Chapter 132: One More Choice

Newcastle United are currently facing a reshuffle, or a 'big change', as two club legends retired at the same time – one is manager and England coach Robson, and the other is Alan Shearer, the club's all-time greatest goalscorer.

As the most legendary coach in English football, Robson led the LinkedIn Gran national team to the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, although they were defeated by the final champions Argentina and West Germany, but Italy's World Cup semi-final results have been the best record of the England national team in the World Cup in the last 40 years.

In addition to his contributions to the national team, Robson personally brought Ronaldo, a talented player, to the pinnacle of world football during his tenure at PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona; During his time at Barcelona, Robson also trained a future champion-inho coach, Jose Mourinho, who was Robson's translator and assistant at the time.

Without a doubt, Bobby Robson is the best coach on English soil in the last few decades!

In 2002, Robson was awarded the title of knight by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, becoming the eighth person in English football to receive this royal honor.

Alan Shearer is one of England's greatest goalscorers, a legendary goalscorer in England in the 90s, joining Newcastle United in 1996 for a record £15 million after winning the Euro's top scorer with five goals.

In nine years, Alan Shearer made 405 appearances for Newcastle United, scoring 206 goals and creating a new history for Newcastle United.

Coach Robson and Alan Shearer are both Newcastle United legends, and the retirement of these two creative figures has had a huge impact on Newcastle United - the club manager is changing and the whole team is facing a reshuffle.

If they can cross this threshold, Newcastle United may be able to tie the rest of the giants. To be truly one of the 'top five clubs in the Premier League', and vice versa, they could sink or even face relegation, so this is a very important moment for Newcastle United.

Sheffield, the president of the club, would not watch the club fall into crisis, so he took the initiative to find a number of club directors, raised a lot of funds to support the club, and also began to look for a replacement for Robson for Newcastle United.

So Wansheng appeared in Sheffield's field of vision.

Wansheng's achievements in leading the team are beyond doubt. Two years to bring the relegated Derby County to the top league title, which is enough to write a heavy stroke in the history of the Premier League, and Wansheng and Derby County Club contract renewal negotiations are not smooth, this is not a secret in English football circles, because of this, Newcastle United came to the door, hoping that Wansheng can join Newcastle United Club and take over the coach position left by the old Robson.

Newcastle United are still very sincere.

They prepared a four-year contract for Wansheng. Large contracts with an average annual salary of more than £3.5 million, while also committing more than £40 million in transfer funds over the summer.

Newcastle United's offer was very tempting, and Wan Sheng couldn't think of a reason to refuse after hearing it, after Kevin Tagore got the news. There were also some discussions with Newcastle United, but Wan Sheng only found out about the specific situation last night, and he didn't think about it before. I will be associated with Newcastle United.

But how would Malwood know Newcastle United were interested in him?

That alone is quite remarkable.

In fact, there are very few reports in the media about Wansheng leaving Derby County right now. The media doesn't know the specific situation at all, because Wansheng and Derby County Club have not torn their faces on the surface, and most people think that the renewal of the contract between the two sides is just some differences, and Wansheng should not leave Derby County Club, after all, his achievements in leading the team are obvious to all, and now this Derby County team is also created by him.

Of course, in the eyes of football insiders, Wan Sheng's departure from the Derby County club is not surprising, but Wan Sheng still hasn't received many invitations, which is actually related to the scope of his current fame and the overall situation of the Premier League team.

Wan Sheng's results are quite good, but in fact, he is not very famous in other regions, after all, Derby County only led the team to the League Cup, and Wan Sheng is too young.

In the eyes of the media in many other countries, Wan Sheng does have a certain ability, but it is not certain that he is a world-class manager, and his salary is also a problem - his salary in Derby County has exceeded one million pounds, which means that if you want to invite Wan Sheng to coach, you must come up with the salary of the world's top manager.

This condition alone discourages the vast majority of teams.

Moreover, those teams that can afford to hire top managers, but do not dare to fully trust Wansheng's ability, after all, he has only led the team to the Premier League for one season, and there is no fame at all before, in contrast, they are more willing to invite those long-established coaches with the same salary, at least their leading results can be guaranteed not too bad.

So outside of England, few clubs would consider inviting Wan Sheng.

Of the 20 Premier League teams in England, only 3 or 4 are ready to change managers, and Newcastle United is one of the most talked-about ones, but the news in front of Malwood must be more than just speculation.

Wan Sheng looked at Malwood, intending to hear what he had to say.

Sure enough, Malwood continued, "Mr. Waddell is also very interested in you, you may consider it." John Waddell, the current president of Manchester City and the majority shareholder of Manchester City, owns 30 per cent of Manchester City.

"You're speaking to me on behalf of Manchester City?" Wan Sheng asked suspiciously.

"No, no." Malwood laughed, "I'm just in charge of passing the word." ”

Wan Sheng nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Can you tell me more about it?" ”

Malwood also thought for a moment, raised his wine glass and gestured, and said, "It's not suitable here, and I can't decide anything, I'm just here to explain, so that you don't have to decide so quickly, perhaps, as a friend, it also gives you another choice, I think Mr. Wald is also looking forward to meeting you." ”

After chatting with Malwood for a while, Wan Sheng left the party, also thinking about his whereabouts.

Before he considered leaving Derby County, in fact, there are not many real options, Newcastle United is indeed a good way out, but he is a little resistant mainly because Newcastle is a little too far away, that is the northernmost city in England, in addition, he also knows that like Newcastle United, the chairman does not have absolute authority, and there are many internal contradictions, it is too difficult to rise.

If he chooses to go to Newcastle United, he will not be much better there than in Derby, mainly because Newcastle United cannot completely give him power, because the chairman Sheffield does not have absolute rights.

So Wansheng is actually a little worried about where he is going.

As Malwood said, now he has one more choice - Manchester City, which is also a good club, under the same conditions, he will definitely choose Manchester City, one is that he is familiar with Manchester, and the other is that he has the absolute support of the chairman in Manchester City, and he can devote himself to building the team.

Of course, the premise is that the conditions are equal, and the details will be discussed after negotiation.

It is worth noting that this evening, the media got news that Newcastle United club and Wansheng were linked, and the incident was caused by a photo taken by local Newcastle media of Kevin Tagore and club chairman Sheffield having dinner together.

Or the reporters who filmed at the time didn't think much of it, because Kevin Tagore didn't have many opportunities to appear in the public eye, and he was not the kind of agent who was very famous, so most media reporters didn't know Kevin Tagore at all.

But when the reporter took the photo back to the magazine, someone immediately recognized it, and then the 'shocking news' was revealed, "Derby County coach Wan Sheng, at the end of the season, is likely to join Newcastle United and take over the position of old Robson's manager!" ”

The most favorable evidence is this photo!

Kevin Tagore doesn't often appear in the media's field of vision, but he is Wansheng's agent, and many media also know that the two are even classmates and good friends at University College London, so that Kevin Tagore can fully represent Wansheng.

Now that he's having dinner with Newcastle United president Sheffield, is there any other explanation? It can only be Wansheng who will take over the position of Newcastle United!

There was a lot of hype in the Newcastle media about this!

At the moment of Derby's championship, Wan Sheng is definitely one of the most watched figures in England, and many media are reporting on him, and now this concerned 'star coach' is linked with Newcastle United, Newcastle media is actually looking forward to it, and more importantly, Wan Sheng's team has a very good result, he can bring the top league title to the defeated Derby County, so after coming to Newcastle, will he bring a top league title to Newcastle United?

Thinking of this, many Newcastle hearts are hot!

But where there is support, there will be doubts.

There are still many media and fans who question Wan Sheng's success, after all, Wan Sheng's resume is too short, he has only been the coach for two seasons, one of which was to lead the team to the second league, before that, he did not even have experience as a coach assistant, such a young, junior coach, come to Newcastle can be as successful as the original, no one can guarantee.

But what they didn't know was that Wan Sheng had received an invitation from Manchester City chairman Waddell at this time, and was ready to take time to go to Manchester for a formal interview with Manchester City Club (to be continued......