Although George has realized what the team has shortcomings, he still needs to consider how to properly handle these problems. Don’t forget that Tottenham’s first team is now full, which means it is difficult for George to solve these problems by introducing players from the transfer market in the most direct and simple way!

At this time, George couldn't help but regret his previous decision to let Kompani leave the team. If this Belgian young player who can serve as both central defender and midfielder still plays for Tottenham at this time, then George will not have to worry about Mascherano's substitute now!

However, there is no if. Since it was his own decision to let Kompany go, George must bear all the consequences of this decision. What's more, the reason why Kompany left Tottenham was because he didn't want to continue sitting on the bench waiting for the opportunity to play. Therefore, this regret did not last long, and George quickly returned to normal and re-entered his tense pre-season preparations!

Although George has equipped Mascherano with two substitutes, Speed ​​and Phil Neville, judging from the just-concluded Community Shield Final and a series of previous warm-up matches, the elderly Speed ​​is fully qualified for this job when facing the middle and lower-level teams in the UK. However, when playing against a strong team of Chelsea, the Welsh veteran will be a little overwhelmed!

Although Phil Neville is in the prime of a professional player and has extremely rich game experience, his problems are just like Speed. He is limited in strength and cannot completely replace Mascherano's role. In other words, once Mascherano cannot play for some reason and Tottenham's opponent is a first-class team, then Tottenham's defensive system is likely to have huge loopholes like this Community Shield Final, which will ruin the team's efforts throughout the game and even the whole season!

After some careful consideration, George finally found an ideal countermeasure, which was to let Edgar Davis play this position!

As the one who is the back of Tottenham's three midfielders, Mascherano's task is mainly to sweep the midfield and prevent the opponent's forward from directly attacking the defense line. At the same time, as an important goal point to assist Alonso in sorting out the midfield. It just so happened that Davis was responsible for playing football with Juventus and the Dutch national team. Therefore, the Dutch Boars are not unfamiliar with Mascherano's position, and they can even be said to be quite familiar with it!

The only problem is that Davis rarely plays as a single midfielder in his career. Whether in Juventus or the Orange Army, Davis has a player who teams up with him to form a double midfielder (Juventus is Tachinadi, and the Dutch national team is Koku). Therefore, letting Davis play a single midfielder when Mascherano is absent is just a preliminary idea of ​​George, and the specific effect still needs to be tested in actual combat.

However, George is full of confidence in this. Because Davis played a similar role in the half season when he was loaned to Barcelona, ​​and the results achieved by the Catalan Legion after getting Davis are obvious to all. Therefore, after confirming that Davis is absent as Mascherano and Tottenham is just the first candidate for the midfielder when playing against a strong team, George, who was relieved, began to turn his main energy to help Gerald integrate into the team!

Gerrard, known for his comprehensive ability, was unable to integrate into Tottenham's tactical system after transferring to White Hart Lane, and his performance in the Community Shield Finals can only be said to be unsatisfactory. It has to be said that this situation was really beyond George's expectations. He did not expect that Gerrard, who is the most comprehensive in English players, would encounter such an embarrassing situation!

If you think about it carefully, it seems that this situation will occur. You should know that under Hollier and Benitez, Gerald enjoys the treatment of the team's core midfielder, and everyone must obey his command, as Gerald Horse is the one who follows. After coming to Tottenham, although Gerald's ability and competitive state have not declined at all, he naturally needs a certain amount of time to adapt to such a gap after losing his core treatment.

What George needs to do now is to help Gerald through this adaptation period as soon as possible and form combat effectiveness, so that Tottenham can maintain sufficient competitiveness and compete with other top teams for the championship trophy in the new season!

In this way, time soon came on August 13, which is the day when the O5-O6 season opens. As the runner-up of last season's league, Tottenham's opponent in the league round was Portsmouth, who had undergone a major blood change in the summer!

Portsmouth has made a lot of moves in the transfer market this summer. After a failed O4-O5 season (only ranked 16th in the standings at the end of the season and was almost relegated from England), Portsmouth boss Mandridge learned from his mistakes and opened his wallet to introduce many well-known stars to improve the team's strength. Former Dutch goalkeeper Westved, Newcastle defender O'Brien and main winger Laurent Robert, Glasgow Rangers' main left-back Vignar, and Jermaine Defoe, etc., all became members of the Pompeii Army this summer!

The reason why local strikers of Defoe's level chose to join Portsmouth's relegation team is naturally closely related to George. After West Ham's relegation, he failed to join Tottenham as he did in his previous life. As a result, he lost this opportunity and performed averagely in the past two seasons, so he came to Portsmouth, who promised to give him the main position, intending to get the feeling of scoring here!

Although Portsmouth's overall strength is much stronger than his previous life, George did not pay too much attention to this opponent. The reason is very simple. One soldier will win the bell. Portsmouth's head coach is Perrin, a mediocre guy. He asked him to lead this lineup with good strength but seriously lacks tacit understanding to deal with Tottenham, which is in high morale after winning the Community Shield. If he is not beaten to collapse, it will be a big incense!

Just eight minutes into the game, Robben, who was on the right, dribble and cut in the ball and suddenly kicked the goal, scoring the goal for Tottenham's new league goal!

Robben's goal made Perrin's defensive counterattack strategy formulated before the game completely bankrupt, forcing Portsmouth, who was behind in the score, to take the initiative. And their move naturally gave Tottenham more chances to score!

Finally, when the whistle that announced the end of the game sounded, Tottenham, who played away, defeated Portsmouth, who was still in the running-in period, with a score of 3-0, and won the start of the new British League!

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