Chapter 808: New and Old Nouveau Rieu
After the third round of the Premier League, the international break began, so the international players in the Manchester City squad have also left the team to play in their national teams.
This kind of international break has the biggest impact on Premier League teams.
Because the labor certification of the Premier League requires non-domestic players to play in the Premier League, they must be players of their respective national teams, and there are also regulations on the proportion of appearances, and fringe internationals who can't even play games are not enough. This means that all foreign players who can play in the Premier League are basically important players in their respective national teams, and they cannot be absent from national team games.
In this way, the national team competition has the greatest impact on the team.
This is to ensure the quality of foreign players playing in the Premier League, as well as the level of the Premier League.
However, this has also prevented many talented young players from moving to Premier League teams.
At that time, it was said that Manchester United wanted Kaka more than AC Milan, but Kaka was rejected by the Premier League because Kaka did not meet the criteria for applying for a labor certification. That's why Kaka moved to AC Milan.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was furious about the incident.
Eventually, a new system was born, the "special genius clause".
It's a player who is really, really good and even if he doesn't have a national team resume, he can join a Premier League team with this clause. However, in order to prevent being exploited, it is specifically stipulated that each Premier League team can only have one special talent place per season.
When Glory moved from Bayern Munich to Manchester City, Manchester City used this clause. Because Rongguang has not represented the Chinese national team in an international *** event before.
However, at the time, the media also ridiculed the English FA. Because a player like Rong Guang wants to join Manchester City and play in the Premier League, it is simply ironic that Manchester City Club needs to use a special talent quota once a year. There should be no strings attached to the transfer of such a player to play in the Premier League!
So far, Rong Guang has not been called up by the Chinese national team, so he remains in the Carrington training base in Manchester, as he has done on every previous national team day.
Nowadays in China, there are still two diametrically opposed opinions and opinions on whether to recruit Rongguang into the national team, and the two sides are so quarreled that no one can convince anyone.
One side believes that the Chinese Football Association should recruit Rongguang into the national team, especially after the national Olympic team's embarrassing performance in the Beijing Olympics, Chinese football needs a hero like Rongguang to reshape its image and give fans confidence. It can be said that Rongguang is already the last hope of Chinese football.
The Olympic strategy that the Football Association has spent so much effort on now seems to have completely failed, and I really don't understand how they still have the confidence to carry it without glory.
The other side opposes recruiting Rongguang into the national team, and it is precisely because of the shame of the national Olympic team at the Beijing Olympics. They believe that the significance of the national team is extraordinary, after all, China's jersey is printed with the five-star red flag. What the national team needs are players who are willing to win glory for the country, and if a player does not have national honor in his heart at all, no matter how strong such a player is, he does not want it.
Take a look at the performance of the Olympic team at the Olympic Games...... This is the evil result of glory, lack of organization, lack of discipline, and lack of national honor and collective honor!
If he had agreed to participate in the Olympics, would the national Olympic team still play so badly in the Olympics? The reason why the Olympics played so badly was because Glory abandoned them, which is the reason why Glory was planted! The Chinese Football Association and the national team must not bow their heads to this kind of culprit who caused the big joke of Chinese football!
If he doesn't explain and apologize for refusing to participate in the Olympics, he will never want to enter the national team!
The supporters of both views include media reporters and ordinary fans, so the two sides quarreled and neither could convince anyone.
According to this trend, the prospect of glory entering the national team is still very slim.
Sun Hai was called up to the team this time and went back to participate in the national team competition.
A player who can't even play the main team in Manchester City can continue to be the main player in the national team, but in the absolute core of Manchester City, this is actually the most expensive and highest-paid player, but he can't even enter the door of the national team...... Some netizens complained on the Internet: I have to say that the Chinese Football Association is the most powerful football association in the world, and the Chinese national team is the team with the highest threshold in the world! We can't even look down on the world's highest-paid, first-valued player!
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Rong Guang doesn't care if he wants to play in the Chinese national team, anyway, he feels that he is doing well now.
His mind is now on the club.
He was not very happy with the team's defeat to Sunderland in the previous round, and he took that out his feelings on training.
Although the team's training is not too systematic due to the absence of many first-team players, Rongguang has not relaxed his requirements for himself at all.
He believes that the team lost because he was not good enough, after all, he had not played for too long, the league had only played two rounds, his body had not recovered to its best, and he needed to find the rhythm of the game.
For this he has to train more, and training is the only way to improve himself other than competition.
So no matter how many people in the squad have left this international break, it has nothing to do with glory.
He's just putting his head down and practicing.
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After the two international matches, Manchester City players from all over the world returned to Carrington's training base, and the once deserted training base was once lively.
But then there was bad news - the core of the midfield, Elano, was injured in the national team game, but fortunately the injury was not particularly serious, and he only needed to rest for two games.
But the problem is that the next game is Manchester City hosting Chelsea.
Chelsea are by far City's toughest opponent this season.
Chelsea are currently top of the table after three league games, winning two and drawing one in three games, scoring six goals and conceding just one, and defending brilliantly.
They also reached the Champions League final last season, losing to Manchester United on penalties.
Public opinion believes that Chelsea are now in the best morale of the post-Mourinho era, and Scolari is a world famous coach who has proven his ability, and under his leadership, Chelsea will have a more brilliant future.
At the same time, this is also a contest between the old "nouveau riche" and the new "nouveau riche".
Chelsea set a precedent for an English team to be invaded by foreign capital. Murdoch had wanted to buy Manchester United before, but in the end, it was not able to succeed due to the resistance of the majority of Manchester United fans.
England fans have always prided themselves on the fact that their teams have not been attacked by foreign capital, maintaining the purity of the game.
But this is actually self-deception. In fact, the fact that the Premier League has been able to develop so quickly has nothing to do with the fact that they are the richest league.
Football is inseparable from money, and those who shout that commercialization has corrupted football probably won't think about what football would have become without commercialization......
Without television and commercial sponsorship, modern football would never have developed so rapidly.
Not only football, but any other sport is inseparable from business.
Before the Olympics, everyone has been afraid of the huge baggage, and the cities that host the Olympics regard this as an honor.
Later, when commercial sponsorship was introduced for the Olympic Games, everyone realized that the hosting of the Olympic Games suddenly changed from a loss-making business to a money-making business.
That's how the Olympics can have the enormous impact it has today......
The same goes for football.
World Cup, Europe's top five leagues, UEFA Champions League...... The reason why these events are so widely spread and influential around the world is inseparable from television broadcasts and commercial sponsorships – to put it bluntly, money.
Money is probably the most cheesy thing in the world. But you can't do anything without money.
Why should football be kept out of "money"?
But in short, England fans managed to prevent a golden dollar invasion of football in Murdoch's takeover of Manchester United.
But they're just delaying the trend a little bit......
After entering the new century, the time has come.
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich has chosen Chelsea between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea to enter English football strongly.
The arrival of the Russian predator shocked the whole of European football at the time, and that summer there were two things that were being discussed, one was David Beckham's move to Real Madrid, and the other was the change of ownership of Chelsea.
Chelsea then developed rapidly by breaking the rules of the market.
Not only did they buy their favourite players from all over the UK and across Europe, but they also poached Kenyon, the chief executive of rival Manchester United. Later, the young madman Jose Mourinho was hired as the team's manager, and Chelsea was in the limelight at that time.
Winning the Premier League title for consecutive seasons broke the situation of Manchester United and Arsenal competing for supremacy.
Jose Mourinho left his side at the start of last season due to poor results in the Champions League, and the team's director of football at the time, Grant was acting manager, only to lead the underdog Chelsea to the Champions League final, eventually losing to Manchester United on penalties.
But fewer and fewer people are still referring to Chelsea as 'nouveau riche'.
You must know that when Roman Abramovich first took charge of Chelsea, the word had almost become synonymous with Chelsea.
Just when Chelsea are becoming less and less like the nouveau riche, Manchester City are coming.
The Blues took over from Chelsea and became the new upstart.
Public opinion treats Manchester City the way they used to treat Chelsea, no different than they did five years ago.
But why is Chelsea no longer the 'nouveau riche' and being compared to many of the big clubs?
Because they won the championship.
Jose Mourinho arrived at Chelsea in the summer of '04 and helped Chelsea win two Premier League titles, an FA Cup, two League Cups and a Champions League semi-final. It is these achievements that have made Chelsea fade from the color of "nouveau riche" in the eyes of public opinion, and become a "quasi-giant".
Chelsea's today is actually the tomorrow that Manchester City can look forward to, and it is what Manchester City strives for.
However, many people think that Manchester City will have a hard time becoming the Chelsea they are today.
After all, before being bought by Roman Abramovich, Chelsea were already a powerhouse in the Premier League, and they have long played the role of a big killer spoiler in the league, and Ruud Ruud Gullit's Chelsea have also won the League Cup.
Manchester City are far worse than them.
And after Abramovich took over, even Ranieri, the much-criticized manager, helped the team reach the Champions League semifinals. In terms of managership, Chelsea were definitely much better than Mark Hughes......
How can such a Manchester City become the future of Chelsea?