Before the start of the 01-02 season, there was no small movement in Spanish football.

Last season's league champion Atletico Madrid's personnel changes are not too big, Stam's addition caused quite a stir, such a top central defender joins, means that Atletico's squad is more complete, but also increased their Champions Cup experience, although they did not spend a lot of money this summer, but such a stable addition, but it means that Atletico Madrid has begun to stabilize and go on the right track - such a team, even more terrifying.

Real Madrid began to formally put forward the strategy of one superstar a year, Zidane's arrival made their midfield strength swell, except for Zidane, they did not make much movement, but promoted three young players from the second team, Ruwen, Raul Bravo, Pavon. Valencia has been very shaken this summer, with manager Cooper poached by Inter Milan and Mendieta opting to move to Lazio, and they have used the little-known Benitez as manager, with the addition of Mista, Salva, Rufitte and other players also complementing their strength. Deportivo La Coruna continued their low-cost business strategy, Barcelona made up their minds, first bringing in Saviola, who shone at the World Youth Championships, and then bringing in two young Brazilian players, Roshenbach and Giovanni, while the back line is also being strengthened, the addition of French central defender Cristanval and legendary Swedish central defender Patrick Anderson seems to have made their backline a lot less afraid of high balls, and the biggest spenders are still Real Madrid and Barcelona, obviously, None of them want to be crushed by a team like Atletico.

For this, Dick naturally knows in his heart that this season will definitely be much more difficult than last season - La Liga has always been a two-man rotation of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and other teams have never won the championship even if they occasionally win the championship, which can be seen from the fact that Atletico Madrid can rank third in the number of championships after winning nine championships, but last season Atletico Madrid won the league title in the case of reorganization, and continued to recruit in an orderly manner this summer, which made Real Madrid and Barcelona begin to feel greater danger.

To be honest, for the previous Hill, whether it is the top management of Real Madrid or the top management of Barcelona, they are disdainful, because Hill is typically a layman, although he also spends money and introduces superstars and coaches, but his behaviors are all short-term behaviors, and they are not enough to make Atletico Madrid a real strong team, including last season Atletico Madrid spent 100 million on the transfer market, and Real Madrid and Barcelona did not have any vigilance against them, because in Spain, only they can become each other's opponents, The other teams are not very qualified.

However, Atletico Madrid won the league championship in that situation last season, which was enough to make them feel vigilant, and this season, Atletico Madrid's calm and targeted transfer operation in the transfer market also made them feel a huge threat - a Hill who throws money indiscriminately is not terrible, and Dick, a manager like a mad dog who can lead the team to victory, is not terrible, but if Dick has Hill's financial support, plus the maximum support in the club, he can lead the team to the championship wholeheartedly- That's quite terrible, that is to say, Hill's financial resources will not be wasted as before, and Atletico Madrid's results will stabilize every season, so that after two or three years, Atletico Madrid will be able to grow into an existence that can compete with a team of Real Madrid's Barcelona level in any aspect!

In the case of the two heroes, the existence of a third level is not at all in the interests of Real Madrid and Barcelona, like Deportivo La Coruna is a little congenitally deficient, Valencia is also not able to compare with Real Madrid Barcelona in terms of financial resources - Atletico Madrid is different, their support in Madrid is not inferior to Real Madrid, Hill is not a chairman without money, it was not particularly successful before, mainly because Hill likes to mess around, and now a Dick has been born, which can be said to have put together the last good piece of the puzzle for Atletico Madrid.

"Well, like Jose, it seems to be a good feeling to come out as the third best in the entire Western Super League......" Dick thought to himself.

This season's La Liga will officially kick off the first round of matches on August 26 - this is because next year is a major year, so this season's La Liga will come earlier than usual, as the reigning champion of La Liga and the winner of the League Cup, Atletico Madrid also have some games to play before the start of the season, Atletico Madrid will face last season's Copa del Rey winners Zaragoza on August 19 and August 22, and then after the first round of the league, they will face the UEFA Super Cup on August 31. The opponent is last season's Champions League winners, Bundesliga hegemons Bayern.

There is such a dense schedule at the beginning of the season, which is naturally not too favorable, but Dick doesn't care much about this, it doesn't matter if he can win the Spanish Super Cup, he plans to use these two games to train newcomers, only the official league and the European Super Cup are what he cares about.

Dick loses interest in winning this kind of championship once - in this respect, Dick is also quite a person who likes the new and hates the old, but of course, the league championship is not boring how many times it is won, and it is still a question of the importance of the event.

Zaragoza's performance last season was mediocre, but they eventually won the Copa del Rey, which can be regarded as a lot of morale recovery for their players, and they have also made some reinforcements this season, for Zaragoza, if they can win the Spanish Super Cup, maybe they can improve their morale.

In the following period, Atletico Madrid began their pre-season training camp, after the physical training, began to be a variety of tactical training, Marriner arranged a large number of offensive routines, such as the midfield after the ball on both wings, such as the ball to the wing, the side back to Belleron, Belleron passed the ball to Jardel or Cruise who pulled out of the penalty area, and at the same time attracted the defenders in the opponent's penalty area, and then created opportunities for the players inserted on the side, and then the cooperation of the two center forwards in the front of the penalty area, etcMost of them are attacking with a two-striker approach, whether it's a fast wing duo like Vicente and Jorgensen, or a more balanced midfield with Belleron, Baraja, Makelele and Camoranesi.

With such a large number of drills, the players are also beginning to realize that it seems that in the new season, the team will adopt more of a two-center tactic instead of a single center last season.

This is naturally a good thing for the forwards, last season Atletico Madrid mainly played a single striker, Cruise often played as a substitute, Torres also got some opportunities in the rotation, Correa seems to have few opportunities to play, this season if you play a double striker, whether it is Torres or Correa, I am afraid there will be more opportunities to come off the bench.

However, in this way, the number of midfielders seems to be a little small, originally after the arrival of Jorgensen and Hage, the competition in the midfield of Atletico Madrid began to become fierce, last season it was eight people fighting for five positions, this season it has become nine people fighting for five positions, if it becomes four positions all of a sudden, the competition in the midfield will definitely become very, very fierce.

The players did not show this, because it is obvious that through the success of last season, Dick's prestige has increased a lot, and now Dick, not relying on the power of the old Hill alone, but really has his own power and voice within the Atletico club - in the team, there are now more than a dozen players who have been personally introduced by him, Belleron and Baraja are his descendants, Jadel, Cruise, Makelele, Thuram, Stam, Vicente and Camoranesi were brought in by him, and Torres was extremely convinced of Dick...... The current Atletico Madrid is not monolithic, and it is not much worse.

As long as he has been leading the team to good results, no matter what players are pressed by him on the bench, he will not dare to express any dissatisfaction, or choose to leave like Beybull, and if he still wants to stay at Atletico, he will honestly wait for me to wait on the bench for a chance - Dick is not the kind of coach who only uses thirteen or fourteen players, and most of the substitutes can still have some opportunities.

The pre-season training camp is relatively dull, but no player will feel unnecessary, everyone knows what a team's pre-season training camp means, there is plenty of time for players to reserve physical fitness, adapt to new tactics, and make the cooperation become tacit, so for many teams, it is a very important thing to be able to finalize the team lineup in advance, so that the team can have more run-in time, if a player's transfer is to grind until the transfer window closes, Then his performance this season may drop a lot, of course, there are exceptions, such as Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid to win the league championship and top scorer, Sneijder's last-minute transfer to Inter Milan to win the treble and almost become the world footballer is an example, but it is obvious that there are many fewer successful examples and failed examples.

So whether it is physical training or tactical training, it has started in an orderly manner, no matter how the tactics change, Dick's hand-picked central defender combination is Thuram and Stam, the superstar central defender partner, and everyone is not unconvinced, after all, the two of them are famous, and they quickly showed their ability in the training camp.

Thuram's performance last season convinced everyone, and Stam also showed that he is fierce against the enemy, excellent frontal defense, excellent air defense, and Thuram is a perfect match for the quick turn and accurate positioning.

Seeing the performance of the two central defenders in training, Dick became more and more satisfied, in the history he knew, the two central defenders had not worked together, and he was also a little worried about whether the two of them could work well together, but remembering that Stam and Nesta were also very good when he was at Lazio, and it happened that Thuram was also a central defender who was closer to Nesta's type, and he should also be able to cooperate well with Stam - now it seems that the effect is still very good.

However, in this way, Marchena is a little depressed, the young Spanish central defender became a regular in the second half of last season, and as a result, as soon as Stam arrived this season, he continued to be reduced to a substitute - not that he was not convinced by Stam, but that everyone would feel depressed in this situation.

However, Dick had other arrangements for him, Marchena could not only play at centre-back, but also at the back, and in training Dick began to rotate him in these two positions, and after understanding this, Marchena began to be less depressed - obviously, he was the first substitute in both the central defender and the midfield, and his chances of playing would also be many.

"Now, just wait for the Super Bowl to start, let me train for a while." Dick thought to himself.