179 Extra: When Fran Retires (4)
In response to the large transfer funds specially approved by Mr. President, Athletic Director Vansette is ready to do something big. The departure of the team's main midfielder last season has made the midfield position a top target for the club, and several young players performed well last season, leading Vanset to target the academy players directly.
Vanset placed several recommendations and video excerpts from each of them on Forlan's desk, and Forlan took it and flipped through a few times, one of his own academy midfielders, one of SBV's elite players, and three lads from Spain. Could it be that he gave him the illusion that he was good at using Spanish players?
"Hmm, I heard that you are very optimistic about an Italian boy, isn't it Juventus's, doesn't the team sell it?" Forlan asked casually, who knew that Vanset snorted very resistantly, "That kid has a big temper, the player himself doesn't want to come, what else?"
Hearing what Vansette meant, Forlan didn't ask much, but Vansette wanted to say more, "Juventus, didn't you still have some grudges with them when you were in Real Madrid before?" Seeing that Vanset was still angry, Fran handed over a stubble, "So he said what happened to me? Anyway, the ball is not good, it is against justice, and a series of words." β
When this happened in the semi-finals, after all, Groningen was a small character who was not even a melon-eating crowd, and Vansette could still watch the play. But now people dislike their own manager, what can he do, "And then I'll go back there, Chiellini's obvious handball two or three years ago The referee didn't even give a penalty, but our coach still admits what he did." β
This is a matter of opinion between the benevolent and the wise, and Vansette's level of mutual affection is not high, but it does make the little Italian cub on the other side angry enough. Fran is just a joke, and there is nothing wrong with the Netherlands and Spain, after all, contrary to the Italian reputation, his appeal in Spain cannot be underestimated.
In the end, the two little beets of their own youth training and SBV elite were put into the bag, and this matter was completed.
Vansette just wants to sigh, I have never seen someone who can live like his manager, how can this be from Real Madrid?
Real Madrid: Drag me out and lie down if it's okay, I don't want to lose face!
2γ
At the start of the new season, there is a consensus within the club that Groningen will have a better chance of winning the league than qualifying for the Champions League of Death. Most of the players in the team also think that it is good to go around the Champions League and see the world, you must know that Manchester United, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, each of them is a famous club. They are also in the mood to regret why they don't get in a group with Real Madrid or Barcelona, not only to see the big teams, but also, well, to look at the grievances between the manager and these two companies.
When Robben left Bayern, he had been hesitating between PSV Eindhoven and FC Groningen, most people thought that he would choose PSV Eindhoven with a better record, but who knew that Groningen, who had been saying 'I wanted to bring Robben back' all year round, really 'brought back'. On the one hand, it is his hometown, and he has a deep affection for the club itself, and on the other hand, because of Francisco Γlvarez as a person. Over the years, Robben has discovered that this is a man who can easily create miracles and create legends.
He glanced at Ibrahimovic next to him, the Swede's physical condition made him envious, although Ibrahimovic was older, but Robben was labeled as a 'glass man' and really didn't think he was physically stronger than him. Although I heard that Forlan joked about Ibrahimovic when he first fooled him to come in, in fact, in Groningen, Ibrahimovic needed Forlan to bother to rotate, but he would not be reduced to a substitute.
"Do you think it's a good chance to qualify?" Robben is ready to retire at the end of his career, but since he can achieve some more results, why not fight hard? Ibrahimovic heard this, his eyes turned away from the mobile phone screen, is there a high probability of qualifying, let Ibrahim say, he thinks, "Why don't you want to think about the possibility of winning the championship?" This guy has a honey confidence in Fran.
Forlan, who is extremely trusted by his former teammates, is taking the team's young goalkeeper to do targeted training, of course, the opponent of the young goalkeeper must not be the referee whose shooting skills are not lit up. Fran stood aside and looked at the little goalkeeper who fell to the ground over and over again, not feeling tired at all, but his eyes became brighter, and he felt that he had really picked up a treasure.
Maybe Groningen's real hanging is not his own manager, but the goalkeeper boy in front of the goal.
It is... Maybe it's a common problem for Dutch players? The saving technique really needs to be improved, and this is really not the contrast caused by the saving efficiency that Forlan is used to seeing Casillas.
Failed to save the penalty again, the little goalkeeper lay flat on the ground and had nothing to love, and Fran, who rarely saw him with some negative emotions, dragged him up. The replacement Ruscelles was a quasi-security officer, ignoring his sweat and mud, and went straight to head coach Forlan, but ducked back before he could stand firm when the goalkeeper was pulled up, for fear that he would stain Fran's suit. This made Fran smile even more, and raised his hand to rub the little goalkeeper's half-long hair, ah, the good boy is really a cute existence.
I don't think Ruscelles's bear child is a copy of his youth.
"Gone aarau, today we trained to play a fun game. Forlan told his coaching staff to take the players to warm up for a while, and he went to the dressing room with the goalkeeper himself.
By the time the coaching staff had already divided what Fran called the 'Entertainment Bureau' into good guys, the two were late. The young goalkeeper changed into a clean and crisp training uniform, while Forlan changed from the coaching jersey he usually wears in training and also wore a training jersey from Groningen.
When it came to the group, the coaching staff put most of the starters on one side with the team's substitute goalkeeper, and on the other side were the junior goalkeeper, Arjen Robben and some substitutes. Most people thought that this was just a special test for the young goalkeeper, and no one expected that the manager himself would run to the young goalkeeper as a central defender.
"I-I'm going to that team too!" Ruscelles snorted, in exchange for a disdainful glance from Ibrahimovic, causing the young centre-back to languish for an instant and have to swallow back the affectionate name for his coach. If you have to say it, Fran's punches and kicks on his head can be regarded as an education of love, and Ibu has never beaten him and murdered him, but he can be afraid of just one look.
3γ
In the first round of the Champions League group stage, Groningen faced Manchester United away, and on the way to Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium, the children in the team kept chattering and arguing.
There Lascelles bragged about the time he had faced Manchester City and beaten them to the ground, and a few children next to him who had never been abroad let out a wow. Forlan thought for a long time, although Russell was a little unreliable when he was the captain of the squad at Newcastle, did he let himself go to this point?
Fran thought for a long time and got up from the bus and beckoned to Russells, Ruscelles flashed and trotted over and smiled at Fran, "What's wrong?" Fran patted the position next to him and motioned for him to sit down, and Ruscelles wanted to say something when he sat down, Fran patted his head and signaled him to shut up.
And just like that, Groningen Kindergarten, ah no, the whole Groningen club came to Manchester United's world-famous Old Trafford. Before the game, Fran did not make any more tactical arrangements, after all, he had repeated these things many times, he looked at the group of children in front of him who looked up at him with sparkling eyes, and the two old goblins next to him who were eager to raise a glass of tea to understand life, "It's just a Champions League group stage, don't be nervous" The sentence went through his mind, and finally said viciously:
'It's a big Champions League game and you're all nervous for me!'
Of course, the manager couldn't enter with the starters, but Forlan didn't expect to see Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho waiting there as soon as he walked out of the tunnel. Mourinho tapped Forlan on the shoulder, and it was all in plain sight, as Pep Guardiola said to Forlan after the cup final, that he was coming back too quickly, so fast that even the long-established managers were caught off guard. Mourinho even thought that his first season with Groningen to the Europa League was magical, but he didn't expect to enter the Champions League directly with the Eredivisie title.
"Welcome back!" Mourinho gave Forlan a warm hug.
Welcome back to Old Trafford, welcome back to the Green Stage, welcome back to Europe.
"I actually prefer to go home triumphantly. Fran laughed and was kindly slapped on the back twice by Mourinho.
When the players from both sides entered and the coach blew the whistle, Francisco Alvarez, who was standing on the sidelines, was wearing a slim suit with his hands in his pockets, and he was particularly energetic. As Mourinho said, this guy who retired after winning the Champions League at Real Madrid, returned to Europe as a manager after two years after winning a Europa League title with Manchester United as an assistant coach (Fran: Lao Tzu also played football).
In the frontfield, Casaro in order to prove himself in the Champions League stage is extraordinarily proactive, Ibrahimovic and Robben have been used in both skill and experience, the two newly transferred in the midfield have a tacit understanding of one organization and one sweep, and the back line of Lassell has changed the unreliability off the field, and the action is decisive without dragging the mud and water, vaguely a little bit of Forlan's style back then, and the small goalkeeper in front of the goal is hot and omnipotent.
The Groningen Guards in the camera did not creep as people imagined, and did not show weakness in the face of a re-emerging powerhouse like Manchester United, but showed the infinite vitality and endless future of the whole team.
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