Chapter 52 The First Rookie

At the press conference, reporters gathered.

Brookson is not a well-known reporter. In fact, there are many large sports media reporters in the audience. He obtained the right to ask questions first because of the partnership between Derby County Sports News and Derby County Club.

Then it's the other person's turn to ask questions.

There are many journalists who are interested in Wansheng. There are not many topics in League One right now, but the new Chinese coach of Derby County is definitely the most attractive one. The last game revealed a little bit about the mysterious Chinese coach. , but there are still not many opportunities for Wan Sheng to appear in the media's field of vision. After the last victory, more media are interested in him.

Now they have a chance to ask questions.

"How did you persuade Derby County chairman Mr Gee Smith to give you the chance to coach the team?"

"Can you talk about the victory in the game?"

"Can you talk about your past at Manchester United? Like your relationship with Mr. McGuinness..."

"Can you talk about Alfred?"

Various questions came one after another, but not many were related to this game. Wan Sheng picked a few to answer, and soon he said directly into the microphone, "Ask a question about this game."

Only then did Nottingham Forest local media reporters get angry.

They asked about Derby County's tactical arrangement, and Wan Sheng laughed it off; they asked about their views on Nottingham Forest, and Wan Sheng complimented a few words casually, and his attitude was perfunctory at first glance; they asked whether Wan Sheng was prepared to lose. Ready, the goal of this game is to try to get a point... Wan Sheng is angry!

"Me and my team, come here!" Wan Sheng stood up and pointed to his feet, "City Square Stadium! To take away the victory! Take all three points!"

"As for what you said about winning a point, I think it should be more on our opponents!"

"They played against us and we were stronger, so they were the ones trying to get a draw!"

Wansheng is eloquent.

The reporters in the audience were very surprised. They didn't expect that the Chinese, who had a genial face before, would suddenly stand up and say this with such firmness. Other media reporters still appreciate this kind of performance. They will be appreciated everywhere, and Wansheng's performance is regarded as confidence and fighting spirit.

But apparently the local media in Nottingham don't think so.

Derby County came to challenge Nottingham Forest, but this Chinese said that they were here to take away the victory, and that Nottingham Forest was a team fighting for a point. This is really outrageous!

"What you said is too arrogant! Mr. Wan Sheng!" A reporter immediately stood up and retorted.

Wan Sheng just shrugged, "The result of the game will prove everything." After that, he walked out. That dismissive attitude made many people feel that he was stating the facts, but thinking about what he said, it was a little unbelievable.

The reporter who refuted just now angrily faced Wan Sheng's back and shouted, "You are right, the results will prove everything! Let's wait and see!"

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When Wan Sheng returned to the locker room, the team had not warmed up yet. He stood in front of the locker room door, looked at the dilapidated display inside, and sighed about what happened to Nottingham Forest.

As far as he knows, this team has a glorious past, but won't be promoted to the Premier League for another decade, and it seems they will be relegated in a few years.

A team that has won the Champions League twice, but is relegated to the third tier...

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Now that he is here with Derby County, it may also make the process a lot faster. He doesn't know how the game has ended in history, but he believes that his team will only play better. On the contrary, the result is right Nottingham Forest could only be worse.

They are now seventh in the league and don't know if they will kill their hopes for a place in the Premier League.

Wan Sheng smiled and shook his head.

Maybe it was because the environment was too lonely and the game had not even started, so he began to sympathize with his opponent.

The outside gradually became lively, and footsteps were heard frequently. Soon, the team returned to the locker room to gather under the leadership of Diamares. At this time, there were still more than ten minutes before the start of the game, but it was possible to rest for a while.

Wan Sheng just sat there, watching the players rest, silently counting the time.

After another five minutes, he stood up, and everyone in the locker room looked over, "I think, I have already said what I should say, and you should keep in mind the specific tactics and game play. The only thing I want to remind you is that you must maintain a stable mentality, and you must not panic whether you are attacking or defending."

"Their league ranking is higher. But after half a month of training, you should be able to feel your improvement. I want to tell you that now we are better than them!"

"But those reporters outside don't think so, they still think we are a weak team, a relegation team, and they even say we can only fight for one point! I tell them for sure, we are here to win! Guys! Wait! what?"

Wan Sheng waved his fist and pointed to the door, "Go ahead, use the game to prove who is the strongest! I hope that after the game, everyone can celebrate the team's three-game winning streak together!"

In the locker room, everyone nodded firmly.

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The game is about to start.

Baker-Alfred, standing on the court with determination. He wore the No. 25 jersey and stood alongside captain Marcus in the center back position. It was his first appearance in the regular professional league.

Looking around, the city square stadium of 30,000 people was full, and the fans of Nottingham Forest surrounded the whole stadium. They shouted the name of Nottingham Forest, the name of the star in their hearts, and various slogans. Fred felt that the world was full of enemies.

He has played many times in the youth league, but when the number of fans for that kind of game is the largest, it is difficult to exceed 10,000 fans. Usually, two or three thousand fans are not bad.

There are ten times as many fans now, and the vast majority are fans of the opposing team.

He felt a lot of pressure.

Captain Marcus looked over here, Alfred and him looked at each other, Marcus's eyes flashed with encouragement, which made Alfred feel a little better, he suddenly turned to look at the coaching bench Go, there, on the sidelines, a young Chinese man stood with his hands behind his back, looking over there.

Looking at the figure from afar, Alfred suddenly felt a lot less pressure.

The coach has said that I am fully qualified to be the starting central defender. As long as I maintain a stable mentality and do my best to do my job, I can definitely do it. What else do I think about? Alfred stopped looking left and right, and his expression became more determined.

He was full of confidence and couldn't help but look forward to the game starting soon.

bring it on!

The first professional league game!

From now on, I, Baker-Alfred, will also be a member of the professional league, and I will show that I can do it!

Finally the whistle for the start of the game sounded.

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"Here is the 38th round of the Championship, Nottingham Forest vs Derby County at City Square!"

The commentator Lyle Woodgate began to introduce, "The venue was full, the games of Nottingham Forest have always attracted the attention of fans, not only their background, but also because their games are also very beautiful... Let's take a look at City Square Stadium. Derby County, the formation of Derby County today is still the same as the last game, 4321, this is a very standard defensive counter formation, but their lineup is a bit unexpected..."

The camera cuts to a young man in the back of Derby County.

"Alfred! Derby's number twenty-five! Fans who know Derby should know that Derby does not have this number, yes, this is a newcomer, he was a regular in the Derby youth team before. Players, no fame, no qualifications..."

"It is said that he was promoted to the first team of Derby County by Chinese coach Wan Sheng!"

Lyle Woodgate commented, "But how can such a young man who can't play in the youth team play directly in the first team? This is just crazy! An unknown youth player, as you can imagine, he Not well known in the Derby County youth team, but now they are standing on the stage of League One - as a starter!"

"I think that Chinese coach must be crazy!"

Lyle Woodgate's tone was somewhat praiseworthy.

At the same time, many reporters in the media booth also sighed the same, "He must be crazy. As far as I know, this Alfred played as an avant-garde in the Derby County youth team! Now he has become the first-team starting center back!"

"Mad! Stupid!"

"Do you think he is omnipotent when he wins the game by luck?"

"I used to admire him a little bit, but now I know I was wrong. This kind of thing is not something normal people can do, he is really crazy!"

"It's unbelievable..."

Few of the reporters in the media booth were optimistic about Wansheng's move. In the eyes of the mass media, his image was not very good. His arrogance and disdain for the media made most media reporters a little disgusted. Even reporters who had not had contact with him found it unacceptable.

In a league so important to Derby County, how could a newcomer start?

What the hell is this Chinese thinking!

Most of the media's understanding of Alfred seems to be blank, and the position of central defender is quite critical for a team, especially Derby County, which is mainly defensive. Here is the arrangement The newcomers, in their view, are absolutely unwise.

They thought of Nico Hertzig at the previous position.

The Derby County club claimed that he was injured and needed to recuperate, but many media private investigations found that this was not the case at all. Nico Herziger trained normally all day long, and even reporters interviewed him. Nico Herziger publicly Denying the news of the injury, he said he was 'injured' because of a conflict with the head coach.

The news caused a lot of media uproar.

A few days ago, they also criticized Wansheng in a targeted manner, but Wansheng is the head coach of Derby County. He has the right to arrange who will play and who will not play. There are often conflicts with the head coach, no matter which team he is in. There is a chance to play, which is recognized in football.

But even so, can't let a young player play!

After private investigations, many reporters got the results - Baker-Alfred is a player who was picked up by the Chinese after he became the head coach. He came to the first team to train for less than half a month.

They think they get it.

Now seeing Alfred starting, they think it's because of 'favoritism' and the relationship between the two is good, so the Chinese let Alfred start. This is the real answer.

"Last game, he had shit luck and beat Bradford with a counter-attack goal, and he actually inflated his confidence to this level! Alfred? Never heard of him, how stupid he is Is it possible to arrange the starting lineup like this?"

"Other players at Derby County will definitely be dissatisfied! It is estimated that they have no fighting spirit to play in this game."

"The game will prove his failure! We should write some analysis of the failure of this Chinese as a coach!"

"That's right! That's right!"

Many reporters talked about Alfred happily and happily talked about the content to be reported after the game. Their impression of Wansheng was not very good. The reporters who were refused interviews by Wansheng would put Wansheng on the list of enemies at the same time. The enemies were mutual. If Wansheng refused to accept their interviews, they would naturally speak ill of Wansheng with sarcasm.

Of course, there are also reporters who are not very related to Wansheng.

The first time these reporters came into contact with Wansheng, their impression of him was neither good nor bad. They just watched the game indifferently. However, the number of these reporters was very small, and most of them were local reporters from Nottingham. , Wan Sheng's words offended them a bit, and they naturally wouldn't say anything nice.

The important thing is that this move arranged for Alfred to play, which was indeed not favored by the media.

Almost all of them are talking about this.

Only those Derby County local media reporters who really care about the Derby County club will care about Alfred and Derby County's performance, including the "Derby County Sports" reporter Brookson, and other and Wan. Victory 'hatred' reporter.

In this way, we can see how low the support rate of Wansheng in the media is.

Just as they were talking, the game on the field had already begun.