Sure enough, after this game, the entire Europe, and even the entire world's football media, quoted the photo of Verratti uprooting Li Mingyu from behind and made the front page headlines.
For a time, Paris Saint-Germain and Verratti became the targets of criticism by everyone.
Many extreme fans of Barcelona recorded at home their declaration that they were going to Paris to kill Verratti.
For a time, the police at Paris felt like they were facing a formidable enemy.
Verratti was so frightened that he ran directly to the police station of Paris to seek protection.
Many football celebrities have come forward and severely criticized Verratti's behavior.
"Verratti's behavior should be sentenced. His foul actions may destroy an absolute genius in the football world, an unprecedented genius!" Enrique, the coach of Spain National Team, made his remarks with red eyes during the interview.
For Enrique, yesterday's game was simply a nightmare.
Because, early this morning, Barcelona's official announcement was made that Li Mingyu has completely bid farewell to this season due to a ruptured left Achilles tendon.
Achilles tendon rupture.
As soon as this news came out, Enrique wanted to be like those extreme fans, rush to Paris with a knife and cut Verratti into pieces, but it still couldn't relieve the hatred in his heart.
Achilles tendon rupture can be regarded as a common injury for athletes, mainly because it is difficult to recover.
Fortunately, this year's World Cup is in November, so Li Mingyu still has enough time to recover.
However, it is still unknown whether Li Mingyu can still reach his current level after returning from injury.
You know, there are many talented young people who completely disappear from everyone after suffering a serious injury.
No one dares to conclude that Li Mingyu will still be the same omnipotent person after he recovers from his injury.
In Barcelona's national hospital, Li Mingyu was lying in the ward. Mother Sonia looked distressed, holding her son's hand and shedding tears.
Li Zhenfei on the side also had a solemn expression.
Andrew, who was standing by the window, was answering the phone in a low voice, not knowing what he was saying.
Li Mingyu smiled, looked at his mother who was crying constantly, and whispered, "Mom, it doesn't matter, it's just a small injury, and it will be fine after surgery!"
Sonia slapped Li Mingyu's arm angrily and said, "What a small injury, Achilles tendon rupture, how painful it is!"
Li Zhenfei has always been silent.
After Andrew finished the call, he walked over with a trace of dissatisfaction on his face and said, "Li, those teams that were eager to offer me offers to buy you all regretted it. They said that the current economic situation is not enough for them to bet that you will still be in good shape after you recover!"
Hearing this, Li Mingyu had no expression on his face, which is human nature.
Andrew continued, "However, the Manchester City team did not withdraw, and their intentions are very sincere. It seems that because their midfielder De Bruyne announced that he will not renew his contract with the Manchester City team, they are in urgent need of an attacking midfielder, so they are eager for you!"
After hearing this, Li Mingyu was not tempted, but shook his head and said, "I am still a player of Barcelona. My contract with Barcelona still has three years left. I will not leave at this time unless Barcelona wants to sell me!"
Sonia curled his lips and said proudly, "How is it possible? Even if Barcelona sells Messi, he will not sell my son!"
Andrew shook his head and said, "That's not necessarily the case, my cousin!"
Sonia looked surprised, looked at Andrew, and asked, "Andrew, do you know anything?"
Li Zhenfei and Li Mingyu both looked at Andrew in surprise.
Andrew pondered for a moment and said, "You should know that Barcelona's current economic situation is very bad. Messi only stayed after a significant salary cut. However, due to Li's injury, Barcelona's performance this season is no longer guaranteed. For Barcelona, there will be a huge loss!"
Sonia said with some emotion, "What does this have to do with my son? He didn't get hurt on purpose. Do you think Barcelona is going to blame my son for this?"
Li Mingyu held Sonia's hand tightly and comforted her softly.
Andrew said with a wry smile, "My cousin, things are not as simple as you think. Barcelona sold a lot of their players last season, but the money was just a drop in the bucket for their predicament. They are in urgent need of a large sum of money to relieve their pressure. Otherwise, next season they may be heavily fined by UEFA for violating financial fair play policies."
Sonia had a trace of confusion in his eyes, "Financial fair play policy?"
Li Mingyu narrowed his eyes and said, "Violating the Financial Fair Play Policy? Indeed, many teams have been punished by UEFA for violating the Financial Fair Play Policy. This penalty is very severe. Not only does it involve a large monetary penalty, but the most unacceptable thing for the team is that it may cause the team to be unable to participate in the European competition next season."
Andrew nodded and said, "That's true. I heard that Barcelona's top management already wants to exchange you for a transfer fee of at least 300 million euros to make up for Barcelona's deficit."
When Li Mingyu heard this, he smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "If we can really get 300 million euros for Barcelona, then it will be worth it to me!"
After saying that, Li Mingyu closed his eyes.
Andrew The three of them looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.
For Li Mingyu, leaving Barcelona is definitely an unacceptable fact.
However, if the team is punished by UEFA due to financial problems, then Barcelona will be unable to participate in Champions League games for at least one year, and the team's financial situation will be even worse.
If you can bring enough funds to Barcelona, it is not impossible to leave temporarily.
Suddenly, the mobile phones of Andrew, Li Zhenfei and Sonia made a "ding" sound at the same time.
What kind of important news is this? All three people have received it on their mobile phones.
Andrew's mobile phone was in his hand. He quickly opened it and saw that Andrew's mouth slowly grew bigger.
Li Zhenfei and Sonia also took out their mobile phones, opened them and were stunned.
On April 23, 2022, a major event happened in Europe football that shocked the world.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus.
Twelve top teams La Liga, Premier League, Serie A jointly issued a decision that caused an uproar around the world.
European Super League was born.
Prior to this, public opinion had not received any news at all.
The combined strength of these twelve teams can definitely shock the entire Europe football world.
But why did it happen so suddenly?
This incident has far-reaching significance for the entire Europe football world, and even world football.
UEFA and FIFA will never allow such a thing to happen.
This is simply a challenge to their authority!
Sure enough, in less than two hours, UEFA directly united with the Football Association, Premier League league, Royal Spanish Football Federation, La Liga alliance, Italian Football Federation, and Serie A alliance to quickly issue a joint statement.
All teams participating in European Super League will be banned from participating in domestic leagues, European competitions and world-class events, and players may be banned from representing the national team.
Moreover, UEFA will stop the upcoming Champions League semi-finals and UEFA Europa League semi-finals to cope with the establishment of European Super League.
After all, except for Bayern Munich, the four teams in the Champions League semifinals, the other three teams are all from the twelve teams of European Super League.
Originally, European Super League had 15 permanent founding clubs, but both Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain refused to join this super league.
Due to the impact of the global epidemic in 2017, many teams suffered huge losses.
In this statement, they also expressed their desire for income.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the instability of the current Europe football economic model, which has prompted the creation of new leagues. Over the years, the founding clubs have been committed to improving the quality and intensity of today's Europe football competitions, in particular with the hope of creating an event where the best clubs and players can compete more frequently. The epidemic has shown that there must be a strategic vision and the use of commercial means to create value that benefits the entire football world pyramid.
Although the impact of the epidemic is the main reason for the birth of European Super League, there is another more important reason, that is, whether it is Top Five Leagues or Champions League's game, it is difficult to attract more people to watch.
Especially in the league, there is no suspense anymore.
Except for Premier League, almost all other leagues are writing scripts for the rule of wealthy families.
Juventus's nine consecutive championships.
Paris Saint-Germain won eight Ligue 1 championships in eleven years.
Bundesliga Bayern Munich's eight consecutive championships.
And La Liga, Barcelona and Real Madrid have almost completely monopolized the championship in the past ten years.
As it becomes increasingly difficult for domestic leagues to rely on suspense to attract fans, the broadcast revenue of wealthy clubs has also encountered a bottleneck. Although Champions League is billed as the event that stands at the top of the Europe football pyramid, in recent years, the large number of participating teams, the uneven strength of the teams, and the low gold content of some games have also caused the commercial value of the event to continue to decline.
European Super League, which brings together Top Five Leagues wealthy families, is bound to get higher attention and exposure due to more exciting confrontations. More importantly, the clubs participating in European Super League will have a greater say in the schedule and bonus distribution, and the benefits they obtain will also increase.
<The Times> estimates that permanent founding clubs can receive at least £130 million to £230 million in bonuses each season, while the Champions League bonus for the 2020/2021 season Champions League champion Liverpool is €129 million.
Originally, as the chairman of European Super League, Florentino, the chairman of Real Madrid, planned to have a good relationship with UEFA this summer.
However, due to the refusal of Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain, and the gaffe of Barcelona chairman Laporta, the matter was leaked, allowing UEFA to learn of the matter in advance.
Florentino can only expose this matter in advance in order to get more attention.
After all, such a strong dialogue game will definitely be very enjoyable for the fans and will definitely receive strong support from the fans.
As long as we have the support of the fans, Florentino feels that this matter is more than half successful.
However, what surprised Florentino and the others was that the fans didn't seem to buy it.
Because UEFA had already started to counterattack after knowing about this incident.
UEFA stood on the moral high ground and began to analyze this matter.
UEFA believes that this is a typical capital intervention and wants to use capital to subvert Europe football.
United States**** plans to invest 4.6 billion pounds in this event, in return for the broadcast fees of this super event. The 15 permanent founding clubs will share an infrastructure allocation of 3.1 billion pounds, and each club will receive income ranging from 89 million pounds to 310 million pounds from this alone.
However, the establishment of European Super League has done great harm to those small clubs, and can even be said to be a disaster.
It is impossible for European Super League, Champions League, and UEFA Europa League to coexist.
Without these twelve teams, Champions League and UEFA Europa League will lose their meaning.
After losing these twelve teams, Serie A, La Liga, Premier League, it is estimated that no one will be watching.
Therefore, these twelve teams want to use this method to force the palace.
However, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain did not choose to join European Super League, leaving UEFA with room for maneuver.
The next day, 55 member associations of UEFA jointly issued a statement: Strongly condemning European Super League.
Because of the emergence of this so-called European Super League, those small clubs will not see any benefits at all. On the contrary, if this European Super League is really established, then UEFA will be ignored, and the millions of subsidies every year will be in vain.
Under such vital interests, almost all the fingers are pointed at the newly established European Super League.
Shortly after this statement was issued, fans of these twelve clubs all took action. They held banners outside the stadium to oppose their joining the so-called European Super League.
On that day, these twelve teams had league games. On the court, fans held banners against European Super League and rebelled against their teams.
The competition between Leeds United and Liverpool is the most eye-catching.
When Leeds United players were warming up, they wore special T-shirts with the words "against European Super League" written on them.
After defeating Liverpool 1:0, Leeds United's official tweet mocked Liverpool, a club that had expressed its intention to participate in European Super League.