Chapter 682: Change of coach in the club
“Cut!”
As Jing Jian shouted, there was a warm applause and cheers on the set. After more than two months of shooting, the footage of the American part was finally completed.
In the filming of "Infinity 3", in fact, the shooting of the American part is not the focus, and the focus will be on the filming in China in the next month or so. Of course, the special effects production and post-editing of ILM are equally important, but at that time, only the core members of the crew were needed, and for the vast majority of actors, the whole film was already completed.
In fact, the same is true today, some actors who do not have part of the Chinese role have also finished their work. Therefore, in the laughter, there is some sadness before parting.
Jing Jian clapped his hands: "There is a party tonight, and everyone can bring their partners to participate." Thanks to all ...... People have been working hard. It can only be carried out until 12 o'clock at midnight, and a special plane to China has been arranged tomorrow morning. ”
The cheers were louder, and it was clear that the decision had won the hearts of the people......
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This time, the crew is rich and quite bold. Of course, there are other reasons, the need to transport all the shooting equipment on the same plane, at this time China's cinematography audio equipment has fallen behind several times, and all the equipment consignment is not very convenient, so simply chartered a special plane from American Airlines.
But before she could set off, she ran into a moth, and Lumina suddenly clamored to go to China together. Jing Jian was so troubled by her that he could only let the special plane wait for two hours and let Lumina, the little witch, get on the plane together. The Paramount family has a big business, and they can afford to waste this little money.
However, there seemed to be a lot of accidents today, and while waiting for Lumina to arrive in the departure hall, Jing Jian suddenly received a call from the United Kingdom. It was Pixar, the manager of the Portsmouth club.
'The owner, Mr. Ranieri refused to renew his contract and we need to find a new manager. As soon as Pixar opened his mouth, he brought very bad news to Jing Jian.
"Oh?"
In this season, Portsmouth finished fourth in the league, with both major cup competitions empty-handed, and the Cup Winners' Cup was unfortunately missed due to the final season of the five-year ban of English clubs. This season, he missed out on qualifying for the League Cup, and in the end, only qualified for the International Toto Cup.
About the International Toto Cup, there is not much to introduce here, if you are interested, you can search for it, anyway, it was a consolation prize in the European club competition at that time. In fact, from the perspective of results alone, Portsmouth's results can be regarded as okay, at least the fourth place in England in the future has already qualified to participate in the Champions League. However, in this era, the difficulty of qualifying for Europe is indeed much higher.
Considering Portsmouth is still in his second season in League One, and the bench depth is not enough, and the squad needs to be further strengthened, Ranieri is doing quite well as the club are ready to renew his contract. Unexpectedly, at this time, Ranieri suddenly wanted to transfer back to Italy.
Ranieri can't be blamed for that. After two seasons at Portsmouth, he still relied on translators for his language, and he didn't seem to have much talent for languages. And the British tabloids are so virtuous, often publishing poisonous tongues, saying that Portsmouth is a team built with money and stars, and the manager has become irrelevant, so the team's results have almost nothing to do with Ranieri's level?
I have to say that those poisonous tongues are indeed quite hurtful. Especially this time Ranieri was invited to coach Napoli, one of the seven sisters of Serie A, especially in Napoli at that time, there was Maradona who was in full swing. As a result, he turned down Portsmouth's high-paying contract extension and couldn't wait to prove himself to a new team.
However, Ranieri's move caught Portsmouth off guard, you know, this year is the European Cup, the European transfer market will be suspended during the European Cup, and the transfer period itself has been shortened a lot. Now the coach has changed all of a sudden, which has made Portsmouth's transfer plan even worse.
In this regard, Jing Jian has always respected Pixar's opinion, or rather, Portsmouth has not attracted much attention from Jing Jian: "Pixar, do you have any recommended candidates?"
"Boss, there is indeed a candidate, I don't know if you remember assistant coach Gavin? After Richard left last year, he was promoted from reserve coach to assistant coach, and he is more familiar with the situation of the team and knows every player. After all, there is no manager who is familiar with the team in a short period of time, and that will affect this year's transfer. In addition, the owner, Gavin is a child of Portsmouth, and is just as easy to accept by the fans. We can try to sign him for a year and see how he performs before deciding whether to renew his contract?"
Jing Jian understood the meaning of "Portsmouth child" and also knew something about the assistant coach named Gavin. In other words, Gavin played for Portsmouth FC from the youth camp until he retired as an assistant coach.
If he was just a fan, Jing Jian might be deeply moved by Gavin's loyalty, but now that he is the owner of the club, then the others can be completely ignored, and there is only one thing that is important - ability!
However, Gavin's previous resume was not very good, and he had never heard of such a person even in his previous life, and it was very likely that he was a passer-by or something, so Jing Jian hesitated a little, and then: "Pixar, there is no need to probation for a year, like Ranieri at that time, a contract of half a million pounds per year plus bonuses for two years." Tell him that the club trusts him and will give him plenty of patience. ”
"Thank you, boss. Pixar looked pleased. At this time, his ideology was still more old-fashioned, and he valued those who were loyal to the club. It's not at all like those club managers in the future, who may lose three in a row and fire the head coach, let alone promote an obscure assistant coach.
"Hehe, you're welcome. Jing Jian said with a smile.
In fact, for Jing Jian, the achievements in the past few years are not the goal he pursues, and the main thing at this stage is to lay the foundation. It wasn't until the Boseman Act came along and the European transfer market changed dramatically that his money offensive showed its power. Otherwise, in the European club arena, there can only be three foreign players, which means that it basically depends on the strength of the national teams of each country.
Moreover, now the European countries are full of strong opponents, the Netherlands and the Soviet Union, which are attacking and defending all the time, Italy, which is super defensive, and France, which is a German tank and a rising star, ......? To be honest, England really can't be ranked any number.