Chapter 527: Steady Progress
Nearly twenty months have not seen this from the parent team Moscow a year ago. The young strikers in the Central Army's transfer back home have become taller and stronger. It's just that in Li Mudi's view, Li Tenglong's development direction has obviously become a little chaotic, so he brought it to the UK through some domestic connections to see if there is a chance to pull him back to the right growth path.
When he played in Russia, the young man took the route of dexterous technical flow, although he was not a goalkeeper-style super goalscorer, but he still became a youth gem of the Russian Premier League team with his dribbling skills and excellent running awareness, and successively served as the captain of youth teams at all levels. You must know that it is still very difficult to do this as a non-local player, which fully reflects that Li Tenglong's ability at that time was still very medium. A team like the Central Army, which has been able to participate in the Champions League many times, values it.
It's just that since he was recruited into the U19 national youth team by Cheng Yaodong in 2018 to participate in the Weifang Cup that year, the domestic media's expectations for this young player seem to have shown a cliff-like decline.
However, those fans who talked about the media and didn't know much about the details just spit out and complained, but even the coach of the national youth team came to a downfall at that time. A member of the coaching staff commented after the Weifang Cup that Li Tenglong's physical confrontation has no advantage at this age and is at a disadvantage. Because he was at a disadvantage in the confrontation, his performance in the game was limited, and in order to avoid this kind of thing from happening again, the player had to work on this aspect.
At first glance, this may sound like some truth, but in reality it doesn't work at all. The Celestial Empire national football team, which used to be able to maintain a quasi-first-class team in Asia with excellent physical fitness, has lost its prestige in this aspect in recent years, and it is difficult to take advantage of physical confrontation even against Japanese and West Asian teams with a strong technical flow, and it is even more difficult to face players from European and American countries.
In fact, not all Celestial Empire football players must practice a body of tendon meat before they can stand on the green field. - I have to spit out a groove here, everyone must be familiar with the stalk about the white chicken figure of the national football team, a group of professional players with an annual income of tens of millions of soft girls are all white meat, what hope is there for football in this day? It's all self-deception.
And it was after being misled by the coach and the outside world that Li Tenglong began to change the direction of weight gain and muscle strengthening training, and the direct result of this change was that he was 180 cm tall and weighed only 65 kilograms, but two years later, he became 183 centimeters tall and weighed 77 kilograms.
Although his physical indicators seem to be much more standard than before, he spends a lot of time training on physical fitness, which makes him put much less energy into other exercises. Through the FM system, it can be most intuitively found that at the age of 19 and a half, Li Tenglong's physical values have basically been able to rank in the lower middle level among British players of the same age, but the previous technical advantages have disappeared. To paraphrase the language of the game world, his skills are a little crooked, and his development direction is off.
In the stage where there is the greatest room for growth and the fastest rate of progress, he gave up his original biggest advantage and sought to strengthen his so-called weakness. Will anyone have a sense of déjà vu in this scene, before there was a head coach who let the talented forward Zhang Xiaorui change to play in other positions, and then there was an absurd allusion that the national football team selected non-standard models and could not enter the body, when will our men's football be absurd to end!
Not to mention those things that make people extremely indignant when they think about it, back to Li Tenglong, Li Mudi hopes to correct the mistakes he made in the past two years as much as possible before his technical stereotype or potential value is fully realized.
As a technical striker, what he needs is to improve the evaluation of shooting, dribbling, technique, passing and receiving, running without the ball and other abilities in the FM system to at least 14, so that he can combine the average level of mental attributes to obtain a main position in the second-rate league in Europe for a long time, and even in the top five leagues, he can win a rotation place in the middle and lower leagues.
Li Mudi believes that Li Tenglong's template should be Sun Xingmin, the number one star of the Kimchi Country, but he is slightly weaker in almost all attributes, at least from the current potential of the Celestial Empire youngster, although he has been training hard for two years, he still can't compare with the Tottenham star in terms of physical fitness, not to mention the latter's long-range shooting ability that sometimes amazes the entire world football.
But even if Sun Xingmin, who is one size younger, is still a rare leader in the football world of the Celestial Empire in one or two decades, with such an example in front, I believe that more and more teenagers will have interest and confidence in this sport, and the whole environment will develop in a positive direction.
As for Li Tenglong himself, he has a rare football talent in the Celestial Empire, and if he continues to struggle in the big quagmire of Celestial Empire football like this, he may soon be completely decadent like his countless predecessors. For the sake of the young man's excellent quality of a red heart for the Celestial Empire, Li Mudi also hopes to help him achieve something in his future football career, so he will catch up with many people to sign this compatriot into Coventry.
Of course, the player himself has suffered a lot of risk because of the labor certification, the Celestial Dynasty youngster will almost certainly not be able to play for his current club in the next two seasons, and a move to England is indeed not a rational choice for a young man who is in the midst of a period of rapid growth compared to staying in the Celestial League to get consistent playing time.
However, Li Muddy clearly will not harm his compatriots, and he has prepared a very confident plan to loan him to Spain's second division in the winter transfer window after Li Tenglong has seized the time to use Coventry's relatively advanced training equipment and concepts for half a year.
According to the regulations, although each La Liga team can only have two non-European places, because Spain's definition of "non-European" is very strange, and most African, Middle Eastern and Eastern European countries are also included in their unrestricted list, so the teams there do not attach as much importance to non-European places as other European leagues.
So after Li Mudi exchanged interests through personal connections and some reinforcement information, Tenerife coached by Solari agreed to vacate a non-European place in January to accept the Celestial Empire striker, so that the plan can be said to be close to completion, and it only depends on whether the player's future performance is worthy of this painstaking effort.
After using the break to communicate with Li Tenglong and guide the training programs that the other party wants to focus on, the Arsenal boss discussed with Morientes, who coached the reserve team of the Sky Blues, the future direction of several young players who have just joined the team in the summer, and strive to improve these newcomers in the shortest possible time, and provide some fresh blood for the first team that is a little stretched in terms of strength.
As for the first team, Li Mudi really doesn't have too many instructions for the time being, after the introduction of Dutch central defender William Jensen and Spanish defender Manu Garcia in the summer transfer window, Coventry's competitive strength is only at the level of the middle of the 24 League One teams, and there is still a big gap from promotion.
Therefore, the owner of the club did not ask the team to achieve any results this season, and the focus was still on training newcomers, but the current situation of 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses in a position not far from the relegation circle is still not allowed.
So in the sixth round of the English League One on the evening of September 4, Li Mudi sat in the box of Ricoh Stadium after disguise and watched the matchup between Coventry City and Oxford United.
Perhaps it was the boss that brought extra good luck to the home team's players, or it was a morale boost, as the Blues ended their three-game winless run with a 4-2 win at home, and moved up the rankings by five places, away from the danger zone for the time being.
A day later, Lee ended his trip to Coventry, and although he couldn't help himself and his partners in more things, he had already pointed out a general direction for the future development of the club, presumably relying on the ability of Hierro, Gines and others, plus those small problems can be solved in turn over time, the Sky Blues will definitely have a chance to create a brilliant time.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, his coming over this time was a secret private act, and he didn't let the paparazzi catch any big news. However, they were not able to participate in some activities for the local community and fans up close, and lost a lot of first-hand information, including support.
Since buying the entire stake in Coventry City from Ray Ranson three months ago, local fans have been opposed to the new club management at first, because excluding the giants or teams in the top league, the lower English teams controlled by foreign investors are actually not doing very well, either the results have been messed up, or the chaos within the club has been caused by unreasonable investment, in short, it is the fault of the layman leaders and insiders.
However, after half a month of adaptation period, more than half of the old staff were able to stay, and the good reputation that Hierro and others had created in world football before still slightly alleviated some of the doubts from the outside world.
So according to the approval rating survey conducted by the local newspaper, as of the beginning of July, the fans' dissatisfaction with the Sky Blue has dropped by 10 percentage points from the initial 50% or so. Another reason for this change is that the media has unearthed the background behind the company that is the owner of the club, and according to today's common view, the owners of the Celestial Empire are generally very generous, and may spend a lot of money on transfers to improve the team.
It's just that the transfer window has closed, and the expected blockbuster new signings have not arrived, which has seriously stimulated the nerves of fans who are already in a wait-and-see mode, and their support for the club has dropped significantly. Even at the end of the month, some fan groups began to organize various events to express their dissatisfaction.
For example, not going to the stadium, refusing to buy the team's supporting goods, or putting up banners outside the training ground denouncing the management's stinginess, in short, it is a headache for the club. These moves have also reduced the already miserable gameday revenue to its lowest level in nearly 15 years, and the team's financial situation has naturally not been much better.
Fortunately, the loyalty of British fans is relatively high, and there has been no large-scale switch to support other teams in a short period of time. Li Mudi and others had long expected such a similar situation, first released the news that the chairman had approved a huge investment in the club's youth training, stabilized the people's hearts, and then took advantage of the team's performance to improve and basically resolve the crisis.
When Coventry City went unbeaten with four wins and two draws in four league games and two lower-division cup games in September, and moved themselves up to eighth place in League One, the support of the fans began to pick up a lot, which allowed the likes of Hierro, who had just taken over the club's operations, to gain a foothold.
As for London, the situation is similar to that of Coventry. At the beginning of the season, Gunners fans naturally had a more optimistic attitude towards Li Mudi's ownership, but they still had a great sense of disagreement with the team's recruitment strategy.
Although Ozil's reputation in his native Germany is already insignificant, he still won the love of many gunners during his seven years at Arsenal, which caused the new coach of the team who purged him to suffer a lot of criticism.
Especially when the team shelled out a sky-high sum of nearly £120 million in exchange for a Russian who had never proven himself in the top flight (Golovin didn't play too much in his two years at Monaco) and an African who only knew how to do dirty work and had a simple mind and developed limbs (the impression that Ndidi made when he played for Leicester City), the team's supporters saw it as two signings that would ruin the whole season. There are even many people who wonder whether Li Mudi, who advocated the completion of the two deals, has gained some personal benefits from them.
However, thanks to the team's strong performances in the first three rounds, the aforementioned doubts have begun to fade until they disappear, which has allowed the Arsenal boss to usher in a more relaxed state of mind at the end of the summer, and his English copy has at least had a good start.
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