Football: Starting with managing Manchester United

"Manchester United achieved a complete victory, a winning streak, a crushing victory, a continuous winning streak, starting strong, continuing strong, relentlessly attacking, leaving Liverpool speechless, slaughtering England!"

"Manchester United were lucky, fortunate, and fortunate to have stumbled upon this victory. They were just lucky, stumbled upon it by chance, unintentionally, escaped death, survived by the skin of their teeth, escaped with their lives, survived a near-death experience, turned danger into safety, escaped with their lives, survived a disaster, took a chance, left it to fate, and used opportunistic tactics to defeat Arsenal with three goals from three shots!"

Listening to the commentary from two neutral anchors.

Zhang Yang happily started wriggling on the bed.

"Hahaha!"

As he laughed, he felt a bit short of breath, and suddenly everything went black before his eyes. His head felt like it was being pricked by needles, and waves of pain kept coming.

It took him a while to come to his senses.

"Boss, boss! Are you alright? Your phone's ringing!"

As Zhang Yang listened to the authentic Cheshire accent, the darkness before his eyes gradually faded, revealing a large face.

who am I?

where am I?

What am I doing?

I'm Zhang Yang, a Manchester United fan, and I'm watching a neutral commentator's analysis.

I...I think I laughed until I was breathless.

My head, which had just calmed down, started throbbing again, and fragments of memories flashed through my mind like a slideshow.

I am Zhang Yang, 32 years old, a graduate student of the Cologne Sports Academy, and an outstanding graduate of the 53rd class of the Hines-Weisweiler program. I was the only person in my class to get a perfect score in the professional coach qualification exam.

I am a former Aston Villa youth academy coach, Ferguson's assistant coach, and Manchester United youth team head coach.

a year ago.

After a year of holding a UEFA A-level license, he applied for and completed the course for a Pro-level license, based on his experience coaching top youth teams.

The license renewal was just approved a few days ago.

"Boss, phone call!"

Jesse Lingard pointed to the ostentatious pocket.

"Okay." Zhang Yang pushed himself up from the ground, took out his iPhone 5, and answered the call. "Hello."

"Zhang, come to conference room number three right now, quickly, it's very important."

A rough, anxious voice came through the phone, and then the call ended.

Zhang Yang glanced at the screen.

Warren Joyce, the coach of Manchester United's U19 team, has a good relationship with him.

Let's check the time again.

April 14, 2014, is his birthday.

"What's wrong?"

Zhang Yang rubbed his head again, finally calming down.

That's right.

He crossed.

but.

"system?"

Zhang Yang's heartfelt words received no response.

"Boss, I might know what it is. We lost to Bayern Munich a few days ago and are out of the Champions League, right?"

Lingard's eyes gleamed with excitement.

"I saw in the news that Moyes has been sacked. The team wanted Giggs to take over, but... guess what happened?"

Seeing that Zhang Yang didn't respond, she just quietly watched him.

Lingard chuckled and continued, "He was having an affair with his brother's wife again, and his brother ran him over with his car, breaking his right leg. He probably can't be the interim head coach anymore."

In that case...

Lingard looked at Zhang Yang, who was still a little confused.

The youth team head coach is the most promising candidate.

Because Manchester United has many players with PRO licenses.

Zhang Yang is most familiar with Sir Alex Ferguson's system and also has a good relationship with the first-team players.

"Does this mean I won't be loaned out next season?"

Lingard seemed to see a bright future ahead of him: goals, cheers, superstars, beautiful women, and luxury cars. He urged, "Boss, you'd better get over there!"

"Okay." Zhang Yang nodded and headed towards conference room number three, following his memory.

He took ten minutes to walk a five-minute distance.

I also gained a basic understanding of his current situation.

As a Manchester United fan, I imagine myself traveling back in time to coach Manchester United.

That's really good.

"I might face a test first."

Zhang Yang recalled what problems existed at Manchester United under Moyes' management in April 2014.

And how to solve it.

The countless articles, materials, and data he had previously read on Zhihu, Tieba, and various forums were gradually becoming clearer.

Is this his system?

Push open the door.

Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman of Manchester United, who looks like a dwarf from "The Lord of the Rings".

Sir Alex Ferguson, the club's honorary chairman for life.

Club co-chairman Avram Glazer.

According to COO Michael Bollingbrook.

An Asian man around thirty-two years old, with black eyes and neat short hair, a classic Asian handsome man.

But what's most surprising is his strong physique.

They acted like professional athletes, but they knew Zhang Yang well because his resume was right in front of them.

Zhang Yang has no professional playing experience; he is a true academic.

Before coaching Manchester United's youth team, he was an Aston Villa youth academy coach, leading the team to the Premier League U21 title.

He later joined Sir Alex Ferguson's team as a tactical analysis coach.

He then coached Manchester United's youth academy team and achieved good results.

But these are not the reasons why they chose to be flamboyant.

After all, he is too young.

Giggs was the management's first choice, but they never expected this.

Giggs still has an on-and-off relationship with his brother's wife.

As a result, the brothers turned against each other. On his way home after having an affair, he was hit by his younger brother's car and his leg was broken.

Experienced relegation fighters like Allardyce and Hughes are unwilling to take on Manchester United's mess.

There's nothing we can do.

The only option was to approach Zhang Yang, the head coach of the youth team, and have the team return to Ferguson's system to stabilize the situation.

Moreover, Zhang Yang only needs to lead the team to complete the last few rounds of the league at the end of the season.

Manchester United's management has resigned themselves to their fate.

This season's Champions League was a failure.

They're seventh in the league; if they pull through, they just need to make it into the Europa League zone.

They've given up on the Champions League qualification.

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Zhang Yang stood in the sunset and greeted everyone with a smile.

He is slowly adapting to his new identity.

"Zhang, why don't you sit down and talk?"

Sir Alex Ferguson nodded.

After Zhang Yang sat down across the table, Woodward spoke, "Zhang, your performance in the youth team has been outstanding, as we all know. Now you have an opportunity in front of you—the opportunity to become the head coach of a Premier League powerhouse."

Successful businesspeople never reveal their needs.

Because that would allow others to raise prices arbitrarily.

"I am honored."

Zhang Yang didn't show much surprise.

Ferguson nodded slightly.

Because of what happened with Dong Fangzhuo, he doesn't trust Chinese players very much.

But Zhang Yang's results were simply too good.

And he's not even a player.

It tempted him so much that he hired him into the team.

Since Zhang Yang joined his team, he has always remained calm and has never lost his composure.

Yet this is the kind of person who has an indescribable love for football.

A person whose heart is filled with thunder but whose face remains calm as a still lake?

Ferguson recalled the calligraphy scroll that the owner had hung in the Chinese restaurant when he ate there before.

"Could you share your thoughts on the club right now?"

Woodward asked a question.

Zhang Yang fell into deep thought.

First of all, he certainly can't say, "Damn it, it's because of you bunch of clueless managers that Manchester United is in such a stalemate."

They also wanted to shift the blame onto Moyes as much as possible.

Having spent years as a corporate slave, he knows his boss all too well.

It's the same both domestically and internationally.

This is human nature.