Chapter 635 Manchester City’s Sincerity
Guardiola is a head coach with a very clear football philosophy. He knows what kind of team he wants to build and what kind of players he wants to select. This allows him to be targeted when communicating with Su Dong.
Many of his ideas and thoughts are based on Barcelona's traditional genes, but they go a step further and incorporate many advanced elements from the outside world, making Su Dong feel very familiar yet novel.
For example, Guardiola talked about his views on training football players in recent years.
He believes that since the era of holistic football, the training of players has gradually become functional, that is, players are regarded as a component of the team's game machine, performing a certain function. If there is a problem with any component or the function is not performed, then it can be replaced with a component with the same function.
There are many managers who hold this view, such as Benítez and Mourinho, who both believe that if they are given eleven robots, they can win all the games and they don't even need the players to have their own personalities.
However, some problems are inevitable when training players, such as developing the players' strengths as much as possible without making up for their weaknesses, thereby training functional players with very obvious advantages and disadvantages.
If this kind of player is singled out individually, there are big problems, but if he is placed in the context of the team as a whole, using overall tactics to make up for individual deficiencies and give play to individual strengths, then he will be an excellent functional player.
Guardiola believes that according to the bucket theory, this kind of player with obvious defects is not strong individually. Even in the team's overall tactical system, he cannot completely cover up his own defects. They are just hidden. As long as the opponent is strong enough, they will be exposed.
The players he wants are well-rounded. Offensive players must be able to defend, and defensive players must also be able to attack. Their bodies, skills, and awareness must all be fully developed. On this basis, they then pursue additional points, such as speed, technology, and so on.
And this brings us back to the original problem. His control of the ball is not to pass the ball, but to mobilize the opponent.
Under his tactical framework, players need to move and change their positions, functions and roles differently. Functional players with obvious strengths and weaknesses often find it difficult to adapt to such tactical changes, but comprehensive players can.
The comprehensive performance of the technology greatly enriches tactical means.
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Su Dong feels very close to Guardiola's ideas because he is a very comprehensive center forward.
Physical strength, speed, and footwork, he can do it all, and he can do it well.
This is probably also the reason why coaches with different ideas such as Benítez, Mourinho, Heynckes, and even Guardiola all admire him very much.
As for a guy like Drogba, it is estimated that he will not be able to stay in Guardiola's tactical system.
The two had a long conversation. Su Dong was a good listener and also asked questions about some of his own doubts. Guardiola wanted to explain his ideas to Su Dong and use this to win his trust.
Although neither of them said it, they actually knew it in their hearts.
Their appearance here was not accidental, but was deliberately arranged by someone.
Manchester City has been very close to Kaka recently, and there are rumors that Manchester City wants to sign Kaka during the winter break. However, when introducing Kaka, Manchester City has been in contact with Mendes, and their actions have always 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 Begiristain, and then to Guardiola, Manchester City has only one goal, which is to recruit Su Dong to Manchester and become part of Manchester City's grand plan.
Guardiola is indeed very knowledgeable, with clear ideas and deep understanding. He is like a philosopher, always thinking about problems.
But Su Dong could also realize that Guardiola's football philosophy had very high requirements for the players. Only in wealthy teams or teams with strong financial resources would there be enough resources for him to play this way. If it came to mid- and lower-level teams, it probably wouldn't work.
Of course, the success of his career has given Guardiola a higher starting point for coaching than anyone else. He was even just a little bit away from becoming the head coach of Barcelona, which shows his status and influence.
He himself knew this clearly, so he did not seem to be in a hurry.
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After attending the event together, Su Dong specially invited Guardiola to have dinner together. Also accompanying him were his girlfriend Wang Chuqing and his girlfriend Cristina who accompanied Guardiola to Abu Dhabi. The latter has given birth to three children for Guardiola, the youngest of whom was born in 2008, but the two have not yet married.
Cristina runs a fashion design company in Catalonia. She was very interested in Wang Chuqing, who has become very popular in the fashion circle recently, and the two of them chatted enthusiastically.
The meal was a very pleasant one. Su Dong had a new understanding of Guardiola's abilities. He began to believe that the reason why Soriano and Begiristain valued him so much was not just because they wanted to copy Barcelona's system.
It’s more because of Guardiola.
He began to look forward to the prospect of Guardiola coaching Manchester City.
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While the Soviet Union and the Eastern Conference were facing Guardiola in the Middle East, far away in Madrid, Spain, Real Madrid President Calderon encountered a cold wave, which in turn affected his position as Real Madrid president.
Since Mourinho took over as coach of Barcelona this season, the team's performance has improved by leaps and bounds and they have been far ahead in the standings, which has brought huge pressure to Real Madrid, causing them to decide to step up their recruitment during the winter break.
Signing players during the winter break itself has great hidden dangers and risks, especially for a situation like Real Madrid is now, which seems to be desperate and made major mistakes when signing players.
Huntelaar was brought in from Ajax and Las Diarra was brought in from Portsmouth. Both of them are strong and there is no big problem. The real key is that they have both played in the UEFA Cup for Ajax and Portsmouth.
According to UEFA's latest regulations, after these two players transferred to Real Madrid, only one of them could be registered to play in the Champions League for Real Madrid, which caused an uproar.
If we spend huge amounts of money to bring in strong players but they can't even play in the Champions League, what's the point of buying them?
Although Calderon and Mijatovic quickly came out to explain that Real Madrid brought in these two players more because they valued their potential and focused on the future rather than the present, who would believe such nonsense?
At this time, Calderon, that big mouth, stood up again and threatened that he could convince UEFA President Platini. As a result, Platini didn't even answer his call, and he was directly turned away. This was regarded as a great shame by the media close to Real Madrid.
At this critical moment, the media has successively exposed various acts of Calderon and Mijatovic, such as embezzling public funds and raising commissions. Especially recently, the media has hyped up the scandal of Calderon manipulating votes at the Real Madrid members' meeting.
For a time, the president of Real Madrid became a rat crossing the street, and everyone wanted to kill him.
Even Real Madrid's mouthpiece AS accused him of being the worst president in Real Madrid's history.
Unable to bear the tremendous pressure, Calderon finally announced his resignation in early January.
This quickly caused a strong earthquake in European football.
Everyone is speculating that Florentino, who created the Galacticos era at Real Madrid, is coming back!
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While the entire European football world was busy with winter transfers and preparations, Bayern quietly started training in early January, with the location chosen being Dubai in the Middle East.
Su Dong joined the team directly in Dubai instead of returning to Europe.
Bayern did not plan to recruit new players during the winter break, but some players left the team.
Since the old captain Sagnol was seriously injured, he has lost his main position since his comeback. In the competition with Lahm, it is difficult for the French defender to gain an 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 in order to secure his place in the national team.
At Bayern, it was difficult for the Prince of Cologne to get a chance to play in the competition with Su Dong and Klose. Most of the time he played on the wing or was a substitute, which made Podolski's situation in Bayern very embarrassing.
The Prince of Cologne has applied to the Bayern management, hoping to return to his old club Cologne because he is going to participate in the World Cup in South Africa.
After a meeting and negotiation, the Bayern giants determined that Bayern would not be able to provide Podolski with playing opportunities in the short term. After unsuccessful attempts 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. You can leave the team, but you have to wait until the summer transfer.
Today, Bayern is in a good momentum and the team has a good bench. With Sagnol retiring, they naturally do not want Podolski to leave the team and weaken the depth of the team's forward bench.
Podolski also agreed to Bayern's request.
Obviously, he came to Bayern with ambition, but now he leaves in frustration, which is a big blow to him.
But there is no way, professional football is so cruel.
Not to mention Su Dong, even if it was just Klose, Podolski might not be able to compete with him.
To put it bluntly, we still lack hard power.
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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, it is estimated to be around 15 million euros, which is a considerable transfer during the winter break.
After the wealthy team Manchester City introduced Robinho in the summer transfer, the results still did not improve. During the winter break, they introduced Given, De Jong, Bridge and Bellamy in one go, becoming a big spender in the winter transfer market.
It is not difficult to see from the characteristics of these players alone that these are more likely to be the players that head coach Mark Hughes wants, because none of them are quite to Guardiola's liking.
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Su Dong is training with Bayern in Dubai, while receiving news from the European winter transfer market.
It was not until January 12 that he quietly flew back to Europe from Dubai.
But the final destination of his trip was not Munich, but Zurich.
(End of this chapter)
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