Chapter 89 Return to the top of the Bundesliga
Three to two, Hoffenheim woke up after a nap in Berlin, defeated Wolfsburg, and continued to maintain pressure on Leverkusen. The two teams had the same points, Hoffenheim was still one goal difference behind Leverkusen and ranked second in the league.
The third place has changed. Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich came up and pushed Hertha Berlin. However, Bayern Munich is still very unhappy now because the nouveau riche Hoffenheim still wins now and presses them hard, which makes them very unhappy.
After defeating Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim also received two good news. The first is Andreas Ibertsberger returned from injury. This is definitely good news for Hoffenheim. Hoffenheim fans are all excited.
The second is that Hoffenheim's Bosnia and Herzegovina midfielder Salihovic has publicly stated that he will not go to Hertha Berlin and Bayern Munich, and he is now discussing a new contract with Hoffenheim.
Hoffenheim chairman Dietma Hope said: "I don't care about the high transfer fees offered by other teams. I spent so much money to build a club not to be a reserve corps for the giants. We will not sell our leading stars for the transfer fees." Hope did what he said, and Bayern's request to buy Salihovic was clearly rejected, which also made the Bundesliga boss feel disappointed.
For many years, Bayern has always been a strong signing in the Bundesliga, and there are few stars that they want but cannot get. Now Hoffenheim and Salihovic rejected Bayern Munich at the same time, which made Bayern Munich very unhappy. They felt that their dominance was threatened, and they felt that their privileges were reduced little by little, and their sovereignty was being eaten up by Hoffenheim's country bumpkin team, which made Bayern Munich club and fans unable to accept it.
Other traditional strong teams from the Bundesliga cannot accept it. The fucking country bumpkin team actually wants to establish a new order in the Bundesliga, which simply doesn't take them seriously, which makes these teams very angry.
Hoffenheim's country bumpkin team actually wants to divide their cake. Oh no, it's not just the score, but the snatch their cake. In this way, these traditional strong teams in the Bundesliga are very unhappy, and they are more determined to resist Hoffenheim.
However, at this moment, Hoffenheim's official website announced that Bosnia-Herzegovich officially renewed his contract with Hoffenheim, and Salihovic's new contract will not expire in 2012.
Hoffenheim fans saw that Salihovic, one of the team's core players, renewed his contract with the team. The fans were very happy, very comfortable and very happy, and now they became much more calm.
However, at this time, there was no news from the club that renewed the contract with the team's head coach Ralph Rangnick and the team's core Gong Zheng, which inevitably made people a little worried. If Gong Zheng's contract can be put on, there is no hurry, but Ralph Rangnick is about to expire. If he does not renew the contract at this time, it would be dangerous.
At this time, Salihovic planned to continue to stay in Hoffenheim, so, at this moment, the focus of these people's attacks was on Ralph Rangnick and Gong Zheng. Bayern Munich was mainly on Gong Zheng, and Schalke 04 club was mainly on Ralph Rangnick, hoping to make Hoffenheim collapse and the Bundesliga was a clear sky.
Hoffenheim Club will not let these guys go so hard. Hoffenheim Club immediately issued a statement on its official website, saying that the team is negotiating a contract renewal with Ralph Rangnick and Gong Zheng. They also said that neither Gong Zheng nor Ralph Rangnick left Hoffenheim. Even if the season ends, neither of them has renewed their contracts yet, they will not leave Hoffenheim.
Perhaps for the unity of the team and for the stability of the team, Hoffenheim also held a press conference for this. At the press conference, Ralph Rangnick and Gong Zheng both attended. They stated at the press conference that they did not mean to leave Hoffenheim.
Ralph Rangnick even said: "I never thought about leaving Hoffenheim. I was living a good life here. The reason why I haven't renewed my contract with the club so far is because I don't want to affect Hoffenheim's league because of these things. Because now is the most critical time for us at Hoffenheim, we must firmly bite it and insist on not falling behind. Then our goal this season should be achieved very well."
Gong Zheng also said that he did not mean to leave Hoffenheim. Now he has one and a half years of contract with Hoffenheim. At this time, it is too early to discuss renewal. The renewal matter will be put until the end of this season.
The two Hoffenheim giants came forward to clarify the matter, which made Hoffenheim fans feel relieved. Fortunately, these people will not leave.
However, these clubs in the Bundesliga do not believe what Ralph Rangnick and Gong Zheng said. They think this is just an excuse they made to stabilize the team. Therefore, these teams continue to chase these two people, and Bayern Munich hopes to bring Gong Zheng to the Allianz Stadium during the winter break.
There are many teams with the same mind as Bayern Munich, including Arsenal, Juventus, AC Milan and other clubs all want to rob Gong Zheng from Hoffenheim this winter. At this time, they all made their offer to Hoffenheim club, but they were all rejected by Hoffenheim club. Although Dietma Hope was not determined to sell Gong Zheng, he still dared not sell Gong Zheng at this time. At this time, not only Ralph Rangnick did not agree, but even Hoffenheim fans did not agree, so he refused without hesitation.
Seeing that Hoffenheim refused his offer without hesitation, these teams were very uncomfortable. They were very envious of Gong Zheng. This kid scored 18 goals in the twelve rounds of the Bundesliga. His efficiency was so awesome and almost unstoppable. Even Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo could not match. This guy is really a natural super center.
It is impossible to win Gong Zheng this winter, so wait, these guys will not give up. They are closely watching everything about Hoffenheim. Now Gong Zheng and Hoffenheim have only one and a half contracts in the next year. By the end of the season, Gong Zheng will have a contract with Hoffenheim for the next year. At that time, they can contact Gong Zheng himself, and just ask the Hoffenheim club. Even if Hoffenheim does not agree to sell Gong Zheng, they can still lure Gong Zheng at that time.
That's why they have to pay close attention to Gong Zheng, and they want to see if Gong Zheng will renew his contract with Hoffenheim. Of course, they all hope that Gong Zheng will not renew his contract with Hoffenheim so that they have a chance.
Seeing that these teams had no chance to introduce Gong Zheng at this time, he stopped. After all, they did not want to arouse the disgust of Hoffenheim Club. If the disgust of Hoffenheim Club, when Hoffenheim Club has a plan to sell Gong Zheng, it will be a disaster.
But Bayern Munich doesn't care so much. They continue to offer prices to Hoffenheim. At the same time, they are also preparing to contact Gong Zheng in private, hoping to make a private agreement with player Gong Zheng, and then force the Hoffenheim club to hold a palace.
Bayern Munich is a traditional Bundesliga club, and it is a wealthy club in Europe and the world. They don’t believe that they cannot attract a young player with their status as a giant? Moreover, Bayern Munich is much better than the country bumpkins’ promotion. Once a young player like Gong Zheng is tempted, he will definitely stand on the side of Bayern Munich.
Bayern Munich immediately began to look for Gong Zheng’s agent, and they hoped to discuss about Gong Zheng’s transfer.
Just as Bayern Munich was looking for Gong Zheng's agent in private, the Bundesliga ushered in the 14th round of the game, and Hoffenheim challenged Cologne away. Cologne is Hoffenheim's old opponent. Last season, both teams were teams in the second division, and they played very tragically in the upgrade game.
However, after being promoted to the Bundesliga, although Cologne also introduced many players, it also let go of their team's top scorer Helmos and other main players. Therefore, their strength has not improved much, and Hoffenheim is very confident in defeating this team.
At the beginning of the game, Hoffenheim took the lead and pushed forward a lot, making it difficult for Cologne to resist. In the 11th minute of the first half, Hoffenheim successfully defeated Demba Ba's counter-offside and knocked on Cologne's goal, leading by 1-0.
However, the home team Cologne thought that Demba Ba was offside, and the goal should not be counted. However, the referee thought that this was a good goal and the goal was determined to be valid, which made the Cologne players very dissatisfied and they were very excited.
Although Demba Ba did not offside by playing this ball, it was a good goal. However, the players of Cologne obviously would not think so. They decided that the ball was offside. In this way, the players of Cologne changed their psychology, their movements became increasingly large, and the gunpowder on the court was full of gunpowder.
In the seventh minute of the second half, Cologne's Canadian defender McKenna was very good at midfielder Louis Gustavo and was sent off directly after receiving a red card. At the same time, Gong Zheng received a yellow card for retrieving the venue for his teammates.
The appearance of yellow cards and red cards did not weaken the gunpowder smell of the game, but became stronger. In the 19th minute of the second half, after Hoffenheim Club scored the second goal, Cologne's midfielder Roda Antal's goal of flying tackle Hoffenheim was successful, and was sent off by the referee's red card.
After that, the stadium was in chaos, the referee's whistle kept ringing, and the game was intermittent. At the end of the game, the referee even showed two red cards and seven yellow cards. No one expected that this ordinary game would become like this.
However, Hoffenheim still defeated Cologne 3-1 away, achieving two consecutive victories, and also raised their points to 31 points.
Chapter completed!