Chapter 22: Warm-up Match

The reporters outside the fence were quite annoyed!

They protested like marchers, they kept shouting, they demanded that the interviews be fair, that the interviews be fair, that they were good at wordplay, but now they feel insulted because they are being played with wordplay.

What friends!

What to bring friends to visit the club!

It's all excuses!

That damn Chinese is just looking for an excuse to treat them differently from those third-rate reporters inside! This is a fact in front of them, even some of the fans around who are good things can see it, they seem to see the disdain of the damn Chinese on the training ground, hear the ridicule in their ears, which makes them angry and makes them hysterical.

In fact, in the world of journalists, there are also three, six, nine and so on.

What they say about fair and just interviews does not exist in the real world, but often in the world of reporters, it is more obvious, for example, at some news conferences, big media reporters must speak first, have the right to ask questions, and then it is the turn of those small media reporters. In normal interviews, small media reporters are often not taken seriously wherever they go, and many times large media reporters, the interviewees will take the initiative to accept interviews.

In a word, in the world of journalists, context is the most important thing.

If you represent a big media that is influential in the world, then your status will be very high, and the right to interview will be very priority compared to your peers, otherwise, you don't ask for any interview fairness, it is not too practical at all.

But that's what annoys them the most!

You know, they're the mainstream media in Derbyshire, and even in England, they're medium-sized, and in Derbyshire, they're the best media. What about the journalists who can shoot inside the training ground? Some of them are even tabloid reporters, and their status should be lower than them in any case. So in their opinion, it should be them who stayed in the training ground to shoot, and it was only those tabloid reporters who stood outside the fence.

But now the situation is reversed!

They couldn't accept this situation at all, so they kept protesting. But the players in the training ground regard this kind of thing as a 'funny' thing, and use it as a talking point, and they can also have a little more entertainment element in the training, most of the fans around them don't know the situation, they just watch it as fun, and Wan Sheng himself doesn't care about it at all, these reporters want to make trouble. He didn't pay attention to it!

As a result, the reporters' voices were dry and had no effect at all.

In the end, their voices could only be weakened, and they could think of other options, such as complaining to the club's president, Mr. Smith...... No, it should be said that it is a complaint.

It's a pity that the season hasn't started yet, and Ji Smith doesn't know where he is, and the club's work and transfers are handled by Wilcox and Wansheng, so he doesn't have to worry about it at all. And his public phone is the landline of the chairman's office, and his own mobile phone is only known to a few close people and friends, and it is not easy for reporters to reach Ji-Smith, and they have been calling for a long time but no one answers.

So they retreated to Wilcox.

In the club. The two leading figures are Smith and Wilcox. One is the president of the club, the other is the general manager of the club, and according to the rank, the position of the president of the club is definitely the highest. But as many people know, Wilcox has no less power than Smith at Derby County club, one privately. The two are good friends, and Wilcox manages most of the team's work, while Smith is more of a symbol and rarely meddles in the club's affairs.

In addition, in terms of level, Wan Sheng, as the head coach of the team, is on the same level as Wilcox. But things can't just look at the level, after all, Wan Sheng has just become the head coach of Derby County, and it has not been four months even after the holiday, even if he leads the team to complete the relegation, there is still a big gap with Wilcox, which is mainly reflected in the prestige, those fans who are loyal to the club must be more supportive of Wilcox, there is no doubt about it, after all, the head coach generation is a new generation, and Wilcox has been working in the club for a long time, and the actual status of the two is still different.

According to the contribution to the team, compared with Wilcox, Wansheng just led the team to relegation is really nothing, Wilcoles brought a promotion coach to the team, Derby County was able to promote the English that year, Wilcox's credit is quite large, this is not just the credit behind the scenes, at that time Wilcox had a period of time, and even led the team to participate in the game himself, although it was not for a long time, but the fans still remembered him.

In short, Wilcox has a lot of prestige, a lot of power, a high level, and can suppress Wansheng in all aspects, so the reporters decided to go to Wilcox to protest.

It would be great if Wilcox could come forward to suppress Wansheng, and then see what the damned Chinese could say, in the face of Wilcox's power, the Chinese could only admit his mistake and apologize to them.

They thought it was good, but it didn't work out that way.

They're a little too fanciful.

Wansheng is the head coach of the team, or the head coach of Wilcox himself, the relationship between the two has not been bad, and there is no contradiction between them, not to mention that because of these small problems, even if Wansheng really made any mistakes, Wilcox, as the general manager of the team, can only stand up to maintain Wansheng, which is related to the external image of the Derby County club and the internal deterrence, and a harmonious group is the most powerful. So it's strange that Wilcoxken came forward, even if they talk about it, they can only talk about it privately, and it has nothing to do with these protesting reporters.

So the reporters only got this answer, "I am only the general manager of the club, and the head coach has always been responsible for the affairs of the team, you can go to the head coach and talk to it." ”

And then...... It's gone.

They had been preparing for a long time and didn't even have a chance to say anything, so Wilcox hung up the phone, of course they would not be reconciled, so they called one by one, but the answer turned into a woman, the woman's voice was very nice and gentle, and her words were extremely polite, but she kept saying, 'Sorry, Mr. Wilcox is busy'. In short, it was impossible for them to contact Wilcox again.

In the event that the protests were ineffective, the journalists had to fight back with their strength.

So various reports came out.

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Wan Sheng didn't take this matter to heart at all, his energy has always been focused on team training, as for what those Derby County mainstream media reporters think, he doesn't care at all, he doesn't care what they think, what's more, he did it on purpose, he just wants those people to know-

Those who support Lao Tzu will be able to get good treatment!

Those who oppose Lao Tzu. It has nothing to do with Lao Tzu at all. When you stand on the opposite side of Lao Tzu, what equal rights do you want to obtain, it is really whimsical!

Wilcox also called to inquire about the matter, and Wan Sheng directly stated the reason, and proposed to Wilcox to ignore those reporters, "Look at what they usually report, these reporters are completely pure 'opposition', no matter what I do, they will oppose it." So we don't have to pay attention to them. ”

Wilcox nodded wryly when he heard this.

As the general manager of the club, Wilcox didn't know what those reporters covered on a daily basis, but he knew better about these 'opposition' reporters. In fact, they all supported the Derby County club before, and what they opposed was Wan Sheng himself, but he didn't say much about it, he looked at the results of Wan Sheng's team. If the team's results are good, everything is easy to say, and any reporter or something is a floating cloud. The team's results are guaranteed, even if these Derby County reporters hate Wan Sheng, they must say good things about the Derby County club, otherwise the fans will not buy their accounts, no matter how good the results are, no matter how good the surface work is, there is no guarantee of results, no matter how much they support the Derby County reporters, they will become 'opposition'.

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Wilcox didn't intervene in this matter, Wan Sheng didn't pay attention to it at all, Jie Smith couldn't find anyone at all, and the 'Big Three' of Derby County Club all had this attitude, and the mainstream media reporters were very helpless, and they could only rely on their own strength to fight back.

So in the next day's report, they described Wan Sheng as a larger version of the 'dictator'.

This title was only proposed before, but now the reporters feel that this title is too suitable, this damn Chinese is a dictator, he grasps the rights of the team inside and out, they just carry out 'normal' reports on the team, provoking this Chinese dissatisfied, he actually treats them differently from those third-rate reporters, which is really intolerable!

In annoyance, they continued to criticize in words.

It's a pity that these reports didn't have the slightest effect on Wan Sheng, he didn't buy the last copy of the Derbyshire Sports Newspaper in the last two mornings, but asked the people who advertised the magazine on the street for a few tabloids, and then he could find all kinds of compliments for him, praise for the Derbyshire club, he liked to listen to others praise himself, which made his day better.

Then in a good mood, he went straight to the team.

It was the first warm-up match of the new season against a fifth-tier English team and a semi-professional league team (England has nine divisions, with the first four divisions being professional leagues and the bottom five being amateur leagues), and the match was played at Derbyshire's home stadium, Pride Stadium.

After assembling in the morning, the whole team took a bus to Pride Stadium to meet the game.

From start to finish, Derby County had an overwhelming advantage, and their opponents simply did not fight back. Wan Sheng took turns to send all the players on the field, and the shape of the game remained unchanged. The opponent is so weak that the Derby County players don't need to use much strength at all to keep the opponent without the slightest power to fight back.

Wan Sheng originally wanted to pick a weak team first, so that the team could implement new tactics, but in this kind of game, the tactics are not important at all, his full-court tight defense has not reflected the effect, and the offensive side is completely chaotic, because the opponent's offense is too weak, there is no ability to resist at all, the team only needs to play seriously, just relying on the player's personal table, it is enough to end the opponent's attack in their own half, and then it is the attack of Derby County.

The final score was 5:o, and Derby County took their first win of the warm-up game.

Of course, for a game like this, the score has become unimportant.

However, the warm-up game still had some effect, at least the game was very satisfying to the fans in the audience, although the opponent was only a team in the fifth division, but as long as Derby County can win, the fans will be satisfied, in the game, they saw the team's strong attacking ability, and the hearty attack made them feel excited.

At the same time, this warm-up match also gave the players confidence, no matter what the opponent is, at least to win...... A complete victory always brings confidence and smoothness to those involved.

The second warm-up match took place three days later.

The opponent is an English second division team, the team is called Chesterfield, which is a mid-table team in the English second division, but their strength is still a little worse than Derby, and in the end Derby County won 3:o again.

Easily beat a mid-tier team in the English Second Division, the result is still very good, but Wan Sheng is not satisfied, he is not dissatisfied with the team's table, it is because the team's table is too good, he is very dissatisfied, he is going to show problems in the warm-up game, not let the team win a big win without suspense.

However, in the two warm-up games, Wan Sheng also knows that the current team strength is very good, and it is difficult for these lower league teams to detect the team's problems.

He's focused on those top league teams.

The lower league teams can't play against Derby County head-on, and the teams in the same league are afraid of revealing the team's new tactics, so it's always good to be a little secretive, but the top league teams can always do it. Problems are likely to come out when the team is pressed by the opposition, which helps him to solve the problem, and he also wants to see how the team can show when facing strong teams, so he quickly contacted the club's general manager Wilcox to help him contact a top-flight team for a warm-up game against Derby County.

At present, Wan Sheng's roots in the football world are too shallow, and he can be connected to teams in the same or lower leagues, but he has no connections in the top league, so this matter still needs Wilcox to come out.

Wilcox has been in the football circle for so many years, so it goes without saying much about his connections.

Soon Wansheng got the news that Wilcox had contacted English side Middlesbrough and their head coach Steven McClaren had agreed to let the team play a warm-up game against Derby County in three days' time at Middlesbrough's home riverside stadium.

This chapter update is a bit late.,Sorry.,There's a more update before 12 p.m.- (To be continued!)

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