Chapter 4: Declare war on superstars

"This is a manuscript specially prepared for you by the public relations department."

Just as Gao Shen followed Raul to the administrative office of the Bernabeu Stadium, sports director Floro greeted him.

Floro once coached Real Madrid in 199394, but he was fired after being exposed by the media because he yelled at the players in the locker room. After that, he went to many teams to coach. Succeeded, but then got the backing of someone on the board to become Real Madrid's sporting director.

In the eyes of most fans, the high-end atmosphere and star-studded Real Madrid are different. Real Madrid in reality is actually quite chaotic, and the interior is also full of various entanglements of interests.

Take the management system as an example.

There is a general manager under the club president, as well as a little-known chairman's office, which is equivalent to the chairman's private think tank, usually helmed by the chairman's most trusted confidant, such as the director of the chairman's office in Florentino It was Manuel Redondo, his secretary who had been with him for decades.

The general manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the club. Below are several different departments, including the sports department, which has a sports director. In theory, the sports director is responsible for all sports affairs, including the basketball department and the football department.

When Florentino took over as chairman, the sports director was the former Real Madrid hero Valdano, but then the performance was poor, and Valdano stepped down. Florentino hired world-class coach Sacchi. As the technical director, he is directly responsible to the chairman.

In this way, the technical director is almost at the same level as the general manager, but since he is only in charge of the football department, many competitive affairs need to be handled by one person, so Floro became the sports director.

But soon there was a problem again.

Because of the poor performance of the team, the head coach Luisenberg and the technical director Sacchi stepped down, and the technical director was concurrently served by the vice chairman Butragueno. He was also the head of the public relations department, and he did not have so much energy to worry about it. There were so many things to do, so only the first team was taken, and the second team and the youth team were handed over to Floro, the sports director.

This situation only lasted for three months, Florentino announced his resignation, and the new chairman Martin took office.

So now Real Madrid's internal management is a mess.

The team lost 0-1 at home to Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League, and the second leg at Highbury became crucial; before that, the weekend derby against Atletico Madrid was also unbeatable, and the league results were also under great pressure. .

At this time, the new chairman Martin also fired Carlo and appointed Gao Shen, which made everyone even more anxious.

At this moment, everyone in the Real Madrid office is thinking about one thing, and that is how to resolve the pressure of public opinion from the outside world.

To put it simply, it is to help the new chairman clean his ass.

In any case, the new chairman also represents the image and interests of Real Madrid.

Therefore, no one would pay any attention to Gao Shen.

After Floro handed over the manuscript prepared by the PR department to Gao Shen, he just instructed him, "Don't be nervous when you come to the stage later, just read it according to the manuscript. As for the question-and-answer session, we have also arranged it."

In his opinion, Gao Shen is just a fledgling rookie.

No one around paid attention to Gao Shen, and no one from the public relations department even came to tell Gao Shen. Later, he came to the stage, what could be said and what could not be said.

Everyone treats him as a tool for reading manuscripts on stage!

Gao Shen knew that he was a soft talker and was not taken seriously, but he didn't take it to heart. He took the manuscript to a corner where no one was paying attention, and found that it was all empty talk and nothing dry.

With a manuscript of this level, before he crossed over, he would be able to play it on the spot for half an hour without repetition.

This is the first time to face the media as Real Madrid head coach. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to speak out. Just reading the manuscript?

joke!

Gao Shen tore up the manuscript and threw it directly into the trash can next to it.

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The press conference attracted many media reporters, but the process was the same as Gao Shen guessed.

At the meeting, the new chairman Martin repeatedly emphasized that he chose Gao Shen as the head coach after careful consideration. He said that he had observed Gao Shen for a long time, and he believed that Gao Shen had the ability and courage to lead Real Madrid out of the predicament.

He emphasized that Gao Shen graduated from Loughborough University, which is the No. 1 university in the global sports world. Gao Shen achieved excellent academic performance during his school days, and also performed well in the internship period of Real Madrid. He was promoted to the first team by exception and accumulated experience with the team. .

This made Gao Shen, who sat upright next to him, feel a little ashamed. He didn't even know that he was so good and so valued by the leaders.

Thinking about it, it's still too low-key.

This is still to blame for the national football team. It stinks too much, causing the Chinese people to seriously lack confidence in football.

All in all, Martin has collected a lot of evidence to prove to everyone that his choice of high-level is serious, not a so-called farce, and the starting point is that he feels that Real Madrid needs to carry out an impulsive, drastic and traumatic game. reform.

"From 2003 to the present, we haven't won even a single championship, which is unacceptable in any case. Even we are likely to stop in the Champions League round of 16 for two consecutive seasons, which is unsatisfactory."

"We all know that our team is sick, very seriously. Our team needs surgery, a major surgery."

Afterwards, Martin bragged about Gao Shentong again, believing that his youth and dynamism are exactly what Real Madrid need most now.

After the chairman and technical director Butragueno, Gao Shen also spoke as Real Madrid head coach for the first time.

In fact, it's just a memorandum.

The whole speech expounded Gao Shen's current Real Madrid status quo and the solutions he envisaged.

After Gao Shen finished reciting, the reaction of the on-site media reporters was also very dull.

These people are all well-informed and play with pens. Do they know if they have any good stuff?

After Gao Shen memorized the manuscript, he entered the free questioning session.

Don't look at the many people who raised their hands below, but there are obviously routines. For example, the first named is a reporter from Real Madrid TV, one of his own, the second is a reporter from Aspen, who is also his own, and the third is Ma The reporter of the card newspaper is still my own, and the fourth is the reporter of the national newspaper, still my own...

The reporters asked serious questions, and the people on the stage answered seriously.

Gao Shen was not in a hurry and waited patiently for the opportunity.

He believed that with the cunning of the media reporters, they would ask him sooner or later.

Sure enough, the subsequent rounds of questions gradually became sharper, and some reporters even directly asked Martin what he said on the board of directors, that more than half of the incompetent players should be fired.

But this time Martin was obviously cowardly, and he was sloppy.

The media reporter was of course dissatisfied, so he aimed at Gao Shen next to him.

Young people are easily impulsive.

First, there were two frivolous questions in succession, such as how to think about coaching Real Madrid. These are all expected.

But soon, trouble came.

"Gao, I'm a reporter from Catalan Daily Sports. Chairman Mr. Martin said on the board of directors that more than half of Real Madrid's players have failed and should be cleaned out of the team. As the executor of this policy, You have received great expectations from the president and management, how do you plan to implement this policy? How do you lead Real Madrid out of the current predicament?"

As soon as this question came out, there was an uproar at the scene, and the media reporters in the audience became excited as if they were beaten up.

Gao Shen is not a rookie just out of school. How can he not hear the trap in his words?

He pretended to ponder, and at the same time secretly turned his head to look at the press officer, who secretly winked and shook his head at him, indicating that he should not answer directly, even Butragueno on the side smelled something wrong and thought that Gao Shen could not In response to such a scene, for fear that he would say the wrong thing, he wanted to resolve the predicament first.

But at this moment, Gao Shen spoke up.

"Although I only came to Real Madrid for seven months, I have already deeply felt the history of this club."

Gao Shen's opening was quite satisfactory, but the conversation soon changed.

"I know that the performance of the first team is not ideal, some players even make us doubt whether he is qualified to wear the Real Madrid shirt, and in our youth team, there is a group of very good, very young and dynamic, and at the same time Players who are very loyal to the club, I know them and I want to give them more opportunities."

Gao Shen's remarks surprised Martin, Butragueno and others sitting on the podium. This is not the content of the speech. What is he trying to do?

Who gave him such reckless courage?

But Gao Shen continued.

"I will use facts to prove that Real Madrid is Real Madrid because of solidarity and the spirit of Juanito who gave his last breath, not one person or some people in the team! I always insist , In Real Madrid, all players are equal, no one is qualified to be special, no matter who he is!"

Gao Shen's remarks were so loud that the press conference hall was instantly fried.

All the media reporters have read too much information from these short sentences.

Is this to declare war on the superstars?

Compared with the excitement of the media reporters, the Real Madrid people at the scene, including Raul, including Butragueno, including Martin, were all stunned. UU reading www.uukanshu.com was even a little scared. Can you say such a thing? Can you speak in front of so many media reporters?

Six years!

The superstar policy has always been the political correctness of Real Madrid!

Now, the head coach of Real Madrid, although he is only acting as an agent, has declared war on the superstars in public. Is this trying to subvert it?

If the media reporter just wanted to take a bullet from Gao Shen's mouth before, then Gao Shen now directly dropped a missile, causing everyone to be confused.

The new chairman, Martin, was even more shocked. He turned his head to look at Butragueno, as if to ask: How did your PR department do? Didn't you have a good line with him before?

Butragueno was also stunned. Gao Shen's sudden move caught them off guard.

After feeling the anger of the new chairman, Butragueno turned to look at Floro, what did you tell him? Don't you mean to read according to the manuscript? Why did you say so much out of the script?

Floro was also stunned. He didn't expect that Gao Shen would act so boldly and declare war on the superstar in front of so many media reporters. What is he trying to do?

Is this kid crazy?

When Martin saw the expressions of Butragueno and Floro, he knew it in his heart. Then he looked at Gao Shen, and his eyes became different.

Fortunately, this kid was like a stuffy gourd before, and he was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, waiting for this opportunity!

It's alright now. His remarks directly pierced a hole in the sky. Everything was laid out on the table, and he even kidnapped himself, forcing him to endorse his platform.

Don't say anything else, he now comes forward to say that Gao Shen's words were not at his own instigation, who would believe it?

The eagle, who has played all his life, has been pecked by the bird and hurt his eyes.

Miscalculated!