Striker James Johnson, although he has not been trusted by previous managers during his many years at Manchester United and has rarely had the opportunity to prove himself on the pitch, his pace and finishing ability in front of goal are among the best among homegrown strikers of his age. If he can get enough support from his team-mates, his scoring efficiency can be guaranteed, at least in the Championship. And his technical characteristics are very much in line with Scholes's tactical requirements, so this recruitment is considered to be very likely to bring very good results to the Coventry City team, and is considered a great deal.

Hou Yongyong is the most popular technical midfielder in England and even the whole of European football, in addition to his slightly thin body, his awareness of passing organization and teamwork ability are very prominent, and he also has a good set-piece ability, becoming the core of a slightly weaker team's midfield organization is still very suitable on paper. And with his arrival, French midfielder Maxans Carrick can be completely fixed in a more familiar position, and the duo's partnership can theoretically be seen as a very complementary combination.

As for the Spanish central defender Baltra, in addition to the problem of declining physical fitness due to age, he is impeccable in terms of defensive ability and awareness, which can bring great complements and improvements to the team's defense, and is the most reassuring reinforcement.

Of course, theories are always just theories, and how much they can play depends on how quickly and how well they integrate into the team. However, even though there is still some uncertainty, the outside world still gave the Blues a high score for their transfer operation this winter, believing that they are one of the few winners in the same period. Because even if the three of them fail to play the desired effect, there is nothing to lose compared to the price of getting them.

And if all three eventually find their groove in their new surroundings, then the overall strength of the Coventry City team will undoubtedly take another big step up, which will make their prospects of overtaking even more optimistic, and perhaps it is not impossible to go dark in the end.

However, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to secure direct promotion from the top two in the Championship as other contenders have also made a big push this winter, and the answer may only be revealed at the last minute.

After lamenting a series of major changes made in the winter window by several teams in order to rush to the Premier League, the British media quickly shifted the focus to Coventry City, or Lee Moody and Paul Scholes. Because everyone coincidentally smelled the smell of the Celestial Empire from these recruitment operations, does this mean that the football director finally broke the previous agreement and intervened in the specific affairs of the first team?

Coventry boss Paul Scholes has been silent on this issue after issuing several rebuttals, making a gesture of not paying attention, which is undoubtedly a true learning from his predecessor boss. Because Li Mudi, who is far away in Asia and carries out various activities, is recognized as a master at avoiding reporters' questions, this time he has resorted to the same trick, although some British media reporters in the Celestial Empire have tried to find some information from him, but such attempts are doomed to be futile.

It has become an axiom that no one can pry open the mouth of the former world number one football coach and make him respond to questions he is unwilling to answer, except for experts from certain special departments, and there has never been a surprise.

However, the omnipotent British media still decided that something should have happened between these two people, something that cannot be easily known to the outside world. While most people don't have much to do with the alleged friction between management and manager in a Championship team, with the status of Lee Moody and Paul Scholes in the country as a whole and in world football, the matter has had a big impact in the period after the winter break.

However, as the second half of the league season unfolded, and the distractions were drawn away by the tightening schedule and intense competition, the Sky Blues took the opportunity to escape the distractions and start attacking for the club's first Championship title in history, and the third after the FA Cup in 1986-87 and the English League Championship in 2016-17. (I can't help but complain here, as an antique-level team established for 140 years, I have never won even the lowest league championship, and I am drunk to think about it!) ）

The second half of the season for the Coventry team is far more difficult than before the winter break, facing several competitors to play away, coupled with the impact of frequent double matches a week due to too many rounds, so Li Mudi still can't hold back, and chooses to improve the team's combat effectiveness by recruiting them.

Although through that private exchange, Scholes also agreed with the view that the team needs to be strengthened, but after all, this is an act of infringing on the power of the team's head coach, which will inevitably make Li Mudi bear a bad reputation for overstepping his authority. Fortunately, as comrades-in-arms of the former coaching team, the personal relationship between the two people is still very close, and there is no deep estrangement because of this incident, but the emergence of some awkward emotions is unavoidable.

It is precisely because of this incident that Li Mudi has sobered up from the feeling of feeling good in the position of director of football, and found that although he still likes to manage all aspects of a club's work and has a good ability to manage the competition, the most suitable position for him is the head coach - of course, it must be in charge of transfer and even team building policy.

On the one hand, when I left Arsenal, I was still very tired, both physically and mentally, so it was not surprising that the decision to take a break was made. However, after half a year, Li Mudi, who did not have the opportunity to contact the team's front-line work, began to miss the fulfilling days of seizing the time to adjust the state of the players and arrange targeted tactics every day, as well as the excitement brought by each 90-minute game and the joy after victory.

On the one hand, it is the development of a club, in fact, the most important thing is to rely on the team's results, given the general rules of English football, it is difficult for anyone other than the manager of the team to play much role in this. On the surface, the directors, the heads of the various departments and the staff are indispensable, but in reality they all have to work and provide services to the team or the head coach.

In other words, if Li Mudi wants to make Coventry City gradually grow into a giant club in his own hands, then the fastest and most effective way is to make the team's results better and better, and even eventually comparable to Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal, so even if the club's commercial attributes are not maximized, the benefits will not be too bad.

With such an analysis, it seems that taking over the whip of the Sky Blue Army is the best choice for him.

It's just that when Li Muddy chose to buy this club, he didn't consider the possibility of becoming the team's head coach at all, the main reason is naturally that Coventry's foundation is too poor, far from his psychological bottom line, even with the help of FM system plug-ins, without four or five seasons, it is almost impossible to achieve the plan to improve the results to the ranks of European powerhouses, and the money spent will be astronomical.

This is completely contrary to his business philosophy of wanting to be relatively stable and steady, and the income and expenditure are completely balanced, so naturally he will not consider this.

So after weighing all kinds of pros and cons, Li Muddy feels that he still has to find a team with a good foundation and ambition to coach, as for the management of Coventry, it is better to leave it to those professionals, as long as it can check the big aspects of development and the introduction and training of young players, the problem will not be very big.

That way, he won't have to disagree with Paul Scholes or other managers who might be in charge of the team because of the team's founding philosophy, after all, the focus will be on the team he coaches, and there will be no time to worry about anything else.

After returning to England at the beginning of February, Coventry's director of football was more cautious about dealing with work that he and Paul Scholes might have jurisdictional overlap into, but after the transfer window closed, there weren't a lot of things that would be a little embarrassing, and the two men often communicated privately about the team's tactics and the use of players, which allowed them to spend the rest of the season peacefully.

However, Coventry fans and the British media were unable to maintain their composure in the process, because after the initial run-in period of new signings integrating into the team, the Blues' results began to peak again, and a wave of seven consecutive wins from mid-February to mid-March quickly widened the gap between them and their pursuers in the league.

At the same time, they also reached the quarterfinals and the last 16 of the League Cup and FA Cup respectively, although they were both out of the competition in the end, but they also fell at the feet of the top teams in the Premier League, and the process was not too ugly, it can be said that although the defeat is still honorable.

However, the two cup defeats still hit the morale of the players somewhat, and even though Li Mudi and Paul Scholes praised their performances in public on several occasions, they still couldn't prevent Coventry from ushering in another period of adjustment, resulting in the hard-won lead disappearing in just two weeks.

Fortunately, Andy Carroll, who had been absent for four months because of his knee, returned in time to bring new vitality to the team, and the opponents in the first few games in April were weak, providing a process of self-adjustment, which avoided a direct collapse.

In the days that followed, good fortune befell the Blues, starting with the loss of Joe Allen, a team that had been competing for the top spot with Stoke City, a veteran Welshman who suffered a cruciate ligament injury and struggled to play for the team this season. After that, West Bromwich Albion, who are temporarily third in the standings, suddenly suffered a goal drought, failing to score in three consecutive league games, and the record of 1 draw and 2 losses made them directly withdraw from the competition for the top two. While Norwich and Sunderland took the opportunity to join the race in Group One, Coventry City took advantage of the opportunity to re-establish their dominance as the leader.

When Coventry City beat Sunderland, who climbed all the way to second in the table, on 14 April with a goal outflanking James Johnson in front of goal, they secured a place in the top two of the Championship this season by 13 points ahead of the latter, who fell to third place after the defeat, and secured a direct promotion to the Premier League.

A week later, they returned home to a hard-fought 3-2 win over a hard-hitting Millwall side to claim their first league title in their history three rounds ahead of schedule.

Li Mudi has successfully fulfilled the goal he set for himself last summer, to strengthen the team as much as possible while ensuring promotion, and at the same time to give several young players who have emerged from the academy more opportunities to practice.

Although judging from the current situation of the Coventry City team, the strength will definitely be at the bottom of the Premier League next season, and there is still a big gap between Leeds United and Wolves, which can be relegated all year round. But fortunately, after the successful upgrade will bring a huge amount of income to the club, several shareholders, especially the big boss Li Mudi, also did not take the opportunity to make money, after deducting the increased operating costs, how can they also take out 100 million in the next transfer window for reinforcements, I believe that as long as this huge amount of money can be spent reasonably, the hope of relegation is still great.

In order to reassure Scholes and agree to sign the club's contract extension for another two years as soon as possible, Li Mudi had already said hello in advance in January and would never make any comments about the team's squad adjustments. Unless the coach of the team takes the initiative to ask for his opinion, he will be a complete handshaker and never let the unpleasant events of winter recur.

After winning the championship early, he personally expressed to Scholes at a family dinner that he supported the other party to continue to lead the team, and after ginger head was very embarrassed to say that he did not care too much about the previous misunderstanding, he had decided to resign as director of football at Coventry City and was ready to return to coaching.

The two men talked for a long time that night, from reminiscing about the days when they fought side by side, to discussing the direction of the Sky Blues in the coming seasons, to the troubles and anecdotes of their respective families' daily lives, until late at night.

The vague estrangement of a few months ago had already turned into invisible before he knew it, and Li Mudi could finally take on the next challenge with ease, which was his original dream when he stepped into this reborn world.

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