Super Coach

When running a football club, in the transfer market, do you have to sell the players you don't need first and then introduce the players you need? Or should we first introduce the players we need and then sell the players we don’t want?

Everyone knows that the best and most ideal way is to do both at the same time and complete them simultaneously, but how can things always go as planned?

Strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with whether to sell first or buy first, but most clubs pursue the strategy of selling first and buying later, which means giving priority to selling what they don’t want. However, Real Madrid has always been willing to sell after Florentino came to power. They sign first and then clean up, which is why Real Madrid has been able to find good stuff over the years.

Whether it is buying or selling, it is very disadvantageous to wait until the end.

After Yang Cheng signed the contract, he had already issued a sales list for Butragueno, which listed several players he did not want, including Pablo Garcia, Graveson, and Wood. The four players, Guite and Diogo, and the three Brazilian players, Baptista, Cicinho and Roberto Carlos, depend on the situation.

If this list is shown to the outside world, they will definitely find it strange, because Yang Cheng's list does not include even one transfer favorite, especially Raul and Guti, who have been rumored before. , on the contrary, the Brazilian gang was classified as a dispensable target by him.

Is it because Yang Cheng doesn't like the Brazilian gang?

Obviously not, and there's a reason for that.

But all top teams must have a fixed team as the basis. Milan’s Maldini, Costacurta and other Italian gangs are the backbone of the locker room; Barcelona’s Puyol, Xavi, Bal Des and others are the most influential group in the locker room; Manchester United, Bayern, Liverpool... almost all teams that want to achieve results are like this.

What was the first thing Mourinho did when he arrived at Stamford Bridge?

Establish local forces such as Terry and Lampard, especially Terry. Therefore, even if Shevchenko, Crespo and others cannot play the main role at Stamford Bridge, they dare not go too far. If they go too far, they will change clothes. It is difficult to stand in the room.

In other words, you cannot implement an overly democratic management policy in the locker room. If you let the locker room be divided into two major gangs like the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in the United States, dissatisfied with each other and quarreling with each other, there will never be peace in the locker room. .

Therefore, if you want to unite the locker room, you must establish the backbone. There is no doubt that the backbone of the locker room of all top teams are youth training and locals!

Yang Cheng carefully analyzed why Real Madrid declined in his previous life.

He felt that after Florentino took over Real Madrid, he introduced a superstar policy and signed a large number of players. This was not a big problem before 2003 because of the local forces such as Hierro, Raul, Guti, and the name Del Bosque. Real Madrid's loyal ministers exist, and foreign players have to rely on them.

But after Hierro, Del Bosque and others left, Raul took up the banner. However, Raul was not Hierro's decisive player and the player who could stand up and act as a leader. As a player, he could not It's nitpicking, but as a captain, he has a lack of leadership, which will make the locker room lose control.

Not only Raul, but also Casillas later!

Look at those great captains, Keane, Matthäus, Ballack, Maldini, Hierro, Puyol... almost every one of them is a ruthless and decisive character, and they can control the scene. Both Er and Casillas are too delicate.

But we must also see that after Sanchis and Hierro, Real Madrid failed to have another ruthless player to stand up, so Raul was the most suitable candidate. Until now, the player who is the most suitable captain of Real Madrid, because he is the person who best represents the spirit and tradition of Real Madrid.

There may be many people who sneer and think that spirit and tradition are not worth mentioning, and results and championships are the most important. But always remember that any team will have its ups and downs, and it is impossible to do it every time. If you win the championship every season, there will be periods of decline.

A real wealthy family will rise again by relying on its own tradition and spirit when it declines!

The tradition and spirit here are definitely not as simple as shouting slogans, but a kind of foundation and a rich history. He can persist in his youth training and rise; he can also be a businessman who takes a fancy to him. influence, and then acquire him, inject funds, resolve crises, and many other things.

To illustrate with the simplest example, if one day, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion have equally bad records within 10 years, and a super rich man wants to acquire them, at the same price, will he choose Liverpool or West Bromwich Albion? Mwich?

Yang Cheng believes that a very important reason for the collapse of the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship was the loss of control in the locker room. The reason for this was that the club blindly introduced superstars, which weakened the leadership position of the backbone of the locker room.

The so-called power struggle between the Brazilian gang and the local gang was actually caused by this.

Therefore, the first thing Yang Cheng did when he took office was to re-establish control of the locker room and restore order to the chaotic locker room. This requires supporting the backbone of the locker room.

The reason why Pablo Garcia and Graveson have to be purged is that the former is really not the type of player Yang Cheng likes. He will not be able to complete Yang Cheng's tasks if he stays in the team. As for Graveson, his fiery temper and verbal His unobtrusive personality also makes it difficult for him to integrate into Real Madrid's locker room.

Yang Cheng knew three quirks about Gravesen. First, he insisted on using herbal medicine instead of medicine every time he was injured. Second, his dispute with Guti originated after Guti lost a ball. Gravesen made sarcastic and sarcastic remarks; during a training session, after Gravesen kicked and injured second-team player Dela Red with a vicious kick, he threatened that the next kick would be even harder.

This may be said to be a sign of his high morale and hard training, but on the other hand, how many people can accept such teammates is something a head coach has to consider.

There is no shortage of buyers for both players. Graveson switched to Celtic in the Scottish Premier League for 3 million euros during the World Cup, and Pablo Garcia went to Celta Vigo in La Liga for 2 million euros.

Diogo was included in Villa's transfer. Zaragoza wanted a right back, and Real Madrid wanted their David Villa. The two sides reached an agreement, and Diogo paid 4 million euros. The value of the transfer to Zaragoza.

In other words, Real Madrid acquired David Villa for Diogo plus 11 million euros.

As for Woodgate, after joining Real Madrid, this player's performance has never been satisfactory. Due to injuries, he has even played a pitiful 9 league games for Real Madrid in the past two seasons. Now Real Madrid has to consider cutting the price. Sending him away, teams such as Middlesbrough and Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League are very interested in him.

Preliminary estimates are that Real Madrid can recover about 18 million from the sale of these four players. Although there is a gap between the price when they were originally purchased, there is no way. The overall strength of the team is at a low ebb, making it difficult to sell the players. Offer high prices.

While gradually selling players, Yang Cheng also took advantage of the World Cup to inspect the players he was interested in and introduced at close range. For example, on June 14, he appeared at the Central Stadium in Leipzig and watched the Spanish match against Ukraine.

Aragones still used a 433 tactic in this game. Villa, Luis Garcia and Torres started together, Raul sat on the bench, and Ramos was arranged from the center back to the right back. Position, Alonso partners with Xavi and Senna in the midfield.

With Alonso's opening goal, Villa's two goals, and Torres' final goal, Spain bloodbathed Ukraine 4:0, especially David Villa, who had just reached an agreement with Real Madrid. The performance was very awkward, but what is interesting is that in the 55th minute, when the overall situation was decided, Aragones replaced Villa with Raul.

Raul's performance is indeed not impressive enough, very average, even in the case of a big victory.

After this game, many media comments appeared on the Internet. They all attributed Spain's victory to Xavi, believing that the lungs of Barcelona activated Spain's midfield, especially Aragon. Ness's copy of Barcelona's 433 formation is seen as Spain's development trend towards Barcelona.

Yang Cheng also spoke highly of Spain's transformation, especially Xavi, who was the best player in the game. He believed that Xavi was indeed Spain's most critical player, but he also highlighted two points.

First, the instability of the defense. Ramos had always played in the middle before and was moved to the right. This new defensive star of Real Madrid performed very average in this game and even made many mistakes. Although Atletico Madrid's Pablo has height, his partnership with Puyol is not stable.

The case of Ayala being able to guard against Drogba is enough to show that when facing players who are taller and stronger than yourself, you don't necessarily have to rely on players with comparable physical fitness to complete it. On the contrary, through the control of the ball path, Judgment, early reaction to space, these can help shorter defenders guard taller centers.

Of course, I'm not saying that Didier's performance was poor. Côte d'Ivoire is not like Liverpool. He should change his playing habits in Liverpool and accommodate the national team instead of asking everyone in the national team to accommodate him. I believe Didier Able to do well.”

Second, Yang Cheng feels that Spain has continued a very strange phenomenon in Barcelona's tactics, with too much possession of the ball and intensive short passes.

In order to pursue the success rate of ball possession and passing and receiving, they are abandoning long passes, so players like Xabi Alonso's performance in the national team is very average, but in fact, several of his long passes have created... A huge threat.

“I have always firmly believed that the reason why colorful colors are loved by everyone is because he does not isolate each color independently, but mixes all the colors together to form a brand new color.

The same is true for football. Long passes, short passes, high balls, ground balls, crosses from the wing, breakthroughs from the center... If you just blindly tend to a certain aspect, you may be able to do well, but you will never be able to do better. , only inclusiveness can bring football tactics to a higher level!

The reason why I say this is to gain more power for Xabi Alonso. He should not just be a player who exists to assist Xavi. He should be braver and more proactive to play a greater role. role, he will become another bright star in the defensive midfielder position!

After typing tomorrow's column on the keyboard, Yang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. He watched games and wrote press releases every day. It can be said that he gained a lot. Not only could he make money writing articles, but he could also inspect players on the spot, and he could stand up. From a head coach's perspective, it was of great help to him to observe the technical and tactical performances of the 32 best teams in the world.

Relatively speaking, today's other game, the game between Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, is not worth watching, so the focus of his column is to comment on Spain's victory over Ukraine.

But just when he finished typing the last word and was about to leave for Dortmund, he received a text message on his phone.

I'll wait for you at the same place, Nat!

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It was still nightfall, still at the Leipzig train station, still sitting in that position, everything seemed to be back to that day in 1996.

The difference is that due to the arrival of the World Cup, Leipzig's train station is very lively. It has been specially renovated and looks new, but it still retains the heavy flavor of the original East German period.

After so many years, many things in East Germany have not died out due to the reunification of Germany. They are sticking to the things they are persistent and valued because there are countless people like Tossen Gujo living in this place.

Maybe in the eyes of many people, such people are stupid and stupid, but no one can deny that it is because of such people in this world that many beautiful things continue to be passed down to mankind. Otherwise, Everyone is chasing money, fame, fortune and status. What will this world look like?

The game was over, and the fans began to leave Leipzig. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer people at the station. No one paid attention to when exactly, next to the girl on the seat on the platform of the train station, There was another man wearing big sunglasses. Neither of them spoke, they just sat in silence, as if they would not get bored even if they sat there for a long time.

Do you think we seem a little weird lately? Natalie asked suddenly.

Yang Cheng chuckled, That's for sure. You have grown up, but I have aged, and the generation gap has become more and more obvious!

After a pause, he added: How many parents have you seen who can really be good friends with their children and talk about everything?

Natalie smiled bitterly, But I don't like this very much!

She closed her legs, put her elbows on her thighs and supported her chin, looking at the lights of the train station in the distance, I hope you can tell me whether you encounter anything happy or unhappy; I hope that no matter what difficulties you encounter or what happens, you can understand that I will always support you; I hope even more that I can tell you whatever is on my mind and what I want to say, so that you can understand!

You will definitely meet such a person! Yang Cheng said somewhat half-heartedly.

He used to really resist Natalie's feelings. To be honest, he really took care of her as his descendant. He was under psychological pressure, so he was usually more willing to have her feelings. It was thought that she had an Electra complex, but later, as she persisted for such a long time, it would be false if he said he was not moved.

I'm 25 years old and have never been in love. It's not because I haven't met outstanding boys, but because in my heart, none of them can compare to the person in my heart.

Having said this, Natalie stood up, walked through the aisle of the platform, and came to the fence, leaving Yang Cheng with an exquisite figure from behind, looking ahead dreamily.

Tonight she was wearing a pair of tight dark blue jeans, a black single-button casual suit on her upper body, and a U-shaped T-shirt underneath that exposed her not-so-full bust, which made her look different from In the past, she dressed like a girl next door, especially her plump butt wrapped in jeans.

Ten years ago, we didn't know each other. Ten years later, I am convinced that I will never forget you. I believe that after 10 years, I have clearly understood what I want. I also hope you can understand!

After finishing speaking, Natalie turned around and looked at Yang Cheng who also stood up and walked over. He leaned on the railing of the platform and smiled, From today on, don't think of me as Nat anymore, okay? ?”

Not being Nat means asking Yang Cheng to stop treating her as a little girl and instead treat her as a woman.

And she is also a very beautiful and touching woman!

Don't always suppress your heart deliberately... Natalie slowly stretched out her right hand, and gently touched Yang Cheng's chest with her index finger, as if trying to see through the thin T-shirt. shirt, through that layer of skin and flesh, touched his heart, ...I know, in fact, you also have feelings for me, I can see it!

People who study psychology are really scary, especially those who are geniuses in psychology, it is even more scary!

Yang Cheng's hand gently stroked her hair and helped her comb her hair gently, exposing her forehead. Then he came closer, gently lowered his head, and looked at her. On his forehead, he kissed her sympathetically, like a dragonfly touching water.

Natalie's delicate body trembled, and she immediately threw herself into Yang Cheng's arms, wrapping her hands around his back and hugging him tightly.

He raised his head and accurately found Yang Cheng's mouth, then closed his eyes, and his lilac-like tongue actively penetrated Yang Cheng's mouth, entangled and sucked.

After the two of them almost suffocated and separated, she could no longer suppress the passionate lava that had been accumulated for ten years before bursting out. The fire almost completely ignited her, so why not Yang Cheng?

As a man, he felt that he should be more proactive at this time.

The strange uncle who wanted to eat people took Natalie's hand and walked in front. Natalie followed him with a heart that was nervous, sweet, but full of expectation, and she was so docile as to follow him. Like a little sheep.

Let's go, uncle will take you to do something you have never done before!