After eliminating the Donetsk Miners in the League Cup, Wan Sheng was not in the mood to celebrate the victory, and the whole team was not in the mood, because this victory was prepared long ago, and there was no suspense to win. In addition, the more important League Cup final is coming.

Although the League Cup is a useless trick to strong teams, the Guardian also joked that "remembering those League Cup finals is obviously much more difficult than remembering the FA Cup finals that symbolize the milestone of England's football", but the League Cup championship is also an honor, and this championship can also be qualified to participate in the UEFA Cup. This qualification is of no use to Chelsea and Derby County participating in the competition, but the championship is the most attractive. For Chelsea, which has never won honors after 2000, and Derby County, which has just been promoted to the Premier League, the League Cup championship is very attractive, especially the two sides are only one game away from the championship.

So both sides attach great importance to the game.

Wan Sheng started training for the finals two weeks ago. In his eyes, the League Cup is not important at all in the middle of the league, and in the eyes of the media, even if he looks down on the League Cup, it is also a traditional English Cup, an honor only for the FA Cup, and is comparable to other league cups, such as La Liga's King's Cup and the Italian Cup in Serie A.

But the next day, the media's attention was attracted by another news.

There is a rumor that Derby County is being acquired. The other party is an American consortium. The actual owner of Derby County, Ji Smith, has agreed to the acquisition, and the acquisition is already in progress.

This news attracted countless media.

Many reporters came to interview, and the media's focus was also on Derby County.

A Premier League team is acquired and can always attract a lot of attention. Just like Chelsea last season, even if there is a successful case of foreign capital injection and Chelsea's success, Derby County fans are not too resistant to foreign capital acquisitions. Some fans even think that Derby County will soon use enough funds to introduce many big-name stars like Chelsea.

They obviously have no idea about the American consortium that acquires one side, they just think about it in chaos.

Media reporters want to get more news. Many things in the UK cannot be kept confidential, especially when a Premier League club was acquired, it is impossible to keep them completely confidential. Soon, detailed news about the acquisition of Derbyshire appeared in the Daily Mirror.

This involves several names.

Adam Pearson, an Englishman who is very friendly to Derbyshire. He was a Derbyshire fan when he was young. He is now the spokesperson for the American G-Sex Consortium in this acquisition.

Apurabi, chairman of the American G-Sex Consortium.

Of course, current Derby County Chairman Ji Smith and Paul Wilcox, the club general manager who is in charge of contacting G-Sex Consortium.

The price of the detailed acquisition has not been announced. It is estimated that the media does not have that great ability to know such accurate news, but it is certain that Derby County Club is being acquired.

For Derby fans, they are not willing to see the acquisition. If Derby even had the danger of relegation in the second division two seasons ago, they would like to see the club being acquired by foreign consortiums, which means that the club's performance will not be worse.

But now the situation of Derby County club is very good. This season, even if the club is qualified to compete for the league championship, the club will be acquired again, and some wise fans are worried about the team.

Especially now that the team is being acquired has become a negative news.

It is unclear how the future will be, but the current incident will definitely have a certain impact on the team, which is not good for Derby County's sprint results.

Of course, the Daily Mirror did not care about so many news. For them, the important thing is that the news has a wide influence and has attracted more attention. What's more, they are eager to see Derby County being unlucky. It would be better for Derby County to have a new boss. He fired the young Chinese and drove him out of Derby County. Then the young man had to leave Derby County in a daze, and never recovered from then on. This is what they hoped to see.

So they reported on the acquisition of Derby County. Detailed descriptions of Derby County were everywhere in newspapers and official websites. They repeated a few times a few times, and the reporter analyzed what impact the acquisition would have on Derby County.

The final analysis results are definitely unfavorable to Derbyshire.

Derby County has an injury problem, and now the club has been acquired, which will definitely affect the mentality of their players. They may start to decline sharply from now on. Faced with this situation, Wan Sheng, as a young person who has not experienced any storm, will not have any way.

"He might just collapse"

"He's less than 28 years old and hasn't experienced this. He worked hard for Derby County for a season and ended up selling the team with the club's chairman."

"He got nothing."

"I heard that Derby County did not renew his contract, so it must be because the new boss didn't like him. Of course, maybe the American boss prefers more famous head coaches!"

The last sentence satirizes Wan Sheng, and also satirizes Americans not understanding football.

Such a big thing happened to the club, and everyone knew about it after the media exposed it.

The club had done a good job in confidentiality measures before. Those who knew that the club was being acquired were only Wan Sheng and other senior executives, and even Diamares didn't know about it.

He was holding a newspaper, reading it carefully, and then looked up and asked Xiang Wansheng, "You knew it a long time ago, right?"

Wan Sheng nodded, "Paul told me."

"What do you think? These people are right, this must have a great impact on the team. I am a little worried about the new boss. They are not Jill, so maybe it will be difficult to get along with?" Diamares said with some concern.

Wan Sheng shook his head, "I don't know the specific situation, but I don't think this will affect my head coach position, so you don't have to worry about anything."

“That’s right.”

Diamares put down the newspaper and felt much more at ease.

Now he has decided to follow Wansheng all the time. With Wansheng at the forefront, he has nothing to worry about. If Wansheng stays in the club, he will definitely stay. If Wansheng wants to leave, he will just leave, and there is nothing to worry about at all.

On the contrary, many people are worried about the next game.

Before the League Cup final, the club was exposed for the acquisition, which is not a good thing. This will definitely affect the mentality of the whole team, especially the media will definitely catch this topic, because it is more attractive than the League Cup finals between Derby County and Chelsea.

Sure enough, before the match against Chelsea, at the regular press conference held by Derby County, the questions asked by the reporters were related to the acquisition of the club.

The reporters certainly couldn't find club chairman Ji Smith and general manager Paul Wilcox, so Wansheng became their only breakthrough.

"Yes, this news is true."

Wan Sheng admitted the news calmly, which surprised the media reporters. Generally, the head coach will not make any comments on the big issues of the club. After all, the head coach can be said to be just a "working person" in the club, and it is no different from ordinary players. He just takes the club's salary, but Wan Sheng still said it. "I knew a while ago that because I have a good personal relationship with Jill. But it doesn't matter at all. Look at our results in January and February. If we win this game, I might be the best coach in February."

Wan Sheng smiled at the corner of his mouth.

No press conference thinks Wansheng is arrogant. Derby County's performance in February is quite good. Although they lost the FA Cup, they won all the leagues, won the League Cup, and advanced to the finals. If they can win the League Cup, Wansheng will become the best coach in February.

"So, this cannot affect me and my team at all. The outside world says it's acquired or something. There are also various news and rumors. I have seen it, but it has nothing to do with me and the players just because of a change of chairman." Wan Sheng said seriously. "Recently, we are all preparing for the next final. This is the second championship we can fight for this season. No matter what the club is like, we will do our best to fight for in the game. This is the championship we will strive for in a season. No matter what happens, we cannot shake our determination. As for the club being acquired or something, even if the opponent spends a lot of money to acquire, it has nothing to do with me and my players, because we won't get even a penny, so the game is the most important thing for us, because we can win the championship honor!"

Next, Wan Sheng talked about the team's preparations for the League Cup.

The reporters wanted to continue asking the acquisition questions, but they also knew that it was unrealistic to get detailed information about what acquisitions they wanted from Wansheng. After all, Wansheng was just a head coach. He was not the club owner, so it was naturally impossible for him to know the detailed information.

But in the end, Wan Sheng still talked about the issue related to the acquisition, "I think it's too early to talk about the club's change of ownership now. If you want to talk about this, you will have to pay more attention to Manchester United. That is the real big acquisition."

Wansheng said jokingly at the end.

Of course, media reporters don't think this is a joke. This is the fact that Derby County was acquired by the American consortium. The important thing is that Derby County's performance is very good. If not, Derby County's acquisition will not cause any waves. After all, Derby County is just a small club. The whole team is combined, and the young players brought by the ten thousand wins are worth a little money. In other aspects, the Financial Times gave Derby County an assessment and the entire club was added together.

The value of the team cannot exceed 70 million pounds. Most of them are the value of many outstanding players in the team, such as Van der Fate, Ribery, Morris, etc. Their value is more than 10 million pounds, which has increased the value of the entire club of Derby County. However, Derby County still has some foreign debt. Even though their performance this season is very good, it is still not easy to balance income. The point is that they are not very famous and have not participated in the Champions League with obvious returns.

On the other hand, Manchester United club has been acquired by the Glazer family since October last year, and the acquisition has not been completed yet. However, according to various news reports, the funds for equity transfer alone have exceeded 500 million pounds. If Glazer wants to complete the acquisition of Manchester United, he must have absolute equity, that is, he has to invest at least 200 million pounds to truly complete the acquisition, and make Manchester United truly his own team.

Glazer does not have so many assets, and his assets do not exceed 400 million pounds, so he borrowed debts and acquired them by lending to banks, mortgages, etc., but no matter what the process is, Manchester United's value is also placed in front of everyone.

In terms of value, Manchester United is worth at least 10 Derby County clubs.

So Wansheng's words are not a joke. The British media and even the entire European media are very concerned about the acquisition of Manchester United. In contrast, Derby County was acquired and transferred, but it was just a matter of a big deal. After all, Derby County is not a club that has completed its listing. Being acquired is really just a change of a boss and will not have any major impact on Derby County.

(ps: Glazer acquired Manchester United Club through leveraged acquisition (L wave, that is, bank loans). After Greg became Manchester United's boss, Manchester United is likely to bear a lot of debt, and the change of Derby County will not have any impact at all, because they are not listed and have very little influence, so the club's assets are unlikely to be mortgaged.)

With the end of the regular press conference in Derby County, their League Cup final against Chelsea is also at the end. Two days later, they will play at Cardiff Millennium Stadium, and a battle of dragons and tigers will inevitably be staged.

But for the media, they have many reasons not to be optimistic about Derbyshire.

Even if Derby defeated Chelsea before Christmas, Derby County two generals Morris and Van der Fate will miss the game, and Derby County Club is in the whirlpool of acquisition. How much hope can Derby County defeat the aggressive Chelsea at this time?

Some people even thought that Derby County's acquisition was definitely not just negotiated. Wan Sheng said that he had known the news some time ago. So why was this news not exposed early or late, but was exposed before the League Cup final?

Did the Daily Mirror do this on purpose?

Perhaps many media have reached an agreement to expose the situation before the final battle between Derby County and Chelsea, thereby affecting the status of Derby County?

So they were even more optimistic about Derby County.

Wan Sheng also realized some problems, so before the game, he asked the players to be low-key and just prepare for the game silently. He knew that the game itself is always the most important thing. It is useless to be arrogant before the game, and it is useless to say anything more. Being able to win and win the League Cup championship is the ultimate goal.

In this low-key manner, the entire Derby County team has arrived in Cardiff

ps: The update is a bit late, sorry. (To be continued.)

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