In Director Zhang's view, football is the same.

The Chinese Football Association is a separate department, but it is also directly under the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, and the Chinese national team also represents China, participating in various world competitions, and also fighting for honor for China.

Wan Sheng is not a professional player, but he is also a football coach, and now let him take over the Chinese national team, it is an incomparably huge honor!

Who else could not want this kind of honor?

Director Zhang obviously didn't think that football was much more commercial than other sports.

Professional football isn't that simple.

For a football coach who has coached very successfully abroad, salary alone is a big problem, and the Chinese Football Association wants to invite Wansheng to coach the Chinese team, but also needs to pay a huge salary, the question is, even if the Chinese Football Association can have so much money, are they willing to spare such a huge part of the salary to the national team coach?

Even if they are willing to pay so much salary, football coaching is not a 'stable job' in the first place, and few football coaches can work in a team for many years, so are football coaches who coach in Europe willing to give up their jobs and return to China to work?

These are all questions.

When Wan Sheng saw this invitation, he felt very funny.

In fact, the salary is not Wansheng's favor, the key point is that the Chinese national team is not qualified to participate in the 2010 World Cup finals at all, so inviting him to become the coach of the national team is to lead the team to play a warm-up game?

As long as it is a top manager in his right mind, it is impossible to accept this invitation.

Wan Sheng is actually not opposed to becoming the coach of the Chinese team, the premise is that the Chinese team is qualified to participate in the World Cup, and without the qualification for the World Cup, what is the point of him being the coach for a few years? After working in the Chinese national team for a long time, there is no way to train players, even if he leads the team, he can only train the players in the team during the international break, so it is too difficult to achieve good results.

Also, if he takes over the position of national team coach, will the Chinese Football Association be able to delegate power? This issue is very important, if the Chinese Football Association does not let go of power, then he will coach the national team, and he will only be a 'puppet' coach.

These are all things to consider.

If everything is negotiated, then it is actually nothing for him to be the coach of the Chinese national team, even if the salary is poor, but it is also to play for China, with his current assets, he doesn't care about this salary.

Everything has not been negotiated, and it is impossible for him to leave his post in a European club and go back to coach the Chinese national team.

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In the end, Wan Sheng did not open contract renewal negotiations with Manchester City FC, and he planned to consider it towards the end of the season.

The first thing at the moment is to lead Manchester City to compete for the second trophy of the season - the English League Cup, before Manchester City has won the Community Shield, although the Community Shield is very weak, but it is also a championship after all, and the current English League Cup is a slightly meaningful championship.

Two days before the final at Wembley Stadium, an interesting thing happened.

Wan Sheng received a phone call, the other party opened his mouth to introduce himself as David Gill, he thought for a long time, only felt that the name was very familiar, but he didn't know who it was.

David Gill introduced himself, and Wan Sheng remembered that this is the current CEO of Manchester United.

David Gill was previously the general manager of Manchester City before Roman Abramovich took over at Chelsea, poaching Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon and becoming his successor, and until now, Gill has been responsible for all of Manchester United's commercial operations, and he is also a member of the board of the English Football Association.

In English football, David Gill is also a very heavyweight.

But Wan Sheng couldn't figure out what the other party was calling him for, he was the head coach of Manchester City Club, and he was an absolute enemy of Manchester United.

After a brief pleasantries, Wan Sheng had no idea that David Gill would say something like this, "I had discussions with Mr. Glazer and we both thought you would be the best successor to Mr. Ferguson. If you could come and coach Manchester United, we would advise Mr. Alex Ferguson to retire early...... We hope you'll think about it. ”

Wan Sheng was stunned for a long time when he heard this.

Is he the best successor to Ferguson? Putting yourself in charge of Manchester United? Old man Alex Ferguson retired early?

What is this?

Wan Sheng couldn't figure it out for a while, but one thing is certain, even if he is no longer in charge of Manchester City at the end of the season, it is impossible to go directly to the sworn enemy Manchester United, not to mention the grudge between him and Manchester United, just by doing so, he will become a pillar of shame to be put on the pillar of shame of being a 'traitor', especially in the sensitive period two days before the decisive battle of Manchester United, no matter what, he must decisively refuse.

Wan Sheng said without hesitation, "Mr. Gil, I'm sorry, I don't have any interest in coaching Manchester United. ”

David Gill was stunned, maybe he didn't expect Wan Sheng to refuse so simply.

This is Manchester United, not Manchester City, not Chelsea, not Arsenal, but Manchester United in England.

In fact, David Gill and the Glazers had a discussion, knowing that Wan Sheng had refused to admit that he would be Ferguson's successor, but they thought it was a lack of sincerity on the part of Manchester United, after all, Wan Sheng was only being asked to come to Manchester United as an assistant coach, not a manager.

This time they came with sincerity, hoping that Wan Sheng could directly take Ferguson's place.

If you can poach Wansheng from Manchester City, there will be two direct benefits, one is that Manchester United has one less rival opponent in the same city, and the other is that Manchester United has a long-term stable and capable manager, after all, Ferguson is old, even if he insists, he can't do it for a few years, not to mention, Manchester United has not won any heavyweight championships in several seasons, and they hope to poach Wansheng to bring good results to Manchester United.

What David Gill didn't expect was that Wansheng simply refused.

When David Gill heard Wan Sheng's words, he still couldn't believe it, it didn't feel good to be rejected, the smile on his face froze, and his mind was full of thoughts, "How is it possible?" How could this Chinese refuse? ”

David Gill believes that in the name of Manchester United, it should be able to attract Wan Sheng, although in a few seasons, Manchester United has not won the championship, but Manchester United is the number one giant in England, and can be compared with Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan in Europe, and is one of the top football giants on the planet.

What is Manchester City?

In England, it can't be called a giant!

This time they came with sincerity, and the Chinese refused without even thinking about it? What exactly did he think?

David Gill had to persuade him again, but Wan Sheng had already made it clear, "I thank you and Mr. Glazer for your appreciation, but I am now the manager of Manchester City, it is impossible to coach Manchester United, and I think Mr. Ferguson has done a good job, he can hold on for a few years!" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm going to see the training, so I won't delay you."

Wan Sheng put down the phone directly after speaking, and he didn't plan to talk to David Gildo, anyway, he didn't go to Manchester United, and there was no need to have a relationship with Manchester United's CEO.

What I didn't expect was that the matter was not over yet.

Before leading the team to London, many reporters asked about Manchester United at the club's regular press conference.

These media did not know from what source they learned that Manchester United had invited Wan Sheng to coach, and they showed a strong interest in it, and perhaps more importantly, if Wan Sheng agreed to coach Manchester United, it would definitely be the equivalent of a magnitude 8 earthquake.

Among them, Manchester United's media is the most active, they believe that Manchester United can fancy Wansheng and invite Wansheng to coach with sincerity, and Wansheng should agree.

After all...... They're Manchester United!

At first, Wan Sheng still refuted the rumors that it was impossible for him to coach Manchester United, but later when he heard these 'high-minded' tones, he said clearly, "Why should I go to Manchester United to coach?" I'm telling you, it's absolutely impossible! I am Chinese, I have nothing to do with various clubs in England, what historical honors Manchester United has won has nothing to do with me, and to be honest, I still have a grudge with Manchester United, I am a petty person, very vindictive, but I don't go to a 'feud' team to coach! ”

Immediately, many reporters laughed.

Wan Sheng didn't finish speaking, and when the laughter stopped, he continued, "I don't know why the Manchester United manager is always involved with me, obviously Ferguson is still in charge, and he himself said that he is not old enough to retire. If you really can't find a so-called 'successor to Alex Ferguson', I can recommend it, my assistant coach Gale is good, we have a good relationship, and after he becomes manager of Manchester United, maybe Manchester City and Manchester United can develop some friendship or something, that's probably a very interesting thing......"

Immediately, the laughter in the audience was louder, almost all the Manchester City media and neutral media laughed, and only the Manchester United media gritted their teeth, they felt that Manchester United had been greatly insulted.

A reporter from Manchester Sport asked, "Mr. Wan Sheng, don't you think it's too arrogant for you to sarcastically mock Manchester United?" ”

Wan Sheng pointed at the reporter and said angrily, "Arrogance? No, not at all! As I said, I'm not going to coach Manchester United, you just have to keep asking, I'm not a Manchester United fan, and I hate Manchester United very much, everyone knows that I'm a very vindictive person, and now my pleasure is to lead my team to beat Manchester United, and whenever I see Manchester United fail, I feel very happy. ”

"Tomorrow's game, I'm going to do that, take Manchester United's Carabao Cup, it's interesting, the title belongs to us, it belongs to Manchester City!"

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