Chapter Seventy-Five: A Quietly Changing Atmosphere
How much change the new manager can bring is something that needs to be reflected in the results. However, some changes were already quietly underway before the results came out.
"Mourinho is different. Even the atmosphere of training is different. After the training, Lin Fan said with emotion in the locker room.
"Definitely. Mourinho's demands are even more severe!" Yan Feng took over and said.
It's harsh! It's not strict.
This is the biggest difference Yan Feng felt after Mourinho took over. When Pirlo was still around, he was also very strict in training, but the relationship with the players was really like a brother. So, the atmosphere, with the players completing the requirements, is very relaxed.
As for Mourinho, it's really a superior-subordinate relationship. Other than that, there will be no brotherly love, master-apprentice love or anything. The most obvious thing is that Mourinho never asks Yan Feng's opinion on various training or tactics.
When Pirlo was there, he often talked to Yan Feng about many problems of the team. Whenever there was a major issue or decision, Pirlo would talk to Yan Feng about it. It is often with the support of Yan Feng that Pirlo will make a move.
Pirlo's attitude towards this kind of treatment, Yan Feng always has a feeling in his heart that this team is his share. That sense of belonging, like he's also a core member of the team's family.
But Mourinho, the current Granada team is Mourinho's own. It's just Mourinho who has the final say, the players are just the players, just do your job as he asks him to do and don't think too much. It can't be to get involved or share his power.
"I really miss the days when Pirlo was there. Even though he's a coach, I think he's like the big brother in our team. It's the leader. Now, it's not that comfortable. "Lin Fan seems to be a little uncomfortable with the current team atmosphere.
"We professional players, how can we say that a coach like Pirlo is hard to come by. After Yan Feng changed his clothes, he glanced at Lin Fan and shook his head and said.
Yan Feng really thinks so. Pirlo's situation is hard to come by. Because he has just moved from player to coach, he still retains a lot of the marks of his playing days. It can be said that Pirlo is a coach, but he and the players can be said to be growing together and exploring together. Pierce was learning to be a professional coach, which is what makes the players feel like brothers. After a few years, when Pirlo fully devotes himself to the role of coach, Yan Feng believes that it will be difficult for him to have such shameless behavior in his future coaching. Even if there were, it would be more inclined to coaching authority.
"Actually, let's not brag about it. Mourinho still has to be more professional. It's also really stronger and more confident in many ways. Yan Feng thought for a moment and said.
It's the truth. Mourinho's team is more professional and authoritative than Pirlo's young team. In terms of various training details, the current team members are more detailed and reasonable. The arrangement in all aspects is also more professional and more effective. These are all things that Yan Feng believes cannot be ignored.
"That's right. I just don't think it's going to be as easy as it used to be. Lin Fan nodded and said.
"Now the goal is bigger and bigger, and the natural pressure is greater. Normal. Yan Feng said. Mourinho's style of coaching is full of pressure. He is so authoritative, everyone is afraid that he will become a person who is cleaned up if he is not careful. Isn't there such a saying? The new official will have three fires. Although foreigners don't have this sentence, they also understand similar problems. What's more, Mourinho's huge fame brings great coercion.
"We're fine, after all, we're in the back of the field. The Magic Flute, they're even more upset. Lin Fan said and glanced at Modric in front of the dressing room on the other side not far away.
'A new manager, a new style of coaching. There's always something to get back used to. Yan Feng also glanced at Modric. He could see that Modric's mood was somewhat less than before. And that's all he can say.
What Mourinho's tactical style is like will be known to anyone who follows today's football. Mourinho, who prefers defensive players and prefers utilitarian football, does not rely so heavily on technical players. And his tactical style will definitely limit the play of players like Modric.
It's been half a month, and in the half month since Mourinho took charge of the Granada team, the Granada team's smooth play and gorgeous ground offensive system is quietly disappearing. Instead, they practiced more defensive counter-attacks, or even pure defensive attrition.
As the team's offensive and defensive commander, Modric was a little uncomfortable with this change. If the team focuses on defense, a player like Modric who was born for attack will naturally decline in status and importance. When Mourinho began to revamp the Granada team, Yan Feng could see that Modric was struggling.
Although it can be seen that Modric is struggling to adapt, Yan Feng believes that a professional player will definitely work hard to overcome this difficulty. Because adaptation itself is one of the qualities that a player should have.
At first, Yan Feng was a little worried that this discomfort would make Modric have the idea of leaving. But at the moment, it seems that Modric should not have such an idea.
Not to mention Modric, in fact, Yan Feng himself is not adapting. And the relatively good thing is that Yan Feng is more adaptable to these new systems. Because before the arrival of Modric, the Granada team was playing defensive counter-attack. For the bus, Yan Feng can still twist it with confidence.
Yan Feng estimated that Modric may have remembered his colleague with Mourinho in the Real Madrid team in the adaptation. It is said that Modric bought Real Madrid from Mourinho back then. It's just that in that year, Modric's performance was extremely struggling and inefficient, and he was even scolded by fans as a parallel import.
Yan Feng felt that as the captain, he sometimes had to exert his strength. Fearing that one of his main comrades-in-arms would be psychologically burdened, he turned his head and shouted, "Hey, Magic Flute, are you free at night? If so, let's go out for a drink?"
"Oh, I think it's free, Yan. When Modric heard this, he looked at Yan Feng and responded.
"Do you want to drink it?" Yan Feng said with a smile.
"Of course. Modric nodded, smiling back.
"Okay. I'll ask if the others are free and if they want to go along. ”
"Good. ”
Yan Feng didn't ask Lin Fan, this child is now a child slave, and he is probably more willing to take the child to play at night. Yan Feng went to ask other people, but unfortunately there were not many people who were willing to go, and it was just a Sandel.
There's no way, who told Yan Feng to have a so-called drink, it is to drink coffee, not the favorite drink of ordinary players. Going specifically for coffee and not going on a date seems to many players with excess energy to be an activity for the elderly.