Starting with saving Manchester United

Sometimes, passion for work doesn't just come from salary and benefits.

Meeting like-minded colleagues at the right time can often spark a surprising passion for work.

Mike Phelan played for Manchester United for 5 years and has worked there since 99 after retiring.

From Cliff to Carrington, he has come a long way, from the youth team to the first team, from individual technical coach to the overall chief assistant coach.

After Queiroz left Manchester United in 08, he was basically in charge of the team's daily training arrangements, tactical execution, and communication and management with the players.

René Mullensteen is in charge of leading the team's training.

This gave Mike Phelan a high reputation at Manchester United and Carrington, and he also had a good relationship with the players.

Apart from 51-year-old Mike Ferran, the members of Yang Fan's temporary team are all very young.

43-year-old Steve Lund has extensive experience in leading training teams and is also quite skilled in tactics.

Gary Walker is only 32 years old, Paul Gaudino is only 27 years old, and Paul Brand is only 26 years old.

They come from different fields, but they are brought together by Yang Fan.

Starting in the afternoon, this group of people were in that conference room, discussing and even arguing incessantly.

Each person took on a task and worked enthusiastically.

On the contrary, Yang Fan did almost nothing except issue the decision to change Manchester United's formation.

But he still stayed up all night with everyone.

They stayed in Carrington that night.

The next morning, after getting up and washing up, he first ran into Cass Phelps, who was tidying up the head coach's office.

When the old lady saw Yang Fan, she even greeted him warmly.

He ran into his female assistant, Jackie Kay, again when he went out.

"I heard you guys stayed up late working overtime last night?"

Jackie Kay was quite surprised.

When she arrived at work in the morning, she found the meeting room empty, but there were several laptops on the table, along with a jumble of tactical sketches and training area maps scattered everywhere.

"Until around 3 a.m."

Jackie Kay didn't ask any more questions; she felt that Yang Fan was wasting his time.

At most, it will be one game.

Once a suitable head coach is found in London, Yang Fan will be dismissed.

No matter how much you do or how hard you try, it's all for nothing.

Yang Fan entered the conference room and began packing his things.

Yesterday, he even created a group chat for his team on WhatsApp to facilitate timely communication and the transfer and sharing of work files.

Seeing Jackie Kay come in to help, he suddenly had a whim.

"Jackie, I heard you used to work at the administrative headquarters?"

"Yes, I used to be CEO David Gill's assistant."

"Then why didn't you go to London?"

"I'm from Manchester, and my family, children, and friends are all here."

"Oh, I'm quite curious. We're a Manchester-based club, so why did we move all our offices to London?"

Jackie Kay glanced at Yang Fan and saw that he was still packing his things, as if he had just asked casually.

In fact, everyone has this question.

Manchester United had already provided an explanation for this.

"Because many sponsors only operate in London, and it's easier to attract top talent from all over the world from there."

Yang Fan verbally agreed, but he didn't believe it at all.

If that's all there is to it, why move everything over there?

Why not set up a branch office or a representative office? If all else fails, just move the business department there?

Thinking about this, Yang Fan guessed that he probably wouldn't get any information out of him if he asked normally.

So, he rolled his eyes and changed the subject.

"Giggs and his gang are getting increasingly out of control. Why hasn't Ed made a move yet?"

He asked questions, but his hands never stopped moving.

Without thinking, Jackie Kay blurted out, "It's tricky, difficult to deal with. Apparently, they've tracked down a Singaporean tycoon named Lim Eng Hock."

"Lim Rongfu?" A thunderbolt flashed through Yang Fan's mind. "The one who wants to acquire Valencia?"

In Yang Fan's previous life, Lin Rongfu had genuinely acquired Valencia.

How did it end up being associated with Manchester United?

Especially Class 92.

"Yes, they say they are preparing to jointly acquire Salford Football Club, and they also have a stake in the hotel at Old Trafford Stadium."

Yang Fan looked up and stared at Jackie Kay in surprise.

Are Class 92 having such exciting fun now?

Jackie Kay realized she might have said too much, so she stopped talking and said dismissively, "In short, these are all things for higher-ups, and have nothing to do with us."

After saying that, she stopped helping and turned to leave.

Yang Fan frantically searched through the original owner's memories, but he didn't have much of an impression of Salford Club.

The Manchester that many people refer to actually consists of three cities: Salford, Manchester, and Trafford.

As the name suggests, Old Trafford Stadium is located in Trafford.

Salford is located in the northwest of the city, bordering Manchester by the River Weir. The Lowry Hotel, where Manchester United executives and future international managers such as Mourinho will stay, is located in Salford.

It's just that everyone is used to referring to it as Manchester city center.

This gives us a clue as to where Salford Football Club is located.

Class of '92 is actually going to acquire this local club?

What's going on here?

Yang Fan had some memories of the hotel at Old Trafford Stadium.

Or, over the past year, Manchester United's home fans have noticed that a 10-story luxury hotel is under construction right next to the northeast of Old Trafford Stadium. It has already been topped out and is themed around football.

Many uninformed people assumed that the hotel was built by Manchester United.

Unexpectedly, it was Class 92 and Lin Rongfu who invested in it.

This is going to be really funny!

Manchester United's legendary Class of '92 are building a football-themed hotel at Old Trafford, clearly trying to capitalize on Manchester United's popularity. Will the Glazer family tolerate this?

Yang Fan finally understood completely why Giggs and the others wanted to control Carrington; the reason was quite simple.

If he were the manager of Manchester United, and even brought in the Class of '92 to manage the first team and youth academy, Salford, with such a powerful backer, would have no problem getting out of the lower leagues.

Players loaned to Manchester United for free are a real goldmine!

How many teams in the Premier League and Championship have loaned Manchester United's youth academy players?

The value of a Championship team, or even a Premier League team, is self-evident.

Furthermore, if Giggs becomes the manager of Manchester United, wouldn't the situation regarding his investment in this hotel become even more complicated?

No wonder that group from Class 92 dared to stage a mutiny!

If this really works, the profits will be enormous!

Yang Fan recalled the harsh words Giggs had uttered before he left.

Class 92 will definitely not let this go.

Woodward must have known what was going on, which is why he didn't hesitate to send Yang Fan, a rookie, to block Giggs and the others no matter what.

In Yang Fan's previous life, Moyes' grades were so bad, and there were so many calls for him to be dismissed, but he still managed to stay in office until April.

After Giggs took over as head coach, Scholes, Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, and others did indeed return to the club as assistant coaches.

But since that season, apart from Nicky Butt, none of them have ever returned to work for Manchester United.

Even Nicky Butt only worked in Manchester United's youth academy and didn't have much real power; he was not as good as Darren Fletcher.

Fletcher was directly under John Mottaf's command.

The internal power struggles within elite football clubs are truly unpretentious!

Most importantly, why was the Class of '92 able to build a hotel at Old Trafford?

Manchester United would never agree to that.

Based on the current progress of the main structure being completed, construction will begin at least in early 13, as the previous planning approvals will still take some time.

Manchester United received no prior warning?

At that time, Manchester United's offices were still in Manchester.

Manchester United is a very complicated place!

Just then, a piece of information flashed through Yang Fan's mind.

"Data collection complete, the light signal system is now officially launched!"

Ha, my brother Tongzi is here!