Chapter 1595: William Visits Manchester City
At this moment, William, who was far away across the ocean, arrived in Manchester after a few hours of driving.
His team made a beeline for the Manchester City club's training centre, where all the club's executives, as well as the entire coaching staff, had been waiting for a long time.
In this old imperialist country, most people still have a very deep affection for the royal family, so the visit of important members of the royal family is a very important event for any English club or even a company, and there are too few Premier League clubs that can enjoy this honor.
Because of this, the top and bottom of Manchester City FC are very excited about Willian's arrival.
William came this time and brought a team of royal photographers, because this visit was not a secret visit, but to be open to the media and the outside world, but in order to open up a time gap, he adopted the same strategy as Li Mu's visit to Buckingham Palace, first low-key come, and then high-profile publicity after leaving.
As soon as the convoy came to a halt at the Manchester City club's office building, several photographers in the first car had already quickly dismounted and set up their camera equipment, and then William, who was sitting in the third car, stepped out of the car after the driver opened the door.
When William got out of the car, CEO Alister immediately stepped forward, shook William's hand warmly and nervously, and said sincerely: "Your Royal Highness, welcome to your visit! I am Allister, CEO of Manchester City Club, and I am honored to meet you." ”
William smiled humbly: "Hello Mr. Alister, I have heard your name for a long time, and I am honored to finally have the opportunity to meet you today." ”
Alister hurriedly said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, you are really too polite, I heard that you are coming, all our players and staff have been waiting since the morning. ”
With that, Alister introduced the executives, including the head coach, to William one by one.
After shaking hands with everyone one by one, Willian said with a smile: "It's really hard for you, I didn't want to cause trouble to everyone, but I am a die-hard fan of Manchester City, and I have never had the opportunity to visit, this time I really hope to be able to come and meet you before you go to play the third game of the season." ”
Manchester City Club has been established for more than 100 years, and no member of the royal family has ever visited, and Prince William not only claims to be a die-hard fan, but even drove from so far away for several hours, which really gives Manchester City Club face.
At this time, William said again: "By the way, Mr. Alister, there is one more thing to trouble you and Manchester City FC. ”
Alister hurriedly said, "Your Royal Highness, please speak." ”
Willian said: "I want to go to Blackburn Rovers tomorrow to watch your away game against Blackburn, and I hope to go to the players' dressing room to say hello to everyone, if you can, please arrange it for me." ”
Allister didn't expect that Prince William would go to Blackburn to watch the team's game, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what is Prince William doing? Why did he suddenly become a diehard of the team? It is not enough to come to the club to condole, but also to watch the team's game, the home field is better, you can watch it if you stay here, but the key next game is away, which means that he will toss from London today, and he will toss to Blackburn Rovers tomorrow.
However, in the next second, Alister figured out why.
He suddenly thought of his boss Li Mu, and then thought of Prince William's actions on education issues during this time, and he immediately had an epiphany!
The reason why Prince William suddenly became a die-hard fan of Manchester City Club must be to repay Li Mu's favor.
After figuring out this layer, all of Prince William's actions immediately became reasonable in Alister's eyes.
Then, Alister hurriedly said to William: "Your Royal Highness, if you go to Blackburn tomorrow, I will arrange a VIP box for you, and when the time comes, you can say hello in advance, and you can enter and exit the players' lounge at will before the start and in the midfield." ”
William hurriedly asked him, "Isn't this too much trouble for you? I don't need a VIP box, I just need to be able to enter the lounge." ”
Alister explained Duai: "We're an away team, and the home team will give us two VIP boxes, which is the norm in the game. ”
William nodded, thanked him, and said, "Mr. Alister, if it's convenient now, please take me to meet the players." ”
Alister hurriedly said: "No problem, let's go to the training base first, and then I will accompany you to visit the exhibition hall of our club." ”
William smiled slightly: "Okay." ”
In fact, William's main purpose of coming over this time is to help Manchester City Club support the scene, and it can be regarded as his reciprocation for Li Mu before going to China.
His father, Prince Charles, is more scheming than him, and he guessed Li Mu's true intention to buy Manchester City Club, so he specially reminded William that this time he came to Manchester City Club, he must focus on more contact with the two Chinese players, not only to give them more encouragement and recognition, but also to express his desire to see more Chinese players play in the Premier League, which will greatly cater to Li Mu's psychology.
Charles analyzed Li Mu and felt that Li Mu, as an authentic nationalist, must be more inclined to the Chinese nation in this kind of thing, so with his hunch, Li Mu should pay the most attention to the development of these two Chinese players in the UK.
William was deeply impressed by his father's observation and analysis, so on the way here, he kept contacting the Chinese pronunciation of Sun Jihai and Dong Fangzhuo's names.
At this time, on the Manchester City training ground, the home team players knew that Prince William was coming, and they had been waiting for a long time.
When Prince William, accompanied by Alister and others, came to the training ground, the players were very excited, especially the British local players, before shaking hands with Prince William, they had to give a gentleman's salute, and their gestures were all respectful and affectionate to the royal family.
Although Sun Jihai and Dong Fangzhuo were not so excited, they were somewhat trembling, they had not seen the British royal family, and they must have been a little nervous as they were the second in line to the throne as such a heavyweight prince.
Prince William shook hands with all the players one by one, and when he came to Ronaldo, he specially praised him: "You are Cristiano Ronaldo, right? I have heard your club owner Mr. Li Mu Li mention you, he is full of praise for you, and in the last game, your first show was really wonderful, and Mr. Li Mu's vision is really very accurate!"
Ronaldo smiled shyly and said: "Your Royal Highness, you have won the award, I have not done well enough, and I will try to make myself better in the future." ”
William smiled: "Such talented, and so humble, Mr. Ronaldo, I am very optimistic about your future career, and I hope you can work together with Manchester City and grow together." ”
Ronaldo nodded again and again, and said seriously: "Your Royal Highness, please rest assured, I will!"
William bowed slightly, smiled and came to the Chinese players beside him.
He first arrived in front of Sun Jihai, glanced at the jersey number in front of Sun Jihai, and said three non-standard Chinese according to memory: "Mud Shishun - chicken - child?"
Although Prince William's pronunciation was not standard enough, Sun Jihai quickly understood what he said, and asked in English with a surprised and surprised face: "How does His Royal Highness the Prince know my name......
Prince William smiled slightly and said in English: "I am a die-hard fan of the Manchester City team, how can I not know you, the iron guard of the Manchester City team, your performance in the team is very good, and it also makes the British audience see the excellence of Chinese football players, I hope you can make persistent efforts to become a role model for Chinese football players in the Premier League, so as to attract more Chinese football players to the United Kingdom and Europe for development." ”
Sun Jihai was suddenly a little moved, nodded again and again and said, "Thank you for the praise of His Royal Highness the Prince, I will definitely go all out!"
Prince William shook hands with him again and said with a smile: "I will go to Blackburn tomorrow to watch your game, and I wish you a good performance in advance." ”
Sun Jihai said gratefully: "Thank you, Your Royal Highness, Prince." ”
Then, Prince William came to Dong Fangzhuo again, and said with a smile: "You should be the east-square-table, right?"
Dong Fangzhuo understood Prince William's lame Chinese, but his English was relatively poor, and his personality was relatively shy, so he was a little nervous all of a sudden, and stammered: "Yay-yes, hey...... Hey, ...... Em"
Seeing that he was very nervous, Prince William patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said: "Don't be so nervous, I heard that you are one of the most promising young players in China, and you are very welcome to come to England and Manchester City, and I hope you can perform well here." ”
Dong Fangzhuo couldn't understand a large string of English he said, but fortunately, there was a Chinese translator specially assigned to him by a club next to him, and the other party directly translated this sentence into Chinese and told him.
Dong Fangzhuo nodded again and again after listening, and stumbled and said, "Thank-you." ”
Prince William smiled slightly and said, "You're welcome, come on, I hope to see you play for Manchester City as soon as possible." ”
Head coach Kevin Keegan said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness, tomorrow against Blackburn, we have plans to put Dong Fangzhuo off the bench in the second half. ”
"Oh?" Prince William asked in surprise, "Tomorrow will you have a chance to appear?"
Kevin Keegan nodded and said with a smile: "We will try our best to arrange Dong Fangzhuo to appear and experience it." ”
Prince William said approvingly: "This is very good, only when you play, can you integrate into the team as quickly as possible." ”
Afterwards, Willian shook hands with the other Manchester City players one by one, and the whole process, every frame, was captured by the cameras of the royal photographer.
In a few hours, the footage will be rough-cut and sent to major British media outlets, and the news of his visit to Manchester City will also be broadcast on the evening newsroom.
Manchester City Club has been on the headlines of major British mainstream media several times in a row because of Li Mu, as well as Li Mu's several things about Manchester United's shareholders and managers......
CEO Alister has a hunch that Manchester City may become the team with the most attention in the Premier League this season.