"Need to wait a week?"

'A week from now, whether Chelsea raise the price or not, will the club agree to the transfer?'

"Perform well in the warm-up in a week? Let Chelsea see what they are capable of? ”

“……”

Coming out of the manager's office, Wright-Phillips' mind was full of wins, and I have to say that he was really moved. He didn't notice that Chelsea didn't have much sincerity before, but he felt that Chelsea was very sincere, from the fact that they were willing to spend more than 20 million pounds to buy themselves, but now that he thinks about it, he really thinks a little too much, maybe Chelsea is not sincere at all!

For them, being themselves is just one of the options.

It would be best to introduce themselves to supplement the wings, even if the recruitment fails, it doesn't matter, because they still have a lot of options, as for more than 20 million pounds, it is just the personal property of Chelsea chairman Roman Abramovich, for the world's richest people, this amount of money is really nothing, Chelsea Club is naturally very generous in transfers.

Therefore, the money they took out does not necessarily mean sincerity, otherwise it should be like buying Shepchenko or Ronaldinho, chasing themselves like crazy, instead of the current attitude of 'no matter how much the transfer fee is, don't buy it'.

At the same time, Wright-Phillips is more confident!

All of England, no, it should be said that the whole of Europe knows that Wan Sheng has a good eye for the players, Wan Sheng's comments on the players' abilities, and even the comments on various teams, are very accurate, not only to lead the success of Derby County, but also to the success of the Champions League for two consecutive summers, the European Cup and Liverpool's Champions League miracle, Wan Sheng, as a bystander, has become one of the protagonists, and we must admire his vision of football.

It is precisely because of Wansheng's fame in this regard that he can be affirmed by him, for many professional players. It's something to be proud of.

Even stars like Wright Phillips, especially Wan Sheng is still his head coach, this young but well-known head coach actually praised his ability a lot, and still makes him feel good, so he has more confidence in his ability.

As faith increases, so do demands.

Chelsea made a £23 million bid for themselves, which is more than enough, but the contract they want to sign is also a problem, maybe wait a little longer. Chelsea willing to offer a better contract?

When it comes to his own treatment, Wright Phillips is still very concerned, not to mention, Wansheng has promised to agree in a week, then wait another week, anyway, the league has more than two weeks to start, as long as the league can be transferred to Chelsea before the league starts.

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After talking to Wright-Phillips, Wansheng believes that at least until Phillips leaves. There will be no more problems, so he threw himself into the team training.

But new problems soon arose.

In the past, most of the training in Derby County was for the players to do their own training, otherwise Diamares would have led the team. Wan Sheng's work can be described as 'big picture planning', but now he has encountered a small problem, that is, after the tactical details, there will be players who do not know how to deal with situations such as having the ball and not having the ball. There are fewer problems with veterans in this area, but the positions are different for players like Andy Cole. He can only coach the forwards, but when it comes to new tactics, he sometimes has problems, which need to be answered by Wan Sheng.

General questions Wan Sheng can answer, but involving many players in the details of the game, not only tactics, to tactics and problems want to be combined, to be able to give an answer, every time he encounters this kind of problem, Wan Sheng has to discuss with Diamares for a long time, he found his ability defects - after all, he is a pure 'academic' coach, he was not a professional football player at all, so he needs an assistant coach with professional player experience.

Bill Nix recommended one person to him, and that was Keegan's former assistant Stuart Pearce.

Stuart Pearce has had a fairly successful career, spending mostly at Nottingham Forest, where he played for over 10 years, captaining most of the time and being a fan favourite.

At the age of 34, Pierce was at the end of his career when he was appointed caretaker manager and player by Nottingham Forest, and although he won the Premier League Manager of the Month award in January 1997, Nottingham Forest were relegated to the bottom 20 at the end of the season, this time choosing to leave the city football stadium where he had played for 12 years.

Soon he joined Newcastle United on a free transfer, but was not used by manager Gulliege, so he soon switched to West Ham United, and after a lot of ups and downs, in 2001, at the age of 38, Pierce was the oldest player to win the Premier League Player of the Month award in February.

In the summer of 2001, Kevin Keegan signed Pierce as a free agent, the first player he became the manager of Manchester City, and after retiring from the game, Pierce began to serve as Keegan's assistant, when Keegan left Manchester City, he was actually expected to take over Manchester City directly, but Wald finally chose Wansheng, compared to Wansheng, who was successful in Derby County, Pierce was only more familiar with Manchester City, but he did not have any experience as a manager, which is really difficult to trust.

Now Pierce is desperate to find a job.

Keegan didn't immediately look for another head coach job, but felt that he had no passion for football, so he wanted to stay away from football, so Pierce could only find a way out by himself, he originally wanted to find a head coach job, but the job opportunities for him were all third-tier or even fourth-tier league teams, he looked down on such a team, and the second-tier league team did not lack a head coach, and wanted to coach a top league team, his qualifications would be a little too poor, so Pierce could only continue to remain unemployed, Fortunately, he used to be a professional player, and after retiring as an assistant coach, his income has always been very high, so that he has no financial problems.

This is Pierce that Bee Nix introduced to Wansheng.

Hearing this name, Wan Sheng actually felt a little emotional, because he knew that if it weren't for himself, Pierce would be the current Manchester City coach, and he was too successful, which also affected Pierce, who didn't have the opportunity to coach Manchester City this time, but he didn't have much 'guilt'. Because he also knows that Pierce only served as Manchester City manager for two seasons, and was forced to resign because of results, and has not appeared in the top flight since then.

This shows that Pierce's ability is not enough to be a manager, so there is no need to feel guilty, and it is a good thing for Manchester City to be the manager of Manchester City, and for Pierce, he does not have to go through two years of joy and loss.

Perhaps now is also the chance to change his fate.

Pierce has also had a very successful playing career, plus some experience as an assistant coach. It's enough to make him a very good assistant coach, and that's what he needs at the moment.

Wan Sheng needed an assistant, and Pierce also wanted to find a job, so the two met up quickly.

In fact, Pierce was still a little reluctant to meet Wan Sheng, because he had the opportunity to take over Manchester City before, and if he wanted to stay at Manchester City as an assistant coach, he would not leave. It's just that the reality makes him still unemployed, and it is better to see what the new Manchester City manager is capable of.

So Pierce came.

The meeting between Wan Sheng and Pierce was not anything exciting, in fact. He was in no mood to think about how to convince people or anything now, and all his energy was focused on training, so the general pattern of the meeting between the two was that Wansheng invited Pierce. Pierce thought about it and then agreed, and it was as simple as that.

Then to the next day. Wan Sheng has an additional assistant coach.

He had a bit of an assistant coach, counting Pierce already had four, and he sent the less useful David Toldo to help Malwood, leaving the more capable Peter James, and in this way, a new coaching staff was formed - the head coach was Wan Sheng himself, and the assistant coaches were Gail Diamares, Stuart Pierce and Peter James.

Stuart Pearce is a retired professional footballer with several years of experience as an assistant coach, and is considered a 'practical' coach, while Gail Diamares has worked with him for more than three years, has a lot of experience in leading the team in training, games, and can also give a lot of tactical advice; Peter James is all-round and can be of some help in everything.

Wan Sheng is still very satisfied with the three assistant coaches, and with the help of the three of them, his work will be much easier.

After joining this group, Stuart Pierce is actually a little arrogant in his heart. has competed' for the Manchester City manager, but Diamares doesn't care about this, he feels that he is much better than Pierce, because he was more competitive with Wansheng, if it weren't for the impact of his holiday, the head coach would be directly his, so he doesn't think there is anything, especially Wansheng doesn't even know this competitor, but it is worth mentioning that Pierce does have arrogant capital, he has been in Manchester City for several seasons, and he knows the whole club including the team very well, and the team's old players are also very familiar with him, Pierce is back as an assistant coach, and they are all very welcome, which is much more enthusiastic than when I met Wan Sheng.

In this arrogant mentality, what Pierce didn't expect was that the first thing he did when he returned to the team was not to do anything, but to learn and learn new tactics!

He had no idea that would be the case.

He didn't know anything about Wansheng's new tactics, and the team had already entered the stage of tactical training, what else could he do in training if he didn't fully understand it as soon as possible? However, Pierce is looking forward to this, his understanding of Wansheng is not just a 'competitor', he knows that Wansheng is a coach with real talent, leading Derby County to success is one aspect, and the tactics used by Derby County are also worth studying.

Now Wan Sheng has brought a new tactic to Manchester City.

When he started to get started with this new set of tactics, it immediately went from anticipation to surprise, the complexity of the tactics can be a headache for professional players, but for assistant coaches, especially assistant coaches like Pierce who want to improve, it is a lot of very useful knowledge, he can learn a lot from the new tactics, and like those players, he feels like he has been opened a window, and the world that he has never seen before is displayed in front of him.

Pierce's arrogance turned into humility, and he found that he had made the right choice to return to Manchester City, and that the youngster, who was more than a year younger than himself, did have enough to make himself an assistant. (To be continued......)