Chapter 138 Qualifying and Great Turbulence 1

The result of Benitez's is that Don Jack didn't even get on the bench in the third day of Liverpool and Rome.

All players know that Don Jack was hidden by the coach.

Although Don Jack himself disdained it, he still followed the coach's arrangement... He didn't play. Well, he wanted to play and the head coach didn't agree. However, this is just a warm-up match that doesn't matter at all, and Jack Don doesn't care. My last performance was already very good, one shot... Half-transmission, this kind of data is always the most reflected.

Liverpool and Roma drew one-to-one. Such a result doesn't matter. The important thing is that Benitez found the team's loophole in the game.

So, after returning to Liverpool, Benitez immediately began his work.

Two days later, Liverpool, which had not been reported, finally showed its fangs. The media said that Spanish defender Josemi of La Liga Malaga was about to join the Liverpool team. After that, Liverpool's official news confirmed that the team was stepping up the introduction of Josemi. Prior to this, Spain's newspaper As claimed that Josemi's transfer had been finalized last Friday, with a transfer fee of 2.6 million pounds. However, Liverpool officials claim that Josemi has not yet had a medical examination, but the transfer procedures are expected to be completed in a short time.

The inside is that Josemi's joining has been finalized for a long time. It was the first day he flew back from the United States. Benitez directly asked the club to finalize the transfer, because in the two games in the United States, Liverpool's forward line performed well, but the defender line was a little bad. Benitez felt that he should It is time to inject some fresh blood into the team's guard line to strengthen the activity and variability of the guard line.

Josemi is 24 years old and is still training with Malaga in Switzerland. After signing the contract, he will come directly to Liverpool to prepare for the Champions League qualifiers with the team. As a versatile defender, he can provide more choices for Liverpool in positions such as right-back and central defender, so that the team's main defender Fennan and others will face a lot of pressure. In an interview with reporters, the excited Josemi obviously did not treat himself as an outsider. "I've been talking to Benitez, and he has confidence in me. This has been my long-time dream, and now I finally have the opportunity to play for the big club. Here, I need to adapt and be patient. Josemi's full name is Jose-Miguel-Gonzales-Rey, and "Josemi" is just an abbreviated version of his real name, but he has always been happy to be called his nickname. Josemi started his career in his hometown club Torremolinos and moved to Malaga before the age of 20.

Last season, he made 37 appearances in La Liga, helping Malaga win the 10th place in the league.

Such a standard La Liga main defender is what Liverpool need most at this time. Benitez is also very satisfied with this transfer. It is really cost-effective to exchange only 2.4 million pounds for an active defender.

For the English, the name Josemi is too strange, but the Liverpool media are still very excited, because they can look forward to the team's next move, if... It would be great if more good players came to Liverpool.

At the same time, Josemi's transfer implicated Diouf, who is also difficult to cut his head. Liverpool hopes to "distribute" the Senegalese, who have only scored three league goals in the past two seasons, to Malaga on a one-year loan. The implicated Diouf is really unlucky...

At present, when Cise came to the team, his No. 9 shirt has now been taken away by Anfield's new favorite Cise, and Benitez did not send him a new number. Last Saturday, Liverpool set out for the United States to participate in pre-season training. Dioufso is excluded from the lineup. The Senegalese, who joined with a sky-high price of 10 million pounds two years ago, have completely left the regular army, and he has become a person outside the team.

That's more than that.

Yesterday, a Celtic fan beat the water dog and claimed that he would sue Diouf because he had spit on him in the League Cup two seasons ago. A Liverpool insider said that Diouf was at the end of the road. As for who the insider is, Don Jack is very clear that it is Baroche, who has always had a conflict with Diouf... This guy is so malicious. Diouf has always had conflicts with him. The two are at odds with each other, and they are completely two extremes in the team.

But because of his strength, Barosh has stabilized his position, and now there is even a further trend, but Diouf has entered an embarrassing situation.

In the past few days, Benitez has called Diouf to chat privately three times in a row. Everyone knows what this means. Those players on the edge are worried about their situation. Who knows if the new head coach will hit their own heads with a big knife.

Perhaps, only Don Jack and Cise are not worried. It is impossible for Benitez to sell them, and the others are the absolute main players who are not worried. There are 27 people in Liverpool's whole team, and it doesn't hurt their bones at all.

Thinking about it, Benitez is ready to clean up the team again.

However, these main players are no longer in the mood to care about these.

Because Liverpool only finished fourth in the league last season and did not directly qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage, if you want to advance to the group stage, you must first participate in the UEFA Champions League qualification.

And Liverpool's opponent is the Austrian double champion Graz.

The UEFA Champions League qualifier will have two rounds of home and away games. Only by defeating Graz in the two rounds can Liverpool eliminate their opponents into the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. Liverpool must also win this opponent.

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Although Europeans disdain the level of football in Austria, their double champions can only participate in the Champions League qualifiers with the fourth place in the Premier League. But for Liverpool, this opponent cannot be underestimated. After all, it is a team that has just won the Austrian double championship. Be careful. Always good.

It seems that playing with such a team can't aprovoke the interest of the players, but the interest of the game makes most people want to participate in the UEFA Champions League qualification.

Although it is a qualifier, its importance is self-evident.

Failure to win Graz means that Liverpool will lose the qualification to advance to the UEFA Champions League this season, which is unacceptable to the team. Benitez attaches great importance to the game. He requires all the players to do a good job in pre-war training before the game and play this game as the Champions League final. Only with such a degree of attention can the team not make a mistake.

Don Jack is also looking forward to the game.

Before, he only participated in the Bundesliga in the official game, and did not compete with the Austrian team... More importantly, he has never played against teams from other countries, and he wants to experience it.

Unfortunately, Benitez didn't put him into the starting lineup at all, just a place in the bench.

In the starting list of eleven people, the double striker is Jibril. Cise and Milan. Baroche... It doesn't matter that Don Jack is not on the starting list. In fact, he doesn't care, because he has thought before that since the coach wants to start from the Premier League, it is unlikely to let himself play in such a suspense-free game. After all, with Liverpool's strength, he plays normally to beat Graz. There is no suspense at all.

However, Owen is not in the main lineup... He couldn't even find his name in the substitute.

What does it mean? Everyone knows it.

There is a rule in the UEFA Champions League that after representing a team in the Champions League, he cannot represent other teams this season. That is to say, if Owen participates in this game, he will not want to leave Anfield this season.

I think there is still suspense about his transfer.

Fortunately, this news is only circulating within the team for the time being. The media is not clear, and some players will not tell the media if they know it. After all, this is a big deal, not a trivial matter like Diouf... The main reason is that it is not clear whether Owen will transfer or not. Players who have a good relationship with Owen can't ask from him, so they can only keep suspense in their hearts.

As a result, when a group of English media came to Austria to interview the game, they suddenly found that the team did not have Owen...

Michael. Owen!!!

That's Liverpool's top star, England's golden boy's pillar!!!

However, it is this pillar that did not enter the team's list. What does this mean? Soon these media came back, and they scrambled to interview Benitez to ask for accurate information. Unfortunately, the latter completely ignored: "The contract between the club and Owen has been signed, and this is just a tactical adjustment."

Such an answer may comfort those loyal media in Liverpool, but it has no effect on other media at all. Owen does not play, which almost means that Owen will leave Anfield Stadium. There is no doubt, because what 'tactical adjustment' is pure nonsense, no matter how tactical adjustment, as profit Wupu is a red star, and Owen doesn't join the substitute team. It doesn't make sense, unless the golden boy is injured...

But is Owen injured?

Yesterday, some reporters saw Owen training hard!

Therefore, it seems that no one cares about this game. What everyone cares about has become the issue related to Owen's transfer. Some smart reporters have notified the headquarters to go to Real Madrid for an interview: Since you can't get the news from the cunning Benitez, go to Real Madrid and buy the Real Madrid. You won't keep your mouth shut about this issue, will you?