Midfielder

Holidays are a rare relaxation for every professional player, but a short break can only allow their tired bodies to rest slightly after several months. For these Porto players, a busier season is coming.

Except for Lin Yi who did not enjoy the happiness of this holiday, the rest of the players have adjusted their physical condition before the start of the season and started to prepare for the new season. This will be a brand new season for the Porto team that won the League Cup.

Including the new players who have just reported to the Porto team, they have also cheered up and strived to play well in the Champions League and defend the Portuguese Super League championship. These are the goals of the Porto team. Mourinho will lead a stronger Porto team to start a new journey.

The little guy who has been trained by Faria for a summer also looks stronger, but his worrying height is still around 1.75 meters, but the boy's physical condition has improved greatly, and he has become more aggressive in physical confrontation.

Just as Faria said to Mourinho, "This kid can now give more defensive players a headache. This knife has become sharper. Wait and see, he will scare those opponents in the European arena."

The first ones to be shocked by Lin Yi's training results were his teammates. After a busy summer, this kid has become sharper, and his performance on the training ground has surprised his teammates.

Maniche, who has always been known for his strong defense, was directly attacked from the front by Lin Yi during the group confrontation. When Maniche turned around and prepared to block Lin Yi's position, the kid squeezed past him.

Although Lin Yi's shot after breaking through Maniche's defense still failed to pass through Baia's ten fingers, Lin Yi's one-on-one breakthrough rhythm really shocked Maniche.

If it were last season, when Maniche and his team were defending Lin Yi, although it was difficult to directly steal the ball from the boy's feet, they could rely on their experience and physical confrontation advantages to try to keep Lin Yi out of the danger zone.

They could let the boy pass the ball, but they would never let him dribble easily. Even if there was a foul or physical confrontation, they had to keep the boy out of the danger zone and would not let him face the goal directly.

But now the boy is obviously no longer afraid of such a level of confrontation. He no longer needs to run constantly to pull the gap. Even if it is a direct one-on-one confrontation, he can handle the opponent defending him.

The skilled passing skills and the improvement of physical confrontation allow Lin Yi to deal with various situations on the field more easily. Just like Maniche personally felt, this black-haired boy has become stronger after a summer.

Lin Yi was lucky to become a surprise player in the European competition last season, especially the unfamiliarity of the opponent gave him many opportunities to take advantage of, but his performance in the League Cup final has made him a target for others.

Now if he does not make some changes or strengthen, it will be difficult to stage those miracle moments again. This sense of crisis forces Lin Yi to move forward in big strides, otherwise he will be eliminated from this field.

For Mourinho, he must ask the players to keep their ambitions all the time, and anyone who is satisfied with the League Cup will not stay in the team.

"I won't let them be dizzy for such a victory. I will ask for greater ambition. This is the only way we can continue to win."

And Lin Yi's performance in training is exactly what he needs most. This little guy who has been demanding of himself is the most terrifying force on the court. Now that little guy will become more deadly and more threatening in the offense.

However, the League Cup championship still makes some players act a little flattered. This is the consequence of being praised by too many people around them, and this is not the performance of one or two people. This honor is rapidly wearing away their wolf-like fighting spirit.

Some bad signs have already appeared in the Porto team. As Mourinho himself observed, players have been late for training before the season, and it is not as simple as once or twice, but this kind of thing did not happen last season.

Mourinho has long been prepared to deal with all this. This kind of change brought about by success is easy to appear in the championship team, so he must nip this bad situation in the bud in time. This tough guy will not give anyone any so-called face.

Mourinho mercilessly banished several players who were late for consecutive times to the bench or the second team for recovery training, and those who were not focused enough during training were directly eliminated from the main position.

Anyway, the current Porto team is not short of players, and Mourinho dares to make large-scale rotations in the pre-season training. Quasi-main players such as Bosingwa, McCarthy and Lin Yi began to significantly increase their playing time, and even directly replaced those members who won the championship.

Even an absolute main player like Maniche was mercilessly scolded by him for five minutes on the sidelines. Mourinho's toughness woke up those main players who were a little complacent. They learned only one lesson, that is, never provoke this tough guy.

Mourinho said to the players after the rectification movement: "I want to remind you that the glorious past sometimes hurts us in some way. This is a new season. If you don't want to die on the honor of the past, you'd better cheer up from now on!"

When Porto was busy preparing for the new season, a big thing happened in the Portuguese football circle. When Porto was quietly adding players, a war broke out between their two main domestic rivals.

The fuse of this war was also ignited by a big man who had the final say. It was him who caused the confrontation between Benfica and Sporting Lisbon to break out again.

José Vega, the guy who tried to seduce Lin Yi to join him but failed, originally tried to sign a few outstanding guys from Porto this summer as his future investment target, but Mendes, who saw this before him, was obviously much smarter than him.

Within a week after Porto won the UEFA Cup in Seville, Mendes had already obtained a new contract with Mourinho, Carvalho and others. This advance was fast enough, so there was no chance for Jose Vega to pry it out.

When the agent was about to make a move, he was surprised to find that he had nothing to gain. Those Porto upstarts were already taken. He, a big crocodile with the title of Figo's agent, had fallen behind others in the way of investing in the future.

However, Jose Vega, who never gave up, still took Capshu and Clayton from Porto. But compared with the future prospects of Lin Yi and Carvalho, this big boss in the Portuguese agent circle was obviously frustrated.

Failed to take advantage of Porto, Jose Vega, who did not want to be empty-handed in the summer trading market, set his sights on Benfica. The good cooperative relationship between him and Villariño made him start to plan some things for his old friend in the transfer.

Of course, the premise is that he can also get enough benefits from it, especially the fat man Villariño intends to let José Vega work at Benfica Club, which is a big temptation for José Vega who has already started to prepare for his future.

One is eager to consolidate his position in the Portuguese agent circle, while the other is in urgent need of the team's performance to pick up so as to keep his position as chairman. These two guys naturally come together for their own interests.

Bringing Nuno Gomes back from Florence smoothly has ignited many hopes of Benfica fans to regain the league championship, but José Vega believes that such personnel supplements are not enough to pose a fatal threat to Porto.

He once again set his sights on the fat piece of meat of Sporting Lisbon, especially after Ronaldo joined Manchester United from Lisbon with a large sum of money, which made José Vega set his sights on the youth training camp of Sporting Lisbon. He also hopes that he can have the good luck of Mendes.

Moreover, the poor economic situation of Sporting Lisbon also made many players start to have uneasy feelings. The Portuguese internationals there also became the targets of José Vega's seduction, but this guy who was blinded by interests and reputation seemed to have forgotten something.

Figo also came from Sporting Lisbon. The reason why José Vega has been able to mediate between the three Portuguese powers until now is that his identity as an agent has allowed him to maintain a relatively neutral attitude, but now he has given up this amulet like a daze.

José Vega's secret contact and incitement made many players of Sporting Lisbon start to think about leaving. This bad mood also began to spread the preparations of the entire team. Undercurrents began to surge in Sporting Lisbon, and some bad voices began to sound, catching Sporting Lisbon off guard.

When Sporting Lisbon learned that all the bad things that happened in their team were due to this guy, the angry top management of Sporting Lisbon pointed all the spearheads at the city's mortal enemy Benfica and the self-righteous top agent José Vega.

They publicly declared that José Vega was no longer a friend of Sporting Lisbon. The top agent had been listed as the most unwelcome person by Sporting Lisbon. This backstabbing behavior made it difficult for José Vega to be accepted by Sporting Lisbon again in a short time.

Then the two clubs turned such back-door operations into a war of poaching each other. Simao, Gomez, Pinto, Ricardo, the main players of the two teams were involved in this confusing transfer war. The city of Lisbon is now a completely messy scene.

If you seduce my players publicly on TV today, then tomorrow there may be players in your team who are ready to leave. For the first time in the 21st century, the confrontation between the two Lisbon giants has reached a fever pitch, and the hatred between the two mortal enemies has deepened.

The public accusations between the team presidents in the media, the players' uneasiness about the future, and the continuous conflicts between the fans have become the main topics between the two Lisbon giants this summer, but their training and tactical arrangements have been delayed again and again.

The poor coaching staffs of both teams don't know which player will be missing from their teams tomorrow morning, so how can they continue with the training? The players on both sides are also upset by these rumors and have no way to concentrate on pre-season preparations.

While Porto is constantly improving, the other two Portuguese teams are playing this dog-eat-dog drama. Perhaps now, Da Costa, the chairman of Porto Club, can enjoy the Portuguese Super League next season very safely. Defending the title does not seem to be a problem.

And Porto's first league game of the new season seems to be confirming this fact. Guimaraes, which rushed to the fourth place in the league standings last season, met the new UEFA Cup champion Porto head-on.

Before Porto's game, Sporting Lisbon and Benfica both suffered a black start in their first games. They were beaten by their opponents from afar at their doorsteps. The consequences of chaotic preparations are playing its role.

Before the game, some media predicted that Porto, which has entered the running-in period of new players, is likely to have ups and downs in performance for a period of time, while Guimaraes, which has not made major adjustments to its personnel, will definitely have a chance to upset at home. After all, the fourth place in the league is not in vain.

But Porto stunned those who were ready to see them fall with a tragic score and an absolute advantage of 78% ball possession throughout the game. 3:0, this is a score that makes people feel desperate. Porto did not leave any face for the opponent. This is a simple massacre.

And Lin Yi also won a 45-minute performance opportunity in the second half, one assist and two threatening shots. This black-haired kid used such performance to remind those opponents that a sharp blade that has been sharpened throughout the summer has been unsheathed. . .

This little guy who has been made into the key to the team's victory by Mourinho no longer hopes that he is just a weapon to deal with emergencies. In the new season, he needs to be the protagonist of the team, at least one of the protagonists on the field.

A new season, new teammates, a new journey, and everything new are beginning. . .

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