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Chapter 431

How powerful Mourinho's mouth is, maybe the person who has fought a war of words with him has the most say. From Portugal to England, this guy has caused trouble not once or twice, but many times this guy is not Take the initiative to pick things up, but sometimes he needs to use this method to attract firepower.

Anyone who is familiar with him will find that when this guy talks the most, he basically focuses on before the start of the war. Once those reporters set their sights on Chelsea, Mourinho will step forward in a timely manner and use himself Sharp words to attract everyone's eyes and attention.

This is to prevent those reporters from harassing their players, so that they can have a quiet space to prepare for the game, but this guy has basically never lost his saliva against the opponent's players or coaches. Even Wenger And an old slicker like Ferguson didn't take advantage of it.

Before the start of the confrontation with Manchester United and Arsenal last season, both Ferguson and Wenger tried to interfere with the newcomer Mourinho with a war of words. Of course, the facts eventually proved that this method was ineffective.

Since Mourinho was working as an assistant coach and translator in Barcelona, ​​this guy's mouth has become mean enough, and his head turns quickly, so don't try to design any trap for him.

Even those sophisticated reporters can't take advantage of Mourinho.

Most of the time, Mourinho led them by the nose, and the only thing these guys could do was to record every word the Portuguese said and take it back and print it for publication.

However, Mourinho rarely disappoints people. As long as it is before the start of the big game, he will always speak up. At least those reporters who earn their manuscript fees by writing news will expect him to take the initiative to provoke a war every time.

But since the start of the new season, Mourinho seldom opened his mouth to say anything, especially when Chelsea's record soared all the way, he seemed very quiet. This kind of quietness made many reporters a little unaccustomed to it. Something explosive can come out of Mourinho's mouth.

However, it is a pity that Mourinho is not used to serving reporters. With Chelsea's record progressing steadily, he does not want to be distracted by those wars of words, but Mourinho forgot one thing. Living in the circle, you must not expect to live in peace and stability.

You don't provoke others, but it is very likely that they will provoke you. Although those people may not be intentional, but the unintentional approach is sometimes more hateful, just like Chelsea is starting a large-scale attack on the fourth line During the battle, some people seemed to be deliberately making trouble for him.

When you are on a winning streak, someone will guess when you start to lose, collapse, or go downhill, and even the bookmaker will open a bet at the right time, betting on when you will leave get out of class.

This is England. Nothing is impossible. Even gossip news about the Crown Prince of Great Britain looking for a mistress can be exposed. What bottom line do you expect those who make news to have?
Come on, in England, as long as someone likes to watch gossip farce, someone will play it for you.

Even in the Premier League, which is already regarded as the number one league in football, there will be all kinds of bloody things happening. Chelsea are surrounded by people only because they are the hottest right now.

In the past, this patent belonged to Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool, but now it's Chelsea's turn to enjoy the treatment of being watched by tens of millions of people, and you can only bear it.

At the beginning of the new season, Mourinho is not chasing some so-called records, but this guy knows how heavy the task of Chelsea this season is, and there are some international competitions interspersed in the middle of the league. On match day, this kind of play definitely affects the team.

No way, this is a problem that every giant team has to face. After all, when the World Cup qualifiers are at the final stage, it is estimated that no national team will give up the chance to chase places, even those weak small countries. I will try to get one or two victories at the last minute to hide my embarrassment.

The giants that originally had the task of the Champions League often have to face the entanglement of double matches a week. With this kind of harassment on the international match day, sometimes the ups and downs of the player's state will disrupt the coach's arrangement. Mourinho in the early stage Such an effort to grab points is to prevent this from happening.

After all, long-distance flights will always cause physical problems for the players. In the case of disrupted summer training, such physical consumption will cause unnecessary fatigue and injuries to many players.

After all, Chelsea have to keep pace on multiple fronts, and injuries have become the most terrible constraint.

The most fearful thing for a multinational team like Chelsea is to encounter an international match day. Once it happens, almost the entire team will be emptied. Mourinho encountered such a situation last season. During the summer training camp this season, It was also because of the national team's game that it was messed up a bit.

The physical reserves of many players are not in place, which is why Chelsea grabbed points in the early stage.

If you can't level up with those chasers at the beginning, then when the game is intensive in the later stage, physical fitness will definitely become a fatal injury for Chelsea. Mourinho doesn't want to see himself being reversed by others.

Chelsea did not have so many troubles last season. After all, most of the players they bought were members of the national team, but they have not experienced such a triple crown. They are not the absolute main force.

But after Chelsea's third-line title, the players under Mourinho have become hot cakes. No matter which national team it is, they have to regard Chelsea's players as a life-saving straw.

Even Parker and Thiago, who left Chelsea, were selected by their respective national teams.

You can imagine how the main players of Chelsea will be treated. People like Robben have already secured the position of the main players of the national team, even if they want to refuse, they will not succeed.

Mourinho has no time to pay attention to what the national team games mean to him. After all, he is not the head coach of those national teams. There is an indescribable revulsion about this conscription operation.

After all, all the recruits were soldiers brought out by him. No one knew what the managers could use them for. If there were some unnecessary injuries, the Chelsea club would be unlucky in the end.

But what should come will come after all. After Chelsea won [-] consecutive victories in the league and five consecutive victories in the Champions League, the international break came as scheduled, and Mourinho had to watch his players set foot on their way back home The team's long-distance journey, the team's main lineup was almost empty, except for the injured.

But at the moment when Mourinho is upset, there are some ignorant guys who always come to stir up his anger. That idiot Domenech is obviously such an idiot. Order, in exchange for Mourinho's angry counterattack against the French team.

"My players are like slaves! In order not to be banned from the club, they can only return to the national team unconditionally. For a person who has publicly expressed his intention to quit the national team, the national team coach is now like It's a devil driving them into the field with a whip!"

What he said was indeed fierce enough, and Mourinho did not intend to save Domenech any face. Even in the face of a second questioning by a French reporter, he expressed his dissatisfaction again in the same language. Guy's first fire of the season, it's left to the French national team.

And not only angrily denounced Domenech's domineering behavior, but also brought the French Football Association along.

It is no wonder that Mourinho is so angry. Makelele is 32 years old. At his age, his physical fitness has begun to decline. Will not let Kenyon use such a high price to sign Essien as a spare tire.

However, Makelele has always been able to maintain his efficiency, which is one of the reasons why Essien missed the main force. The professionalism of the French midfielder in the position has always been highly respected by Mourinho.

And this guy has indeed become a meat grinder for Chelsea in the middle, often smashing the performance of the opponent's midfielder. With his midfield iron gate, the Blues' defense in the middle has always been so strong.

Originally, Makelele himself said that after participating in the 2006 World Cup, he would choose to retire, or for the benefit of Chelsea, he would separate from the French national team as soon as possible.

After all, this kind of two-line running is indeed a bit hard and torturous for a veteran in his 30s. In the national team, Makelele has also been criticized and is not the absolute core.

In particular, many French people have been advocating that veterans should make way for newcomers. Players of Makelele's age have naturally become targets that novices want to replace, and he himself knows it very well.

Originally, Makelele had an old ankle injury this time, and wanted to take advantage of the international competition day to rest,
But Domenech did not give the veteran a chance to rest. With the French team still in danger of qualifying, Domenech hoped that every main player must be in place and make a final fight for the right to qualify.

Domenech is now a specific performance of improvisation. There is no way. Who made this guy's overly radical replacement disrupt the French team's early lock-up of qualifying places during the group stage. Now he can only rely on Zidane. Rescue the veterans, hug him as the coach of the national team.

After winning the World Cup and the European Cup, French fans have been raised very tricky for a long time. Now the pressure that Domenech has to face is the success of his predecessor, regardless of whether it was the glory of the past. Now the French fans The last thing I want to see is the demise of the national team.

In 02, they were eliminated in the group stage of the Korea-Japan World Cup, which made the French team the laughing stock of other teams. The results of the European Cup in 04 were not satisfactory. It is likely to be bombarded by many media, even verbal criticism.

With the last two rounds of the group stage remaining, Domenech did not dare to relax at all. He even had to ensure that he won both games in order for the French national team to directly get the World Cup tickets without participating in the play-offs. In this urgent situation, he will not give up any main force at all.

Although Makelele made a request for a truce, Domenech did not give Makelele this opportunity. In his reply, he said very directly that if Makelele refused to play, then he would probably follow the rules of FIFA. As a matter of fact, the player's refusal to play for the national team will affect the club.

If you refuse the call of the national team, according to FIFA regulations, the player is likely to face a suspension in the club game, and the national team is suspended for one game, then the club will be suspended for two games, such an unreasonable Regulations have now become Domenech's precious sword.

Domenech's inhumane approach not only made Makelele a little depressed, but also angered the hot-tempered Mourinho. He issued sharp comments to the outside world, thinking that Domenech and the French Football Association's behavior did not Human rights are also used as "slaves".

Although Makelele could only return to the national team with old injuries to report in order not to delay more club games, the war of words between Chelsea and the French national team did not end. Facing Mourinho’s anger, Domene Ke that guy was so naive as to want to fight back in the media.

Just one day after Mourinho's "slave theory" was introduced, French coach Domenech responded to Mourinho's criticism of him in a mocking way in front of the media, and raised the debate to the club and Regarding the "theoretical height" of the national team's conflict, he doesn't think he is wrong at all.

"Yeah! Makelele is a slave. I have a whip in my hand. He has to go wherever I point." Domenech's opening remarks seemed to be a joke, but this kind of ridicule was also in response to Mourinho's criticism of Mourinho. His own accusation, it can be seen that this stubborn guy thinks it is slander.

But besides joking, Domenech also said seriously that this is not a simple problem between Makelele and Chelsea, but a manifestation of the conflict between the national team and the club. On the one hand, it is to ensure the quality of international competitions.

There are international competitions such as the World Cup and the European Championships, so that fans can enjoy more exciting confrontations. If this regulation is completely abolished one day, maybe the international competitions can only be the World Club Champions League. Those super giants will With greater power, it is more difficult to restrain.

It is estimated that FIFA set such a rule in the first place to suppress those wealthy clubs.

Blatter's cunning old men don't want to watch the giants of the five major leagues grow bigger little by little, and finally gain an absolute advantage in the power struggle, and they may even ride on their own heads.

At least such a rule can win the interests of the national team to a certain extent and balance those disputes.

The club has always had objections on the issue of whether to let players go, but, "I have a whip in my hand", Chelsea have other means of pressure, anyway Makelele can only "endure",
At least until he quits the French national team, he must obey every call of the national team.

Holding the FIFA regulations in his hand, Domenech doesn't seem to be afraid of such a match. Anyway, this guy is determined to fight Mourinho. At least for him now, every main player The players are all he needs, whether the player is really able to play or not.

If the matter is not considered a climax at this time, then Makelele's injury in the national team game will completely annoy Mourinho. Returning to the team with an injury is enough to make Mourinho depressed. Now that Makelele's old injury has recurred, he is even more furious.

"Why should the club be responsible for the salary of the players, but the injuries caused by the national team need to be paid by the club? Should such injuries be borne by the national team!? Including all expenses during the player's truce!", Mourinho and Chelsea The club's statement this time has been widely bombarded.

Injured his main midfielder, you can imagine how angry Mourinho is now. At this time, he doesn't care how much trouble this bombardment will cause. Anyway, there is no way between him and Domenech. Relieved, let the players go into battle with injuries, damn it, this idiot!

And Chelsea now has more troubles than this one. Makelele is injured, which has disrupted Mourinho's tactical arrangements. Although Essien can take over Makelele's position, the pressure of multi-line combat cannot be fully Pressed on one person, now the Chelsea team has to prepare with multiple hands.

Makelele's injury may be a bad start. Lampard, Gerrard and Ashley Cole, who played on behalf of England, also had some muscle fatigue because of the hard work, especially Lampard , this guy slightly strained his right thigh muscle in order to fight for a goal.

The only good news may still come from Portugal. After ensuring that the team can qualify, Scolari did not continue to let Lin Yi start the game, but stayed on the bench as an emergency backup option. Deco simply He and Ronaldo are in good condition and won the game smoothly in the away game.

However, on an international match day, Chelsea lost their troops, which really annoyed Mourinho. The advantages accumulated by the team in the early stage are likely to be disrupted by such a bad schedule. Domenech is really endless.

Before November is about to usher in, the magnanimous journey ahead of the Chelsea team has begun to become a bit full of thorns. Many media are predicting that maybe the Chelsea team ushered in the first defeat of the season, and it will appear in the near future. , This kind of personnel consumption will make it difficult for Chelsea to defend the title.

In the next Champions League game, Chelsea seems to be fulfilling such speculation. When they played against PSV Eindhoven, they failed to maintain the record of winning the first five games and only scored one draw. His performance and state also began to be not as crazy and sharp as in the previous stage.

"Chelsea has exerted too much force in the first half, and has begun to show the lack of follow-up to this sprint."

Such comments are placed on Mourinho's table, but the Portuguese did not frown, but was engrossed in watching the final list of the Champions League round of [-]. . .

The most important battlefield is still there, a group match, not worth making a fuss about. . . .
Chelsea just waited in silence for the next opponent. . .

(End of this chapter)