It's been a busy month, making overall training plans, guiding players in tactical coordination, adjusting their psychological state, appeasing the dissatisfaction of substitute players, paying attention to the progress of recruitment, studying the opponent's technical and tactical play, and directing the game on the spot...... Together, these put a lot of pressure on Li Mudi, who was just sitting in the office and working before the crossing. Every day I was tired and could lie down and fall asleep, but with my love for football and my desire to become a legend, coupled with my weak self-esteem of not wanting to be looked down upon by these foreigners and embarrassing the people of the Celestial Empire, I was able to persevere until I slowly adapted to such busy days. Fortunately, the results of the pre-season training have been very good, and the usual training tasks have been handed over to the coaching staff since the start of the league, and as a manager, it is good to focus on the general direction and focus on studying the opponent and directing the game.

It was precisely because I was so busy that I forgot about using scouting tools, but fortunately I asked the system assistant to set a prompt before, otherwise I might have wasted an opportunity to use it.

August's scouting tool has been nearly two months since the last use, but the detected ability value is at the end of July, and there is still a lot of lag, so Li Mudi did not pay too much attention to the player's ability value, but focused on inquiring about the opponent he will face in September. After that, he carefully searched the distribution of players with high potential in Europe's biggest leagues in preparation for leaving Castile. It's a pity that there are several suitable teams, but their coaches' positions are very solid, even if there is a vacancy, with Li Mudi's prestige and ability at this time, there is no chance to take over.

This night, sighs rang out in the room from time to time......

The next day, on the sidelines of the training ground, Solari came to Li Mudi, who was yawning repeatedly, and asked, "Didn't sleep well last night?" I know you know you didn't have a good rest in the hotel in Gnica the day before yesterday, but you're back in Madrid, why are your eyes still red and yawning? ”

How can I say it if I haven't settled down yet, and I can tell a little lie to deal with it, "I'm still so excited, after all, it's my first time coaching, and I haven't slowed down yet." ”

Facing Solali's somewhat surprised eyes, Li Mudi knew that what he said might make people think that he had no city government and that his psychological tolerance was too poor, but there was no other good excuse, and it couldn't be said that he couldn't sleep because he didn't eat something.

In the evening, Zizou drove Li Mudi to the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu to watch Real Madrid's match against Real Betis in the second round of La Liga.

Rafael Benitez had a rough start to the season at Real Madrid, boasting the most expensive attacking duo in the world, but was held to a 0-0 draw by La Liga underdogs Sporting Gijón on his debut last week, failing to score a single goal with 27 shots on goal. His tactical philosophy, which has been praised by the world in the past, looked out of place in Real Madrid's midfield, and the game was played in a mess, which attracted a lot of media condemnation after the game.

Real Madrid's coaching bench is recognized as a crater where countless world leaders have been disgraced in the past. Benitez was a reluctant choice for Galeries Lafayette in the absence of a better manager, and if the team can't get back to form immediately, then he is likely to bring forward the record for the departure of the modern Real Madrid manager. The previous record belonged to Real Madrid's famous and former Celestial Empire coach José Antonio Camacho Alfaro, who took charge of the Bernabeu in the summer of '04 and resigned after losing 1-0 to Espanyol in the fourth round of La Liga on September 21.

With the light of Qi Zu, Li Mudi also enjoyed the treatment of watching the game in the chairman's box once. Before the start of the game, the two men discussed the best team of the last century together at the back of the box, and after analyzing the tactics, the composition of the team, the history of the team and other factors in turn, they came to a similar conclusion: the coach of this team does not have to be very capable, but can unite the superstars and motivate them to fight, so that success is not far off, just like Mr. Bosque.

Neither of them, who were chatting excitedly, noticed that Galeries Lafayette, who had just been talking to President Betis about the Spanish economy, turned around and looked deeply in this direction......

In this game, Benitez was somewhat of a back-to-back game, putting the center forward Benzema who was absent due to injury in the last round back to the starting lineup, and the BBC combination was combined for the first time in the new season, coupled with the all-attacking midfield of Hames, Klos and the Magic Flute, it can be said that the offensive power is the best in the world. The effect was also very obvious, in the opening two minutes, Bale received a cross from Ronaldo and scored with a header, 1-0.

After that, the Real Madrid superstars, who had been criticised since the last game, were firmly in control, at one point reaching close to 70% of the possession, and scored a brilliant free-kick in the 40th minute from Cristiano Ronaldo.

In the second half, Real Madrid did not let up in the slightest, Karim Benzema, J Ronaldo and Bale scored another goal each, and finally beat the visiting Real Betis 5-0 at home, and Benitez's first dismissal crisis was temporarily alleviated.

The big win of the parent team has nothing to do with the current Li Mudi, and he came to the training ground as usual the next day, ready to study the situation of the next opponent with the coaching staff.

Assistant coach Solari came to his side again and handed Li Muddy a few letters: the Norwegian national team will call up Odegaard to participate in the European Championship budget match on September 3 and 6; The Dominican national team will call up Mariano for two friendlies; In addition, central defenders Leon, Lin Liangming and Mbappe were also selected by the Spanish U21 national team, China U21 national team and France U18 national team respectively. This made Li Mudi's brows "double" wrinkle once. What the hell is this Nima? We're in the third division of Spain! There are also league tasks on the national team match day, but these important main players are gone, and there is no double insurance left in the forward line, so how can you play?

Rushing to get Solari to provide a list of players who will be available on September 6, he called in the coaching staff to discuss the starting options for the centre-backs, central midfielders and forwards.

"There are substitutes for central defenders and central midfielders, although the strength may be worse than the main force, but there is no problem at all in coordination, and the impact of home combat should not be great. As for the forward line, if Mariano returns as soon as he finishes playing, he will be there on the morning of the 4th......" Attacking coach Pozzo proposed to start with a Dominican striker.

Without waiting for Li Mudi to react, physical trainer O'Lelana immediately objected: "No, Mariano has to fly for 24 hours to reach Madrid after playing a friendly match in Australia on the 3rd, and the rest of the time will not be able to recover enough to be able to play, so I strongly recommend giving up the plan to let him play." This attitude is supported by the team's head of medicine, Angel.

After some discussion, the decision was handed over to the team manager, and Li Mudi did not hesitate to rule out the plan that could lead to injuries to the players. It's just a game, even if you lose, you can't make a player take such a big risk, and it's even more important for professional players to stay healthy than ordinary people, because that's the revolution – no, it's the foundation of supporting a family or even earning a coffin.

Mbappe has a national team task, Mariano is not in good health, and Lin Liangming, who can play a cameo role as a center forward, is not there, so in the second round of the second round of the second division B Group 2 against Bertugalette on the 6th, the only striker who can be used is the Colombian Narvaez, who has been abandoned by Li Mudi.

While the coaching staff was studying the line-up for the next game, the entrance door to the training ground was pushed open and several men wearing Real Madrid's white jerseys strolled in. The arrival of Arbeloa, Nacho, Jesus and Vazquez was a cheer from the development squad players, and the spiritual encouragement given to these newcomers by the "big brothers" who had risen to the first team from here was immeasurable.

It was Qi Zu who came in after these big names, and he came to Li Mudi and explained: "As before, the players of the national team are drawn on the day of the match, and the remaining few are too few to carry out systematic training, so they come to the reserve team to train together for a few days. 'It's been happening a lot in the past when I was an assistant coach in the reserves, so it's no surprise.

After a while of hilarity, training returned to normal. Seeing that Hesse was a little sullen, Li Mudi slipped to Qi Zu, who was watching the tactical map under the sun umbrella on the sidelines, and inquired about the small news.

"Why didn't the national team call up Jesse this time? The current Spain is too old, the skills of the frontcourt players are still there, but they have completely lost the speed advantage, and players with distinctive technical characteristics like Jesse should be the object of reuse, how can Mr. Bosque's rich experience not be clear? ”

Hearing Li Mudi's question, Qi Zu smiled bitterly, "It is more difficult to be the head coach of the national team than in the club, and there are more constraints. The current Spain is similar to the previous France, a style of play and player configuration has been a huge success, and if you come up and want to make a change or even overthrow it completely, who will agree? If you look at the number of new internationals who have been able to establish themselves in the national team in recent years, it is impossible to rebuild until they are completely destroyed, so look at the results next summer. ”

Xu is to evoke Qi Zu's painful memories in 02, when he spoke, his eyes kept looking into the distance, and his face showed a little helplessness.

In fact, Li Muddy personally believes that one of the most important reasons for the sudden fall of France and now Spain is that the core of the two teams: Zizou and Xavi have passed the peak of their players. The success of both teams is very dependent on their core players, and once the old core is old and there is no new core to take over, the team will naturally not be able to maintain absolute strength. But players like Zizou and Xavi, how many years will it take for one to appear! After returning to the glory in 06, after ten years of accumulation, the French team gradually found its own new way; And after 16 years of complete disintegration of the Spanish dynasty, how much time will it take to rise again? This question may not be clear to anyone.