Chapter 70 The Red Hot Reserve
With a home win over Aston Villa, Manchester City continued to cling to Chelsea in the standings, tying the gap on goal difference thanks to three goal difference in the game.
The only pity is that Manchester City can still only be second, because Chelsea scored more goals.
According to the points rules of the Premier League, if the two teams have the same points, they will compare the goal difference. If the goal difference is still the same, then compare the number of goals scored. Chelsea has scored 28 goals so far, and Manchester City has scored two less, so Chelsea can still stay at the top of the table, not overtaken by Manchester City.
But now, everyone knows that Chelsea's top position is unstable, and they may be overtaken if they are a little careless.
After the match against Aston Villa, many media reporters asked about the league rankings. Regarding the 'top competition' between Manchester City and Chelsea, Wan Sheng laughed, "No one would have asked me about the top of the league before. , because everyone thinks we don't have a chance, they (Chelsea) are too strong. But I think as long as we hold on, we have a chance, everyone in our team is working hard, and now we have a chance."
"They did a good job. Yesterday's game, they were a little dangerous in the first half, but they played at a normal level in the second half and they won easily. I must admit, they are very strong opponents, but we are not bad! Not bad at all. !"
"I don't want to talk about players, team comparisons, analysis, that's totally pointless because games aren't analyzed, I just want to say, 'It's going to be stressful to be at the top, so they have to be careful. '."
That night, many media quoted 'they have to be careful' to report the match between Manchester City and Aston Villa, and the battle for the top spot between Manchester City and Chelsea.
Now the battle between the two teams has heated up!
With the same points and the same goal difference, this kind of fierce competition is very rare.
At the beginning of the season, no one expected Manchester City to compete for the top spot, but now everyone has to accept the fact that Manchester City have a good chance, to be precise. They are so far, the league apart from Chelsea's nineteen teams, the only team qualified to compete with Chelsea for the top spot.
They beat arch-rivals Manchester United in the first round and showed their strength, and after eleven rounds of the league, they are still very strong. A comfortable 3-0 home win over Aston Villa also said a lot.
But Chelsea are also very strong. They beat Blackburn 4-2 at home, fighting back the saying that "Chelsea is in a trough". At the same time, many people began to study how to beat Chelsea. On this topic, Everton, the only draw with Chelsea, has begun to provide experience - - Use your body.
"To deal with Chelsea requires a violent, unhesitating effort to destroy all their chances and leave them with nowhere to start. Not to mention play," said Beatty, who scored for Everton.
Although Beatty's suggestion was not adopted by Blackburn. But Mourinho will not forget the guy who broke Chelsea's goal and gave his opponent a move. "Beatty should worry about himself, not for other teams. He has been at Everton for a whole year, Only scored two goals in the league. Against us, Beatty only touched the ball once in 90 minutes, and that was the penalty. That shot was beautiful, but that's all. Any threat from the back, who sees Terry afraid of Beatty? Or Huth afraid of Duncan Ferguson? Neither! If anyone treats us like kids. That's a big mistake."
These remarks are really shocking, especially for a striker who "doesn't score". Mourinho's careful eye has taught everyone a lesson, and many people are expecting Chelsea to lose.
The Guardian has made a special report in this regard, their headline is, 'Why all England expect the Blues to lose, but no one talks about Manchester City'.
Chelsea and Manchester City have the same points and the same goal difference. So far, both teams have 10 wins and 1 draw. The transcripts are very gorgeous. It stands to reason that both teams will be targeted by other teams, media and fans, just like at the beginning. Manchester United, which dominates the Premier League, in the football circle, good results do not mean that everyone will support you. Too good results will often become the target of public criticism, because compared with all fans, your fans will always be a minority.
But now the strange thing happens, when Manchester City and Chelsea are as good as they are, it seems that everyone forgets Manchester City and expects Chelsea to lose, as if they are expecting Manchester City to surpass Chelsea in points.
The "Guardian" invited many football celebrities to answer this. The answers are varied, but summed up in the following points--
"They are too eye-catching. Every time they transfer, they make a lot of noise, which annoys a lot of people..."
"Manchester City is just a small club, they are the underdogs and everyone sympathizes with the underdogs."
"That Portuguese man's mouth offended a lot of people, so everyone would rather support Wansheng. This young Chinese man is much cuter."
"Chelsea play conservative football and Manchester City play attacking football. Putting the two teams together, anyone would love to watch Manchester City games!"
"It would be interesting if Chelsea lost the competition to Manchester City. They invested over 100 million for several years in a row, and Manchester City only spent a lot of 20 million to surpass them..."
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Just when the competition between Chelsea and Manchester City was raging outside, Wan Sheng was sitting quietly in his office and thinking.
He is thinking about things.
He had just received an unexpected call from Ivan Crewe.
Wansheng is not surprised that the former players call him. After all, they have a very good relationship, especially players like Ivan Krew who have high respect for him, and have a very good personal relationship with him.
But now it's training time.
It stands to reason that Manchester City is training, Derby County is also training, but Ivan Crewe is calling at this time, which is a bit strange, and then Wan Sheng listened to the phone for more than ten minutes. Complaints - a big Men complaining on the phone for ten minutes is enough of a headache.
Wan Sheng comforted Ivan Crewe and knew the reason for his call.
Ivan Crew's recent situation is not good. The new coach Adrian Bosroyd does not value him, and the injury of the previous month has made him lose his main position. After he recovered from the injury, he only Can play as a substitute.
Derby County finished first in the league last season. Ivan Crewe is also one of the biggest contributors. His goals in the team are second only to the outstanding Van der Vaart, but now he doesn't even have a main position. He is naturally very dissatisfied with his situation, so he found Bosroyd. Hope to play in the next round. But Bosroyd thought he had not recovered and refused the request.
So the two quarreled a few times, and Ivan Crewe was suspended for two weeks by the team.
This incident was reported by local media in Derby County, and the conflict between Ivan Crewe and new coach Bosroyd became public. In the eyes, Ivan - Crewe is not the kind of player who can sell big money.
In short, the current situation of Ivan - Crew is not good. So he was about to leave.
To transfer away. To find a next home, you must find the most suitable one for you. Ivan Klui has been in the lower leagues for a long time before. Naturally, Ivan Kru knows this very well, so he immediately found Wansheng, hoping to come to Manchester City to play football.
This is definitely good news for Wansheng and Manchester City.
In fact, Wan Sheng has also been having a headache for the team's flank, after Musampa was injured. He can only let David - Silva, Reina and others come to the fullback, because the other fullbacks only have two outrageous young players with poor ability. He has always believed that the biggest failure of the summer transfer is here, the team sold Wright Phillips, but did not buy a person who can replace him.
Now, Ivan Crewe?
Wan Sheng was very excited.
Wansheng trusts the players he cultivates very much. Without him, Ivan Krew is just a very ordinary player. Maybe he has failed as a professional player. Lu's ability has improved in an all-round way, especially on free kicks, he is quite good.
Of course, the premise is that he must be in Wansheng's team, otherwise he will no longer enjoy the bonus of personal ability improvement.
This is also the most important reason for Ivan Crew's poor performance.
After all, Ivan Kru is almost 28 years old. Some players of this age are at the peak of their careers, while others have entered the late stage, and their strength has begun to regress in an all-round way. After all, he has no room for improvement and left Wansheng. After Derby County, he naturally cannot enjoy the various bonuses provided by the football training master, and his ability will be partially weakened. In addition, there is no room for personal improvement, and it is normal for his performance to deteriorate.
However, as long as Ivan Crewe comes to Manchester City and returns to Wansheng, because he is an 'elderly' member of the players' union, his personal ability will quickly recover, and he can also enjoy the 'double ability' provided by the players' union. Plus', plus Wansheng's various offensive and defensive attribute ability bonus skills, his performance will definitely get better again.
In this way, the team does not have to worry about the full-back issue...
Wan Sheng was very excited.
He knows what Ivan Crew is calling for, and he knows that as long as he agrees, Ivan Crew will definitely cooperate with Derby County and fall out, and then he will choose to come to Manchester City, but will it be unethical to do so... …! ?
Although he has made many transfer decisions before, it is the first time he has made contact with players secretly and then influenced the transfer process.
Wan Sheng hesitated.
But instead he thought...why not? Many teams do this. For example, Chelsea was exposed to a lot of private contacts with players. What's more, it was Ivan Crewe who found himself. He wanted to come to his own team, not himself. To poach players from other teams, besides, Ivan Crewe was a player he trained himself, and he is still in Derby County, so Pierce earned it for nothing.
In short, professional football!
Wan Sheng made up his mind.
Ivan Crewe is willing to come to Manchester City, the only one who is unhappy is Pierce, and if the guy is unhappy, he will be happy, what more need to hesitate?
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At the same time, something interesting happened to the Manchester City reserves - Bischoff kept staring at Anelka, who ignored him.
After being sent to the reserve team in July, Bischoff has been training here. At first, he didn't think it was a big deal. At most, he would transfer and leave, but when he found out that the transfer window was closed, he couldn't leave. He really panicked, and at the same time hated the name 'Wansheng'.
But he's still a Manchester City player and he has to train every day.
Although the training of the reserve team is almost the same as 'clocking to work' for him, he still has to come every training day.
Manchester City has made great progress in the league, and even competed with Chelsea for the top of the league table, but this has nothing to do with Bischoff. Instead, thinking of the team's current results, he hates Wansheng even more - if it wasn't for that guy Putting himself in the reserve team, he will definitely be able to enjoy the joy of winning streak with his teammates, but he can only be in the reserve team, and the team's performance has nothing to do with him.
Now he's just thinking about getting out of here.
The summer transfer window is closed, but there is still the winter transfer window. November has already arrived. If he stays up for a while, he will be able to leave before Christmas. Recently, his agent has been actively contacting others for him. team.
But now he has to keep going.
Two days ago, Bischoff was in a good mood because he had a new teammate -- Nikolai Anelka.
"Isn't this our league golden boot?" Bischoff joked with a laugh.
Bischoff was very happy to see Anelka, because he felt that Wansheng made a wrong decision. Anelka is the player with the most goals in the league. He was actually sent to the reserve team. Cut off your limbs!
If things go on like this, the team's performance will definitely worsen, and the Chinese will lose their hearts and minds. In the end, they can only get out of Manchester City. At that time, they may be able to return to the first team in an upright manner, and there is no need to think about leaving at all.
He was used to Manchester and didn't really want to leave.
So when he saw Anelka, Bischoff greeted him warmly, as if the two had become 'close comrades in arms'. It's a pity that his hot face stuck to someone else's cold butt. , Anelka's mood is too much.
Anelka was sent to the reserve team, and his depressed mood can be imagined. In addition, he has a high self-esteem and looks down on Bischoff at all. How could he have anything to do with him? Enthusiastic, he just roared, "Go away!"
Because of this sentence, the two almost went to work.
This became the biggest news of the day for the reserve team. Since then, Bischoff and Anelka have not said a word, and in daily training, Anelka simply ignored Bischoff, just compared Schoff's unilateral hostility seems to be looking for an opportunity to retaliate against Anelka.
This tension within the team made Malwood, who was in charge of the reserve team, very troubled. At the same time, he also complained about Wansheng. He was obviously the director of the youth team and the reserve team, so why should he worry about these stars!
Bischoff was a headache, and now there's another top scorer in the Premier League, and now his reserves are on the verge of becoming the best in England.
Malwood groaned.
The only good news is that Anelka is no more troublesome than Schoff. He only cares about his own training and ignores anyone in the team. This is not a good character, but not causing trouble is the biggest good news. . (To be continued ~^~)