In the morning, after having breakfast in the hotel, Su Dong came downstairs, got into the car of Messi's father Jorge, and headed straight to the Camp Nou stadium.
After playing Racing Santander, the team returned to Barcelona from the away game overnight and disbanded on the spot.
The national players began to divide their things and return to their respective countries to work hard. Players who did not have national team competition duties received a two-day holiday. However, Su Dong did not intend to give himself a holiday. He still wanted to continue training to maintain his condition.
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As Su Dong's little follower, Messi will naturally accompany him.
After getting in the car, Jorge in the front seat asked with concern about the renovation and decoration of Sudong's villa.
This is another lot of trouble!
Renovation was not only labor-intensive, but also quite nerve-wracking. Su Dong gave full authority to Mendez and entrusted it to a design and decoration company. Anyway, the plan they proposed had to be approved by Su Dong.
The earliest move-in time is expected to be November, or even the end of the year.
It's very annoying that one thing affects the whole body, and the decoration always looks like this.
However, Su Dong suggested that after he moved in, Messi could come and live with him, so that he could train with him, Nuno Cruz and others.
Of course, Messi and Jorge would not refuse such a good thing and agreed on the spot.
Especially Messi, he has very few friends, and Su Dong is the best one.
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"By the way, have you watched the news this morning?" Messi asked with concern.
Su Dong nodded. He saw them last night and this morning. There were only three that really caught his attention.
One is that Barcelona defeated Racing Santander 4-0 in an away game and jumped to the top of La Liga with a goal difference. With two shots and one pass, Su Dong was elected as the best player in the game and received praise from the outside world.
After the warm-up matches, several cup games before the season, and the first round of the league, there are fewer and fewer doubts about Su Dong’s worth. On the contrary, more and more people are beginning to think that Barcelona’s signing of Su Dong will be a good idea.
A very wise choice.
Another one is from Valencia.
In the first round of the defending champion's game, they faced Villarreal at home in a local derby. However, Valencia's performance was not ideal. Corradi and Di Vaio, who had been introduced with a lot of money, both performed poorly, and Fiore did not even have a lineup.
In the end, with the goals of Marchena and Baraja, they narrowly defeated Villarreal 2-1.
Through the warm-up match, everyone can see that Valencia's biggest problem currently lies in itself.
David Silva, Vicente, Aimar and others have always maintained contact with Sudong, so Sudong knows a lot of inside information about Valencia and the problems this team is facing this season.
For example, in the European Super Cup, although Valencia won, their performance was actually very unsatisfactory.
The conflict within the locker room deepened, and something incredible happened.
That is, Angulo refused to play in the Super Cup in order to transfer to Arsenal. The reason was that the Gunners were willing to offer him double his annual salary, which made it difficult for Angulo to refuse.
When Ranieri took over Valencia, it was understandable that he wanted to inject some elements of his own, but he did act a little too hastily, especially after introducing three Italians in succession, which began to arouse resistance from the players in the Valencia locker room.
This is a taboo!
However, this has nothing to do with Su Dong.
The last piece of news, which should be what Messi is concerned about, is that Barcelona's godfather Cruyff published a column in Vanguard newspaper criticizing Barcelona's new players.
Strictly speaking, this is not a criticism of all new players, but only a few new Brazilian players.
What Cruyff means is that Barcelona has introduced too many Brazilian players, which has seriously affected the unity within the team's locker room. This is not a positive thing, because not long ago, Barcelona also had
Had similar issues.
That time it was not Brazilian players, but too many Dutch players.
Ever since Louis van Gaal took charge of Barcelona, the Dutch side has been criticized. Even Cruyff himself admitted that the Dutch side was the main factor that led to Barcelona's decline in performance in recent years.
The reason is simple. When many players come from the same country, they will naturally stick together, which will affect the unity atmosphere in the locker room and thus affect the performance of the players.
But that's not all Cruyff was worried about.
He believes that too many Brazilian players are detrimental to Barcelona. He took the recent two weeks of national team games as an example. He believes that there are too many Brazilian players, causing them to travel back and forth when they return to their country to participate in games. The travel distance is too long.
Coupled with the impact of the game, the consumption of players is very large.
When there are many Brazilian players in the team, this consumption is enough to affect the team's performance and results.
In addition, Cruyff also mentioned the discipline of Barcelona players, saying that he has vaguely heard some discordant voices coming from the locker room. For example, during Ronaldinho's stay in Tokyo, Japan, he took the Brazilian genius with him.
The group showed up at the nightclub and met up with Ronaldo and Carlos, who were playing for Real Madrid at the time, and partyed until the early hours of the morning. There were even many beauties at the scene.
Cruyff believes that Rijkaard should pay enough attention to this and strengthen the management of the team's locker room.
Although Cruyff criticized Barcelona's new Brazilian players, he is still very optimistic about Barcelona this season.
"Last season, we lacked capable scorers, but now we have Su Dong on the front line. Judging from the pre-season warm-up matches and the first round of the league, Su Dong has almost seamlessly integrated into Barcelona's tactical map.
I believe that he can not only make up for the team's offensive shortcomings last season, but also turn our center into a strong point that is difficult for opponents to defend."
But Cruyff also reminded the Barcelona coaching staff and management that the team's lineup is still not perfect enough and there are still deficiencies in the defense. "Overall, it is much better than last season."
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Regarding Cruyff's remarks, Sudong maintained a neutral attitude.
He has no way of saying whether he is right or wrong, because many things do exist, but there is no doubt that it is appropriate for Cruyff to point it out so publicly just after the league started?
Cruyff's original intention should be to hope that the club and coaching staff would pay enough attention and even use public opinion to warn the Brazilian players in the Barcelona team. But can this kind of harsh advice be accepted?
"Don't get involved in these things! Leo, let's focus on playing our football!" Su Dong reminded Messi.
Messi nodded instructively.
Now he has no ability to get involved in these things, so why should he think too much about it?
If you have that time, you might as well train hard and improve your own strength.
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When Su Dong brought Messi to Barcelona Sports City, he found that not only were they practicing during the holidays, but Iniesta was also here. This young player who had just played in the first round of the league and played the entire game was also here.
, and now I am holding back my energy to improve myself.
Iniesta was also very happy to see Sudong and Messi and went directly to resume training with them.
Nuno Cruz and other personal coaching staff are also willing to have two more people to train with Sudong, which can also share some of their work.
While Su Dong and others were training, Barcelona quickly responded to Cruyff's column.
Head coach Rijkaard said that he had seen Cruyff's column, and he also understood Cruyff's football philosophy and knew that Cruyff was protecting the club, and they had also discussed this issue.
Among the participants were technical director Begiristain, and the club's top brass also discussed this issue.
"In my opinion, Brazilian players are role models for players, and they are Barcelona players. Nationality is not important!"
Obviously, Rijkaard is implicitly hinting to the godfather of Barcelona, don't use your nationality to attack him, this is inappropriate!
Sure enough, the response from Brazilian players also appeared quickly.
Both Deco and Belletti responded, both calling for people to eliminate the concept of region and nationality, because there is only one team in football, that is Barcelona, and there is only one language, that is football.
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Barcelona President Laporta also spoke to the media, saying that he had listened to the interviews of Cruyff, the head coach and the players, "I respect their opinions."
After that, no more.
Barcelona's management intends to cool down the situation, but the media outside are worried that the world will not be in chaos.
It was soon revealed by the media that the reason why Barcelona introduced so many Brazilian players was that Vice Chairman Rosell tried to expand his influence in the locker room by introducing Brazilian players, thereby shaking Chairman Laporte.
The position of the tower, and Laporta and Cruyff are steadfast comrades-in-arms.
Some media even mentioned Su Dong, saying that the reason why Laporta wanted to introduce Su Dong was to counter Russell's influence in the locker room.
"Barcelona will do its best to support Sudong in this year's World Footballer and European Ballon d'Or selections, with the purpose of suppressing Ronaldinho and other Brazilian gangs."
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In less than two days, Su Dong was amazed by what he saw.
This is the first time he has personally experienced the environment of a wealthy team like Barcelona, and it is also the first time he has felt that as a Barcelona player, he has to bear not only the pressure of the game on the court, but also the various pressures from off the court.
factors.
The weight of the latter is not even inferior to that of the former.
Su Dong couldn't tell what was right and wrong, and he didn't want to participate. He even declined all media interviews and refused to answer any related topics, including the selection of World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or.
Since gods are fighting, let them fight!
Su Dong believes that as long as he maintains his form, as long as he focuses on football in training and games, then whether it is the Dutch gang, the Brazilian gang, or the local forces, there will be places that need him, and then he can play in
This team and this locker room are strong.
To take a step back, he is also a foreign player.
And Su Dong couldn't help but recall what Mendes once said to him, that is, after joining Barcelona, be mentally prepared. Generally speaking, you should consider leaving in three or four years.
Now, he somewhat understands.
Of course, maybe other wealthy teams are like this too.
