Chapter 32: La Liga opens

The opening game of La Liga in the 2027-2028 season is between the defending champion Catalonia and Turias, the 11th place last season.
This summer, Catalonia pursued both Hulai and Kabangka at the same time.
As a result, Hulay chose the Madrid Pirates, while Kabangka failed to join Catalonia because Manchester Athletic did not agree to release.
As a result, the Catalan United spent more than a month of effort, but the basket was completely empty.
This is not to say that they have no gains in the transfer market at all, but that they have no important signings.
The important signings are naturally Hulai or Kabangka.
Of course, they did not give up on continuing to introduce Kabangka, after all, the transfer window has not yet closed. Before September 1st, anything can happen.
After snatching a league title from the Madrid Kings who won three consecutive league titles, Catalonia is ambitious. On the one hand, they want to stabilize their results in La Liga. On the other hand, they naturally pursue a breakthrough in the Champions League and win the Champions League again. champion.
Neither of the two strong supporters won, which is not good news for the new season of Catalonia.
But for Mario Salado, the talented player they cultivated, they are all major benefits.
Because this means that the team will give him more opportunities, rely more on him, and he will be able to fully exercise and display his talents.
Salado suffered an injury last season and was absent for three months. This is the first serious injury he has suffered since entering the first team of the Catalan United.
Fortunately, he recovered well, leaving no sequelae. With the rapid recovery of his young body, he still performed well after returning to the court.
In the absence of three months due to injury, he scored 14 goals and eight assists for Catalonia in La Liga throughout the season.
Scored a goal and assisted three times in the Champions League.
The Copa del Rey scored six goals and assisted once.
A total of 21 goals and 12 assists were scored in a season.
The performance is excellent.
Has been regarded by the Catalan media as a person who can truly compete with Meli.
Cathay Pacific has also increased the training of Salado without obtaining Kabangka.
Of course, this does not mean that Catalonia has given up Kabangka, they will definitely continue to work hard to win Kabangka.
And with Hulai joining the Madrid Pirates, the Catalan Union can even use this as a bait to lure Kabangka and help him make up his mind-Hulai and Meli are both in La Liga, don’t you want to come to Catalan United and them? Is the individual one longer or shorter?
Although Hulai is far less than Meli in personal honor and team honor, his transfer fee of 120 million has made him the most valuable player under the age of 24.
So to some extent, he can indeed be compared with Melly.
It is recognized by public opinion that Hu Lai has become a leader among young people in world football.
At the same time, his every move after the transfer to the Madrid Pirates will be closely monitored by the media to see if he can afford everyone's evaluation and expectations of him.
One hundred and twenty million euros, even if it is put in the entire European football arena, that is a huge transfer fee.
It is the only one among players under the age of 24.
This is not only a great honor, but also a huge pressure for Hu Lai.
If he performs poorly and is not satisfied with La Liga, then he will become the largest parallel importer in the history of the Madrid Pirates Club. Even if it is placed in the entire La Liga history, he can compete for the top spot.
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In the opening game of the league, Mario Salado, who started the game for Catalonia, was very active. He scored one goal and assisted two goals to help Catalonia beat Turias with six goals at home.
As the 11th place last season, Turias's strength is good, after all, they are a small team, but their performance in recent years has been stable in the middle. Even in the 2025-2026 season, he also won the sixth place in the league, so he was qualified to participate in the Europa League.
So the 11th place last season was won when they participated in the Europa League.
In such a comparison, they are much better than Sarria, who participated in the Europa League but caused the team to be relegated.
Such a team that is stable in the middle and can still compete for the qualifications of the next European war, but in the first round of the league, it was beaten 0:6 by Catalonia.
This shows the strength of Catalonia.
At the same time, outsiders like Hu Lai have seen the power of the "Western Super League".
The so-called "Western Super League" means that the strength of the three super giants in La Liga is obviously stronger than that of other teams. overtake". The other seventeen teams play in the First Division, one level lower than the Super League.
Similarly, England has BIG6, which actually means the same thing.
But because there are as many as six teams in England's giants, the competition between giants is fierce enough, so there is no monopoly.
The Western Premier League three and other Spanish teams pulled too far, forming a monopoly.
Historically, La Liga was established in 1910, and it has been 117 years, and 113 league champions have been born-because the Spanish Civil War has been suspended for three years.
In this one hundred and thirteen league championships, the Madrid Kings occupy 35, Catalonia 28, and Madrid Pirates 20.
The three Western Super League champions have won a total of 83, accounting for 73% of the La Liga championships.
It can be said to be very monopolistic.
And these three teams are also the only teams in La Liga history that have never been relegated.
So they can become the three heroes of the Western Super League.
Of course, the reasons why these three can become giants are different.
The King of Madrid was backed by the royal family at first, and later it was also the kind of big capitalists, nobles, and rich people who took the upper-level route.
Catalonia is backed by all Catalonia, with the most economically developed regions to supply this team and develop a giant.
The Madrid pirates really rely on the working class and the people at the bottom, relying on the fighting spirit, to use their combat power to fight for enough honor, and to be called the "three heroes of the Western Super League" together with the first two. Of course, during this process, the Madrid pirates also have a large capital injection, and multiple chairpersons are also rich. But these rich people are all born at the bottom, starting from scratch and working hard.
For example, although the current president of the Madrid Pirates Club Carlos Lombo is a rich man with 800 million euros in assets, he was originally from a civilian family in Madrid's southern city and made his fortune step by step.
He has been a diehard fan of the Madrid Pirates since he was a child, and for a family of ordinary people like him, the Madrid Pirates are simply their beliefs. So even if he developed, he did not change his beliefs and still loves the Madrid pirates. Loved so much that he simply became the president of the Madrid Pirates Club.
Compared with the small teams that really come from the bottom, the Madrid Pirates are of course behemoths. But if compared with the King of Madrid and Catalonia, it is indeed slightly inferior.
This can be seen from the net worth of the club chairman of the two rival teams in the same city:
It was said before that Carlos Lombó, chairman of the Madrid Pirates Club, is worth 800 million euros and can only be ranked fiftyth in the Spanish rich list. And Juan Benneto, president of the Kings Club of Madrid, with a net worth of 2.5 billion euros, ranks among the top ten richest people in Spain.
If nothing else, the La Liga champions this season will also be born in the three Spanish Super League teams, the Madrid Kings, the Madrid Pirates and Catalonia.
It is difficult for other teams to compete with them.
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After the game between Catalonia and Turias, the new season of La Liga completely kicked off.
Zhang Qinghuan also ushered in the first game of his second La Liga season.
Last season, Sarria struggled to relegation in the league. Unexpectedly, he soared to the sky. At the end of the season, he got seventh in the league. With the opportunity of the Copa del Rey champion Madrid King to qualify for the Champions League, he won the European Championship. Tickets for the League Cup.
So this summer, the Celia Club first renewed the contract with the team's coach, Arno Casas, and then recruited troops to expand its strength. I hope that this time I will not repeat the same mistakes, not only can make a breakthrough in the Europa League, but also can stay in the first division smoothly.
Although Sarria strengthened the lineup, Zhang Qinghuan still won the trust of coach Casas. He started the game in the first game of the new season.
In the end, Sarria tied with Samir Sports at 2:2 away.
Zhang Qinghuan did not score or assist in the game.
As a midfield commander, his performance is quite satisfactory.
In fact, for many people, this performance is already qualified.
Because you didn't make a mistake.
As long as you make no mistakes, you can occupy a place in this team's starting lineup.
Only by being able to play consecutive games can we have a chance to perform well.
Besides, Zhang Qinghuan, who is already a sophomore in La Liga, was obviously valued by his opponents in the game.
Under such circumstances, it is indeed very good to be able to show such a performance.
You can't use Hu Lai's standards to demand Zhang Qinghuan, the two of them are completely different.
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The game between Sarria and Samir Sports was played in the evening, and Zhang Qinghuan returned to his home in Barcelona city the next day.
After dinner with Uncle Yong in the evening, they stood in front of the TV and watched another game.
On TV, the bus of the Madrid Pirates is driving towards the Sailing Stadium, home of the Navigator of Seville~EbookFREE.me~ There are police escorts in the front and back of the bus.
They are not to help the Madrid pirates show their power, but to protect the Madrid pirates.
Because just behind the bus and the police, there are also some private cars.
These are the fans of the Seville Voyagers, they followed the Madrid Pirates bus, shouting and cursing all the way, just chasing it all the way.
Zhang Qinghuan, who has played in La Liga for a year, has naturally seen this kind of scene. He laughed: "Haha! Voyager's'meeting ceremony', I don't know how Hu Lai can stand it!"
Then the rebroadcast screen switched shots, giving a close-up shot of the pirate's black bus.
It was Hu Lai who appeared in the car window in the camera.
I saw him holding his mobile phone, looking out the window of the car, as if he was taking a picture or video.
He regarded this noisy scene as a Western scene!