Chapter 341: The Power of God K
Although Klinsmann led Germany to a good start and three points in the Confederations Cup, the situation of the Golden Bombers did not improve. The German media and fans simply couldn't accept the reality that the national team was playing home to Australia, a team that had never reached the World Cup finals, and was almost equalised by their opponents at the last minute. For a while, almost everyone was madly attacking Klinsmann, believing that his reform of the national team was a stupid attempt!
Abandoning the central defensive duo of Warnes and Novotny, who are both capable and experienced in the tournament, forcibly correcting Mertesacker and Robert Hut, who are extremely inexperienced defenders, insisting on putting veterans such as Boldarich and Schneider in the squad, and refusing to give Bayern Munich-born and in-form Schauer and Dietmar Brown. Hamann had a chance to prove himself, scoring in a series of games at Tottenham and winning the Champions League and FA Cup double with the team, Klose had to come to the bench for Kuranyi, who had just reached double figures in a season...... In the mouths of the German media and fans, the sin committed by the self-righteous Klinsmann is simply too numerous to mention!
By the way, although Klose's career has changed under the influence of George, he scored a total of 28 goals for Tottenham in the just-concluded 04-05 season, and made great contributions to Tottenham's double title, but Klinsmann still refused to correct Klose, and still chose the 23-year-old Kuranyi as Germany's main center forward in the Confederations Cup!
In fact, in his previous life, Klinsmann did not look down on the older Klose at first, preferring to use the more impactful and younger Kuranyi. It's a pity that the latter is too uncompetitive, not only has the goal production at the club plummeted, but also suffered a long-term goal drought in the national team, forcing Klinsmann, who is dedicated to playing the youth card, to switch to Klose, who is in hot form. Since then, the status of Kuranyi and Klose in the national team has changed dramatically - The latter scored five goals in the 06 World Cup, helped Germany win the World Cup third place and won the World Cup Golden Boot, and in one fell swoop, he established his position as the first brother of the national team, while Kuranyi had to face the unfavorable situation of being suppressed by Klose in the national team, and could not regain the main position in the national team, and even made a negative news about driving away from the stadium without permission in the game with the Russian team, completely ruining his national team career!
But now, Klinsmann at this time clearly trusts Kuranyi more. In order to develop this local striker, he did not hesitate to put Klose, who is in better shape and has higher scoring efficiency, on the bench!
To be honest, in George's view, Klinsmann's strategy is not as useless as the media and fans say, but the mouth of the golden bomber is too easy to offend, and his drastic reform measures in the German national team have offended the interests of too many people, which is why he has attracted so much criticism. Of course, if it weren't for his old teammate Bierhoff acting as a buffer in the middle, Klinsmann would have been in an even worse position than he is now!
Therefore, regarding Klose's suppression by Kulanyi in the national team, George can also understand Klinsmann's thoughts. He knows that Klinsmann's eyes are not just on the World Cup in Germany in a year's time, but on the European Championship in three years or even the World Cup in South Africa in five years!
However, it is precisely because of Klinsmann's stubbornness in employing people that during this time, George has been comforting Klose with kind words on the phone, asking him to wait for the opportunity to seize every opportunity to play, impress Klinsmann with a correct training attitude and excellent performance, so as to regain the position of the main force of the national team from Kuranyi's hands!
After witnessing Toney, Ribery, Villa and others choosing to leave Tottenham in order to get into the national team, George is really afraid that God K will make the same choice. In that case, Tottenham will only have Drogba and Larsson available in the central striker position!
While George, who has memories of his past life, has no shortage of replacements for Klose, he doesn't want to see anyone leave White Hart Lane this summer with five of his rotational players already gone.
Fortunately, at this time, Klose did not have the idea of leaving White Hart Lane. After a successful season at Tottenham, he has a heartfelt hope to win more trophies here. Not to mention, he felt that staying here would be more beneficial to the improvement of his own strength!
You know, apart from Tottenham, who team can gather so many talented players with different styles and at the same time give him nearly 30 starts in a season?
Able to grow in the face of adversity, continue to improve after becoming famous, and break a series of records in his previous life, even surpassing the "alien" Ronaldo to the top of the World Cup scorer list, almost perfectly defining the position of the modern center forward, Klose does not rely on his football talent that is not outstanding compared to other talents, but a correct training attitude and a hunger for improvement!
So, even if he doesn't like the cold and damp climate of London, Klose will not easily choose to leave Tottenham, the best training ground in his opinion, until he has honed his abilities to a full-fledged level or received a better offer!
After Eintracht Frankfurt witnessed Germany's narrow 4-3 win over Australia in their opening game, George accompanied Beckenbauer to watch Germany's next two games – at the Cologne Stadium, Germany beat African champions Tunisia by three goals to secure a place in the group with two wins, and in the third round of the group stage in Nuremberg, Germany beat Argentina 3-2 with an injury-time header from Klose to advance to the semi-finals as group winners!
Unlike in previous lives, because Klose did not miss this Confederations Cup due to injury, in the group finale against Argentina, Klinsmann chose to replace Kulanyi, who did not score in the previous game, with Klose. As a result, what Klinsmann didn't expect was that he planned to use this to knock on Kuranyi's goal and didn't know if it had been achieved, and Klose had already proved his great power with practical actions!
Klose, who scored twice and scored a crucial goal in the race for the top spot against top team Argentina, is undoubtedly in stark contrast to Kurani, who played the first two group games but scored only one goal in Australia and Tunisia!
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