Chapter 351 Guardiola: Manchester City Buys Messi? It’s Not Impossible!

Maria really guessed it right. Most of the fans at the scene came for Lin Quan.

As for the people who welcomed the team's new coach Guardiola, there were also people, but not that many. Many people came for Lin Quan, and then welcomed Guardiola by the way.

But Guardiola didn't know this. He was touched when he saw so many fans coming to support him!

Manchester City is such a great place!

The team's owner is reasonable, and the fans are so hospitable. If he can't leave anything for the team, he will really feel sorry for the fans who support him.

Manchester City attaches great importance to Guardiola's joining and specially held a grand meeting for him at the Etihad Stadium.

Many fans and reporters came to this meeting, and the scene was very lively.

Manchester City fans held various welcome signs and chanted Guardiola's name, regarding Guardiola as their savior.

Everyone hopes that he can help the team get out of the current trough.

As for the reporters present, they were all chasing the heat, in order to hype up the topic and increase the sales and clicks of the newspaper.

Sky Sports even launched a live broadcast to broadcast the meeting to fans around the world.

This live broadcast, held during non-prime time during the day, actually attracted more than 5 million viewers to watch at the same time.

This number of viewers has exceeded the number of viewers of many Premier League games!

"As expected of a world-class coach, just one meeting attracted so many people to watch!"

"That's right, this is the founder of the third dream dynasty, the man who won the Champions League twice in three years!"

"Haha, I wonder if Guardiola can continue the glory he created in Barcelona at Manchester City!"

"I think Manchester City's foundation is far worse than Barcelona's. Barcelona's La Masia youth training camp is well known to the world. Manchester City? I have never heard of any famous youth training players in Manchester City!"

"Manchester City's youth training is indeed a shortcoming, but this is also related to the relatively short period of time they received capital injection. After all, it has only been 6 years since the Abu Dhabi consortium bought the team to fully play the game."

"Yes, teams like Barcelona and Ajax took generations and decades to establish their youth training systems. They did not succeed overnight."

"The Abu Dhabi Consortium is relatively reliable. They attach great importance to youth training. A lot of the club's operating costs every year are spent on improving youth training facilities and establishing youth training echelons at all levels!"

"It does sound much better than Paris Saint-Germain. We don't just rely on spending money to buy people to solve the problem!"

"So there is a gap between the wealthy and wealthy people in the Middle East!"

"Indeed, the Qatar consortium feels like it is just for fun, and it is incomparable to the Abu Dhabi consortium behind Manchester City!"

The fans were originally discussing Manchester City, but the topic went sideways as they chatted.

It gradually turned into a verbal attack on Paris Saint-Germain!

It turns out that fans don’t absolutely hate Jinyuan Football.

They just hate the kind of teams that don't respect the laws of football and don't conduct youth training themselves, but just spend money to poach others in the transfer market.

Manchester City was also hated at the beginning, but over the years, Manchester City has gradually got on the right track.

Manchester City's current youth training is not bad, but it may take some time to achieve results, but at least they are on the right path and the future is promising!

We don’t even have to wait for the future, Manchester City is already very strong now.

Although most of the players are not trained by themselves, this is not unusual in football. There are not many players in Real Madrid's lineup who are trained by themselves.

The richer the team, the higher the selection standards for players, which means that even players from their own youth training will find it difficult to gain a foothold in the home team.

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At the meeting, Guardiola glanced at the expectant faces of tens of thousands of fans and immediately felt the responsibility on his shoulders.

He took a deep breath and said:

"I'm very grateful to Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to coach here. Manchester City is a team with a long history and a team that is reborn.

I'm looking forward to my time here over the next four years and I'm sure I can enjoy the process with you all. "

The fans at the scene heard Guardiola's words and cheered and applauded him excitedly.

"Today, I don't want to talk about my past successes. After all, everyone knows that I have two Champions League titles. There is no need to emphasize this!"

Guardiola said with a smile, and the fans at the scene also burst into laughter.

This is a remote response to a certain coach. After all, the coach’s catchphrase is ‘I have two Champions League titles! ’

"Now that I am here, I want Manchester City to find new, stronger and more suitable tactics for the team, such as Manchester City-style passing and controlling football!"

Guardiola's words once again received warm applause from the fans. What they were most worried about was that Guardiola would just apply the Barcelona formula to Manchester City without making any changes.

But from Guardiola's words just now, they heard each other's promise that Guardiola would not do this.

"I know the current players at Manchester City, like the guy wearing No. 10!"

This sentence caused the fans to laugh again, and the camera at the scene was also focused on Lin Quan, who was sitting in the front row.

Manchester City’s No. 10 is none other than Lin Quan.

Considering the relationship between Lin Quan and Guardiola, it would be strange if he didn't even understand Lin Quan!

"Manchester City has a group of very good players and I will take the time to get to know them, embrace them and, of course, occasionally get angry at them!"

The Manchester City players sitting next to Lin Quan looked at him solicitously, as if to confirm this with him.

Lin Quan nodded. Guardiola usually has a good temper, but once he gets into work, he becomes a bit disloyal.

At the end of the meeting, Guardiola said some compliments:

"One of my dreams was to play for Manchester City as a player but that is no longer possible.

But now that I can come here as the head coach, it can be regarded as realizing my dream to a certain extent! "

Hearing Guardiola's words, Manchester City fans were very happy and gave him warm applause.

But Lin Quan on the sidelines couldn't help but want to say: I didn't expect Guardiola, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, to be able to flatter others!

Guardiola enjoyed the warm applause of the fans:

“I have to say, the atmosphere here is incredible and I felt the passion of the fans from the first day I arrived in Manchester.

I hope to always live in such an atmosphere, eager to know more and get in touch with more, so that I can become an excellent coach in your hearts! "

After Guardiola complimented the team and fans, the meeting came to an end.

When it came to the on-site interview session, reporters who could no longer hold their nerves rushed forward one after another, and the first question they asked made people prick up their ears.

Someone among the reporters shouted: "Coach Pep, will you buy Messi?"

Guardiola was stunned for a moment, then laughed twice and responded:

"Messi is a very good player. If he is willing to come and the club is willing to buy it, I certainly hope to bring him to the Etihad Stadium. After all, like everyone, I want to see two Messis. West’s chemistry on the court.”

The fans and reporters at the scene all laughed knowingly, and Guardiola spoke out everyone's thoughts.

Indeed, many people are very curious, what would it be like if Lin Quan and Messi appeared on the same team?

The results of these two leading the team separately are already so terrible. If the two of them work together, then maybe no team in the entire football world can compete with them, right?

Of course, considering the extremely high worth of these two people, it is not an easy task to gather them all at the same time.

During the summer transfer period, Paris made an offer to Manchester City. Although it was unsuccessful, it let the world know the true worth of players of Messi and Lin Quan's level - more than 200 million euros!

If a team wants to acquire these two players at the same time, it will cost more than 400 million euros in transfer fees alone.

Even if Manchester City and Barcelona want to achieve this achievement, they will have to spend at least 200 million euros.

This amount is an astronomical figure for most teams in today's football.

Probably only teams like Manchester City and Paris, which are backed by wealthy people in the Middle East, have such financial resources!

It just so happens that Lin Quan's Manchester City has such financial resources, and Guardiola and Messi have always had a good relationship.

With Manchester City's financial resources and Guardiola using his personal connections to lobby Messi, it is really possible to persuade him to join.

Therefore, after hearing Guardiola's statement, fans and reporters couldn't help but have wild thoughts.

Some good reporters have already prepared a plan in their minds, waiting for the press conference to end later, and then go back to make big news.

It’s not just reporters who want to make big news, Mansour, the boss of Manchester City, personally attended Guardiola’s meeting.

After hearing Guardiola's above statement, he mistakenly thought that the other party was making a request to the club.

So, he told his assistant seriously:

"After the winter break starts, we will make another offer to Barcelona and try to see if we can bring Messi over from Barcelona."

Although this may cost a lot of money, for Mansour, who has deep pockets, money is no problem at all.

As long as it can strengthen the team's strength, Guardiola will not refuse any request he makes.

Guardiola's move to Manchester City has attracted a lot of attention in the UK and throughout Europe.

Guardiola is very famous and has achieved great success in his coaching career, so his every move has attracted much attention.

In addition, the team he joined was the last Champions League champion, and the team also has one of the hottest superstars in football.

Such a powerful combination will naturally cause concern and vigilance to other teams, especially those with ambitions in the Champions League.

In particular, Guardiola also proposed to buy Messi, which aroused everyone's concern even more.

After Guardiola's words reached La Liga, Barcelona immediately stood up and expressed its position:

Messi is not for sale to the team. Barcelona will never put Messi on the shelf at any time. He will stay at Camp Nou forever!

Obviously, Barcelona is a little panicked.

As Messi's mentor, Guardiola has a high status in Messi's heart.

Many players, including Messi and Barcelona, ​​miss the time they played under Guardiola.

Therefore, the Barcelona club is very worried that these players will not be able to resist the temptation and actually run to Manchester City after being bewitched by Guardiola.

Barcelona has already missed Lin Quan and must not let Messi go again.

If Messi leaves, Barcelona will probably be knocked back to its original shape!

Their entire team's tactical system is now built around Messi. Once Messi leaves, they will be completely finished.

Although Barcelona has repeatedly emphasized that Messi is not for sale and is absolutely impossible to sell.

But reporters and fans did not quite believe what the Barcelona club said.

In the era of commercial football, if what the club says is not like fart, what credibility can it have?

The winter break is coming soon, and when the transfer window opens, they will know whether what Barcelona said is true!

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In a certain mansion in Barcelona, ​​Leo Messi turned off the live TV broadcast.

Others are a little confused!

Pep actually said he wanted to take him to Manchester City?

Is he serious, or is he joking?

If he really extended an invitation to himself, should he accept it?

Messi is distraught. He has deep feelings for Barcelona and does not want to leave here.

But Guardiola was kind to him and admired him very much.

Rejecting Guardiola's invitation will make Messi feel guilty.

Therefore, the best case scenario is that Guardiola returns to Camp Nou and the master and apprentice join hands again.

But this beautiful vision was shattered the moment Guardiola landed in the Premier League.

Thinking of this, Messi couldn't help but sigh.

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The biggest reaction to Guardiola joining Manchester City was their two competitors in the league - Manchester United and Chelsea.

As Manchester City's rival in the same city, Manchester United least wants Manchester City to come out of its trough.

They hope that Manchester City will continue to sink like this, and then wait until the next Manchester City derby, and they will give Manchester City a severe lesson at Old Trafford.

As for Chelsea, they are Manchester City's biggest rivals for the title this season.

In the past five league games, Chelsea has successfully overtaken Manchester City in the standings with a winning streak.

Currently, after 17 rounds, Chelsea has 13 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, ranking first with 42 points.

Manchester City, on the other hand, currently ranks second with 12 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, with 39 points.

The gap between the two teams is not big, only one game.

Considering that there will be a direct confrontation between the two sides in the second half of the season, if Manchester City recovers and beats Chelsea when visiting Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's current lead will be gone.

Therefore, Mourinho and his Chelsea are wary of Guardiola's arrival.