Chapter 002 Preparing for the New Season

Zhang Yang followed Sun Jihai into the locker room and saw that everyone stopped and looked up at him. He waved to everyone and said, "Hi, good morning, everyone."

"Good morning, Zhang."

"Good morning."

"Hi, Zhang."

Dunn, the captain of Manchester City, came up and stretched out his right hand: "Welcome, Zhang." Dunn knew that the team bought Zhang Yang as the flag of the team. One day, Zhang Yang may also wear the captain's armband. However, Dunn has no jealousy or superfluous ideas about this.

Dunn has played for Manchester City since 2000. He has been a veteran of Manchester City for eight years. He is also very affectionate to the team. Naturally, he is happy that the team can introduce a top star such as Zhang Yang. In two more seasons, he will also be a veteran in his thirties, so he doesn't care too much about the captain of Manchester City. What he hopes most now is to seize the current opportunity to achieve good results with Manchester City and play in the Premier League for more than a dozen seasons, but he has not played a Champions League game. This can It is said that Dunn's biggest regret is that his biggest dream now is to wear a Manchester City jersey and play in the Champions League!

This is Dunn's dream, and it is also the dream of many Manchester City players. They can't imagine the goal of winning the league championship, but the arrival of Zhang Yang let them see the possibility of entering the top four in the league and having the experience of the Champions League in their career.

There is a huge gap between their dreams and their ambitions. This is not to say that they are not enterprising, but that the situation is different, the strength gap is there, and what they want is naturally different.

However, in any case, the arrival of Zhang Yang gave Manchester City players motivation and some hope. Perhaps, at this beginning, hope is very small, like a flame, but one day, hope will become a torch or even a star.

"Good morning, captain." Zhang Yang responded.

Dunn shook his head with a smile: "Don't call me captain, just call me Richard." He took Zhang Yang's hand and pointed to the others, "Zhang, let me introduce you."

"Wright." Dunn pointed to Wright, a black player who was tying his shoelaces. Phillips said. The black winger quickly raised his head and smiled, showing his snow-white teeth: "Hey, Zhang, hello!"

"Hi, hello, Wright." Zhang Yang and Wright. Phillips said hello, and I could see it, Wright. Phillips is a very cheerful person.

Wright. Phillips is the only person in the team who has played against Zhang Yang before. When Zhang Yang first joined AC Milan, last summer, AC Milan and Chelsea played a friendly match at the Railway Cup in Moscow. At that time, Wright. Phillips is still at Chelsea and comes on as a substitute in the game.

"This is Elano." Dunn continued to introduce.

The Brazilian midfielder, who was tidying up his hair, stretched out his right hand and said, "Good morning, Zhang, I'm glad to be a teammate."

Zhang Yang also shook hands with Elano. He still heard about his teammate. After all, Elano is also a Brazilian international, although he is only a marginal international.

Elano is a star produced by Brazilian Santos. Unlike other Brazilian players who log in to Europe's preferred Portugal, Spain and other leagues, Elano's first stop chose Ukraine. Elano helped the Miners win the 2005 and 2006 Ukrainian League and the 2005 Ukrainian Super Cup. In the summer of 2007, Elano transferred to Manchester City in the Premier League for $8 million. In his first year at Manchester City, Elano performed well. He scored 10 goals in 38 appearances and contributed many assists for Manchester City in various competitions throughout the year, which was appreciated by the team's coach Swede Eriksson at that time.

As an all-round midfielder with both attack and defense, although the physical confrontation is not as good as the general midfielder, Elano is full of physical strength, a large defensive area, and strong catch-back ability, which is an important barrier for the Brazilian team's midfield defense. When organizing the attack, his delicate footwork and overall view than the general midfield makes him a pivot of the team's transit. It is worth mentioning that Elano's long-range shot foot, which has a prominent positioning foot, is also very fast.

In this summer, Manchester City's signings mainly focused on the front line and the guard line. There is no big move for the midfield. It can be seen that Manchester City head coach Mark. Hughes still recognizes Elano's strength for the time being.

Zhang Yang responded to Elano in Portuguese, which surprised Elano, and then he was overjoyed and began to speak Portuguese.

When he finished speaking, Zhang Yang laughed. He said to Elano in English, "I can only speak relatively simple Portuguese, which was taught by Ronnie."

This made Elano feel a little sorry to meet a new teammate who could communicate with him skillfully, but he was still very happy that a star like Zhang Yang could communicate with him in Portuguese.

This episode also caused a burst of laughter in the locker room. Everyone felt that it seemed that this super expensive guy was not difficult to get along with.

In Wright. After Phillips and Elano, Dunn introduced to Zhang Yang one by one that these people were either enthusiastic or reserved and had the same attitude towards him.

For those indifferent people, Zhang Yang didn't care. He didn't expect his arrival to get a unanimous welcome from everyone. Of course, it is not ruled out that some teammates are that kind of cold-hearted type. It's not that he hasn't met this kind of person. When he was in Marseille, Yahioi was the boy. Well, when you first came into contact, it looked cool, but after a long time, you will find that this is also a good guy to get along with.

In fact, Dunn doesn't need to introduce him. Zhang Yang may not be familiar with Manchester City's players, but Manchester City's players are familiar with Zhang Yang, who is one of the most horrible scorers in football today. The current reputation and influence seem to be only Zhang Yang's teammate Kaka in Milan and Christia next door. No Ronaldo and the Messi of Barcelona can be compared with Zhang Yang.

After a lap, except for a few stars who were allowed to return to the team a few days later because of playing the European Cup, Zhang Yang was able to face all his teammates.

When Zhang Yang analyzed the first impression of these teammates on him, everyone also had the most intuitive first impression of Zhang Yang.

In fact, before Zhang Yang came to the team, one of the long-lasting topics when the players communicated in private was to talk about Zhang Yang.

At the beginning, when it was rumored that Zhang Yang might join Manchester City, they only thought it was fake news, and they thought it was too absurd. Zhang Yang is the hottest shooter in football in the world today. How can he come to Manchester City? Although Manchester City has the capital injection and money of the Arab consortium, in football, it is not enough to attract superstars with money. Look at how hard it was when Chelsea bought people at the beginning, you can see that Manchester City's strength and reputation are not as good as Chelsea's, even worse than the influence of Chelsea at the beginning. How can Zhang Yang come to Manchester City? Moreover, at that time, it was exposed by the media and the club also publicly admitted that Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and even later Inter Milan joined in. Looking at the names of these giants, Manchester City's players would not believe that Zhang Yang would join Manchester City at all.

As for the Manchester City club at that time, it also claimed to be chasing Zhang Yang. The players all thought that this was just the hype of the club, and even some players felt that the club was not pragmatic enough. At this time, what to do to chase Zhang Yang? It should be more pragmatic, aiming at those who are not well-known, but the strength is not bad. Instead of wasting time on a powerful star, not on a superstar like Zhang Yang.

If they kill them, they won't think that Zhang Yang will join Manchester City and become their teammates.

Even later, when Zhang Yang publicly admitted that he was going to join Manchester City, some Manchester City players still did not believe it, thinking that this was either media hype, or misread Zhang Yang's meaning, or Zhang Yang was angry with the Milan club.

However, the day after Zhang Yang publicly admitted that he was going to Manchester City, he appeared in Manchester. Mr. Alphaim, the president of Manchester City Club, personally went to the airport to meet him and held a grand welcome party.

At that time, Manchester City had not started training. Many Manchester City players were shocked when they saw the report on this incident in the newspaper, TV and on the Internet. At that time, they finally believed that Zhang Yang was really going to join Manchester City!

This immediately ignited the enthusiasm of the players in Manchester City to discuss publicity. Even when some players call and say hello, they will talk a few words about Zhang Yang. There is nothing they can do. Their new teammate is really famous.

What kind of person is Zhang Yang? What does he usually like to do? What is his personality and temper? Is he really as difficult to get along with as the media said? A rerugal personality? Some Manchester City players are still more worried about their big-name new teammates getting along with each other.

This is also because there has always been a trend of black publicity in the media. Whether he is playing in Marseille or Milan, the media will always criticize Zhang Yang for pointing fingers. Zhang Yang's performance on the court is quite good. Naturally, they can't blame Zhang Yang's performance, but they will say Zhang How bad Yang's temper is, how bad his personality is, saying that Zhang Yang is a violent maniac, saying that Zhang Yang is not easy to get along with, and so on. Anyway, it's just dark.

In Marseille, Le Le Figaro was professional, and in AC Milan, Le Sport Turin was also professional.

In the Champions League last season, AC Milan met Arsenal and Manchester United. During the confrontation between the two teams, the media in London and Manchester were also very black publicity. They took out the negative reports about publicity in the newspaper Feigao and the Torino Sports. This also makes Manchester City's players not feel good about publicity.

Of course, they also know that the media is sometimes more exaggerated, but so many media are saying that someone is not good, so it is a little problem for this person more or less.

However, although today's first contact is not a deep feeling, it seems that Zhang Yang is not as difficult to get along with as the media said.