Such a match result brought immense satisfaction to all the fans. In fact, the process was even more precious than the final score.
The next day, countless fans regretted not staying up to watch the live broadcast of the match, feeling worse than missing out on a lottery ticket worth five million.
Cao Baiming was also satisfied to have watched the entire match live. Even better, he received an email from David Beckham the following day.
It was expected, yet incredibly surprising.
After the match, Cao Baiming specifically visited the Manchester United stadium. He observed the players in their private moments, their camaraderie, and their continued excitement.
Looking at such a beautiful scene was like watching his own nurtured children. Besides growing joy, there was also a sense of accomplishment, as none of this would have happened without him.
Guardiola's bold move became a hot topic in the football world. This man once again found himself in the spotlight, always naturally gravitating to the center of public attention with his abilities, as if possessing a built-in traffic magnet.
Manchester United attracted a large influx of new fans with this match. The team's commercial operations gradually improved. With so many stars, it was incredibly easy to run the business model.
Even a street vagrant who had never attended elementary school would struggle not to make money running this operation.
Cao Baiming had personally invested billions of funds to make this daring gamble. Currently, making money was not yet the case; it could only be called recouping losses. However, in the future, after some time, within a year, making money was a certainty.
Most importantly, at this juncture, as fans of Cao Baiming, they were torn. On one hand, they eagerly anticipated Manchester United performing at an excellent level. On the other hand, they also hoped that Nottingham Forest, where Ba Ming was, could leverage their strength to achieve good results.
However, they also knew that eventually, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest might face each other on the same pitch as rivals, making it incredibly difficult to decide which side to support.
But at this moment, as ordinary fans, witnessing such an all-star team shine in the Premier League was already a deeply satisfying experience.
This was the dream or wish of countless fans for many years. How many nights had they prayed to the heavens to see these stars gathered together in their lifetime? And now, this wish had finally come true!
The media fervor was unprecedented. Fans were leaving hundreds, even thousands, of comments and remarks under relevant news articles every two seconds. This was an entirely unimaginable level in the past.
This level of heat had more than doubled compared to just a year ago.
More and more people began to love football, especially within Tang Country. Countless new-generation fans emerged, making "football for all" that was once just talk, gradually becoming a reality.
Before leaving Manchester, as the owner of Manchester United, he conducted a final round of guidance for the team, holding two brief meetings, each lasting only a few tens of minutes, with slightly different target audiences.
The purpose of the meetings was to establish an overall grasp of the general direction for the future, but it was made clear that they had the freedom to decide how they wanted to play.
Hearing this, Guardiola felt much more at ease. Before, he had been somewhat anxious, wondering if Cao Baiming would have any objections to his radical approach. Now, it seemed he had received approval, at least from a certain perspective.
As he was leaving, the players even jokingly said they would meet on the field one day, and at that time, they wouldn't show any leniency due to the owner's favor.
Seeing that his team had such an atmosphere, Ba Ming was truly happy. In fact, he didn't want these players to hold back their true strength on the field just because of this camaraderie when they eventually met as opponents.
After all, what would be the point of the game then?
"Train them well. I want a perfect team, an invincible team. If anyone can beat me on the field, everyone gets fifty million!"
Cao Baiming said this before leaving, addressing Guardiola, but at the same time, almost all the players behind him heard these words.
Fifty million! This was not something that could be said casually. Most of the players' total annual salaries wouldn't even reach this figure!
Everyone looked astonished, but soon they became serious again. With such a huge incentive, they were naturally motivated to work harder, even ten times harder if necessary.
For fifty million, who would care about any favor from the boss? This was fifty million!
Although Guardiola appeared calm and seemingly unfazed, fifty million was also almost his annual salary. Cao Baiming absolutely did not believe that this old guy could be so noble as to be completely indifferent to money. He must have been secretly overjoyed.
Otherwise, even he himself understood that defeating him on the field would not be easy, even with the formidable army of players he now commanded.
"Don't worry, you won't be disappointed. We will win all the money!"
"Good! That's the confidence I want to see. I'm leaving!"
As they watched Cao Baiming's receding figure, the crowd behind him remained standing, continuing to ponder the words Cao Baiming had just spoken.
"Brothers, this is fifty million!"
"When he was leaving, did he say fifty million? Is it fifty million for each of us, or fifty million in total?"
"It's for each person, including all the players in the team, whether they are substitutes or starters, the head coach, assistant coaches, fitness coaches, nutritionists..."
"Oh...!!!"
At this moment, everyone could only feel the sheer financial power that Cao Baiming possessed. This was absolute financial power.
This was no longer within the realm of ordinary concepts. The current situation was an unprecedented extreme, almost beyond conventional understanding.