Chapter 1 The Year-Long Agreement Between the Hero and Us

The next day, the *Liverpool Echo* used this headline to report on yesterday's championship celebration.

Although showing off the championship trophy was the main purpose of yesterday's celebration, everyone realized during the celebration that even the five gleaming silver championship trophies could not steal Chen Hero's thunder.

He only used one sentence to attract all the attention to himself.

From then until the end of the championship celebration, and even this morning, everyone was discussing his words. As for the Champions League title?

Everyone was already happy about that.

It’s not that the Champions League title was no longer attractive, but Chen Hero's words were too shocking.

Because he actually said that he would defend all the titles next season, and by the way, win the titles he hadn't won before, which meant sweeping all the titles!

They had never heard of such arrogance.

To say that Liverpool was able to become a great quadruple crown winner this season (or a quintuple crown winner if you include the Community Shield), there was an element of luck involved.

So there are many teams in the history of world football that have become triple crown winners, but there is not a single team that has been able to defend the triple crown.

Because to win all the championships, you need not only strength, but also luck.

And luck is the most uncertain thing. Liverpool was lucky this season, but will they still have such good luck next season? What if the team suffers a large number of injuries? What if they encounter strong enemies one after another in the devil's schedule? What if they encounter a key misjudgment in the game and become the victim? Just one accident, and they may fall short on the road to defending so many championships. As long as they lose one championship, they will be considered a failure.

So many people can't understand why Chen Hero would say such a thing.

Was this getting carried away?

Even Liverpool fans didn't believe what Chen Hero said.

In fact, they are already very satisfied with the results of this season. They even prepared themselves for the next season not being so brilliant—how can there be a team that is always prosperous? They are already very content and dare not ask for more, for fear that being too greedy will ruin their character and lead to bad luck next season.

But they didn't expect Chen Hero to be even more greedy than them!

He not only wants to defend the title, but also wants to win all the titles.

Isn't he afraid of ruining his character in advance by doing this?

Only Liverpool's "Red Giant Bear" trusts Chen Hero as always—as long as Chen Hero says it, he will definitely be able to achieve it!

They can be said to be Chen Hero's "brain-dead fans", but they are not ashamed of it, but proud of it.

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Soon, after media reports, Chen Hero's words at the championship celebration spread throughout England, across the entire European continent, and even as far as China.

Everyone saw Chen Hero's crazy words.

Some people dismissed it: "He is quite good at stealing the spotlight, but this kind of talk is just self-promotion, don't pay attention to it."

Some people were surprised: "Sweeping all the titles? It's great to be able to win the quadruple crown once, and he actually wants to win it twice?"

Some people ridiculed and mocked: "He must be crazy. The huge success of this season has made him lose his composure and become a little carried away. His brain has become a little abnormal!"

Some people tried to persuade him: "Why bother? Isn't this ruining your character? Hero, you are saying so much now, what if you can't complete it? This is slapping yourself in the face! Can't we be more low-key? You are putting the entire Liverpool on the fire to roast!"

But these people have forgotten that none of the promises made by Chen Hero have not been fulfilled...

Of course, some people chose to believe it, but the number of these people was too small to form an influence, and they were not even included in the statistical population.

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The day after the championship celebration, the team officially went on vacation, and the players went their separate ways to relax.

Martin O'Neill was called to his office by club general manager Neill, precisely because of Chen Hero's words yesterday.

When Martin O'Neill entered the general manager's office, Neill was reading the newspaper, today's newspaper, and there were several copies on the table. Neill picked up a copy, flipped to the sports section, quickly read it, then put it down and picked up another one.

He only looked at those parts about Chen Hero, only looked at the part about Chen Hero's crazy words.

Seeing O'Neill coming in, he put down the newspaper and got up to greet him. Today's O'Neill is the coach of the quadruple crown winner, and he must express enough respect. Although everyone knows how much Chen Hero contributed to these four championships, it is really not easy to find a head coach who cooperates so well with everyone, and is obedient, humble, low-key, and has the level in this day and age.

Neill doesn't want to choose a coach globally unless it is absolutely necessary.

So he got up and took the initiative to meet O'Neill, conveying his importance and respect to him. Make him feel satisfied.

After the two sat down on the sofa, Neill asked him: "You heard what Hero said yesterday, Martin?"

O'Neill nodded. He was standing in the team at the time, and he couldn't hear it more clearly.

"What do you think?"

O'Neill did not answer this question immediately, but smiled and talked about a past event.

"I remembered at the beginning of this season, we were meeting to discuss transfer strategies and goals for the new season, and all of us proposed to strive to defend the league title. Only Hero shouted that he wanted to win the quadruple crown... But we all thought he was crazy. This is incredible and impossible... But now the facts have slapped me in the face." He spread his hands. "So when you ask me this question now, I think of my original thoughts."

Neill also laughed.

He was at the scene at the time and was one of the participants. Now he has the feeling of personally experiencing a major event that led to a change in history.

"Hero really likes to make wild remarks and has had a lot of verbal lawsuits with others in the media." Martin O'Neill continued. "But it seems that few people have noticed that most of his wild remarks have become reality... Few people associate the results with his wild remarks. I used to think he was just habitually making wild remarks, but now I don't think so."

Neill looked at him with interest, listening to him tell about his process of changing his understanding of Chen Hero.

"I think he makes wild remarks to give himself a goal, and then forces himself to a dead end, trying his best to work towards the goal, coupled with his own extraordinary and powerful strength, the final outcome is not bad. So if he says that he will sweep all the titles next season, I believe he is ready to work towards this goal. But sweeping all the titles is not up to him alone, it requires the efforts of the whole team, so I decided to support him. He said that his goal next season is to sweep all the titles, then this is the goal of the Liverpool team."

Neill laughed loudly: "Well said, Martin! This is also the goal of our Liverpool club!"

His words mean the attitude of the Liverpool club's senior management.

"In order to help the team achieve this goal, we will try our best to bring anyone you need to Anfield."

Martin O'Neill shook his head: "No. Liverpool's current lineup is very complete and strong. I can't think of any strong reinforcements I need. If there are any, they are all substitute players and some promising young players... I have an idea, Neill. We need to reserve more promising players for the future, because the Liverpool dynasty will not only last for two or three years. Ferguson was able to dominate English football for more than ten years with the Class of '92. I think we can do the same. So the focus of the team's construction policy should be on the youth training camp."

Neill was surprised that O'Neill would answer this way, but he also admitted that O'Neill's words were correct.

The strength of the first team is already very strong, especially Chen Hero. This can be tested from this season. Fighting on four fronts at the same time, and being able to win four championships, if you still want to say "our strength is not good, we need to supplement a lot of strong reinforcements", it would be too pretentious.

They must generously admit that the current Liverpool first team is really strong.

But if you want to make Liverpool continue to be strong, it is definitely not something that can be done by continuing to buy people. The best way should be to cultivate their own reserve forces.

"This is a good idea, Martin. But they can't help us next season."

O'Neill smiled: "Then buy some substitutes. We have Chen Hero, so we can rest assured most of the time."

"So, this summer, I can relax instead?"

"I know a good resort, do you want me to recommend it to you?"

The two laughed.

Full of confidence and longing for the future.

While the outside world was still mocking and questioning Chen Hero's wild words, the two people who were in charge of the Liverpool warship had already formulated specific plans for Chen Hero's wild words.

Perhaps this is why Liverpool can become the most successful team this season, while others can only be mediocre mortals.

In fact, they are all mortals. The Liverpool team and club are made up of a group of ordinary people, but why can they succeed while others cannot?

Success is like the quadruple crown or quintuple crown. Of course, there are elements of luck, but infinitely exaggerating the role of luck ignores many other more important things. It's no wonder that so many people are always mediocre. Because they are always lucky, thinking that they can get the favor of the goddess of luck by sitting at home? Thinking that with luck, you can do anything, and if you don't have luck, no matter how hard you try, you will get nothing.

But everyone knows that luck may also be earned through their own efforts?

Many people say that the final kill is good luck and good character. But if you don't run or fight when the game is about to end, and you raise your hands and surrender, how can you get the luck of the final kill? I'm afraid you don't even have the qualification to threaten the opponent's goal.

If you force yourself into a desperate situation, you can abandon all luck and hesitation, and devote all your efforts to work hard and fight.

The final result is often not bad.

This is Chen Hero's philosophy of success.

Now, this is also Liverpool's philosophy of success.