Father Green

Chapter 35: Katrina's Pledge

At the Staplewood training base the next day, Tony Cotton was leading the team in training, while Wilkins found Charlotte with a team report co-authored by the coaching staff and scouting team.

This is the homework assigned by Charlotte to the team's coaching staff and scouting team when the team's training camp just started. The first step is to understand himself.

Charlotte knew the Southampton team in his previous life. At that time, Southampton was a difficult team to deal with even in the Premier League, and their season ambition was to get tickets to the European arena.Adam Lallana, Luke Shaw, Schneiderlin, Chambers and others in the team were even favored by traditional Premier League giants such as Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal.

But this 2011 Southampton team. To be honest, Charlotte doesn't know very well.

And when Charlotte got the 20-page report, she frowned after just a preliminary glance.

The previous Southampton tactics were basically traditional English team tactics, nothing more than "focusing on passing coordination", "long passing", "rough collision" and other lack of cooperation and skills. The only difference is that among other traditional English teams, Southampton is considered to be relatively skilled.

But modern football is an era of diversified football. Football in all countries is moving towards continental Europe, with wonderful offense, tacit pass and cut cooperation, and layer-by-layer defense
And Alan Pardue, who has been in the previous position, is still such a team in Southampton, sitting on the top technical youth training model for a century, but playing football that is painful and has no bright spots at all. Luo was unable to complain.

This situation changed slightly after the former head coach Adkins took office. Adkins supported technical schools such as Adam Lallana and Chamberlain, and they are also one of the representatives of Southampton's technical schools. It's just that Chamberlain was sold to Arsenal this season before Charlotte took office. Obviously Wenger tasted the sweetness from Walcott.

Therefore, Southampton's traditional tactics and the tactics that Charlotte brought to the team after taking office have little in common. The only thing in common is that they focus on teamwork and passing. The group couldn't get used to it for a while.

And the report Wilkins gave him on this page obtained the results through this period of training and two official games. Although both games were won, most of them relied on the players' outstanding personal abilities and surprises. .

Charlotte knows the trend of the team's technical and tactical play in the future. Perhaps Southampton may not be able to adapt to this tactic in the early stage, but short-term labor pains are definitely worse than long-term sickness.

Let the team continue to train under the leadership of Tony Cotton and Wilkins, and Charlotte found his boss Katerina Liebherr with this report.

"Miss Liebherr, I think you have seen the change in the team over the course of a month, but I just discussed with the coaching staff and found out that the tactics Southampton played in the past and the tactics I am doing to the team now There are not many similarities in the changes. Summarizing the situation this month, due to the changes in skills and tactics, we expect that the team's performance may not be guaranteed in the future, so I hope that Miss Liebherr can give more time to improve patience." Charlotte needed a reassurance.

He knows very well that once the other teams in the English Championship no longer underestimate him, then the team will be more difficult to play in the future, and to be honest, the team's run-in has not reached the level he expected, and In the upcoming matches, there will be no such strong teams as Watford and Crystal Palace, or Premier League relegated teams like West Ham United and Blackpool, or even tough teams like Middlesbrough and Reading. , To be honest, Charlotte does not have much confidence in the next few games.

Although he already has such powerful players as Lallana, Sturridge, Schneiderlin and Al Ganassi in his lineup, how long have they cooperated?And whether it was Southampton before or Manchester City, Chelsea and Boulder where Sturridge had played, and Al Ganassi played in Gent, they did not play this type of tactics.

Katerina Liebherr doesn't know much about football, and she doesn't even like football very much, but she spent a lot of effort on Southampton during her father's lifetime. When Marcus Liebherr acquired Southampton It only cost more than 1000 million pounds, but more than 3000 million pounds have been invested in the renovation and upgrading of the club's training base and youth training camp.

So even if Katerina doesn't understand football, she knows that her father wants to run the team for a long time.And her father also talked about football when he chatted with her occasionally when he was still alive. At that time, her father told her that if she wanted to run a club, then two points are the most important in the early stage. The first point is to be willing to invest, and the second point It is to have a certain amount of patience, because running football is not like other industries, its effect is relatively slow.

Katerina smiled: "Don't worry, Charlotte. You must know that your 'trial period' is only one season. As long as the team doesn't fall into the relegation zone and cannot climb up, at least this season, no matter what the final ranking is. You are the head coach of the team.”

"At the same time, if the final ranking is ideal, then you will still be the head coach of the team next season, and if you can reach the promotion circle, you will be given a formal long-term contract next season and increase investment in the team for preparation. To hit the Premier League qualification, of course, if the team has enough ability to hit the promotion qualification during the winter transfer period, then I will continue to invest in you to strengthen the lineup during the winter transfer period."

With the words of the boss, Charlotte felt more at ease, and left Katerina's office with a happy smile.

On Saturday, August [-]th, the second round of the English Championship, Charlotte will lead Southampton to Watford in Hertfordshire in eastern England to challenge England's Hornet - Watford.

Watford is a strong player in the Championship. Although their performance in the Championship has been ups and downs in recent seasons, sometimes they are in the relegation zone, sometimes they are in the promotion zone or even the top three in the league, and sometimes they are in the top three of the league. In the middle of the league, there is no desire and no desire.But they have played in the Premier League in two of the last ten seasons. This alone knows that they are not easy to deal with.

The famous Chinese commentator Zhan Jun has a mantra: "There are no underdogs in the Premier League!" In fact, this sentence is also applicable to the English Championship, and there are no underdogs in the English Championship.

Compared with the second-tier leagues of other countries, the British Championship is undoubtedly the most competitive, because many of the teams here are relegated from the Premier League, such as West Ham United, Hull City, Middlesbrough, Coventry, Leeds United, Millwall, Reading, etc., of course, including Charlotte's opponent in this game, the Hornet Watford.

For such a game, Charlotte certainly dare not be careless. The front line is the main center Lambert, the two wings are Sturridge and Al Ganassi, who have both speed and technology, and Adam sits in the middle. Lallana.Behind Lallana are captain Dean Hammond and French midfielder Schneiderlin, the two full-backs are Danny Rose and Richardson, and the central defenders are vice-captain Jose Fonte and Dutch teenager Braun. Ruma.

The only surprise is that Charlotte did not choose veteran Calvin Davis nor the 24-year-old Polish goalkeeper Bartocs Bialkowski, who was produced by the youth training, in terms of goalkeeper. German teenager Ter Stegen.

Everyone is dumbfounded by this arrangement. If you say that Davis, the main goalkeeper of the previous seasons, is old and not suitable for the current lineup, everyone can understand that although the goalkeeper has a long career, Davis Already 35 years old, this is no problem.

But what do you mean by choosing a younger German kid instead of the 24-year-old Bialkovski?
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