Chapter 1262 Last Game of 2014

The match between Liverpool and Aston Villa was the last game of 2014. After this match, it would be 2015.

Although he didn't go back home to celebrate his father's birthday, Chen Hero still called his parents on the first day of the New Year to wish his father a happy birthday, fulfilling his filial duty.

Liverpool's first game of 2015 was the FA Cup, which was the norm for English Premier League teams. The first game of each year was always the third round of the FA Cup.

Liverpool's opponent in the FA Cup was Reading, a Championship team with weak strength. It shouldn't be a problem for Liverpool to enter the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Before the game, the media said that Chen Hero would definitely play, so Reading should just give up struggling and accept their fate.

As expected, Chen Hero did start!

This time, Chen Hero didn't go to Martin O'Neill before the game, and O'Neill didn't look for him either. Instead, he directly wrote his name on the starting list.

Now O'Neill understood Chen Hero's thoughts. He would participate in any game and start, no matter what. Since his physical condition and form were fine, O'Neill naturally didn't care. Anyway, with Chen Hero leading the reserve team, the reserve players could play a few more games, which was also a good training opportunity.

O'Neill thought it was a good idea to do this in the future.

So in this game, Chen Hero appeared on the starting list again.

Liverpool's reserve team players were very excited. They could fight alongside Chen Hero again.

The League Cup and FA Cup games were what everyone looked forward to the most.

In the end, under Chen Hero's leadership, Liverpool's second team defeated Reading 3:1 away from home.

Chen Hero scored twice in the game and was the number one contributor to the team's victory over Reading.

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After the FA Cup game against Reading, Liverpool could finally take a breather in their tight schedule.

Their next game would be on January 8th, six days later.

January was also when the winter transfer window opened, and teams were active in the transfer market.

But Liverpool was silent.

Everyone thought that with Suarez injured and out for the entire season, Liverpool would use the winter transfer window to bring in a player to replace him, but Liverpool didn't make any moves.

There weren't many transfer rumors about Liverpool in the transfer market either.

Niang later simply came out to deny those few rumors.

"Liverpool has no plans to make any signings during this winter transfer window. We are very satisfied with the current team lineup..."

A reporter asked, "Suarez is injured. Are you not planning to buy a replacement for him?"

Niang shook his head: "No, we are not. Suarez is irreplaceable. We will not bring in a player to replace him. If we do, there will be too many players in our front line when he recovers from his injury..."

In fact, Liverpool only had three genuine strikers, including substitute Krashnic. Now that Suarez was injured, there were only two left, which wouldn't be considered "too many" for any team.

But at Liverpool, that was indeed the case.

Krashnic didn't get many chances to play now. Most of the time, he played with the reserves. Even when Suarez was not playing, Martin O'Neill didn't put Krashnic in the lineup.

The most important reason was Chen Hero.

Chen Hero was in stable form, had excellent physical fitness, and started every game without missing any. So with him, other players weren't needed.

Even if Suarez was injured, even if Krashnic was also injured, as long as Chen Hero was there, there was no need to worry about the forward line at all.

Krashnic was signed by Martin O'Neill when he first took over Liverpool. At that time, he didn't know much about Chen Hero. If he had coached for a season first, he wouldn't have mentioned signing Krashnic.

Because there was no need for it!

Besides the fact that they didn't need to sign a striker, Liverpool didn't need to sign players in other positions either.

Basically, you can't find any good players in the winter transfer window. Only bad players are sold during the winter transfer window. Those talented and famous players are willing to wait until the summer, when they have plenty of time to negotiate contracts with their new clubs, and the old clubs are also willing to sell them at that time, because they also have plenty of time to ask for sky-high prices.

If you want to find good players in the winter transfer window, you have to rely on luck.

So most teams will not choose to "supplement" their teams in the winter unless it is absolutely necessary.

Liverpool now has a complete lineup. Although there are injuries, they haven't been seriously affected. In any position, they have at least two excellent players. Even if one person is injured, the other can easily replace him.

In addition, the construction plan for Liverpool's new Stanley Park Stadium was restarted this season, and the construction site of the new stadium was like a huge money-sucking black hole, dedicated to sucking money. No matter how much money you put in, it would be thrown in. Liverpool's finances were also a bit tight.

So Niang didn't plan to buy anyone in the winter transfer window. If possible, he wouldn't make such a big move this summer as he did last summer.

Niang believed that with Liverpool's current lineup, it wouldn't be difficult to win any championship.

So there was no need to bring in any more superstars to increase the team's strength. Liverpool already had a superstar, which was priceless. Niang wouldn't sell him for any amount of money, unless Chen Hero himself wanted to leave.

But would he leave?

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Six days later, Liverpool welcomed Tottenham Hotspur to their home stadium.

As time passed, Tottenham Hotspur fans' resentment towards Bale's departure from the team became lighter and lighter. Now that Bale was doing well at Liverpool, it also proved the correctness of his transfer back then. Anyway, Tottenham was getting worse every year, and Tottenham fans didn't have the heart to compete with Liverpool anymore.

As for Liverpool, they didn't have any entanglements with Tottenham in the first place. The main reason was Chen Hero and Richards.

Now there was no such problem. Just when the winter transfer window opened, Real Madrid bought Micah Richards to the Bernabéu for 10 million euros.

Although Richards was always beaten to a pulp by Chen Hero every time they met, it was undeniable that he was still an excellent defender. Being beaten to a pulp by Chen Hero didn't mean that he would be beaten to a pulp by others. In other games, his performance was still quite good. Otherwise, he wouldn't have occupied the position of starting right back not long after he arrived at Tottenham. Later, he was only demoted because he performed too badly and ridiculously against Chen Hero, offending the coach.

In fact, he had the strength.

There was no shortage of pursuers for such a defender.

Real Madrid had always believed that the right back position was their weak link. Only Ramos could be considered world-class, but Ramos was playing as a center back most of the time this season. After Pepe left, Real Madrid had never been able to buy their ideal center back. AC Milan was unwilling to sell Thiago Silva to them. So Mourinho could only use Ramos as a makeshift center back and partner with Varane. Arbeloa then played as a right back, but Arbeloa's strength was still a bit lacking, and he was the only one, lacking a substitute, which made Mourinho very uneasy.

So it was only natural that Richards was targeted by Real Madrid.

For Richards, this was also a good thing. He couldn't play as a starter at Tottenham, but he didn't expect to be favored by the super giant Real Madrid. He immediately felt a sense of happiness and dizziness from being hit by a gold bar falling from the sky.

Going to Real Madrid!

That was the football temple that countless players dreamed of! Being able to join now, what did it mean? It meant that he was also a top star!

Going to Real Madrid, he would have fame, money, everything.

So when he heard that Real Madrid was interested in him, he agreed without saying a word.

At the same time, he felt a sense of superiority towards Chen Hero. No matter how awesome you are, you are just messing around in Liverpool. I am going to Real Madrid! Real Madrid! You can't even get in if you want to! Let's see who does better in the future!

Chen Hero didn't know his inner thoughts. If he did, he would definitely snort in disdain.

What about Real Madrid? I have rejected them to their face! You can't even get the leftovers, what's there to be proud of?

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With Richards leaving Tottenham, Tottenham Hotspur naturally had no love-hate relationship with Chen Hero anymore.

So this game was just an ordinary Premier League game.

Liverpool was at home, stronger than Tottenham Hotspur, and in high spirits. The pre-match betting companies were all optimistic about Liverpool winning by a large margin.

Now many gamblers basically don't bet on Liverpool anymore, because there is no suspense, Liverpool will definitely win. If Liverpool draws, it would be a big upset, and they could make a fortune. But such opportunities are too rare...

In the end, Liverpool defeated Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield with a score of 3:0, a complete victory.

Chen Hero scored one goal and assisted another, and was the number one contributor to Liverpool's victory in this game. He was also named the best player of the game.

When receiving the award, Chen Hero said that he was going to build a new wine cellar in his yard.

"My old wine cellar can't hold this stuff anymore!"

He raised the bottle of champagne in his hand and said to everyone with some distress.

A group of reporters looked at each other. Being able to win the best player of the game once is something that can make people happy for a long time, but this guy is worried about the problem of not having enough space to put the prize... A full man doesn't know the hunger of an empty belly!

Let's just not report the news of him winning the best player of the game in the future!