After Benitez's first day of training session, Manchester City Club held a press conference on the new head coach's appointment.

At the press conference, Benitez smiled and told reporters: "I know it won't be easy to be a Manchester City head coach, but I'm confident to lead the team back to where they were supposed to be."

A reporter raised his hand and asked: "Where are you talking about, what is the location you should be?"

Although this is a question raised by a reporter, everyone is really concerned about it.

So the reporters at the scene looked at Benitez.

Not only the reporter, but even the chairman of the club Fasim, who was sitting next to him, turned his head to him, wanting to hear his answer.

"Just as my ex said, it's the European qualification for next season." Benitez said calmly.

This answer surprised everyone. They originally thought that Benitez should have said "relegation".

All the leagues are ranked 18th and third from the bottom. Benitez actually wants to get the European qualification for next season?

In England, if your team wants to qualify for the European Cup next season, they must rank in the top five leagues at the end of the season. After the top four leagues die, the fifth league is the League Cup qualification. Otherwise, you have to expect the team to achieve good results in the cup - both the League Cup and the FA Cup champions can still participate in the UEFA Cup.

Of course, if you end up ranking sixth in the league, as long as the League Cup champion has obtained the European Cup qualification, your team can also obtain the European qualification.

Otherwise, it would be the second-place runner-up in the FA Cup. According to regulations, when the FA Cup champion has already obtained the European Cup qualification, their European quota will be automatically obtained by the second-place runner-up in the FA Cup.

But Manchester City has been eliminated in the League Cup this season, so there is no hope for the League Cup. The league ranking is now much worse than the top six. After twenty rounds of the league, Everton ranked sixth. They have accumulated 32 points, sixteen more than Manchester City.

This huge difference in points almost makes people see no hope.

Then if Manchester City wants to qualify for the European Cup, they must at least reach the FA Cup final.

But with Manchester City's form, isn't it so easy to enter the FA Cup final?

Anyway, everyone thinks that Benitez is talking big.

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"Hear? Our new head coach actually said that his goal is next season's European game?"

"It's really arrogant...how is this possible?"

"It's a good thing to be confident, but looking at his training session, I can't feel the difference between him and Mark Hughes..."

In the locker room, Manchester City players who care about the team and their future were resting and talked about Benitez's press conference on his inauguration.

Sun Hai frowned as he listened to everyone's discussion.

Everyone seems to be quite pessimistic. If this happens, the morale will be much higher. What should I do in the next game?

He turned his head to look at the position of Glory, where there was no one, and he was still practicing his free kick on the training ground.

As the team's number one star, he remained silent about the arrival of new coach Benitez... No, it's not just this thing, he has become increasingly silent recently.

Just focus on practicing hard, and communicate less with your teammates. Sometimes you can only see him on the training ground, and you will never see him in the locker room.

Will he regret coming to Manchester City?

Sun Hai was a little worried.

He has feelings for Manchester City, so he naturally hopes that Manchester City will perform better and better. He also hopes that Glory can stay in Manchester City for a long time, just as he said at the joining ceremony, leading Manchester City into a giant.

But ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

Sun Hai is worried that the cruel reality will make Glory eventually leave Manchester City and go to other giant teams - just as everyone hopes.

When he returns to China to play, he will also hear domestic fans' views on Rongguang and Manchester City's recent results. They also hope that Rongguang will leave Manchester City, a "bad team" - this is a rude evaluation of Manchester City by domestic fans - it is better to go to Manchester United than stay in Manchester City.

Sun Hai is now increasingly feeling that what the fans say will become a reality.

If Glory left Manchester City until then, how many people in such an international mercenary would continue to stick to Manchester City Stadium?

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The 21st round of the league, kicked off on the afternoon of December 29, and Manchester City challenged Blackburn away. This was Manchester City's last game in 26 years and the first game since Manchester City's new coach Benitez took office, so it has attracted much attention.

Everyone wants to see how the new coach who has not yet brought out anything new in training will perform in the game.

The result is…disappointing.

Manchester City's tactics in the game look no different from those of Mark Hughes and Mark Bowen. The players have low fighting spirit, low morale and low condition.

Only Glory is as always, he scored a goal in the game, helping Manchester City equalize the score.

It was this goal that won a point for Manchester City.

In the end, Manchester City drew with Blackburn away.

During the game, the TV broadcast frequently pointed the camera at Manchester City's new head coach Benitez.

"The game was so good, Benitez did not show any decent performance at all... Maybe even he felt that Manchester City was already hard to come back?" During the game, commentator Alan Hansen said. "Rong scored another goal, this is his fifteenth goal this season, and he continues to lead the league scorer list. If Rong can represent Manchester City alone, that would be great. Manchester City is now the first in the league."

"The training is the same as the ex, the tactics are the same as the ex, and the game mode is the same as the ex... So why do Manchester City clubs still need to replace Mark Hughes?" After the game, the Manchester Evening News issued such a question.

"In the past, we thought it was impossible that someone would be worse than Mark Hughes, so we supported Manchester City club to change coaches. But now I regret it, and I began to reflect. I think Benitez may not be better than Mark Hughes..."

"Manchester City still didn't win. The last time they won was in the ninth round of the league. They beat Stoke City at home, which was also the last victory of three consecutive victories. Since then, Manchester City's game was either tied or lost, and the league's ranking has also dropped from seventh to fifteenth. At the worst, they ranked eighteenth..."

After the game, the English media was filled with criticism and ridicule of Benitez.

Of course, there are also many ridicule of Manchester City.

Britain was once the hegemon of the world, which made their citizens feel superior. Even though Britain is no longer the hegemon of the world, their colonies have almost all become independent of them, but the British mentality has not improved much.

This also led them to have a sour grape mentality about outsiders like Abu Dhabi consortium waving checks in front of them, and showing off their wealth.

What's so great about Arabs?

When our colonies were spread all over the world and the British flag could always see the sun, the Arabs were still playing with the sand.

Because of this sense of superiority, they are happy to see that Manchester City, a "fallen man" who "bents tradition and betrays the soul and body, has suffered some retribution.

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Recently, their new head coach is always discussed in the locker room, but after the first game, such discussions are gone.

Everyone seemed to have no desire to discuss.

It seems that the new coach cannot take them out of the quagmire at present.

Then who has the heart to discuss him?

Rongguang did not participate in such silence. He still came to the training base very early every day. When the parking lot was empty, he went to the locker room alone to change his clothes and went to the training ground to practice his free kicks.

When Rongguang arrived at the training base today, he found that the parking lot was no longer empty, and a car had already been parked before he came.

He was a little surprised.

He has always been the earliest person in the team, including players and coaches. He is the first one, and Mark Hughes cannot come earlier than him.

So who would come earlier than him today?

Rongguang looked at the black Audi sedan and was a little confused - no one among his teammates seemed to be such a low-key car.

Every day, the parking lot in Manchester City is like an international auto show. Various luxury cars compete for beauty, and the glorious Mercedes-Benz GL is very inconspicuous here.

Rongguang didn't think about who the car belonged to, so he didn't think about it. He was not interested in finding out the owner of the car.

Push open the door of the locker room and, as usual, the locker room is empty.

Rong Guang skillfully changed the training and walked out of the locker room.

Then he went to the equipment room, dragged out a basket of football, came to the training ground, and officially started training.

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When Glory was practicing his free kick on the training ground, Benitez stood on the sidelines and quietly watched the man.

He mechanically repeated the free kick.

This is not the first time Benitez has observed Rong Guang's extra practice. He found that in so many observations, Rong Guang has never changed positions. He almost always played free kicks near that point, and they were on the right side outside the penalty area. He kicked the ball with his left foot, and the football drew an arc, and the goal was the upper right corner of the goal.

Today is December 31st, the last day of 26 years. Manchester in northwest England is already very cold. Although there is no snow, the temperature is approaching zero, especially in the morning.

But in such cold weather, Glory emitted white air all over his body, exhaling from his mouth and nose, and the sweat on his body evaporated from his sweat

His whole body was like a white breath, and as he moved, he seemed to be flying in the clouds.

This shows that he exercises a lot and sweats a lot.

You can practice a free kick to this point... Benitez secretly smacked his tongue.

This is too hard

but……

Actually, there is no need for him to work so hard.

Thinking of this, Benitez finally broke his silence, walked out of the shadow of the house, and stepped onto the training ground.

"Good morning, Rong." He greeted Rongguang and walked straight towards him.
Chapter completed!