princely elegance

Chapter 217 The glorious days that belonged to only one person

The winter break passed quickly. After all, it was only a short one-week holiday, and the remaining week was for the club to adjust.

After the first half of the season for any team, the head coach of the team is basically clear about his shortcomings.Therefore, the winter transfer that came at the same time as the winter break is an opportunity for the club to make final adjustments this season.

But this has nothing to do with Real Madrid. Schuster was very satisfied with the team's performance in the first half of the season, so they did not introduce anyone during the winter transfer, nor did they let anyone go.Apart from the black and tough Diarra's temporary departure because of the cheating Africa Cup of Nations, Real Madrid's first-team members have not changed in any way.

"How was your vacation, Phil?"

At the club's training base, Marcelo, who felt darker again, showed off to Gago with a very ethnic hat.

"You will never understand the diligence of a genius!"

Jia Ge said something very meaningful, and the little smoking gun next to him nodded in agreement, making Xiao Ma stunned.

……

"I'm glad that you are all back here intact, but the fat content of some people is not very good. In the next week, I am afraid that a layer of skin will need to be removed."

Wearing a casual outfit, Schuster smiled at the line of first-team players in front of him.

Hearing these words, a tinge of blue appeared on Xiao Ma's already dark face, and a bad feeling came over him.

"Here, I would like to commend Phil and Gonzalo. They stayed at the club during the winter break to improve their shortcomings. This kind of hardworking spirit is worth learning for all of us. Especially you, Junior!"

Schuster was still praising Gago and Higuain for their hard work, but he took Marcelo as soon as he changed the subject.

All the eyes of the whole team turned to Xiao Ma, and the feeling of shame caused Marcelo's dark face to show a faint blush.

"The next player whose name I read, come out and follow Walter to lose weight first. Others, follow my instructions and start to reserve physical strength!"

Schuster chanted a series of names, Marcelo and others followed the assistant coach Walter on one side, and then everyone else began to make physical reserves for the second half of the season.

Gago suffered enough from lack of physical fitness in the first half of the season, so he was extra serious at this time, and Schuster was very pleased with his hard work.

In Gago's position, Real Madrid does not have any substitutes to replace him, so one can imagine his importance.This season, Gago is not as prone to injury as last season. If the Argentine prince can have enough physical fitness to play full time, Schuster is even confident of winning the Champions League this season.

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With such a mood, Schuster specially took care of the assistant coach to double the amount of physical training for Gago in the following days.

"Fuck!"

The next day, after training, Gago collapsed like a dead dog and could only utter two words.Tremblingly, he picked up the phone and dialed Linaya, asking her to come and pick him up. Now he doesn't even have the energy to drive.

But doing this is also very beneficial. Gago also knows that in order to achieve better results in the second half of the season, the team must endure fatigue and irritability now.

When it comes to winter transfers, La Liga teams generally have no movement.Mainly in the summer, the team almost used up their reserve funds.

You know, last summer, the transfer spending of 2000 teams in La Liga set a record.Previously, the highest investment in the history of La Liga was the summer of 4.5. In that year, the consumption boom triggered by Florentino's buyout of Figo made the consumption of various clubs reach a record [-] million euros.

And last summer's transfer was affected by Real Madrid's 2000 million euros, and the 4.6 teams in La Liga also began to spend a lot of money.By the date of the transfer deadline, the entire La Liga had spent a total of [-] million euros.

The luxury of summer has led to the depression of winter!

However, this has no impact on Real Madrid. The results of the first half of the season show that their lineup is close to perfection.After making up for the team's biggest back injury, there is no team on this planet that can stop the Blancos.

La Liga's biggest move in winter is Valencia. The Bat Corps suffered a mess due to civil strife in the first half of the season.In the second half of the season, in order to save the decadence, the Argentine teenager Banega was bought from Boca Juniors for 800 million euros.The second is that Villarreal, who is third in the league, bought Argentine National Youth Team striker Luven for 700 million euros.

With Gago, Messi and Aguero playing well in La Liga, the current La Liga teams are looking at Pampas players who are much cheaper than Brazilian players.

And Barcelona, ​​who lost to Real Madrid in the World War, did not make much action in the winter. They just rented veteran Pinto to replace the second goalkeeper Hokla who was reimbursed this season. In addition, they rented midfielder Krosas to Lyon. In exchange for Benzema's right of first refusal.
Of course, the first thing to look at for things like "right of first refusal" is the price.Later generations proved that stupid horse is a player belonging to Real Madrid.

Real Madrid sat firmly on Mount Tai in winter, and even players such as Saviola, Soldado, and Drenthe who were rumored to leave the team did not move.This kind of demeanor made both "Marca" and "Aspen" praise the Blancos for their kingly demeanor, and the results in the second half of the season must be even better than the first half of the season.

Amidst the praises of the media, Real Madrid won their first opponent after the winter break, the first leg of the fourth round of the Copa del Rey, the third-tier team Alicante.

Probably because the players have not recovered from the good life of the holiday, they were tied 1:1 by the opponent in the away game.However, although this result is surprising, there is no media shouting.Because Schuster took the full bench to the Jose Rico Perez Stadium.

The two sides have never played against each other in an official game in history, and this game can be regarded as creating a record.

After the draw with Alicante, Schuster immediately returned to Madrid non-stop, preparing for the No.18 opponent in the league, Zaragoza.

Zaragoza last season can be said to be a dark horse in La Liga. Under the leadership of Milito, they made it all the way to the top four in the league. Although in the end they were overtaken by Valencia due to their lack of background, they still won No. 5 to participate in this year's Europa League.

But a small team is a small team, and the difficulty of fighting on the two fronts is too underestimated. This season, the Europa League has only played two games before being eliminated.Now it is even harder to approach the relegation zone in the league, and has gone eight consecutive rounds without a win.

In the face of this "good guy" who obviously came to give away points, Schuster was not at all polite, and the main lineup was all played, except that Baptista, who scored in the World War, was used instead of Diarra and Gago's partner. , is the strongest lineup of the White Army.

However, this game was not as easy as imagined. The two sides had been in a stalemate for nearly seven and 10 minutes and the score was still 0:0.The partners of Gago and Baptista were still not as familiar with Diarra, so they didn't dare to jump in rashly, but just calmly dispatched the ball in the backcourt.

However, Guti was not able to enter the squad because of his unqualified physical fitness in this game.Real Madrid's attack in the frontcourt was a little chaotic for a while.

Fortunately, Robinho, who just became a father, exploded to his strongest state under the stimulation of the great word "father".After receiving the ball from Gago on the left, he used his personal ability to carve a way.After attracting the opponent's defense, the unguarded Ruud van Nistelrooy scored the ninth league goal of the season with a header in front of the goal, opening the scoring for the team.

After seeing Van Nistelrooy's goal, Schuster finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the fans in the stands also cheered for the team with their own cheers, telling them not to be so depressed.

After the goal, Real Madrid seemed to have found their own rhythm, and scored another goal 5 minutes later. This goal is a typical Real Madrid goal.Gago plugged in from the backcourt, and Baptista and Sneijder made two consecutive two-over-one cooperation, and picked the ball to the left after reaching the front of the penalty area.

Robinho, who had just assisted a goal, stopped the ball in the chest in the penalty area, turned around, and then shot low into the bottom right corner of the net.The movement is done in one go and is extremely beautiful.

After scoring the goal, Robbie made a gesture of sucking the pacifier to the fans, which caused laughter and applause from the fans. They all knew that the Brazilian had just become a father, so they all applauded with their own hands. Congratulations to him.

This was also the last goal of the game, and this time Milito was never able to help the team score again.Under Pepe's close defense, he had very few chances to shoot the whole game.

After the game, Gago and Heinze got together and came to Zaragoza's defense core in front of the former captain of the Argentine national team, Ayala. They admired this senior very much.Playing for the national team for 13 years, the national team's appearance record is maintained (later broken by Zanetti), he is a living fossil after the Maradona era.

"Fer, Gabriel, do a good job at Real Madrid. I am very happy to see more and more Argentine players in La Liga."

Ayala took off his jersey and put it in Gago's hands, patted his forehead and said.

"Yes, Captain!"

After Gago took it, he quickly took off his jersey and handed it to Ayala. He still couldn't help but called the captain.

"Now the captain of Pampas is Javier, don't call him that in the future!"

Ayala hung Gago's jersey on his shoulder. After speaking, he waved his hand and turned to leave.

Gazing at Ayala's back for a while, Gago picked up the jersey in his hand and walked towards his locker room. Ayala's pampas era is over.The years without a crown were also broken last summer, and the next era belonged to his glorious years.

Only belongs to him, Fernando Gago's brilliance alone!
(End of this chapter)