Reborn Liverpool

Chapter 159 Wembley vs. Barcelona
At 2016 pm local time on August 8, 7, Liverpool ushered in their last warm-up match before the opening of the new season, against La Liga giants Barcelona at Wembley Stadium.

The first stadium in the UK, which can accommodate 90000 spectators, is full of seats, most of whom are Red Army fans from afar, cheering for their beloved team to defeat the European super giants. The huge Wembley is full of people, and the atmosphere is hot Very.

Zhang Mai and Mbappe, Van Dijk, Chamberlain and Chris Marius have been clearly informed by the team that they will not play, so Zhang Mai did not stay on the bench like these Jiumu Messi's licking dogs, but Lippi and Li Tong, who were going back to China tomorrow to organize a training camp, sat in the auditorium with Zhang Yulin who was in charge of serving tea and water.

This year will be the last season of Barcelona coach Enrique's three-year coaching career in Barcelona, ​​from the triple crown in the 14-15 season, to the La Liga and Copa del Rey double crown in the 15-16 season, and then only one season next season. In the Copa del Rey, Barcelona's performance will be worse year after year.

Zhang Mai remembers very clearly that in the summer of 2017, the head coach of Athletic Bilbao and former Spanish international Ernesto Valverde will officially succeed Enrique in charge of the Cosmos team.

The failure of Barcelona in the 2016-2017 season has a lot to do with the failure of signings in the summer.

Due to Barcelona's transfer ban last year, Barcelona spent a lot of money this summer, and the addition of Real Madrid's Champions League stimulated Barcelona's desire to buy. They spent 1.21 million euros to introduce 5 players, none of them. Mtiti stayed in the team, while Cillessen, Paco, Gomez and Digne all left.

What is even more tragic is that the few players sent away by Barcelona performed quite well in their new club, while Umtiti, the only one left, was robbed of the starting position by his compatriot Lenglet and became a substitute. If it weren't for De Ligt's transfer being intercepted by Juventus, Umtiti would not have stayed in Barcelona.

Sent away the Brazilian star Alves who had played for 8 years. The departure of the best right back in the world made the right back the biggest shortcoming in the Barcelona lineup throughout the season. Roberto and Vidal, who are serious defenders, are available, which has become the biggest failure of Barcelona's season.

In the summer of 2016, Barcelona's transfer was indeed a bit of a "disaster"!Barcelona's three biggest goals in the summer: none of Verratti, Dybala and Danilo came, and these bought will basically be abolished in Barcelona.

"Zhang Mai, why didn't Neymar play on MSN?"

After thoroughly confirming the center forward route, Zhang Yulin's interest in technical forwards has not diminished.

"Neymar and Rafinha returned to Brazil to participate in the Rio Olympics, Barcelona still has Munir and Turan, but Barcelona, ​​who are eager to find a gun, may sign Valencia striker Paco Alcacer at the buzzer, One of these two will always leave the team, this show operation may be another big failure of Barcelona's transfer operation."

Zhang Mai is still unhurriedly commenting on the Barcelona lineup, which makes the silver fox next to him look at Zhang Mai with admiration.

"Not bad! Keep abreast of the summer transfer market information, and accurately assess the value of transfer operations, boy, you can become the chairman of Real Madrid!"

Lippi's ridicule drew unscrupulous laughter from Li Tong and Zhang Yulin, and Zhang Mai had to turn his attention to the arena.

The big screen on the field has already played the starting list of both sides:

Barcelona (4-3-3):
1-特尔施特根/22-比达尔、24-马蒂厄、14-马斯切拉诺、18-卡马拉/6-丹尼斯-苏亚雷斯、5-布斯克茨、7-图兰/17-穆尼尔、10-梅西、9-路易斯-苏亚雷斯。

Liverpool (4-3-3):
22-米尼奥莱/7-米尔纳、17-克拉万、6-洛夫伦、2-克莱因/20-拉拉纳、23-埃姆雷詹、5-维纳尔杜姆/9马内、11-菲尔米诺、8-库蒂尼奥。

The battle for Barcelona's No. 22 goalkeeper has come to an end today. The 31-year-old Ter Stegen and the [-]-year-old Bravo came to Barcelona at the same time. Stop, Stegen is far behind in the competition with Bravo, and the Chilean captain has used continuous and stable world-class performances to firmly press the German on the bench. The starting lineup.

This summer, the unwilling Ter Stegen expressed his position to leave the team to find a main opportunity. Barcelona had to make a final choice between him and the 9-year-old Bravo. Bravo moved to Manchester City, and the Lion King succeeded.

Barcelona completed the change of the No. 1020 goalkeeper position, but this summer they spent [-] million pounds to buy the Dutch goalkeeper Cillesen. It is worth mentioning that Cillesen played against ter Stegen in the summer European Cup. Skill beats the latter.

All the superstars of Barcelona returned to the team early. As early as July 7, Messi, who had just hated the Copa America final, returned to Barcelona 19 days ahead of schedule, and the return date originally set by the club was August 13. , The team's top card set an example led to a wave of returning to the team early in the Barcelona team. For a while, the main players of the team who participated in international competitions, including Mascherano, Busquets and Pique, returned to training a few days in advance. base.

The fourth captain, Javier Mascherano, who is about to leave the team in the summer, announced that he will renew his contract with the team. Retaining Makoto is one of the few successful operations of the Barcelona management this summer.

巴萨的球员在鏖战了15-16一整赛季38场西甲、10场欧冠、9场国王杯总计57场比赛后，本该休息的夏天也逃不开为国征战的命运，下赛季还得继续在三线作战，今天可谓是疲惫之军全力出战。

On the other hand, Liverpool has hidden more than 1 million pounds in new aid, and there is no European war mission next season, so they can work wholeheartedly in domestic competitions.

"Zhang Mai, several of your main powerful new players have been refrigerated by Klopp, can you understand the coach's intention?"

After Lippi saw the lineups of both sides, he decided to mention his number one general.

"I know what the Germans are thinking. Although there will be no European competition for Liverpool next season, Klopp's eyes have been on the whole of Europe. Big and big clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern and Juventus are all within his attention. , he doesn’t want his biggest opponent in the European war to know him.”

Zhang Mai, who combined the memories of his previous life, naturally saw Klopp clearly:
"Klopp has always used the warm-up match as a tasteless one, just to motivate the substitutes and young players; and we are different from Barcelona, ​​and Liverpool, which has sunk for a long time, does not have to bear the huge pressure of honor."

Lippi didn't say anything after listening to Zhang Mai's analysis, but the expression of approval on his face said everything.

"Let's have a look! Learn more from Zhang Mai while you're in the same club."

Li Tong has long been convinced by Zhang Mai's well-organized words, but because of his status as a coach, it is not easy to kneel and lick, so he had to vent his anger on Zhang Yulin.

"I have now been loaned to Tranmere to play in the British Championship, and I can't see Zhang Mai during the day."

Zhang Yulin, who was stunned for no reason, felt unwilling, so he had to explain in a low voice.

"Oh, don't you still live together? You can ask Zhang Mai for advice at night and on holidays. He has many strengths."

Li Tong hated iron for being weak, and his voice became louder unconsciously.

"Okay, learning is a gradual process, Zhang Mai will also pay attention here, the competition is about to start."

Zhang Mai didn't know how powerful the world champion coach was, but it was enough to make Li Tong shut up in time.

The two juniors Zhang Mai and Zhang Yulin looked at each other and smiled, and turned their eyes to the green field...

(End of this chapter)