Football No. 10: God's Perspective

Chapter 40 The new season is ready to go

The league championship is not the end of the season.

Five days later, the final of the Portuguese Cup came.

The opponent in the final is the deadly enemy Porto. Compared with the last league matchup, this cup match is much less popular in terms of attention and topic.

First, Wang Po was seriously injured, Silva was suspended, and there was no focus on the topic.

Secondly, Porto at this time has long been a different person. The meritorious coach Ola was terminated at the end of the league, and now the coach who leads the team to train is just a temporary coach of the echelon.

Furthermore, this season, Porto has been completely suppressed in terms of league and European record, and the fans here have no desire to compete.

At the beginning of the game, Benfica showed a strong aggressiveness and full of fighting spirit.

In just 10 minutes, Gomez scored with a burst shot, and then Benfica scored four more goals in 37, 61, 74, and 89, and finally slaughtered their old rival Porto with a score of 5-0.

A hearty victory, this should be the biggest score difference in the history of the two sides playing against each other.

After the game, Wang Po joined the carnival team, wearing the championship medal and lifting the championship trophy.

The first season of Wang Po's career came to an end. He won the league and cup double. The only regret is that he was unable to play in the last few rounds of league and cup finals due to injuries.

Damn injuries.

The team had a nine-week holiday, and all the players began to enjoy a happy holiday.

Wang Po is still in a long recovery period.

Five weeks later, the cast was finally removed. Under the guidance of the club's rehabilitation physician, Wang Po began to resume training.

Dormitory, training ground, every day at two o'clock and one line.

Hamburg, the rehabilitation therapist, basically sees these two people every day.

Recovering from an injury is a painful and boring process, and at the same time it is a torment for the athlete's mentality.

During the recovery process, Wang Po's confidence was sometimes shaken. Is he really okay?

Annie flew to Portugal all the way during her vacation.

It's been a year since I've seen her. Annie is very generous and decent, she is definitely a first-class beauty.

For Wang Po, the little girlfriend is an angel. Accompanied by Annie, the two went in and out of the training ground and dormitory in pairs, and the meticulous care made Wang Po feel warm.

The re-examination results after three weeks showed that the recovery was good, and the progress was faster than expected.

This is good news.

The bad news is that Annie's vacation is over and she's going back to school.

On the occasion of parting, Anne prepared a special gift for Wang Po.

Under the exquisite packaging, there is a pure white box with Annie's hand-painted love pattern on it. When the box is opened, there are sg sneakers in the first color matching of Nike Ghost brand.

Wang Po was very pleasantly surprised, this was the gift he wanted most.

When this sneaker came into the market, he was attracted by its good looks. Needless to say, the feeling of the feet, due to the shyness of the pocket, he could only hide this love in his heart. When he became a professional athlete, this shoe had already been out of print and discontinued.

It would cost a lot of money to buy such a pair of sneakers, especially the gold size, enough for Wang Po to buy three pairs.

For this gift, Annie used her spare time to secretly go to a restaurant to work to earn money. It cost 500 Euros to get it, and she was full of heart.

Annie's own name was embroidered on the heel of the sneakers, which the little girl used to swear sovereignty. Seeing this, Wang Po couldn't help but smile.

Kissing goodbye is another gift from Annie to Wang Po.

Watching Annie's plane disappear into the distant sky, Wang Po stood there for a long time.

"What? Reluctant?"

Burger came from afar and said.

Wang Po nodded.

Hamburg put his arms around Wang Po's shoulders, grinned and said, "She's a nice little girl, but man, I need to remind you that the new season is about to start in four weeks, and your recovery training needs to be accelerated."

"Of course!"

The new season is approaching, which is a huge pressure for Wang Po. He desperately hopes to return to the game, but the damn right ankle is still tormenting him.

The head coach Mano sent a text message, which means that he will leave a place for Wang Po, recover with peace of mind, and don't think too much.

Teammates also sent encouragement one after another, looking forward to Wang Po's return to the game as soon as possible.

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The defending champion Benfica is regarded as the number one favorite in the new season's championship. The club has formulated a plan for the team to defend the league and cup competitions, as well as the goal of breaking through the quarter-finals in the European war.

It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to keep the country.

In terms of the overall lineup, compared with last season, Benfica did not have too many personnel reinforcements. On the contrary, the main players were one year older, and Wang Po was seriously injured. You must know that last season, Benfica was able to reverse the decline and suppress Porto. A large part of the reason was that Wang Po was introduced in the second round.

Moreover, in the summary at the end of last season, the fans and the media voted Wang Po as the most successful signing of the Benfica team in ten years.

The outside world agrees that how much strength Wang Po recovers after the injury in the new season will largely determine the performance of the Benfica team this year.

The old rival Porto, whose coach has changed, is the second most popular team. It has spent huge sums of money to introduce an international-level left-back, which has made up for the team's chronic illnesses in recent years. The lineup has improved steadily and is the biggest challenger of the Benfica team.

Of course, the Porto team also has its own hidden dangers. The new coach Ilo is not as famous as the old coach Ola. The two have completely different tactical concepts. Whether the Porto team can complete the tactical change in the new season determines the team's performance.

Not only that, but there is also bad news for the Porto team.

Silva, the core midfielder of the team, asked the club for a salary increase to 500 million euros.

What is this concept?The starting salary of Real Madrid and other giant clubs is no more than this figure. Giving this salary to young players in the second year will not only destroy the team's salary structure, but also risk detonating the locker room.

What's more, Porto is not a big club like Real Madrid, so it naturally rejected the salary increase request.

In the following time, under the operation of Jan Jack, Silva made a transfer request to the club's top management. Not only that, the media broke the news that Silva frequently had scandals with the five major league teams, and even some wealthy teams have already made substantive offers.

This made the club's executives and fans very annoyed, but there was nothing they could do.

The transfer farce is like a palace fight drama, and it will intensify as the new season approaches.

From the club's point of view, shooting Silva at this time does more harm than good.

First of all, the transfer fee will definitely not meet the club's expectations. Secondly, coach Illo's tactics are completely built with Silva as the core. Once he leaves, the system will collapse and the results will inevitably plummet.

Chocolate Shit or Chocolate Shit.

In the end, in the negotiations between the top management of the club, the players, and the agent, the Porto club had to make concessions, pinching their noses and agreeing to Silva's salary increase request.

(End of this chapter)