Chapter 1 Chelsea vs. Manchester City

From the result of the match between Chelsea and Manchester City, it was a draw. Chelsea even took the initiative at times, with more scoring opportunities than Manchester City.

But many media reports were very strange.

They focused most of their words and shots on Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang became the absolute protagonist of this game.

Not only did he take the lead, but when Chelsea suppressed Manchester City, even threatening to defeat the league's undefeated team, he stood up.

Using his individual ability, he delivered a pass that assisted Delph in easily scoring a goal.

Finally, he staged a passionate collision, causing chaos in Chelsea's penalty area and dragging Manchester City back from the abyss.

Naturally, some media outlets believed that Chelsea was just a bit unlucky. Costa and Hazard both had opportunities to completely kill the game, but unfortunately, luck was not on their side, and they missed the most crucial opportunities.

But luck itself is a manifestation of strength. Why didn't anyone see Zhao Gang's two shots go wide?

Especially the last shot, when he was almost falling down, he still managed to adjust and push the ball into an empty net.

However, after this match between Chelsea and Manchester City, Manchester City finally stopped their winning streak.

After creating an amazing thirteen-game winning streak in the league, they were finally blocked by Chelsea, which allowed Arsenal to continue to exclusively hold the Premier League's longest fourteen-game winning streak record, a record that has been untouched for fourteen years.

This kind of record is almost useless for the team, and is mostly talked about by the media and fans.

A draw, yet many media outlets issued alarming statements, as if the world was about to end.

In the Premier League, who can defeat Manchester City, who can limit Zhao Gang? Not necessarily freeze him completely, just limit his performance.

As for the argument that the current Manchester City is not worthy of Zhao Gang, it was naturally thrown out, followed by offers from Real Madrid and Chelsea.

When these teams make offers, more media outlets will frantically hype it up, using any means possible for traffic and attention.

"Zhao is not happy in Manchester City."

"The defeat against Chelsea made Zhao realize that Manchester City is not his ultimate destination."

"Why can't Manchester City keep this popular young player?"

"Why is Real Madrid more suitable for Zhao?"

These bizarre arguments gave the Manchester City executives a headache.

Even if they were confident in keeping Zhao Gang, these reports would definitely affect Zhao Gang and other players, and even the fans.

What's even more frightening is that if Manchester City's performance suffers, and they are eliminated from the Champions League and lose the league title, then these groundless reports may become reality.

Anyone who reads these reports every day will have some doubts in their mind.

Especially since Zhao Gang is only 19 years old, he is easily swayed by public opinion. If some close people give him advice, he might have the idea of leaving.

The Manchester City executives even felt that some media viewpoints were being fueled by someone.

The biggest suspect was that old fox Florentino.

He doesn't need to bribe all the media, he just needs to have three or five media outlets put forward this controversial viewpoint, and the rest of the media, for the sake of traffic, will swarm like cats smelling fish.

Drawing with Chelsea gave these people a good opportunity.

It's hard to imagine how those people would rant if they lost in the Premier League and were eliminated from the Champions League. They might even frantically scold and smear Zhao Gang, making him feel isolated and helpless in Manchester City, and leave in a fit of anger.

Therefore, Manchester City officially and publicly rejected the offers from Real Madrid and Chelsea, telling everyone that Zhao Gang was absolutely not for sale.

And through some channels, they sent a message: if you continue to target Zhao Gang, we may go and talk to Cristiano Ronaldo and Hazard about the possibility of them joining Manchester City.

In addition, Manchester City will restart contract renewal negotiations with Zhao Gang.

Although he only signed for less than half a year, we can talk again.

Raise his salary, extend the contract period, and increase the buyout clause.

We can also talk about some endorsements; we have money.

The owner of Manchester City now hopes that Zhao Gang will be blinded by money.

They don't know where they got the news, but they found out about the Lianhai Football School that Zhao Gang was preparing to establish, and they insisted on sending someone to Longguo to investigate and prepare to invest some money.

This made Zhao Gang, who received the news, a little embarrassed.

He really wanted to tell the Manchester City management, or Guardiola, that he would definitely not leave Manchester City. He considered it and discussed it with Perrin, who desperately stopped him.

This is not okay. If other players made such guarantees, Perrin wouldn't desperately stop them.

But not Zhao Gang. If he made a guarantee, he would really stick to it.

He absolutely cannot say that.

However, the owner wanting to invest in Zhao Gang's football school is fine.

Zhao Gang did not return to Longguo with the team. Under Perrin's operation, he was going to shoot a Coca-Cola commercial.

This time, it was not a regional endorsement ad in Longguo, which only looks for Longguo stars.

Instead, it was a global brand ambassador.

Because of the brand's huge influence around the world, it was also a very important promotion for Zhao Gang.

Therefore, the price was not as high as what Ta An Sports offered, but it was still at the level of ten million pounds for three years.

Unlike Ronaldo's super self-discipline, Zhao Gang quite liked to drink soda. From now on, he wouldn't have to pay for this stuff.

As Manchester City's final Champions League group stage match approached, Zhao Gang not only went to shoot commercials, but also ran to Aguero's house for a small family gathering.

It wasn't that he wasn't doing his job, but that he and a group of key players were not even selected for the squad, not even as substitutes.

Guardiola took the water dispenser managers and some players temporarily promoted from the youth team to visit Celtic.

This gathering was just a small relaxation after a busy schedule, and also to enhance some feelings.

So, those who were invited were Manchester City players and their families.

The injured Silva also came to relax a bit.

Oli and Aguero's girlfriend, Karina, had a lot to talk about, and their circles overlapped considerably.

Zhao Gang inadvertently heard them talking about what positions and states made it easier to get pregnant.

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Manchester City had no surprises away from home and were defeated 1-0 by Celtic.

But this did not change the fact that Manchester City qualified as the first in the group.

What made the media and fans most concerned was that Zhao Gang did not play. Because he was only two goals away from tying Ronaldo's single-season Champions League goal record.

To tie the single-season Champions League goal record in the group stage would be an amazing achievement!

What was most infuriating was that Guardiola had previously said that as long as Zhao Gang was in good condition, he would play.

As a result, Zhao Gang wasn't even on the roster. After the game, Guardiola brazenly said that Zhao Gang was not in good condition and the team doctor advised him to rest for a while.

So, he was not in good condition and went to a party?

Many fans even wanted to take the photos posted by Karina on social media and slap Guardiola in the face.

In those photos, Zhao Gang and a group of teammates looked radiant. You say he's not in good condition?

You say the team doctor advised it?

You made the team doctor advise that, right?

Manchester City's team doctor is not as good as Chelsea's team doctor. Chelsea's team doctor went against the coach and drove Mourinho away. Your Manchester City team doctor just let Guardiola throw dirty water and didn't dare to say a word?

You have to stand up and fight with Guardiola!

For the weekend's Premier League match, Manchester City hosted Aston Villa at home.

A week of rest improved the mental state of Manchester City players a lot. Aston Villa's level was much worse than Manchester City.

Their initial strict defense did not last long. De Bruyne's assist for Aguero's goal started Aston Villa's collapse.

In the end, Aguero once again scored a hat-trick, his state was amazing.

Zhao Gang and De Bruyne both assisted twice, and Sterling scored a goal.

4:1 victory over visiting Aston Villa.

Manchester City swept away the struggling performances of the recent league games.

And Aguero finally temporarily removed the hat of "the one to blame" from the Guo DeGang combo, and was in high spirits.

He also naturally became the best player in this game, and also the Premier League's best player of the round.

Now in the Premier League, the number of times he has won the best player award is only slightly less than Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang is not only the player with the most single-game best player awards, but he is also the person with the most Premier League single-month best player awards.

Only his performance in November slightly declined, giving up the best player award, but in fact his results in November were also quite good, but unfortunately, rotation caused him to miss the award.

Unless Zhao Gang has a serious abnormality in the upcoming games, the Premier League Best Player of the Season will not fall into other hands.

And the day after this game, Zhao Gang received some pretty good news.

Tuttosport finally selected this season's Golden Boy award. Unlike the live announcement of the Ballon d'Or winner, the Ballon d'Or will announce the voting results in advance, and then hold an awards ceremony. At the same time, there will also be some other awards, such as the best scorer, the best agent award, etc. These awards will be notified to the winners in advance.

So, there will be no other candidates attending the awards ceremony.

Accompanying Zhao Gang to this awards ceremony were not only Oli, but also Manchester City Chairman Mubarak, and Vice Chairman Caldoon, which shows the extent to which Manchester City values Zhao Gang.

Of course, there were also full-time reporters from Longguo. In previous years, you wouldn't see Longguo reporters at the Golden Boy awards ceremony. This award's influence in Europe is at most decent, its weight is neither light nor heavy, and compared with the Ballon d'Or or the FIFA World Player of the Year, it's basically useless. In Longguo, even less people pay attention.

This time, reporters from Longguo with a bit of influence were dispatched, and even took a different approach to interview Zhao Gang's parents.

Dong Lu, a player who was sent out in the same cohort as Zhao Gang, has become Zhao Gang's spokesperson in Longguo. This time, he also benefited and became the subject of interviews by many media outlets, hoping to get some exclusive breaking news from him.

And the famous Longguo football players have successively blessed Zhao Gang on social media for winning the Golden Boy award. The Football Association even published Zhao Gang's award-winning photos in the official media.

It was accompanied by a sentence, "The Light of Longguo," even omitting the word "football."

The popularity of the Golden Boy award directly surpassed the reports of previous Ballon d'Or awards in Longguo.

On various platforms, almost all the trending searches were, "Golden Boy Award, Zhao Gang."

"The Light of Asia!"

"A Phenomenon, the First Asian, Golden Boy Award!"

"After Messi and Ronaldo, we finally welcome a real challenger!"

"Will Zhao Gang win the Ballon d'Or in his next career?"

And Zhao Gang's acceptance speech made countless Longguo fans tremble, and some emotional fans even had the urge to tear up.

"This is a supreme honor. Being favored and voted for by so many big football figures is of extraordinary significance to me. Thank you to all the teammates who support me. I will share this trophy with all the fans.

I have always been proud of being born in Longguo, and I have been since I was a child. My partners and I enjoy the fun of the stadium. We have loved football since we were young. Now we are all over the world, but no matter when or in what circumstances, they have never given up this pure dream.

Now, I not only represent myself, but also represent them, and represent all the enthusiastic and sincere fans who have come here.

I will move forward without hesitation, carrying the common hope of everyone."

"Haha, awesome, creating history! Zhao Gang is awesome!"

"Damn, this is definitely the most suspense-free Ballon d'Or ever. The performance of the other candidates is okay, but Zhao Gang is a god, an absolute king-level performance! Those so-called young talents are not enough to watch, haha..."

"666!! He'll win the Ballon d'Or next year!"

"Not only can he win the Ballon d'Or, but I estimate he can win it consecutively! Based on his current performance and age, and this position, I estimate he can still have a brilliant career for fifteen years!"

"Zhao Gang has indeed created a record for Longguo, even Asia, but we still need to be rational.

Although his current performance is explosive, it is estimated that it will be difficult to win the Ballon d'Or in a short period of time. His influence is too much different compared to those two.

No matter how amazing the performance is, it's not very useful. It needs to be sustained and stable, and at least two or three years of precipitation will have a huge impact. The Ballon d'Or... to be honest, it's not just about one season of amazing performance, otherwise Ribery and Sneijder would have won the award long ago.

And Manchester City's team influence is too small, basically without any heritage.

The worst thing is... alas, Zhao Gang's European war honors and national team honors, Longguo's football, even if there is a bit of dawn now, how can it be compared with those European national teams?

Zhao Gang joining Longguo football is definitely a happy event for us fans, but for him, it basically cut off the Ballon d'Or, right."

"That's really the case. Those Europeans probably won't let Zhao Gang take the Ballon d'Or. Unless he grinds all the European teams on the ground for ten years, otherwise, there's not much of a chance.

The Ballon d'Or is said to be based on performance, but everyone who understands knows, Messi and Ronaldo's Ballon d'Ors are not all well-deserved."

"Alas, damn, sometimes I really wish Zhao Gang had joined Spain or England, Germany, Portugal, and France are also okay."

"Don't go to France, they are all haters."

"Zhao Gang won't go. He joined Longguo football, not because of the Football Association, but because he is a Longguo person. He said, he has always been proud of it, and he has always done so. Football is not just football!"

Longguo fans were happy and worried for Zhao Gang, while Manchester City fans were all happy and excited.

No Manchester City player has ever won the Ballon d'Or, and neither has the Golden Boy award.

Sterling won the Golden Boy award, but he wasn't a Manchester City player.

Zhao Gang is the real Manchester City player. Although he won the Golden Boy award because of his performance at Norwich, he was in Manchester City when he won the award.

Manchester City fans pulled up banners and beat drums to run to the training ground. There was even a huge *tif* of Zhao Gang.

They sang songs, cheered Zhao Gang's name, and sent blessings.

Outside the training ground, Manchester City fans also saw Norwich fans, holding photos of Zhao Gang wearing a Norwich jersey, cheering and singing.

These die-hard fans ran over from Norwich County.

The two groups of fans should have been having a great time, but the Norwich fans insisted that Zhao Gang's Golden Boy award was because of Norwich, and had nothing to do with Manchester City.

This angered the Manchester City fans.

They finally welcomed their Golden Boy, and Norwich snatched it away?

The two groups of fans started fighting over a disagreement, and in the end, they were all taken away by the police.