King's Landing Nottingham

Chapter 284 The First Battle of the Premier League

Chapter 284 The First Battle of the Premier League

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, Notts County's first Premier League game was approaching. The whole Magpies went away to face their old rival Blackburn.

After the millennium, the two teams never had the chance to meet in the league again.However, the two sides' impressions of each other seem to be still in yesterday's general.

Blackburn, the full name of Blackburn Rovers Football Club, is a professional football club located in Blackburn, Lancashire.

They were founded in [-] and were also founding members of the Football League.They won the runner-up of the League One in the [-]-[-] season and successfully promoted to the Premier League.

Although the team's overall strength is not strong, it has accumulated several years of experience in the Premier League.Moreover, due to the excellent performance of the players last season, they finally ranked sixth in the Premier League. This team also played in the UEFA Cup this season.

So, for Notts County, Blackburn is a good touchstone.

The word Rangers is used in the names of many clubs in the UK, including Glasgow Rangers in Scotland, Blackburn Rangers in England and Wollhampton Rangers, which are the Wolves we are familiar with.

Compared with Notts County's reinforcements in full swing this summer, Blackburn is not only not vigorous enough, it can even be said to have suffered heavy losses.

The team's main right midfielder, Damian Duff, joined the powerful Chelsea in London with a high transfer fee of 450 million euros;

The other two main players in the midfield, David Dunn and Martin Taylor were packaged by Birmingham, and the transfer fee of the two was close to 1000 million; Martin Andresen left the team this summer; the Turkish center Hakan Sukkur on the front line also joined the Turkish giants Galatasaray.

All the funds of more than 3000 million euros obtained from the team's transfer were also invested in the transfer market by the management.They brought in 25-year-old defensive midfielder Barry Ferguson and 32-year-old central defender Lorenzo Amoruso from Glasgow Rangers, spending nearly 300 million euros;

Of course, this Ferguson has no relationship with the Manchester United coach. Sir Alex Ferguson's son is Darren.

Millwall right-back Steven Reed, 22, also cost Blackburn €360m; Serie A Parma left-back Vladislav Gleske was brought to Ivo Park by Blackburn for €180m court;

The biggest player in the new aid should be former Liverpool defender Marcus Babel. The 31-year-old German joined Blackburn on loan, which can be regarded as a play.It is worth mentioning that this native Munich man also came from the Bayern Munich youth training and has played for the Bundesliga hegemony for many years.

According to Wei Xun's memory, after the end of this season, he returned to Germany and joined Stuttgart until he retired.

Blackburn's current coach, everyone should be familiar with it, is 50-year-old Graeme Souness.He played for Liverpool, Tottenham, Glasgow Rangers, Sampdoria and other teams in his career, and later coached Liverpool.

Someone in Wei felt that the Glasgow Rangers and Liverpool players in the team were probably recruited by his contacts in the two teams, which were cheap and easy to use.

David Prowse, the president of the official fans club, also just arrived at Blackburn on the team bus. Today, more than 800 expedition fans came. The Notts County fans club also opened a second home event, accommodating 3000 people Many fans.

The bus can't finish at one time. Fortunately, many fans came here by car, and some came by car and train. They helped the club share a lot of pressure invisibly.

Wei Xun has long discovered the unlimited business opportunities here, but he doesn't intend to make money by picking up and dropping off fans. He usually earns some advertising fees and promotes some tourism projects and peripheral products.

If you have a Notts County fan membership card, you can take the team bus to the away game for free during the away game during the service period.

In the past two years, under the leadership of Wei Xun, the Notts County Club has developed many humane measures, while Zhao Tai and Marotta are desperately trying to find ways to engage in business development and earn more money to supplement their families.

Saving money is completely useless. Wei Xun is so good at making things. In Notts County, there is only one way to increase income and reduce expenditure.

The pre-match press conference is regarded as a repertoire of the Premier League, where countless players and coaches let off harsh words like their opponents.

"Mr. Guardiola, this is the first Premier League game for you and your players. For this game, do you have the confidence to win the opponent away?"

"I'll go, is this reporter taking Souness next door as air?" Wei Xun wished to kill this reporter with his eyes.

This question seems very common, but it is digging a hole for Guardiola.If you say it's all right and you're confident you can take it, then Souness will lose face. You, Notts County, look down on people!
The Notts County club has always been courteous and courteous. Except for some annoying people who are holding on to Notts County, after two seasons, there are really few players or club coaches and owners who say that Notts County is not good. .

This time, it is no exception.

As a newly promoted player who has just entered the Premier League, it is better not to make too many enemies, which is not conducive to future cooperation with Premier League teams, whether it is commercial or competitive.

"Blackburn has been in the Premier League for two years. They have also reached the UEFA Cup this season, and they achieved it by virtue of their performance in the Premier League. Mr. Souness leads a very good team. We will Do our best to be ourselves."

Neither humble nor overbearing, neither arrogant nor impatient, and his posture is very low, so that the opponent can't find faults at all. The effect of these words can be seen from the smile on Mr. Souness's face.

Pep Guardiola's praise hit the mark, leading the team to No.6 in the Premier League and successfully entering the intercontinental arena. This is something Souness is proud of.

Under the joint strangling of Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and other powerful teams, Blackburn, which got sixth, has done its best.

The same question was thrown to Souness, and his answer was similar to that of the Notts County manager:
"Thank you, Notts County is an enviable team. They have won the League Two and League One championships in a row, and they have been promoted to the third level in two years. It is really difficult. I believe they are the most powerful team in the Premier League this year. Spoiler!
Regarding this game, I think you all know that it is a pity that we lost Duff this summer, which has a great impact on our offense.In the first game of the new season, everyone may still need to get used to it. I hope that the players from both sides can dedicate a wonderful game to the fans at the scene..."

Souness, as expected to be the coach who later coached Liverpool, spoke like superficial words to the end, praised Notts County as a spoiler, and attracted a lot of unnecessary firepower for Notts County.

This difficult season may have started from this first game.

(End of this chapter)