Chapter 483: Chapter 483

Manchester Evening News: Stamford Bridge turned into a library; only the victory horn of Manchester City’s players echoed through the sky!

"The Manchester Giants both won in this round of the league!"

"Compared to Manchester United’s 3-0 home victory over Norwich, Manchester City’s 2-1 away win against Chelsea was more thrilling and the result even more valuable!"

"The 19-year-old Chinese young talent Tang, with a smashing start, sped up suddenly in the second half and provided an easy open goal for Bony!"

"With one goal and one assist performance, he was once again voted the best player of the match!"

"Congratulations Manchester City, for overcoming Chelsea, there are no more obstacles on the road to the Christmas championship!"

The Times: Mourinho lost the match but won the press conference!

"The Portuguese always remains unique, even in the post-match press conference."

"He openly accused Manchester City of parking the bus and playing dirty football; Chelsea only lost due to bad luck!"

"But the creator of ’parking the bus’ is Mourinho himself!"

"He used the bus tactic to win the 2010 European Champion Cup, which also left Barça and Bayern disgruntled."

"Why doesn’t it work when he’s on the receiving end?"

"Manchester City used Mourinho’s own tactics, at his home ground, to kill his team!"

The Guardian: A warm scene: Nasri personally filming for Tang!

"It’s still the familiar script, Tang led Manchester City to an away victory against Chelsea, keeping Manchester City at the top of the standings!"

"Tang’s brilliant performance also won over Nasri, the proud French midfielder, who even acted as a photographer after the match, carrying the camera himself to shoot for Tang, both bursting into laughter!"

"This season, we’ve rarely seen Nasri on the pitch, or his bright smile!"

"But at this moment, Nasri smiles like a child; you can see, he is truly happy!"

Hour News: Nasri graciously resolves conflicts, Manchester City united as one!

"Manchester City scored right at the start, though the goal was a bit bizarre and controversial!"

"Slow Motion shows Tang rudely pushed Nasri down to shoot himself!"

"Such bullying on the field reminds us of Milner’s past exploitation of Sterling."

"But fortunately, Nasri did not blame Tang during the match; instead, he congratulated him and magnanimously filmed Tang Long!"

"Why has Manchester City been fighting for the top spot since the start of the season?"

"Because they are a united team, a cohesive group!"

After the match, major media outlets praised Manchester City’s performance in this game.

Commentators believe that once they pass Chelsea, there are no strong teams left in Manchester City’s schedule, whereas Manchester United still has matches against Arsenal and Liverpool;

Plus, Manchester City is already two points ahead of their city rivals!

Looking at it now, Manchester City winning the Christmas championship seems certain. For Manchester United, whether they can close the two-point gap with their championship-contending friends is the real challenge!

Traditional right-wing conservative media, Tang Long’s arch-enemy Daily Telegraph also hopped in to grab attention;

But their criticism far outweighed praise, targeting Tang Long in between the lines.

"Firstly, congratulations to Manchester City for achieving an incredibly tough victory;"

"But the editorial team unanimously believes Tang owes Nasri an apology!"

"In recent years, many French tourists have flocked to England, spitting indiscriminately and shouting wildly in inappropriate places, letting us witness the unique rudeness of continental Europeans."

"But Nasri is a true gentleman, as elegant as our British gentlemen."

"Tang, this savage Easterner, snatched the goal that should have belonged to Nasri; if it were someone else, there might have been punches and kicks!"

"But not only did Nasri hold no grudges, he enthusiastically took photos for Tang. Such magnanimity is rare among citizens outside the British Isles!"

"Yet others’ gentlemanliness cannot cover up your rudeness—if Tang himself is willing to accept our newspaper’s interview and publish an apology statement to Nasri on our front page, we’d be happy to do so, free of any publication fees."

"Finally, this newspaper advocates that all players should learn from Nasri, embodying the qualities of kindness, integrity, magnanimity, and amicability!"

On the evening return flight from London to Manchester.

Reports from major English media were already flooding in.

Many media outlets had prepared their reports long before, waiting to release them right after the match ended.

Nasri sat on the plane, continuously checking the news using the intermittently connecting WiFi, filled with pride.

Kindness, integrity, magnanimity, amiability—these words inflated him, making him feel light-hearted—this is who I am!

He then posted a social media status, pairing it with a picture taken from The Guardian, showing the scene where he was filming Tang Long with a camera.

[Unity is the essence of our victory!]

He then deliberately stood up and waved his phone in front of Tang Long, who was seated in the back.

"Tang, look, the media are all discussing us!"

Tang Long gave him a thumbs-up with a smile, "Well done, Nasri, I’ve always thought you were a born photographer."

This was the third match in another cycle week. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⟡𝘧𝙞𝙧𝙚⟡𝘯𝘦𝘵

Pellegrini was in a good mood, giving the team a day off to rest well.

Tang Long got up early, drank coffee, ate bread, spent an hour reading teammates’ task biographies, and spent another hour training in the AI Cloud Training Ground.

Watching the time approach ten o’clock.

Tang Long called Ranocchia and Kolarov to his house.

As the newly formed group in Manchester City’s dressing room this season, the Italian Language Gang has only three people.

Logically speaking, Kolarov is the oldest and has been at Manchester City the longest, so he should be the boss of the Italian Language Gang.

As the initiator of the small group, Kolarov is indeed the boss, but this title is merely nominal;

In fact, both Kolarov and Ranocchia have tacitly agreed that Tang Long is the absolute center of the trio!

This is both because of his record-breaking transfer fee and his unique core status at Manchester City.

Therefore, just one call from Tang Long, and the two would drop everything to come to his home.

"Why did you call us over? Are you going to treat us to hot pot?" Ranocchia was full of enthusiasm.

It was Kolarov’s first time at Tang Long’s home.

Kompany had casually mentioned to him before that when Tang Long visited Milner, he brought a fruit basket to wish the injured patient a speedy recovery, so he not only gifted Tang Long a scarf made in Serbia as a present but also carefully selected a delicate fruit basket from the fruit store to bring to Ranocchia.

After some chitchat on the sofa, Tang Long pointed out the theme of this gathering.

On the coffee table lay a haphazardly placed full-season team photo of Manchester City.

Tang Long, with a thick marker, drew an X over Nasri, who was sitting at the end of the second row.

"I want to take this guy down."

The moment he said this, Ranocchia and Kolarov were taken aback!

The previously cheerful chatter came to a halt.

The living room was utterly silent.

Kolarov took a deep breath and cautiously asked, "Do you mean kill him?"

Ranocchia also looked at Tang Long with an unusually concerned expression, not knowing what he was up to.

Both of them have played in Serie A for many years, so they are very familiar with Apennine culture.

In Southern Mafia slang, drawing an X over someone’s photo means intending to silence them.

Ranocchia was especially nervous.

He knows that Tang Long and Berni have a very good relationship, and Berni, who mingles well in both black and white circles in Italy, has many Southern Mafia friends—so could it be...

"Haha, no! I mean I want to make sure this foolish Frenchman can never turn things around at Manchester City—no, he can’t play in the Premier League either! I don’t want to see him anymore."

Kolarov and Ranocchia exchanged a smile and breathed a sigh of relief!

As Tang Long’s former captain, frequently mediating dressing room relationships, Ranocchia had guessed the general idea.

He began persuading Tang Long not to do it.

"Tang, if I’m not mistaken, your conflict with Nasri should be about the goal at the start of yesterday’s match, right?"

"I understand that this goal must have caused arguments between you two after the match. Even though I was injured and didn’t go to Stanford Bridge to finish the follow-up, I also know this isn’t something Nasri could just snap out of with a photo he took after the match."

"It’s just a goal issue, let it go, we’ve won, and everyone’s happy! There’s no need for this, plus with the three of our current status, even discussing possessing the energy to suppress and blacklist a teammate is premature!"

Kolarov was quite perplexed.

He was a starting player and played the full 90 minutes of the match.

Although he didn’t see the situation clearly due to the crowded penalty area during the opening goal;

Neither during the match nor in the dressing room did Nasri have any conflict with Tang Long!

Before the end of the first half, Tang Long even made a brilliant through pass to Nasri, almost giving him an assist.

After the match, the two were smiling and appeared amicable.

Nasri even uploaded a screenshot of the scene where he took a photo of Tang Long on social media, to his feed. Kolarov saw it and even liked it!

Why is there suddenly talk of blacklisting this guy?

Tang Long then recounted the entire story in detail.

Kolarov and Ranocchia listened with their eyes wide open, in disbelief.

"The photo of you on the front page of The Sun was taken by Nasri?" Kolarov was astonished.

"Nasri can’t be that petty, this is blatantly screwing you over!" Ranocchia frowned.

Only after seeing the surveillance footage Tang Long recorded from the police station did the two exchange glances.

"But, Tang, even though the license plate can be traced to Nasri’s car, you still can’t prove that he actually took the photo just by raising his phone when he parked,"

Ranocchia watched the video again, his cautious mind afraid of wronging a teammate.

After contrasting The Sun’s photo with Tang Long’s video, Kolarov suddenly shouted, "No, I’m one hundred percent sure it was Nasri who took it, look!"

Although The Sun’s photo is blurry, only showing the interior of the car through the window glass, with very limited information and the car can’t be seen;

However, in the bottom left corner of the photo, there is a small sticker.

This sticker is only partially visible, and a general person wouldn’t notice.

But Kolarov asserted that once, when he was in Nasri’s car, there was a small spider sticker on the inside bottom of the window, identical to the one in the photo.

"Damn Nasri, son of a bitch!" Ranocchia, usually the most articulate person, suddenly let out a foul word!

"Nasri is too vile, isn’t he just jealous that you took his place? Has he not seen how he’s played in the past two years? Without you, does he think he can become a starter? This guy must be insane!"

Being Eastern European and having a straightforward character, Kolarov immediately stood up.

"No one stop me! I’m going to find Nasri and beat this little bastard up!"