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Before Koeman took office, Liverpool had already signed and cleaned up. The biggest signings were Glenn Johnson with 1700 million pounds and Qin Xiong with 3500 million pounds. The total investment has exceeded 5000 million pounds.

In terms of cleaning, except for the free transfer of veterans Hypia and Pennant, most of the rest are first-team substitutes and second-team waived players who leave. Arbeloa, who devoted himself to Real Madrid one year after another, was also sent to Madrid by the club before Koeman arrived, earning about 400 million pounds.

All together, Liverpool's transfer market income is close to 1000 million pounds.

Koeman analyzed the team's roster with his coaching staff in the boot room.

Now he agrees with Mourinho's team building policy.

The first team does not need too many players, around 23 players are enough.

This will make the team more stable and avoid the negative voices of complaints from many players who cannot play, which will affect the morale of the army.

He went through them one by one.

In terms of the goalkeeper position, Liverpool's first team has three goalkeepers, which can be said to be reasonably allocated, and there is no hoarding or streamlined manipulation in this position itself.

The first goalkeeper is Reina, the second goalkeeper is the Brazilian goalkeeper Cavalieri signed last season, and the third goalkeeper is the Frenchman Itanger.

The reserves on the back line are not rich, and there are substitutes for almost every matchup.

Right back: Glenn Johnson and Degen.

Left back: Aurelio, Dossena, Insua.

Koeman learned that Dossena's performance in Liverpool last season was not satisfactory, and he was often booed by the fans. He decided to clean up the Italian full-back. If necessary, he would give the young Argentine teenager Insua some performance and exercise. Chance.

There are six men in the centre-back position.

Carragher.Skrtel, Agger, these three can be regarded as the main force or the main rotation force, while the remaining three are young players who have performed well after being loaned out, Martin Kelly and Darby.Ayala.

Since the growth of central defenders requires experience, Koeman was worried that he would sell talented players by mistake, so he decided to loan Darby and Ayala out. One is 21 years old and the other is 18 years old. They are in the key position of central defender.Players who are too young are easily crushed by the pressure, which may cause irreparable psychological bruises in one game.

The bench depth of players in the middle of the midfield is sufficient.

Qin Xiong, Alonso, Gerrard, Mascherano, Lucas, Plessis.

Koeman included Plessis on the loan list.

The reserves of offensive wide players are relatively average.

Riela.Benayoun, Flynn, Elzar.

Of course, if you count players who can play wide in the midfield.Or among the forwards, there should be more offensive wing players who can play wingers.

Flynn is still young, only 21 years old, Al Zal is already 23 years old.

If you can't play at a certain level at the age of an offensive player, it is basically difficult to have higher expectations.

Therefore, Koeman intends to loan Flynn out and sell Al Zal.

Liverpool's level determines that the offense is actually more demanding.

Strikers are the ones who hoard the most.

Nemet, David Ngog.Babel, Dirk, Voronin.Torres.

Nemet and Babel, as well as Ngog are young strikers.None are under the age of 23.

Among them, the talent and strength shown by the latter two are much higher than that of Nemet, so Koeman felt that this issue did not need to be entangled, and sold Nemeth directly.

As for the three forwards over 25 years old, Torres is the head star, Dirk Dirk is an all-rounder, and Voronin is over 30 years old. Koeman believes that Voronin's existence is valuable when there are two new strikers who can take turns acting as substitutes. Very small, also decided to sell him.

In this way, Koeman has streamlined the first team's 30-man squad.

In the end, 22 people were left. If there is a need during the season, excellent young players can also be dispatched from the reserve team. They are not much different from the young players in the first team who are loaned or sold.

The next day, Koeman submitted the list of sales and leases to CEO Wilcott, and then he personally talked with each player who left, and told the other party in an open and honest manner, which can be regarded as taking into account the emotions of the other party, at least the basis of the negotiation Be honest.

Then, Koeman officially began to coach the team to prepare for the new season of the Premier League!

Although there are fewer teammates on the training ground, Liverpool is full of energy. Koeman will then determine the team's technical and tactical system.

After he fully understood the technical characteristics of each player, he found an embarrassing situation.

What position should Qin Xiong play?

The midfielder has Mascherano and Alonso to form a double midfielder, and the attacking midfielder has Gerrard.

It is inappropriate to move Gerrard to the wing, and let Qin Xiong play in the midfield and Alonso has nowhere to be placed.

After the training session on August 8, Koeman asked Qin Xiong to stay.

The two masters and apprentices strolled on the sidelines of the training field, and Koeman said frankly to Qin Xiong: "Qin Xiong, it is undeniable that you are the most powerful player in the team, but the problem we have now is, what position should you play? What? First of all, I hope you can tell me frankly, what position do you want to play?"

Qin Xiong thought for a while and said: "Actually, I don't know either. I can only attack all positions in the frontcourt. I can only use the method of elimination to answer your question. The center forward can't do it. I need running space and screens to better display my strength. , although the right winger can play, but it is still not as flexible as the right foot to shoot and dribble forward with the reverse foot. Then I can play the remaining two positions, the front center position behind the center forward, and the left winger also."

Koeman nodded while listening. In fact, before Qin Xiong left Ajax, Koeman carried out a transformation on Qin Xiong.

At first, he was playing in the organizing midfielder position. Later, after the double defensive midfielder was established and Garasek was responsible for the series attack, Qin Xiong's position became the front midfielder.

In the Arsenal period, due to the growth of Fabregas and Wenger's later use of defensive counterattack ideas, Qin Xiong and Henry became counterattack double arrows in the frontcourt. Qin Xiong's position is actually not fixed, covering Throughout the frontcourt, he began to develop towards the wing and gained experience in attacking from the wing.

When he arrived at Real Madrid, Bosque transformed Qin Xiong by activating his offensive ability, making him a shadow striker, and Qin Xiong's figure was present on the entire front waistline.

So there is no need to discuss which position Qin Xiong is fixed on. His flexibility requires the team to adapt, but at the same time he needs to be able to exert his full strength.

According to the change of his role on the field in his career, it can be seen that Qin Xiong said that returning to the position of delaying organization will limit his performance. on. (to be continued~^~)