long live the king

Sun Jihai's agent had already called Sheffield United's agent, saying that he would start negotiations, but at this moment, he received another call from Sun Jihai.

"Brother Hong, the negotiation with Sheffield United has ended," Sun Jihai said.

"Why?" Hong Tao, Sun Jihai's agent, asked in surprise, "Jihai, among these teams, Sheffield United's conditions are the most suitable. Besides, they also tend to introduce Chinese players."

"I received a call from Mr. Cook today, and he asked me if I would like to continue playing for the team?" Sun Jihai said, feeling a little excited.In any case, he has a lot of affection for Manchester City.

"Cook?" Hong Tao was taken aback, "Mr. Cook, the general manager of Manchester City Club?"

"Yes." Sun Jihai nodded.

"Why did he call you suddenly?" Hong Tao asked a little strangely.

"I don't know why." Sun Jihai shook his head, "But, isn't this great? I have feelings for Manchester City, and the team is willing to renew my contract. It couldn't be better."

"That's true." Hong Tao, Sun Jihai's manager, nodded, "Then your house in Manchester..."

"Haha, get off the shelves from the intermediary company. Since I'm still playing in Manchester City, I don't need to sell it." Sun Jihai said with a smile. He was in a good mood when he heard that the club found him and renewed his contract.

After hanging up the phone call with his agent, Sun Jihai shook his head with a wry smile. One thing he didn't tell his agent was that he could guess why the club suddenly wanted to renew his contract with him.The reason should be related to his new teammate, because General Manager Cook said that he hoped that Sun Jihai could help Zhang Yang integrate into the team as soon as possible.

Sun Jihai didn't know if it was because Zhang Yang spoke for him to the club, or if the club really meant it, but he knew that he had accepted Zhang Yang's favor this time.

For Zhang Yang, a compatriot, Sun Jihai admires him very much. He is one of the first batch of Chinese players to study abroad. He knows that it is not easy to play abroad, but it is this Zhang Yang who can make such a name in football. He has become the best shooter in today's football, and Zhang Yang's worth of 500 million pounds is enough to make Sun Jihai sigh for a long time.

He is indeed proud of having such a compatriot star, but he also wants to prove to everyone that he can contribute to the team by staying in Manchester City, relying on his own strength!

Of course, he is also extremely happy to have a compatriot in the same team as himself. As for what Cook said to help Zhang Yang integrate into the team as soon as possible, Sun Jihai is naturally duty-bound.

In fact, Manchester City suddenly decided to renew the contract with Sun Jihai, but it really had nothing to do with Zhang Yang, and Zhang Yang didn't speak to the club. He didn't even know that Sun Jihai had terminated his contract with Manchester City.Moreover, Manchester City's training camp has not yet started, and he has not met the whole team yet.

This incident happened by accident. When chatting with general manager Cook, the chairman of the Manchester City club, Alfaim, said that Zhang Yang must integrate into the team as soon as possible. This is the biggest capital of Manchester City in the new season. At this time, Cook suddenly said , The club seems to have a Chinese player, which is helpful for Zhang Yang to integrate into the team.

In this regard, Alfaim deeply agrees, but it was only later that Cook learned that Sun Jihai's contract had expired and he broke up with the club peacefully.When he learned that Sun Jihai had not signed with another team, the general manager of Manchester City called Sun Jihai directly and asked him to return to the team. It's not a big deal for a veteran player to renew his contract.

Sun Jihai's contract extension with Manchester City is just an episode of Manchester City's actions this summer.

While Zhang Yang is enjoying his vacation, the Manchester City club continues to make waves in the transfer market.

Now, Manchester City's strikers are Elano and Bianchi. In the eyes of the media and fans, these two are useless. According to the "Manchester Guardian", these two are not strong enough to Become Zhang Yang's striker partner.Therefore, the media in England generally believe that Manchester City must find a good partner for Zhang Yang.

In fact, the Manchester City club also asked Zhang Yang's opinion on this matter. He didn't say much about the choice of his partner. What a constructive opinion.Then again, Zhang Yang likes to partner with Ronaldo very much, but how can he tell Manchester City to buy Ronaldo, let alone whether Manchester City can buy Ronaldo, but Zhang Yang knows that Ronaldo will not come to Manchester City, Zhang Yang he I am still young and can make a fortune, but Ronaldo is already 32. His biggest dream now is to realize his dream of winning the Champions League. If he transfers to Manchester City, it seems that he wants to win the Champions League within a few years The champion is simply a dream come true.

Zhang Yang didn't have any special requirements, so Manchester City began to look for prey in the transfer market according to their own requirements.They first set their sights on Manchester United's prey.

After chasing publicity failed, Manchester United had to switch targets, now, the whole world knows that Manchester United is chasing Berbatov, from last season's performance, we can see that the only problem for Manchester United is the lack of a striker A powerful shot.Originally, Zhang Yang was the player Ferguson wanted the most. However, when Zhang Yang went to Manchester City, Ferguson could only re-target Berbatov, and the whole world knew that Berbatov had long had a "secret heart" for Ferguson. Xu".Moreover, between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, it seems that this transfer has already been acquiesced, but the transfer fee is still entangled. , Only Berbatov has this choice, so, just wait for Manchester United to increase the price.

At this time, Manchester City announced their bid for Berbatov.

As a pair of sworn enemies in a city, Manchester City is happy to do anything that can make Manchester United uncomfortable.In the past, Manchester City did not have the strength to fight against Manchester United. Now that Manchester City has money, they naturally don't mind disturbing Manchester United's situation.

Ferguson's Manchester United originally offered Berbatov 500 million pounds, which should be said to be a very good price. You know, when Tottenham Hotspur introduced Berbatov from Leverkusen, It only cost more than 1000 million pounds.

It's just that Manchester City's sudden disruption made Ferguson very angry.It looks like it will be a success.Manchester City raised Berbatov's worth to 700 million pounds with a single mouth. Although it was only 200 million pounds, this is also a price increase, isn't it?

Levy, the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, is an old fox. He is naturally very happy to see Manchester City, an 'upstart', come to disrupt the situation. He doesn't mind whether Berbatov is sold to Manchester United or Manchester City. He values ​​it. Which one has the highest bid, so Tottenham Hotspur immediately rejected Manchester United's offer, saying that they would consider Manchester City's offer.

Berbatov had already discussed with Tottenham Hotspur, saying that he would transfer to Manchester United. Now, when he saw Levi's eyes open for money, he wanted to backtrack, and immediately jumped out for an interview.Publicly stated that "non-Manchester United will not go", Manchester City wants to buy him?Wait for the next life!

At the same time, Berbatov even publicly stated that Manchester City's money can only attract players who have no use for pursuit, and he would not consider Manchester City if he was killed.

Hmm, I don't know if Zhang Yang was shot while lying down.

At the same time, Buffon, the Italian goalkeeper of Juventus who has been chased by Manchester City, also announced that he was born a Juventus man and died a Juventus ghost. He will not leave Juventus. Manchester City wants to buy him?Feel sorry.I don't think about it at all!

Manchester City hit a wall everywhere in the transfer market, which also made some people who were waiting to watch the excitement very happy. They all said that Manchester City's money cannot buy real stars. At the same time, Zhang Yang is an eye-catching The saying that people are knocked down by Manchester City's money to join Manchester City is also prevalent again.

Berbatov finally chose Manchester United, the transfer fee was as high as 3075 million pounds, which was ultimately due to the two price increases of Manchester City. Therefore, at this time, Ferguson must hate Manchester City, and Zhang Yang was taken by Manchester City. In the matter of Berbatov's transfer, Manchester City disrupted the situation again, causing Manchester United to pay several million pounds more.Can Lord Ferguson not be angry?

Speaking of which, Tottenham Hotspur are really the big sellers of the Premier League teams this summer. After selling Berbatov at a high price of 3075 million pounds, they bought another shooter of the team, Ireland Shooter Robbie Keane was sold to Liverpool at a high price of 2030 million pounds, and then he spent 400 million from Spartak Moscow to bring in Russian striker Pavlyuchenko.

Manchester City coach Mark Hughes persuaded the club to be a little more pragmatic when recruiting after the team's signings hit a wall everywhere. Not every star like Zhang Yang thinks highly of Manchester City.

Subsequently, Manchester City spent 900 million pounds to introduce Wright Phillips Jr. from Chelsea. Speaking of which, when Manchester City sold this man to Chelsea, it was sold at a high price of 800 million pounds. Now it is recovered When you come back, you can recycle it at half price, which is considered a profit.

Wright Phillips cost Manchester City 900 million pounds, and he is also the No.2 player introduced by Manchester City after Zhang Yang.

After introducing two offensive players, Zhang Yang and Wright Phillips, Manchester City coach Mark Hughes focused on the defense. In the last round of the Premier League last season, Manchester City lost [-]-[-] to Aspen. In the Dunville game, the weakness of Manchester City's defense was fully exposed.

Mark Hughes eyeed the Spaniard's defender Zabaleta, and after some bargaining, Manchester City finally bought the defender at a price of 650 million pounds.

Afterwards, the head coach of Manchester City set his sights on the Belgian central defender Kompany of the Hamburg team. The Belgian centre-back.

After Kompany, Mark Hughes poached someone from Chelsea again. They spent 500 million pounds and got Chelsea's central defender Ben Haim.

While buying players, Mark Hughes is also cleaning his team, cleaning up those players who are no longer useful in his eyes or are not in his plan.

Defender Cole Luca sold to Tottenham for £850m, Matthew Mills to Downs Carter for £30 and goalkeeper Isaacson to PSV Team.

Speaking of which, before Zhang Yang came, the richest man in the Manchester City team was actually on the front line.

They have as many as six or seven people on the front line, which is a lot of people. However, in the last season, Manchester City's number of goals was one of the bottom-ranked teams in the entire Premier League.

After the introduction of Zhang Yang, Manchester City also began to undergo major surgery on the team's forward line. In fact, in the eyes of the media, there seems to be no player in Manchester City's forward group who is worthy of being able to partner with Zhang Yang.

Therefore, the big cleaning of the forward line began.

Italian striker Bianchi was dealt to the Italian Turin team at a low price; Samaras was dealt to the Celtics at a price of 100 million pounds; Dickoff freely transferred to Scott City, Belgium The young Mpenza was also terminated by the team, and the former Italian international Corradi also terminated the contract with Manchester City, and freely transferred to the Reggina team in Serie A.

However, the media is not very interested in Manchester City's small fights. What they are concerned about is, where is the striker partner that Manchester City is looking for for Zhang Yang?Obviously, another player on the front line, Brazilian striker Elano, is not favored by the media.

The media's speculation continued until Zhang Yang returned to Manchester after his vacation.

The Premier League is a league that starts relatively early, so in early July, the team has already started training.At this time, the 2008 European Cup has just ended. This time, Spain had the last laugh. They defeated the German team in the final with Torres' lore and reached the top of Europe.

This also makes people look forward to Liverpool's new season. With Torres, who is in hot form in the European Cup, and the introduction of more than 2000 million Premier League veteran Robbie Keane, Liverpool's striker is very exciting.Of course, in the eyes of The Times, Manchester City's offensive ability is also highly anticipated, which depends on whether they can find a good partner for Zhang Yang.

On the first day of the team's training camp, in order to build momentum, the Manchester City Club held an appearance meeting for the newly joined players at the Manchester Municipal Stadium.

This also aroused great interest from Manchester City fans.Of course, many of these fans came for Zhang Yang. This was Zhang Yang's second public appearance after joining the team a month ago.

Zhang Yang was the last one to make his appearance. In front of him, new players such as Wright Phillips, Kompany, Ben Haim, and Zabaleta have all appeared.

When Zhang Yang came out of the tunnel, the entire Manchester Municipal Stadium burst into cheers. As soon as Zhang Yang looked up, he saw the five-star red flag flying on the stands. In the background of a large blue color, Zehua's bright five-star red flag was so conspicuous.

It is very common for Zhang Yang to see the national flag of China in the stands. No matter when he is playing in Marseille in Ligue [-] or AC Milan in Serie A, he always sees the national flag in the stands. The five-star red flag, Zhang Yang felt a strange excitement in his heart.

However, at this time, seeing the five-star red flag on the stands of the Manchester Municipal Stadium, Zhang Yang felt the same excitement in his heart.

He knew that his choice to join Manchester City was unbelievable in the eyes of many people, and many people even thought he was crazy.Many people don't understand, and many people criticized him for joining Manchester City because of money.

Zhang Yang knew that if he wanted to fight back these doubts, he had to use his own feet to kick out a great future!

He took a deep breath, starting today, Zhang Yang, your new road to conquest has officially set sail!

Zhang Yang walked onto the red carpet with his head held high.

The photojournalists around the carpet pulled out their cameras one after another, clicking and clicking.

At the same time, the entire Manchester Municipal Stadium cheered loudly, and the announcer on the scene also shouted Zhang Yang's name over and over again!

For the Manchester City team, Zhang Yang can be said to be the biggest star in the history of the team!

As soon as Zhang Yang lowered his head, he saw a lot of Chinese reporters, and there were some familiar faces among them, who had interviewed him when he was playing for AC Milan or Marseille.Of course, Zhang Yang's old acquaintance Zhong Dajun was also among them.Zhong Dajun saw Zhang Yang looking over, smiled and waved to Zhang Yang.Zhong Dajun can be said that Zhang Yang is a diehard supporter. Recently, in China, many fans and media do not understand Zhang Yang's choice to join Manchester City. Zhang Yang's record is very happy, but they also believe that Zhang Yang's joining Manchester City is a wrong choice. In this average strength and no well-known team, Zhang Yang's future is not optimistic. If he stays for a season, he will flee in a hurry, because at that time, Zhang Yang will find that Manchester City really cannot fulfill his ambitions.In this regard, Zhong Dajun has been waving the flag for Zhang Yang.

When Zhang Yang walked to the rostrum, Alfaim greeted him.After the two hugged each other, Zhang Yang stood beside him, and Alphaim stood in front of the microphone.

He's about to give a speech.Although this is not Zhang Yang's first appearance, the chairman of the Manchester City Club knows what fans like most, and he doesn't mind introducing Zhang Yang to the fans again. matter.Look at Manchester City's signings now, it has not had much effect.However, Alphaim believes that the arrival of Zhang Yang is of epoch-making significance for Manchester City. He believes that there will definitely be heavyweight stars who can join Manchester City.

"Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests!" Alfaim said, "I am very happy that you can come to participate in such a welcome ceremony. Welcome these new players to Manchester City, I am also very happy that Manchester City welcomes these The great Qiuyan..." As he spoke, he pointed to the players next to him.

Many players were pointed out by the club chairman and held their heads high.

There was a moment of sao among the reporters below: "What did he just say? 'Great player' indeed?"

"Yes, indeed a 'great player'!"

"Damn, this evaluation is really..." A reporter shook his head and said disdainfully. Obviously, in his eyes, other than Zhang Yang, other Manchester City rookies, whether it was Kompany or Zabaleta or Ben Haim and others have nothing to do with 'greatness'.

Alfaim then turned to look at the players, shaking hands with the new players one by one.

He finally shook hands with Zhang Yang and said to him: "Zhang, welcome to Manchester again, welcome to the Municipal Stadium, and welcome to Manchester City!"

As soon as his words fell, there was a huge cheer from the stands.This cheer is almost the sum of the fans' cheers for the previous players, and it is much higher.

Alphaim handed the microphone to Zhang Yang.As a player representative, Zhang Yang had to speak.

Zhang Yang walked to the microphone with a smile on his face.

"I am very happy to join Manchester City." Zhang Yang said in Chinese.The Chinese reporters were taken aback for a moment, and then laughed.

They thought that Zhang Yang could use English. After all, English is the common language. Besides, this is the UK. They didn’t think that Zhang Yang’s English was bad. They knew that Zhang Yang’s French was good, Italian was also good, and English was also good. Se, who would have thought that it would be a genuine mother tongue, standard Mandarin!

Zhang Yang didn't seem to care whether the fans in England could understand him or not. He continued to speak in Mandarin: "Leaving AC Milan was not an easy decision for me. I had a good season there. I was there. There are still many plans, and there are many glory waiting for me to conquer."

When Zhang Yang said this, Alfaim's face changed a bit, and at this time, Zhang Yang's words were translated to the fans on the radio through an on-site translator, and the fans were also a little stunned. Where is the trouble?

Zhang Yang didn't seem to feel the change in the atmosphere. He continued, "However, after a meeting with Mr. Alphaim, I considered it again and again, and finally I chose to come to Manchester City. I know the glorious history of this team. , It's just that in this long history, this team has not been able to get more glory that they should have gained. However, after I have studied the history of Manchester City, I have great reservations for such a team with a long history. Mr. Alfaim described to me the grand blueprint of Manchester City. I was tempted. I knew that if I could be lucky enough to join it and create a great legend, it would be a football player's dream all his life! So, I chose Manchester City, and I know that my teammates also made the same choice, because we came together for the same goal, that is, for the glory, keep moving forward! Go forward !"

Then Zhang Yang raised his arms and shouted, "Manchester City! Manchester City! Manchester City!"

The atmosphere of the audience has reached a high level by this time!

Next, Zhang Yang and other teammates performed jumping and shooting, showing their football skills to the fans.

Next, Zhang Yang and several other new players who joined the team took a group photo with club chairman Alfaim, team coach Mark Hughes, club general manager Cook, and so on.

Afterwards, Zhang Yang led the group of new players to circle the field for another round, kicking the footballs they signed to the fans in the stands.

During this period, the enthusiastic Manchester City fans in the stands kept shouting: "Zhang! Zhang! Zhang!!"

The reporters in England said after the game that no matter what, the collective appearance of the team's new players held by the chairman of the Manchester City club, Al Faim, seemed to have a good effect. The Manchester City fans cheered loudly. Of course, Many fans are going for Zhang Yang, and their love for this superstar is strong.

After the appearance and welcome ceremony, Zhang Yang and his teammates stood together again. They were wearing Manchester City jerseys, and then they held hands together in front of the cameras of the reporters, swearing to the media that they would work together to fight for Manchester City. The team's new season efforts!

Then, the chairman of the Manchester City Club, Alfaim, led the players to the press conference hall of the Manchester City Club, where the Manchester City players, headed by Zhang Yang, will have a face-to-face confrontation with the English media. Of course, Zhang Yang will definitely He is the focus of the media's attention, and even the only one being questioned. He has to answer all kinds of weird and even deliberately difficult questions from the other party.

After Zhang Yang joined Manchester City, he disappeared from the public's sight. Therefore, the media are looking forward to his appearance this time, and have already thought about various issues.

Of course, before asking questions, the Manchester City jersey is first displayed, which is an essential part of any player's public appearance after joining a new team.

Zhang Yang and the others stood there like models, posing in some poses for the media to take pictures.

Ka Ka Ka Ka!

The flash-lights became one.

After showing the pose, Zhang Yang and his teammates sat behind the table and accepted various questions from the reporters.

Questions from Chinese journalists are usually "Joining Manchester City, do you have anything to say about the future?" Who is the person you admire the most?" "How do you estimate the ranking and positioning of Manchester City in the new season?"

These questions are easy to answer, with formulaic words and nice things everyone loves to hear, but the questions of the English journalists are not so easy to deal with.

Many people are dissatisfied with Manchester City's purchase of Zhang Yang, or Zhang Yang's joining Manchester City. Therefore, many of these reporters came here sincerely to make trouble.

An English reporter asked as soon as he came up: "You chose to leave AC Milan. Many Milan fans think that you have betrayed the team. Therefore, AC Milan fans are very sad that you joined Manchester City, and some people even burned you. jersey... what do you think about this?"

Zhang Yang glanced at it. This is a reporter from "Turin Sports News". He and this Italian media are deadly enemies. He replied: "I believe it is a very small number of AC Milan fans. The AC Milan I know are very friendly. , they must be able to understand my choice. After all, I have brought a league championship to this team. In the past season, I have a good relationship with the fans. They also know that I love them too. Transfer Leaving is a normal thing for players, so I don't feel guilty and the fans will understand me."

Zhang Yang's answer was neither humble nor overbearing, leaving the Turin reporter speechless.However, he still quibbled, "You are avoiding some fans' protests against you. They are very angry."

Zhang Yang gave the Turin reporter a cold look, "Actually, I know that you and the team you supported must be very happy after I leave Milan."

The face of the "Torino Sport" reporter changed, and he didn't say anything. Speaking of it, he really humiliated himself. As Zhang Yang said, the Juventus people should be very happy when Zhang Yang left Milan. Then, don't come here to make trouble.

The next question was a reporter from the "Manchester Guardian". His question was not so explosive. It should be said that it is normal to ask questions. Anyway, Zhang Yang joined Manchester City, and the Manchester media is still very happy. Well, although the "Manchester Guardian" also speaks for Manchester United, it cannot be said to be a hardcore pro-Manchester United media, so the hostility towards Zhang Yang is much less.Therefore, Zhang Yang's answer to this question is also very formulaic.

Then came the reporter of "Daily Mirror": "What made you choose to join Manchester City, Zhang?"

"As I said before, I think joining Manchester City is more challenging." Zhang Yang replied.

"Challenge?" The "Daily Mirror" reporter asked, "We all know that Manchester City's current situation is not good."

"I only know that when I come, Manchester City will be different." Zhang Yang said with a smile.