Chapter 176: Soft Persimmons
In fact, the Swede Eriksen is not the only one who has been criticized by Wan Sheng.
Many England fans feel that Eriksen is okay to lead the team, there are no problems within the team, and there has always been a sense of unity, which is good news, after all, internal stability can play better. In addition, although the team's results are not too good, they are acceptable, so many fans think that Eriksen leads the team well, but these are just the opinions of fans, and in the eyes of the 'peers' in the coaching industry, Eriksen has a lot of bad things.
Like Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger.
A Manchester United manager, an Arsenal manager, both often criticize Eriksen in the media, mainly because Eriksen always recruits their star players in some small games, such as against Serbia, Wales and other teams, and even ordinary warm-up games, which affects the form of several England players on both teams, and even injuries.
This will undoubtedly be a loss for the club.
Something to say' Peers are enemies', not only in terms of competition, the national team coach is always difficult to have a good relationship with the club manager, especially Eriksen, a Swede who was not well-known before, actually became the coach of the England team, and got the highest coach salary in the world (before Mourinho went to Chelsea, Eriksen was the world's highest-paid coach), which will naturally make other coaches dissatisfied, not to mention, his leading results are also very average, think about it, England team against Serbia, such a game with all the main players? I'm afraid an all-underbench team will be enough to cope with the game. But Eriksen's England team couldn't do it, and his all-star England team only played 1-0 at home school, and that's what he brought to England. Perhaps the fans think that the victory is good, but the coaches who have a conflict with Eriksen will not 'pay lip service'.
So it's not big news to see some big-name club managers sarcastically squirting Eriksen on the English media news.
Eriksen has been silent about this, and he will hardly have a war of words with these 'fault-finding' peers, but that may be because it is Ferguson and Arsene Wenger who speak. Neither of them is easy to mess with, let alone their influence in English football. With England having a few of their players in the squad alone, Eriksen doesn't want to clash with them too much.
This time it's different.
Wan Sheng? A Chinese who came out of a corner actually dared to stand up and say that the England team?
As the saying goes, 'find soft persimmons to pinch', in contrast. Wansheng is a soft persimmon, Eriksen has suffered a lot of anger from other big-name coaches, and now when he sees such a soft persimmon, he is almost kneading himself in front of him, and he will naturally not be soft.
So he made such remarks in the media, claiming that 'Wan Sheng is not qualified to comment on his England team', 'Wan Sheng is just a clown, just for hype', and so on.
Eriksen doesn't think this will lead to any consequences, a young manager at just 27 years old whose side has only just been promoted to the Premier League. He doesn't have much influence in English football, and there are no Derby County players in the English squad.
In short, this kind of soft persimmon is not pinched white, and this is what Erikson thinks.
But what he didn't expect was. The other party's counterattack will be so fast!
Wan Sheng saw some media reports when he arrived in Lisbon, and heard Eriksen say that he was a 'clown' or something, which was absolutely intolerable, in fact, if the general media reported like this, Wan Sheng was used to it. It would only be laughed at all, after all, in England he has a lot of hostile media. If he had thought about it, he wouldn't have to do anything else.
But the other side is Eriksen, the head coach of England, and the meaning is different.
This is a battle between two coaches, it has nothing to do with the media, and it can't be weakened in any way, Wan Sheng doesn't need to look for media reporters or anything, he opened MSN almost immediately, and posted a message in the group to respond to Eriksen, "I'm not responsible? So what is his responsibility? His contract doesn't expire until 2006, and even if the results are not good this time, he can say that the team is not yet integrated, after all, it has only been two years" The sarcasm in the text is clear.
Now there are more than 20 reporters in Wansheng's MSN group, which is still not a small number, and there are also some medium-sized media reporters outside the Derbyshire area, and this MSN group has also become a small communication platform for some media reporters.
The reporters in the group originally thought that the season was over, and when Wan Sheng spoke again, he would release some Derby County transfer news, but they didn't expect to receive such a message, and they immediately understood Eriksen's words.
So soon the media reported Wansheng's response as it was
At this moment, in faraway China, there are also many fans who pay attention to the European Cup, and now many Chinese fans do not care about the domestic league and national team games, because that will only disappoint them, and the higher level of European League and European Cup matches can still attract many fans.
In China, with the likes of England, Italy and Derby County all having a large number of supporters, the European Championship is a highly regarded event for China – even if there is no Chinese team among them.
At the same time, there are also many people who pay attention to Wansheng.
In the past season, Wansheng led Derby County to win the English League One championship and the FA Cup, which is quite good, but in fact, there are not many reports in China, most of the reports are also text-based, report the results, and talk about Wansheng's good results, after all, China does not have the right to broadcast TV, even the FA Cup final between Derby County and Manchester United, fans can only transmit through the guò network, watch the game in the form of agents, even if the network speed is fast, At least it will be more than ten minutes later than the real time of the game, but there are still not many fans watching the game like this, and more fans choose to download the game video uploaded by large media two days later.
After watching the video of the game, it is natural to know that the Derby County table is excellent, but that's all, the comments on Wansheng himself are good and bad, and there is no news of Wansheng in the media at all.
So there are a lot of people in China who care about Wansheng, but there is very little really to discuss.
"Wansheng led the team to achieve quite good results!"
"Derby County will be promoted to the Premier League next season!"
"Wan Sheng led the team to victory over Manchester United!"
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That's all, what exactly Wan Sheng did, what he was doing recently, what he said, all of them were gone, and after the game with Manchester United, the media didn't even know where Wan Sheng was, let alone conduct interviews or anything.
Many domestic media and fans felt regretful, but what they didn't expect was that when it was the European Cup, Wansheng suddenly appeared, and it appeared in the form of a verbal battle with Eriksen!
Although I don't know where Wan Sheng is, but think about the European Cup, the media can guess that Wan Sheng is likely to be in Portugal at this time, and many domestic reporters in Portugal also want to try their luck and hope to interview Wan Sheng, of course, this is a bit unrealistic, Portugal is so big, even Lisbon, the city that hosts the European Cup, is not small, although Wan Sheng is a small celebrity, but he is not famous in Portugal, and no one will recognize him when he walks on the street.
So it's not easy to interview Wansheng.
But the news in the English media certainly can't be fake, and Wan Sheng has already had a verbal battle with Eriksen, which is perhaps the most important and entertaining news about England before the game.
Many domestic fans have a sense of honor when they hear the news, before they felt that the world's big-name coaches were unattainable, not to mention the world's big-name coaches, even if the average European coach came to China, they could be treated as a rare treasure, Eriksen's level of coach, is definitely a Chinese fan can only wait and see, but they found that there are also Chinese coaches who can stand on the same level as Eriksen to fight.
As a result, on various news forums, the news about this news has also become hot
In contrast, the English media did not think so much.
After Wan Sheng's response, some media also questioned Eriksen, because they found that Wan Sheng was right - even if England team does not play well, Eriksen does not have to bear any responsibility, the FA is counting on Eriksen to lead the team to the World Cup, even if the result is not good, it is almost impossible for him to step down directly.
So the English media wanted to use 'questioning' to force Eriksen to make some guarantees, in fact, the English have always been arrogant in football, they were already dissatisfied with a Swede becoming the national team manager, and now they have an excuse to say a lot.
Eriksen didn't expect it to be like this at all, there was enough pressure from public opinion before the European Cup, and now there are doubts about himself everywhere outside, but now it's useless to think about anything else, Eriksen maintains a strong demeanor, and in an interview, he responded to recent reports, "It's irresponsible to resign if you don't get good results." ”
Naturally, he could not resign from the post of any bad result and become England manager, which is definitely the pinnacle of his coaching career so far.
"I believe that the England team will achieve good results, this time the team is united, and our goal is only to win the championship!" ”
The champion's statement made the voice of skepticism much quieter, perhaps more mainly because many England players, such as captain David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, John Terry and others, also stood up to support Eriksen.
At the same time, Wansheng was taking Dali on a beach vacation in Lisbon.
He saw the reports in the media, and when he heard that Erickson didn't mention his name again, he meant to admit defeat, so he naturally wouldn't provoke anything again, in contrast, it was more pleasant to relax on vacation with Dali.
However, the two will not stay long, and the group stage of the European Championship will start in two days, and Wan Sheng will definitely have to watch a few games at that time, and at the same time inspect the players of various national teams by the way. (To be continued)