Chapter 517: The Triple Crown: The King of Bats Ends
Although it was revealed by The Times that agent Papa Adrian had negotiated with Chelsea CEO Kenyon about Elloh's personal treatment, none of this was officially confirmed, and both Valencia and Chelsea remained ambiguous about it, Valencia said that Elo was not for sale, and Chelsea expressed interest.
The lack of official confirmation has also revived the excitement of clubs that are interested in Elloh.
Although Valencia's official statement that Iello is not for sale in the team, there is a rumor within the club.
The club have made a private agreement with Chelsea to announce the transfer after this season's Copa del Rey final at the Bernabeu on the evening of 14 June.
So when David Villa and David Silva and other Spanish internationals returned to the club the day after they returned to the club, they wanted to ask Ailo to confirm the truth of the Times revelations.
Valencia's opponents in the round of 37 are their local brothers Levante, so they don't have to travel long distances, just prepare locally, but this game is a bit special, as they will have to travel to Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to play Barcelona in the Copa del Rey final four days later.
In order to ensure the state of the main players, this game still needs some main players to play.
In the morning, Iroh was the first to arrive at the club, as usual, but this time it was a bit of a surprise, when he arrived in the dressing room, there were already several people inside, including David Villa, David Silva, Albelda and others...
It even made Iroh have the illusion that he was late? So he glanced down at the watch on his wrist.
It's past eight o'clock, and the time is right!
Only then did Iroh react, that is, his teammates were abnormal and arrived early.
"Hey, three Davids and Raul, huh? Michael arrived so early too? What a rarity! With a puzzled expression, Iroh walked to his locker, then took out his gear from the closet and prepared to change into it.
David Villa, David Silva, and Albelda and the others looked at each other, and then Albelda, as the eldest brother, got up from the seat in the locker room and asked Elo in the direction of twelve o'clock: "Ai, you sue us, the outside world rumors that you are leaving Valencia, that is not true, right?" ”
Iroh was stunned when he heard this, his right hand was parked in mid-air, less than ten centimeters away from the jersey, and his eyes were a little distracted when he looked at the No. 9 jersey in the closet.
"Sorry......"
He had thought that he would be greeted by his teammates and friends when he left the team, but he didn't expect to ask so early and so directly, so he didn't know how to answer, paused for a moment, shook his head, took off his Nike short sleeves, and then put the training shirt in the closet on his body.
"Why did you say sorry to us?" Albelda's questioning tone changed from his previous tone to his current interest.
"Uh......" Iroh turned to look at the crowd and said in confusion, "Didn't you come to follow me because I was leaving the club... I..."
"You think we're here to throw a tantrum at you?"
"Uh, isn't it?"
This time it was David Villa's turn and said: "Of course not, the transfer of professional players is a normal thing, we are here to ask you to make sure that you are sure to see if you really want to leave......"
"I'll go, not early... I'm ready to be beaten up by you! ”
"How could we be so violent...... Well? No, brothers, beat him!! Barak rolled up his sleeves.
"yes, beat him, or you won't be able to beat him when the season is over!"
"It makes sense, let's beat it up!"
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It's an open secret that Iello will transfer to the team at the end of this season, but the outside world is still speculating, after all, the official has not yet confirmed, and there is still room for redemption, so many die-hard Valencia fans march around the club's training base every day with slogans or posters of Ello.
For the fans who support him so much, Iroh is really full of thoughts.
In the 37th round of the 2006-2007 La Liga season, Valencia was away to challenge his younger brother Levante, and this league match at the Valencia City Stadium was full, because Eloco was among the starting lists announced before the game.
The semi-main lineup with Iroh as the team was not under pressure in this game, coupled with Levante's hopelessness in Europe and no worries about relegation, the game was stress-free for both sides, and at the end of the first half, the two sides fought 3:3, of which Eillo scored twice.
His second goal was his 47th league goal of the season.
In the second half, Iello was replaced by David Villa, who asked him to find his form, and three days later at the Bernabeu Stadium had a Copa del Rey final that would have been in place for the team's treble.
In the end, Valencia narrowly defeated his brother Levante 5:4 away from home.
Interestingly, Real Madrid's league game, they were equalized away by Zaragoza, which was supposed to be a great opportunity for Barcelona to become second in the league, but what they did not expect was that in the later game, they were strangely held to a draw by their rivals Espanyol at the Camp Nou.
The draw also dashed Barcelona's hopes of finishing second in the league this season, as Real Madrid did not face strong opponents in the final round.
After the 37th round of La Liga was fully concluded, the Spanish media and a small number of mainstream European media began to pay attention to the Copa del Rey final between Valencia and Barcelona.
This game is quite crucial, Real Madrid is empty, and Barcelona is not about the same, and there is no chance to even enter the Champions League directly next season, so they can only start from the qualifying round.
As for this Copa del Rey final at the Bernabeu, it is also a fig leaf for Barcelona, and it is also the last straw for Rijkaard to continue to coach Barcelona.
Of course, it is also important for Valencia, because whether they can become the first team in Spain to win the treble depends on the result of this match!
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The Valencia squad flew to Madrid the day after the Levante match to prepare for the Copa del Rey final at the Bernabeu two days later.
There was a lot of media that expressed interest in the final, and almost all of the Spanish media were focused on it, including the European newspapers Le Teams, The Kicker, Torino Sport and Mirror newspapers......
Of course, a big reason is to interview Valencia's star Elo, who helped Valencia win the first Champions League in the team's history, and now his value has skyrocketed.
The authoritative German newspaper "Transfermarkt" also estimated that Ailo has exceeded 60 million euros.
But this did not stop the major giants from being close to Iro, but instead increased the offer.
In addition, Valencia's official website has announced that the team's meritorious goalkeeper Canizares officially announced that he will hang up his boots after the end of the season's league season, and this Copa del Rey final is also the last title of his career.
Therefore, in this Copa del Rey final, the goalkeeper is not Wang Xiaolei, but Canizares.
Valencia are all determined to win this title, and their unbeaten record against Barcelona in the last two seasons is extremely confident, and with all four games against Barcelona this season, they have won all four games this season, giving them even more confidence to win this game.
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The Copa del Rey final at the Santiago Bernabéu will likely be Valencia's third title of the season, so more than 30,000 fans cheered Valencia at the Santiago Bernabeu, including nearly 10,000 overseas Chinese students from China.
They all wanted to witness Ielloh's Triple Crown.
Of course, regardless of the outcome of this game, Real Madrid, the owners of the Bernabeu, can only stare dryly, and they have won nothing but a second place in the league.
Therefore, many Real Madrid fans came to the scene to choose to cheer for Valencia, after all, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, compared to the treble with Valencia, Real Madrid fans want to see Barcelona all four empty!
And they're going to play the third qualifying round of the Champions League next season, which makes it cool to think about!
So in the stands of the Copa del Rey final at the Bernabeu, more than 60,000 people supported Valencia.
But the Copa del Rey championship is not the new European champion as everyone expected, the first to make a threat is the underestimated Barcelona, and the initiator is Leo Messi, who has become the absolute main force of Barcelona in the second half of the season!
He scored a goal for Barcelona in less than ten minutes.
However, before he could be happy, Iroh equalised with a free-kick, and five minutes later, Iro's butterfly-like pass on the left caused a foul on Puyol in the box, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty.
Internally, it was learned that Ailo was going to leave Valencia this season, so the penalty was still handed over to Ailo to take the penalty, and he was not hypocritical, and scored twice to help the team overtake the score.
Although Messi used his excellent individual skills to burst into the box and stubbornly equalize in the 68th minute of the game, Airo assisted David Villa to score twice in the 78th and 83rd minutes, and finally Valencia beat Barcelona 4-2.
Thus winning the Copa del Rey in the 2006-2007 season.
When the match ended, countless Valencia fans were excited beyond words, if the UEFA Champions League was the team's first European title since its inception, then the Copa del Rey title represented the first team in the history of a Spanish team to become a treble.
Valencia is number one in Spain!
The ceremony took place at the Bernabeu Stadium, but that didn't stop Valencia's supporters from cheering on the occasion as it was time for both neutral and Barcelona fans to leave the stadium.
Only Valencia supporters were left in the stadium, and the atmosphere reached its climax when Canizares and Airo lifted the trophy from King Juan Carlos!
PS: The La Liga chapter is over, thank you for your support, let's work on the new map together!