Fame with a ball

On the way home, Lin Zhigao bought several newspapers. After reading them, he finally realized what happened in world football during his return to China.

Leaving aside those gossip scandals, there are two things that happened around him that are closely related to him-one is Juventus's winter transfer, and the other is Messi's breakup scandal.

Although Juventus is a wealthy club with a rich background, the transfer funds given to the team by the top management of the club are not too much every year. They cannot spend hundreds of millions of pounds every year like Chelsea and Manchester City to find superstars all over the world. When will they need players? Just wave the check in your hand.

The club's top management wants Juventus to be in a healthy financial position, at least to break even.Coupled with the poor record of Juventus in the past few years, this has prevented them from buying heavyweight players for the team for many years. Last year, Lin Zhigao transferred from the Premier League to Serie A for 2000 euros. The king of the year.

But buying only one Lin Zhigao is far from completely solving the unavailable situation faced by the team. They need at least two players-a forward or center to increase offensive power, and a central defender to increase layout ability.

The club originally planned to buy players for the team during the summer transfer period, but Capello suggested to the board of directors that it is best to start buying people from winter, but Juventus will face a third-line battle after the Chinese New Year, which will definitely be extremely difficult. He is worried that his efforts in the first half of the season will fall short in the second half of the season.

The board took Capello's advice seriously and decided he was right.

The first to accept the offer was Manchester United midfielder Pogba.Like Lin Zhigao, the black French player was born in 93, with a height of 186cm. He has outstanding abilities and was selected for the French U14 youth team at the age of 16. After transferring to Manchester United in 09, he was quickly trained by Sir Alex Ferguson. Now he is often used as the main player in the rotation, and has been praised by the media as the best product of Manchester United's youth training camp in recent years.

Pogba's biggest advantage is not only shown in his strong midfield control ability, but also because of his excellent physical fitness, and his offensive ability is not lost to any forward.He can pass the ball accurately and reasonably, and when the team is in trouble, he can show his offensive ability without hesitation and score for the team.

Juventus' pursuit of Pogba began last year.Serie A has always attached great importance to defense. Most clubs prefer a central defender with excellent defense over a striker. Of course, Pogba's genius is also liked by Juventus. Rafford took him.

You know, this price is not low for a young player in 93, not to mention that this young player is still a midfielder.In world football, central defenders are always valuable to strikers who fail to score.

Juventus's offer first angered Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson. When he was interviewed by reporters, he said coldly and loudly: "Pogba is not for sale at Manchester United. Manchester United is already negotiating with him to renew his contract. He will be the absolute main force of the first team, I will not agree to sell him!"

At this moment, Sir Alex Ferguson must have forgotten that when Pogba left Le Havre to join Manchester United, the opposing coach also pointed his nose and bombarded him for "stealing Pogba from Le Havre". Woolen cloth.

But different from Ferguson's attitude, Pogba and his agent have an ambiguous attitude. Not only did they not refuse the contact of Juventus scouts, but they also personally expressed that he likes Juventus.

Juventus almost took Pogba from Manchester United last summer - if they hadn't bought Lin Zhigao.After buying Lin Zhigao, there was not enough left in Juventus' accounts to buy Pogba, so the mediation with Manchester United was temporarily suspended.

Half a season has passed, and because of the generosity of the board of directors, Juventus has started to pursue Pogba again.Pogba's attitude is still ambiguous this time, but there are still some changes from half a season ago-his agent, the transfer giant Mino Raiola, asked for 300 million euros for Pogba. Annual salary, otherwise the transfer would be out of the question.

With an annual salary of 300 million and a weekly salary of 5.7, it can directly rank the eighth highest in the Juventus team!Of course Juventus didn't do it either. When the matter was in such a stalemate, Juventus' scout Sensibel brought another news to the club, that is: Pogba's agent has sent Juventus to pursue him again. The matter was stabbed to Manchester United, and they used it as a threat to demand a raise from Ferguson!

Juventus manager Marotta, who is also a transfer predator in European football, realized immediately: Pogba had no intention of moving to Juventus at all. His notorious, money-sucking agent simply let him Pretending to be ambiguous, pretending to be transferring to Juventus, and then using this as an excuse to ask Manchester United for a raise!

Pogba's agent Mino Raiola is notorious in European football for only loving money and disregarding people. In fact, he has an old grudge with Juventus-Ibrahimovic once played for Juventus In 06, the Calciopoli incident tested the loyalty of the entire Juventus team at that time. Ibrahimovic’s agent was Mino Raiola, who encouraged Ibrahimovic to end his contract with Juventus early and switch to Juventus. The sworn enemy Inter Milan, this is almost a naked betrayal.

The new hatred added to the old hatred, Marotta immediately hated Raiola, and he immediately told Sensibel to stop pursuing Pogba, and disclosed the news to Ferguson.What Marotta thinks in his heart is: Don't you want to use Juventus to raise your salary?Then I'll tell Ferguson about it, see if that stubborn old man is threatened by you, and give you a raise!

Abandoning Pogba, Juventus turned their attention to others, and finally they selected the Italian player Verratti, who was born in 92 and is only 165cm tall. The teenager has been selected for the Italian national team. He is equally talented. Serving as a front midfielder, his playing style is similar to that of Harvey. He is a shining new star in Italian football. He was once known as "the best organizational midfielder after Pirlo in Italy".

And most importantly, Verratti is cheap.Sensibel brought him from Pescara to Juventus for only 350 million euros.

Although Verratti was bought and he was prepared to play as Iaquinta's substitute after the league restarted, but before the end of the winter transfer period, apart from Pogba and Verratti, Juventus I still tried to pursue other players, including Neymar, who has become popular all over the world before coming to Europe and is recognized as a superstar.

In fact, at this time, news has spread in European football that Barcelona Club and Santos Club have reached an advanced stage of negotiations on the transfer of Neymar, and they are about to reach an agreement. And the tradition of being willing to confuse any opponent. If you offer Santos a price of 2 or 3000 million, nothing will happen. If you buy it, you will make money. jealousy), why not do it?

So Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, AC Milan, Juventus and other giant clubs launched a round of quotations for Neymar from the Santos club. All of a sudden, the news in the world football became how Neymar and Barcelona are. , What about Neymar and Real Madrid and Manchester United?

The insidious intentions of the giants were quickly rewarded-according to the latest news from Brazil, after receiving offers from many giants, the Santos Club proudly believed that Neymar was really a sweet potato, so they were in the same boat with him again. In the negotiation of Barcelona, ​​​​the price has been increased...

In fact, the giants want more than that. What they want to see most is that Barcelona spent tens of millions to buy Neymar, and then Neymar came to Europe, but he didn't adapt to the atmosphere here.They are the happiest to let Barcelona spend unjustly money and buy parallel imports or something!

In the winter transfer period, besides Neymar, there is also Shinji Kagawa.This Japanese player who has repeatedly contributed to Dortmund is also popular in European football. Dortmund wants to renew his contract, but Shinji Kagawa yearns for the rich. The relationship between Shinji is getting more and more stalemate. It is foreseeable that Shinji Kagawa will also transfer to other teams in the near future.

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Although this year's winter break is particularly lively, with various transfer news emerging one after another, it is the turn of the heat, and the incident of Messi breaking up with his girlfriend in these two days is the most popular. It not only appeared on the front pages of all European sports newspapers Headlines, and even other entertainment, general newspapers also feature prominently.

If Lin Zhigao glanced over other football information hastily, then he took this news seriously and read it carefully.

Obviously yesterday, Messi also told him that he and his girlfriend Antonella were in a cold war. Why did the two break up after only one day?

If Lin Zhigao had to think for himself, he would definitely not be able to understand the reason for this, but he can confirm one thing, that is, Messi's leaving without saying goodbye must have something to do with this news.

What happened between Messi and Antonella?

When Lin Zhigao began to read the news line by line, he was horrified to find that all this had something to do with him!

A dull media reporter!How did this matter get involved with him? !Lin Zhigao can swear that he is absolutely a passerby who knows nothing!

However, the newspaper described it in black and white:

"Antonella, who was in a cold war with Messi, has said to his friends more than once, 'I really suspect that he (Messi) has something to do with Alyssa, but there is no evidence, and I just suspect it. If he wants to Come to Argentina and explain to me, spend my birthday with me and we will definitely reconcile." Messi undoubtedly knew Antonella had made these remarks, because Antonella's friend told reporters in person that she conveyed these words to Messi. But Messi has always been indifferent. He would rather live alone in Barcelona than go back to Argentina to celebrate his girlfriend’s birthday.”

"Messi's indifference made Antonella even more sad. She began to think about whether she was going to end her relationship with Messi until she saw a new online news - the online news section of "Evening Post" The news that Messi appeared at Caselle Airport was published in time yesterday, and he pointed out that he came to find his friend Lin Zhigao for vacation. The evidence is that after they left the airport, they took a taxi to the center of Turin for shopping, and then shared At that time, a reporter overheard them talking about their travel itinerary for tomorrow and the day after dinner, and mentioned the names of several tourist attractions in Turin.”

"The news from Corriere della Sera made Antonella think that she could be ignored by her boyfriend. Her birthday is coming soon, and the two are in a cold war again, but Messi actually has time to find friends to play, and doesn't have time to fly back to Argentina to accompany her? Antonella was so angry that he immediately found a reporter from Argentina's largest newspaper "Clarion" and announced that he had unilaterally broken up with Messi. Once the news was disclosed, it immediately caused a huge sensation in Europe and even the world. According to the investigation, at least 50 media outlets used this news as the headlines of sports newspapers and entertainment pages."

After reading the headline of the sports section of "Turin Sports", Lin Zhigao turned to other newspapers, whether it was "Gazzetta dello Sport", "World Sports Daily", "Massi's girlfriend Antonella unilaterally announced the breakup", and Lin Zhigao turned to other newspapers. Professional football newspapers like The Cards, comprehensive newspapers like the Daily Mail and The Times, or entertainment tabloids like The Sun, almost all published stories about Messi being broken up. The news, even the content titles are similar.

...It almost means that almost all the newspapers have mentioned the content of "Messi went to Turin to visit Lin Zhigao, and he angered his girlfriend and was broken up". Because Antonella personally confirmed it, so this The reasons for the breakup cannot be discussed.

Although Lin Zhigao was completely soy sauce in the news, no reporter wrote a press release specifically for "Lin Zhigao shouldn't ask Messi to come out to play with his girlfriend when he was in a cold war with his girlfriend", but Lin Zhigao also thinks that he He was shot while lying down!

Nima!How did he know that Antonella would be so glassy that Messi would directly announce the breakup when he flew to Turin?And it wasn't at all that he wanted Messi to come to Turin, okay?

The fact that Messi was dumped is now known all over the world, and even after a few years, the reporters will not forget it!Every time Messi has a new relationship, they will mention his former lover, and call Lin Zhigao affectionately like this: "Poor Lin became the fuse for Messi and his girlfriend to break up, indirectly dismantling a pair of long-distance running for many years." Lover"—but have they ever thought about how Lin Zhigao, who is an invisible party, will feel in his heart?

He was about to hang to death with guilt!

Messi obviously came to Turin because he was worried about him, but after such a trip, he lost his girlfriend.The galloping grass mud horse in Lin Zhigao's heart almost exploded the entire prairie!

After hesitating, tangled, uneasy, and anxious for a long time, Lin Zhigao made up his mind to call Messi. In any case, he apologized to him first.

However, when the call was made, Messi's cell phone was turned off.

From afternoon to night, after calling dozens of times, the other party turned off the phone. Lin Zhigao said helplessly that before contacting Messi, he thought he was not going to sleep soundly.

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Feeling guilty, Lin Zhigao almost stayed up all night. At dawn the next day, he got up and went out to buy newspapers.

Six or seven of the ten newspapers are still talking about yesterday's old topic, and the remaining two or three are asking some senior love experts to guess whether Messi and his girlfriend will break up successfully this time or reconcile again.Only one newspaper, the "Mundo Deportivo" in Catalonia, mentioned that Messi returned to Barcelona in an emergency yesterday afternoon, and stayed in the villa all the time, probably because he was making long-distance phone calls with his girlfriend.

While reading the newspaper, Lin Zhigao prayed that Messi and Antonella would never break up, at least not because of this incident.Otherwise, he, the true passer-by, would be too wronged.

In the next two days, Lin Zhigao never stopped paying attention to this matter.

But those entertainment reporters are a bunch of beasts at all. If there is real news, they will exaggerate it with embellishments. If there is no real evidence, they will just talk about it and talk about it.

Various newspapers have different opinions. Sometimes they say that the two of them are settled, and sometimes they say that they have reconciled. After being dumped by Antoni, Messi has found the supermodel Alyssa to go to Wushan together. It is said that this incident is actually a hype, and it is preparing for Antoni's entry into the entertainment circle...

Later, Lin Zhigao threw all the newspapers into the trash can in a fit of rage. He'd better wait and hear Messi say it himself.

Finally, two days later, Messi called him, and the first sentence he said was: "I have completely broken up with Antonella."

"thorough?"

"Yes. It means that we will never get back together again. Her brother...even broke up with me."

Lin Zhigao wanted to swear when he heard it, but he held back in the end: "Just because you flew to Turin? Is such a nonsense reason a reason?! You didn't go out to pick up girls and cheat!"

Compared to Lin Zhigao's excitement, Messi's voice sounded much calmer: "Actually, it was not caused by this incident. There are many historical reasons for our breakup. At best, this is just a fuse. The kind that has a very small effect.”

Perhaps because he doesn't understand "love", Lin Zhigao doesn't know why a pair of lovers broke up because of reasons other than cheating, living habits, and disapproval of their families.Feeling gone?Suddenly not in love?Suddenly feel that we are not suitable?Is there a more nonsensical reason to break up than this?

So love, love, love, it's really troublesome!

Lin Zhigao thinks that he is good at comforting people, but he is not good at comforting people who have lost love... So he can only listen to Messi to vent patiently, and then say "um" from time to time, or say: "And then?"

Messi later said repeatedly: "The fact that I flew to Turin instead of going to Argentina to accompany her was the reason she used to break up, but it was definitely not the real reason, so this actually has nothing to do with you, you don't have to. feel guilty."

This comforted Lin Zhigao a little, and eased his guilt that was about to escalate into sadness.

In the end, he could only express optimistically: "A good man is not afraid of being dumped! Wherever we fall, we will stand up. Next time you come to Turin in a fair manner, I will introduce you to a hot Italian girl!"

Messi was amused, feeling relaxed and relieved for the first time in days.