Mister Legend

Chapter 466

The last book said that Zidane and Li Mudi, good friends with an age difference of 11 years, encountered a huge emotional crisis when they entered the ninth year of acquaintance (?) .

But this storm came quickly, and it didn't go slowly.After Veronica seemingly inadvertently served the after-dinner tea as a buffer, the Turin coach still waited until the time when his friend's emotions gradually stabilized, expressing his attitude of loyalty to this friendship. O(∩_∩)O
"Wini's skill at making tea is getting better and better. This is the Dragon Well tea I brought back from the Celestial Dynasty! It seems that you are used to using oriental green tea instead of the black tea you often drink here in Europe. It's worth learning After so many years of knowledge of metaphysics, I have made quite a lot of progress!"

"However, the skill of cultivating the mind and nourishing the qi is still not at home. You are touted as the inheritor of metaphysics outside, and you really think that you can stand up to Lao Tzu and other sages? I haven't said anything yet, you bombed the temple. It’s so beautiful, but you are so irritable. It’s not good. Don’t you believe in Lao Tzu’s idea that goodness is like water? You probably think that what the old man said is a waterfall! Let’s calm down and don’t be affected by personal impulsive emotions. The atmosphere of this exchange."

This nonsense, coupled with the warning eyes from his wife when she brought the things just now, finally suppressed Zidane's rare anger that he wanted to vent.But while the Real Madrid coach was pecking at the tea, he was still waiting for his friend's explanation. Fortunately, Li Moody didn't make him wait too long.

"The people who say you are nepotism are those who deliberately provoke troubles. This is not a judge making a judgment. You must strictly abide by the principle of fairness and justice. Which head coach doesn't have a few direct players of his own!"

As soon as he said this, the Turin coach, who saw the other party's face getting uglier, immediately reversed: "Of course, I'm not saying that the reason why you support Karim is because their personal relationship is very good, as long as you have some football common sense Everyone can understand that Ronaldo is the most important attacking point for Real Madrid. In order to maximize his efficiency, what the team needs on the front line is a player who is good at running and can open up space for his teammates. Center, and using a Terminator player will overlap with Ronaldo in function. That is to say, after shooters such as Lewandowski and Icardi come, they will never perform better than Karim, but will play a role. To the negative effect of 1+1<2."

Sure enough, after hearing this passage, Qi Zu's face was finally no longer clouded.However, the words of the good friend did not continue to develop in the direction he hoped. Li Mudi obviously wanted to make his last wave of efforts at this moment, to see if he could persuade the French to "abandon the dark and turn to the bright", otherwise wait for Qi Zu and Real Madrid. It is likely to be a huge tragedy.

"Everyone admits that Ronaldo's scoring ability is still the top on the planet, and almost any head coach who coaches him will regard the quasi-ball king as the absolute core of his team's offense, and arrange tactical play in this way. But buddy, this Portuguese superman is no longer young. Although he has not shown signs of a significant decline in his ability through unimaginable training intensity, the 33-year-old age is not deceiving. Such a powerful superman How long can the hero Real Madrid have?"

"I'm not talking about selling the number one star in the team. Even at the age of 35 or even older, I believe he is still one of the best football players in the world. But in order to extend the peak state of his athletic ability , as the age gradually increases, Ronaldo's activity area is bound to shift towards the opponent's penalty area. As the head coach of the team, you must be very clear about this. Among his goals this season, The proportion of goals scored in the penalty area has risen to nearly 65%. Except for penalty kicks and free kicks, it is difficult to see the previous iconic long-distance raids and long-distance goals. Only laymen will not understand this. What does it represent."

"From my personal point of view, Real Madrid's tactical thinking is mainly to pursue faster advancement. Since Ronaldo is not suitable for the role of an assaulter, wouldn't it be the best solution to simply push him to the center forward position? Is there a way? The team now has two superstars of tomorrow, Mbappe and Asensio, as well as frontcourt players like Isco and Vazquez who can adapt to other style changes. They only need to find a qualified backup center , how perfect all this should be. Taking advantage of the fact that Kareem and Gareth can get back some funds at the moment, they will be sold decisively, and then they will spend money on De Gea and make some supplements for the midfield. The future of Real Madrid is definitely worth looking forward to."

This plan is not the first time Moody Li has revealed it to his friends, but Zidane will not give the slightest approval every time he talks about it, and there is no accident today.

Seeing that the Turin coach temporarily stopped talking and moistened his throat with tea, the Real Madrid coach finally couldn't help it, and immediately refuted it while taking advantage of the time: "Your theory is completely based on the perspective of a bystander. Thinking about whether a team can maintain a stable state not only requires a reasonable allocation of players and clear tactics, but also a very important part of the atmosphere and unity within the team. Especially for the world's top giants like Real Madrid, even more It is impossible to ignore the impact of this aspect, how many cases of collapse because of this before, do I need to find out and tell you?"

"You have no experience as a player, and the time to coach the team is still short, and you don't have a deep understanding of team unity. There are too many insiders in the Real Madrid dressing room. The previous ones are not mentioned. Judging from the two periods when I played as a player from 2001 to 06 and returned to the Bernabeu as an assistant to José in 2010, the internal unity of the team has actually always had a lot of problems."

"In the era of Galacticos, because the club's senior management treated offensive players and defensive players too differently, there was a huge gap between the two parts of the players. Maybe that group of luxurious divisions fell apart a long time ago. But even so, Makelele chose to join the Premier League because he could not get the ideal salary, which still completely destroyed the invincible battleship that won the Champions League three times in five years. sunk."

"As for the current Real Madrid, after the introduction of Cristiano and Karim, the second period of superstar era began, but Raul's departure made it impossible for a leader who could command the whole team to appear in the locker room. Before Iker had a conflict with Ronaldo because of his girlfriend, you must still be impressed by this incident at this time. In order to establish the latter's status as the number one star in the team, Mr. The legendary goalkeeper was squeezed out of the Bernabeu. It’s just that now the captain is replaced by Sergio, who is hot-tempered and impulsive, and he is even less likely to convince those big-name players.”

"You should be able to guess what kind of effort I have put in to knead this talented but extremely paranoid team together. The outside world criticizes me for not paying attention to the team's youth training and local players, but Asensio , Nacho, Vazquez and others have also been reused in my hands. At the same time, in order to prevent the Brazilian and Portuguese gangs in the team from being too closely united against local players, I have also actively cooperated in the past two years. The management of the club has cleaned up Pepe, Coentrao and Danilo, and approved the introduction of Ceballos and other young people, why are these things not mentioned by many people?"

"I'm not saying this to invite credit. As the head coach of the world's largest club, I think I have done my best to help the team reach the peak and stay at that level for a long time. Although the current Real Madrid still has a variety of small problems. If you really want to compare the truth, anyone can say it for a long time, but at least the overall strength and cohesion of the team can still rank among the top in the world, relying on the super strength of the lineup. Strong stability and the leading role of superstars, you can’t deny this. In the past three to five years, the most important factor why we and Barcelona are the two most powerful teams in the world is the one I just mentioned Two o'clock."

"And I'm not a flexible person who doesn't know. Didn't the strengthened rotation learned from you last season also have an excellent effect? ​​The team won the first league Champions League double since the establishment of the team. From a point of view, you also contributed a lot to that honor, and the Real Madrid club should be very grateful to you. However, due to the departure of Morata and Ronaldo, it is difficult for the newly joined rookies to show a qualified performance for the time being. If you don’t go back to the old way of using the main force before, you will be criticized by you. But who can understand me!”

"During Ronaldo's suspension at the beginning of the season, I did give the teenagers a lot of opportunities, but the result of consecutive winless games left me and the entire team with no way out. Young players such as Special Olympics and Ceballos People were criticized by the outside world during that time. In order to protect their mental state and also for the sake of the team's performance, I had to make the decision to reduce their playing time. Facts have proved that in Ronaldo, Bell and other veterans After the return, although the team’s state still has occasional ups and downs, overall the confidence of a strong team has been restored, and this is the capital for this Real Madrid to reach the Champions League final for the third consecutive year!”

"I have also thought about your suggestion of using Ronaldo as the center forward to strengthen Mbappe and Asensio, but after careful consideration, I feel that doing so will limit the player's own technical ability, which is not good for the team. And at the beginning of the season, I also tested the player's thoughts through Mendes (C Ronaldo's agent), and the feedback he got was not optimistic. He thought he was more used to playing with the ball more, and I am not willing to play the role of a terminator in the opponent's penalty area, so this proposal can only be temporarily shelved."

"And considering Ronaldo's own character, I think at least when he is still playing for the Bernabeu, the idea of ​​letting him top the center position will not be achieved. It has been rumored outside, the club will be in this season After the end, we will start a new round of contract renewal negotiations with him. According to the previous agreement, it will be a super contract comparable to Messi’s after-tax annual salary of 4000 million. Once the contract renewal agreement is completed, unless I dare to give this The prospective ball king with a huge salary is thrown on the bench, otherwise the combination of him and Kareem cannot be easily dismantled. Even if you give me a new center forward with a similar style, there is no guarantee that the cooperation between him and Ronaldo can be perfect. This is the main reason why I tried to keep the French striker to the point where I am now."

"Besides, I also don't want to destroy the relative atmosphere in the team. I'm not afraid of your jokes. There are still frictions between the local gang headed by Ramos and the foreign gang headed by Ronaldo. Before that, there was a secret struggle on whether to replace Navas with De Gea. In the end, Ronaldo supported Costa Rica in an interview with the media, which made Ramos and others who had always hoped that the main goalkeeper of Spain could join. I'm happy, but because the latter is the team's first captain, but because of the disadvantage in terms of numbers and overall influence, they can only hold back this tone for the time being, but the hidden danger still remains."

“It’s not been a day or two since you’ve known Cristiano. If the club sells Kareem or brings in De Gea against his will, if he loses his temper, the whole team is likely to fall apart. The situation. So if you want to complete the renewal in your eyes, you have to convince the number one star in the team, and this is almost an impossible task. Of course, you can also choose to take Ronaldo directly, but if you do that, Can Real Madrid afford to lose all the losses brought about by the quasi-ball king? Anyway, I am not very optimistic about this plan."

"I know that the club is trying to contact Paris Saint-Germain and wants to buy Neymar. Many fans believe that this Brazilian star can replace Ronaldo as the new core of the team. They can be so fantasizing, but as the main player of Real Madrid Coach, I don't want to take such a big risk to replace all the main frontcourt players in the team. If the Turin team wants to sell Immobile, Belotti and others this summer, and then exchange for The new players who are as capable as them will let the team start to run-in and find the state again, would you agree?"

After hearing Qi Zu's complaints, Li Mudi finally understood the helplessness of his friend at the moment, which almost completely overturned his previous belief that the BBC should be cleaned up.At this moment, the only thing left in the Turin coach's heart is deep sympathy for Qi Zu.

Who would have thought that even the former world football No. 1 who became a historical champion coach in almost two and a half years would be defeated by the team when he was about to usher in the incomparably glorious moment of three consecutive Champions League titles? The future development plan is tortured so painfully!

In a word, Real Madrid's handsome position is really not something that ordinary people can sit firmly, it is simply a hell-like existence, isn't it!
(End of this chapter)