i am a football star

Chapter 156 Reina
Since next summer is the World Cup, the new Premier League season will start in mid-August.

Before the start of the league, the transfer market was still in full swing.

The boss of this summer's transfer market is in La Liga, and Real Madrid and Barcelona took turns burning money, and together they burned close to 4 million euros.

The most prosperous transfer market in the past two years has always been the Premier League. This year it moved to La Liga. Even the top player in the Premier League was bought by Real Madrid.

As the champion of last year's Champions League, Liverpool has naturally become the target of the La Liga duo. Real Madrid wants to pack Liverpool's attacking lineup in one go. Liu Ting, Gerrard, Xavi Alonso and even Torres have all asked the price. It is a pity that Liverpool is not short of money after changing the boss, and has not been knocked down by Real Madrid's money offensive.

And Barcelona, ​​​​who lost to Liverpool in the Champions League final last year, their own offensive combination is only the strongest in Europe, so they want to pack Liverpool's defensive lineup. Both Mascherano and Reina have continued to have scandals with Barcelona, ​​especially Reina.

Reina flirted with Barcelona repeatedly, and finally angered Liverpool, or rather angered Liu Ting. Liu Ting didn't like this kind of personality who was born in La Masia and had to go back to sit on the bench. So after Liverpool came back from the Asian tour, the Liverpool club said that Barcelona can take Reina away with only 4000 million euros.

Barcelona has already spent a lot of money this summer, so it is naturally impossible to spend 4000 million to buy Reina, and everyone with common sense knows that Barcelona's current goalkeeper Valdes is not weaker than Reina, they don't need to spend a lot of money to go back every Reina, and Reina is not worth 4000 million euros.

The purpose of Barcelona and Reina's gossip is to put pressure on Valdez to renew his contract as soon as possible. Now their goal is almost achieved, and it doesn't matter whether Reina lives or dies.

The actions of the Liverpool management made Eunuch Hai protest to Xu Zhengxin again. It’s not that Eunuch Hai likes Reina so much, but that there are no good goalkeepers in the transfer market this year.

Heynckes' protest was just to show his attitude. Liverpool has put a price on Reina, which is to tear the face directly with the player. It is only a matter of time before Reina leaves.

Barcelona's attitude made Reina very disappointed. They didn't even come out to comment on the price of 4000 million. They clearly wanted to draw a line with Reina. However, as the main goalkeeper of the Champions League champion team, Reina has no shortage of buyers if he wants to leave.

The Premier League upstart Manchester City soon intervened and expressed strong interest in the main goalkeeper of the Champions League champions.

Manchester City, which invested the most last season, only won a tenth place in the Premier League, and did not qualify for the Europa League.Abramovich spent the same amount of money in his first year in charge of Chelsea. Ranieri led Chelsea to No. 2 in the Premier League and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Manchester City also invested a lot in the transfer market this summer. They snatched Tevez from Manchester United, and poached Adebayor and Toure from Arsenal.

Manchester City is the only club with net investment second only to Real Madrid in this year's transfer market, with a net investment of more than 1 million euros. However, Mark Hughes still has not found a good goalkeeper this year. Just as Reina and Liverpool have problems, Manchester City will naturally seize the opportunity.

Manchester City quickly made an offer to Liverpool and offered Reina a transfer price of 2000 million pounds. For a goalkeeper, this is a very high price. Converted into euros, it reached 2600 million. The current European goalkeeper transfer record is 5400 million euros created by Buffon's transfer from Parma to Juventus, and the No.2 is Toldo's transfer from Fiorentina to Inter Milan. 2650 million euros.

This is only Manchester City's first trial price. If Reina's transfer is finally reached, it will definitely surpass Toldo to become the second most expensive goalkeeper.

This is mainly due to the fact that Reina has just helped Liverpool win the Champions League. At the same time, the transfer market is crazy this year, and players are generally transferred at inflated prices.

The relationship between Liverpool and Reina has broken down. When he had no hope of returning to Barcelona, ​​Manchester City offered him a very high salary, so the bilateral transfer soon entered the substantive negotiation stage.

Liverpool and Manchester City are constantly seeing-saw, and the Premier League is about to start.

On the evening of August 8th, the England Community Shield began, which was the first sound of the new season.

This game has nothing to do with Liverpool. The English Community Shield is equivalent to the Super Cup of the Premier League. The league champion of last season will play against the FA Cup champion. If the league champion and the FA Cup champion are won by the same team, then the league champion will play against the league runner-up.

Last season's league champions were Manchester United and the FA Cup champions were Chelsea.

At Wembley Stadium, the two teams drew 2:2 in regular time, Chelsea won the penalty shootout, and Ancelotti won his first championship in office.

Ancelotti has just arrived, but in fact Chelsea have not yet adapted to Ancelotti's tactics. Manchester United, who have won three consecutive championships, could not win Chelsea, and even fell behind for a long time. Only Rooney scored a goal to equalize in Ferguson time in stoppage time. Unfortunately, the final penalty shootout still lost the game (the England Community Shield Cup is a 10-minute draw and directly enters the penalty shootout).

After this game, many reporters began to discuss whether Ronaldo's departure would make Manchester United withdraw from the championship lineup this season. When Ronaldo was still there, they said that Ronaldo's existence suppressed Rooney. Rooney should have reached a higher level.

Manchester United star Sheringham also stood up and said: "I think Liverpool will win the league title. They just had a little luck last season. The league title is so important to Liverpool. I believe Liverpool will be the number one favorite for the league title. Manchester United fans may not like me saying this, but I think this will be Liverpool's year."

He also predicted the Premier League Golden Boot: "Torres will get the Golden Boot."

This is actually a common view in Europe. In the past two years in the Premier League, the two stars of Ronaldo Torres have been fighting each other. Most media believe that Ronaldo's departure will put Manchester United at a disadvantage in the competition with Liverpool.

And Liverpool is eager for the league championship. If Manchester United wins the championship this season, it will completely surpass Liverpool in the number of top league titles in England.In the past summer, Gerrard said in an interview with the TV station: "If possible, I am willing to exchange a Champions League trophy for a Premier League trophy."

There are only three days before the Premier League will start, and Heynckes finally gave everyone some rest time. Liu Ting is at Agger's house at this time.

Age was squatting between Liu Ting's legs, looking serious and hardworking. They were getting tattoos.

Ag is a tattoo maniac. He has tattoos all over his body. He even has YNWA (You'll Never Walk Alone) tattooed on his fingers, and there is a Chinese word for 'tiger' on the back. Some of them were tattooed by European tattoo masters, and many of them were tattooed by himself. He has a set of the most advanced tattoo equipment in his home.

Agger's tattoos are all specially designed by himself, and they don't look obtrusive at all. His tattoos can be said to be the most handsome among the players' tattoos.

Now Liu Ting is also persuaded by him, and plans to add a tattoo to himself. Liu Ting's tattoo is on his thigh.

Liu Ting thinks it would be nice to have a tattoo and occasionally show it off on the court.

"Daniel, are you alright?"

"Okay, it will be fine tomorrow."

"It won't cause an infection or something?"

"No, this set is the latest tattoo equipment. I used the best potion to disinfect it for you, so there will be no problem."

Liu Ting asked Ah Ge to tattoo the five Chinese characters of "Diligent King Kong Leg" on his right thigh, well, it was influenced by Master Xing's Shaolin football.

Liu Ting's first tattoo, just handed it over to Ag.

August 8th is not the Mid-Autumn Festival. This is August 15th in the Gregorian calendar. The first round of the Premier League began. The opening game was Chelsea's home game against Hull City. In the end, Chelsea won the game 8:15 and got a good start to the season. Ancelotti also got his own Premier League coaching.

Liverpool's game is scheduled for the last game, which can be regarded as the closing game of the first round. Liverpool will go to North London to challenge Tottenham Hotspur.

Before the arrival of the Liverpool game, the games of other strong teams also came to an end. Manchester United beat the newly promoted Birmingham 1-0 at home, and Manchester City, which has won the championship with the most money, also beat Blackburn 2-0 away. The most notable thing was the Gunners.

If there is a theme to be found in the first round of the Premier League, it can barely be said to be a battle between North London and Liverpool. The two North London teams and the two Liverpool teams exploded each other.

However, on the evening of August 8th, the first round of the match was completely over, and the result was that North London beat Liverpool.

Liverpool lost 1:2 to Tottenham at White Hart Lane. Tottenham led Liverpool by one goal in the first half. In the second half, Torres finally made a penalty and Gerrard scored. But soon Tottenham scored again. Liverpool lost the game away, and Liu Ting had no chance to show off his new tattoo.

Liverpool lost their first game of the season.

You must know that Liverpool only lost a total of three games last season, and only lost one game in the league. Now they have lost one game at the beginning of the season.

At the same time, at the end of this round of competition, Liverpool and Manchester City reached an agreement, and Reina officially transferred to Manchester City for a transfer fee of 2900 million pounds. In the game against Tottenham, Liverpool also sent a substitute goalkeeper Cavalieri.

Liverpool lost the first game of the season, and at the same time the main goalkeeper moved away, the media became less optimistic about Liverpool again.

Many reporters put Chelsea as the top favorite to win the championship, and some reporters even thought that Arsenal was the top favorite.

(End of this chapter)