The Premier League is the most crowded league in European football, with no winter break and the start of the season is the earliest in Europe's top five leagues, playing far more games than the other big four leagues.

Therefore, the pre-season assembly of Premier League teams is much earlier than that of teams in other leagues, and the Premier League teams have begun to assemble and prepare for the new season just over halfway through the transfer period. Liverpool's build-up is also relatively early in the Premier League.

Qiu Ze came to Liverpool two days early, he is now staying in a hotel in Liverpool's Anfield area, the reason why he came so early is to find a house, after all, he signed a three-plus-two contract with Liverpool, he is likely to stay in Liverpool for three years, five years, or even longer, how can he do without a house here?

However, Qiu Ze and his agent are very unfamiliar with Liverpool, and it is really more difficult to find a good house than to ascend to the sky, so Qiu Ze has not found a suitable house in the past two days. It seems that finding a house will have to trouble his teammates.

On the day of the training camp, Qiu Ze went relatively early, but when he came to Melwood, there were still some players who had already arrived, and they were all in the locker room. However, Qiu Ze did not immediately get to the locker room, but was taken to his office by head coach Benitez.

Benitez handed Qiu Ze a small book, which is the team's disciplinary rules, and the locker room regulations, Benitez does not want Qiu Ze to violate the team's discipline, otherwise he will not show mercy.

As soon as Qiu Ze listened to Benitez's words, Fernando 61 Torres, who had met Qiu Ze before, walked in, and he was joined by several players who only joined Liverpool this season, they were Babel and Benayoun.

Of course I know Babel and Benayong Qiu Ze, and these guys are still famous in later generations, so of course Qiu Ze knows them. These two guys looked pretty good, and Qiu Ze nodded at them and said hello.

For Qiu Ze, Babbel and Benayoun know it, they watched Fernando 61 Torres and Qiu Ze's joining ceremony, and they know the origin of this guy.

After a brief greeting from a few people, Benitez led a few of the new signings to the dressing room. There are already a lot of people in the dressing room at the moment, as if the whole Liverpool team has come.

Benitez walked in and said to the Liverpool players: "Hey boys, how was the holiday? ”

"Nice, boss! It's too good to be better! It's just that this holiday is a little shorter! The Liverpool players responded enthusiastically to the manager, and the complaint was made by Reese.

Listening to Reese's complaints, Benitez turned his head to look at Reese, and said with a smile: "If you need a longer vacation, I can grant a year's vacation right now, how about it?" ”

"Haha! Boss, you're joking! I've had enough, now it's time to fight! Charge for the league championship! Riser was stared at by Benitez like this, and his heart trembled, and he immediately changed his words.

"Huh!" Benitez smiled at this living treasure, and then he said with a straight face, "Just play well!" However, I remember saying before the end of the season that I would not let anyone go over the physical limit. ”

Listening to Benitez's words, Liverpool's players changed their faces one after another, and their hearts became a little uneasy.

"That's it! Sort it out, I'll be waiting for you outside! Benitez smiled coldly, turned around and was about to go out, only to find that there were a few new players behind him, Benitez muttered to himself, "How did I forget this." ”

Benitez immediately turned around again and said to Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard: "Stephen, here's a new team-mate, it's up to you!" With that, Benitez immediately turned and walked out of the locker room.

Seeing the team manager Benitez leaving, Liverpool's captain Steven 61 Gerrard immediately walked up and said to Qiu Ze and Torres and others: "I am Steven 61 Gerrard, the captain of Liverpool, welcome to you." Now follow me and I'll introduce you to the members of our team! ”

Steven Gerrard, as the captain of the team, checked the team's new players before the team's training camp, and he knows a little about these new teammates. Gerrard led Qiu Ze and introduced Liverpool's players to Qiu Ze and others.

Now Liverpool's main goalkeeper is the Spaniard Reina, this guy looks very tough, but when Gerrard introduced him, this guy actually showed a funny side, which really surprised Qiu Ze.

Soon after a preliminary understanding with the players of the Liverpool team, the team's assistant coach Paco 61 Yesterdam walked in, and he waved his hand to signal the players to hurry out, and today's training session is about to begin.

This week, the training is mainly based on recovery training, and some Liverpool families have played so well this holiday that they have gained weight, which makes Benitez very angry, and he directly endured these guys to the physical trainer Juster 61 Lino.

The whole team follows the training, and the physical reserve before the season is very important, especially in a league like the Premier League, which has a long season span and a super dense schedule, this physical reserve is even more important. So, for the first week or so, Liverpool was all about recovery training and physical training.

It's the first time Qiu Ze has seen such a large amount of physical training, and it is really different from Portugal. In the past, whether it was in Bellamar or Benfica, there was not so much physical training before the season, but fortunately, Qiu Ze's physical fitness was better, otherwise he would have been directly laid down.

While Qiu Ze and others were practicing their physical fitness, Liverpool's head coach Benitez, assistant coach and tactical analyst Duff 61 McDonoff were discussing tactics for the new season.

In fact, Benitez is not a coach who is very flexible in using various sets of tactics, and he is not like managers like Lippi and Carlo Ancelotti, who can flexibly use different tactics and can formulate appropriate tactics based on the characteristics of existing personnel.

Benitez is a coach who loves the 4231 formation, and he doesn't look at the existing players to arrange the right tactics, but instead network the players who are suitable for the 4231 formation to implement the tactics he loves.

In Benitez's tactical system, he advocates a four-and-three-one style of play, and the stability of the back line is overwhelming. In the midfield, the three central midfielders correspond to the three roles of interception, organization, and tandem forward insertion, and the two full-backs have both offense and defense, and have strong running ability. The single striker has strong individual ability, can retreat to get the ball, and can also do a zuihou hit in the penalty area.

Benitez spent three full seasons from the 04-05 season constantly buying and selling people to adjust, and finally found the most suitable player for his favorite style of play: midfielder Mascherano + Alonso + Gerrard trinity, two wingers Kuyt and Riera can go up and down, and now there is a versatile center forward like Torres in the forward line, Benitez firmly believes that Liverpool has a very good future.

However, this season, they also introduced Qiu Ze in the midfield, so the three-man system in this midfield will be replaced.

As mentioned earlier, Benitez has a knack for limiting defensively, but he doesn't have many options when it comes to attacking. In midfield, Liverpool are keen to have a talented and attacking talent, so that Benitez can be completely assured of Liverpool's attacking performance in the new season.

Qiu Ze is such a guy, and after watching Qiu Ze's game video, Benitez decided to take down this guy.

In Benitez's eyes, Qiu Ze is very good at his feet, and his desire to attack is very strong. can pass, shoot, take the ball, defend, and this guy can be on the side, this guy is simply an all-round midfielder, take him, the team Liverpool only has benefits.

In Benitez's opinion, Qiu Ze can replace any member of the system that he has built with great difficulty, Mascherano + Alonso + Gerrard, because this guy is comprehensive enough to play in every position.

In Liverpool's previous system, in fact, the creativity of the midfield is very insufficient, and the flaws are obvious, as long as Alonso is limited, Liverpool's midfield is almost paralyzed, and it is difficult to connect before and after, Gerrard is very impactful, but he is indeed poor in terms of creativity and organizing the team's attack.

In Benitez's tactical system, one of the two midfielders must be responsible for defensive interceptions, while the other midfielder is responsible for organising, and the forward midfielder is responsible for linking up the front and back of the field, and must also have the ability to impact the opponent's defence.

Mascherano has been doing defensive interceptions before, and he has done a good job before, but this guy doesn't help the team very much in attack, and is a pure defensive player. At this time, Benitez thought, what if Mascherano was taken down in this system, Gerrard was left behind, and Qiu Ze was allowed to play the front midfield? Wouldn't this work better?

Or just let Qiu Ze replace Mascherano? In this way, in Qiu Ze's position, he can defend and attack, and organize, will this reduce the pressure on Alonso?

And Benitez also thinks that Qiu Ze and Gerrard can switch positions back and forth in the game, and take turns to impact the opponent's defense, so that Liverpool's offensive means will be more abundant, so as to solve Liverpool's problems in attack.

That's what Benitez has been discussing with assistant coach Paco 61 Yesterdam and tactical analyst Duff 61 McDonoff recently, and they don't have to train Jihua as soon as possible to see if the tactic works, and if not, they still have time to change. If this training jihua comes out slowly, if it doesn't work at that time, there will be no time to change it.

For Liverpool now, time is very tight, there has been physical training there, and a team is studying the tactics of the new season, which is really busy.

During the usual physical training, Qiu Ze didn't expect that Liverpool's manager was actually formulating tactics for him, if Qiu Ze knew about it, he would definitely be happy to heaven.

After more than a week of physical training, Liverpool's players are almost tired, even a guy with super physical fitness like Qiu Ze almost didn't survive, this Liverpool's physical trainer Juster 61 Lino is really ruthless. And during physical training, Liverpool's Mascherano was injured unexpectedly, and it was the team's doctor Mark 61 Waller who was busy.

When they learned that Mascherano was injured, Benitez and assistant coach Paco 61 Yesterdam couldn't help but change their faces, could God agree to remove Mascherano too?