Green Life

Torres' home in Madrid, Spain.

Olaya was cooking, and Torres was sitting on the sofa watching TV when the phone rang. Torres glanced at Jose, turned off the TV and walked to the balcony with his mobile phone.

As soon as the connection was made, Jose said excitedly: "Liverpool has made an official offer, 22 million pounds, Fernando, you may become the king of transfer bids this summer! Liverpool is determined to win you."

Torres was overjoyed for a while, who would not want to be more expensive, which shows his value and success, and then asked: "So what's the club's reaction?"

"It's not a big problem. After all, we have already hinted to the club that we will leave this summer. The club will not set up obstacles. You are the golden boy of Atletico Madrid. As long as there is an offer worthy of your status, the club will not set up obstacles. It depends on whether other clubs follow suit," said the phone caller.

Torres said: "Are there other clubs making offers?"

Jose said: "There will definitely be. I guess Real Madrid and Manchester United may offer prices, but I guess the sincerity is mediocre. Manchester United's current striker is Ronaldo Rooney, and what's more lacking is the midfielder. Real Madrid's desire for you is not the same. It's been two days and you just haven't wanted to go. The other clubs haven't heard of it yet"

Torres continued: "My personal wish is to go to Liverpool"

Jose said over there: "Well, there will be no major accidents, just wait for the news."

Torres put down the phone and turned to see Olaya leaning against the door looking at her, walked over to her and smiled and said, "Honey, we might be going to England"

Olaya put her arms around Torres' waist, looked at him and said softly: "As long as it is good for your development, I am willing to go anywhere."

...

The summer transfer period is about to start, and Melwood has started to get busy again. Now he is mainly operating summer transfers. Due to the need to clean up failed signings in the past few years, this year's work is particularly heavy.

Benitez and Parry are discussing the progress of the work in the conference room, Cisse has reached an agreement with Marseille, Pongele has reached an agreement with Huelva, Marc Gonzalez has also reached an agreement with Betis, Bellamy Has officially transferred to West Ham United just short of reporting.

These are the transfers that have been implemented. These people either performed mediocrely or were unable to adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League. It is difficult to bring help to Liverpool. Transferring out to recover funds is more beneficial to the team, otherwise it will not be good in the dressing room. stabilizing factor.

The more troublesome ones are mainly Riise. Riise's state has declined seriously this year, but he has not yet found a suitable buyer. The other is the team's third goalkeeper Carlsen and midfielder Sissoko. Sissoko is capable. , The defense is also very good, but it is a bit inconsistent with Benitez's philosophy, because the technology is too rough, and Benitez got Javier Mascherano on loan as he wished, so Sissoko is not so important.

Parry calculated and said: "Rafa, the funds recovered from the transfers of Cisse, Pangler, Gonzalez, and Bellamy should be almost the same as the purchase price of Torres, but too many people have left. Thickness will be affected”

Benitez is a little helpless, it is useless to keep this group of people, playing the main force does not meet his requirements, as a substitute? I would like to be so extravagant... Ignoring the cranky thoughts in my mind, Benitez said: "One Torres is better than the four of them. We need stars to break through now. As for the substitute rotation, we only need to ensure health, which is enough gone."

Parry said: "Torres, Atletico Madrid has not given a final answer, but I believe it will not be far from our offer. After Atletico Madrid responds, I will personally negotiate and implement it! After all, he is our top priority this year. .”

Benitez has not wanted to get Torres for a year or two, and said solemnly: "We must win Torres this year, and Hyypia is getting older, and the progress of Skrtel's transfer must be stepped up. If the transfer can be reached in the summer would be best, if not,

We will follow up again in winter”

Parry frowned and said: "You still want to introduce Lucas from Gremio. In that case, our transfer funds may not be enough. The club's board of directors can only provide a few million pounds this year."

"Start the transfer negotiations of Riise, Carlsen, Sissoko, and Pennant. I will tell them that there will be no place for them next season. I think the recovered funds are enough to introduce Skrtel and Lucas. As for the wing, I mainly follow up with Benayoun of West Ham." In order to rebuild the team's frontcourt, Benitez is ready to break the boat. After two years of hard life, when he feels uncomfortable, he turns his head to look at Professor Wen. ~

At this time, the door of the meeting room was pushed open, and Parry's transfer assistant came in with a fax and said to them: "Boss, Rafa, Atletico Madrid just sent a fax, in principle agreed to Torres' transfer." Yes, but asked to include Luis Garcia in the deal as an add-on to our purchase of Torres"

Parry took the fax to check, and Benitez said anxiously: "No, then our wing will be weaker, and there are too few players to rotate, and it is almost impossible to last a season."

Parry pondered for a while and said: "Garcia will be 30 next year, or you can consider bringing in a substitute. Now Garcia can still sell the price. It will not be easy in another year. I will try my best to negotiate with Atletico Madrid. , so how can you have more money on hand?"

...

There are always joys and sorrows in the transfer market, but this year is relatively quieter than in previous years. Arsenal's Henry the Great finally finished his journey at Highbury and switched to Barcelona.

Ferguson started hoarding midfielders in order to fill Keane's vacancy, Chelsea? I'm too busy making troubles, they don't have much to do this year.

Ribery 25 million euros into the arms of Bayern.

The current Liverpool is still very attractive to stars. After all, it is a traditional giant. In addition, the Champions League has been extremely strong in recent years. It is the favorite of the Premier League champions every year. The fan base is huge.

One week into the transfer period, Liverpool has finalized several transfers in a row:

Cisse 6.5 million pounds transfer to Marseille.

Bellamy's £7.2m move to West Ham.

Gonzalez 4 million move to Betis.

Pangele transferred to Velva for 3 million pounds.

Dudek joins Real Madrid on a free transfer.

Carlsen moved to Charlton for £2 million.

Voronin joins Liverpool on a free transfer.

Benayoun moved to Liverpool from West Ham for £5.5m.

This transfer period started with two ins and six outs, and Liverpool fans suddenly became worried. Could it be that the club has financial problems and needs to sell people to pay off debts? Various tabloid news also speculated that Liverpool's debts have gotten out of control and a crisis is about to erupt!

Reluctantly, Parry had no choice but to hold a press conference, emphasizing that Liverpool's finances were fine, and at the same time promised the media and fans that Liverpool was making several heavyweight transfers.

At this time, Liverpool had already started training. Mark Qin was successfully transferred to the first team, and his contract came into effect, but due to the situation at the time, this contract was not suitable for the first team, because the terms of various bonuses were not very clear. , but Chen Zixuan was about to give birth, and Peter couldn't get on the job, so he had to wait and watch in the first team.

A week after the training camp, Liverpool announced two important transfers one after another.

Lucas moved to Liverpool from Gremio for 8.4 million pounds.

Jose Enrique joins Liverpool for £5m. History has been changed. Originally, because Beitu did not sell Riise this season, the pursuit of Enrique was not very urgent, but now that Beitu has decided to sell Riise, it is necessary to find a replacement. Originally, Newcastle was pursuing him, but now After Liverpool joined, Enrique came to Benitez without even thinking about it.

When Enrique came, Riise finally gave up, and signed the contract with Rome, and joined Rome with 4.8 million pounds.

Sissoko thought about it. Now there are iron-clad main players Alonso and Gerrard in the midfield, and now Javier Mascherano and Lucas are here, so he decided to go to Juventus, which can give him the main position. The transfer fee is £8 million.

In mid-July, under the eyes of everyone, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid finally reached an agreement, and Atletico Madrid's golden boy will transfer to Liverpool!

Liverpool fans are excited, Torres, he has become famous in La Liga and Europe for so many years, and at the age of 23, he is in his prime. Liverpool suddenly found their ten-year striker sharp knife!

The two sides finally confirmed that Torres transferred from Atletico Madrid to Liverpool for 23.5 million pounds, and Luis Garcia transferred to Atletico Madrid for 6 million pounds!

Benitez's drastic reconstruction this year has finally basically completed the replacement of Liverpool! Now as long as Hypia's replacement, Skrtel, is brought back, and then a first-class sideline is introduced, Benitez's transformation of Liverpool is complete.

Liverpool's summer is lively and lively, the media helped to calculate the accounts, and finally found out that Liverpool is still making millions of pounds this summer?

Now the writing is big, and the British media have given full marks to Benitez's transfer operations this season, clearing out a series of fringe people, in exchange for first-class superstars and young and strong potential rookies, Liverpool's lineup is improved It's reasonable.

make money? Benitez definitely doesn't take this concept seriously, and I am not a shareholder of the club, I am only responsible for competitive results! So Benitez has been thinking about how to spend the money.

Now he has two choices, one is to bring Skrtel over, and the other is to buy a good winger, and choose one of the two. After much deliberation, Benitez decided to focus on Skrtel. After all, good defenders are getting better and better. The less, there are always more good offensive players than good defensive players.

So within a few days, Liverpool brought in Skrtel at a transfer price of 6.5 million pounds, a record transfer price for a defender.

Now Benitez is comfortable, and Parry is a little depressed. After selling so many people, there is no money left, and he even took in a small two million. If you are not in charge, you don’t know how expensive it is~

Before the transfer deadline, Pennant, who was very reluctant, transferred to La Liga Zaragoza for a fee of 3 million pounds, finally made up for the transfer deficit this season, and made a small profit of 1 million. Then, Benitez used 2 million pounds to introduce the Argentine left winger Leto, (⊙﹏⊙)b

So far, Liverpool's summer transfer this season has been completed.

Compared with the previous two years, Liverpool this season is almost equivalent to rebuilding half of the team, with more than ten people in and out. Benitez also took this opportunity to almost compulsively complete the rejuvenation process of the entire team, because if this year does not He really doesn't know if the club will have a chance to complete this step in two years. Under the premise that it can be operated now, Benitez made this decision with great courage.

Benitez's ability to build a team is worthy of recognition. Historically, as long as he has the support of the club, he will do well in Chelsea and Naples in the future.

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The final Liverpool 2007-08 season 25-man roster is determined as follows:

Goalkeepers: No. 25 Reina, No. 30 Itanje, No. 40 Martin

Defenders: No. 3 Finnan, No. 4 Hyypia, No. 5 Agger, No. 12 Aurelio, No. 17 Aveloa, No. 23 Carragher, No. 37 Skrtel, No. 19 Jose Enrique, No. 48 Insua

Midfielders: No. 7 Kevill, No. 8 Gerrard, No. 11 Benayoun, No. 14 Alonso, No. 18 Mark Qin, No. 20 Mascherano, No. 21 Lucas, No. 33 Leto, No. 42 Zihar

Forwards: No. 9 Torres, No. 10 Voronin, No. 15 Crouch, No. 18 Kurit