A football team is not only about players, but also about the manager. Steve Koper was not well-known later, and he coached in League Two and League One teams for a long time, which shows that his coaching ability still has certain deficiencies, so at the beginning of the decision to buy Crystal Palace, Liu Si decided to fire Steve Koper in his heart.

However, you can't just join Crystal Palace and announce the dismissal of the manager before meeting with the players and the manager! Despite the first six Premier League rounds, Steve Koper led Crystal Palace to six defeats.

On September 20, 1997, in the 7th round of the 1997~1998 Premier League season, Crystal Palace played Wimbledon away. Of course, Wimbledon's home stadium is also Selhurst Park, home of Crystal Palace. In 1988, at the height of their glory, Lawrie Sanchez's goal secured a 1-0 win over Liverpool in the FA Cup final, with 37,000 fans in attendance to witness their goalkeeper Dave Beasant become the first person in FA Cup history to save a penalty in the final. That year, the only regret of the Crazy Gang was that they were unable to compete in the Champions League, as football hooliganism led to the banning of all English teams from continental competitions.

After winning the FA Cup, Wimbledon moved their home stadium to Selhurst Park, an all-seat stadium. That's because after the FA issued rules on the full seating of the stadium, Wimbledon found that their original home stadium, Plough Lane, could not be expanded to achieve this target, and had to share Selhurst Park with Crystal Palace as a last resort. For the next 12 years, they used this home field.

Liu Si, along with Moynihan and two bodyguards, appeared at the VIP seat dedicated to the chairman of the VIP table at Selhurst Park, ready to watch his team's Crystal Palace clash with the mad gang Wimbledon.

The style of play in the Premier League in '97 was very rude, especially the games between small teams. Anyway, what Liu Si saw in this game was that people turned their backs, and the most important thing was that Crystal Palace lost, losing to Wimbledon with a score of 1:0, that is, Crystal Palace lost 7 games in a row. If there is a losing streak in the opening competition, Crystal Palace can be a celebrity in the world.

After falling behind in the first half, Liu Si was in no mood to watch, but for the sake of some influence, he still stayed in the chairman's position.

The TV commentary host of the English Premier League broadcast TV station BBC, under the filming of the camera master, Liu Si's cold face was broadcast on the TV without any difference.

"Audience friends, four days ago, the young Asian man who appeared on camera paid £32.5 million to buy Crystal Palace, and today he appeared at Selhurst Park against Wimbledon. I'm sure he's in a terrible mood now compared to the high spirits he had been a few days ago. Perhaps, the young rich man is thinking about firing Steve Koppel. The host teased, "But the only Crystal Palace man who is happy with the result of today's game may be Ron Nozz, who should be glad to have sold Crystal Palace earlier." I can announce that Crystal Palace have a relegation place this season! ”

After the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Liu Si left his seat with Moynihan and two bodyguards. After leaving the VIP passage of Selhurst Park, before he got on the bus, Liu Si was startled by the twenty or thirty reporters who rushed up.

Fortunately, Liu Si was escorted by more than 10 bodyguards who stayed outside and successfully boarded the car, a Bentley sedan.

Just when the reporters were disappointed, Moynihan appeared, "Fellow journalists, I would like to say a few words here on behalf of Mr. Liu. First, I didn't see too much football skills in this game, I only saw the people on the field flipping on their backs; Secondly, the result was very unsatisfactory, Selhurst Park was not Wimbledon's, but the home stadium of us, Crystal Palace. ”

After announcing these two events, Moynihan left the circle of reporters without answering any questions, escorted by two bodyguards.

The first point Liu Si said was mainly to complain that the scale of the Premier League's actions was too large and the referee's judgment was too loose. However, all British journalists actively ignored the first point, should an Englishman criticize his country's football league on his own? Of course, if Liu Si, the owner of the new Premier League team, directly scolds the Premier League, the English Football Association, and the British referee, it will be another matter.

The second point was played bad by the reporters of the British newspapers and news media: "The new boss of Crystal Palace is dissatisfied with Koper", "Koper's countdown to class", ............

To be honest, when he saw the news media the next day, Liu Si was suddenly depressed. To be honest, Koper didn't do well at Crystal Palace, but in such a short period of time, he has not yet found the ideal manager in his mind!

At present, the head coach of football plus the news of the future, Liu Si currently only serves Marcello Lippi, Luis van Gaal, and Carlo Ancelotti. Of course, it is not that there is no recognition of other coaches Liu Si in the future, but only these three coaches are currently experienced, tactically passable, and have outstanding coaching ability.

Unfortunately, Lippi is now in Juventus. In his first season with the Bianconeri in 1995, Lippi, who had never managed a big club before, showed his extraordinary skills. At the end of the season, he won the Serie A, Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italia.

In the second season, Juventus, wearing the jersey embroidered with the double logo, first beat Parma again in the Italian Super Cup. Lippi also completed his own Grand Slam in Italy. After falling behind by one goal in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Juve staged a big comeback and finally advanced to the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the venue of the UEFA Champions League final. In the final, Juventus won the championship with Ajax!

In 1996, after the "Old Lady" killed "God of War" Ajax with a penalty shot, Ajax has been falling apart ever since. Lippi presented the heaviest birthday present to Juventus in ********.

On April 6, 1997, Juventus humiliated the former European champion AC Milan with a score of 6-1 in San Siro, avenging the 1949-1950 season 1:7 loss to the opponent, and also accelerated the collapse of the AC Milan dynasty, Juventus created a new era of its own on the "ruins of San Siro", and then won the Serie A crown for two consecutive years, repeatedly hit Inter Milan, and also made another Italian giant, Inter Milan's chairman Moratti's investment of 100 million yuan in vain. After winning the Champions League, Juve reached the Champions League final for the second year in a row!

He won the Serie A title in his first season in charge of Juventus, with Vialli and Ciro Ferrara, a player he played under Napoli and Lippi as assistant coach in Italy. In the following season, Lippi quickly achieved even greater success, winning two more Serie A titles, two Italian Super Cups, as well as the UEFA Super Cup and Toyota Cup. Including the 1996 UEFA Champions League title, of course. During Lippi's first Juventus years, the Bianconeri led him to dominate Serie A, and in the six seasons he led the team, in addition to finishing runner-up in 1996, Lippi led Juventus to the top of Serie A in the 94/95, 96/97 and 97/98 seasons!

Looking at his resume, he is a good candidate for a manager, but he will certainly not come to Crystal Palace.

In the 1992~1996 season, Van Gaal was very successful as the manager of Ajax, creating an Ajax dynasty. After winning the UEFA Cup in 1992, they won three consecutive Eredivisie titles and the Super Cup (Cruyff Cup), including an unbeaten record of 27 wins, 7 draws, 106 concedes and 28 goals in the 94-95 season, after which they set a record of 52 consecutive league games.

In Europe, after winning the League Cup, Ajax also performed particularly well in the 1994-95 Champions Cup, beating Bayern in the semi-finals, beating AC Milan three times in the group stage and final without conceding a goal, shaving the head of Milan coached by Capello at the time, and ending the Milan dynasty and finally winning the Champions League.

In the same year, Ajax beat Brazil's Gremio to win the Toyota Cup (4:3 on penalties). In 96, Ajax entered the Champions League final for the second consecutive year after beating Real Madrid twice in the group stage and Dortmund in the 1/4 finals, but unfortunately lost to Juventus on penalties and fell to the runner-up. In 97, he led Ajax, whose strength was seriously damaged under the influence of the Bosman Act, to the last four of the Champions League again.

However, in the first half of this year, Van Gaal accepted Nunez's invitation to go to Spain to coach the giant Barcelona. It can be seen from this that Van Gaal will definitely not come to Crystal Palace to coach.

Carlo Ancelotti became an assistant coach for the Italian national team after retiring as a player, helping head coach Sacchi lead the team to a World Cup runner-up. In the 1995-96 season, Carlo Ancelotti led Reggina to Serie A and soon got the opportunity to coach upstart Parma. At Parma??, he led them to a second Serie A finish in 1996-97 and remained with Parma in 1997-1998. No matter how you look at it at the moment, Parma have a better future than Crystal Palace, and Liu Sike does not think that he will come to the UK to coach Crystal Palace.

In the current situation of Crystal Palace, in fact, the most suitable manager is Claudio Ranieri. His nickname, the tinkerer, is an overview of his coaching. At first, the tinkerer lost because he made a few faint moves in the early years when he was directing the game, and he made substitutions when the situation or score was superior. As the saying goes, "a good pot doesn't need to be mended", so I gave him such a name, which is a bit of a joke in it.? Later, it was all kinds of firefighting, and the meaning of mending the pot was expanded to help the team stop falling and make up for the leaks, and there was a bit of praise.

Crystal Palace is currently in need of relegation, and as for the overhaul, it needs to be next season, after all, the transfer window has now closed, and the league squad registration has also closed. Coupled with the fact that there is no winter break in the Premier League, the winter transfer window is of no use to transform Crystal Palace.

With the current strength and goals of Crystal Palace, Ranieri, who has a conservative coaching philosophy and a steady foothold, is very much in line with the requirements. But now that Ranieri is coaching in the Bat Legion, will he look up to Crystal Palace?

His favorite head coach candidates are all coaching in other giants, and it is impossible to change jobs, so Liu Si had to divert his attention.