Chapter 193: Chelsea's Weakness (3/21)
After ending the call with Lotito, Chang Sheng received a text message on his mobile phone, which was from Mosio. The text message is very simple, just one sentence: "Thank you, I hope we will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, Mr. Chang." ”
It seems that FC Barcelona has successfully negotiated a personal contract with Falcao himself. From July, Falcao will not be a Lazio player.
Chang Sheng knew why he was thanking himself, because this transfer deal would make the otherwise unknown Claudio . Mosio became an influential agent in Europe.
Recently, the transfer has not been announced, and the name of this agent often appears in the media.
He gives frequent interviews to journalists, sometimes in Madrid and sometimes in London, and everywhere he goes gets the media attention.
After this transfer deal is announced, you can imagine how this agent will become famous!
In the time and space that Chang Sheng is well aware.
When Falcao became famous, his agent was not Claudio. Mosio, but Mendes.
I think I changed my agent when I was playing in Porto.
Now, Mosio can help Falcao get a big contract, and Falcao naturally has no need to change such a capable agent.
Now it seems that he has not only changed the fate of some players, but also the fate of his agent...... It's amazing......
Chang Sheng replied with a congratulatory text message, then put down his phone and continued to watch the game video.
He has changed the fate of others, and he will change his own completely.
At that time, Mourinho was awesome because he won two Champions League titles.
There are not many managers who can win two Champions League titles this year, and even fewer are active.
Jose Mourinho played one of them, and he was the youngest. Can he not be awesome?
Now Chang Sheng wants to be the "Mourinho" of this time and space, and he wants to replace Mourinho as the youngest manager to win two Champions League titles.
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After Barcelona and Lazio reached a transfer agreement, a big deal for Lazio FC was done, and both Lotito and Chang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.
The next big thing is the Champions League.
Lazio have now reached the Champions League finale against Chelsea.
On the other side, Manchester United and Barcelona decide who will reach the final.
In the time and space known for the winning season, Chelsea's opponents were Liverpool, and in the final were Chelsea and Manchester United.
Manchester United lifted the trophy with a penalty kick over Chelsea in the heavy rain at the Luzhniki Stadium. It was the second Champions League trophy of Ferguson's managerial career.
Now the winning Lazio are about to rewrite history.
The first leg of the semi-final between Lazio and Chelsea was played by Lazio at home and then away.
In terms of schedule, it is slightly unfavorable.
Because if there was anything wrong in the first round. Lazio didn't even have a chance to make up for that slip-up.
So you have to get your opponent in the first round.
Chelsea were replaced by the original club's sporting director after Jose Mourinho's departure. Grant succeeded as interim head coach.
If anyone feels incredible, incomprehensible, and impossible, to be the first team manager of Getafe at the age of 28.
Then they can look at Afran. Grant.
In 1974. Nineteen-year-old Grant was promoted to senior coach after winning the Israeli Youth League title in charge of Petah's youth team, setting a record for the youngest adult team manager in Israel.
At the age of nineteen, he became the first team manager, which is nine years before Chang Sheng!
So everything is possible in the world of football, nothing is impossible......
When Grant took Mourinho's position in charge of Chelsea, the British media once contemptuously published the headline in their newspapers: "Grant? Who? ”
But in reality this is nothing more than the arrogance of the British.
In Israel, Grant is the most successful head coach.
He was in charge of two of Israel's biggest clubs, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa. All of them have led the team to championships.
In 2002, at the age of forty-six, he became the head coach of the Israeli national team, the youngest head coach in the history of the Israeli national team, and the most successful. He led a young and inexperienced Israel team to an unbeaten World Cup qualifier in Germany. It's just that there are too many draws, and they are behind France and Switzerland and miss the World Cup.
His impressive performances with the Israeli national team catapulted him into English football, where he became head of Portsmouth FC's athletics department in 2006.
He and then Portsmouth manager Harry Frank Bush. Redknapp worked together. After a successful season, he made the move to Chelsea. He became Chelsea's sporting director.
Later, after Mourinho resigned due to a conflict with his boss Abramovich, Abramovich admitted
Appointed Grant as head coach of the Chelsea team.
If you don't know what Grant has experienced before, you will think that he has reached the sky in one step. But in fact, he is a veteran coach with a lot of coaching experience.
With 32 years of coaching experience, from 1974 to 2006, it is no surprise that such a wealth of coaching experience is placed in any team, so why did Grant become Chelsea's head coach and cause ridicule and ridicule from the media?
To put it bluntly, because his predecessor was Mourinho.
When comparing the two people, Mourinho is like a handsome and rich, while Grant is poor and ugly.
Everybody misses the character coach Jose Mourinho. Despite his time in the team, the English media quarreled with him a lot. But without him, the media in England will be lonely and will lose the gimmick that can attract readers. Grant obviously can't replace Mourinho's position in the media, so it's normal for the media to be frustrated.
Chang Sheng is a traverser, and he doesn't dare to underestimate Grant.
Because he is well aware of what Grant has achieved at Chelsea. Before Di Matteo, Afran. Grant is Chelsea's most successful firefighting manager.
During his 247 days as Chelsea manager, Grant led the Blues from rock bottom to second place in the league, from a 2-0 defeat to Manchester United in the opening game to a 2-1 win at home to the final round. In the Champions League, he led the Blues to the final in history, only to be defeated in the final penalty shoot-out by John Terry.
Jose Mourinho left Chelsea with a fighting spirit and a winning tradition, but Grant also did a great job, otherwise there would be no way to reach the Champions League final without spirit and tradition.
Grant's clever thing is that he doesn't dismiss Mourinho's set in its entirety, as Benitez did.
Benitez took over from Mourinho at Inter Milan, why did he leave after half a season? To try to completely destroy everything left by a predecessor who left behind great success and influence at Inter Milan is tantamount to destroying the foundations of Inter's success. He wanted to raze Inter to the ground and start rebuilding, but he never thought that Inter Milan were not small teams, and as the team in European football changed managers second only to Real Madrid, their owners were impatient......
So even though he led the team to the Club World Cup, he had to leave the class gloomily, and when he left, no one even missed him.
Grant is much smarter, knowing that Mourinho has built a very good squad and foundation for Chelsea, and he just needs to maintain consistency on that basis.
In fact, Chelsea's squad is very strong.
In that time and space, the reason why Mourinho was not able to reach the final was because he was too unlucky and ran into Benitez, who could contain him.
Of course, the situation is no longer the same in the time and space where Chang Sheng is located now.
The biggest difference between this Chelsea team and Chelsea in that time and space is that they have already won the Champions League once.
For Chelsea Football Club, from owner Roman Abramovich to the players, the biggest goal in life has been accomplished.
Roman Abramovich always wanted Chelsea to win the Champions League, which is why he brought in Jose Mourinho, who has excelled in European competition.
Now that we have won the Champions League, we are naturally a little lacking in motivation.
This is also the reason why Mourinho voluntarily resigned.
He has realised that this group of players is unlikely to be going to give it their all for victory.
But Mourinho still does. Jose Mourinho is an absolute, pure triumphalist.
So there will be contradictions between the two sides.
He has feelings for Chelsea and naturally doesn't want to end up turning his master against each other and starting an all-out war in the dressing room.
Take the initiative to resign, leave and leave, leaving a chic back, and you can also leave a good impression in the minds of the players, and you will see each other in the future.
Grant is not a team that can fight until the last minute for the title, but a team that has lost its fighting spirit and motivation because it has already won the Champions League.
That's Chelsea's biggest Achilles' heel.
As long as Lazio can show their toughness and not back down, it will be Chelsea's turn to back down.
According to the characteristics of Chelsea, the strategy developed for Lazio by winning is "muscle"!
They showed their strength and determination in the game, using ferocious defence to contain Chelsea's attack, and in attack they continued to put pressure on the Chelsea backline.
Then, just wait for Chelsea to collapse on its own.
According to these strategies, the training of the team needs to be adjusted.
For example, it is necessary to strengthen strength training, emphasize speed in both defense and offense, and the high pressing in the front court must be in place. The fierce ones are all left in the front court, and even if they do commit fouls, they rarely play cards - unless they are deliberately hurting.
Based on these points, the Lazio coaching staff has been working on a training plan for more than a week.
The first leg of the semi-finals is about to begin, and it will be a test of whether the winning theory is correct.