in the contract documents for the acquisition of the club, it is very clear that the debt It's a matter of the two American owners. It has nothing to do with Liverpool. The club will not be indebted to it, nor will they bear the cost of buying the team.

Simply put, Americans' debt has nothing to do with the club.

And if according to the Americans' plan, as long as they can successfully borrow again, not only will there be no problems with the holding company's debt, but even the team's new stadium plan can be implemented as scheduled.

It's not as good as God's calculation. The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States broke out. The assets of the two American bosses shrunk dramatically, and the bank's credit crunched, and they refused to lend them any more money. Therefore, when the debt was restructured, they had to withdraw from the club. Mining money to pay high interest.

The relationship between the two American partners also broke down, and the club was also burdened with a heavy debt burden.

Originally, they could sell it to the DIG consortium in Dubai for cash, but Hicks was obviously greedy and wanted to make more profit, and finally shut out the DIG consortium, which caused the current predicament.

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"Barcelona did send an offer, but it's only 70 million euros. Laporta is also very cautious about this transfer because Barcelona's finances are not very rich, but they are really interested in you."

Raiola said with great certainty.

"Ronaldinho is really leaving?"

"Definitely going." Raiola said, and then he said what he got, about Barcelona's internal feud in the past year or two, and Ronaldinho.

"According to the information I have received, Barcelona is not stable, you say that they treat Ronaldinho like this now, and they did the same to Cruyff, Maradona and Rivaldo before. ,how about you?"

Yang Yang can't stop nodding, this is indeed a problem.

"This is only part of the problem. If you do go to Barcelona, ​​how to partner with Messi is also a problem. Who will be the core of the team's attack at that time?"

That's the real big problem.

Attacking the core, this is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, but a tilt of the team's internal resources.

It's like in Liverpool, Yang Yang has the right to fire, Crouch has to play for Yang Yang, Kuyt has to open the defense for Yang Yang, and other players have to provide services for Yang Yang to ensure that Yang Yang plays in the most relaxed environment. .

Because Yang Yang is Liverpool's number one star, a brother!

In the past two years, Barcelona has been vigorously supporting Messi and wants to replace Ronaldinho with Messi, but if Yang Yang goes, what is he?

Some things can only be obtained by one person. If you give it to Yang Yang, then Messi will not have it. If you give it to Messi, Yang Yang will not have it.

So, in the end, will Barcelona give Messi, who was born in the youth academy? Or will it be Yang Yang, who will be introduced with a lot of money?

This is also a question that must be clarified. If you are not careful, Yang Yang's good situation can be ruined.

For example, if he moved to Barcelona and the Barcelona management asked him to fight Messi, would he obey? Still disobedient?

Besides, clubs can only push one award like the World Footballer, so what about Messi? Or push Yang Yang? This is also a problem.

"In addition, I have two news from Spain." Raiola pretended to be mysterious.

"what?"

"First, Mourinho almost signed a coaching contract with Barcelona at one point, but because of Cruyff's explicit opposition, the two sides were put on hold for the time being."

Yang Yang frowned after hearing this. He did not expect that Cruyff would have such an influence in Barcelona.

"Second, Florentino is secretly planning to return to Real Madrid and reorganize the Galactic Battleship!"