After lunch, Rangnick called Li Huan to his office. Rangnick's office is on the second floor, but instead of being with the chairman's and manager's offices, they are separated from each other on the second floor, and Rangnick asked for this office so that he can stand in the office and have a view of the court.

The wall of the office is light blue, the desk with a row of books is brown, the chair is black to symbolize solemnity and authority, and the bookcase behind Rangnick is brown and red.

Two weeks ago, when Li Huan was still in the United States, Hoffenheim challenged Karlsruhe away, when Rangnick was suddenly angered by the negative attitude of a "player" on the field, he rushed to the sidelines and yelled at the slow guy: "Dude, I let you play football, not let you come to see the scenery, you give it to me!" The other members of the coaching staff quickly pulled Rangnick back to the bench and whispered to him: "The person you scolded just now is not our player, he is the referee!" It turned out that Rangnick was red-green blind and he mistook the navy blue referee for a Hoffenheim player in a red shirt. Fortunately, the referee named Wagner was magnanimous and did not give Rangnick a red card.

In Germany, if someone is ridiculed for their poor eyesight, they will always say, "Do you have two tomatoes hanging in front of your eyes". Rangnick's "tomato accident" was considered by Bild to be the funniest football joke of the year, and the "professor" deliberately asked the "professor" to hang two tomatoes on his glasses to take a photo. However, Rangnick didn't mind, saying: "As long as we can win, it's okay to hang a basket of tomatoes, but unfortunately we lost." ”

The smile on Li Huan's face was seen by Rangnick, and he also smiled in return, pointing to the sofa opposite and said, "Sit down, is it delicious to eat lunch?" ”

"It's good, the kebab reminds me of my hometown."

"Hehe, that's good, you did well in the morning, and it looks like you're fully recovered."

Li Huan sat down and said, "It's a little too late in the morning, and my emotions are out of control." ”

"Young people can't be like middle-aged people like us, and it's not a bad thing to have a little emotion and temper. I guess they went a little too far. ”

Li Huan smiled and said, "Actually, it's normal, my annual salary is too high, and I haven't made any contribution to the team, so my teammates are naturally unhappy." ”

"This is not the most important issue, any club has top players and substitute players, their salaries are far apart, this world is supposed to be rewarded according to ability and hard work, Mr. Hope is richer than all of us, why don't they be jealous, it's that these players have just been promoted from the Bundesliga to the Bundesliga, their mentality is not correct, they think too highly of themselves, they want a raise, but they don't get a response from the club, this anger is vented on you." Rangnick said lightly.

Li Huan said self-deprecatingly: "It seems that the fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, I thought it was because my annual salary was too high and my popularity was too bad." “

Rangnick suddenly said, "Do you know why I didn't coordinate this? “

Li Huan thought for a while and said seriously: "You want me to have a good relationship with my teammates, you even worry about this for me, and my teammates can only be more jealous and angry." ”

Rangnick smiled slightly, sank his body deep in the black backrest, and said: "This is just one of the reasons, you haven't played once in the league before, and I didn't have much convincing when I said it, and now I don't need to say it, you performed very well today, and for those who despise you, you have to use your strength to convince him, and if you are not convinced, you will beat him until you are convinced, whether it is a teammate or an enemy." ”

Li Huan couldn't help but be impressed by this professor when he heard it, it seemed that he couldn't look good, although Rangnick was elegant, but the tough and aggressive surnames of the Germanic people had been integrated into his blood and genes. Li Huan said: "I hope the contradiction will not intensify. ”

"There's nothing to escalate, on the pitch they have to pass the ball to players in better positions, the last game was only ten minutes played, you have a heavier defensive task, you can't find any evidence of a player who deliberately didn't pass the ball, the next game against Cologne, which player dares to ignore the big picture, I'll let him out right away." Rangnick said unceremoniously.

Li Huan was a little embarrassed, his heart was not to mean that Sang scolded Huai, he was alone enough today, but Li Huan is different from ordinary Chinese, he is not a person who endures silently and does not communicate with the coach, he said very directly: "Don't worry, coach, today is in training, I will pass the ball during the game." ”

Rangnick said: "I'm not talking about you, I've seen your games, you're not that kind of player. ”

Li Huan smiled slightly and said, "I know, not all you said is me. ”

Rangnick spread his hands embarrassedly and said: "You Chinese have too many eyes, in fact, I am really not talking about you, let's be honest, from this year's winter break to the end of next year's summer transfer, all the players who appear in the current main squad will be purged, this plan should be made when this year's summer transfer, just because Mr. Hope is determined to buy you, we postponed the purge for half a season, so now we have to do the remaining ten games before the winter break, Then build a young team with development potential. ”

Li Huan was taken aback, this was something he didn't expect, it turned out that the team was already preparing to purge out all the current players, this is indeed a shocking big move, Hope and Rangnick's courage is really extraordinary, and it is by no means comparable to Thaler and William. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "Will such a large-scale purge affect the team's results?" This matter is related to the construction of the team, Li Huan didn't want to ask, but Rangnick told him, and Li Huan also put forward his own opinions.

Rangnick smiled slightly, and said confidently: "I'm not afraid of the impact, if we can't be promoted this season, we will wait for next season, our goal is not just to be promoted to the first division, Bochum, Rostock, Kaiserslautern, these teams have all entered the Bundesliga, Kaiserslautern has also created the myth of promotion to win the championship, but it is not soon reduced to the Bundesliga, our goal is to become bigger and stronger, to become a giant team in the Bundesliga, not a passerby in the Bundesliga, That's why I came to Hoffenheim after I got off Schalke 04 and I came to Hoffenheim in the amateur league, do you think I really can't find a Bundesliga team to coach? I had more than a dozen contracts in front of me, but I thought it was more challenging to coach a regional team and easier to achieve my team aspirations. ”

Li Huan couldn't help but admire, and said: "There are not many idealistic coaches like Coach Ralph, but there are, but there are only coaches who are willing to take root in a regional amateur league in order to realize their ideals." ”

Rangnick also showed a smile on his face that he had met a confidant, and sighed: "I have coached Stuttgart and Schalke 04, these giants are too eager for quick success, and they just want to get the championship right away, or a seat in the Champions Cup, and they can't bear the frustration at all." That's why I don't want to coach big clubs anymore. ”

Li Huan comforted: "Hoffenheim has a coach like you and a boss like Mr. Hope, it will definitely become a giant, there is no giant in the world, and if there are more champions, it will become a giant." ”

Rangnick stood up and said: "Well said, the training time is almost up, let's go down, what I told you today can't be said now, although we are confident to play a long game, but if we can be promoted to the Bundesliga this year, it is naturally the best thing, you come back from injury, before the winter break, we should be able to play a little better." ”

Li Huan listened to Rangnick's plans and ideas, and he was also in high spirits, playing with the current group of people really made him unhappy, not only the ball skills were poor, but the quality of the ball was not good, but he remembered someone and said: "Actually, Sarihovic is still very level." ”

Rangnick was stunned for a moment and said: "Well, this player is very strong, he contributed a lot to the promotion to the Bundesliga last season, and he is fully capable of establishing himself in the Bundesliga, he is in the Hertha Berlin youth team, he is good at the left foot, you are good at the right foot, if only the two of you could work together." ”

Li Huan smiled bitterly and said, "His emotions towards me are not small. ”

Rangnick patted Li Huan on the shoulder and said: "After the winter break, we have to bring in powerful players, the salary structure will also have to be readjusted, and Sarihovic's annual salary will also increase, at that time, you won't be as anxious about your high annual salary as I do." ”

Li Huan couldn't help but laugh when he heard that Rangnick was also worried, and said, "I feel like I'm walking in a slum with a million euros in my arms now, surrounded by hostile eyes. ”

Rangnick laughed and said, "Yes, yes, that's how I am. The wage structure must be adjusted. ”

Because Li Huan was so powerful in the morning, everyone lost his temper, although the players in the afternoon match still didn't talk to Li Huan, and few people hugged Li Huan when Li Huan scored, but there was some cooperation during the game, although there was no tacit understanding, but the general cooperation finally came out. Li Huan is not chicken, nor is he easy to be in the limelight, on the basis of conscientiously doing his job as a defender, he tried his best to assist and help the striker complete the goal, and the players did not have a deeper grudge against Li Huan.

Li Huan and Rangnick are very satisfied with the current situation, because these people will soon be purged, as long as they can play some cooperation on the field, Li Huan's power will be able to exert seventy or eighty percent, think about Karlsruhe last season, seventy or eighty percent of Li Huan made Rangnick snicker.

(To be continued)