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Chapter 25 The new season is about to start

No one understands why Berbatov's attitude suddenly changed by 180 degrees, and not only said that to the media, his mental state during training was completely different from the first day.

A reporter photographed his application focused and happy during training.

Some reporters also saw Berbatov taking the initiative to go up and chat with Rong Guang in German during the training break.

Rongguang also knows Berbatov. Although he doesn't have a deep impression of Berbatov, he knows this person at least. No matter what, the two have also played against each other in the Bundesliga for three seasons, a total of six times.

Berbatov and Glory were also happy that Mark Hughes had a close relationship.

The media believes that Manchester City bought Berbatov as a completely amateur kid. It was just because Manchester United wanted it, so they snatched it, and in fact they didn't consider whether the team needed it.

But in fact, he finally bought Berbatov because Mark Hughes wanted to get Berbatov.

He believed that Berbatov's feet had delicate skills and could make a very good offensive tactical fulcrum in front.

In this way, Glory can create more scoring opportunities.

This is a bit similar to the combination of Lucas Sutton and Glory in Bayern Munich at that time.

Mark Hughes intends to copy Bayern Munich's tactics.

Although many people are disdainful of Magath's serious reliance on Glory.

But Mark Hughes doesn't care about those things now. As long as the team's performance is good, it's fine.

He replaced Elkeson to Manchester City, and was under great pressure.

There has always been a saying in public opinion that he has never coached a large team or faced with complex locker room conditions. A team like Manchester City is very complicated. No one is optimistic about his coaching prospects in this team. It is hard to say whether his coaching level can make him withstand the huge pressure of performance.

Manchester City has spent money wildly this summer, and investment requires output to be rewarded.

What if the grades are not ideal?

The head coach will be dismissed as a scapegoat.

So Mark Hughes has urgent requirements for results.

Now God has given him a healthy glory, and of course he wants to maximize the role of glory.

The only shame is that Berbatov came too late.

Manchester United has never switched to defeat Loze before, which has made it difficult for Manchester City to win him.

It's too late to start practicing new tactics now, so Mark Hughes has no choice but to slowly adjust his tactics after the league starts.

Now we can only simply arrange the role of Berbatov - if you can score, you can score points; if you can't score, you can pass the football to Glory, and create scoring opportunities for Glory.

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Five days passed in a flash, and soon the 26269 season of the English Premier League kicked off.

The opening match of the new season is Arsenal's home match against the newly promoted Sybromvic.

After 90 minutes of the game, Arsenal finally got a good start to the new season with the goal of new player Nasri.

After the opening match, the first round of the Premier League also started in full swing.

In the game held on this day, Hull City defeated Fulham 2l; Middlesbrough defeated Tottenham Hotspur who lost Belbatov 2l; Bolton defeated Stoke City at home Bl; West Ham defeated Wigan 2l; Everton lost 2-to-Blackburn at home, ending the rule that home teams won in this round of the league.

Sunderland also lost to Liverpool 0l at home.

There are three league games left to be played tomorrow.

The whole of England, no, maybe it should be said that the whole of Europe is paying attention to a league game tomorrow. That is the away game for Manchester City to challenge Aston Villa.

Judging from the news of the pre-match press conference, Rongguang was included in the starting list without any surprise.

Judging from the several warm-up matches prepared for the season, Rongguang's condition is not particularly stable, especially in the first few games.

Rongguang seems a little unfamiliar with football, which is clearly reflected in the game confrontation. His dribbling is not as smooth and sharp as before he was injured.

This provides strong evidence for mainstream views.

That is, it is difficult for the state of glory to recover as before. After being injured, he is not as good as before, both in control of his body and in football...

However, Mark Hughes repeatedly stated in an interview that this is a warm-up match. The purpose of the warm-up match is to find the state of Rongguang, so it is normal for Rongguang to perform poorly.

"...After all, he hasn't touched the ball for seven months, and I have enough patience. Even if he needs to spend half a season looking for form, I can wait."

These words were ridiculed by the media at the time, saying, "Is Rongguang unable to find his state in his life? Are you waiting too? Are you willing to wait, but the Manchester City boss is not willing to wait?"

Now, in the first round of the league, Rongguang started again. So good, it shouldn't be a warm-up match now, right? This is the official league. Let's take a look at his performance in the official match.

The intensity of the confrontation in the warm-up match is completely incomparable to the official league. Glory's performance is not particularly eye-catching and outstanding. When the official game is in, do you still expect him to perform better?

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Before the game, Aston Villa's captain Gareth Barry also challenged Glory.

"The media has been discussing Rong all summer, discussing his value, his annual salary, and his status. I think it's time to get out of the page now and it's time to end the argument. I know Rong was a very good player, but the Bundesliga and the Premier League are two completely different worlds, and I will greet him in the Premier League."

These words are unceremonious, and the smell of gunpowder is very strong.

But no one criticized Barry, in England, such verbal slap is common.

Moreover, Aston Villa fans are still cheering for Barry's approach. They believe that Barry, as the captain of Aston Villa, has the courage to accept challenges when facing seemingly powerful opponents like Manchester City, is a symbol of courage, and it is exactly what English fans like the most - the players they like must be pure manly.

The more you face a strong enemy, the more you must challenge it

And is Rongguang considered a strong enemy?

At least it seems to be counted.

The two people's net worth and weekly salary are not on the same level at all...

Everyone thinks that Barry is building confidence and instilling courage for the team.

But Barry actually has his own plans.

This summer, Barry, who has been in Aston Villa for eleven years, is tired of continuing to stay in the mid- and lower-level teams, hoping to pursue championships and honors with a bigger team. This may be because after he can play as the main player in the England national team, his ambition and desire for honor have expanded rapidly.

Liverpool are indeed interested in Barry's performance. They hope to take the England national team's main midfielder away from Aston Villa.

Barry naturally hopes to attract more giants through his outstanding performance in the game, and to allow Liverpool to raise prices, so that Aston Villa is willing to sell him.

If he could defend against glory in the game... wouldn't such hope be greatly increased?

Chinese fans are very dissatisfied with Barry's clamor and have scolded Barry's 18 generations online.

But it doesn't make any sense, and people can't hear it or see it.

China's CCTV finally settled the Premier League broadcast contract before the start of the new season of the Premier League. They originally hoped to obtain the exclusive broadcast rights of the Premier League in mainland China. However, because the Premier League had been sold to Tiansheng, this request was rejected by Tiansheng.

In the end, after arduous negotiations, Tiansheng agreed to resell the broadcasting rights to CCTV, and they also retained the broadcasting rights themselves. In this way, the Premier League game became two companies live broadcasting at the same time in mainland China, but... Tiansheng's coverage was too small, mainly concentrated in Guangdong, so they actually did not conflict with each other.

If Tiansheng hadn't suffered too serious losses, they would never have agreed to let CCTV get a share of the pie.

Although they are also very clear that allowing CCTV to broadcast the Premier League is definitely like attracting wolves into the house.

But the current situation is that if the broadcasting rights are not resold, I am afraid that Tiansheng will be dead before the wolf enters the house...

Chinese fans are used to watching free live broadcasts and are very disgusted and resistant to the paid game mode introduced by Tiansheng. In addition, Tiansheng's signal system is self-contained, and does not rely on China Digital Media or local cable network companies' sales channels, and they have to play by themselves. This has also led to local cable network companies' boycotts against Tiansheng and the negotiations with the National Cable Television League are not going smoothly. To this day, in big cities like Shanghai and Wuhan, Tiansheng European Football Channel has not yet been implemented.

It also makes them in a bleak situation.

At the beginning, Tiansheng spent a sky-high price to buy the Premier League broadcast rights in mainland China. He originally dreamed of making a lot of money with this.

No one bought it.

Rongguang's joining Manchester City should be good news, so Tiansheng stepped up publicity and marketing.

However, until the new season of the league starts three days, Tiansheng's terminal sales performance is also very unsatisfactory.

In the past two seasons, the bad impact that Tiansheng had caused in the minds of fans was difficult to recover. Chinese fans would rather not watch the game of Glory than go against Tiansheng. In addition, online live broadcasts are so developed now that many live broadcast software can see signals from foreign TV stations. At worst, they don’t listen to the explanation and watch live broadcasts from foreign TV stations online...

In addition, the Premier League has also put pressure on Tiansheng. After all, Glory's transfer to Manchester City is definitely a shot in the promotion of the Premier League in mainland China. The Premier League ignored CCTV at the beginning, and also hoped that the promise made by Tiansheng to them with his chest could be fulfilled.

As a result, Tiansheng now seems to be a teammate like a pig, and he has no way to turn the situation around. His reputation in mainland China has fallen to the bottom and is very bad.

If this continues, the Premier League's wishful thinking will not be made. If Tiansheng continues to act solely, it will have a huge negative impact on the image promotion of the Premier League.

CCTV's advantage is that it has a wide coverage, almost covering the entire mainland of China. This is what the Premier League needs, so the balance begins to tilt towards CCTV.

In this way, Tiansheng had no choice but to resell the broadcasting rights to CCTV. The price was not low, which could be considered to make up for some of the shortcomings...

In this way, fans in mainland China don’t have to look for live broadcast software online, nor do they have to pay to watch Tiansheng’s broadcast. They can directly watch Rongguang’s game live broadcast on CCTV Sports Channel.

Domestic media predicts that the first league game, domestic audiences will set records
Chapter completed!
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