i want to be king

Chapter 342 Real Madrid's Jedi Counterattack
When Su Dong recommended players to Mendes, he never thought that things would develop to such a bad point.

After reversing Deportivo, Barcelona ushered in a Copa del Rey game in the middle of the week, away to Levante.

This is actually not a big deal. As early as the last round, Barcelona had basically given up on this event.

Rijkaard still arranged for a full substitute and rotation lineup to play. Including Messi and Iniesta, many young players started as many as possible. This is not only training, but also giving the main players more time to rest.

As a result, this time Barcelona lost [-]-[-] away and were eliminated from the Copa del Rey.

It stands to reason that this result is not surprising. From the formation of Barcelona, ​​it can be seen that Rijkaard did not intend to spend more effort on this event, because Barcelona's lineup is too thin to support the third-line battle.

Instead, it would be better to simply sacrifice the Copa del Rey.

But no one expected that the vice-chairman Russell, who was traveling with the team on the away game, expressed regret for the team's tragic elimination in an interview with World Sports Daily. He didn't think the team's lineup was too thin.

"Even in a rotation team like Real Madrid or Valencia last season, the number of players commonly used by the first team is basically around 22, which is similar to our current first team lineup."

Russell believes that the main reason why the team cannot fight on multiple fronts is the rotation mechanism of the head coach.

In this interview, Russell also mentioned the Brazilian head coach Scolari, thinking that this is a gene that is very suitable for the head coach of Barcelona. He firmly believes that Scolari will coach Barcelona one day and achieve impressive results.

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Su Dong also saw Russell's interview, and his first reaction was, is Russell trying to make a fuss?
But it didn't feel like a big deal either.

You know, Roselle almost fired Rijkaard before. The situation was so difficult at that time, didn't the black swan bear it?
But no one expected that early the next morning, the entire Spanish football world would be blown up.

An unknown media from the Netherlands interviewed Barcelona's chief assistant coach Ten Carter. During the interview, the hot-tempered Barcelona assistant directly accused Russell without any concealment.

"Whenever Barcelona's performance is not good, he will jump out and tell the newspaper that Scolari is the most suitable head coach for Barcelona."

"This guy is always ready to roll out the red carpet for Scolari, why am I so sure? Because we all know that he and Scolari are very good friends!"

Ten Carter also exposed a tacit understanding between Russell and Mundo Deportivo, that is, every time Barcelona loses, Mundo Deportivo will publish an article that Russell wants to fire Rijkaard, and Scolari will definitely be mentioned in the article.

Not only that, Ten Carter was also dissatisfied with some of Russell's actions, thinking that Davis originally wanted to stay in Barcelona, ​​but because someone in the management wanted to eliminate the so-called Dutch gang, he refused to negotiate with Davis.

"In fact, as the vice-chairman in charge of transfer and athletic affairs, many of Rosell's decisions were outrageously wrong."

"For example, this summer, he was resolutely unwilling to introduce Sudong. He believed that Sudong was exaggerating. It was just a bubble created by Valencia. It was Laporta, Cruyff and Rijkaard who agreed that Sudong should be signed."

"Now, we have also seen that so far this season, Su Dong has scored fifteen league goals. What an astonishing number, who would dare to question Su Dong's strength?"

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Ten Cate's original intention was to use Su Dong's case to accuse Russell.

But who would have thought that the situation would change completely when they got to the media.

For a while, the conflict between Su Dong and Roselle was raging. Some people even thought that Su Dong and Roselle had reached the point where they couldn't die, and one of them had to leave.

The Daily Sports Daily reacted immediately, accusing Ten Carter of being a "lunatic" and thinking that he attacked the whole world.

This caused an uproar within the club, and Rijkaard was so angry that he almost smashed the door of the locker room.

At the critical moment, both Laporta and Russell came to the Sports City and personally stabilized Rijkaard and Ten Carter.

For Rijkaard, the Barcelona management gave comfort, and Laporta personally promised that the club will do its best to support him, especially in the introduction of delayed midfielders.

As for Ten Carter, the club gave internal penalties because he should not bombard the club's senior management in front of the media.

Today's Rijkaard is no longer the black swan of the same period last season. Now he is the head coach who created the best start winning streak in Barcelona's history, and his right to speak is no longer comparable to last year.

This is probably why Rijkaard and Ten Carter have endured for more than a year, and now they can't bear it anymore.

They are declaring their influence to Roselle, telling the vice chairman of Barcelona to be careful in what they say in the future!
After appeasing the coaching staff, the management held another meeting with the players.

Roselle also specially wooed Su Dong to talk a lot, and asked the team's reporters to take some photos in the middle. The general meaning was to reflect a kind of internal harmony, no contradictions, and a sense of joy and harmony.

When talking to the players, Russell described the relationship between the players, coaches, and even high-level executives and the club as if they were married. Even if they loved each other to death before marriage, no one can guarantee that the relationship will not change after marriage.

"I believe that, although there will inevitably be some unsatisfactory places, the relationship is generally good."

Laporta also called on the players to continue to remain united.

The decisive battle of the national derby is imminent. At this time, Barcelona's military spirit must not be disturbed.

He even described this storm as a malicious hype by someone with a heart, who wanted to disturb Barcelona's military spirit before the war.

As the saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs, and there are indeed conflicts within Barcelona, ​​which gave the outside world an opportunity to take advantage of.

For example, in terms of signings, Rosell's proposal is Arsenal's Brazilian midfielder Edu, but Laporta is not happy, he does not want to continue to introduce Brazilian players, and Barcelona can't afford such a large transfer fee to introduce Edu.

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In the case of unstable people in Barcelona, ​​Barcelona ushered in the No.11 round of La Liga on the weekend, and Barcelona challenged Real Betis away.

As a result, the floating Barcelona encountered a sniper attack from Real Betis in the away game and lost [-]-[-] away.

The two superstars Su Dong and Ronaldinho both played the whole game, but they failed to save the team.

This is also the only time that Su Dong has played but failed to help the team score so far this season.

And Barcelona's La Liga winning streak also stopped at ten consecutive victories.

On the other hand, rivals Real Madrid, this game ushered in Albacete at home.

With Ronaldo scoring twice and goals from Zidane, Raul, Samuel and Owen, Galacticos beat Albacete [-]-[-] at home and won the most exciting victory so far this season.

This immediately caused the media close to Real Madrid, such as Aspen and Marca, which had been suppressed for a long time, to fall into a carnival.

The national derby is imminent. At this critical moment, Barcelona has suffered a two-game losing streak, and even serious internal strife at the top level, while Real Madrid is gradually recovering and revived the morale of the team with a wonderful victory.

This round of competition is also regarded as the beginning of Real Madrid's Jedi counterattack.

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After playing the No.11 round of La Liga, La Liga did not have a game in the middle of the week.

On the contrary, the international players of all countries have to go to the national team to report and participate in a World Cup qualifying match in the middle of the week.

The international players from South America have to go to South America to compete, and the Brazilian international team will go to Ecuador to participate in the focus away game.

Cruyff's previous complaints about too many Brazilian players in the team have been confirmed again at this moment.

In order to better prepare for the national derby and shorten the journey of the Brazilian international players in the team, Barcelona and Real Madrid cooperated. The two sides arranged a helicopter to wait in Ecuador. As soon as the game was over, the players of the two teams were picked up immediately, and they flew directly back to Europe and then flew to Barcelona.

Even so, the players still had to spend nearly two days on the road.

That is to say, the Brazilian international basically flies from Europe to South America, then flies to Ecuador, finishes the game, then flies back to Europe from Ecuador, and directly plays the national derby.

Unlike the Brazilian national team coach Pereira who insisted that the international players return to their country to compete, the Spanish national team coach Aragones seemed more humane. He said that he could understand the psychology of the two giants' international players staying for the national derby.

In fact, this is also related to the relatively loose game situation in Spain. After all, there is no pressure for performance, and Aragones is also happy to support it and increase the favorability of the players.

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After the [-]th round, the major media and TV stations in Spain are all warming up for the national derby.

Even in the whole world, the national derby has aroused strong attention, various players emerge in endlessly, and all fans are looking forward to it.

Both teams have a large number of superstars and have an influence that other teams cannot match in the world, which makes the national derby of the two giants attract the attention of the world.

Some media even believe that in the national derby, facing Real Madrid, which has many world footballers and European Ballon d'Ors, will be the last and most important test for Su Dong and Ronaldinho to compete for the two highest honors in December.

"Only in the national derby, under the test of Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo and other former Golden Globes and World Footballer, the two can show a better and better state, and they can win those two awards convincingly!"

"If you lose the national derby, even if you win two awards in the end, you will be tainted with shadows!"

(End of this chapter)