Chapter 24: The First Confrontation with the Media (Part I)
After all night of busy media reporters last night, early the next morning, the name Li Lei started a crazy situation that swept across England. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info is the media in other European countries, and he has also been reported a lot.
Yes, Li Lei is famous, and he is famous. It's just that this reputation is not very good.
For example, in today's "Daily Mail" morning newspaper, Li Lei has become a "little beggar who has walked into a wealthy family" under their description. They can be described as all kinds of spicy sarcasm about Li Lei, and they keep talking about his dark history in the ghetto. For this reason, they even did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find out and expose the number of times Li Lei entered the police station, in order to prove that Ferguson's "old eyes are dizzy" and he actually drove the French door god into the reserve for such a person.
Moreover, the "Daily Mail" is not the only big newspaper that is not optimistic about Li Lei and satirical. Apart from them, none of the most influential newspapers in England, including The Times and The Sun, said anything good about Leo.
Among them, the more rigorous and authoritative newspapers such as the Times do not take much of the word. They simply highlighted Ferguson's "irrational" behavior. thinks that although Li Lei saved him, as the manager of Manchester United, he should not be so hasty to transfer Li Lei, a rookie who has only received more than half a month of professional training, to the first team, which is very irresponsible. "Ferguson's irrational act of reciprocating the favor will tarnish Manchester United's commercial image around the world." At the end of the report, they wrote:
Others, such as The Sun, which have always been exaggerated, are very unceremonious in content. "Forcing Beckham away and bringing in Asian hooligans" became the main basis for them to vigorously denounce Ferguson in their reports. And what they call "little hooligans" is called their own brains and exaggerate the focus of the report.
Although they were clever enough not to write it publicly in the newspapers, there were many doubts about whether Ferguson was linked to the gang, whether he had taken bribes, or even been involved in rumors of money laundering by the gang. I have to say, how they stimulate the eyeballs and how they come to it, regardless of what the facts are.
One of their reports reads: "We don't know why Ferguson did this, who knows, maybe soon all of United's new players will be with a gangster background." Because, they know that Ferguson likes them, and no matter what their quality is, they will be promoted to the first team and play. In this way, when the black capital takes control of Manchester United, Ferguson can get more salary from them. ”
Look at what this said, it is really a classic case of news reporting that reverses black and white and ignores the facts. This kind of report may not be believed by many people, but it will definitely attract many people to watch it. I have to say that "The Sun" has made a "great contribution" to Li Lei's dissemination.
Many people who hate Manchester United are simply applauded after seeing their reports. And it's not just them, this time even most Manchester United fans don't have a good first impression of Li Lei's new "family". They will not complain about Ferguson, but will only vent the responsibility and resentment of "smearing Manchester United's image" on Li Lei.
Under such circumstances, only a small number of Manchester United fans are sensible and grateful for Li Lei's act of saving Ferguson. At this moment, perhaps only they would notice that if it weren't for Li Lei that night, I'm afraid no one would have predicted what terrible things would happen to Ferguson.
This alone is enough for them to ignore the fact that Li Lei, a rookie who has been trained for less than a month, has been promoted to the first team. In their opinion, the club is so rich anyway, and it is nothing to have a variety of players who watch the water cooler.
It's a pity that their number is too small, and it is difficult to affect the mainstream impression of Li Lei from the outside world. For a while, although Li Lei did not play for Manchester United at all, many contemptuous labels such as "incompetent", "waste", "parallel import", "Manchester United's stupidest signing" and so on were attached to his head.
In a way, he can also be regarded as making history.
Just when the outside world was making noise, arguing, and denouncing him, Ferguson's house, which was having breakfast, was not very peaceful.
After seeing the newspapers that slandered, disfavored and even discriminated against her brother, Li Xin'er, a lovely and kind oriental angel girl, was also rarely angry. She has always paid attention to eating a healthy diet and will not miss every breakfast, she was so angry that she couldn't eat anything at this time, and sat on the sofa by herself, without saying a word, no matter how much Li Lei, Ferguson and others on the side tried to persuade her.
Perhaps in this innocent girl's heart, she can't understand why her brother is not a heinous bastard at all, and why it seems that the whole world is hostile to her brother. In the eyes of others, Li Lei may be a bad gangster and a thorn, but in her heart, she is the kindest and most amiable person in the world.
Therefore, the impact of these reports in the newspaper on her was too great at once, and she couldn't accept it in her heart at all. Thinking about it, her bright and innocent big eyes even began to splash with pity.
At this time, Li Lei suddenly regretted it in his heart. He may not care at all how the outside world and the media report and view him, but he missed Li Xin'er's reaction. Looking at Li Xin'er, who looked sad and was almost in tears, let alone beating, Li Lei, who almost didn't even scold Li Xin'er, was so distressed that his internal organs were about to be twisted together.
Looking at the newspaper that was thrown on the ground by Li Xin'er on the side, he couldn't help but have a cold light in his eyes. If he hadn't planned to pay attention to these newspapers before, now the angry urge in his heart to slap those media reporters is almost irrepressible.
However, Ferguson did not give him this opportunity immediately. It is one thing to let Li Lei become the focus of public opinion, and it is another thing to let him go to the front line to fight public opinion, perhaps the latter will allow Li Lei to attract more media firepower and let Manchester United players get a more relaxed public opinion environment, but Ferguson has not yet blackened his heart to this point, and let a young man who is still a child in his eyes bear all this.
As a result, Li Lei was also protected by Ferguson, and did not give the media any opportunity to directly contact Li Lei. In this regard, Li Lei, who was bent on wanting the media reporter to be angry, did not resist, because Ferguson had promised him personally that he would soon give him a chance to do so.
For Ferguson, Li Lei is still very grateful, reverent and trusting in his heart. Otherwise, if someone else speaks, he probably won't even be able to listen to a word.
In this way, in the following days, although Manchester United, Ferguson and Li Lei remained silent and did not respond, the heat of public opinion did not decrease at all. The more Li Lei and the others did this, the more they felt that there was something big in it, and they were so excited, especially the "Sun" newspaper.
In this case, when Manchester United's official website finally posted the latest news that it was going to hold a press conference for the new team Li Lei and Cristiano Ronaldo on August 8, it can be imagined that many media reporters were extremely excited.
Li Lei is still a rookie who has not officially appeared on the professional stage, and Cristiano is still just a rising star in the Portuguese Super League, neither of the two has the influence of football superstars, but the influence of their press conference can be compared with those superstars, or even faintly surpassed.
Of course, in addition to a small number of Portuguese media who came for Cristiano, Li Lei was the main reason why the press conference was so popular, and he was one of the well-deserved protagonists in addition to Ferguson.
When the time finally came on the eve of the press conference, there was a rare congestion at United's lavish press conference. Media reporters from all walks of life experienced the taste of the "special" Spring Festival similar to the ancient oriental country on the other side of the ocean. They scrambled to seize the advantageous position in the front row, and they did not give in to each other, and they all had a little red on their faces and thick necks. Some are too excited, and even have a quarrel, or even a pushing posture.
If it weren't for the scene, perhaps no one would have believed that these reporters, who usually call themselves social elites, would have such a side of street women, calculating, uncompromising, and short-tempered.
For a while, it was more like a slum in Li Lei's impression than the scene of a press conference of a world giant. Such a scene made the staff of Manchester United's press department very troubled, and they repeatedly dispatched additional security personnel at the scene to barely control the scene.
But this peace did not last long, as soon as Li Lei, Ferguson and Cristiano approached the press conference, the reporters who had just sat down for a short time stood up as if they had a spring under their buttocks. The atmosphere at the scene, at this moment, was like a volcanic eruption, and it became enthusiastic.
For a while, the flash flashed as if it had turned into a flashbang, the shutter sound was endless, and all kinds of questions from the reporters rushed straight to Li Lei and his party like a flash flood, and the brains and ears of the people who were shocked were buzzing together.
On the side, even though Manchester United's press officer had repeatedly shouted silence, the reporters ignored him at all, didn't even look at him, and directly took it as air.
In the end, it was Ferguson's majesty that it was only after he came forward that the excessive emotions and behaviors of the reporters were slightly controlled. But this time, it didn't last long.
And this time, the culprits are Ferguson and Li Lei, the old and the young, respectively.
Ferguson's words were: "I would have put Lee in the Community Shield squad, he's a talented player and I'm sure he'll be a very important part of the team's eventual victory. ”
And Li Lei's words were: "Why am I promoted to the first team? Why was it in the Community Shield squad? The reason is simple, I'm better than that old guy, and my head coach is smarter than you fools and. ”
As soon as these two sentences came out, the reporters in the audience were simply angry, angry, and in an uproar.
It's like a nuclear bomb exploding!