Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1887 Five Star Hotel

For a team to be successful, in addition to excellent players, superb technical and tactical play, a good locker room atmosphere, perfect logistics, reasonable meals and scientific training, there is also a very important point, that is, the football team. team management.

In this regard, Manchester United is undoubtedly the best in the world. Ferguson has absolute authority in the club. Not to mention the obedience of the players, even the club owner cannot question him.

This is best reflected in the team's home games.

Generally, when a team plays an away game, the team needs to go there one or two days in advance, then stay in a hotel, take a bus after a good rest, and go to the stadium together to prepare for the start of the game.

Home games are relatively easy because the players live locally.

Therefore, when most teams play at home, the players will live at home one day before, and then go to the training base to meet up the next day. They will simply warm up, adjust their status, arrange tactics, boost morale, and put their bodies and spirits together After the state is adjusted, we will take the bus to the stadium together.

It can be seen from this that the home game has a more obvious advantage than the away game.Not only the on-site cheering of the home fans, the key is that the pre-match preparations can be more adequate.

This is just common practice.

But the management masters represented by Ferguson are different. He needs to be stricter and more focused.

The day before the game, the players were not allowed to go home!

What if the player goes home and fights fiercely with his girlfriend at night, exhausting his energy and wasting energy?What's more, what if the players go to bars or nightclubs to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble?
This will seriously affect the player's game state the next day!
The most typical negative example is Ronaldinho.

His private life is too bad. This guy loves to pick up girls. Before every game, he has to shoot a few times on women. It seems that this way he can also score goals during the game.He also loves clubbing and music. At the peak of his career, he often played all night before the game, and then went to the game the next day with a hangover and alcohol.

The football environment in Spain, France, and Italy is basically the same, which is related to the social atmosphere of the country.

In this regard, the UK is better.

Mainly because there are enough paparazzi.

With the supervision of the media, the players dare not go too far.

Especially Ferguson, who is like a British football emperor, has personal connections all over the football industry.Rooney sneaked to a bar in Liverpool and had a drink. The next day, Ferguson called him into his office and yelled at him, just like Ming Yiwei.

A large part of the success of Ferguson's Manchester United comes from his strong management of the team.

During the home game, the players are not allowed to go home the day before the game. They have to live in a hotel arranged by a unified organization, and they are not allowed to go out, let alone see their girlfriends.

Ferguson is an iron-fisted manager, and he has to honestly recharge his batteries in the hotel to prepare for the next day's game!
Under this model, the players of the home team will reach a very high level in terms of mental state, mental state, physical state and physical state, far surpassing the players of the visiting team.

Of course, there will be better performance during the game.

Old Trafford became the devil's home.

This kind of management is the culture of Manchester United. Zhou Buqi is very supportive and must stick to it. Even if Ferguson retires, this tradition cannot be changed.

Which player dares to be a stabbing head, even if it is a player at the level of Neymar and Hazard, he must win if he should win!

However, this model used to be fine, and now there are some small problems.

Manchester City is on the rise!
Under the frequent purchases of local tyrants in the Middle East, Manchester City is getting stronger and stronger, and it is already possible to compete with Manchester United for the Premier League title this year!
In the Manchester area, among the local fans, the proportion of Manchester City fans is even higher.

This presents an opportunity for a dirty trick.

Manchester City wants to compete with Manchester United for the championship because of two aspects: first, Manchester City's performance is good, and second, Manchester United's performance is poor.

This gave Manchester City's fan organization a basis for operating in private.

Manchester United's Carrington training base is in a relatively suburban area. It takes about half an hour to get to Old Trafford by bus. There are no luxurious five-star hotels there.

Manchester United's players had to go to the city if they wanted to organize a rest in the hotel the day before the game.

At this time, Manchester City fans can be dispatched.

For example, in the middle of the night, beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers outside the hotel, making noise to affect the sleep of the players; for example, when the Manchester United bus leaves the hotel, fans swarm up to block the road...

That's bad!
Because when Manchester United have a home game, the local police force is used more to protect the away team from local football hooligans.

However, with the team management model developed by Ferguson, the players of the home team and the players of the visiting team will live together in the hotel the day before the game, instead of going back to their respective homes.

This is a bit of a hassle.

David Gill said: "There was a game in February. Our bus was surrounded by fans on the road, which almost caused the game to be postponed."

Zhou Buqi quickly figured out the logic of this, and said in a deep voice: "Manchester United's management of the team cannot be changed. This is the cornerstone of Manchester United's team building and must be maintained. However, there are One glaring weakness is the hotel."

David Gill said: "That's right, there are no five-star hotels at the Carrington base, so that the team has to take buses to run around the city. And those third-party hotels lack their own security forces, and there is no The reasonable protection of the local police force can easily cause trouble for the team. In the past, it was fine when Manchester City was a weak team. Only Manchester United and Manchester City encountered some situations in the same city derby. Now it is different. Manchester City is already an elite team. Once the club is established, it is already qualified to compete with Manchester United, so there are more outsiders.”

"So you mean...we are going to build a five-star hotel near the Carrington base?"

"That's right!"

"How large?"

"It's like a normal five-star hotel." David Gill smiled, "The Manchester United-themed hotel outside Old Trafford is just a branded hotel and has nothing to do with Manchester United. If this hotel is built, it will It will be a real Manchester United hotel."

Zhou Buqi didn't know much about the situation, "How is the economic strength near the Carrington base? Can it support such a large hotel?"

David Gill said with a smile: "Manchester is an industrial city, and the Carrington District is the most famous chemical industry area. There are large oil groups and natural gas groups. The economy has always been good. The Carrington District has been developing in recent decades. The economic transformation has closed many old factories, and it is about to start developing towards the tourism industry.”

"Tourism industry?" Zhou Buqi thinks this is a good idea, "Yes, the environment over there is really good. If you don't mention it, I can hardly imagine that it used to be a chemical industry zone."

David Gill said: "Yes, not only Manchester United's training base is there, but Manchester City's training base is also there, including more than a dozen semi-professional clubs. The development of tourism around football is a part of the Carrington District. New development direction. There are many high-end hotels over there, and the occupancy rate is also high, but there are no five-star hotels. At the beginning, the team also stayed in the surrounding Samsung hotels, but the experience was not good, so they went there later A five-star hotel in the city."

This time, Zhou Buqi understood.

I feel that building a Manchester United hotel near the Carrington training base may really be a promising business.

The "heart" of Manchester United is not Old Trafford, but the Carrington training base.

Just like a mobile phone, the Old Trafford Stadium is the appearance, which is presented to the users. The team only goes to Old Trafford during the game; the Carrington training base is the CPU, players and coaches This is where we usually live, work, and train.

Therefore, Manchester wants to rely on the tourism industry driven by the football industry. For industry insiders and senior fans, the Carrington area must be visited.

In fact, it is not far away, it is about 10 kilometers away from Old Trafford.

Not only Manchester United, but Manchester City's training base is also there. This is obviously an urban planning intentional by the city hall.

For example, if Real Madrid takes a fancy to a player from Manchester United, they will send scouts to investigate.It is not enough to go to Old Trafford to watch the game. It is necessary to be stationed at the Carrington base in order to observe the players frequently for a long time.

In addition, there are fans from all over the world who come here admiringly. These are the source of tourists.

David Gill said: "As long as the brand of Manchester United Hotel is used, there will be no shortage of customers, and it is possible to catch all the tourists with spending power in the Carrington area. If it doesn't work, just use other hotels authorized by Manchester United All the naming rights of the hotel are cancelled, and only the exclusive self-operated hotel is kept, and the die-hard fans will definitely stay there.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, feeling that this idea is feasible, "Talk to Lawrence and ask him to prepare a business report."

Building a five-star hotel around the Carrington base would be good for the team.

David Gill takes this perspective as his starting point.

However, this is a commercial project after all.

You can't listen to his one-sided words, let Manchester United Commercial President Gilbert Lawrence also make an assessment to see if it is reliable.If it is unreliable, this matter must be done, because it is beneficial to the team.

At that time, there is no need to build a big hotel, but an internal five-star dormitory with 30-40 bedrooms, which is only used by Manchester United.

At this time, Zhou Buqi's attention was all attracted to the field.

The score was finally rewritten.

In the 66th minute, Manchester United was in a positional battle. Rooney and Van Persie played a beautiful two-for-two cooperation at the front of the penalty area. Van Persie tapped his heel lightly.

1: 0!

After fighting fiercely for more than half an hour, Manchester United finally took the lead in the score.

(End of this chapter)