7. Actively prepare for the new season
After Wen Sheng took over, there were many transfer rumors. The most rumored scandal during this period was Cavani.
Some Italian media said that Manchester City is preparing to invest 53 million pounds to win Cavani and also give Cavani a high salary of 13 million pounds. However, when Manchester City announced that they would win De Bruyne for 50 million pounds, the media changed their tone. Since the sword of financial fairness hangs above Manchester City, everyone knows that it is difficult for Manchester City to sign Cavani with another 53 million pounds, unless Manchester City cleans up redundant staff smoothly.
In mid-June, Manchester City announced two more deals, which were Crystal Palace's wool. The first deal was Manchester City signed Crystal Palace's substitute goalkeeper Navas for £4.8 million, and the second deal Manchester City signed Crystal Palace 21-year-old central defender Van Dijk for £9 million.
Both transactions were as Wensheng expected, not difficult.
Navas was originally a substitute and got a lot of playing time under Wensheng last season, but this time Wensheng made a promise to him and was willing to help him become the main player of Manchester City. Manchester City's current goalkeeper Joe Hart is still a young and handsome guy. It will definitely be some obstacles to beat Joe Hart. You must know that this is also the British Emperor star now, but Wensheng has made up his mind to quietly get rid of Hart.
Logically speaking, since he has intended to replace Joe Hart with Navas, Wensheng's best way is to send Joe Hart away, rent or sell it. However, because of Joe Hart's identity, Wensheng is very embarrassed, so he has to keep him with conscience. If he can lead Manchester City to win some important championships next season, his position in the team will be solid, and he can directly clean up Joe Hart in the next season.
Van Dijk's transaction is not too difficult. First of all, his identity is not an Englishman but a Dutchman. In addition, he is just a substitute. Van Dijk wants to follow Wensheng, and there is nothing wrong with Crystal Palace making 9 million pounds.
At the moment of these two deals, the Crystal Palace Club announced that Harry Redknapp will lead the team to continue in the new season. It is not surprising that Crystal Palace invites Lao Lei. After all, it can be seen from Wen Sheng that Paris and the others want to spend a small amount of money to do big things. It is a good idea to lure Lao Lei to join with a championship-level lineup. What surprised the media was that Lao Lei himself had the courage to take over Wen Sheng's class.
Wen Sheng has led Crystal Palace to create a brilliant achievement. Crystal Palace has now left De Bruyne, but the team has sufficient funds and no need to sell other players. The lineup is still quite strong. The players are generally young and still have considerable potential to tap. This is a severe test for latecomers. If Crystal Palace cannot be kept at the same level, it will inevitably be criticized.
Lao Lei is so old that everyone wonders if this old boy can shoulder heavy responsibilities?
But Lao Lei is very energetic.
"I had no intention of comparing with Daniel! He is a great coach and is loved by Crystal Palace fans! The team has a very good lineup, I am very satisfied, and I have the confidence to lead a good team!"
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Joey has sorted out the team's data. Wen Sheng went to Carrington on the 18th. The coaching staff held the first concentrated meeting. Some people left and some joined. After briefly introducing Brian Kidd to everyone, everyone quickly got to the point.
The topic of discussion is the player's data analysis and Wen Sheng's tactical vision for the new season.
"We are just having a rough discussion now and put forward a rough idea! After the players return to the team, I will also collect the opinions of the players! Listen to what they have, and then we will make adjustments and improvements!"
"Public opinion always says that I am the head coach of the conservative! I don't think this is the correct statement. As I said at the meeting after taking office, our goal is to develop tactical play styles suitable for the existing players of the team and to maximize their potential! This principle is the first principle for us to hold a meeting today for tactical discussions. Don't guess what my style is. Your idea should be to combine the characteristics of the player's data and put forward an opinion to exert their power!"
After the meeting began, Wen Sheng put this principle first.
Then the data of each player were taken out, and everyone analyzed it one by one, and put forward some opinions on each player.
Brian Keane was incredible by such a scene. In his impression, no head coach did this, and he relied too much on collective wisdom.
But Hawking and the others were not surprised at all. They did this before. In the past two years, Wensheng's team was all amateurs. In order to exert the power of the team and improve the level of these football fans under his command, he had to conduct tactical discussions frequently, and everyone had to express their opinions.
Team habits have been formed for a long time, and everyone expressed their opinions and opinions in a verbal way. Wensheng combined his own cognition to write some of the opinions he thought were very important in his notebook.
Brian Kidd is undoubtedly the person who is most familiar with the team. Seeing other people talking on paper, he finally couldn't sit still. After all, he might have to cooperate with Wen Sheng for a long time in the future. What's going on if he doesn't say anything in the first meeting?!
After the meeting, Wen Sheng invited the coach team to have a dinner at night and announced the start of a new adventure of the team.
"Oh oh oh! Cheers!"
According to the Chinese customs, to be precise, according to Wensheng's father's habit in his previous life, Wensheng first summoned everyone to have three drinks.
"Welcome to the team!" Wensheng specially led everyone to toast Brian. After a whole day of meeting, Brian Kidd became much more familiar with everyone, without any reservation, and had a drink in the glass of wine together.
"I wish all the best of our adventure at Manchester City!" This is the third cup.
After drinking three glasses of wine, Wensheng expressed his gratitude to Kidd. He wanted to come here in person, but this coach has a special role in the team. On the one hand, he is a Manchester City person and can promptly report the situation within the team to the upper level. On the other hand, Wensheng also needs Kidd to act as a coordinator between the senior management and himself. Manchester City does not have a technical director, and Wensheng can make complete decisions in first-team competition, but there is a lack of contacts between him and the senior management, so Kidd can play this role well.
Communication with senior management on any team is very necessary and very important.
Brian Kidd has a very good sense of Wensheng. This subjective view was very affected by today's meeting. He finally understood that Wensheng's ability to win the championship is not just described as luck, but that he really has a strong team management ability and coaching level.
Some of Wen Sheng's views at the coaching staff meeting allowed Kidd to feel that the young coach has strong ability to pinch, so he is now looking forward to Manchester City in the new season.
Chapter completed!