champion light

Chapter 795 Different angles
Robinho's transfer means that Manchester City's crazy transfer this summer is completely over.

Although there is still some time before the transfer deadline, Manchester City does not intend to continue to burn money.

This disappoints those who are waiting to watch the excitement in the transfer market-they also hope that Manchester City can sweep the entire European football and poach Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo...

As a result, there is only one glory that is really big enough.

Although the quality of the players introduced is not very high, Manchester City spent a lot of money.

This summer, Manchester City introduced eight players and spent a total of 770 million pounds. It is the team that is most willing to spend money in the entire European transfer market this summer.Among them, only the transfer fee of Rongguang cost 8000 million euros, [-] million pounds!
Robinho's transfer fee was £250 million.

The two most expensive players in the European transfer market this summer belong to Manchester City.

Of course, they also cleaned up many players. Joel Luka was sent to Tottenham Hotspur for 850 million pounds, Italian striker Bianchi went to Turin, and many other players were also sent away by the club.

In this way, compared with last season, Manchester City is simply two completely different teams.

Especially the core and skeleton of the team have changed.

This also caused Manchester City's tactical integration to be particularly slow.

That's why Mark Hughes had to rely on glory.

After all, it takes time to retrain tactics, which is not as fast as directly relying on Rongguang.

And Glory did not let him down, scoring four goals in two rounds of the league helped the team win two games.This strengthened Mark Hughes' idea of ​​continuing his tactics.

Rongguang's personal ability can fully cope with the Premier League.Mark Hughes thinks so.

Three days after Robinho's move to join the team, the third round of the Premier League kicked off.

They challenged "Black Cat" Sunderland away.

In this game, Robinho, who had just moved to Manchester City, started, replacing Sean Wright Phillips.

In addition, Rong Guang and Berbatov also started.

The commentator John Mortensen said that this may be the "offensive trident" that Mark Hughes intends to use in Manchester City.

If nothing else, the offensive combination of these three will be fixed.Berbatov is at the front, while Robinho and Rongguang are relatively free. They can play left, center and right, and they will constantly change positions during the game.

That's the theory, but the first appearance of this offensive trident has not been very successful...

Rongguang scored again in this game, scoring in three consecutive games and scoring five goals in three games.

Manchester City fully relied on glory, but Manchester City did not win.

Rong Guang's goal did not bring victory to Manchester City.

Although they made the most of their main force, they lost to Sunderland 1:3 in the away game.

Robinho only played 66 minutes before being replaced by Sean Wright-Phillips. Although Berbatov played the whole game, he also performed poorly. He had to score a goal in the game, otherwise Manchester City would have been able to overtake the score.

"It seems that the attacking trident still needs time to run in. Robinho forced to start the game just after completing the transfer. He was not ready, and his tacit understanding with the team was almost zero. I think if Mark Hughes let Wright Phillips continue to start, maybe this game would not have such a result..." guest commentator Alan Hansen criticized Mark Hughes.

"Maybe starting Robinho was an instruction from the top of the club?" Mortensen said.

"Ha!" Alan Hansen laughed, "Let's not forget, what did Mark Hughes say after the first game? 'Arranging him to start in the first round of the league is definitely not a risk or a gamble as some people say. I have not received any pressure from the club's top management. I am the team's head coach. I decide who to play and who not to play'..."

He imitated the accent of Mark Hughes.

Mortensen was also amused.

"It was his arrangement for Rong to play and win the game. Letting Robinho start and lose is the pressure from the top management? It's not such a good thing."

Alan Hansen has made no secret of his displeasure with Mark Hughes, which began when he took over as Manchester City manager.

This may be understood as Alan Hansen is a player who used to play for Liverpool, and Mark Hughes used to play for Manchester United-this is the most famous pair of enemies in English football...

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"We need time. Robinho has just transferred over, whether it is physical condition or the tacit understanding with the team is not up to standard..." Mark Hughes said at the post-match press conference.

A reporter asked: "Since this is the case, why did you arrange for him to start?"

"I want him to feel the atmosphere of the Premier League in advance..."

"If it's just to feel the atmosphere, I can come off the bench at the end of the game." The reporter of "Manchester Evening News" was aggressive and did not give up.

"You're right, but I can also choose to let him start to feel the atmosphere - before making this decision, I can't predict what we will encounter in the game. So it doesn't mean that my arrangement is wrong... Someone needs to be responsible for the loss. I know, I will be responsible for the failure of the team. But I want to emphasize one point - this summer, we bought eight new players, and nine players left. This Manchester City has almost nothing to do with the team of last season. Everything takes time!"

Speaking of this, even Mark Hughes, who has always been a gentleman, became angry, with a clear smell of gunpowder in his tone.

Sure enough, no reporter asked questions. Everyone just looked at him and remained silent.

Satisfied with the effect he had caused, Mark Hughes signaled the press officer to leave.

So the press officer announced the end of the post-match press conference, and Mark Hughes got up and left.

When turning around, Mark Hughes didn't see the light shining in the eyes of those reporters.If he saw it, with his experience as a star figure, he would definitely understand what these lights meant...

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Reports of the match appeared in the English media the next day.

Some media reports were fairly objective. They only reported the results and process of the game, and then criticized Mark Hughes' command in a moderate tone.

But some media don't care that much.

For the first time, criticism of Mark Hughes has been concentrated in the media.

Criticism mainly focused on his tactics, as well as on-the-spot command.

But there are also people who are complaining about Mark Hughes - at least it seems that way...

The headline in the local outlet Manchester Evening News read "Mark Hughes needs time" with a small subhead below the main headline: "On Manchester City club's amateur management"

In the following text of the report, the reporter defended Mark Hughes throughout the article, thinking that what Mark Hughes said in the post-match press conference is correct. The team has indeed changed too much this summer, and public opinion has given Mark Hughes too little time. He needs time...

Mark Hughes may think he has found a soulmate after reading this article.

But some people don't see it that way.

The same statement, if you understand it from another angle, it will be completely different from the original meaning...

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As soon as Mark Hughes went to work, he received a call from the secretary of the club chairman, informing him to go to the office to see the club chairman, Mr. Fahim.

Mark Hughes is a little weird.If Fasim wants to see him, he will contact him directly. Now he is contacting himself through his secretary in Heyang, and then let me go to his office to meet him. This is somewhat too formal...

But he still went.

As soon as he entered the office, he saw Fahim with his back turned to him, standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the training ground of the first team.

After the third round of the league, it is the turn of the national team match day. Those who have the task of the national team will leave the club early and report back to their respective national teams.

So during this period of time, the training ground of the first team will be a little deserted.

But despite this, there will still be some non-national team players staying, so the training ground will not be completely closed.

It's just that at this time, at [-]:[-] in the morning, even if it's a non-national team match day, there should be no one there.

But now, there is a figure sweating profusely there.

Fahim stared at the man for a while before saying, "Rong came half an hour earlier than usual."

After Mark Hughes entered the door, Fasim ignored him all the time, and he was left alone for a while. Now he suddenly heard such a sentence, which is quite inexplicable.

After speaking, Fasim turned around with a very...serious expression on his face.

Seeing his expression, Mark Hughes subconsciously felt that it might not be a good thing for Fasim to call him here.

"Don't you want to know why Rong came half an hour earlier than usual, Mr. Hughes?" Fasim's English was a little tongue-in-cheek, but Mark Hughes didn't dare to laugh at the man in front of him.

Fasim is very polite to Rongguang's manager, Deborah, but in the Manchester City club, he is not a nice guy...

Without waiting for Mark Hughes to answer his question, Fahim continued on his own: "This is a self-punishment. Because he didn't win, he gave himself an extra half hour to practice."

Then he motioned to Hughes to take the Manchester Evening News on the table for himself.

Mark Hughes picked it up and looked at it.

In the text, the Evening News reporter wrote: "...After the team lost to Sunderland, Mark Hughes complained that the club had bought too many players and sold too many players in the summer, causing Manchester City to become almost a brand new team... At first glance, he seemed to have put all the responsibility on the club, but after thinking about it carefully, he had to admit that what he said made sense. Manchester City was indeed too turbulent this summer. They even changed the club's owner...It is really unrealistic to buy so many players and demand immediate results. Manchester City The city is rebuilt, and rebuilding takes time... Not to mention that many players bought by Manchester City are actually duplicates, meaningless... So the team really can't blame Mark Hughes for losing the game against Sunderland... He has tried his best. It's just that he needs time, but will Manchester City give him this time?"

At first glance, Mark Hughes didn't see any problems. What the reporter said was quite objective... Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer reporters who are objective and respect the facts...

But just now, Mark Hughes became vigilant when he had such a smug mentality—Fassim specially asked his secretary to call him to his office formally, but it was definitely not for him to read an article to exonerate him...

So what's the problem?

He glanced quickly, and then his eyes stopped at the beginning of the article.

"Mark Hughes complained after the team lost to Sunderland that the club bought too many players and sold too many players in the summer, causing Manchester City to almost become a whole new team..."

He immediately understood the reason for Fasim's unsightly expression...

He raised his head, intending to explain to Fasim that he didn't mean it that way, the reporter misunderstood it.

But Fahim waved his hand: "Save the explanation for the reporter, Mr. Hughes. I think you should be very clear that the club spent so much money this summer, not to be criticized by the media."

Then, with a wave of his hand, Mark Hughes could leave.

So Mark Hughes ran over and was reprimanded, without even saying a word, he turned and left resentfully.

It's just that he didn't forget to scold this arrogant Middle Eastern guy in his heart.

The club spends so much money, and the media is not allowed to criticize?Are you because this is your dictatorship!
I do need time!
He felt that the reporter was right.

Allow yourself to accept such a huge change in the team, how could you not give time?

The English teams trust the head coach very much and will give a lot of time for the team to build according to his ideas.

Only these outsiders are so unruly!

But what I said actually made the reporter say that... It seems that I have to find out what they said about me...

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Back in the office, Mark Hughes asked people to buy a copy of all the newspapers available in the market.

Then, while the training was still starting, he first browsed through the reports about himself in these newspapers.

After reading it, he understood why Fahim was so upset.

Not only the statement of the "Manchester Evening News", other media also share this view, believing that Mark Hughes put all the responsibility for the loss on the club.

The "Manchester Evening News" was still speaking for him, while some media criticized Mark Hughes as the head coach of the team.
These criticisms were very harsh, and Mark Hughes was a little restless.

To be honest, when he said that, he did mean to complain about the club, but he felt that he was still objective in general, and he didn't express anything too radical.

Unexpectedly, even so, it was still captured by the media...

Those damn reporters!
(End of this chapter)