After the elimination of Shakhtar Donetsk in the League Cup, Wan Sheng was not in the mood to celebrate the victory, and the whole team was not in the mood, because this victory had been prepared for a long time, and there was no suspense at all about winning, in addition, the more important League Cup final was coming.

Although the Carabao Cup is a chicken rib against the big teams, and The Guardian jokes that "it is obviously much harder to remember those League Cup finals than the FA Cup final, which symbolizes the milestones of English football", it is also an honour to win the League Cup, and this winner can also qualify for the UEFA Cup, which is of little use to Chelsea and Derby County, but the title is the most attractive. For Chelsea, who have not won honours since 2000, and Derby County, who have just been promoted to the Premier League, the Carabao Cup title is very attractive, especially since both sides are only one game away from the title.

So both sides are very serious about the game.

Wan Sheng had already started training for the final two weeks ago, and in his eyes, the league and the League Cup in the middle of the game are not important at all, and the same is true in the eyes of the media, even if he looks down on the League Cup, this is also a traditional English cup, an honor only for the FA Cup, and it is comparable to other league cups, such as the Copa del Rey in La Liga and the Coppa Italia in Serie A.

But the next day, the media's attention was drawn to another piece of news.

There is a grapevine that Derby County is being acquired, and the other party is an American consortium, and the actual owner of Derby County, Jie Smith, has agreed to the acquisition, and the acquisition is already underway.

The news attracted numerous media outlets.

Many reporters came to the door, and the media attention was also on Derbyshire.

The acquisition of a Premier League team always attracts a lot of attention, just like Chelsea last season, even if the success of foreign capital injection, with Chelsea's success in the front, Derby County fans are not too resistant to foreign acquisition of clubs, and some fans even feel that Derby County is about to be the same as Chelsea. With enough money to bring in a lot of big-name stars.

They obviously have no idea about the American consortium that acquired the party, and they just think about it in a confused way.

Media reporters want to get more information, many things in the UK are impossible to keep secret, especially a Premier League club is acquired, it is impossible to keep it completely secret, and soon the "Daily Mirror" appeared detailed news about the Derby County acquisition.

There are a few names involved.

Schiadam Pearson, a Derby-friendly Englishman who was a Derby fan as a young man, is now the face of the GSE consortium in the United States on the acquisition.

Appleby, Chairman of the GSE Consortium in the United States.

Of course. Derby County current chairman Jie Smith and the club's general manager, Paul Wilcox, who is in charge of engaging with the GSE consortium, are also missing.

The detailed purchase price has not been announced, and it is estimated that the media is not so capable of knowing such accurate information, but it is certain that Derby County FC is being acquired if it can reveal many details.

For Derby County fans, a takeover is not something they want to see, and two seasons ago, Derby County were in danger of relegation in the second division. They would love to see the club being bought by an outside consortium, which means that the club's results will not be worse at least.

But now the Derby County club is in good shape, and this season they can even qualify for the league title and the club is bought again. Some sensible fans are worried about the team.

Especially now in the league sprint, the team's acquisition has become a negative news.

It's not clear what the future holds, but the current incident will definitely have a certain impact on the team. This is not good for Derby County's sprint results.

Of course, the "Daily Mirror" that broke the accurate news doesn't care so much, for them. The important thing is that this news has a wide influence and has received more attention, not to mention, they can't wait to see Derbyshire unlucky, it is best that Derbyshire has a new boss, fires the young Chinese squid, drives him out of Derbyshire, and then the young man has to leave Derbyshire in despair, and since then this is what they want to see.

So they made a big deal of coverage of the acquisition of Derby County, and the newspapers and official websites were full of detailed descriptions of the acquisition of Derby County, and they repeated a news over and over again, and at the same time, the reporter analyzed what kind of impact the acquisition would have on Derbyshire.

The final analysis is certainly not in Derby's favour.

Derby County already had injury problems, and now that the club has been acquired, the mentality of their players will definitely be affected, and they are likely to start a plummeting performance from then on, and in the face of this situation, Wan Sheng, as a young person who has not experienced any turmoil, will not have any way.

"He could just crash"

"He's not even 28 years old, he hasn't experienced this. He worked hard for Derby County for a season, only to sell the team with the club president."

"He won't get anything."

"I heard that Derby County didn't renew his contract, and it must be that the new owner doesn't like him. Of course, perhaps the American boss prefers a more famous manager! ”

While the last sentence satirizes Wan Sheng, it is also a satire that Americans don't understand football

There was such a big thing in the club, and after the media exposed it, everyone knew about it.

The club's secrecy measures were very good before, and only a few high-level executives such as Wan Sheng knew that the club was being acquired, and even Diamares didn't know.

He was holding a newspaper, reading it carefully, and then looked up and asked Wan Sheng, "You already knew, didn't you?" ”

Wan Sheng nodded, "Paul told me. ”

"What do you think? These guys are right, it's definitely going to have a big impact on the team, I'm a little worried about the new owner, they're not Jill, maybe it's going to be a bad deal? Diamares said with some concern.

Wan Sheng shook his head, "I don't know the specifics, but I don't think it will affect my head coach position, so you don't have to worry about anything." ”

"That's right."

Diamares put down the newspaper and felt much more settled.

Now that he has decided to follow Wan Sheng all the time, with Wan Sheng at the top, he has nothing to worry about, Wan Sheng can stay in the club. He will definitely be able to stay, if Wan Sheng wants to leave, he will just leave, there is nothing for him to worry about.

On the contrary, many are worried about the next game.

The news of the club's takeover ahead of the Carabao Cup final is not a good thing, and it will certainly affect the mentality of the whole team, especially the media, which will definitely hold on to the topic because it is more appealing than the Carabao Cup final between Derby County and Chelsea.

Sure enough, before the game against Chelsea. At the regular press conference held by Derby, reporters asked questions related to the club's takeover.

Journalists certainly couldn't find the club's president, Jie Smith, and general manager, Paul Wilcox, so Wan Sheng became their only breakthrough.

"That's right, the news is true."

Wan Sheng admitted the news very calmly, which surprised the media reporters, generally on the big issues of the club, the head coach will not make any remarks, after all, the head coach can be said to be just a 'part-time worker' of the club, no different from ordinary players. Just taking the club's salary, but Wan Sheng still said, "I knew it a while ago because I have a good personal relationship with Jill. But it doesn't matter at all. If you look at our results in January and February, if I win this one, I will probably be the best coach in February. ”

A smile appeared on the corner of Wan Sheng's mouth.

No reporter would think that Wan Sheng is arrogant, and Derby County had a pretty good February result. They lost the FA Cup, but they won all of their league games and the UEFA Cup. The League Cup has reached the final, and if he can win the League Cup, it will not be surprising that Wan Sheng will be the best coach of the month in February.

"So, it doesn't affect me and my team at all, the outside world is talking about being bought or something, and all kinds of news, rumors, I saw it, but it's just a change of chairman, and it has nothing to do with me and the players." "Recently we have been preparing for the next final, which is the second title we can fight for this season, no matter what happens to the club, we will try our best to fight for it. It's the title we're trying to win for a season and nothing can shake our resolve. As for the club being bought or something, even if the other party spends a lot of money to buy it, it has nothing to do with me and my players, because we don't get even a penny, so the game is the most important thing for us, because we can get the championship honor! ”

Wan Sheng then talked about the team's preparations for the League Cup.

The reporters wanted to continue to ask about the acquisition, but they also knew that it was not practical to get detailed information about the acquisition from Wansheng, who was only a head coach after all, and he was not the owner of the club, so it was naturally impossible to know the details.

But in the end, Wan Sheng still talked about the acquisition-related issues, "I think, it's a little too early to talk about the change of ownership of the club, to talk about this aspect of things, you have more influence to care about Manchester United, that is the real big acquisition." ”

Wan Sheng finally said jokingly.

Of course, media reporters don't think it's a joke, this is the fact, Derby County was acquired by an American consortium, the reason why it is eye-catching, one of the important points is that Derby County's results are very good, if not, Derby County is not acquired at all, after all, Derby County is just a small club, the whole team together, that is, these young players brought out by Wansheng can be worth a little money, and other aspects are not worth much at all, the Financial Times gives Derby County an assessment, the value of the whole club together, It is impossible to exceed 70 million pounds, most of which are still worth more than many outstanding players in the team, such as Van der Vaart, Ribery, Morris and other players, they are worth more than 10 million pounds, so it has increased the value of the entire club of Derby, but Derby County still has some foreign debts, even if they have a good result this season, it is not easy to break even, the point is that they are not famous, and they have not participated in events like the Champions Cup.

On the other hand, Manchester United Club, since October last year, has been acquired by the Glazer family, and the acquisition has not been completed, but according to various sources, the funds for equity transfer alone have exceeded 500 million pounds, and if the Glazer wants to complete the acquisition of Manchester United, he must have absolute equity, that is, he will have to invest at least another 200 million pounds to really complete the acquisition, and finally make Manchester United truly his own team.

Glazer doesn't have that many assets, his assets don't exceed 400 million pounds, so he borrowed money to buy it by borrowing from banks, mortgages, etc., but no matter what the process is, the value of Manchester United is also in front of everyone.

In pure value terms, Manchester United are worth at least 10 Derby County clubs.

So Wansheng's words are not a joke, the British media and even the entire European media are very concerned about the acquisition of Manchester United, in contrast, Derby County was acquired and transferred, it is just a small thing, after all, Derby County is not a club that has completed the listing at all, and being acquired is really just a change of owner, and it will not have a big impact on Derby.

(PS: Glazer bought Manchester United Club by way of a leveraged buyout (LBO, that is, bank loan), after Greg became the owner of Manchester United, Manchester United is likely to have a lot of debt, and Derby County changing owners will not have any impact at all, because they are not listed, the influence is very small, and the club's assets are unlikely to be mortgaged in the first place.) ）

With DerbyCounty's regular press conference coming to an end, their Carabao Cup clash with Chelsea is coming to an end, with a clash set to take place at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff two days later.

For the media, though, there are plenty of reasons not to be bullish on Derby.

Even if Derby County beat Chelsea before Christmas, but now that Derby's two big men Morris and Van der Vaart will be absent from the game, and Derby County FC is in the vortex of takeovers, how much hope will Derby have to beat a menacing Chelsea?

Some people even thought that the acquisition of Derby County was definitely not just negotiated, Wan Sheng said that he knew the news some time ago, so why was this news not exposed sooner or later, but before the League Cup final?

Did the Daily Mirror do this on purpose?

Perhaps a lot of the media agreed that they wanted to expose Derby County and Chelsea before the showdown, so as to affect Derby's form?

So they were even more optimistic about Derbyshire.

Wan Sheng also realized some problems, so before the game he asked the players to keep a low profile, just silently prepare for the game, he knows that the game itself is always the most important, how arrogant before the game, it is useless to say more, to win and win the League Cup, is the ultimate goal.

In this low-key, the whole Derby County squad has arrived in Cardiff

PS: The update is a bit late, sorry. (To be continued......)