Chapter 21: Warm-up Match

The £1oo0,000 transfer spend is nothing in the top flight, but in League One, it has already made all opponents feel the change of ownership of the Hammers, and the kind of domineering that is similar to that of the Blues and Chelsea. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 At this point, the head coach of every club in English football is looking forward to when there will be foreign investment in my club!

Although the Hammers have been relegated, they have received more attention than before, and there are many teams throughout London, except for Chelsea, which has attracted the attention of the whole of Europe, the Hammers have even overshadowed giants like Arsenal, and Fulham, Tottenham, and Charlton cannot compare with them.

Despite the fact that Paul rarely goes out for interviews with reporters, and even the daily team training sessions are only in the morning for fans to watch, he has become a news figure. Reporters from various media outlets in London also had mixed reviews of Paul, some said that he was an out-and-out rookie, others said that Paul was very financially savvy, and that Joe Cole and Glenn Johnson had been exchanged for six potential young players and large transfer funds, while others said that the inexperienced coach Paul would lead the Hammers into an even darker abyss.

But no matter what the outside says, Paul has become the new manager of West Ham United, and his work has begun to be in full swing, and the Hammers fans are also taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the team, and they also want to see what kind of changes the new chairman and new manager can bring to the team.

Because the team has just been rebuilt, Paul set a training date for the players on July 6, and the team has added six new players, and the overall run-in is not something that can be completed in a day or two, especially next season West Ham will change to a new formation, which will require more time to train the team.

I have to say that Paul's image in the minds of the Hammers players is still very good, especially Joseph Sofine, Ellington and other players who have received his guidance, and they are very supportive of him, and even the old players such as James and Rob Lee also show great respect for the young Paul.

After the team's new vice-captain was taken over by Mullins, the veteran captains James and Mullins began to work hard to complete the first task assigned by Paul.

Paul's first assignment to James and Mullins was to help the six newcomers Hutter, Philippe Oliveira, Matthew Pippo, Arka, and Steven Gillespie integrate into the team as quickly as possible.

The Hammers' training for the new season was started by Ashley Roberts, the strength and conditioning coach, and Paul stipulated that the team would not have a day off before the start of the League One league, and all of them would be two drills a day, with two hours in the morning as physical training time, and in the afternoon Paul Goddard and Pete Beardsley leading them to practice their new formations.

As for Paul himself, although he doesn't coach the players himself, he doesn't have time to be idle at all, sitting on the sidelines with his laptop every day, constantly observing through his abilities, and then recording on the computer.

Every player on the training ground is very serious and hard-working, and they know very well that in front of Paul, the new head coach, no one has the capital to put the old qualifications, no one has the privilege, and if they really want to play on the field, they have to use the performance in training to fight for it.

After a few days on the sidelines of the training pitch, Paul was quite satisfied with the two players recommended by Pete Beardsley, Matthew Pippo and Steven Gillespie.

Matthew Pippo is very versatile, can run, pass, dribble, shoot, not only his own physical condition is very superior, but also when playing on the pitch is very smart, is an attacking midfielder who plays with his brain, this is indeed a more suitable candidate to be the core of the team than Ellington, but he used to play on the right side, and now it will take some time to adapt to moving to the middle.

Steven Gillespie is indeed like Pete Beardsley said, not to be fast, the sense of smell in front of goal is still very sensitive, but more importantly, this player is very team minded and not greedy in front of goal.

However, the most satisfying thing for Paul is the Argentine left-back Alca recommended by Ashley Roberts, the 22-year-old who played for Sunderland for three years and is very familiar with English football, and the level and form he showed are even completely beyond Paul's original left-back option, Bolwitt.

After a week of training like this, the Hammers' first warm-up game came against Cambridge United, who are currently in the fourth tier of England.

No matter which country's football, when it reaches the fourth level, the level of the team is no better than that of the amateur team, after all, the salary of these teams is pitiful, and it is not enough to support the family, except for those young players who will wait for opportunities in such teams, and only the players who are older and love football will play for it.

Compared with the level of Cambridge United and West Ham, which has just been relegated from the league, it is completely a gap between amateur and professional, but it is such a warm-up game, West Ham United actually lost! Not only did they lose, but they lost badly............ 1:3!

If from the point of view of the score, the Hammers face Cambridge United in the fourth division of the league to lose like this, it is estimated that the fans on the scene will have to go violent, these fans of the Hammers are not good men and women, most of them are the kind of strong men who do manual work with big shoulders and round waists.

However, there was no violence at Uptown Park, and even the Hammers fans who came to the scene were still applauding and applauding their team.

There is no other reason, the West Ham United team built by Paul has an absolute advantage on the field, and the overall cooperation of the team is still very rusty, but in the short passes on the ground again and again, the players contain each other to run and create opportunities, these players who have just been pinched together played one wonderful scene after another, and even the 11 substitutes on the field in the second half performed very well.

Throughout the game, the Hammers spent 52% of their possession and 75% of their passes were successful, which also created an advantage on the field. There were as many as 18 shots, seven of which hit the woodwork, but only Connolly scored a goal in the first three minutes of the second half.

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