Chapter 22 Warm-Up Match

The reporters outside the fence were quite annoyed!

They protested like marchers, they shouted, they demanded fair interviews, fair interviews, they were good at wordplay, but now they feel insulted because they were played with words.

What friend!

What to bring a friend to the club for a visit!

All excuses!

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

In fact, in the world of journalists, it is also divided into three, six and nine.

What they say about fairness and justice in interviews does not exist in the real world, but often in the world of reporters, three, six, nine, etc. are more obvious. For example, at some press conferences, big media reporters must speak first. , 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 ignored wherever they go, while large media reporters often take the initiative to accept interviews with their interviewees.

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

If you represent a big media with influence in the world, then your status will be very high, and your interview rights will be very prioritized compared with your peers. Otherwise, you should not ask for fair interviews, which is not practical at all.

But this is what annoys them the most!

You know, they are the mainstream media in Derbyshire. Even in the whole of England, they can be regarded as medium-sized media, and in the Derbyshire area, they are the top media. What about journalists who can shoot inside the training ground? Some of them are not even tabloid reporters. In any case, their status should be lower than them, so in their opinion, it should be them who stayed in the training ground and filmed, and only those tabloid reporters should be standing outside the fence.

But now the situation is reversed!

They couldn't accept the situation at all, so they kept protesting. But the players in the training ground took this kind of thing as 'fun'. And use this as a discussion point. There is also a little more entertainment element in the training. Most of the fans around are not sure about the situation, they just watch it as a lively, and Wan Sheng himself doesn't care about it at all.

As a result, the voices of the reporters were all dry. No effect at all.

In the end their voices could only be weakened. Then think of other ways, such as complaining to the chairman of the club, Mr. Smith... No, it should be a complaint.

It's a pity that the season has not yet started, and the people of Ji-Smith don't know where they are. The club's work and transfers are handled by Wilcox and Wansheng. He doesn't have to worry about it at all, and his public phone number is the chairman. The office's landline, his own mobile phone, are known only to a few close people and friends. It was not easy for reporters to reach Gee-Smith, and their long phone calls went unanswered.

So they fall back on finding Wilcox.

in the club. The two leading figures are Smith and Wilcox. One is the chairman of the club and the other is the general manager of the club. According to the level, the position of the chairman of the club must be the highest, but many people know that the power of Wilcox in the Derby County club is no less than that of Smith. In private, the two are very good friends. The second is that Wilcox manages most of the team's work. Smith is more of a symbol, and he rarely intervenes in the club's affairs.

In addition, in terms of level, Wansheng is on the same level as Wilcox as the team's head coach. But things can't just look at the level. After all, Wansheng has only just become the head coach of Derby County, and it has not been four months even if he takes the holiday. Even if he leads the team to complete the relegation, there is still a big gap with Wilcox. It is mainly reflected in prestige. Those fans who are loyal to the club must support Wilcox more. There is no doubt about it. After all, the head coach has a newer generation, and Wilcox has been working at the club for a long time. The status is still different.

In terms of contribution to the team, compared with Wilcox, Wansheng just led the team to avoid relegation. , Wilcox's credit is considerable, and it's not just behind the scenes. At that time, Wilcox even led the team to participate in the game for a while. Although it was not long, fans still remembered him.

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

It would be great if Wilcox could come forward to suppress Wansheng, then see what the damn Chinese can say. Facing Wilcox's power, the Chinese can only admit it if he wants to come here. Wrong, I can only bow to them and apologize.

They thought well, but things didn't work out that way.

They are really too fanciful.

Wan Sheng is the head coach of the team, or the head coach personally appointed by Wilcox. The relationship between the two has always been good, and there is no contradiction between them. Not to mention these small problems, even if Wan Sheng really committed something Wrong, as the general manager of the team, Wilcox can only stand up to safeguard Wansheng. This is related to the external image and internal deterrence of the Derby County club. A harmonious group is the most powerful. So it is strange that Wilcox would stand up. Even if we talk about this matter, we can only talk about it in private, and it has nothing to do with these protesting reporters.

So the reporters only got this answer, "I'm just the general manager of the club. The team's affairs have always been the responsibility of the head coach. You can go to the head coach and talk."

And then... it's gone.

They prepared their complaints for a long time and didn't even have a chance to say it. Wilcox just hung up the phone. Of course they would not be reconciled, so they called again one after another, but the answer became a woman , The woman's voice was nice and gentle, and her words were extremely polite, but she kept saying 'I'm sorry. Mr. Wilcox is busy' and it is impossible for them to contact Wilcox any more.

With protests ineffective, journalists can only use their strength to fight back.

So various reports came out.

...

Wan Sheng didn't take this matter to heart at all. His energy has always been on team training. As for what the mainstream media reporters in Derby County think. He didn't care at all. He doesn't care what they think, not to mention, he did it on purpose, he just wanted to let those people know--

Those who support Lao Tzu can get good treatment!

Those who oppose Lao Tzu have nothing to do with Lao Tzu at all. When you stand on the opposite side of Lao Tzu, what equal rights do you want. That was whimsical!

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

Wilcox nodded with a wry smile.

As the general manager of the club, Wilcox does not know what those reporters report on weekdays. But he knew better that these "opposition" journalists. In fact, they all supported the Derby County club before. 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 can be said. What reporters are are clouds, guaranteeing the team's results. Even if these Derby County reporters hate Wansheng, they must say good things about the Derby County club, otherwise the fans will not buy their accounts, and the results are not good. No matter how good it is, there is no guarantee of results. No matter how much you support the Derby County reporter, you will become an 'opposition'.

...

Wilcox didn't intervene in this matter, Wansheng ignored it at all, Ji Smith couldn't find anyone at all, Derby County's "Big Three" have this attitude, and the mainstream media reporters are very helpless , they can only rely on their own strength to fight back.

So in their report the next day, they described Wansheng as a bigger version of a '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 has a tight grasp on all rights inside and outside the team. They are just right The team's 'normal' reporting made this Chinese person dissatisfied, and he actually treated them differently from those inferior reporters. This is really intolerable!

They kept attacking in written language in annoyance.

It's a pity that these reports have no impact on Wansheng at all. He has not bought the last copy of the Derby County Sports News in the past two mornings, but instead asked for a few tabloids from the people who advertised the magazine on the street, and then He can find all kinds of compliments on it, compliments to the Derby County club, he likes to hear people compliment him, it makes his day feel better.

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

This day is Derby County’s first warm-up match of the new season. The opponent is an English five-division league team, which is also a semi-professional league team (England has nine divisions, the first four are professional leagues, and the last five are professional leagues). Amateur League), the venue of the game is at the Pride Stadium, home of Derby County.

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

From the beginning to the end of this game, Derby County has achieved an overwhelming advantage, and the opponent has no ability to fight back. Wansheng took turns putting players on the field, and the situation of the game remained unchanged. The opponent is too weak, and the Derby County players don't have to exert much strength at all, it is enough to make the opponent have no power to fight back.

Wansheng originally wanted to pick a weak team first and let the team experiment with new tactics, but in this kind of game, tactics are not important at all, his full-court pressing defense did not show the effect, and the offense was completely the same. A random blast, because the opponent's offense is too weak, and there is no ability to resist. As long as the team plays more seriously, just relying on the individual performance of the players is enough to end the opponent's offense in their own half. Another Derby County attack.

The final score was 5:0, and Derby County won the first warm-up match.

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

However, the effect of the warm-up game was still somewhat satisfactory. At least the fans in the audience were very satisfied with the game. Although the opponent was only a fifth-tier league team, as long as Derby County can win, the fans will be very satisfied. , they saw the team's strong offensive ability, and that sound offense made them excited.

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

The second warm-up match was played three days later.

The opponent is an English Second Division team. The name of the team is Chesterfield. They belong to the middle team in the English Second Division, but their strength is still a bit poor compared to Derby County. In the end, Derby County won 3: 0 again for a crushing victory.

Easy and big victory over a team in the middle of the English second division, the result is still very good, but Wansheng is not satisfied, he is not dissatisfied with the team's performance, it is because the team's performance is so good that he is very unhappy. Satisfied, he wants to find problems in the warm-up game, not to let the team win big wins without suspense.

However, through these two warm-up games, Wansheng also knew that the current team's strength is very good, and it is difficult for these low-level league teams to detect the team's problems.

He focused on those top league teams.

The lower league teams can’t play head-to-head with Derby County. Wansheng, a team in the same league, is afraid of revealing the team’s new tactics. It’s always good to be a little secretive, but the top league teams can always do it. . When the team is suppressed by the opponent, the problem is likely to erupt, which will help him find the problem and solve the problem. At the same time, he also wants to see the state the team can show when facing a strong team, so he Wilcox, the club's general manager, was quickly contacted, asking him to help connect a top-flight team for a warm-up match against Derby County.

At present, Wansheng's foundation in the football world is still too shallow. He can contact teams of the same level or lower leagues, but he has no connections in the top leagues, so Wilcox still needs to be involved in this matter.

Wilcox has been in the football circle for so many years, and naturally there is no need to say more about his connections.

Soon Wansheng got the news that Wilcox contacted the Premier League team Middlesbrough, and their manager Steven McLaren agreed to let the team play a warm-up match with Derby County. Three days later, the venue is the Riverside Stadium, home of Middlesbrough.

---The update of this chapter is a bit late, sorry, there will be another one before 12 o'clock in the evening---(To be continued ~^~)