Chapter 13: The last piece of the puzzle

The players were all taken aback by Gao Bo's toughness, and they were calmed by Gao Bo's hand.

In the eyes of most players, Sam Parker is the only striker on the team who can handle it at the moment....

Before Jamie Vardy and Charlie Austin showed their talents, the Luton players, while being kind to the two new additions, didn't think the amateur players could make a difference in the second division...

Also thinking so is the team's assistant coach John Aston. John is worried about the relationship between Gao Bo and the team's number one striker.

At the end of a day's training, John approached Gao Bo.

"Don't you have to go with your wife tonight, John?" Gao Bo tidied up his desk and said jokingly.

Gao Bo even lives in the office these days, has just taken over the team, and his work is very busy.

The team's defensive training has already begun, and in the next few days the team will gradually add offensive tactical training.

In terms of attack, Gao Bo mainly arranges the counter-attacking routine, and in terms of positional attack, the team's main attacking methods will be crosses from the wing and long-range shots at the edge of the penalty area.

At the moment, Gao Bo does not have many players who are capable enough to implement some complex tactics, and the most important thing for Luton this season is to grab points, the most efficient way to grab points.

Thirty points were deducted at the start of the season, and although Gao Bo always looked confident, he really knew how difficult it could be in this situation.

And Gao Bo doesn't plan to stay in the second division for too long, his goal is ..... It's an upgrade!

This goal Gao Bo has never revealed, if it is now said that Luton's goal is to be upgraded, it is estimated that everyone thinks that Gao Bo is insane - there is still hope for promotion after being deducted 30 points? Relegation is already a hellish difficulty!

But Gao Bo doesn't think so, he has four players in his hands who are enough to gain a foothold in the English top league in the future, Vardy also won the Premier League's Golden Boot, Kante is the future Premier League steal king, these players come to play in the second division, although it is still several years away from their popularity, but now Vardy, Kante, they can definitely play superstar-level data in the second division!

This is the advantage of Gao Bo who foresees the future in ten years, and he has several potential stocks in his hands that have the potential to be praised as super players!

Although these potential stocks have not yet reached the time to explode, Gao Bo has seen the attributes of Vardy and others through the skill of "insight", and with their current strength, it is more than enough to play in the fourth division of the English league!

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Luton's pre-season training is progressing on track, while Gao Bo's work is becoming more and more detailed.

The team now needs a high striker to sit on the bench, as well as a tall centre-back who can provide sufficient frontal defense in defence, which is the focus of Gao Bo's scouting department during this time.

John Aston and the rest of the Luton squad no longer have doubts about the ability of the players Gao Bo has brought in, and as the team's training content progresses, they no longer have doubts!

Several of Luton's centre-backs have already recognised the goalscoring prowess of Vardy and Charlie Austin in their intra-squad rivalries – these two strikers are definitely much better than Sam Parker, who has long since been forgotten by the players...

In fact, Sam Parker was traded out by the team.

Regarding the high striker, Gao Bo remembered a game he watched in the 2012-2013 season, when Premier League giants Liverpool were beaten 3-2 by League One side Oldham in the fourth round of the FA Cup, and striker Matt Smith, who scored two goals for Oldham at the time, impressed Gao Bo.

This Matt Smith is 198 centimeters tall, and like Crouch, he is almost a big bamboo pole, and he is definitely a player in the lower leagues.

At that time, Liverpool was overturned by the League One team and caused a big upset, and Liverpool's manager at the time, Brendan Rodgers, praised Matt Smith as the "white-skinned Drogba" after the game

However, the white-skinned Drogba continued to fail to appear in the mainstream media after that fight, so Gao Bo didn't know much about Matt Smith's future development.

Eventually, after Luton's scouts, the 198-centimeter-tall giant striker Matt Smith was now playing for Port Will, a member of the English Second Division.

After negotiations between the two sides, Port Will agreed to Luton's offer of Sam Parker in exchange for Matt Smith.

In the forward line, the three-striker configuration, although still a little thin, finally made Gao Bo breathe a sigh of relief - if only two forwards, Jamie Vardy and Charlie Austin, were to play for an entire season, such a configuration would be too frightening.

All that remains is to bring in a central defender, but at this stage of the second division, it is really difficult to find a central defender who meets Gao Bo's requirements. Gao Bo can think of those defenders who will be popular in the future, but there are not many strong central defenders who come out of the lower leagues, and those central defenders who will be popular in the future are also mostly strong at this time, with Luton's small body, not to mention competing with Premier League clubs, above Luton, there are also Championship and League One teams.

If a new centre-back cannot be introduced, Gao Bo will need to make a choice between the current centre-back configuration, and he will choose a relatively fixed centre-back partner.

To be honest, apart from George Parker, Luton's other centre-backs are all of the same caliber and relatively young, and it is really difficult to reassure the manager in the centre-back position if a player is not talented and has no experience in the game.

After repeated consideration, combined with the effect of training during this time, Gao Bo finally determined the main and substitute lineup of his team.

After Gao Bo put down his pen, he rubbed his bloodshot eyes.

Although the central defender position always feels unreassuring, on the whole, from Gao Bo's point of view, this lineup is still strong enough in the second division, especially the configuration of the midfield and forwards.

Although there are some regrets, Gao Bo does not intend to invest 100,000 pounds in order to buy a central defender. In Gao Bo's opinion, money is too important for Luton, if you want to buy it, you have to buy a player who is good enough!

Looking at the results of his work for several hours, Gao Bo smiled with satisfaction.

He looked at his watch, it was 9:15 a.m., fifteen minutes before the team practiced. Gao Bo appeared in the office at four o'clock, and in order to do this job well, Gao Bo was desperate enough.

Gao Bo straightened his collar and stimulated his face with cold water by the pool, ready to meet today's training in the best condition.

"Mr. Gobo, there's a young man named Jeffrey Buruma out there looking for you!"

"Jeffrey?"

Gao Bo was stunned for a moment, and then smiled in surprise!

It looks like Luton's final piece of the puzzle of the season is about to be completed!