Gareth Bale's move to Liverpool was arguably the biggest bombshell in the Premier League transfer market so far this summer.

Many teams had been coveting Bale for a long time. However, he had previously resisted the temptations of Barcelona and Real Madrid, so everyone thought Bale would stay at Tottenham for many years. No one expected him to end his Tottenham journey at just twenty-three years old.

At the same time, as some media outlets have said, Bale's arrival is definitely a huge boost to Liverpool's strength. Although they already have Adam Johnson, Adam Johnson is a winger who can play on both the left and right sides. With Liverpool continuing to compete on multiple fronts next season, Adam Johnson doesn't have to worry about not having enough playing time.

Bale's arrival, on the other hand, will make Liverpool's left wing even sharper. After all, in terms of overall strength, Bale is indeed better than Adam Johnson.

Many people's heads hurt just thinking about Liverpool next season, with Alexis Sánchez on the right, Gareth Bale on the left, and Suárez and Chen Yingxiong in the middle... How can you defend against such an attacking combination!

If you defend the right, what about the left? If you defend the left, what about the right? If you defend both the left and right, there's also Suárez, who can go to either side. If you defend Suárez, what about Chen Yingxiong?

Even if you contain all four of them, don't forget that Liverpool also has Gerrard, who is very good at late runs into the box!

Many people suddenly felt something was wrong—how did Liverpool become so amazing overnight? This isn't scientific! What's wrong with this world!

In fact, Liverpool's transformation has been gradually happening over the past two seasons... From Chen Xing's acquisition of Liverpool to Chen Yingxiong's transfer, and then to the departure of Dalglish, Liverpool has been getting better little by little. Now, the quantitative change has finally led to a qualitative leap. It feels as if Liverpool has undergone earth-shattering changes overnight...

Liverpool fans were spreading the news and rejoicing about Bale's joining Liverpool. Everyone knows how good Bale is, and now that he has been acquired by Liverpool and is at their disposal, the team's strength will definitely reach a new level.

Liverpool will be stronger next season, and perhaps even winning the Premier League title, which they have never won before, is no longer a dream...

What made the fans even happier was that Chen Yingxiong also posted a message on Twitter as soon as possible to welcome Bale to Liverpool. He said, "...I firmly believe that Gareth and I can cooperate very well!"

In the eyes of many Liverpool fans, this sentence is simply a declaration that Liverpool's attacking combination will be invincible next season!

Chen Yingxiong said that he and Bale can get along well, which means that there will be no conflicts between them. If there are no conflicts, he will work hard to help Bale integrate into the team, just like he helped Alexis Sánchez at the beginning. Everyone has seen what Alexis Sánchez has been able to do after integrating into the team.

Now it's Bale's turn... If Bale's performance is like Alexis Sánchez's... many people will laugh in their dreams!

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Chen Yingxiong was indeed very happy that Bale joined the team, and he had a good impression of Bale before. However, he deliberately posted a tweet as soon as possible to express his support and welcome to Bale, and he also had his own selfish considerations—that "Because of Friendship" talent was really powerful. Adam Johnson had relied on this talent to rack up a lot of assists because he was good friends with himself, and was directly selected for the England national team, even becoming a starting player...

Alexis Sánchez had also become one of the top right wingers in football today because of this talent.

And he himself had also benefited from it, scoring seventy-five goals in a single season. He was only one goal away from Messi's single-season record of seventy-six goals...

Bale is definitely a key player when he comes to the team, and tactically he will also be passing the ball to himself, so he must have a good relationship with him and find a chance to become friends. This way, he will have another more powerful winger passing the ball to him in the game... Even if the talent only has a 10% chance of success, that's still one successful cross out of ten, which is really awesome!

That's why he expressed his friendship so quickly, just to let Bale know—look, in Liverpool, I'm very optimistic about you. When you come to the team, you must have a good relationship with me!

Chen Yingxiong wasn't worried that Bale wouldn't see his speech on Twitter. The internet is the mainstream now, and there are so many reporters who have nothing better to do than stare at the internet. Even if he farts on Twitter, it can become the content of many media reports the next day.

Was he afraid that the media wouldn't notice his enthusiastic welcome?

Sure enough, the media reported Chen Yingxiong's Twitter content the next day, and their conclusion that "Chen Yingxiong and Bale have a good relationship" was exactly what Chen Yingxiong wanted to see most.

As long as Bale knew that he was showing goodwill to him, the rest would be much easier.

Chen Yingxiong stopped using Twitter. He had more important things to do than use Twitter. And that is... to make a movie!

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Chen Yingxiong was no stranger to standing in front of the camera. Not to mention that he had been interviewed so many times as a player in front of the camera, he had also shot more than one or two TV commercials.

But making a movie... this was really a first for him!

Not only was it his first time making a movie, but it was also his first time playing the male lead in a movie.

This was a challenge for him, but Chen Yingxiong liked challenges.

As soon as the season ended, he rushed to the film production site in Frankfurt, Germany.

Switching from player to actor.

The movie based on his personal experience, *Liverpool, I Love You*, was finally officially put into production. Because Chen Yingxiong only had this short vacation between the two seasons, the time was very tight. The crew first shot all the scenes with Chen Yingxiong, and the rest would be done later.

And Chen Yingxiong had to spend all his vacation in the crew, he was really busy.

But for Chen Yingxiong, this was actually a rest, because it was a completely different industry from football, he was full of novelty, and he didn't care about being busy.

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Chen Yingxiong flew directly to Frankfurt the day after the celebration banquet for winning the Europa League. The movie started in Frankfurt, so Chen Yingxiong went there first to film.

During this time, sports media were reporting on Bale's joining Liverpool, but many media outlets were still paying attention to Chen Yingxiong's movie filming.

The fact that Chen Yingxiong was playing the male lead in *Liverpool, I Love You* had long been known to the media. This was an important means for the crew to promote their movie, using the actor's fame to increase the movie's fame.

This was Chen Yingxiong's first time making a movie, and he was doing it in one step, playing the male lead the first time. The media and fans were naturally very interested, and everyone wanted to see what kind of performance and play Chen Yingxiong, who was making his film debut, could have in the movie.

In fact, it's not uncommon for football players to make movies. Chen Yingxiong had many predecessors who had done such things, but most of them were just making cameo appearances in movies as a hobby, showing their faces and that was it. If they were lucky, they would have a few lines, but they were definitely not the main characters in the movie.

Playing the lead role was something that many players did after they retired. Of course, there were also people who played the main roles in movies without retiring, but that was at the end of their careers, not far from retirement. For example, Vinnie Jones, the famous player and actor, was still a player when he starred in Guy Ritchie's movie *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels*, and had not retired.

It was quite rare for a player like Chen Yingxiong, who was in his prime and whose career was on the rise, to star in a movie.

Because it's rare, it's worth reporting.

So after Chen Yingxiong arrived in Frankfurt, he was followed by a lot of reporters, including sports reporters and entertainment reporters.

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Chen Yingxiong was quite looking forward to and excited about his first movie in his life. Besides the fact that it was a movie he was starring in, the bigger reason was because the female lead this time was famous and well-known, and even Chen Yingxiong had admired her for a long time!

Taylor Swift!

Yes, this movie actually invited the popular female singer, the young pop diva Taylor Swift!

This was something that many people hadn't expected at first.

Initially, when some media reported that the female lead of *Liverpool, I Love You* would be played by Taylor Swift, many people thought it was an April Fool's Day message—in fact, the news was indeed released on April 1st, as if it was deliberately misleading people...

But unexpectedly, it turned out to be true!

For a time, this legendary movie had not even started filming yet, but it was already known to the world. Because a movie directed by an unknown director and written by an unknown screenwriter actually invited a popular football player and a popular singer to play the female lead...

Many professional media outlets felt that this was completely a farce, a purely eye-catching gimmick, because neither of them were professional actors. Chen Yingxiong had never acted in a movie before, and although Taylor Swift had acted, her acting skills were simply terrible.

In addition, the director had previously only made commercials...

And the biggest investor in this movie was actually Liverpool Football Club... which made people feel even more absurd.

Professionals criticized this movie as a desecration of the movie itself, because it was completely a collaborative team composed of a group of unprofessional people who claimed to be making a movie, which was simply ridiculous. Many people also felt that this movie was the best proof of the commercialization eroding movies today—in order to attract attention, because of the sponsor's requirements, the crew had become shameless, only looking at fame and not acting skills, and even players and singers could be invited to be the male and female leads, which was simply nonsense!

It was completely a group of idlers and rabble-rousers, what kind of movie could such a team make?

Many people were not optimistic. There was no shortage of voices in the media criticizing and ridiculing.

Despite this, the movie crew was preparing amidst the sarcasm and bombardment, and was about to start formal filming.

Some people were waiting to see the joke, and some people were looking forward to the movie made by their idols.

Chen Yingxiong was looking forward to seeing the beauty...