Although Ajax's head coach De Boer is a legendary player and a well-known coach, his on-the-spot reaction and tactical implementation are not worthy of his status as Van Gaal's direct disciple.

Moreover, Ajax's problem is not just the mentality of falling behind by two goals, Ajax's own physical strength is also approaching its limit.

In the 80th minute, Ajax's midfielders showed signs of being unable to run.

In the 85th minute, Ajax's defender suffered cramps.

This is Ajax, the team known for its indestructible running ability!

In a tournament of this level as the Europa League final, they were actually pushed to the point of cramps by Southampton.

In the last few minutes of the game, Ajax launched a desperate attack.

Southampton began to adopt a high-pressure defense throughout the court, competing with Ajax physically from the frontcourt.

Southampton also tried their best.

After all, this was the only time Southampton came closest to winning the Europa League.

If you miss this opportunity, you will never have another chance.

Next season, Gu Ran will definitely leave Southampton.

No player at Southampton wants to have any regrets.

Both sides had several good opportunities in the following time, but no one was able to seize them.

Beep, beep, beep—

After 5 minutes of injury time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game! The Ajax players collapsed on the grass in pain! And the Southampton players rushed towards Gu Ran frantically to celebrate!

The players, coaches and staff on the Southampton bench also rushed into the field to celebrate! The score on the big screen was frozen at Southampton 4:2 Ajax.

The total number of goals scored by both teams did not exceed 7! Football is like this, full of unpredictability! Those fans who chased after the 7+ big ball were about to jump off the building.

But no matter what, Southampton made history! Under Gu Ran's leadership, they won the Europa League for the first time!

With the Europa League championship, Southampton will go directly to the next Champions League!

In other words, Southampton has qualified for the next Champions League as a Championship team, and does not have to play in the play-offs, but can directly enter the group stage!

Southampton fans were going crazy with joy! As the champion, Southampton not only received the "Bertoni" trophy at the awards ceremony after the game, but also received a total bonus of 9.9 million euros.

Including the bonuses from the group stage and knockout stage, the total bonuses Southampton received in the Europa League exceeded 20 million euros! All of these bonuses were distributed to Southampton players and staff in proportion, without any loss.

Southampton is now a wealthy club with no shortage of money! After the award ceremony, the Southampton team stayed in Bucharest for one night, reveled all night, and then returned to Southampton on a chartered flight the next day with the Bertoni Cup.

Returning to Southampton, the team received an extremely grand welcome ceremony.

Almost all the Southampton celebrities went to the airport to greet them. The entire airport was controlled for the welcoming ceremony. The take-off and landing times of other aircraft were changed to reserve a whole hour for the ceremony for Southampton's charter plane.

After leaving the airport, the Southampton players boarded a special celebratory open-top bus and float parade.

The celebration lasted the whole day.

At the same time, Gu Ran's agent Mendes was also busy all day.

No, it should be said that it was two full days and two nights.

From the moment Southampton beat Ajax, Mendes' phone was busy and almost exploded.

All the wealthy families want Gu Ran, because with Gu Ran, victory is guaranteed.

Besides, no one wants their opponent to have Gu Ran.

Now, Gu Ran only has one last game left for Southampton, which is the FA Cup match against Chelsea in 6 days.

Once the FA Cup is over, the season is over and the transfers begin.

The top clubs don't want to miss the opportunity to take the initiative.

However, Gu Ran did not respond to the invitations from these clubs. As Gu Ran's agent, Mendes naturally could not provide these clubs with any useful information. He only said that Gu Ran hoped to consider the transfer after he had finished his last game and completely relaxed.

While these top clubs were waiting patiently, Liverpool FC was not idle.

As the plenipotentiary envoy of the boss lady Linda, Eros Edwards quietly contacted Mendes, and through Mendes, contacted Real Madrid's current head coach Mourinho.

Mourinho's record at Real Madrid this season was okay, but in the crucial derby, not only did they lose to their arch-rivals Barcelona by a large margin, he was also sent off with a red card for insulting the referee, leading to another crushing defeat against their arch-rivals in the second round.

Real Madrid club intends to sack Mourinho.

Unless... Mourinho can use Mendes' relationship to attract the new world-class favorite Gu Ran.

Liverpool offered Mourinho a sky-high contract and gave him super high reconstruction rights. The most important point is that the owner Linda guaranteed that as long as Mourinho was willing to come to Liverpool, Liverpool would take Gu Ran and let Mourinho and Gu Ran meet in Liverpool.

As soon as these conditions were put forward, Mourinho was immediately impressed.

After all, Mourinho has always wanted to coach Liverpool. Even before Mourinho coached Chelsea, Mourinho told Mendes that he actually wanted to coach Liverpool, and that Liverpool's style was consistent with his. But at that time, Mendes brought Mourinho to Chelsea for money.

Now, Mourinho has a new opportunity, and it is very likely that he will meet Gu Ran in Liverpool. Mourinho is naturally willing.

The two sides held several rounds of secret consultations and finally drafted a letter of intent.

The general meaning of this letter of intent is that as long as Liverpool can poach Gu Ran, Mourinho will immediately officially announce his joining Liverpool. Otherwise, this draft letter of intent will be invalid, Mourinho has the right to find a new club, and Liverpool cannot announce this secret letter of intent.

Both Edwards and Mourinho have signed letters of intent.

With the guarantee of this letter of intent, Linda felt more confident in poaching Gu Ran.

...(End of this chapter)