Mister Legend

Chapter 517 Steady Forward
I haven't seen him for nearly [-] months. This young striker who transferred back to China from his home team CSKA Moscow a year ago has become taller and stronger.But in Li Modi's view, Li Tenglong's development direction has obviously become a bit chaotic, so he brought him to the UK through some domestic relationships to see if there is any chance to bring him back to the correct growth path.

When he played football in Russia, the young man took the route of dexterity and skill flow. Although he was not a super shooter like a terminator in front of goal, he still became a great player by virtue of his dribbling skills and excellent running awareness that surpassed his peers. The treasure of the youth training of the Russian Super League, he has served as the captain of the youth teams at all levels.You must know that it is very difficult to do this as a non-local player. This fully reflects that Li Tenglong's ability at that time was still valued by a team like China Central Army that could participate in the Champions League many times. .

It’s just that since he was recruited into the U2018 National Youth Team to participate in the WF Cup under the guidance of Cheng Yaodong in 19, the domestic media’s expectations for this young player have shown a cliff-like decline, and all the previous praises for him have changed. It became harsh criticism, which chilled the returned wanderers.

However, those fans who were making sarcastic comments from the media and didn't know much about the details were just making complaints at will, but even the coach of the National Youth Team made trouble at that time.A member of the coaching staff commented after the WF Cup that Li Tenglong's physical confrontation has no advantage in this age group, and the confrontation is at a disadvantage.Because he was at a disadvantage in the confrontation, his performance in the game was restricted. In order to avoid such things from happening again, this player must strengthen his training in this aspect.

At first glance, these words seem to make sense, but in reality they are totally unworkable.The China National Football Team, which used to be able to maintain a quasi-first-class team in Asia by virtue of its excellent physical fitness, has lost its prestige in this regard in recent years. It is difficult to take advantage of physical confrontation, and it is even more difficult when facing players from European and American countries.

In fact, not all Chinese football players have to develop a whole body of tendons before they can gain a foothold on the green field. ——I have to complain here. Everyone must be familiar with the stalk of the national football team. A bunch of professional players with an annual income of tens of millions of soft girls are all white. What hope is there for Chinese football?It's all self-deception.

It was after being misled by the coaches and the outside world that Li Tenglong began to change his training direction towards gaining weight and strengthening muscles. The direct result of this change was that he was 180 cm tall and weighed only 65 kg. , Today, two years later, he is 183 cm tall and weighs 77 kg.

Although the physical indicators seem to be more standard than before, he spent a lot of training time on physical fitness, which greatly reduced the energy he invested in other exercises.Through the FM system, it can be most intuitively found that at the age of 19 and a half, Li Tenglong's physical stats can basically be ranked at the lower middle level among British players of the same age, but his previous technical advantages have disappeared. live.To apply the language of the game industry, his skills are a little bit crooked, and his development direction is off the mark.

In the stage of the largest growth space and the fastest progress, I abandoned my original biggest advantage and turned to seek to strengthen my so-called weakness.Will this scene give anyone a sense of deja vu? There was a head coach who made the talented midfielder Zhang Xiaorui switch to other positions, and then there was an absurd allusion about the selection of non-standard models for the national football team. When will our men's football be absurd? It's the end!
Not to mention those things that make people extremely indignant when they think about it, back to Li Tenglong, Li Mudi hopes that before his skills are finalized or his potential value is fully realized, the mistakes he made in the past two years can be eliminated as much as possible. Correct it.

As a technical striker, what he needs is to improve the evaluation of shooting, dribbling, technique, passing and receiving, off-ball running and other abilities in the FM system to at least 14, so as to combine with the average level His mental attributes can win a main position in Europe's second-tier leagues for a long time, and even in the five major leagues, he can win a rotation spot among mid-lower teams.

Li Mudi thinks that Li Tenglong's template should be Sun Xingmin, the number one star in the kimchi country, but he is slightly weaker in almost all attributes. At least judging from the current potential of the young player of the Celestial Dynasty, although he has been training hard for two years, his physical fitness is still good. It can't be compared with the Tottenham star, let alone the latter's long-range shooting ability that sometimes surprises the entire world of football.

But even Sun Xingmin, who is one size smaller, is still a leader who is rarely seen in 20 years for Tianchao football. With such a role model in front, I believe that more and more teenagers will become interested in this sport. And confidence, the whole environment will develop in a positive direction.

As far as Li Tenglong himself is concerned, he has a rare football talent from the Chinese people. If he continues to struggle in the quagmire of Chinese football, he may soon be completely decadent like his countless predecessors.Seeing the excellent quality of the young man with a red heart, Li Mudi also hopes to help him achieve something in his future football career, so many people asked him to sign this compatriot to Coventry.

Of course, the player himself has also suffered a lot of risks because of the labor certificate. This young Chinese player will almost certainly not be able to play for his current club in official games in the next two seasons. The league can get a stable playing time, and moving to the UK is indeed not a rational choice for a young man who is in a period of rapid growth.

However, Li Mudi obviously will not harm his compatriots. He has prepared a very sure plan. After Li Tenglong seized the time to use Coventry's fairly advanced training equipment and concepts for half a year, he will transfer in the winter. The window loaned it to the Spanish second division.

According to regulations, although each West Second Division team can only have two non-European places, but because Spain's definition of "non-European" is very weird, most African, Middle Eastern and Eastern European countries are also included in their unlimited quota. The list, so the teams there don't pay as much attention to the non-European places as other European leagues.

Therefore, after Li Mudi exchanged interests in terms of personal relationship and signing information, Tenerife, coached by Solari, agreed to vacate a non-European position in January of the following year to accept the young Chinese striker. This plan can be said to be close to completion, it only depends on whether the future performance of the players is worthy of this painstaking effort.

After using the rest time to communicate with Li Tenglong and instruct the other party on the training programs that they want to focus on strengthening, the Arsenal coach discussed with Morientes, who coached the reserve team of the Sky Blues, about several players who had just joined the team in the summer. The future development direction of the teenager is to try to improve the immediate combat power of these newcomers in the shortest possible time, and provide some fresh blood for the first team, which is somewhat stretched in terms of strength.

As for the first team, Li Moody really didn't have too many instructions for the time being. After introducing two experienced veterans, Dutch central defender William Jensen and Spanish midfielder Manu Garcia, in the summer transfer window, Cowen Chui's competitive strength is only at the middle level among the 24 League One teams, and there is still a big gap from promotion.

Therefore, the club owner did not require the team to achieve any results this season. The focus is still on training newcomers. However, the current situation of 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses is not far outside the relegation circle. .

So in the sixth round of League One on the evening of September 9, Li Moody sat in a box at the Ricoh Stadium after disguised and watched the match between Coventry and Oxford United.

It may be that the big boss's pressure brought extra good luck to the players of the home team, or it gave everyone more morale boosts. The Sky Blues finally ended their three rounds with a 4-2 victory at home. The unbeatable record, and also raised the ranking by five positions, temporarily staying away from the danger zone.

One day later, Li Moody ended his trip to Coventry. Although he failed to help himself and his partners in more matters, he has pointed out a general way forward for the future development of this club. The direction must rely on the abilities of Hierro, Guinness and others, plus those small and big problems can be solved sequentially as time goes by, the Sky Blue Army will definitely have the opportunity to create a glorious period.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he came here this time as a secret private act, and did not let the paparazzi catch any big news.But because of this, he was not able to participate in some activities for the local community and fans at close range, and lost a lot of first-hand information including support.

Since buying all the shares of the Coventry club from Ray Ranson three months ago, local fans have initially opposed the new club management, because players in the giants or top leagues are excluded. Regardless of the team, the low-level English teams controlled by foreign capital are not doing very well. Either the results are messed up, or the club is in chaos due to unreasonable investment. In short, it is caused by laymen and experts. woe.

However, after half a month of handover and adaptation period, more than half of the old staff were able to stay in their posts, and the excellent reputation created by Hierro and others in the world football before has slightly eased some doubts from the outside world.

Therefore, judging from the support rate survey conducted by local newspapers, as of the beginning of July, fans' dissatisfaction with the Sky Blue Legion has dropped by ten percentage points from the initial 50%.Another major reason for this change is that the media has discovered that the company that owns the club has a Chinese background. According to today's general opinion, the boss of Tianchao is generally very generous. Maybe a lot of money will be spent on transfer funds to improve the team's strength.

It was just waiting until the transfer window was closed, and the heavy new aid that people were looking forward to did not arrive. This seriously stimulated the nerves of the fans who were already on the sidelines, and caused their support for the club to show a sharp decline.Even at the end of this month, some fan groups have begun to organize various activities to express their dissatisfaction.

For example, not going to the stadium to watch the game, refusing to buy team support products, or putting up banners outside the training ground denouncing the miserliness of the management, in short, it caused the club a lot of headaches.And these actions have also reduced the already miserable game-day income to the lowest value in the past 15 years, and the team's financial situation has naturally not improved much.

Fortunately, the loyalty of British fans is relatively high, and there has not been a large-scale switch to support other teams in a short period of time.Li Mudi and others had already expected such a similar situation before. They first released the news that the chairman had approved a huge investment in the club's youth training, which stabilized the hearts of the people, and then took advantage of the team's improving performance. basically resolved the crisis.

When Coventry achieved an unbeaten record of 4 wins and 2 draws in four league games and two cup games participated by low-level teams in September, and promoted its instant ranking in League One to No.8. After the position, the support of the fans began to pick up a lot, which can be regarded as allowing Hierro and others who have just taken over the operation of the club to gain a firm foothold.

As for London, it is a similar situation to Coventry.At the beginning of the season, Gunners fans were naturally optimistic about Li Moody's entry, but they still had a lot of disagreement with the team's signing strategy.

Although Ozil's reputation in his hometown of Germany is already stink, he still won the love of many gun fans during the seven years he played for Arsenal. voice of accusation.

Especially when the team paid close to 1.2 million pounds for a Russian who had never proven himself in the top league (Golovin did not play too dazzlingly in Monaco for two years. ), and an African who only knows how to do dirty work and has a simple mind and well-developed limbs (the impression Ndidi left on the outside world when he played for Leicester City), is considered by the team supporters to be two potential players. The signings that ruined the entire season, many people even doubted whether Li Moody, who advocated the completion of these two transactions, had gained any personal benefits from it.

However, still relying on the team's strong performance in the first three rounds, the above-mentioned doubts have gradually diminished until they disappeared. All these made the Arsenal coach usher in a more relaxed mind at the end of the summer , his British counterpart has at least got off to a decent start.

(End of this chapter)