Chapter 723: Returning with a Big-Eared Cup

Alex Ferguson's retirement and David Moyes' replacement has been the most high-profile news in English football and European football, apart from Manchester United's quadruple title.

The media also began to analyze and want to find out why Ferguson chose Moyes. If the former Everton manager was only famous in the Premier League before, now, he is completely popular, and anyone who becomes the manager of Manchester United will attract great attention, let alone become Ferguson's successor.

In media reports, the reason why Ferguson chose Moyes is most importantly, Moyes has the shadow of Ferguson.

"Moyes's father once coached Ferguson" The British media looked for the 'intersection' between Ferguson and Moyes, and unexpectedly found that the two and their family had formed a fate in Scotland.

Ferguson's father worked as a shipwright in Glasgow's slum High Bay, while Moyes's father worked as a draftsman for the same company. As a child, Ferguson played for an amateur club in Glasgow, from which Moyes himself came from, and when Ferguson played there, Moyes's mother washed the team's jerseys while his father was both the club's administrator and coach.

Outside of football, Ferguson and Moyes are surprisingly consistent in their political stance, with David Moyes being a supporter of the British Labour Party. Ferguson, on the other hand, has a closer relationship with the Labour Party, with two Labour MPs campaigning for Ferguson to earn the title of Lord.

Of course, these ties to each other cannot be the decisive factor for Ferguson to choose Moyes, the important thing is that Moyes has the shadow of Ferguson, they both have not so bright playing careers, they all came to the team under the name of the team, and they have been working for many years, they can always adapt to various situations, whether it is good or bad, they can always be stable.

"Little Ferguson", who is 20 years younger, the media began to call Moyes as such.

Ferguson has been with United for 22 years, while David Moyes has been at Everton for six years, and aside from Alex Ferguson, only Arsene Wenger has stayed in a Premier League team longer than Moyes. It is worth mentioning that Everton is not a giant, and the team's salary level can only rank 10th in the Premier League in the past 10 years, but Everton under Moyes has always been the backbone of the middle and upper reaches of the Premier League, and once won the fourth place in the Premier League. It's just that Everton didn't manage to qualify for the Champions League qualifiers.

Not only is Alex Ferguson optimistic that David Moyes can take over his position, but many Manchester United legends and former players are optimistic about the 46-year-old manager.

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel said: "David Moyes has been at Everton for more than six years, he has a limited budget, but he has done a very good job. When you look at him, you think of stability and persistence, which is very important for Manchester United. ”

Bobby Charlton also pointed out that the Champions League experience of his successor was not indispensable, and when Alex Ferguson arrived at the Red Devils, he only had one Cup Winners' Cup, but he still made the Reds the best team in the world. Therefore, David Moyes's biggest lack of Champions League experience when he was in charge of Everton will not be an obstacle to Moyes' success in the eyes of Sir Charlton.

Therefore, at present, Manchester United is still very welcome and supportive of Moyes to succeed Ferguson.

However, it is clear that the media is more concerned about the attitude of the United players.

Although the United squad has now been disbanded and the players are enjoying their holidays, Red Devils defender Rio Ferdinand was eager to express his support for Moyes: "The club made a very quick decision which helped to dispel the rumours. I'm delighted to have David Moyes here, he's an honest guy who has done an extraordinary job at Everton and I think he'll have a lot of respect for the club's traditions, which is good for United's style to continue. ”

Carrick has also been very supportive of Moyes, telling Sky Sports: "I'm eagerly looking forward to the start of a new era and he's done really well at Everton, where Moyes has been there for a long time, with limited resources, and has been hugely successful. I'm looking forward to seeing him in pre-season and hopefully he has a great future. As far as I know, he is an honest and fair man, and he has always held himself to high standards for his work, as well as for himself. ”

The most wanted interview by the media is Yang Fan, and now, there is a sign that the Chinese 'goalscorer' will be the absolute heart of United's future and become the flag star of the Red Devils, and his attitude will be crucial.

However, to the reporter's frustration, they couldn't find Yang Fan and couldn't contact him, and after winning the FA Cup, Yang Fan seemed to have disappeared.

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Of the many potential managers, United chose David Moyes, the least famous, and not only because of his Scottish compatriot from Alex Ferguson, of course. There is only one main reason, David Moyes is good at 'spending' small money to do big things, and this is precisely the quality that Manchester United needs most today.

Like Alex Ferguson, Moyes was not a successful player, except for a brief stint at Celtic where he spent most of his playing days in the lower divisions of England. However, some people are born to be coaches, and David Moyes's playing career has been a failure, but the road to coaching has been smooth sailing. In this regard, he even surpassed Alex Ferguson, who had a short period of low 'slump' at the beginning of his tenure at Manchester United, but David Moyes showed his coaching talent from the very beginning. At Preston North End and Everton, he has been a savior in the form of a game-turner, notably at Everton, who has brought a team on the brink of relegation to the upper middle of the Premier League and secured early European qualification this season. It must be emphasised that all of his great results have been achieved with limited investment from the club. According to the statistics of the British media, Moyes's transfer expenditure in Everton's seven years is only 100 million pounds, and the net expenditure is only 22 million pounds, and many giant' clubs spend more than this in a season.

Previous polls in the British media showed that football 'fans' preferred Mourinho to take over Manchester United, but it is revealed that the Glazer family has never considered madmen. In addition to Mourinho's tough personality, his big-spending style is also difficult for United to bear. Therefore, Moyes, who is good at opening up sources and reducing expenditure, has become the best choice. That's why the Glazer family finally agreed to Ferguson's personal choice of successor. As a long-term manager in the mid-table team, Moyes is very good at spotting talent, and Wayne Rooney is his talented 'shooter'. Moyes has never been 'superstitious' about superstars, and at the beginning of his tenure at Everton, he categorically purged big names such as Gascoigne and Ginola, preferring to make up for the lack of individual ability of players with overall tactics, and advocating the 'spirit' of the team makes him and Ferguson have very similar values.

The 46-year-old has the hope of a new era for the Red Devils, but he still needs to do everything he can to earn the trust of the outside world, as it is not yet known whether Moyes will be the next Alex Ferguson or just an interim manager.

David Moyes' greatest strength, or perhaps most fundamental, is that he shares the same philosophy as Manchester United. Moyes has never positioned himself as a part-time worker for the club, but as a builder. To put it simply, he is a manager who can really calm down and do things, and hopes to build a good system for the team with his own efforts, creating a harmonious internal atmosphere and a good 'sex' competition mechanism. This is what Ferguson values most about David Moyes, who has long-term goals, never rushes for quick success, and always thinks about the club. The biggest difference between David Moyes and Jose Mourinho is that the latter has used club by club as a springboard to become a world-class manager in a short period of time, and he has done a lot for the club and received a lot. David Moyes, on the other hand, treats the club as if it were his home, maintaining it as if it were a family, which is in line with Ferguson's treatment of the players as his own children. Loyalty and faith are what impress Manchester United the most.

However, Moyes is by no means perfect, and in fact he has a rather glaring flaw, which is that he has never proven himself in European competitions and title races. Everton have reached the Europa League on a number of occasions in the past few years, but most of them have only played the role of 'soy sauce', and on the domestic stage, Everton have not won a title in seven seasons. For Manchester United, they may be able to tolerate David Moyes not winning the title in one season, but they will never allow two consecutive seasons without a title. The Glazer family, the American owners of Manchester United, are running Manchester United to become a public company, and once it becomes a public company, Manchester United's results will be more directly linked to the share price, and if there is no result for two consecutive years, even if the Glazer can understand Moyes, the shareholders of Manchester United may not let him stay in this position.

Therefore, Moyes's performance in the first two years of Manchester United is crucial, and even if he does not win the title, he must show positive and good development in the team, and these will depend on whether he can make a difference in the restructuring of the squad and the establishment of new tactical ideas. Manchester United has no tradition of firing coaches, but although Manchester United has produced Busby for 24 years and Alex Ferguson for 22 years, there is no shortage of coaches who have left after only one or two seasons in charge. Moyes must realise that while it's easy to succeed on the shoulders of giants, it's also hard to fall if you're not on your feet

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The media is looking for traces of Yang Fan.

By the time they discovered Yang Fan's traces and rushed to Salzburg, Austria, Yang Fan had already departed from Vienna International Airport and boarded an international flight to Beijing, China.

Yang Fan put the seat down and yawned. Aren't you overindulgent?!

After winning the championship, Yang Fan came to Austria and enjoyed the two-person world with Helen, to be exact, the three-person world, and the little Lori Alice has always been by her side.

Now, among the 'women' who have a relationship with him, Emma Roberts is in a cold war, and Jeomie is a one-night stand, and the two have no contact after that, Xu Weiwei is taking care of the Foundation, and the relationship with Ashley Olsen is ambiguous, but neither of them pierced the window paper, and the relationship with Britney is even more 'messy', Britney has experienced an abnormal thorn in him. Yang Fan also enjoys the feeling of venting on such an international top singer, there is only 'sex' between the two of them, no love, so it is more accurate to say this.

Yang Fan has a sense of attachment to Helen, in the arms of this 'woman' who is nearly ten years older than him, he seems to have returned to a warm and quiet harbor, very comfortable.

In the past few days, Yang Fan and Helen tried their best to avoid little Alice, and as soon as they found an opportunity, they enjoyed the spirit to the fullest.' Meat'. However, Little Alice is a big ghost, and she seems to have sensed something, and sometimes she deliberately comes over to make trouble......

Yang Fan was picked up in Vienna with the staff of Manchester United. Yang Fan asked the club to bring the Champions Cup championship trophy to China together, and in the phone call between him and his father, Yang Fan's father inadvertently muttered, I really want to see the famous big-eared cup with my own hands. The speaker had no intention, the listener had a heart, Yang Fan remembered, and then tried to make this request to the club, he originally thought that he still needed to talk more, but the club readily agreed. Later, Yang Fan learned that when he called the CEO of Manchester United Club, Jill, Ferguson was also there to deal with some 'handover' work after retirement, and the old Scottish man was extremely doting on Yang Fan and helped Yang Fan speak to the club to facilitate the matter.

However, Manchester United Club has a request, that is, Yang Fan returns to China with the Champions Cup trophy, with great fanfare and publicity as much as possible. The club is also very 'shrewd' and they will also want to use this opportunity to further expand Manchester United's presence in East Asia, especially in China.

Yang Fan naturally has no objection to this request, he did not plan to secretly 'touch' and 'touch' back to China, on the one hand, his whereabouts must not be hidden, as long as he boarded the plane, the reporter would definitely know. What's more, he didn't have the meaning of returning home in his heart, winning the quadruple crown and returning home with the Big Ear Cup championship, just think about what a beautiful thing.

Therefore, after Yang Fan boarded the plane from Vienna, the Chinese media and football 'fans' knew Yang Fan's rules for the first time, and when they learned from Zhang Shunxian, a reporter close to Yang Fan, that Yang Fan was returning to China with the Big Ears Cup championship trophy that Manchester United had just won, it was even more 'excited', and then after the news was reported, it caused the whole country to boil.

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There is no doubt that this will be a memorable event in the history of Chinese football and even Chinese sports.

When Yang Fan's flight landed at the airport, and the Champions League championship trophy appeared at the gangway, the media, officials, and representatives of the football fans who had been waiting at the airport for a long time were all 'excited'.

It was a grand welcome ceremony, which was even broadcast live on China Central Television, which was said to appear in the night's news broadcast, and CCTV's sports channel broadcast it live.

The national central television media broadcast live on the return of a sports star to pick up the airport, it can be said unceremoniously that this is the first time in the history of Chinese TV news media, the media was shocked, but also joked that Yang Fan's treatment can catch up with the national leader.

At the Capital International Airport, banners were held high and flags were displayed.

"Welcome Yang Fan back to China!"

"Salute to the hero Yang Fan!"

"Come on, Yang Fan!"

"The pride of Chinese sports athletes!"

Such banners are everywhere. This young man, who was once tried by the Chinese Football Association in the name of 'black sheep' and expelled from the national team, so that it caused a swarm of criticism from the media at the time, used such a way to kill back!

Yang Fan held the trophy high on the gangway, which immediately caused huge cheers and applause.

After walking down the gangway and dying, a leader who 'touched' came forward and grabbed Yang Fan's hand, "Yang Fan! Welcome back to China with honor! The motherland and Chinese football are proud of you." ”

Yang Fan is in a fog, who is this person. Fortunately, there was already preparation over there, and someone came up and whispered to Yang Fan the identity of this person, the leader of the State General Administration of Sports, whose name is Xiao Ting.

Yang Fan was stunned, he really didn't expect that someone from the General Administration of Sports of China would come to greet him, and he was still a high-level leader. For this institution, Yang Fan has no bad feelings, but there is no good feeling, Chinese football 'made' into what it is now, the Chinese Football Association is a thousand people, but as the upper leadership of the Chinese Football Association, the State General Administration of Sports is also to blame.

In the past two years abroad, Yang Fan has also matured, to be precise, he knows how to be a man, although it is far worse than those old fritters, but at least he can say the scene.

So, although he was a little surprised, he still shook hands with the leader with a smile, and also said something like thanking the leader and the country for their vigorous cultivation and help.

Hearing Yang Fan say this, Xiao 'Ting' seemed very happy, when he came, he was still a little worried, without him, in the Chinese sports high-level, especially after the rendering of the Chinese Football Association, Yang Fan can be said to be notorious, and he must talk about how unruly and unorganized this person is. Therefore, Xiao 'Ting' was worried that Yang Fan would put on a 'lust' face at first, so that he would not be able to get off the stage.

Now he was relieved and happy, and said in his heart that this young man was still quite good.

This can be regarded as the first real contact between Yang Fan and the State General Administration of Sports, but it is not a contact, it is more a formulaic etiquette contact. Rao is so, which also makes some football 'fans' and the media very happy, and they seem to see the hope of Yang Fan returning to the national team to wear the Chinese team jersey.

At the airport, Yang Fan accepted a joint interview with media reporters.

Then, he boarded the vehicle that had been arranged long ago and left the Capital International Airport.

Two hours later, he returned home with the UEFA Champions League trophy and was greeted at the airport in the news broadcast that night...... Seeing this scene, countless ball 'fans' cheered, proud and proud of Yang Fan.