Chapter 126 Painful and Happy
After signing Don Jack, Benitez was a little energetic, but when he returned to England, he found that he was a little hot-headed.
A 20-year-old young player may be Liverpool's future hope, but he will never become the main force of the team in a short time. Moreover, the Premier League is different from the Bundesliga. It is very confrontational here, and there are great differences in tactics, style and other aspects. It is not something that can be done in a short time to adapt to the Premier League.
Benitez only hopes that Don Jack can adapt to it within half a year. After that, if he can perform in Schalke 04, the transfer to Liverpool will make a lot of money.
Of course, this is just Benitez's idea.
This is normal. It's not that Don Jack himself will think like this to Benitez, but in any case, Don Jack's transfer has finally reached the last step, that is, to negotiate with Schalke 04 Club and sign a formal transfer contract.
With Maximilian doing these things, Don Jack's task is to participate in the final signature. He just needs to wait.
After that, he took Li Xue and the two returned to Germany by plane.
A week later, on July 11, the European transfer market changed. One of the most notable news is - "Schalke 04 new star striker Don Jack. Lee joined Liverpool Club with a transfer fee of 15.3 million euros.
The transfer of this young new star in Europe and the Eastern Continent has finally reached a final decision. The world did not expect the news to come so suddenly. The successful competition is not the Serie A team, nor the big Chelsea, but Liverpool, which has always been unknown in recent years.
The transfer was silent, and almost no big media got any news. As soon as the news came out, it attracted the attention of the world: players worth more than 15 million euros can rank in the top 20 even in the whole transfer market.
Obviously, not only European fans are talking about this matter, but also Chinese fans are talking about it.
A few days ago, many Chinese fans heard 'Jack' for the first time from the words of media reporters. Li's name, when they heard that this Chinese boy played for Schalke 04, they didn't care much, because there were not many fans of that club in China.
So, most people don't pay much attention to it. It's just a piece of gossip.
But now, I heard that this boy went to Liverpool: I immediately felt different!
Due to the relationship between Chinese media and Europe, Chinese fans know Italian football best, such as Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus, which are familiar to everyone. And English football is as famous in China. Even if no media in mainland China has the right to broadcast the Premier League, news related to the Premier League has reached the ears of fans through the Internet.
Which club in England is the most famous?
Manchester United!
There is no doubt that Manchester United has won almost all the league championships in the past decade, which gives the impression of most Chinese fans. As for the championships won by Arsenal? --- The few are negligible.
The second most famous is Liverpool!
Although Arsenal is Manchester United's biggest competitor in England now, because of its glorious history, many Chinese fans like Liverpool and know that there is Steven there. Gerald knows that there is a golden boy Michael there. Owen.
Now, the Chinese teenager I heard a few days ago has also joined Liverpool.
This made many people interested. They began to look for Don Jack's information and the information related to the transfer. Only then did they find that this Chinese boy actually had such a high value - more than 15 million euros!
God!
I didn't expect this boy who didn't pay much attention. One person's worth is about to catch up with the whole Chinese national team... Thinking of this, many Chinese fans are very depressed. Why is this guy Chinese, not a complete Chinese player?
Think about it, if such a player joins the Chinese team, it will be so wonderful to see a world star in their own national team, which is probably what all Chinese fans want to see most...
As for the performance of the Chinese team in the world arena?
Few fans hope for this report. Since they have seen the gap between the Chinese team and other teams in the world in the World Cup in 2000, everyone knows the gap between the two. The gap has been so big that many teenage fans feel that they can't see the national team in the limelight in their lives...
It's really depressing to think of this.
In fact, the poor strength is understandable. We can make progress. For example, Japanese football has been learning from the West. They are constantly trying to improve their country's football level in various ways. Therefore, the international competitiveness of the Japanese team is getting stronger and stronger, but Chinese fans can't see this in the Chinese team. This is The root cause of despair.
Therefore, their hope is only to see a Chinese player competing in the world arena and being contested for face by the Chinese.
Such a simple wish has long been Jack Tang's popularity in China. What Jack Don, who has just returned to Germany, doesn't know is that only a week after he signed the contract, there were tens of millions of fans in China and knew his name.
It's really unexpected!
Under such circumstances, the Chinese media will certainly not ignore it. Every influential media has sent special reporters to Germany to interview Don Jack on the spot.
Unfortunately, they can't find it at all.
Because after signing the contract, Don Jack took Li Xue to Portugal for a vacation. At this time, Pearson and his wife were still in Portugal. They happened to enjoy the beautiful beaches in Portugal together, which was also a rest preparation for their new season.
Media reporters couldn't find Jack Don, so they could only keep an eye on Liverpool.
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Compared with other world's top giants that have attracted the attention of Chinese fans, Liverpool's achievements are really unsistful.
Last season, after the last home game with Newcastle United, Liverpool's total score also came out: 16 wins, 12 draws and 10 losses, 55 goals, 37 goals, 18 goals, 60 points.
The final result is the fourth place. In terms of detailed results, Liverpool is not outstanding. Their home results ranked fifth among 20 teams. In 18 games at home, they scored 10 wins, 4 draws, 5 losses, 29 goals and 15 goals, with 14 goal-goal goals and 34 points. The away results are also the fifth, 19 games. He has achieved 6 wins, 8 draws and 5 losses, with 26 goals and 22 goals, 4 goal difference, and 26 points.
Since last season, Liverpool's front line has been criticized by local fans, but in fact, Liverpool's goal ranking is not low, but it can't be said to be good - the fourth place in the Premier League, scoring 55 goals. In terms of defense, it is worse. The team has lost a total of 36 goals, ranking 16th (Note: this data is that the lower the ranking, the better the defense. There are 20 teams in the Premier League). In terms of the overall data of last season, every data of Liverpool matches his ranking. It seems that it is nothing to rank fourth in the league instead of first or second.
However, don't forget that Liverpool's investment has always been at the top of the Premier League!
In terms of the investment of 50 million pounds per season, it is really bad that it failed to win a league championship in the first ten years of the Premier League. Perhaps this can only be blamed on Manchester United for always performing too well, but in fact, Liverpool is not as good as Arsenal after Manchester United.
This is the depression of Liverpool and the reason why they are eager to find a world-class head coach, Raphael. Benitez can be said to be a heavy responsibility!
The above data seems to have nothing to do with Don Jack.
But one of the data data of Liverpool last season is related to Don Jack's transfer, which is the shooting statistics.
Last season, Liverpool had the most shots in the Premier League, hit the goal frame the most in the Premier League team, and got the most penalty kicks and corner kicks in the Premier League, but... In terms of goals, Liverpool is far behind Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea...
In the whole league, Liverpool has scored no goals in nine games, including 5 draws and 4 losses, 1 goal in 11 games, 4 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses, 2 goals in 10 games, 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, and more than 3 goals in 8 games, all of which have won.
From the data analysis, we can clearly see the strength of Liverpool's midfield and the weakness of the front line.
And Benitez came to Liverpool, and the first problem he wanted to solve to transform the team was also the front line. So, he asked the club to buy Cise, and then Don Jack, plus Cowell, Husky, and the golden boy Michael. Owen, this front line lineup is full. After Don Jack's contract is finalized, Liverpool's front line structure is complete, and they can breathe a long sigh of relief.
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Because there is no right to broadcast the Premier League, Chinese journalists must go to other media to buy these data if they want to get these data for analysis. These data are also excavated by Chinese media from deep corners.
Such a careful analysis is obviously for Don Jack.
In fact, even the chief CCTV of China's media holds this purpose. They want to figure out everything in front of Jack Don, everything that Jack Tang has done, and the little things that a star's daily life can become a topic that fans like to talk about. All these reporters know.
I'm afraid the Liverpool people didn't expect that they had just signed Don Jack for a week, and the latter had not even come to the club to report, and the impact of the signing has been reflected. This reflection is a good thing, and Liverpool is happy to see it, because they have received a lot of attention from the East.
This concern is that the daily number of views of Liverpool's official website is increasing in a straight line or even steeper line. In a week, the number of views of the official website has increased by more than five times.
In addition, more and more Chinese media come to Liverpool to ask for interviews. Every day, a lot of Chinese reporters gather in Liverpool's press conference hall. At the weekend, the number of Chinese journalists has even reached more than 100, which is almost as much as a post-match press conference in the Premier League. It is.
These reporters obviously have a purpose. They asked to interview Benitez, interview Liverpool players, and more importantly, interview Don Jack, who hasn't reported to the team yet...
The Liverpool news officer burst into tears. Even if he hasn't reported to the team, where did he get a Don Jack from?
Of course, it's a good thing to get a lot of attention. Liverpool is painful and happy.