McDermott pinned his hopes on Xu Yifei and the other four young men, which was actually after some careful consideration. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Having played in professional football for many years, as a player, as a scout and then as a coach, he certainly knew the excellence of the Leeds United Academy and he fully believed in the hematopoietic ability of the training base in Archtown.

Sam, who has just joined the first team this season. Bayram and Xu Yifei have fully proved the strength of the Leeds academy.

The key question is, how do we get more youth players to mature and gain a foothold in the senior team?

This question continues to plague McDermott until this morning. But the scene that had just happened on the training ground suddenly made his eyes light up.

Among these four teenagers, Xu Yifei has started many games in the first team, and has appeared in front of the world as an important role as a midfield commander, and his performance is certainly remarkable.

Sam. Not to mention Bayram, who is the only full-time player at Leeds United who has played all the games this season, is already an absolute workhorse!

What's more, in addition to right-back, Bairam can also play the role of right midfielder and right winger, and is completely versatile on the right flank.

Charlie. Taylor was offered a professional contract back last season, but never became Neil. Warnock's important role can only be trained and played with the youth team.

But this year, Taylor has been in obscurity and hard work. In particular, Bayram and Xu Yifei have established themselves in the first team, which has brought him extremely strong motivation.

He firmly believes in one thing: they are also members of the youth team, since Bairam and Xu Yifei can, then I can!

At the end of the season, he finally waited for Warnock's call-up and appeared in the starting line-up of the first team. Although there were several games in which there were more wins and losses, Taylor's performance in the new position of right-back still made a strong impression.

He and Bayram, who switched to right midfield, have been teammates in the youth team for many years, and the tacit understanding between the two is certainly not a problem.

As for Alex. Mowat, who has only played three games in the first team, quickly won over the Leeds fans with his outstanding performances. Now, his popularity has faintly surpassed Xu Yifei and Bayram!

The natural golden left foot allows him to move extremely fast under his feet and break through on the side extremely sharply. Countless spectators cheered and shouted for his breakthroughs again and again.

With Mowatt on the left and Bayram on the right, Leeds United's wings can advance and retreat with ease, both offensively and defensively!

Don't forget, there is a ruthless character like Xu Yifei in the middle lane!

With these three people, the framework of Leeds United's midfield is basically completed. If it is a 433 formation, the three of them are actually enough. Of course, in order to cope with the long season, it is necessary to prepare 3-4 midfielders as rotations and substitutes.

However, McDermott prefers 442 and advocates possession, so a skilled midfielder with good footwork, good passing, wide vision and experience is also essential in the squad.

This kind of outstanding forward player is basically unavoidable in the Championship, and McDermott has no choice but to settle for the next best thing: to play double back and hand over the responsibility of organizing the attack to Xu Yifei!

"Manchester United will make a big mistake by letting Pogba go. I, Leeds United, won't let Xu Yifei go! “

McDermott was the first to compare Xu Yifei to Pogba. And three years later, almost the whole world is comparing these two people.

Of course, these four people alone are not enough. At centre-back, captain Patrick Peétiers was more than decent enough to cope with the Championship. Pierce, who is partnered with him, has improved a lot this season. Not to mention the Jamaican Austin, who has now begun to adapt to the centre-back position and rotate for the role.

At left-back, there is veteran Stephen Stefan. Warnock was in charge, which also made McDermott more at ease.

Goalkeeper Kenny has also been tested in the Premier League, so there is no need to worry about his strength.

The biggest problem now is in the midfield. In fact, since the departure of Snodgrass and Beccio, Leeds United has never found a real core player in the midfield.

McCormack can't, and neither can Diouf.

This is not to say that their individual quality is much worse than the previous two, but their overall contribution to the team is not at the level of Snodgrass and Beccio.

How to solve the lack of offensive strength in the midfield is of course the head coach's business, and Xu Yifei is inconvenient to say anything about this.

In the last three rounds of the league, Leeds United has no desire, so they simply sent a large number of young people to start and start running in next season's squad in advance.

It is worth mentioning that in the final game of the final round, Leeds United took on Watford away.

Xu Yifei is usually busy with training and doesn't know much about Watford Club, until he boarded the bus to Vicarage Road Stadium and learned some basic information about Watford Club from the "Off the Field Chapter" of the anti-sky system.

To his surprise, the owner, chairman and head coach of this club turned out to be all Italian, and the head coach was none other than the famous former Italian star Gianfranco, known as the "Bantam". Zola!

In order to impress Zola, Xu Yifei played extremely hard in this game, and he contributed a stunner assist to help Leeds United beat Watford 2-1.

After the game, Xu Yifei did not rush back to Leeds with the team, but stayed at Watford, and he wanted to ask Zola for advice!

But Zola's face was solemn after attending the press conference, and he ignored Xu Yifei who had been waiting in his office for a long time.

"Mr. Zola, I'm the No. 36 player of Leeds United, my name is Xu Yifei." In order to break the embarrassment, Xu Yifei reported to his home.

"I know." Zora kept her eyes on the document and didn't even lift her head, "You've been doing really well today!" “

"To each his own, that's professional football, isn't it?" Xu Yifei said with a smile.

Zola is an easy-going person after all, and was accused of a lack of leadership by the Italian media as a player, so he quickly realised that talking to Xu Yifei in this way seemed to be against his own hospitality.

"Xu, you stay and wait for me, is there anything wrong?" Zora finally looked up into Xu Yifei's eyes and said.

"I want to ask you something, I don't know if it's convenient for you?" Xu Yifei replied immediately.

In fact, on the bus to Watford, Xu Yifei had already thought of asking Zora for advice. Speaking of this "Bantam Tiger", although he was not included in the list of 100 football masters by the anti-sky system, there are too many things he can teach Xu Yifei!

First of all, Zola's free kick is a must, known as the "Fallen Leaf Chop", with a huge arc and extremely erratic direction. Later, Beckham, Ronaldinho, Pirlo and other free kicks were actually more or less affected by Zola's free kicks.

Secondly, Zola started training at the age of 4, but did not retire until he was 39 years old! You must know that Zola is playing as a striker, and he can maintain such a long career, and he is still playing in the top league at the age of 39, and the experience is definitely worth learning from Xu Yifei.

Last but not least, Gianfranco Zola studied with Maradona, a football champion in Naples! After Maradona left Napoli, he left the number 10 shirt designation to Zola! Then, from Zola, we must be able to get a glimpse of some of the style of the football king of the current generation!