Chapter 57 Digging Horns to Lao Tzu's Head!
It's been a day since the match against Deportivo La Coruna, and the impact of the game is still being reported, with many media outlets still reporting on Atletico Madrid's dropped points. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's not that the media expects much from Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid shouldn't drop points or anything like that, it's just that the competition between Atletico Madrid and Ronaldo is too fierce, and almost all the Spanish media are very concerned about it.
The biggest news in Spanish football right now is the race for the top spot in the league.
Atletico Madrid were overtaken by Barcelona on goal difference after only one draw, and the media supporting Atletico Madrid must be unconvinced, and they also hope that the team can perform well and show the momentum to compete for the league title.
But Atletico Madrid was squeezed out of the first place in the league!
With Barcelona's recent frenzied performances, the pro-Atletico Madrid media don't even see any hope of Atletico Madrid catching up again.
So they looked for various reasons for Atletico Madrid's loss of points, and the mistake of teenager Isco naturally became a 'major' reason.
Most of the neutral media outlets followed suit and it was obvious that Isco's mistakes led to the draw, so they also commented that Isco was the cause of the points dropped.
And, of course, hostile media!
On the map of Spain, Atletico Madrid does not have as many enemies as Real Madrid, because in the past ten years, Atletico Madrid has been weak, and a weak team will not have too many enemies.
However, when Atletico Madrid showed enough strength to threaten Barcelona, the enemies popped up one by one.
By region, the first is the Catalan media.
Catalonia and the capital Madrid are feuds, this is not only on the opposite side of football, but in the final analysis, it is a century-old political reason, before the Catalan media was the most hostile to Real Madrid, and now Atletico Madrid has come to the fore, and won 5-1 against Barcelona, so they began to 'suppress' Atletico Madrid.
The rest of Spain, such as Valencia and Seville, has not had a good relationship with the media and the capital, and they will not support Madrid's team after all.
In the capital city of Madrid, the hostile to Atletico Madrid is the media led by the newspaper Marca, which supports the sworn enemy Real Madrid.
Taking stock of the calculations, there are quite a few hostile media in Atletico Madrid.
These hostile media gloated when they saw Atletico Madrid lose points, and they found all kinds of reasons to ridicule Atletico Madrid, and Isco was naturally one of the reasons, just like the satirical report of Le Monde Sport, "...... That Chinese is not omnipotent, he will also look away, it is said that before Isco went to Madrid, the Chinese went directly to Valencia, if he knew that this would be the case, would he still insist on fighting with Malaga......"
"Perhaps, 3.5 million euros is nothing for the 'deep-pocketed' Atletico Madrid......"
These sarcastic words naturally did not affect Wan Sheng, but they were enough to affect Isco.
Isco was on the verge of collapse due to the overwhelming criticism from the outside world, he was under a lot of pressure, he seemed very unmotivated during training, although a few teammates came to comfort him and told him not to take it to heart, but in the face of so many accusations, how could he not care.
And that's not all.
At the end of a day's training, Isco received even more desperate news – head coach Wan Sheng called him to his office alone.
Oh, my God!
Why is this happening!
What does the manager call himself for? Is it to criticize yourself, feel that your strength can't keep up with the first team, and let yourself go to the youth team?
Or...... The winter transfer window is about to open, are you ready to let yourself go?
Isco became very apprehensive.
"It's okay, Isco, don't worry!" Ozil kindly reminded him when he left, "Being called by the boss is usually a matter of training, and you didn't make any mistakes." ”
Ozil's words comforted Isco a little, but thinking about facing the manager alone, Isco still felt his heart pounding, and he was about to jump out of his throat.
He's so nervous!
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In the manager's office.
The printer kept ringing, and Wan Sheng was printing out a copy of the training content, when he heard a knock on the door, Wan Sheng only said, "Please come in", without even raising his head.
Isco walked in and stood apprehensively at the table.
Wan Sheng continued to pay attention to the documents on the computer, and continued to click the print button one by one before raising his head to look over.
Isco was so frightened that he almost jumped on the spot.
Wan Sheng frowned, and Isco calmed down, but he still didn't dare to look up, like a child who had done something wrong.
Wan Sheng smiled and joked, "Relax, I'm not a tiger." ”
Isco barely raised his head, barely 'peeking' at it, and suddenly thought that he might be much calmer in the face of the tiger.
"Isco, don't pay attention to what the newspapers say." Wan Sheng opened his mouth to comfort, "Those media are talking nonsense all day long, and they don't report for reality, but for sales, so you don't have to care about them." ”
"I remember when I first became the manager, I didn't even lead the team to a game, there was a lot of criticism and questioning about me outside, it was nothing, and when I led the team to a good result, they changed the content.
"To put it bluntly, the media is the grass on the wall, which side of the wind blows."
Isco nodded reluctantly.
Wan Sheng continued, "Remember a while ago? Mesut's performance is average, yes, yes, average, his performance is not bad, and he has goals, but there are not many goals, but those media still keep saying bad things about him, but what about that? When Mesut performed well, their statement changed to 'he deserves a transfer fee of 42 million euros'! So don't care at all what they say. ”
Isco nodded seriously and said, "Boss, I know. ”
"That's good." Wan Sheng said, "You are only 18 years old, you haven't experienced this, you get used to it after more experience, we don't blame you for losing points, it's the overall performance is not good, if it's like the first few games, you can score 2, 3, or even more goals, even if you make a mistake once, it's nothing, you're just unlucky." ”
"The important thing is, I believe you're a genius, you know?"
"Huh?"
Isco was a little unprepared, he didn't expect the coach to praise him, and then he looked up and listened.
"If you're not a genius, I won't give you that many chances, look at Cork, he's in the same position as you, but I only let him play occasionally, and then Wang, you know King, right? I believe that Wang is also a genius, but he is still too young, smaller than you, such a young player, even if he has strength, it is difficult to play, so in the midfield, I am looking forward to you the most......"
Isco was a little excited.
As the two were talking, the printer had stopped working, Wan Sheng stood up and picked up a stack of printed pages, clamped it up with a clip, handed it to Isco, and said, "Well, this is your training plan for the next month." ”
Isco was a little stunned when he took the document, and then remembered what Ozil had just said, "The coach called you over alone, usually for training. ”
I see!
"There's a lot of training in it, it's all personal training, and you're going to have to complete all the training in the next month, you know?" Wan Sheng became much more serious, "In a month, I won't give you another chance to play, but after completing these trainings, I will increase your playing time......"
Wan Sheng looked at Isco after speaking.
Isco didn't react for a moment, and when he heard 'I won't give you playing time', his head thundered, but the next turn, he immediately relieved himself and affirmed, "Okay, boss, I see." ”
"That's good."
Wan Sheng waved his hand after speaking, "Go ahead, today's training is over." ”
"Good...... Okay, see you tomorrow......"
Isco left in a daze, his mind was blurry, and he couldn't react to what was going on.
When he returned to his place, Isco talked to his father Comino about the day.
Comino first comforted his son, and when he heard Isco say that the coach would not let him play for a month, and then said that he would give more time after training, Comino immediately reacted, "You are so stupid!" ”
"Huh?"
"Half a month later, it's the winter break!"
"yes?"
"Wan Sheng said that he would not give you playing time for a month, in fact, Atletico Madrid did not have two games at all this month, what are you worried about? Wansheng this is going to reuse you! ”
"Is that so?"
"Of course! Good son, otherwise he wouldn't have said that! So you're going to have to do all the training in the next month, yes, at Christmas, and during the winter break. I don't care if you want it or not, I'll keep an eye on you! ”
Comino's words were very harsh, which made Isco a little confused.
That's when Isco understood what the coach meant...... The next two weeks were the winter break, and the coach just asked him to practice during the winter break. If he can complete the training content, then he will have more playing time in the future, and he will not be able to complete the ...... Of course, the outcome doesn't have to be thought about, or he will lose trust, and the next month will be extremely important to him.
Isco was already imagining how hard he was going to be.
But for the sake of the dream, everything is worth it.
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As Christmas approaches, the whole of Spain and Europe is flooded with big news about all kinds of transfers.
"Real Madrid's 25 million Galasana Diarra wants Javier Hernandez!"
"Real Madrid 41 million plus Benzema wants to buy Bale!"
The English media released two outrageous satellites in two days in a row, and on December 19, the third satellite was lifted into the sky, "Barcelona will spend 100 million euros to buy Torres and Cesc Fabregas next summer!" ”
The Daily Mail began to "create" again.
The level of falsity of the news is truly breathtaking, as Barcelona simply cannot afford to come up with that much money, and despite the fact that the Red and Blue have signed a contract with the Qatar Foundation for the fattest shirt sponsorship in the history of professional football, the club is still in a serious financial crisis.
Rosell had a high-level summit with Pep Guardiola and Belgilstan not long ago, and the chairman made it clear that Barcelona's transfer fee for next summer is capped at 65 million euros, of which 15 million euros are still spent this season.
If Pep Guardiola needs more transfer fees, he will have to sell players. The Barcelona first team currently has a total of 19 players, and apart from Xavi, Messi, Iniesta, Pique and others, there is no one who can sell 35 million euros.
According to the analysis of "News of the World", "Torres and Cesc Fabregas are no longer a necessity for Barcelona. "But there is no doubt that Cesc Fabregas remains an important target for Barcelona in Pep Guardiola's plans.
But Barcelona also broke the news about some internal renewal issues.
For example, Alves.
Barcelona's biggest doubt is the future of Alves, who are offered up to €6 million a year after tax.
Attention, it's after tax!
In the past year, the salary of professional players in European football has risen amazingly, Klose's annual salary after tax is only nearly 4 million euros, Aguero has just completed the renewal of his contract with the club in the summer, and his annual salary after tax is only about 5 million euros, Morris is the team's highest-paid player, and his annual salary after tax is only 5.8 million euros.
Alves...... 6 million euros after tax!
Of course, Alves's salary is actually involved in some Barcelona commercials and the like, not a simple professional salary contract, but even if many factors are thrown, Barcelona's increase in Alves' annual salary after pure professional tax will not be better than Aguerodi.
But even so, Alves was not satisfied, because Manchester City wanted to bring in Alves and offered him an annual salary of 8 million euros after tax, so the Brazilian took Manchester City's offer of 8 million euros to blackmail Rosell, "My first choice is to stay in Barcelona, but I will defend my rights to the death." Even if I can't stay, I won't regret it. ”
Alves issued a warning.
Seeing these news, Wansheng is a little worried about whether his players will choose to change jobs after their players perform well, because the gap between the salary levels of Atletico Madrid and Barcelona is still relatively large.
So Wan Sheng hurriedly read the contracts of each player carefully.
He found a contract problem with a player.
Aguero!
Aguero's salary is definitely a lot, but the liquidated damages on his contract are only 55 million euros, compared to his value, 55 million euros is already a lot, but if Aguero becomes the leading scorer of Atletico Madrid in the next one or two seasons, and Atletico Madrid has achieved very good results, this liquidated damages are a little less, and don't look at the current international superstars, the transfer fee of 5,60 million at every turn?
So Wansheng began to think about giving Aguero a proper salary increase and then re-signing a professional contract?
This is best done in the summer.
Sergio Aguero had just completed his contract extension six months ago, and it was not a good option to renew his contract now.
It was at this time that a piece of news made Wan Sheng furious - the newspaper "Marca" revealed that Mourinho publicly praised Raul Garcia, and Real Madrid intended to open transfer talks with Atletico Madrid about Raul Garcia in the winter.
MD, poaching has been dug into Lao Tzu's head! (To be continued.) )