Chapter 1 The Truth About the Situation

In reality, the FA’s power isn’t as great as everyone thinks, especially against the backdrop of the nationwide crackdown on corruption. The Chinese FA is practically a rat crossing the street, loathed by everyone, and can only live with its tail between its legs. Otherwise, why would the FA look for a private friend to pass on a message through commercial channels? Isn’t it precisely because they fear exposure that things have become so complicated, that the FA will face even greater pressure if the matter gets out? Unfortunately for them, they didn’t expect that Chen Hero would actually dare to expose this matter…

Not to mention that it isn’t the Beijing Olympics anymore, and many media outlets don’t need to watch the FA’s every move.

The media today has much more backbone than the FA.

Therefore, many media outlets still published reports on yesterday’s game the next day, and focused on Chen Hero’s slapping action. Some newspapers went even further, directly expanding Chen Hero’s speech into a three-thousand-word commentary and placing it in the most prominent position. Others put the photo of Chen Hero slapping and the photo of Zhong Chusheng, the full-time vice chairman of the FA, with a cloudy face together, and even designed dialogue to satirize the FA to the extreme.

If the FA were a concrete person, they might have a heart attack and kick the bucket upon seeing these ridicules, going to meet old Marx.

Even CCTV made a special program about Chen Hero’s two slaps, which was broadcast on Football Night on Thursday evening. Liu Jianhong, who didn’t dare to say anything wrong while commentating on the game because he didn’t get instructions from his superiors, finally had a blast hosting Football Night. He conducted an in-depth analysis of all the FA’s problems, with Chen Hero’s two slaps as the introduction. Because he had received instructions from higher authorities—this issue must be analyzed in depth, and anything can be said!

Holding this imperial sword, Liu Jianhong scolded the FA mercilessly, not giving them any face. However, he still saved face for Chinese football, telling everyone not to lose hope, and that everyone should work hard to make Chinese football better, so that our own football can become better, otherwise it will only get worse…

In addition to the reports from traditional media, many news about this game also appeared on the internet. In fact, Zhong Dajun was still slow to realize; when the game was still in progress, fans who were watching the game live had already filmed the scene of Chen Hero slapping and the whole audience shouting "Bravo!" and uploaded it to the internet, and also posted it on Weibo to spread the word.

So on the same night, many famous Weibo websites had news about Chen Hero slapping. After all, this game was already of great concern to everyone, and such a big thing happened, how could it not trigger a frenzy of online speculation?

Good heavens, slapping the FA’s face so nakedly in front of a national audience, Chen Hero is unprecedented!

Such a big thing can never be silent on the internet.

This time, the FA really wanted to cover it up but couldn’t. Everyone knew that the FA had secretly contacted Chen Hero, asking him to publicly apologize to the FA for past events before he could be selected for the national team.

The FA has really fallen into a cesspool this time, I’m afraid even sulfuric acid can’t wash it clean!

Faced with the aggressive questioning from the media and the public, the FA once again resorted to its magic weapon—shrinking its head into its shell, no matter how you internet mobs scold, we just won’t come out!

As for how they will face the inquiry from the higher-level governing body, the State General Administration of Sport… that is unknown.

Anyway, Chen Hero’s refusal to apologize and join the national team, and even demanding that the FA apologize first, only angered the FA. His exposing this matter is equivalent to completely falling out with the FA. Who knows when he will have the opportunity to serve the country…

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After playing the game with the Chinese team, Liverpool took their charter plane and returned directly to Liverpool. So Chen Hero didn’t have the chance to know the reaction in China, but he could guess that the country must be in an uproar. The FA’s image in everyone’s mind wasn’t good to begin with, and now that there is such an opportunity to openly beat a drowning dog, who would let it go?

Whether the Chinese FA is under great pressure or not has nothing to do with him.

What he needs to consider is how to create an era that belongs to him in the Premier League, such a major event.

Through these four warm-up matches, his ability has been proven, and his understanding with his teammates is also increasing—there is proof, Chen Hero has completed half of the task of "integrating into the team", he has gained the favor of more than half of his teammates.

On the way back, someone naturally asked him why he slapped someone during the game. Chen Hero told them about his conflict with the FA, and many people clicked their tongues—clicking their tongues at the FA’s shamelessness.

They also comforted Chen Hero, saying that all crows are black, and those officials and politicians are not good people…

When Liverpool’s charter plane landed at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, they were warmly welcomed by Liverpool fans.

The trip to China allowed Liverpool to earn enough appearance fees and many commercial cooperation development contracts, and also trained the team, but the biggest gain was that everyone saw Chen Hero in excellent condition and good health.

This is the most important thing for the team. What kind of results Liverpool can achieve in the new season really depends on Chen Hero’s performance.

Since Chen Hero was able to make Napoli jump to become a strong team that defeated Barcelona in the Champions League final and lifted the championship trophy after he went to Napoli, Liverpool’s foundation is better than Napoli’s to begin with, why can’t we rise again?

Many people pinned their hopes on Liverpool’s rise on Chen Hero—it seems that this may be the origin of that task.

Chen Hero was warmly welcomed by the fans, many people shouted his name, and some even shouted in Chinese. He turned his head and saw several Chinese faces!

Liverpool is one of the most famous Chinese gathering places in England. There is a Chinatown, so it is not surprising that there are Chinese people.

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Liverpool’s trip to China was very successful, and the team expanded its influence in China, although the influence was already great before…

In addition, they also inspected some new players who joined the team.

Jordan Henderson is still young, and he only transferred from Sunderland this summer. He was a main player in Sunderland, but in Liverpool he has to start all over again. Dalglish signed Henderson obviously because he valued his potential rather than his current ability. After all, Gerrard is already thirty-one years old, and it’s time to find a successor for him. In order to get him, Liverpool paid a transfer fee of eight million pounds, as well as French forward Ngog—in fact, Nion analyzed that Henderson was worth at most eight million five hundred thousand pounds, but the English media is really good at hype, and they have hyped Henderson into the future hope of the English midfielder. Such hope emerges every year in England, countless… Helplessly, Sunderland used this to raise Henderson’s price, and finally Nion paid eight million pounds plus an Ngog to get Henderson. However, Ngog was not in Liverpool’s plan to begin with—Chen Hero is here, what do we need an Ngog for?

He also had opportunities to play in the warm-up matches, but obviously he is still too young, and he performed relatively immaturely when he first arrived in Liverpool. He should not be able to become a main player in the new season. Dalglish said to the outside world that Henderson is a transfer transaction that focuses on the future, but if we focus on the future, it seems that eight million plus an Ngog is still a bit expensive…

Charlie Adam is another midfielder who joined the team in the summer, transferred from Blackpool. He only cost Liverpool nine million pounds when he was at his peak. You can know why the fans feel that Liverpool lost money by spending eight million pounds plus an Ngog to exchange for Henderson…

In Blackpool, he was the captain and the absolute core. However, due to a dispute with Blackpool over the promotion bonus, he had a falling out. Because the contract he signed with Blackpool stipulated that he could receive a bonus of 20,000 pounds if the team successfully avoided relegation. As a result, the team was promoted to the Premier League, and the club refused to pay the bonus on the grounds that the team was not relegated but promoted… Finally, after he completely broke up with the club in court, he transferred to Liverpool for a price of nine million pounds.

Given Charlie Adam’s excellent performance in Blackpool, everyone believes that he can also have a good future in Liverpool.

In fact, it is also true. He performed well in Liverpool’s warm-up matches, and should be able to occupy a favorable position in the new season.

The biggest signing this summer is Chen Hero. His performance has been unprecedentedly successful. Although it was only a warm-up match, he has fully demonstrated why he was able to score thirteen goals in seven Champions League knockout matches last season!

Such a performance made everyone overjoyed. There is no doubt that Chen Hero will definitely be Liverpool’s starting center forward this season, starting in every game.

Since the purchase of Chen Hero cost the club a transfer budget of 70 million pounds, Liverpool’s investment in other aspects will be much less. So far, the club has only introduced these three players.

Since in the Premier League, the team’s transfers are all the responsibility of the head coach alone, Nion can’t intervene in this aspect. Only Chen Hero is because of a private relationship, and has nothing to do with Dalglish. Charlie Adam and Jordan Henderson were both strongly recommended by Dalglish.

However, Nion frowned deeply when he saw it.

Because if he were to lead the club’s transfer work, he would definitely not spend so much effort in the center…

We have a Chen Hero, he is one meter ninety-five tall, weighs ninety-five kilograms, has excellent headers and is strong. What else do we need?

If you ask ordinary fans such a question, you can get the correct answer—wingers!

But Dalglish didn’t do that. Of course, he planned to introduce Charlie Adam in January of this year, at which time he didn’t know that Chen Hero was coming to the team. It’s still normal, but he still insisted on introducing Jordan Henderson afterwards, which made Nion feel unhappy.

The core of this team should undoubtedly be Chen Hero now, so the whole team should be built around Chen Hero. Hero is good at headers, so we should give full play to his advantage and introduce some good wingers.

Why was Napoli successful? Because Mazzarri knew this very well, so look at who are in the team—Arshavin, Cassano, Sanchez, Maggio… these are all good wingers!

What about Liverpool?

Glen Johnson is a defender with a strong ability to assist, but you can’t always expect a defender to deliver shells to Chen Hero, right? And Glen Johnson’s biggest problem is that once he assists, he can’t come back. Compared to his ability to assist, his defense is simply terrible!

Besides him? There is none left!

How can we give full play to Hero’s characteristics of being good at scoring and headers?

He decided to do something.

They came to Liverpool to revitalize the team and also reap economic benefits. If the results are not good, where is there any economic benefit to talk about?

Although in England, the transfer is up to the head coach, but you can’t let the head coach mess around…

Dalglish is the “King” of Anfield, loved and respected, that’s right, he is a Liverpool legend.

But Nion doesn’t care so much, he only cares about interests, the club’s interests, the team’s interests, his interests, Chen Xing’s interests, Chen Hero’s interests… He believes that the King’s approach harms everyone’s interests, and he decided to talk to Dalglish as the club’s general manager.

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