Klašnić's most glorious years were spent with the Bundesliga team Werder Bremen, but he had no problem adapting to the Premier League. In the previous two seasons, he had been loaned to Bolton in the Premier League by Nantes. So he was familiar with the Premier League's style of football and adapted quickly.

Niang signed him with this in mind. He was buying a substitute striker, which meant that most of the time you might not be needed on the field, but when you were, you had to contribute. To be summoned and capable of fighting, and to win when you fight, that's what a substitute is all about. He needed Klašnić to be ready to step up whenever something happened on the front line.

A Klašnić who was adapted to the Premier League was obviously more advantageous than someone from other leagues. After all, you're just a substitute; the team won't give you half a season to adapt to the Premier League's style of play.

In addition to Klašnić, Liverpool's other major signing in the transfer market finally came to fruition.

After some tough bargaining, Liverpool finally brought Inler from Udinese to Anfield for a fee of 17 million euros.

The addition of this midfield general will greatly increase the team's defensive depth in midfield.

After all, neither Gerrard, Lucas, nor Charlie Adam are full-time defenders; at most, their defensive work is a cameo.

Inler's arrival will definitely give him a starting position, which will make the competition in midfield even fiercer.

Gerrard has recovered from his injury and is undergoing preseason training with the team. Lucas will have to wait another month or two before he can return to the team. Charlie Adam originally needed to wait another month, but seeing that Liverpool had brought in Inler, he couldn't sit still and decided to return early. This is a very risky move, because returning early can lead to more serious consequences, because your body is not ready, and forcibly playing may aggravate the injury and require a longer period of rest. But in order not to fall behind in the competition, he had to choose this risky approach.

Inler's arrival opened up a competitive mechanism within the team. In the past, everyone felt that since there were so few people anyway, they would definitely be able to play. So they weren't very energetic during the games, and they were lazy during training.

That's not possible now. A new head coach has arrived, and you should try to perform well and leave a good impression on the head coach. Now the team has bought an Inler, and because he is good at defense, it is almost certain that he will occupy a place in the starting lineup.

And on the wings, there are Adam Johnson and Bellamy, and Gerrard can also play as a left midfielder. Charlie Adam and Lucas are both people who can't play in any position other than the middle. They are fighting for one position, how can they not fight desperately?

Chen Hero didn't care that the team's midfield had become more competitive because of Inler's arrival. Anyway, this kind of competition wouldn't fall on him. He was the most stable person in this team, even more stable than Captain Gerrard.

He was just a little happy to be able to see his "old acquaintance" from Serie A at Liverpool.

In fact, when he was playing in Naples, he didn't have a deep impression of Inler, but he was still someone he played against twice in a season, so he still had some impression.

It felt good to be able to see his former opponent become a teammate.

Chen Hero didn't have a deep impression of Inler, but Inler had a deep impression of him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen to come to Liverpool. Inler believes that player transfers are actually a speculation, it depends on whether your vision is accurate, while ensuring your number of appearances, you also have to see if this transfer can bring an improvement to your career.

So he actually faced many choices, and Liverpool was definitely not the most competitive one.

But the current Liverpool has Chen Hero, so it has become particularly competitive.

He had seen in Serie A how Naples had risen to become a European champion after having Chen Hero.

He believes in Chen Hero's ability, so he feels that transferring to Liverpool is a low-risk, successful speculation. He may reap the most glorious achievements of his career.

With this in mind, when he arrived at Liverpool, he naturally had to get along well with Chen Hero.

As long as he has a good relationship with Chen Hero, it will be much easier to integrate into this team.

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After settling Inler, Liverpool focused all their attention on Sanchez.

Naples was initially unwilling to let him go, but Sanchez himself wanted to leave the transfer.

To this end, he even did not hesitate to offend the fans of Naples.

He publicly stated in the newspaper that he would very much like to go to Liverpool and partner with Chen Hero.

This kind of public statement is to tell Naples—I don't plan to continue staying here, if you force me to stay, there will be no good results.

This statement made the fans of Naples very disgusted. They went from initially demanding that the club must keep Sanchez, to now strongly demanding that Sanchez get out, a 180-degree change overnight.

The fans are asking him to get out, so Sanchez has more reason to leave.

At the same time, Liverpool also stepped up their offensive.

In the end, Naples could only succumb, but they demanded that Liverpool's offer could not be less than 35 million euros.

After some negotiations between Liverpool and Naples, a deal was reached for 37 million euros.

After agreeing with the club, the player himself was without suspense. Sanchez wanted to come to Liverpool, and it was easy to talk about personal treatment, as long as it was above the average level.

The current Sanchez is still a rotation player in Naples, so naturally he has no confidence and qualifications to demand high salaries.

Many people feel that Sanchez's transfer to Liverpool is because Chen Hero's appeal is big enough. But fortunately, no one knows that Chen Hero once made a phone call to Sanchez, otherwise the fans of Naples would probably fall out with him again…

Chen Hero didn't expect that he would eventually dig the corner of his old club, he was a little helpless, but that was all. Since people are here, it would be too fake for him to regret it here.

To be honest, he also very much hoped that Sanchez could come to Liverpool and partner with him. It is always pleasant to play football with acquaintances, because they are very familiar with each other. Chen Hero knows Sanchez's abilities, and Sanchez also knows Chen Hero's playing style. If he must introduce reinforcements on the wing in the summer, Chen Hero naturally hopes that the person who comes is someone he is very familiar with, and the other party is also very familiar with him, so that they can cooperate well.

Sanchez is such a person.

After the two sides signed the contract, Sanchez couldn't wait to fly to Liverpool. Even if he was called an "unwelcome person" by the fans of Naples, he didn't care.

Playing football with Chen Hero is his ideal.

Chen Hero is really good to his friends. He held a welcome party for him in Liverpool and invited most of the team's players to participate. Of course, in name it was to welcome the three new players, but everyone could see that Chen Hero was the best to Sanchez. As soon as Sanchez arrived at the team, he officially joined Liverpool's food, drink, and fun group.

In Liverpool, in addition to having a good relationship with Chen Hero, Sanchez also has a good relationship with Škrtel, because when he was still in Naples, Škrtel once invited the Naples food, drink, and fun group to have a decadent time in England. Everyone already has a relatively in-depth understanding…

Through this gathering, the three new players were recognized by everyone and had the most basic contact. In this way, it will be much easier to integrate into the team.

Originally, this kind of thing should have been organized by the captain, but now it was taken away by Chen Hero. But Chen Hero was originally the captain, so it is appropriate for him to do this. It's just that he is the fourth captain, but from the perspective of activity, he has surpassed Reina and has signs of approaching Carragher and Gerrard.

Maybe it won't be long before Chen Hero's influence within the team can be on par with Gerrard and Carragher, becoming the actual third captain…

In fact, Martin O'Neill's first thing when he came to the team was to convene the four captains to a meeting to understand the team's situation.

But Chen Hero was very silent at this meeting. On the one hand, he didn't know as much about the team's situation as the other three captains, after all, he had been in the team for the shortest time. On the other hand, it was naturally because he was still a bit nostalgic, and naturally he was not so cooperative with Martin O'Neill, who had replaced Dalglish.

But Martin O'Neill didn't take it seriously and didn't deprive Chen Hero of his status as the fourth captain. Generally, there are only three captains, and O'Neill also defaulted to this extra one.

From this, it seems that O'Neill is really a head coach who is very good at handling player relationships.

Otherwise, his relationship with the players in the previous teams would not have been good.

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Henderson finally left Liverpool and returned to his former club Sunderland. Sunderland spent eight million pounds to buy him back.

This is really a toss, but such tosses often occur in the world of football.

For Liverpool, Henderson is of no value. For Sunderland, Henderson is still a good player.

Henderson also realized that maybe a small team is more suitable for him, at least he can be the core and have the opportunity to train and improve. In a wealthy team, there is obviously no place for him, the competition is too fierce, and he can't afford it.

Sunderland is the team he played for before, and he is familiar with everything here. Returning to Sunderland is not a bad choice. He doesn't care that he went to Liverpool with great fanfare a year ago, and then returned to Sunderland in disgrace a year later, and will be laughed at by others—this is definitely not as important as being able to play steadily.

Liverpool's reconstruction work is still continuing, some people leave, some people come.

However, the main signing work has come to an end with the arrival of Sanchez.

Martin O'Neill also knows that it is impossible to become fat by eating a bite, and introducing too many players in one breath will take a huge risk, which will lead to instability in the locker room.

What he has to do is not to directly push Liverpool down and rebuild, but to rebuild on the original basis.

The most important thing is to maintain the integrity and stability of the original framework.

The reason why he made this decision was that Liverpool's boss, Chen Xing, told him during a private conversation that a wealthy team like Liverpool should not even be unable to participate in the Champions League. That is to say, in his first season coaching Liverpool, he had to lead the team into the Champions League next season.

And this goal is obviously impossible to achieve through pushing down and rebuilding.

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ps, there will be three more updates tomorrow, and there will be four more updates the day after tomorrow!