Chapter 132 One More Choice
The current Newcastle United are facing a reorganization, or a 'big shakeup' would be apt to describe it, all due to the simultaneous retirement of two club legends - one the club's manager, England legend Robson, and the other the club's The greatest shooter in history, Alan Shearer.
As the most legendary coach in British football, Robson once led the England national team to the 1986 and 1990 World Cups. Although they were both defeated by the final champions Argentina and West Germany, the Italian World Cup semi-finals are already England's The best record the national team has achieved at the World Cup in the last 40 years.
In addition to making a lot of contributions to the national team, Robson personally brought Ronaldo, a talented player to the peak of world football, during his coaching at PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona; among them, Robson also cultivated a future champion during his Barcelona coaching days. Coach Mourinho, the Portuguese was Robson's translator and assistant at the time.
Without a doubt, Bobby Robson is the best coach in England in the past few decades!
In 2002, Robson was knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, becoming the eighth person in English football to receive this royal honor. Since then, fans have to add a Sir in front of him when addressing him.
Alan Shearer is one of England's greatest strikers. He was a legendary striker in England in the 1990s. In 1996, Alan Shearer won the top scorer in the European Cup with 5 goals and set a historical record of 15 million. Sterling joins Newcastle United.
In nine years, Alan Shearer made 405 appearances for Newcastle United, scoring 206 goals and creating new history for Newcastle United.
The old coach Robson and Alan Shearer are both legends of Newcastle United. The retirement of these two legendary figures has had a great impact on Newcastle United - the club's head coach needs to be replaced, and the entire team is also facing restructuring.
If you can cross this threshold. Newcastle United may be able to tie with other giants and become a veritable 'one of the top five clubs in the Premier League'. On the contrary, they may also sink or even face a relegation crisis. So now this moment. Very important to Newcastle United.
The chairman of the club, Sheffield, would not watch the club fall into crisis, so he took the initiative to find many club directors, raised a lot of funds to support the club, and also began to look for a Robson successor for Newcastle United.
So Wansheng appeared in Sheffield's field of vision.
There is no doubt about Wansheng's team performance. He brought Derby County, which was about to be relegated, to the top league championship in two years. This is enough to write a heavy stroke in Premier League history. The negotiation between Wansheng and Derby County Club did not go well. This is no secret in the English football circle. Because of this, Newcastle United came to the door. I hope Wansheng can join Newcastle United and replace the old Robson. the head coach position.
Newcastle United is still very sincere.
They have prepared Wansheng for a four-year contract with an average annual salary of more than 3.5 million pounds, and also promised more than 40 million pounds of transfer funds in the summer.
Newcastle United's offer is very attractive. Wan Sheng couldn't think of a reason to refuse, after Kevin Tagore got the news. He also had some discussions with Newcastle United, but Wansheng only learned about the specific situation last night. He never thought that he would be associated with Newcastle United.
But how could Malwood know that Newcastle United were interested in him?
That alone is quite remarkable.
In fact, there are very few reports in the media about Wansheng leaving Derby County. The media does not know the specific situation at all, because Wansheng and Derby County clubs have not torn their faces on the surface, and most people think that the two sides have renewed their contracts. It's just that there were some differences. Wansheng should not leave the Derby County club. After all, his achievements in leading the team are obvious to all. Now this Derby County team is also created by him.
Of course, in the eyes of football insiders, it is not surprising that Wan Sheng left the Derby County club, but Wan Sheng still did not receive many invitations... This is actually related to the scope of his current reputation, as well as the Premier League team. about the overall situation.
Wan Sheng led the team quite well, but in fact, he is not very famous in other regions. After all, Derby County only led the team to the UEFA Cup, and Wan Sheng was too young.
In the eyes of the media in many other countries, Wan Sheng does have a certain ability, but it is not certain that he is a world-class coach, and his salary is also a problem - his salary in Derby County has exceeded 100 Ten thousand pounds, that is to say, if you want to invite Wan Sheng to coach, you must pay the salary of the world's top coach.
This one condition alone makes most teams discouraged.
Furthermore, those teams that have the ability to hire top-level coaches do not dare to fully trust Wansheng's ability. After all, he has only led the team to the Premier League for one season. Before that, they were not famous at all. I prefer to invite those long-established coaches with the same salary, at least their team performance can be guaranteed not to be too bad.
So outside of England, few clubs would consider inviting Wansheng.
Of the 20 Premier League teams in England, only 3 or 4 are ready to change coaches. Newcastle United is the most concerned, but Malwood in front of him knows the news, and it is definitely not just speculation.
Wan Sheng looked at Malwood, intending to hear what he was about to say.
Sure enough, Marwood immediately said, "Mr. Waddell is also very interested in you, you can consider it." John Waddell, the current chairman of Manchester City Club, is also a major shareholder of Manchester City Club, he owns 30% of the shares of Manchester City .
"Are you representing the Manchester City Club, come to talk to me?" Wan Sheng asked suspiciously.
"No, no," Malwood laughed. "I'm just in charge of spreading the word."
Wan Sheng nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Can you be more specific?"
Malwood also thought about it for a while, raised the wine glass, and said, "It's not suitable here, and... I can't decide anything, I'm just here to explain, so that you don't decide anything so quickly, maybe say , as a friend, it also gives you one more choice, and I think Mr. Wald is also looking forward to meeting you."
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After chatting with Malwood for a while, Wan Sheng left the reception, thinking about his whereabouts.
Before he thought about leaving Derby County, there weren't many real options. Newcastle United was a good place to go, but he was a little bit resistant... Mainly because Newcastle was a little too far away, it's the northernmost city in England, and , He also knows that a club like Newcastle United, where the chairman has no absolute authority and is full of internal conflicts, is too difficult to rise.
If he chooses to go to Newcastle United, it will not be much better there than in Derby County, mainly because Newcastle United cannot completely delegate power to him, because the chairman Sheffield does not have absolute power.
So Wansheng was actually a little worried about his whereabouts.
As Malwood said, now he has one more choice - Manchester City, which is also a good club. Under the same conditions, he will definitely choose Manchester City. One is that he is very familiar with Manchester, and the other is that he has the absolute support of the chairman in Manchester City. He can focus on building the team.
Of course, the premise is the same conditions, and the specifics will be discussed later.
It is worth noting that this evening, the media got news about Newcastle United and Wansheng. The cause of the incident was that Newcastle local media photographed Kevin Tagore and club chairman Sheffield having dinner together. photo.
Or maybe the reporters who were filming at the time didn't think so, because Kevin Tagore didn't have many opportunities to appear in the public eye, and he was not the kind of famous agent, so most of the media reporters didn't know Kevin Tagore at all.
But when the reporter took the photo back to the magazine, someone recognized it immediately, and then the 'shattering news' was revealed like this, "Derby County coach Wan Sheng is likely to join Newcastle United at the end of the season to replace the old Rob. Sen's head coach position!"
The most favorable evidence is this photo!
Kevin Tagore is not often seen in the media, but he is the agent of Wansheng, and many media also know that the two are even classmates and good friends of University College London. Such a relationship makes Kevin Tagore fully representative. Victory.
Now that he is having dinner with Sheffield, the chairman of Newcastle United, is there any other explanation? Only Wansheng will take over as Newcastle United's coach!
Newcastle media covered it all!
Wan Sheng was definitely one of the most talked about figures in England during Derby County's title-winning moment, with a lot of media coverage of him, and now the concerned 'star coach' has been linked with Newcastle United, who is actually still in the Newcastle media. What is more expected is that Wansheng has led the team very well. He can bring the top league championship to the defeated Derby County. After coming to Newcastle, will he also bring Newcastle United a top league championship. ?
Thinking of these, many Newcastle people are hot!
But with support, there will be doubts.
There are still many media and fans who question Wansheng's succession as coach. After all, Wansheng's resume is too short. He has only been the coach for two seasons, and he still led the team to the second league in one season. Before that, He doesn't even have experience as an assistant to a famous coach. No one can guarantee whether such a young and junior coach will be as successful as he used to be in Newcastle.
But what they don't know is that Wansheng has received an invitation from Manchester City chairman Waddell, and is going to take time to go to Manchester to have a formal interview with the Manchester City club... (To be continued ~^~)