In the new season, McLeish plans to look at Joe Hart and Mike Taylor in the goalkeeper position to see who is suitable to start.

The position of the back four is David Murphy, Ridgewell, Senderos, Stephen Kyle or Zim Bonda, and Zim Bonda can be filled on both sides, whether Stephen Kyle starts or Zim Bonda starts, it depends on the table of the two in the warm-up game.

As for the midfield quartet, Sebastian Larsson will have to occupy a main position, and the two central positions will be contested by Boateng, Emerson, Lee Bowyer, Ji Chengyong and Lee Carsley, and Li Qinglong, Jemuro and others on the right will compete for this main position.

On the forward line, Dongfang Chen must occupy a main position, and the other main position is contested by Daniel Sturridge, Kevin Phillips, Marcus Bent and others.

For now, of course, Comrade McLeish thinks so, and the goalkeeper position is best if Joe Hart can get the start.

In the back line, McLeish is planning to do so now, with David Murphy, Senderos, Ridgewell and Stephen Kyle or Zim Bonda, hoping that Senderos can come up.

In midfield four, Sebastian Larsson and Boateng were tasked with Sebastian Larsson and Boateng, followed by Emerson and Lee Bowyer, and then Lee Ching Long or Jemuro on the flanks.

As for Ji Chengyong, McLeish is very optimistic about Ji Chengyong's prospects, but he hopes that Ji Chengyong can learn from Emerson for a while and become more mature before taking the position.

On the right, McLeish is interested in Li Qinglong's ability, and he is now worried about whether Li Qinglong can adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League.

On the forward line, McLeish naturally hopes that Dongfang Chen and Daniel Sturridge will partner up, and he also hopes that Sturridge can learn something from Kevin Phillips to make him more mature and strong.

The Birmingham team started the training of the new season, the players are very active in training, everyone knows that McLeish is scouting the players, the main lineup of the team for the new season has not yet been decided, they are very serious, go all out, show their ability, hope to win the favor of the manager, get the main position.

In this training, the two veterans of Emerson and Lee Bowyer also fought hard, gritted their teeth and fought hard, hoping to get the position of the main force, but the table of the two was indeed a little unexpected, and the ability of the two was still there, but there was a big problem in terms of physical fitness, which made McLeish a little worried.

And what is even more surprising is Ji Chengyong's cousin, this guy's ability in training surprised McLeish, although Ji Chengyong's defensive ability is relatively weak, but this guy's midfield organization and long and short pass rhythm is very good, and the accuracy is also very high, especially the ability to tear apart the opponent's defense with a pass.

Although Ji Chengyong is still a little immature, McLeish does not deny that this guy will have a good future.

Now McLeish's heart has changed a little, he now does not want Ji Chengyong to learn from Emerson off the field, but wants Emerson to assist Ji Chengyong.

After a few days of training, Birmingham City have their first warm-up opponent before the new season, Charlton Athletic side of League One.

Yes, it is the relegated Charlton team, but at this time Zheng Zhi is no longer in the Charlton team, and Zheng Zhi has gone to Scotland.

For this game, the Birmingham team did not attach much importance to the result, and the ambiguity is now to pass the game to rely on rubbing the players and checking the tactics.

Although this was the first game of the new season for Birmingham, not many fans watched the game, because the game was not played in St Andrews Stadium, nor at Charlton Athletic's home stadium Vale Stadium, but at the Birmingham team's training base Vorster training base, which was only a few hundred fans at the training base at that time.

In this game, McLeish lined up in a four-four-two formation, with Mike Taylor in goalkeeper and Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel on the bench.

In the back four are David Murphy, Sendros, Ridgewell and Stephen Kyle. In the midfield four, Sebastian Larsson, Emerson, Kevin Prince-Boateng and Lee Ching-long are on the sidelines.

In the two-striker position are Dongfang Chen and Daniel Sturridge.

At the beginning of the game, although the Birmingham team occupied the initiative on the field and frequently threatened the Charlton team, the problems exposed by the Birmingham team were also very obvious, that is, the cooperation was not tacit enough, and there were often some good opportunities that were wasted because of the lack of tacit cooperation between the two.

In the first half, Birmingham had a lot of chances, but none of them could get on the scoresheet.

In the game, Dongfang Chen showed his good form, Daniel Sturridge also showed a certain strength, and Li Qinglong showed a very good appearance, and his breakthroughs and passes on the side were eye-catching.

Although Li Qinglong's defensive ability is weaker, he has a good attitude, does not hesitate to be physically on the court, runs actively, and retreats very deep when defending, and has withdrawn to his own penalty area, he is very capable of running and tenacious, which makes McLeish satisfied.

Boateng is a newcomer who is full of impact, can go up when attacking, can come back when defending, and is also very fierce in defence, which makes McLeish very satisfied.

However, Emerson's part is really not very satisfactory to McLeish, and it seems that Comrade Emerson is really old. As for the backline, Senderos's appearance is still good, and it is still difficult for these strikers in League One to make a difference in front of him.

At the end of the first half, neither side scored and the score was 0-0.

At half-time, McLeish made an immediate substitution, with midfielder Lee Bowyer replacing Emerson and Zim Bonda replacing full-back Stephen Kyle.

At the beginning of the second half, the Birmingham team continued to attack, threatening the goal of the Charlton team, creating many good chances, and in the tenth minute of the second half, after Li Qinglong broke through on the side, he sent a curling ball cross, and Dongfang Chen in the middle jumped high and beat the Charlton central defender's header to break the goal, leading 1-0.

On the sidelines, McLeish kept applauding, this ball Li Qinglong has a good sideline, Dongfang Chen's state is also very good, McLeish is very satisfied.

Three minutes later, however, Mike Taylor made a mistake of his own and the Charlton striker's unthreatening shot led to Mike Taylor's escape, and the ball turned direction and rolled into the Birmingham City goal, which Charlton equalised.

This ball exposes Mike Taylor's shortcomings, this guy just sometimes makes some low-level mistakes, and butter hands are more buttery hands than Butters.

It was a thrilling sight to see McLeish, and if it had happened in the Premier League, it might have cost them three precious points.

McLeish did not tolerate it, and directly replaced the poor Mike Taylor with Joe Hart, and Mike Taylor saw that he was being replaced, and he also realized that he might have lost the position of the main goalkeeper at this time.

After the game restarted, the Birmingham team still dominated the stadium and began to besiege Charlton's goal frequently, causing very big problems for Charlton's team.

Just eight minutes after Charlton Athletic's goal, Birmingham midfielder Boateng suddenly broke through with the ball, and after breaking through two people in a row, he immediately took a long-range shot, but unfortunately the place where he touched the ball was not accurate, and the ball was a little off the goal.

However, the ball rolled to the feet of Dongfang Chen on the edge of the penalty area, Dongfang Chen was not stunned, directly knocked the football horizontally, Daniel Sturridge in the middle of the penalty area swept the football into the Charlton team's goal without being marked, and the Birmingham team exceeded the score again.

Sturridge was very excited after the goal, he knew how important this goal was to him, and maybe this goal could decide him to become one of the starting strikers for Birmingham City at the beginning of the season.

Sturridge was thrilled, and of course he was very grateful. Thanks to the captain of the team, Dongfang Chen, for passing the football to him.

Because in Dongfang Chen's position, Dongfang Chen can directly volley, and the probability of scoring is not small, but Dongfang Chen gave him the opportunity, Sturridge was very grateful, and rushed to Dongfang Chen with a shout, jumped onto Dongfang Chen's body, and kept saying in Dongfang Chen's ear: "Thank you, thank you!" Captain! ”

It was 2-1 and Birmingham had taken the lead and McLeish was happy.

McLeish was happy not because the team was 2-1 ahead of Charlton, but because there was some chemistry between Dongfang Chen and Sturridge.

The game continued, and the Birmingham team continued to threaten the Charlton team, and Charlton then parried and had no chance to fight back.

In this game, in the end, Joe Hart was not tested in any way, because the Charlton team has been crushed by the Birmingham team, there are not many chances to play half the game, and there are even fewer chances to get shots, and the only two shots on goal are 108,000 miles away from the goal, Joe Hart has no chances.

Birmingham's forwards, on the other hand, had plenty of faces, with Dongfang Chen blasting a long-range shot straight past Charlton Athletic from the edge of the box shortly after Sturridge's goal.

Dongfang Chen's long-range shot is very sharp, the ball speed is very fast, the power is great, and the angle is excellent, which surprised the players who have just joined the Birmingham team, they didn't expect Dongfang Chen to have such a move, they were amazed.

Ji Chengyong, who was on the bench on the sidelines, was also amazed when he saw Dongfang Chen's long-range shot, because he also had a long-range shot, he knew how difficult it was to make such a long-range shot, anyway, he might not be able to hit it, so he admired Dongfang Chen very much, and seemed to understand why Dongfang Chen would become the captain of the Birmingham team.

Ji Chengyong also made up his mind that in the future training, he must ask Dongfang Chen for advice, hoping to learn something from Dongfang Chen.

After Dongfang Chen scored, McLeish replaced Dongfang Chen, after all, this was just a warm-up game, and McLeish didn't want Dongfang Chen to get injured.

After Dongfang Chen went off the field, the attack of the Birmingham team did not weaken, and Kevin Phillips, who had just come on the field, received a boccia pass from Li Qinglong on the side, and shot directly at the back of the penalty area to send the football into the goal of the Charlton team.

In the end, Birmingham won 5-1 against Charlton Athletic, the last goal was scored by Senderos, and Sebastian Larsson's corner kick was headed into the net by Senderos.