Now, after a year in charge of Liverpool, Benitez led Liverpool to the Champions League.
Although Liverpool finished fifth in the league, it is not bad for Liverpool to get fifth, and a Champions League champion is more enough to say that everything is worse. Benitez is now 45 years old and only two years older than Mourinho.
This is a man worthy of respect.
Especially when Benitez comes to Rome in person, he should be respected. Zhang Tiehan and Zhang Zhenren know this very well. They came to the small restaurant early to wait for Benitez. Benitez looks like a gentleman. He has this temperament and his expression is serious.
After the meeting, Benitez congratulated Zhang man of iron on his achievements in Rome in the past year, and Zhang Tiehan also congratulated Liverpool on winning the Champions League. After exchanging pleasantries, Benitez directly said the theme, "Since I took over Liverpool, the front line of the team has been in trouble. I want to improve it and introduce some excellent players. I hope you can join my team. Last summer, I wanted to invite you to join us. Unfortunately, you came to Rome, and now I have come to Rome. I want to invite you to join Liverpool in person."
Zhang Tiehan frowned and said, "But I can’t put any pressure on the club."
"Of course," Benitez smiled, "we don’t need you to do that. Liverpool has prepared enough funds to satisfy the Roman club. What we need is your attitude. As far as I know, you didn’t come forward to agree to the club’s invitation."
Zhang Tiehan also gently breathe a sigh of relief.
He doesn’t want the transfer to fall out with the Roma club. After all, he still has feelings here. If Liverpool has no problem in negotiating with the Roma club, it is also very good to choose Liverpool.
Comparatively speaking, Liverpool is still sincere.
Benitez’s words are also true. Liverpool also participated in the competition when he moved, but in the end he chose Rome, and now Benitez is here. He has expressed his sincerity by coming to Rome himself.
Zhang Tiehan hesitated and asked, "So what are Liverpool’s plans for the championship? I want to join a team that can win the championship. "
Benitez’s stall owner: "Our team will certainly pursue the championship, whether it is the Premier League, the FA Cup or the Champions League."
"But as far as I know, Liverpool ranks fifth in the Premier League …" Zhang Tiehan hesitated.
"Yes," Benitez’s face became solemn. "We are in the fifth season of the league, and it is very likely that France will enter the Champions League and the champions will not be able to participate in the Champions League. This sounds ridiculous, but we are fighting for it! In the history of the Champions League, no club has made a special offer to UEFA for the Champions League title. According to the analysis of club lawyers, UEFA is likely to agree to this case. "
Zhang Tiehan hesitated "one thousand …"
He doesn’t want to join a team that can’t play in the Champions League.
Benitez said, "we are sure now, but I still hope you can join us. After all, you have joined the team for more than one season, and we will definitely make it to the Champions League. This is my guarantee on behalf of the club."
Zhang Tiehan nodded.
Zhang Zhenren knows that Zhang Tiehan’s cousin wants to return to England to play football. Now it seems that Liverpool is a good choice, so his agent needs to come out. "What about the salary contract in man of iron?"
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Benitez told Zhang zhen that "Liverpool’s salary level is still among the top 20 teams in the Premier League and the club can be the best contract"
"So can you reveal Steven Gerrard’s salary …" Zhang Tiehan asked.
"The weekly salary is ￡ 10,000," said Benitez bluntly. "However, the club has been discussing the renewal of Steven Gerrard’s contract. The team has considered giving Steven Gerrard a raise, which is estimated to rise to ￡ 100,000. If you come to the team, I can guarantee that the salary will not be less than ￡ 10,000."
Zhang Tiehan is satisfied
After Zhang Zhenren and Benitez talked about some details, Zhang Tiehan laughed. "If there is no problem with the club, I think I will choose Liverpool."
Benitez also smiled.
In fact, before he came, he thought that Zhang Tiehan’s joining Liverpool was far less attractive than that of A Milan and Real Madrid. Although they were champions of this year’s Champions League, they were not bad in the rich family, but Liverpool declined after all.
Liverpool are lagging behind the two clubs in terms of finance and performance.
Of course, Benitez didn’t know that Zhang Tiehan had long hoped to return to the Premier League to play football. He prepared a lot of speeches, but he didn’t have any at all. Of course, this is also good news. If Zhang man of iron can join Liverpool, then Liverpool will definitely rise to a new level in strength!
He believes!
And now it’s time to urge the negotiators to showdown with the Roma club.
Chapter two hundred and seventy Good business
On May 20, Serie A entered the final round of Rome’s home game against Chievo, and Zhang Tiehan finally came off the bench in the last ten minutes. Although the Roma club didn’t say anything, Roman fans knew that this was probably the last ten minutes of Zhang man of iron’s team.
When Zhang Tiehan appeared, the whole Olympic stadium was boiling.
Roman fans are chanting Zhang Tiehan’s name. Many fans shouted’ Stay’,’ Rome needs you’ and other touching words. Zhang Tiehan was also deeply moved when he saw many fans.
He didn’t say anything, but when the game left the stadium, Zhang man of iron walked around the stadium and bowed to each stand to thank the fans who supported him.
Roman fans watched silently.
They know that it is a big problem for the Rome club to keep man of iron’s finances. The Rome club can choose to sell him in order to maintain the normal operation of its finances. If it doesn’t sell Zhang Tiehan, Rome will have to sell others. It is well known that the situation of the Rome club.
But they really don’t want Zhang Tiehan to leave.
In one season, Zhang man of iron had already recruited the fans of Rome. He scored goals one by one, which made Rome’s performance in the season quite gorgeous, and it was not too much better than that in the season. Rome won the second place in the league last season, but it failed to achieve results in European competitions, while Rome was the fourth place in the league last season, but they also advanced to the Champions League. This is something that Rome has not completed in 20 years and can rank second in history.
Speaking of Rome, it’s a little pathetic.
There are many league honors in the history of Roman football, but there is one second in the Champions League honor, and there are few teams in Rome in the Champions League and even the UEFA Cup. Whenever they face other league teams, they will always perform badly, no matter how strong Rome is, it can’t escape this spell.
In the eyes of Roman fans, it is more important to win the Champions League than to win the second place in the league.
It is the whole team that has brought all this, but Zhang man of iron has definitely contributed to it. Without Zhang Tiehan, the team will definitely not advance, and it is very difficult for any group to appear.
This is the credit of Zhang Tiehan.
Not to mention forty-three goals in the league, which has created a new history of Italian football. I don’t know how many years it will be rewritten, and it will never be rewritten. This is an honor for man of iron and an honor for the Roman club.
Many years later, when people go to Serie A to score the most goals in a single season, people will see Zhang Tiehan and also realize that he scored when he played for Rome.
This is the honor that man of iron brought to Rome.
Roman fans won’t forget, and can’t forget, that they silently watched Zhang Tiehan bow from stand to stand. Some Roman fans immediately got up and bowed to Zhang Tiehan, and many, many Roman fans did so. So after the match with Chievo, it seems that everyone gave Zhang Tiehan a farewell ceremony by default.
Even though his transfer has not actually been finalize.
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Farewell ceremony
At the same time, it also announced that the Serie A champion in all Italian competitions has been confirmed, that is, Juventus, the season leader, and A Milan can eat two second leagues and second place in the Champions League with tears.
The results of the two runners-up are quite good for other teams, but for A Milan, it is like declaring their failure. They will not regard the runner-up as an honor, but as a failure.
Maybe they will do better every year.
Many people are looking forward to it
At the same time, the media have paid attention to the transfer market. In terms of football, the summer transfer is still very hot. At this moment, many media are staring at all kinds of big transfers, but this year it seems that the situation is somewhat different.
Rich clubs waving checks can’t buy people, just like Chelsea boss Abramovich, who has money in his hand, but no star responded to his call. Chelsea also bought a big Wright-Phillips for two months.
It seems that all the big-name stars are no longer obsessed with the giants.
What are the concepts of big-name players? In the past, it seems that most big-name players grew up and exercised in the giants, but now big-name players are no longer specialized in the giants, and many small teams also have big-name stars. This year’s transfer market is also the same. For example, van der Vaart, the top star of Ajax, chose the’ condescending’ small team to make the giants and many media who want him stunned.
The German Hamburg team is happy.
They bought Van der Vaart for only 70,000 euros. You know, just two years ago, this future superstar who was regarded as the successor of "cruyff" was sought after by many giants, among which Real Madrid and Juventus offered nearly 30,000 euros for him.