The situation was not good.

By the time Benítez thought that Deisler might have a relapse of depression, it was a little too late.

After the game on Saturday, Deisler, who already felt something was wrong, called his agent Neubauer immediately after returning home. Neubauer arrived at Deisler's residence and knew that it was bad when he saw his appearance. So the two of them decided to go to a local clinic in Liverpool for an examination on Sunday.

In fact, even if he didn't check, Deisler was clear about his condition. Depression had tortured him for a long time. Deisler knew better than anyone what the state was when he got sick. He went to do this examination just to let his heart burning with football have a little hope to continue burning.

But the cruel reality shattered the hope in Deisler's heart.

The day after Benítez and Mors finished their discussion, Neubauer got Deisler's medical report in the hospital, which clearly stated: moderate depression.

Looking at the medical report handed to him by Neubauer, Deisler, who had a little expectation left, quickly regained his composure, and then left Neubauer, who was hesitant to speak in the living room, and locked himself in the bedroom.

This kind of thing must not be kept secret. After hesitating for a while, Neubauer still informed Mors of the news.

After receiving Neubauer's call, Mors spent an afternoon thinking about how to stop the loss on Deisler in time. But to his surprise, he received a call from Deisler that night. This poor German genius took the initiative to choose to retire.

On the morning of September 5, Liverpool held a press conference at Anfield. Deisler himself did not attend. Club owner Mors announced on the spot that Sebastian Deisler had officially bid farewell to his career due to a diagnosis of moderate depression.

This news quickly exploded in the English football world and spread to all parts of the world through the Internet. People felt sorry for Deisler.

Li Shiguang saw this news while surfing the Internet in the office in the afternoon. Morse's gloomy face at the press conference made him feel secretly happy, but at the same time he was full of emotion about Deisler's retirement. It seems that even if Deisler's career met him, he could not escape the fate of retirement affected by depression...

The news of Deisler's retirement only caused a brief discussion in the complicated English football world. Soon, everyone turned their attention back to the league that will be restarted this weekend.

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Thorpe Arch Training Base.

"Bang!"

Li Shiguang slammed the stack of medical reports in his hand on the desk, and the anger in his heart was about to overflow: "Fuck! The national team's idiotic coaches, it's just a friendly match, do they need to let the players work so hard?!"

This was the first time that Lina saw her boss so angry. She didn't dare to say anything, and could only quietly pick up the medical reports thrown everywhere by Li Shiguang.

It's no wonder that Li Shiguang was so angry. A few days ago, on the international match day, the number of players called up by Leeds United was as high as 6 injured. Mascherano and Kompany, who were less seriously injured, probably need to rest for a week. Podolski, Bale, and Toure, who were slightly more seriously injured than them, will need at least half a month to resume training. Whether they can play in the game is still unknown.

What Li Shiguang wanted to scold the most was the Chinese Football Association. They had to call Sun Jihai back from afar for a friendly match with South Korea. After he returned, they didn't even check the player's physical condition and directly sent Sun Jihai to the field. As a result, they lost the game and were seriously injured by the Koreans.

The thick medical report in Li Shiguang's hand just now was Sun Jihai's. After seeing that the report said that he needed to rest for at least four months, Li Shiguang finally couldn't help his anger and threw the report out!

Li Shiguang paced in the office, spewing in his hometown language: "This damn Chinese Football Association! You do this to your own players? You don't care if you don't pay for the emotional medical expenses!?"

Indeed, in this era, all major clubs, from the boss to the head coach, hate the international match day rule. Once a player is injured in such a friendly match, the final loss will be borne by the club, which is very unfair.

It was not until 2012 that the FIFA Executive Committee issued a document called "Club Protection Plan", which stipulated that if a club

If a player is injured while representing the national team in a specific match during a specific training period, and the injury lasts for more than 28 days, the player's salary during the injury period will be paid by FIFA as "compensation". ‍‍

With this plan, the club gradually became less resistant to the concept of international match days.

But no matter how much they criticize, the game two days later will not be waiting for Li Shiguang, and after this round of games, they will immediately set off to the Netherlands to play the Champions League group match against Eindhoven.

Faced with a lineup that was exhausted and full of injuries, Li Shiguang had no choice but to put up a full substitute strikerless formation away from home, trying to pass the ball into Portsmouth's goal, but things did not go as planned. Leeds United was eventually defeated by Portsmouth in the away game, suffering the first defeat of the new season.

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