Chapter 58 Showing the enemy to be weak
Wan Sheng is really a rare humble person.
In the eyes of media reporters, this young man is always very arrogant, and even to the point of being a little arrogant. He will never compromise with the media and opponents. Especially in terms of team performance and strength, every time he speaks, he is a "must win", and every time he is "the champion can only be us". Now suddenly he heard Wan Sheng say that Manchester City is just a relegation team, and they were all stunned.
Did you hear it wrong?
This Chinese was actually modest and said that Mourinho overestimated them? He even said that Manchester City’s goal is to relegate?
What's going on? How is that possible?
Is it an illusion or reality... They were a little confused, but they were extremely sure of what they had heard just now, so they began to guess—
Is there something wrong with Manchester City?
Or in other words, Manchester City’s goal is actually to relegate, and his current results are just luck?
Is this Chinese really just want to lead the team to relegation? Is it because of their tactics that have big problems or why?
Amid all kinds of speculations, media reporters became even more confused.
Of course, Wan Sheng no matter what they think, he would not even pay attention to how they reported it. He just said the "facts". The club's planning goal for this season is to relegate. Wadel gave him two years to transform the team. If he can't achieve any results in the past two years, he will not be under any pressure.
It's just that his own goal is not to relegation.
But this does not mean that Wan Sheng's desire to win has been reduced. His goal is still the champion, and his desire to win the championship is still very strong. However, in the current situation of Manchester City, there is no need to participate in the complex verbal battle in the Premier League.
Compared with Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and other teams, Manchester City is still relatively "idle" and they have a lot of time to train. Because they don't have European competitions, the only ones they can compete for are domestic leagues and cups, and the League Cup will not start after mid-October. Before that, Manchester City only needs to play two league games.
Such an idle schedule gives Manchester City enough time to train.
Wan Sheng’s idea is to ignore what the outside is saying. The team only needs to do a good job of training with peace of mind, so it is not worth the cost to participate in topics that are debated outside. Being modest may also achieve unexpected goals, such as making the opponent careless.
Wansheng's modesty still has a certain effect.
The next day, a big media analyzed the situation in Manchester City based on Wan Sheng's words. The article pointed out that Manchester City did not have the strength to win the championship. They just changed their head coach. The new tactics are far from perfect. Even though the results in the first few rounds are good, it is a bit of a fantasy to maintain them for a long time. Now the other problem of this Manchester City is that it is too young. In the summer, the team sold many teams and veterans who are in their prime, so that the front and back positions are occupied by various young players and new players. Even if Wan Sheng has a good vision, these players are very strong. But it will take a long time to combine them into a whole. So at least this season, Manchester City has no ability to compete for the championship.
This report was from The Sun. After the report, many media followed suit and agreed with their analysis.
In fact, the report expresses the voices of many people.
In the summer, they think that only those teams can win the championship, nothing more than Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and a defending champion Derby County with a chance. Now that the league starts a few rounds, a Manchester City suddenly gets into the game, which always makes people feel weird. When they see the big media say this, they suddenly realize that Manchester City is just a good record for a while, just a dark horse that suddenly enters, not a team with the ability to win the championship!
So various media followed the trend to report. Although the media supporting Manchester City kept refuting and claiming that the team was very powerful, and Wan Sheng was just 'Chinese modesty' and the like, their influence was much worse. In addition, Wan Sheng himself did not come out to explain, so the public opinion trend would naturally not change.
At this time, Manchester City is working hard to train.
October ago, they all had to participate in the league. The league schedule was also very loose due to European events and international match days. From mid-September to October, there was only one game, so Wansheng could feel at ease to let the team do tactical training vigorously.
When there are continuous training days, Wansheng will let the team concentrate on tactical training. This seems to be of little effect for a few days, but it is different for Manchester City. Under the influence of the "cooperation" skills, Manchester City's tactical training efficiency is several times faster than other teams. In addition, some personal training and Wansheng's scientific and reasonable arrangements for training, Manchester City's week is even equivalent to other teams' training for twenty days or more. The team's tactical sports and tacit understanding between players have also been significantly improved in training.
When the outside world quarreled over Wan Sheng's modesty, Manchester City was silently improving its strength.
Although Wan Sheng told the media that 'the goal set by the club is only relegation', he didn't say that in the team.
In order to encourage everyone to train hard, improve the enthusiasm of the whole team to train, and to make external reports not affect the team, Wan Sheng gathered everyone that morning and said to them, "You should have heard what the media said in the past few days. They think we are just a relegation team?"
Everyone looked at each other and thought to themselves that wasn’t you saying that?
Wan Sheng waved his hand indifferently and said, "Our ancient Chinese wrote a military book called "The Art of War". "The Art of War" talks about "Showing the enemy to be weak", which means to confuse the enemy with hidden truth and falsehood. The enemy is tangible but I am invisible, so that the enemy's strength can be exposed as much as possible, but my strength is hidden, so that the enemy will misjudgment my strength, overestimate my own strength, and launch a rash attack on me, but I can concentrate my superior forces and annihilate it."
"I say this to those media not because of the modesty of the Chinese, but because of showing weakness to the enemy. We want our opponents to think that we are weak, and then their mistakes are likely to give us more opportunities to win!"
Everyone listened to Wansheng's explanation in a daze and felt cold sweat all over.
This young coach is really despicable... and despicable is despicable, and this despicable still has its own heritage.
"It seems that you must be careful of Chinese people in the future..." Many people thought to themselves.
Wan Sheng waved his hand and continued to say loudly, "But no matter what I say to the outside world, we must train ourselves hard. Only our strength is strong enough. We perform well enough in the game. No matter what the opponent is like, we can win!"
"Now I can tell you clearly that our goal is not just to relegation, but to me. The only goal of leading the team to the league is to be able to win!"
"Yes, champion! League champion!"
"In the past two seasons, I have led Derby County to the second division and Premier League championships. Now I am coaching Manchester City and becoming your head coach, my goal is to lead the team to win the championship!"
"So what do you think? Does anyone want to win the championship? Who doesn't want to win the championship! Now stand up and tell me!"
Of course no one stood up.
Wan Sheng carefully scanned everyone. Then waved his arms and said excitedly. "Very good! All of you are consistent with my goals. We can work together to win the championship. So, from now on, work hard to train! As long as each of us is in the championship, I dare say that the championship trophy in May next year will definitely belong to us! At that time, you can hold it around the city and show it. Or kiss it and enjoy the honor it represents. Do whatever you want! The premise is that you need to work hard now and need to train!"
"Is there anyone else who doesn't understand what I mean?"
Everyone shook their heads immediately.
Although what Wan Sheng said was not too intense, and he was not the kind of person who was born with a leadership temperament, the inherent affinity of the "hypocrisy" skill and the good results in the previous rounds, most people in the team still felt full of fighting spirit.
That way it seems like the champion will definitely belong to Manchester City.
Seeing the players actively participating in the training, Pierce felt very incredible. He has been with the team for several years, but the whole team has always been a bit casual in training, but now it seems that everyone is very active. Is what the Chinese just said really so effective?
He doesn't understand.
At the same time, he also felt that this was the gap between him. No wonder this Chinese was able to lead the team to win the championship and was favored by many people. He can only be an assistant coach until now, and he still needs to learn a lot.
Thinking of this, Pierce is also full of fighting spirit.
He found that he could learn a lot from Wan Sheng and was improving all the time. This feeling made him very motivated.
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September 24th is the seventh round of the league, and Manchester City will challenge Newcastle United away.
Newcastle United's performance was not very good last season. In the summer, they invested heavily in signings, hoping to strengthen their strength and achieve good results.
Parker and Emre are both good deals. Their arrival improved the performance of Newcastle United midfielder, but in other positions, they did not gain much. Robert left, Ambrose left, the thickness of the wing was weakened, and the back line only signed free agent Moore, who was not much more useful than Aubrio who left the team.
Anyone knows that Newcastle United's greater crisis is in the front line. After Bellamy and Cruivet left the team, the team's forward line had problems. Coach Sones had to keep Alan Schiller, hoping that the veteran would play for the team for another season.
After the start of the league, Newcastle United's transfer gained, and the news of signing Michael Irving made them one of the most watched clubs in England.
At the end of last season, Real Madrid signed Julio Cesar Baptista and Robson De Sousa, which completely made Michael Irving the fifth striker. Irving finally decided to leave Real Madrid because he could not bear the long-term reserve life. However, Liverpool did not intend to buy him back, and Manchester United did not have his place. Irving had to choose other teams, so Newcastle United got the opportunity.
In early September, Michael Irving returned to the Premier League with a net worth of 18 million pounds and joined Newcastle United. On September 10, he scored a goal against Fulham when he played for Newcastle United for the first time.
This is also Irving's first goal with Newcastle.
Michael Irving returned to the Premier League and scored immediately, which naturally attracted the attention of all England. So when Newcastle United met Manchester City, the game also attracted much attention, and many media speculated about the results of the game.
But in fact, Wan Sheng did not take Newcastle United seriously. Michael Irving is not worthy of his special attention. More importantly, this Newcastle United was replaced too seriously in the summer. Sones was good at abilities, but it was extremely difficult to reintegrate the team in a short period of time. This is also the reason why Newcastle United only had average results in the first few rounds.
Sonez is not Wan Sheng. After the team completed a major blood change, it took him some time to stabilize the team.
Therefore, Newcastle United is not very strong now, at least it does not pose much threat to Manchester City, which has also completed a major blood change and is already skilled in cooperation, even if they are playing at home.
Wansheng also stabilized the players' mentality before the game.
"This game is not difficult for us. You only perform normally, and we can win if we can!" he said to everyone.
This reduces the pressure on the players.
The game is just as Wan Sheng judged, and Manchester City is not difficult to play.
Newcastle United is the kind of team that can play irresistible offensive football. They are not much worse than Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur in this regard. If the gap is just the style of offensive football. It is precisely because of this style that if they want to achieve good results, the team must have skillful cooperation as the foundation. However, they have just completed a major change in summer, obviously do not have this foundation. So when they meet Manchester City, who also play offensive football and cooperate more skillfully, they will have the fate of being bullied.
They were suppressed throughout the venue.
Newcastle United fans hope that their new idol Michael Irving can help the team score goals, but in fact, Irving can't even touch the ball when he appears. The only thing he does is to keep retracing, move forward and retreat again. It consumes a lot of physical fitness back and forth, but when the team is completely suppressed, he can't find any chance.
Manchester City is completely the opposite.
Their cooperation is extremely skillful and the continuous transmission makes Newcastle United exhausted from defense. The team's forward is in good condition. In the first and second half, Darren Bent and Andy Cole scored one goal for the team respectively.
In the end, Manchester City defeated Newcastle United 2-0 away and won the seventh round of the league.
At the post-match press conference, Newcastle United coach Sones had to admit, "We can't play the advantage in the whole game, and the defense is very difficult. This Manchester City team makes us unable to see hope of winning."
"The media said before that their goal was just to relegate. I don't know why they judged this way, but what I saw was a very powerful opponent that was so powerful that we could only accept failed..."
"Even if they can win the league championship next year, I'm not surprised at all..." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!