Chapter 226 Competing for the Golden Boot
For the media, Valencia is really a very ruthless team.
This is not unique to Changsheng, it is the tradition of the Valencia club.
Before Cortez became the club's chairman, Valencia often sold the team's heroes and main core.
In Spanish football, if you want to choose the most impersonal team, Valencia must be at the top of the list.
Since the mid-1990s, they have always dared to attack the stars and coaches. The methods are ruthless, and the lack of human touch is hard to match in La Liga.
In the 1994-1995 season, Valencia recruited the Brazilian national team's four-time champion coach Perez to seek a top position. However, the seventh place in the league allowed the bat management to kick the Brazilian body hospital. The old man recalled this more than ten years later. Resentment still fills the chest after the past events: "They are not as polite as the Saudis!"
Since then, this characteristic of Valencia has become more and more prominent. The lone wolf Romario single-handedly kicked the thriving Bayern Munich out of the UEFA Cup, but where is Romario in the second half of the year? Corinthians!
As for the little donkey Ortega who joined before the World Cup, although he performed well in the strong dialogue with Real Madrid and Barcelona, after the World Cup, the white No. 10 of the Bat Corps put on the blue No. 10 of Sampdoria... …
After Valencia began to achieve results, the club's top management began to sell people. Almost every time.
After reaching the Champions League final for the first time, Valencia's then invincible midfield group was dismantled and sold. Herald was redeemed by Barcelona for $24 million. After Claudio Lopez defeated Lazio, he was defeated by the opponent, and Craniotti also sent 23 million. Farinos also went to Inter Milan.
Later, when Chang Sheng took office, it was rooted in bringing this tradition to the fullest.
He just became the head coach of the team and sold seven people in one go. Among them is Valencia's main left winger Keely Gonzalez.
In the second season, after winning the league championship, they sold the team's captain Mendieta and the absolute combination, the offensive core Aimar, and the high center forward Kalu.
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There is absolutely no loyalty or trust in the language of football in a city that shed the blood of Spain's founding father, the Cid.
But if it is said that Valencia sold players before, it was because the team's performance was not satisfactory, and it was necessary to sell players to raise transfer funds and transfer new blood.
If the team rebuilds.
Then Chang Sheng's idea of selling people is incomprehensible.
Because he always did it after his success at Valencia.
Just after Valencia won the league title last season, news came that Mendieta and Real Madrid had reached an agreement.
Then in the summer, Aimar was also sold to Inter Milan for 30 million.
At that time, there was a great uproar together.
As for this season, how similar is the situation to last season? It was also Valencia that had just confirmed the championship, and news appeared in the media that Inter Milan made an offer to the Valencia club for Ibrahimovic. And there are many more follow-up clubs to come...
No matter how you look at it, Ibrahimovic is also in a rhythm to go.
This season, there has been a lot of news about Ibrahimovic's dissatisfaction with the low salary and his request for a salary increase. Everyone knows that Ibrahimovic's life in Valencia was not happy.
Last season, Changsheng sold the captain of the team cleanly, so can he sell Ibrahimovic so hard this season?
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Chang Sheng scoffed at Inter Milan's offer of only 15 million euros. Rejected directly.
No 30 million, no talk!
When interviewed by reporters. Changsheng announced that Ibrahimovic is not for sale.
"I know about these rumors, but Inter Milan's offer is not a rumor. I can confirm that it is true." When Chang Sheng said this in front of many reporters. Everyone is excited - is there another shocking transfer to be born?
But Chang Sheng went on to say: "But we have already rejected the offer from Inter Milan, which has nothing to do with the price. Ibrahimovic is an important member of the team. A golden boot scorer with 36 goals, I don't think you would want him to leave."
Despite what he said, the reporters didn't care.
Because there are too many words like this.
Chang Sheng announced that Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not for sale, not to say that Valencia really can't sell hanging towers.
What a Valencian tradition. These reporters couldn't be more clear.
Chang Sheng's mouth is stubborn, but he wants to ask for a price.
For Zlatan Ibrahimovic's performance and achievements this season, 15 million euros is indeed too little.
In fact, everyone feels strange why Inter Milan is so active. They spent 30 million to buy Aimar from Valencia last season. As a result, Aimar did not reflect his worth at all, and under the tremendous pressure of a transfer fee of 30 million euros, he got lost in Italy's reinforced concrete defense.
Haven't Inter Milan learned their lesson from this transfer?
I also want to join in the fun and buy Ibrahimovic... Is Moratti really that much money? Too much to use up and want to use less?
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The rejection of Inter Milan's offer did not stop offers from other clubs.
In less than a week. Four offers came, all from well-known giant clubs in European football.
However, their quotations are hovering around 20 million.
Chang Sheng is not in a hurry, the time is still long, and the league is not over yet. He has a whole summer to operate this thing.
So he rejected all these offers of around 20 million yuan!
Then the last round of the league game came as scheduled.
game against Sevilla. Ibrahimovic continued to start the game, and Chang Sheng replaced the main players in all positions, leaving Ibrahimovic behind.
Chang Sheng said before the game that the whole team in Valencia will support Ibrahimovic to win the Golden Boot.
This makes Raioala think that Chang Sheng dare not sell Ibrahimovic.
If Chang Sheng wants to rely on him, he must meet his own requirements.
So Raiola watched this game with a relaxed mind of confidence.
He didn't think Chang Sheng really dared to sell Ibrahimovic.
In fact, he also hopes that Ibrahimovic will stay in Valencia for two more seasons. Everything can be seen now. Valencia, led by Chang Sheng, is in a rising period. As the main player of this team, he definitely has a chance to become a superstar.
The premise is to stay.
As long as the Valencia club can meet his requirement of a weekly salary of 60,000 euros, he doesn't mind letting Ibrahimovic stay and play for two more seasons, and then wait for Ibrahimovic to fully mature before switching jobs. will leave.
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In this game, Chang Sheng did what he said. He really made the whole team support Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ma Kai for the Golden Boot.
In the 40th minute, Vicente, who had returned from injury, scored a breakthrough goal and was knocked down by the Sevilla players. The referee immediately blew a penalty.
There is nothing to dispute about this. It's a very obvious foul.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic qualified for the penalty kick. The penalty kick he took was fast and hard, the Sevilla goalkeeper couldn't save it, and Ibrahimovic scored his 28th goal!
Now he has tied with Ma Kai who scored 28 goals!
Seeing Ibrahimovic kicking the penalty kick into the goal calmly, Raiola in the P box stood up and applauded Ibrahimovic for his wonderful performance.
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After the two sides changed sides to fight again in the second half, Ibrahimovic scored another goal with the help of frequent feeding to his own players, leading the scorer list alone with 29 goals!
Every time Ibrahimovic scores a goal, Raiola feels better.
a season ago. I proposed to renew the contract, but you did not agree to my request. You put Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the bench and you didn't play a minute. So now...do you still dare to do this, Chinese?
Raiola felt that in this long contest with Changsheng, he was finally going to have the last laugh!
From now on, Ibrahimovic will be an indispensable figure in Valencia!
Otherwise, I'm already like this, why don't you put Ibrahimovic on the bench? Don't let the whole team pass the ball to him if you have the ability? If you have the ability, don't help him compete for the La Liga Golden Boot!
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Ma Kai is obviously also paying attention to the Valencia game.
After hearing that Zlatan Ibrahimovic had scored twice, he also started to go crazy there.
In the 75th minute, Ma Kai scored a goal, raising the total number of league goals in his season to the 29th.
But even so. He is just on an equal footing with Zlatan Ibrahimovic. No one wants to share the honor with others.
Ma Kai is unwilling, and neither is Ibrahimovic!
Compared with Ma Kai, Ibrahimovic is much happier. Because he can get the support of the whole team!
Under the request of Changsheng, Valencia really gathered the strength of the whole team to support Ibrahimovic alone.
With their tireless assists, finally... Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a goal in the penalty area!
At this time, the time is already the eighty-sixth minute of the game!
There was no movement on Ma Kai's side, and Ibrahimovic opened the gap again.
And Ibrahimovic also scored 30 league goals in a single season for the first time in his career.
When he met Raiola, Raiola complained that he was not qualified to represent him. What did Raiola say?
He said, "Compared to those super strikers who scored 20 or 30 goals in a season, are you a bird?"
Now, I have also scored 30 goals, and I am also a super striker!
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The game went to the last moment. Valencia had another chance. After the breakthrough, Mista faced the Sevilla goalkeeper one-on-one. This should have been his own shot, but Mista crossed the center.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic hit the horse!
"This is Zlatan Ibrahimovic -! L! Four goals! Ibrahimovic's four goals! Big four!! This is his one-man performance! Currently his thirtieth With one goal, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is already two goals ahead of Ma Kai! The victory is set! After becoming the league champion, he will win the Golden Boot again!"