Chapter 90 Pattern
League Cup? This is not a big deal. Manchester City finally won the championship, this is a big deal.
Manchester City won the League Cup, and the family was happy and sad.
The joy is naturally the Manchester City fans. No matter how insignificant the championship is, it is still their first championship in 33 years. Some Manchester City fans who went to London to watch the game almost followed Manchester's bus back to Manchester, while Manchester City fans who stayed in Manchester spontaneously gathered at Manchester's City Square to wait for the team's bus to return.
If Lin Sen means, the celebration should be done in moderation, not because he also thinks that the League Cup is insignificant, but because Manchester City's journey this season is far from over, the League Cup is not the end, it is just a small level. Although the devil's schedule in February has also been announced to end with the end of the League Cup final, the relaxation of the March schedule is only relatively speaking.
Manchester City's next game is the second leg of the UEFA Cup home against Twente. Since they fell behind one-to-three in the first leg, the FA Cup has been eliminated, and Manchester City is definitely unwilling to give up the UEFA Cup easily, so Manchester City must do their best in this game. After the UEFA Cup, it is the league against Tottenham Hotspur, which is also a tough battle. Only after these two games can Manchester City say that they can really breathe a little.
In this case, Manchester City is not suitable to make more celebrations at this time, and it is important to seize the time to take a breath. However, the club is obviously not willing to miss this excellent publicity opportunity. It is certainly impossible to parade a League Cup, but it is OK to have the team celebrate the championship with the fans in the City Square.
Lin Sen had no choice but to do anything about this.
For a League Cup, such a big deal is naturally a big deal in the eyes of Manchester United fans who have celebrated the Premier League championship in the same city for three consecutive years. However, Manchester City fans don’t care about this. Red occupies too long over Manchester, and Manchester tonight is the sky blue.
What is happy is Manchester City, but what is worried is naturally only a few other Premier League giants.
Manchester United, who lost to Manchester City, was the first to be hit. After the game, Ferguson bombarded the referee Weber. He believed that Scholes' goal in the game was unquestionable. If it weren't for the ball blown away, then Manchester United would not have lost the game at all. And the old Sir Judgun was even more dissatisfied with Manchester City: from the point of view, Manchester City won the victory, but I still don't think Manchester City can be compared with Manchester United, and the same will be true in another hundred years.
Ferguson has never been polite with his mortal enemy in the city. In the 0708 season, Manchester City defeated Manchester United twice in the league, which was regarded as a shame by Ferguson. In the 0809 season, Ferguson really avenged his previous shame and doubled Manchester City. This season, when we met twice, Manchester United fell into the hands of his mortal enemy twice. How could Ferguson swallow this? There is still another contest this season, and the battlefield will be at Old Trafford Stadium. At that time, Ferguson will not be able to accept being killed by his opponent in a season.
In addition to Manchester United, clubs such as Arsenal and Liverpool are also wary of Manchester City's championship. Chelsea's rise has brought about a huge change in the Premier League. Now, Manchester City seems to be an enhanced version of Chelsea, and the rise trajectory of the two teams is becoming more and more similar. Chelsea has experienced Ranieri and Manchester City has also experienced Mark Hughes. Previously, people always said that Manchester City lacked a Mourinho. When Linson entered Manchester City this summer, although the British media wished to call him Mourinho II, not many people really took it seriously. Who is Mourinho? Before going to Chelsea, he was the Champions League champion coach. And what about Linson? What did he have before coming to Manchester City? King's Copa del Rey?
But now, they must face this problem, not only because Manchester City has always been one of the strong contenders for the championship in the league, but also because now, Manchester City has shown that they have the ability to realize their ambitions.
You should know that the four traditional Premier League giants that are familiar to people now are actually three giants before Chelsea rose, namely Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. These three teams monopolized almost all league championships since the establishment of the Premier League. Mourinho's Chelsea changed this pattern and formed the four giants. But if Manchester City becomes one of the patterns in the future, then changes will no longer be as simple as the four giants becoming five giants.
Because there are only four qualifications for the Premier League. If Manchester City rises, it means that one of the four major clubs will definitely be squeezed out of the Champions League. If the unlucky one this season is not unexpected, it will be Liverpool. Obviously, this is almost a worse situation for Liverpool, which is already financially tight. In other words, no matter who is squeezed out of the Champions League, it will suffer heavy losses. Of course, this is not the most terrible thing. The terrible thing is that if the same team is unlucky for several consecutive years, then this team may even play out of the ranks of the giants. Absent the Champions League causes direct economic losses. More importantly, it is the decline in influence. If a team misses the European arena for several consecutive years, then this team is likely to be gradually forgotten. Not only fans, but also sponsors, so this is a chain reaction.
Football is forgetful, especially English football.
The English League has a century-old history. There are many teams that are now unnamed. Who can be sure that history will not repeat itself?
Lin Sen didn't expect that a small League Cup would cause a sense of crisis among several Premier League giants.
On the way back to Manchester from London, he received a lot of congratulations, including from Spain, such as Tapia and Pellegrini, from Italy, such as Mourinho, and from Portugal, such as Mendes. Of course, the earliest congratulations came from Boya who watched football on site. Boya's text messages were so simple that they could not be simple, with only one word: Congratulations.
When he returned to Manchester, Linson did not stay in the city square for long, but just exposed his lower body and soon ran away with Tang Hua. He could not stop the club's arrangements, but on the bus back to Manchester, he had never interfered with the players' private life habits, and had to interfere once: celebration, it must end at 10 o'clock in the evening. Because the team will resume training tomorrow, he does not want to see any players late, nor does he want to see someone coming to the training ground with dark circles.
As soon as Lin Sen's decision was announced, the team members immediately sighed. Lin Sen ignored this, of course, because he took everyone's emotions into consideration.
The taste of winning the championship is better than everything. What is a day's vacation?
The League Cup final is not the only game played in England that day. On this day, there are other remaining matches in the 28th round of the league. Of course, no one can take away the media headlines from Manchester City the next day.
"Champion Manchester City, official." Of course, only the local media in Manchester, a photo of Dunn holding up the League Cup and a photo of the whole Manchester City team wearing medals does not require too much descriptive text, just adding some praise. This newspaper has enough reason to become a collection of local Manchester City fans.
Of course, things have never been perfect. Some people sing praises, and naturally some people sing bad things.
While most of the English media praised Manchester City's championship, some media focused their attention on the controversial threshold case. Although even they could not tell whether the ball was entered or not, there was no doubt that since it was considered to be not entered, it means that Manchester City took advantage, that is, they believed that Manchester City's winning of the championship was lucky.
The Daily Mail commented that if Manchester City wants to prove that they are truly competitive, it is far from enough to just have a lucky League Cup.
"Thirty-three years later, it's somewhat lucky that Manchester City finally ended their history of no championship and the League Cup. Ironically, the League Cup has always been called a poor game, but Manchester City is not poor at all. Since joining Manchester City in the summer, Chinese coach Lin has spent nearly 200 million pounds of transfer fees in Manchester City. If Lin's team only wants to prove that their investment is worth the money, it is obviously far from enough. Otherwise, the League Cup might have changed its name and called the rich game.
And the fact now is that this is likely to be the only championship Manchester City can win this season. Because before that, they were eliminated in the FA Cup, and they are currently in a very unfavorable situation in the European arena. If Manchester City is eliminated from the Europa League in a few days, then Manchester City fans can count on the only league.
But, can they really reverse Ancelotti's team who are behind Chelsea in the league?"
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Lin Sen did not have the habit of reading newspapers, but this did not mean that he would not read newspapers. The League Cup championship made him very interested in seeing the media's reaction. Coincidentally, he saw this report, and then he asked Tang Hua to buy dozens of copies and sent it to all the players during the training the next day.
Lin Sen did this not just to provoke. Although the comments of the Daily Mail were a little harsh in the praises, they were not fabricated. Although the opponent's starting point was not to remind Manchester City with kindness, this did not prevent Lin Sen from using it to make his players understand the reality: a league cup cannot change people's views on Manchester City.
Maybe today people will remember Manchester City as the League Cup champion, and maybe tomorrow, but if Manchester City still only has such a League Cup in their hands after the league is over, then this League Cup will not be a consolation prize, but an even more embarrassing last fig leaf.
Because, Manchester City spent 200 million!
Not two million, not two million, but two million!
Even if Lin Sen knows that his 200 million yuan has a future value of more than several times, if he cannot receive a symmetrical honor to these 200 million yuan after the season, then at that time, it will be more than the Daily Mail.r1152
Chapter completed!