Chapter 31 Iron-blooded wrist

Chen Chao followed Camacho's advice and did not intend to operate in the winter transfer market. In his opinion, this team still belongs to Camacho. He remembers many young people who grew up into stars in the later stage. Although the prices of these people are not expensive now, Chen Chao cannot be sure that these people are suitable for Camacho's tactical concepts.

In the next few days, Chen Chaoyue felt that although the current environment was comfortable, it was not suitable for him at all. He would feel restrained when he wanted to do anything. After all, the current situation was that he could not become Benfica's head coach. Perhaps only when he became the head coach of a certain team could he act according to his own wishes and put his thoughts into reality.

Chen Chao did not plan to take action in the winter transfer market, but this does not mean that other teams will not attack Benfica. There are indeed several players in Benfica this season who performed very well, so they were naturally chased by other European teams.

"La Coruna offers to buy Benfica's talented player Simang!"

"A good horse will also be back. Benfica's star Ximang enters Barcelona for the second time!"

"Petit has a leadership temperament, and the yellow submarine Villarrell coach Bennetto praised Captain Benfica!"

With Christmas approaching and the winter transfer period approaching, news about Benfica players' transfers are rampant, and they are also changing them one by one every day. Not only does Benfica fans not tell the truth, but even the team staff can't tell the difference.

After half a season, Giovani, Thiago, Simon, Miguel, Petit and others in Benfica have all become famous for their excellent performance, and it is normal to become the target in the eyes of many European powers. Some of them have even begun to think that Benfica can be compared with La Liga teams such as Barcelona, ​​Villarrel, and Valencia, at least in terms of personal treatment of players.

Chen Chao is also a little annoyed now. The winter transfer market has not yet opened. He has already placed two quotations in front of him. The La Liga strong team Villarrel has offered a 23 million euro price to buy Simon and Thiago in a package, while Valencia has offered a 4.5 million euro price for captain Petit.

Simao and Petit are currently very honest. Chen Chao and Celsillon are not worried that they will leave, but Thiago's Portuguese talented midfielder who has completely exploded this season has made small moves. His agent formally requested a salary increase to the team, obviously to cooperate with Villarrel's offer. If Benfica wants to keep people, he will get a salary increase.

In fact, in Chen Chao's opinion, Thiago's request for a salary increase is not too much, it is not an exaggeration at all. This kid is now holding a contract with an annual salary of 300,000 euros, and is only a mid-range in the team, but his performance this season is really outstanding. He scored 18 goals in 25 games and received 17 assists. It doesn't take his diligent attitude on the court. This statistics are enough to illustrate the problem.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Chao had no choice but to come to club chairman Vieira again. After telling Vieira the matter to Vieira, Benfica started a new round of contract renewal negotiations. Several players with outstanding performance but low salaries were all within the negotiation scope. Vieira was also preparing for bleeding. If the team had achieved results this season, these players must stay.

Before the winter transfer market opened, Benfica fans received two good news. One was that at the Champions League knockout ceremony, Benfica drew a top draw. Their first opponent to enter the knockout round was Galatasaray from Turkey. This opponent was relatively weak in the quarterfinals. The club announced the news that Thiago's contract renewal. In the next three years, this Portuguese genius midfielder will continue to stay in Benfica, and his annual salary has been raised from 300,000 euros to 850,000 euros.

After getting Thiago's contract, Chen Chao failed to get An Ning. The news about Benfica's player transfer is still being hyped by the media. However, Chen Chao has figured it out now. In the winter transfer period, what else can these media do if they don't hype the news of these players' transfers?

Chen Chao adjusted his mentality, but the players in the team still had to slowly adjust their mentality. When one by one surrounds them, no one could continue to calm down. In this state, Benfica started his first game after the New Year, the 16th round of the Portuguese Super League away against Kiwiscindi. The rumor of disturbing still affected Benfica's state. Although Kiwiscindi's strength was not very good, they played step by step this season with a strong fighting spirit and now ranked fourth in the standings. Although Chen Chao had to admit that Benfica's players played very hard, in the end they were equalized by their opponents in the final stage of the game while leading by one goal.

After the game, Chen Chao began to explode in the locker room with a cold face: "Babys! Look at what game you play? Yes, you played well before the team led, but what did you do after the lead? Do you think you are amazing? Have you forgotten how we can lead the big score in the standings now? Fight! You actually forgot all our most important means! I only saw that you were absent-minded and didn't see you showing courage in the game! Everyone listened to me. During this winter transfer period, I don't care about how famous you are or what other teams offer you, no one can leave the team! No one can think of it! In the end of the Portuguese Cup, we will give up the game, and then everyone will perform well for me. If I don't satisfy me... Do you still remember the bet between us? Then I will collect debts from you!"

After a shout, Chen Chao left the locker room, leaving only a room of players in silence. In the end, the captain Petit said: "The devil Chen is right, winter transfer... don't think about leaving. The team has trained us. Now it's time for us to repay the team. No matter who, before leaving here, we will repay the team! Everyone pack up and we are ready to go home."

The next day, Benfica Chairman Vieira held a press conference in accordance with Chen Chao's opinion, publicly rejected Villarreal and Valencia's offer to his team players and issued a serious statement: "We have not won the Portuguese Super League championship for nine years. Our prospects for winning the championship this season are very optimistic, so we will never let any player go during the winter transfer period, absolutely not! I will never allow this behavior that affects the team's championship win! Any club that continues to issue quotes to us will be regarded as unfriendly by Benfica and will be included in the queue that we are not welcome!"

First, Chen Chao suppressed him rudely, and then the club chairman issued a tough statement. In just two or three days, the news about Benfica's player transfer was completely extinguished. While the fans were relieved, the players who were still fussy also gave up. Obviously, if they dragged their legs when Benfica launched an attack on the league championship, they might eventually be retaliated by Benfica.

Benfica did show absolute dominance in the Portuguese Super League this season. After they regained their form, the team took the initiative to give up the Portuguese Cup and finally put all their energy into the league.

On January 11, Benfica, who returned to his home court, defeated Bilanluns, who was seventh in the standings with a score of 4:0. Giovani scored a hat trick in the game, and Thiago's long-range shot also scored a goal. Both of them expressed their loyalty to the team with practical actions.

On January 19, in the 18th round of the Portuguese Premier League, Benfica defeated Ferreira 3:0 at home, and the goal scorers were Giovani and Thiago. Giovani scored twice, and Thiago was icing on the cake. These two kids are in a crazy state this season.

On January 23, in the 19th round of the Portuguese Premier League, Benfica defeated Maridimo 4:1 away.

According to Chen Chao and the others in the coaching staff, it is that since the team has reached the top 16 of the Champions League and the opponent in the first knockout round is Galatasaray, the team must not give up the Champions League at this time. Since this is the case, it is very important to grab points in the league as much as possible. If the leading advantage can be expanded to a level that makes others deterred before the Champions League, it would be the most ideal. At that time, they can go all out to compete for the Champions League. Maybe some miracle will happen!

After understanding the team's ambitions, Benfica's players began to become full of motivation. Just think about how they can win the Portuguese Super League championship again after ten years, their names are enough for Benfica's fans to remember forever. If God favors Benfica and let Benfica win the Champions League championship again, they will become the founders of an era!

With the strong support of the players, Benfica is even more unstoppable in the Portuguese Premier League!

On February 1, he won 6:0 at home!

On February 8, he defeated Madra Regional Team 4:1 away!

On February 16, he won 2:1 at home!

After a crazy six-game winning streak, Benfica finally lost 0:1 away to second-ranked Leria in the 23rd round of the Portuguese Premier League on February 21. She finally tasted the first loss of the season, and the record of maintaining the unbeaten 22 rounds was finally broken.

However, this loss had no effect on Benfica's morale, because the main reason for this loss was that the knockout round of the Champions League was about to begin. Chen Chao used all the substitute players in this game. Even so, Benfica has completely determined his lead in the Portuguese Super League standings. His 23-game battle record of 19 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss and 60 points, allowing Benfica to lead second place Leria for 22 points!

With eleven rounds left in the Portuguese Premier League, the 22-point gap is definitely an advantage that makes other teams feel desperate. It is only a matter of time left to win the 31st league championship in club history.

On the league scorer list, Giovani has ranked first with twenty-nine league goals, with twelve more goals than Thiago, the second-place scorer list. He also has 5 goals in the Champions League, which has doubled his net worth and attracted the attention of giant teams such as Bayern and Munich.
Chapter completed!