Quique was confident that he could defeat Amoruso because he had a very good environment. Barcelona's strong overall strength could benefit the players who played here and increase their strength.

And what did Amoruso have? No matter which team he transferred to, he could not have an environment like Barcelona.

So he was destined to die.

He was very confident in Barcelona's strength.

The same confidence was also reflected in the upcoming Champions League final.

Chen Hero was indeed very strong. Even in the last season of his career, Quique could only forcibly suppress his ambitions and submit to Chen Hero on the surface.

But this was a competition between players, a one-on-one duel.

He was not Chen Hero's opponent in a one-on-one, but what about a group fight?

A group fight was different.

Quique was confident that Barcelona's overall strength was stronger than Liverpool's.

Now this Liverpool, apart from Chen Hero, were too young, or lacked experience.

Only Chen Hero and Carlton Cole had played in the Champions League final.

In the following six seasons, Liverpool's players had been replaced batch after batch. Those meritorious players of the past had long left the team or retired.

And what about Barcelona?

They had just won a Champions League title the year before last. They were experienced, and the players themselves were in their prime. Whether it was experience or physical fitness, they were at their peak.

Suppressing Liverpool was simply not a problem.

In addition, this time they were playing at home, with the home advantage, and with the support of more than 80,000 Barcelona fans, Barcelona would definitely be able to defeat Liverpool!

Quique firmly believed in this.

Although Barcelona had suffered another crushing defeat to Liverpool five seasons ago, that was after all something that happened five seasons ago. At that time, the thirty-five-year-old Chen Hero was still in his prime. How could he be compared with the forty-one-year-old him?

In addition, Quique had his own views on those two games.

He believed that the reason why Barcelona was defeated by Liverpool was because Barcelona itself experienced a period of transition. That period was not Barcelona's golden age, and the strength of many players in the team was not as good as it was now, nor as good as it had been in the past. They had lost the league title for three consecutive years, and Real Madrid was building a dynasty right before their eyes.

At that time, Barcelona actually fantasized about avenging Liverpool. He really admired the courage of the people at that time.

Another very important reason was that there was no him in that Barcelona team.

Five years ago, when Barcelona suffered a defeat, he was only eighteen years old and was still in Barcelona B team, and had not been transferred to the first team--by the way, this shows why Quique was only "Messi II", and not "Quique I". Quique was still in Barcelona B team when he was eighteen years old and had not been promoted to the first team. And Messi, at the age of seventeen years and one hundred and fourteen days, had already made his debut for the Barcelona first team.

Back to the topic...

Five years ago, Barcelona did not have Quique and lost to Liverpool. Quique believed that the current Barcelona had him, and its strength in all aspects had been enhanced, so defeating Liverpool should not be a problem.

He was very confident in his own strength. Although he had never publicly expressed his coveting of Chen Hero's throne, this did not mean that he had no confidence in his own strength. He was just better at hiding himself than other geniuses.

Those geniuses were just reckless men, with only the courage of ordinary men. And Quique was a true ambitious man.

He was patient enough, and at the same time very confident in himself.

As long as there was a suitable opportunity, he could turn over and rise up.

And this Champions League final was a suitable opportunity.

This was Chen Hero's last game of his career.

After this game, he would have to get lost.

Even if he had been low-key before, Quique could not hide his inner pride and ambition at the last moment.

When he thought that after this game, he would never see Chen Hero again, and he would not have to worry about living in his shadow, Quique felt relieved.

Once people relaxed, some thoughts that they didn't dare to say or didn't want to think about before would uncontrollably pop up.

He began to think, he had pretended to be a grandson for five years, why couldn't he be arrogant once in the last game?

Was he really going to give Chen Hero a farewell retirement?

He was really unwilling...

Quique had always been a very proud person, but he was more tolerant than others.

Now, he was unwilling to endure any longer.

Liverpool and Chen Hero's performance in the Premier League did not cause his alarm.

He was very dismissive of the Premier League. Because of Liverpool's long-term monopoly, the current Premier League was not even as competitive as La Liga. At least Real Madrid and Barcelona were competing in La Liga, but what was there in the Premier League? Apart from Liverpool, it was Liverpool.

Fourteen consecutive league titles. Such a record was great for Liverpool, but it was not good news for the Premier League.

The competitiveness of the Premier League had declined, and the overall strength had naturally declined. What was there to be happy about winning in such a league? It also did not mean that Liverpool's current strength was very strong.

Perhaps in other European powerhouses, the current Liverpool was still strong, such as when they eliminated Inter Milan, Manchester United, and Bayern Munich.

But Barcelona was unique.

Quique had 200% confidence in his team.

No team in the world could be compared with Barcelona.

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After the end of the league, there were only about ten days left before the Champions League final.

Gerrard gave the whole team a day off to let them rest well, and then rejoin the training to prepare for the final Champions League final.

For Liverpool, this was the most important game of the season. Because this was Chen Hero's last game before his retirement, and it was also the last chance to win a championship.

Everyone wanted to send Chen Hero off with a Champions League title.

At this time, the war of words for the Champions League final officially began.

The war was first provoked by the Catalan media.

These people had the same thoughts as Quique. They believed that this was Chen Hero's last game of his career anyway. After this game, he would retire, so they all had a feeling of relief.

Once they breathed a sigh of relief, everyone's little thoughts began to become active...

The whole of Catalonia had been living with its tail between its legs in front of Chen Hero before, and this feeling was really uncomfortable.

Catalonia was proud, which could be seen from the fact that they had always wanted to be independent from Spain.

However, their pride had always been wantonly trampled and insulted by Chen Hero, and they had endured this for a long time.

It was not that they did not want to resist, but they could not resist.

But now the opportunity had come, Chen Hero's last game before his retirement, participating in the Champions League final at the age of forty-one.

In addition, this final was held at the Nou Camp, Barcelona's home stadium.

In this stadium, Barcelona's combat effectiveness would definitely increase exponentially.

A combination of factors made the Catalan media believe that the day they would avenge Chen Hero was in this game!

So they began to re-promote the rhetoric of revenge.

However, this time, they did not mention their history of being humiliated by Chen Hero twice in a row.

They took a different approach. They did not mention the past, nor did they ridicule Chen Hero. They just aimed the spearhead at Liverpool, mocking that Liverpool's future would be dark, and after losing Chen Hero, they would instantly change from a rich and handsome to a poor loser.

They used various methods, articles, comics, animations, videos...etc. to ridicule Liverpool's future.

A Catalan media published an article that was said to be an in-depth analysis of Liverpool's future. As a result, everyone opened the newspaper and saw that half the page was pitch black. Below the pitch-black picture, it read: "This is Liverpool's future!"

Various jokes ridiculing Liverpool's future also became popular on the Internet.

How did Liverpool respond to this, or how did Chen Hero respond?

In the past ten years, Chen Hero had always been Liverpool's spokesperson. Only during the three months when he was banned, did he temporarily shut his mouth.

Now, someone had run into the line of fire, and Chen Hero would naturally not be polite to them.

"Someone is going to humiliate themselves again." Facing the reporter, he said calmly. "I'm too lazy to remind everyone to recall the previous incident. It is said that a fish's memory is only six seconds? I think Barcelona's memory is also worrying..."

The reporters burst into laughter.

They liked to watch this kind of war of words.

Chen Hero was always able to scold people in a variety of ways, making people laugh. Of course, it also made his opponents furious.

But isn't this the kind of drama that the audience is waiting for?

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Chen Hero's words blocked the mouths of many Barcelona people. Because that past incident was indeed Barcelona's shame. Even now, they were ashamed to mention it—they brazenly said that they were going to slap Liverpool in the face and avenge themselves, but they did not expect that Chen Hero's Liverpool slapped them several times, and their faces were swollen.

At that time, Barcelona became the biggest joke in European football, even more serious than when they were poured six goals by Liverpool. Because the first time, many people actually sympathized with them, but this time they were purely asking for it, and no one would sympathize with them, only laugh at them as much as they wanted.

This incident brought great harm to Barcelona. In the following years, people continued to mention this incident to laugh at Barcelona.

So Chen Hero brought up the old thing again today. The meaning was very clear--I am going to use a knife to cut open your wounds, and then sprinkle cumin on your bloody wounds, and then use my hands to stir and stir vigorously! I want you to never forget the heart-wrenching and unforgettable pain!