Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 174 Warm-up match (1)

Any team will have its own cliques.

These familiar players, after being in the team for a period of time, will naturally tie together in twos and threes in daily training and life. Of course, in many cases, the cornerstone of this small group is national characteristics, such as the famous Inter Milan team. Brazilian Gang.

And as he got along with his teammates, Wang Li undoubtedly joined the "England Gang". As the name suggests, it is a small group of several English players in the team. Players, including Lampard, Joe Cole, Bridget, Wang Li, well, maybe you can add a 'substitute' --- Thomas.John Terry also has this characteristic, but Wang Li feels that the relationship with Terry is always a little distant, probably because he is the captain of the team.

It is no exaggeration to say that Chelsea are an international team.

Because most of the players in the team are 'foreigners', there are only a few Englishmen, so maybe for the sake of unity, they have to come together to consolidate the position of the Englishmen in the team, which is really a kind of Irony.

Of course, this is just Wang Li's own understanding of the team's current situation. In fact, although Chelsea does not have that kind of unity internally, the players do not have any conflicts with each other.Due to the great changes in Chelsea in the past two years, most of the players are newcomers, and it is difficult to have any conflicts or friendships when they are not familiar with each other.

But Wang Li has no troubles in this regard. Among these English players, although he is the youngest, his calm temperament and way of doing things make it easy for people to ignore his age. With the strength shown in training, he seems to be the boss behind the England gang.

The reason why I say this is because Wang Li often likes to 'follow the crowd', but if he proposes or decides on his own initiative, basically no one will object, at least Thomas, Joe Cole, and Bridget will never They would object. Joe Cole and Bridget have become loyal fans of Wang Li since Thomas showed off in front of them with a set of crouching tigers.

As for the go-between Thomas, he's already been ignored...

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Of course, little Angela has a different view of Wang Li. To her, Wang Li is her boyfriend, idol, half-reliance, and now she is still a porter.

"You don't come to see me during the holidays, so you have to spend time with me today!" Beside the Regent block, Angela was wearing a small vest, holding Wang Li's arm, and the two peaks on her chest kept rubbing against each other, making her Seeing her drooling, she pursed her mouth and said excitedly.

"Well, let's go." Wang Li was so tickled by her, he couldn't stand it.

In fact, compared to Rita, shopping with Angela is definitely a kind of enjoyment. Her shopping is not so troublesome, and she buys very little. Most of them go to small jewelry stores. Awkwardly dragging too many handbags, besides, in passive situations, he was always taken advantage of by Angela...

"Annie, how long are you going to stay in England? Are you going back to America?"

Angela pouted and thought for a while, "It's about a month or so, and this is considered a holiday. Fortunately, Uncle Cole is helping me, otherwise I'd be so busy!"

"Then... You can stay with me these days." Wang Li calmed down and looked at Angela expectantly.

Angela's pretty face immediately turned rosy, "Hmph, what bad idea are you having again!"

"No, I just miss you."

"Really? Stop the rhetoric and think about your beautiful manager!" Angela cast a glance at Wang Li and said involuntarily, but even so, her hands were still hanging on Wang Li.

Wang Li smiled awkwardly, "She's just my manager, don't think too much about it."

"Really?" A cunning flashed in Angela's eyes, "Then I'll think about it, but you must stay with me all the time today."

"Okay." Wang Li spread his hands helplessly.

In fact, Wang Li was very excited in his heart. Maybe he was about to usher in a real cohabitation career. What would happen then was really worth imagining.

For this goal, Wang Li will never frown even if he goes shopping for a week, let alone a day. Of course, the premise is that Mr. Mourinho approves his vacation——this is almost impossible!

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As the league draws closer, Wang Li gradually returns to the team from his life during the holidays.

It is now August 14th, and five days later, that is, August NO.[-], the first round of the Premier League will start, and Chelsea's opponent is the Premier League powerhouse Birmingham.

Before that, the team has to play a warm-up match against Wigan Athletic.This year, the First Division was restructured, and the English First Division was automatically upgraded to the English Champions League, and Wigan Athletic is such a British Championship team.

This warm-up match is an opponent actively contacted by Chelsea. Wigan Athletic is a strong team in the English Championship. If they play their strength, they should be equivalent to the lower reaches of the Premier League.Before the start of the league, Mourinho needs to understand the abilities of these players in actual combat, so that he can have a more detailed understanding of the entire team. He likes the feeling that everything is under control.

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For the English media, the news about Chelsea is really interesting. Whether it is the team's 'all-star' lineup, the head coach with a peculiar personality, or the private life of the stars, etc., they can all become highlights in their works to attract readers' attention. .

For example, right now, Wang Li is sitting at the desk and looking through today's newspapers. He casually flips through and finds a lot of news about Chelsea.

'The egotistical madman strikes again: reject all media. '

Seeing this title, Wang Li burst out laughing! !
After these days of training, he also has some understanding of the Portuguese coach, for example: Mourinho always has a straight face in training, and even many times, he will not appear on the training ground; When Rinho has a smile on his face, it's never a good thing; Mourinho is very domineering, one-sided in the team and so on.

Compared with being in the team, Mourinho's attitude towards the outside world is even worse. He doesn't care whether you are the anchor of BBC TV or the reporter of "The Sun". Every press conference is his speech. The media is not allowed to have any questions at all, and even if asked, he will not answer, which makes almost all the media have no favorable impression of him at all, so naturally there is nothing good to say about Chelsea related reports.

And now, Mourinho even said that he would refuse all media interviews! !
Rejecting all media, isn't this a declaration of war on all media?It is estimated that this kind of thing can only be done by this special Mr. Mourinho. Wang Li couldn't help but sighed in his heart: "Dave Jones of Wolverhampton and the current Jose... Mourinho's attitude towards the media is completely opposite, but none of them are welcomed by the media. This is really ironic. '

Flipping through other newspapers, he found a lot of related reports. It seems that although these sports journalists have no sympathy for Mourinho, they have to rely on news about Chelsea to increase sales. Maybe Mourinho Maybe Neo's attitude is correct.

But none of this has anything to do with him, Wang Li searched for a long time and finally found a report about him:

"Top [-] things to watch in the new season!" --George Kurentalik

Seeing this name, Wang Li was interested to continue reading. The reports of this "Sun" reporter are very neutral and often have some unique insights, at least Wang Li thinks so.

'Top Ten Concerns NO.1: Chelsea's results. '

"Since the Russian predator moved into Chelsea and invested 500 million euros a year, Chelsea has completely changed its appearance and become a star-studded, strong team. Last season, under the leadership of Russell, Chelsea Won the third place in the league, but it seems that Abrahimovic is still not satisfied, so he invited Porto's champion coach Mourinho, and the annual salary of [-] million pounds also made the latter the most expensive coach in the world. coach!And now, the Chelsea team seems to have been remodeled, and the three fronts are really star-studded, but whether they can achieve results comparable to the lineup has become the focus of everyone's attention-perhaps most of the media are ready to watch Mourinho The current joke, he really offended too many people. '

Indeed, except for Chelsea's local media, almost all the media in England are waiting to see Chelsea's jokes. As long as Chelsea perform poorly in the first few rounds, or even lose the game in the first round, then the following must be overwhelming Wang Li was in a cold sweat just thinking about that situation. No matter what he said, he was also a member of Chelsea, and as far as he was concerned, he felt pretty good about Chelsea.

'Top Ten Concerns NO.2: Rooney's transfer issue. '

'Manchester United and Everton have been talking about Wayne Rooney since June, but nothing has come of it yet.Sir Alex Ferguson once praised "Wayne is one of the best players in the world", but in the face of the greedy Evertonians, it is still unknown whether the Manchester United board of directors will consider giving up Rooney's negotiations. Perhaps at this time, Everton fans will wish the chairman was a bit more greedy so Rooney is unlikely to leave them this season. '

Compared with Wang Li, Rooney, who is also one of England's double stars, is much more tragic. His contract with Everton will not expire until 2007, and the liquidated damages are even more expensive, even reaching 3000 million pounds, that is, Said that if he wants to leave Everton, he must obtain the club's consent and make a normal transfer.And now that Everton is in debt, they took advantage of this opportunity, of course they want the Lions to open their mouths and use Rooney's transfer to fill the club's shortfall in one fell swoop.

'Top Ten Concerns NO.3: Alan Wang's scoring efficiency. '

'After his performance in Wolverhampton and the performance in the European Cup, Alan Wang set off a wave of technical football in the entire British Isle in just one season.His impeccable foot skills, wind-like speed and exciting volleys repeatedly made the fans deeply remember this name --- Alan Wang.But what is even more surprising is his scoring efficiency: 1.69 goals per game!Although this kind of efficiency cannot be said to be unprecedented, you must know that this is the English Premier League! ! '

'And now that he has gone to Chelsea and joined this blue team, surrounded by many stars, whether he can perform as well as he did last season is worth looking forward to.Can this top scorer who only played more than 100 minutes in the European Cup win the top scorer in the Premier League, or even the European Golden Boot?let us wait and see! '

After reading this report, Wang Li felt light all over. Unexpectedly, he became the "third most expected" under George's pen. This sounds really exciting.However, Wang Li calmed down immediately. After a season, he knew very well that as long as you perform well, the English media will praise you to the sky, and on the contrary, you will fall directly to the bottom without any warning. It's the media, that's what they support their families with.

At this moment, Wang Li thought of Mourinho. This cold-faced head coach is indeed very personable and has a unique way of handling things. He actually issued a declaration to refuse all media interviews. His boldness is evident. However, if the Chelsea team If the results are so far away, the media probably won't say much, and they can only dedicate their praise to Chelsea.

This is the style of European football, strength is everything! !

"Alan, let's go, let's assemble!" At this moment, Bridget yelled and interrupted Wang Li's thoughts. He stood up instead, picked up the small backpack at hand, and walked out of the locker room.

In front of the main entrance of the Chelsea club, after all the players arrived and the number of players was counted, they boarded the bus and drove towards Manchester County.

Wigan Athletic is a team in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It was established in 1932. The history of the players has not been outstanding. Since the establishment of the team, it has been working hard from the lowest league, but the results have been improving year by year. Well, until now, they have become the best in England's second-tier league. This year's Wigan Athletic is even surprisingly strong. After introducing many powerful players through summer transfers, the media believes that they are likely to be promoted next season. Super successful.

However, for Chelsea players, these things don't matter at all. Anyway, it's just a Championship team. Even one Chelsea player's salary can top their entire team. That's the difference!

Although this is just a warm-up match, the Chelsea players are still very excited, because this is Chelsea's first game of the new season and Mourinho's first game in charge of Chelsea.Perhaps, the performance of this game can determine the player's position in the head coach's mind.

Wang Li knew that no matter how famous his reputation was and how many fans he had, it would be useless to this cold-faced coach.

Therefore, whether you can directly get the main position depends on your performance in this game.

(End of this chapter)