Chapter 1019 Return to Munich
After two hours of flight, Manchester City's special plane on Etihad Airways slowly landed at Munich International Airport.
As the Champions League final is approaching, a lot of Manchester City fans have already gathered in Munich, and hundreds of die-hard fans have come to the airport to pick up the team, which makes the Manchester City team feel very heartwarming when they arrive at the airport.
All the fans in the world are the cutest.
Only by playing football yourself can you truly experience how wonderful it feels to be supported and praised by the fans.
If a player is so bad that even the fans of the team he plays for abandon him, then he really needs to reflect on his own problems. After all, fans are often the most tolerant towards their own players.
Amid the cheers of the fans, Manchester City boarded the luxury bus that had been in place long ago and slowly drove towards the city.
Su Dong has been in Munich for several years and knows the situation in Munich very well. He is also very familiar with the hotels in this city, so he gave advice to the team before and introduced several hotels with good locations and good environments.
Technical director Begiristain also came to Munich to inspect in person. He was very satisfied with the hotels introduced by Su Dong. He then booked a resort-style hotel about ten minutes' drive from the Allianz Arena. The advantage of this hotel is that it is far away from the hustle and bustle and very quiet.
After Manchester City arrived in Munich, the bus took the players directly to the hotel to check in.
Many guests and players' families have already arrived and checked into the hotel. More guests and players' families will check in today and tomorrow. Some arrived in Munich on Manchester City's chartered flight and all will stay in the hotel booked by the team.
This can be considered a benefit for all teams that reach the Champions League final.
Su Dong's family is an exception, because Su Dong did not sell his villa in Munich. When he transferred to Manchester City, there was media hype that Su Dong would make a quick buck in Manchester City and then return to Munich to continue playing, so they did not sell the house.
But in fact, that was because Su Dong believed that the property could continue to appreciate in value.
As expected, despite the European debt crisis, the overall value of Sudong's villa in southern Munich has been rising. Especially with Sudong's halo, the overall price is also higher than the surrounding villas.
Wang Chuqing has already released the news through the intermediary that the current price is relatively appropriate. If Su Dong meets a buyer with a suitable offer, he will sell the house. The person most likely to take over is Ribery, the top star of the Bayern team.
The French superstar has long been interested in Su Dong's villa, but he has been hesitant and has not made a decisive move. He previously thought that housing prices would go down after the European debt crisis, so his attitude was not very positive.
Su Dong was not short of money, and seeing that Ribery was not interested in buying, he simply decided not to sell.
Two years have passed. If he wants to buy him now, he will have to spend at least two million euros more, which makes Ribery very distressed.
Schweinsteiger recently renewed his contract with Bayern, and his annual salary increased to the same level as Ribery, which is 10 million euros after tax. He also wants to buy a bigger house. Su Dong's mansion happens to be adjacent to Bayern's core senior executives. It is large enough and the facilities are complete, so Schweinsteiger is very interested and is considering buying it.
Ribery was hesitant before, but now with more competitors, he has become more active.
Both Ribery and Schweinsteiger have a good relationship with Su Dong, but not as good as that of Messi and Iniesta. Su Dong will not sacrifice his own interests for them, so he leaves it to Wang Chuqing to be responsible for the transactions and negotiations through an intermediary according to the market price.
It is worth mentioning that Bayern’s performance this season is not very ideal.
Previously, they were reversed by Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals, and then they were reversed by Dortmund in the Bundesliga. Just two days ago, they were slaughtered 5-2 by Dortmund again in the German Cup final.
Having won a double runner-up title, Bayern's performance this season is embarrassing, and Heynckes is facing the crisis of being sacked.
After all, Bayern is so strong, but its results this season are so embarrassing, which makes Heynckes a little uneasy.
But precisely because Bayern Munich's double runner-up results were so unsatisfactory, the German media and fans missed Su Dong so much.
When Manchester City arrived at the hotel, dozens of Bayern Munich fans even made a special trip from the city to the hotel where Manchester City was staying, holding up flags at the door to express their nostalgia for Su Dong and their hope that he could return to Bayern Munich.
This made the Manchester City fans who were also waiting outside the hotel and came to Munich with the team unhappy.
Who wants to see their star player being poached in front of others? How can you tolerate this? So, Manchester City fans and Bayern fans started a "war of words" outside the hotel, competing fiercely for Su Dong, and they had a lot of fun.
If there were no police and hotel security personnel on the scene to maintain order, no one could guarantee that the two sides would not fight.
This also made the media reporters who came to the scene feel fresh.
Even though he has left the team for two years, Su Dong is still loved and missed by Bayern fans.
As Bild said back then, Sudong is destined to become a legend in Bayern's history.
Isn't what Bayern fans are doing now to get their legend back to the team?
Not only at the hotel entrance, but when Manchester City arrived at the Allianz Arena on time in the afternoon for training to familiarize themselves with the field, there were also many Bayern fans shouting slogans, calling for Su Dong to return to Bayern, which once again provoked a counterattack from the Manchester City fans on the scene.
The Champions League final hasn't even started yet, but Manchester City fans have already offended Bayern fans, which has made Chelsea fans on the side feel a little puzzled. Are they trying to let them reap the benefits?
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Su Dong is very familiar with the Allianz Arena. After all, he has played here for many years and knows many details of the stadium. The same is true for Pepe, Marcelo and Toni Kroos.
During the pre-match preparations, they also told their teammates about some of the conditions at the Allianz Arena, but seeing is believing. No matter how much they heard, it was never as good as the players coming to the scene in person to experience the turf of the Allianz Arena, the length and width of the stadium, and the environment and atmosphere of the scene.
Due to the design angle, the stands of the Allianz Arena have a very special inclination. If it is full of fans, the noise will give the players in the stadium an illusion that the stadium is very close.
If they are fans of your own team, it's fine, after all, they all support you, but if they are fans of the visiting team, the experience will be terrible.
The fans in the stands are not what people usually imagine, just shouting slogans or singing songs. They will interfere with the opponent's players with the ball in various ways. Those who are closer will even insult and attack them crazily.
For example, laser pens, which have long been banned by FIFA, and racial discrimination are some of the methods used by home team fans to attack and interfere with players.
The Champions League final will have half fans from each team. Not only will there be Manchester City fans, but they will also have to face Chelsea fans. The hatred between the two sides is so deep that the Blues fans will definitely not be polite to Manchester City, especially considering that they have been pursuing the Champions League tirelessly for so many years and are about to get it, they will go crazy for it.
While getting familiar with the venue, Su Dong also specifically mentioned this situation.
It was originally a way for Bayern to intimidate the visiting players, but now it is a mixed blessing for Manchester City and Chelsea.
Just as Manchester City was getting familiar with the venue, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Iniesta, Jose Semedo and others came to the Allianz Arena, along with Bayern Munich's Schweinsteiger, Modric, Lahm and other players, all of whom came to Sudong.
After Su Dong finished the training to familiarize himself with the field, he ran to the sidelines and greeted several friends on the second-level stands across the stands, thanking them for coming over to support him.
Lahm and Schweinsteiger looked somewhat embarrassed.
They were originally confident of winning and wanted to participate in the Champions League final held at their home stadium. They had even mentioned this matter to Su Dong before, but they did not expect that they would be reversed by Chelsea in the semi-finals.
It would have been fine if they were just defeated by Chelsea, but now they have lost both the Bundesliga and the German Cup, which can be said to be a complete defeat.
Being the double runner-up may be a recognition for other teams, but for Bayern, it is definitely a humiliation.
Not to mention, Manchester City, led by Su Dong, also made it to the Champions League final, which made Bayern even more embarrassed.
Everyone knows that Bayern sent Su Dong to Manchester City more out of considerations of profit, believing that Mario Gomez could well fill the vacancy left by Su Dong. However, unexpectedly, in the end Gomez's performance could not even fill the vacancy left by Su Dong, let alone half of Su Dong's.
In the past two seasons, Bayern's number of goals has dropped sharply due to the loss of Su Dong's goals.
Even though Ribery and Robben's performances have improved significantly in the past two seasons and their roles in the team have become increasingly evident, Su Dong's contribution is still irreplaceable, and Bayern still has a huge gap in this regard.
Especially when facing a crucial decisive battle, Su Dong's ability to break the deadlock is something that all Bayern players do not have. Robben even missed a crucial penalty against Chelsea.
It can be said that so far this season, everyone has seen very clearly Su Dong's contribution and role to Bayern in those years, so the German media, Bayern fans, and even Beckenbauer, are all missing Su Dong.
Hoeness also directly told the media and fans that Bayern made a huge mistake by sending Sudon away.
But there is no medicine for regret in this world.
Su Dong is now doing very well in the Premier League. The sky-high annual salary and huge bonuses offered by Manchester City are what Bayern cannot give now. As for Bayern's wealthy platform, Manchester City is not inferior to it, and is even better.
This season, Manchester City reached the Allianz Arena, while Bayern missed the Champions League final at home.
This is the best proof!
(End of this chapter)
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