After playing Everton in the away game, Manchester City's "Deviled Christmas Schedule" for nearly a month has come to an end. There is no officially defined date line, but there is no longer a double match every week, and there is finally a week's gap between the next game.
There is no shortage of double games a week in other places, but the Premier League is obviously more intensive. Three games in ten days is basically the norm here, and one game a week is an exception. There is a way to relax, and it should be normal to have six days off, but at this time it seems simply
It's as long as the entire summer vacation.
When people are free, they want to think about sex, and Zhuo Yang wants to take leave again. Although he and Kou Kou have only been apart in Zurich for a few days, Zhuo Yang just misses his wife, and he is particularly hopeless at this point.
In fact, it is not necessary to have anything to do with Kou Kou. The key is to stay with my wife, who feels comfortable in every pore. It feels like an alcoholic who cannot quit drinking.
But this time, he was a little embarrassed to speak.
Manchester City lost to Everton 2:4. Guardiola canceled his break with a sullen face. Everyone is strengthening technical and tactical training in the base these days. Zhuo Yang, as a die-hard supporter of Lao Gua and the newly appointed captain, must always
Support and lead by example.
The results have been ups and downs. Not only Guardiola has been oppressed by public opinion, but the players have also been criticized, and old scores have also been raised in the media.
In the match against Everton, the average age of Manchester City's starting lineup was 29.5 years old. It's not unknown, but it's surprising to see that AC Milan, which was known as a "nursing home" back then, wasn't that extreme.
Where have all the rich people and young people gone?
The media counted on their fingers for Manchester City. Since the summer of 2011, in the past five and a half years, Blue Moon has spent a total of 570 million pounds to purchase 43 first-line players.
But looking back now, 41 of them are not considered successful. Aguero is at least worth the money. The only one who can be regarded as a great success for the club is Zhuo Yang, and he is still worth zero.
Mansour's Abu Dhabi consortium took over Manchester City at the end of 2008. In the first few years, they still made targeted signings. The real crazy money burning started in the summer after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, with Silva, Toure and Balot.
With Leigh, Milner, Kolarov, Joe Hart, and later Aguero, the skeleton of Manchester City winning two Premier League titles was actually completed before 2011.
But at that time, the team was already showing an aging problem. However, in the next five and a half years, another 570 million was poured into it, and it is still one of the teams with the oldest average age in the entire Premier League.
Apart from Zhuo Yang and Aguero? The media went through them one by one. De Bruyne with 54 million, Sterling with 49 million, Otamendi with 31.7 million, Stones with 47.5 million, Braun with 20 million
Wo, Gundogan worth 26 million, Fernando worth 40 million...
Everyone is careful to listen to Guardiola's roar in the base, for fear that if they are not discerning, they will become the rafters.
Under such circumstances, how could Zhuoyang just ask for leave casually? No matter what, he had to make up a reason that sounded credible.
But the Irishman came to Manchester City's training base to visit his old friends and learned his story? Zhuo Yang was stunned and gave up the idea of ​​making up a reason for taking leave.
Since he is Irish, his surname is indeed Ireland? This buddy, who is one year younger than Zhuoyang, has the same surname as the country, and his name is Stephen Ireland.
Isn't this surprising? The British have the surname 'English', the Scots have the surname 'Scottland', the Dutch have the surname 'Netherlands', the Americans have the surname 'America', and the Koreans also have the surname '.
Korean? It seems that there are no people with Japanese surname in Japan...
Bruno Zina, the Portuguese midfielder who once played for Mallorca in La Liga, his 'Zina' is 'china', and now there is a 25-year-old left back in the Portuguese Super League Maritimo named Fabio Zina.
Na (fabio·china), they are a bit confusing.
Stephen Ireland came from the youth training of Manchester City. He entered the first team at the age of 18 in 2004. At that time, Manchester City was still a famous football team in the Premier League. The young Ireland immediately became the main force of the team with his clever footwork and excellent skills.
In the pre-Mansour era of Manchester City, that is, during the years when Sun Jihai was there, Ireland was the core of the team's midfield. He only moved to Aston Villa in 2010.
However, he has not lived a very good life in recent years. He has been at Villa and Newcastle. Now he is doing very well in Stoke City. He is just a leftover from the bench. Moreover, his life is also a mess. The mansion that looks bright on the outside is actually a mess inside.
It has to be like a doghouse.
Is Ireland going back to his parents' home this time? It's because his professional contract expires this summer and Stoke City has no intention of renewing it. He is not arrogant enough to want to return to the current Blue Moon? But he plans to retire? Let me ask in advance.
Asked if he could get a job as an assistant coach for an echelon team.
Zhuo Yang doesn’t know this guy? But because the year is not very long, Manchester City still has Kompany and Zabaleta who are familiar with Ireland. After the two old gossip men said hello to their old teammates, they turned around and gave Zhuo Yang
Chewing the tongue of gossip.
Ireland chose to join the Irish national team at the age of 19. At that time, the England national team, which also lacked skills in five elements, was beating its chest for a long time.
In the first six national team games, Ireland scored 4 goals, which is obviously not an ordinary person, but all his international experience only ended with 4 goals in six games.
In September 2007, before Ireland's home game against the powerful Czech Republic in the European Championship qualifiers, the show started after Ireland received a call from his girlfriend Jessica.
He went to head coach Steve Staunton with tears in his eyes and reported the bad news in tears: "My grandma passed away, boss. I have been fed by my grandma since I was five years old. She is my life."
The most important person in the world, I...wuwu~~~"
Coach Staunton, who was not yet 40 years old at the time, was also a sweetheart and immediately gave Ireland a warm hug.
"Silly boy, nothing in this world is more important than your loved ones. Don't worry about the team, go back quickly, remember, we are all with you. Stay strong, stupid boy."
Coach Staunton was very generous. After reporting the incident to the Football Association of Ireland, he also requested the Football Association in the name of the team to charter a private plane to send Ireland home.
After landing, Ireland called Manchester City coach Eriksson again. He broke down in tears and asked for a week off because he was too sad to be alone. He also had to arrange a funeral as a last act of filial piety. So, the whole Manchester City is with you, silly boy, busy
Go ahead and remember to express your condolences~
Sun Jihai had already returned to China at that time, otherwise he might have thought of sending a few wreaths there, and they had a good relationship.
The Football Association of Ireland was so damn righteous that they immediately issued an obituary in the media to express their deepest condolences to Ireland’s grandmother, Ms. Patricia Tallon. Your grandmother is the grandmother of all of us.
The only problem is that Ireland's Grandma Tallon is still alive. She is so strong that she is so tough that she competes with the young people for square dancing. Grandma Tallon happened to see the obituary in the newspaper and was almost angry.
I didn't go there, so I picked up the phone and scolded the FA.
Ireland burst into tears and explained calmly: You heard me wrong, it's not grandma, it's grandma. I have been pooped and peed on by grandma since I was five years old...
English-speaking countries are not as particular as Chinese. Grandma and grandma are both called ‘grandmother’.
The Football Association of Ireland knew that they had made a big mistake, so they quickly removed the wrong obituary and replaced it with a new one. They deeply mourned the death of their grandmother, Ms. Brenda Kitchener. Your grandmother is the grandmother of all of us...
Grandma Kitchener is still alive. She also dances square dances, reads newspapers, and curses people.
Come on, silly boy, can you explain what's going on?
Ireland wiped away her tears, swallowed and said calmly: I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear. My grandfather and grandmother were divorced and the one who survived was my grandfather's second wife, my step-grandmother.
She is also a grandmother, right? My step-grandmother has been pooping and peeing since I was five years old...
The Irish Football Association and the newspaper were not really stupid. Before they changed the obituary again, they sent people to investigate, and found that step-grandma Mary McCarthy was also alive and well, dancing in the square all day long.
The FA is angry, the national team is angry, Coach Staunton is angry, and the people of Ireland are angry.
Ireland, who didn't go to school much, put together a five-page apology letter, but couldn't make the angry people forgive him. Since then, he has never been called up by the national team. He is really a stupid kid...
It is said that the real reason for taking leave in Ireland was that his girlfriend Jessica had a miscarriage. In fact, if he told the truth, he might be able to take leave. Taking care of his family is quite politically correct in Europe.
But this thing also has its own differences. When Xabi Alonso was in Liverpool, the team was going to play the Champions League with Inter Milan, and his wife happened to be giving birth. It was the first child of Longo and his wife, but Benitez refused to give him the child.
He was on vacation, and Long Ge walked away with a straight face. He never spoke to Marshal Bei again, and he transferred to Real Madrid the next year.
Professional players have been talking nonsense in order to ask for leave, and there are all kinds of strange reasons. However, Ireland is the first person in history to talk about their loved ones and ultimately the future of their country.
In 2004, Valencia's Mali midfielder Sissoko was participating in the World Cup preliminaries in Africa. He called head coach Ranieri to take a week off and said that there was still a very important national team friendly match.
After returning, Sissoko vividly told Ranieri how awesome he was in the game, including the free-kick scimitar. Ranieri just watched him quietly pretending to be awesome, and then said expressionlessly: "Your country
The team leader called me and said you disappeared a week ago."
Sissoko: "..."
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Zhuo Yang clicked his tongue after hearing the story about Ireland, arranging it based on his own relatives. Such people should be beaten to death on the spot.
So when Ireland, the dead-breast fanatic, came to greet him humbly, Zhuoyang shook his face and didn't even look at him. He went back to find CEO Ferran Soriano and asked him to refuse Ireland's appointment as youth training coach.
Stop teaching your children bad things.
Zhuo Yang was an upright man. He looked down upon Stephen Ireland for telling lies in order to ask for leave, and he kept telling lies in circles. He was full of contempt. He swore not to collude with such a scumbag, so he gave up the request for leave with great difficulty. Honestly
Practical training with the whole team.
Asking for leave is a language art, and it pays attention to speaking, learning and singing.
Chapter completed!