518 Then I will eat the ball!
"But many fans sneer at your words!" the reporter said with a smile.
Several reporters around him immediately laughed because in many contests with Yang Cheng, Platini gave people the impression that he had a big mouth, a bit like some clowns who specialized in holding big mouths to attract attention, but he himself enjoyed it.
"They don't believe what I said, because they are too blind and cannot see the situation clearly. With the competitiveness of the Champions League today, it is no different to reaching the sky if any team wants to win the championship for two consecutive seasons. Not to mention other teams, Barcelona alone is enough to defeat Liverpool."
Speaking of Barcelona, the reporters immediately had another topic.
"Do you think Barcelona can beat Liverpool?" asked the reporter.
"Yes!" Platini nodded, "I think Barcelona is very strong this year, and its overall strength has been significantly improved compared to last season. Especially the frontcourt combination of Gulli, Etoho and Ronaldinho have allowed us to see the most gorgeous offensive cooperation in the world. With the young players such as Messi and Iniesta, Barcelona is definitely the most eye-catching team on the European court this season."
One of the important reasons why football is interesting and that every year repeats those games, but no one is tired of it is that every season is a brand new beginning.
"Are you optimistic about Barcelona?" asked the reporter.
"Yes!" Platini answered with certainty, "I like Barcelona's football very much, and I hope to be a Barcelona fan."
The reporters immediately laughed.
"What if Liverpool really defended their title successfully?" An English reporter asked unhappily.
At home, he may not be a Liverpool fan, but when he comes to mainland Europe, he represents the interests of the English team.
"Then I'll eat the ball!" Platini replied with a smile.
There was a burst of laughter at the scene.
We have to admit that the French people have really good eloquence, especially the tone and expressions and movements he speaks, which is really charming. This is a very important reason why he can achieve his current status.
And he is not stupid, he knows very clearly what effect this statement will bring.
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Barcelona's Far East trip was actually not successful. Without Saviola, without Riquelme and Albertini, the number of stars in Barcelona's current team is probably Ronaldinho and Etoo. As for Xavi, Iniesta and others, they are not yet enough.
In other parts of Asia, they can still earn a lot of attention and support, but in China, they are treated more by booing and ridicule, because everyone knows that Barcelona and Yang Cheng are two mortal enemies who will never die.
Therefore, outside the Barcelona training ground, many domestic fans of the Holy Spirit Knights raised the banner to humiliate Barcelona, and even almost fought with Barcelona fans. In the Shenzhen Stadium, the home team was surprised to find that they had received so many fans' support for the first time, and some even came from the capital, Shanghai and other cities. Is their fans so enthusiastic?
Obviously not, because these fans are all for Barcelona.
"We want to let the bastards in Barcelona know that this is Caesar's home court. If you want to make money, get away!"
"Give Barcelona an unforgettable Far East nightmare!"
"Although we can't go abroad, we still have to use our way to support Yang Cheng and kill Barcelona!"
On the Internet, at the forum of the Knights of the Holy Spirit, many domestic fans were excitedly appealing.
Barcelona finds it difficult to understand the actions of Chinese fans from top to bottom, but it is obvious that they all feel hostile because they are Yang Cheng's mortal enemy, who is the darling of domestic fans.
However, the Far East trip was not completely unreal. At least Barcelona signed two crucial contracts and an important transfer on the Far East trip.
"We are very happy because both Rijkaard and Ronaldinho showed their loyalty to the team, and we renewed a four-year contract with Rijkaard, who will lead the team to coach until 2009."
After the warm-up match, Laporta held a press conference and announced these two crucial contract renewals.
Rijcard's contract is about to expire, and this renewal is more of an admission of him, because he brought Barcelona's first championship trophy in six years, and Barcelona he coached has shown enough potential to give people higher expectations for him.
As for Ronaldinho, he was seduced by other teams more and had previously clamored to raise his salary. This time, Barcelona fulfilled his wish and cut off his relationship with AC Milan, allowing him to stay at the team to play with peace of mind.
"I had a series of in-depth conversations with Frank, and I conveyed his appreciation from Platini to him." Laporta said with a smile, and this appreciation was naturally what Platini said at the lottery ceremony on the last day of July.
"Frank is proud of this. He told me that he is also very confident, because everything in the team is moving in a good direction, and the running-in is getting more and more tacit understanding. The overall strength of the players is constantly improving, especially the maturity of young players such as Iniesta and Mota, and the second team has brought Messi, Pedro, Busquets and other young players, which makes us full of confidence in the future."
Laporta smiled and said confidently: "We won the first championship trophy after 6 years of separation, and won the league championship after beating Real Madrid. This means extraordinary to us, but Frank and I think it is far from enough."
"In the new season, the team's goals will be higher than any time in the past few years, and we hope to have the opportunity to win the European Cup that has been 13 years since we were."
This time, Laporta dared not mention the number of times he won the Champions League, which is also a taboo for Barcelona fans, because Yang Cheng made a three-way gesture at the Camp Nou Stadium, mocking Barcelona for getting one, and he won three, which was regarded as a great humiliation by Barcelona fans.
Now, Yang Cheng's Champions League has increased to 4, but Barcelona still failed to succeed, so he must be a little depressed.
"To achieve this goal, we have introduced Gabriel Milito from Zaragoza for a transfer fee of 18.5 million euros. This Argentine central defender will greatly strengthen our defense line. He is on the way to meet the team in Asia. We believe that with his joining, the overall strength of the team will be greatly improved."
"This transfer also demonstrates the club's ambitions. We hope to make a big move in the European arena in the new season, and also refute some people's remarks about Barcelona's lack of money!"
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The next day later, when Yang Cheng saw Laporta's words on TV, he couldn't help but be happy.
"Why didn't he just call you by name? Why do you need to beat around the bush?" Paul Bayer looked puzzled.
Everyone immediately smiled.
But no one expected that the war in Europe had not yet been ignited, but the war of words had already begun.
"I won't respond to such provocations. I don't have that much time!" Yang Cheng pointed to the TV and said disdainfully.
He is the winner now, so he has to make a good mark, right?
Even when Platini said in an interview with reporters before, if Liverpool wins the championship again, he will eat the ball. Yang Cheng did not accept the interview, but responded directly on Weibo, "You'd better ask if there is any football made of chocolate, otherwise you will have to eat rubber."
What’s funny is that Adidas’s official Weibo actually directly replied to Yang Cheng, “There are soccer made of chocolate, but you can only eat it, not play it. If you want it, you can book it. I hope you can have the opportunity to cooperate with you, Caesar!”
Everyone knows that Yang Cheng’s sponsors are Reebok, just like Liverpool. Adidas has long wanted to cooperate with Yang Cheng, but he has never found an opportunity. This time he seized the opportunity and followed.
But Yang Cheng didn't expect that Laporta also jumped out.
In addition to Mourinho, who was unable to win the championship with Liverpool yesterday, it seems that this season is destined to be uneasy.
"Gabriel Milito's performance in Zaragoza is really strong. Barcelona gets him, and the strength of the defense will definitely increase a little. Coupled with their attack power in the frontcourt, it will become more and more difficult!" Benitez said with a frown.
He always likes to turn himself into a character of ascetics with great grudges.
Everyone agreed with this, but Yang Cheng thought more because he found that the history he was familiar with was becoming more and more familiar with, and he had even deviated from his original trajectory.
For example, Valencia peddled Mohamed Sissoko everywhere, but has not found a buyer so far, but Zaragoza refused to accept their installment payments because they only wanted cash. In addition, Gabriel Milito's transfer received a large amount of money, so Zaragoza eventually rejected Valencia's transfer application and announced that Villa stayed in the team.
This is just a part of it. In addition, like Robinho went to Chelsea, Ronaldo and Van Nicht in Inter Milan, this series has triggered a series of chain reactions, just like the butterfly effect, which has brought great changes to European football, and the most obvious change comes from Barcelona.
In Yang Cheng's previous life, Barcelona's second-team rookies who were around 17 and 18 years old were not famous at all. Messi made his mark alone, and other players such as Pedro and Busquets were still not famous.
But the problem is that as Deco stays in Inter Milan and with Davis and Larson's transfer to Liverpool, Barcelona's midfield problems are still very big. Rijcard has tried to recruit some second-team young players to come up to play as a substitute since last season.
Pedro, Messi, Busquets and other young players all got some opportunities. Although their performance was not eye-catching, at least they also saw potential and saw the strength of Barcelona's youth training camp.
As for Iniesta, he has become one of Barcelona's dual cores. After the running-in last season, his midfield dual cores formed by Xavi have performed better and better. He was selected as one of the top ten most popular hope stars in the Milan Sports News together with Ronaldo, Robben and others.
Yang Cheng even had a feeling that looking at the performance of Rijkald's Dream 2 team, he even felt that the Barcelona team in his previous life seemed to be accelerating, especially after watching the game Barcelona had at Anfield last season, his feeling became more and more obvious.
The current game siege has appeared, will the backcourt possession rate be far?
Yang Cheng is looking forward to the arrival of Barcelona, because he also wants to see how strong Barcelona, which was terrified of countless wealthy teams in his previous life, was.
He has blurred many details and only remembered roughly, so he couldn't say for sure whether he could beat Barcelona, but he still had a certain response strategy, which only needed competitions and practice to test the effect.
Talking about war on paper will never have much effect, otherwise Zhao Kuo would not have lost the Battle of Changping.
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Although he was provoked by Platini and Laporta, Yang Cheng quickly put these people behind his mind because he had a more important game, that is, the Community Shield.
Although this cup match is a warm-up match, it depends on who the opponent is.
In the battle between Liverpool and Chelsea, the Reds always had the upper hand. Although the Premier League championship was taken by Chelsea last season, Liverpool only made Chelsea happy for a few days, because they quickly focused the limelight on themselves with the fifth Champions League in club history.
This is also the most unhappy thing about Chelsea and Mourinho.
This season, with the joining of players such as Del Orno, Las Diyala, and Robinho during the winter break last season, theoretically speaking, the current Chelsea team is really impeccable.
The only weaker one should be their forward. Good Johnson is an organizational and ball-type player. He is a good player in the tandem, but his scoring ability is average. Originally, Chelsea had a sky-high price to get Etoo, but was rejected by Barcelona. Later, he introduced Trezeguet from Juventus and was unfavorable, and the problems on the front line were forced to continue.
It is said that Kenyon is currently traveling to Madrid. This time the player he likes is Atletico Madrid's golden boy Torres, but it is undoubtedly not an easy task to let Atletico let his star go.
Another goal of Chelsea is Shevchenko of AC Milan, and the second choice striker is Anelka who plays for Fenerbahce.
Judging from the two forward types that Mourinho has taken a fancy, it proves one thing. His idea is the same as Yang Cheng, to improve the speed of the frontcourt and play slowly, because both Torres and Anelka are the kind of forwards who have strong ability to attack head-on.
It can be imagined that once one of these two forwards joins, Chelsea's frontcourt advance will become faster.
But before that, he must continue to slowly grind with Liverpool.
Chapter completed!