Chapter 345: Community Shield of Derby Meaning(1/2)
After Diamares finished speaking, he pushed the crowd away with Wan Sheng.
Before leaving, Wan Sheng did not forget to turn around and give a special reminder, "You must remember, don't tell others about Gael's latest prophecy! Otherwise, his life will be in danger!"
A group of reporters left on the spot to look at each other.
After a long time, someone finally asked tentatively, "Are they fooling us?"
"You only know! The two of them play us together!"
Suddenly, all kinds of angry roars broke out in the reporter group, "Bastard! Damn it!"
"Apollo's reincarnation? What a genius believe!"
"Why didn't he say God's reincarnation!"
"He just said that Manchester City will win? They came for this purpose!"
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Amid the angrily scolded by media reporters, Wan Sheng and Diamares had already left together.
What some of the firm Wansheng ‘opposition’ didn’t know is that some of the others actually had other ideas.
Media journalists are not a monolithic piece.
Among them are hostile media from Manchester City and support media from Manchester City.
The two completely stand in two angles.
The hostile media deeply hate that they were fooled by Wan Sheng and Diamares, which made them feel very humiliated; Manchester City's supportive media regard this as a hype method of "Marcelona Stederby County Battle".
That night, the Guardian used the title "Apollo's reincarnation prophecy: Community Shield, Manchester City beat Manchester United" to report the upcoming Manchester derby battle.
In the report, they took the hype Diamares as the leader and said, "Wandao Wang personally recognized that his assistant coach Gale Diamares is the incarnation of the reincarnation of Apollo in the 'God of Prophecy'. Diamares also personally predicted that in the Manchester derby battle two days later, Manchester City will defeat his arch rival Manchester United."
Manchester City fans are happy about this.
When other readers saw the report, they also thought the content was very interesting, although they also supported Manchester City. But if they were different, the feeling of speaking was different, which would make people read it with great interest. At the same time, they were also looking forward to the community shield to be held next.
Soon other media followed the trend and reported on Diamares's "prophecy".
Manchester United's supportive media are very angry about this. They want to refute but cannot find the "same subject". Old Jazz Ferguson will not come out to make a show.
They can only watch the arrogant Manchester City media and cannot use the corresponding counterattack method.
So they can only fight back elsewhere, such as talking about Manchester United's transfer.
In the summer transfer market, Manchester United invested more money than Manchester City, and they replaced Chelsea and became the number one big spender in Europe.
Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson have a total value of more than 55 million pounds, and there is also Tevez. According to media reports, Tevez's two-year loan fee is 8 million pounds, and the total price after becoming a regular customer exceeds 20 million pounds. After all, Manchester United invested more than 75 million pounds in the transfer market.
In comparison, Manchester City is much worse in "spend money". Although Spanish golden boy Torres and Brazilian superstar Robert Carlos join, Manchester City also sold the leading scorer Anelka, whose value is higher than Torres. Robert Carlos is a veteran who freely signed with Manchester City and did not spend a penny of the club's transfer fee at all.
Other players who have arrived in the transfer, including Lungberg, Martin Petrov, Elano Brummer, Glenn Johnson, Giovani Morisio, etc., all of them are worth only more than 25 million pounds, which means that Manchester City's transfer expenses in the summer are only about 20 million pounds.
Manchester United has reached nearly £75 million.
Manchester United spent money and bought stars. Manchester United's supportive media can think that Manchester United has supplemented its strength, while Manchester City only spent 20 million pounds. It is believed that "the strength has improved, but it cannot be much improved." An example of supporting this view is that Torres' performance is difficult to be stronger than last season's top scorer Anelka.
Torres is a Spanish golden boy, but whether he can adapt to the Premier League is still a question; Anelka is the top scorer of the Premier League last season. He also scored several goals in the Champions League and performed extremely well. He has played for Manchester City for several seasons, and there is no problem of adapting to the Premier League.
Compared with the two players, Anelka is obviously better.
In fact, his value also shows a lot of things. Torres is famous in Spain and he is still very young. Anyone knows that he still has great prospects. In comparison, Anelka is over 28 years old, and he will reach a decline in his career in two years.
However, Anelka is worth more than Torres, which shows that it is obvious.
In short, many media believe that Manchester City's overall strength has not increased. On the contrary, after a summer, Manchester United has a complete lineup, and Manchester United will be very worth looking forward to in the new season.
Just like the comments from the Manchester Sports newspaper on Manchester United's transfer, "The arrival of Hargreaves has enriched the type of Manchester United's midfielder. He has a large range of running and his defense is lacking in strength. Hargreaves also has certain passing and ball control skills, and his experience is richer than Fletcher, O'Shea, etc. The most important intention is that Manchester United's performance against strong teams last season was not ideal, and Milan's defeat made Manchester United unforgettable. Manchester United's midfield confrontation was not strong enough. Ferguson introduced England's iron waist and looked at the potential tough battles in the future Champions League. Of course, there is another implicit meaning that the introduction of 26-year-old Hargreaves is preparing for Scholes to fade out 1 or 2 years later."
"Purchasing Nani and Anderson is to provide rotation players to the main lineup and reserve talents for the future."
"Nani is like C-Ronaldo when he first joined the team in 2003. He is talented but still to be crafted. Ferguson is expected to give Nani a chance to play step by step just like he was taking care of C-Ronaldo back then. The Portuguese boy's explosion period should not be this year. Anderson's situation is similar to Nani. The two may show their talents in some games, but it will take time to become an important main force."
The most exciting and unpredictable prospect is Tevez.
Teves became famous for Argentina's powerful Boca Youth. He led Boca Youth against AC Milan in the Toyota Cup at the end of 2003. In 2004, Argentina made his first appearance in the World Cup Peripheral Championship. In the same year, the Cup of Nations in the American Cup scored key goals in the quarterfinals and semi-finals, which brought Argentina to the finals. He then participated in the 2004 Olympic Games and became the best scorer with 8 goals, and scored one goal in the final to win the Olympic football championship for South American teams for the first time.
Later, Tevez joined the Brazilian League team Corinthian, and his national teammate Javier Mascherano.
This transfer was unwelcome to Corinthian fans and even Brazilian President Lula, but a year later Tevez became the captain of the team and helped the team win the Brazilian league championship and was named the fans' favorite player.
Teves's arrival in the Premier League was arranged by his agent company. Last year, he played for Premier League team West Ham United, but failed to adapt to the pace of Premier League matches. He won the first Premier League goal until the last ten weeks of Premier League matches, and then scored seven goals in the subsequent matches. He scored in the last Premier League relegation game against Manchester United, which made the club successfully relegated.
Perhaps it was also because of the goal against Manchester United that Ferguson was very moved by the introduction of Tevez, but Tevez still had some twists and turns when transferring to Manchester United, because when West Ham United registered Tevez's right to participate, it did not purchase all the relevant Tevez's economic power from his manager in advance, which violated the league's regulations.
However, the penalty for West Ham United was only 5.5 million pounds, and no league points were deducted, but West Ham United must immediately obtain all ownership of Tevez.
After the end of the 2007 season, Sheffield United, which was relegated, was extremely dissatisfied with the decision of the League Committee. They appealed at corresponding hearings and the High Court, but eventually returned in vain.
Although West Ham United strongly hopes that the relegation hero can stay in the team, at the end of June, Tevez still transferred to Manchester United after some twists and turns, wearing the No. 32 jersey.
Ferguson has received high expectations for Tevez's arrival.
The old Jazz's attitude has influenced the media. When many media reported on Tevez, they regarded him as Manchester United's hope star and were looking forward to his performance in the new season.
It is precisely because of the joining of stars such as Nani, Hargreaves, Anderson, Tevez. Manchester United's support media has enough confidence to use the transfer of the two teams to refute the support of Manchester City media for Manchester City.
In the "war of saliva" between the two teams supporting the media, the Community Shield is approaching.
Community Shield, formerly known as Charity Shield, is an annual tournament hosted by the English Football Federation, which is the Premier League Champions vs. FA Cup Champions.
Manchester City won the double championships in the Premier League and the FA Cup last season. According to the rules of the Community Shield Cup, they will play against the second-ranked team in the league, namely Manchester United.
So this Community Shield became the Manchester Derby.
In the season when Wan Sheng just coached Manchester City, the first league game was against Manchester United, and now it is a new season with the Manchester derby. Wan Sheng still feels very interesting, like a cycle. Two years ago, he is preparing to play against Manchester United, and it is still the case two years later.
There is always a lot of conflict between him and Manchester United.
As the media reported, Wan Sheng didn't care. It was just a "warm-up" before the two teams confronted each other. He only needed to care about the team.
In the warm-up match against Wigan Athletics, the team performed very well overall, but there were still some problems, and the problem came from the new wing player Glenn Johnson.
Glen Johnson has constant personal abilities, speed, body, extraordinary, and a little frigid in defense, but he barely qualified. However, after the warm-up game, Wan Sheng discovered Glen Johnson's problem, that is... there is no advantage.
Glen Johnson is very fast and has good ability to outperform, but he is a player who focuses on the defense on the wings. The frigid defense is a big problem. It's fine just that. What's more important is that his passing and coordination ability is very average, and his performance in the team's tactical system is always dull.
Wan Sheng considered allowing Glenn Johnson to play his advantage and put his position on the front line, but Glenn Johnson's extraordinary ability is not that outstanding. Not to mention that compared with Ribery who once played for Derbyshire, even compared with Morris, Silva and others, his technical difference is much worse. Most of his extraordinary ability depends on speed, and technology, experience and so on are rarely seen. In other words, Glenn Johnson's speed and extraordinary ability are difficult to help the team too much.
If Glenn Johnson is not allowed to exert his offensive ability and only let him defend and cooperate with his teammates, he will perform quite dull. If Wan Sheng is asked to evaluate it, he will be just a "qualified substitute", that's all.
If an ordinary player is a substitute for Manchester City, it would be quite good, but Glenn Johnson is very talented, and his body and speed are all strengths.
Wan Sheng also knew that Glenn Johnson would definitely be very good in the future, at least he had heard Glenn Johnson's name. That was definitely not in 2007 now.
In other words, Glenn Johnson will not be as bleak as he is now ‘abandoned by Chelsea club’. Players who can ‘play’ out’ in professional football must have the strength level.
So how did he succeed?
Or is Glenn Johnson just not suitable for Manchester City's tactical play?
Wansheng doesn't believe this argument.
He can slightly adjust his tactical strategies for new players, and also check the ability attributes of each player. Under this condition, any player will have an effect on the team. Players like Glenn Johnson are able to adapt to tactics quickly, which has proven their outstanding ability, so he still has to give Glenn Johnson some time.
When the Community Shield was still one day before, Wan Sheng found Glen Johnson and told him directly that the game against Manchester United would not allow him to play.
Glenn Johnson was a little disappointed. He thought it would be difficult for him to get a chance to play. After all, Manchester City's teammates were indeed excellent, but when they got the results, they were still sad.
Wan Sheng said to him, "Glenn, how far are you from the star?"
When he suddenly heard this question, Glenn Johnson was stunned. Star? How far is it? Compared with ordinary players, he is worth millions of pounds and has played for Chelsea Club. He is already considered a star, but Wan Sheng obviously does not mean this.
Glenn Johnson kind of didn't understand.
Wan Sheng said bluntly, "I deserve to be the wing forward who can play the main players in the giants. Or full-backs, such as Cole, Robben, Ivan, David, etc."
He mentioned the names of several full-backs who played in the Premier League.
Glenn Johnson was even more confused. He still didn't quite understand the gap between him and those main players? What is the gap? Could it be the coach's importance to him?
This is definitely not the case.
He suddenly thought of what the coach Mourinho said to himself when he was playing for Chelsea, "Your defense is too frigid, don't be so radical, be more steady!"
So Glenn Johnson asked tentatively, "Is it my defense?"
Wan Sheng shook his head, "That's just a matter of experience."
"What is that?"
"I mean technical ability." Wan Shengdao, "I gave you 45 minutes in the warm-up match with Wigan Athletics, but your performance has no highlights at all. The only few times you brought people, either being defended or ended up with an ordinary pass, is equivalent to doing useless work. Do you understand what I mean?"
Glenn Johnson lowered his head.
He knows his problems, and it is difficult for him to create opportunities for his teammates in constant breakthroughs in offense, but perhaps this is just a lack of understanding in cooperation with his teammates.
Wan Sheng said as if he saw through his heart, "Your key problem is that you don't have any outstanding characteristics! I just asked you, you can't tell me the difference between you and those main players. Now I tell you that your difference lies in your lack of outstanding abilities. What is the difference between ordinary players and stars? The key is outstanding abilities, just like David Beckham's pass. This ability alone is enough."
Glenn Johnson listened carefully.
"So in the next period of time, I need you to try your best to train your passing ability, cooperate with your teammates in short passes, and practice your ability to pass long passes. I believe that as long as you can work hard in this area, you will not be worse than those stars."
To be continued...