Nine Hundred and Fifty-One The Battle of Boxing Day

Before Christmas, Manchester City fans received a long-awaited gift.

That is contract renewal.

Manchester City's official website announced that the team officially renewed the contract of head coach Guardiola for a period of three years.

After coaching Manchester City in 2009, Guardiola's coaching style has been fully reflected in Manchester City. Although he performed poorly in the first season, with the joining of Sudong and the arrival of reinforcements, Guardiola's coaching style has been fully reflected. The passing and control system has been fully embodied and widely praised all over the world, and the concept is also very advanced.

It was previously revealed that Barcelona intends to invite Guardiola back to replace Mourinho. Although it was denied by Guardiola's agent brother, it still attracted the attention of the Manchester City management.

After negotiation, the two sides finally reached an agreement. Guardiola successfully renewed his contract with Manchester City with an annual salary of 15 million pounds, which made him the highest paid head coach in the world, and he will also coach in Manchester City. to 2015.

Manchester City's official website released photos of the signing of Guardiola, Soriano and Begiristan, and posted a few words from Guardiola. The Spanish head coach expressed his expectations for the prospect of coaching Manchester City.

Guardiola said that there are the best players, a united dressing room and a professional management. He believes that it is difficult for other teams in the world to reach the height of Manchester City, so he is happy to stay in Manchester City, continue to lead the team to success.

The manager of Manchester City said that he does not think Manchester City will win the Premier League. He said that the challenge of the team in the second half is still huge, but this is also the most fascinating part of the Premier League. Accepting such a challenge is full of motivation, and it will continue to encourage the main players. Coach, motivate the players, come up with better performance and form.

In the end, Guardiola thanked the management and the coaching staff, and also named Su Dong specially to express his gratitude to Su Dong, especially after Su Dong joined, he said that he had received Su Dong's strong support and support. help.

"He played a vital role in us managing the dressing room, even in a way, he was the manager of the Manchester City dressing room, and I was very moved by his support for me."

A simple sentence, but it has already revealed the relationship between Guardiola and Sudong.

The two can be said to have achieved each other, and together they have created the peak performance of Manchester City in the last two seasons.

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Coincidentally, the day after the official announcement of the renewal of Guardiola's contract, Manchester City officially announced that they had formally reached a contract renewal agreement with Su Dong, saying that Su Dong would continue to stay at Manchester City until he retired.

"We hope he can play until he is 40 years old or more. With his current physical condition and his self-discipline, we believe he can do it, and he will become a monument in the history of Manchester City and even English football. benchmark."

General Manager Soriano spoke highly of Sudong's contract renewal. He also said that with the promotion of Sudong, Manchester City's global development has made remarkable progress. He firmly believes that Manchester City will soon become the most influential in the world. sports brand.

Su Dong also accepted an interview with Manchester City's official website and expressed his gratitude for the contract renewal. He said that he was very happy at Manchester City. From the management, the coaching staff, the players, and finally the fans, everyone made him feel very comfortable. He has no reason not to stay at Manchester City.

Like Guardiola, Su Dong also reminded the team that they must not be arrogant.

"We Chinese have a saying, those who travel a hundred miles are half and ninety."

"It means that if you want to walk a hundred miles, you only have to walk halfway to ninety kilometers. The last ten kilometers are the most important and the most difficult."

Su Dong called on all Manchester City players to guard against arrogance and impatience. "Before the championship trophy is obtained, we must maintain a sense of urgency and must not be paralyzed, because our competitors are chasing after us."

Regarding his renewal of the Manchester City contract, Su Dong said that it is hard to say whether it is a lifetime contract or not. He hopes that he can contribute more to Manchester City.

But if one day in the future, Manchester City does not need him and feels that the two sides are not suitable, then he will choose to leave with dignity instead of relying on the team.

As for whether to retire or switch to another team, he has no way to say for the time being.

"Who knows what will happen in the future?"

But one thing is for sure, Manchester City will be the longest-serving team in Sudong's career.

Of course, the conditions given by Manchester City are also the most generous.

Although it has not been disclosed to the public, what is the annual salary of Su Dong's contract renewal and the signing fee, but the outside media are still speculating that after Su Dong's renewal of the contract with Manchester City, the annual salary will be increased by 50% on the original basis, and it will be after tax .

It can be said that Manchester City also made a lot of money in order to keep Su Dong.

But this is also understandable, because now Sudong is the core competitiveness of Manchester City.

Don't look at when Su Dong was there, Dzeko and Aguero all scored goals, especially Aguero, who scored quite a few goals, but in fact? When Su Dong was gone, the team was in trouble, Dzeko and Aguero both raised their hands and surrendered, and in the end, it was Su Dong to solve the battle.

Regarding this point, whether it is Manchester City fans, the outside media, or even the inside of the Manchester City locker room, it has already been concluded, so they all tacitly agreed that Su Dong should be the highest in the team, even very high. annual salary.

His strength is there, can't you accept it?

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For Manchester City's renewal of Sudong and Guardiola, whether it is the players in the locker room, the media outside, and the fans, the reactions are very positive and positive.

The Mirror said that after Manchester City completed the renewal of two core souls, the Premier League champions have basically arrived.

British media said that the importance of Sudong and Guardiola to Manchester City is self-evident, and the progress of Manchester City in the last two seasons is obvious to all. Now Manchester City is already a competitive team in Europe. East and Guardiola can help the team stabilize the morale and better meet the challenges of the second half.

The Manchester Evening News interviewed Manchester City technical director Begiristan. The latter said that after the successful renewal of Sudong and Guardiola, Manchester City's work is only the beginning, and the team will go further and renew the contracts within the team. A player with great contribution and obvious effect.

"We are a very young team, our first team even has only two or three players over 30 years old, and the oldest player in the main lineup is 28 years old, which gives us reason to believe that the team still has There is room for further improvement and we can perform better.”

Begiristan said that the management of Manchester City will further tap the potential of the team, enhance the enthusiasm of the players, and the most important thing is to maintain the stability of the team, so the scope of this contract renewal is very large, and I hope to retain this batch of players in the team. player.

And this is also seen as Manchester City's grand plan for the next few years.

With the current situation and lineup of Manchester City, if it can maintain stability, Manchester City will be the most competitive team in European football in the next few years, and may even become the strongest team in European football.

Anyone can see that the management of Manchester City is very ambitious and wants to use this opportunity to build Manchester City into the top giants in the Premier League and even European football, and rely on solid results to lay a solid foundation for Manchester City.

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The two contract renewals before Christmas are undoubtedly the best Christmas gifts, which aroused heated discussions, but made Christmas a bit dull. After all, the team had a day off and let everyone go home for reunion.

But on the morning of the next Christmas, everyone had to leave their warm and comfortable homes, go to the icy Carrington training base to report, board the team's bus, set off south, and head to the west one hundred and fifty kilometers away. Bromwich.

The town is located northwest of Birmingham, about an hour's drive from Manchester.

The game is held in the afternoon, which is also a big test for Manchester City.

No one wants to leave their family early in the morning and have to travel to an away game the day after Christmas.

What's more, everyone's mentality is very relaxed and happy after the Christmas holiday, and many people are even seriously out of the game state, which leads to the game the next day after Christmas, especially the away game, often. It will become a hotbed of unpopularity, and it is the hardest hit by all the strong teams.

Sure enough, when Manchester City arrived at West Bromwich, they received news from further south London that Chelsea drew with Fulham at home one-to-one.

This west London derby ended with a handshake and peace, but this is definitely not a good thing for Chelsea.

Boas's handsome position has been shaken again!

After the home defeat to Manchester City, Chelsea ushered in three consecutive draws, and all three games were one-to-one. This is obviously not a good phenomenon, especially in the current Christmas devil's schedule. This kind of consecutive games is not at all. Give the team any chance of respite, and it is likely to be defeated again and again.

Manchester City is the second game of the round, alongside Everton's away game against Sunderland.

The head coach of West Bromwich Albion is former Liverpool coach Roy Hodgson. This old coach is also a very experienced Premier League veteran. There is no need to say about his coaching ability. The job of coaching West Bromwich Albion is evident.

Familiarity with the Premier League makes Hodgson very clear how to take advantage of this home field advantage on Boxing Day to head-on against the away team, even if it is as strong as Manchester City, the player's mind is not in the game.

After the opening, West Bromwich Albion took the initiative to attack, disrupting Manchester City's idea of ​​controlling the ball and the rhythm of the game, making Manchester City's start a bit passive, and the players were a little out of shape, which led to the team's start to play. Very messy.

After grabbing a wave at the start, Hodgson's team closed as soon as they saw it. When Manchester City tried to counterattack, they resolutely retreated and organized a tight defensive formation, allowing Manchester City to press out to attack, and they concentrated on waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

Hodgson is very clear that in this kind of game on Boxing Day, it is normal for players to be in poor form. As long as Manchester City makes mistakes, it is West Bromwich’s chance.

Of course, the premise is that the defense of the bloomers can stop Su Dong.