Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Moreover, Gerrard, who joined Barcelona, ​​rejected a genuine offer from AC Milan in order to maintain his Barcelona heritage!

If he had gone to Serie A, his future might have been different.

At that time, Gattuso, who was competing with Gerrard for the same position at AC Milan, had not yet shown any outstanding performances and was likely to lose to Gerrard Lopez.

Starting with Gerard Lopez, Barcelona began a tradition of poaching players from Valencia, subsequently acquiring players such as Villa, Alba, Andre Gomes, and Paco Alcácer, including many superstars.

Barcelona spent all of Figo's money in this offensive, even losing more than ten million euros, before finally satisfying the fans.

Barcelona firmly believes that with such significant signings, they will have a bright season!

But no one expected that even after spending so much money, Barcelona couldn't make headlines in the transfer market after Figo's transfer was finalized.

Because on the other side of the Iberian Peninsula, a transfer involving Sporting Lisbon has shaken Europe.

Sporting Lisbon's official website: A warm welcome to Lothar Matthäus, the first FIFA World Player of the Year, Ballon d'Or winner, and German Footballer of the Year, to Sporting Lisbon!

Rumble!

Thunder rumbled!

With a news story like this, who else can compare?

Sporting Lisbon is unremarkable.

Matthäus is already a twilight star, with little remaining popularity.

But when a star player whom everyone thought would definitely retire suddenly announces that he will play again, many fans will still be extremely excited.

This is just like Torres' sudden announcement of his impending comeback in 2022 after retiring for several years – it's shocking and makes people want to know more, even if it was just a marketing ploy.

Following this, related news continued to emerge, with Record providing almost all the firsthand information, once again dominating the summer.

Lothar Matthäus's mysterious signing, with a salary almost matching his previous top salary at Sporting Lisbon! A significant reduction compared to his time at Bayern Munich!

Reason 1 for Matthäus joining Sporting Lisbon: Triguera and Maxière are excellent coaches, and I hope to work with an excellent head coach!

The second reason Matthäus joined Sporting Lisbon: Although Germany was eliminated in the group stage of the European Championship, Duncan didn't tell me beforehand that he had also predicted this result; otherwise, we probably would have performed even worse. Helping Duncan and Sporting Lisbon is my way of expressing my gratitude.

Matthäus joined Sporting Lisbon for the third reason: He hoped to lead a group of young players to compete for the championship and prove that Bayern Munich and the German national team did not fail because of him.

All sorts of news are flying around.

The Sun, with its extensive network in England, quickly refuted several of the Record's news items.

The Sun: "The biggest driving force behind Matthäus's move to Sporting Lisbon was Duncan! The players' wives' meeting played a key role. We previously judged Matthäus to be preparing to join Manchester United based on the players' wives' meeting, but now it seems that Duncan has been preparing for this day all along!"

"On the eve of Matthäus joining Sporting Lisbon, he attended a party for the wives of footballers in Buckinghamshire, which was organized by Victoria and Hathaway, and Marin also brought Matthäus along."

"Other heavyweight stars also attended the party, two Frenchmen and one Spaniard!"

The Sun always knows how to manipulate online traffic.

The two Frenchmen and the Spanishman really whetted people's appetites.

Everyone was speculating.

But soon, one of the Frenchmen surfaced.

Sporting Lisbon have signed French national team champion Didier Deschamps from Chelsea! The transfer fee is €3.5 million!

Didier Deschamps admits to attending a club of footballers' wives, but he hasn't revealed the identity of the other Frenchwoman!

Found! Zidane and Beckham were shooting a GG bag for a certain brand that day, and the location was in England!

Zidane: I was invited to the party; it was a girls' party, and we players just gathered together and chatted.

France Football: Zidane may choose to leave; some clauses in his contract renewal with Juventus have not been agreed upon. Could his wife be causing him to waver at Juventus?

Marca: Florentino Pérez is very interested in Zidane! Real Madrid needs all the top superstars!

Juventus: We are delighted to have renewed Zidane's contract; he was Juventus' most important player throughout 2005!

Good heavens, Deng Kai was just talking about a story from The Sun, how come France Football is picking up on it, and how come Marca from Spain is following suit?

In retrospect, this was a clever maneuver by Zidane to put pressure on Juventus and force them to agree to his high-salary contract extension offer.

The key point is that even Juventus couldn't utter a single word of complaint.

Because Zidane was very cooperative from beginning to end.

It was Real Madrid and that star player's wife who caused the trouble.

That's why Zidane is considered a smart man.

If you openly pressure the team, even if you sign a contract, will you still be the perfect Zidane in the eyes of the management, the fans, and your teammates?

Of course, after this happened, Deng Kai called Zidane and praised Zidane's move.

Zidane pretended not to understand, but in the end he still did Deng Kai a favor by helping him get several phone numbers in France and Italy.

Both expressed satisfaction with this "collaboration".

As for the Spaniard who attended the party, he couldn't hide it from him either.

Guardiola has been identified by the media.

Guardiola readily admitted, "I went there at Duncan's invitation, but it was only for personal reasons outside of work. We talked about some ideas about investing in and opening a restaurant in England."

"We didn't talk much about football; I mainly made a lot of signings."

Guardiola dispelled the doubts of Barcelona fans.

But to be fair, the fact that Barcelona bought Petit shows that Guardiola isn't considered reliable by them.

Especially from 97 and 98 onwards, Guardiola seemed to have more injuries.

Last season, he missed several games that the coach wanted him to play, citing health reasons, which drew criticism from fans at the time.

Guardiola explained that his sports medicine expert advised him to rest, otherwise he might suffer a serious injury.

People never care about what "will happen," they only care about what has happened.

Guardiola lost a lot of trust at that time.

Some Barcelona fans even questioned why Guardiola didn't go to Sporting Lisbon regarding the star players' wives' gathering.

With Petit and Gerrard already in the squad, Guardiola has become practically dispensable at Barcelona.

This infuriated Guardiola.

I like playing football on the ground: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him.