Chapter 229 Montblanc's advertising endorsement, the Manchester derby is about to start!

In Manchester in November, the autumn wind blows down the yellow leaves, and the whole city seems quiet and peaceful.

Since Mourinho chose to give up the Champions League group match on November 8, Manchester United's main players did not have a game until November 12, and they got a long-awaited chance to rest in the busy schedule.

However, in order to maintain the players' competitive state, regular training and competitions have not been abandoned.

Before Chu Feng went to London to shoot a commercial, he went to the Emirates Stadium to watch a game between Arsenal and Liverpool.

A showdown between the second and sixth place in the standings.

After the game started, Chu Feng found that something was wrong with Liverpool. Fabinho, as a defensive midfielder, was actually more forward than the attacking midfielder, and it was obvious that he did not take Arsenal seriously.

However, Chu Feng's old teammate Mkhitaryan was not in good shape either. He became Arsenal's offensive terminator three times in a row in the first half.

In the second half, Emery directly replaced Mkhitaryan, but Liverpool scored a goal not long after.

Robertson made a lob pass behind the defender, Mane quickly inserted and passed the ball in front of the goal, and Milner followed up from the middle and shot into the goal.

The game then fell into a stalemate until the 70th minute when Arsenal found their rhythm and launched a massive attack.

But Liverpool's Van Dijk performed very well. He didn't look like a player worth 75 million euros, but more like a top central defender worth over 100 million euros.

Unfortunately, two fists are no match for four hands, and Emery also started to use metaphysics. In the end, Lacazette, who came on as a substitute, equalized the score.

Arsenal drew with Liverpool at home.

Arsenal fans were not too sad because Arsenal had been unbeaten for 14 consecutive games in all competitions, not to mention that the team they defeated was Liverpool, who were second in the standings and are now third.

Liverpool drew in this game and was overtaken by Manchester United by one point.

Manchester City was still the same, Aguero made one assist and shot two, Sterling made two assists and shot two, David Silva and Sane scored, and they beat Southampton 6-1.

The script seems to have returned to what it was like last season?

However, the two Manchester City giants are closely followed by Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea and other teams, so the difficulty of winning the championship is only higher than last season.

After watching Manchester City's game, Chu Feng and his assistant came to Bond Street, which is the headquarters of Montblanc in England.

The Montblanc endorsement that Mendes signed for him, although not as high as Puma's offer, was already high enough among similar brands.

Besides, Mendes’ real intention was not this, but another retired player who was cooperating with Chu Feng.

Zidane.

As soon as Chu Feng got off the car, he saw a familiar bald man. He waved and said with a smile: "Mr. Zinedine, long time no see, what are you busy with recently?"

"I'm still learning new football tactics and English. Maybe I can coach you in the future." Zidane showed a metaphysical smile. Why did he choose to leave Real Madrid?

The main reason is that Florentino is determined to sell Ronaldo and vetoed his plan for Real Madrid's future signings.

A small part of the reason is that they don't want to get involved in Real Madrid's reconstruction.

Since he announced his resignation, he has received invitations from many teams, such as the Qatar national team with a sky-high price of 200 million euros for four years, as well as top clubs such as Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.

It's just that he doesn't really want to go to the above teams.

I thought that after Deschamps led France to win the championship, he would retire from the national team and he would take over then.

But things did not develop as he expected.

So he could only stay at home and wait for the right team to come back.

Chu Feng didn't take it too seriously. Mourinho wanted to become the second Sir Ferguson and would definitely not leave Manchester United easily.

As for the other Premier League teams?

Liverpool has Klopp and Manchester City has Guardiola. Basically, both teams will not change their head coaches. Only Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham are likely to change.

"By the way, I heard that you are not very satisfied with the content of the advertisement?" Zidane changed the subject tactfully.

His emotional intelligence is definitely among the best among football coaches, otherwise he would not be able to control the star-studded Real Madrid. Of course, his own level and honors are also important reasons.

"Of course, the advertiser wants us to play out the warmth of father-son time." Chu Feng said unhappily, "But the key is that you are French and I am Chinese. It doesn't fit in any way! I don't know what the advertiser is thinking?"

"I don't understand their thoughts either. I have four sons!"

Zidane also echoed.

It has to be said that Zidane's football genes are indeed strong. His four sons are goalkeeper, center back, central midfielder and left winger, and all of them play in Ligue 1 and La Liga.

If we work harder, we might be able to create a team.

The staff quickly set up the studio, and then the two of them immediately got to work. In this respect, the two are quite similar.

As one of Germany's "3Ms", Montblanc has, after more than a century of development, become a diversified brand, including high-end stationery, watches, high-quality leather goods, and high-end men's accessories.

Montblanc’s core brand philosophy is “What moves you, makes you!”

Translated it means follow your heart and you will achieve something.

The reason why Montblanc invited Chu Feng and Zidane is that the two of them fit their brand concept.

The main content of this advertisement is the sentence above, and there are not many elements related to football.

All the work was finished in less than two hours. Chu Feng said goodbye to Zidane and left in a hurry. He also made an appointment with Maria to have dinner in the evening.

After rushing for a long time, we finally picked up Maria and drove to the center of Covent Garden, a French restaurant called Clos Maggiore.

It has been voted one of the most romantic restaurants in the world.

The autumn night is cool and breezy.

A carefully decorated garden restaurant with swaying figures under the twinkling lights.

Maria felt the warm and romantic atmosphere, but inevitably felt a little nervous because she knew that this restaurant had another nickname.

A holy place for marriage proposal.

Could it be that Chu Feng didn't know what Maria was thinking, and he was fully focused on finishing the crab meat and cauliflower on the plate.

The Manchester United cafeteria chef was in a bad mood recently. The nutritious meals he made had no taste at all, and even he found them a little difficult to swallow.

I finally have a vacation, so I must treat myself.

Then, under Maria's increasingly resentful eyes, Chu Feng finished the slow-cooked quail breast, grilled flounder, French blue-foot mushrooms, and roasted rabbit bones and meat . Chu Feng stopped when he was almost 70% full.

You can enjoy it, but you can’t indulge yourself.

Maria didn't get the scene she wanted until the end, so they went to the nearby opera house to watch a performance. —— November 8th.

The fourth round of the Champions League group stage kicked off, with Manchester United travelling to Ukraine to face Shakhtar Donetsk.

The main players stayed at the training base directly. Mourinho temporarily found five players from the youth team, Gomez, Gribbin, Chong, Traore. Gribbin is known as the "English Messi" with fast burst speed and outstanding dribbling ability.

Zhongtaixi is a young player of Chinese descent, and his Chinese name is Chen Dayi.

When Chu Feng heard this name at first, he originally thought that he would run into a compatriot and that it would be a scene of two fellow villagers meeting and both eyes filled with tears.

Who would have thought that this guy actually looks like Gullit.

It’s not that Chu Feng is racist.

But he really couldn't shed tears in front of someone who was even more evil than Rashford, and their friendship was limited to youth team games and training.

Traore is typically dark and tough, a midfield stealing machine. If he is trained well, he could be the next Essien.

Several young players expressed their ambitions before the game and fantasized about how many goals they could score.

He could even take this opportunity to gain Mourinho's favor and soar to fame like Chu Feng did last season.

But they overestimated themselves and underestimated their opponents.

Shakhtar Donetsk was able to win the Ukrainian Super League title last season without a home stadium, and its strength is beyond doubt.

If Manchester United had given their all, there would have been no suspense.

But they can’t…

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

After the start of the game, Shakhtar Donetsk took advantage of their home advantage and frantically and actively sought physical confrontation, which disrupted the rhythm of the game.

Manchester United's attack therefore failed to achieve results.

Perhaps because it was their first Champions League match in their professional careers, several young players were a bit nervous. Coupled with the fact that the confrontation was quite intense, it was difficult for them to sort out the ball after getting it.

There were even a few low-level mistakes.

Only then did they realize that football was not as simple as they had imagined. The reason why Chu Feng was able to move forward under tremendous pressure last season was entirely due to his strong personal will and level.

And they clearly don't have the same abilities.

Amid the boos of thousands of Shakhtar Donetsk fans, Manchester United gradually lost control of the midfield and frontcourt and could only retreat to the backcourt and play bus defense.

Mourinho shook his hands in dissatisfaction on the sidelines.

He also wanted to discover a few more outstanding young players, not to mention being as good as Chu Feng, but at least half as good, right? Now it seems that only Greenwood is good.

Watching the poor performance of Manchester United players on the field, Mourinho simply sat back in the coaching seat and studied the Manchester City game video.

As expected, Manchester United lost 1-3 to Shakhtar Donetsk.

Another game also ended at the same time, Lyon 2-2 Hoffenheim.

Manchester United has 7 points, Lyon has 7 points, Hoffenheim has 5 points, and Shakhtar Donetsk has 3 points. The gap between them has narrowed and the qualifying situation has become confusing.

But it didn't have much impact on Manchester United.

In the next matches against Lyon and Hoffenheim, as long as they can get a draw, they will secure the final qualifying spot.

But Manchester United’s goal is definitely to be first in the group, otherwise it will easily face strong teams in the knockout stage, such as Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona and other teams.

What if the Champions League champions of last season were eliminated in the round of 16? Not only would Manchester United fans not be able to accept it, but Manchester United players would not be willing to accept it either.

Therefore, Manchester United must win the remaining games and strive to qualify as the first in the group with 13 points, and draw with the second place in other groups.

As for the qualification of other teams in Group H, it depends on the performance of Manchester United.

The episode in the Champions League group stage passed quickly, and the Manchester United players returned to intensive training. Chu Feng also formed his own team, the most important of which were nutritionists and trainers.

The former once worked in the Milan laboratory, and the latter trained Bolt, and is mainly responsible for improving Chu Feng's speed and rhythm.

Most of the working team's wages are still paid by Manchester United.

Chu Feng started scientific training, and with the system's transformation of his body, his strength was improving slowly and steadily.

Two interesting things happened at Manchester United during this period.

The first was that Woodward wanted to recruit a director of football, but was ultimately strongly rejected by most of the management because Manchester United had never hired a director of football in its 140 years of existence.

Mourinho also expressed strong dissatisfaction.

That would mean he would lose the most important right to recruit players, which is absolutely unacceptable to him.

The second thing was that Pogba lost an earring worth thousands of pounds and hired as many as 25 people to help him find it. He also told the staff at the training base that if anyone could find it on the training ground, he would reward that person with a generous sum of cash.

Just before the Manchester derby, the Montblanc advertisement is released.

"Unique Life Mark"

The warm sunset shone on Zidane's back. He picked up a black Mont Blanc series fountain pen and wrote his name in French on the white paper.

Then the scene changed.

It seems that many, many years have passed, and the fountain pen seems to have become old due to the passage of time, but the nib is made through 25 processes, making it as solid and noble as Mont Blanc.

Chu Feng wrote his name in Chinese.

Finally, a paragraph slowly emerged on the white paper.

Dare to pursue your inner passion, do what you truly love, and fully tap your potential. Everyone can achieve something and leave their own mark in life.

The positive ad has sparked discussion around the world.

After all, the protagonists of the advertisement are Zidane and Chu Feng, both of whom have a huge fan base. - [Brothers, what level of brand is Montblanc? ] - [Mid-to-high-end, similar to Longines and Omega. ] - [Why didn't Montblanc find Mourinho? It doesn't matter how you look at Zidane and Chu Feng, right? ] - [I also think that Psy fits the slogan better. Maybe Montblanc thinks that Psy was too weak when he was a player. ] - [Speaking of which, Chu Feng's advertisements are a bit frequent. Will it affect his training? ] - [You can look at the physical examination report officially released by Manchester United. Chu Feng's body fat rate is only 8%, and his muscle content is 53%. All data are much higher than the average level of professional players. ] - [.]

On November 12, Manchester became lively.

Manchester City and Manchester United are both teams with a long history and outstanding records. Manchester City had a slight advantage in the 1950s and 1970s, but Manchester United reversed the situation after the 1990s.

Last season, there was fierce competition between the two teams and a 100-point battle.

This season's showdown has attracted the attention of many fans, with the number of online viewers exceeding 400 million.

The Etihad Stadium was packed with people.

Guardiola and Mourinho competed on the same stage again, and Sacchi once described it as "like having two Picassos in the same era."

The referee of this game was Anthony Taylor, which caused dissatisfaction among some Manchester City fans.

Because Taylor was born in Wittonshawe, south of Manchester.

Here we have to mention the division of fans in Manchester. Residents in the east tend to support Manchester City, while residents in the west tend to support Manchester United.

Although Taylor claims to be an Altrincham fan, his family are Manchester United season ticket holders.

In addition, Taylor has a winning rate of 70% in Manchester United games (14 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses).

In the first Manchester derby of the new season, Manchester City is firmly in the league's lead, while Manchester United lost the Champions League group stage. What sparks will Guardiola and Mourinho create? (End of this chapter)