A week later, Portsmouth beat Bournemouth 3-0 in their warm-up game, but the press conference turned into a new signing session, with Pompey signing Bolton Wanderers, Spanish full-back Marquez Alonso, and Championship side Barnsley's centre-back England John Stones. Flash Dance.

Bolton Wanderers had just been relegated from the Premier League, the team had sold a number of players, and the 22-year-old Marcos Alonso had promised to try his hand at Fiorentina with the Purple Lily, but at this time he received an invitation from promoted Portsmouth, and Marcos Alonso preferred to stay in England than to go to unfamiliar Italy to start as a substitute. Alonso was born in Madrid, the capital of Spain, and made his debut in Real Madrid's academy before being promoted to Real Madrid's first team in '09, but his only appearance at the star-studded Galacticos was a throw-in, which is said to be still in his possession today. Alonso moved to Bolton Wanderers on a free signing in July '10 and had a good performance or two, but soon suffered a long-term injury until he was picked up by Portsmouth, and he made just seven first-team appearances for Bolton in just over a year.

Marcos' grandfather and father were both well-known footballers, his grandfather Imas played for the Spanish national team, played with UEFA presidents Di Stefano and Puskas for Real Madrid for eight seasons, and his father Peña made more than 300 La Liga appearances and spent most of his career playing for Barcelona, another La Liga giant. The 35xs Alonso family has the blood of a good footballer in their veins. So, it doesn't make sense that such good playing genes were given to his grandfather, to his father, but nothing was left for Marcos.

Thanks to a talented family and a unique background in Real Madrid's academy, Alonso's prospects at Portsmouth are favourable to fans who feel their coach is a coach who is adept at identifying and using young players.

Compared to Marcos, John Stones is much more low-key, not many people know about him, and not many are interested in him. Real Madrid's youth academy and Barnsley's academy can be described as a cloud of difference, as can be seen from the nicknames of the two teams, one is the Galaxy Battleship and the other is a hillbilly, one is smiling at the camera and looks at it with ease, the other is afraid that his dialect will be laughed at by reporters, and only a few words are said during the interview, and Hydward sees them all.

In the original time and space, in the 11-12 season, Portsmouth, Doncaster and Coventry were the three relegated teams, but in full circle, Portsmouth, which was originally on the verge of relegation, went all the way to the Premier League, and it was Barnsley who was relegated to League One instead. John Stones gradually settled in the final rounds of the league and dominated the backline to support Portsmouth's race to the top six after 90 minutes of indiscriminate bombardment at Middlesbrough, but the tenacious country side eventually fell into the abyss. Hydward was not polite, and a young talent like John Stones could not have wasted time in League One, so he decisively made an offer, and not only that, but the two clubs who were originally equal signed a cooperation agreement, and in the blink of an eye, Barnsley became a satellite club of Portsmouth. 35xs

The so-called satellite club, is the two to reach a strategic alliance, the parent club can give priority to the purchase of sub-club players, players can obtain labor certification by loan to the sub-club, in addition, Portsmouth can loan young players to the sub-club for free training, of course, the team needs to pay an annual fee to each other every year, if commercial activities, friendly matches, this aspect is also owned by the sub-club.

Portsmouth paid a one-off annual fee of €1 million and then took Stones for free, which in Heideward's eyes was a business that would not lose money no matter how it was calculated.

………………

The arrival of John Stones has actually brought the summer window to a perfect end to Pompey's legion, as he can line up two good starting line-ups with the squad and retire Campbell, but the team has signed Alonso and Stones.

The defender Haide de Wade has not been very satisfied with Mustafi, which is no longer news, so he put the player on the list, and the then director of the Pompey Army, Sensibile, recommended several clubs that he was not very satisfied with, including Turkey, Greece and the Middle East, maybe he would accept the proposal for the club's consideration, but Mousse is still young after all, and throwing him away from the top five leagues is irresponsible to the player, and it will make the player hold a grudge for the rest of his life. Later, Tom took over the job left by the Italian, first with Chelsea and now with Shakhtar Srna, and there was no time to bother with Mustafi.

So a few days ago, Hydward called Mustafi into his office alone, took out a stack of papers, told the players that they could leave: "Listen, this is the invitation you received" and he started asking the players what they thought.

Perhaps it was a good job of secrecy, but Mustafi was stunned by the coach's move, and it was clear that the news caught him off guard. The words were stuck in his throat, and a huge sense of frustration instantly enveloped his whole body, and without uttering a word or a syllable, the conversation ended hastily.

"It's a hint!" Mousse grabbed his fist and smashed it on the training stake, "He wants me to leave!" ”

Mustafi's roommate Antonio Rudiger revealed in a chat with his team-mates that his good friend cried for half an hour, and when the crying was over, he ran to training because there was a warm-up game in the evening, and he would start, so he also needed to think about the game.

It was not easy to focus on training after a blow, with Hydward busy introducing new signings and Mustafi making two phone calls after the evening's game. The first call was that he told his agent Hydward that he wanted him to leave, but he didn't want to leave, he wanted to work hard to improve and prove the coach wrong. The broker agreed with the idea. In the second call, he informed his father about this, and while feeling sorry for his son, he also agreed to the idea - to stay and fight for his place.

After that night, the team's new captain, Klose, approached Mustafi, who had been masochistic in the training room, and told him: "There are always difficult moments in football, life is the same, you choose what you do, it will determine the direction of your life, you are still young, you keep your head down, even if you don't get too many games, but you can still have faith, you can keep training and playing hard, and do everything you can to prove them wrong, until Edward leaves." ”

Hold on until the head coach leaves?!

Mustafi didn't expect Klose to say such a rebellious remark, persistence is victory, no matter how you listen to it, Klose said again: "Remember, players will stay in a club much longer than coaches, do a good job and you will not be far from success." ”

………………

This set of success mottos gave the players great encouragement, so the silly Mousse didn't see it:

After that day, Hydward whispered to Klose in the corner of the training ground, then invited Mustafi's agent Jason for a drink in the evening, until Mustafi was finally removed from the list.