Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 1604 Not Renewing the Contract (Second Change of Guarantee)
When the Liverpool players returned to the dressing room in a daze, they were surprised to find Chen Yingxiong inside.

"I thought you would come back soon, so I came here early. But it seems that this hit you a bit, so I waited here for a long time to see you." Seeing his teammates, Chen Yingxiong said .

There was a head coach in the way he said it.But no one finds it strange, everyone is used to it.Sometimes in the locker room they can't even tell whether the head coach is Gerrard or Chen Yingxiong.

As the oldest person in the team, it's normal for him to speak old-fashionedly.You must know that at Chen Yingxiong's age, he can make his mark in the coaching world.

Gerrard also has no objection to Chen Yingxiong saying that about his team.In fact, in daily training and competitions, Chen Yingxiong is indeed equivalent to half an assistant coach.

Otherwise, it will not be easy for him to lead this team.

The teammates didn't care about Chen Yingxiong's tone and attitude. What they cared about was that Chen Yingxiong would show up in the locker room.

"I'm not here to comfort and encourage you. I'm here to apologize to you. Because of my impulsiveness, we finally lost this championship..."

Hearing what Chen Yingxiong said, Gerrard stood up: "This is not your responsibility, hero. Whether it wins or loses, it should be shared by the whole team."

Chen Yingxiong shook his head: "No, Stephen. This is my responsibility, please let me take all the responsibility on myself, because when I come back next season, I will be full of strength. I think here Let me tell you that it doesn't matter if you lose the championship for a season, and it doesn't matter if you don't win [-] consecutive championships. Wait for me to come back next season, we will win the league championship together!"

For the first time since his suspension, Chen Yingxiong showed his ambition in front of everyone.

Everyone thought that being suspended for nine months would definitely wear down Chen Yingxiong's fighting spirit. After all, he is almost 40 years old.At such an old age, there will be no ball to play for another nine months, and it is easy to slack off physically and mentally.

The club said it would renew his contract for another two years. In everyone's opinion, it was more of an idea to show his attitude, not necessarily expecting him to play for another two years.

But looking at it now, they were all wrong.Chen Yingxiong did not admit defeat, he is still the Chen Yingxiong who is always full of desire for victory and championship.

This discovery is more exciting for the team than what Chen Yingxiong said.

For a while, the backbone of Liverpool was found!
The frustrated expressions on the faces of many players disappeared, and smiles began to appear.

Now they are full of expectations and motivation for next season.

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After all the players were washed and returned to the bus, Gerrard said to Chen Yingxiong, who had been staying in the locker room, chatting with the players, joking and enlivening the atmosphere: "Thank you, hero."

"It's too weird to say thank you, Steve. Which one of us is with whom!" Chen Yingxiong laughed.

Gerrard also smiled, so he didn't continue the topic. Instead, he asked Chen Yingxiong: "Are you really planning to renew your contract with the club for another two years?"

Chen Yingxiong gave him an answer that made him feel reasonable and somewhat unexpected.

"No. I will not renew my contract with the club."

It is reasonable because Chen Yingxiong's contract expires next season, and he will be 41 years old after the expiration. Any player should have retired at this age, so it is reasonable.What surprised him was because judging from the high-spirited Yang Zi before him, he originally thought that Chen Yingxiong would accept the team's kindness and continue to lead the team forward.

"I have said a long time ago that the reason why I have repeatedly renewed my contract with the team and persisted in not retiring until the age of 40 is just because I want to help Liverpool break Manchester United's championship record in the Premier League. Fifteen championships, the last The difficulty is time, I can only get one every year, so I have to play until I am 40. I thought I could achieve this goal when I was 40, and then I played casually in the last season. Back-and-forth things... But fortunately, I still have one year left on my contract with the team, so I still have a chance. After this task is completed, I will retire directly."

Gerrard knew this, but he always thought it was just an excuse for Chen Yingxiong to play more football.

He really has never seen a player who is eager to play, eager to win, and eager to win a championship like Chen Yingxiong.No matter how many championships he wins, this characteristic has never changed.

The kind of thing that loses motivation after becoming famous and sleeps on the credit book will never happen to Chen Yingxiong.Otherwise, he can retire directly at the age of 23.Because at the age of 23, he won all the honors a professional player can get in the club.

Hearing Chen Yingxiong say such words in a very sure tone, Gerald sighed: "What a pity."

Chen Yingxiong smiled: "A 41-year-old is about to retire, what's the pity about that?"

"I thought you were going to play until you were 50..."

"Then the FA and Platini will directly send killers to kill me?"

Both laughed.

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At the press conference after the game, Gerrard attended as the team's head coach. He said that although Liverpool lost the league title this season, the team will not stop pursuing the championship.

"We'll be back next season."

When a reporter asked him whether the team's final loss of the league championship this season was related to Chen Yingxiong's suspension, he flatly denied it.

"Whether it is victory or defeat, it is a matter for the whole team and has nothing to do with a certain player."

The next day, major media focused on Liverpool's loss of the league title.

The tone of most of the media is gloating.

Because Liverpool has monopolized the championship in this league for long enough. Before that, they were champions for 14 consecutive years.Everyone is aesthetically tired.Now Arsenal defeated Liverpool and won the league championship, which aroused the cheers of the crowd.As a loser, Liverpool will naturally be trampled hard, trampled hard in the mud.

Everyone vented all the negative emotions they had accumulated for 14 years, such as envy, jealousy, hatred...etc.

In the end, a wave of cynicism and ridicule of Liverpool was formed. The British brought their dry humor to the extreme, and all kinds of jokes mocking Liverpool emerged endlessly on the Internet.

The more serious media began to analyze the demise of the Liverpool dynasty and what the post-Liverpool dynasty era would look like.Looking at it now, in today's Premier League, no team has the absolute strength to rule the Premier League, unlike the original Manchester United, nor the later Liverpool.It seems that the future of the Premier League is very likely to be the Warring States Period in which all heroes come together.

But this is a good thing for the Premier League.

Because competition is more intense, and competition is an inevitable element of development.

"Everyone is bored and disgusted with the game where everyone fights for life and death every season, and finally Liverpool wins the championship. Then we will see the thriving Premier League again in the future! Liverpool can no longer monopolize the championship of this competition, Chen The dictatorship of the heroic tyrant has been overthrown! Cheer, fans of the Premier League all over the world, cheer for freedom, cheer for a new life!"

A media shouted excitedly.

As a response to this phenomenon, Liverpool Echo reporter Bascombe wrote in a column: "A team's failure has not received sympathy and comfort, but has received such large-scale ridicule and the most vicious attack. .Liverpool fans should not be frustrated and bitter, even angry, but proud. Because if we are not so strong, how can they be so crazy? As the hero said, the more fierce the enemy attacks us, it shows The more they are afraid of us. This is the highest reward for us. There can be many championships, but it is the glory of Liverpool that everyone has to put aside their differences and unite against us. This kind of glory is in England This has never happened in the century-old history of football! Therefore, Liverpool fans, raise your head and bravely face those cynicism. Because the era created by our Liverpool has never been seen before or since, and these clowns no matter what means It cannot be erased, it is there, fourteen consecutive championships, quietly watching the clowns who are crazy because of one of our failures!"

But even Bascombe, he didn't say that Liverpool's future will be better, but chose the angle that past honors cannot be erased.

Obviously, he is not particularly optimistic about Liverpool's future prospects, so he chose to remain silent on this topic.

His silence seemed to be justified, and some people's carousing seemed to be justified.

Because just two days after the end of the league, Chen Yingxiong's official spokesperson Vera officially announced through the media that Chen Yingxiong will not renew his contract with Liverpool Club for two years.His contract will expire on July [-] next year, and the expiration date will be when he retires!
Arsenal regained the league championship after 24 years, and Liverpool's [-] consecutive championships came to an abrupt end... After Chen Yingxiong's statement came out, news like this was overshadowed and quickly swept into the blind spot of attention.

All media headlines were replaced by Chen Yingxiong's statement.The news that he announced that he would not renew his contract and set a retirement date instantly became the focus of attention of the whole world. The popularity on the Internet even surpassed the Middle East peace process, the deterioration of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and other world security issues.

Everyone is sensitively aware that after Chen Yingxiong's statement comes out, it means that an era is about to come to an end...

(End of this chapter)