After the UEFA Super Cup, the Villa team did not stay in China too much and returned to England on the same day's plane. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Villa had already won two titles before the season actually began, including a Super Cup title at the top of Europe, which is a great honour for any team. In fact, Wang Shuai also wants to treat Lavila's players again and take them on a few days off to have a good time in China. However, the schedule does not allow him to do this, because the Premier League season is about to kick off.

In the 2022-2023 season, the Premier League's summer transfer market is much quieter than in previous years. Except for Liverpool and Arsenal, the two teams that have changed their defense, the other teams have not made much moves, and most of them have completed the replacement of the old and the new.

In fact, there are many teams that still want to strengthen the lineup, but they have no choice but to have the results of several teams that changed blood last season are too unsatisfactory, including many strong teams like Tottenham, which makes them retreat, so as not to lose their wives and soldiers.

There are also some teams, just because the current squad is perfect, the team's results are steadily improving, and there is no need to make any changes. Manchester United, Leicester City, Southampton, including Villa, are all such teams.

So such a situation is undoubtedly very favorable for Aston Villa.

With Tottenham's experience in the past, Liverpool and Arsenal are trading players aggressively, and it's hard to say what their results will be like this year, at least they won't have a good time in the first half.

Other teams have not changed the lineup, and there are only two ways left to strengthen the lineup: one is to upgrade the tactics, and the other is to grow the players themselves.

When it comes to tactical upgrades, Villa doesn't have an advantage, to be precise, everyone is half-hearted. A team's tactical system will inevitably not be formed in one season. Take Villa as an example, the first year was defensive counterattack, the second year was TF-BP, and the third year, that is, this year, Wang Shuai began to accelerate the tactics. It can be seen that Villa's tactics are transitioning from simple to complex, and in the next season, Villa's tactics will not change, and Wang Shuai does not know.

This is true for Villa, and it is the same for other teams. Joseph took charge of the Reds a year before the boss arrived in England, but the Reds' tactical update has not yet been completed, and Joseph was still experimenting with the power of the new tactics in a few games at the end of last season.

It's just that if you can't take advantage of tactics, then the growth of Villa's young players is really unparalleled.

Last season, Wang Shuai promoted a large number of young players into the team, which directly led to the team's unsatisfactory results in the first half, and few wins in the face of strong teams, that is, Wang Shuai himself turned the tide, so that Villa could stay in the top three at the end of the half.

But in just half a year, Villa's strength has turned several times upward, otherwise they would not have won the Premier League, FA Cup and Europa League treble.

Now in the Villa team, Wang Shuai is a master player, Wu Shi and Zhou Aniu, who have followed Wang Shuai for the longest time, are only one step away from the master, according to Wang Shuai's estimate, it is already a sure thing for these two people to be promoted this season.

Although David and Yibu have only followed Wang Shuai for two years, they are not far behind compared to Wu Shi and Zhou Aniu because their initial strength is very good and their potential is also very high.

Zou Ming has been staying in China, the training environment is not too good, because his strength is now only the average level of senior professional players, and now after coming to Villa to be personally conditioned by Wang Shuai again, his strength is just around the corner.

Among Wang Shuai's "descendants", Ribery can be said to be the worst, and now he is only a mid-level professional player. However, this is understandable, firstly, Ribery entered the team the latest, and secondly, his foundation is really not very good. But as a late-blooming world-class left midfielder, although Ribery is still only at the intermediate level, under the deliberate care of Wang Shuai, it is not a problem to catch up with others in two or three years.

In addition to these future superstars, several of the talents that Wang Shuai poached last season have also developed well. The centre-back Dean is already a senior professional and after a year of training, he is not too far from being a master. It's just that he is also the oldest of several young players, so it is not surprising that he has such strength. The other two, goalkeeper Cooper and Sean who was promoted from Villa's youth team, are now on the threshold of senior professional players, with only a few attributes missing, but Wang Shuai estimates that before the end of the first half, these two will both be promoted to senior professional players. Even if Wang Shuai wants, the two of them can appear in the starting list now.

As for the position of the two full-backs, Wang Shuai is still using the peak professional players who transferred from last season. However, Wang has also begun to plan ahead, signing two young full-backs with outstanding potential this season. Although the strength is not obvious now, and it is still embarrassing to be useful, but the two of them will inevitably become indispensable members of Villa's starting list in the future.

Now in Villa's bench lineup, except for Zou Ming, the others are basically some experienced veterans, so there is nothing to say. But there is another young force to be reckoned with at Aston Villa, and that is Villa's youth team.

Due to FA regulations, the youth system of each team is not allowed to sign young players from other regions, so whether a team can produce so-called talent really depends on luck. But obviously, Wang Shuai, or Villa's luck is not very good, except for Sean, who was promoted last year, the other players are mediocre. At this time, the nine Chinese players who were placed in the youth team by Wang Shuai have become the well-deserved main force of the youth team (author's note: the youth team and the youth training system are two concepts, and the nine Chinese players are professional players signed by Wang Shuai to Villa, and then devolved to the youth team, which is not considered a violation).

Just when Wang Shuai led the team to Barcelona in the UEFA Super Cup, Villa's youth team also played a friendly match against an English One team, and the youth team swept the opponent 4:0.

Even though it's just a friendly match, even though they're against a League One team, it's important to know that Villa's team is also a youth team. Judging from the results of the game and the strength of the youth team, Villa's team can already be regarded as the top level of League One, and can even compete with the teams in the Championship.

And what helped the youth team achieve such impressive results, in addition to the youth team coach who borrowed the light of Wang Shuai's "coaching staff" system, is a group of young Chinese players.