Chu Zhongtian, who went to the team to train the next day, saw Menez in the locker room and still greeted him, and Menez responded. Everything is no different than usual.

Ribery was very concerned about the follow-up situation of Chu Zhongtian's treat, and he really couldn't see anything from this greeting between the two people. But it doesn't matter, the last event of today's training is the internal match, the first team is divided into two teams to play each other, the game is not long, that is, 40 minutes, mainly to check the players' mastery of skills and tactics in the confrontation state.

According to Fernandez's meaning, Chu Zhongtian and Menez would definitely be deliberately divided into a group.

This has been proven countless times in previous intra-team competitions. There is only one situation where they will not be in the first team, that is, the intra-team game before the official game, in order to test the state and level of the main lineup, Chu Zhongtian will not be assigned to the first team with Menez, because Chu Zhongtian will definitely be the main player, and Menez will play in the reserve team.

Today is Wednesday, there is no game the next day, and the game will wait until the weekend. Chu Zhongtian will definitely be on the same team as Menez.

Sure enough, when the last part of today's training was in the intra-team game, Chu Zhongtian was arranged to be on the same team as Menez.

They wore yellow vests and waistcoats, and on the opposite side wore red Mace training uniforms. Here, the yellow vests do not represent the main force, but only to distinguish the players from both sides.

Ribery thought to Chu Zhongtian and waved his hand: "The treat you lost!" How many meals do you owe me, Chu? ”

His words drew laughter from the rest of his teammates.

was asked by the head coach to be with Menez, in the eyes of his teammates, Chu Zhongtian was really unlucky. Menez is the kind of person who is not easy to get along with, who is with her, who is uncomfortable.

Chu Zhongtian ignored Ribery's provocation, and he pulled Menez aside to communicate: "Do you want to be the core, Jeremy?" Do you want everybody to pass the ball to you, Jeremy? If you want to, prove it to them! You pass me the ball and I'll pass it to you, that's fair. ”

In previous intra-team matches, the two sides won and lost each other, but Menez's performance was not good. In the past, because everyone didn't like him, they deliberately didn't pass the ball to him, and let him run blindly on the field, which couldn't play any role. You can only rely on yourself to grab to have a chance to control the ball. Hell it would be able to perform like this.

But today Chu Zhongtian wants to support Menez. He didn't tell his teammates about his plans, he knew that even if he did, he wouldn't get support because everyone hated Menez and wouldn't do anything for him.

So today only I and Menez cooperated. Since it was decided to help Menez integrate into the team, Chu Zhongtian had to do it. He's not afraid of being sidelined by his teammates because he still has Ribery here, and that guy is a clear dressing room leader who always listens to what he says. As long as he maintains his friendship with Ribery, his position in the dressing room will not be shaken.

Menez wanted to say something, but was stopped by Chu Zhongtian again: "Don't say anything, football is played with your feet, not by your mouth." ”

※※※After the game started, Chu Zhongtian waved his hand to ask his teammates for the ball. Menez observed, Chu Zhongtian was right yesterday, it is true, as long as he asks for the ball, the football will be passed to him soon. Everyone has a lot of trust in him and is willing to give him the ball.

Chu Zhongtian, who got the ball, looked up at Menez's position, then shook his head and passed the ball to others.

Then he shouted at Menez: "Position, position, watch your own position!" ”

Menez realized that he had been observing Chu Zhongtian just now, and had forgotten his position.

After that, he struggled to find space and waited for the pass.

Sure enough, when he ran to the right position, the football was sent over by Chu Zhongtian.

"Huh?" Ribery looked in front of him in amazement.

When his teammates were in the back to participate in the defense, he stood in front and did not defend back, but put his hands on his hips and looked like he was watching a good show.

There were many others who were just as surprised as he was. Because they saw that Chu Zhongtian actually passed the football to Menez. You must know that in the past, Chu Zhongtian was not a person who passed the ball to that kid very much.

Once is accidental, but what about two or three times?

When Menez received Chu Zhongtian's priority pass four times in a row, everyone felt that something was wrong with the two of them today.

Menez received Chu Zhongtian's fourth pass, turned around and shot! The soccer ball rises over the crossbar. Just like the previous three-legged pass, either high or off.

When he turned around, he saw Chu Zhongtian holding up four fingers at him: "You owe me four passes." ”

"Don't waste your efforts, Chu!" On his side, Ludovick, who was not on the same team as him. Oblagnac said to Chu Zhongtian. "That kid won't appreciate it!"

Chu Zhongtian looked at Menez's back and thought for a while, "You have to try." I'll give him a chance to play this game, if not...... I can't help it. ”

Oblaniak patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder: "Although I don't want to disappoint you, you are doing useless work. ”

With that, Obragnac ran away.

"Hey, Chu!" Gregory in a yellow vest. Leka came up, he and Chu Zhongtian were on the same team, "Your teammates are a little dissatisfied, Chu." ”

"What's wrong, Leka?"

Leka spread his hands: "You've passed the ball four times in a row to that little bastard who will only waste his chances." But you don't pass the ball to your other teammates. ”

Chu Zhongtian looked at everyone, and then shrugged at him: "That's because your position is not very good......"

※※※“…… And so it is. Menez has a sharper sense of smell on the pitch than anyone else, and he is able to find the right space. That's his talent. "Tadio is analysing Menez for other coaches.

Now he has changed from a coach who specializes in training Chu Zhongtian to a coach who specializes in training Menez, he is only considered Chu Zhongtian's coach when he gives Chu Zhongtian tactical lessons, and more often he has been following Menez. For more than two months, he is probably the person who knows Menez the most among all the coaches.

"But if he doesn't get the ball or shoots with his feet, but tries to cooperate with his team-mates...... "We will be more active in attack. Because he's in a dangerous position and the opponent reacts to that, he can attract more people and if he splits the football again......" he slapped and "our offensive situation is open!" ”

"You're talking on paper, Francisco, haha!" Colleagues laughed. Say what you can do if you do, and everyone will.

This is not just talk on paper, but rhetoric. But this is the content of Chu Zhongtian's main part of each tactical class - he and Chu Zhongtian watched the game video analysis together, and made various assumptions: "If you don't choose to handle the ball like this at the time, but choose to handle the ball that way, it will be like this next, and then it will be like this, and then it should be like ......this later."

After receiving the ball, Chu Zhongtian will quickly present the next step or even the next few steps in his mind, so that he will have a clear passing idea in his mind and know what to do. This is also one of the reasons why Chu Zhongtian can become the core of the team. As the commander of the team, he has to think more and further than anyone else.

Tadio didn't take everyone's jokes seriously. He knows what's right, and he's doing the right thing.

※※※ "Just keep an eye on their Chu." Ribery said to Pro-Mans on the pitch.

Promans nodded. "I think so, too."

"Hehe, we won again today!" Obragnac came up to join in the fun.

"Alright, stop talking nonsense, they're here again!" As soon as Promans clapped his hands, several people dispersed.

As soon as Chu Zhongtian got the ball, he found that Promans was running towards him, he didn't want to be one-on-one with his vice-captain, not because he was afraid of him, but because he felt that this would waste a good opportunity to pass the ball.

Immediately sent the ball out with the outside instep, but it turned out to be a little bigger, and Leka didn't catch it.

Just when everyone thought the football would go out of bounds, there was a foot that stopped the football on the sideline.

"Oh?" The coaches on the sidelines let out an exclamation when they saw the person receiving the ball.

Chu Zhongtian didn't bother to explain to Leka that he didn't actually plan to pass it on to him, because Menez wasn't in that position before. Now the red team is disrupted by Menez's sudden drop back to get the ball. At this point, it is obvious that he should accelerate suddenly, rather than explaining to his teammates why the ball that was originally passed to him was passed to another person.

Chu Zhongtian accelerated and rushed forward, and motioned to Menez with his hand to pass the ball to him.

This time, Promans did not go to Chu Zhongtian, but turned his gun and pounced on Menez. In Metz, everyone knows that as long as Menez gets the ball, the chance of passing the ball out is only five percent, and he will inevitably choose to break through along the sideline by himself, unless there is really no way forward and space to break through, before considering passing the ball to others, but at that time, the opportunity to pass the ball has long been missed, and the ball passed out is either broken or a helpless pass.

Chu Zhongtian continued to run forward, continuing to make the gesture of "pass the ball to me".

Menez, as usual, as if he didn't see it, started the breakthrough.

Just when everyone thought that he would either kill all the way to the dark or be cut off. Menez leaned forward, but his left foot slammed the ball sideways!

The toes of Promans rolled past him.

Chu Zhongtian received the ball.

Barely having any pause, Chu Zhongtian pushed the ball straight out with his left foot.

Menez, who had already rushed past the defensive line, received the ball behind Promans and others.

Two over one!

"Oh!" The coaches watching the game from the sidelines couldn't help but exclaim. A two-on-one isn't a big deal, but in Menez, such a smooth two-by-one is commendable.

Menez, who received the ball on the wing, did not cross directly, but went straight to the penalty area.

Just when everyone thought he would shoot from a tight angle, he crossed!

Menez crosses!

None of them reacted, and the RED defenders and the yellow forwards all stood stunned, watching the football pass between them. Only Chu Zhongtian was still running, but he was a step too late, so he could only hold his head in his hands and "look at the ball and sigh".

Menez raised two fingers at him: "Twice for you." ”

※※※ Menez's performance shocked everyone present. In their eyes, Menes was a cold stone that could never be melted.

But what kind of magic did Chu Zhongtian cast? Actually got Menesken to cooperate with him?

Now their minds are full of question marks.

Only Fernández laughed.

In the next game, Chu Zhongtian continued to pass the football to Menez who ran to the right position many times, and Menez gradually increased the pass to his teammates, not only to Chu Zhongtian, but also to others. Judging from his passing, it's not that he doesn't pass well, but there are still a lot of imaginative passes. The previous poor performance was just because he didn't want to cooperate with his teammates.

Towards the end of the game, Menez and Chu Zhongtian made a series of one-two combinations at the edge of the opponent's penalty area, and he scored the third goal of the yellow team by shooting himself.

Although the yellow team still lost to the red team in the end, this result is no longer important.

Everyone is concerned about what exactly has changed in Menez.

Fernandes brought the squad together and highlighted Menez's performance. Menez can play almost any position up front, so once he is active, he will make the opponent unguardable.

Metz needs a player like him. Although Chu Zhongtian has passing, his footwork is a little less delicate, and passing people is a weakness. Ribery, on the other hand, has excellent technique, is fast and has a sharp breakthrough, but he likes to play more on the wing. There has always been a lack of a person in the middle who can pass the ball skillfully, can shoot at the goal, and at the same time can break through and control the ball. If Menez can play normally, there is the most suitable person for this position in the middle of Metz.

Fernandez complimented Menez, and the players looked at Menez with monster eyes.

Putting aside the previous grievances, purely and objectively, in terms of foot skills, there are few Mez in the whole Metz who can compare to that Menez...... No, maybe no one can match it. His footwork is very outstanding and delicate, and it can be seen from his movements that he has been trained very well and systematically since he was a child, very standardized and flexible, and he can sway freely.

Such a person is their teammate, which should be a very happy thing, but who knew that it would become like this?

After the team disbanded, everyone went back to the locker room and began to wash off the sweat and mud on their bodies, and changed into the outfits they wore when they came to practice.

When Chu Zhongtian met Menez in the locker room, he gave him a thumbs up and signaled that he was doing a good job.

Menez smiled at him. It's a good thing that I'm not as arrogant as I used to be.

Chu Zhongtian felt that this was a good time, and he should take the opportunity to tell his teammates that Menez was no longer the Menez he used to be.

"Listen to me, guys." He clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

The players stopped what they were doing, and those teammates who were about to take a shower also stopped and turned their heads to look at Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian pulled Menez beside him, Menez didn't move at first, and then Chu Zhongtian pulled him out with all his might.

He patted Menez on the shoulder and said to everyone, "I'd like to introduce you to a new teammate, Jeremy. Menez! ”

※※※On the way home, Chu Zhongtian sat in Ribery's car.

The French were interested in one thing: "I know you invited that boy to your house yesterday, so how did you do it?" What did you say? ”

"Actually, it's nothing......" Chu Zhongtian thought about it, and felt that what he said was quite ordinary. I just told him that if he wants to earn the respect of others, he must first respect others. The same goes for football. ”

"Is that all there is to it?" Ribery still finds it incredible.

"Maybe it's because I gave him a good meal?" Chu Zhongtian also felt strange.

"I've tasted the food you made, and although it's delicious, it's not so amazing that it can change a person's mind, right?" Ribery pouted.

"Hey, why do you care so much? As long as Menez is willing to cooperate with everyone now, wouldn't that be fine? Chu Zhongtian couldn't explain it, so he simply didn't explain.

"Hmm...... You're right, Chu! A good ending is a good thing! ”

In fact, neither of them knew that the reason why Menez could listen to Chu Zhongtian's words was because Menez had been paying attention to Chu Zhongtian and had unconsciously regarded Chu Zhongtian as a person who could communicate. A person who greets him with a smile every day is obviously more worthy of being close to than someone who usually sneers at him, and what he says is more acceptable.

"But I don't think I'll be so quick to forgive him! I wouldn't be friends with him! Ribery thought again of Menez's haughty expression, which he hated when people dangled in front of him. The arrogant person should obviously be him, when will it be the turn of a boy who has not grown all his hair to show off in front of him?

Chu Zhongtian didn't persuade him, he was not qualified to intervene in this kind of personal grudge. He couldn't force his friends to be friends with each other, and he couldn't force Ribery and Menez to get along. As long as the personal grudge between them does not affect the competition training. And this, he believes, Ribery is clearly distinguished.

He shrugged, "Whatever you want, Frank." I don't care about anything between you. ”

With that, he leaned his hands on the seat. A matter of heart is finally over, and he can finally coach Fernandes an errand. I don't know if Mr. Fernández is still satisfied with this lesson?

※※※ On September 20, the next day, before hosting Auxerre, Fernandez announced the squad for this match.

Jeremy. Menez's name is prominently listed.

In that game, Metz lost 2-1 at home to AJERRE Auxerre, and Menez came on as a substitute for Reynolds in the 70th minute. In twenty minutes he made thirteen passes and completed ten. Considering his playing time, that's a pretty good number.

Despite the loss, Fernandes was not frustrated or disgruntled at all, on the contrary, he even smiled when he attended the press conference after the game, not at all like a coach who had just lost.

The reason why he is not depressed is simple, the "Three Musketeers of Mace" he hopes for is gradually taking shape.

"It's a shame that today's game didn't belong to us." He spread his hands and smiled.

No one read his subtext: the future of the game belongs to us!

(To be continued)