Chapter 36 The New and Old Nouveau riche
Because after the third round of the Premier League, the national team match day was entered, so the international players from all over the Manchester City team also left the team and went to their own national team to participate in the game.
This kind of national team match day has the greatest impact on Premier League teams.
Because the labor certificate of the Premier League requires that non-national players must be players of their respective national teams if they want to play in the Premier League, and there are regulations on the proportion of their appearances. Fringe international players who cannot even play in the game are not enough. This means that all foreign players who can play in the Premier League team are basically important players of their respective national teams, and they will not be absent from the national team competition.
In this way, the national team competition will have the greatest impact on the team.
This regulation is to ensure the level of foreign players in Premier League teams, and also ensure the level of the Premier League.
However, doing so has also prevented many excellent young players from transferring to Premier League teams.
It was said that Manchester United wanted Kaka more than AC Milan, but because Kaka did not meet the standards for applying for a labor permit, it was rejected by the Premier League. This made Kaka switch to AC Milan.
This incident made Manchester United coach Ferguson very angry.
Finally, a new system was born, which was the "special genius clause".
As long as a player is really a very, very outstanding player, even if he does not have a national team history, he can still join the Premier League team based on this clause. However, in order to prevent others from taking advantage of loopholes, it is specifically stipulated that each Premier League team can only have one special genius place per season.
When Rongguang transferred to Manchester City from Bayern Munich, Manchester City club used this clause. Because Rongguang had no record of representing the Chinese national team in international matches.
However, the media also mocked the FA. Because players like Rongguang want to join Manchester City and play in the Premier League, they actually need the Manchester City club to use one special genius quota per year, which is simply ironic. Such a player should not have any additional conditions for playing in the Premier League when transferring to play in the Premier League.
Until now, Rongguang has not been called up by the Chinese national team, so like every national team match day before, he still stayed at the Carrington training base in Manchester for training.
Now in China, there are two completely opposite remarks and opinions on whether to recruit Glory to the national team. Moreover, the two sides are quarreling, and no one can convince anyone.
One side believes that the Chinese Football Association should recruit Rongguang to the national team, especially after the embarrassing performance of the National Olympic Team at the Beijing Olympics, Chinese football needs Rongguang, a reborn hero like Nirvana, to reshape his image and give fans confidence. It can be said that Rongguang is already the last hope of Chinese football.
The Olympic strategy that the Football Association spent a lot of effort on is now completely failed. I really don’t understand why they still have the confidence to bear it and not attract glory.
The other side opposed recruiting Rongguang to join the national team because of the shameful performance of the National Olympic Team at the Beijing Olympics. They believed that the national team's significance was extraordinary. After all, China's jerseys were printed with a five-star red flag. What the national team needed were players who were willing to win glory for the country. If a player had no national honor at all, no matter how strong such a player was, he would not be allowed.
Look at the performance of the National Olympic Team in the Olympic Games... This is the consequence of the glory without organization and discipline, the lack of national honor and collective honor
If he had promised to participate in the Olympics, would the national Olympic team still play so badly in the Olympics? The reason why the Olympics played so badly was because Glory abandoned them. This is because Glory was planted by Glory. The Chinese Football Association and the national team must not bow to the culprits who caused the big jokes of Chinese football.
If he doesn't explain and apologize for refusing to participate in the Olympics, he will never be able to enter the national team.
Supporters of these two views include media reporters and ordinary fans, so the two sides are quarreling and no one can convince anyone.
Judging from this trend, the prospect of Glory entering the national team is still very slim.
Sun Hai was recruited into the team this time and went back to participate in the national team competition.
A player who can't even play the main player in Manchester City can continue to be the main player in the national team, but at Manchester City's absolute core, this player with the most expensive and highest annual salary cannot even enter the national team's door... Some netizens complained online: I have to say that the Chinese Football Association is the most awesome football association in the world, and the Chinese national team is the highest threshold in the world with the highest salary in the world. We don't even look down on the first-priced players.
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Rongguang doesn't care whether he wants to play football in the Chinese national team. Anyway, he feels that he is doing well now.
His mind is also in the club now.
The team lost to Sunderland in the last round, which made him unsatisfied, and he vented this emotion into training.
Although the team's training is not too systematic because of the absence of many first-team players, Rongguang did not relax his requirements at all.
He believes that the team lost because he was not outstanding enough. After all, he hasn't played the game for too long and has only played two rounds in the league. His body has not yet recovered to his best condition. He needs to find the rhythm of the game as soon as possible.
For this reason, he must train more. Training is the only way to improve himself besides competitions.
So no matter how many people the team has left on this international match day, it has nothing to do with glory.
He just buried his head in practicing.
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After the two national team games, Manchester City players from all over the world returned to the Carrington training base, and the once deserted training base became lively again.
But there is also bad news that follows - midfielder Ellano was injured in the national team game, but fortunately the injury was not particularly serious, and he only needed to rest for two games.
But the problem is that Manchester City will have to play Chelsea at home in the next game.
Chelsea is currently the strongest opponent Manchester City has encountered this season.
After the three rounds of the league, Chelsea is currently ranked first in the league. They win two wins and draw in three games, scored six goals, conceded only one goal, and had excellent defense.
They also reached the Champions League final last season, but in the end they lost to Manchester United with a penalty kick.
Public opinion believes that Chelsea is now in the best morale in the post-Morlinho era. Scolari is a world-renowned coach who has proved his ability. Under his leadership, Chelsea will have a more brilliant future.
At the same time, this is also a contest between the old "nova" and the new "nova".
Chelsea set a precedent for England's team to be invaded by foreign capital. Murdoch had wanted to acquire Manchester United club before, but with the boycott of Manchester United fans, he was unable to succeed in the end.
English fans have always been proud that their team has not been exposed to foreign capital and maintained the purity of football.
But this is actually self-deception. In fact, the Premier League can develop so quickly, which is not unrelated to their wealthiest league.
Football is inseparable from money. Those who shout that commercialization has corrupted football may not think about what football would become without commercialization.
Without television broadcasts and commercial sponsorship, modern football would never have developed so rapidly.
Not only football, but any other sports are also inseparable from business.
Before the Olympics, there was a huge burden that everyone was afraid to avoid. Those cities that hosted the Olympics regarded this as an honor.
Later, when the Olympics introduced commercial sponsorship, people discovered that holding the Olympics suddenly changed from a loss-making business to a profitable business.
Only in this way can the Olympics have such a huge influence now...
The same is true for football.
The World Cup, the top five European leagues, and the Champions League... The reason why these events can spread widely around the world and have a huge influence is that they are inseparable from television broadcasting and commercial sponsorship - to put it bluntly, it is money.
In this world, money may be the most vulgar thing. But without money, you can't do anything.
Why should football be outside of money?
But in short, English fans successfully prevented a gold dollar invasion of football in the case of Murdoch's acquisition of Manchester United.
But they just delayed the trend a little...
After entering the new century, what should come will come.
Russian billionaire Abramovich chose Chelsea between Tottenham and Chelsea and entered the English football field with strong strength.
The Russian giant shocked the entire European football world at that time. That summer, everyone was discussing two things, one thing Beckham transferred to Real Madrid, and the other thing was Chelsea's change of ownership.
Then Chelsea was developing rapidly in a way that broke market rules.
They not only bought the players they were optimistic about from all over the UK and even Europe, but also poached the CEO of their rival Manchester United. Later, they also found the young madman Mourinho to serve as the team's head coach. Chelsea was in the limelight during that period.
He won the Premier League championship for a row of consecutive seasons, breaking the situation where Manchester United and Arsenal compete for the two heroes.
At the beginning of last season's league, Mourinho resigned because of the team's poor performance in the Champions League. At that time, the team's football director Grant was the acting head coach. In the end, Chelsea was not favored, and eventually lost to Manchester United in the penalty shootout.
But now fewer and fewer people are still calling Chelsea "nova" as a "nova".
You should know that when Abramovich first entered Chelsea, this word had almost become synonymous with Chelsea.
Just when Chelsea was becoming less and less like a nouveau riche, Manchester City came.
Blue Moon took over Chelsea's class and became a new nouveau riche.
Public opinion treats Manchester City in the way they used to treat Chelsea, which is no different from five years ago.
But why is Chelsea no longer a "nova" but is compared with many wealthy families?
Because they won the championship.
After Mourinho came to Chelsea in the summer of 2004, he helped Chelsea win two Premier League championships, one FA Cup championship and two League Cup championships, and also led the team to the semi-finals of the Champions League. It was these results that made Chelsea lose its "nova" color in the eyes of public opinion and become a "quasi-wealthy family".
Chelsea’s today is actually the tomorrow that Manchester City can look forward to, and it is the goal of Manchester City’s efforts.
However, many people think that it will be difficult for Manchester City to become Chelsea today.
After all, before being acquired by Abramovich, Chelsea was already a strong team in the Premier League. They have long played the role of a giant killer in the league. Chelsea led by Gullit also won the League Cup championship.
Manchester City is much worse than them.
Moreover, after Abramovich took over, even Ranieri, the head coach who has been criticized, helped the team reach the Champions League semi-finals. In terms of head coaches, Chelsea's original strength was definitely much stronger than Mark Hughes...
Chapter completed!