Chapter 097: The Bitter Southampton

"Hunt strongly recommends that we sign Lallana immediately." Kravitz told Klopp that he described Hunt as Liverpool's chief scout.

"In fact, our scouting system has been watching Lallana for three years now." First Team Development Coach Pete. Linders said.

"I know." Klopp nodded, he has read the report on Lallana many times, he still appreciates this England international, Lallana has good technical ability, he performs well in the middle, but he can also move on the side, in addition, the most satisfying thing for Klopp is that Lallana has a selfless style of play, willing to assist his teammates, and at the same time this is a very enterprising player, and his mental attributes make Klopp satisfied.

In the summer, Lallana was infinitely close to Liverpool, and the reason why the transfer deal was not reached in the end was because Liverpool had no money, and the income from the sale of Suarez was not enough to be used for Jiang Chenxi's reinforcements, which also made Liverpool close the transfer window after introducing Jiang Chenxi in the summer.

'Lallana is a well-balanced player with both feet, whether it's a shot from a tight angle in the box or a long-range shot from outside the box, and because he can tear apart the opposition's defence, they have to use multiple players to mark him and his team-mates get space because of that. Kravitz, on the other hand, analysed how Lallana's characteristics might help Liverpool from a technical and tactical point of view.

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"What do you think?" Jurgen Klopp had already made a decision of inclination, but asked the team for their opinion.

"I agree." Peter. "There's a saying in English football that Southampton is made and you can use it with confidence. ”

Hearing Linders say this, everyone burst out laughing.

Southampton's academy has produced a number of excellent players for the Premier League, and Arsene Wenger has said that Southampton is a real football factory, and they have been supplying quality players to other teams for almost a decade. And Ferguson has also said that half of the players in the Premier League are produced by Southampton's academy, and it is obvious that they will continue to develop more excellent players.

In fact, it is an open recognition that Liverpool like to gather wool from Southampton.

Even in the eyes of many fans, as a scout at Liverpool, the comfort level should be equivalent to that of a buyer in a state-owned enterprise, you only need to run to Southampton a few times in the winter and summer, and you don't even need to go, just throw the main squad of your fellow countrymen directly to the manager to choose. It's a job that my grandmother can do.

Not to mention the story before Klopp coached Liverpool, after Klopp coached Liverpool, in the summer, Liverpool was planning to bring in Lambert, Lallana and Lovren, all three of whom were from Southampton, and in the end, Klopp vetoed Lambert's reinforcement and brought in Lovren, and the rest of Lallana was temporarily shelved due to financial reasons.

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In the end, the introduction of Lallana was decided, and Klopp was in a good mood, because the club's top management agreed to spend money in the winter transfer market, on the one hand, because Liverpool reached the last 16 of the Champions League, which means that there is a lot of Champions League broadcasting division of labor, and Liverpool is now tied with Chelsea for the top spot in the Premier League, and there is a great hope of winning the Premier League title, which also makes the club management very excited, of course, there is another point, that is, when Klopp was signed, the Liverpool management also promised to give some support in the recruitment, not to mention anything else, signing Jiang Chenxi at the highest price in the history of the Premier League, this reinforcement made Klopp satisfied.

After confirming Lallana's signing, Klopp, who was in a good mood, even quipped, "Maybe we should set up a scouting department in Southampton." ”

This drew laughter from the crowd.

"There's one more player." "Henderson recommended PSV Eindhoven's Dutch international Wijnaldum, and I read the player's profile and I felt it was necessary to pay attention. ”

"What do you think of this player?" Klopp asked his team if he had seen Wijnaldum's profile and video and wanted to hear from them again.

'It's a very low-key player. Zeliko. "I've studied this player, he's a positive runner, he's disciplined and he's well-rounded. ”

Kravitz noticed that when Bouácz said 'very disciplined', Klopp nodded slightly, knowing that the player was in Klopp's eyes.

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Liverpool and Southampton have been in contact quickly, and although the winter transfer window is still more than a month away, formal talks have already begun on a move for Lallana, or more precisely to reopen negotiations that had been put on hold.

The next day, Melwood Training Base.

The Liverpool first team is training in the squad, but due to the national team break, a number of Liverpool internationals rushed back to the national team to report, so that the Liverpool first team was understaffed, and only some players were drawn from the development team by the youth team to participate in joint training.

On the training ground, Suso passed a diagonal pass, and Borini, who grabbed the point in front of the goal, faced most of the empty goals and hit the plane with one kick.

Seeing this, Klopp shook his head.

He suddenly had a bit of a headache and he realised that it wasn't just the midfield that needed to be strengthened, but also the attack.

Previously, he had not been worried about the striker until this national team match day Liverpool received a letter from the Chinese Football Association calling Jiang Chenxi back to play for the national team.

Previously, whether it was when he was coaching Dortmund or on the national team match day in September after coming to Liverpool, Jiang Chenxi was not called up by the Chinese national team, so much so that Klopp forgot that Jiang Chenxi might be called up by the Chinese team, you must know that when he was in Dortmund, he was also surprised that Jiang Chenxi was not a Chinese international, and then he ignored this matter, anyway, the Chinese team did not recruit Jiang Chenxi, which is a good thing for Dortmund.

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Before Jiang Chenxi left Liverpool and returned to China, he communicated with head coach Klopp and explained the reason, after he was seriously injured in the Inter Milan youth team and almost ruined his career, and then restarted his career in the Foggia team, and it was not until he played in Basel that he once again attracted the attention of the Chinese national team, however, given that Jiang Chenxi had suffered a serious injury before, he had been worried about his physical condition, and at that time the Chinese team had been eliminated from the World Cup Asian qualifiers, so, The Chinese team has not recruited Jiang Chenxi, and later when he was in Dortmund, Jiang Chenxi's performance has become better and better, and has grown into a top star, at the critical moment of Dortmund's impact on the Champions League, the main task of the Chinese national team at that time was the qualifiers for the Asian Cup, in view of the weaker opponents in the qualifiers, the Chinese team did not recruit Jiang Chenxi, in fact, this has caused a huge controversy within the Football Association, thinking that even the warm-up matches should be reported by the national team, not to mention the Asian Cup qualifiers, and later someone at the higher level spoke, The better Jiang Chenxi played at Borussia Dortmund, the more honors he achieved, and it was also a help to the image of Chinese football and Chinese sports, which calmed down these arguments.

Jiang Chenxi later learned that after that meeting, the national team also reached a consensus on the use of Jiang Chenxi, and only important events such as the Asian Cup and World Cup qualifiers, as well as some really important warm-up games, would recruit him.

In fact, this decision is also a win-win situation for Jiang Chenxi and the national team, which can allow Jiang Chenxi to exert his greatest energy in the most important events, and want the Chinese team to play opponents like Myanmar in the Asian Cup qualifiers, and also recruit Yang Chen and Xie Hui to return to China to play football.

The most important reason why the Chinese team recruited Jiang Chenxi to play a warm-up game this time is that the Asian Cup is about to start, and Jiang Chenxi also needs to play a few more warm-up games, and the teammates of the national team will run in more.

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November 14, Nanchang, warm-up match between the Chinese team and New Zealand.

This game attracted widespread attention, and the stands were almost full, because this was Jiang Chenxi's first time wearing the national team jersey after 6 years since the national junior team.

With the return of Jiang Chenxi, the top star in football, he is obviously more confident in the prospects of the national team in the Asian Cup and even the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated New Zealand 2:1 in this game, Jiang Chenxi came on as a substitute in the second half and played for ten minutes, scored a goal with two shots, and was the hero of the Chinese team's defeat of New Zealand.

Four days later, the Chinese team moved to the ancient city of Xi'an to play a warm-up match against Honduras, in which Jiang Chenxi started for about an hour, scoring a goal and an assist to help China beat the disjointed Honduran team 2-0.

In the two warm-up games, Jiang Chenxi played for more than 70 minutes, scored two goals and one assist, helped the Chinese team win two victories, and the domestic media also praised Jiang Chenxi.

"The forward crisis that has plagued Chinese football for many years is gone!" - "New Wave Sports" shouted, however, the media also pointed out the existing problems, judging from these two games, there is still a lack of tacit understanding between Jiang Chenxi and his teammates, or more precisely, there is a generation gap between him and his teammates in the Chinese team: Jiang Chenxi is too strong, his awareness and ability are much ahead of his teammates in the national team, and it often happens that he runs to the position, and his teammates have not realized that the pass is slow, and he doesn't even realize that he can pass the ball to that position, or the quality of the pass is too poor.

This is a process that needs to be run-in, and it is impossible for other players in the national team to improve to the level of Jiang Chenxi's teammates in Liverpool in the short term, so Jiang Chenxi can only be asked to take the initiative to lower his 'level' to adapt to his teammates in the national team - reporter Zhong Dajun said things that were not joking in his column.

Klopp was most worried that Jiang Chenxi would be injured after a long journey back to China to play football, and finally, seeing Jiang Chenxi, who had returned healthy after playing the national team game, was examined by the team doctor, except for a slight exhaustion, there was no problem, which also made Klopp breathe a sigh of relief.

There is still a month left in the Premier League to enter the cruel Devil's Christmas schedule, and in the month before the Devil's schedule, in addition to the double red meeting with Manchester United, Liverpool's opponents are not too strong, it is a good time to grab points, and Liverpool needs Jiang Chenxi to have a better performance to help the team move forward.

PS: I've been hesitant about whether to write the plot of the national team, unlike other categories, football, the plot of the national team is simply a minefield, whoever touches it dies, and the death is ugly. So, I decided not to touch the national team, this time the UAE Asian Cup, I revisited the last Australian Asian Cup, to be honest, Perrin played really well in that national team, I hesitated again, there is a voice in my heart has been ringing, if that Asian Cup, the Chinese team has Jiang Chenxi, how far can they go? The national team is an unavoidable plot, and an old friend joked that I have created the latest way to write about the national team, 'ignore the stream', and about the national team, I will try to simplify it as much as possible, and only write about the Asian Cup and World Cup qualifiers. If you have any ideas to talk about, I will try to adopt them, after all, writing a book depends on your support, and the most important thing is that everyone is happy to read it.

In the end, I was very depressed, well, when I was young and too prosperous, when I was still a young fan, I also dreamed that a top star from China would lead the national team to kill the Quartet, and when I grew up, I found that not to mention killing the Quartet, this is a topic that I dare not touch, it is the so-called deep hatred of love......

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