Compared with Real Madrid's more secretive transfer operations, AC Milan is much more generous.

They first approached Diarra, who plays for Lyon, hoping to use Diarra to strengthen the team's midfield, but Aulas is a notoriously vampire and it will be difficult to convince him if he doesn't give enough price and sincerity to get him.

At the same time, Milan also specially arranged scouts to keep an eye on Ronaldinho, and even rumored that Galliani had a meeting with Ronaldinho's agent after the derby of the century, which was undoubtedly sounding the clarion call for the summer transfer war in advance.

After losing the derby of the century, there was also a lot of hype about Barcelona's likely restructuring, and it was rumored that Rijkaard would be sacked at the end of the season, and the most likely manager to replace Rijkaard was still from the Netherlands.

Louis van Gaal, Coman and Adrianse are among the favourites, but Mourinho has also been mentioned, but no one knows exactly what is going on.

Yang Cheng sat in the restaurant of Valdebebas and ate breakfast, looking at the transfer rumors in the newspaper, he didn't expect this year's transfer to come so early, but now the closest to Real Madrid is Werder Bremen's Diego, and even some media said that Diego has joined Real Madrid, but it has not been announced.

"How do they know something I don't know about myself?" Yang Cheng handed the newspaper to Lei Donduo opposite him, and asked with a smile, he really felt that most of the media now were chasing after the wind. Unfounded.

Redondo took it and glanced at the title, shook his head and smiled, but sighed again, "Fans love to see this!" ”

If it weren't for the fans who liked to see this, the newspapers and the media wouldn't be vying to report it, and if the fans liked to see more stadium coverage, then the media and reporters would definitely write about every game in several sections.

In fact, this is a very real problem, and there is no way to blame anyone.

"By the way......" Redondo shoved a piece of toast into his mouth. A little vague, "You didn't even come to watch the game yesterday......"

Yang Cheng nodded, "I went to Italy yesterday to watch the Milan derby, and by the way, I inspected Kaka, and I also met. ”

The club also knows about this matter, so it's not a secret at all, that is, some reporters outside like to chase after the wind.

"Did we win or lose?" Yang Cheng asked with a smile.

"Win!" Redondo laughed and said, "Michelle's team is fantastic. Killed Essidor 6-0, the whole game was like a brace, Negredo and Bueno both scored twice, Parejo, Callejon, Jurado and other youngsters performed fantastic, and the scouting system brought Canales from Racing Santander, this group of boys is now playing more unrestrained than the first team. ”

Redondo has a deep affection for Real Madrid, and he has a great performance for the second-team youngsters. He was more of a happy and joyful person.

Yang Cheng still nodded. Canales was recommended by the scouting system, and after talking to Castilla's head coach Michel, Yang Cheng decided to bring the 15-year-old to Valdebebas, who was only in the U-division at first, but was promoted to Castilla by Michel in the middle of the season.

Michelle is the Michelle of the former Real Madrid Five Eagles? Gonzalez, who later left Real Madrid, took charge of Getafe at a crucial time in the 08/09 season, leading the team to relegation, and then building Getafe into a famous La Liga powerhouse in the following season. Got the best league finish in Getafe's history, with a sixth-place finish.

Because of the learning about Michel's coaching achievements, Yang Cheng took a special look at Michelle's current situation and found that the artistic midfielder, one of the former five eagles, fired from his job as a football commentator in 2005 and took charge of the Rayo Vallecano team in Madrid's third division, but failed to lead the team to promotion. ..., hearing that Yang Cheng wants him to take over Castile is undoubtedly an upgrade for Michelle, because Castilla is a team in La Liga. And in the conversation with Yang Cheng, Michel found that he and Yang Cheng's football philosophy has many similarities, and Yang Cheng's blueprint for him is to create a unified Real Madrid first team and youth training system.

In this case, Michel left Rayo Vallecano almost without the slightest hesitation. At the helm of Castile.

And this season, Yang Cheng also gave Castilla enough transfer fee, allowing Michel to bring in some excellent players of the right age. Strengthen the overall combat power of Castile, plus Negredo, Xavi? Players like Garcia, who train with the first team but can play youth team games, the whole Castilla team is very good. "The duo of Parrejo and Canales has given Castilla an artistic twist, both of whom have excellent passing skills and are the kind of smart people who play with their brains, and they are worth developing." Redondo was full of praise for Castile's group of boys.

Di Stefano also watched the game, and he also admired Parejo and Canales very much, believing that they are the two most skilled players in the Real Madrid team at the moment, and the future is limitless!

Yang Cheng smiled, "After winning this game, Castile seems to be ranked 7th, right?" ”

"Well, number seven!" Redondo laughed.

At present, there are 22 teams in the second league, and Castilla ranks 7th, that is to say, in Yang Cheng's previous life, the nightmare of Casstilla's relegation this season will not happen again, and playing in the second league, although Castilla will be subject to the age limit of the B team's registration, young players can get more professional game training, which has immeasurable value for the youth training system.

"By the way, where is Barcelona's B team now?" Yang Cheng asked with a smile, Castilla is the only reserve team in La B this season, and the others are the first team of professional teams, which shows that Castilla's is not easy.

If Barcelona's B team can also be promoted to La Liga, then Real Madrid will meet Barcelona in the first team and stage the derby of the century, and Castilla will meet Barcelona B in La Liga. It's a lot more interesting to play the Little Century Derby.

It's a pity that the second team can't participate in the Copa del Rey now, otherwise, Yang Cheng is looking forward to being able to stage a feat of Real Madrid's first team meeting Real Madrid's second team like the 1980 Copa del Rey final, which should be unprecedented.

"There is no shadow yet!" Redondo laughed, and there was irony and sarcasm in his words.

Yang Cheng couldn't help but wonder, but thought of Castile. He added, "From now on, we must develop a stable strategy to help Castilla relegate in La Liga, in addition to insisting on the investment in youth training, we must also give Castilla appropriate supplements every season." ”

Because it is Real Madrid's second team, the age of Castilla's players in La Liga is restricted, and they must be under 25 years old. It can't be a non-European player yet, and if you want to move back and forth between the first team and the second team, you have to meet two conditions, under the age of 23 or under the age of 25 to sign a professional contract.

Knowing this set of rules, then Castile's recruitment strategy will be clear in the future, that is, those young players under the age of 23 who have EU qualifications.

Of course, Yang Cheng would not be so outrageous as turning the boys in the Real Madrid academy into the future talents he knows. That's pointless. He is more focused on his own youth production, and then makes appropriate reinforcements to strengthen the team.

"It's a shame, if Castilla can make it to La Liga, it would be great!" Redondo laughed and complained. ..., Yang Cheng smiled, didn't answer, and looked at the time, "It's almost time to go!" ”

Have a breakfast, plus a chat. It's later than usual, which is an exception for Yang Cheng, who has a strong sense of time.

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As it was still winter training time, the first training session in the morning was scheduled to start at 9:30, but in fact, around 8 o'clock, the club had already started to have players arriving. Almost all of them are wounded, such as Thuram, who have to come to the club an hour early.

In addition to the players, the coaching staff also arrived in Valdebebas before 8 o'clock and they had to start setting everything up the training ground in advance. And after training, they have to leave later than the players.

When the time enters 9 o'clock. Almost all the players will arrive at the training ground, and when they come to the training base, they will go directly to the locker room to change clothes, and then go to the training ground to start warming up, because Yang Cheng's habit is to start training as soon as the time comes, and each training session is 90 minutes.

But today, when the players arrived at the dressing room, they found that at the entrance of the dressing room, the coaching staff had posted a large schedule of fixtures, from which it listed the next 12 La Liga opponents that Real Madrid and Barcelona would face.

Real Madrid's 12 La Liga opponents include underdoges like Tarragona and tough opponents like Valencia, Athletic Bilbao, Sevilla and Deportivo La Coruna, and overall Real Madrid's opponents in the next 12 rounds are much stronger than Barcelona.

And behind Mallorca, the opponent in the 38th round of the league, a La Liga championship trophy was photoshopped on the computer, apparently telling all the players that the team's next goal is the La Liga title. After changing clothes and coming to the training area, there were already members of the coaching staff here to guide the players to warm up and help them solve some problems, and the whole training ground has become very lively.

Yang Cheng, who used to come almost always on time, was a little earlier than usual today, and when the players saw him coming, they were all ready to line up, but he stopped them, signaling everyone to do what they should do.

"It seems that you guys didn't have a good day of vacation!" Yang Cheng said with a smile.

Many players couldn't help laughing, they were worried about it, and they didn't have fun playing.

"I like you like this!" Yang Cheng nodded and praised, "Only those who have a sense of responsibility can make some achievements." ”

The players were either warming up or running on the spot, but after listening to Yang Cheng's words, they couldn't help but pay attention.

"I believe that every one of us wants to win, we don't like to lose, so I put up a notice at the door of the dressing room and you can see that each of the next 12 opponents is not to be underestimated, and every game has to give it your all, I don't know what will happen to us in the end, but I believe that we will have the last laugh."

After a pause. Yang Cheng turned to face the training building, and the players around him had almost finished warming up, and they all moved closer to Yang Cheng, "Barcelona has a lot of problems now, their tactics have been seen through, there will be many teams to find a way to restrain them, their players are infighting, and Rijkaard has suffered a crisis of confidence......"

"All of this adds up to our best strengths. We can't say that Barcelona make mistakes themselves, and they make mistakes again and again, that's unrealistic, it's a dream, but if we keep chasing them and putting a lot of pressure on them, then it's no longer uncommon for them to make mistakes. ”

"You must understand. There are still three months left in the league and in those three months anything can happen and we as chasers we have to do more than the leaders, put more effort and put more pressure on them. Forcing them to make mistakes. Let them have to make mistakes! ..., the players are all moving closer to Yang Cheng, and everyone is very serious, obviously remembering Yang Cheng's words.

"You must keep in mind that the opponent will not give us victory, will not politely give us the championship, all this must be fought for and plundered by ourselves."

"Defeat all the opponents who stand in our way, and the championship will fall into our hands!"

After finishing speaking, Yang Cheng slapped his palms a few times. Signal the start of training.

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Although it was the first training session after the break, Yang Cheng still arranged the team's physical reserves and adjustments in high-intensity training as usual.

First there were some recovery training, then some ordinary running with the ball and passing and receiving training, and when the players were all opened, he started the main event, which was group confrontation training.

Yang Cheng is a head coach who likes to repeatedly emphasize and instill ideas in training. Don't look at him through meetings and handing out videos to the players, but in fact, he does more about directing and moving on the training ground.

In the last two games, the defensive line has moved forward, which is the so-called high defense, and Real Madrid has also tasted the sweetness, so Yang Cheng intends to continue to use this set of tactics. After all, this is the ideal style of play in his mind, he has always felt it. Harvey? Alonso or David Beckham, partnering Mascherano in the back two, is to be able to play the most in the high post.

The so-called high-level defense, the key lies in how the players of the three lines form pressure forward, how to press forward through one-on-one, or use the local numerical advantage formed by the forward movement of the defense line to play a role, that is, how to use more to grab less, or to play more and play less.

The outside media is now crowning the 13-foot scoring score in the game between Real Madrid and Barcelona with countless embellishments such as classic and gorgeous, but Yang Cheng himself is not satisfied with this, because it proves that Real Madrid has not been able to complete his request.

Nowadays, football is moving towards the direction of great integration, whether it is the Latin technical school, or the Italian defense, the Nordic power play, or the overall German style of play, these schools are gradually appearing and merging, you have me, I have you, it is difficult to tell what school it belongs to. Supporting this kind of integration is the off-ball running that Yang Cheng has always emphasized.

The more you run off the ball, the more chances you create, the more routes you have to get out of the ball, the faster the ball moves under your feet, and the more you play on the pitch, the faster the pace of attack and defence.

Jose Mourinho's Chelsea and Barcelona can be said to be two very different tactical plays.

Barcelona mainly controls the ball, emphasizes cooperation, adopts more stable and high success rate of short-distance passing, most of them are horizontal and return passes, to ensure ball possession, and the three lines are compressed very compactly, almost airtight, to ensure that the local number advantage is maximized, high ball possession rate is the benefit of this tactic, because this means that the opponent has less time to hold the ball and has fewer opportunities to create threats.

But the shortcomings are also obvious, not easy to risk the pass makes the game very mechanical, playing a weak team may not be obvious, but once you encounter a strong team, especially a team with strong pressure and fast offensive and defensive conversion, it is often easy to have a scene, as soon as you get the ball, pass two feet slightly, and the opponent has organized the defense line.

Everyone knows that when you encounter this kind of scene, the next attack will become very difficult to play, almost every time it is kicked to the iron plate, and finally it will evolve into a result, empty possession, but it cannot be converted into goals. Yang Cheng's team has always focused on offensive and defensive conversion, which is also a very important reason why he has been able to restrain Barcelona.

Chelsea is another extreme, emphasizing the control of space, they tend to stick to a certain area, Juventus is sticking to the midfield, Yang Cheng's Chelsea midfield in his previous life was strong, sticking to a large area, not chasing the ball, giving up the midfield, letting the opponent attack, and then forming a broken ball, and then directly from the defense to the attack.

This type of team tends to switch between attack and defense quickly, and the offensive passes are often dominated by direct and long passes, and in the shortest possible time, a very small number of troops are used to impact the opponent's unformed defense, and then form a threat.

For the latter tactic, no one can say that they are conservative, this is a difference in tactical concepts, and it has nothing to do with conservatism and initiative.

If it is reflected in the defense, the moment Barcelona loses the ball, the first thing all their players have to do is not to fall into position, but to immediately counter-rob on the spot, and the nearby players immediately form layers of surrounding, blocking the passing route of the ball carrier, and strive to snatch the ball back at the first time, and even give up the organization of the defense line in order to get the ball back at the extreme moment.

Chelsea and Juventus defended the opposite, with their first requirement to get back into their own position, to ensure effective control of the local area, to form layers of dense defence, and to prevent the opposition from passing the ball into the dangerous 32-metre area.

But the defensive philosophy between the two is the same, both are aimed at preventing the other side from forming a threat.

Over the years, Yang Cheng's tactics have always been studied by many people, but in the end, they still haven't been able to figure out what Yang Cheng is pursuing, and the reason is very simple, because even Yang Cheng himself is still groping.

He is like a fish, swimming between the control of the ball and the control area, his defense has both front-court pressing and landing defense, the former for him, grabbing the ball is not an inevitable goal, just to play a delaying role, and he also pays great attention to the organization of the defensive line, so to speak, he is trying to absorb the strengths of both as much as possible and improve the defects of both.

The reason why he was not satisfied with the ball passed in by 13 feet was for no other reason, he did not play fast, accurate and ruthless offensive elements, although there was delicate ball control, the interweaving of long, medium and short passing routes, and the continuous attempts of straight and diagonal passes, but the team did not play speed and penetration.

This has to do with the lack of speed players up front, as well as the team's tactical understanding of him at the moment.

Therefore, he needs to train more so that all the players can better understand his tactical requirements.

But if you ask him what kind of point he has to achieve in order to fully comprehend, he doesn't know, because he just sketches a blueprint in his mind, identifies a direction, and then moves in that direction.

In the process of advancing, he will keep encountering some problems, solving some problems, and constantly improving and improving the whole set of tactics, and then get the best set of tactics he can complete. (To be continued.) )