After training the next day, there were still howls in the locker room.
This time, even the new players who joined the team were surprised by Chang Sheng's training intensity, and judging from the reactions of the Valencia players, they had not had such training treatment before.
For the young Ibrahimovic, there is no problem with his body and he can still accept such training intensity.
But for the thirty-year-old Guardiola, it was a bit too much.
However, Guardiola did not sigh like the rest of the team and complain that the training intensity was too high.
In fact, he has been observing Chang Sheng and his coaching staff since the first training.
He wanted to see what was unusual about Chang Sheng's training and what he could learn from it.
Carvalho and Ferreira have just joined the group and have not yet fully integrated into the team, so they appear to be very low-key. They don't know what it is about them that makes Valencia value them, so they work very hard in training. Because they
They didn't know that they came to Valencia to play as the main force, they thought they were going to play as a substitute.
Since they joined the new team, Chang Sheng has not talked to them individually. Naturally, they know nothing about their position in the team.
In order to be able to play in the game, the two players naturally worked very hard in training and did not dare to slack off at all. Even if the training intensity was greater than they imagined, they did not dare to complain.
The two Portuguese people had never known each other before, but now they were in a group.
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Chang Sheng met the team’s captain Mendieta the next day.
This is his first contact with players.
He has been with the team for so long, and it has only been two days since training began. He has not found any players, not even stars like Mendieta.
This made Mendieta himself feel very strange. He originally thought that whether it was for the purpose of appeasing the players, winning people's hearts, or understanding the players, the new coach should have some contact with the team instead of being superior. No.
Don't ask.
Unexpectedly, Chang Sheng just ignored them and just trained every day. Except for training, you couldn't see him at all.
Those players who were waiting for Chang Sheng to come to them were all disappointed.
They had no choice but to take the initiative to find Chang Sheng.
In the head coach's office, Chang Sheng and Mendieta faced each other.
"So, you all think the training intensity is too high?" Chang Sheng sat on a chair, crossing his hands and covering them a little above his lower abdomen.
Mendieta nodded: "Yes, there are many old players in the team, and their bodies may not be able to adapt to such intensity of training, sir."
When this blond-haired Basque tough guy faced the ever-successful head coach, his attitude was neither humble nor overbearing, and he really had a leadership style.
Chang Sheng shook his head: "It is impossible to modify the training intensity because my training intensity is strictly based on my tactics. If we lay a solid foundation now, we will be unlucky in the league."
"We know that sir, you are good at defensive counterattacks, and Valencia is also good at defensive counterattacks, but to be honest, our training intensity in previous seasons was not as intense as this season..." As the captain, he is the bridge between the team and the coach. Also
Representing the interests of the whole team, we naturally have to argue with reason, Mendieta spread his hands and said.
Chang Sheng was surprised: "Who said I would play defensive counterattack?"
This time it was Mendieta's turn to be surprised: "Isn't it?"
"Of course not. Well, before tomorrow's training starts, I will explain to everyone the tactics we will use in the new season... I didn't expect to tell you so early, but now it seems. If I didn't say it,
I'm afraid you can't train with peace of mind." Chang Sheng said, but he just didn't agree to modify the intensity of training.
Mendieta didn't know what tactics required such high-intensity physical training, but he could see the determination of the head coach.
There's nothing he can do. He can't openly break with the head coach, right?
Still can't do it.
He nodded helplessly: "Okay, I will go back and inform them."
After saying this, he was about to leave.
But he was stopped by Chang Sheng.
"Gaizca, I heard that you are planning to transfer to Lazio?"
Unexpectedly, Chang Sheng suddenly asked such a question, and Mendieta's body trembled as he turned around.
"Don't be nervous, it's not a secret. Before the season is over, the whole world is full of transfer rumors about you. I understand the blow to you that you have reached the Champions League finals twice in a row but failed to win the championship."
Although Chang Sheng often uses gimmicks such as "reaching two consecutive Champions League finals" to fool other players, hoping that they will join Valencia. But for Valencia's own players, this is not a good memory, or rather
It is a symbol of strong strength, but this is their eternal pain. They fell at the place closest to the championship twice in a row. No one would be willing to accept it.
Mendieta really wants to transfer and leave this summer. He has had this idea since the team failed in the Champions League final for the second time.
His agent is helping him contact his next club, and Lazio now seems to be the most likely because they are the most sincere and pursue Mendieta the most.
In fact, many people believe that Mendieta's time in Valencia has entered a countdown and he will leave soon.
"But what I want to say is, I'm here to change all that."
Chang Sheng's words were a bit loud, but that's all he could say now.
In fact, Mendieta has been in Valencia for so many years and looks very prosperous, but he has not even won a league championship, only a King's Cup and a Super Cup.
After he left, Valencia won two league titles in three years, as well as a UEFA Cup and the European Super Cup.
I don’t know what Mendieta, who has bounced back and forth between Lazio, Barcelona and Middlesbrough, felt when he saw his home team being so brilliant.
Mendieta looked back at Chang Sheng. He suddenly felt strange. Why on earth could this young man be so confident?
"Can you change this?"
Chang Sheng nodded affirmatively. If he couldn't lead the team to the championship, he would have lost his identity as a cheat and a time traveler in vain.
The time traveler allowed him to foresee things in advance, and the plug-in gave him the tools to realize his ideals.
"Won't you stay and witness?"
In the end, Mendieta did not nod and agreed to stay. He just said: "I will seriously consider it, sir." Then he left again.
Chang Sheng added: "Then don't go to Lazio!"
Mendieta wondered why the coach was so determined not to let him go to Lazio.
"Why?" he asked.
Chang Sheng hesitated when asked.
Yes, why? How can he explain to Mendieta why? There is no way he can tell Mendieta that I came from time-to-time. I know that if you go to Lazio, you will die, right?
He could only say: "Spanish football style is very different from Italian football style. I don't think it is a good choice for you to go to Lazio. There are few examples of Spanish players succeeding in Italy. I don't think you need to take this risk."
This is actually very idealistic and unconvincing.
Sure enough, Mendieta smiled and said goodbye again, obviously not taking his words of victory seriously. A man who was named the European midfielder of the year twice in one year is now full of confidence. He thinks that the whole world can do it.
What does a small Apennine mean when you are conquered by yourself? There are few winners? Then let me, Gazca Mendieta, be the first conqueror!
Chang Sheng looked at Mendieta's leaving figure and shook his head.
He knew Mendieta wouldn't listen, but he really couldn't let Mendieta go.
There are many considerations. On the one hand, he naturally does not want to see Mendieta go to Lazio and fall rapidly. Mendieta's transfer to Lazio can even be said to be the darkest scene in Valencia's transfer history. Now that he has been reborn, how can he
Saving one person's fate saves one person's fate.
Second, Mendieta is still very important in his tactics. In the winning team 4231, Mendieta is the main force on the right wing. Currently, Chang Sheng has not found a good replacement for him on the right wing.
Naturally, it is impossible to let him go.
Third, there is a reason that he absolutely cannot tell others, that is, even if Valencia sold Mendieta for a high price. Forty-one million U.S. dollars and eight billion pesetas, Valencia did not fully receive it.
With this amount of money, when Lazio purchased Mendieta from Valencia, they chose an installment payment method that would be paid over four years. At the time, Lazio chairman Cragnotti promised that the balance would be paid in full.
Unexpectedly, he resigned the next year due to the economic crisis. On the one hand, Lazio had no money to repay the money, and on the other hand, he did not want to repay it.
In the end it became a dead end.
Lazio only paid 18 million US dollars in the early stage. The rest of the money was never given. In the end, it couldn't be delayed any longer, so Corradi and Fiore were used in exchange for 16 million euros. Taking into account the exchange rate, the sale
The U.S. dollar was worth more than the euro when Mendieta was there, and the two people who came here were useless, so Valencia suffered a big loss in this transfer. There is still more than 10 million in the balance that has not been paid.
This is really a rare "three-loss" transfer in football. Valencia, Lazio and Mendieta themselves all suffered miserably. Valencia sold its core and did not receive much transfer fee. In the end, it still cost
Bearing the high wages of two losers. Lazio is in deep economic crisis. Mendieta's transfer fee and high salary are obviously an important reason. As for Mendieta himself, he suffered the worst loss. This transfer became the highlight of his career.
Watershed, he was originally the top midfielder in Europe, but because of this terrible transfer, his condition and ability plummeted, and he finally had to retire sadly at Middlesbrough.
From Chang Sheng's point of view, Valencia made a very unwise deal. If they want to sell this player, they will naturally make as much money as possible from him. In the end, if the tens of millions of money cannot be recovered, then
Even if it is sold for nothing.
When Chang Sheng plays the game, he always wants to use installment payment to make the purchase, which puts less financial pressure. This is because he is from Lazio's point of view. But when selling people, he never accepts installment payments from other clubs.
He asked, either to take out enough money at once to take the people away, so that poor people with no money should not join in the fun by paying in installments. At this time, he stood on Valencia's position again.
At this moment, he is the head coach of Valencia, so he naturally has to align with Valencia's interests.
I bought Mendieta but couldn't make much money. Chang Sheng wouldn't do this kind of loss-making business.
He pulled out a fax document from under a pile of documents on his desk, with the Lazio club crest on the header.
Lazio have made an offer to Valencia for Mendieta, just this morning.
Their quote was $41 million, exactly as future generations would remember Chang Sheng.
Faced with the third-highest transfer fee in world football today, Chang Sheng didn't even have the slightest emotion. His heartbeat didn't beat uncontrollably, and his hands didn't tremble with excitement.
He crossed out the fax very calmly.
He rejected Lazio's offer so lightly.
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ps, I calculated the number of monthly votes wrong before, but now it’s back to normal.
