Chapter VI is a dire situation

In a small conference room in the team's office building, Gao Bo met his assistant in Luton.

Most teams in England don't yet have a manager or technical director or the like of a manager above the manager, so now in Luton, apart from owner David Morton, the most powerful is manager Gopo.

"This is Mr. Gao Bo from China, and from today he will be the head coach of the team!" David Morton said:

The coaches and staff in the room were all looking at Gao Bo with curious eyes.

Luton is a small city near London, and most tourists from China like to go to London to see Big Ben, or to more famous cities such as Manchester and Liverpool, and there are not many opportunities to see Chinese tourists in Luton.

Chinese tourists are rare, not to mention that suddenly a Chinese suddenly comes to the team and becomes everyone's boss.

Today's Gao Bo is wearing a black dress, black suit pants with black leather shoes, and a long trench coat on his body, he is not buttoned, revealing the shirt inside, an angular face, thick eyebrows, sharp eyes, a straight nose bridge, a curve on the mouth, revealing a friendly smile.

A twenty-seven-year-old young man, still a Chinese, became the head coach of Luton, and this news will definitely make the local media in Luton and even the media in London pay attention.

However, do Chinese understand football?

Everyone's curiosity gradually turned into suspicion, and everyone looked at this young man who suddenly appeared in Luton, this seemingly harmless young man, can lead Luton out of the predicament?

"Mr. Gao Bo was the head coach of Chelsea's Under-18s and led Chelsea Under-18s to the FA Youth Cup! He also holds a UEFA A-level coaching certificate! David Morton continued.

Everyone showed a look of surprise that being able to coach Chelsea Under-18s and lead the team to the championship at least shows that Gao Bo is a capable person, a capable person, no matter what country he is, at least he will get a minimum of respect. And the UEFA A-level coaching certificate does not make this group of Englishmen feel anything special - the current English football, especially in the middle and lower leagues, the market for academic coaches is really small.

After a brief introduction to Gao Bo, David Morton introduced him to his colleagues here.

Due to the crisis in the team, the previous coach had left before the end of last season, and his colleagues had left his coaching staff, so now there are only two first-team coaches in this room.

Assistant coach John Aston, a former legend of the team, was the head of Luton's youth team before becoming assistant manager, and now John Aston is the team's acting head coach and, of course, after Gobo took over, his role is back as assistant coach.

However, John Aston was not dissatisfied with Gobo stealing his position as head coach, John knew where his level was, and let him take the team to play in the second division, which was hopeless, and he stayed not because he coveted the position of manager, but because of his love for the team. So John still smiled and greeted Gao Bo.

There is also a physical trainer Mel Donald, who has also served the team for more than two decades, so he did not leave when the team was in crisis.

In addition to these two coaches, the others are the coaches of the youth team.

The first team at Luton Town has been very turbulent in the past two seasons, but the youth team has been stable, and England's teams have a very good academy system, even some teams in the seventh and eighth divisions, they often have a well-established echelon system.

The same goes for Luton, who have a dedicated head in charge of each age group, from the Under-8s all the way up to the Under-18s. This situation is very common in England, of course, for Luton, the age group below the U14 is more of a wide net, similar to the nature of the domestic football interest class, and the personnel are also very large, and from the U15 onwards, it is the elite training model, from this age group, it is the echelon that really needs to invest some money to maintain.

There aren't many coaches in Luton's youth team, and there are only a dozen coaches of all ages combined.

In addition to the coach, there are also the maintenance staff of the stadium, the scout of the team, and so on.

Gao Bo greeted his new colleagues with a smile one by one, showing his friendliness and respect, and overall, this meeting made everyone's impression of Gao Bo quite good.

Since the season is now over and the players have left the team to start their vacations, Gao Bo has no chance to meet his players now.

However, it does not hinder Gao Bo's upcoming work.

In the afternoon, Gao Bo was in the state of work, and he first needed to understand the current situation of Luton.

And when John Aston gave Gao Bo the current squad, Gao Bo found that the team's situation was far worse than he imagined.

There are currently only three players in the squad who are over the age of 21.

The captain, 32-year-old Kevin Keane, is also a key midfielder – a midfielder who has been with the team since the Championship a few years ago. Despite being thirty-two years old, Kevin still has many suitors, but Kevin Keane chooses to be loyal to the team when the team is in crisis.

Forward Sam Parker, last season's backup forward, is 27 years old. John Aston doesn't think the striker has much hope of staying with the team this season. And the reason why he is still on the team is because Sam Parker suffered a serious injury last season, so it's not that he doesn't want to go, it's that he can't go for the time being.

Central defender George Parker, a product of the team's academy, is 26 years old this year, and his strength is not bad, at least at this level of competition in the English second division, George is still at ease.

With the exception of these three players, the rest of the players are all young players under the age of 21!

This means that the squad that played in League One last season has basically left. So now the team is only left with players who have been promoted from the youth team!

Most of the players in the youth team have no professional league experience, and it will be difficult for such a young team to be relegated in the second division even if they are not deducted 30 points...

Gao Bo rubbed his forehead, it seems that the situation is much more serious than imagined.