Chapter 8: Fans
The press conference here is still going on, and Fran has accompanied Wang Xuan out of the press room.
Next, the news that Manchester City was bought by a Middle Eastern consortium and the blockbuster news that Manchester City had signed Robinho from Real Madrid for 40 million euros from Real Madrid smashed the media reporters in disbelief.
Today, Manchester City's official press conference confirmed many of the rumours that have been rumored to be there. There are some things that are rumored in the media and confirmed by the official people to have a completely different effect.
Today's press conference is too rewarding for the media, and tomorrow's news, Manchester City's news is enough to occupy half of the football page. In particular, the news of Manchester City's new manager will definitely attract enough eyeballs.
These news, even after the grand opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, can still occupy enough news pages.
Wang Xuan, the young and excessive, but somewhat arrogant new manager of Manchester City, is from China. And in that distant ancient country in the East, a sports event is also being held. The grand opening ceremony that has never been seen before, the Bird's Nest Stadium and the magical Water Cube that can be described as majestic are all from China.
The young and overly Chinese head coach seems to have some subtle connection with the Olympics that are now in full swing. These points are enough to detonate the audience's eyeballs.
Media reporters were preparing their press releases, and Wang Xuan was accompanied by Fran into the Carrington Training Center.
Originally, after the new manager took over, there should have been a meeting with the fans. But because Wang Xuan was too young and famous, Manchester City canceled the meeting. And now Fran took Wang Xuan into the training ground, just to make an appearance for the media.
Like a king, Wang Xuan patrolled his territory. But he still saw the fans gathered outside the training ground, holding banners and shouting in protest.
"The Chinese get out of Carrington."
'You can't insult the great Manchester City club.'
All kinds of banners completely occupied Wang Xuan's sight, and those fans let out deafening boos when they saw Wang Xuan.
Wang Xuan looked at the group of fans who were stopped outside the iron gate, and unconsciously stopped.
The crowd of fans were holding scarves emblazoned with the Manchester City logo, squirting English curses from their mouths, and bottles of mineral water and silver coins flew over the iron gate into the training ground......
Wang Xuan frowned slightly, he knew that this group of people were absolute die-hard fans of Manchester City. He even saw a trembling old man in the crowd, hunched over and holding a poster......
Such an old man still loves his team deeply. In this half-blue, half-red city, the blue moon has been soaked into his blood, marrow, and even soul.
For such fans, Wang Xuan is full of respect. Even though he is not treated well by these fans now, he does not want to disappoint them.
Wang Xuan turned to Fran and said, "I think I should say something to these fans, come with me!" ”
Fran wanted to refuse, but seeing Wang Xuan's serious expression, he didn't say the words of refusal after all, patted Wang Xuan's shoulder, and motioned for him to go over together.
Wang Xuan approached, and the fans, like beasts locked in an iron cage, suddenly smelled the fresh meat, and wanted to pounce on them one by one.
"Chinese, don't insult the great city of Manchester."
"Asians don't understand football at all, you're going to ruin Manchester City."
"Chinese, I beg you, leave Manchester City! I don't want to see the great Manchester City in the Championship next season. ”
Wang Xuan licked his lips and said, "Gentlemen, can you calm down?" ”
Wang Xuan's words didn't have any effect, but he still said patiently: "I just played Manchester City's coach, I haven't played a game, and I haven't even met the players yet." Do you do the same to other new managers? Don't you think that's unfair to me? Will you calm down and listen to me? ”
Wang Xuan finally quieted down the group of fans with continuous rhetorical questions, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fran glanced at Wang Xuan with some surprise, he didn't expect this young excessive Chinese to suppress this group of grumpy fans.
At this moment, Wang Xuan looks like a successful speaker. He straightened his tie and said: "I think the most important thing for a manager is not age, not seniority, but the results of leading the team. Even if it's Lippi, Hiddink, and Mourinho standing here now, will you be satisfied if they don't lead the team well? ”
Many fans shook their heads silently, obviously Wang Xuan's words had had an effect. Then, Wang Xuan said: "So I don't think you should look at my age, you shouldn't look at my nationality, if I don't lead the team with good results after ten games, I deserve to be sprayed by you, instead of doing nothing like now, you are clamoring for me to get out of class." ”
"You Asians don't understand football at all, why don't so many famous coaches who are idle look for you? How do you convince me that there's nothing dirty behind this? "A young fan was very unconvinced.
Wang Xuan looked at the childish boy and said with a smile: "Mansour spent 200 million pounds for Fahim to buy Manchester City, do you know the concept of 200 million pounds?" Even if it's all the largest denominations, they can smash me to death. Do you think someone will joke with so much money? No matter how rich the Middle Eastern boss is, he will not open a money printing machine. ”
Wang Xuan's words made the group of fans laugh, and they also subconsciously put away the banners and posters they brought. The old man was obviously very prestigious among the fans, and he approached Wang Xuan and said, "We believe you for the time being, if you can surprise us after a few games, we will definitely support you." But if your grades are poor, we'll still ask you to leave class. ”
"I'm not going to let you down, sir." Wang Xuan said with a smile.
The old man said again: "Chinese, we may not trouble you for the time being, but there is still a group of people who are not necessarily, I hope you can speak with your team results soon." ”
Wang Xuan was a little puzzled, but the old man didn't explain again, he said: "My name is Michael Scharworth, your words today are very sincere, I hope you can bring Manchester City to new heights." ”
Sharworth walked away with the group of fans, and a smile appeared on Wang Xuan's face, but he still asked Fran what Salworth meant by "another group of people" just now.
Fran explained to Wang Xuan, and at this time, the reporters who had already left the press conference hall quickly transmitted the information in their hands through the Internet.
Tomorrow, maybe in an hour or two, a piece of football news will reach the ears of the fans.