Chapter 4: A.T. Kearney's Adventure

PS: This chapter is a supplement, I stayed up a few nights, and now I find that my spirit is very good at night, and I am always drowsy during the day, and my biological clock is completely reversed, and I am dizzy~~~!

Arsenal want to hold a closed training camp before the season?

This is really a novelty.

Of course, closed training camps are not new, and before the big tournament, there will always be some teams who like to tinker with such closed training camps, which are said to allow players to concentrate, eliminate distractions, and play their best in the game. Although we still need to have different opinions on the question of whether the effect is good or not, at least it shows an attitude, that is, an attitude of caring for the game and being responsible for the fans.

However, we should note that this is talking about "before the big game", the so-called big game, of course, refers to the World Cup, the Champions League final, or an important game such as encountering a strong opponent, usually only at such a life-and-death juncture, those teams will engage in closed training camps, so that the team is isolated from the harassment of the outside world.

No team has ever held any closed training camp before the start of the new season, and even the warm-up games have been canceled for a month.

Arsene Wenger, an old man who has been in football for more than ten years, what kind of trouble does he want to make? Doesn't he understand that such a long training camp can easily cause the players to become mentally tired and thus reduce their enthusiasm for football? Before the new season started, the players had lost their passion for the game, so how would they play in the future?

Not everyone is aware of Arsene Wenger's ambitions, and in their opinion, Arsenal have done quite well over the past decade or so, even after losing the treble title last season. But I also won a championship and two runners-up, didn't I? If this result is not satisfactory, then at least 99.9% of the world's managers should be fired.

But Arsene Wenger has mysteriously closed the Kearney training base, what is he doing with his gunners inside?

The more secretive the topic, the more people want to explore, and among these voyeuristic people, there is a group of people called "journalists", who will not only have a desire to find out in front of curious things, but also quickly turn this desire into action, and implement it without hesitation.

As a result, the staff of the Arsenal club have been having a lot of troubles lately, and almost every Arsenal internal employee will be asked about the current situation of the team. and after Arsene Wenger sealed off the Kearney base. What the hell are they doing in there?

Arsene Wenger doesn't actually plan to hide the team's change to 433 this year as a big secret, and it doesn't make much sense to hide this kind of thing, because when Arsenal debuts in the new season, everyone can easily recognize this problem. can be yin by them. At most, it was the unlucky team in the opener. This has little impact on the 38 rounds of the Premier League.

But even if Wenger didn't mean to hide it, as the number one player in the club's athletic side, he didn't need to report the change of formation to the average staff. Therefore, knowing that Arsenal's formation will change this season, in fact, in addition to a few of his assistants, there are only a few senior executives of the club.

As the directors of the Arsenal club, ordinary media reporters naturally have no way to contact them, and the employees they can contact are some low-level personnel within Arsenal, but by mistake, these low-level personnel do not know what kind of changes Wenger and his team are making, so when these reporters tried their best to ask every Arsenal employee who could be asked, they still did not know anything about Wenger's closed training content.

The nature of journalists is to explore all the secrets, the more secret the news, the greater their interest, when they find out that they have no clue from the club's internal staff, not only do they not give up, but they are more excited, even Arsenal themselves are hidden, it seems that Wenger is going to make a big move!

So immediately after Plan A, the reporters' Plan B came out again.

A.T. Kearney is not located on the outskirts like Carrington (Manchester United) or Melwood (Liverpool), but is actually located in the lush county of Hertfordshire, just a 45-minute drive from the Emirates Stadium, so it is not all deserted hills, but rather a fairly densely populated town.

With a dense population comes naturally skyscrapers, and the media reporters, who were so desperate for the truth that they almost went crazy, quickly found several high-rise buildings around the Kearney training base and installed high-tech telescopes in the right places to see for themselves what the Arsenal players were training for.

Unfortunately, what they saw disappointed them again, because Wenger didn't start with the players in formation, he first trained in small combinations between three-on-three or five-on-five, and only after the players were proficient in these small-scale combinations, they slowly increased their manpower, and then gradually evolved into a big team practice.

The reason why Wenger dared to change the formation in a month before the start of the new season actually relied on this, Barcelona's Tiki-Taka pays the most attention to the small-scale cooperation between the players, and Arsenal is precisely the team that pays the most attention to passing coordination in the past ten years except for Barcelona, so this kind of pass-and-control tactics is actually not complicated for Arsenal, and the basic skills practiced between the two are similar.

But it was this "almost" that disappointed the reporters who came to take a look at the advanced voyeur equipment on the high ground, because the Arsenal they saw were no different from the past few years, passing, walking monkeys, running, what they have done in the past few seasons, and what they are still doing.

Arsene Wenger shouldn't have been beaten stupid by Barcelona in the Champions League final, right?

After such a boring result, most of the media gave up on continuing to search for the truth, and they began to complain in the newspapers. claimed that Wenger was simply trying to attract attention, so he engaged in this so-called closed training camp, but in fact, Arsenal is still playing the same old game, and Wenger has nothing new at all.

The vast majority of media reporters hold this view, but there are still some persistent people who think that Wenger, who rarely jokes with the public, cannot be so big and up, since he decided to cut off the connection between the Kearney training base and the outside world, he must have a special purpose, Wenger is not a person who will not be targeted, he and his team must be carrying out some secret operations.

Since you can't see anything strange with a telescope from a distance. Then we'll have to find a way to get in. It's best to hear what they're saying during training so you can get the most accurate information.

So when Plan B ended without a problem, another group of stubborn reporters started their Plan C. The Sun's reporter William . Delanus is one of the most aggressive.

The Sun's fame and status in Britain naturally need not be said. In short, his reputation in the industry is the best among the scum. However, it occupies a large share among readers. The reason for this situation is that the "Sun" has recruited a group of paparazzi who can be called "death squads" in the journalist world, and this group of paparazzi has worked tirelessly. Day and night, painstaking, dedication, and all possible means to try to restore the "truth" of the facts to all audiences, they not only failed to achieve the goal by unscrupulous means, but even had an amazing "martial arts", chasing Princess Diana in a flying car, pretending to be a Real Madrid staff to call Reyes, bribing the police to illegally wiretap, and even organized a group to Spain to fool Athletic Bilbao, and reached an agreement with the other party about 30.5 million pounds to "sell" the team Herrera to Manchester United......

The Sun has a long list of achievements, and as a member of this group of journalists' death squads, William Brown. Nalanders is full of pride in his profession, and despite the many slanders against the reporters of The Sun, William always believes that what he does is only to expose the truth to the public and let everyone enjoy their right to know, so his work is noble, honorable, and full of justice.

Now, let him unveil the mystery of Arsenal and let everyone see what Wenger and his team are doing at the Kearney training base.

Willian first used his sweet words and Jin Yuan to trap an Arsenal cleaner, and then he infiltrated the training base in place of the cleaner, he wore a mask on his face and a big sunhat on his head, and carefully approached the Arsenal players who were training little by little by cleaning the action.

Training on the pitch was in full swing, and the sounds of the players could be heard from a long distance, but they were no different from the usual sounds, and Willian could not hear the secret he wanted from them, so he quietly continued to sweep the garbage and move a little closer to the edge of the training ground.

"No, Nicholas, you're a center, you should learn to handle the ball with your head, do you hear me, I'm not telling you to think at this time, I'm asking you to fight for the header, the header!" William finally heard Wenger's voice, it sounded like Wenger seemed a little angry, but this is for sure, Bendtner's clumsy handling of the ball just now, even William himself couldn't help but almost scolded, Nima's height of 1.93 meters is for you to eat leaves, obviously so tall bamboo poles, you have to use your thighs to stop the ball awkwardly, this girl is a parallel commodity at all.

But before he could react, he heard Descartes yelling on the court: "Here, Theo, pass the ball!" "Descartes was playing five-on-five against Walcott, Rosicky and others on the other side, but Willian was very keen to grasp one thing, which was that their five-on-five did not have a goal, they were always passing, and no matter which side grabbed the ball, they would immediately start pounding the ball at their feet, and then the other side would start chasing the ball until they got it back.

As far as Willian knows, this seems to be a little different from Arsenal in the past, because in the past Arsenal five-on-five training, usually both sides would have a goal on their own, and their goal was to get the ball into the opponent's goal, rather than just passing and not shooting as they do now.

As William stopped and pondered what these subtle differences meant, Arsene Wenger's assistant, Mr. Rice, approached him, and before he could react, Mr. Rice spoke: "Who are you, the reporter who has come in?" Get me out of here. Don't you know that we're training behind closed doors? We don't accept interviews! ”

"No, sir, you're mistaken, I'm not a journalist, I'm just a cleaner." William, who had been in the paparazzi world for many years, had long been accustomed to such an unexpected situation, and he did not even tremble in his tone, and calmly stood still and explained to Mr. Rice.

"Oh God, are you an idiot for me, you've been sweeping a leaf there for ten minutes. You think I can't see what you're doing? Mr. Rice stroked his forehead. I was speechless for this "smart" journalist.

William was embarrassed, and as soon as he lowered his head, he saw the truth that his identity was exposed, it turned out that he really forgot his "old job" because he paid too much attention to the conversation of Descartes and others. He swept here and around for a long time. It turned out to be only a lone leaf under the broom......

Awkwardly took off his mask and smiled. William has not forgotten his purpose, now that it has been exposed, he simply shouted at Wenger: "Hey. Mr Arsene Wenger, I just want to know what exactly your closed training is about, we are the media and we have a right to know. ”

Wenger ignored him with a calm face, and Mr. Rice approached him and began to push him out, saying as he pushed: "Yes, you have the right to know, but we also have the right to remain silent, even if the police arrest criminals, you have to inform them that they have the right to remain silent, don't you, Mr. Reporter, I think you should please leave first, or I will call the security guards." ”

But William still didn't give up, he struggled with Mr. Rice, and shouted to Wenger: "Hey, Mr. Wenger, please say something, just say it, I just want to know why you want to close the training camp!" ”

Arsene Wenger finally turned his head to look at him, then nodded in response: "For the win." ”

"Holy!" William couldn't help but give him his middle finger in the bottom of his heart, what's the difference between this answer and fucking bullshit?

I'm not going to give up like that!

William, who was kicked out of the Kearney training base in embarrassment. Mr. Nalanders did not give up, a paparazzi who gave up exploring the truth while he was still alive is not a good paparazzi, as a daredevils in the paparazzi world, Mr. William will never be defeated so easily!

So the next day, when the Arsenal players were on the pitch again to start their daily training routines, they were shocked to see a huge hot air balloon floating slowly from the outside of A.T. Kearney's training base and hovering over the training ground.

"Hey, Mr. Wenger, I said I wouldn't give up the search for the truth, I just want to know the truth of the matter, what is the purpose of your closed training camp?" William. Nalandes waved his arms vigorously in the basket of the hot air balloon, although the distance between the two was a little far, but it did not hinder his determination to explore the truth and his smug expression, this time, I see how you still drive me out!

This scene surprised the Arsenal players in the stadium at first, but then many people laughed, they have been isolated from the outside world for a while because of the closed training camp, and no one knows that the closed training content about Arsenal has been hyped up in the outside world, and this incident has even become a reason for many peripheral bookmakers to open the market: some people think that Arsenal is just playing tricks, and some people think that Arsenal is about to face a huge change.

William's courageous actions did not give him the first-hand information he coveted, because the first second his hot air balloon stopped over the training ground, Wenger angrily yelled at the staff next to him: "Give me a gun!" ”

The staff did not dare to slack off, hurriedly calmed Mr. Wenger, and then called the police, and then the police vehicle roared to take away Mr. William, who was still tirelessly pursuing the truth.

As for his hot air balloon, well, it's only on loan from Mr. William, and he doesn't have to take much responsibility for it.

But if you think that this is the end of the matter, then you are still too naΓ―ve, our Mr. William still has no intention of giving up his unfinished business after a series of setbacks, and the more Arsenal covers up the truth more tightly, the more it arouses his desire to explore, and he has simply entered a kind of demonic frustration, if he can't make the truth of this matter public, he, William. Nalanders has never deserved to be called the "James" of the paparazzi world. Bond"!

So after coming out of the police station, William immediately returned home to take a shower, then changed into close-fitting clothes, and took advantage of the night to return to the Kearney training base again.

Yes, it's nighttime, and although it's still some time before the night, our Mr. "Bond" thinks it's time to commit the crime, and his target is none other than Arsene Wenger's office, which he is convinced must have something in it.

Bypassing the guards and avoiding the surveillance system, William infiltrated the office building of the Kearney base like a real MI7 agent, and compared to the secret bases that Mr. Bond infiltrated with high-tech security systems, Kearney was like a completely undefended playground, and Mr. William was full of pride in his skills and courage.

But when he lurked outside Wenger's office window, he encountered a little "small" trouble, because Wenger's office was still lit, which showed that there were still people inside.

Then Mr. "Bond" William heard a conversation that broke his heart: "I really don't understand, our closed training camp is just to allow the players to concentrate more on the training of the new formation, and this is not a big secret, why do those guys even hype up such a thing?" ”

These are the words of Wenger's assistant Mr. Rice, this familiar voice even made William's eyes light up suddenly, it turns out that Arsenal is actually training a new formation, this time it was finally listened to by himself, right? Hmph, tomorrow you will wait for the headlines, and see what kind of face you have when I pull out the hole cards that you are bent on hiding. Dare to offend me William. Lord Nalandus, you will not have good fruit to eat.

"yes." This voice belonged to Wenger, and his voice was full of exclamation: "I originally wanted everyone to receive as little interference from the outside world as possible during this time, but I didn't expect that the more this happened, the more curious that the group of people became, I heard that the staff of the club have been harassed by them one by one, and now such an outrageous thing has happened...... I don't think it's better to let Mr. Eduardo explain to the media tomorrow, lest they come here from time to time to make trouble under the pretense of seeking the truth. ”

"Okay." Mr. Rice's words rang out, and after a pause, he seemed to laugh, and said with some amusement: "You say that if that guy who came to make trouble knows that the news he has been seeking is not a secret at all, what will he think in his heart?" ”

Arsene Wenger's laughter also instantly rang out in the office.

"What would I think?" Mr. William outside the window almost didn't cry: "I'm a pig!" (To be continued......)