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Chapter 21 They are my friends!

On July 24, Derby County ended its closed training. Fans can buy tickets to enter the training ground to watch the training, and reporters can also enter the interview. "[]

Since the start of the preparations for the new season, Derby County has been in closed training, which has made outside journalists extremely dissatisfied, because Derby County's training is normally open to the public once a week. Every game day, Derby County's training will be open for public training, which means that Derby County's training can be watched half of the time, and even in many cases, in order to create benefits for the club, training will be open continuously (fans need to buy tickets to enter when watching training). However, after the start of the new season, Derby County's training has been closed, and there are no outside fans. The reporters know their training situation. It is difficult for them to know the preparations for Derby County, so the media's reports on Derby County are still centered around summer transfers and other official news released by some clubs.

Media reporters have been trying to put pressure on the club to open up training in Derby County. They want to know the preparations for the new season in Derby County. So during this period, the club's press officer Mr. Richardson is very busy at work. He is tired of dealing with the "harassment" of various media reporters. He also needs to stand up and explain why the team needs to close training to maintain the positive image of the club.

But in fact, Richardson didn't know why the team's training was closed!

He is just the team's press officer, a club's foreign affairs staff. He can't get involved in the club's affairs, and Wan Sheng has the final say on the team's affairs alone. He doesn't know these at all, but he still has to explain these unclear things in detail to deal with the reporters who keep asking questions. But there is no way, this is his job.

Richardson is under a lot of work pressure, and Wansheng is under a lot of work pressure.

Wan Sheng’s pressure is not from journalists. In fact, the reporter group in Derby County is divided into two factions, and all journalists, including those tabloids, can be divided into two factions. One is the club’s ‘opposition party’, that is, the mainstream media led by Derby County Sports News, and the other is the ‘laid dog party’, which means the reporters in his MSN group with good relationships with him.

This is a 'joking' about the media wars outside Derby County, but this statement is already very popular now.

The relationship between the "Opposition" and Wan Sheng was extremely bad. Wan Sheng refused their interviews again and again, and then they simply didn't come to disturb Wan Sheng. On weekdays, these reporters ignored Wan Sheng when they saw Wan Sheng, let alone came to interview him.

They just want to show their attitude-resolutely refuse to interview Wansheng!

You always make big names and refuse to interview? We are the mainstream media in Derby County. Not everyone goes to interview. If you refuse to interview, we simply don’t interview and don’t bother you. In the future, you will lead the team to compete. There are only two or three kittens to interview. It will be more uncomfortable to see who will be in the end!

That's what they think.

There is no need for the "lack dog party" to come to interview. They know that Wan Sheng doesn't like being disturbed by private life, and they don't want to offend Wan Sheng because of interview questions, let alone that they don't use them to interview. Wan Sheng often posts some news on the msn group to let them know about the team's situation. They only need to add some illustrations, which is enough to do news reports.

So even if the reporters want to shoot Derby County training in close range and want to watch Derby County training, they will not come to disturb Wansheng.

Wansheng's pressure has nothing to do with the reporters.

His pressure comes from fans.

Many Derby fans know about Wan Sheng, especially those who live nearby. Many people hope to see the club's training with their own eyes, so when Wan Sheng returns home from the club or on the way to the club in the morning, they will meet many fans. When they see Wan Sheng, they will ask about the current preparations for some teams.

When facing reporters, Wan Sheng can continue to do his own things with an ignorant attitude, but there is no way to face fans. These fans really care about the team. He can only say it roughly, at least he has to answer it. However, as many people ask, the pressure comes. One afternoon, he was surrounded by more than a dozen fans as soon as he left the club. These fans were even more crazy than those reporters, which made Wan Sheng very troubled.

In fact, there is a reason for Wansheng to conduct closed training.

Some time ago, I was conducting physical reserve training, and there was nothing to be open to the outside world. There was no visible training. Instead, it was possible that those "opposition" reporters could seize the handle and talk about slander the team. Recently, they were conducting tactical training and just started training players more seriously, otherwise the training effect would definitely be reduced. He felt that there was not enough time. Even if he had the "collaboration" skills and the tactical training effect was doubled, he still felt that preparation time was tight, so he naturally could not open up training. Every day was very precious to the team.

But on this day, the team's training was still open.

Wan Sheng is thinking that the team's first warm-up game will be the team's first warm-up game after two days. It is impossible to close any news next. At that time, more reporters will hope to come and interview, and more fans will hope to see the fans' training. Moreover, the team has been closed for nearly a month, so it is time to train publicly.

The public training situation also surprised Wan Sheng.

The team's open training is generally seen, and hundreds of fans come to watch it. After all, fans also have to live and work. Few fans will come to watch the training on weekdays. But on that morning, more than 400 people bought tickets to enter the stadium. This is the result of the club's stopping ticket sales. Many people stood outside the training ground, making the training ground look like a game was being played, but in fact, there were only a few people such as Reit in the morning.

When the time was approaching nine o'clock, players came to the training ground. When they saw so many fans and reporters watching outside, their mental state immediately became different.

Wan Sheng found that their training was more serious, more energetic and harder than usual... Of course, many people seemed to deliberately show off their skills for fans, such as Frank Ribery. This guy kept playing with the ball before the nine o'clock meeting, constantly playing with the skills, but this approach has no practical significance at all. At least in Wan Sheng's opinion, it is meaningless, and Ribery would not do this on weekdays. But now he has done this, the reason is naturally clear.

He hopes to get the recognition of fans!

Ribery has a heart to become a star. In the professional league for so long, what he hopes most is to become famous, so no matter when, he hopes that fans can recognize him. He tried to do this before the gathering, and the effect is very good--there are many fans calling for him on the side of the iron bar on Ribery. Obviously, his feet can still attract the attention of fans.

Ribery is like this. Others are not much better, especially a few new young people.

Cahill is better. After all, he has been in the League One for several years, and he doesn't care about training and fans watching it. Millwall's training is also often made public. For example, Leiden Bynes and Leto Ziegler are different. They are both newcomers in the professional league, so naturally they hope that fans will recognize themselves. Unfortunately, they do not have the unique skills like Ribery. And they are too young and have no fame, so it is difficult to attract fans' attention no matter how they do it.

The formal training has begun.

Before the formal training began, Wansheng reminded everyone to concentrate and not be influenced by media reporters and fans. Seeing everyone responded seriously, Wansheng started training.

Training is actually nothing special. At the beginning, it was daily activities, running around the circle, doing ball running, etc. Tactical training was only started when all the players' physical activities started. There was basically nothing to watch for tactical training. This was not a regular game, but just training. Even with new tactics, it was just to allow the players to adapt to the position and perform some small-scale tactical cooperation. It was only to watch from the outside. Even professionals were difficult to see anything. After all, the stadium fence was far away from the training place, and they could not hear what Wan Sheng said to the players.

Even so, the fans were very satisfied.

They haven't seen team training for a long time and have not seen team competitions for a long time. When they watch those supportive players train hard, they can start to look forward to the new season.

The reporters also stood outside the fence to shoot.

There is a space for reporters to place equipment outside the fence, and the angle of the place is also very good. The reporters can calmly shoot the training scenes on the stadium.

Now here are all the mainstream Derby County media reporters from the "opposition" who came to shoot interviews to report on the preparations for Derby County. However, many of them, especially several reporters from the Derby County Sports News, hope to take pictures of some players making mistakes. Wan Sheng angrily scolded the players, or other internal conflicts among the team, which can be reported as negative news. The news themes of such pictures will definitely attract the attention of the fans.

They were all excited to get into work.

But one thing that made them strange is that they have not seen those mortal enemies who have been supporting the Chinese recently. Normally, these people will definitely come to Derbyshire's public training. Although they are 'non-mainstream' media and have little influence in Derbyshire, they are also media after all, and they need to conduct some reports. Derbyshire's first public training is definitely attractive news. How could they not come to shoot the interview?

"Aren't they coming?" someone said.

"impossible!"

"They will definitely come. This is the first public tour of Derby County. Maybe we didn't see it?"

"Maybe that Chinese provided them with reporting information? I heard that they had an MSN group, and that Chinese often posted some news, even pictures..."

"Is there such a thing? What is the group number? I'll add it!"

"I tried it, I couldn't get in at all. There was only one management in that group, that damn Chinese!"

"Can you drag your friend in?"

“…”

"Let's talk about why they didn't come today!" An old reporter saw that the topic was shifted to an unknown corner, so he hurriedly brought the topic back.

Many people discussed for a long time but still had no results. They could only shake their heads and give up and focus on the work they were doing.

During the shooting, time slowly passes.

When it was eleven o'clock, a reporter who was standing near the fans suddenly exclaimed. Other reporters looked over in confusion, and saw the reporter pointing to a corner of the training ground and exclaiming, "Look, there is someone there shooting inside."

Everyone nearby went over and glanced at it, and they all exclaimed.

"How did he get inside?"

"It seems like there is more than one person! There is another guy who just walked in and was holding a camera in his hand!"

"I know him, that's from Derbyshire Life!"

"How did he get in?"

"That's because the stadium is much closer than here, and the location is much better. The shooting will definitely be clearer. We have to find a way to get in!"

A group of reporters said hula, but they turned around and found that there was only one gate in the training ground, and there was a security guard guard who could not find any other place to go in. Thinking about it, it would be true. If there was a place to go in casually, so many fans would have discovered it long ago.

"Then how did they get in?"

"Is it the Derby County Club that allowed them to enter?" Someone finally thought of the reason.

As a result, the group of people began to protest loudly.

“Free interview!”

“The interview is fair!”

"This is a different treatment!"

"We're going in and filming, too!"

Their shouts were very loud, even overwhelming the fans around them. Many people watched them. The uproar could be heard in the training ground. Wan Sheng, who was standing with Diamares on the sidelines and talking about something, turned around and looked here. As a result, the calls from these reporters became even louder.

Wan Sheng frowned, turned his head and continued to talk to Diamares. He ignored the voice at all.

Soon the reporters found that doing so was completely useless, so they went to Richardson, the club's press officer, to ask him why those people could shoot inside, and they were just on the periphery.

Richardson was very upset!

A while ago, he was under a lot of work pressure. These reporters came to disturb him a lot, but he was a press officer and could not offend the reporter. As a result, he could only show a kind face to deal with it. Yesterday he heard that the team was finally going to train publicly, and he was relieved. He even thought that he should take a leave. Relax for a few days. Anyway, before the league officially begins, his work tasks will be very relaxed.

But these reporters are coming again!

"Why can those people take photos inside? Ask me, who will I ask?" Richardson directly denied that there was such a thing because he had no idea about the news. As a result, in order to prove that the reporters brought Richardson to the training ground, Richardson could only come and take a look.

Then... he was under even greater pressure.

Richardson had no way to explain this to the reporters because he had no idea, so he could only say, "I'll ask the head coach." After that, he walked into the court and ran quickly to Wan Sheng.

As for finding justice for the reporters, Richardson would not do it, he came to complain.

"Wansheng, I really have no choice! Those reporters always come to disturb me. I wanted to have two days of leisure! Look at me, I am so old, I should have reduced my work tasks. The club hasn't given me a raise for two years..." Richardson kept saying.

In fact, he was not old and was only in his forties. He said he was a little old, but he was just relative to Wansheng and then gained sympathy.

Wan Sheng shook his head funny, he knew Richardson's trouble.

"Okay, I'll go and explain to them." After Wan Sheng said that, he walked towards the fence, which was the place where the reporter took the filming. Richardson breathed a long sigh behind him.

If Wan Sheng can't pass, he has no choice. The press officer is doing such dirty and tiring work.

Seeing Wansheng coming, the reporters outside the fence were even louder. They were like demonstrators, making shouts, and they seemed to have become heroes who worked hard to die for the revolution, full of a sense of justice, and Wansheng wanted them to defeat them.

Now this goal has come.

When Wansheng walked in, the reporters stopped calling, and then a reporter from Derbyshire Sports News stood up in a representative manner and questioned, "Mr. Wansheng, we demand fairness of the interview, we demand fairness, why are there other reporters in the training ground able to shoot close up, and we can only be here, this is unfair! We demand fairness!"

Wan Sheng looked at the reporter. This was a guy on his blacklist. He seemed to have refused the other party twice. However, this time he did not refuse to answer. He just looked at him with a smile and asked, "Why can I be in the training ground?"

The reporter was stunned, rolled his eyes and said, "Of course, you are the head coach of Derby County."

"Why is my player in there?"

"What's the problem? We're here to interview Derby County's training, and of course your players can be in there. They're Derby County players."

Wan Sheng nodded and said with satisfaction, "Your answer is very accurate."

"But what does this have to do with them?" asked the reporter. "They don't work at the Derby County Club! They are not players, nor coaches!"

Wan Sheng smiled and replied, "Because they are my friends, it is my personal question to invite friends to visit the club. Here, I would like to thank the club chairman Mr. Smith, who allowed me to bring my friends in for the request to visit."

The reporter was stunned. He pointed to the side and said, "They are your friends?" He reacted and felt an urge to vomit blood, "They are all your friends!!"

Wan Sheng said for granted, "Does the British law also stipulate that many friends are not allowed?" Wan Sheng turned his head in confusion and thought, "It's just a dozen friends, I think this is normal, right? You will have more than a dozen friends, right?"

The reporter nodded dullly, and just realized that he heard Wan Sheng say firmly, "So this is just a private issue, it has nothing to do with the fairness of interviews. I never discriminate against anyone, treat anyone differently, and the same is true for Derby County Club. It will not treat any reporters, fans, and will not divide the group for reporters, fans, and you don't have to worry about it at all."

After saying that, Wan Sheng turned around and left without paying attention to the protests of the reporters.

He walked back to the training ground and asked Richardson to prepare two dining tables and a few chairs for the journalists and friends in the training ground, and asked him to go to the club restaurant to ask for some meals and drinks. He said generously, "This is what I provide for my friends, and I will pay for everything."

Then the reporters outside the fence saw their mortal enemies sitting comfortably next to the training ground, drinking drinks and holding meals, chatting while taking close-up shots.
Chapter completed!
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