Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 9 Hope and Despair

Although Monaco is not big, it is definitely not easy to meet a person three times in three days, and Li Shou did it.

It's a pity that it's not a woman, a man, or a man who looks like an orangutan who has such a fate with Li Shou.

On the night after the physical examination, Li Shou invited Raj and Medjani back. In the restaurant, Li Shou met the orangutan man and his girlfriend who invited him to be a star again.

Meeting each other for three consecutive days was indeed destined, and the other party seemed to think so, so when Li Shou tried to invite the two together, the two agreed after a little consideration.

After the meal, Li Shou and the orangutan also exchanged phone numbers. Originally, the orangutan still didn't give up, but after knowing that Li Shou was a football player, he finally gave up his thoughts.

After a fairly happy dinner, Li Shou chose to go back to sleep, and Raj and Medjani didn't go out for a while. After all, the hell mode will be activated tomorrow, and the group parted ways.

The first week of the training camp was definitely a journey to hell for the players who had indulged for more than a month, but it was nothing to Li Shou.

Li Shou's performance even aroused the vigilance of the main goalkeeper Subasic. Although he firmly occupied the main position after coming to Monaco during the winter break last season, Subasic's main force in the new season is not stable.

Compared with last season, Monaco has changed from head to toe this season. Not only the club owner has changed, but also the top management has changed a lot. The head coach who originally valued him has also been replaced by Ranieri.

Li Shou just arrived at this sensitive period, and the new head coach personally chose to sign, which added another "confidant halo". Coupled with Li Shou's performance, if Subasic has no sense of crisis, he is really a fool.

However, as an active Croatian national goalkeeper, Subasic is still very confident in his ability. He always believes that as long as there is a fair competition, he will still be the first choice for Monaco's starting goalkeeper position.

Compared to Subasic who is full of confidence in himself, the other goalkeeper doesn't think so. In Sulzak's eyes, Li Shou is an insidious villain.

It's no secret that Li Shou trained at the club throughout the holidays. In Sulzak's eyes, Li Shou's behavior was to win the favor of the head coach, so after the team's training camp started, Sulzak didn't give Li Shou good looks.

Sulzak's hostility was felt not only by Li Shou, but also by other Monaco players. It also did not escape the attention of head coach Claudio Ranieri.

Li Shou believes that people don't offend me, and I don't offend others. If the other party doesn't show good looks, Li Shou will never be cold ass. Besides, professional football has always been about strength.

Sulzak's talent is good, but he is not the kind of man who is favored by heaven. He needs time to practice, needs to accumulate experience, and also needs his own efforts and God's help.

To put it bluntly, such a person does not deserve Li Shou's attention. Li Shou should focus on Subasic and aim at Monaco's main goalkeeper position.

However, in the eyes of many people, it is too early for Li Shou to aim at the main goalkeeper, especially in the eyes of Pellizzaro, Li Shou still needs time and experience accumulation.

After a week of physical training, the players gradually recovered, the team officially started training with the ball, and Ranieri officially began to implement his own tactics.

Li Shou has received special attention from Ranieri because of his relationship with Pellizaro, but in Ranieri's mind, Subasic is still the No. [-] goalkeeper for Monaco, which can be seen in the next training.

The head coach said that he would not preconceive and give everyone a fair chance to compete, but in fact they had already drawn up the starting substitute list in their hearts.

But this list is not certain. If someone is overwhelmed and someone suddenly emerges, the head coach will definitely make changes. The football field is changing rapidly, and the head coach is different from time to time and from person to person.

What can be seen on the training field is far from being comparable to that on the field. As far as the goalkeeper is concerned, Sulzak's performance in training is not bad. Even because of the addition of Li Yi as an enemy, Sulzak not only works hard in normal training, but also learns from Li Shou after training.

In the next period of time, there will be another figure on the field after the training. Ranieri is happy to see the result. Regardless of Li Shou or Sulzak, as long as they can make progress, it will be good for the team.

It was precisely because Li Shou and Sulzak practiced together that Pelizzaro began to assign tasks to each other, so the two began to assist each other in training for a while.

However, this situation didn't last long, because the bodies of the two were fundamentally different. Li Shou had been strengthened by the system and had unlimited potential. No matter how he trained, there would be no problems, but Sulzak was just an ordinary person.

It would be fine if Sulzak knew how to change the target and stop when enough was enough, but he found Li Shou, a non-human being, and ended up training too much, straining himself during a turn-back save.

The injury was not serious, but it was only a fatal blow to Sulzak, because this injury would make him miss the next friendly match and the first two rounds of the league.

What this means is very clear to Sulzak. He has almost completely lost the opportunity to compete with Li Shou for the second goalkeeper. After training together during this period of time, Sulzak also has a clear understanding of Li Shou's strength.

Although Sulzak didn't want to admit it, he was indeed inferior to Li Shou in some respects, which made Sulzak even more desperate. There was even a feeling in Sulzak's heart that if Li Shou stayed in Monaco, he would never have a bright future.

Leaving Monaco?

After the injury, the idea has been lingering in Sulzak's mind.

Sulzak may still be immature in Ranieri's eyes, but he is well-known in France. Otherwise, he would not have been mentioned to the first team by Monaco at a young age.

It's a pity that Monaco has become more and more miserable these years. The head coach has changed one after another, so that Sulzak has never had any good opportunities. But after the team was relegated, Sulzak felt that his chance might come.

Last season, at the age of 19, Sulzak got six chances in the league, which gave Sulzak hope of getting ahead and made him have high hopes for the new season.

As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. At the end of the season, the club changed hands. The head coach who gave him a chance last season left the team. After Ranieri took over, he signed Li Shou.

In fact, Ranieri originally wanted the former veteran to act as the third goalkeeper, which is why he left Malzak to try out with him, because he wanted to see Malzak's strength, but this time there was an uninvited guest, Li Shou.

(End of this chapter)