Football: Banned for life, forced to travel to Europe

Chapter 728 Welcome to the Premier League

Just two and a half hours after Chelsea's terrifying eight-game winning streak, Manchester City also won eight consecutive Premier League victories. They defeated third-ranked Everton 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium, biting Chelsea .

This time, there was no debate about who would stop Chelsea and Manchester City, as the two teams were due to go head to head at the Etihad Stadium just a week later.

Is Guardiola leading the team to break the curse of Chelsea's invincibility in three seasons, or can Mourinho continue the record?

Answers in a week!

Mourinho and Guardiola are the two most topical head coaches in world football today, and the two actually have a deep relationship.

As early as 1996, Mourinho followed Bobby Robson to Barcelona to coach as an interpreter. Two seasons later, Bobby Robson switched to PSV Eindhoven, but Mourinho did not leave. Van Gaal's translation and teaching assistant.

At that time, Guardiola was still a player and the captain of Barcelona. In the past five years, the two teamed up to help Barcelona win two La Liga titles, two Spanish King's Cup titles, one European Super Cup title and one European Cup Winners' Cup title. .

During this period, the relationship between the two was good, and they often discussed football tactics together, which can be regarded as a pair of close friends.

The conflict arose in 2008, when Rijkaard left, Barcelona needed a new head coach, Mourinho happened to be fired by Chelsea, and the two were linked.

During the winter break of the 07-08 season, Barcelona's vice-chairman Ingra and sports manager Begiristan visited Lisbon and visited Mourinho.

This meeting allowed the two sides to reach an agreement on many issues. Mourinho is very interested in returning to the Nou Camp, and Barcelona promised that Cruyff’s opposition will not have any impact on Mourinho’s entry. Influence.

Then Mourinho made a detailed cleaning and signing plan and gave it to Barcelona's top management in the form of a disc. This is the famous "Disc Gate".

It included bringing in a midfielder, a full-back and a centre-back, with Keita, Lampard, Maicon, Lahm, Alves and Garay all on it.Then it is to right Messi, clean Ronaldinho, Zambrotta and Deco and so on.

As we all know, the reason for the disintegration of Barcelona Dream II is the conflict in the locker room, and this cleaning plan is also considered the right way.

Mourinho also asked for a well-known Barcelona player to join the coaching staff, Guardiola and Enrique are both on the list.

The two sides talked very happily, but when it came to the stage of negotiating the contract, Barcelona suddenly officially announced Guardiola as the head coach of the first team, saying that he was more in line with Barcelona's tradition and was also the candidate chosen by Cruyff.

Forget it, but the subsequent operation of Barcelona is very similar to the disc provided by Mourinho. Ronaldinho and Zambrotta left Barcelona and switched to AC Milan, Deco was sold to Chelsea, and Scola Barcelona also brought in Keita and Alves, both of whom happen to be on Mourinho's recommendation list...

Now Mourinho exploded, completely broke with Barcelona, ​​turned around and joined the more sincere Inter Milan.Everyone knows what happened next. After one season, Inter Milan stepped on the corpse of Barcelona to win the Champions League and won the first Triple Crown in the history of Serie A.

Just to add a word, different people have different opinions on the true and false of "CD Gate". Anyway, Barcelona officials don't recognize it. They don't even admit that they contacted Mourinho. They must say that Mourinho recommended himself, and they went to Lisbon...

In fact, at the beginning, Barcelona's top executives even made a list of coaches to allow fans to participate in voting. After all, it is a membership club. As a result, Mourinho's vote rate was the first!

The next thing is that Barcelona's top executives fly to Lisbon to have an interview with Mourinho. Almost all Barcelona fans think that Mourinho will definitely enter the Nou Camp. Everyone rejoices, and then Cruyff intervenes strongly. Finally, Barcelona officially announced Without Guardiola, everyone feels that the sky is falling...

Of course, it was really fragrant afterwards!

This is not important, Mourinho's CD does exist, and there were many authoritative media at the time, such as "French Football", which reported the incident and clearly mentioned the CD.

This is not surprising. After all, Mourinho is known for his attention to detail. When he met Abramovich for the first time, he took out dozens of pages of proposals, which included the analysis and details of each Chelsea player. The signing plan, which moved Abramovich.

However, it is obviously nonsense to say that Barcelona Dream III was established by Mourinho based on only one CD. This is equivalent to denying the strength of those players in Barcelona Dream III. Some extreme fan comments are really ignorant.

But the beams of Mourinho, Barcelona and Guardiola are settled!

After that, Mourinho and Guardiola played against each other fifteen times. Mourinho was at a disadvantage with a record of three wins, five draws and seven losses, but the three games he won helped Mourinho win three. a champion.

The UEFA Champions League group stage in the 09-10 season was the first head-to-head confrontation between the two. Inter Milan was 0-0 at home and 2-0 away. With one draw and one loss, Inter Milan could only advance to the round of [-] as the second place in the group.

Then in the semi-finals, the two teams met again, Inter Milan was 3-1 at home and 1-0 away, with one win and one loss, but advanced to the final!There is also a famous scene-Professor Bu peeping...

Later, Mourinho coached Real Madrid. In the first season, the two sides played against each other five times. Mourinho had one win, two draws and two losses. He still suffered a humiliating 0-5 loss at home. He was also eliminated by Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Champions League. But Real Madrid won a Copa del Rey that season.

In the second year, Mourinho and Guardiola played against each other six times, with one win, two draws and three losses. Mourinho was still at a disadvantage, but he snatched the La Liga title from the flourishing Barcelona, ​​and then Guardiola left Barcelona, ​​and the two haven't faced each other head-to-head since.

So both Mourinho and Guardiola attach great importance to this game. From the moment the game with Leicester City ended, Mourinho was studying how to defeat Guardiola.

Manchester City is still running in, their strengths and weaknesses are obvious, Mourinho is full of confidence, he used to challenge Guardiola as a weak side, now he has finally become a strong side, he has to welcome himself This old friend of...

Just when Mourinho secretly wanted to surprise Guardiola, Wishing took the lead in being interviewed by the media.

"Manchester City? I love this team so much, I love the Etihad Stadium too, I have fond memories there, I prefer the Manchester City fans, as I said earlier, they are very supportive of me, Chelsea's No. .14 ​​people."

No reporter would believe the nonsense of making a wish. They all know what making a wish means, and someone mentioned Guardiola.

"Guardiola? He is a good coach, but I will give him a big gift with practical actions."

Wishing smiled, showing his big white teeth, "Welcome to the Premier League!"