On Wednesday, Valverde went to Monte Carlo, and Ruby was in charge of leading the team to train, but everyone's mind was obviously not on training today, although Ruby was helpless, but there was nothing he could do, so he simply ended the training early.

Because everyone wants to know the results of the draw for the League Cup.

When Ruby announced the early end of training, Halque ran faster than anyone else, and even the veteran de la Pena staggered forward.

In a hurry, if they are assigned to a super strong team, the Espanyol's trip to the League Cup will be miserable.

The UEFA Cup is even more difficult to play than the Champions League, because there are many fixtures and opponents, and it is too difficult to qualify.

Today is the first round of the main competition, which does not mean that you can go to the group stage, but you can only go to the group stage after you have an opponent.

So the draw is quite important.

Sadly, the club's meeting room was already packed with first-team players, as well as members of the coaching staff and other staff members, all of whom were very concerned about the future of Espanyol.

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Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Valverde was sitting on his lap, not walking around like the other coaches, constantly exchanging pleasantries with the other coaches. He's not a rookie here, as he led Espanyol to the UEFA Cup final the year before. He's sitting here today with a clear goal and he's hoping to get back on the ground and lead Espanyol to another UEFA Cup final.

It may seem quite difficult, but if you don't have an ideal, what are you doing here? Is it just to generate revenue for the club in the UEFA Cup?

No

He's eager to get back to that final......

According to the rules of the UEFA Cup, 32 teams are selected from the qualifying round, 32 teams advance directly, and 16 teams are from the teams that lost in the third qualifying round of the Champions League. A total of 80 teams are divided into eight groups of 10 teams each, and then the five seeded teams in each group are determined according to the European points they have earned over the past five years.

Although Espanyol finished runners-up in the UEFA Cup last season, they have not had enough points in the past five years, so they certainly cannot be seeded.

The Bundesliga side are quite strong in the UEFA Cup, with Schalke 04, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Hertha Berlin all seeded, Borussia Dortmund and Wolfsburg unseeded, but four of the six teams are seeded.

As a result, the Spaniards fell into the fourth group, and their opponent was Finland Hungka.

The other matches in Group 4 are:

Everton vs Standard Liège

Napoli vs Benfica

Swiss Bellinzona vs Galatasaray

Netherlands Breda vs Dynamo Bucharest

The two legs of the first round of the UEFA Cup will be played on 18 September and 2 October, with the winner progressing to the UEFA Cup group stage, with the draw taking place on 7 October.

Anyway, the League Cup is the most difficult competition, and there are many giants who accidentally come here in this year's competition.

For example, AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Ajax......

This is still now, and when it comes to the third place that has been eliminated in the group stage of the Champions League, there are even more giants.

Therefore, it is more difficult to win the UEFA Cup than to win the Champions Cup. Now the influence of the League Cup is a little worse, if it was placed more than ten years ago? The Champions Cup, the League Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup, and the three major European cups are almost all in the same name, and it is not easy to win any of them.

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"Finnish Hungka? I've never heard of it......"

'The Finnish football league is nothing in Europe and we can definitely get into the group stage.'

"The draw is good, we can play the league with peace of mind first."

After the draw was announced, the Espanyol conference room was full of jubilation, and everyone was full of hope for the prospect of the League Cup.

"Stone, Tamudo invites the whole team to dinner tonight, you have to come."

After coming out of the locker room, Halk stopped Wu Sanshi.

As the team's captain, it has become a tradition for Tamudo to pay for a dinner with his teammates before the start of each season. The captain has the responsibility and obligation to bring the team together.

Wu Sanshi naturally wouldn't disagree, he was a gregarious child.

"I'll go."

He had only taken a few steps when another voice sounded behind him, this time Casilla. He turned his head to look, only to see a strange fellow standing with him. His face is thin and green, his eyes are pointed, and he looks a little thief.

It's familiar, but I can't remember seeing it there.

Casilla put her arm around Callejon and looked like they were on good terms.

"Hey, Kiko, who is this?"

"José Callejón, just joined RCD Espanyol."

Casilla immediately introduced.

"Oh, welcome."

Wu Sanshi smiled and stretched out his hand, and his heart turned out to be Callehon, no wonder it was so familiar. He was the guy who rode on Mourinho back then, but unfortunately he was not able to stay in Real Madrid in the end, and finally left Napoli in Italy.

It's not a bad career, but he hasn't been able to play at the level of a star, so he can only be said to be a good player.

"Hello, Stone, I've admired your name for a long time."

Callejon still speaks very gently.

Wu Sanshi's memory of him is only stuck in his previous life, and the current Callejon really doesn't know anything. In his memory, Callejon should have played as a winger, and he looked like a rival for the new season.

"He's my good friend at Real Madrid, and we'll all be in the same boat from now on, and we have to take care of each other more than anything."

"A must."

"I'll pick you up for dinner tonight? I bought a new car. ”

"Ha, well, Kiko, I'll be waiting for you at home."

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Saying goodbye to Casilla and Callejon, Wu Sanshi returned home, turned on the computer, and looked up Callejon's file. I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

In the 2007-08 season, Callejon scored 21 goals in 37 appearances for Real Madrid's B team, winning the La B Golden Boot that season.

"Awesome."

"La B B Golden Boot."

"It doesn't look like there's no big competition......

Wu Sanshi suddenly realized that the new season is not so comfortable, and the competition on the front line is still very large, unless he is not pursuing and is willing to move between the main force and the substitute, otherwise he has to show a pretty good performance.

Needless to say, Valverde is unlikely to put the La B Golden Boot on the bench and will certainly give him a lot of opportunities. Garcia and Tamudo are both veterans who have proven themselves with too many performances, and he did well last season......

At seven o'clock in the evening, Casilla drove his new car to the door of Wu Sanshi's house and picked him up in the car.

As soon as he got in the car, Casilla began to brag.

"Stone, the club has given me a raise this season, and I have officially become the No. 1 goalkeeper, so you have to work harder and strive to raise my salary. Even though you're on loan, both Ajax and the Spaniards will pay you a salary, right? ”

"How much do you get paid a week?"

"Hey, guess."

"10,000?"

"Almost...... A little more than ten thousand. ”

"Stone, I guess you'll get that much soon."

"Uh......" What can Wu Sanshi say?

"My Audi S4 cost me 35,000 euros, almost a month's salary."

"Whew, I'd like to have one of these too."

Callejon in the back seat said with envy, "But my salary is too small now......"

Wu Sanshi: ......