3.041 Winter Tonic
Speaking of which, it was because of the Birmingham incident, Li Chengfeng did not expect that under the leadership of Munch, Birmingham would struggle in the relegation zone. Li Chengfeng admitted that Birmingham's squad was far worse than those giants, but Li Chengfeng did not ask Birmingham to enter the European zone, he just asked the team to be relegated.
Birmingham's current squad, Ola Ena, Joshua Temon, Semeido, McNeil, Soucek, En-Nesyri, have all been the main players in the top five leagues in previous seasons, Velázquez, Lucas Mai, Komesania, and Bautista have also rotated in the top five leagues, and the rest of the players are also talented young players or have a lot of experience.
This lineup is also a configuration near the middle of the midstream in the UK, so it shouldn't fall to the point of the relegation zone. Or is there a problem with the ability of head coach Monk, as a traditional England coach, he has fallen behind in tactics, and he is still superstitious about the style of play of flying on both wings and rushing with long passes, but Birmingham's lineup is not suitable for this style of play.
As Arsene Wenger's Como team, as well as the predetermined core players brought in from Spain and Argentina, they are not suitable for England's traditional physical flow of play, but the stubborn Monk refuses to change, putting the players that Li Chengfeng has brought in at a high cost on the bench, and trusting the ordinary players who have followed him from the Championship to have good results.
A change must be made, Li Chengfeng also expects Birmingham to become his money bag, the core value of the future, if he is played by Munch to relegation, it will be a big loss.
There must be a change of commander, Li Chengfeng made up his mind. However, the English coach is not suitable, and this team needs a big 6 style manager. But who do you have to look for to ensure relegation? There is no foolproof guarantee for this kind of thing, but Li Chengfeng can't afford to lose, he has invested too much in Birmingham, and once he fails, he is afraid that most of the years of accumulation will be lost.
Maybe there are only so many people who can make Li Chengfeng trust, but how can those people come to a team like Birmingham to be relegated? Li Chengfeng also didn't dare to believe those coaches who hadn't proven themselves yet, no matter how good their numbers looked.
There was really no way, Li Chengfeng decided to go into battle in person. Although he has not yet obtained a UEFA Pro level license and is not qualified to coach a British team, it is estimated that he will be able to obtain this certificate in a few months.
The key is what to do in the past few months, Chinese have always been good at solving problems, Li Chengfeng decided to fire Munch, promote a puppet coach from the team, he can be an assistant coach on the sidelines to command, leading the team to relegation.
Although the decision was made, Li Chengfeng did not fire Meng Ke immediately, but announced that he would continue to trust Meng Ke and settle his mind. He has more important things to do now, and he still needs to worry about the winter transfer in the real world and the CM world, and the matter of firing the Munch squid will be done when the transfer is over. Now the team is not very far from relegation, and he is confident that he will come back. In fact, the strength of the team is not bad, but it just met a leader who is not suitable.
However, Cuomo has to add defenders, Ranocchia is injured again, and the central defender now only has Jiang Shenglong as a substitute, which is obviously not good, and the professor has begun to let Petersen play as a central defender. Li Chengfeng recalled Semedo from Birmingham, who played at Como for two years and is familiar with the professor's tactics and can link up seamlessly. As for Birmingham, Li Chengfeng bought Serbian international Svetozar Markovic.
This season, Como's results have dropped significantly, and the departure of a large number of quality players in the summer has really had a big impact, and Wenger also has a lot of opinions about this. Li Chengfeng can only promise that there will never be such a situation next year, and he will strengthen the team. As for this season, it can only be like this, although there is little hope of qualifying for the European zone, but relegation is also impossible, and in this worse league, if you want to be relegated, you have to be rotten to a certain extent.
Norka still has the least to worry about, and now Norka is stable in the top half of the La Liga, even if it is not far from the promotion play-offs. However, Li Chengfeng has no performance requirements, and this winter, except for Harry Dean, who was sent from Birmingham, Norka will only recruit a few more talented young players from the second team for training, and there is no other operation.
The transfer operation of CM World Manchester City is also very simple, the team is already very complete, and only a few strong rotation players need to be added.
The original goals, Cavani was abandoned by Li Chengfeng because of the summer's reversal, Hulk just transferred to Russia in the summer to get a high salary and was unwilling to leave, and Falcao wanted to wait until the summer to make a decision.
There was no other way, Li Chengfeng chose Chelsea's Sturridge. Sturridge, a Manchester City academy graduate, went to Chelsea after his contract expired and was lured by money, but he couldn't get much of a chance with a Chelsea team that was waving cheques to buy stars. Now Manchester City have spent €120,000 to bring him back to Manchester, where he will compete with Robert Lewandowski for a spot.
There is also Inter Milan's young midfielder Curinho, after Klos and Modric began to appear more in the midfield position this season, Manchester City's forward defenders only have Reus, Bale, Silva and Hazard, and the purchase of Curinho is also a good addition. While Liverpool are also interested in Curinho, Li Chengfeng's relationship with Inter Milan helped Manchester City get Curinho for only €1ooo million.
With these two men, City's manpower problem up front has been solved, but the problem in central midfield has not been so easy to solve.
Originally, midfielder Li Chengfeng took a fancy to Moussa Sissoko of Toulouse in Ligue 1, although the software is average, but the hardware is very good, as a b-to-b midfielder, he can play as a back, he can also serve as a substitute for Toure, and if necessary, he can also play on the side, which is more than enough as a rotation.
However, he actually refused and went to Newcastle. Agents play a key role in this, Newcastle have brought in a number of French players this winter, perhaps because they want to make Newcastle a forward base for French players to climb the 6 England, just like Li Chengfeng did in the real world Como.
Anyway, Li Chengfeng lost this player after all, and the others, Li Chengfeng has no interest, it is better to Rodwell. It's going to be a good time, it's really not a good player to buy in the winter, and everyone prefers to do business in the summer when the league hasn't started yet.
As for the backline, Li Chengfeng has taken a fancy to the young defender Sako of Ligue 1 Paris. With the arrival of Qatar Oil's financiers, Grand Paris began to collect famous stars all over the world, and Thiago Silva was snatched by them at a high price.
However, with the arrival of these stars, the young players in their squad have also been greatly affected and have to think about their future. Of course, Grand Paris will not let go of this important rotation player easily unless they can find a replacement, but it will not be an easy task. If you have the quality, you can transfer, and you have to be qualified to play in the Champions League for Grand Paris, it will not be so easy to find this winter.
So this transfer dragged on, and it dragged until Li Chengfeng wanted to change the target, anyway, this season just needs a rotation-level defender is enough, there are many such goals, but the cost performance is not high. However, they have already decided to leave Manchester City after the end of the contract, so why save money for them, just buy it.
In the end, Manchester City paid a penalty to buy former Blackburn Rovers defender Christopher Samba, saving him from the ice and snow of Russia. His arrival has eased the injured Manchester City's backline, at least without the serious dip of form from Chloe Toure.
However, Samba's arrival is almost the end of the winter transfer window, and before that City have lost a game they should not have lost, losing to underdogs Sunderland in the final round of the first half of the league season.
In that game, Li Chengfeng had to send in a centre-back combination of Lescott and Kolo Toure due to injury, and even Boateng had to play at right-back, which he hadn't played much in two years. In the end, due to a series of mistakes at the back, Manchester City lost a goal away, and were tied by Manchester United in the standings, and were squeezed into second place because of goal difference.
Li Chengfeng doesn't remember that this is the first time in several seasons that the two teams have competed so fiercely, Ferguson's Manchester United is indeed his biggest rival in the UK, but the old man is too old, I don't know when he will retire, will he be lonely at that time.
The addition of new players has allowed City to compete on multiple fronts once again, and while they will not be able to represent City in Europe this season, being able to play in domestic games has gone a long way towards alleviating City's personnel crisis.
Although Manchester City was unfortunately out of the League Cup, the FA Cup successfully entered the fifth round, and the league also bit Manchester United and was not thrown away by them. With City's injured players returning, the depth of City's squad will be advantageous.
Li Chengfeng is full of confidence this season, the only problem is that he still needs to be distracted from the real world of Birmingham and cannot fully devote himself to Manchester City's game. In addition, Maurizio Sarri's departure will have an impact after all, although he promoted youth team coach Patrick Vieira as the new assistant coach, but after all, he is still inexperienced, and Li Chengfeng has a lot more to do at Manchester City than before.
Not only that, in Birmingham, Li Chengfeng has to do more, but Manchester City has a complete system, while Birmingham is far behind, there is not even a reliable assistant, and the remaining coaches usually train okay, so you don't have to think about what tactical arrangements you want to say.
(End of chapter)
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