Manchester United legend

Chapter 95 Who is Wenger?

Chapter 95 Who is Wenger?

The preparations for the summer are intense and short, and the Premier League is not peaceful.The giants are not convinced that Manchester United won the double.

The Premier League is becoming more and more exciting, its operation is very successful, and its influence has gradually expanded to the European continent, which was the mainstream in the past.

Vialli, Gullit, Klinsmann and other former superstars have poured into various teams in the British Isles.

And this season, in addition to Manchester United poaching people from abroad, more teams have extended an olive branch to those stars who are still in their prime.

In the summer, the Italian striker Ravanelli, known as the "Pulsatilla", joined Middlesbrough. In November, after hard work, Chelsea completed the signing procedures for Zola to join.

The price paid by the Blues was as high as 450 million pounds. You must know that Zola was already 30 years old at the time. Italian fans believed that the former Bantam was just going to the UK to pan for gold.

However, Zola was able to choose to join Chelsea instead of staying in a small team in Serie A. Ravanelli also chose the Middlesbrough team, which was not very strong but willing to pay more.

In addition to Shearer's move to Newcastle, the sensational transfer event that summer was Vialli's move to Chelsea.

The outstanding bald shooter is the captain of Juventus and a member of the 1995-96 UEFA Champions League champion. He is very popular in Italy and is very popular with Italian fans.

However, Vialli joined Chelsea decisively after the contract renewal negotiations with Juventus failed.

Chelsea has aggressively expanded its army this summer, and the team coached by Gullit has signed a lot of Italian superstars.

In addition to Zola and Vialli, there is also a midfielder Di Matteo, who was transferred from Lazio in Serie A.

In addition to these, Gullit also signed French sweeper Frank Leboeuf.

Chelsea, which has recruited a large number of stars, has also attracted the attention of many media and fans. Everyone is expecting whether this Premier League team from London will make a difference in the new season.

There is a lot of news about the Chelsea team, while Arsenal, also in London, is brewing a big change.

The gunman's actions did not seem to be an important event at that time, and did not have enough visual impact.

But the history since then tells us that Arsenal's actions will have a great impact on Ferguson, his Manchester United, and the development of the entire Premier League.

Since then, history has proved that everyone was wrong. In October 1996, a Frenchman came to coach Arsenal in the Premier League.He is Arsène Wenger.

Wenger?Who is Wenger?
This was Ferguson's first reaction when he was interviewed by reporters. His bewildered face is also a classic expression of many Premier League coaches.

Indeed, before Wenger came to London, he was still coaching in the Japanese league.Fleet Street was already extremely surprised that Arsenal favored a French coach, and this coach is not a famous coach, only mixed in the Japanese league, which made them even more incredible.

"Arsene, who?" This was the headline on the front page of the London media in August 1996.

Back then, the name Arsene Wenger meant nothing to London.

In a sense, this is also the abbreviation of Wenger's entire football career. "I remember when Rioch was sacked, there were three or four names of future managers in the papers."

Famous Arsenal fan Horn said in an interview, "Among them are Venables, Cruyff, and finally Wenger. I thought it must be Wenger, because I had never heard of this person, and the other two names are well-known big-name coaches in Europe. I believe Arsenal will definitely choose this person we have never heard of."

At that time, Arsenal fans certainly didn't know what kind of legend this Arsene, whom they had never heard of, would bring them.

Of course, Ferguson has not really given Wenger enough attention.Ferguson has a natural sense of superiority, or he deliberately humiliated Wenger and Arsenal. "Wenger? I don't know him. Is a French coach from Japan worth knowing? Do you know what Japanese football is like?" He asked the reporter with a playful expression.

Ferguson also said, "Why did Arsenal hire a coach from a Japanese club? I have to ask about this. Has the wine in my house been stolen by the directors of the Arsenal club?"

He was satirizing whether the directors of Arsenal had drunk enough to make such a muddled decision.

As for the media saying that Wenger can speak five languages ​​and is rich in knowledge, Ferguson is even more dismissive. "My sheepdog can also speak five languages. What is there to show off in football?"

Yes, everyone is skeptical and laughing at the Arsenal club.Favoring a coach who has almost never achieved good results in European clubs, inviting a foreign monk thousands of kilometers away, a head coach from a backward Asian football, and a weak Japanese league, how did the Arsenal directors make a decision?
Wenger is 47 years old, not much different from the age when Ferguson came to Manchester United.But when he came to London, Ferguson had been at Manchester United for almost 10 years.

People in the football circle make fun of Wenger's experience in coaching Japan without winning the championship, but in fact Wenger has already won the Ligue [-] championship in his coaching career-he is not a rookie.

As for the "Professor" nickname that the media has emphasized, Wenger is indeed worthy of this title. He has a degree in economics from the University of Strasbourg, an honorary doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire, can speak 5 languages, and is familiar with sports psychology. This is where his confidence lies.

Unlike those coaches who have never received a formal university degree in their entire lives, Wenger is brilliant in this regard.

Of course, after he came to London, from the first moment of the press conference, Wenger's unchanging elegant demeanor quickly attracted everyone's attention. Of course, the attention at that time was actually more suspicion and ridicule.

Only after Wenger really surprised everyone and took away the Premier League title from Manchester United and Ferguson, did everyone really pay attention to this gentle head coach.

And Wenger's elegance has become one of his labels in English football.His personable performance has also become a unique landscape on the Premier League football field.

Another news accompanying Wenger's coaching Arsenal also had a sensational effect at the time, that is, the famous Dutch striker Bergkamp joined Arsenal this summer for 750 million pounds and became a new Gunner.Bergkamp was unhappy at Inter Milan. Bergkamp, ​​who was not used to the Italian media and daily life, announced his preference for Arsenal early on.

People praise Wenger for his outstanding knowledge and strong academic qualifications. The light of the degree in economics from the University of Strasbourg and the honorary doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire can still brighten the eyes of us silly titanium alloy dogs.

However, compared with Wenger, Ferguson is not bad.Although most of the 8 academic caps on Ferguson's head are honorary degrees, this still represents the recognition and respect of Ferguson by institutions of higher learning.

In 1996, Ferguson won his first degree at the University of Salford.

Just a year later, Robert Gordon University awarded Manchester United manager Ferguson his degree at the Aberdeen Music Hall.

In fact, for the city of Aberdeen, Ferguson has a special meaning.

It was Ferguson who brought the city of Aberdeen unparalleled glory in the field of sports. Ferguson led Aberdeen to three league titles and four Scottish Cup titles.

Especially in the European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1983, Ferguson's team defeated the powerful Real Madrid 2-1, which gave Aberdeen fans and citizens of the whole city unparalleled pride.

(End of this chapter)

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