Lvyin Fengmo

Chapter 51 The New Season
On August 8th, Liverpool won the trophy in Miami. The next afternoon, they rushed to Boston to stand for New Balance, the club's main sponsor, and participated in the new product launch event with many American stars.

A day later, Rodgers led his disciples to fly to China and had a hearty commercial match with Guangzhou Evergrande. In the final half of the main attack, Liverpool beat the AFC champions to Tianhe 6-3.

Commercial games can only earn a few million euros. What really makes the Liverpool club care about are the big Chinese sponsors who have already lined up from Anfield to Tianhe. As long as they can win a few big deals, Liverpool can completely shake Manchester United's football business operations Domain supremacy!

While CEO Ian Ayre was chatting happily with representatives of various sponsors, Rodgers led the players to carry out a series of "visiting primary school students", "sending warmth in orphanages", " Condolences to disabled players" and other social activities.

Two days later, all Liverpool players stepped onto the plane with vain steps, and then collapsed on the soft seats in unison.

On August 8, with just 8 hours to go until the start of the new season, last season's Premier League champions finally returned to their base.
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"Brandon, everyone's physical condition is very poor. If you continue to train, there is a great risk of injury, especially players such as Sturridge, Skrtel, and Lu Feng."

On August 8, the fitness coach told Rogers the bad news.

Although Rogers looked serious, he didn't look too worried.

This is all expected and not surprising.

The World Cup in Brazil, the International Champions Cup, and commercial activities in the United States and China have exhausted the physical fitness of the players.

Some young players participated in the National Youth Team and the National Olympic Team, which also led to their lack of immediate combat power in the reserve lineup.

He once protested to the club, but even though he had just won the league championship, his voice in this century-old giant was not ranked in the top five, and sometimes even Gerrard's voice was louder than him!

He wanted to cancel those time-wasting commercial activities to run in new players, but both the CEO Ian Ayre, the director of operations, and the director of finance all rejected his idea with one voice, and the club owner John Henry was even more reluctant. Might show support for him...

These wicked capitalists!

They completely treat poor players as money-making machines!
Although he hated the management in his heart, Rogers could only bow his head in the face of reality:
"Cancel all training programs, these two days only for physical recovery!"
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"MD!"

Lu Feng is very unhappy now.

It's just that he has been on a plane for thousands of kilometers and played a few low-intensity commercial games, and his body is obviously overloaded now.

When August 8th came, his legs were still a little soft, and he even felt a little swaying when he walked.

With his physical condition, he was not only excluded from the big list of the competition by the physical coach, but was even asked to... "Retreat at home for two weeks and not participate in any outdoor activities"!
With restricted freedom, he can only sit at home and enjoy the first game of the 2014-15 season with his parents.

England Community Shield! -
As the first game of each season, the participating parties of the Community Shield Cup are designated as the league champions and FA Cup champions, and the venue of the match is fixed at Wembley Stadium, the temple of English football.

Simply put, this event is the Super Cup of other leagues.

As last season's league champions, Liverpool's opponent is the FA Cup champion and "arsenal" Arsenal.

Compared with Liverpool, who traveled all over the world, Wenger's disciples got a full rest.

Wembley Stadium in London is Arsenal's home stadium. They have the advantage of being at home. Amidst the singing of more than 8 London fans, they ushered in the Red Army who is short of major generals and whose physical strength is close to the limit!

Facts have fully proved that Arsenal, who have rested for a summer, is extremely powerful.

Under Wenger's command, the spirited Gunners smashed the league champions with a 3-0!

Santi Cazorla opened the scoring, Aaron Ramsey extended the score, and Oliver Giroud even sealed the score with an extremely wonderful world wave!

Although Rogers had a hunch, when he shook hands with Wenger, his face was as black as an iron pot.

In the post-match press conference, the debonair-looking French professor said with a smile:

"Liverpool won the first league championship in 24 years, which fully shows that the Premier League has entered an era of segregation, and every team is likely to win the championship. We have introduced a lot of very powerful Arsenal in the summer. Players, our goal is not just a community shield."

After winning the league championship with a crushing posture, and in addition to spending tens of millions of pounds to buy people in the summer, the new aid Sanchez has shown a brave state comparable to Messi and Ronaldo. Wenger's words Immediately, most Arsenal fans were greatly encouraged:
"That's right! Our Arsenal is invincible!"

"This year we still support Arsenal!"
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Liverpool's loss of the first championship of the new season is certainly not very happy, but it will not ruin all moods.

After all, the Community Shield has always had a curse: the team that wins it often fails to win the league title.

The last team to break the curse was the Red Devils Manchester United coached by Ferguson in the 2010-11 season.

Rodgers also said that he didn't care about the loss:
"We participated in too many social activities in the summer, and the players are still in a very tired state. Some young players have even been asked to go home to recuperate. Under such circumstances, only conceding three goals, I think It is still in line with the current actual state of the two sides. In the next week, our top priority is to adjust the physical state of the players as soon as possible..."

The Liverpool club really didn't care about a mere Community Shield trophy. The Red Army, which broke the curse of the 24-year league championship, has set its sights on a higher level.

A week later, on August 8th, after seven days of adjustment, Liverpool beat Southampton 17-7 at home. Sterling made a pass and made a contribution. Saints full-back Klein equalized the score. Sturridge contributed 2 minutes. Kill, got a good start for Liverpool.

Rogers, who was sitting on the sidelines, glanced at Klein:

"Tell the transfer committee to buy this full-back!"

The new Premier League champions are really rich and powerful. Before the first round of the match, Liverpool announced that they had bought full-back Nathaniel Klein from the "Saints" for a transfer fee of up to 1200 million pounds.

Southampton, whoever dares to score my goal, I will buy your man!
(End of this chapter)