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Chapter 002 Preparing for the New Season (Part 2)

Zhang Yang followed Sun Jihai into the locker room. Seeing that everyone stopped what they were doing, they looked up at him. He waved to everyone and said hello: "Hi, good morning everyone."

"Good morning, Zhang."

“Good morning.”

"Hi, Zhang."

Manchester City captain Dunn walked up and stretched out his right hand: "Welcome, Zhang." Dunn knew that the team bought Zhang Yang as the team's flag. One day, Zhang Yang might wear the captain's armband. However, Dunn did not have any jealousy or any unnecessary thoughts about this.

Dunn has played for Manchester City since 2000. He can be regarded as an eight-year veteran of Manchester City. He also has a lot of feelings for the team. He is naturally happy that the team can introduce top stars like Zhang Yang. In two seasons, he is also a veteran in his thirties, so he doesn't really think too much about the identity of Manchester City captain. What he hopes most now is to seize the opportunity now, achieve good results with Manchester City, and play in the Premier League for more than a dozen seasons. However, he has not played a Champions League game yet, which can be said to be Dunn's biggest regret. His biggest dream now is to be able to wear a Manchester City jersey and play in the Champions League game!

This is Dunn's dream and the dream of many Manchester City players. They dare not think about winning the league championship, but Zhang Yang's arrival has shown them the possibility of entering the top four leagues and having the Champions League experience in their careers.

Their dreams are very different from their ambitions. This does not mean that they are not enterprising, but that the situation is different, the strength gap is there, and what they want is naturally different.

However, no matter what, Zhang Yang's arrival has made Manchester City players motivate and see some hope. Perhaps, at the beginning, the hope is very small, like a flame, but one day, hope will turn into a torch, or even a star.

"Good morning, captain." Zhang Yang responded.

Dunn smiled and shook his head: "Don't call me captain, just call me Richard." He took Zhang Yang's hand and pointed to the others, "Zhang, I'll introduce you to you."

"Wright." Dunn pointed to Wright Phillips, a black player who was tying his shoelaces. The black winger quickly raised his head and smiled at Zhang Yang, revealing his white teeth: "Hi, Zhang, hello!"

"Hi, hello, Wright." Zhang Yang also greeted Wright Phillips, and it can be seen that Wright Phillips is a very cheerful person.

Wright Phillips is the only person in the team who has played against Zhang Yang before. When Zhang Yang first joined AC Milan, last summer, AC Milan played a friendly match with Chelsea in the Railway Cup in Moscow. Wright Phillips was still at Chelsea and came on as a substitute in the game.

"This is Ellano," Dunn continued.

The Brazilian midfielder, who was sorting out his hair, stretched out his right hand, "Good morning, Zhang, I'm glad to be a teammate."

Zhang Yang also shook hands with Ellano. He still heard of his teammate. After all, Ellano is also a Brazilian international, although he is only a marginal international.

Errano is a star produced by Brazil's Santos team. Unlike other Brazilian players who are the first choice for European leagues such as Portugal and Spain, Errano chose Ukraine for his first stop. Errano helped the miners win the Ukrainian League championship in 2005 and the Ukrainian Super Cup championship in 2005. In the summer of 2007, Errano transferred to the Premier League Manchester City team with a net worth of US$8 million. Errano performed well in his first year at Manchester City. He played 38 times for Manchester City in all competitions throughout the year and scored 10 goals and contributed many assists. He was well appreciated by the team's coach Swede Eriksen at the time.

As an all-round midfielder with both offense and defense, although his physical confrontation is not as good as an ordinary midfielder, Ellano has abundant physical fitness, large defense area, and strong ability to chase back. It is an important barrier for Brazil's midfield defense. When organizing offense, his delicate footwork and overall view of the midfield make him the team's transfer hub. It is worth mentioning that Ellano, who has outstanding positioning footwork, has also very fast long-range shots.

This summer, Manchester City's signings were mainly concentrated on the front line and back line, and there was no big move in the midfield. It can be seen that Manchester City head coach Mark Hughes is still quite acknowledging Ellano's strength for the time being.

Zhang Yang responded to Ellano in Portuguese, which surprised Ellano, and then was overjoyed and began to speak a passage in Portuguese.

After he finished speaking, Zhang Yang laughed. He said to Ellano in English, "I just speak the simpler Portuguese, which was taught by Ronnie."

This made Ellano, who thought he could meet a new teammate who could communicate with him skillfully, but he was still very happy. He was already very happy that a star like Zhang Yang could communicate with him in Portuguese.

This little episode also caused a burst of laughter in the locker room. Everyone thought that this guy with a super expensive value was not difficult to get along with.

After Wright Phillips and Ellano, Dunn introduced Zhang Yang one by one, that these people were either enthusiastic or reserved, and their attitude towards him was not consistent.

Zhang Yang didn't care about those cold people, and he didn't expect his arrival to be unanimously welcomed by everyone. Of course, it is not ruled out that some teammates are the kind of cold-hearted and warm-hearted type. Zhang Yang has never encountered such a person. When he was in Marseille, this kid Yasioi was like this. When he first came into contact, he looked very cool. However, after being in contact for a long time, you will find that this is also a good guy to get along with.

In fact, Dunn doesn't need to introduce it specifically. Zhang Yang may not be familiar with some of Manchester City's players, but Manchester City's players are not unfamiliar with Zhang Yang. This is one of the most terrifying scorers in football today. It seems that only Zhang Yang's teammate Kaka in Milan, Cristiano Ronaldo next door, and Messi in Barcelona can be compared with Zhang Yang.

After a round, except for a few stars who were allowed to return to the team a few days later because of playing in the European Cup, Zhang Yang met with his teammates.

When Zhang Yang analyzed the first impressions of these teammates about him, everyone also had the most intuitive first impression of Zhang Yang.

In fact, before Zhang Yang came to the team, one of the long-lasting topics when the players communicated privately was talking about Zhang Yang.

At the beginning, when it was reported that Zhang Yang might be going to join Manchester City, they all thought it was fake news. They thought it was too absurd. Zhang Yang is the hottest scorer in the world football world today. How could he come to Manchester City? Although Manchester City has the capital injection and money from the Arab consortium, in football, it is not possible to attract super stars. Just look at how hard Chelsea struggled to buy people at the beginning. Manchester City's strength and fame are not as good as Chelsea, and even a much worse influence than Chelsea at the time. How could Zhang Yang come to Manchester City? Moreover, it was exposed by the media at that time and the club publicly admitted that those who were chasing Zhang Yang were Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and even later Inter Milan also joined in. Looking at the names of these giants, Manchester City players would not believe that Zhang Yang would join Manchester City.

As for the Manchester City club at that time, it was also claiming that it was chasing Zhang Yang. The players thought it was just a hype for the club. Some players even felt that the club was not pragmatic enough. At this time, what should we do to pursue Zhang Yang? We should be more pragmatic and focus on those powerful stars who are not famous but have good strength, rather than wasting time on superstars like Zhang Yang.

If they beat them to death, they would not think that Zhang Yang would join Manchester City and would become their teammates.

Even later, when Zhang Yang publicly admitted that he was going to join Manchester City, some Manchester City players still didn't believe it, thinking that this was either media hype, or misread Zhang Yang's meaning, or Zhang Yang was angry with the Milan club.

However, the day after Zhang Yang publicly admitted that he was going to Manchester City, he appeared in Manchester. Manchester City Club Chairman Mr. Alfaim personally went to the airport to greet him and held a grand welcome party.

Manchester City had not started training at that time. Many Manchester City players were shocked when they saw the reports on this incident in newspapers, TV, and the Internet. At that time, they were finally convinced that Zhang Yang was really going to join Manchester City!

This suddenly ignited the enthusiasm of these Manchester City players to discuss Zhang Yang. Even when some players call and ask good questions, they would talk about Zhang Yang. There is no way, their new teammate is so famous.

What kind of person is Zhang Yang? What does he like to do in daily life? What is his personality and temper? Is he really as difficult to get along with as the media said? He has a rebellious personality? Some Manchester City players are still worried that their big-name new teammates will get along with him a lot.

This is also because there has always been a trend of black and black Zhang Yang in the media. Whether he was playing football in Marseille or Milan, the media always criticized Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang performed very well on the court, so they naturally could not blame Zhang Yang for her performance. However, they would say how bad Zhang Yang's temper was and how bad his personality was, that Zhang Yang was a violent maniac, that Zhang Yang was not easy to get along with, and so on. Anyway, she was so stubborn.

When in Marseille, Le Figaro was professionally singular, and when in AC Milan, The Turin Sports was also professionally singular.

In the Champions League last season, AC Milan met Arsenal and Manchester United one after another. During the two teams' confrontation, the media in London and Manchester were also very enthusiastic about Zhang Yang. They brought out negative reports about Zhang Yang in Le Figaro and Turin Sports to criticize Zhang Yang. This also made Manchester City players feel uncomfortable about Zhang Yang's first.

Of course, they also know that the media sometimes exaggerates, but so many media are saying that someone is not good, then there is still something wrong with this person.

However, although my first contact today is not very deep, it seems that Zhang Yang is not as difficult to get along with as the media said.
Chapter completed!
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