Chapter 10 Media Response
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"Chairman, you must give me an explanation!" Magath came to the club's general manager's office angrily, sitting on the chair, as if I was not satisfied and would not leave.
Hoffman was shocked. A newspaper was placed in front of him, which was today's sports newspaper. It reported a large number of excellent performances of Ling Feng and Hao Haidong in yesterday's game, which made Hoffman feel that he still has a great chance of winning the championship this year.
But when he was happy, the head coach ran to him in anger without even a notification.
"I said, old guy, why are you so angry? Didn't Ling and Hao perform very well yesterday?" Hoffman asked tentatively. He knew that Magath had a bad temper, and probably Hollerbach had offended him again.
It would be fine if he didn't mention Ling Feng. Hoffman mentioned that he made Magath even more furious. He jumped up suddenly, almost pointing at Hoffman's nose and shouting: "Don't mention those two Chinese to me, Mr. Chairman, now the Hamburg team has them or not, and if there is me, they will both have to roll the bed and get out of here!"
"God, what happened?" The first thing that flashed in Hoffman's mind when he heard this was a damn bird that was about to smash the big pie on his head was running away.
"Anyway, I'll just say this. I can't take the player Ling, he's too arrogant! Such a big-name player can only destroy the unity of the team in our team!" Magath said confidently to Hoffman, as if his usual swearing is not destroying the unity of the team.
"Old guy, calm down and make it clear." There was a conflict between the head coach and the team's number one star. Hoffman did not dare to neglect and asked hurriedly.
If Margaret is here to complain, no one believes it. After he went back last night, he prepared the words for the whole night, which was used to tell Hoffman today that the Chairman would get this guy who was disobedient to discipline.
As soon as he heard Hoffman's questioning, Magath's spirit suddenly came up, and he added fuel to the fire and said how arrogant Ling Feng was and how he was not accepting discipline. He also promised that no head coach could take care of this guy.
He is now big and has a big airline, so he can't take the head coach seriously at all, which is very different from when he was not famous at Saint-Germain.
Magath spitted for two hours, saying that Ling Feng's bad habits were everywhere underground. Anyway, he was a super bully, almost stealing the lollipop of a three-year-old child - basically in Magath's heart and mouth, Ling Feng was already equated with Satan.
Hoffman hesitated and finally came a superstar. His performance in the first game was completely in line with his strength. Excluding more than 95% of Magath's words, Ling Feng did nothing but forcing Magath to let another Chinese player appear. He had some doubts about Magath's tactical arrangements, and let his Chinese compatriots punish a penalty - that's all.
He watched the last game in front of the TV. The Chinese player who came with Ling Feng performed well. He scored a goal at the beginning but was awarded offside. He created the penalty. It was natural for him to punish him. Maybe Ling Feng didn't care about Magath's feelings (Ling Feng: I just did it on purpose, what are you doing?), so Magath couldn't get out of the stage - in general, it was not an irreconcilable dispute.
At this time, the chairman will have to smooth things over. Although Magath had a poor performance as a coach, he was a hero of Hamburg's Champions League that year, so he had to give him some face. As for Ling Feng, he couldn't let it go. Finally, a big-name star came, and there was hope for winning the championship this year. If Magath led the group of mobs, I wonder what this year's league would be like?
After thinking about it, Hoffman's face was still full of smiles. He personally handed Magath a cup of coffee to moisten his thirsty throat. He just said passionately for two hours, but it would be strange if his throat didn't work. Then he smiled and said, "Old guy, don't care like this. Big-name players always have their own personalities, and they are not targeting you. Ling is the kind of aggressive player who can't play his advantages in the defensive lineup, so some friction is inevitable."
Although Hoffman said it very tactfully, Magath still heard what he meant, that is, his playing style was too conservative.
Indeed, if Mancini pursues the style of 1:00,000, then Magat is the kind of coach who has a good time for 0:00, and he will be in charge of Bayern in the future. Although he won two Bundesliga championships in two seasons, given that Bayern won the championship is not news, and not winning the championship is news, Magat still has nothing to praise. Even the sarcastic media believe that as long as he gets a coaching license, he can help Bayern win the league championship.
Under such circumstances, the Champions League became the target of Bayern's competition. Unfortunately, under the leadership of Magath, Bayern's big names performed in the Champions League just like Chinese Super League players in the national team, and they didn't even touch the side of the Champions League.
No one would say that Bayern has a poor lineup. The media kept pointing their guns at Magath. His conservative tactics ruined Bayern - even Bayern Munich thinks so - so Magath became the first coach in Bayern history to win two consecutive championships and be cheated.
"I don't care anyway," Magath did not dare to lose his temper with the chairman: "Now, I can only keep one of them and the Chinese in the Hamburg team. You can do it, Chairman. As long as I am the head coach, I will not let Ling Feng appear again!"
After Magath finished speaking, he patted his butt and left, leaving Hoffman with a hot cup and a look of surprise.
Without saying a word, Hoffman immediately summoned the club's senior management to discuss this issue. According to the current situation, Magath and Ling Feng have become incompatible.
The club's senior management was also divided into three factions, one faction supported Magath. These people were witnesses of the glorious period of Hamburg back then. They had more or less friendship with Magath, and some of them were his teammates back then, but the fewest people were in this faction; the neutral faction had the most people, and they advocated a peaceful solution, but at present it seemed that the effect was not much different from the probability of laying eggs by a rooster; the other faction was supported by Ling Feng, and these people had a deep understanding of Magath's cruelty and unpopularity. If they were to say that Ling Feng took things up, they would not believe it even if they were beaten to death. Besides, the same sentence was that coaches like Magath grabbed a lot of Bundesliga, and there was only one player like Ling Feng. If they didn't eat it, they would cause heaven to punish them!
The three factions were quarreling endlessly, and Hoffman himself was very hesitant, so he could only temporarily disperse the meeting and wait and see the changes - to put it bluntly, he just wanted to see where the wind fell and then put the blame on the insult.
Since this is an internal matter of the team, and Hamburg has just won a big victory, the media have not smelled any unusual smell.
Ling Feng still goes to training as usual every day. Magath goes to a little less often than Ling Feng. Neither of them pays attention to each other. Although the reporters on the training ground are a little curious, they don’t take it seriously - because Ling Feng’s relationship with other teammates is very good, who would have thought that he is having a conflict with the head coach?
But soon, the media smelled something wrong.
In the second round of the Bundesliga, Hamburg faces Freiburg at home, with 50,000 home seats at AOL Arena Stadium full. Hamburg fans want to see with their own eyes how Ling Feng, who just joined, led Hamburg to destroy this rookie team who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga at home.
The result of the game was undisputed 2:0. Freiburg's strength was really bad, but to the dissatisfaction of the fans, the media was surprised that Ling Feng and Hao Haidong did not even make the roster. Both of them did not even attend the game during the game?
After the game, Magath explained the reasons for the injury of the two, and immediately changed the conversation, which made the media smell a little unusual.
In recent days, Ling Feng and Hao Haidong have been participating in the team's training, and there was no sign of injury. In addition, they and Magath did not talk to each other, and the reporters immediately thought of the biggest possibility - the generals and coaches were incompatible.
This is big news!
The ace players had conflicts with the head coach after the first game, which made the German media focus all their attention on Hamburg.
Magath did not express any opinion on this matter, and Ling Feng just said lightly in the interview: "The coach has his own arrangements." However, when the reporters asked Ling Feng if this was the case, Ling Feng neither admitted nor denied it. He just smiled faintly and left.
This is what Siyue taught him. People are always very curious about unknown matters, especially the reporters who make a living by relying on this. The more ambiguous they do, the more they will become more interested and the greater the potential they will discover.
Afterwards, this was indeed a good method. For a time, reporters from various media large and small gathered Hamburg to launch a detailed and meticulous investigation into the case of "disagreement between generals and generals" in Hamburg.
The day after the match against Freiburg, all the headlines in newspapers of all sizes were:
"The Chinese Star failed to appear, and the discord between the generals and the generals triggered a unsolved case?";
"Chinese two stars were injured together, fans were dissatisfied with winning at home";
"Magat claims: Ling and Hao are injured and cannot appear";
"A player who did not want to be named in Hamburg claimed that Ling and Hao were injured was purely false";
"Ling Feng said he was not injured, but Magath has other arrangements?";
"Ace Stars and Hot Coaches - The Story That Have to Watch";
"The core of the offensive is dissatisfied with Magath's defensive strategy, is Hamburg's offense or defense?";
"Magath is unpopular and has backward tactics - the voice of Hamburg players"
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Magath felt like he was going crazy. The media always caused a lot of trouble because of big things. Now, as soon as he went out, countless media followed and interviewed. The day before yesterday, he just gave an old man on the roadside a penny. Just because the old man was a little bald, he was widely publicized by reporters. The next day, he saw the new front page of the newspaper - "Magath met with Beckenbauer in private, and Ling Feng is expected to transfer to Bayern."
What made Magath most angry was that Ling Feng was not harassed?!
Although Ling Feng comes to participate in the team's training every day, whenever a large group of reporters gather to interview the players and him after the training, no one dares to go to Ling Feng. When Ling Feng wants to be interviewed, he will take the initiative to call a reporter, and then all the reporters from the entire training ground will run to him.
The gap! I'm afraid that only Ling Feng can do this in the history of football and even in the entire Hall of Fame.
However, the media only speculated about the news of the two's disagreement and did not provide any evidence. The so-called "a player who did not want to be named in Hamburg" refers to the reporter himself. In order to attract the attention of readers, he has also seen many such things as fake fabrication.
During this period, Hoffman also came to talk to Magath, hoping that he and Ling Feng could take a step back and everyone was happy. After all, Ling Feng has not yet spoken bad things about Magath and the news of the two's disagreement in front of the media.
Originally, under the pressure of the media, Magath had some idea of reconciliation, but after Hoffman said this, Magath's anger suddenly surged up again. What does Ling Feng have never said bad things about him? It seems that he owes Ling Feng. After saying three sentences, Magath issued an order to expel Hoffman.
The first sentence: Why did he tell the media that I wronged him?
The second sentence: In the team, my coach has the final say!
The third sentence: I will emphasize again, he and I can only keep one, you can do it!
Hoffman is very dissatisfied with Magath's attitude. He is the chairman of the club and comes to you as a small head coach. Do you think your achievements in the past as a player can still become the capital you are now? He actually shouted at the chairman's victory.
However, Hoffman is also a mature person and is not shown on his face. The balance in his heart is broken in an instant. With Magath's attitude, let alone a big-name player like Ling Feng, even if he is a player, he can't stand Magath's anger.
In the third game of the Bundesliga, under pressure, Magath had to put Ling Feng on the bench list, while Hao Haidong was still not included in the roster.
This game was a away game against Rostock. In the 20th minute of the first half, the home team led the score through free kicks. However, unexpectedly, although Hamburg's offensive strengthened in the second half, Magath even arranged the formation of three forwards, but still did not replace Ling Feng.
Until the end of the game, the score was still 1:0, and Hamburg lost the away game.
Chapter completed!