Chapter 1 The News About Chen Yingxiong Breaking the Record Is Still Being Hyped

The reporters enjoyed it, and the fans loved to watch it. Especially the Chinese fans. In the past few days, their favorite thing to do was to search the internet for all kinds of news reports about Chen Yingxiong breaking the record. In the Chen Yingxiong fan QQ groups, there were even students studying abroad who voluntarily translated the news about Chen Yingxiong that they could find in foreign media and posted it in the groups to share with other fans.

Weibo, blogs, forums... everywhere was full of news about Chen Yingxiong.

The name Chen Yingxiong has also become the most popular keyword in various search engines during this period.

But these things have nothing to do with Chen Yingxiong—he couldn't possibly know.

He had to prepare for the team's last league game, and at the same time, he had to continue to fight against those extreme fans.

After the game against Inter Milan, he successfully changed some people's views on him, but those most extreme fans would never change their views. Chen Yingxiong didn't even think about changing the minds of those extreme fans. It had been three seasons, and he had not succeeded. Could this one game make the other party abandon the darkness and turn to the light?

After slapping the extreme fans in the game, the conflict between Chen Yingxiong and the extreme fans grew even bigger.

Anyway, those who didn't hate him before hated him because of this incident, and those who hated him before hated him even more because of this slap...

In order to avoid being disturbed by fans and the media, Napoli continued to implement the closed training mode. Not only that, Mazzarri also required everyone in the team not to talk about topics such as Chen Yingxiong going to Liverpool and the relationship between Chen Yingxiong and Napoli fans in front of the media. As for other things, such as Chen Yingxiong breaking the record, they could talk freely, so this was not a strict gag order. Club manager Bigon also made the same decision, not allowing club staff to gossip to the media.

This was a kind of protection for Chen Yingxiong. Of course, this was not because Napoli was so humane, so considerate and caring for the players. In the final analysis, it was because the current Chen Yingxiong was very important to them. Napoli had the last two games left this season, and the ownership of the two championships was all in these two games. Chen Yingxiong was the key figure in the team's victory. If his excellent and normal state was not guaranteed, the team shouldn't even think about the two championships.

Protecting Chen Yingxiong was actually for the team's sake.

If it were a substitute player, if such a thing happened, the rumors about the player leaving the team would be flying all over the sky the next day.

There was no way, this was professional football, a world for adults, so realistic and cruel. A person's status is definitely not obtained by luck. All of it depends on one's own strength. With strength, you can make a lot of money and become a big star. No strength? Sorry, no one will remember who you are.

Since Chen Yingxiong had decided to leave Liverpool, and the two clubs had signed an agreement, Napoli would of course squeeze Chen Yingxiong to the maximum. Just like when AC Milan sold Kaka to Real Madrid, Kaka's condition was very poor after he went to Real Madrid. He was completely unable to recover his former glory and was frequently injured. Later, everyone learned that he had already been injured in his last season at AC Milan, and the various injuries he suffered after he went to Real Madrid were all the root causes left in AC Milan.

Later, there were rumors that the omnipotent Milan laboratory conducted a detailed physical examination of Kaka and came to the conclusion that "he will not be able to return to his peak state." After that, AC Milan sold Kaka to Real Madrid at a high price of 65 million euros, making a heavy cut on Real Madrid. It can also be regarded as Kaka's last contribution to AC Milan.

AC Milan squeezed Kaka's remaining value to the last bit.

Napoli was about to earn 70 million pounds from Chen Yingxiong, so of course they had to let Chen Yingxiong win the championship for them before leaving. The league championship was easier to say, there would be opportunities for this in the future, and Napoli had won it before, so it might not be so rare. On the other hand, the Champions League title, when Maradona was there, it was Napoli's peak glory, but even then they had not been able to win the Champions League title. Now that there was an opportunity, how could Napoli not have ideas?

At that time, Chen Yingxiong will have won the championship for the team and earned 70 million pounds for the team. For Napoli, it was really a happy_ending.

As for whether Chen Yingxiong, who had tried his best in this season, could continue to maintain such a good state after going to the Premier League, that was not what Napoli cared about.

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The last week of this season, if nothing unexpected happened, was also Chen Yingxiong's last week in Naples. It passed quickly in the media's crazy hype about Chen Yingxiong's record-breaking thirty-six goals and his entanglement with the fans.

Starting on the afternoon of May 22, the last round of Serie A began one after another.

Serie A is really strange. The last round of leagues in other countries must kick off at the same time to prevent cheating, match-fixing, tacit understanding matches, and other situations. But in Italy, some of their last rounds of matches are held in the afternoon, and some are held at night. It seems that they are not at all afraid of the situation where competitors know the opponent's results and then make targeted changes. For example, if the opponent competing for the championship has already lost the game, and the team wins the championship in advance, then they can sell favors in the last round of the league, release water and lose to the opponent who needs to be relegated. In this way, when the two teams meet in the future, they can naturally ask the other party to release water based on their old friendship...

Serie A actually does this so blatantly, and doesn't seem to be afraid of other people's criticism at all.

It's good that the matches of the two teams that may compete for the league championship are scheduled at the same time.

AC Milan's away game against Udinese and Napoli's away game against Juventus were both at 8:45 pm Italian local time, and 2:45 am Beijing time on the 23rd.

Poor Chinese fans, they have to either stay up all night or struggle to climb out of bed...

But in order to express their support for Chen Yingxiong, it is difficult to get up.

Today, Chen Yingxiong's parents, like the last game, sat in front of the TV and prepared to watch the game.

Because Chen Yingxiong is in Naples, CCTV now broadcasts a Napoli game every weekend on the sports channel. As for the games of giants such as AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, and Roma, if there is no time conflict, it is easy to say. If there is a time conflict, it will either be arranged on the Fengyun Football Channel, a paid channel, or it will be directly abandoned. Unless it is a heavyweight event such as the "Milan Derby" or the "Italian National Derby", can they have the opportunity to show their faces on public channels, which makes many fans of these giants very unhappy. Helpless, now there are far more people who like to watch Chen Yingxiong's games than the fans of several giants in China. After all, there are still many fans of Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Liverpool, Dortmund... and other teams who hope to see Chen Yingxiong's games every week.

In addition, Chen Yingxiong is really competitive, and almost every game has excellent performance. This season, his average goals per game has exceeded one. Chinese fans are watching it with great excitement, and after every weekend, Chen Yingxiong's performance will arouse everyone's active discussion.

After all, on the top European stage, it is always better to project one's simple emotions onto one's own competitive compatriots than to project them onto those who are actually unrelated to oneself, right? After all, the vast majority of people still hope to see their motherland produce a sports powerhouse who can devote themselves to their emotions and will never be disappointed.

Like Yao Ming, like Liu Xiang, like those Olympic champions.

Chen Yingxiong used his good performance to make everyone recognize him and think that he is an object worthy of entrusting all his emotions.

Especially in such a dark era of Chinese football, Chen Yingxiong's existence and performance are even more commendable.

It's a pity that after Chen Yingxiong's news of transferring to Liverpool came out, many people may not be able to appreciate Chen Yingxiong's outstanding performance in time, at least they will not be able to appreciate Chen Yingxiong's passionate performance every weekend on the platform with the widest coverage and the greatest influence in China.

Because... CCTV has not bought the broadcasting rights for the Premier League at all!

As the most influential TV station in China, CCTV has been insulated from the Premier League for more than a year or two. Initially, they could still use Premier League game highlights in programs such as Football Night and World Football, but later they couldn't even use game highlights. As a result, the name of the program World Football, which is particularly domineering, has since lost the trace of the Premier League, and only occasionally has some game highlights and tidbits from the FA Cup.

Last year, Tiansheng Media, which had monopolized the Premier League for as long as three years, had its contract expired, and there were many negative news such as being unable to make ends meet, large-scale layoffs, and being on the verge of bankruptcy liquidation. Obviously, it was impossible to continue to monopolize the broadcasting rights of the Premier League in mainland China.

It was once rumored that CCTV would bid 18 million US dollars to compete for the broadcasting rights of the Premier League in the mainland for the next three years.

However, Jiang Heping, the director of CCTV's sports channel, quickly came out to deny the rumor. He also said that he was puzzled why the Premier League was worth so much money. He believes that there are not many people watching the Premier League, and the ratings are not high, so why spend an unimaginable price to broadcast the Premier League?

At that time, CCTV spent a lot of effort to buy the broadcasting rights of Serie A in the new season, which is said to have cost 200 to 300 million US dollars. Compared with the Premier League, Serie A is indeed very cheap...

At that time, although the Serie A side revised the sales plan and the price also increased, CCTV still spent a lot of money to finalize the Serie A broadcast. why? It's not that CCTV really has no money, but because Serie A has Chen Yingxiong. With him, Jiang Heping believes that he can recover even if he spends more money.

So, now... Jiang Heping has been dragged out by angry fans on the Internet and whipped the corpses of his ancestors for eighteen generations...

Because he insisted on not spending nearly 100 million RMB to acquire the broadcasting rights of the Premier League, Chinese fans will not be able to see Chen Yingxiong's games on CCTV starting from the next season. At that time, everyone can only watch the games through local stations, the Internet and other channels, which is not as convenient as CCTV, which covers the whole country.

In fact, it is understandable that CCTV is unwilling to spend 100 million RMB to buy the broadcasting rights of a single event. After all, CCTV's money is not Jiang Heping's money, and he can get it if he says he can get it. Originally, Yingxiong was playing well in Naples. According to this trend of development, it is estimated that Chen Yingxiong can play in Naples for a few more years. It is obviously much better for CCTV to spend a lot of effort to buy the broadcasting rights of Serie A than the Premier League. In these seasons, due to the existence of Chen Yingxiong, the current ratings of Serie A are the highest among all football league broadcasts on CCTV, and are second only to the South Africa World Cup in all events.

Since Chen Yingxiong is already in Serie A, why consider the Premier League?

Jiang Heping also had such thoughts—no matter how good the Premier League is, it is not as good as Serie A with Chen Yingxiong!

Who would have thought that a bet between Chen Yingxiong and Chen Xing would completely change the broadcasting pattern, and the Premier League suddenly became a popular commodity in mainland China. Although the Premier League lost 90% of its audience in mainland China during the three years of Tiansheng Media's monopoly on the Premier League, with the joining of Chen Yingxiong, isn't it easy to reverse the situation?

In fact, after the Premier League Alliance learned about this matter, they also had the same idea - the Premier League will regain its vitality in China in the next season!

Now CCTV's sports channel is in a very embarrassing situation. Serie A has long been declining. Since the telephone scandal, Serie A has fallen into a lack of support in the local area. Many stadiums are not full during games, and the attendance rate is about to be caught up by the Chinese Super League...

Local people don't support it, not to mention the Chinese who are thousands of miles away.

The viewing value of Serie A is decreasing, famous stars are unwilling to come here, and various shady scenes have chilled the hearts of supporters.

Just when CCTV was planning to give up Serie A, Chen Yingxiong came.

Serie A in China was actually brought back to life!

But the good times did not last long. After three seasons, Chen Yingxiong is leaving to the Premier League. Who will watch Serie A now?

You must know that many Chinese people who stay up late every weekend to watch Napoli games are not Napoli fans, they are just Chen Yingxiong's fans. Wherever Chen Yingxiong goes, they will follow, and they don't care about the life or death of Napoli.

Perhaps De Laurentiis will regret that he did not take a trip to China while Chen Yingxiong was there to make a lot of money.

See, in this regard, Chen Xing is much clearer about Chen Yingxiong's influence in China and the Chinese world. Before the agreement between Liverpool and Napoli was finalized, he had already finalized Liverpool's trip to China this summer. Now with Chen Yingxiong, I am afraid that this trip to China will make Liverpool earn a lot of money.

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ps, the evaluation of the Premier League by CCTV officials in the article is true, it is not fabricated or yy out for the plot...