Early the next morning, Li Yi took a taxi from his villa to the stadium. He skillfully greeted David, the doorman who had passed him by once, and then stepped into the training ground.
When passing by the parking lot, Li Yi looked at the empty training ground and knew that none of his teammates had arrived yet, but an idea suddenly came to his mind.
Speaking of which, Li Yi should also buy a car. After all, as a "rich man", it is really not the same thing without a car, and it is very inconvenient.
Facing the direction of the parking lot, Li Yi was stunned for a moment, keeping this in mind, and walked towards the training ground.
When Li Yi changed his clothes and came to the training ground alone, the training ground was still empty. When he walked into the field, he threw the ball he had passed on to the ground and spread his legs. Li Yi wanted to practice shooting.
However, when Li Yi had almost finished swinging his legs, he suddenly stopped the movement of his feet.
As for the reason, it's very simple. If Li Yi remembers correctly, his final decision has just been upgraded, so everything is a benefit for the first time. Li Yi really doesn't want to waste it like this.
Thinking of this, Li Yi took the ball to the sideline and started jogging slowly.
After Li Yi was almost done warming up, a lot of people finally came to the training ground. Among them, most of them were veterans from the Crystal Palace, but there were also newcomers.
After smiling and chatting for a while with Diego Lopez, who arrived the second morning, the Crystal Palace team also arrived at the training ground.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, half an hour before the agreed training time, the most expensive players in Crystal Palace's current squad, including Modric, Bale, and Muntari, all arrived at the training ground early.
Seeing that all the players had arrived, Friedman no longer cared about the agreed time. He came to the training ground with a big notebook and called all the players in front of him. Friedman's lecture
,here we go.
Well, there are many newcomers in the team. Before the start of the season, some training is a necessary process. However, to Li Yi's ears, those are just encouraging nonsense, so it's okay not to mention them.
After speaking for about 10 minutes, Friedman finally finished reading the speech he had prepared.
Nodding to the players who listened carefully to his reprimand, Friedman began the necessary work before the next formal training.
And this job, it sounds a bit funny, that is - recognizing people!
It sounds funny, but in fact, it is quite normal. Why did Crystal Palace change almost half of its team in the new season?
After the players came out one by one to introduce themselves, in summary, the 23-man roster of Crystal Palace for the new season is as follows:
Goalkeeper: Diego Lopez, Julian Speroni
Defenders: Bell, Balzaretti, Pique, Fletcher, Hudson, Granville, Richardson, Jose Font, Danny Butterfield, Clint Hill.
Midfielder: Modric, Naismith, Joby McAnuff, McCann, Sean Derry, Muntari.
Forwards: Li Yi, Aliadiere, Dodge Shefci, Victor Moses, Scott Sinclair (on loan from Chelsea)
Among them, there are 2 goalkeepers, 10 defenders, 6 midfielders and 5 forwards.
Listening to his teammates blowing themselves up one after another, Li Yi immediately analyzed his current Crystal Palace in his mind.
First of all, there are a total of 10 defenders! Although there are some little monsters like Bell who may not play defenders in the future, even 9 people seem a bit bloated in a roster with only 23 people in total, but
Don't forget, Friedman's favorite formation is 5-3-2, so 10 defenders is not too exaggerated.
Among them, the weakest link is the goalkeeper position.
But there is no other way. After letting go of last season's main goalkeeper, Friedman has spent a lot of effort to keep Speroni. It is really inexperienced to find a substitute. Fortunately, in the position of goalkeeper
Generally speaking, players are not prone to injuries and do not need to be rotated frequently. Therefore, two people are basically enough to cope with a complete season, unless Crystal Palace is really unlucky.
In addition, regarding his position, Li Yi must be the most concerned about the five forwards! According to normal circumstances, the competition should be very fierce, and Li Yi will be under great pressure.
However, after Li Yi carefully analyzed the team's five forwards, his worries disappeared instantly.
Of the 5 forwards, including Li Yi himself, a total of 3 are original Crystal Palace players. In other words, it is said that there are 5 people competing, but in fact, it is Li Yi and 2 newcomers competing for 2 starting positions.
Taking a closer look, among the other two newcomers, there is 17-year-old Sinclair, who is younger than Li Yi. Li Yi would not believe that Friedman would work for others if he was just renting to make up for his income.
, and neglected himself.
Therefore, even if no one is talking about it at this time, the starting forwards of Crystal Palace in the new season have basically been determined, that is Aliadiere and Li Yi, who were poached from the wealthy Arsenal!
As for the midfielder, looking at the newcomers, Li Yi feels that Joby has no chance!
The midfielder needs an engineer, and Muntari happens to be such a person, so he must be one of the three starting personnel.
As for the players who organize the team's offense, who is better than Sjömodric?
So, although there are three positions, in fact, Joby's only hope is to compete for the last one!
But unfortunately,
Li Yi, who had no impression of the name Naismith, once met Naismith in person, declared Joby's death sentence in his heart!
What, if Li Yi remembers correctly, this Naismith is the main midfielder of Toffee Everton. As Everton is a mid-to-upper-tier team in the Premier League, Naismith's ability is evident. This is called Jobina.
What to compete with?
Well, so far, Li Yi has made a rough prediction for Crystal Palace’s lineup for the new season:
To be honest, this lineup is not much weaker than those second-tier giants in terms of competitiveness. Perhaps many years later, the outside world will be surprised to learn that Crystal Palace only spent more than 30 million pounds to put together this lineup.
Eyeballs all over the place.
Of course, these are all things for later, so there is no need to say more for now.
After the players introduced themselves, Friedman couldn't make too many tactical arrangements as today was the first day of training. Thinking that the players had just experienced a happy holiday, Friedman only arranged
After some simple no-ball training, the training session for the day ended.
As for the team training match, which both newcomers and veterans are looking forward to, it was not officially staged until the fifth day after the training camp started.
The team had been training with the ball for two days. Friedman had a rough idea of the strength of the players on the field. In order to confirm his concept, Li Yi was very fortunate to be divided into groups that day.
After seeing this, Friedman "accorded to" his guess and gave the team arrangement.
The red team, that is, the team 11 representing the main force, is impartial and is exactly the people Li Yi guessed a few days ago.
As for the black team, those are naturally the ones left.
The 23 people were divided into two 11-man teams, and the only young man who unfortunately failed to make the cut was Victor Moses on the forward line.
Before the game started, Friedman called Modric and Li Yi aside.
Um, no, it's not 2 people, it's 3 people. Because, what, Modric just came out of his hometown of Croatia, and his English proficiency is not enough for him to communicate normally with his teammates. Therefore, during normal training,
The Magic Flute had to bring a translator with him.
"I have a certain understanding of the abilities of the team's players. In the new season, regarding the offense, I will make some changes from the past. Lee, the Gareth you recommended, whether it is the two days of training or what I checked before
From the information, it can be seen that this is a very fast wing player with a certain degree of personal breakthrough ability. In addition, Richardson on the right is not weak in assisting in the back row!
Therefore, in the new season, I will temporarily set the team's offensive method as mainly passing from the two wings, supplemented by penetration from the middle. Lee, you must pay attention to the fact that after the team's tactics change, it will no longer be the same as before.
The game is so simple, the ball comes to your head. Next, you must strengthen your running position and your ability to grab points! Is there any problem?"
After listening to Friedman's tactical explanation, Li Yi, who knew what the other party meant, immediately nodded affirmatively.
After patting Li Yi on the shoulder, Friedman turned his head to the Magic Flute.
However, if Li Yi saw it correctly, when he turned around, Friedman's brow showed a trace of undue fluctuation.
Looking at the translator next to Modric, Li Yi instantly understood why Friedman was dissatisfied.
In other words, if a coach communicates with his subordinates through a third party, he will not be too happy.
"About Luka, there is nothing to say about your abilities. You are definitely qualified to play the core role of the team. However, putting those aside for now, I have only one request for you, and that is to learn English as much as possible! I will give you 2 months.
, 2 months later, my minimum requirement for you is that I do not want a third party to exist in our dialogue within the scope of the stadium, can you do it?"
Seeing the translator conveying Friedman's previous words to Magic Flute with a constipated expression, Li Yi thought in his heart, "It's not kind to introduce Friedman! In front of others, let Magic Flute
Fired myself within 2 months! Haha! Could that translator be deliberately causing harm to discredit him?"
Because he didn't understand Croatian, Li Yi saw the translator quickly explaining something to Modric carefully. Then, after about half a minute, the magic flute nodded to Friedman and signaled
