In the early morning of February 2, 2016, in a high-end hotel apartment in London, Colombian Radamel Falcao was lying on a large bed in frustration, staring at the ceiling with empty eyes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the 2014-2015 season, Falcao, who had spent more than half a year recovering from a serious cruciate ligament injury in his right knee, joined Manchester United on a high-profile loan.

A year later, with a dismal record of just four goals in 29 appearances, Falcao's journey to Manchester United ended in failure.

In an attempt to redeem himself, Falcao took a £140,000 pay cut – half of his weekly salary at Manchester United – to join Jose Mourinho's Chelsea side under the operation of super-agent Mendes.

Chelsea enjoyed great success last season, winning the league and league cup double. He joined the team to fill the departed Didier Drogba, who was once seen as an important substitute for Diego Costa.

But after scoring a goal against Crystal Palace in September, the super centre-forward, once hailed by Pep Guardiola as the "king of the penalty area" and who has achieved brilliant success in both the Portuguese Super League and La Liga, has been plagued by long-term injuries.

He had returned from injury a month earlier, but Jose Mourinho, who had promised him an important role, was sacked by the team and new boss Guus Hiddink told him to be patient and wait for his chance.

It's been a long time since he's in the squad and he didn't even travel with the team yesterday in the FA Cup fourth round in a 5-1 win at Milton Keynes Dons.

Two years ago, in the French Cup against Montzlamir, the opposing defender Eltek made a dangerous tackle, which directly led to his condition being in full swing for half a year.

Before his return, Monaco changed managers. Leonardo Yadirme, a little-known Portuguese, found himself as soon as he took office and had a frank exchange.

Yadir said he would be careful to help Falcao get back to his best, a process that would take at least a year.

Falcao will initially train with the youth team and gradually increase his playing time in the youth team, with the expectation of entering the first team after six months, and then playing from the bench until he is fully recovered.

The haughty Falcao flatly rejected Yadirm, and despite the dissuasion, he decided to leave Monaco in search of a chance to prove himself again.

Looking back on these nightmarish two years, Falcao finally understood that he should have obeyed Yadilm in the first place, but there was no regret medicine in the world.

Falcao sat up sharply, and he mustered up his courage to dial Yadirm's phone, and a familiar voice came from the phone

"Radamel, are you okay?" I watched the news, you are still injured this time or the muscles of your right thigh, don't be anxious, and when you have completely recovered, you must strengthen the strength of your right leg to exercise ......"

It's been a long time since anyone cared about him like this, and Falcao suddenly lost control of his emotions and cried silently.

Yadirm continued on the phone: "Radamel, I'm sorry I can't help you with your current situation......

Come back to Monaco next season! The world already knows your greatness, you don't need to prove anything, come back, let's find yourself together......"

Falcao choked up and replied, "Thank you, Leonardo, I should have listened to you earlier." ”

Yadirm was silent for a while, then said, "Don't say that, I've always regretted not stopping you from leaving. Well, I'll be looking for you in England next week, and we'll meet and have a good chat. ”

Meanwhile, another Portuguese man, José Mourinho, the former coach of Falcao, who has been out of work for a month, happened to be talking on the phone with his protégé, Frank Lampard, who now plays for New York City FC.

'I'm fine, Frank, you know, business is business and I can certainly understand the club's decision. When such a problem comes out, firing me is of course the most direct solution, and I can only accept it. ”

Lampard smiled, saying: 'Jose, I understand your feelings, just like when I had to leave Chelsea, business is business, I can totally understand that.

I know you have bigger goals, and the last time I met Sir Alex Ferguson, he told me, so I don't need to comfort you......"

Both of them burst out laughing, and the conversation became much more relaxed.

Lampard continued: 'Manchester City wanted to sign me on loan this year and I turned them down. I'm 38 years old and it's getting harder and harder to play in the Premier League. ”

Mourinho said: "I heard, aren't you going to Manchester City to prepare for the new season? Chelsea have a warm-up game against you guys and I'm going to see you then! ”

Frank Lampard happily replied: "Okay, Jose, let's have a good talk then!" ”

There are still three days left before the day of departure, and Xiaoyu has already completed the resignation procedures and returned to Haicheng.

The club has confirmed that Xiaoyu will accompany Li Liang to the UK throughout the whole process. In addition to Da Xiong and Xiaoyu, Lao Xu also has to go over together.

Li Liang's itinerary is tentatively set for two weeks, and if the trial in Manchester is not ideal, then Xiaoli will activate the B plan prepared by the group.

The whole club already knew the news that Li Liang was going to go abroad for a trial, and Mr. Zhang specially asked Feng Yihan to specially adjust Li Liang's training, focusing on strengthening his tactical awareness and sense of position.

Everyone has always believed that Li Liang's most suitable position is a central midfielder, and Feng Yihan and they open a small stove for Li Liang every day, trying to build him into an all-round midfielder with a balance of offense and defense.

Li Liang's confusion has not been eliminated, and the club's coaches have always taught him and the requirements of Leifeld and Diaz during special training.

Feng Yihan and Zhang Jiang were also very distressed, every time they played in a training match or a group confrontation, they always found that Li Liang did not run and execute tactics as required, but the effect was surprisingly good.

They couldn't understand Li Liang's tactical choice, let alone explain why Li Liang was more handy with this kind of wild running.

In the history of Chinese players staying abroad, there are mostly forwards and defenders, but there are few midfielders who conform to the mainstream European style of play.

On the other hand, Japan, another neighbor in East Asia, is different from our troubles, in addition to high-quality forwards, they have enough players to cobble together more than two complete sets of central and backfield lineups.

South Korea has blossomed across the board, and there are powerful players in all three lines who have secured the main position in the five major leagues.

The occurrence of such problems has a lot to do with our training environment and training philosophy.

Fortunately, Li Liang's tactical literacy was all built up by relying on special training in his dreams, and if he was really instilled with the tactical concepts passed down from generation to generation by Feng Yihan and Zhang Jiang, it was likely to backfire.

Of course, the coaches do have good intentions.