Wan Sheng's speech at the press conference was very refreshing, because he directly defined the penalty won by Manchester United as a 'despicable means', C-Ronaldo fell in the penalty area, which is naturally a 'fake fall', in fact, no one dares to be 100% sure that it is a fake fall, and many media reports that the description is also vague, after all, no one dares to be sure that C-Ronaldo fell on purpose.

But most people know that at least 80% of the time, C-Ronaldo fell on purpose, that is, 80% of Manchester United's penalty kick may have been obtained by 'despicable means'.

Now Wan Sheng has highlighted the incident in the media and described his own Manchester City as a 'team that cannot be defeated by mean means', and Manchester United has naturally become a 'team that can only win by mean means', which makes Manchester City supporters feel very happy, because few people will say it so bluntly, of course, Manchester United supporters feel diametrically opposite.

If everybody looked at it that way, they would not only lose the game, but also lose sportsmanship.

Immediately, Manchester United supporters stood up to refute it, and of course, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson hit back, saying, "There are always some controversial decisions in football games, and if everyone is like him, the pressure on the referee will be much greater." ”

'Congratulations to them for winning the game, but we'll remember the defeat, it's a lesson, and we'll remember deeply that the next win will be ours.'

Finally, Ferguson emphasized, "I expect it to come soon"

Ferguson's words can't help but remind people of the League Cup.

If Manchester United and Manchester City can still play each other this season, it will be in the cup, the most promising is the League Cup, Manchester City has already got a ticket to the final with one foot, Manchester United has a good hope of beating Blackburn, and it will be easy for them to eliminate Blackburn. So the two teams are likely to compete for the title at the Millennium Stadium.

With the Carabao Cup final on the one hand and the Manchester derby on the other, this game is really worth looking forward to!

As a result, many media outlets began to report on the game in advance.

Of course, Wigan Athletic and Blackburn are not happy as rivals in the Carabao Cup, but they haven't been eliminated yet, and the media is starting to report that Manchester City and Manchester United meet in the Carabao Cup final?

Even as Ferguson's former assistant, Blackburn boss Hughes couldn't hold back his anger and said, "I think it's us who should be in the final, even if we go to Old Trafford." We can withstand the pressure just as well. Hughes has the confidence to say this, because the score of Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United in the first round was 1-1, and they still have a good chance.

In contrast, Wigan Athletic, who lost to Manchester City in the first leg, had little confidence, and coach Jevier could only let the team train in a muffled voice, and did not talk about it at all in front of the media, because even he knew that Wigan Athletic had already exited the League Cup, and they wanted to create a miracle to eliminate Manchester City. It's really a fantasy, and it's simply impossible

While the media was engaged in a vigorous discussion about the Manchester derby that had just passed, Wan Sheng was already thinking about his contract with the club.

The second day of the race was a rest day, and he was ready to sleep late before waking up.

But a phone call woke him up. When I opened my phone, I realized that it was the club's general manager, Bill Nix, who had called to talk to Wan Sheng about a contract extension.

Wansheng and Derby County had renewed their contracts before, but at that time the team was still mixed in the second division of England, and the contract renewal was only a simple modification of the contract. It was only a symbolic announcement at the press conference.

Now it's different.

Wansheng's original contract is already very good, and there will definitely be better treatment to negotiate a renewal, but in terms of renewal. He still needs to think carefully before he talks to the club.

Manchester City's contract extension for him is basically the same as signing a new contract, Bee Nix came up with a whole set of things for renewal negotiations, Wan Sheng doesn't know much about this, he can only bring Kevin Tagore and let him come to talk to Bill Nix.

However, some things need to be considered by Wansheng himself, such as the length of the contract, before he and Manchester City were '3+1', the original contract period was three years, before the contract expired, the two sides worked happily, if there is no opinion, the contract will be automatically renewed for one year.

The advantage of this kind of contract is that it is more flexible, and after three years the club wants to change the manager, or if he wants to leave on his own, there will be no problem.

Renewals are different, once a renewal contract is signed, at least one year must be added to the term.

A European football manager, three or four years in a team is a relatively normal time, the short-term is generally two or three years, more than four years is very long, except for Wenger, Ferguson, almost engraved with the team's name of the football coach, other football coaches rarely have the same team coach for more than four years, there are many reasons, such as the coach himself will be bored with the team, the fixed environment, the club will also consider a new coach to add something new to the team, in addition, There will be other reasons why the manager and the club have to part ways peacefully.

After all, the contract is too long, and it still needs to be carefully considered, and it cannot be said that you can sign a long-term contract with confidence if you have good coaching results, because what you will be like in four years, Wansheng is not clear.

He had to think it through.

If the contract is short, it will be much more flexible, such as poor coaching performance, or it is not possible to let the team go further, then after the contract expires, Manchester City only needs to say that it will not renew the contract, Wansheng can go to the new owner, and then Manchester City can also find a new coach, the two sides will be equivalent to a peaceful breakup, and there will be no sequelae at all, but the contract is not over, it will involve the issue of liquidated damages, and when the club wants to change the coach, it needs to pay liquidated damages, and Wansheng wants to forcibly terminate the contract There will also be liquidated damages, so it will be very troublesome.

Of course, there are also advantages to a long-term contract, that is, stability, and a higher salary.

If the two sides can work together happily all the time, the club is willing to pay more salaries, and Wansheng can have a more stable environment and can focus on the team, which is beneficial to both parties.

So be sure to think carefully about the number of years.

Another important thing is naturally the salary, to renew the contract must be increased salary, the specific increase is worth discussing, for Wansheng himself. The higher the salary, the higher the higher, but for Manchester City FC, they can't increase the salary amount indefinitely, that will break the club's salary system, even if Wan Sheng is the head coach and the highest salary in the team, he can't do this.

Manchester City FC is very generous in this regard, and Billy Nix directly offered the highest treatment, with a weekly salary of 80,000 pounds before tax, an increase of 10% per year. That's about the same salary Jose Mourinho received at Chelsea, and with this salary contract, Wan Sheng can become one of the highest-paid managers in the world.

In fact, the club's chairman Waddell just wants to keep Wansheng's heart with a high salary, so it is not surprising that the club has come up with a salary contract of this level.

In addition to his own salary, Wansheng still has other requirements, the first is Diamares, he has to renew his contract as the head coach, and Diamares is an important member of the coaching staff. Naturally, he will have to renew his contract and raise his salary, but Pierce and Peter James don't have to worry about him, both of whom signed contracts with the club separately. It had nothing to do with his contract.

This is also a matter of relationship with Wansheng.

If Wan Sheng leaves Manchester City one day, Diamares will definitely follow, but Pierce and Peter James are not sure. Because of this, it is impossible for Wansheng to renew the contract to take care of the two, unless they really become 'their own people'.

Requirements for Wansheng. Manchester City FC is not surprised, after all, Diamares was brought by Wansheng, and if he wants to renew his contract, he must renew his contract together.

Manchester City agreed and soon Diamares was notified of a contract extension.

Diamares' contract extension is easy to negotiate, he doesn't have any special requirements, just the salary increase is enough to make him happy, and the salary increase is only about 200,000 pounds a year at most, not even a fraction of Wansheng's new contract, and the two sides naturally negotiated it quickly.

At this time, Wansheng's contract also talked about the end, and the dispute between the two parties was still on the issue of years.

Manchester City wanted to increase the contract period until June 2010, but Bee Nix saw no reason for Wansheng to refuse, according to the salary marked on the contract, from 2009 to 2010, that is, the last year of the contract period, Wansheng's annual salary before tax will exceed 7 million pounds, which is absolutely a staggering figure.

The long-term contract with the club is supposed to be a guarantee for the coach, and the average football coach can get such a long-term, high-salary contract for a Super League team, and it is too late, but when it comes to Wansheng, it is completely the opposite.

Wansheng didn't want to sign a contract for too long.

There are two reasons for this, one is that he is confident enough to lead the team to good results, so a long or short deal doesn't make sense to him at all.

Unless there is a conflict with the club's hierarchy, such as president Waddell, Manchester City will not consider changing the manager, but if that happens, he will prioritise leaving.

Another reason is that he knows what will happen in a few years, the year before his rebirth, Mourinho returned to Stamford Bridge and received three times his salary now, so what about 2010!? That's at least twice as much!?

When the time comes, I will only get 7 million pounds, wouldn't it be a big loss!

No matter how he thought about it, Wan Sheng felt that signing a long-term contract was only beneficial to Manchester City and not good for him, so he insisted that the contract period should only end normally until the original '3+1', that is, in June 2008, and then it would be up to him to see if the contract was renewed for another year.

The two sides were at a stalemate on the issue, and in the end, Billy Nix had to agree after consulting with Chairman Waddell.

In this way, Wansheng and the club completed the contract renewal, except for a slight increase in salary, there are basically no other changes.

Still, the renewal caused a storm in the media.

The key is still in the sense of contract renewal, which shows the attitude of Manchester City Club and Wan Sheng himself, because of Wan Sheng's leading results, many clubs are playing his idea, and now Wan Sheng has completed the contract renewal, which is equivalent to expressing to the outside world, "I have not left the idea of Manchester City Club for the time being", at the same time, Manchester City Club is also expressing in the way of contract renewal, "We are willing to pay a higher salary to retain Wan Sheng".

So the clubs that were careful had to die down.

Next, Wan Sheng threw himself on the team.

On January 21, in the 23rd round of the English Premier League, Manchester City challenged Bolton Wanderers away.

Because of the historical reasons of the 'air crash', Bolton and Manchester United are also mortal enemies, but this does not mean that Manchester City and Bolton are friends, and the relationship between the two teams is also very bad, and confrontations between fans are common in every encounter.

Although the match between the two teams is not as good as the Manchester derby, it is by no means far behind.

It's a tough battle for City.

However, Wan Sheng didn't expect the game to be so difficult. Perhaps due to the impact of the Manchester derby that had just passed, the team was not in good shape, squandered a few good chances in the first half, and it was Bolton who scored first, and then neither side scored until the second half.

Seeing that the team was unable to break through the opponent's door for a long time, Wan Sheng did not hesitate to choose a substitution directly, and he sent Robbie Fowler, who was not in good form in the last game, but he didn't expect the surprise to come soon, Fowler played the third minute. took advantage of a gap and scored directly with a long-range shot.

It was a sudden!

Even Fowler himself didn't expect to score so quickly, so he himself was a little stunned, but his teammates who came to celebrate the goal reminded him, and then Manchester City began to celebrate.

It's just an equaliser, but there's nothing to celebrate.

Soon the game started again and City were certainly not happy with the 1-1 scoreline, and now the league is very competitive and every point counts. Bolton could accept a draw, but City couldn't.

So after the restart, Manchester City launched a fierce attack, and they wanted to overtake the score and try to win. But Bolton weren't easy to get along with, defending very tightly and decisively, with all their players retreating to the edge of the box in the closing minutes. So that Manchester City's cooperation is simply impossible to fight.

As a result, until the last minute of the game, Manchester City failed to score again, and the game ended 1-1. The two sides were tied.

Wan Sheng could only reluctantly accept a draw.

He is still a little worried about the top spot in the team, which is now top of the league, but only four points from second-placed Chelsea, a draw would mean two points of being chased and the top of the league table would become very dangerous.

But what I never expected was that in another game played at the same time, Chelsea were also unexpectedly held to a draw by Charlton.

What a surprise!

Now Manchester City and Chelsea are almost all winning all the way, and a draw is difficult to come by, but I didn't expect that this round at the same time as Manchester City's draw, Chelsea also suffered a Waterloo in front of their own goal.

Chelsea took the lead at one point thanks to Gudjanssen's goal, but the players played too laxly to cut off the good run.

'We weren't nervous enough,' said Mourinho, who was unhappy with the lack of a team, "and if we had fought the whole game like we did in the last 10 minutes when there was one man less, it would have been different, it wasn't our normal game. ”

Mourinho, meanwhile, did not let the referee go, first questioning Carvalho's red card and then mocking the assistant referee who twice ruled Crespo offside.

'I don't have a red card with that,' Mourinho said, 'and we haven't had a red card in the last one and a half years because the team has a lot of discipline, they play fairly, the players are clean, but in the last two games, Robben didn't foul and got a red card, Carvalho got another one today, in my opinion, it's either not a foul or a foul, but it shouldn't be a card. ”

'Charlton worked very hard, and they were lucky enough to get a lot of help from the assistant referee, we had someone watching the TV and it was immediately clear that those were not offside at all, usually in those situations the player gets a one-on-one and has a good chance to score, but what can I do with that decision?'

Wan Sheng didn't care how Mourinho was annoyed, but he was happy to see his rivals drawn.

When interviewed by reporters, he was soon asked to talk about Chelsea's draw, Wan Sheng knew what Mourinho said, so he directly compared the Manchester derby that had just passed, "We also received an unfair decision, and it will only get worse, it was a penalty, but we took the lead, and they could only complain about the referee, but it didn't help at all. ”

"That's the gap between them and us. So we're number one in the league and they can only be second in the league."

When he said these words, the expression on Wan Sheng's face could only make people think of one word - schadenfreude! (To be continued......)