The head coach is responsible for the results, so if he requests to replace the first-team goalkeeper, full-back and others, generally speaking, the head coach's request should be met. But now the team's top management does not want to replace the players the head coach asks to be replaced, but instead plans to replace the central defender and others brought by the head coach. So who is responsible for the team's results?

Xia Haoyang is very hesitant now.

From the eyes of General Manager Ma to the club's assistant coach Tao Wei and others, Xia Haoyang can feel that the conflicts and differences between the two sides are huge, and the club should be thinking about changing the head coach. However, because he said at the beginning that he would fully trust the head coach, he dares not speak out now.

Xia Haoyang directly stated the plan proposed by the Chinese coaching team, which was to not replace the goalkeeper or the full-backs, but to replace the foreign central defenders and forwards, and then buy central defenders and defensive midfielders. He asked Jiang Xiaojun to translate it for the head coach.

As a result, the head coach was so angry that he even stood up, kicked the chair behind him, then yelled and left the room angrily.

Everyone in the audience was stunned. The translator explained awkwardly, "The Fruit Teenagers are a Latin ethnic group with a more unrestrained personality and easily excited emotions, but they are not bad by nature. Coach Suarez meant that he is the head coach and he does not need outsiders to guide him. If you use him as the head coach, you should trust his decisions and do as he asks. Then he will be willing to take responsibility for the results. If he cannot achieve the desired results, he can resign to take responsibility. But the club is now behaving like this. If you don't do as he asks, he will be held responsible. He can't do it."

"Hmph, resign? After resigning, he will just leave and go somewhere else to make money. The club is in a mess and we have to clean it up by ourselves. The team suffers and the fans are sad. What does he have to lose? Will he spit out all the money he earned before?" complained a logistics manager of the club.

"Although head coach Suarez's attitude was rather bad, there was nothing wrong with what he said. As a professional coach, the only way he can take responsibility is to resign." Xia Haoyang said lightly, but he also looked around at the others. It was obvious that everyone looked disapproving and seemed to be forcing themselves not to speak.

"Have you been dissatisfied with the head coach for a long time?" Xia Haoyang said to Ma Li, the club's executive president.

"Yes, President Xia. Actually, before the league ended and we lost to Haigang by a large margin, the club was thinking about changing the head coach. Later, you suggested to fully support him, so the club continued to trust the head coach and cooperate with his work. But I always feel that under his guidance, the team has not made much progress, nor has it performed very well. The atmosphere within the team is rather negative."

"If I remember correctly, it seemed that before I took over Guoan, it was the club that renewed the contract with this foreign coach." Xia Haoyang smiled.

"Yes, that was at the beginning of last year. The team performed well at that time, so the club renewed his contract for two years. However, after the contract renewal, the team's performance plummeted and became ups and downs. So we also regretted renewing his contract. Now our coaching staff seems to think that his tactical philosophy is not suitable for the current Guoan team, and that he is somewhat nepotistic."

"As a team, everyone must work together. Now there are divisions within the club. How can we achieve good results? Do you suggest changing the head coach?" Xia Haoyang once again looked around at everyone present.

Including the Executive President Ma Li, everyone nodded in unison.

Xia Haoyang asked the translator Jiang Xiaojun: "Mr. Jiang, you should have had more dealings with head coach Suarez, and you have also worked with many foreign coaches. What do you think of this coach? How do you think he is different from the coaches you have worked with before?"

It should be said that Xia Haoyang asked the right person this time. Jiang Xiaojun is very well-known in China as a translator. He has been cooperating with Guoan for more than 20 years and has feelings for Guoan. But he is also a third party and can evaluate the head coach's ability and character more objectively from the perspective of Guoan.

"Well," Jiang Xiaojun also looked around at the others, thought for a moment and said, "He definitely has coaching ability, but Mr. Suarez is indeed stubborn, or a little arrogant. It should be said that many foreigners look down on Chinese football and Chinese football practitioners from the bottom of their hearts, and think that we are all unprofessional. This is indeed the case."

No one spoke. No one talked back or said anything angry. They were all middle-aged people who had experienced ups and downs and had dealt with many foreigners. It did not seem surprising that professionals from countries with high-level football looked down on Chinese football. The point was that we were really bad at football, and it was natural for others to look down on us.

"From my 20 years of translation career, I know that Coach Suarez is relatively impatient. He has some good ideas about football, but the players find it difficult to execute them and fail to meet the coach's requirements. At this time, Coach Suarez blames the players more and rarely finds ways to solve the problem. He thinks the solution is to replace players with other players who can suit his tactical concepts, rather than redesigning tactics based on the existing players, or finding ways to help them improve. Of course, Suarez is the head coach of the first team. He is only responsible for the results and does not need to spend time training a young person. Substituting players and replacing the players he needs to realize his tactical concepts and achieve better results is also a common behavior for these foreign coaches."

Xia Haoyang nodded. Senior translator Jiang Xiaojun's comments were relatively objective. He acknowledged the head coach's abilities, but was impatient and only cared about results, so choosing to replace the players he needed was the most direct and simple way.

"Thank you very much for your speech, Mr. Jiang. Your objective evaluation is very important to how I make a decision." Xia Haoyang shook hands with Jiang Xiaojun cordially again.

"I also have feelings for the club. I am willing to do my best to help Mr. Xia and do good for the country." Jiang Xiaojun was also very excited in the face of Xia Haoyang's trust.

"Since almost all the technical team members and management staff of the club feel that the head coach should no longer serve as the head coach of Guoan, then let's change the head coach. I remember that Mr. Dong Liang, the former head coach of the youth team, was the coach of the first team?"

"Yes, President Xia." Executive President Ma Li nodded quickly.

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