Although the weather is hot at Braga Training Base, the sea breeze can still refresh and make people feel refreshed.

More than 30 players from Braga's first team gathered to start the morning training. Yartim introduced Tang Hongshi to everyone and said that he did not intend to spend too much effort.

Braga's players just looked at Tang Hong with different expressions, and after recognizing him, they no longer paid attention.

It is normal for a team to replace players, and it is even more so for Portuguese Super League teams.

In the past ten years of the 21st century, Dutch players were hard currency in the transfer market. Thanks to the Ajax Golden Generation created by Van Gaal and the implementation of the Boseman Act, since the previous generation of Dutch geniuses, Robben, Sneider, Van Persie, Van der Fate, etc., entered the five major leagues, the Netherlands has experienced a talent gap, and the league's competitiveness has declined year by year before it has declined. The Portuguese Super League is replaced!

This is inseparable from Mendes' rise in European football as an agent, constantly recruiting players from South America and promoting them to the top five leagues after processing in the Portuguese Super League.

As a team that has risen in the past decade and is closest to subverting the traditional order of the Portuguese Super League, Braga did not rely on the financial backers to engage in gold and dollar football, but instead used carefully selected low-priced recruits, meticulous cultivation, and conscientious transactions that would stop when they were better gradually developed as a virtuous cycle.

Over the past 10 seasons, Braga's spending and income in the transfer market have added up, and they have made a profit of 30 million euros!

There are naturally periods of mass replacements. Judging from the changes in the transfer market this summer, Braga has more than 20 players left the team!

There are also more than 20 recruits!

Not all players will enter and exit the first team. Some players have bought them and they have not even entered the club department and then re-lent them. For example, Juanca, who came out of Real Madrid's youth training camp, Braga bought out for 2.2 million euros and loaned them to Zaragoza.

Like the old goalkeeper Quim debuted in Braga. After ten years of playing for Benfica, he went to Benfica and stayed in Benfica for six years and then returned to Braga to play his remaining energy. His career was not diligent in changing clubs, so he experienced and witnessed countless scenes of people coming and going in the locker room. Of course, he would not have any special reaction because of the newcomer. Just as the assistant coach Vieira said, it is not certain whether he can stay.

Due to the success of the Europa League last season, the players they sold in the summer have recovered a lot of cash. Among them, Pizzi and Silvio's trip to Atletico Madrid increased the club's revenue by nearly 20 million euros, but the club did not spend all of this money. As of now, it has only spent less than 5 million euros. It can be seen as the board of directors being stingy or that the board of directors has not expanded blindly, because in fact, spending 10 million euros may not bring much change to the club.

In fact, Braga does not have the financial resources to introduce tens of millions of euros. If the more than two million euros spent on buying out Juanca this season in the past ten years, the club's biggest spend on recruiting players was to buy the current main center-sharp Lima from Brazil, which only used less than 1.5 million euros six years ago.

When purchasing a player of tens of millions of euros, you will naturally have to give the player a salary that matches his or her value. This is the helplessness of the small team. They can directly pay out 10 million euros. In fact, they can even grit their teeth and make it come out. But what about the next? The annual salary cost? Due to the impact of the salary system?

Therefore, it is still difficult for Braga to challenge the three giants of the Portuguese Super League with stronger financial resources. It seems that in the past few years, most of the league was ranked fourth in the league, and in 10 years, it won the second place in the best Portuguese Super League history, but it was immediately beaten back to its original shape last season and won the fourth place again. Although it seems that the ranking has not changed drastically, you can see how much the gap has been widened!

Porto won the championship unbeaten last season, with 27 wins and 3 draws in 30 rounds of the league, which is enough to make any team in the world feel desperate when they come to the Portuguese Super League. They have created an 84-point record in the Portuguese Super League.

Braga is ranked fourth, with only 46 points, 38 points away from the championship!

Even compared with 71 points in Braga's runner-up in 10 years, Braga's season has dropped by 25 points!

Even though there is a reason for the poor performance in the league while taking into account the European game, it is unreasonable for Porto to reach the UEFA Cup finals at the same time and defeat Braga 1-0 to win the cup.

Last year's Portuguese Super League made Mourinho II Boas a success. The Portuguese Super League was unbeaten and the UEFA Cup won. These two events made him rush to Stamford Bridge with the halo of a new generation of star coaches, as if he was going to replicate Mourinho's success trajectory.

The Portuguese Super League is definitely a stage that can nurture stars, both players and head coaches.

Although Tang Hong has difficulty communicating with his teammates, he does not need to communicate after the training begins. He just needs to keep up with the coach's request to train.

It is now the summer preparation period, and the team is accumulating physical energy for the new season, so a lot of aerobic training is the main content.

These trainings are all off-ball training. To put it bluntly, it is to train your physical fitness well, so that your body, which is relaxed due to the holiday, will be excited again and achieve a better physical fitness level.

Tang Hong completed the coaches' requirements step by step and placed in China according to his physical fitness, even the adult national team is definitely among the top, but in Braga, his physical fitness has no advantage.

The midfield guards are all taller and stronger than him. Nearly half of the whites in the team are whites and the other half are black or mixed-race. Tang Hong is very inconspicuous among these more than 30 people.

Only when sprinting can he make his teammates look at each other, but football is not entirely a track and field sprinting event, so running fast may not be good.

When eating at the training base at noon, the chef team of professional clubs will be equipped with nutritionists and will arrange the players' diet very professionally. It can only be said that Tang Hong is not satisfied with the taste. At this time, he will miss Sun Rou's skills very much.

The work and schedule of the Portuguese and the Spanish are very similar. They go to bed late and get up late, take a nap from 1:00 to 3:00, work until 7:00 in the evening, and eat dinner basically after 8:30 in the evening.

After lunch, Tang Hong went back to the hotel to take a nap. Before he left in the afternoon, Sun Rou came to ask what he had eaten in the club.

Tang Hong got up after a sleep and came to the club at 3:30 in the afternoon to start training again.

The intensity of training in the afternoon was greater than in the morning. Tang Hong felt something was wrong with his body when he was close to six o'clock. When it was not dark at half past six o'clock, he suddenly came to the sidelines after running back and forth and bent down and vomited!

wow!

Now those teammates who didn't pay attention to him looked at him!

Assistant coach Vieira came to ask about his situation. Until Tang Hong gave him a thumbs up and said he was fine, Vieira still asked him to finish his training today.

When Tang Hong left the training ground, he saw his teammates looking at him in a very interesting way.

It seems to be laughing at him for being unable to adapt to such training intensity.

In fact, although the training intensity is larger than when he was in the past, he can definitely deal with it. The key is that his body is still adjusting the jet lag these two days, and his diet made him feel a little uncomfortable. Simply put, it is because he is not adapting to the local environment, which leads to vomiting after high-intensity training.

He was not discouraged or had any other mentality changes. He just needed to rest and adjust, and then he could adapt to the new environment.

Head coach Yartim looked at Tang Hong's back and thoughtfully.

It is hard to say that he has high hopes for Tang Hong and it is obvious that it is stupid to bet on a player who has no professional experience.

Even when Messi and Ronaldo debuted, no coach dared to put all hope on them.

What Yartim is thinking about is how to arrange Tang Hong.

Just look at the current lineup of more than 30 players in the first team. The Portuguese Super League only has 30 rounds, and there will be local cup matches in October. The Europa League will go as far as you can. There will definitely not be many games, and it will not be included in the training schedule.

Just counting the forward, there are now as many as 6 main players and substitutes in Braga!
Chapter completed!