After the next day's training, there was still a lot of howling in the locker room.

This time, even several new players were surprised by the intensity of the training that often wins, and judging by the reaction of the Valencia players, they have not been treated like this before.

For the young Ibrahimovic, there are no physical problems with him, and he can accept this kind of training intensity.

But for the 30-year-old Guardiola, it's a bit overwhelming.

However, Pep Guardiola did not sigh and complain about the intensity of training as the rest of the team did.

In fact, from the first training session, he has been watching Chang Sheng and his coaching staff.

He wanted to see what was unusual about Chang Sheng's training and what he could learn from him.

Carvalho and Ferreira have just entered the group, and they have not yet fully integrated into the team, so they appear to be very low-key. They didn't know what made Valencia value them, so they worked hard in training. Because they didn't know that they came to Valencia to play the main team, they thought they were playing as a substitute.

Since they joined the new team, Chang Sheng has not talked to them individually, and they naturally have no idea about their position in the team.

In order to be able to play, the two players naturally worked very hard in training, and they did not dare to slack off, even if the training intensity was greater than they imagined, they did not dare to have any complaints.

The two Portuguese, who had never known each other before, were now in a group.

On the second day, he met the team's captain, Mendieta.

It was his first contact with a player.

I've been with the team for so long, and I've been training for two days. He didn't look for a single player, not even a star like Mendieta.

This made Mendieta himself feel strange. He originally thought that whether it was to appease the players, buy people's hearts, or get to know the players, the new coach should have some contact with the team, not be high. Ignore it.

I didn't think that Chang Sheng really ignored them, and every day was just training and training, except for training. You can't see him at all.

The players who waited for Chang Sheng to come to them on their own initiative were all disappointed.

There was no way, they could only take the initiative to find Chang Sheng.

In the head coach's office. Chang Sheng and Mendieta face each other.

"So, you all think the training is too intense?" Chang Sheng sat in a chair with his hands crossed and placed a little above his lower abdomen.

Mendieta nodded: "Yes, there are a lot of veteran players in the team, and their bodies are probably not able to adapt to such training intensity, sir." ”

This blonde-haired Basque tough guy is neither humble nor arrogant when facing the head coach of Chang Sheng, and he is indeed very leader-like.

Chang Sheng shook his head: "It is impossible to modify the training intensity, because my training intensity is strictly formulated according to my tactics. If only now we should lay a solid foundation. In the league, we're out of luck. ”

"We know that you are good at counter-attacking and Valencia is also counter-attacking but to be honest we haven't trained as hard as this season ...... this season" as captain is a bridge between the team and the coach. It also represents the interests of the whole team, so it is natural to fight for it, Mendieta said.

Chang Sheng was surprised: "Who said I was going to play defensive counterattacks?" ”

This time it was Mendieta's turn to be surprised: "Isn't it?" ”

"Of course not. Well, before training starts tomorrow, I'll explain to you the tactics we're going to use for the new season...... I didn't expect to tell you so early, but now it seems. If you don't say it, I'm afraid you won't be able to train with peace of mind. Chang Sheng said, but he just didn't agree with changing the intensity of the training.

Mendieta didn't know what tactics required such intense physical training, but he could see the manager's determination.

He can't help it, it's impossible to break with the manager openly, right?

I can't do it yet.

He nodded helplessly: "Okay, I'll go back and inform them." ”

After saying that, he was about to take his leave.

But he was stopped by Chang Sheng.

"Gezca, I heard you're planning to move to Lazio?"

Unexpectedly, Chang Sheng suddenly asked such a question, and Mendieta's body shook when he turned around.

'Don't be nervous, it's no secret that the whole world is rumoured about your transfer before the season is over. I understand how hard it is for you to reach two Champions League finals in a row and not be able to win them. ”

Although Chang Sheng often uses gimmicks such as "reaching two Champions League finals in a row" to fool other players and hope that they will join Valencia. But for Valencia's own players, it's not a good memory, or a symbol of strength, it's an eternal pain for them. Fell twice in a row to the closest place to the championship, and no one would be reconciled to it.

Mendieta does want to move away this summer, and that has been the case since the team's second Champions League final.

His agent is in the process of putting him in touch with the next family, and Lazio now seem to be the most likely, as they are the most sincere and have the most aggressive pursuit of Mendieta.

In fact, many people think that Mendieta's time in Valencia has entered the countdown and will soon be leaving.

"But what I'm trying to say is that I'm here to change that."

Chang Sheng's words are a bit big, but that's all he can say now.

In fact, Mendieta has been in Valencia for so many years, and he looks very beautiful, but he has not even won a league title, he has won the Copa del Rey and the Super Cup once.

And when he left, Valencia won two league titles in three years, as well as a UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup.

I don't know how Mendieta, who was tossing and turning between Lazio, Barcelona and Middlesbrough, felt when he watched his home team so brilliant.

Mendieta looked back at Chang Sheng, and he suddenly wondered, why was this young man so confident?

"Can you change that?"

Chang Sheng nodded affirmatively. If he can't lead the team to the championship. He was blind to the identity of a plug-in and his own traverser.

The traverser gives him a foresight, and the plug-in gives him the tools to achieve his ideals.

"Don't you stay and testify?"

Mendieta didn't nod his head to stay, he just said, "I'll think about it, sir." "And then it's time to go again.

Chang Sheng added: "Then don't go to Lazio! ”

Mendieta wondered why the manager was so determined not to let him go to Lazio.

"Why?" He asked.

Chang Sheng was asked a lag.

yes, why? How do you explain why to Mendieta? It is impossible for him to say to Mendieta that Lao Tzu has crossed over, Lao Tzu knows that if you go to Lazio, it will be a dead end, right?

All he could say was: "The Spanish style of football is very different from the Italian style of football. I don't think it's a good choice for you to go to Lazio, there are very few examples of Spanish players succeeding in Italy. I don't think you need to take that risk. ”

This is actually very idealistic and unconvincing.

Sure enough, Mendieta smiled. Farewell again, obviously not taking Chang Sheng's words seriously. A man who has been named Europe's own midfielder of the year twice in one year is now bursting with confidence. Thinking that the whole world can be conquered by itself, what is the little Apennines, and there are few successful ones? Then let me Gezka. Mendieta be the first conqueror!

Chang Sheng looked at Mendieta's departing back and shook his head.

He knew Mendieta wouldn't listen, but he really couldn't let Mendieta go.

On the one hand, he naturally does not want to see Mendieta's rapid fall to Lazio, and Mendieta's transfer to Lazio can even be said to be the darkest scene in the history of Valencia transfers. Since the time has been reborn, how much can save a person's fate can save a person's fate.

Second, Mendieta is still very important in his tactics. In the winning 4231, Mendieta is the main force on the right flank. At present, on the right side, Chang Sheng has not found a good replacement for him, so it is naturally impossible to let him go.

Thirdly, there is a reason that he will never be able to tell others, and that is even if Valencia sells Mendieta for a high price. Four hundred and one million dollars, eight billion pesetas. But Valencia did not receive the money in full. When Lazio bought Mendieta from Valencia, it opted for instalments, to be paid over four years. At the beginning, Lazio President Cragnoti patted his chest and promised that he would pay off the balance. Unexpectedly, he resigned the following year because of the economic crisis, and Lazio had no money to pay it back on the one hand, and on the other hand, he didn't want to pay it back.

In the end, it dragged on to a dead end.

Lazio gave only eighteen million dollars initially. The rest of the money was never given, and in the end it was really impossible to delay, and Corradi and Fiore were offset by 16 million euros. Considering the exchange rate, the dollar was worth more than the euro when Mendieta was sold, and the two people who came were waste, so Valencia's transfer was a big loss. There is still more than 10 million yuan of the final payment.

It was a rare "lose-three" transfer in football, with Valencia, Lazio and Mendieta themselves all losing badly. Valencia sold their core, didn't get much transfer fee, and ended up with two wasted high wages. Lazio is in the midst of an economic crisis, and Mendieta's transfer fee and high salary are clearly an important reason. As for Mendieta himself, he lost the most, this transfer became a watershed moment in his career, he was originally the top midfielder in Europe, because of this terrible transfer, his form and ability plummeted, and finally had to retire at Middlesbrough.

In Chang Sheng's view, Valencia made a very unwise deal. If you want to sell this player, you naturally have to make as much money as possible from him, and if you can't get back the tens of millions of money in the end, it will be sold for nothing.

When Changsheng plays the game by himself, the buyer always wants to use the installment payment to achieve it, so that there is less financial pressure. This is even, he is on the side of Lazio. But selling people, he never accepts the installment requests of other clubs, or he will take out enough money to take people away at one time, and the poor ghosts who have no money will not come to join in the fun with the installment payment. At this time, he was on Valencia's side again.

At the moment, he is Valencia's manager, and he naturally has to align himself with Valencia's interests.

Bought Mendieta, but couldn't make any money, this kind of loss-making business, often win not to do.

He pulled out a fax document from under a pile of papers on his desk, with the Lazio club's crest on his head.

Lazio have already made an offer to Valencia for Mendieta, just this morning.

They offered $41 million, exactly as later generations remembered.

In the face of the third-highest transfer fee in world football today, Chang Sheng did not even have the slightest emotional fluctuation, his heartbeat did not beat uncontrollably, and his hands were not shaking with excitement.

He drew a cross on the fax very indifferently.

Just rejected Lazio's offer so lightly.