Compared with Real Madrid's old sports city, Valdebebas' hardware facilities are among the best in the world.
Not to mention anything else, this conference room for first-team players is equipped with all kinds of advanced equipment, which is rare among major European clubs.
At this moment, Real Madrid's players are sitting in this spacious and bright conference room, waiting for the arrival of the head coach.
Although they each find a seat to sit down, the general situation of the locker room can be seen from the players' seat selection.
The local team headed by Raul and Guti sat in the front. Foreign players such as Zidane and Beckham were either in front or slightly behind. Brazilian players such as Ronaldo and Carlos were all seated.
Sitting in the back row, they looked very careless, as if this meeting had nothing to do with them.
In fact, everyone in the locker room knew that this meeting had nothing to do with the Brazilian gang.
Acting head coach Gao Shen's relationship with them has not eased, so how could he arrange for them to play?
Just the day before yesterday, chief assistant coach Maqueda had a conversation with Ronaldo and Carlos and conveyed some of the coach's thoughts. The game against Arsenal was crucial, and public opinion outside was also very concerned about Real Madrid's internal affairs, so he hoped that the Brazilian players
, especially Ronaldo and Carlos, were able not to speak out in the media during this period.
Everyone knows that these two people have always wanted to put pressure on the head coach, and now there are strong calls for Ronaldo and Carlos to play the main team. If the two come forward at this time and say something in the media, then the acting head coach will
The situation will be more passive.
After Maqueda finished speaking, Raul also conveyed his opinions through Zidane and Beckham, and hoped that the Brazilian gang could focus on the overall situation before the decisive battle and not cause trouble for the team at critical moments.
Zidane and Beckham also revealed similar opinions.
Therefore, in the past two days, there has been a lot of public opinion outside, but Ronaldo, Carlos and the Brazilian players have kept a low profile.
Of course they are not timid, and of course they want to make a scene and compete for a starting position, but they have to consider that if they really break up, they will be completely isolated in the locker room.
Therefore, they could only endure this tone.
Because of this, they used this method to silently protest during meetings.
If there hadn't been a training session in the afternoon, they would have definitely been absent.
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Gao Shen walked in holding a thick notebook.
Glancing at the people in front of him, he smiled slightly and raised a USB flash drive in his right hand, "I just got some materials from the scouting team. It's a bit late. I'm sorry."
No one cared.
In fact, strictly speaking, Gao Shen was not late, but they came a little early.
While his assistant Lucas was playing with the multimedia system, Gao Shen faced the Real Madrid players.
"There are a lot of media and fans gathered at the gate now. This is a place I don't like very much."
Gao Shen spoke casually, as if chatting about everyday things.
"We all know that the British media is pervasive, but they are actually more concerned about the players' private lives. The most outrageous situation is that they will install cameras directly in front of the players' homes to monitor them 24 hours a day, so many people
It is said that the British media always elevates players to an unreasonable height and then tries every means to destroy them."
Even David Beckham and Woodgate, who are from England, deeply agree with what Gao Shen said.
This is the consensus in English football.
"Our situation at Real Madrid is different. Since the beginning of the 2000s, our club's business philosophy has been completely different from other clubs. From the management level, we have introduced a formal company system. This is very good. Everyone can feel this in daily life.
benefits and efficiency.”
This is indeed a very big contribution brought by Florentino, but fans generally don't know it.
"But the club's business strategy means that we must be exposed to the spotlight of the media all the time. They even use a magnifying glass to dig out our secrets bit by bit. In front of them, we feel like we have been stripped naked.
It's like, there's no privacy at all, not just for the individual, but also in the locker room."
How did the secret of the fight between Guti and Ronaldo leak out?
Ronaldo called Florentino to force him to have an abortion, how did it leak out?
There was an infighting between the local gang and the Brazilian gang in the locker room, who revealed it?
Many people will think that there is a mole inside.
Who is the mole?
Employee? Coach? Player?
One? Two? Or more?
This is Real Madrid's philosophy.
Florentino's business philosophy is the eyeball economy, and he does everything possible to attract the world's attention. This requires the help of the media, including operating and introducing superstars, all to achieve this goal.
The benefits of this are obvious. Real Madrid quickly turned a loss into a profit in a very short period of time and became the most profitable team in the world. However, the disadvantage is that the media over-reported it, leaving no secrets in the locker room or individual players.
Word.
Everything Gao Shen says now is likely to be known to the media in a few minutes, and everyone present, even everyone in Valdebebas, may be a leaker.
In Gao Shen's previous life, Mourinho said he wanted to dig out moles, but how?
Does Real Madrid management know?
Know.
But since they have chosen this path, they have to bear the price. Therefore, instead of thinking about protecting the players, they are adding fuel to the flames. This has resulted in players not only having no secrets, but also being under great pressure.
As long as you don't play well in a game, the media will immediately attack you. Even if you perform poorly in training, you will immediately become the focus of public opinion.
Let me ask, who can play well under such abnormal pressure?
Everyone present, from Raul, Ronaldo, Zidane to Beckham, and even the young players from the youth training, have all benefited from the club's business philosophy, but they are also victims at the same time.
Because of this, they were very sympathetic to Gao Shen's complaints and even recognized them from the bottom of their hearts.
"Okay, let's have a meeting below."
After seeing that Lucas had completed the multimedia system, it was enough to be too advanced.
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The focus of this meeting was to discuss tactics against Arsenal.
Gao Shen analyzed the information he received from Real Madrid's scouting team and came to a more reliable conclusion, that is, Wenger would probably not adopt a 4-4-2 tactic, which meant that the Gunners did not intend to attack Real Madrid.
What he wants is a balance of offense and defense.
"He knew we were going to attack, but he was confident in his defense, so he didn't intend to defend. Instead, he wanted to withstand our attack and then use their counterattack to break our goal."
"As long as he scores one more goal, we will be finished!"
The conference room was completely silent, but after hearing Gao Shen's words, many people nodded in unison.
It's already so difficult to win 0-1 at home. If Arsenal score another goal, Real Madrid will simply surrender.
"So I make a bold guess that he will adopt a four-two-three-one tactic. This is the starting lineup that I and the coaching staff have deduced."
Arsenal's tactical position map appeared on the big screen behind them, four two three one, goalkeeper Lehmann, the defense was Flamini, Senderos, Kolo Toure and Eboue. This is Arsenal.
The most stable defense at present.
The double defensive midfielder is Gilberto Silva and Cesc Fabregas, the front three players are Reyes, Hleb and Ljungberg, and the lone forward is Henry.
This is a highly speculative lineup, but the possibility of replacing Reyes with Adebayor is not ruled out.
Ljungberg performed very well in the weekend's derby. Wenger will never let him substitute, because this will dampen the enthusiasm of the players. In the derby, Ljungberg played as a left midfielder. As for Helle
Bu, he is also a player that Wenger has high hopes for this season. He has always been a wide player, but when he played in the Bundesliga, he played as an attacking midfielder.
So now, Gao Shen is not very clear about what positions Ljungberg and Hleb will take.
But Reyes should play on the left.
"We all know that Arsenal's organization will start from Cesc Fabregas, so we need Zidane to suppress Cesc Fabregas and at the same time contain Gilberto Silva. This requires a lot of effort.
Active running."
"Both Henry and Reyes are good at roaming on the left, so when we don't have the ball, I need Beckham to retreat from the right to the right midfielder position in time, thereby forming a three-back defense.
Mechanism to protect our line of defense.”
"Arbeloa can follow Henry out, Ramos can share the pressure on the right side in time, and De La Red must be able to return to the central defender to make up for the defense in the middle."
Through PPT, Gao Shen constantly demonstrated his defensive key points on how to freeze Arsenal's left attack, especially the coordination and movement of players.
With the ball, it is 4,231, and without the ball, it must be able to quickly switch back to 4,312. This point of Beckham is crucial, because if he does not come back, once there is a problem with the defense on the right, Delray
When Germany needs to return to the defensive line to make up for the loss, there is a gap at the front of the penalty area.
In this afternoon's targeted training session, Gao Shen asked the coaching staff to arrange group tactical training, which included the defense line that was about to start, as well as the double midfielder, Beckham and other players, focusing on practicing the team's
Movement and coordination during defense, and at the same time arranging players to play Arsenal's left attacking role.
It can be said that as long as Arsenal's left attack is defended, the possibility of preventing Arsenal from scoring is very high.
In addition to the focused defense on the right, Gaoshen also has targeted arrangements in other defense zones.
Regarding the most common concern from the outside world, what kind of tactics Real Madrid will adopt in this game, Gao Shen also gave all the players a thorough understanding of this game.
"We are in an embarrassing situation now. If we want to advance, we have to attack, but Arsenal and the whole world know that we will attack. The Gunners have set up a trap at Highbury, just waiting for us to step into it."
"If we rely on defense and wait for Arsenal to make mistakes, this tactic is too conservative and negative. Arsenal will probably not give us such an opportunity easily. It seems that we have a choice, but in fact, we have no choice.
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"So, we must not let Arsenal lead the way in this game, we must control the rhythm!"
Everyone present realized that Gao Shen had already made a decision.
This will definitely be a difficult decision with unpredictable outcome.
