champion professor

Chapter 142 Kearney
The night was dim, and by the time they got back to London it was already night.

The exhausted Shao Bo lay on the bed, nothing to do.

In a fierce game, not only the players running on the court are exhausted, but even the coaches watching from the sidelines are also under tremendous pressure.

Although he doesn't have to run on the court, the pressure on winning or losing the game will be more concentrated on him.This is the head coach, who has the greatest power and the greatest responsibility.Enjoy cheers when winning the championship, and can only endure ridicule when the team is in a downturn.

Manchester United is still the first in the standings, and Arsenal has not narrowed the gap.

Last season, Arsenal won the championship with only a very small advantage.And this time after Manchester United strengthened in multiple important positions, Arsenal's competitiveness is actually even smaller.

In fact, Shao Bo's current group of players basically followed him to win two double championships.Apart from the Europa League championship, I am afraid there is no championship trophy worth fighting for.

People are afraid of this. Once there is inertia, it is impossible to display their full strength.When the championship is no longer very attractive to them, some people will think of other things, which will affect the state of training and competition.

In fact, many strong teams are like this. After winning the championship, the players only think about salary increases and more vacations.

So what is their approach to keeping the team competitive?

Metabolism, old for new.Add new blood to the team, and let a group of more energetic players and players who are more eager to win the championship play the game.

And those old players, as the veterans of the team, passed down the tradition of the club, or simply left to go to other clubs.

This league championship has been won, and there are other leagues.Or they may have jumped ship for a higher-paying contract, it's all possible.But in the end, you can't escape the fate of leaving.

Shao Bo naturally wanted to use this method, and he could even use it to maximize the advantages of the traversers.It's a pity that this season, he can only watch the ups and downs in the transfer market.

This is mainly because Arsenal consumed a lot of money when building the Kearney training base. For a while, the club did not have enough money to support Shao Bo's big purchase.

In fact, Shao Bo advanced Kearney's construction time by more than a year. After all, Anelka is still in London.Without an important inflow of funds, relying solely on the club's inherent working capital, it is indeed stretched to cope with so many expenses.

At that time, Shao Bo, who had just won the double crown, probably did not expect that the club was actually not rich.

One is that Arsenal has no money to buy players, and the other is that Shao Bo is not suitable for buying too many players based on the existing team situation.

You know, the current main members of Arsenal are still veterans left over from the Graham era.When they get together, they are naturally a small group.

Once Shao Bo introduces a certain player, his strength will definitely not be a problem.The vision of the traveler is here, which is the best qualification certification.

It is impossible for two equally top players to play at the same time, otherwise Arsenal can send 22 players.The competition between the two is very large and there will be conflicts. When Shao Bo has not yet fully grasped the locker room, he is still reluctant to have anything that will cause conflicts in the locker room.

It can be said that he is too cautious and timid, but Shao Bo believes that at this stage, it is worthwhile to be conservative.

Although there is no problem with the strength of the players in this small group, their professionalism has also improved a lot after getting rid of bad living habits.But after all, they have won multiple championships, and it is inevitable that they will be lazy.

More importantly, they are too old, and they may never return to the game due to a small injury at any time.Once any player is absent, it will cause huge losses to Arsenal.

Arsenal's current injury wave is such a manifestation.Old players have played too many games. Although they eat and live according to scientific plans, their bodies have accumulated too many past injuries, and a small injury may ruin their careers.

Now, Shao Bo can only see if he can find some temporary firefighters after the winter transfer window opens.

The upsurge of the World Cup in 98 caused the value of many players to rise in the summer. Let's see if it can be lowered in winter.

It's just that Shao Bo is not sure now, after all, the Premier League has begun to introduce foreign capital on a large scale in the past two years.A lot of foreign capital has entered the clubs originally controlled by the British. In order to quickly improve their performance, they bought players at high prices, which has caused the problem of inflated player prices in the transfer market.

So many problems, so many troubles.

However, the only good news is that Arsenal can finally use the Kearney training base.

The first phase of the training base project has been completely completed, and all the facilities used by the first team have been installed in place.The "greenhouse" of the urban training ground familiar to future generations of Arsenal fans has also been built, waiting for Shao Bo's review.

Arsenal's current tactics can't be called technical flow, but they have formed a fast pass and cut, defensive and counterattack style of play, and they have strict requirements for the pitch of the pitch.

Many English pitches lack maintenance due to lack of funds for clubs, and the cost is the potholes on the grass.Not to mention that the trajectory of the ball will be weird and unpredictable, and the players are also likely to be injured due to the uneven grass.

In fact, a while ago, Ian Wright's ankle was twisted in the match between Arsenal and Sunderland because he stepped on a small hole on the field that was concealed by the turf.

According to the team doctor, Ian Wright needs to rest for at least a month.A hole in the grass affects the performance of top players, how can Shao Bo not pay attention to it?

Therefore, every piece of turf in the Conil training base is selected by a special person and airlifted from the Netherlands, and the cost of each piece is as high as hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The company that provides turf for Arsenal has also served the World Cup and European Cup for many years, and the quality is guaranteed.Shao Bo doesn't know much about this, so he can only make his own choice after a certain amount of understanding.

David Dane must have surpassed Shao Bo in terms of connections, but he didn't understand this kind of professional knowledge.Professionals were invited, and Shao Bo deliberately asked Ferguson, Lippi and other acquaintances about the matter before finally making a decision.

The training facilities are all top-notch in the world. Today's Arsenal players no longer have to share a training ground with a bunch of college students.

The moment they came to Kearney, the players all felt like they had become local tyrants.

There are three pitches for the first team alone, and three for the reserves.As for the part of the youth team, it belongs to the second phase of the project and is still under construction.

The last field is for the first team to play friendly matches or when the U18 league starts.

The two courts here have underground heating equipment, which ensures that even if it is raining and snowing, there will never be a single piece of ice and snow on the court.

Each court is strictly planned according to the size of Highbury. Of course, Shao Bo has naturally reserved preparations for the expansion of the new court in the future.

There is also a small artificial lake in the center of the more than [-]-acre training base, which is formed by the collection of rainwater absorption and guiding devices on the roofs of several nearby buildings.

Both the media center and the "greenhouse" are located near the lake. If the weather is bad, the players will move from the usual open-air training ground to the "greenhouse" for training.

If rainy and snowy days are still open-air training, it will inevitably have a negative impact on the players' bodies.In case of a cold and fever, you will miss at least one game.

The white building, which is slightly shorter than the "big shed", is Arsenal's media center.Usually, whenever the club wants to hold a press conference, everyone can come here directly.

The training center provides a variety of training equipment, where players can exercise every muscle of the body.

When they are tired from training, they will go directly to the sauna room, treatment room, and massage room of the physical therapy center for physical therapy rest.

As for the depth-adjustable swimming pool, gymnasium, restaurant and other entertainment and logistics buildings, not to mention, under Shao Bo's participation in the planning, the Kearney training base used various high-tech as much as possible, and therefore, the construction cost was high.

However, it is also worth the money spent alone.At least for now, Arsenal's Kearney training base is the best training place in England.

The FA have made an application to Arsenal to train here when there are national team games.

However, the current Kearney training base is only about half completed, and it only meets the needs of the first-line players.Those venues and other facilities prepared for the youth training will take longer to build, but all these Shao Bos have been handed over to the club's youth training director. He is now only responsible for the training and competition of the first team.

Speaking of which, Shao Bo's head coach responsibilities are somewhat different from those of traditional England head coaches.Except for the first team, he delegated a lot of power and handed over all kinds of affairs to special personnel, and he usually never intervened.

Just like this training base maintained by dozens of people, Shao Bo only knows that their head is Steve Braddock, the bald middle-aged man who used to manage the Highbury Stadium.As for the other party's personality traits and how his subordinates are, Shao Bo doesn't care at all.As long as the Kearney training base is well maintained by him, it is enough.

Although there are reasons for him being young, lacking in strength and qualifications, and being too busy, there are also reasons for him to deliberately delegate power to ease all kinds of conflicts.

　Sorry, something happened suddenly during the day, I haven't had time to update it, and I'm too embarrassed to ask for a ticket for a few days

　　
　
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