Mister Legend

Chapter 628 The end of the season
With the end of the UEFA Champions League final, the 2025-26 season of European football in the conventional sense can be said to have officially become history, and the following time is when everyone will temporarily shift their focus to the Central and North American continent and look forward to this season. It's time for the World Cup to kick off.

After that, there will be the summer transfer window that will open on time at 7:1 on July [-], which is also the focus of fans and sports media. Apart from rumors, only Real Madrid's celebration parade can occupy an important position on the pages of newspapers and websites.

However, for Li Moody, who once again led the team to play a fantastic season, there is still a lot of work to be done before entering his vacation mode. This summer is bound to make him too busy to think about other matters.Except that he needs to spend almost all his private time with his pregnant wife and daughter and other family members, the rest is nothing that makes him happy.

As the Real Madrid coach with the highest salary in the world football coaching world today, on the second day after returning to Madrid after winning the Champions League, Li Mudi signed his name on a new contract in the club chairman's office. The original one-year contract period was extended for two years.Looking back at his past coaching history, everyone will be surprised to find that this is the first time that this head coach who is in the limelight has renewed his contract with his club. It's also pretty weird.

After this renewal, his after-tax annual salary has soared from the original 1250 million euros to 1800 million. Coupled with many incentive terms, it is even higher than many top players.So as soon as this news was disclosed by the media, it immediately attracted the attention of many people who eat melons. Although there are many criticizing Li Moody for being greedy for money and disregarding the safety of the club's finances, most of them still recognize the No.1 in the world. The value of being handsome did not cause much controversy.

And now that he has received a high salary from others, the Real Madrid coach must handle all his duties well, and he must strictly demand himself with the highest standards.For example, how to adjust the team lineup, how to cultivate new blood, how to adjust the possible slack or complacency in the team after the super success of this season, etc., all need him, the big boss, to decide and make decisions. For the final decision, some even need to participate in the process of formulating detailed plans. One can imagine the intensity of the work.

However, Real Madrid is not all of his official business, at least all the major affairs of the two clubs of Coventry and Ebro require Li Modi to spend a lot of energy to deal with.

After a very successful cycle last season, the Celestial Blues have just returned to the Premier League after a lapse of many years. They encountered a lot of trouble in the second year. Not only did the results not as predicted by some overly optimistic people Moving towards the top half of the standings like that, there was a downward trend instead.

Especially in the one and a half months after the winter break, Coventry's ranking in the league was on the verge of entering the relegation circle, which disappointed all the experts and fans who had been optimistic about them, and even the public At one time, false news that Scholes was about to leave get out of class spread, which made the team's external atmosphere very bad.

Fortunately, the state of the players has improved significantly in late February. The Spanish midfielder Peperu, who switched from the Bernabéu to the Ricoh Stadium last summer, also found a feeling of complete integration with the team in time. Under the circumstances, he played a wave of unbeaten record for six rounds, and finally got rid of the crisis of being kicked back to the British Championship.

However, due to the poor performance in the early stage, the end-of-season ranking of the Celestial Blues is no more than the embarrassing position of No.14, which is quite far from the goal set by the club before the start of the season. .

Although there are many reasons for the poor performance, for example, the team encountered more serious injuries, the time it took for several new players to adapt to the new environment was too long, and many young players who had been given high expectations The players failed to show the ideal growth trend, etc., but in the final analysis, it is still the pot that the overall strength is not enough.Therefore, after discussing with Scholes and the relevant management personnel of the Coventry club, a relatively large lineup change this summer has become the top priority to avoid a similar situation next season. Li Moody of "Golden Eye" naturally had to participate in the whole process.

Even if he doesn't need to negotiate the transfer fee and contract in person, just being able to use a reasonable method to make the team coach accept his signing proposal or persuade the other party to temporarily put aside the idea of ​​​​cleaning a certain player is already killing The brain cells of many Real Madrid coaches are dead.After all, he can't say that he has a cheat on his body, which can prove what the future development prospects of a certain player will be. Moreover, he has reached a gentleman's agreement with Scholes before, and he will try not to interfere with his transfer affairs. exercise right.

You know, convincing such a professional is an extremely difficult task, especially if the other party has a relatively stubborn personality. On that day, it was like living in hell.

However, relatively speaking, things in the UK are easier to deal with, because the problems encountered by Ebro are more troublesome.

At the end of April this year, when the major European leagues had begun to enter the critical stage of the final sprint, the Spanish police suddenly arranged a large-scale operation, arresting a total of 54 football players in as many as eight cities across the country within one night.At the same time, many referees who enforced low-level leagues have also received calls from the Football Association Referee Committee and joined the ranks of being reviewed.Soon, the largest match-fixing case in the country so far gradually surfaced and became known to the outside world.

According to the official report, in the third and fourth Spanish leagues this season, more than 50 games were suspected of being controlled by the match-fixing organization behind the back, and in the previous two seasons, there were also a large number of players. Doubtful occasions.Based on several weeks of hard work and reports from reliable informants, the western police finally obtained solid evidence, and thus completed this comprehensive network closing operation under the unified deployment of the superior department.

According to the preliminary information, the black hand behind this match-fixing case should be inextricably linked to the Asian organization that was destroyed in 2018, and it is very likely that the original team has revived again.

Since the Spanish low-level leagues are unlikely to be as strict as La Liga and La Liga in terms of supervision, and the difficulty of being promoted to the top two leagues is too difficult for most small teams, many players and even clubs will It is easier to encounter the temptation of Asian gambling groups to gain immoral benefits for them by violating the principles of fairness in competitive sports.

According to incomplete statistics, the gambling group can obtain a huge profit of more than 3600 million euros within a year through this method of adjusting the odds. The net profit obtained by the world's top giants for a hard-working season is nearly 20% higher. No wonder these people dare to take risks without hesitation in spite of the severe legal sanctions.

In order to strengthen ties with players and certain clubs, organization members from Tian Chao Hao Jiang, Singapore and Australia will often visit the city where the team involved in the case is located, and even stay there for a long time. As a result, they were also arrested by the Spanish police this time. There is a lot, and of course there is an area where the football industry is not yet developed, but there are many low-level teams-the Aragon Autonomous Region where the Ebro Club is located.

This is broken, because according to the recommendations made by the Spanish anti-fixing organization to the Football Association and relevant regulatory agencies, this time it is obvious that they want to make a big deal this time.In order to be able to give an extreme warning to the rapid development of match-fixing and gambling in China, the former even proposed to deduct the corresponding points from all the teams that have problems in the game this season, and then impose additional extra points on them according to the penalty clauses specified later. penalty points.

Although this news caused strong opposition from many clubs as soon as it was exposed, there is still a possibility that it can be approved in theory, and Ebro, which is in the hardest-hit area, has become one of the possible clubs. The person who was wronged, because the police found that one of the Haojiang people frequently appeared on the road leading to the club's residence.

For such vague evidence, Ebro must defend himself to the death, because they are completely innocent.

In the just-concluded season, this fourth-tier team, in which Li Moody holds a large amount of equity, performed extremely well in the seventh group of the West C League, and did not encounter any decent difficulties at all. of.Not only did they achieve a super record of 38 wins, 30 draws and 6 losses after 2 rounds of competition, they also broke the record for the longest winning streak in the history of the group with a wave of [-] consecutive victories in the middle, and locked in a participating team early. Upgrade play-off seats.

After two rounds of play-offs, they successfully returned to the stage of West Division B with a strong performance of four victories. They are recognized as the strongest team among all 21 promoted teams, none of them.

In addition, in the Confederations Cup with West Division B teams participating, Ebro also became the only fourth-level team that reached the semi-finals, and they did not get to this point by luck, because On the way forward, two upper-level teams became their defeats. This is enough to prove that this club, which has just changed the owner of Tianchao (Su Ning Group on the surface), has indeed gained strength. The upgrade of the reborn version.

It's just that if it is "wrongly killed" by the Western Football Association or the anti-fixing organization, then all these achievements will immediately disappear without a trace, and it will also have an extremely bad impact on the development of the club. It is unacceptable to all locals and club management.

Therefore, in addition to doing his best to communicate frequently with the management agency, Ebro has temporarily formed an alliance with other clubs that have encountered the same tragic situation, and is prepared to seek legal means to protect his own rights in case the situation is not good. right.This is definitely not alarmist talk, because from a brain-dead level, other than the Argentine Football Association, it is the Spanish Football Association that can try to compete with the Chinese Football Association. You can't expect their IQ to be able to compete at this critical moment will remain above normal levels.

In the end, the aftershocks caused by the match-fixing earthquake resulted in a slightly sloppy result before the start of the World Cup opener.The Football Association obviously doesn't want this kind of scandal to spread too widely. After all, their reputation is already very loud abroad, so don't give others more laughing stock.

So on a list of punishments with no bottom line, people actually saw that only the players and referees involved in the case were suspended and fined. It caused a lot of complaints in Spain.

But these have nothing to do with Li Moody and his club. After two months of fear, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief and focus on lineup adjustment.According to the old rules, this aspect also needs to be led by the Real Madrid coach, because there must be no problem with the high-level coach.All his energy at work is focused on training the coaching team and upgrading. At most, he just proposes the type of players he needs to the club. He has no ambition at all to master the transfer power.

As long as they can be promoted to La Liga, the team will have two places that can use non-European foreign aid. This is definitely a boon for those domestic players who have been unable to gain a foothold in European football for many years. Ershun Zhinian's high coach obviously hoped to do his best for Tianchao Football when his body was still able to cope with the job of head coach.

It’s just that after years of “development” year after year, the results of men’s football have never been as likely to rise as everyone expected. In this World Cup finals, there are 48 participating teams. Under such circumstances, they still failed to qualify, what else can fans, especially those practitioners who have contributed a lot to the cause of Chinese football, open their mouths to say?Perhaps they were powerless to do anything other than sigh.

(End of this chapter)