champion light

Chapter 785 The new season is about to start

No one understood why Berbatov suddenly had a 180-degree change in attitude, and not only said so to the media, but also his mental state during training was completely different from the first day.

A reporter took pictures of his focused and happy application during training.

Some reporters saw Berbatov take the initiative to talk to Rong Guang in German during the training break.

Rong Guang also knew Berbatov. Although he didn't have a deep impression of Berbatov, he knew him anyway. Anyway, the two had played against each other in the Bundesliga for three seasons, a total of six times.

Mark Hughes was also happy that Berbatov had a close relationship with Rongguang.

The media believed that Manchester City's buying of Berbatov was a completely amateurish act, just because Manchester United wanted it, so they grabbed it, and actually didn't consider whether the team needed it at all.

But in fact Berbatov was bought because Mark Hughes wanted Berbatov.

He believes that Berbatov's foot skills are exquisite and can be a very good offensive tactical fulcrum in front.

In this case, more scoring opportunities can be created for Rongguang.

This is a bit similar to the combination of Lucas Sutton and Rong Guang at Bayern Munich.

Mark Hughes intends to copy Bayern Munich's set of tactics.

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

But Mark Hughes couldn't care less about that 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 and has never faced a complicated locker room situation. The locker room of a team like Manchester City is very complicated, and everyone is not optimistic about his coaching prospects in this team.Whether his coaching level can allow him to withstand the huge performance pressure is hard to say.

Manchester City spent crazy money this summer, and the investment needs to be returned in return.

What if the grades are not satisfactory?
The head coach will be dismissed immediately as a scapegoat.

So Mark Hughes has very urgent requirements for the results.

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

The only pity is that Berbatov came too late.

Manchester United has not switched to Klose before, which has made Manchester City unable to win him for a long time.

It is too late to start practicing new tactics now, and Mark Hughes has no choice but to slowly adjust his tactics after the start of the league.

Now we can only briefly arrange the role of Berbatov-score if he can score, and pass the football to Rongguang if he can't score, and create more scoring opportunities for Rongguang.

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

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

After 10 and 1 minutes of the game, with the goal of new aid Nasri, Arsenal beat West Bromwich Albion 0-[-] at home, making a good start to the new season.

After the opening game ended, the first round of the Premier League also started in full swing.

在这一天进行的比赛中，赫尔城2：1击败富勒姆；米德尔斯堡主场2：1击败了失去贝尔巴托夫的托特纳姆热刺；博尔顿主场3：1击败斯托克城；西汉姆主场2：1战胜维冈；埃弗顿主场2：3不敌布莱克本，终结了本轮联赛主队都获胜的规律。

Sunderland also lost 0:1 at home to Liverpool.

There are three remaining league matches to be played tomorrow.

The whole of England, no, maybe it should be said that the whole of Europe is paying attention to tomorrow's league game.That is Manchester City's away game against Aston Villa!

For this game, judging from the news at the pre-match press conference, Rong Guang was included in the starting list as expected.

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

Rong Guang is a bit unfamiliar with football, which is clearly reflected in the confrontation. His dribbling is not as smooth and sharp as before the injury.

This provides strong evidence for the prevailing view.

That is, it is difficult for Rongguang to return to his original state. After being injured, his control over his body and football is not as good as before...

However, Mark Hughes repeatedly stated in an interview that this is a warm-up match. The purpose of the warm-up match is to find glory for Rongguang, so it is normal for Rongguang to perform poorly.

"... After all, he hasn't touched the ball for seven months. I have enough patience. Even if it takes half a season for him to find his status, I can wait."

These remarks were ridiculed by the media at the time, saying that Rong Guang has never been able to find his status in this life, so are you waiting?You are willing to wait, but the Manchester City boss is not willing to wait.

Now, in the first round of the league, Rong Guang started again.Well, now this is not a warm-up match, is it?This is the official league!Let's take a look at his performance in the official game again!

The intensity of confrontation in the warm-up match is completely different from that of the official league. Rongguang's performance is not particularly bright and outstanding. When it comes to the official game, do you expect him to perform better?
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Before the game, Aston Villa captain Gareth Barry also challenged Rongguang.

"The media has been discussing Rong all summer, discussing his worth, his annual salary, and his status. I think it's time to give up the space, and it's time to end the debate. I know Rong was a very good player, but the Bundesliga and the Premier League are two completely different worlds. I will greet him in the way of the Premier League!"

These words are not polite, and the smell of gunpowder is very strong.

But no one criticized Barry, in England, such spats are commonplace.

And the fans of Aston Villa are still applauding Barry's approach. They think that Barry, as the captain of Aston Villa, has the courage to accept the challenge when facing a seemingly formidable opponent like Manchester City, which is a symbol of courage.

The more you face a strong enemy, the more you must dare to challenge!
And is Rong Guang considered a strong enemy?

At least it seems to count.

The social status 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 had plans of his own.

This summer, Barry, who has been in Aston Villa for 11 years, is tired of continuing to stay in the middle and lower teams. He hopes to go to a bigger team to pursue championships and honors.This may be because after he was able to play the main force in the England national team, his ambition and desire for honor quickly expanded.

Liverpool are indeed interested in Barry's performance.They hope to take the main midfielder of the England national team away from Aston Villa.

Barry naturally hopes to attract more giants through his outstanding performance in the game, and to increase Liverpool's price, so that Aston Villa is willing to sell him.

If he can defend Rong Guang in the game...wouldn't such hopes be greatly increased?

The Chinese fans were very dissatisfied with Barry's clamor, and they scolded all [-] generations of Barry's ancestors online.

But it's meaningless, people can't hear or see it.

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

In the end, after arduous negotiations between the two parties, Tiansheng agreed to resell the broadcasting rights to CCTV, and at the same time they also retained the broadcasting rights themselves. In this way, the Premier League games became two simultaneous live broadcasts in mainland China, but... Tiansheng's coverage is too small, mainly concentrated in Guangdong, so there is actually no conflict with each other.

If Tiansheng hadn't lost too much money, they would never agree to let CCTV take a share of the pie.

Although they are also very clear that allowing CCTV to broadcast the Premier League is absolutely tantamount to leading a wolf into the house.

But the current situation is that if the broadcast rights are not resold, Tiansheng may be dead before the wolf enters the house...

Chinese fans are used to watching free live broadcasts, and they are very disgusted and resistant to the pay-to-watch mode introduced by Tiansheng. In addition, Tiansheng’s signal system is self-contained, and it does not rely on Zhongshu Media or the sales channels of local cable network companies.Until now, in big cities like Shanghai and Wuhan, Tiansheng European Football Channel has not been able to land.

It also makes them miserable.

At the beginning, Tiansheng paid a sky-high price to buy the Premier League broadcast rights in mainland China, and originally dreamed that he could make a lot of money by relying on 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.

But until the start of the new league season three days ago, Tiansheng's terminal sales performance is also very unsatisfactory.

In the past two seasons, Tiansheng's bad influence in the hearts of fans has been hard to recover. Chinese fans would rather not watch Glory's game, but also fight against Tiansheng and fall to the ground.In addition, the Internet live broadcast is so developed now, many live broadcast software can see the signal of foreign TV stations, the big deal is not to listen to the commentary, just watch the live broadcast of foreign TV stations on the Internet...

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 mainland China.The Premier League ignored CCTV at the beginning, hoping that the promise Tiansheng made to them could be fulfilled.

As a result, it now seems that Tiansheng is a teammate like a pig, and there is no way to turn the situation around. His reputation in mainland China 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 go 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 has a very wide coverage, covering almost the entire mainland of China.This is what the Premier League needs, so the balance began to tilt towards CCTV.

In this way, in desperation, Tiansheng could only resell the broadcasting rights to CCTV. The asking price was not low, which made up for some losses...

In this way, fans in mainland China don't need to go online to find live broadcast software, and don't need to pay to watch Tiansheng's broadcast. They can directly watch the live broadcast of Rongguang's game on the CCTV sports channel!

The domestic media predicts that the domestic audience will set a record for the first league game!
(End of this chapter)