Chapter 721 The Boot Room [Part [-]]
Levi wanted the players to focus on the game, but things didn't go well.
Not only the impact of the championship, at the end of the season, Li Wei can contact Pirlo, and other clubs can naturally contact Liverpool players.
What?You said that you can only contact players with the club's consent, which is illegal!
In fact, this is very common in football, otherwise how do those agents make money?
For example, why did Levi give Tinti 100 million euros?It’s not that Tingti made a lot of effort in this private contact, otherwise, given Liverpool’s current financial situation, how could it be possible to throw out 100 million euros casually.
Among them, the most sought after is the Welsh fast Marbel.
Bell's agent and Levi belonged to the same person, because Levi knew immediately that someone was contacting Bell in private, but he did not say who was contacting Jonathan Barnett.As an agent, Jonathan Barnett still has a certain integrity, he only revealed a little information to Levi.
Soon Levi knew who it was, Real Madrid!Barcelona!
Neither of these two clubs suffered less from Bell in the Champions League, and they successively made offers to Bell.
Real Madrid's is 3000 million euros, Barcelona's is higher, but not much higher, 100 million euros.
Levi would like to say, do you really regard Liverpool as the Red Army in 2004?Things like taking away core players at a low price of 200 million pounds (Owen to Real Madrid) will never happen again!
Soon the media broke the news that La Liga duo wanted to buy Bell. Levi didn’t know who made the exposure, but what disappointed him was that Bell didn’t stand up and say that he wanted to stay in Liverpool. He said in an interview with the media: "We're doing great so far, but who knows what's going to happen in the future?"
In addition to Bell, there has also been a lot of news about Liverpool players receiving offers in the media.
Among them, the "Sun" is the most active. This newspaper, which has become a sworn enemy with Liverpool, likes to add trouble to Liverpool.
Suarez, Yaya Touré, Lallana, Neuer, Stefan Lichtsteiner and others are all rumored to have offers.
Some are true, but most are false.
After a day's rest, in the next day's training session, Li Wei obviously found that the players were not paying attention to the training, and some players even discussed where to go for vacation.
Even if it is an offensive player, Suarez also discussed with Dirk Dirk with a smile on his face. If we score a goal, should we have a creative celebration.
This is definitely not a good sign.
But it is not easy to solve this problem.
Since the introduction of the "Bosman Act" in 1996, the value of players has continued to rise, and the previous transfer fee records have been continuously broken.
Shearer's transfer fee of £1996 million when he joined Newcastle from Blackburn in 1500 was considered astonishing at the time, but by 2009, the transfer fee record had risen to £8000 million (C Ronaldo to Real Madrid).
The increase in transfer fees is accompanied by an increase in player wages. The Bosman Act allows big clubs to get players and saves a lot of money, but they are not without difficulties. In order to attract players to join, they often need to improve star treatment.The club's salary structure may be destroyed, and other players also demand higher salaries. Such a vicious circle has caused the club's salary expenditure to skyrocket.
For example, the weekly salary of top Premier League stars has reached 20 pounds, while before the implementation of the Bosman Act, as the top scorer in the English League, Rush's weekly salary was only 5000 pounds.
And all of this reflects a characteristic, the power of the players is getting bigger and bigger.
When Levi was coaching Parma, he could simply suppress the players through the superimposed authority of the chairman and the head coach, but here at Liverpool, Levi knew that this was no longer a panacea.
If you look at Beckham, you will know that Ferguson and Ferguson were as close as father and son, but in the end they turned against each other and moved to Real Madrid.
If Levi suppresses the players through tough means, it is likely to cause chaos in the locker room.
In particular, Liverpool's players basically don't have to worry about leaving home now, and even most of their salaries can be increased after the transfer.
Two days before the game, Levy decided to have a good talk with the players.
But this time Levi is not going to talk to the players in the conference room, nor is he going to talk to the players on the training ground. He decided to restart the boot room!
Talk to the players in the boot room!
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The Boot Room is a sacred and traditional place in Liverpool.
No one can set the exact time for the appearance of the boot room. People only know that he originated in the 60s. At that time, Liverpool was welcoming a new head coach, a man who changed the fate of Liverpool, a man who said "football It has nothing to do with life and death, but football is higher than life and death!" The head coach - Bill Shankly!
But Bill Shankly did not set up the Boot Room.
After Bill Shankly took charge of Liverpool, assistant coach Paisley and coach Bennett moved into a small room on the other side of the corridor of the main dressing room.
Because the players' boots are stored in this small room, it is called the boot room.
At first, the boot room was very simple, there was not even a chair in it, and the only beer box that could sit on it was something that coach Fagan got from an acquaintance.
Ever since there was beer, Paisley and others often invited the coach of the visiting team to the boot room for a drink, and a large group of Scots from the club also liked to come here after the game to discuss the game in the afternoon.
The boot room gradually became a strategic and tactical office, where Paisley, Fagan, and Bennett discussed issues with increasing importance.
Unknowingly, the boot room became the nerve center for the work of Shankly's assistants.Documentation and accurate intelligence of the team's daily training and game situations are gathered here.
It's just that Shankly seldom visited, he left it to his assistants.
In addition to the coaches, the players also like to come here, but the team captains or the most prestigious core players among the players who often come here discuss issues with the coaches.When the players retired, they also naturally entered the coaching staff and became an important member of Liverpool.
The boot room culture is growing and Liverpool's peak is here.
Shankly said: "The first is the first, the second is nothing."
In the 19-[-] season, Liverpool was promoted as the second champion.Two seasons later, Shankly won the League One title for Liverpool.
In [-], Liverpool won the League One and UEFA Cup double. The first success in the European war was Shankly's signal to Europe: Liverpool is coming!