Chapter 115 Gloating

Wan Sheng's speech at the press conference made people feel very refreshed, because he directly defined the penalty won by Manchester United as a 'despicable means', C-Ronaldo fell in the penalty area, naturally it was a 'diving', In fact, no one dared to be 100% sure that it was a diving fall. Many media reported vague descriptions. After all, no one dared to be sure that C-Ronaldo fell on purpose.

But most people know that there is at least an 80% chance that C-Ronaldo fell on purpose, which means that 80% of Manchester United's penalty kicks may have been obtained by 'despicable means'.

Now Wansheng has emphasized this in the media, and described his Manchester City as 'a team that cannot be defeated by despicable means', while Manchester United has naturally become a 'team that can only win by despicable means'. The two are completely different. On the contrary, it's refreshing to Manchester City supporters, because few people say it so bluntly, of course, Manchester United supporters feel the exact opposite.

If everyone saw it that way, they lost not only the game, but also the sportsmanship.

As a result, Manchester United supporters immediately stood up to refute, and of course, Manchester United coach Ferguson, he shot back, "There are always some controversial penalties in football games. If everyone is like him (Wan Sheng), the referee's pressure will change. Much bigger."

"Congratulations to them for winning the game, but we will remember the defeat, it is a lesson, we will deeply remember that the next victory must be ours."

Finally, Ferguson emphasized, "I look forward to it, that will come soon..."

Ferguson's words could not help but remind people of the League Cup.

If Manchester United and Manchester City can still play against each other this season, it will definitely be in a cup game. The most promising one is the League Cup. Manchester City has already won the final ticket with one foot, and Manchester United has a great hope of defeating Blackburn. to them. It's easy, so the two teams are likely to fight for the title at Millennium Stadium.

On the one hand is the League Cup decisive battle, on the other hand is the Manchester derby, this game is really worth looking forward to!

So many media began to report the game in advance.

Of course, as rivals between the two teams in the League Cup. Wigan Athletic and Blackburn are not feeling well. Haven't they been eliminated before the media started reporting that Manchester City and Manchester United met in the Carabao Cup final?

Even as Ferguson's former assistant, Blackburn coach Hughes couldn't hold back his anger, "I think it's us who should be in the final, even if we go to Old Trafford, we can still withstand the pressure. "Hughes has the confidence to say this because the score of Blackburn and Manchester United in the first round was 1-1. They still have a chance.

By comparison. Wigan Athletic, who lost to Manchester City in the first round, has no confidence. Head coach Jewell can only let the team train in silence. He doesn't talk about it in front of the media at all, because even he himself knows that Wigan Athletic Already out of the League Cup, they want to create a miracle to eliminate Manchester City, it is a fantasy, it is impossible.

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Just when the media launched a vigorous discussion about the Manchester derby that just passed. Wansheng is already thinking about his contract with the club.

The second day of the game was a rest day, and he was going to sleep late before getting up.

But a phone call woke him up. When I opened the phone, I found out that it was the club's general manager, Bi Knicks. He called to talk to Wansheng about the renewal of the contract.

Wansheng and Derby County had renewed their contracts before, but at that time the team was still in the English second-tier league, and the contract renewal was only a simple modification of the contract, and it was only a symbolic announcement at the press conference.

It's different now.

Wansheng's original contract is already very good, and there will definitely be better treatment when it comes to contract renewal, but in terms of contract renewal, he still needs to think carefully before going to seriously discuss with the club.

Manchester City's renewal of his contract is basically the same as signing a new contract. Bi-Knicks has come up with a whole set of contract renewal negotiation things. Wansheng does not know these things. He can only find Kevin Tagore and let him Come talk to Bea Nicks.

However, some things need to be considered by Wansheng, such as the issue of the contract period. Before, he and Manchester City were '3+1'. The original contract period was three years. Before the contract expires, the two sides cooperate happily. It will automatically renew for one year.

The advantage of this type of contract is that it is more flexible. After three years, the club wants to change the head coach, or if he wants to leave, there will be no problem.

Renewal contracts are different. Once you sign a renewal contract, at least one year will be added to the term.

It is normal for a European football coach to coach a team for three or four years. The short-term is generally two or three years. More than four years is considered a long time. Except for Wenger and Ferguson, who are A football coach who has almost engraved the team's name. Few other football coaches have coached the same team for more than four years. There are many reasons for this. For example, the coach himself will be bored with the team and the fixed environment, and the club will also Consider changing a manager to add something new to the team, and there are other reasons why the manager and the club have to part ways peacefully.

After all, a contract that is too long still needs to be carefully considered. It cannot be said that if the coaching performance is good, you can sign a long-term contract with confidence, because Wansheng does not know what he will be like in four years.

He has to think clearly.

If the contract time is short, it will be more flexible. For example, if the coaching performance is not good, or there is no possibility for the team to go further, then after the contract expires, as long as Manchester City says that it will not renew the contract, Wansheng can find a new owner. At that time, Manchester City can also find a new coach. The two sides will break up peacefully, and there will be no sequelae at all, but the contract will not end, and the issue of liquidated damages will be involved. When the club wants to change coaches, it needs to pay liquidated damages. Wansheng If you want to forcibly terminate the contract, there is also the issue of liquidated damages, which is very troublesome.

Of course, there are also advantages to long-term contracts, that is, stability, and the salary will be higher.

If the two sides can always cooperate happily, the club is willing to pay more salaries, Wansheng can also have a more stable environment, and can focus on the team, which is beneficial to both sides.

So you have to think carefully about the age.

Another important thing is of course the salary. If you want to renew the contract, you must increase the salary. The specific increase is worth discussing. For Wansheng himself, the salary is naturally higher, but for Manchester City, they cannot increase the salary limit indefinitely, which will break the club's salary system. Even if Wan Sheng is the head coach. It's also the team's highest paid, and it can't do that either.

In this regard, the Manchester City club is very generous. Bi-Knicks directly offered the highest treatment, with a weekly salary of 80,000 pounds before tax, an annual increase of 10%, which is basically the same as Mourinho's salary at Chelsea. This salary contract. Wan Sheng can become one of the highest paid head coaches in the world.

In fact. Club President Waddell just wanted to use a high salary to keep Wansheng's heart, so it is not surprising that the club offered a salary contract of this level.

In addition to his own salary, Wansheng still has other requirements. The first is Diamares. As the head coach, he wants to renew his contract. As an important member of the coaching staff, Diamares naturally also has to renew his contract. To get a raise. On the contrary, Pierce and Peter James don't have to worry about him. Both of them signed contracts with the club separately. It has nothing to do with his contract.

This is also a relationship issue with Wansheng.

If one day Wansheng leaves Manchester City, Diamares will definitely leave, but Pierce and Peter James can't guarantee it. Because of this, it is impossible for Wansheng to renew the contract to take care of the two, unless They truly become 'people'.

Manchester City is not surprised at Wansheng's request. After all, Diamares was brought by Wansheng, and the contract must be renewed together.

The Manchester City club agreed, and soon Diamares also received a contract renewal notice.

Diamares's contract extension is easy to talk about. He doesn't have any special requirements. The salary increase alone is enough to make him happy, and the salary increase is only about 200,000 pounds a year at most. Even 10,000 wins With less than a fraction of the new contract, the two sides naturally negotiated quickly.

At this time, Wansheng's contract was also discussed at the end, and the dispute between the two sides was still on the issue of age.

Manchester City wanted to increase the contract period to June 2010. Bee-Knicks believed that Wansheng had no reason to refuse. According to the salary marked in the contract, from 2009 to 2010, which is the last year of the contract period, Wansheng’s tax The previous annual salary will be more than 7 million pounds, which is an absolutely horrific figure.

A long-term contract with a club was originally a guarantee for the coach. Generally, football coaches can get such a long-term, high-paying contract with a Super League team.

Wansheng did not want to sign a contract for too long.

There are two reasons, one is that he has enough confidence to lead the team to achieve good results, so it doesn't make sense for him to make a long-term contract.

Unless there is a conflict with the club's top management, such as chairman Waddell, Manchester City will definitely not consider changing the head coach, but if that happens, he will give priority to leaving.

Another reason is that he knows what will happen in a few years. In the year before his rebirth, Mourinho returned to Stamford Bridge and got three times the salary he is now, so what about 2010! ? At least twice as much! ?

At that time, I only got 7 million pounds, wouldn't it be a big loss!

No matter what Wan Sheng thought about it, he felt that signing a long-term contract was only good for Manchester City, but not good for himself, so he insisted that the contract period would only be up to the original '3+1', which ended normally in June 2008. Renew for another year.

The two sides were deadlocked on this issue. In the end, Bi-Knicks could only agree to it after consulting with Chairman Waddell.

In this way, Wansheng and the club have completed the renewal of the contract. Except for the increase in salary, there are basically no other changes.

Still, the extension caused a storm in the media.

The key lies in the meaning of contract renewal, which shows the attitude of Manchester City and Wansheng himself. Due to Wansheng's leading performance, many clubs are playing his ideas. Now that Wansheng has completed the renewal, it is also It is equivalent to expressing to the outside world, "I have no idea of ​​leaving Manchester City Club for the time being." At the same time, Manchester City Club also expressed in the form of contract renewal, "We are willing to pay a higher salary to retain Wansheng."

So those careful clubs can only die.

Then Wan Sheng threw himself on the team.

On January 21st, in the twenty-third round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Bolton away.

Because of the historical reasons of the "air crash", Bolton and Manchester United are also mortal enemies, but this does not mean that Manchester City and Bolton are friends, and the relationship between the two teams is also very bad. The confrontation between fans is a common thing every time.

The game between the two teams is not as good as the Manchester derby. But by no means inferior.

It's a tough fight for Manchester City.

However, Wansheng didn't expect the game to be so difficult. Perhaps it was affected by the Manchester derby that just passed. The team's state was not very good. Several good opportunities were wasted in the first half, but Bolton scored the first goal instead. And next. Neither side scored until the second half.

Seeing that the team was unable to break through the opponent's gate, Wansheng did not hesitate to directly choose to make a substitution. He sent in Robbie Fowler, who was in poor form in the last game. Unexpectedly, the surprise came soon, and Fowler played the first game. In three minutes, he took advantage of an empty shot and scored a goal with a long-range shot.

This goal came so suddenly!

Even Fowler himself did not expect to score so quickly. So he was a little stunned. The teammate who came to celebrate the goal reminded him, and then Manchester City began to celebrate the goal.

Just an equalizer, there's really nothing to celebrate.

Soon the game restarted. Of course, Manchester City were not satisfied with the score of 1:1. Now the competition in the league is very tight. Every point is very important. Bolton can accept a draw, but Manchester City cannot.

So after the game restarts. Manchester City launched a fierce offensive, they want to overtake the score to win. But Bolton is not easy to deal with. Their defense is very tight and decisive. At the last time, all players retreated to the vicinity of the penalty area, making Manchester City's cooperation impossible to play.

As a result, until the last minute of the game, Manchester City failed to score again, and the game ended 1:1, and the two sides tied.

Wan Sheng could only reluctantly accept the draw.

He is still a little worried about the team's top position. Now the team is the first in the league, but it only pulled down the second Chelsea four points. A draw means that he will be caught up by two points and the throne of the league table. can also become very dangerous.

But what I never expected was that in another game at the same time, Chelsea was also unexpectedly tied by Charlton.

What a surprise!

Now Manchester City and Chelsea are winning almost all the way, and it is difficult to draw a draw. I did not expect that while Manchester City drew in this round, Chelsea also encountered Waterloo in front of their own door.

Chelsea took the lead for a while thanks to Gudjansson's goal, but the players were so slack that they ruined a good situation.

"We weren't nervous enough," Mourinho said, unhappy with his team underestimating the enemy. "If we fought as hard as we did in the last 10 minutes with one man missing, the result would be different, this game is not Our normal play."

At the same time, Mourinho did not let the referee go. He first questioned Carvalho's red card, and then taunted the assistant referee who ruled Crespo offside twice.

"I disagree with the red card," Mourinho said. "We haven't had a red card in the past year and a half, because the team has a very strict discipline, they play fair, the players are clean, but the last two games In the game, Robben did not foul but got a red card, Carvalho got another one today, in my opinion, either it was not a foul, or it was a foul, but the card should not be given."

"Charlton fought very tenaciously, and they were fortunate enough to get a lot of help from the assistant referee. We arranged for someone to watch the TV broadcast, and it was immediately clear that those times were not offside at all, usually in those situations. The player will get a single-handed shot and have a great chance to score, but what can I do with such a penalty?"

How annoyed Mourinho was, Wansheng didn't care, on the contrary, he was happy to see his rivals being drawn.

When a reporter interviewed, he was soon asked to talk about Chelsea's draw. Wan Sheng knew what Mourinho said, so he directly compared the Manchester derby just past, "We have also been unfairly treated. It was a penalty and it was only more serious, it was a penalty and we overtook the score and they could only complain about the referee, but it didn't help."

"That's the difference between them and us. So we're No. 1 in the league, they can only be No. 2..."

When saying these words, the expression on Wansheng's face can only make people think of one word - schadenfreude! (To be continued ~^~)