Green Dragon

Chapter 8 Stamford Bridge is not home

If it is those classic martial arts TV series, here should be such a picture:
Long Shute ran with the ball on the grass, shot in front of the goal, and confronted his teammates on the training ground... Then his figure gradually grew, and a line of words appeared below: Ten years later.

——Of course, it's not ten years here, it's just two years later.

Time flies, and it is already May 2007 in a blink of an eye.

Long Shute is over 17 years old.

If Li Bing and Li Tie saw him again, they would be speechless in surprise.

After two years of training, the once thin Chinese boy became darker and darker, but his physique is much stronger than when he first came to the UK. He is 1.7 meters tall, weighs 72 kg, and the muscles of his limbs are much fuller and stronger. , although not as sharp-edged as those bodybuilders, but the whole body shows vitality and strength.

After the first year of training, in the second year, with the improvement of his physical condition, he gradually entered the U18 regular lineup, and won the U18 league championship with his teammates. Although he is not yet a main player, but He also got several chances to play.
Head coach Rodgers appreciates him very much. The coach of any team will not hate a player who spares no effort in the game or in training, not to mention that this young player has the unique courtesy of East Asians, so Rodgers and his assistant They will not be stingy to give him pointers.

Although Long Shute's speed is getting faster and faster, the improvement of his foot skills is limited.

It's no wonder that England's players have been exposed to football since they were seven or eight years old, or even four or five years old, and they have received guidance from professional coaches since childhood. To catch up with such a huge gap in just two years.

But his progress has already surprised Rogers secretly.

He has plenty of physical energy. As long as he is on the court, he seems to have endless energy. He can run from the first second to the last second, without any scruples about whether he will be tired and cramp after the game.

Moreover, he has brought into full play the good virtues of the Chinese people who work hard and bear no complaints. Whether it is a central midfielder, a defensive midfielder, a full-back, a winger, or even a full-back, he can show a 120% attitude without complaint. Participate in the competition and do your best to complete the tasks assigned by the coach.

The most unnegligible thing is that he can reach a 10-meter sprint speed of 68 seconds. This kind of data is enough to be called a fast horse even among European and American football players.

Even if his dribbling is still a bit lame, and his shooting level is not qualified, but as long as he has such a speed, he is the most terrifying sharp knife in the counter attack!
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Long Shute's progress is obvious, which may be more intuitive from the data.

Before joining Chelsea's youth academy, he barely reached the overall rating of 49 in the system, but after two years, he has risen to 59 and is close to passing the mark.

This is especially true for some key figures.

力量12、加速16、冲刺18、反应15、平衡15、弹跳12、耐力15、体质16，在身体方面，他的综合属性从63涨到了74，而出色的速度也确实成为了他最赖以依仗的武器

意识从44涨到了56、意志也从61涨到了69，而在技术上，他的涨幅就稍显缓慢：控球9、逆足7、传球10、射门8、远射7、盘带8、拦截10，没有一项特别突出，整体虽然从33暴涨到了42，却仍然属于很难及格的水平。

This may be to blame Rodgers, because although this head coach is good at picking young players with potential, he is not good at technical development-you can't expect a nine-tier player who retired due to injury in his early 20s Train a well-rounded superstar...

As he entered the U18 regular lineup, Long Shute also obtained a new apprenticeship contract a year ago, and his weekly salary rose from 60 pounds to 100 pounds, an increase of nearly 70%. Converted into RMB, his monthly salary has exceeded 5000 yuan , if it was in China in 2007, it would not be too low.

In addition to these increases, a large category has been added to his attribute column called [Off-site influence], but the data here is bleak:
The right to speak in the locker room: 3;

Club values: 2;

Fan reputation: 1;

Media focus: 1;

Commercial value: 0...

No way, although Chelsea is an upstart in the Premier League, although the media in England claim to be all-pervasive, they will not pay too much attention to the U18 team, let alone a Chinese player who is not even stable in the main lineup.

As for the Chinese media thousands of miles away, they would rather pay attention to the peerless genius Dong Fangzhuo who is affiliated with Manchester United, and then imagine the King Dong "leading" Rooney, Ronaldo, Giggs, Scotch after training in the Belgian second division. Stars such as Ernes are all over Europe...

Perhaps Long Shute should feel lucky:
If he is targeted by the domestic media and over-hyped, he is likely to be called back by the HLJ Football Association to participate in the national youth competition, and even the U18 Asian Cup qualifiers, U18 World Cup qualifiers, etc. are almost nothing to him A game that would not help but waste time.

For some people, this is called winning glory for the province and the country, and it is their duty, but for Long Shute who lacks time to train, what he wants to do most now is to train, train, and train quietly in London.

How could he have the time to spend a full day on a plane and then spend two or three days adjusting to jet lag in order to compete in these doomedly meaningless games with a bunch of strangers?
And...the air ticket from London to China is close to 1 RMB, which is definitely not a small amount for him or the football association of a province. Who will reimburse him for this sky-high cost?
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Long Shute can continue to improve himself quietly at Chelsea's Komba training base, but the manager and head coach of this club is not easy.

Portuguese Jose Mourinho is now facing the biggest hurdle of his career.

Since joining the Blue Bridge in 2004, he has won the Premier League championship with an undisputed attitude for two consecutive years, becoming the most popular young coach in Europe.

But the good times don't last long, the boss Abumovich's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, he is no longer satisfied with ruling the roost in the British Isles, but turned his attention to a broader European arena, and the reason why the boss invited from Porto Magic Bird is because of his ability to lead Porto to win the Champions League.

But the magic power of Magic Bird failed one after another: in the first season, he lost to the champion Liverpool in the semifinals; in the second season, he also lost to the champion Barcelona; The blue army led by Liverpool fell to the feet of Liverpool again, and failed to win the championship in the league, only won the runner-up-Ferguson, who had endured the humiliation for three years, finally regained his trophy.

The media in the entire British Isles is spreading wild rumors. Boss Abramovich's patience is running out, especially when Mourinho has not even kept the league. He may be kicked away at any time...

Although the Chelsea club, Mourinho himself, and the players all sneered at these groundless news and stood up to express their opposition, Mourinho himself knew that this was not fake news.

Adversity is easy, wealth is difficult, no matter what country you are in, whether you are in business, politics, or even family, this is an undeniable truth.

The head coach and the behind-the-scenes owner scramble for power in order to control the team, but the arm can never twist the thigh.

Mourinho knows this, but he still has to make a final effort. He wants to prove to the world that his achievements are not based on the accumulation of huge rubles.

So he started cleaning up the redundancies this summer.

Cameroon's jack-of-all-trades Gremi is the first first-line player sent away by Chelsea this season, and his departure also marks the official start of Chelsea's purge.

Full-back Glenn Johnson was sold to Newcastle United for £450m.

Defensive rising star Lars Diarra was thrown to Arsenal almost half-sold and half-given.

The two substitute goalkeepers Heidemann and Kalambe were terminated at the same time.

Although the Argentine veteran Veron is well-known, he did not escape the fate of being purged.

The core player of the Dutch Peter Pan, Alger Robben, was given to Real Madrid, who had long coveted him, at a low price of 2250 million pounds. This is definitely a transfer that will make fans hate.

In addition to the players of the first team, Mourinho also made a big check and made arbitrariness, crossing all the players in the reserve team and all levels of echelons that he disliked.

He didn't have time to observe or communicate one-on-one with the players he fired. He just read the coaches' reports and completed the work.

Among them... Long Shute.

(End of this chapter)