Chapter 058: Fat Ashley!

With the FA Cup out in the running, all eyes are now on the remaining two rounds of the league.

One of the biggest focuses, in addition to whether Manchester City can win the championship in the rematch with Newcastle, there is also a focus is undoubtedly the top 4 Champions League competition is more intense, in the Champions League competition, London 6 points derby Chelsea drew 0-0 away to Arsenal; (Totanico), the north London powerhouse lost 1-0 away to Queens Park Rangers and dropped out of the top four.

With Manchester City and Liverpool qualifiing Champions League qualification for next season, the remaining two Champions League spots are currently a four-team battle. In the standings, Arsenal 67 points, Newcastle 65 points, Tottenham 66 points, Chelsea 61 points.

Newcastle have played one game less, and this game is a make-up game against Manchester City, and if they can win the game, they will be able to surpass Arsenal in points and move into fourth place.

Chelsea, on the other hand, face Liverpool away in this round of fixtures, and if they win, they will have 64 points and a glimmer of hope of a top-four finish.

In terms of the intensity of the sprint at the end of the season, Castle's strength contrasted with Tottenham's decline. As the biggest dark horse of the season, Newcastle has been the most eye-catching in the sprint stage at the end of the season, and after winning six consecutive games, the Magpies are no longer satisfied with competing with Liverpool for next season's Europa League qualification, replacing several big teams to advance to the Champions League as Newcastle's latest target. Newcastle's late-season sprint is complete without mentioning popular goalscorer P Cisse, the Premier League winter standard, who was brought in from Freiburg in January this year, has scored 11 league goals in 10 Premier League games for the Magpies (nine starts, one substitute), and has scored nine goals in the last six games, equalling the record held by Quinn for most goals in the first 10 Premier League games since landing in the Premier League in Premier League history. What's more, the Senegalese striker averaged one Premier League goal every 68.4 minutes, making him the most efficient goalscorer in the Premier League's 20-year history.

Tottenham's decline is largely due to the distraction of coach Redknapp, after Capello left class, Lao Lei became the favorite for the England national team coach, but since then there have been troubles, first entangled in lawsuits, and then the team's results have been declining, with 1 win, 3 draws and 5 losses in the last 9 rounds of the league. The FA has not yet announced the final manager when the Euro Championship countdown is less than 50 days, so that Lao Lei will not be able to go ashore on both sides, and Lao Lei himself will not count whether to stay or go on Bailu Trail.

However, the remaining fixtures will be the most difficult for Castle and Chelsea, with the two teams going head-to-head in early May, with the loser likely to drop out of contention immediately. Newcastle also face Manchester City and Everton, while Chelsea are distracted from the Champions League and FA Cup. In contrast, although Arsenal has played one more round, the next three opponents are all midstream teams that have already landed, and the situation of grabbing points is the most optimistic. Although three of Tottenham's four opponents are in the bottom 10, Blackburn Bolton are trying their best to grab points and relegation, and both games are fierce battles.

There are only two rounds left in the Premier League this season, and it is clear that Chelsea and Manchester City will play against their opponents, with only one league game left for the other teams, so the English media have started to comment on this season.

Last week, the Daily Mail selected the top 10 acquisitions of the season, and Newcastle were the only ones with more than one to make the cut, with the Magpies' "New Black Wind Twins" Demba Ba and P. Cisse finishing ninth and third respectively. At the beginning of the season, no one could have imagined that Newcastle would have a chance to compete for the top three in the league until the final round, and in the first two and a half seasons, it was the successive goals of the Senegalese national team team-mates that made the Magpies the biggest dark horse of the season and pushed coach Pardew to the official coach of the season throne.

Demba Ba, who was a fine performer at West Ham United last season, joined Newcastle as a free agent last summer and failed to score a goal in his first five league games. But he broke the bottleneck with a hat-trick at home to Blackburn Rovers in the sixth round, scoring 15 goals for the team before leaving for the Africa Cup of Nations in early January, second only to Robin van Persie in the scorers' charts at the time. Sadly, a month's Africa Cup of Nations ended a season in which he had the opportunity to be perfect, and although he scored against Villa on his return in early February, he did not expect to score nothing in the 14 games between then and the finale. However, his goal drought did not affect the team's progress, as Pardew had winter champion P. Cisse at this time.

Cisse joined halfway through for €12 million and the Africa Cup of Nations also postponed his debut date, but he scored on his debut with team-mate Demba Ba and has been out of control ever since. He scored 11 goals in his first 10 appearances, equalling former Sunderland striker Quinn's record for opening Premier League goalscorer. In the final round, Newcastle failed to perform a miracle to qualify for the Champions League, but Cisse's efficiency of scoring 13 goals in 14 appearances convinced everyone, and the super long-range shot against Chelsea (Weibo) was considered by many to be the best goal in the Premier League in 20 years, and even more exciting than the reverse hook of Wayne Rooney, who was elected the best goal in the Premier League in 20 years before he scored. And the story of him and Demba Ba leading the way in the first half of the journey is bound to make Magpie fans talk about it for many years.

Who is the Premier League Hollywood? Compared with the on-field performance and report card of the older year, the style of "Blue Moon" off the field has never weakened, and this season has reached an unprecedented peak, and Mancini is the protagonist of this farce that cannot be ignored, and it can even be said that he is the director of Manchester City Hollywood.

From the unimaginable tolerance of Balotelli, to the angry "never hire", to the helpless re-use at the last moment, Mancini once angered many players in the team for his Italian compatriots, and the eternal "Ba God" teased his nerves again and again on and off the field. The "boycott" incident with Tevez is the most magnificent script of the "Premier League Hollywood" this season, from tearing his face and scolding publicly, to the final peak of the transfer of the Argentine back to the team, to the final podium grudge, Mancini was once ridiculed by Ferguson for "some people will go back on their word". More than that, Adebayo Bridgedzhekocolo Durnasri ...... Those who have left, who are still in the team, don't know how many people have broken rumors of feuds with him publicly or behind his back, and from this point the Italian people have not been successful at Manchester City.

It can be said that if it weren't for Yang Fan, as the captain of the Manchester City team, who has absolute authority in the Manchester City team, has leadership and deterrence over other players, and can control the dressing room, the conflict between the players and Mancini will expand.

Now, Manchester City can ensure that there is no internal turmoil in the dressing room, one is the team's desire for league titles and Champions League titles, and the other is that Yang Fan has taken control of the dressing room as a personal leader.

In the words of the Daily Mirror, if Manchester City can win the league title, if the team can remain stable and win the Champions League, then everything will be wonderful, otherwise, there will be big problems in the Manchester City dressing room, and the most likely thing is that Mancini may leave the class.

Now, the whole of England is talking about this match between Manchester City and Newcastle.

If Newcastle win this game, they will rise to fourth place in the rankings, so their players will also have the confidence and desire to win this game.

The Newcastle players are all talking about the upcoming game.

"Dude, aren't you going to give Yang a call?" Newcastle striker Demba Ba suddenly asked the team's veteran Ameobi.

Ameobi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said with a smile: "There's no need to call, I'll tell him when the game comes." ”

After speaking, he got up: "I'll go back and rest first." ”

The sail leaves the room, and Demba Ba turns his head to Ruhr.

Although the media are hyping Yang Fan as a star cultivated by the Newcastle academy and hyping his relationship with Newcastle, in fact, there are only two of them in the Newcastle team, who are really old teammates with Yang Fan, one is Ameobi, the Nigerian has not left since joining the team in 1998, however, at that time, Yang Fan was in the youth team, Ameobi was in the first team, of course, the two still knew each other, after all, Yang Fan once trained with the first team, and the other Yang Fan's real teammate was Newcastle's goalkeeper Krul, both of whom were produced by Newcastle's U19 youth team。 In that youth team, Newcastle cultivated three stars, one is Yang Fan, needless to say, and the other is Carroll, one of these two is now in Manchester City, the other is in Liverpool, only Krull has stayed in the team since he was promoted from the youth team to the first team.

"The boss wants to beat Yang in the game. Krull said. "When Yang Fan was still in the youth team, the boss was Newcastle's starter, and now, more than ten years have passed, the team has experienced relegation, and returned to the Premier League, and now, we are only one step away from the top four, and the boss wants to help the team at the end......"

'The Newcastle fans still can't forget Young, they think that if Young had stayed at Newcastle, we would have won the league a long time ago, and that puts pressure on the boss to prove to the fans that an old guy like him is still useful. ”

Hearing Krull say this, everyone understood that this was just an old guy's self-esteem.

Subsequently, Krull called Yang Fan and said that they would have dinner together after the game, and Yang Fan happily agreed.

hung up the phone, and Yang Fan was also distracted for a while.

Since he left Newcastle, he has basically lost contact with Newcastle, and he used to have contact with Carroll, and then Carroll transferred to Liverpool, and his friends in the Newcastle youth team have also gone their separate ways, and now only Krull is still in Newcastle, and even the stars of the Newcastle first team at that time, only one veteran Ameobi is still left in this team.

"Gutiérrez is the absolute heart of this team. 'Before the game against Newcastle, Mancini gave the team one last tactical lesson, analysing their opponents and giving them a better understanding of Newcastle.

'This player hasn't been particularly good at either the offensive end or the defensive end, but it's important to note that this is a very balanced player and with him on the pitch there is no confusion in Newcastle's midfield. ”

"Speaking of attack, Newcastle didn't attack as well as they do now, but after Newcastle bought Ben Arfa, their midfield started to have a certain amount of creativity. ”

Then, with a click of the mouse, a picture of Ben Alpha appeared on the screen.

'Newcastle are flying on both wings, Cabaye on the left and Ben Arfa on the right. Of the two Frenchmen, Ben Alpha will be more noteworthy in comparison. ”

“…… In short, this game can't just defend Demba Ba and Cisse, we also need to focus on Ben Arfa, who is in good form at the moment and who is more of a threat. Mancini finally said.

Surprisingly, in addition to several attacking players such as Ben Arfa and Demba Ba and Cisse, Mancini also highlighted the name of a Newcastle defender, their full-back Page, James Page.

In fact, Roberto Mancini is now eyeing the Newcastle defender and is even considering asking for the full-back at the end of the season.

James Page was born on 28 September 1985 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, and was an Academy product for Nottingham Forest Football Club. During his time at Nottingham Forest, Page played in a number of different positions. He started out as a striker in the Academy and then suddenly moved to right wing-back, only to be dropped off on the bench due to quality issues.

Similarly, in the academy, Page was also considered by his team-mates to be a very good goalkeeper, and because of his presence, Nottingham Forest only had one starting goalkeeper and one starting right wing-back in the academy at that time, because the coach at the time knew that Page could play in both positions.

In this way, Page sat on the bench several times, as a substitute right wing-back and substitute goalkeeper. After a long time, Page finally won his chance to enter the reserve team, and the reason why he was called to the first team was precisely because of the lack of central defenders in the reserve team, so Page was in this way, and he was in the Nottingham Forest reserve squad in a daze.

In 2001, Page made his debut for Nottingham Forest's development squad against Newcastle United. Page scored a staggering two goals against Newcastle United as a centre-back. He even came close to scoring a hat-trick when Newcastle goalkeeper James Pickering made a brilliant save to keep Page out of the hat-trick.

After missing out on the hat-trick, Page became more active in the following games. He appeared to headbutt Newcastle player Sasha Stephenson in the second half, which led directly to the displeasure of the Newcastle players. Newcastle striker Tim I Nottingham defenders quarreled over the affair and then staged violence between the two teams. As a result, Page received a red card, but in the video after the game, Page did not headbutt the Newcastle player at the time, and the Football Association subsequently revoked Page's red card ban.

Page has been a member of the first team since 2004. At that time, Page was drawn by the Spanish football club Levante, but the transfer did not materialize. Page played at left-back in 2005/06 after Nottingham's main left-back, John Curtis, suffered a serious injury. Gradually, Page was pushed by the manager to the position of the main left midfielder, and then played as the main right midfielder in two games.

Page had a great 06/07 season and Nottingham Forest had a very good season as well. He played almost every position in the defensive line, also played all over the midfield, scoring five goals in one season, becoming an indispensable player in the team, and also becoming the second best player in the eyes of Nottingham Forest fans, the first at the time being current Norwich striker Holt, who previously played for Nottingham Forest.

Although the performance in a single season is excellent, it still cannot meet the manager's requirements for the quality of the team. Page was back on the bench as Nottingham Forest bought a number of players in the summer. The '07-08 season was boring for Page because all he had to do every game was sit on the bench and wait for 80 minutes, then take off his coat and play for the last 10 minutes.

The 08-09 season was Nottingham Forest's first season back in the Championship, and Page started the first league game against Swansea City and scored the only goal of the game for Nottingham Forest, a 3-1 defeat to Swansea, which was a disappointing result. For most of the following season, Page played as a substitute midfielder, but due to injuries to other players in the squad, Page returned to the main right wing-back position in the final rounds.

In November 2008, James Page completed his record of 150 first-team appearances for Nottingham Forest, and although he unfortunately drew 1-1 with Birmingham City, Page scored the 10th goal of his Nottingham Forest career in this game, a brilliant flying header. Gradually, Page became the second-longest-serving player in the Nottingham Forest team, with captain Wes Morgan coming first.

At the end of the 2008 season, Page played a total of 199 games for Nottingham Forest (all competitions in seven years), playing in a variety of positions, including centre-back, left wing-back, right wing-back, left midfielder, right midfielder, midfielder, midfielder, striker, and of course, goalkeeper in training.

Due to a heel injury, Page missed the team's trip to Portugal before the start of the '09 season. At the end of the trip, the outcome of Page's injury was clear, with the result that Page would be out for three months.

After an ordinary season for Page, 2010 will be a new start for the then 24-year-old. On 5 July 2010, Newcastle United announced the signing of James Page, and at that time Newcastle's official website did not reveal the transfer fee, but according to some credible sources, Page's transfer fee was only £1 million. Page has joined Newcastle United, the "Premier League promotion horse", on a four-year contract, and he will wear the number 14 shirt.

Page made his Newcastle debut on 16 August 2010 against Manchester United in the Premier League, where Newcastle United suffered a 3-0 defeat at home to Alex Ferguson's Red Devils. This is clearly not a good start. Unexpectedly, the series of bad things continued, and on September 18, 2010, Page set an embarrassing record when Page became the only player in Premier League history to receive five yellow cards in five games. Page's bad luck is not over, after returning from the ban, Page started again, this game is Newcastle's home game against Stoke City, Page performed average throughout the game, but scored an own goal in the last moments, giving the opponent an away three points for nothing.

In the 2-2 draw with Wigan Athletic, Page gave the opponent a chance after a foul but scored, and then faced a strong attack by Enzobia, and it became more and more difficult for Page to play on the field. Because of the poor performance, the Newcastle manager at the time, Hughton, decided to replace him and completely put him on the bench. In the 2-1 away win over West Ham United, Page was replaced by Danny Simpson, and at that moment, Page should have known very well that his chances at Newcastle were really running out.

In this way, for a long time, magpie fans have no more strange figures.

At the beginning of the 2011-2012 season, Newcastle United announced the arrival of Thornton, Cabaye, Obertan and others, strengthening the overall strength of the squad. At that moment, everyone may have forgotten James Page, the so-called Newcastle "disaster", but the phoenix nirvana.

No one would have thought that a team like Newcastle would be unbeaten in 11 league games since the start of the league, when defenders Steven Taylor, Coloccini, Ryan Taylor and Danny Simpson created a tough backline, conceding the fewest goals in 11 Premier League games and finishing in the top four.

Speaking of solid defence, Newcastle's substitutions were also very successful in the game. In order to hold on to the lead after taking the lead, Pardew first brought on a defender Page in the 3-1 win away to Stoke City to solidify the defence, and the result was clearly good, with Newcastle winning the three points.

Although a 3-1 defeat at Manchester City ended an 11-game unbeaten run in the league, Pardew still used a second-half substitution to solidify the defence. A week after being beaten by Manchester City, Newcastle United are back at Manchester United's home turf to face the Red Devils for a top-three spot in the league. Although Demba Ba scored a penalty in the first half, the attacking Manchester United took control of the situation in the second half and dominated the Newcastle United half. Unsurprisingly, Hernandez's goal helped United equalise the scores.

When you play a team like Manchester United away from home, the team tends to let up in the second half because the pressure on you is a lot at Manchester United. Sure enough, Gutierrez was sent off after receiving two yellow cards in a row, and Newcastle, who were playing with 10 men, needed to strengthen their defense to ensure that they did not drop points away from home. Pardew brought on Page at a crucial moment in order to solidify Newcastle's backline. The trio of Coloccini, Steven Taylor and Page played a clear role in the penalty area, showing that they blocked Rooney's breakthrough one after another, and then practiced cutting off crosses from both sides of Manchester United, and of course, the key to the game was Newcastle goalkeeper Krul, who saved the opponent's wild shots in succession.

At the end of a hard-fought 90 minutes, Newcastle United picked up a valuable point. Page, Colocchini, Steven Taylor, Simpson, Ryan Taylor and Krul were the heroes of Newcastle at Old Trafford.

Of course, the Premier League is not an easy mix, with centre-back Steven Taylor injured twice in quick succession in the 14th league game against Chelsea, and the team not only ended up with 10 men but also conceded three goals in a row. The news that Steven Taylor will miss the rest of the season after the game is not good news as it could lead directly to the instability of Newcastle's defence.

Mike Williamson will be a replacement for Steven Taylor, and as expected, after Newcastle's defeat to Chelsea, Coloccini was also injured, so Pardew had no choice but to use Page to play at centre-back, and then we were in an even worse situation. We then sent Danny Simpson and James Persch to play Norwich City, the Premier League's 'top header in the Premier League in 2012'. As a result, Newcastle lost 4:2, and the opponent scored 3 headers, to be honest, I really wanted Williamson the most at that time.

Then, the team lost to Norwich City and West Brom in quick succession. After Colocchini's return to play Swansea, there was good news for the team. On 26 December 2011, after Christmas, Mike Williamson returned from injury and Newcastle United travelled to Bolton Wanderers.

With the team's defenders back, Page can no longer play at centre-back, which also means that Pardew has the option to make substitutions in the game. Newcastle easily led Bolton Wanderers by two goals in the game, and in the second half, Pardew continued to use a solid defensive substitution, replacing James Page, to good effect, 2-0, Newcastle United away from three points.

Some fans said that if Pardew does not change his lineup, the team will be squeezed out of the top six positions in the league. But some fans said that Page's substitution setup is a good choice, because Cabaye is excellent on the offensive end, but once the physical strength is not good in the second half, it will give the opponent some chances, so replacing Page can strengthen the defense with Tiot.

After winning 2-0 at Bolton, Newcastle United beat QPR 1-0 and Manchester United 3-0, with Page coming off the bench in both games. Obviously, you can go through the score, and Page came up to solidify the defense and keep a clean sheet every game.

Of course, Newcastle's luck didn't last long, because of the impact of the Africa Cup of Nations, the main defender Tiot will leave the team in January to play in the Africa Cup of Nations. This was very distressing for Pardew at the time, as the midfield would suffer defensively. But who knew that Pardew actually chose Guthrie to replace Tiot's position, and the result was very simple, losing 2:5 to Fulham and 0:1 to Brighton in the cup.

After the arrival of striker Cisse, Newcastle's situation has improved slightly, and the 2-1 victory over Aston Villapage proved itself again, but then the 1-2 defeat to Arsenal was very regrettable.

Soon, Newcastle's squad was solidified and Mike Williamson gradually maintained his best form at centre-back. Page became Newcastle's new main left wing-back, and his first left wing-back game will be at home to Norwich. A solid defense led to Newcastle's thrilling 1-0 victory, and Page, who played the whole game, became the focus of discussion after the game, because everyone felt that Page did a lot better defensively than Thornton.

Page then made another start in the 3-1 win away to West Bromwich Albion, and this time he did just as well. Unfortunately, Newcastle lost Coloccini before the second half, and Colocini will be out for around three weeks due to injury. This made Page helpless to return to the position of the main central defender, and the fans were sweating for it, because Magpie fans know that Newcastle's next schedule is terrifying.

Liverpool will be the first stop for Williamson and Page, the two of the central defenders can be said to be Newcastle's "Championship version of the difficult brothers", but who would have thought that in the face of Suarez, Carroll's furious attack, Page and Williamson did quite well in and out of the penalty area. Paige's sliding shovel became a new one because Paige's sliding shovel was very accurate and very clean. Page, who does not suffer in speed, also does a very good job in defensive headers, and in the game, Page and Carroll did not suffer at all.

In this way, Newcastle not only won the game, but also kept a clean sheet. Funnily enough, Page created a red card for the opposing goalkeeper Reina in the game, which made the fans chant "We have Pecinho!" In the next two games, Page and Williamson's centre-back partnership created a clean sheet miracle, beating Bolton Wanderers 2-0 and Swansea 2-0 away.

A few weeks later, Coloccini made a comeback. The return of Coloccini to the starting line-up meant that Page's era as a centre-back was coming to an end, but at the time, the media believed that Page could continue to start, because Page was really in excellent form at the time. However, Pardew also had the use of Page to put Page back on the bench and solidify the backline in the second half.

In the 3-0 win over Stoke City, Page's second-half appearance stubbornly defended and helped Newcastle to a six-game winning streak and picking up 18 precious points. In the game against Chelsea, Danny Simpson was injured and Page started at right-back, and the Magpies won 2-0 away at Chelsea, but the focus of that game was Cisse's out-of-the-box strike.

In Mancini's eyes, Page is a very versatile backfield player, whether it is a central defender or two wings, and both can play, and both perform well, although this player is not the kind of talented player who became famous at a young age, but he is very diligent, only 26 years old but has nearly 300 professional game experience, such a player belongs to the late blooming type, very practical.

Before the match between Manchester City and Newcastle, the relationship between Yang Fan and Newcastle was naturally of concern to everyone.

The vast majority of Newcastle players conveyed greetings and goodwill to Yang Fan in an interview, as well as blessings and praise for his performance at Manchester City. Saying good things will not offend people, everyone is naturally happy to say good things, and, don't forget, Yang Fan's status among Newcastle fans is not low, and the Newcastle players are very proud of this talented star who walked out of the Rigberton training base.

However, there are also discordant notes.

After the pre-match training, a reporter squeezed in front of Demba Ba, stretched the microphone to him, and asked: "Some people think that although Yang Fan has not played a game for the Newcastle first team, he has a much higher status in the hearts of Newcastle fans than you, what do you do about it?"

This question is like a dagger, word by word, directly inserted into Demba Ba's heart. A player who hasn't featured in an official match for the team has a higher status than the player who fought for Newcastle, which makes them feel embarrassed.

In fact, this reporter is also secretly changing the concept, Newcastle fans like Yang Fan, that's right, but they like Demba Ba and other players who play for Newcastle even more, who is really sweating for Newcastle, everyone has a scale in their hearts, when Newcastle and Manchester City play, they naturally support their team, and they will also boo Yang Fan. This is a principled departure.

The reporters' questions are obviously deliberate, they just want to provoke Demba Ba, and if Demba Ba is angry, they have something to talk about......

Demba Ba was stunned when he was asked this question, he didn't expect the reporter to ask such a question directly.

There is no intersection between him and Yang Fan, and he doesn't want to be a reporter and doesn't want to get into trouble. He turned around and left directly, this question is the most correct thing to do.

Of the other Newcastle players, Ben Arfa felt this game was his chance.

This direct confrontation with Yang Fan, if he will perform well to help Newcastle beat Manchester City, he can score high points in his individual performance, lead Newcastle to the fourth place in the league, and let them realize how wonderful it is that Newcastle is his world of Arfa today.

Thinking about it this way, Ben Alpha is scrappy.

As the president of Newcastle FC, Ashley plays a pro-people line, and almost every home game will be watched on the spot, and naturally he will come to the scene to watch.

The club's chairman, who now has a terrible image in the minds of Newcastle fans, is surrounded by journalists.

Everyone wants to hear his outlook for this game, as well as ...... The most important thing is his evaluation of Yang Fan. Well, you know, at that time, it was Ashley who saw the money, and Wolfsburg's offer of 20 million euros took Yang Fan away, which is also the most hated thing by Newcastle fans, if Yang Fan has stayed in Newcastle, there are Yang Fan and Carroll, the two striker partners produced by the academy, and more importantly, Yang Fan is the core of the team, this picture is not too beautiful.

'The opponents are strong but I'm confident of Newcastle coming out victorious. Fat Ashley did not refuse to be interviewed, but talked eloquently in front of the cameras, microphones and microphones of reporters. He is also the big mouth noted in the presidency of the Premier League.

'Man City are just strong right now, they've been swelling on money in a short period of time, but their foundation is shaky, well, I mean it's more patient in a sprint like this......

The Manchester Evening News reporter couldn't help but ask in a loud voice: "Can I understand this as jealousy of Manchester City......?

'Newcastle didn't have big names but we didn't play badly at all. Fat Ashley replied with some arrogance. 'We're not a few points away from Manchester City right now and our players are paid less than a fifth of their salaries. ”

As the best star in football at the moment, with him on the pitch, Manchester City's horror is well known. Seeing that he was so arrogant, the Manchester Evening News reporter couldn't help but smell of gunpowder when he asked questions, and the last thing Fat Ashley wanted to hear was anyone's name, so he had to mention the name of this person in front of him, and he also had to add a note.

After the fat man Ashley heard this question, he was stunned for a moment, and his previous arrogant and indifferent expression was gone. Indeed, the name Yang Fan is a thorn in his heart, of course, Ashley does not regret selling Yang Fan for cash, he just regrets selling Yang Fan so early, if Yang Fan plays in Newcastle for two seasons and then transfers, the value will be a sky-high price, even if it is 100 million pounds, it is not impossible, thinking that such a large sum of money slipped out from under his nose, his distress and chagrin.

And everyone knows that Yang Fan was worth as much as 20 million euros when he was only a player of the Newcastle youth team, although the value is not the only measure of a player, but this is a world where data speaks, Yang Fan's value is the best embodiment of his ability, he is the most expensive star on the planet. ”

Ashley didn't expect this reporter to be so naked-naked, his smug face of a Manchester reporter, he couldn't wait to scrape his ear, this is really a pot that can't be opened, this is digging up his Ashley's scars.

In addition, speaking of which, Ashley is all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred for Manchester City, without him, Manchester City is rich!

If you have money, you will be willful, you will go everywhere to break the rules of the market, and when you buy people, you will take money as if it is not money, and throw it away, what is the result of this?

As a result, other European giants are unstable, some want to leave, and others want to use Manchester City to raise the price of the club and get a higher salary.

This kind of behavior is naturally abhorrent as a team manager.

In addition, Manchester City's various big moves have also brought a very bad situation to European football, that is, they have raised the price standard.

For example, there is a player who could have been bought for 10 million euros if other teams wanted to buy it before the emergence of Manchester City, which was invested in Abu Dhabi. But after the arrival of the Middle Eastern tycoon, the player may need 20 million euros to get his hands on.

Why?

Because you don't pay 20 million, Manchester City will come out!

Therefore, there are still many big teams in European football, and Manchester City is very dissatisfied.

Think they are people who break the order of rules.

Not welcome.

This has led to a midstream team like Newcastle having to pay a premium if they want to buy people, which is like cutting meat from Ashley's heart for Ashley, who is important to money.

Selling the already famous young star Yang Fan is destined to be the most stupid thing Ashley has ever done, and every time Yang Fan performs well, he will be beaten by Newcastle fans and media at home, which makes him very annoyed.

But Yang Fan's performance was so good, he was always beaten, and it was impossible to even fight back.

So this game...... Maybe this game will be a great opportunity.

As long as Newcastle can defeat Yang Fan's Manchester City and finish fourth in the league, this is Newcastle's victory, and it is his Ashley's victory, and he can proudly declare that his Newcastle, although there are no big stars, is still a force that cannot be underestimated in the Premier League.

Thinking of this, he told the Manchester Evening News reporter who asked the question: "Football is a team sport, and one person's performance cannot determine the outcome of a game. I'm expecting a good game tomorrow and predicting the result? sorry, I never predict the result, of course I have confidence in Newcastle, of course ......'

After saying that, he no longer accepted interviews from any reporters and squeezed out of the encirclement.

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