Chapter 8: Unlucky Pierce

The signing ceremony is equivalent to the welcome ceremony, and it is also to tell everyone with actions that a certain player or coach has joined the team, which is more symbolic.

There is also a saying in European football that the signing ceremony is the beginning of entering a club, and if you want to have a good future, you must 'make a good fortune', so it is very important that the ceremony is carried out smoothly, and the fans invited are loyal fans who absolutely support the team, and they come to welcome them, and the questions raised by media reporters are also within the scope of the regulations.

It's all about a good start.

The signing ceremony is just a prescribed 'meet-and-greet', the club announces the players (or coaches) to the outside world, and that's it, so generally speaking, there will be a formal press conference within a few days after the signing ceremony, so that the media and fans can get to know the new players (or coaches) up close, and the players are a little different, especially for the manager, they pay more attention to the external press conference, the first press conference is often very formal, and will also answer a lot of relevant questions.

It's traditional, and it's a necessary process.

The survival of football clubs depends on the fans, and now they have fame and prestige depend on the media, and the team has a new head coach, and the general direction of development may change, so it is natural for the media and fans to understand the new manager.

However, Wan Sheng did not rush to hold a press conference, and instead asked the club to postpone it for a few days.

"I'm also going to invite the rest of the coaching staff to introduce them to the fans and the media at the first press conference." Wan Sheng explained.

"The coaching staff?" Waddell was rather surprised.

Wald wouldn't refuse a contract to someone on the coaching staff, but does this youngster really have a coaching staff? Hasn't he only been a manager for two or three years?

Wan Sheng doesn't know if he counts as a coaching staff, but after all, Gael Diamares will definitely invite him to work with him, plus other people who may come, it should be considered a coaching staff, right?

As a football manager, it's actually quite remarkable to have a coaching staff.

There are a lot of top managers in the world. But not every top manager has a coaching staff, more famous coaches, such as the recently retired England legendary coach Robson, his coaching staff is also very famous, Mourinho was once one of them, and Ferguson's coaching staff can be mentioned, and the current Middlesbrough manager McLaren used to be Ferguson's assistant.

Like these world-famous managers, there will be a coaching staff, but there are also many top-flight managers who do not have a coaching staff, and Mourinho, who is now in charge of Chelsea, does not have a regular coaching staff. He arrived at Chelsea on his own and later came to London to help him with a younger brother (who had followed Robson with him).

But generally speaking, whether there is a coaching staff or not depends on the resume, such as those who have excellent coaching performance and have been coaching for a long time, it is naturally easy to form a coaching staff, and those coaches who have been coaching for a short time are difficult to have a coaching staff.

Wan Sheng's situation clearly falls into the latter category, having only managed Derby County. It's only been a little over two years, so Wald was surprised to hear that he had a coaching staff.

Wan Sheng didn't explain much to Mr. President, he just told him to postpone the press conference. Then I went straight to the town of Great Derby

At the same time, various media outlets have begun to report wildly on the news of Wansheng's arrival at Manchester City.

The news is absolutely heavyweight!

When Liverpool's 'Istanbul Miracle', Wan Sheng was one of the protagonists, but after half a month. Wansheng couldn't find anyone at all, so the media coverage of him gradually decreased, but it was only a few days. The media got the news again, and it was directly Wansheng joining Manchester City, which really made many media excited and surprised.

So a new round of reports about Wansheng began!

Wan Sheng joined Manchester City, there are really too many topics to report, and the source is 'the reason why Wan Sheng left Derby County'.

A lot of media hype about this topic, it seems to be a bit hyped, but in fact, the grudge entanglement between Wansheng and Derby County is really boring.

Maybe it's also because a lot of news always has new content.

Like at the beginning, the media talked about Wan Sheng's departure from Derby County, the reason was just that 'the contract renewal was not negotiated', and then when the Newcastle media broke the news that he joined Newcastle United, the reason became 'there is a better choice', and then the statement of the new chairman of the Derby County club, Pierce, also seemed to confirm the 'better choice' statement, but immediately Wan Sheng's rebuttal remarks pushed the new senior management of the Derby County club to the forefront.

Derby County FC has turned into a money-making tool for GSE!?

This news sounds a bit ridiculous!

Even though in recent years, a lot of foreign capital has invested in the English league, and the international community has revealed the eye-catching profits of Manchester United and Arsenal every year, but in fact, most professional football clubs are still in a state of loss every year, and even many clubs have to rely on the chairman or the board of directors to pay for it to maintain their operations.

Derby County is one such club.

When Jie Smith was chairman, Derby County FC could barely break even, but when you consider the club's fall from the Premier League to League One and almost relegation in its first season in League One, you can see that the club is actually in a state of loss.

It was only after Wan Sheng became the head coach that he led Derby County to miraculous results in two seasons that the club had a profit, and most of the income was the championship bonus, rather than the actual commercial operation.

So it's ridiculous to use an ordinary football club as a money-making tool.

The purpose of those foreign capital integration into English football is generally to expand channels for other businesses, through a football club, to open a gap in the British market, or like Roman Abramovich, purely to play football, and recently integrate into the British high society, perhaps only by acquiring clubs such as Manchester United and Arsenal, can 'make money' as the main purpose, after all, in England, only these two clubs can achieve large profits every year.

Then it would be strange for GSE to do this.

It didn't take long for the media to find out the real reason, and in fact, it is not difficult to say, after all, many people in the Derby County club know the reason why Wansheng's contract renewal talks were not appropriate.

"Wansheng lost the right to transfer"

This statement was confirmed.

To put it more bluntly, the new chairman Pierce wants to sell Van der Vaart and Ribery to raise some liquidity, and Wansheng will certainly not agree to the team selling his carefully cultivated stars, so a contract extension cannot be negotiated at all.

As for what Pierce used to 'perfunctory' fans, "player turnover is normal", "It's hard for us to keep big stars" and the like, they were directly broken by the media reality reports.

All the fans know the reason why Wan Sheng left the team, and it is easy to imagine how much trouble Pearson and Sam Rush will have next.

Derby County fans have been extremely dissatisfied with them, the club can win the championship, absolutely nothing to do with them, but the biggest hero Wan Sheng left, and the team sold Van der Vaart and Ribery one after another, this is to let Derby County return to the second league, the rhythm of the results plummeted!

At this time, Pierce, who was in the club, knew that the trouble was more than that.

When he read the news of Wan Sheng's signing for Manchester City in the newspapers, he almost vomited blood in anger because just two days earlier, Derby County and Manchester City had agreed two transfer deals - Lee Morris and Leto Ziegler joined Manchester City for £5 million and £3 million respectively.

The two transfer news have been confirmed, and even the clubs and players on both sides have signed, but they have not yet been officially announced to the public, and the two sides agreed to announce it in the next two days, but now Pierce just wants to delay the news indefinitely.

He didn't think Derby County would lose out on the deal.

Morris is a good player, but after all, he will be thirty years old in two years, he is a little old, and his performance on the field is not particularly outstanding, and he is certainly not as good as players like Van der Vaart and Ribery, maybe Morris is important to the team, but there is not much commercial value of the player, and it is quite good to be able to sell for 5 million pounds.

The Leto Ziegler deal may have been a surprise.

Manchester City originally wanted to buy Alfred, but Pierce would not be stupid enough to sell his native star, especially since Alfred is still so young, everyone knows that his future is bright, Manchester City's bid is not enough to buy the young talent, and there are other teams who bid much higher than Manchester City, so this deal cannot be completed.

However, Manchester City's negotiators mentioned Leto Ziegler in passing, and general manager Sam Rush believes that Ziegler has only been a substitute for the past two years, he is 19 years old, and he has not played much under Wansheng for two years, so Derby County agreed, and the transfer price is as high as 3 million pounds.

These two transfers are definitely not a loss-making deal, and it can even be said that they are somewhat profitable, but only if it is normal to buy their club.

But now that Wan Sheng has become the manager of Manchester City, it is completely abnormal.

Derby County is definitely giving good players to their rivals, Manchester City's approach is obviously to help Wansheng poach 'descendants', Chelsea did so with a staggeringly high transfer fee, and Manchester City sold two players for less than 10 million pounds, Pierce gritted his teeth with hatred.

But thinking about the group of demonstrative fans outside the club, he can only be stuffy in the office, and even pray that the Derby County fans are 'gentlemen' enough not to break in arbitrarily. (To be continued......)