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Chapter 306 Chapter 313 The Pain of the Ideal
What is ideal?
Is it like Ferguson, in order to win the St. Bradley Cup to Old Trafford all his life, in order to fulfill his wish, he even did not hesitate to support the Glazer family in acquiring Manchester United?
Or is it like the famous French coach Guyrou, who spent 19 years just to bring his hometown team from an amateur team in the region to the top league and win the Ligue [-] championship?
Everyone has their own ideals, some just hope to become the top head coach and be respected by thousands of fans; some hope to use a championship trophy to set off their success and win the praise of fans;

The ideal is often the goal!
Two beauties, one chose to rely on her natural beauty, relying on the wealthy, and lived the life she wanted without worrying about food and clothing, and covered with famous brands; the other chose to stay with her poor husband and work together with her hands.

The ideals of these two people are the same, but they have different ways of realizing their ideals, but no matter what, they are all worthy of respect and affirmation. It is extremely unfair if one person elevates one and belittles the other, because they both paid their own price for their ideals!
Many people will regard reality as the imaginary enemy of their ideals, and the cruelty of reality as an excuse that their ideals cannot be realized. This is a failure, because ideals belong to individuals, but reality belongs to everyone.

In this world, there has never been any law that requires the whole world to accommodate a certain person, just to fulfill his ideals. If there is, then this world must be crazy!

For the ideal, giving up is the easiest; insisting on entering is always the most painful, but it is also the most admirable!
Wenger is a practitioner who insists on the ideal road. It is said that after Ferguson entered the Premier League, the biggest stimulation brought to him was to further promote his idealism, which made him originally ideal and wise, and completely biased towards idealism.

And this often represents tragedy!

The Times once published a very controversial comment. They believed that Wenger had a 6-point ideal and a 4-point reality, while Ferguson had a 4-point ideal and a 6-point reality, so the latter is more successful than the former, but the former is more admirable than the latter.

This comment was about when Ferguson and Wen were fighting for 10 years. Now, no one would say that, because Ferguson has proved time and time again that he is the current head coach in the world, and even one of the greatest head coaches in football history.

Idealists are always accompanied by loneliness and loneliness. As Arsenal fans, they accept it repeatedly every season. It seems like a nightmare cycle, always accompanied by a cycle of hope, disappointment, and despair.

Therefore, every time he sees Wenger, Ferguson can't help but see more and more of his white hair, which has already taken over the top of his head. At such times, Ferguson will always smile wryly, without saying anything, raise the glass in his hand, and pour him a specially prepared glass of Riesling wine from his hometown.

Wenger is a very strange person. He can sit with you in the office at Old Trafford, hold a glass of wine, occasionally sip it elegantly, and stay silent for half an hour; he can also chat with you in the office at the Emirates Stadium for hours about the tactics of a game or the tactical characteristics of a team, and he will never let you go.

Perhaps, all idealists are like this, a combination of contradictions!
In the past, as an enemy, Ferguson looked at Wenger with a kind of prejudice to some extent, which is common to all people, because when you are hostile to a person, no matter what he does or what he says, you will have prejudice and think he is hypocritical, but when you really get to know him and eliminate the hostility, you can treat a person more fairly.

The gray-haired Mourinho is still rejecting Wenger, and the gray-haired Ferguson has always been somewhat estranged from Wenger, but after so many years of struggle, he feels more and more that Wenger is a person worthy of respect.

He has made mistakes, and there are many more, but no matter what, he deserves respect!

Because in the world we live in, there are already too many realists, and there are still a small number of compromisers like Mourinho and Ferguson who coexist with realism and idealism, while thorough idealists like Wenger and Van Gaal are rare.

But this diverse world should never have only reality, it will always need some voices from idealism.

Crossing his legs and holding a goblet, he could see from the window of Ferguson's office at Old Trafford that there were four towering buildings in the distance, full of bustling people. Wenger sat like this for more than half an hour, then sighed and stood up.

"It's time to go!" Wengla pulled the suit on her body, keeping it straight.

Ferguson smiled and nodded, "I'll take you back to the hotel!"

Wenger was also polite, nodded, and asked, "Shall I treat you to supper?"

"No, I should go home!" Ferguson laughed.

Wenger laughed and said nothing.

And this way back to London

In the restaurant of the villa, Cheng Wen reproachfully reminded the dazed, silly-looking guy sitting opposite her.

It's hard for him to come up with such a supper, he doesn't seem to appreciate it?

"I think of Wenger!" Li Yuxin sighed, fiddled with the food on the plate in front of him, "I think I can't do what he did, but I always feel that it is very hard for him to persist so stubbornly!"

"He knows!" Cheng Wen nodded.

"Know?" Li Yuxin was surprised, but after thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Yes, but it is even more valuable because of knowing!"

"I have done several exclusive interviews with him. I also have a good friendship with him. I have talked with him many times. He is a very proud person in his bones, but many people are blinded by his appearance and temperament. He knows exactly what he wants and is willing to make all efforts for it. In fact, he is also ready to accept all consequences."

Sighing, Cheng Wen reached out, grabbed Li Yuxin's hand on the dining table, and clenched it tightly, "Once, he once told me that he actually really wanted to be someone like you, where ideals and reality coexist, and he was once very close to this state, but most of the time, he couldn't help himself!"

Li Yuxin can understand this point. After he traveled to the Premier League, he realized Wenger’s dream of leading Arsenal to the peak. Later, the invasion of foreign capital such as Abramovich and the Glazer family forced Arsenal’s financial dilemma to an unbearable level. These are the behind-the-scenes thrusts that pushed Wenger further towards idealism.

In many cases, when the mistakes have accumulated to a certain extent, it is already very difficult to recover!
It's like Arsenal today, when the whole world thinks that you sell and sell has become a habit, and when your stars also feel that they will be sold anytime and anywhere, you can no longer prevent any transfer from happening.

Li Yuxin smiled slightly and breathed a sigh of relief, "Our ancestors are the best, leaving us a precious cultural heritage."

"The mean?" Cheng Wen asked.

Li Yuxin nodded. In fact, he abides by this rule no matter how he acts or how he behaves.

(End of this chapter)