I Want to Be the King of Football

On the evening of March 27th, Manchester Etihad Stadium.

As night fell, the stadium was already brightly lit.

After the renovation, the exterior wall of the stadium was painted with a layer of sky blue paint. Under the lighting, the entire stadium looked like a bright sapphire, very beautiful.

The only regret is that after the first round of expansion, the stadium capacity still failed to exceed 50,000.

But it doesn’t matter. Manchester City’s plan to further expand the Etihad Stadium has been put on the agenda. This time it is going to directly increase the stadium’s capacity by more than 14,000 places, and the total capacity will reach 62,000 people, which will exceed other goals. The team has become the second largest stadium in the Premier League after Manchester United’s Old Trafford Stadium.

At present, Manchester City’s stadium expansion plan has been submitted to the Manchester Parliament for approval, and the possibility of approval is very high, because this project will bring hundreds of temporary jobs, increase more than 100 staff in the future, and other more jobs. Position, which is also good for Manchester.

The reason why Manchester City dared to expand so drastically, a very important reason is that Manchester City is very hot now.

With the rapid progress of the team's performance in the past two seasons, more and more fans have entered the Etihad Stadium, which has made Manchester City hard to find, and even season tickets have become in short supply.

This is actually related to Manchester City's business strategy.

After the Abu Dhabi consortium took over, Manchester City's tickets have always maintained the first tier of the Premier League. The lowest price of 344 euros is the lowest in the Premier League, which is higher than the second-ranked Aston Villa. It's 30 euros lower.

After the renovation of the stadium, Manchester City’s highest-end season ticket price reached 900 euros, ranking ninth in the Premier League. In fact, it is relatively good, because these are VIP seats, compared to 2,000 for Arsenal. Three hundred euros is more than twice that of Manchester City, while Manchester United in the same city is 1100 euros, which is much higher than Manchester City.

The team’s performance is good, the style of play is good, and it’s offensive football. There are not a few stars, especially with superstars like Su Dong, but the average ticket price is at the bottom of the Premier League. How can such a team’s attendance rate be possible? Will it be low?

In fact, overall, the price of tickets for the Premier League is still very high.

Even the lowest Manchester City is much higher than the lowest ticket prices of all the teams in the four major leagues. This also shows that the consumption power of the United Kingdom is indeed better than other countries, plus the advantage of its own stadium. This gives the Premier League team’s match-day operating income a very clear advantage over other league teams.

Manchester City is also based on this point, so it is determined to further expand the stadium, and further increase the team's game day income while keeping the ticket price unchanged.

Everyone is convinced that even if it is expanded to more than 60,000, Manchester City's home attendance will still be full.

Not to mention anything else, just look at the peak matchup between Manchester City and Real Madrid.

As early as the second round of the knockout round of the round of 16 had just been decided, Manchester City officially opened the first round of the quarterfinal round of home ticket sales, all the tickets were sold out in a very short time, it became difficult to find a ticket.

On the night of the game, fans from all directions began to pour into the Etihad Stadium.

At this time, there are many fans around the stadium holding up cards, looking for a ticket to the scalpers at a high price.

It is said that outside, a ticket with the worst position was fired for two thousand pounds, which shows how popular this game is.

According to the media, the influence of this game is not lost to the Champions League final.

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When Manchester City arrived at the stadium by bus, the Manchester City fans who were preparing to enter the stadium chased after them, calling out the names of Manchester City players from a distance through the fence.

Su Dong is the most shouted player, and many fans are encouraging him to score goals in the game.

There was a live broadcast of the game, and a special filming of the team's arrival at the stadium before the game, but was shocked by the crazy and enthusiastic fans on the scene. They did not expect that the Manchester City fans would be so enthusiastic.

"This is actually not difficult to understand, because this is the first time Manchester City has participated in the Champions League, and it reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time. This is absolutely for Manchester City, which has not performed well in the past 100 years. It can be regarded as the pinnacle of history, so the fans' pursuit is understandable."

"We saw that Manchester City coach Guardiola took the lead to get out of the bus. He received warm applause from the fans on the scene."

"Since coaching Manchester City, Pep Guardiola has gradually become the hottest top coach in Europe. Now he has even been poached by Barcelona, ​​but he chose to renew his contract with Manchester City and continue to coach in the Premier League."

"The captain Su Dong also led the players off the bus one after another. It seems that the Manchester City players are in good spirits tonight, and they should be in good condition, while the Manchester City fans are screaming Su Dong's name frantically. He is the most popular in Manchester. The welcoming player is not only the captain of Manchester City, but also the team’s top scorer and spiritual leader."

Amid the uproar of the fans at the scene, Manchester City players, led by Guardiola and Sutton, walked into the player channel.

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When the Real Madrid players walked out of the player channel and entered the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City's players had already warmed up on the court.

Cristiano Ronaldo walked with the team, while paying attention to the movement of Manchester City, looking for the familiar figure among the players running around.

At this time, many Manchester City fans were already sitting in the stands, booing Real Madrid.

Just as Ronnie walked into the turf of the Ittihad Stadium, a football suddenly flew in the distance. The ball was still fast and came straight to him. This surprised the fans at the scene and lost their voices, and Real Madrid's players were also quite a bit. Surprised.

Only Ronnie greeted him cheerfully, stopped the ball in his chest, and kicked the ball back in the air.

Everyone noticed that the ball fell back to the Manchester City warm-up training half. Su Dong stopped the ball lightly, stepped on his feet, and pointed his right hand at Ronnie, while Pepe David Silvamu Tigno Marcelo and other acquaintances also happily waved at the Portuguese around Su Dong.

"Hey, brother."

Su Dong walked straight over and hugged Ronnie hard.

"I almost fell directly to the ground just now, and I will see how you end up at that time." Ronnie said with a smile, the arrogant expression seemed to say, why don't you hurry up and thank me?

"Then it will definitely confirm your reputation as Diving Luo." Su Dong said sarcastically.

In fact, he controlled the kick. Generally speaking, he didn't have much strength in Ronnie's range. Even if he didn't receive it or was kicked, it would basically not hurt, let alone injured.

Of course, if Ronnie fell directly to the ground, it would be another matter.

After meeting Ronnie, Su Dong shook hands and hugged Kakahave Alonso Casillas, Ramos and others. They were all old acquaintances, and they were all familiar with each other, especially Kaka.

Sometimes Su Dong really wants to ask Kaka, would he regret not choosing Manchester City and going to Real Madrid?

You know, if you come to Manchester City, Kaka may face a different career.

But frankly speaking, in addition to Su Dong, it is estimated that any other superstars will choose Real Madrid instead of Manchester City.

Xavi Alonso also almost joined Manchester City, but in the end he also went to Real Madrid, and Guardiola was the introduction of Busquets, the results of these two players succeeded after the transfer.

The players of the two teams are not strangers to each other. After the meeting, after a polite greeting, they returned to the half-court for training.

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When the players of the two teams were greeting each other on the court, the two head coaches were also talking on the sidelines.

When Pellegrini was in charge of Real Madrid, he was hailed as Florentino’s spare tire. Later, on the one hand, Real Madrid never contacted a better coach, and on the other hand, it was Pellegrini’s. The coaching results are really good, he has been following Barcelona, ​​even almost defeated Barcelona, ​​so he stayed until now.

The players are also quite supportive of him, which allows Real Madrid to break through the Champions League semi-finals this season.

Pellegrini is now ambitious and wants to lead Real Madrid to continue to push forward and achieve better results.

Guardiola is also the first time to participate in the Champions League as a head coach, so he is also looking forward to the team's success.

The two head coaches are very polite and very polite to each other. Guardiola is the host, but he is not good at dealing with people on weekdays, so he just has a routine courtesy with Pellegrini, and the two are separate. gone back.

But their attention is always rotating between themselves and the opponent on the court, and the focus is to observe the state of the opponent's players.

In the pre-match training, no one did their best, and it was difficult to see what, and the specific information was collected by special scouts and submitted to the coaching staff early, so they did not have too many secrets.

"They should be defensive."

As soon as Guardiola walked back to the coaching bench, Estiate greeted him and gave his own analysis.

He is Guardiola's think tank.

Double midfielders, four defenders, it is normal to say that Real Madrid want to take a defensive position.

Of course, defense does not necessarily have to retreat.

The most typical one is Benitez’s Valencia~www.wuxiahere.com~, he was also a double midfielder, and his tactics were conservative. But whether it was Valencia, Liverpool, or Benitez’s team Adopt high position pressure and press tactics.

Real Madrid should also adopt similar tactics, but relatively speaking, their attitude will be more conservative.

"That said, we can play more proactively in the game." Guardiola nodded.

He agrees with Estiate's judgment. He doesn't think Real Madrid will compete with Manchester City for possession on the road because Real Madrid lacks such a midfielder.

Wanting to rely on midfielders like Kakahedira and Xavi Alonso to grab possession of the ball with Manchester City is simply a dream.

Among the three players, the only one with the ability to play and control is Harvey Alonso.

"But they may grab a grab in the opening game." Estiyat reminded.

Guardiola narrowed his eyes and said cruelly: "Then maimed them for me!"