Chapter 1 Naples Defeats Manchester United

The news that Naples had defeated Manchester United 1-0 to finally advance to the finals spread throughout Europe and the world the next day through the media.

Everyone knew that Barcelona's opponent at Wembley Stadium would be Naples.

The media also dug up the grudges and love-hate relationships between these two teams from last year.

"Alves Tricks Chen Hero, Chen Hero Angrily Beats Professor Bu" was a good show that had the media excited for quite some time back then.

With such a precedent, everyone could expect a passionate collision between the two teams at Wembley Stadium to see what kind of sparks would fly.

For Naples, Barcelona was an enemy. But for Barcelona, ​​was Naples not an enemy?

Chen Hero broke Busquets's nose in the game, making Busquets wear a mask for a long time, and he also肆意insulted Barcelona, ​​which has a glorious history after the game. Now he is fighting fiercely with Messi.

Barcelona would be lying if they said they weren't angry.

In fact, they had long wanted an opportunity to teach Naples and Chen Hero a lesson.

For them, the Champions League final was obviously a very good "stage."

"Playing against Naples? Very good, we have been waiting for such an opportunity since that day. We want to prove that Barcelona can eliminate them, definitely not because of any other reason!" Iniesta said very seriously.

"I don't want to talk about someone..." Messi shrugged. A reporter asked him how he felt about Chen Hero still trailing him by one goal...

"We are afraid of Naples? Hahaha!" Pique laughed after hearing what the media told him about Chen Hero's words.

He didn't continue, but his smile said it all.

Barcelona was not afraid of Naples! Not only that, but the entire Barcelona team was eager to fight Naples to the death.

No, saying "fight to the death" was simply insulting Barcelona. The Barcelona players' mentality was to狠狠humiliate Naples. Let them pay the price for their arrogance and conceit at the beginning, and make Chen Hero look extremely ugly.

In that case, the highly anticipated Champions League final was the best stage.

At that time, under the attention of fans all over the world, Chen Hero and his Naples lost to Barcelona. After the game, they could indulge in humiliation and vent all the anger that Chen Hero's big mouth had caused them.

There was simply nothing more enjoyable than this!

Some people had even started considering what celebration they should do if they scored a goal to slap Chen Hero in the face.

That's right, Barcelona fans voted for Manchester United as the opponent they wanted to meet in the final, which Chen Hero interpreted as them not wanting to meet Naples. This interpretation may be correct.

But whether it was "不想碰到那不勒斯" (didn't want to meet Naples) or "惧怕碰到那不勒斯" (afraid to meet Naples), it was all fans, not Barcelona players. This survey was not aimed at Barcelona players.

So, the Barcelona players were not afraid of Naples. They were even quite satisfied with this result.

They could win the championship and狠狠humiliate Naples at the same time. It was killing two birds with one stone, and there was nothing better than this!

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Barcelona players were thinking about how to take revenge on Naples and Chen Hero in the final.

In the city of Naples, everyone was happy that the team had entered the Champions League final.

The special plane carrying the entire Naples team had just landed at the Naples airport and was warmly welcomed.

Thousands of enthusiastic fans gathered at the airport, holding up various blue Naples flags, banners, slogans, and posters and cartoon portraits of the stars. They celebrated the triumphant return of the soldiers.

This was quite pleasing to the Naples players. At the airport, they were treated like heroes, and everyone received a lot of flowers and cheers.

Even Chen Hero was no exception.

Several core members of the "Blue Giant Bear" came and held up portraits and posters of Chen Hero in the crowd.

If it had been a year ago, other fans might have come up to cause trouble for them—the hatred of Naples's extreme fans for Chen Hero had not diminished with Chen Hero's goals.

But this time it was different. They held up Chen Hero's portraits and posters in the crowd and shouted Chen Hero's name, but no one came up to stop them.

It should be known that the "Blue Giant Bear" organization was established after conflicts with some extreme fans.

Now, no one really came to make trouble, which shows that Chen Hero's position in the hearts of Naples fans was quietly changing, and more and more people were beginning to accept this guy who they once hated so much.

However... this change seemed to have happened a little late for them...

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Cabrela found an extra trophy in the grid on the honor wall at home.

In fact, Cabrela was basically no different from a female housekeeper now. She knew everything in Chen Hero's house, what was there, what was not there, and what needed to be added.

She naturally knew what was in this honor wall.

She found the suddenly added thing unfamiliar.

"Oh, this." Chen Hero smiled meaningfully on his face. "I temporarily put it here. It's not for me, it's for someone else. I'm just keeping it here for now."

He didn't explain further. Cabrela didn't continue to ask.

Chen Hero glanced at Cabrela.

He always felt that some very subtle changes were taking place in the relationship between him and Cabrela.

At first, he was afraid of Cabrela, and Cabrela had a stern face towards him. Later, the two had some changes because of Christmas, and they seemed to get along much more harmoniously. But recently, he seemed to have returned to the situation when he first came to Naples—of course, it was not to say that he was afraid of Cabrela again, but he felt that Cabrela had become indifferent to him again...

He was quite strange. Why is this? I didn't provoke her, did I?

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Naples entered the Champions League final. This was a historic event. The whole of Italy was震动ed by it, because before the season, no one thought that Naples could advance to the final all the way.

But the facts were in front of people, and they couldn't help but believe it.

This was a major event. The city of Naples was like a festival during this period. Every household was decorated with lanterns and彩带, and the blue team flag of the Naples football club fluttered from the windows of every household.

In China, it was even more炸了锅 (exploded the pot)—it was no joke! It was definitely a historic event for Chinese players to appear on the stage of the top European football event final for the first time. Many people felt that Chen Hero could definitely be included in the sports history of the new China just because of this one thing.

If he could lead the team to win the Champions League, he might be elected as China's Sports Figure of the Year Award—before, everyone knew that Chen Hero always liked to说点 bad things about the Football Association and the General Administration of Sports, so this highest award in Chinese sports was always out of his reach. Not to mention winning the award, he couldn't even get into the list of candidates.

If he could win the Champions League, he might be able to overcome the General Administration of Sports' prejudice against him in the huge public opinion clamor?

Everyone was excited for this final.

The Naples club was too busy to be happy about the Champions League final. They had other work to do, especially... Liverpool had formally submitted an offer to the club to buy Chen Hero.

It should be said that they "finally" made an offer.

Because they had already confirmed this matter with Bigon and De Laurentiis.

However, this matter was very secret, and only these few people knew about it.

The person in charge of handling this matter on Liverpool's side was Niang Luo.

"Hero has already told us to offer a price worthy of his performance. So Mr. Bigon, you don't have to worry at all that we will have any private... um, transactions with Hero." As a Chinese born in Florence, Italy, Niang spoke Italian to Bigon. There was no problem in communication between the two, and there would be no misunderstanding of the quotation.

"Of course I believe you..." Bigon actually said this very dismissively. He felt that since the Liverpool boss and Chen Hero were brothers, and Chen Hero had persuaded the Naples boss De Laurentiis, then it was absolutely impossible to offer a high price. He now only hoped that it would be twice as expensive as the price Naples bought Chen Hero for at the beginning...

It was precisely because he had such thoughts from the beginning that he was taken aback when he heard Niang's words.

"Liverpool intends to invest 50 million to buy Hero."

Niang's heart skipped a beat. Fifty million? This was much more than he imagined... Before this sentence, his psychological price was still "30 million"...

It was also much higher than Chen Hero's value when he joined Naples at the beginning.

"Pounds." Niang seemed to think that the stimulus for Bigon was not big enough, so he added.

Bigon's heart was beating wildly. A player could be sold for 50 million pounds! 50 million pounds is about equal to 60 million euros, which is not a low price.

But he knew that now was not the time to show happiness, because if he was too happy, it would make the other party realize his trump card. He must not let Liverpool people think that Naples can be打发ed (sent away) with so little money!

So he stabilized his mind and pretended to hesitate and coughed: "I think 50 million pounds..." He swallowed in his heart. "It's not enough to reflect Hero's value, Mr. Niang."

"Then 55 million?"

Bigon frowned: "Mr. Niang, Liverpool is not a small team, and we Naples are not country bumpkins who have never seen the world. We created the world's number one worth at the beginning." He was referring to Maradona's transfer to Naples. Maradona's transfer fee to Naples was 7.5 million US dollars, and the world's number one worth was born.

Niang laughed: "Haha, alright, 60 million pounds."

Bigon rolled his eyes. This was equal to another 5 million... But 60 million, 60 million pounds...

He felt that this number sounded more tempting and pleasing to the ear than 50 million.

But the secret to bargaining is to be没良心 (heartless)!

"To be honest, Mr. Niang, I don't think 60 million is in line with Hero's value."

"No, Mr. Bigon, we think this price is very reasonable."

"Let me tell you if this is reasonable." Bigon began to give Niang a lesson, "Three consecutive Serie A Golden Boots, two consecutive Champions League Golden Boots, two consecutive Serie A Oscars for Best Foreign Player and Best Player... is it only worth 60 million?"

"As far as I know, there are only two Serie A Golden Boots and one Champions League Golden Boot..." Niang heard the flaw in the Naples general manager's words.

"Of course. These have been selected. But although this season has not ended, I believe that Hero has won this season's league Golden Boot and the Champions League Golden Boot." Bigon said confidently.

"Well, in the league, he is already leading the second place Di Natale by eight goals, so he can basically be regarded as winning the league Golden Boot in advance. But he is still one goal behind Messi in this Champions League..."

This time it was Bigon's turn to laugh.

"Mr. Niang, you don't really think Hero will lose to Messi, do you?"

Hearing this rhetorical question, Niang also laughed.

"Okay, okay. Considering your confidence in Hero, I'll just be straightforward. This is the highest authority my boss has given me, and it's also the highest price our Liverpool can offer. If it still doesn't work, I can't do anything... We will take Hero away this summer, and you will get 70 million."

Bigon took a deep breath, but he choked before he could finish it.

"Pounds."

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