Chapter 261: Chapter 260: Complete Decentralization and Not for Sale (Enjoy the bonus Chapter, Alliance Hierarch, and celebrate with flowers)
Trigella: "It’s not necessary, anyway, no one remembers him. Look, none of these media folks even mention his name."
Maxa: "That’s true, haha. Jia De’er didn’t even remember to hold a grudge against Feng Te; probably because there were so many people who hit him at the time, Feng Te’s common face just didn’t stand out."
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On August seventeenth, Lisbon Athletic won their second warm-up match.
This time, their opponent was a team from Italy’s Serie B.
Jia De’er scored a goal, both Quaresma and Matthaus scored as well.
But perhaps it was the team’s attitude towards Jia De’er that fed his arrogance.
In the subsequent training match, Jia De’er and Terry clashed again.
The reason was that Terry had made a sliding tackle on him.
Terry came to play as a starter.
However, in the last two warm-up matches, he had been substituted by his teammates.
Trigella was obviously not satisfied with his performance.
This had a lot to do with Matthaus’s frequent forward runs, Deschamps’s insufficient defensive toughness, and Viana’s large gap behind.
All these problems had to be covered by Terry as the center back, which put great pressure on him, so it was natural for him to make mistakes and concede goals.
Therefore, Terry quite missed the training matches that had Deng Kai in them.
Deng Kai’s offensive abilities were no less than Viana’s, but his defensive awareness was much better, especially his interceptions—he was sharp and often managed to interrupt the opposing team’s offenses in their tracks.
Moreover, Deng Kai was good at controlling the tempo; as long as he didn’t want to, it was hard for Matthaus to move forward, and even if he did, he wouldn’t have an opportunity.
With Matthaus held back in the defense, Deschamps’s lack of defensive intensity naturally wasn’t an issue anymore, because Matthaus’s strength was more than enough.
So how much easier was it for Terry then?
Most threats didn’t even come to him to deal with, so why wouldn’t his performance look good?
If he wasn’t careful, he might even catch a cold on the field.
It was precisely because his starting position had become shaky that Terry desperately tried to show his worth in the subsequent training matches.
Sliding tackles might be taken more seriously in other leagues, but in the Premier League, isn’t that just play?
It doesn’t matter if you’re Jia De’er, or even if you’re the hotshot Beckham or Michael Owen—if a teammate says he’s going to tackle you, he’ll tackle you, and if you get tackled, you can only blame your own lack of speed or not enough finesse in your dribbling.
As for hitting people?
After being slid tackled by Terry, Jia De’er got up and slapped him across the face, leaving Terry utterly dazed.
Afterward, Trigella called Terry into his office and scolded him for two whole hours.
That evening, Lisbon Athletic officially announced that they were sending Terry to train with the U19 team for a week.
This incident caused an uproar among Chelsea fans.
The fans were all indignant, saying that Lisbon Athletic had no appreciation, daring to treat our Chelsea’s youth team captain like that.
"Bring Terry back!"
"We won’t go to Lisbon Athletic anymore!"
"Rubbish Portuguese league!"
"That’s horrible! I wish we had kept Terry on our team!"
"This loan was a mistake, Terry is likely going to waste a year of his youth!"
"Damn it, so mad! Terry, who already appeared in the first team, is now going to play U19 in the Portuguese league!"
"I really want to tear Jia De’er to pieces!"
"From now on, every time England sees Brazil, we’ll beat Brazil!"
With this situation unfolding, Porto knew that it would be impossible for Jia De’er’s value to decrease.
Deng Kai, Ronaldo, those newcomers bought by Sporting Lisbon this year, as well as the rented young players with strength, all were sent down.
Sporting Lisbon really can’t do without Jia De’er.
They are planning to build Jia De’er as their trump card!
Porto even suspected that if Matthaus and Jia De’er had a conflict, Sporting Lisbon might even send Matthaus down to the U19 team?
But this is also easy to understand.
Nuno Gomes shone in the Euros, which also greatly increased Benfica’s support rate.
And Jia De’er is a center forward with even stronger dominance in the Portuguese league than Gomes, and it’s not just by a little bit.
Super center forwards decide the strength of the team.
Sporting Lisbon is protecting Jia De’er like this because they are preparing to dominate the Portuguese league for the next five years!
If Sporting Lisbon really rises, it will be a huge loss for Porto.
Once they understood this, Porto made an offer for Jia De’er without any indication of doing so before.
Fifteen million euros!
After making the offer, they contacted Maxa to take the initiative, saying, "Jia De’er has created too many problems in your team. The atmosphere of the team is one of the keys to success. With him there, Sporting Lisbon will have a hard time being united. Why not let us handle all this?"
Maxa directly refused, "How could that be? Sporting Lisbon will unite around Jia De’er in the future, and any player who doesn’t get along with him will be discarded by us."
"His strength is beyond doubt. I spent a season getting him accustomed to Sporting Lisbon, and this season is truly when he begins to wield his power. Trust me, he will definitely score more than forty goals this season!"
"I warn you not to make another offer, he is not for sale!"
How could Porto dare not believe Maxa’s words?
After all, Maxa is Jia De’er’s favorite coach at Sporting Lisbon.
Porto had long learned through Jia De’er’s agent about Maxa’s tactical indulgence of Jia De’er last season.
No player dislikes cooperating with this type of coach.
Porto, "Seventeen million euros! That was his price last year, but his salary has gone up, and he’s older. Apart from us, you won’t find another buyer at this price!"
Maxa, "But we don’t want to find a buyer at all. Please, this is Jia De’er we’re talking about. We’re even planning to bring Simon back from Barca to set up a devilish pair of wings for him. I’ve already communicated with Quaresma, and this season he must pass his shooting rights to Jia De’er, or else he’ll be waiting in the U19s!"
At first, Porto thought Maxa was joking.
After all, Quaresma was indeed a superstar who came out of Sporting Lisbon’s own youth training.
Jia De’er is an imported superstar, while Quaresma is the local leading figure.
If you’re even suppressing your own people... In recent years, only one club has been able to do so, and that is... Real Madrid.
And the result is obvious.
Real Madrid won two Champions Leagues in three years, and although it was outside Serie A, it became the most successful club like Manchester United, attracting countless footballers.
Sporting Lisbon wants to be the Real Madrid of Portuguese football?
No!
They absolutely can’t be allowed to start this!
Two days later, Quaresma was indeed sent down!
And along with him went Viana.
Trigella did not explain about Quaresma’s situation, but did respond to Viana’s demotion: "Viana has never been able to produce chemistry with Jia De’er. He needs some calm, some confidence, and maybe the U19 can help him find these."
For a moment, Jia De’er had quite the aura of a Portuguese football emperor!
Never has there been any player who enjoyed such privileges in a club like he did.
Maxa even asked Jia De’er with whom he would like to play?
What about Porto’s Deco?
