Chapter 797: The New Season Is About to Begin

No one understands why Berbatov's attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees, and not only to the media, but also in his mental state during training is completely different from the first day.

A reporter photographed his application for focus and happiness in training.

Some reporters saw Berbatov taking the initiative to go up and talk to Rongguang in German during the training break.

Rongguang also knew Berbatov, although he was not impressed by Berbatov, but he did know this person, anyway, the two also played each other in the Bundesliga for three seasons, a total of six times.

Berbatov's intimate relationship with Glory also made Mark Hughes happy.

The media believes that Manchester City's purchase of Berbatov is completely an amateurish Kaizi behavior, just because Manchester United wants it, so they grab it, in fact, they don't think about whether the team needs it or not.

But in fact, Berbatov was bought in the end because Mark Hughes wanted Berbatov.

He believes that Berbatov's technique at his feet is delicate and can make a very good offensive tactical fulcrum up front.

In this way, it can give Rongguang more scoring opportunities.

It's a bit like the combination of Lucas Sutton and Glory at Bayern Munich at the time.

Mark Hughes was intent on replicating Bayern Munich's tactics.

Although many people are very disdainful of Magath's strict reliance on glory.

But Mark Hughes doesn't even bother to think about that right now. As long as the team is doing well.

He came to Manchester City to replace Elkeson, and he was also under a lot of pressure.

There has always been a saying in public opinion that he has never coached a big team, has not faced a complicated dressing room situation, and the dressing room of a team like Manchester City is very complicated, and everyone is not optimistic about his coaching prospects in this team. It is also difficult to say whether his level of coaching will allow him to withstand the huge pressure of results.

Manchester City have been spending money like crazy this summer, and the investment needs to be reciprocated.

What if the grades are not satisfactory?

The head coach will be the first to be fired as a scapegoat.

So Mark Hughes has a very urgent need for results.

Now that God has given him a healthy glory, he certainly wants to maximize the effects of glory.

The only pity is that Berbatov came too late.

Manchester United have not switched to Klose before, which has made it difficult for Manchester City to acquire him.

It's too late to start practising new tactics, and Mark Hughes has no choice but to slowly adjust his tactics after the league starts.

Now I can only simply arrange the role of Berbatov - if you can score, you will score, if you can't score, you will pass the football to Rongguang, and create more scoring opportunities for Rongguang.

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Five days passed quickly, and soon the 2008-2009 English Premier League season kicked off.

The opening game of the new season is Arsenal's home game against promoted Masi Bromwich Albion.

After 90 minutes of play, Arsenal finally got off to a good start to the new season with a narrow 1-0 home win over West Bromwich Albion thanks to a goal from new signing Nasri.

After the opening match, the first round of the Premier League was also in full swing.

In the match played on this day, Hull City beat Fulham 2-1; Middlesbrough beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 at home to lose Berbatov; Bolton beat Stoke City 3-1 at home; West Ham beat Wigan 2-1 at home; Everton's 3-2 defeat at home to Blackburn Rovers ended the pattern of home teams winning in this round of the league.

Sunderland also lost 1-0 at home to Liverpool.

There are three league games remaining tomorrow.

The whole of England, nay, maybe the whole of Europe, is watching tomorrow's league game. That's Manchester City's away game against Aston Villa!

In this game, judging from the news of the pre-match press conference, Glory was unsurprisingly placed in the starting list.

Judging from the several warm-up games prepared for the season, Rongguang's form is not particularly stable, especially in the first few games.

Rong Guang is a bit unfamiliar with football, and this is evident in the match, where his dribbling is not as smooth and sharp as before the injury.

This provides strong evidence for the dominant view.

That is, it is difficult for Rong Guang to recover his original state, and he is not as good as he used to be in both his body and his control of football......

However, Mark Hughes repeatedly said in interviews that this was a warm-up game, and the purpose of the warm-up game was originally to find the state of Glory, so it is normal for Glory to be poor or something.

“…… After all, he hadn't touched the ball for seven months and I had plenty of patience. Even if it takes him half a season to find form, I can wait. ”

These words were ridiculed by the media at the time, saying that Rongguang can't find the state in his life, do you wait? You're willing to wait, but the Manchester City boss isn't willing to wait.

Now, in the first round of the league, Glory started again. Okay, now it's not a warm-up game, right? It's an official league! Let's take another look at his table in the official competition!

The intensity of the confrontation in the warm-up match is completely different from the official league, and the glorious table is not particularly bright and prominent, and when it comes to the official game, do you expect him to perform better?

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Ahead of the game, Aston Villa captain Gareth Barry also challenged the glory.

"The media has been talking about Rong all summer, about his worth, about his annual salary, about his status. I think it's time to get out of the way, it's time to end the debate. I know Wing used to be a very good player, but the Bundesliga and the Premier League are two completely different worlds and I will greet him in the Premier League way! ”

These words were unceremonious, and the smell of gunpowder was very strong.

But no one criticizes Barry, and such verbal battles are commonplace in England.

And Aston Villa fans are still applauding Barry's approach, they think that Barry, as the captain of Aston Villa, has the courage to accept challenges in the face of a seemingly strong opponent like Manchester City, which is a symbol of courage, and it is the favorite point of England fans - the players they like must be pure men!

The more you face a strong enemy, the more you must dare to challenge!

And is Glory a strong enemy?

At the very least, it seems to count.

The value and weekly salary of the two people are not on the same level at all......

Everyone felt that Barry was building confidence and instilling courage in the team.

But Barry actually has his own plans.

Barry, who has been at Aston Villa for eleven years this summer, is tired of staying in the middle and bottom of the pack and wants to go to a bigger team in pursuit of titles and honours. This may be because after he was able to play in the England national team, his ambition and desire for glory quickly swelled.

Liverpool did take a keen interest in Barry's table. They are hoping to take the England national team's main defender away from Aston Villa.

Barry is also hoping to attract more big clubs through Guò's excellent performance in the game, as well as to get Liverpool to increase the price and make Aston Villa willing to sell him.

If he can defend against glory in the game...... Wouldn't that hope be greatly increased?

Chinese fans are very dissatisfied with Barry's clamour, and they scolded Barry's ancestors for eighteen generations on the Internet.

But it doesn't make much sense, people can't hear it and can't see it.

China's Central Television (CCTV) has finally secured a contract to broadcast the Premier League before the start of the new Premier League season. They had hoped to secure exclusive rights to broadcast the Premier League in Chinese mainland. But because the Premier League has been sold to Tiansheng, this request was rejected by Tiansheng.

In the end, after arduous negotiations, Tiansheng agreed to sell the broadcast rights to CCTV, while they also retained the broadcast rights, so that the Premier League game in Chinese mainland became broadcast live by two companies at the same time, but ...... Tiansheng's coverage is too small, mainly concentrated in the Guangdong region, so in fact, there is not much conflict with each other.

If it weren't for Tiansheng's loss being too strict, they would never agree to let CCTV get a piece of the pie.

Although they also know very well that allowing CCTV to broadcast the Premier League is definitely tantamount to luring a wolf into the room.

But the current situation is that if you don't resell the broadcast rights, I'm afraid that before the wolf enters the house, Tiansheng will already be dead......

Chinese fans are accustomed to watching free live broadcasts, and they are very disgusted and resistant to the model of paying to watch games introduced by Tiansheng, coupled with Tiansheng's self-contained signal, which does not rely on Zhongshu Media or the sales channels of local cable network companies, and wants to play by themselves, so it also leads local cable network companies to boycott Tiansheng, and the negotiations with the National Cable TV Alliance are very unsmooth. Up to now, in big cities such as Shanghai and Wuhan, Tiansheng European Football Channel has not been able to land.

It also puts them in a bleak situation.

At the beginning, Tiansheng spent a sky-high price to buy the Premier League broadcasting rights in Chinese mainland, originally dreaming of making a lot of money from this.

As a result, no one bought it.

Rongguang's joining Manchester City should be good news, so Tiansheng has stepped up publicity and marketing.

However, until the start of the new season of the league, Tiansheng's terminal sales performance was also very unsatisfactory.

In the past two seasons, the bad influence caused by Tiansheng in the minds of the majority of fans has been difficult to undo, and Chinese fans would rather not watch the glorious game than fall to the ground against Tiansheng. In addition, now that online live broadcast is so developed, many live broadcast software can see the signal of foreign TV stations......

In addition, the Premier League has also put pressure on Tiansheng, after all, Rongguang's transfer to Manchester City is definitely a shot in the arm for the promotion of the Premier League in Chinese mainland. The Premier League didn't pay attention to CCTV at the beginning, and it was also pinned on the hope that the promise made to them by Tiansheng patted his chest could be fulfilled.

As a result, it now seems that Tiansheng is a pig-like teammate, and there is no way to reverse the situation, and his reputation in Chinese mainland has fallen to the bottom, and it is rotten.

If this continues, the wishful thinking of the Premier League will not work. If Tiansheng continues to insist on going his own way, it will have a huge negative impact on the image promotion of the Premier League.

The advantage of CCTV is that it covers almost the entire Chinese mainland. This is what the Premier League needs, so the scales began to tilt in favor of CCTV.

In this way, Tiansheng had no choice but to resell the broadcast rights to CCTV, and the asking price was not low, which made up for the deficit to some extent......

In this way, fans in Chinese mainland do not need to find live broadcast software on the Internet, nor do they have to pay to watch Tiansheng's broadcast, and they can directly watch the live broadcast of the glorious game on the CCTV sports channel!

Domestic media predict that in the first league game, the domestic audience will set a zào record!