While the players, led by team leader Matthew Leticie, happily boarded the team's chartered luxury yacht on the Tagus River in Lisbon and enjoyed the stunning scenery of the Tagus River, Bielsa was in the hotel hosting the visiting Jurgen Klopp, Tuchel and the manager of tonight's opponent in the final, Simeone.

If this scene is captured by the media, it will definitely be surprised.

Even, there must be doubts that this Simeone will not come to exchange tactics with Bielsa for the evening, right?

Jurgen Klopp has officially stepped down from Borussia Dortmund a few days ago and will officially announce that he will take over Inter Milan in a few days.

As for Inter Milan and Mazzalhi, it ended with Mazzalhi's voluntary resignation.

It can be said that Fasoone, Blanca and others are still very effective in dealing with this matter, and they are all happy.

Bielsa didn't stay specifically to greet the visitors, but because he wanted the players to be more relaxed.

Traveling to Lisbon, this was made by Young Master Huan himself after the team temporarily adjusted the plan at noon yesterday.

Just for this, the team has to spend a lot of money more.

At the same time, in order to avoid putting pressure on the players and allowing them to have more fun, the coaching staff, including Bielsa and Luis Borini, were not involved, but were led by the best team leader Matthew Le Tissier, who has the best relationship with the players, and accompanied by sports psychology consultant Dan Abraham.

I believe that at this moment, they should be on the yacht and have a good time!

Several professional European coaches got together, and the topic soon turned to football.

Jurgen Klopp, Thomas Tuchel and even Simeone all came with an attitude of learning from experience, while Bielsa did not hide his selfishness, after all, they were all going to coach Young Master Huan's team next, so he even came up with Southampton's pre-match plan.

As a result, this appearance made the other three people dumbfounded.

How so?

Too much!

It is as thick as more than 100 pages of A4 paper, which records the physical and mental data of each player in detail, and marks all kinds of details that must be paid attention to and valued, and even many details are unbelievably detailed.

"Do you guys plan every game so carefully?" Simeone was a little incredulous.

He is also a very detail-oriented coach, but compared to Southampton's cumbersome and complicated pre-match set-up, he feels like he is a pediatrician.

Just like the assessment of the psychology of the players, Southampton not only includes the specific timing arrangement, but also the statistics of each player's past personality and psychology, and gives targeted pre-match encouragement programs.

And this kind of scheme is not complicated, on the contrary, the vast majority of them are very simple, and some are even so simple that they only need a few words.

But who is Simone?

He quickly could vaguely guess the psychological condition of the players from these targeted plans, and then came to a conclusion that these plans were made by professionals and were quite targeted.

It's not hard to understand why Southampton's players take to the pitch with a strong spirit every game.

Neymar, who switched from the Saints to Barcelona, has complained more than once that Barcelona have not helped him enough.

But what about Barcelona?

I was also very aggrieved and felt that I had done enough.

But if Barcelona can see this plan, they will find that they have done too little and too little.

Of course, it's hard to say whether they will learn from Southampton.

After all, how many professionals are needed to make such a detailed plan, and how much investment is needed?

After Bielsa heard Simeone's question, he shook his head lightly: "Usually there are not so many, because this is the Champions League final, so it is about a quarter more than usual." ”

Simeone, Jurgen Klopp and Tuchel looked at each other, all recognising the wry smile in each other's eyes.

In other words, even in the usual games, Southampton's preparation is quite adequate.

"Actually, you see paper, because we usually use computers to manage them, so on the computer, these things are just a little bit!" Bielsa even made a rare joke.

The other three couldn't help but laugh, but they did.

The Saints have been up and down the club to fully implement the data management of computer office, which is still vigorously promoted by Yang Huan in the past four years after the acquisition of the Saints.

Not only in the Saints, but also in Atletico Madrid, Monaco and Inter Milan, Yang Huan is also vigorously promoting.

Even, it is foreseeable that Yang Huan will soon vigorously promote this set in other teams he has acquired.

In the past, like many media and fans, they thought that Southampton's advancement was more reflected in hardware and data management and analysis, but now, with this heavy document in their hands, they realized their mistake.

As professional managers, they know that there is so much to shock.

For example, the simplest meal.

The last meal before the game is very important, and all professional teams attach great importance to it, but most professional teams do not pay much attention to the distribution of nutrients, and some teams with nutrition experts will be relatively professional.

They will arrange for the players to consume carbohydrates the day before the game, and try to keep the carbohydrate intake ratio in a reasonable proportion with the player's weight.

Like Arsenal, Arsene Wenger's biggest change to the Gunners was a healthy diet, and that's what they did.

The Gunners' players are said to be on a diet that is strictly based on a carbohydrate intake ratio of four grams per kilogram.

But what about Southampton?

Not only does this one-size-fits-all ratio be used, but according to the physical characteristics of each player, according to the data accumulated over a long period of time, the most reasonable and most suitable golden ratio for the players is derived.

Not only that, but they also take their timing very seriously.

For example, it takes about two to three hours for carbohydrates to digest in the stomach, so they will arrange for the players to eat three to four hours before the game.

The advantage of this is that it allows the player's body to absorb as much energy as possible during the last meal before the game, but at the beginning of the game, it is in a suitable fasting state for the player.

But is that all there is to it?

No!

Southampton will also formulate a targeted plan according to each player's physical fitness, technical characteristics, position, investment and consumption of the game, and require the players to strictly implement it.

But that's just before the game, and during and after the game, Southampton also has a very detailed diet, and all of this relies on the strong team of nutritionists behind the Saints.

If you talk about diet and psychology, these are the aspects that many teams pay attention to, and Southampton pays attention to it, which is understandable, but even the sleep that almost all teams will not pay attention to, the Saints have put a lot of effort and energy.

In Klopp's hand, on the pages of the player's sleep, you can see the signature of a man named Nick Littlehalles.

Those who don't know, I'm afraid they won't notice who he is, but Klopp knows.

Lither Halles, President of the British Sleep Association, is a former golf professional who went on to work as an executive at a world-renowned bedding company, where he studied both sports science and sleep science.

He has coached countless British athletes, many of whom have won medals at the Olympics, and in football, he is best known for coaching Manchester United's Ryan Giggs on how to sleep.

Good sleep and yoga before bedtime are seen as the reasons for Giggs's longevity in his career.

And all of this comes from the guidance of Little-Halles.

Previously, it was reported in the British media that Southampton had hired a sleep coach to help the players sleep, and even redecorated the players' rooms at Staupwood for this purpose.

All of this is the handiwork of Little-Halles.

Because, he wants to create the best, most comfortable, and most scientific sleeping environment for the players.

One of the most interesting things is that he opposes putting water next to the bed, because he believes that it will leave a psychological cue for the players to get up and drink water, which in turn will affect sleep.

But in this plan, he even arranged the players' sleep very carefully.

For example, when to eat dinner, whether you can have a snack, when to eat it, and what routine to do before bed can help you fall asleep.

Strangely, he requires every player to go to the bathroom an hour before bedtime, every fifteen minutes, regardless of whether they feel to urinate or not, because this can ensure that they do not hold their pee.

In addition, his sleep theory is that each person's sleep cycle is divided into three stages: light sleep, deep sleep and rapid eye movement, and each cycle is exactly 90 minutes, so when planning sleep, it is best to use 90 minutes as a unit.

That is, you will either sleep for five cycles, exactly seven and a half hours.

So what happens if you don't plan according to the cycle?

According to him, if you sleep for eight or eight and a half hours, theoretically you get half a and an hour more, but in reality, you are more tired and sleepy.

And he discouraged sleep-making because it didn't help at all.

Within Southampton, Little's role is to help every player and get a good night's sleep.

He even coaches players on how to use their free time to rest, helping some players who have difficulty falling asleep find a sleep method that works for them.

On the surface, sleeping is a very simple thing, it is a personal will, but a good night's sleep, especially for a player who is about to face a major tournament, how to sleep well, this is a profound science.

Otherwise, Ferguson would not have bombarded the hotel in Rome after losing the Champions League final.

Simeone, Jurgen Klopp and Tuchel flipped through Southampton's plan and they really had a feeling of disbelief.

They all know very well that because they are about to coach Yang Huan's team, Southampton will make this plan public to them, but even so, they can't copy the past.

Because that's not realistic!

This system in Southampton, Yang Huan spent a total of four years, hard work, from scratch, slowly built up bit by bit, and penetrated into all aspects of the club, deep into the hearts of every player.

Therefore, such a set of plans, which may seem extremely complicated to outsiders, even like a labyrinth, can be carried out in the hands of Southampton in an orderly manner, and even they can arrange the time very tightly and orderly.

Because they're used to it all!

And, it is entirely conceivable how much Southampton would have to invest each year in this area to maintain the operation of the whole system in order to make such a plan, to sustain the research and improvement of the team in related aspects?

At least a few million pounds, if not tens of millions!

That's enough money to bring in a powerful player!

But Southampton is used to do this?

Looking at the entire European football world, I am afraid that only the saints can be so extravagant!

But Bielsa clearly doesn't think so.

I saw him pointing to the document in the hands of the three of them with a slight smile, and said it very incomprehensibly.

"The football of the future is here!"

The three people on the opposite side were all stunned!