"You used swear words in the stands just now." Qin Jiali said to Shao Minzhi.

"I, I don't." Shao Minzhi looked embarrassed.

"Yes, I heard it. You were shouting SB along with the Guoan fans," Qin Jiali explained.

"Well, I couldn't help it. The atmosphere was just right. I didn't even know what I was shouting."

"What does it matter? I shouted too. What's the point of watching football if you don't shout a few swear words?" Han Xiyu, who was walking next to him, didn't care.

“That’s why there are so many people swearing on the court. I didn’t notice it the last time I watched the game. I thought it was just a quality issue. But when I really got into it and was infected by the environment, I found that sometimes I couldn’t help myself.” Shao Minzhi said belatedly.

Last time we all watched a game together, because the Guoan fans swore in the stadium, everyone had some small opinions about the Guoan fans, thinking that they had no quality. But today, after I integrated into the role, I cursed along with the audience. Then I realized that sometimes we are infected by the environment and don’t know what we are doing. Our emotions cannot be controlled. In fact, it is not just a problem of quality.

After the game, everyone waited on the sidelines as Xia Haoyang went to the locker room to comfort the players and coaches.

The league was resumed to make way for the national team, but in this game Guoan had the advantage but could not score. Facing the championship contender Shenhua, Guoan had more than 20 shots but only scored one goal, while the opponent had 5 shots but also scored one goal. Both the players and fans shook hands and made peace.

Guoan coach Ricardo gave advice to the club's new chairman Xia Haoyang through an interpreter, saying that we need to buy a striker, a real center forward.

The club originally had an outstanding young center forward, a national team player, who was trained by their own youth team, but he was kicked out of the team by Xia Haoyang who abused his power for personal gain.

A slightly older center forward was injured in this game and could not last the whole game, while the foreign striker was not in good shape perhaps because the league was suspended for too long; resulting in the team now lacking a shooter who can destroy the city.

Xia Haoyang, who originally said he would not invest this season, knew very well that this was his own fault, because he had asked a national team player like Huang Ningyu to stop training, games and salary. Now that the team is short of people, he would have to invest.

So he told Guoan coach Ricardo: "I will buy a center forward for the team as soon as possible, believe me."

After hearing what the club translator said, coach Ricardo took out a piece of draft paper with several names written on it. The translator said: "These are the forward candidates that the coach has examined. Just pick one from them."

Xia Haoyang saw that they were all foreign languages. He was not even sure whether they were English or Spanish. Anyway, he did not recognize them.

But Xia Haoyang is a man with his own ideas. He told the translator: "The club management will study and discuss the forward selection and will implement it as soon as possible. We will have our own choice of who to buy, but we will also fully respect your opinion, coach." After that, Xia Haoyang left. The note with the player's name was still in the translator's hand.

The Guoan coach spread his hands to express that he did not understand what Xia Haoyang said.

Perhaps in the eyes of Guoan's foreign coach Ricardo, you are the richest man, but you are an outsider. As the head coach who knows the players best and the strategist of the team, I am the one who knows the needs of the team best. The players I provide are the ones who best meet my needs. As the boss, you just need to pay to buy players. What else do you need to study? What can you study?

But that was not the case in Xia Haoyang's eyes.

You are the coach, and it is a fact that you know the team best, so you propose the type of players you need based on your tactical needs, that is, the characteristics of the players you need, such as speed, tall stature, and good heading skills, etc. As a coach, you only have the right to make suggestions, and the suggestions should not be about the names of the players but the characteristics and types of the players.

The club's management selects players that suit the club's needs based on the coach's tactical style and the type of players required. For example, a list of 3-5 people is given, and then the coach chooses the player he thinks is most suitable from the list given by the club.

This is in the best interests of the club.

What is the difference? One is that the coach provides the player list himself, and the club buys players based on the player list provided by the coach;

The other is that the coach provides the requirements, the club is responsible for compiling the list of players the coach needs, and then the coach asks the club to buy who from the list of players provided by the club.

They seem similar, but in fact they are very different. In Xia Haoyang's mind, the latter approach is what a professional club should do. In this way, it can limit the excessive power of the head coach, or limit certain fraudulent and dirty private transactions and nepotism.

Xia Haoyang is not professional in football, but he understands the most basic management methods.

Xia Haoyang was very concerned about this matter. On the same day, he called the club's executive president, Mr. Ma, to discuss the need to buy a forward. He then asked Mr. Ma to contact Mr. Zhang Lu and other professionals to provide a center forward candidate who would suit the coach's tactical requirements. Xia Haoyang required a domestic player.

The head coach may not trust the domestic players and wants to buy foreign players, but Xia Haoyang knows very well that local players are the foundation. It is not that foreign players should not be bought, but if they are to be bought, they should be high-level foreign players who are obviously stronger than domestic players. It is better to use local players who are of average level.

Following Xia Haoyang's instructions after Saturday's game, General Manager Ma provided a list of players suitable for transfer on Monday morning. There were only four people on the list, all of whom were outstanding domestic centers, including mature veterans in their 4s and young people in their 30s who needed to be honed in competitions.

Looking at the four names, Xia Haoyang had a very deep impression of one of them: Lily Lamu.

Lily Ramu is from the western region of China, the Uyghur ethnic group. In the match between the national team and Thailand, although the national team's overall performance was average, Lily Ramu scored the equalizer.

Perhaps in the eyes of some media people, when the national team needs more goals, you should not celebrate after scoring a goal, but should go back and continue to work hard to score the second goal. Some even criticized Yuri Lamu for celebrating the goal.

But in Xia Haoyang's eyes, this was pure nitpicking.

This was the first time this 20-something kid played for the national team, and also the first time he scored for the national team. Before he scored, the atmosphere in the entire team was so depressing. His celebration was actually a way to release pressure. Is it so difficult to understand that he released pressure and vented his emotions? Should we have such high expectations for a 20-something kid?

Yuri Ramu is not a mature and experienced international player. As a commentator, are your requirements too demanding?

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