Lord of Greenery

Chapter 543 Big Doesn’t Mean Good

Recently, Tottenham's home stadium is planning to be torn down and a larger stadium will be rebuilt on the original address.

Building a stadium means being able to accommodate more fans, in other words being able to charge more tickets.

Many famous teams have had the experience of building new stadiums.

For example, Arsenal, Wenger's greatest contribution to Arsenal is to maintain the strength and status of the team with a tragic transfer fee before the construction of the Emirates Stadium.

Even a top giant like Bayern has wasted several seasons in order to build a new stadium, wasting Ballack's peak time.

Recently, Chelsea have also been rebuilding the stadium.

The two London teams have to rebuild their stadiums, so they approached the FA to discuss borrowing other stadiums.

What they fancy is Wembley, a stadium that can accommodate 9 fans.

Wembley has a lot of history. It was built in 1923, planned to be demolished and rebuilt in 2000, and completed in 2007.

During this period, Wembley Stadium witnessed England's World Cup championship in 66, which was also England's only Hercules Cup.

Such a team with a rich heritage, a large enough stadium, and a not-so-old construction time should be very popular.

However, after using it for a while, Tottenham fans complained.

Among them is the problem of turf, but the most critical problem is that Wembley is too big.

Wembley Stadium can accommodate 9 fans, which is a good thing, but from another perspective, it is not a good thing.

Previously, Wembley Stadium was used, often on big stages such as the FA Cup final or even the Champions League final. There is absolutely no shortage of spectators for games like this.

But how many fans can an ordinary league attract?
How many die-hard Tottenham fans are there?

not much!

At least Wembley is not satisfied.

In every league game, Wembley Stadium can only sit ordinary fans.

With only such a few fans in such a big stadium, the atmosphere cannot be lively.

Fans come to watch the game live for a more exciting and engaging experience.

Yet at Wembley, their voices did not get through, and neither did anyone else's.

Occasionally shouted twice, but the other fans around did not respond, and the atmosphere was really awkward.

Singing the team song here, maybe the tune is right but it feels very wrong.

Slowly, Tottenham fans lost that sense of freshness, and it was even painful.

Recently, Tottenham couldn't sell tickets for the Wembley game, which really made Levi's head bald.

The use of Wembley Stadium does not only affect the fans, but also the players.

Because the fans are silent, the players on the field often cannot hear them.

Many Tottenham players have already responded that playing at Wembley does not have the feeling of playing at home.

To a certain extent, this has affected the performance of Tottenham players.

The same is true for this game. Although it is a strong match between Liverpool and Tottenham, Tottenham fans still have little enthusiasm.

Attendance was a little higher than usual, but there were still plenty of empty seats at a glance.

It has not been a year or two since a team like Tottenham has no ambitions, and with a bare potato like Levi, it is difficult for fans to support the team.

If you are a Dortmund fan, even a big stadium like Wembley can fill up the seats.

The Tottenham players who were playing against Liverpool at home, listening to the sparse voices of the fans in their ears, really couldn't muster their fighting spirit at all.

In this match, the dominant style is very restrained by Liverpool.

The pessimistic Tottenham players never thought about winning this game from the beginning.

On the contrary, the Liverpool players looked a little more excited.

At the beginning of the game, Li Ze, who received the ball, distributed the ball to Milner who advanced forward.

Li Zeben thought he would stop for a while, but Milner took the ball and directly hit the Tottenham wing.

Both Winks and Rose didn't expect him to rush so fast, and were caught off guard.

By the time he reacted, Milner had already kicked.

In the middle of the road, Mane suddenly appeared to grab a foothold, kicked up and shot less than 15 meters from the gate, and the ball scored!

Mane himself didn't expect to score so soon.

He scored 4 goals in the past 4 rounds, 3 more than Li Ze's 1 goals.

Now that he scored another goal, this feeling is not real, and Mane didn't know how to react for a while.

After hearing the cheers of Liverpool fans in the stands, Mane realized that he should celebrate.

Before he could figure out which celebration move to learn, the referee Oliver blew his whistle.

Offside first, the goal is invalid!
Mane was stunned for a moment, and then full of grievances.

Although this goal was not counted as a goal, it did break through Tottenham's gate.

The Tottenham players, who were not in a good state before, were given a solid slap in the face.

Pochettino looked at his wing, with big heads.

Once, he left Southampton because the team couldn't keep people, which made him very uncomfortable.

So he was determined to go to a strong team, a strong team that can retain people, so he came to Tottenham.

However, Tottenham, which has not won any championships for many years, cannot retain all the players after all.

Although they kept Ali, Eriksson, Sun Xingmin and Kane, Kyle Walker, the former Premier League's first full-back, has gone to Manchester City.

As a full-back, Kyle Walker's transfer fee is as high as 5000 million pounds, which is already quite high.

In fact, Kyle Walker's transfer fee has set a record for full-back transfers.

This record did not end until Wan Bissaka's transfer was completed by the equally wealthy Manchester United.

Manchester City's aura of local tyrants before being fined can be seen from this.

From a business point of view, if a full-back can sell for such a high price, Levi has done a good deal.

But from a competitive point of view, there are not enough good full-backs, which makes Tottenham's defense have obvious loopholes.

According to the law of barrels, the defects of full-backs limit the overall strength of Tottenham.

Just like now, facing Liverpool's main attack on the wing, Tottenham don't have very good defensive methods.

Seeing how active his teammates were, Li Ze also kept distributing the ball to his teammates on the wing.

In the 12th minute, Liverpool got a corner kick.

Li Ze came to the free throw position.

After staying in Liverpool for less than a season, Li Ze became the team's first set-piece penalty shooter.

In this fixed position to shoot, the influence of age on Li Ze is minimized.

For this corner kick, Li Ze gave an advance amount. Wijnaldum, who had been prepared for a long time, headed the goal and was scooped out by goalkeeper Lori.

Soon, players from Liverpool and Tottenham were arguing.

"This goal must have been scored, all crossed the line!"

"Hugo fished out the ball, I saw it with my own eyes!"

(End of this chapter)