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Hassler was filled with remorse, and the nearly forty-year-old player almost made red circles in the head coach's office.

Carl had no choice but to suppress the idea of ​​blame in his heart, and instead comforted him - most professional players have a very bloody idea, they think that conflicts between each other should be done with fists or on the field. To solve the duel, the winner can certainly be proud, but the loser has to swallow his teeth and blood in silence to be respected.On the contrary, if anyone suffers a loss and goes to the coach to uphold justice, he will immediately be despised by the group, thinking that he is not manly enough.

Now in the locker room of Munich 1860, everyone probably knows that Hassler is Karl's man, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect him to go to the small group or thorn in the locker room.

Moreover, Hassler's contract will end this summer. After he retires, I don't know who can become the leader in the locker room.

I hope it is not the worst situation - that is, there is no captain who convinces everyone in the locker room, and then everyone wants to be the boss, and there will be many camps in the first team with only about [-] people , more infighting.

However, these are all situations that Carl will use to consider in the future. The most urgent task is how to calm down the conflicts in the locker room and make everyone convinced.

Obviously, the dispute was provoked by Schwartz, a group of old players who have become prestigious in the team and have a large number of people, but have recently been full of resentment because they can't play games, but Karl can't directly punish the troublesome players , because it would reveal that Hasler was behind his back.

And pretending to be ignorant of the strife in the locker room, and using the players' poor game status as an excuse to play the two factions with [-] boards each will not work. The most fundamental source problem has not been resolved. The players will only temporarily cooperate and then bury their grievances. In the chest, waiting for the second outbreak that does not know when.

Carl thought of Ferguson and Mourinho. He wondered what they would do if they encountered such a situation... After some careful consideration, he decided to hold a team meeting first.

……

Agostino, striker, 30 years old, wears the No. 1860 jersey of the Munich 18 first team, and has half a year left on his contract with the club.

In the past few seasons of playing for Munich 1860, he played an average of 21 times per season, contributing 2 goals and 3 assists for the team.

Even if this report card is placed in the Bundesliga Bundesliga, it is still in the middle and lower reaches of the forwards, only a little better than those "super parallel imports". If the club does not renew his contract this summer, it will probably only be the regional league. , or the third-level and fourth-level teams in other countries will be interested in him.

Agostino does not want to leave Munich, he likes this big city with a developed economy, and if he is forced to leave Munich 1860 this summer, the salary offered to him by other small teams will definitely not be as high as it is now. Shrinking thing, who would like it?

The former coach of the team, Goetz, valued him more. Although Goetz’s performance in leading the team was a bit bad, he used to send Agostino in the starting lineup, and promised to take the initiative to connect the club’s transfer manager to help Agostino. Renew.

But overnight, Goetz resigned and the team got a new coach.

Although the new owner Oston is young, he does have a way of leading the team. Since his arrival, the team's performance has been better and better, not only out of the quagmire of the relegation zone, but also for everyone to see Hopes for a return to the Bundesliga.

It stands to reason that the reality should make all Munich 1860 players feel happy, but there is one thing that makes Agostino have complicated feelings for Karl Oston-Oston completely abandoned the old coach Goetz's usual lineup. The first team picked and picked and reorganized a main lineup. Unfortunately, Agostino was not in the main position. He was only a substitute for the main rotation under Auston's plan.

Not only him, but also his good friends Schwartz, Pulk and others lost their position as the absolute main force.

And the new boss's employment preferences have also been highlighted in game after game, making all the old players over the age of 30 in the locker room feel shudder-Oston prefers young players, and it is the kind of player who is full of energy and excellent skills. , A young player who can play a full game.

When the first team could not meet the requirements of the new boss, he went to the youth team to pick two defenders, Janker and Johnson, and two midfielders, the Bender Twins. Bloated.

Schwartz, Cheney, Kurtz and others have less and less game time, and they are worried.

And after the winter break, Agostino also joined this camp - he originally thought that the 30-year-old himself was young enough to have a better chance of winning one in the main lineup than the 35-year-old Schwartz and others. However, after the season restarted, Oston actually bought back two forwards!Portillo and Yekas, they are both younger and faster than him, and there is a young player named Ozil who is currently training in the youth team. Although he is a midfielder, he is also an offensive player. midfielder!

Agostino felt that he was about to lose his identity as the main player in the rotation.

If the club does not renew their contracts, they will leave Munich, a city they are already familiar with, to support their families with lower salaries elsewhere.

But if they want to fight for a contract extension, they need to get enough approval from the head coach and achieve decent results. They can't even guarantee the chance to play, how can they attract the head coach's attention to themselves?

It's all the fault of those young players, who have squeezed less and less living space for veterans like Agostino.There are too many of them, and they only care about dribbling the ball and rushing forward on the court. They don't know how to share at all, and they don't care whether the old-timers desperately need a shot to change their destiny.

The little secret that Hassler shared with him only made Agostino feel more depressed-Hassler is so happy, he can automatically get a coaching contract as soon as he retires, and he will be guaranteed for the rest of his life, but And me?I am so much younger than him, and I can play football for a few more years, but now I don't even get the chance to play... How can the boss know my strength if I don't have a chance?

Anxiety and unwillingness accumulated day by day, and finally got out of control in an instant.

Those quarrels, cursing and blaming each other finally led to the failure of the next day's game.

Agostino didn't believe that the boss would not pursue the reason, but once the truth came out, he should... never get any chance to play, and even lose the trust of the head coach.

Maybe he should find another home sooner.

……

The two brothers Lars Bender and Sven Bender sat side by side in the corner of the locker room, welcoming the arrival of head coach Auston with trepidation.

In the back of their minds, they regarded this team meeting more as a "judgment".

Looking up at his teammates, almost everyone has the same expression as them, they are all so uneasy and tormented.

Who made everyone in the first team perform so badly in the game the day before yesterday?It seems that a normal adult team in training suddenly plays elementary school level football in official games.

Anyone with a normal mind will be puzzled by this, not to mention their head coach Alston is such a smart person.

No one was talking in the locker room.

The Bender brothers are very easy-going characters, they didn't have any feud with anyone in the quarrel that day, but now neither brother wants to talk to people, especially the old main players-they are promoted to the first team , I originally thought that I could get good care from the seniors, but to be honest, everyone got along really well at the beginning.But it turned out that these people who were like brothers in the past actually regarded them as competitors and threats in their hearts. After learning the truth, the two brothers felt extremely sad.

While thinking wildly, the door of the locker room was pushed open, and head coach Carl Oston walked in with a frosty face.

Everyone held their breath and waited quietly——The boss has such an ugly expression, he must have come to get mad at them, right?Will he scold us all?Or should we just send all the prickly bosses to the reserve team?

All the people who participated in the quarrel that day felt a little uneasy, and several of them even had the mentality of breaking the jar, thinking, "If the boss blames me, I will fight for the big deal and be refrigerated. Let him know the resentment in my heart even if I compete with him!"

But Karl Oston didn't swear when he saw them. Although the young coach of Munich 1860 had an extremely cold attitude, his words were still decent.He first coldly pointed out that their performance in the game the day before yesterday was "garbage", and then called them one by one, criticizing all those who were dumbfounded during the game and forgot their responsibilities, and asked them: "What do you think?" What was the reason for our loss to Erfurt in the last match?"

After a small silence, there was a sudden commotion in the locker room.

Like the day before the game, everyone blamed each other: he said he didn't pass the ball well, he said he would rather be intercepted by the opponent than pass the ball, he said he wasted his chances with inaccurate shots, he said he saw The opposing player didn't step forward to defend at all. He said he was too lazy to even run on the court...

The Lars and Sven brothers looked at each other, and Qi Qi shrank his body into the corner. They knew that everyone would quarrel, and they also guessed how strong Mr. Oston's anger would be in the future. .

But Mr. Alston just sat quietly and quietly after listening to everyone's complaints, without saying a word.

The players also gradually quieted down, and there was no sound in the locker room.

Oston read out the names of a few people lightly, and then said: "You guys have been a little bit behind the training of the first team recently, and you are not in good condition in the game. You have been training with the reserve team for the past few days, and the team Get a one-match ban."

The Bender brothers felt a little stunned: Although Mr. Oston punished these people because "the team was not active in the training and training", everyone in this locker room knew that the players who were named, It was precisely those who quarreled the most in the past few days, and even almost fought.

This kind of punishment is very fair, and everyone knows the real reason. The boss didn't name the real reason. In fact, he saved face for everyone. look?Every first-line player will lose face, so they accepted the punishment obediently and did not protest.

"In the future, three days before the start of the league every week, I will let you play an official game-90 minutes, the first and second halves, with substitutions, injury time, referees and red and yellow cards. Weekly grouping It's not fixed, but it's basically arranged according to your combination during training. This game is very important to you, because whoever performs well in the team game will appear in the league's starting roster .”

Just when everyone thought the matter was over, Carl Alston spoke again lightly.The content of his words is no different from a blockbuster, which really stunned many people.

Out of the corner of Lars Bender's eyes, he caught Agostino's mouth wide open, staring blankly at the boss.

Then he glanced at his brother, only to find that Sven was also looking at him. The two brothers exchanged glances silently, focusing all their attention on the boss.

I only heard the boss say in a sonorous voice: "I am not the kind of coach who forgets the old when there are newcomers. I always choose the starting lineup based on the status and not the people. Some of you have fewer chances before. Then It’s because I didn’t impress me in training. Now, I’ll give everyone a chance to fully demonstrate, as long as you perform well and meet my tactical requirements in official games, no matter you are 15 years old or 35 years old, They are all likely to start.”

The gray figure in an expensive three-piece suit stood up, and turned his head when he walked to the door, his gray-blue eyes flashed coldly: "Besides, I really hate people making small moves behind my back, so Please remember - my locker room rules are not for show."

After a long, long time, the Bender brothers heard Agostino excitedly say to Cheney: "We didn't get killed all at once because of our age! Now the opportunity has come, and this is the real fairness!"

The two brothers pouted, looked at each other, and smiled.

They know that each other thinks the same: since you see us as competitors, why not compare yourself!I also want to let you know that we can be replaced by the boss, not only because of our youth!