After the first round of the Premier League, there was a surge in the number of journalists in front of Manchester City's training base, and many of them wanted to film Manchester City's training in order to do something like 'Manchester City is well prepared' and 'Manchester City is training hard'.

Of course, it's better to have one or two players interviewed, and the coverage will be much richer.

But the next two days were normal training days, and the reporters outside the door could not enter the interior to shoot at all, so they could only crouch in front of the door and wait for the opportunity.

The vast majority of journalists are found in nothing.

It's quite good to have a journalist who is lucky enough to be able to say a word or two when the players arrive and leave in the morning and evening.

On the third day it was different.

There were dozens of reporters in front of the door early in the morning, all of them were generally excited and constantly talking to each other.

Wu Haibo is also one of them.

In the past two days, he has been trying to do interviews, running around to no avail, and today is the same as before, he came to the training base early, but saw many colleagues come earlier than him.

Wu Haibo was a little puzzled, so he asked about his other Chinese colleagues.

"What's going on today? So early? ”

"Don't you know? Today is the day of Manchester City's open training! ”

"Can you go in and interview? Can I do live shooting? Can you interview Wansheng? Hearing the words of his peers, Wu Haibo was also a little excited, and asked a few words in a row.

The person being questioned was a little impatient, looked at him, and said, "You just came, didn't you?" Newcomer? I still want to interview Wan Sheng, don't be kidding! ”

"Is Wansheng an interview you can interview?"

"Don't say it's you, even if the reporters of "The Sun", "The Guardian", "Manchester Sport", and even Germany's "Kicker", these big media reporters can't interview Wan Sheng, don't think about it!"

"yes, stop dreaming! We're not going to be able to! ”

"I've been here for two weeks. I just said a word to Wansheng. ”

"It's hard to even meet each other, and even if the training is open, you can only do simple shooting on the periphery!"

"I won't let you in and shoot!"

"You're going to die!"

Many people around saw a newcomer asking a question, and immediately sneered, this is their personal experience, in the Manchester City training base, there are many people who want to interview Wan Sheng, but there are only a handful of interviews, and it is really difficult to try your luck to do an interview.

Wu Haibo listened in a daze.

There was still an old reporter who came over. He explained, "Even though it's an open training, when we do interviews, we can only shoot outside the stadium, we can't go in, and at most we can only stand with the fans. It's impossible if you want to go in and shoot, and it's impossible to interview Wansheng, he won't be interviewed. ”

"But it's understandable when you think about it, after all, there are too many people interviewed. He couldn't just accept them all and just don't accept them all. If you can interview Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei and say a few words to them, thank God. Don't think about interviewing Wan Sheng. ”

Wu Haibo listened to the old reporter's explanation, and also knew that the only thing he could do was to shoot far away from the stadium. He wants to get into the impossible, and if he wants to interview players, he has to rely on luck.

Only then did he know that the rumors in the domestic media industry were true. Interviewing Wansheng is an almost impossible job.

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Today is a weekly open training, and Wansheng is also arranged according to the normal training plan.

The first round of the Premier League is over, the season has officially begun, the first two days, the whole team has done recovery training to ensure the state of the players, and now it is for specific players to do individual training, and others to do some familiarity with small routines.

The training content is not complicated, it is basically to let the players adapt to the cooperation, let the new players understand some of the team's playing routines, let the old players be more familiar, and deepen the understanding and cooperation between the players and the players.

There is nothing to say about the training process, basically the players stand in a good position and practice tactical coordination again and again.

This kind of training can be completed with the leadership of Diamares and Bergkamp.

Wan Sheng sat in the office, continued to study other tactical coordination routines, and then did some training plans and other work, and he didn't show up at the training ground at all in the morning.

In the afternoon, Wan Sheng appeared at the training ground, but only communicated with a few assistant coaches, and then disappeared, and the training ground was only trained hard by the players, Diamares, Bergkamp and others to guide, and nothing else.

As media reporters who came to cover the training, they were arranged in fixed areas on the east and south sides of the training ground, and they could only shoot in the vicinity of here.

Recently, there are just players running by, and they can take a few photos up close, but as for the tactical training on the field, because the distance is too far, they can only take a few pictures at all, and they can't even recognize who it is without zooming in on the picture.

Soon the day passed.

It wasn't until near the end of training that Wan Sheng appeared at the training ground, he asked the whole team of players to gather, and then summarized today's training, and then announced the disbandment.

All the coaches and players left, and the club staff began to ask the fans and media to leave.

Many media reporters were quite disappointed, because they didn't shoot anything valuable at all, and Wu Haibo was the same, for a whole day, he only took a picture of Sun Jihai smiling, which didn't mean anything at all.

"Looks like it's white again!" Some colleagues sighed and the discussion dispersed.

Wu Haibo also left with him.

This day's work made him feel the 'big name' of Wansheng.

In the past, Wu Haibo only thought that Wan Sheng was a celebrity, even if it was rumored by his peers that it was difficult to interview Wan Sheng, but he always thought that everyone was a compatriot, and it wouldn't be so difficult to interview, right?

But in three days, he didn't gain anything at all.

The media reporters who come to interview, there will always be dozens of people, sometimes even hundreds of people, not to mention what to do an interview, it is impossible to say a word to Wan Sheng, he can't even enter the gate of the Manchester City training base, and finally enters, he can only shoot on the periphery, which makes little sense at all.

But Wu Haibo was very unwilling.

His original job assignment was occupied, and he had to come to England with compromise. If the current work is not completed, then the bonus at the end of the year will definitely be less, his salary is not much, to support the family has to save money, and then get a little less salary, how to explain to his family at that time?

It's a livelihood issue, and we can't just give it up.

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After the disbandment of Manchester City's team, many reporters left directly.

Wu Haibo didn't leave, he returned to the front of the training base, still thinking about waiting for someone to come out. See if there's an opportunity for an interview.

There were also other Chinese reporters next to him, who saw that he was not leaving, shook their heads and persuaded, "It's useless, we have tried this trick a long time ago, Wan Sheng and those players will hardly stay." ”

"Yes, Wansheng occasionally comes out, but he never gives interviews."

"It's useless for you to stand here."

Wu Haibo just shook his head, he just wanted to try.

Others are not optimistic at all.

This is not the first time these journalists have come to Manchester City to do interviews. They also wanted to interview Wansheng and tried many methods, but they never succeeded at all.

Some media outlets have also tried to send beautiful female reporters to perform 'beauty tricks'. But the result was almost the same, Wan Sheng also turned a blind eye to the female reporter.

In the end, they couldn't be interviewed by all means, and they all gave up. So there was a saying, "If you want to interview Wansheng, it's completely impossible." ”

Wu Haibo was not moved by everyone. He still stayed in front of the gate of the training base and waited, and some of his peers saw that he did not leave and knew what he was going to do, so they happily waited to see the excitement.

After more than an hour, I saw a figure walking out of the gate of the training base.

Everyone took a closer look, it was Wansheng.

After the team disbanded, Wan Sheng returned to the office and worked for nearly an hour, seeing that it was dinner time, before packing up and leaving.

As usual, Wan Sheng walked to the gate of the training base, said hello to the security guard guarding the gate, and then glanced at the media reporters over there, and prepared to walk away directly.

At that moment, a figure approached.

Wan Sheng glanced at it, it was a Chinese reporter, and he said impatiently, "Sorry, this is private time, I don't accept interviews." "I'm going to walk away.

But as he was leaving, he glanced at the man more.

The reporter in front of him was different from others, his hair was unkempt, his beard was a little long, obviously he hadn't shaved for a few days, his face was haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, his clothes were a little sloppy, his blue T-shirt was crumpled, his jeans were white, and he knew that he was old by looking at the style and appearance.

He has a pen and paper in his hand, a camera with him, a shoulder bag in his hand, and a small suitcase at his feet.

It's a bit embarrassing.

It's not uncommon for people to look like this in some rural places, but in the cosmopolitan city of Manchester, it's surprisingly dressed like this.

Wan Sheng thought to himself, is this guy really a domestic expatriate reporter?

As an expatriate reporter, how can he also 'go abroad' for interviews, even if it is for work, people who can go abroad should have good abilities, why is this guy like this?

But Wan Sheng didn't care about it.

No matter what the other party looks like, it has nothing to do with him, just a domestic reporter, he has seen too much, and he doesn't want his private life to be disturbed by reporters.

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After Wan Sheng left, Wu Haibo had no choice, he couldn't follow and pestered the interview, which was illegal in the UK.

So he had to walk back.

Those colleagues who watched the excitement suddenly had a topic, "Look at that guy, sure enough, he was rejected!" ”

"We've all tried it many times, and it didn't work!"

"It's all said that the Chinese don't accept interviews, it's useless to do anything!"

"That's interesting! And such a reckless newcomer! ”

“……”

Listening to these words, no matter how unwilling Wu Haibo was, he could only hold back, but unlike what others thought, he was not disheartened, but strengthened his belief.

It doesn't matter if it's a setback, it's not a journalist's job to go up and do interviews.

Those paparazzi can keep an eye on them 24 hours a day, just to take valuable photos. He's got all this stuff, what does he care? If it's a big deal, just stare at it 24 hours a day, there will always be a chance!

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Wan Sheng didn't know that he was being targeted by a persistent little reporter, maybe he didn't care either, after all, there were so many people who came to interview, if he cared, he didn't have to do anything else.

Two days later, the second round of the Premier League was ushered in, and Manchester City's opponent was Arsenal.

In the summer, the most talked-about transfer came at Arsenal, but it was not brought in but sold, and the 'Henry the Great' was 'cheap' to Barcelona by Arsenal for £16 million, and in addition to the Frenchman's insistence on leaving, there may be another factor that manager Arsene Wenger did not say: he believes that the 30-year-old Henry is showing signs of decline (last season, Thierry Henry was injured and only made 22 appearances and scored 10 goals).

However, regardless of the reason, Thierry Henry's departure is a major loss for Arsenal, and the French star has contributed 20 to 30 goals a year for Arsenal in the past five years, which is not easy to fill, and psychologically, the departure of the core of the team will inevitably have an impact on his teammates.

The other departures have not detracted much from Arsenal's strength.

Reyes went out on loan last year and has long been a "supernumerary" player, and Ljungberg's move to Manchester City is more "symbolic" (a group of people in the 2003-04 unbeaten season are basically gone) than substantial, because he has been average at Arsenal, and even if he stays in the team, he can only be a substitute; Aria Diere is a fringe player who only shines in the cup, while Lupoli, Muamba, Pum and others can't play at all in the first team.

It can be said that, in addition to Thierry Henry, Arsenal purged a number of substitutes and fringe people, however, due to the lack of introductions in the same position, the media generally believed that Arsenal's squad depth had decreased.

Among the players introduced, young Polish goalkeeper Fabianski and Norwegian defender Nordved are future reserves, and it is difficult to do anything in the short term; Sagna increased the depth of the defensive line and provided the possibility for Eboue to free up the midfield, which was a multi-win deal; The biggest unknown is Da Silva, and if he can play as Arsene Wenger expects and score around 10 goals, it will go a long way in reducing the cost of Thierry Henry's departure.

Overall, it is widely believed that Arsenal has suffered some losses from last season's strength.

In the first round, although Arsenal defeated the 'farmer' Fulham 2-1, the performance of the whole team was very average, and now that they have met Manchester City, the media is more optimistic about Manchester City.

Just as the media expected.

From the first minute of the game, Manchester City's strength overpowered Arsenal and then gave City a one-goal lead thanks to Ivan Crewe's free-kick.

Arsenal stepped up defensively in the second half, but City still used a wave of counter-attacks to play at a fast pace, with Darren Bent finding an opportunity in front of goal and scoring again to open the gap.

The final score was also 2:0.

Manchester City are once again secure with a victory. (To be continued.) )