i want to be king

Chapter 831 I'm here to grab the main position!
This is the first time that the Abu Dhabi consortium has held such a big Christmas dinner after the acquisition of Manchester City.

Even, this should be the largest Christmas dinner in the history of Manchester City.

Not only the players, employees and staff of the first team and the two youth academy youth teams were invited to participate, but also many club celebrities were specially invited to attend to celebrate that the club is still ranked first in the Premier League before Christmas.

There are also media gatherings outside, and many newspapers have arranged for people to squat outside.

Obviously, today's Manchester City has begun to have the temperament of a big team, and has begun to attract the attention of the media and fans.

As the captain of the team, Su Dong is in charge of greeting the players. In addition to receiving the players from the first team, he also greets the players of the youth team. The focus is on several newly joined players.

Strictly speaking, neither Thiago nor Bellerin are official players of Manchester City. They have to wait until the winter break transfer market opens, that is, after January [-], after the two clubs officially submit the transfer documents to FIFA and UEFA. The transfer process is considered to be completed. Before that, they are still Barcelona players.

But the two clubs have officially signed the contract, and they are actually considered Manchester City players, so after Begiristan negotiated with Bartomeu and signed the contract, the two players left Barcelona and went directly to Manchester to follow the team for training.

Su Dong is the captain, and he is responsible for helping the two players integrate into the team.

Bellerin was handed over to Sterling by Su Dong, while Thiago entered the first team directly. Su Dong handed him over to David Silva, because both are Spaniards.

This dinner is the first time the two have appeared in public as Manchester City players, and naturally they have also attracted the attention of the outside media.

Su Dong still remembered that when he joined Valencia, the media paid so much attention to him, so this time he also took the initiative to block Thiago and Bellerin a lot, especially when entering the field, some of the media reporters made things difficult, and Su Dong blocked them.

This also made the two newly joined players have a better impression of Su Dong.

You know, when Su Dong played for Barcelona, ​​he was the target that many players in the youth team looked up to.

Although he fell out with the Barcelona management later, Su Dong's status in Barcelona is still extraordinary, and he is still the benchmark that countless players are eager to catch up with.

In addition to the two players transferred from Barcelona, ​​Manchester City also invited some players on loan this time, as well as De Bruyne and Courtois who played for Genk, Belgium.

De Bruyne is nothing, the most conspicuous is his hair, but Courtois surprised Su Dong.

In European football, Su Dong is already quite tall, but unexpectedly, Courtois is even taller than him.

It's just that this Belgian goalkeeper looks thin and looks a bit like a bamboo pole, which makes Su Dong quite worried. He really wants to grab Begiristain, who is in charge of technology, and ask, is this the goalkeeper that Guardiola approves of?

You must know that tall goalkeepers are not a problem. Many goalkeepers are tall, but tall goalkeepers are often not agile enough, especially footwork, which is what Guardiola attaches the most importance to.

Are you sure that Courtois can pass the ball to the players in the backcourt?

Although he has doubts in his heart, Su Dong is still very enthusiastic on the surface. After all, this Belgian goalkeeper will become his teammate. As the captain, he should have a good relationship with each of them.

Therefore, after they arrived in Manchester, Su Dong arranged for the driver of the club to pick them up at the hotel for dinner. At the same time, he also took the two of them to the area where the first team was located, met all the first team players, and introduced them to their teammates one by one.

Joe Hart and Ji Wen are quite indifferent to Courtois, obviously also influenced by the outside world.

"Don't take it too seriously. In the future, when you get to know the two of them well, they will be enthusiastic." Su Dong explained with a smile.

Courtois didn't seem to care, "I'm here to grab the main position, not to make friends."

Su Dong was obviously taken aback by these words.

Nima, do you need to be so straightforward?

Although the whole world knows that you are here to grab the main position, can't you be more tactful?
Su Dong immediately turned his head to look at Tony Cross, shaking his head secretly in his heart.

Well, another player who is loved and welcomed by the media!

You know, the media likes this kind of straightforward players, because once they speak, they can say anything, and generally speak very straightforwardly, so there are often explosive remarks.

Just like Tony Kroos said about Su Dong back then, if the two of them hadn't had a good relationship, everyone would have turned their backs.

Toni Kroos generally doesn't accept media interviews easily, and he doesn't take the initiative to say anything, but once he speaks, it often requires the club's public relations personnel to wipe his ass, and even Su Dong in the locker room to help him deal with the aftermath.

It's not easy to be a straight man these days!
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The process of the dinner party is actually the same.

Mubarak spoke before the dinner on behalf of the Abu Dhabi consortium. The main content was to thank the players for their hard work in the past few months, so that Manchester City can go hand in hand in the Europa League and the Premier League.

Although there is still one round of the Europa League, which will be played in the middle of the week, Manchester City will qualify as the top of the group regardless of the outcome.

The real suspense is Juventus and Poznan Lech. Among them, the Bianconeri is the most miserable now. It depends on the face of Manchester City and Poznan Lech. How can there be the glory of European power?

Mubarak conveyed Mansour's appreciation and greetings, and also promised on behalf of the club's management that he hoped that the team would make persistent efforts to strive for success in both the Europa League and the Premier League.

In the history of Manchester City, they have never won the Premier League championship, and there are only two top league championships in England. It has been almost 50 years since the last one, and what they don’t say has been forgotten.

As for the European champion, the only Cup Winners' Cup winner in the history of the club, the gold content is not high, and it has been almost half a century.

If the club can achieve something in the Premier League and the Europa League this season, it will definitely be a glorious period in the history of the club. This can greatly relieve the pressure on the Abu Dhabi consortium, which has been criticized and ridiculed for two years since it acquired Manchester City, but its performance has not improved.

Mansour conveyed through Mubarak that the team management is working on a new reward system. As long as the whole team can continue to work hard, maintain the current state, and achieve good results in the Premier League and Europa League, everyone will get a generous bonus.

There are few initiatives more attractive than bonuses, as evidenced by the overwhelming response from the players present.

As a professional player, isn’t playing football just for money?

Soriano also came up to speak soon, saying that in addition to players, coaches and employees will also have a corresponding reward system, which is currently being perfected and will be announced in January.

"Everyone, I hope everyone can understand that every effort we make is creating a new history of this century-old club, and each of you can leave your own name in the history of the club!"

Fame and fortune, this is undoubtedly the most exciting.

Especially for the players who joined Manchester City, if it is not for money, there are really very few.

For example, like Su Dong, he doesn't care about money, but he also cares about fame.

He is eager to succeed in Manchester City, especially to be able to lead a weak team to rise strongly like Maradona did when he was in Naples, and even he has to do better than Maradona.

Not only does he want to win the league championship, he also hopes that one day he can lead Manchester City to win the Champions League.

It's hard, but he's working hard for it.

This requires him to unite everyone in the team and play the leading role of the captain.

……

The atmosphere of the dinner was very good, after all, Manchester City is not stingy in this regard.

Since the busy Christmas holiday is about to usher in, the players are quite restrained, not to mention drinking, and even many dishes are exclusively for other guests. The dishes on the players' side are obviously much lighter.

There is no way around this, during the league, everyone must exercise restraint.

As the number one star in the team, Su Dong was with Guardiola at first, and was dragged by Soriano and Begiristan to entertain guests everywhere and meet many people, which made him very annoyed, and finally found an excuse and quickly slipped away.

He is really not used to such social occasions!
The same goes for Guardiola.

After Spanish Bald Qiang saw Su Dong running away, he quickly found an excuse to slip away.

The two ran back to the area where the players were, one after the other, their eyes met, and they all laughed in unison.

"To be honest, to deal with this kind of situation, I would rather go to the gym and practice for several hours." Su Dong smiled wryly.

Guardiola nodded hastily, "That's right, I would also prefer to watch game videos in the coaching room, or study our next opponents, which is actually more interesting than this occasion."

"So, people like you don't have many friends." Su Dong let out a huff, "shocked" with a smile.

Guardiola frowned, "You don't seem to be much better."

Both of them laughed again.

In fact, they are not very good at communication.

Even though Su Dong is very good at dealing with the media now, it is actually a result of a lot of experience and training. In addition, when he was in Barcelona and Bayern, the special training of the club's public relations personnel made Su Dong quite experienced.

But facing such an occasion, he was really helpless.

Subsequently, both Su Dong and Guardiola returned to the players, this is where they stayed most comfortably.

The topic of the players is mainly the Christmas schedule, especially the first game of the year next year, which will challenge the Gunners away.

The red card in the opening 4 minutes of the first leg, the penalty kick in stoppage time in the first half, and the final [-]-[-], Arsenal became the only Premier League giants that Manchester City has failed to capture so far this season.

"New enmity plus old grievances, just settle with Arsenal!" Su Dong proudly encouraged his teammates.

(End of this chapter)