At the weekend, Crystal Palace hosted Sunderland at home.

Sunderland are now 16th with 11 points, just two more than bottom-placed Wigan.

Just a day before this game, Wen Sheng had just finished a press conference when he learned that Sunderland had fired Steve. Bruce, now Sunderland is leaderless.

In fact, it's not surprising to think about it, don't blame the American boss for his patience, blame Bruce for leading the team's performance.

Last season he led Sunderland to a 9th place finish in the league, and the results are quite good, and Bruce naturally wants to show his skills and make the team go further in the new season, can't I do what he can do?!

The American boss was also generous and provided him with a lot of support, and in the summer they brought in eight or nine players in the transfer market and spent more than £20 million.

Sunderland's recruitment in the summer window has caused many media to look up to them in the season preview, believing that Sunderland has enough quality to go further in the new season and even make a top-six impact.

But there are also many critics who think that Sunderland is too stupid to spend money, and the recruitment seems inexplicable.

First, 13 million pounds bought Wickham, Wickham is only 18 years old now, his previous experience was to play in the Championship for a season in Ipswich, scored 9 goals in 41 games, and then was touted by the media as a British star, for a time according to the media Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and other giants are interested in him, Crystal Palace is also one of them.

Heaven and earth conscience, Wen Sheng has no interest in Wickham, Mader once provided Wen Sheng with Wickham's scouting report, Wen Sheng thought that he had never heard of this name in his previous life, and concluded that this was just another emperor star entertained by the English media, so it was impossible for him to introduce Wickham.

He didn't bother to clarify what the media said.

Smart people don't fall for it, but some people are fooled, and Bruce is fooled, he thinks that Sunderland doesn't have a center, and what Gyan and Bent are not enough to see, Wickham is tall and mighty, just enough to play center, so 8 million plus 4 million add-ons to take Wickham.

Honestly, the deal was really bad, and as a head coach, it was a pretty bad decision to put your hopes in an 18-year-old, and Bruce did just that.

Second, Bruce took good care of his old club Manchester United, poaching O'Shea and Brown from Manchester United, and these two players alone sent 6 million pounds to Manchester United.

You must know that in a team like Sunderland, it is good for the owner to invest more than 10 million pounds in a stable transfer every year, good guys, Bruce almost gave half of it to his old club.

O'Shea and Brown are getting old, and these two have proven that they are actually what they are, and how can it be better to bring in young players than to bring in these two?!

Are you Bruce making up for your old club Manchester United or for Sunderland?!

In other words, Sunderland is also strange enough, and has a soft spot for the manager of Manchester Connection, Keane, Hughes, Bruce, etc. have a heavy label on Manchester United, and Sunderland likes to use them.

Sunderland's management is really not very good, going crazy with Bruce, and they have tried to compete with Crystal Palace for Sebastian. Larson, just didn't win.

The consequences of the inexplicable recruitment are serious, Bruce can't play the power of the newcomer, even the old players have also declined, the wind and fire have passed, Bruce brought disappointment to the American owner, the full 13 rounds, Sunderland only got two wins.

The boss was very angry and directly asked him to roll up the cover and leave.

Thinking about what happened to Bruce, Wen Sheng felt very interesting, and sighed in his heart, "Bruce is not Martinez after all!" ”

Martinez's Wigan is worse than Sunderland, currently ranked first from the bottom, but it is recognized that he can't stand Wigan's poverty, Martinez himself and the team owner Whelan are quite iron, even if Wigan fails to be relegated this season, Martinez's position is not worth worrying about.

Of course, Bruce's dismissal was a great thing for Wensheng, and now there are rumors in the media that Martin is being fired. O'Neill will take over Sunderland, but that's just a rumor, and Sunderland don't have a manager yet.

After losing the Carabao Cup a few days ago, the main players got a proper rest, and although there was still a top spot battle with Bayern Munich a few days later, Wen Sheng played his main role in this game, which was to take advantage of Sunderland's internal and external troubles.

Sunderland was beaten by Crystal Palace's fierce attack, especially O'Shea and Brown, who were still in the starting lineup, were tortured enough.

The score of 5:0 was bloody, Vardy completed a hat-trick, De Bruyne made a pass and a shot, Mertens made a contribution, if the players were able to seize the opportunity a little stronger, Wensheng felt that this game could beat Sunderland a 7:0 or 8:0.

Interestingly, after the game, reporters actually asked Wen Sheng what he thought about Bruce's dismissal.

"Steve is a nice guy! I feel sorry for him! He deserves more time to prove himself! ”

Thinking in his heart that Bruce deserved it, he still had to be silent for three minutes.

The 5-0 scoreline made Crystal Palace breathe a sigh of relief.

The League Cup lost too embarrassed, and Wen Sheng was also up and down in his heart, not that he didn't trust the players, but that he was always inevitably criticized by others in the first position, and all kinds of remarks were pressure, and it was difficult to relax. Last season Crystal Palace was a spoiler and received a lot of praise, but this year as frontrunners that things have changed.

Therefore, under this pressure, Wen Sheng really cares about the outcome of this game.

If the team wins, the criticism will disappear and the players will come out of the shadow of the Carabao Cup defeat as soon as possible, and they can tell themselves "We did well!" ”。

As for Parish, from this victory, somehow regained some confidence.

The prince will have a kind of Xiangning?!

What if Wen Sheng leads the team to win the championship?!

After the game, Parish and Blowitt, Hoskin and others discussed the issue of funding in the box, Browitt and Hoskin actually don't manage the team much on weekdays, Parish is almost their spokesperson, because everyone's goal is the same, I hope that the value of Crystal Palace can be increased, and they can sell more money in the future.

Swansea's chairman, Jenkins, who spent just over £100,000 to acquire 13 per cent of Swansea's shares, is now making a lot of money.

Parrish said that Wensheng wanted to buy someone, and Hoskin said directly: "Isn't it good now?!" ”

This is pretending to be confused, he actually knows what the team is like, but Hoskin is now interested in selling his shares to expand his business.

Crystal Palace is profitable so far, he can share dividends, and he can make a lot of money by selling his shares.

He is naturally not very happy to buy people in the winter window, he wants to sell his shares, what money do he invest to buy people?!

Wayne used to tell Wen Sheng that his life experience was right, the head coach and the boss are naturally opposites, one boss is good to talk about, and several bosses are not easy to get along with, and everyone thinks differently.

Parrish had actually changed his mind and planned to give Wensheng a sum of money, but Hoskin and Browitt had different ideas, and Browitt wanted to divide the money.

The three discussed for a while, and finally came up with a plan, first divide the money, and then take out a loan in the name of the club, and give Wensheng 15 million pounds for winter window reinforcement.

Having made up his mind, Parish immediately called Wensheng to inform him that the club could provide him with transfer funds, but 20 million was impossible, only 15 million pounds.

Wen Sheng thought about it for a while and admitted it, if he operated fifteen million well, he could successfully complete the task.

On Sunday, Wayne called Wensheng to explain the disagreement at the top of the club, and Wayne sighed, the club is just getting started now, and this group of people are rushing to make money, how can he not be disappointed?!

On the contrary, Wen Sheng figured it out, no matter how they made waves, anyway, there is no place to stay here.