Manchester City finally defeated Chelsea 2-0 at Wembley Stadium with goals from Suarez and Gareth Bale.
This battle allowed Manchester City to win their third championship trophy this season.
There is only one Champions League left between the four crowns ordered by Gao Shen.
That was the battle at the Allianz Arena in Munich on May 19th.
When Manchester City won the FA Cup from London and marched back to Manchester, loyal Manchester City fans followed closely behind them. As a result, vehicles with Manchester City flags could be seen everywhere on the highway.
This is a declaration!
A statement to the whole of British football.
Let everyone know that Manchester City is a well-deserved champion!
After arriving in Manchester, the team went straight to the Carrington training base. Only the head coach Gao Shen, captain Kompany and vice-captain Rakitic went to the Intihad Stadium, under the guidance of Mubarak and Gary Cook.
Accompanied by the team, the FA Cup winner will be sent to the club's honor room.
Before Gao Shen coached Manchester City, Manchester City's honor room was quite empty, but in just three years, it has begun to look a bit small.
Especially the conspicuous booths where the Premier League champions and Champions League champions are placed are already full.
"It seems that when we expand the new stadium, we need to expand the honor room as well." Mubarak said with a smile.
Gao Shen and others all agreed and nodded.
Manchester City's prospects are gratifying, because Mansour has not slackened off because of the success of the past three years. He will continue to invest, especially in the training base diagonally opposite the Intihad Stadium, as well as the new
Stadium renovation and expansion.
As Ferguson said, commercial income and broadcast rights income will fluctuate with the ups and downs of results, but match day income is a very stable and predictable income.
Even, if necessary, you can use the game day income to get a mortgage loan from the bank.
Not only that, local fans also attach great importance to the investment in the team's infrastructure by the club owners.
Investors are smart and fans are not stupid either.
Infrastructure investment is a long-term transaction, and the effect is not easy to see, but it can better reflect the investor's determination to run the club in the long term.
Even many fans' criteria for evaluating whether an investor is good or bad is very simple: Are you willing to build a training base and a new stadium for the team?
Abramovich was accepted by Chelsea that year, in large part because he planned to build the Cobham training base.
And before that?
Everyone knows that Chelsea let a superstar like Mark Veron train on a waste grass field in a warehouse district, which was ridiculed by fans around the world.
But it also reflects the poor infrastructure of the English team.
Manchester City's new stadium expansion plan has been put on the agenda, and construction of a training base has begun. The training base is expected to invest more than 100 million pounds, half of which is used to build a home stadium for the youth team.
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"Guardiola turned us down."
After finishing all the work, Mubarak invited Gao Shen to his office.
After receiving the call from Gao Shen, Mubarak knew that he had received permission, so he immediately contacted Guardiola's agent through Gary Cook and Marwood. At the same time, he also flew to Barcelona in person to talk to Guardiola.
La secretly met.
But unfortunately, the result of the meeting was not very satisfactory.
Gao Shen was not surprised, because for the time being, the team that took over Gao Shen was just like the team that took over from Ferguson, it was a hot potato.
Guardiola doesn't need to worry about not finding a new job now, so why would he want to take over this class?
If he has this time, he might as well go to coach other teams and win a few championships along the way. When Manchester City goes downhill, he can come and take over. Wouldn't that be nice?
Without Gao Shen, would Manchester City still be as prosperous as they are now?
The lineup is very strong, but besides Gao Shen, who can control such a lineup?
Even if Gao Shen took over midway, he probably wouldn't be able to stop yelling, right?
Gao Shen's biggest advantage is that these players were all trained and discovered by him, or returned to the top with his help and transformation, so they all obey Gao Shen.
Can someone else try it?
This is Manchester City's next biggest hidden danger.
Sometimes, there are too many stars, which is not necessarily a good thing.
The Manchester City management is also very aware of this, so they consider a lot when looking for a head coach.
For example, the style of football should be similar. After all, this advanced offensive football has been implemented in Manchester City for three seasons. If it were replaced by a strong head coach like Mourinho, it would probably be too much.
Also, you need to be able to maintain good relationships with the big-name players in the locker room.
At the same time, he must be someone who can lead the team to a championship.
To meet these three conditions at the same time, to be honest, looking at European football, there are very few.
Many people think that Manchester City is good enough for Gao Shen, but they have not seen the importance of Gao Shen to Manchester City.
Perhaps it is not as profound as Ferguson's impact on Manchester United, but Gao Shen's short three years will definitely become the most significant event in the history of Manchester City, the Premier League, and even the Champions League.
Manchester City considered many people, such as Carlo Ancelotti, but he is now coaching Paris Saint-Germain.
There is also Pellegrini from Malaga in La Liga, but when he led Real Madrid, he failed to win the championship, and his relationship with big names is also a bit uneasy. For example, when he was at Villarreal, he was with Riquel.
Mei's relationship.
Some people even proposed Leeds United head coach Maurizio Sarri, and the reasons are very good.
Sarri has been an assistant coach at Manchester City for two years. He has a good relationship with the players and is very familiar with Manchester City. He has also been Gao Shen's deputy for three years. No one is more suitable to take over Gao Shen's class than Sarri. What's more important is that
, Sarri’s current coaching performance at Leeds United is very good, and it can be seen that his technical and tactical level is also very strong.
Under such circumstances, it seems acceptable to let Sarri take over from Gao Shen.
But Sarri's biggest problem is his somewhat stubborn character and his lack of qualifications.
Don't underestimate this.
The same word has completely different weight depending on whose mouth it comes from; and the same thing has completely different effects when done by different people.
To paraphrase a joke told by many people in Gao Shen’s previous life: if a billionaire and a beggar wear the same ripped shoes, everyone will think that the billionaire is wearing an alternative new model launched by a certain luxury brand, full of personality.
As for the beggar's pair, he picked them up from an unknown trash can.
That's the difference!
The most realistic one is Chelsea's former coach Villas-Boas.
His plan is right, the direction is right, and the tactics are right. Although he made mistakes in the process, if he had been replaced by a big-name head coach who could control the locker room, I believe the problem would not be Villas-Boas's.
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This is why those wealthy teams only look for famous coaches.
No one else can stop shouting!
He is about to leave. Gao Shen does not intend to put forward any more opinions on Manchester City's coaching selection. After all, this would be irresponsible to his successor, but he has put forward a lot of professional opinions on Manchester City's youth training.
Including talent selection mechanism.
But to be honest, he is still very worried, because judging from the current situation of Manchester City, they are no longer willing to continue to select and train young players.
This does not mean that Manchester City does not pay attention to youth training. On the contrary, it still attaches great importance to it, but they only want the best.
Gao Shen took advantage of Manchester City in the transfer of Adam Lallana and Courtois. This time he also took the initiative to ask Manchester City if they were willing to buy back these two players?
But Mubarak waved his hand and refused without hesitation.
"We are full of talents in these two positions. Moreover, Marwood also told me that the two of them made great progress when they were at Leeds United. Your training and competition training are very important.
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"Anyway, they have already transferred to Leeds United, and we don't have room for them here for the time being."
At the goalkeeper position, Manchester City already has a better Neuer, so why do they need Courtois?
Is it possible that he should be the one to sit on the bench?
Then there won’t be any quarrels in the locker room then?
The goalkeeper position is different from other positions. Neuer is almost always at full attendance.
Courtois will not be happy to return to Manchester City to compete with Neuer now.
Gao Shen knew it well, and he also knew it would be like this, so he dared to mention it.
"I still hope that our Manchester City can cooperate more with you Leeds United, especially in talent development." Mubarak said.
Gao Shen understood what he meant.
Leeds United is destined to take the route of talent cultivation. The subtext of Manchester City is that if Leeds United wants to sell people in the future, they should give priority to Manchester City's needs, money, and minor issues.
If nothing else, I have a lot of money. The worst I can do is dig two more barrels of oil.
"Don't worry, we will definitely have a chance, and Manchester City's youth team is very good. We can cooperate more in the future." Gao Shen said with a smile.
Gao Shen can almost conclude that after he leaves, there will be problems in Manchester City's youth training.
It's not that the youth training is not done well, it's that the youth training players are unable to get ahead.
This is not a problem only for Manchester City, but a common problem for all top giants.
Situations like Barcelona's are very special.
Many people only see Habaib and Messi, but forget one thing.
Xavi was almost sold to Barcelona that year, Iniesta was struggling in the first team and couldn't get a chance and almost went to Real Madrid. Cesc Fabregas, Pique and others all left the team.
As for Messi, he is an unparalleled talent who can stand out in any team.
In other words, the gathering of so many local youth training teams in Barcelona is inherently accidental, something that can happen but cannot be sought.
Mature wealthy teams should still focus on buying players. After all, they must maintain the strong competitiveness of the first team.
Appropriately supplemented by local and youth training players, we can jointly create a mature, stable and centripetal team.
If Barcelona is like this, Manchester City will pay more attention to buying, buying and buying.
This is almost a necessity.
As for the gems in Manchester City’s academy…
Well, Gao Shen confesses, he's got Leeds United's scouting team keeping a close eye on him.
As long as there is the slightest sign of trouble, he will take action immediately.
As for whether Manchester City wants to buy back the players after they are kicked out, that depends on Manchester City's own wishes.
