Chapter 280 New Season

Sun Jihai's agent had called Sheffield United's agent and said that he would start negotiations, but at this time, he received a call from Sun Jihai.

"Brother Hong, the negotiations with Sheffield United have ended." Sun Jihai said.

"Why?" Sun Jihai's agent Hong Tao asked in surprise, "In Jihai, among these teams, Sheffield United's conditions are the most suitable. Besides, they are also inclined to introduce Chinese players after all."

"I received a call from Mr. Cook today, and he asked me if I would like to continue to play for the team?" Sun Jihai said, and he was also a little excited. Anyway, he is very emotional about Manchester City.

"Cook?" Hong Tao was stunned, "Mr. Cook, the general manager of Manchester City Club?"

"Hmm." Sun Jihai nodded.

"Why did he suddenly call you?" Hong Tao asked some strange questions.

"I don't know." Sun Jihai shook his head, "However, isn't it very good? I have feelings for Manchester City, and the team is willing to renew the contract with me. It couldn't be better."

"That's true." Sun Jihai's agent Hong Tao nodded, "Then your house in Manchester..."

"Haha, take it off the shelves from the agency. Since I'm still playing in Manchester City, I don't need to sell it." Sun Jihai said with a smile. Hearing that the club found him and renewed the contract with him, he was in a good mood.

After hanging up the agent's phone, Sun Jihai shook his head with a wry smile. One thing he didn't tell his agent was that he could guess why the club suddenly renewed the contract with him. The reason should be related to his new teammate, because General Manager Cook said that he hoped that Sun Jihai could help Zhang Yang integrate into the team as soon as possible.

Sun Jihai didn't know whether it was because Zhang Yang spoke to the club for him, or whether it was just that the club did mean it, but he knew that he had inherited Zhang Yang's favor this time.

For Zhang Yang, Sun Jihai admires his compatriot. He is one of the earliest Chinese players to study abroad. He knows that it is not easy to play abroad. However, it is this Zhang Yang who can create such a reputation in football and has become the best scorer in today's football world, and Zhang Yang's qi 50 million pounds. The value is enough to make Sun Jihai sigh for a long time.

He is really proud to have such a fellow star, but he also wants to prove to everyone that he can stay in Manchester City and contribute to the team by his own strength!

Of course, he is naturally very happy to have a compatriot in the same team with himself. As for what Cook said to help Zhang Yang integrate into the team as soon as possible, Sun Jihai is naturally duty-bound.

In fact, Manchester City suddenly decided to renew the contract with Sun Jihai, but it really had nothing to do with Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang did not speak to the club. He didn't even know that Sun Jihai had terminated his contract with Manchester City Club. Moreover, the training of the Manchester City team has not yet begun, and he has not met the whole team.

This incident happened by accident. While chatting with General Manager Cook, Manchester City Club President Alfaim said that Zhang Yang should integrate into the team as soon as possible, which is Manchester City's biggest capital in the new season. At this time, Cook suddenly said that the club seems to have a Chinese player, which is for Zhang Yang's integration into the ball. The team is helpful.

Alphaim was deeply convinced of this, but then Cook learned that Sun Jihai's contract had expired and he broke up with the club peacefully. When he learned that Sun Jihai had not signed a contract with other teams, the general manager of Manchester City called Sun Jihai directly and asked him to return to the team. The whole thing was like this. For the general manager of Manchester City Club, it was not a big deal to renew the contract with a veteran of the team.

Sun Jihai and Manchester City renewed their contract, which is just a small episode of the Manchester City team's action this summer.

While Zhang Yang was enjoying his vacation, the Manchester City club continued to call for rain in the transfer market.

Now, the front line of Manchester City is Elano and Bianchi. In the eyes of the media and fans, neither of them is unbearable. In the words of the Manchester Guardian, neither of them is strong enough to become a flamboyant front-line partner. Therefore, the English media generally believes that Manchester City must find a good partner for Zhang Yang.

In fact, Manchester City Club has also asked about Zhang Yang's opinion on this matter. He didn't say much about his partner's choice. After all, he has just come to the team, and he is still unfamiliar with this team, let alone a constructive opinion. Then again, Zhang Yang likes to partner with Ronaldo, but can he tell Manchester City to buy Ronaldo, not to mention whether Manchester City can buy Ronaldo, but Zhang Yang knows that Ronaldo will not come to Manchester City. Zhang Yang is still young and can travel around, but Ronaldo has three Twelve years old, his biggest dream now is to realize his dream of winning the Champions League. If he transfers to Manchester City, now it seems that he wants to win the Champions League in a few years.

Zhang Yang has no special requirements, so Manchester City began to look for prey in the transfer market according to its own requirements. They first stared at Manchester United's prey.

After chasing Zhang Yang's failure, Manchester United had to change its goal. Now, the whole world knows that Manchester United is chasing Berbatov. From last season's performance, we can see that the only problem with Manchester United is the lack of a good scorer on the forward line. Originally, Zhang Yang was the player that Lord Ferguer wanted the most, but when Zhang Yang went to Manchester City, Ferguson could only re-target Berbatov, and the whole world knew that Berbatov had long been "secretly" to Ferguson. Moreover, between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, it seems to have acquiesced to the transfer, but the transfer fee is still entangled. Tottenham Hotspur boss Levi may think that after Manchester United's failure to chase Zhang Yang, only Belbatov has the choice, so he is waiting for Manchester United to increase the price.

At this time, Manchester City announced its bid for Berbatov.

As a pair of sworn enemies in a city, Manchester City is willing to do anything that can make Manchester United uncomfortable. In the past, Manchester City did not have the strength to compete with Manchester United. Now that Manchester City has money, they naturally don't mind messing up Manchester United.

Ferguson's Manchester United originally offered 25 million pounds for Berbatov, which should be said to be a very good price. You know, when Tottenham Hotspur introduced Berbatov from Leverkusen, it only cost more than 10 million pounds.

It's just that the sudden mess of Manchester City made Ferguson very angry. It's about to succeed. Manchester City raised Berbatov's value to 27 million pounds with one mouth. Although it only raised two million pounds, this is also a price increase, isn't it?

Levi, the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, is an old fox. When he saw Manchester City, the 'upstart', he was naturally very happy. He didn't mind selling Berbatov to Manchester United or Manchester City. He valued which one's high bid, so Tottenham Hotspur immediately rejected Manchester United's offer. The offer of Manchester City will be considered.

Berbatov had discussed with Tottenham Hotspur Club and said that he would transfer to Manchester United. Now, as soon as he saw Levi's money, he wanted to go back and immediately jumped out for an interview. Publicly stated that "not Manchester United will go". Is Manchester City going to buy him? Wait for the next life!

At the same time, Berbatov even said publicly that Manchester City's money can only attract players who have nothing to pursue, and he will not consider Manchester City.

Well, I don't know. Is Zhang Yang shot while lying down?

At the same time, the Italian goalkeeper Buffon of Juventus, who has been chased by Manchester City, also announced that he was born as a Juventus man and died as a ghost of Juventus. He will not leave Juventus. Manchester City wants to buy him? Sorry. I won't think about it at all!

Manchester City hit a wall everywhere in the transfer market, which also made some people who were waiting to watch the bustle happy. They all said that Manchester City's money could not buy real stars. At the same time, the statement that Zhang Yang was a person who saw money and was knocked down by Manchester City's money to join Manchester City was also popular again. OK.

Berbatov finally chose Manchester United, with a transfer fee of as high as 30.75 million pounds, which was ultimately thanks to Manchester City's two price increases. Therefore, at this time, Ferguson must hate Manchester City to death. Zhang Yang was taken by Manchester City. In the matter of Berbatov's transfer, Manchester City stirred up the situation and let Manchester United pay more. Millions of pounds. Can Lord Fu not be angry?

Speaking of which, Tottenham Hotspur is really this summer. After selling Berbatov at a high price of 30.75 million pounds, they sold the team's other striker, Irish striker Roby Kean, to Liverpool for a high price of £20.3 million, and then from Moss. Kosparta spent 14 million to introduce Russian striker Pavliuchenko.

Manchester City head coach Mark. After hitting a wall with the team's signing, Hughes persuaded the club to be a little more pragmatic when signing. Not every star like Zhang Yang looked up to Manchester City.

Subsequently, Manchester City spent nine million pounds to bring in Little Wright from Chelsea. Phillips, speaking of which, when Manchester City sold this to Chelsea, it was sold at a high price of 18 million pounds. Now it is recovered and recovered at half price, which is also a profit.

Wright. Phillips spent nine million pounds on Manchester City, and he is also the second player introduced by Manchester City after publicity.

Zhang Yang and Wright have been introduced. After these two offensive players, Manchester City head coach Mark. Hughes focused on the defense. In the last round of the Premier League last season, Manchester City lost 3-8 to Aston Villa, and Manchester City's defense was weak.

Mark. Hughes stared at the Spanish defender Sabareta, and after a bargain, Manchester City finally bought the defender for 2.5 million pounds.

Subsequently, the head coach of Manchester City paid attention to Hamburg's Belgian central defender Compani, who is the demon central defender in FM. Finally, after several bargaining, Manchester City spent 1.7 million pounds to get the Belgian central defender.

After Compani, Mark. Hughes dug people from Chelsea again, and they spent five million pounds to get Chelsea central defender Ben Haym.

While buying players, Mark. Hughes is also cleaning up his team, cleaning up players who are no longer useful in his eyes or not in his plan.

Defender Korluka sold it to Tottenham Hotspur, Horsehorse, for 8.5 million pounds. Mills sold it to the Donscats for a processing price of 300,000 pounds, and goalkeeper Isaacson also gave it to Eindhoven.

Speaking of which, before Zhang Yang came, the richest man was actually on the front line.

They have a configuration of up to six or seven people at the front line, with a large number of people. However, last season, Manchester City's goals were one of the lowest teams in the Premier League.

After the introduction of Zhang Yang, Manchester City also began to perform a major operation on the team's forward line. In fact, in the eyes of the media, no player in Manchester City's forward group seems to be worthy of partnering with Zhang Yang.

So, the big purge on the forward line has also begun.

Italian striker Bianche was dealt with the Italian team of Turin at a low price; Samaras was sold for £1 million to the Celtics; Dikov's free transfer to Scott City, Belgium's Mpensa Jr. was also terminated by the team, and the former Italian international Corardi also terminated the contract with Manchester City, and the free transfer went to Italy. A's Regina team.

However, the media is not very interested in Manchester City's small fights. What they are concerned about is where is the front-line partner that Manchester City has found for Zhang Yang? Obviously, another player on the front line, Brazilian striker Elano, is not optimistic about the media.

The media's speculation continued until Zhang Yang finished his vacation and returned to Manchester.

The Premier League is an early league, so in early July, the team began to train. At this time, Euro 2008 had just ended. This time, Spain laughed to the end. With Torres's final kill, they defeated Germany and reached the top of Europe.

This also makes people look forward to Liverpool's new season. With Torres, who is in great shape in the European Cup, plus more than 20 million Premier League veteran Roby Kean, Liverpool's front line is expected. Of course, in the eyes of The Times, Manchester City's offensive ability is also highly anticipated, which depends on whether they can find a good partner for Zhang Yang.

On the first day of the team's training, the Manchester City Club held a debut meeting for the newly joined players at the Manchester Municipal Stadium in order to build momentum.

This has also aroused great interest from Manchester City fans. Of course, many of the fans are for Zhang Yang. This is the second public appearance after Zhang Yang joined the team a month ago.

Zhang Yang was the last to appear in front of him, Wright. Phillips, Compani, Benhaim, Sabaleta and other new aids have all appeared.

When Zhang Yang came out of the passage, the whole Manchester Municipal Stadium was cheering. As soon as Zhang Yang looked up, he saw the five-star red flag flying in the stands. In the background of a large blue main color, the bright five-star red flag was so conspicuous.

Seeing the Chinese flag in the stands is already a very common thing for Zhang Yang. Whether he plays in Ligue 1 Marseille or AC Milan in Serie A, every time he sees the five-star red flag in the stands, Zhang Yang has a strange excitement in his heart.

However, at this time, when he saw the five-star red flag in the stands of Manchester Municipal Stadium, he was equally excited.

He knew that his choice to join Manchester City was an incredible thing in the eyes of many people, and many people even thought that he was crazy. Many people don't understand, and many people criticize him for joining Manchester City because of money.

Zhang Yang knows that if he wants to fight back against these doubts, he must kick out a great future with his own feet!

He took a deep breath. Starting from today, Zhang Yang, your new road of conquest is officially launched!

Zhang Yang walked on the red carpet with his head held high.

The photographers around the carpet took out their cameras and kept pressing.

At the same time, the whole Manchester Municipal Stadium cheered loudly, and the broadcasters at the scene were shouting their names over and over again!

For the Manchester City team, Zhang Yang can be said to be the biggest player in the team's history!

As soon as Zhang Yang lowered his head, he saw a lot of Chinese reporters. There were also some familiar faces, who interviewed him when he played for AC Milan or Marseille. Of course, Zhong Dajun, an old acquaintance of Zhang Yang, is also among them. Zhong Dajun saw Zhang Yang looking over and waved to Zhang Yang with a smile. Zhong Dajun can be said to be Zhang Yang's loyal supporter. Recently, in China, many fans and media do not understand Zhang Yang's choice to join Manchester City. Although they are also happy that Zhang Yang has set a new record of player transfer with a value of 7 million pounds, they also think that it is a mistake for Zhang Yang to join Manchester City. Wrong choice, in this team with average strength and little fame, Zhang Yang's future is not optimistic. Many fans even asserted that if Zhang Yang can stay in Manchester City for at most one season, he will flee in a hurry, because at that time, Zhang Yang will find that Manchester City really can't show his ambitions. In this regard, Zhong Dajun has been shouting for Zhang Yang.

When Zhang Yang walked to the rostrum, Alphaim greeted him. After the two hugged, Zhang Yang stood next to him, and Alfaim stood in front of the microphone.

He is going to make a speech. Although this is not Zhang Yang's first appearance, the chairman of Manchester City Club knows what the fans like most. He doesn't mind introducing Zhang Yang to the fans again. In fact, the introduction of Zhang Yang is also his most proud thing so far as the president of Manchester City Club. Look at Manchester City's current signing, and you will know that it hasn't had much effect. However, Alfaim believes that the arrival of Zhang Yang is of epoch-making significance for Manchester City. He believes that there will definitely be heavyweight stars who can join Manchester City.

"Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests!" Alfaim said, "I'm glad that you can come to such a welcome ceremony. Welcome these new players to Manchester City, and I'm also very happy that Manchester City has welcomed these great autumn geese..." He pointed to the players next to him.

Many players were pointed out by the president of the club and held their heads high.

The reporters below for a while**: "What did he just say? Is it really a 'great player'?

"Yes, it's really a 'great player'!"

"Damn it, this evaluation is true..." A reporter shook his head and said disdainfully. Obviously, in his eyes, in addition to publicity, other Manchester City new players, whether it is Compani, Sabaleta or Ben Khaim, have nothing to do with 'Great'.

Alfaim then turned around and looked at the players, shaking hands with the new players one by one.

He finally shook hands with Zhang Yang and said to him, "Zhang, welcome to Manchester again, welcome to the Municipal Stadium, and welcome to Manchester City!"

As soon as he finished his words, there were huge cheers in the stands. The cheers are almost much higher than the sum of the cheers of the fans for the first few players.

Alfaim gave the microphone to Zhang Yang. As a player representative, Zhang Yang wants to speak.

Zhang Yang walked to the microphone with a smile on his face.

"I'm very happy to join Manchester City." Zhang Yang said it in Chinese. Those Chinese journalists were stunned at first, and then they all laughed.

They thought that Zhang Yang could use English. After all, English is the common language. Besides, this is in England. They don't think that Zhang Yang's English is not good. They know that Zhang Yang's French is good, Italian is not bad, and English is also excellent. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a real mother tongue, standard. Mandarin!

Zhang Yang didn't seem to care at all whether the English fans understood or not. He continued to say in Mandarin: "Leaving AC Milan is not an easy decision for me. There, I have a happy season. I still have a lot of plans there, and a lot of glory waiting for me to conquer."

When Zhang Yang said this, Alfaim's face changed a little. At this time, after Zhang Yang's words were translated to the fans on the scene through a live translation on the radio, the fans were also a little stunned. What's wrong with this boy?

Zhang Yang didn't seem to feel the change in the atmosphere. He continued, "However, after meeting with Mr. Alfaim, I thought about it over and over, and finally chose to come to Manchester City. I know the glorious history of this team, but in this long history, this team has not been able to get more glory that they should have gained. However, after studying the history of Manchester City, I maintain great respect for such a team with a long history, and Mr. Alfaim described it to me. I am moved by the grand blueprint of Manchester City. I know that if I can join it and create a great legend, it will be the dream of a football player all his life! So, I chose Manchester City, and I know that my teammates made the same choice as me, because we came together for the same goal, that is, for glory, keep moving forward! Go forward!"

Then Zhang Yang raised his arms and shouted, "Manchester City! Manchester City! Manchester City!"

The atmosphere of the whole audience has reached a GAOCHAO by this time!

Next, Zhang Yang and other teammates performed bumps and shots, showing their football skills to the fans.

Next is Zhang Yang and several other new players of the team, together with the club president Alfaim and the team's head coach Mark. Hughes, the club's general manager Cook, and so on took a group photo together.

Then, Zhang Yang led the new players to go around the field again and play the football they had signed for a long time to the fans in the stands.

During this period, the enthusiastic Manchester City fans in the stands have been shouting: "Zhang! Zhang! Zhang!!"

English reporters said after the game that in any case, the team's new player group debut meeting held by Manchester City Club President Alphaim seems to be good. Manchester City fans cheered a lot. Of course, many fans are rushing for publicity. They are talking about this superstar. The love is strong.

After the appearance and welcoming ceremony, Zhang Yang and his teammates stood together again. They wore Manchester City jerseys, and then held their hands together in front of the reporters' cameras and swore to the media that they would work together for Manchester City's new season!

Then, Alpha Im, chairman of Manchester City Club, led the players to the press conference hall of Manchester City Club, where Manchester City players led by Zhang Yang will have a face-to-face confrontation with the English media. Of course, Zhang Yang will definitely be the focus of media attention, even the only To the subject of the question, he must answer all kinds of strange and even deliberately difficult questions.

After Zhang Yang joined Manchester City, he disappeared from the public's sight. Therefore, the media are looking forward to his appearance this time and have long thought about all kinds of problems.

Of course, before asking questions, the first thing is to show Manchester City's jersey, which is an indispensable part of any player's public appearance after joining a new team.

Zhang Yang and others stood there like models and put on some shapes for the media to take photos.

Kkakakaka!

The flash-light is connected into one piece.

After the POSE display was finished, Zhang Yang and his teammates sat behind the table and received various questions from reporters.

The question of Chinese journalists is generally "Joining Manchester City, do you have anything to say about the future?" How does it feel to set a transfer fee record for a player's transfer in the history of football?" Among the superstars in the history of the Premier League, who do you admire the most?" What do you think of Manchester City's ranking and positioning in the new season?

These questions are easy to answer. As long as you say some formulaic words and some good things that everyone likes to hear, you can deal with them. However, the questions of English journalists are not so easy to deal with.

Many people are not satisfied with Manchester City's purchase of Zhang Yang, or Zhang Yang's joining Manchester City, so many of these reporters are sincere to smash the scene.

As soon as he came up, an English reporter asked, "You chose to leave AC Milan. Many Milan fans think that you betrayed the team, so AC Milan fans are very sad about your joining Manchester City, and some people even burned your jersey... What do you think of this?"

Zhang Yang took a look. This is a reporter from Torino Sport. He is a sworn in the Italian media. He replied, "I believe that's a very small number of AC Milan fans. The AC Milan I know are very friendly, and they will definitely understand my choice. After all, I brought a league championship to this team. In the past season, I have had a good relationship with the fans. They also know that I love them very much and transfer to leave is a very common thing for players, so I don't feel guilty, and the fans will understand me.

Zhang Yang's answer was neither humble nor arrogant, which made the Turin reporter have nothing to say. However, he still argued, "You are avoiding some fans' protest against you. They are very angry."

Zhang Yang looked at the Turin reporter coldly. "In fact, I know that I have left Milan, and you and the team you support must be very happy."

The reporter of Turin Sports changed his face and said nothing. Speaking of which, he really humiliated himself. As Zhang Yang said, Juventus should be very happy when Zhang Yang left Milan, so don't come here to make trouble.

The next question is a reporter from the Manchester Guardian. The smell of gunpowder in his question is not so strong. It should be said that it is normal to ask questions. Anyway, Zhang Yang joined Manchester City, and the Manchester media is still very happy. Well, although the Manchester Guardian will also speak for Manchester United, Yes, it can't be said to be a hardcore pro-Manchester United media, so the hostility to publicity is much less. Therefore, Zhang Yang's answer to this question is also very formulaic.

Then came the reporter of the Daily Mirror: "What made you choose to join Manchester City, Zhang?"

"I said before that I think it's more challenging to join Manchester City." Zhang Yang replied.

"Challenge?" The reporter of the Daily Mirror asked, "We all know that the current situation in Manchester City is not good." He was quite polite. It's good not to say that Manchester City is a reluctant relegation team.

"All I know is that when I come, Manchester City will become different." Zhang Yang said with a smile.