Chapter 8: Unlucky Pierce

The signing ceremony is equal to the welcoming 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. If you want to have a good future, you must 'win a lot of money', so it is very important for the ceremony to go smoothly. The fans who are invited are absolutely supportive of the team. Loyal fans, they are here to show their welcome, and the questions raised by media reporters are also within the prescribed range.

It's all for everything to go smoothly and to get off to a good start.

The signing ceremony is just a prescribed 'meet and greet'. The club announces the joining of the players (or coaches) and that's it, so generally speaking, there will be a formal press conference within a few days after the signing ceremony. In order to let the media and fans get to know the newly added players (or coaches) at close range, there are some differences between players, especially for the head coach, who pays more attention to the external press conference. The first press conference is often very formal and also Many related questions will be answered.

This is a traditional and necessary process.

The survival of football clubs depends on the fans, and now they have to rely on the media to gain fame and prestige. The team has a new head coach, and the general direction of development may change. Naturally, the media and fans must have a good understanding of the new coach. Fan understand.

However, Wan Sheng was not in a hurry to hold a press conference. Instead, he asked the club to postpone it for a few days.

"I would also like 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.

"Coaching staff?" Waddell was quite surprised.

Wald would not refuse to give the coaching staff a contract, but does this young man really have a coaching staff? Didn't he just become the head coach for two or three years?

Wan Sheng doesn't know if he counts as a coaching staff, but after all, Gael Diamares must be invited over to work with him, and other people who may come, should be regarded as a coaching staff, right?

As a football coach. Actually having a coaching staff is quite an amazing thing.

There are many top coaches in the world, but not every top coach has a coaching staff. The more famous coaches, such as the legendary England coach Robson who just retired, also have a famous coaching staff. Mourinho was one of them. Another can be mentioned is Ferguson's coaching staff, the current Middlesbrough coach McLaren was once Ferguson's assistant.

For example, these world famous coaches will have a coaching staff, but there are also many top league coaches who do not have a coaching staff. Now Jose Mourinho, who is coaching Chelsea, has no fixed coaching staff. When he came to Chelsea, he was alone. Later, only A young apprentice (who had followed Robson together) came to London to help him.

But generally speaking. Whether there is a coaching staff or not depends on the resume. For example, those head coaches who have been coaching for a relatively long time are naturally easy to form a coaching staff, while those coaches who have coached for a short time are difficult to have a coaching staff.

Wan Sheng's situation is clearly the latter, he has only managed Derby County for a little over two years, so Ward hears he has a coaching staff. I was very surprised.

Wan Sheng didn't explain much to Mr. Chairman, he just announced to postpone the press conference. Then went directly to the town of Great Derbyshire.

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At the same time, various media have begun to report crazy about the news of Wansheng joining Manchester City.

This news is definitely heavyweight!

In Liverpool's 'Istanbul Miracle', Wan Sheng was one of the protagonists, but after half a month, Wan Sheng couldn't find anyone at all, so the media reported less and less about him, but only a few days later, the media got it again. The news was that Wan Sheng joined Manchester City, which really excited and surprised many media.

So a new round of reports about Wansheng has begun!

Wan Sheng joined Manchester City, there are really too many topics to report, and we traced back to the source to find "the reason why Wan Sheng left Derby County".

A lot of media hype this topic, it seems to be a bit smashed, but in fact, the grievances between Wansheng and Derby County are really annoying.

Perhaps also because a lot of news always has new content.

Like at the beginning, the media talked about Wansheng leaving Derby County because of 'the renewal of the contract was not negotiated', and later when the Newcastle media broke the news that Wansheng joined Newcastle United, the reason became 'there is a better choice', and then Derby County Club's new chairman Pierce's statement seems to confirm the 'better choice' statement, but Wansheng's rebuttal remarks immediately pushed the new executives of Derby County Club to the forefront.

The Derby County Club has actually become a money-making tool for the GSE company! ?

This news sounds a little ridiculous!

Even though a lot of foreign capital has poured into the English league in recent years, and it has been reported internationally that Manchester United and Arsenal have made eye-watering profits every year, in fact, most professional football clubs are still losing money every year. In such a state, many clubs have to rely on the chairman or the board of directors to support them in order to maintain their operations.

Derby County is one such club.

When Gee Smith was chairman, the Derby County club could only barely make ends meet, but when you think about the club's fall from the Premier League to League One, and almost relegation in the first season of League One, you can see that the club is actually in a state of loss.

It was only after Wan Sheng took over as the head coach that he led Derby County to create miraculous results for two seasons, which made the club benefit. Most of the income was the championship bonus, not from commercial operations.

So the idea of ​​a regular football club as a moneymaker is ridiculous.

The purpose of those foreign capital integrated into English football is generally to expand channels for other businesses, to open a gap in the UK market through a football club, or, like Abramovich, purely for the purpose of playing football and integrating into the UK In the upper class of society, perhaps only by acquiring clubs like Manchester United and Arsenal can 'making money' be the main purpose. After all, in England, only these two clubs can achieve large profits every year.

Then it's strange that GSE is doing this.

Soon the media found the real reason. In fact, it is not difficult to say. After all, many people in the Derby County club know the reason why Wansheng's contract extension was not good.

"Wansheng lost the transfer rights..."

This claim has been confirmed.

A more direct statement is that the new chairman Pierce wants to sell Van der Vaart and Ribery to raise some liquidity, and Wansheng will definitely not agree with the team to sell its carefully cultivated stars, so it is impossible to renew the contract.

As for what Pierce used to "perfunctory" the fans, "the flow of players is normal", "it is difficult for us to retain big stars" and the like, which were directly broken by the media's actual reports.

All fans know the reason for Wan Sheng's departure from the team, and you can imagine how much trouble Pearson and Sam Rush will have next.

Derby County fans are extremely dissatisfied with them, the club can win the championship, it has 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. Let Derby County return to the second league, the rhythm of the plummeting results!

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

When he saw the news of Wan Sheng signing Manchester City in the newspaper, he almost vomited blood, because only two days ago, Derby County and Manchester City had reached two transfer deals - Lee Morris and Leto Qi Greer joined Manchester City for £5m and £3m respectively.

The two transfer news has been confirmed, and even the clubs and players of both sides have signed, but it has not been officially announced to the public. Originally, the two parties agreed to announce it in the past two days, but now Pierce just wants to delay the news indefinitely.

He felt that Derby County was not at a loss in this deal.

Morris is a good player, but after all, he will be 30 years old in two years. He is a little old, and his performance on the field is not particularly outstanding. He is definitely not comparable to players like Van der Vaart and Ribery. , Maybe Morris is very important to the team, but a player with little commercial value can be sold for 5 million pounds is quite good.

The Leto Ziegler trade may have been a surprise.

Manchester City originally wanted to buy Alfred, but Pierce would not be stupid enough to sell his local planet, especially Alfred is still so young, everyone knows that his future is bright, Manchester City's bid is not enough to buy With young talent, and there are other teams outbidding Manchester City, this deal can't be done.

However, Manchester City's negotiators mentioned Leto Ziegler by the way. General manager Sam Rush believes that Ziegler has only been a substitute for the past two years. He is 19 years old and has not played much under Wansheng for two years. Naturally, there will be no good future, so Derby County agreed, and the transfer price is as much as 3 million pounds.

These two transfers are definitely not a loss-making deal, or even a profitable one, but only if the club that buys them is normal.

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

Derby County is definitely giving good players to rivals by doing this. Manchester City’s approach is obviously to help Wansheng poach 'direct players'. Chelsea paid an eye-wateringly high transfer fee in doing so, while Manchester City only used Selling two players for less than 10 million pounds, Pierce gritted his teeth in hatred.

But thinking about the group of demonstrators outside the club, he can only stay in the office, and even pray that the Derby County fans are "gentlemen" and don't forcefully barge in. (To be continued ~^~)