Yes, Suárez was jealous of Chen Hero.

He had plenty of reason to be, because the core of the entire Liverpool team now was Chen Hero, not him.

Whether on or off the field, he was the center of attention. On the field, he was Dalglish's designated tactical core. Off the field, he was the focus of the media and fans. In the locker room, Suárez found that Chen Hero was also popular. He had only been with the team for three short months and had already treated everyone four times. It was said that he was going to treat everyone again because the house the club had found for him was renovated and he planned to move in. When that time came, he would definitely treat everyone to celebrate his housewarming... How could he not be popular with all this treating?

Suárez disliked Chen Hero's behavior, believing it was a way to buy people's hearts!

But he was powerless to do anything about it, because everyone fell for it…

In fact, half a year ago, when he joined Liverpool from Ajax, he was also the focus of media attention and reports because he was Liverpool's biggest signing during the winter break. At that time, the entire Liverpool team had high hopes for his arrival.

He had already made a name for himself before coming to Liverpool, and his outstanding performance in the World Cup had won him the favor of many wealthy clubs.

He finally chose Liverpool, hoping to create his own career here.

In half a season, he played thirteen times, scored four goals, and had five assists. For a player who had just joined the team, this was already an excellent report card.

But the good times didn't last long. He was only in the limelight for half a season before someone with even greater popularity arrived.

Since Chen Hero arrived, he had been almost completely submerged in his shadow.

But he was not convinced, because the league had only started six rounds, and Chen Hero had only scored two goals, while he had scored three. Considering the difference in value between the two sides, Chen Hero's goals were even fewer than Suárez's, which was too outrageous.

He was still the core even like this. What was the logic? Just because he had a high price tag? His performance last season was indeed crazy, scoring thirteen goals in seven Champions League knockout games, which was amazing. But past achievements can only prove that he was awesome in the past, and cannot prove that he will be awesome in the future.

In Dalglish's tactics, Suárez was the supporting role for Chen Hero, creating opportunities for him, and even asked Suárez to pull to the wing to cross for Chen Hero—it seemed that he wasn't really indifferent to the wing. He had just frozen out Adam Johnson because of a bet with Niang…

But Suárez didn't see it that way. He thought Chen Hero should be the supporting role for him. Chen Hero should fight for the header in the frontcourt, put the ball down, and let him control the second landing point to form an offensive.

Suárez didn't think he was inferior to Chen Hero. He could score forty-nine goals in a season at Ajax, which showed that his scoring ability was not weaker than Chen Hero's. The main reason was that Dalglish didn't set up tactics with him as the core of the team. If the whole team's tactics revolved around him, he could also become a striker like Chen Hero.

Moreover, his dribbling skills were better than Chen Hero's, which was the biggest advantage. Chen Hero relied too much on the support of the team's midfield and defense, while he could go straight to the enemy's rear alone!

He was not convinced by Chen Hero. He wanted to compete with Chen Hero.

But how to challenge Chen Hero?

He obviously couldn't run to Chen Hero during training and say to him, "Hey, big guy, I don't like you very much, or we can have a fight, and whoever wins listens to the other!"

He was not stupid. Anyone could tell with their knees that he couldn't win a fight, so why bother suffering?

As a player, as a striker, he would definitely use his own way to fight Chen Hero!

That was, to compete! In! Goals!

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Chen Hero was completely unaware that Suárez wanted to compete with him in scoring goals. Although he could feel that Suárez was not very interested in him, you can never please everyone in a team. Even in Napoli, not everyone had a very good relationship with him. It was already very good to be able to maintain a superficial harmony.

Suárez was not close to him, and Chen Hero was not used to him either.

Anyway, both of them were starters, and they were still doing their best to serve the team on the field.

But soon Chen Hero noticed that the relationship between the two had changed…

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In the seventh round of the league, Chen Hero ushered in his first Merseyside derby since joining Liverpool.

Many people think that Liverpool is the only team representing the city of Liverpool, but little do they know that there is also an Everton.

The feud between the two teams has lasted for more than a hundred years. They were originally from the same root, but later, due to commercial disputes, they split internally. A group of people left Anfield, moved to Goodison Park, and formed a brand new team.

The people who stayed behind planned to form another team, but because they registered late, the name Everton already belonged to the people who had split off, so they could only name it Liverpool.

Although Liverpool's achievements were much more brilliant than Everton's later, at that time, Everton was the orthodox team and the most influential team in Liverpool.

At that time, many players in the Liverpool team ran to Everton to play, and no one wanted to stay in this new team that seemed to have no future. Many people even thought that Liverpool would disappear before long.

Under such circumstances, Liverpool's first coach, John McKenna, had to go to Scotland to recruit players. He recruited twelve Scottish players to Liverpool in one go. At that time, no one would come to watch Liverpool's games at all, because no one would support a team composed almost entirely of Scottish people.

Unexpectedly, this became a Liverpool tradition. Until later, there were many Scottish players in the Liverpool squad, and the famous players in Liverpool's history were also Scottish players.

For example, Bill Shankly, the most famous legendary coach in Liverpool's history, was Scottish. Anfield's "King" Kenny Dalglish was also Scottish. Souness was Scottish, and Alan Hansen was also Scottish…

In fact, Scottish people have a pivotal position in the history of British football, and these Scottish players and coaches of Liverpool have made great contributions.

Everton and Liverpool are standard city rivals. The feud between them is no less than that between Liverpool and Manchester United.

It seems that any city rivals are mortal enemies.

The same city means that two teams have to compete for limited resources in the same space. Of course, there are contradictions—why are there so many conflicts between China and Europe and the United States today? It actually has nothing to do with any social system. Isn't it just a competition for resources and interests? There is only such a big earth, and your China consumes more resources every year than the sum of our Europe and the United States. Of course, this is a mortal enemy…

Merseyside is so big, and there are two top teams, Liverpool and Everton, so of course they have to fight to the death.

Later, the competition became a custom and tradition. It seems that not fighting is not considered a city rival.

But what is interesting is that famous players who play for Liverpool may not be Liverpool supporters. The most famous example is Fowler, this Liverpool's well-known "bad boy", he is actually an Everton fan. Now Liverpool's vice-captain, Carragher and his father are both authentic Everton fans.

In addition, there is news that the Red Army's current spiritual leader, Gerrard, was actually an Everton fan when he was a child. He also had photos of himself wearing an Everton jersey. Liverpool's captain later admitted this in his autobiography. When he was very young, about six or seven years old, he was indeed an Everton fan…

But no matter what, the relationship between these two teams in the same city is very strange, both hostile and interdependent.

If one day the city of Liverpool loses any of the Everton and Liverpool teams, the other team will probably feel a lot more lonely.

Chen Hero joined the team with a sky-high price of 70 million pounds, which will naturally make the fans next door a little sour. So when Liverpool suffered two consecutive losses, and Chen Hero did not score, who was the happiest?

Everton fans are the happiest.

For this Merseyside derby, they have decided to make some slogans and banners to express their "love" for Chen Hero.

In order to create momentum, they have already gathered Everton fans online to chant slogans together to boo Chen Hero at that time.

Chen Hero will once again be surrounded by boos.

But he certainly doesn't care…

What kind of scene hasn't this brother experienced? Boos are nothing, what's the big deal?

If you dare to boo me, I will dare to score your goal! See who loses more in the end, you or me!

So when he was warming up before the game, when he saw the banners and slogans specially prepared for him in the stands, he smiled.

In Russia and Italy, countless guys who didn't know what was good for them ran into his gun and offered themselves up for him to slap. Unexpectedly, in England, there are still people who are so narrow-minded…

He sighed.

Teammate Kuyt saw Chen Hero sighing while looking at the stands where Everton fans were gathered, and thought he was frightened by the Everton fans' array. He ran over and patted Chen Hero on the shoulder, comforting him: "It's nothing, Hero. They are just bluffing! The Merseyside derby is like this, you'll get used to it…"

Chen Hero shook his head, thanked Kuyt for his kindness, but he still had to correct Kuyt's opinion.

"I'm not worried about what they will do to me, I'm worried about what will happen to them."

"Eh?"

"If you lose at your home, how painful would that be? You wouldn't be able to hold your head up for a whole week, right?"

Chen Hero spread his hands and said.

Hearing this, Kuyt was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing. While laughing, he patted Chen Hero's shoulder hard: "I know why you are so annoying to your opponents, hahaha!"

Chen Hero also laughed, laughing shamelessly: "The hatred of the opponent is my honor!"

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