King's Landing Nottingham

Chapter 259

Chapter 259
Notts County people want to familiarize themselves with the combat styles of various league teams through the pre-season warm-up match, and the team that sent the invitation, more or less has the same idea, trying to establish contact with Notts County.

This is a new team in the Premier League with no pretensions of a wealthy family, but with super strength.

Just two days later, there was a pile of fax papers on Marotta's desk, all of which invited Notts County to play a warm-up match with them. They came to Notts County's base, or Notts County went to their base Either way, if Notts County goes to the away game, they also promise to guarantee the board and lodging expenses of Notts County players and coaches.

Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue [-], Eredivisie, Russian Super League, and even Belgium and Romania have teams sending invitations for warm-up matches.

At this time, Wei Xun had already finished his vacation. Marotta simply pushed this question to Wei Xun and Guardiola. After all, the purpose of the warm-up match is very clear. If you choose a few opponents at will If Wei Xun or Guardiola are not satisfied at that time, it will not be conducive to the unity of the team management.

Besides, old friends from Notts County, such as Northampton, Sutton United, Racing Santander, Porto, etc., may also have the task of a warm-up match. Getafe and Botha acquired by the Magpie Group Fogo, you have to take care of the unevenness. If you finish playing, Notts County's pre-season warm-up may not be called a warm-up.

"Wei, Josep, you guys have helped me make up my mind on this matter anyway, there are too many teams for us to choose from, so I would like to refer to you as to which teams we agree to invite. and Josep's advice."

"Ok?"

Wei Xun was adding ice to his lemonade. He watched Marotta come in with Guardiola in his hands. He made two more glasses and gave them to them. It was too hot for them to think about problems.

How anxious Marotta is, you can tell from the expression on his face after he entered the door. His face was sweating, and he still sucked a little dust. up.

"Don't worry, Giuseppe, drink your saliva first, how many clubs have sent us invitations now?"

Marotta took the water glass, shook the fax slip in his hand, and smiled wryly, "The exact number is 27, all of which are top league teams from various countries, and there are teams from Russia and Romania as far away as possible. Ci County is not what it used to be, to use that word you often use, it's a shotgun change, isn't it?"

"Giuseppe, your words are outdated, Wei just used a new word!"

"New word?" Marotta looked at Guardiola with some doubts. It is probably another obscure Chinese word. He has already bought the latest version of "Xinhua Dictionary" and "Chinese-English Translation Dictionary". I often go to the language class at the base to learn Chinese, but I still can’t keep up with the speed of chatting with Wei Xun and Zhao Tai. The number of Chinese people in the base is gradually increasing. They can speak Chinese, and it will be convenient to communicate in the future. I can’t take it with me everywhere. Do you want to translate?
Some staff members are older than me. If they are asked to learn English, it is better to learn more Chinese.

"What word, let's listen to it, maybe it's something I learned recently?"

"Haha, Giuseppe, I admire your perseverance so much. I don't want to learn Chinese anymore. It's too difficult. The same characters have different pronunciations; the same pronunciations have different characters; there are many different meanings. , It’s like a brain teaser, it’s too brain-intensive!”

"Stop, stop, hurry up and tell me which word it is, and then let's quickly settle the warm-up match, we don't have much time left..."

"Look, Wei, Giuseppe is so anxious." Guardiola pointed to Marotta, took a sip of lemonade, and handed the note that Wei Xun wrote to himself at the Notts County language tuition class yesterday. I gave it to Marotta, with three Chinese characters on it:

"Baby Xiang?"

"Pfft...", when Wei Xun heard the pronunciation, the water that had just reached his mouth sprayed out, soaking his clothes. Fortunately, the water hadn't entered his throat, otherwise he would definitely be choked of.

"Sweet and sweet! It's the first time, come on, read to me, wash the clothes, smell, wave, sweet, sweet!"

"Flying pastry!"

"Come again, sweet pastry!"

"Sweet pastry!"

"Hey, that's right! This thing is actually a berry, but it's usually used to describe people or things that are very popular, very popular, and very popular. Our Notts County is currently very popular, haha!"

This is just an episode. Marotta feels that he has learned a new Chinese word, and he can show it off to his children when he goes back. His daughter must have never heard of this word, and he does not believe it. Notts County Daughter has been taught this word in middle school, maybe in the future, but probably not yet.

"Although there are so many participating teams in the UEFA Cup, we may encounter any kind of opponent, but I think it is better for us to find more teams from the mainstream leagues to warm up. After all, there are teams in the Russian and Romanian leagues. It may happen, but the gap between them and Notts County is still quite big. I suggest that we look for teams from the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Serie A to warm up. The teams that play are better than those of France!"

All joking aside, Marotta's suggestion is really to the point.But in fact, this season's UEFA Cup, all the way to the end, there is Ligue [-] Marseille...

"Yes, Wei, I agree with Giuseppe. This year we have brought in three players who have performed well in Ligue [-]. We also have a lot of video games of Ligue [-] teams. Apart from Marseille and Lyon, other teams have The strength is indeed not top-notch in Europe."

"Okay, what do you think of the two teams, Munich [-] and Everton?"

Marotta thought about it and found it a bit strange that these two teams did not invite Notts County for the warm-up match. Moreover, the strength of these two teams in the Bundesliga and Premier League is not outstanding. If you warm up with them If so, they should belong to the type of opponents looking for self-confidence and practicing routines. He didn't know why Wei Xun asked these two teams to warm up.

Guardiola, who was sitting on the side, was also very puzzled, "Wei, why these two teams?"

"Ha, because these two teams have Chinese national footballers. If Everton can't do it, what about Manchester City? Manchester City also has Chinese national footballers. Last time my country came. I hope we can have a friendly match with the national team. I I figured Josep that you would definitely not agree to handing over the ball, so I refused, but I have to give him a step down. During the warm-up match, get Huang Miao up and play for a few minutes, as a gimmick for the Chinese derby , everyone is doing well."

After hearing Wei Xun's explanation, Guardiola smiled knowingly, and this time it was Marotta's turn to ask:
"Wei, it's not just about face, is it? You have a thick skin, you care about their face? I guess you are thinking about developing the Chinese or Asian market? How much money can you make conservatively?"

For a club general manager, nothing can stimulate his interest more than generating income.

"A conservative estimate is that the number of viewers of a game must be tens to millions. In the future, if computers become popular and network transmission speeds up, this number will only be in the tens of millions. So, we have to plan ahead! "

"Be good!"

Let alone tens of millions, the number of tens of millions is already astronomical in the eyes of Marotta and Guardiola.They know that China has a large population, but they did not expect that there are so many people who pay attention to football, but why are there so many people, but their football level has not been improved?
The three of them didn't waste too much time on this topic. After all, they couldn't decide on matters thousands of kilometers away. Let's take care of the three-acre land in Notts County first.

But both Marotta and Guardiola realized that China is actually a sweet pastry!

When Guardiola was sketching out his opponents for the warm-up match, Marotta was also at Wei Xun's desk, drafting invitations for the warm-up match between Munich [-] and Everton. Manchester City didn't need to send out the invitations, and the relationship between the two teams was good. , someone has already sent an invitation.

In the end, Guardiola finalized four internal teaching matches against Sutton United, Getafe, Northampton, and Racing Santander. This took care of everything that could be taken care of.As for Botafogo, Brazil's league system is out of touch with Europe, and Wei Xun didn't expect them to come to the UK to warm up. Let's play well for this year's Brazilian second division.

Other opponents include Manchester City, Everton and Munich [-], as well as Russia's CSKA Moscow. After the warm-up match against Manchester City, Notts County will directly rest in Manchester to prepare for the Community Shield against Manchester United. That was the first game of the new season.

PS: Brothers, shamelessly ask for a recommendation ticket.It's really embarrassing to ask for a monthly pass...

(End of this chapter)