Chapter 20 Landing in Guangzhou
Very few of Liverpool's players have been to China, and most of their previous warm-up matches have been played in Australia, but not many when they are far away in China; Perhaps because Nan Xiao came to the team, Liverpool FC rarely set this summer's warm-up match in China, and after the news was announced on the official website, the club also received a number of invitations from the Chinese Super League teams for friendly matches, and the club took into account that Nan Xiao's hometown is Shenyang, Liaoning, so after determining a friendly match with Guangzhou Evergrande, the winner of the Chinese Super League's six-time championship, another friendly opponent was determined to be Liaoning Hongyun team.
Nan Xiao's team flew from Lisbon to Guangzhou, one of the most economically developed cities in China, and currently has two teams in Guangzhou in the Chinese Super League, one is Guangzhou R&F, and the other is Liverpool's opponent in this friendly match, which has been the champion of the Chinese Super League since 2011 when it was promoted to the Chinese Super League. And this hegemon in China, and even in Asia, has also created our own Chinese "Kaiserslautern" myth, and in this team, you can also see that there have been many well-known coaches and players who have played here, the biggest of which is in 2006 led the not the most favored Italian team to successfully stand on top of the world, defeating the powerful German team and the French team with Zidane in the semi-finals to win the World Cup!
After the legendary Italian coach "Silver Fox" Lippi, the only one in the world who has won both the Champions League and the AFC Champions League as a coach, Cannavaro, the winner of the Ballon d'Or in 06, also coached the Guangzhou Evergrande team for a short time, and after he got out of class, the Guangzhou Evergrande team ushered in another World Cup champion coach, Scolari, who led the powerful Brazilian team to win the Hercules Cup in 2002; Speaking of the 02 World Cup champion Brazil team, we have to mention that at that time they were so strong that it can be said that "no one has ever come before, no one has come after" lineup, in which the goalkeeper position is Marcos, and the two fullbacks are Cafu, who was known as the world's No. 1 right-back at the time, and Real Madrid superstar Robert, who has a heavy gun. Carlos, Lucio, Edmilson, Júnior in the central defender position, the two backs are Gilberto and Kleberson, and the front field is "Alien" Ronaldo, "Ronaldo" Ronaldinho, and Rivaldo, who has won the "European Ballon d'Or" and "World Footballer".
Compared with the star-studded coaches, the foreign players who have played for Guangzhou Evergrande over the years are also quite famous, including the MVP winner of the Brazilian League Dario. Conca, Borussia Dortmund's main striker at the time, Paraguay international Barrios, former Italian internationals Diamanti and Gilardino, and current Brazilian international Paulinho, who just joined the team from Tottenham Hotspur last season!
After the team landed from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Nan Xiao gave the players a two-day vacation, one is that Nan Xiao wants the players to take this opportunity to learn more about their own country, and the other is that they can also use these two days to deal with the team's finishing work in recent days.
At present, the team has three potential recruitment targets, and these three transfers are also in the works, the first is the left wing-back position that Nan Xiao vowed to be strengthened in the summer, after the team's technical director Edwards personally negotiated for half a month, Valencia FC's potential new star Jose. Gaja finally agreed to come to Anfield and joined Liverpool for £10 a week; In terms of right-back recruitment, even if you Lu is good at negotiation, he did not succeed in convincing the young player Henrichs of the "pharmaceutical factory" to accept the terms he offered, but went to Stamford Bridge for a high transfer fee of 30 million pounds, becoming one of the members of the defending champion "Blues" Chelsea club, and the replacement that Nan Xiao did not look for was Jose from the Roma team of Serie A. Gaya also has an excellent speed advantage with Brazilian Bruno. Perez; Finally, in terms of goalkeepers, due to the low competitive pressure from Liverpool, the Mexican international Ochoa accepted the invitation of the Liverpool club very smoothly, and Nanxiao gave the goal-line Mexican a regular position in the new season, while at the same time, Kalius, who arrived from Mainz in the Bundesliga last season, was sent back to another team in the German league, Wolfsburg, on loan by Nanxiao for a season.
With the addition of Mexican international Ochoa, Liverpool's recruitment work this season has also come to an end, and before the team's transfer door is completely closed, Nan Xiao finally gave Moreno to the Stoke City team coached by his good brother Chen Mingshuo for 10 million pounds, and at the same time sent the academy youngster Alexander-Arnold to the U21 league again to continue to accumulate experience; So after all the transfer work is over, Liverpool's current squad has become like this:
Goalkeeper:
No. 1, Ochoa;
No. 22, Mignolet;
Fullback:
No. 2, Klein;
No. 3, Veltman;
No. 4, Manolas;
No. 6, Lovren;
No. 7, Milner;
No. 13, Perez;
No. 18, Gaya;
No. 32, Matip;
Midfielder:
No. 5, Wijnaldum;
No. 10, Coutinho;
No. 14, Henderson;
No. 15, Camacho;
No. 20, Lallana;
No. 23, Zhan;
No. 30, Halilovich;
Striker:
No. 9, Aguero;
No. 11, Fillino;
No. 17, Shaqiri;
No. 19, Mane;
No. 27, Origi.
Judging from the current team's lineup, Nan Xiao has spent a summer transfer period to build quite well, and the strength of the three online personnel has been supplemented, although only Aguero can be regarded as good in terms of fame, but Nan Xiao's football philosophy does not blindly rely on stars, if it is not for the enhancement of the club's attraction to stars, it is possible that Aguero will not appear in the team's lineup in the new season.
After the team's recruitment work was completely over, You Lu was finally able to return to Nan Xiao's side and flew directly back to Guangzhou from Germany, and Guangzhou has been raining continuously for the past few days, and Nan Xiao has no You Lu to go out to play, but most of the time is spent in the hotel.
This Liverpool's trip to China Nan Xiao brought many youth team players, because he said in the first day of the team's meeting that most of the two Chinese Super League teams will not send the main lineup, so he will also let the team's regular substitutes and young players get more opportunities to play, and Nan Xiao also has strong expectations for the performance of the young players in his team this time!