Millwall was full of excitement, and even when they were prepared before the game and successfully set the record, many people cried.

That's tears of excitement!

The players, the assistant coaches, the staff, Wilkinson who came with the team, everyone had a smile on their faces, and many people hugged each other when they touched each other.

Zhang Yang's performance is very bland.

It's like in a press conference, talking about the game very seriously, talking about Aston Villa's performance, he didn't show excitement about creating an unbeaten record.

One is because I have been prepared for a long time.

Second, more importantly, Zhang Yang found that the task he received before the season was not completed, and the task requirement was to create a new undefeated record, but he was undefeated in 50 rounds and did not complete the task.

That shows that the mission requirements are aimed at the unbeaten record of the five major leagues.

The top five European leagues refer to Serie A, the Premier League, the Bundesliga, La Liga and Ligue 1, among which Serie A has the most exaggerated unbeaten record, from the 34th round of the 1990-1991 season to the 23rd round of the 1992-1993 season, AC Milan has been unbeaten, creating an unbeaten record of 58 games.

Millwall will have to go unbeaten in the next nine league games if they want to break that record.

It's very difficult.

Before, the whole team still had fighting spirit, everyone wanted to break Arsenal's record, the whole team twisted as a rope and tried to deal with one game after another, but now it is different, Zhang Yang has no reason to say to the whole team: "We want to break AC Milan's unbeaten record." ”

Does that make any sense?

Premier League teams are not in the habit of comparing themselves with Serie A teams, and most of them are only compared to the same league in the same league.

This is because of the league level gap.

For example, the national leagues such as Greece, Belgium, and the Czech Republic are much worse in level, and there are often dominant teams in the league, among which the representative is the Romanian giants Bucharest, who once achieved a miracle of 104 unbeaten league games in three years from August 17, 1986 to September 9, 1989, such a record is impossible to break.

Therefore, it is difficult to compare the league with the league, even the Premier League and Serie A, which have competed for the first league in recent years, it is meaningless to want to compare.

In this regard, the media and fans are not very supportive.

When a team is undefeated in a league, to some extent, it also means that the league is not fiercely competitive, and the level will decline.

Not absolutely, of course.

In any case, Zhang Yang can't set the goal of "breaking AC Milan's unbeaten record" for the team, and the next nine league games can only make the team work hard to not fail, and the difficulty will definitely increase a lot.

After the game, Zhang Yang studied the schedule and carefully considered the game plan to determine which games needed special attention.

If you want to be unbeaten, you can't afford to make any mistakes.

Publicizing his personal "unhappiness" did not affect the entire Millwall team, nor did it affect the media's perception.

On the day of the game, the major media outlets were talking about Millwall's 50-round unbeaten run, and almost all of the reports were positive.

"A new record, and one that is hard to beat."

"Manchester Sport" put it this way, "Now the only one who can break the new unbeaten record is Millwall themselves, I don't know how long their unbeaten run will last, it is certain that every time they go unbeaten in the future, they will rewrite the record!" ”

Other national media have also reported on it, but the reviews are mixed.

The Italian media, for example, don't like to say good things about English football.

Since the 2006 'phonegate' incident, Serie A has shown a downward trend, in the past two seasons, in the Champions League, there are Inter Milan, AC Milan, Roma, and then including Lazio this season, without Juventus, Italy is like missing an important corner, because Rome, Lazio can't be counted on, they participate in the Champions League, almost "focus on participation", it is difficult to squeeze into the top few, and it is not easy to even qualify from the group, let alone compete for the championship.

Neither can Inter.

In recent years, Inter Milan has been on the rise, but in Europe, their results have not been good.

So there is only one AC Milan left.

European arenas rely on AC Milan, the difficulty is too high, any team has a bad time, AC Milan is also past the peak, is in a key point of the replacement of the old and the new, in order to increase the ability of the forward, they even introduced 'alien' Ronaldo, want to loan David Beckham, it can be seen how serious AC Milan's lack of green and yellow.

The Italian media reflected on their own weaknesses and commented on Millwall's unbeaten record, "Millwall has set a new record, but it also shows that the Premier League has lost its competitiveness internally in recent years. ”

'Millwall have won back-to-back league titles and so far this season are at the top of the league table, so no team can compete with them.

'Manchester United can't do it, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool.'

'That's the state of the Premier League.'

"It is not incomprehensible that a strong team that has suddenly risen to prominence can create an astonishing unbeaten record in the absence of active internal competition......"

The analysis of the Italian media is sour.

Other national media didn't see it much either.

Whether the Premier League is competitive or not, just look at the Champions League results.

In 2005, the Champions League belonged to Liverpool.

In 2006, the Champions League belonged to Arsenal.

In 2007, the previous season, the Champions League final was contested between Millwall and Chelsea, and Millwall won the title.

The Premier League teams have won the Champions League in a row, which directly illustrates the competitiveness.

From a rational point of view, the Premier League's model is the most successful commercialization, and it has nothing to do with politics, and it also directly represents freedom and competition, which is why it attracts so much foreign capital.

The Premier League is independent of the political system, and the FA has absolute rights to build the league mechanism and operation, and the Premier League's system is the most commercial and perfect in terms of policies related to revenue, such as television broadcasting rights, which also results in the Premier League team's income being much higher than that of other league teams.

This is the basis for the competitiveness of the league, as it can provide development funds for the teams at the bottom.

For example, Manchester United, the highest-paid club, their annual TV rights income is difficult to compare with Real Madrid and Barcelona who monopolize La Liga and sign broadcast agreements alone, but some teams at the bottom, including West Ham United, Portsmouth, and Fulham, their income even exceeds that of Spanish "quasi-giants" such as Valencia and Sevilla.

The policy of high returns and openness has attracted a large number of foreign investment, such as Birmingham, which is frequently relegated and relegated, has attracted Hong Kong capital to enter, and with foreign investment, the strength of each team can be improved.

It's a virtuous circle.

In this way, the internal competition in the Premier League is very fierce, and it is common for some teams to invest tens of millions of euros in a single season, but they will still have difficulties in relegation, which shows that the gap between the Premier League's top clubs and relegation teams is narrowing.

From this, it can be seen how high the gold content of Millwall's fifty rounds of unbeaten is high.

Many media outlets have begun to prepare "special" programs to report on Millwall's unbeaten streak, cutting one game after another, just waiting for the day Millwall loses to make a "new record" summary column.

Some media believe that Millwall's unbeaten record is more adequate than winning two consecutive league titles and gold content.

"There is one Premier League champion every year, but an unbeaten record of more than 50 rounds is enough to last for 10, 20 years, or even longer."

"World Sports" analysis pointed out.

Germany's "Kicker" also analyzed, "The new record set by Millwall is very valuable, and it can be described as "great", which is difficult to surpass in the future! ”

'What's more exciting is that Millwall have a lot of opportunities to break their own record and their performances are confident.'

There are also many media outlets that remind their national teams that they must be careful of Millwall.

Of course, they don't need to remind them.

Millwall are the reigning champions of the Champions League and are still very dominant in Group C, and it is impossible for any team to be careless.

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While the outside media continued to report, Zhang Yang encountered a funny thing.

Dennis Wise ......

The soon-to-be-forgotten guy asked him if there was still a place on the coaching staff.

Since Wise left to coach in Leicester City, Zhang Yang has not cared anymore, except for sending a message to say hello, Wise doesn't seem to want to tell Zhang Yang about the problems he encountered in coaching.

Then, now......

Wise was fired.

In February this year, Mandaric officially bought Leicester City, after which manager Rob Kelly was sacked by the club, and Leicester City changed Nigel Worthington to become the caretaker team until the end of the season, Worthington led the team to relegation, but he did not become an official manager at the end of the season.

Leicester City have invited Dennis Wise as the team's head coach.

Perhaps Leicester City hoped that Wise, as Zhang Yang's assistant and Millwall's 'sailman', could replicate Zhang Yang's success at Millwall, and they also gave Wise a good contract, but Wise did not lead the team to set sail.

From the beginning of the season, Leicester City, led by Wise, suffered a waterloo of results, and they were even worse than last season's difficult relegation, hovering between 19 and 22 in the standings, rarely winning a game.

Such a result will certainly not satisfy the club.

In the end, Leicester City couldn't bear it anymore and decided to fire Wise and find an experienced coach to replace him, otherwise Leicester City could really be relegated to the first division.

It's been two weeks since Wise was fired.

The media reported on the incident, but the dismissal of the manager of a Championship team is not too much news, and Leicester City is far away from the London region, and Zhang Yang even knew about it.

Wisela couldn't take the initiative to find Zhang Yang, but in the end he couldn't find a suitable next home, and decided to return to Millwall considering his coaching skills.

Millwall is no better now than it used to be, and it is not easy to get into Millwall's coaching staff.

There are many coaches out there, even first-class coaches, who want to find a place in the Millwall coaching staff, one is that the Millwall coaching staff is well paid, which is completely comparable to the big teams, and the other is that they want to observe and learn the way of leading the team up close.

That's right!

Many coaches think so.

Millwall's success can no longer be described as a miracle, and many media attribute the reason to the flamboyant level of leadership.

With such a high level of team leadership, there must be aspects that can be learned.

So it was very easy for Zhang Yang to find an assistant coach, but after Wise proposed it, Zhang Yang thought about it carefully and decided to hire Wise, but it was not Millwall's hiring, but his personal hiring.

"Dennis, I want you to be my assistant, my closest assistant."

Zhang Yang and Wise talked face-to-face.

"Assistant?" Wise was a little confused.

"Yes, I need an assistant, not only for the team, but also for a lot of business matters, I hired you as an assistant and gave you a higher salary." Zhang Yang said very seriously.

He was very sincere.

It's easy to find an assistant coach, but it's hard to find a trusted assistant.

Wise has a good personal relationship with him, and Wise is also the kind of "honest person", who is a little sincere, and he is also very calm in his work, and he will not cheat and cheat.

Zhang Yang needs such an assistant.

In leading Millwall, there is actually no need for manpower, it doesn't matter if Wise gets in or not, but Zhang Yang's assets are increasing, and there are a lot of things to deal with at home and abroad, and it is very important to have an assistant who can be trusted.

An Andy, simply too busy.

The American thing, the British thing, the Chinese thing, and so on.

Andy is Zhang Yang's agent, but most of the time, he is not in London at all, and for nearly half a year, he is either in the United States or in China.

Zhang Yang talked to Wise sincerely, and he talked about many things, including his own company, investment in the U.S. stock market, and many things at home and abroad, including the establishment of the Youth Football Development Foundation.

Wait a minute.

Wise was rather surprised.

Wise has always felt that Zhang Yang is a coaching genius, but geniuses have limitations, good at one aspect, it is difficult to be good at other aspects, Zhang Yang does not seem to fit this law, if according to what he said, he is at least an investment genius.

The news was a bit of a shock.

Wise felt that he needed to sober up before he could make a final decision, because being a personal assistant to Zhang Yang represented a large part of giving up his future coaching prospects.

It was an easy decision to make.