Although Fernandez hopes that the "Three Musketeers of Mace" in his mind can get along, judging from the first meeting between the three of them, it is still a little difficult.

Ribery has a lively personality and is a well-deserved boss in the locker room, although Chu Zhongtian doesn't like to be treated as a younger brother, but he is a friend of Ribery, and the relationship between the two is naturally nothing to say. Only Menez put on a very ** expression as soon as he came, and no one threw him. Ribery's face, he naturally didn't give it. Almost all of the young players recognize Ribery as their boss, and Menez doesn't say anything other than shaking Ribery's hand and saying hello.

Menez came here to play because there was a coach he admired and had nothing to do with Metz. He doesn't even think of himself as a member of Metz in his heart, and he looks down on these players in Metz. You must know that after the league last season, Sochaux's results were above Metz.

He thinks that because he came to this not very good team, he should be the leader of the team.

In the first intra-team match, he complained a few words because Oblagnac on his team did not pass the ball to him in time, which caused him to be offside. "You should have passed the ball to me sooner! Catch the ball and pass! Don't grind! ”

Oblagnac didn't react much, but Ribery, who was not on the same team as him, frowned.

Later, in the game, he found an opportunity to foul Menez, pushing him out of the sideline with the ball and falling to the ground in embarrassment.

Ribery went to Rammenez very enthusiastically after pushing people, so that the other party could not realize that he was actually intentional...... Chu Zhongtian watched this scene in his eyes, of course he knew that Ribery was doing it on purpose, and it was Menez.

Assistant Coach David. Carré was a referee on the field. The other coaches gathered together to watch the game and talk at the same time.

"Oops...... Looks like the two of them don't get along very well......"

"That's normal, right? Just a very ordinary foul. ”

"I'm worried about the ...... of the locker room atmosphere"

In the midst of the coaches' chatter, let. Fernandez remained silent.

After Menez receives the ball, he rarely passes the ball out, but instead buries his head in the front of the ball and pushes forward in succession, forcing a shot after successive passes. His technique is indeed excellent, and his speed and explosiveness are good, but he is no match for wolves. When he is frequently caught in the bag of two or three people, no matter how good his skills are, he can't show it.

"It's like Frank when he first arrived...... Coach Tadio shook his head.

Fernandez, who had been silent, suddenly said: "No, he and Frank are completely different. ”

Tadio looked back at him.

'Frank is just on the pitch but he has a good relationship with his team-mates in the dressing room. And Jeremy is different......"

"Do you regret it now?" Tadio laughed.

Fernandes shook his head: "Good players always have personality. Take it easy. ”

In fact, Menez was indeed one of the focal points of discussion in the dressing room of the Metz team. After all, in addition to Ribery, he is the most famous in France in the Metz team, and he really has arrogant capital.

He is one of the best of France's current young generation, having just become the youngest hat-trick scorer in Ligue 1 history and the youngest professional player and player on the pitch in Ligue 1 history. He also won the European Youth Football Championship for France under 17, where they defeated the Spanish youth team, known as the "King of Youth", in the final. He's got a lot of skill and he's got a lot of stuff with Ribery in the team.

Such a condition, even if he is arrogant, can understand.

So apart from Ribery, the rest of his teammates were not surprised or indignant at Menez's arrogance.

Even Chu Zhongtian was not too sensitive. He just felt that this new teammate was not very easy to get along with, and there was always a strong sense of superiority when he spoke, and he didn't mean to show this, he was completely subconscious.

Whenever he felt superior again, Chu Zhongtian frowned. He thinks he's not the captain and the dressing room leader, teaching a new player? It seems that he doesn't have that qualifications yet...... Let's see what Mr. Fernández will do.

Compared with Menez, he hated the group of Chinese journalists more. Cheng Tian compared him to Ahn Jung-hwan, saying what kind of "Asian double star". This gave him goosebumps, and it was so numb and disgusting. I can't fight with An Zhenhuan, just because everyone is an Asian player, so I have to talk about an "Asian double star"? I also "put on double star shoes, and I am not afraid to go all over the world"!

When Ahn Jung-hwan was calling for wind and rain at the World Cup in Japan and South Korea, he was just a small bartender working in a bar. An Zhenhuan has at least participated in the World Cup anyway, what about himself? He didn't know what he and Ahn Jung-hwan could talk about together. I don't know if the Korean media will also hype it up, probably not. With Chu Zhongtian's understanding of the Koreans, they should only have Ahn Jung-hwan in their eyes now. Ribery, himself and Menez, none of them will be in the eye.

Chu Zhongtian found that he would also be on the shelf, and he ignored many reporters' questions at all, and walked straight through the crowd to the locker room, and the group of reporters did not dare to stop him. It's not that he deliberately wants to put up this shelf, but the questions asked by those reporters are too retarded...... He was too embarrassed to answer.

※※※ Metz's pre-season preparations have passed under such circumstances.

After buying Menez, Fernandes stopped further action in the transfer market. Menez is the "finale". The French media were a little surprised that Menez chose to leave Sochaux to come to Metz, and they thought that Menez would either refuse all the teams and stay at Sochaux. Either you should choose a bigger team, such as Monaco and Marseille, rather than a small team in a small town in northern France – there are very few people in the media who know the relationship between Menez and Fernandes.

The media even thought that Menez's move to Metz was a very unsuccessful choice, and he would only gradually sink here, away from everyone's field of vision, and finally disappear from everyone. Although the French don't know the allusion, the meaning is actually pretty much the same.

Menez, who made his debut at Sochaux, is a striker, but he can play almost all positions in midfield.

Fernandes believes he has three best positions – a midfielder, a shadow striker and a centre-forward. Among them, the best play is the forward and shadow striker, and the center forward is because he is tall and strong, and can also play as a center forward. In fact, Lacomb used Menez as a center forward from the beginning, and in the French under-17 team, Menez also played as a center forward.

Fernandez decided to give Menez a face.

So in the warm-up matches and training, he trained how to hide behind his teammates and do the fatal blow.

There is Chu Zhongtian in the front waist, and this position is very chicken, and there is no need for it. Menez was fixed in the shadow striker position by Fernandes.

※※※Before the start of the new season, each team must submit the player's number to the Football Association for registration.

Chu Zhongtian wanted to replace his current number, and the thirty number didn't look like the main number no matter how he looked at it. In fact, he didn't have a number preference before, but since playing the number eight at Wimbledon for two seasons, he has loved it. In Metz, he hopes to be able to race in the number eight for the new season.

Coach Fernandez was not involved in this matter, and he asked Chu Zhongtian to negotiate with the original owner of the No. 8, the team's right-back Aligolo, to settle the matter.

Chu Zhongtian didn't want to go when he heard that the head coach didn't care about it, but Ribery kept encouraging him to go. "If you like that number, say what you think".

So he went to Arrigoro and told him what he was trying to do.

Unexpectedly, Aligolo was very reasonable, and he said very readily to give up his number eight: "Anyway, I don't look like a full-back in this number, I am always considered a midfielder, haha!" ”

Aligolo touched his bald head and smiled.

In this way, Chu Zhongtian got the No. 8 jersey he liked. Ribery was still wearing his number 10 shirt, no one was fighting him, and no one dared to grab him. Menez wears the number 18 jersey, which is also fine. Ahn Jung-hwan wore the number 19 jersey. Everyone else's numbers have basically not changed.

Submitting your number means that you are registered in the league and qualified to participate in the league and cup competitions.

Once the number is registered, the new season is not far away.

※※※On July 29, the new season of the French Football League kicked off.

The opening match was played between Marseille and Bordeaux, with the away side winning 2-0. Marseille had intended to make Fernandes head coach for the new season, but Fernandes turned down Marseille's offer at the end of last season. Marseille lost their first game of the new season at home, and it seems that Marseille's club president, Diouf, will continue to search for a new manager. It is worth mentioning that in this season, the defender who used to play for Paris Saint-Germain Rorick. Cana fell out with Paris Saint-Germain coach Fornier and moved to Marseille, rivals in the national derby.

This season, he will continue to fight against Chu Zhongtian as a Marseille player.

This match was followed by Metz's away game against Paris Saint-Germain.

It was a battle of revenge for the Parisians, as it was last season's penultimate defeat to Metz that cost them their qualification for the UEFA League Cup. Paris Saint-Germain in the new season will only be able to play in the domestic league and cup competitions.

Metz did not repeat last season's last-minute stunner against Paris Saint-Germain. Their only bright spot was the start of the new season with South Korean striker Ahn Jung-hwan, who scored in the 67th minute. On top of that, they were torn apart by hard-working PSG players.

Menez started the game, ambushing Ahn Jung-hwan as a shadow striker, but he didn't cooperate with his teammates at all. When Chu Zhongtian passed the ball to him, he just buried his head in dribbling, ignoring Chu Zhongtian being by his side and waving his hand to find the action he requested.

In the final stage of last season, Chu Zhongtian and Metz both performed well, and Chu Zhongtian's non-stop running and passing tandem in the midfield is inseparable, he is like a lubricant to ensure that all parts can operate normally. This time, however, Metz's eleven parts machine got stuck in Menez. No matter how the Chu Zhongtian brand lubricant can't be wiped on the part of Menez.

Pull a hair and move the whole body, plus Paris Saint-Germain scored early. They scored in the opening six minutes and beat the Metz team a little dazed. Since then, due to Menez's lack of cooperation, the team's operation has not been smooth. In the 37th minute, Paris Saint-Germain seized the opportunity of Menez's mistake in the front, and counterattacked after breaking the ball, Chu Zhongtian's defense did not work, and was thrown off by the opponent with a simple two-one.

2:0, midfielder Eduardo. Cisse (edouard_cisse) contributed to the team, and Paris Saint-Germain led by two goals.

Later, Chu Zhongtian no longer passed the ball to Menez, but passed it to Ribery and Oblagnac on both sides, as he did last season, and the situation improved slightly. It's just that the whole team of Metz has been ruined by one Menez, and Ribery is a bit difficult to support no matter how powerful he is. Moreover, after having Menez, the team's cooperation is not smooth, and many cooperation cannot be played.

At halftime, even Chu Zhongtian felt that Menez would definitely get Fernandes' criticism, but Coach Fernandez didn't say a word.

Just three minutes into the second half, Metz was hit hard. Roten scored the third goal for Paris Saint-Germain to take a 3-0 lead over Metz.

Metz's players were initially immersed in their dreams of their 3-2 win over Paris Saint-Germain last season, and now the score is so bloody that they don't dare to face it.

Menez's performance is still not improving. So in the 60th minute, Fernandes replaced him.

Replacing him so early, although Fernandes didn't say anything at half-time, everyone could see from this substitution that the manager was unhappy with Menez's performance. You must know that Ribery was also single-handedly in the team's first few games last season, and the saliva of the outside media has almost drowned him, Fernandez still insisted on not replacing Ribery in advance, did not exclude him from the starting list, insisted on letting him play the main team, and played for several months.

Ribery whistled in the back as he saw Menez walk off the field with his head down and in frustration.

Chu Zhongtian heard his whistle, glanced back at him, and he shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands to Chu Zhongtian: That kid asked for himself, he deserved it!

Menez himself was frustrated that he had been substituted after only 60 minutes, but despite that, he shook hands with Fernandes after the game. Fernandez whispered something in his ear, and no one knew what it was, but after hearing it, Menez went straight into the dressing room, and after a while, he reappeared on the bench after changing his clothes and showering. So the TV announcer speculated that Fernandez must have said to Menez: "Go take a shower and come back." ”

"That's a lot of speculation......"

After guessing, the narrator laughed at himself.

It's really boring, and Mace's performance in the first 60 minutes is nothing short of tragic and nothing to praise at all.

However, after replacing Menez, the performance of the Metz team improved.

In the 67th minute, Ahn Jung-hwan scored his first goal with Metz. This excited South Korean journalists in the media gallery.

The goal was planned by Chu Zhongtian, assisted by Oblagnac, and Ahn Jung-hwan scored the goal.

It's just that this goal is too little help for Mace.

Ten minutes later, PSG scored another goal to extend the score to 4-1. This ball extinguished Mace's fighting spirit that had been ignited so hard.

The final score was 4-1, with PSG avenging last season's victory over Metz at their home stadium.

Losing this game made Chu Zhongtian very depressed, because it was not just as simple as losing the game, they also lost badly, with a score of 1:4 and a gap of three goals, he was not in a good mood all night.

The loss made everyone unhappy, especially against Paris Saint-Germain, who they won at the end of last season. Menez's poor performance on the pitch has also been complained about privately by some players, with captain Bobiconi being asked to report the issue to head coach Brunandes. Bobiconi shrugged: "This is the first league game and I think we should give the newcomer a little time to settle into the team. Have you all forgotten what Frank did when he first arrived with us? ”

As soon as he said this, everyone would not be able to make trouble anymore. Franck Ribery also found it a bit difficult to talk to, having been just as bad as Menez at the start of last season, but the manager gave him plenty of patience to settle in. Now that he's integrated into the team, there's no reason not to allow his new teammates to make mistakes...... He really had little position to accuse Menez of being too alone.

Ribery rolled his eyes and said no more.

Chu Zhongtian didn't say anything, he had his own worries - he was worried that if it continued like this, the team would lose some games at the beginning of the season that they shouldn't have lost. It's just a loss to Paris Saint-Germain in this game, anyway, there is still a big gap between the strength of the two teams, and these three points were not planned. But what about the future competitions? What if Menez is allowed to toss around like this?

Is it really necessary to bypass Menez, treat him like air, and pass the ball to him on the field?

Chu Zhongtian believes that head coach Fernandez bought Menez to improve the strength of the team, because it can be seen from the usual training that he is indeed a very capable young man, his skills are excellent, and he is also very talented. As long as he plays normally and integrates into the team, Mace's strength will definitely be enhanced.

But the problem is that Menez didn't integrate into the team after he arrived, and he didn't actively seek to integrate into the team. He waved to Chu Zhongtian again and again in the game, asking Chu Zhongtian to pass the ball to him, but he didn't pass the ball after receiving it. Only when pressed too hard by the opponent will the ball be reluctantly passed. He seems to want to be the leader of the team, but he doesn't see if he has the qualifications.

Chu Zhongtian hoped that Mr. Fernandez's plan would not be messed up by this Menez. He doesn't want to go through another relegation battle this season anyway, although it is thrilling, but every season needs to be relegated at the end, which only shows that their previous dozens of league games are all shit.

It's so self-respecting.

(To be continued)