Liverpool, Anfield Stadium.
On a sunny early summer afternoon, the entire stadium was full, with huge portraits floating in the stands, with portraits of Gerald above.
One week after the Champions League final, Liverpool held a farewell memorial for Gerald at Anfield Stadium.
Liverpool's legends and celebrities came to the court one after another, retired veterans and active players of the England national team. In 2005, the players in the Liverpool team also came to Anfield from all over the world, and now Liverpool players are gathered together.
It was like a grand party.
Just the day before, Liverpool just announced that Mahrez had transferred to Manchester City for £45 million. Other matters after the end of the season were basically over. Those who wanted to leave had already left, those who didn't want to leave stayed to renew their contracts, and those who had a long contract were ready to go on vacation. With Gerald's retirement, Liverpool's remaining job was to sign up.
This game is a bit like an exhibition match. Although Situ Yunbing is nominally the head coach, he just sat in the coach's seat and watched the game with a smile on his face and blessed heart.
Liverpool fans sang for Gerald in the stands throughout the whole time, thanking him for his efforts and praising his greatness. Many fans who have been through this storm for nearly twenty years were reluctant to shed tears.
When Gerald walked into the stadium with his family after the game, Situ Yunbing and each audience member stood up and applauded.
Even the Liverpool mayor came to witness Gerald's retirement.
Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Gerald held his little daughter in his arms and delivered a touching speech to the retirement. When talking about leaving the Green Field and thanking the fans, Gerald, who was strong and strong, choked up several times.
The little daughter in his arms hugged his neck and kissed his cheeks, and the picture was very warm.
The legend of the Red Army, the team's flag, and spiritual leader Gerald, officially announced his retirement!
From then on, there will be no legendary No. 8 Gerald in Anfield!
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Situ Yunbing took Siglide back to China for vacation. He sent Li Weifeng, Sun Jihai and other six Chinese coaches to the World Young Masters Championship and asked them to attack Alonzo. He would not go to Chile by himself, so as not to be believed by the outside world that he was remotely controlling Alonzo, which would only cause internal chaos.
Less than three days after he returned to China, he unexpectedly received a call from Klopp.
"Situ, tell you good news."
"Let me guess, have you found a job?"
"Yes, it will be officially announced tomorrow. Do you still want to continue guessing?"
"I can't guess, I don't want to say the four major league clubs one by one."
"Arsenal."
"What?! Wenger was fired?"
"It has not been announced yet, and it will be officially announced tomorrow. If you hadn't led the team to defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup final, Arsenal would have lost all four seasons again, I'm afraid he would be able to stay for at least one more season."
"Then I would like to thank me if you can find a new job?"
"Ha, when I lead the team to Anfield, I will bring a bottle of good wine."
"I'm just afraid you're not in the mood to drink! Anyway, congratulations on finding a new job.
Welcome to the Premier League!
I'm very happy to hear this news, and the Premier League will be interesting next season."
After hanging up the phone, Situ Yunbing smiled for a long time.
Uncle Slag Klopp is going to take over the Emirates Stadium!
It's such an unexpected situation!
Originally he should have come to Liverpool, but now he has no chance. But maybe he will do something in Arsenal. After all, in another time and space, many players in the Liverpool he built are not used by Situ Yunbing in this time and space.
Egyptian Messi Salah, Firmino, Milner, Matipu...
He believes that Klopp will have a huge shock when he comes to the Premier League, and other opponents will be even more sad than Liverpool!
After thinking too much, Situ Yunbing was a little worried, wondering whether Mourinho could survive the third year of entering Chelsea in the second time.
The next day, Arsenal officially announced the dismissal of Wenger, and Klopp took office and became the new coach!
Fleet Street is hotly discussing major news about Arsenal, and all parties are expressing their opinions, some are regretting Wenger and some are supporting the club's approach.
Even Arsenal fans are a bit mixed at this moment.
Wenger is the club's boss for nearly 20 years. Without him, there would be no Arsenal's strength around the millennium, and there would be no Arsenal's current Emirates Stadium. It is rare to experience Wenger's efforts to endure humiliation for the new stadium this century-old plan.
Now the Arsenal club needs to continue moving forward and a new situation. Wenger was dismissed. Can Klopp lead Arsenal into a new era?
No one can guarantee it, but more people are willing to give patience to see what will happen.
Situ Yunbing took Siglid back and forth in various provinces in China. While traveling, he also took time to go to football schools in various provinces for a simple inspection.
His appearance in China will naturally be the focus. He often strolls in the city but is crowded with traffic congestion, especially in second-tier or first-tier cities.
Chinese football media have recently devoted more time and energy to the teams that went to the World Youth Championship and reported a lot of news about players in this team.
But in mid-to-late June, the Chinese Football Association issued two documents to the industry, which caused the effect of earthquake magnitude!
One piece of news is the salary limit order for Chinese players!
The annual salary of Chinese players in Chinese Super League clubs shall not exceed 5 million yuan, and the maximum salary limit for the lower-level leagues is 3 million yuan and 1 million yuan respectively!
Foreign aid policies remain unchanged.
The new policy will be implemented before the start of next year's new season, leaving Chinese football clubs with half a year to adapt to and adjust the recruitment and contract renewal work.
The current contract is not subject to restrictions, but this policy must be followed after the policy is released.
If you find that the Yin-Yang contract or other changes directions to increase the player's remuneration, you will find that the club will deduct 3 points and will be superimposed unlimitedly!
Another news was issued by the Chinese Football Association to the national team, which stipulates the norms of conduct for players.
Most requirements are universal values, but one has attracted the attention of the outside world.
Any national team players are prohibited from dyeing their hair. If the tattooed players are not allowed to show their tattoos during the national team training and preparations and games, otherwise the national team will be disqualified from eligibility!
Not to mention other national teams, there are many players with tattoos in the national team!
But it is also easy to cover up, and if you don’t take off your jersey, you won’t be able to see it, which means they can’t take off their jerseys and show their tattoos after the game.
Some players have tattooed flower arms and legs, which is basically a bit troublesome. To cover the flower arms, you must wear long sleeves. If you cover the flower arms, you need to protect the socks tightly.
These two news aroused strong reactions from Chinese fans. No one knew who formulated the policies and requirements, but they all started to criticize and ridicule them as soon as possible!
At the end of June, Situ Yunbing was a guest at the Tianxia Football Program on the eve of returning to Liverpool. This is the second time he accepted the invitation to record the program. This time he brought his wife Siglid with him because Siglid will tell the story of her business progress in China on the program, using Internet media as a carrier to spread and promote Chinese football and discover Chinese football talents.
When Situ Yunbing walked into the studio with a smile on his hands, although there were only a few hundred people in the studio, warm applause and cheers burst out.
Situ Yunbing walked up to shake hands with the host Duan Xuan, Siglid also stepped forward and smiled and shook hands. Then the two greeted the audience.
Duan Xuan first reviewed Situ Yunbing's achievements in three years at Liverpool, and then asked some questions about the just-concluded season.
For example, Situ Yunbing abandoned Sane in the middle of the season, Mbappe's emergence, people always have too many imaginations and curiosities about young heroes, as well as tactics for the Champions League finals, unknown hardships for a season of fighting with Mourinho, and Gerald's retirement.
He can talk a lot about Liverpool just about things.
When the topic shifted to Chinese football, Duan Xuan said: "I wonder if you have heard that the Chinese media recently described the controversial things in the new policy issued by the Chinese Football Association as two things, one big and one small.
Big things are salary limit orders, small things are about players' tattoos and hair dyeing.
Let’s talk about the salary limit order one by one, do you know about it?”
Situ Yunbing nodded calmly and said, "I know, and I can also admit that this policy was led and formulated by me. Those team owners, staff, players, and coaches who scolded the Chinese Football Association outside, could name them and scold me, scold me for not understanding the current situation of Chinese football, not understanding the environment of Chinese football, and scold me for doing things wrongly. At least now I have made them find a goal, and don't have to scold me in the air."
Duan Xuan was a little surprised. When recording the program, he would only ask the visiting guests a question card to let them know what questions they would ask in the program, but would not help the guests write the answers well. Whether they are willing to answer or how to answer them is the guest's own business.
But Situ Yunbing's answer was a bit surprising.
He admitted so generously that this would inevitably arouse the anger of the bosses and management of the Chinese clubs!
Duan Xuan asked with a tough bullet: "Before formulating this policy, have you considered the negative impact of the promulgation of this policy? Many clubs claim that the new policy disrupted their signing plans, and some clubs said that this will start to be in a long-term chaos!"
Situ Yunbing shook his head and said, "I don't know where the chaos comes from?"
In my opinion, the Chinese Super League clubs began to show irrational behavior. Before this policy was promulgated, the transfer market of Chinese football had already experienced serious high premiums.
It is undeniable that there is a premium for player transfers, which is normal. A player worth 20 million euros eventually transferred for 40 million euros, but this is just twice the premium. Just like when Ronaldo transferred in 2009, he created a sky-high transfer record of 80 million pounds. But if you think about it carefully, according to the player's value at that time, Ronaldo said that he was worth 50 million pounds, and the premium was not serious!
However, the premium phenomenon of Chinese players is absolutely exceeding the standard. It is common for players to be 5 times higher and 10 times higher to complete a transfer.
Behind the high premium is the relatively improved contract benefits of players, and there is a very direct connection between the two.
The core of the salary limit order is actually to encourage the healthy development of capital of all Chinese football clubs, and also to encourage players to study abroad!
When players cannot earn sky-high rewards in China, if any team abroad offers better contracts, why not go?
But the problem with Chinese football is that domestic clubs are too rich, and they don’t care how much they lose in the club every year. They built a wall and used money to keep all Chinese players inside the wall. Even if foreign teams have a fancy to Chinese players, they immediately give up their thoughts after inquiring about their current contract treatment, because the contract costs of players are too high, and the players are not willing to transfer abroad to study abroad!
Because I can earn tens of millions a year in China comfortably, luxury houses, luxury cars, everything, and a contract is fulfilled and I can no longer play football!
Why go abroad where you are unfamiliar with your place?
But starting next year, these will not work. If you want to make a lot of money, those with the ability will go abroad. If you don’t have the ability, you can make as much money as you can. Don’t blame others. After all, where does the money you pay players from many clubs come from?
Isn’t it just that the Chinese people paying for it?
This involves a deeper level, we just click on it."
Although Situ Yunbing did not name the name, the audience could hear what Situ Yunbing meant by saying that the people paid the bill.
Chapter completed!