i am a football star

Chapter 82 Champions League Draw
For a long time afterwards, people disagreed about the transfer record of young players under the age of 20. Some thought it was Liu Ting's 2800 million pounds, while others thought it was Rooney's 3950 million euros.

Until this record was broken when Manchester United bought Luke Shaw, no one was arguing about it. What is there to fight for if it is not the first?

At noon the next day, the draw ceremony for the UEFA Champions League group stage came, and Liu Ting went directly to the Monte Carlo Hotel to meet Liverpool's team.

In the hotel, Liu Ting met Liverpool's head coach Joseph Heynckes, a very energetic German old man.

"Hello, boss." Liu Ting took the initiative to talk to Aynckes. In the Premier League, the head coach is generally called boss or manager (manager), because it is customary for Premier League teams to let the head coach also serve as the team manager, which allows the head coach to have more power.

Of course, Liverpool will not allow Heynckes to act as manager.

"Hello, Liu, I'm glad you can join us."

Heynckes had known for a long time that Liu Ting was going to join Liverpool, but this was the first meeting.

"Stephen, Fernando, nice to meet you, I hope to take care of you in the future."

Liu Ting said hello to Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres who came with Heynckes. Gerrard was selected as the best midfielder last season, and Torres was selected as the best forward.

"Welcome to Liverpool." Both Gerrard and Torres greeted Liu Ting naturally.

Everyone only thinks that Liu Ting is an ordinary player. No one knows his relationship with the Liverpool boss, except for the new Liverpool team CEO who is next to him.

The awards were drawn while the awards were presented, and the awards were won by the two teams in the Champions League final. Petr Cech won the best goalkeeper, John Terry won the best defender, Lampard won the best midfielder, Ronaldo won the best forward, and the best player is also Ronaldo.

Ronaldo has basically won this year's World Footballer and the European Golden Globe Award. He helped Manchester United win the Premier League and the Champions League. At the same time, he won the Premier League Golden Boot with 31 goals and the Champions League Golden Boot with 7 goals.

Liverpool is the fourth place in the Premier League this season. They qualified for the main match through the UEFA Champions League qualifying match. In the qualifying match, Liverpool’s opponent was Belgian Standard Liege. Liverpool was actually tied 4:180 within 0 minutes. It was only at the last moment of extra time that Dirk Didier scored a goal to kill the opponent. This also caused some doubts about the new coach Heynckes.

In the end, Liverpool was assigned to D as the first team. In the second to fourth tiers of the same group, there were Eindhoven in the Eredivisie, Marseille in the Ligue [-], and Atletico Madrid in the La Liga.

This grouping is not friendly. Eindhoven is a frequent visitor to the Champions League and often enters the knockout rounds.

As a strong team in Ligue 0, Marseille was in the same group as Liverpool last season. Liverpool lost 1:4 at home to Marseille. Fortunately, they beat Marseille 0:[-] in the final round to advance to the knockout round.

Atletico Madrid has not participated in European competitions for many years before being ranked in the fourth tier, but it is definitely the most difficult team in the fourth tier. Atletico Madrid was the 4th in La Liga last season. If Liverpool is not careful, they may capsize in this group.

The group came out to broadcast the camera and kept looking for Torres. Torres was born in Atletico Madrid's youth training and moved to Liverpool last summer. This will be the first time Torres has faced his old club since he left Atletico Madrid.

UEFA likes to create such stunts.

Although Liu Ting's old club Bordeaux won the UEFA Cup last season and accumulated a lot of points in European competitions, they were still assigned to the third tier team because they did not have the accumulation of European competitions every year. Although they had the highest points in the third tier, they were still in the third tier.

Bordeaux is in a group with Premier League Chelsea, Serie A Roma and Romanian team Cluj.To be honest, Bordeaux has very little chance of qualifying. Both Chelsea and Roma are much stronger than Bordeaux. If Liu Ting is still there, maybe they can still compete.

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The draw for the UEFA Champions League is over, and the half-month national team match day is here. Players from the major clubs are all going to participate in the World Cup qualifiers.

Liu Ting has to go to Liverpool to complete the routine transfer matters, such as medical examination, signing, and meeting fans.

Gerrard and Torres went directly to the national team to prepare for the training camp, and Liu Ting and Heynckes returned to Liverpool together.

Coming out of Liverpool's John Lennon Airport, there were actually many fans on both sides of the aisle to greet him, which made Liu Ting very happy.

Suddenly, two fans from the sidelines rushed over to ask for autographs, holding up a sign that said 'fuck Manchester United hard'. It seems that defeating Manchester United in the Super Cup has won the favor of many Liverpool fans.

These two fans also looked a little funny, one was taller than 1 meters, but was very thin like a rib, and the Liverpool jersey was worn like a clothes pole;

The thin heads of the two are also slender, and the fat heads are round like a big basketball on top of their heads, which is quite strange.

Seeing that the two fans seemed to want to sign autographs, and the airport security almost couldn't stop them, Liu Ting said directly: "Let them come over, there will be no problem."

Seeing that Liu Ting agreed, the security guard let them come.

As soon as the two of them came to Liu Ting, they kept talking: "Chinese boy, you did a great job against Manchester United!", "Next time you play Manchester United at Anfield, you should also score a hat-trick", "You only need to score a hat-trick against Manchester United every year, otherwise Liverpool will keep you with a high salary if you don't score goals."

While talking, the two asked Liu Ting to sign their jerseys. The tall and thin one wore Torres' No. 9 jersey, and the chunky one wore Gerrard's No. 8 jersey. Liu Ting smiled and signed their clothes.

The two were still talking: "We got Liu's first signature from Liverpool."

"Your is the second, I am the first."

"No, you must remember wrongly, I was the first one."

Liu Ting's jerseys will not go on sale until the signing is completed today, and they can only get other jerseys for their signatures.

After bidding farewell to the two wonderful fans, Liu Ting first went to the Hospital of Liverpool University for a physical examination, and passed the test easily without any problems.

Then I went back to the Liverpool club office to sign and complete the contracts. These contracts have been read by the agent for a long time, no problem, just show it to the reporters and the media.

Liu Ting signed a contract with Liverpool for 4 years, with a weekly salary of 8 pounds, as well as various bonus goal awards, etc., and a signing fee of 400 million pounds.

Liu Ting and the Liverpool club's relationship brokerage company also don't know, everything is business-like.

The salary of the Premier League team is calculated on a weekly basis, which is paid once a week, not once a month in other leagues.

A weekly salary of 8, 52 weeks a year, is an annual salary of 416 million pounds, which is about 540 million euros in euros.No matter where, players get paid during vacations or injuries, and no one can rely on it.

The highest salary in the Liverpool team is captain Gerrard, with a weekly salary of 12 pounds; followed by Torres' 11 pounds.

The salaries of Liu Ting, Harvey Alonso, and Robbie Keane, who just transferred from Tottenham, are the third in the team.

After the signing is completed, Liu Ting will go to Anfield to see the fans to show off his skills.

About 54000 people came to the Anfield Stadium, which can accommodate 40000 people. Liu Ting became the largest signing in Liverpool's history, slightly higher than Torres last summer. This is the reason for attracting fans.

Liu Ting showed his No. 25 jersey, and then performed his skills.

Liu Ting scooped up the ball lightly, and started juggling the ball continuously. Following Liu Ting's juggling, the fans who came to the scene also counted together...

1, 2, 3, 4... 20, 21, 22...

After bumping to 25, Liu Ting directly volleyed the ball into the goal.

The fans at the scene were very satisfied with Liu Ting's praise, mainly because he defeated Manchester United with a hat-trick in the UEFA Super Cup, which left a good impression on Liverpool fans.

The next step is to interact with fans selected by some clubs, sign autographs, play football with young fans and other routine activities.

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Meeting the fans is the meeting with reporters at the final press conference.

The reporters in England had already prepared questions and waited for Liu Ting.

At the beginning of the press conference, a reporter stood up: "Mr. Liu, you set a transfer record in Liverpool's history and joined Liverpool. The transfer fee was even higher than that of Torres in the past summer. Do you think you can match Torres' performance last season?"

"Fernando (Torres) is a world-class striker. The transfer fee does not explain everything. The purpose of my coming to Liverpool is to help Liverpool win the championship. I can make certain sacrifices for the team's tactics."

Now that Torres is Liverpool's leading star, he is on fire. If Liu Ting says something bad, Liverpool fans will come to trouble him when he turns around.

Another reporter asked: "Then do you have the confidence to compete with Robbie Keane for the main position?"

"Robbie is also a good player, but the main position depends on the arrangement of the head coach. I have confidence in myself."

Liu Ting knew clearly that Robbie Keen was a parallel importer and would be sold off in winter, so he was naturally confident.

The reason why Liu Ting knew that Robbie Keane was a parallel importer and agreed to Liverpool's introduction of him, flowers need green leaves to set off, how can he know his value for money without his parallel imports?
Is it too dark?

After dealing with these reporters, Liu Ting can go to meet the new CEO of Liverpool.

Liverpool had a big change in the summer, and the CEO was replaced by an Asian, but everyone also took it for granted that when the Chinese bought the team, it is normal to have a Chinese CEO.

Manchester City was bought by the Arabs, and the CEO was replaced by an Arab. Everyone played like this.

(End of this chapter)