Thanks to the successful promotion of the Premier League, the Premier League's well-known teams are not only famous at home, but also widely known as training bases.

For example, Manchester United's Carrington training base, Liverpool's Melwood training base, Arsenal's Kearney training base, Chelsea's Cobham training base and so on.

Manchester City's training base has the same name as its home stadium, also known as Etihad.

Since the Abu Dhabi consortium took over in 2008, Manchester City has spent a whopping £200 million and six years to build this luxury training base.

Although in terms of fame, the Etihad training base is not as famous as the bases of giants such as Manchester United and Liverpool.

But when it comes to hardware facilities and equipment, Manchester City definitely surpasses it.

After all, being rich is capricious.

After preparing a place to live and settling down with his family, Zhang Chaoqiang officially went to the training base to report the next day and prepare for the new season.

After all, the Premier League has started, and Zhang Chaoqiang needs to adapt to Manchester City's tactical system as soon as possible, or Pep Guardiola's tactical system.

Because it was inconvenient for him to drive, Zhang Chaoqiang was taken to the training base by Manchester City staff.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Manchester City president Hosni Mubarak.

"Hello, Mr. President." Zhang Chaoqiang stepped forward to shake hands and greeted.

When signing various contracts before, Zhang Chaoqiang and Mubarak had met many times, and everyone was also an acquaintance.

"Zhang, welcome to the park."

Inside Manchester City, the Etihad training base is often referred to as a campus to distinguish it from the Etihad Stadium, the home stadium of Manchester City.

Under the leadership of chairman Mubarak, Zhang Chaoqiang went all the way to the head coach's office.

The big bald Pep Guardiola is already here.

After the three of them met, they exchanged simple greetings and greetings.

Zhang Chaoqiang has been in Europe for several years, and his English level is still so-so, and he can barely understand it.

Mubarak concluded: "As you all know, Manchester City are ambitious teams, we are not satisfied with the Premier League, we need to win the Champions League, we need to be at the top of Europe. ”

"So I invited Pep to coach and at the same time bring in Zhang at any cost."

"Pep, you are a top coach, Zhang is a top player, I hope you can work together to help Manchester City achieve their Champions League dreams......"

Mubarak went straight to the point and explained everything thoroughly.

Manchester City invited Pep Guardiola to coach with a sky-high annual salary of 15 million pounds, and spent another 100 million euros to bring in Zhang Chaoqiang, just for a Champions League title.

With that said, Mubarak said goodbye: "You are all top talents in the football industry, so I won't bother you to communicate." ”

Mubarak left, and Zhang Chaoqiang and Pep Guardiola stared a little dryly.

In the end, Zhang Chaoqiang said: "I didn't expect us to meet again so soon, Coach Guardiola." ”

"Don't be so angry, just call me Pep."

After opening the topic, Guardiola began to talk endlessly.

"I actually didn't notice you at first because I didn't pay much attention to Ligue 1."

'But last season's Champions League quarter-finals, you made a very big impression on me.

'I was already confirmed to coach Manchester City at the time, and after serious consideration, I decided to offer you to join Manchester City.

"At the moment Manchester City have Sergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling, Aguero plays in the middle, Raheem Sterling plays on the right, and you can go to the left and shoot inside."

"That way, City can put together a competitive attacking combination......

Pep Guardiola didn't talk much at first, but when he did, he couldn't hold his mouth when he said it.

In fact, these contents were more or less mentioned in the telephone communication between the two.

Zhang Chaoqiang played as a left striker after arriving at Manchester City, and formed a trident with Aguero Sterling.

The right-footed player plays mainly on the left side, naturally in order to cut inside, which is conducive to direct attack on the opponent's goal.

From this point of view, Guardiola's expectations for Zhang Chaoqiang are quite high, hoping that he will take on the task of scoring the most goals for Manchester City.

Just as Guardiola was about to say something, the door to the manager's office was pushed open.

"Pep, the players are here...... "It was Manchester City assistant Mikel Arteta who pushed the door in.

Manchester City have a large coaching team, but Arteta is the first assistant.

Seeing that Zhang Chaoqiang was also there, Arteta said: "Zhang, are you also there?" I'll take you to meet you later......"

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Mikel Arteta was more active, and under his leadership, Zhang quickly got to know the Manchester City players.

At present, only the captain of the Manchester City team, Vincent Kompany, is temporarily absent due to injury, and the others are basically actively preparing for the game.

Of course, this is in the absence of Joe Hart and Yaya Toure, two players who were abandoned by Pep Guardiola.

Soon the players were ready to start training with the Manchester City coaching staff.

There is no doubt that Zhang Chaoqiang appeared on the main side.

Goalkeepers: Caballero;

Defenders: Kolarov, Stones, Otamendi, Zabaleta;

Midfielders: De Bruyne, Fernandinho, David Silva;

Forwards: Zhang Chaoqiang, Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling.

That's basically the main squad for Manchester City at the moment.

If there are any changes, Kolarov will rotate with Sagna at left-back.

There is also the goalkeeper position, because Manchester City's original main goalkeeper Joe Hart has been abandoned, and now Guardiola can only use substitute goalkeeper Caballero.

However, I heard that Manchester City are actively operating, trying to bring in Barcelona's substitute goalkeeper Bravo.

Bravo has helped Chile beat Argentina to win the Copa America in two consecutive editions, so Manchester City want to take a small gamble.

The training match officially began, and Zhang Chaoqiang immediately showed his best condition.

He knows very well that although he joined with the huge gimmick of Mr. 100 million, if he can't perform properly, he will still be abandoned.

What Zhang Chaoqiang has to do now is to win the hearts of fans and the media with a qualified performance and become the recognized number one star of Manchester City.

Otherwise, even if Manchester City really plays, it will not be his turn to win the award.

Sergio Aguero was previously Manchester City's number one star, but with the arrival of Kevin De Bruyne last season, the two have been on the rise.

Therefore, Zhang Chaoqiang faced the team's rivals Aguero and De Bruyne.

De Bruyne is a midfielder, and Zhang Chaoqiang can cover up his shine to a large extent as long as he shows the performance of a super striker.

Sergio Aguero is a little more troublesome, as he has helped Manchester City win two Premier League titles and won the Premier League Golden Boot last season.

Therefore, Zhang Chaoqiang must be recognized by the players and coaches in the team as soon as possible, and have a core position in the team's tactics.

At the same time, taking advantage of the popularity of Mr. Billion Yuan on the field, he hurriedly showed some performance and sat on the top spot of Manchester City.

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In Manchester City's first training match, Zhang Chaoqiang scored four goals with an overhead kick in good form.

After all, it was a training match, and the defensive intensity was not high.

What's more, De Bruyne, David Silva and others continued to pass the ball to him, and they all wanted to see his quality.

But after the game, Zhang Chaoqiang was "detained" by the coaching staff.

Guardiola wants to convey the idea of the pass-and-control system to Zhang Chaoqiang and let him integrate into the team quickly.

Passing and controlling football focuses on controlling the football at your own feet and pressing the opponent through continuous football passing.

This requires a high level of awareness from the players to pass each other and cooperate with each other.

Pay attention to the ball with one kick, and each player has to answer when everyone else takes the ball.

Once you see an opportunity, you have to attack quickly and efficiently.

Forward running, wall collision, and triangle passing are all skills that need to be mastered and used continuously in passing football.

The lecture was almost the same, and assistant coach Mikel Arteta proposed: "In the Champions League game in midweek, you can rest first. ”

"Wait until the weekend to make your Premier League debut."

With Manchester City only fourth in the Premier League last season, they need to play in the Champions League play-offs this season.

The opponent is not strong, Romania's Bucharest Star.

Manchester City won the opponent to advance to the main game, and it was basically nine out of ten.

However, the time is a bit tight, and it will start in the middle of the week.

So Zhang Chaoqiang was scheduled to take turns off and make his Premier League debut again over the weekend.

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