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To be honest, with Villarreal's player configuration and bench depth, it is already a very impressive result to be able to pass the championship all the way through the first Champions League journey since its founding. Compared with Real Betis, who ranked at the bottom of the group stage, Real Madrid, which failed in the quarterfinals, and Barcelona, ​​who fell under Lazio in the quarterfinals, the performance of the Yellow Submarine in the Champions League this season is the last conscience of the La Liga team.

Although Villarreal's performance in the Champions League is already amazing enough, people are always greedy. So, after Riquelme failed to score a penalty, Villarreal lost to Fiorentina with one goal away and was extremely regretful to get out of the Champions League, various media that were still crazy about the Argentine began to turn their guns and talk about Riquelme's fault. Especially when he lost a penalty at the last moment of the game, he was criticized by these reporters and football critics, almost calling him the eternal sinner of Villarreal and Spanish football.

As the media's tone changes, Villarreal fans' attitude towards Riquelme has been affected, and they no longer have respect and love for the midfield master as before. They have forgotten that if Riquelme had not joined, the Yellow Submarine would probably still be struggling to survive on the relegation line, and how could they have the chance to show their faces in the Champions League?

Regarding criticism from the media and fans, the introverted Riquelme did not stand up to fight back on these remarks, but chose to remain silent. This attitude and approach of the Argentinians made fans who did not receive a response have greater dissatisfaction and misunderstandings about him.

So, something unexpected happened. Under the combined effect of many factors such as the media fanning the flames, the fans' misunderstandings and dissatisfaction, Pellegrini's secret promotion, and Riquelme's indifferent attitude towards this matter, Riquelme quickly became one of the disliked members of the love song stadium that people mentioned and the star of their family, to become one of the dispensable members for Villarreal.

Among them, head coach Pellegrini's attitude played a very important role. When Roig (Chairman Villarreal) asked Pellegrini under the influence of the media and fans whether Riquelme is still indispensable to the team, the Chilean coach immediately stated that as long as the team can take out a part of the benefits obtained from participating in the Champions League to strengthen, he will be confident that the team will not experience a significant decline in performance due to the loss of Riquelme.

What impressed Roig was the next paragraph of Pellegrini: "Mr. Chairman, although Riquelme is a top player, the cost we need to pay is too great to match his game rhythm and football style. Although we have picked up a lot of holes from the giants in the past two years, who can guarantee that we can find good people like Fran and Solin that are suitable for Riquelme's style every year? In contrast, learning from the clubs such as Parma and Vicenza, introducing some experienced veterans, and cultivating good seedlings with room for growth is the most suitable survival strategy."

Riquelme's existence suppressed the growth of other technical players. This is why Cazorla has made great progress in the past two years, but it has always been difficult to become the main player of the team. He needs the ball to play enough threats, but he is really not very good with Riquelme's style of play. Therefore, in many cases, the new arrival of Pellegrini had to sacrifice Cazorla's interests out of taking care of Riquelme's emotions. Now, as Pellegrini gradually won the trust of club executives and fans with practical actions, the Chileans who have gained a foothold have finally begun to cultivate their own team.

Roiger was also very moved by Pellegrini's remarks. Although the Villarreal chairman is willing to pay for the club to enhance his strength, he would be very happy if he had the opportunity to allow the team to take profits and losses while ensuring results. In his opinion, since the club has the opportunity to become a club like Parma and Vicenza that relies on cultivating and selling players to maintain operations and its own development, it would be completely unnecessary to spend a high salary to keep Riquelme.

Although Riquelme's sudden turnaround in Villarreal makes people sigh, in general, the Argentines are also self-inflicted. If the Argentine could calm down in time and listen to Pellegrini's advice and give up the idea of ​​kicking a spoon penalty, Villarreal might have further created history and reached the final of the Champions League, instead of being eliminated by Fiorentina, he would not have received so much criticism and criticism after the game.

In Zhuang Mingge's previous life, Riquelme's status in Villarreal also began to decline after the Yellow Submarine was eliminated from the Champions League semi-finals. However, in that world, although Riquelme missed a key penalty, he did not insist on kicking the spoon penalty when Ronaldo was provoked, and Arsenal did not expose Riquelme's disadvantages so obviously like Fiorentina. Therefore, Riquelme in his previous life was not until the conflict with Pellegrini broke out in the middle of the 2006-07 season, he had to choose to leave the Love Song Stadium without the ball.

Now, due to Riquelme's active death in the second round and the strong restraining effect on the organizational midfielder of Riquelme, Villarreal no longer optimistic about the prospects of the Argentinians. Therefore, it is not surprising that Villarreal had the idea of ​​sending Riquelme away earlier than his previous life.
Chapter completed!