August 18th, the second round of the Portuguese Super League.
Sporting Lisbon's misfortunes never come singly, and they were held to a draw by Belensis at home.
As a result, their Portuguese Super League ranking has stabilized outside the top ten.
"Sporting Lisbon has one draw and one loss, where does the problem come from?" 》
"Ineffective recruitment!" Sporting Lisbon failed to replicate the glory of last year's signings, and the players introduced this year are mediocre! 》
"Except Ronaldinho, all members of Sporting Lisbon are in sluggish condition! 》
"Did the four-time champion overdraw all the enthusiasm of the players?" Cristiano Ronaldo missed a single, Deng Kai missed a point, Guardiola was weak! 》
"four million? The transparent midfielder Kaka is not worth a million! 》
"Incompetent Fury?" Deng Kai slapped the turf wildly in the past two games, and his teammates did not dare to get close! 》
"Five crowns are nonsense, Bayern Munich has a chance to win the European Super Cup!" 》
Sporting Lisbon's performance makes people more optimistic about Bayern.
More than 92% of fans believe Bayern can defeat Sporting Lisbon and win the cup.
But soon, some changes in this game spread.
That's the pitch of the game.
Since 1998, the European Super Cup has been hosted at the Louis II Stadium.
This stadium is the home stadium of French Ligue 1 team AS Monaco and the Monaco national football team.
It is located on land created by land reclamation from the sea, so it is small and has many spatial restrictions.
Its underground parking lot is even directly beneath the stadium turf.
Among the well-known stadiums in Europe, the Louis II Stadium is very small, and can only accommodate 18,500 spectators to watch the game.
Even if seats are temporarily added, the capacity will hardly exceed 25,000.
This was enough in the past, because the European Super Cup was not a big honor, and there was only one game every year, so there was no continuity.
But this year is different.
Although most people are optimistic about Bayern in this year's European Super Cup, the biggest gimmick has nothing to do with Bayern at all.
It’s not even a grudge between Matthaus and Bayern’s team doctors and teammates.
But if Sporting Lisbon wins the championship, it will become the first team to win five crowns in thirty years!
Second only to Ajax under Cruyff in 1972.
According to the data obtained by UEFA, at least more than 50,000 fans will definitely spend money to watch the game live.
There are more than 100,000 fans who have expressed their willingness to watch. In this part, no matter how hard it is, there can be converted into 20,000 to 30,000 fans.
The ticket revenue generated by this game is actually similar to last season's UEFA Cup final, and exceeds the level of last season's Champions League quarter-finals.
Can you believe it!
If it really can only seat two people, how much will it cost?
UEFA immediately wanted to solve this problem and choose a new stadium.
The Mansour Consortium, which has officially launched the acquisition of Manchester City Football Club, has played an active role, conducted a lot of communication between UEFA and Manchester City, and provided money to meet the needs of both parties.
Finally, the venue for this year's European Super Cup was changed from Stade Louis II to Manchester City's home ground - Maine Road Stadium.
This stadium can accommodate more than 80,000 fans to watch games. It is the second largest stadium in England after Wembley and is known as the Wembley of the North.
This incident touched Manchester City fans very much.
Before the emergence of the future Abu Dhabi Consortium and Qatar Consortium, people's financial requirements for football club owners are still relatively low.
The Mansour Consortium is already relatively wealthy for English fans.
Of course, there are many club owners in England who are richer than the Mansour consortium.
But in terms of investment, they did far less than Mansour.
Mansour's performance on the court this time was that he was very willing to invest in the team.
He even gave people a "English Moratti" feeling.
This can win the favor of fans.
Not only that, Mansour also revealed in private that if he accepted Manchester City, he would promote the construction plan of Manchester City's new stadium within two years of completing the acquisition.
This will greatly improve the local economy, employment, visibility, team prestige, team configuration, etc.
Therefore, it seems that the Mansour Consortium's acquisition of Manchester City is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Perhaps the last fire is all that is needed to bring this matter to a successful conclusion.
Of course, the outside world is generally not optimistic about the acquisition of the Mansour consortium.
Because Manchester City has lost two consecutive games in English League One.
They don't look like a team that was still playing in the Premier League last season.
If Mansour really succeeds in the acquisition, he may still play in League One next season.
Then the purchase price they are proposing now is much higher than Manchester City's value.
Will lose money.
…
One wave has not subsided, and another wave has arisen.
After the stadium problem was resolved, UEFA immediately encountered a second problem.
That was a "small request" made by the Mansour Consortium that solved the stadium problem.
As the game approaches, the Mansour Consortium hopes that some important players of Sporting Lisbon will not miss the game.
On the one hand, there is the consideration of selling tickets.
On the other hand, it is also due to Mansour’s personal hobbies.
He is a fan of a certain Sporting Lisbon player.
The relevant person in charge of UEFA has taken so much money from Mansour this time and has been a friend for a long time. Can they still refuse to agree to this small request?
They agreed, then went back to look and found the player Mansour requested.
Deng Kai!
In the UEFA Cup semi-finals last season, in the match between Sporting Lisbon and Barcelona, Deng Kai received a red card and was suspended for three additional games due to bad behavior.
However, after Sporting Lisbon appealed, Deng Kai finally successfully appeared on the pitch in the UEFA Cup final and led the team to defeat Liverpool and win the Triple Crown.
The reason at the time was that Deng Kai was under the age of sixteen. To protect minors, the relevant punishment could not take effect until he turned sixteen.
And now, Deng Kai is sixteen years and nineteen days old!
The European Super Cup is also a competition under UEFA. It stands to reason that Deng Kai will be suspended.
This is indeed a problem.
But when you get money, you have to do something. UEFA quickly came up with a response plan through a meeting.
They have made some reforms and explorations for this year's European Super Cup.
The purpose is to present the most exciting game to the fans.
Aspects of reform and exploration include:
Choose a bigger stadium so more fans can see the game.
Expand the types of live broadcast media, such as giving preferential treatment to new online media such as "Knowing the Football King".
Increased the quota of traditional live broadcast media and broadened international influence.
Sponsor channels have been added to give more sponsor opportunities.
and temporary relaxations of disciplinary regulations, among others.
As we all know, the fewer the words, the more important the content.
The further back something is, sometimes the more central it is.
As for the last provision of "temporary relaxation of disciplinary regulations", some media conducted a careful study and found out something strange.
"Without changing the nature of the European Super Cup, temporary amnesties will be granted to players from both sides, suspensions of coaching staff, and banning of fans from entering the stadium to watch the game."
What's the meaning?
This means that Deng Kai, Pepe, Maxa and others who have been banned can all participate.
For a time, the German media shouted unfair.
"Bild" publicly criticized UEFA for creating flexible employment for Deng Kai, oh no... a flexible suspension system!
Think this is a destruction of UEFA's credibility.
(End of chapter)
