In the end, Manchester City did not actually take the bus from London back to Manchester.
Although it is only more than 300 kilometers, it takes four or five hours to walk, and it is all in the middle of the night.
If it were normal times, it would not matter, but the team will rush to Dublin non-stop to participate in the Europa League final. The players' rest is very important, not to mention a few hours, even a few minutes are precious
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After the game, the team bus took everyone to the nearby Heathrow Airport, where they took the charter flight arranged by the club and flew directly back to Manchester from London.
The families of players and employees, as well as guests invited by the team, flew back to Manchester from London in batches.
They are also going to Dublin with the team.
This can also be regarded as a benefit for the players’ families and club celebrities.
As long as the team performs well, no one will care about this. After all, winning a championship is more important than anything else.
What professional teams compete for is influence, which can also be said to be reputation, and this needs to be consolidated by performance.
No matter how loud your reputation is, it will be in vain if you are beaten by your opponents on the court and your true colors are revealed.
This is especially true for a newly emerging team like Manchester City.
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On the night of arriving in Manchester, the team did not disband, but checked directly into the hotel booked in advance.
The next morning, the team assembled in Carrington for recovery training.
Conduct recovery training on the day after the game. This is a schedule that teams with scientific training will adopt. Guardiola pays more attention to this. He will assign different allocations to each player's physical condition during recovery training.
training program.
It can be said that a good recovery is the basis for playing well in the next game.
This is what strength and conditioning coach Lorenzo Buenaventura is best at.
Before training, Su Dong's personal coaching team Nuno Cruz and Grant Downing will communicate and coordinate with Guardiola's coaching staff, exchange some ideas with each other, and jointly formulate Su Dong's recovery training.
Everyone is accustomed to this, and they don't think Su Dong is trying to be a big name or specializing.
After all, no matter what problems they encountered in daily life, they often learned from Su Dong.
More importantly, Su Dong's combat effectiveness is there, and the value of his team cannot be doubted, especially Su Dong's attendance rate. This is the best proof, and there is nothing more convincing than this.
Guardiola has also said that other players are welcome to hire high-level personal coaches like Su Dong, but the question is, can they afford high-level personal coaches because they are so expensive?
After the training, the first team held a brief meeting, mainly to explain some precautions.
Guardiola decided to give the team a half-day holiday to allow everyone to adjust physically and mentally and spend time with their families.
As the captain, Su Dong still wants to stay when everyone else has left.
The main thing is to do some things before heading to Dublin.
As usual, the FA Cup does not need to be used, but participating in the Europa League final is considered a heavyweight European final, and the club usually invites some players to attend.
Needless to say, those who are not included in the squad of the first team will definitely accompany the team, as well as some outstanding players from the youth team. They will be invited to participate. Those who are younger may have to arrange for family members to accompany them.
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There are also some players who are on loan.
Like other Premier League teams, Manchester City actually has many youth team players on loan outside, but most of them are playing in lower-level leagues. If Guardiola hadn't promoted them, young players like Trippier should actually have been promoted.
Lease it out.
And now, there are two young players from Genk in Belgium, De Bruyne and Courtois.
Inviting loaned or interested players to participate in the finals is actually a method often used in the transfer market. It is mainly to cultivate the players' sense of identification with the club. As for winning or losing the game, it is difficult to say.
As the captain of the team, Su Dong should come forward at this time, not only receive these players, but also establish a good relationship with them.
After all, they may stay in Manchester City at any time and become teammates in the locker room.
What Su Dong got in his hands was the list of players invited by the club to watch the final.
In addition to De Bruyne and Courtois from Genk in Belgium, Douglas Costa from Shakhtar Donetsk, Eden Hazard from French Ligue 1 Lille, and Borussia Monchenglad from the Bundesliga have attracted the attention of the Soviet Union.
Bach's winger Reus.
In addition, Lukaku's agent politely declined Manchester City's invitation. This talented Belgian center, who is also valued by Manchester United and Chelsea, obviously does not want to have too much contact with Manchester City to avoid misunderstandings.
From this list, Su Dong saw the results of the operation of Manchester City's transfer department in the past few months.
Manchester City wants to introduce wingers, which is a "secret" known to the whole world, and the three players invited to attend the Europa League final this time are obviously all people they have contacted in the past.
Needless to say, Douglas Costa is a Brazilian genius, which is a golden signature in itself; Lille is the champion of Ligue 1 this season. Eden Hazard is not actually a winger, but an attacking midfielder, but he can do the job.
There are three positions: left, center and right. Guardiola likes this player very much and thinks he is very similar to Barcelona's Messi.
As for Reus, not to mention, Su Dong's old acquaintance, the Bundesliga's little rocket.
"Why was Royce invited to participate?" Su Dong felt strange.
He knew Reus very well and even had each other's mobile phone numbers. In his memory, Reus was a very loyal Dortmund fan. He once said that he was eager to return to Dortmund.
Isn't it quite contradictory to accept Manchester City's invitation now?
Su Dong even wondered whether Manchester City offered very high treatment?
Estiart came over, looked at the information in Su Dong's hand, and smiled and said: "His agent said that he is your fan since he was in Red and White Allen."
Su Dong smiled bitterly.
Now that Royce has become famous, the meeting between the two in Red and White Allen was trumpeted by the media. But in fact, who could have thought that Royce could become a talent? Maybe not even Royce himself was confident.
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Of course, no one will expose this kind of scandal.
Sometimes this world also needs some romance to dilute some cold ruthlessness.
Su Dong closed the information in his hand and nodded, "Okay, leave it to me."
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When I walked out of the Carrington training building, I happened to see the red Audi R8 parked opposite.
After the car window rolled down, Wang Chuqing's charming smile was revealed.
"The driver is absent from work? He actually bothered Her Majesty the Queen to pick him up in person?" Su Dong asked with a smile after getting into the car.
Wang Chuqing, who drove away from the training base, glanced at him blankly. Her charming look made Su Dong move his index finger.
"My parents, uncles and aunts are at home studying our family's century-old plan."
"A century-old plan?" Su Dong was stunned when he heard this.
What the hell?
"Where does our family come from with a century-old plan?" Su Dong asked confused.
Wang Chuqing took the time to glance at him again, "Ten years of trees."
Su Dong suddenly realized.
It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people.
The so-called centenary plan is actually about studying the next generation.
Needless to say, it was a catalyst for birth.
"I said, it seems that we have only received the certificate and haven't held a banquet yet, right?" Su Dong asked.
In the traditional customs of his hometown, it is not considered a marriage without a banquet, even if a marriage certificate is obtained.
"Uncle said, as long as you are willing to give birth, it doesn't matter whether we have a banquet or not. Who can look down on us just because our family doesn't have a banquet, right?"
Su Dong felt puzzled in his heart.
He vaguely remembered that when he was young, the old man didn't say that.
What he said back then was that a person had a different face and he had to take care of it no matter what so that the neighbors would not look down upon him.
In the local dialect, if you eat someone else's food, you have to give it back.
"When did he become so enlightened?" Su Dong found it very interesting.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the social status is different.
The past was before, and the present is now. Many concepts are changing unconsciously, and no one remains unchanged.
"What about your dad? He has only you as his daughter, so he is willing to give up?" Su Dong asked.
Wang Chuqing curled her lips helplessly, "My dad said that now he is responding to the country's call and refusing to be extravagant and wasteful. He is a party member and a leader, and he must set an example and resolutely suppress this unhealthy social atmosphere, so he firmly supports your dad.
decision."
Damn it!
Su Dong was a little dumbfounded.
When will my future father-in-law have such a realization?
Why didn't you know this before?
"Then what do you think we should do?" Su Dong asked with a smile.
Of course he is not worried. Now that the decisive battle is imminent, the elders in the family will definitely not bother him with these things. They are more of a joke and no one will take them seriously.
The Su Dong of today is no longer the Su Dong of then.
"They won't bother you, they will only bother me. If I knew what to do, I wouldn't run out." Wang Chuqing said distressedly.
Su Dong laughed heartily, "Otherwise, just tell them that you can't give birth."
"How can this be done?" Wang Chuqing immediately protested.
She still takes the matter of giving birth very seriously and cannot make fun of it casually.
"Then just say, I can't do it." Su Dong said with a playful smile.
Wang Chuqing's pink face immediately turned red. She felt that this bad boy had other intentions, so she stretched out her pink fist and hit him.
After the two argued for a while, Su Dong made a decision.
"Don't go home. It's a rare holiday. Let's go enjoy the world of two people and let them stay at home and slowly study the century-old plan!"
Not to mention, Su Dong's proposal immediately received Wang Chuqing's response.
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Three hours later, in the courtyard of Sudong Manor in Cheshire, two old men were sitting in the pavilion drinking tea. They glanced at the door every minute or two, but found that there was no movement, and they were very puzzled.
"Didn't you say that you can come back in a little more than an hour? Can you give me a call?"
"Hit it, turn it off."
"Is something going on?"
"Probably not. She called her mother just now and said she would have to come back later because she had something to do."
"Oh, today's young people still do things out of tune."
"It's just that, they don't know how to think about their own future at all, and we still have to worry about them."
"Yes, if you raise a child for a hundred years, you will have ninety-nine worries."
