Chapter 56 Burning money is also a technical job!

Shaq's 1,000th goal in his career has caused a sensation in European football. This is an incredible miracle with the development of modern football to this day.

More importantly, everyone knows that these 1,000 goals will never be Shaq's finish. Shaq, who is only 27 years old, is far from going through the golden period of his career. Even if his goal efficiency is declining, even if it drops more, it is an amazing result to score one goal in each game.

What is unexpected is that after Shaq scored 1,000 goals, he seemed to have become a butterfly. He no longer deliberately pursues goals in the game, but only creates opportunities when the team needs to be the finisher in front of the goal to show his fighting spirit.

Such changes made it more difficult for Barcelona's opponents to guard against, and Shaq used his goals one by one to push Barcelona forward...

On May 17, when Barcelona defeated Villarrel 6-1 with 36 wins, 2 draws, 154 goals conceded 16 goals and 110 points away from home.

This is the second consecutive season of Barcelona winning the championship with an unbeaten record of 110 points, and Barcelona's goals this season are 4 more goals than last season, and this is a surpass that Shaq "only" scored 84 league goals, 18 fewer than last season's 102.

This is enough to prove that Barcelona has become stronger now. They no longer rely on Shaq's power to win alone, but rely on the joint efforts of everyone in the team to defeat their opponents.

On May 23, Barcelona defeated Roma 2:0 with Shaq and Vasquis in the Champions League final, completing the defending title in the Champions League.

Four days later, on May 27, Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 3-0 in the Copa del Rey final and completed the feat of a triple-champion. They won six championships in one season and six championships in a year. No matter how Barcelona counts as the front and back, they are well-deserved "six championships".

The player who scored the most goals in Barcelona this season is still Shaq. Although his 132 goals scored in 64 games is not as good as last season's performance, his average efficiency of 2.06 goals per game is still very impressive in football.

The second most goals player is Vasquis. The 24-year-old Catalan genius has finally matured. He scored 36 goals and assisted 33 times in 61 games this season, which has improved a lot compared to 18 goals and 42 assists in 51 games last season. Now Barcelona fans can finally completely forget the "little flea". Messi has played in 88 games in the past two years and scored 44 goals and assists 30 times. It is worse than Vasquis, let alone compared to Shaq.

At the end of the season, Shaq became a big winner like in previous years. The European Golden Boot and the European Golden Ball are all his things. The selection of the Dream Team will not be lost. After all, Shaq this season is still the same as in the past six years. He won everything with his unmatched performance...

In the summer, the war in the European Championships was ignited. The "Three Lions" as the defending champion performed poorly in the first game and tied 0:0 with Portugal. Alan Shearer's platoon was criticized. His 442 formation was obviously not suitable for the existing players of the England team.

In the second group match, Alan Shearer still lined up the 442 formation. However, he let the scorer David Mashal from Manchester City retreat, hid behind Shaq, and returned all the space to Shaq.

After using this move, the "Three Lions" really regained their feelings, mainly because Shaq regained the form of the game. England defeated Norway 3-0 first, and then defeated Sweden 2-0 again. Shaq scored goals in every game.

After entering the quarterfinals of the European Championship, England defeated Ireland 5-0, and Shaq scored another goal in the game and defeated Turkey 5-1 in the semi-finals. Shaq scored twice, improving his goal efficiency in this European Championship to one goal per game.

When facing Croatia in the final, Shaq finally showed his power, scoring two goals in the first half, and heading the ball to force the opponent to score an own goal. He won another hat-trick in 57 minutes in the second half, and became the best scorer of this European Championship with 9 goals.

In four years, the "Three Lions" achieved the feat of defending the European Cup with the help of Shaq's 23 goals in the European Championships in two quarters!

In addition to Shaq's 14 goals in the World Cup and 9 goals in the Federation Cup, Shaq used 46 goals in four World Championships in four years to help the "Three Lions" achieve the same glorious record as the Spanish team.

Countless celebrities in English football stood up to praise Shaq. Everyone knew from beginning to end that the "Three Lions" could achieve such brilliant achievements mainly because they had Shaq.

Simon Grayson, who visited the final between England and Croatia, commented on the current England team: "Alan's work ability is worthy of recognition. Stewart, I, Alan, all three of us led the England team to achieve different degrees of success, but this is not just the credit of our three head coaches. The real hero is also the players on the court who are bleeding and sweating for victory and fighting against strong enemies."

Simon Grayson's words make sense, but they are not so sensible in the ears of those who are interested. The four absolute main players of England's Shaq, Ben Parker, Jonny Hausen, and Ashley Hood were all trained by his "brutal Simon" from Leeds United, and now they have become household names. Simon Grayson said this naturally makes people feel that he has made greater contributions to English football. Although the facts are indeed the case, some people still think that Simon Grayson is taking credit for himself.

But why should Simon Grayson be like this today?

"Brutal Simon" is now the number one coach in the world. His annual salary of 30 million euros in Barcelona has set a world record for football coach salaries. He led three teams to win five Champions League trophys, league championships, and countless cup championships. Simon Grayson really doesn't need to gild his face anymore. He is the most outstanding and successful head coach in the world football and even football history.

As for Shaq... no one dares to doubt Shaq's achievements!

Whether playing football at the club or playing for England, Shaq's achievements at Leeds United, Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​and even the "Three Lions" are the highest level a player can reach. No one before Shaq had thought that a player could perform so amazingly.

Shaq's reputation today has surpassed the superstars of the football king level such as Pele and Maradona. His influence in English football has reached an unprecedented level. Fanatic English fans have called him "Legend Shaq". Now he may decide the candidate for the head coach of the England national team in just one sentence, and even if he runs in politics, he can get a lot of votes.

After four years, the "Three Lions" returned to England with the Delaunay Cup again. When the whole country was Huang Qing, there were many changes in the Barcelona team and the impact was huge. Even Simon Grayson had to give up his plan to go back to England to visit relatives and friends, and rushed back to Barcelona without stopping.

First of all, assistant McAndrew is about to retire. The 64-year-old Tony McAndrew was too excited when he was holding the England Cup, causing a heart attack and had to say goodbye to football to rest. This old Simon Grayson partner followed him from Manchester United to England and then to Barcelona. They achieved dazzling results together, but never left Simon Grayson solo. It was not that there was no team waving checks to seduce the old man, but McAndrew prefers to enjoy the joy of football rather than pressure.

Simon Grayson returned to Barcelona to visit McAndrew. He also had to find a qualified assistant immediately. Lerotale, Divayo and others were not qualified assistants. The first thing an assistant coach must have is strong management skills. Such people are difficult to find.

In addition, Valdes, the team's 38-year-old goalkeeper, made a request to retire and was willing to serve as goalkeeper coach in the team. Simon Grayson also had to refuse, and finding a No. 3 goalkeeper became a new task in the summer transfer.

Rossel is also looking for Simon Grayson. The Barcelona chairman is not asking for Simon Grayson to trouble him, but begging him to burn money!

Although the club raised players on a large scale last season, the team's salary expenditure reached an unprecedented 157 million yuan, the prize reached 63 million euros, and the loyalty award was 30 million yuan. In addition, the total expenditure of players, staff salaries, venue maintenance, glue, etc. was as high as 480 million euros, but Barcelona finally made a profit of 42.76 million euros.

Before the new season started, Barcelona signed two more sponsorship contracts, and the sponsorship revenue per season was as high as 210 million euros. According to the budget of the Finance Department, it is very likely to make another profit this season. This is really a troublesome thing for a member-based football club and will be very unfavorable to the long-term development of the team. After all, when members find that the club is too much money to spend, it is not so easy to increase the membership fee.

But Rossell found that Simon Grayson didn't seem to like to burn money very much. He just spent money hard when he needed it, otherwise he wouldn't spend much money. This made him very upset and had to issue tough instructions to make Simon Grayson buy a superstar this season, and it doesn't matter if he went back and sold it at a loss next season.
Chapter completed!