Although Liverpool ended the 2004-05 season with only fifth place in the league and failed to win the Champions League for two consecutive seasons, Liverpool boss David Morse has been in a pretty good mood recently. There is no other reason, just because Benitez, who was hired with a lot of money last summer, just led the team to win the UEFA Cup in the 2004-05 season!
It is precisely for this reason that Morse is in such a good mood even when Liverpool misses the Champions League. Because in Morse's view, a UEFA Cup championship is enough for him to sell these players at a good price this summer to alleviate Liverpool's increasingly bad financial situation!
You know, during the five years when Houllier coached Liverpool, although the Red Army had the glory of winning five championships and once finished second in the league with only three points difference, the French coach spent lavishly in the transfer market. Habits and high salaries for contracted players have also consumed Liverpool's already modest savings, leaving the Red Army's finances in a dire situation of being unable to make ends meet for a long time!
Although the UEFA Cup is not as influential as before due to the expansion of the Champions League, the UEFA Cup championship trophy is still very important, and the sales of players will be much better. Therefore, after Liverpool won the championship, Morse had been planning to purge these high-paid players left behind by Houllier as soon as possible to reduce the team's operating costs and reduce the club's financial burden!
Next, we only need to take advantage of the team's UEFA Cup win to clean up the "legacies" left by Houllier bit by bit, and then introduce some players with good abilities and lower salaries at the time, and then Gerald With Germany as the core of reconstruction, then the team's reconstruction work can basically be declared complete!
"Boss! Something bad has happened!" Just when Morse was imagining the scene of Liverpool's re-emergence under his wise guidance, the club's CEO Rick Parry hurried in, out of breath. Said, "Gerrard just issued a statement through his agent, announcing the termination of contract extension negotiations with us, and also publicly asked us to sell him to a team with enough ambitions!"
"What did you say?!" After hearing this news, Moores was shocked and asked quickly, "Are you sure this is what Gerrard himself meant? Isn't that damn agent making his own decisions?!"
"It's absolutely true!" Rick Parry nodded and said with great certainty, "I have investigated and it is indeed what Gerrard himself meant. Now, some extreme fans who have learned the news have started burning Gerrard's jersey, someone has even sent death threats to Gerrard online!"
"Gerald! How could he do this! This is betrayal! A naked betrayal!" Morse was furious in the office and wanted to call Gerald out immediately to ask him clearly, "Has he forgotten that... Who gave him the chance to become a professional player? Who trained him to become the world's top midfielder? And who entrusted him with the important tasks of team core and captain when he was young? How could he He took the initiative to ask to leave the club when it was in its most difficult time!”
However, although Morse was extremely angry about this matter, he had no choice but to accept this cruel reality. Because Morse knows that since Gerrard dares to make this statement publicly, it means that he is ready to leave Anfield!
"Rick, get ready." Morse, who calmed down, said to Rick Parry with a wry smile. "I believe it won't be long before there will be a lot of transfer offers in front of us."
Although Morse does not have a high vision and is somewhat greedy for money, as the owner of Liverpool, he has been dealing with the heads of other top giants for many years, so at least he still has a good vision. For example, now, Morse clearly realizes that there must be a team that has contacted Gerrard personally beforehand and reached a consensus with him on this issue. Otherwise, with Gerald's character, he would definitely not be able to make such a ruthless decision!
Sure enough, as Morse expected, after Gerrard made this statement that was no different from leaving the team, offers from Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham appeared on Morse's desk almost at the same time!
After receiving these three offers, Morse threw Manchester United's transfer offer directly into the trash can without even looking at it - as the owner of Liverpool, he did not have the courage to challenge the bottom line of the fans and risk the world. It’s time to sell Gerrard to Old Trafford!
As for the transfer offers from Chelsea and Tottenham, Morse did not choose to accept them immediately. In order to allow Liverpool to earn more transfer fees for Gerrard, Morse adopted an extremely old-fashioned but proven very effective trick, which was to have his staff pretend to "unintentionally" transfer to these players separately during negotiations. The two clubs revealed each other's offers. In this way, in order to successfully win the big fish of Gerrard, Chelsea and Tottenham, who are not short of money, will definitely start a fierce transfer battle!
Although Morse's calculation was very shrewd, he underestimated Kenyon and Marotta, who were responsible for the introduction of Gerrard, and did not know that Chelsea and Tottenham had already reached an alliance! After seeing through Morse's trick, the two first conducted exploratory negotiations with Liverpool, and then agreed with each other on the transfer fee at the price of 35 million pounds. Willing to pay even one penny more for Gerrard!
The reason why Kenyon chose to secretly communicate with Marotta on Gerrard's transfer instead of continuing to compete with Tottenham on which side can spend more money is not because of the alliance between the two clubs, but because Another important signing of Chelsea, the transfer of Lyon midfielder Michael Essien has reached a deadlock at this time!
Although Abu is rich, his money is not endless. When Aulas (Chairman of Lyon) made it clear that Chelsea must pay enough real money to take away the Ghanaian buffalo, Kenyon, who had a limited budget and knew George's family background, could only Decide between the two!
If his stubborn insistence on Gerrard's transfer angers Tottenham and leads George to take action personally, retaliating by raising Essien's price or even directly cutting him off, then Chelsea's summer recruitment work will inevitably be affected. Great impact!
Therefore, Kenyon maintained a tacit understanding with Marotta on Gerrard's transfer, rather than simply and crudely solving the problem with money. Because he knows very well that Chelsea is really no match for Tottenham in a purely financial competition!
At the same time, seeing this scene, how could Morse not realize that this plot had been discovered by Kenyon and Marotta? And he is sure that Chelsea and Tottenham have reached an agreement on Gerrard. Otherwise, how could they have such a tacit agreement to fix the transfer fee on the figure of 35 million pounds?
Although he is very unhappy with Chelsea and Tottenham's mutual communication, Morse also understands that if Gerrard, who has two years left on his contract, is not sold as soon as possible this summer, Liverpool's losses will only increase over time. The transition becomes more tragic!
"Well, if I had known this, I might as well have agreed to Tottenham's offer of 50 million pounds. Now I have lost a lot of money!" With this thought in mind, Morse had no choice but to agree to the offer from Chelsea and Tottenham. Allow these two clubs to negotiate personal treatment with Gerrard!
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