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Chapter 635 Manchester City's Sincerity

Guardiola is a head coach with a very clear football concept. He knows what kind of team he wants to build and what kind of players to choose. This allows him to communicate with Su Dong in a targeted manner.

Many of his ideas and ideas are based on Barcelona's traditional genes, and go a step further, incorporating a lot of advanced elements from the outside world, which makes Su Dong feel very familiar, but also very novel.

For example, Guardiola talked about his views on training football players in recent years.

He believes that since the era of overall football, the training of players has gradually moved towards functionalization, that is, players are regarded as a certain part of the team's game machine, which performs a certain function.

There are many head coaches who hold this view, such as Benitez and Mourinho. They all believe that they can win all the games by giving them eleven robots, and they don't even need players to have their own personalities.

However, when training players, some problems will inevitably arise, such as cultivating the advantages of the players as much as possible without making up for the disadvantages of the players, and then cultivating the kind of functional players with obvious advantages and disadvantages.

It is a big problem to single out this kind of player, but if it is placed in the team as a whole, and the overall tactics are used to make up for individual shortcomings and give full play to individual advantages, then this is an excellent functional player.

Guardiola believes that according to the bucket theory, such a player with obvious flaws is not considered strong individually. Even in the team's overall tactical system, he cannot completely cover up his own flaws, they are just hidden. As long as the opponent is strong enough, it will be exposed.

What he wants is a comprehensive player. Offensive players must be able to defend, and defensive players must also be able to attack. The body, technology, and awareness are all fully developed, and then pursue bonus points on a comprehensive basis, such as speed, technology, and so on.

And this goes back to the original question, his possession is not for passing the ball, but for mobilizing the opponent.

Under his tactical framework, players need to move and change their positions, functions and roles differently. If they are functional players with obvious advantages and disadvantages, it is often difficult to adapt to such tactical changes, but comprehensive players can.

The comprehensive performance of technology greatly enriches tactical means.

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Su Dong is very close to Guardiola's set of ideas, because he is a very comprehensive center forward.

Physical strength confrontation, speed, foot technique, he can do everything, and he can do it well.

This should be why Benitez, Mourinho, Heynckes, and even Guardiola and other coaches with different ideas appreciate him very much.

And like Drogba, this guy probably won't be able to stay in Guardiola's tactical system.

The two communicated for a long time. Su Dong is a good listener and will also ask questions about some of his own doubts, while Guardiola wants to explain his ideas to Su Dong and use this to win Su Dong's trust.

Although neither of them said anything, they actually knew it in their hearts.

Their appearance here was not accidental, but deliberately arranged by someone.

Manchester City has been very close to Kaka recently, and there are rumors that Manchester City will introduce Kaka during the winter break, but when introducing Kaka, Manchester City has always maintained contact with Mendes, and their actions have been revealed to Su Dong.

This is the greatest sincerity from Manchester City!

Manchester City wants to tell Su Dong that they are building an extraordinary team, and Su Dong is in their plan.

From Soriano to Begiristan, and then to Guardiola, Manchester City has only one purpose, that is to attract Sudong to Manchester and become part of Manchester City's grand plan.

Guardiola is indeed very informative, with clear thinking and deep understanding. He is like a philosopher, always thinking about problems.

But Su Dong could also feel that Guardiola's football philosophy has high requirements on players. Only wealthy teams or teams with strong financial resources have enough resources for him to play like this. When it comes to mid-lower teams, it probably won't work.

Of course, the success of his career made Guardiola's coaching starting point higher than anyone else, and he even almost became the head coach of Barcelona, ​​which shows his status and influence.

And he himself knew this clearly, so he didn't appear to be in a hurry.

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After participating in the event together, Su Dong specially invited Guardiola to have dinner together. He was also accompanied by his girlfriend Wang Chuqing, and his girlfriend Christina who accompanied Guardiola to Abu Dhabi. The latter has given birth to Guardiola. Three children, the youngest was born in [-], but the two are not yet married.

Christina runs a fashion design company in Catalonia, and she is very interested in Wang Chuqing, who has become very popular in the fashion circle recently, and the two chatted very enthusiastically.

The meal was very enjoyable, and Su Dong had a new understanding of Guardiola's ability. He began to believe that the reason why Soriano and Begiristan valued him so much was not just because they wanted to copy Barcelona's system.

More because of Guardiola.

He began to look forward to the prospect of Guardiola coaching Manchester City.

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When Sudong encountered Guardiola in the Middle East, as far away as Madrid, Spain, Real Madrid chairman Calderon encountered a cold snap, which in turn affected his position as Real Madrid chairman.

After Mourinho coached Barcelona this season, his performance has improved by leaps and bounds, singing all the way, leading the standings, which has brought tremendous pressure to Real Madrid, leading them to decide to strengthen their signings during the winter break.

There are great hidden dangers and risks in signing in during the winter break, especially like Real Madrid is now, a little sick and rushing to the doctor, and there is a major mistake in signing.

Huntelaar was introduced from Ajax, and Lars Diarra was introduced from Portsmouth. These two are not bad in themselves, and the problem is not big. The real key is that they both played the UEFA Cup for Ajax and Portsmouth.

According to UEFA's latest regulations, after the transfer of these two players to Real Madrid, only one of them can register to compete in the Champions League for Real Madrid, which caused an uproar.

What's the point of buying strong players who spent huge sums of money but couldn't play in the Champions League?

Although Calderon and Mijatovic quickly came forward to explain that Real Madrid's introduction of these two players still values ​​their potential more, focusing on the future rather than being entangled in the present, but who believes this kind of nonsense?

Calderon's big mouth came out again at this time, threatening that he could persuade UEFA President Michel Platini, but Michel Platini didn't even answer your phone call, so he got a big rejection, and was regarded as a shame by the media close to Real Madrid.

At such a terrible moment, the media has repeatedly exposed Calderon and Mijatovic's misappropriation of public funds, driving up commissions, etc., especially recently, the media has hyped Calderon's scandal of manipulating votes at the Real Madrid membership meeting.

For a while, the chairman of Real Madrid became a street mouse, and everyone shouted and beat him.

Even the mouthpiece of Real Madrid, Aspen, accused him of being the worst president in Real Madrid's history.

Unable to bear the enormous pressure, Calderon finally announced his resignation in early January.

This quickly triggered a strong earthquake in European football.

Everyone is guessing that Florentino, who created the Real Madrid Galacticos era, is coming back!

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When the entire European football world is in the midst of intense winter break transfers and preparations, Bayern also quietly started training in early January, and the location was chosen in Dubai in the Middle East.

Su Dong met directly with the team in Dubai without returning to Europe.

Bayern did not plan to sign in during the winter break, but some players left the team.

The old captain Sagnol has lost his main position since he came back from a serious injury. In the competition with Lahm, it is difficult for the French defender to seize the advantage. Coupled with frequent physical injuries, he decided to retire early.

After careful consideration, Bayern finally accepted Sagnol's application to retire.

Podolski also officially informed Bayern that he hopes to leave the team to ensure his position in the national team.

In Bayern, it is difficult for the Prince of Cologne to get a chance to play in the competition between Su Dong and Klose. In many cases, he also plays on the wing or as a substitute. This makes Podolski's situation in Bayern very embarrassing.

The Prince of Cologne applied to the Bayern management. He hopes to return to his old club Cologne because he will participate in the World Cup in South Africa.

After the Bayern giants met and negotiated, it was determined that Bayern really could not provide Podolski with a chance to play in the short term. After failing to retain him, they finally decided to let Podolski leave the team and negotiate with Cologne.

But Bayern has a requirement, that is, the transfer cannot be carried out during the winter break. If you want to leave the team, you can, but you have to wait until the summer transfer.

Nowadays, Bayern's momentum is very good, and the team's bench thickness is good. When Sagnol retires, he naturally does not want Podolski to leave the team and weaken the team's striker's bench thickness.

Podolski also agreed to Bayern's request.

Obviously, he came to Bayern with ambitions, but now he is leaving in frustration, which is not a small blow to him.

But there is no way, professional football is so cruel.

Not to mention Su Dong, even Klose, Podolski may not be able to compete with him.

To put it bluntly, hard power is still lacking.

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After Zenit was eliminated from the Champions League, Tsar Arshavin finally left Russia and joined Arsenal.

Although the transfer fee has not been disclosed to the public, it is estimated to be around 500 million euros, which would be considered a considerable amount of money during the winter break.

After the local tycoon team Manchester City introduced Robinho in the summer transfer, their results still did not improve. During the winter break, they introduced Shay Given, De Jong, Bridge and Bellamy in one go, becoming a big money burner in the winter break transfer market.

It is not difficult to see from the characteristics of these players alone that this should be more of the players that coach Mark Hughes wants, because none of them are very appetizing to Guardiola.

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Su Dong followed Bayern training in Dubai, while receiving news from the European winter break transfer market.

It was not until January [-] that he quietly flew back to Europe from Dubai.

But the terminus of his trip was not Munich, but Zurich.

(End of this chapter)