[football] walk side by side

When Ferguson ended the phone call and walked out of his office, he only looked up and saw the red-clothed boy standing in front of the goal alone on the pitch and training set-pieces.

Under the late sunlight, the hair on the young man's forehead looked as if it had been dyed a layer of light gold.As he shot the goal, one or two beads of sweat rolled down from the tip of his hair from time to time.Going down to the back of the backlight, the word "7" on the jersey is vivid.

I was still a little irritable, but suddenly it dissipated a little.

He asked the assistant coach standing on the sidelines: "Walter, how long has he been practicing today?"

It is not surprising that Cristiano added training. Not long after he came to Manchester United, all Manchester United players immediately realized what kind of training madman their new teammate is. Ferguson felt that, at least in terms of training, whether in terms of training attitude or training time, Cristiano's performance was impeccable.

"Since you announced the disbandment, except for a short break in the middle, he has been training until now." Walter replied in a low voice, with a smile on his face.

Ferguson was thoughtful: "Did it start from that day?"

The Manchester United manager was slurring his words, but Walter Smith, a cooperating assistant coach, immediately realized he was talking about "someday".

In the UEFA Champions League knockout round more than half a month ago, Manchester United lost 1-2 away to Porto. This game has left many Manchester people still grieving. The failure of the Antas Stadium made the Red Devils fans feel angry and humiliated. After the game The Manchester media naturally criticized the players based on their performance.

Among them, Cristiano was the one who was named emphatically.

The problem of dribbling was once again sharply pointed out by the reporters. They believed that if it hadn’t been for Cristiano’s extra dribbling after receiving the ball that affected the speed of Manchester United’s overall attack, then Manchester United would not have been in a state of confusion until the end of the game. Failed to equalize the score. In fact, it was not the first day that the media babbled about this issue. Since Cristiano’s first appearance on behalf of Manchester United, some media have been clung to his technical "fancy". put.

And that loss to Porto undoubtedly magnified Cristiano's flaws in this regard.

In addition, the reporters also mentioned the problem of Cristiano's flopping. On the one hand, they believed that this dishonest act insulted the glory of Manchester United as a giant. They were also very dissatisfied when they fell down: because in the entanglement with the Porto players, if Cristiano could try his best to maintain his standing balance instead of falling down when he touched it, Manchester United would have many more opportunities.

Most importantly, it is not only the British tabloids that reported this, but also some serious newspapers and periodicals.

Similar remarks emerged one after another during that period of time, and it was impossible to ignore them.

Of course, Cristiano didn't ignore those remarks. He didn't say anything about the various criticisms in the press, but he secretly increased the type and intensity of training.

"That's right, it's been like this since that day." Walter nodded. To be honest, he didn't like the Portuguese player very much at first. As many people said, the skills at his feet are too fancy. Can being fancy be called talented?Walter dismissed it.

After Queiroz left, Walter, as the first assistant coach of Manchester United, was in his control of the players' training situation, which naturally included Cristiano's training situation-it was Cristiano who trained every day , the rumors outside, and even the attitude shown by Antas after the defeat moved him.

Daily training is hard, and he will take the initiative to add extra training; he will turn a deaf ear to the nonsense of the media, but he will learn his lesson and change it quietly; the frustration of losing the game will not stay in his heart for long, but the loss Unwillingness and dissatisfaction will always boil in his blood, turning into the desire and strength to forge ahead in the next game.

Although Walter still doesn't understand why Ferguson thinks that Cristiano is an extremely talented player, but based on Cristiano's performance outside of talent, Walter believes that this Portuguese kid will at least be a first-class star in the future.

Ferguson nodded, without saying anything else, his expression was very calm, not so much indifferent, but rather... an expected calm.It's as if all of this was expected, so there's no need to be surprised.

Walter saw some other things from the details of Ferguson's expression. He felt that their Lord Ferguson... seems to be in a bad mood right now?

Reminiscent of what he accidentally saw from the window, Ferguson frowning and speaking to the phone, Walter tentatively asked: "Did you get rejected?"

As soon as this was mentioned, Ferguson's mood suddenly became a little bad, and his whole face sank: "No."

Walter touched his head in bewilderment: "Is that agreed?" But if he agreed, why would Ferguson have such an expression?

"He told me that he doesn't want to think about it for the time being." Ferguson said blankly, but the conversation stopped abruptly. No matter what Walter asked, he just kept silent and refused to say anything.

What can he say?

Said that he tried to poach other players secretly, but was caught by the current head coach?Thinking of the scene at that time, Ferguson felt embarrassed.

Many teams finish training at about the same time. Ferguson also deliberately picked a time when he thought Porto should have finished training, so he made this call. When Orian Cyril was training, he would stand by and watch.

No, he was caught straight away.

Although Cyril said that he would consider this issue after the game, Ferguson himself felt that this hope was not great... He believed that Cyril himself would not have any opinions on joining Manchester United, or that he should still be more inclined. Manchester United, but judging from Mourinho's attitude, Ferguson believes that the other party is unlikely to let go.

It stands to reason that in the world of head coaches, Mourinho should be just a fledgling rookie, but the facts have proved that this is not the case at all. The battle at the Antas Stadium was enough for Ferguson to understand the young coach of Porto is unusual.

If after this season, Mourinho can only stay in Porto, or can only go to an ordinary team to coach, Ferguson may have full confidence in poaching Cyril Slade to Manchester United, but the problem is, with In terms of Mourinho's strength, he also has no shortage of suitors.

As far as Ferguson knows the news through his own channels, there are three clubs, Chelsea, Liverpool and Inter Milan, who are interested in Mourinho. This interest is not a general talk in the newspapers, but a real interest.

Needless to say about Chelsea, although Liverpool and Inter Milan are relatively down-and-out, they both belong to well-established teams. Compared with Liverpool and Inter Milan, Chelsea are just upstarts who have not risen.Among the two, I heard that the former is already arranging a meeting between Liverpool executives and Mourinho. As for Inter Milan, their chairman Moratti is also considering ways to invite Mourinho to join him in Nice, France. dinner.

In terms of today's actual situation, the attractiveness of Liverpool and Inter Milan will not be much less attractive to Cyril than Manchester United.

It's hard... Ferguson sighed depressedly, forget it, if you can't dig it, you can't dig it, and your own Cristiano is also very good... The Manchester United coach comforted himself in his heart, but the boredom in his heart It didn't dissipate.

Before, Kaka was missed because of the English Football Association's damn policy, and now Cyril couldn't dig it up, so if he knew it, he would have done it earlier... Unlike now, it's too late to say anything.

What Ferguson didn't know was that at the same moment he hung up the phone, a tragedy also happened at the Porto training base across the ocean.

"..." Cyril shrunk silently: "Sir, can you...don't look at me like that?" QAQ is good, is my training volume going to be doubled again?

"Cyril, you know that Porto is now in a very critical period." Mourinho took a deep breath and smiled: "So, you can't think about transfers at this time, but you should Focus on the next game, you understand?"

Cyril: "...Yes."

After getting the answer he wanted, Mourinho nodded with satisfaction: "So, if you receive such harassing calls in the future, just drag them into the blacklist, or just hand over the phone to me, and I will help you deal with it."

It seems... nothing wrong?Cyril - good baby - Slade nodded honestly: "Okay, I see, sir."

"Now continue training, long-distance set ball training, you have [-] sets left."

Cyril was stunned for a moment, and said uncertainly: "Sir...?"

"What?"

"I remember... isn't there only five groups left?" Cyril asked weakly.

"I said [-] groups is [-] groups," Mourinho frowned: "Do you have any opinions?"

Cyril: "...No."

Then continue to practice honestly_(:3J∠)_

***

A week later, Manchester, England, Old Trafford.

The rosters of the two sides have been read out by the commentator. Except for Porto, Costinia, who recovered from injury, returned to the defense line, there has been no major change in the lineups of both sides.

But for Manchester United's lineup, Danny questioned the commentator responsible for explaining the game on a live British TV station: "It's really unimaginable. After Antas's disastrous performance, Ferguson once again included C-Ronaldo in the list. The Portuguese who always dribbles subconsciously is clearly a defect in the Manchester United team. Does Ferguson want to repeat the defeat in Porto again? What is he thinking? ?”

The author has something to say: end the first volume in five chapters.

In addition, I think you are probably used to Luo Er's law of slapping faces.

Thank you Youran for being a little angel who is still a mine~ I love you =3=!