The race is on.

Players from both sides were very active.

Despite playing away from home, Rangers were clearly superior in terms of quality, and they quickly dominated the field and took the lead very quickly!

In the 3rd minute, the Rangers midfielder played a match, a beautiful straight plug in the front waist, the striker took advantage of the gap on the right side to run with the ball, and then faced the goalkeeper directly with his feet to push the shot, 0:1! The visitors are ahead!

And by this time, Queen's Park's Robertson hadn't even had a touch of the ball.

What made Carrot Head even more bitter was that it was precisely because he was eager to show himself that he pressed too much when attacking, and as a result, the Rangers caught the defensive gap on his side, and then scored a goal.

That's the mentality of the young players.

When you know that there are important people watching you on the sidelines, it is inevitable that there will be psychological fluctuations, which can lead to some choices on the court that are skewed and taken advantage of by opponents.

In fact, it's not just Robertson.

The players in the Queens Park squad also preferred to play alone after the opening game, wanting to put their best foot forward and forget about the difference in quality between themselves and Rangers.

Robertson's insertion just now was actually relatively timely, but when he passed the ball to the midfielder and wanted to play a two-way bottom cross with him, the midfielder wanted to dribble by himself, but after being broken, it exposed the huge space behind Robertson.

This can be regarded as Robertson taking a big cauldron for his teammates' mistakes.

On the other hand, although they also want to be favored by Pan Yi, they are obviously more well-trained and play well together.

In particular, McAllister, the core of the midfield wearing the No. 10 shirt, has the demeanor of a general.

He was in charge of the midfield, organized his own midfield, and delivered that lethal assist.

Robertson couldn't help but turn his head to look at the stands again.

The dragon man's eyes seemed to be drawn to McAllister at this time, and he was watching him celebrate with the striker who scored the goal.

Robertson pursed his lips, a little helpless.

The head coach from Hamburg is really here to observe McAllister.

The 22-year-old Scottish rising star is young enough, but also more mature.

It seems that Robertson's opportunity to express himself has gradually faded away from him......

Half time over.

Rangers unsurprisingly led 2-0.

In the 34th minute of the game, McAllister scored with a direct free kick and achieved a pass and a shot.

Robertson, on the other hand, just added a cross.

Most of the time, he spent the game at the back of the game with the opposing strikers.

Due to the fact that he often has to defend more with less, he is not even very outstanding on the defensive end.

He had lost all hope that he would be taken advantage of.

……

Pan Yi watched this game, of course, just for a show.

In the absence of a relevant scouting report, it is a bit outrageous to rush to other clubs and say that I want to buy you as a player.

And if it's a game that has been "watched and studied" and then decided to buy a player, it's a little more acceptable.

After all, in world football, it is not uncommon to poach the opponent's outstanding players after a game with others, which is often determined after only one game.

Now that so many people are talking about Pan Yi's accurate view, he also has to keep a low profile, otherwise what if he is really caught and sliced?

So, he didn't take much of Robertson or other players in the stands.

What's so good about other players?

No matter how awesome it is, it is the main level of the fourth division of Scotland, and it will definitely not meet the requirements of the Bundesliga.

If it can really be typed, then Pan Yi before the crossing will naturally know his name, and there is no need to observe - isn't this talking about Robertson?

So it doesn't matter what Robertson does in this game or whatever.

In the future, there will almost be a person who can compete with the left of the world, what is there to doubt about the strength?

There are ups and downs in the form of players, especially in young people.

No matter how bad Robertson's performance is today, Pan Yi will take him away!

Therefore, Pan Yi only glanced at the game occasionally, and spent more time there fugue, thinking about it in his mind:

"Ah, it's just the fourth division of Scotland, although there aren't many fans, but the venue, broadcast and everything are so professional......"

"Is there a fourth division in our dragon country? Yes, but it doesn't seem to be. Forget it, even in the third-level China B League, there are often teams that suddenly withdraw from arrears of wages or something. ”

"Well, even if it's the second-level middle league, the first-level Chinese Super League also has such a thing, forget it, it can't be compared."

"This Queen's Park team has been around for 145 years, and it's not going to be gone if it's been in the lower leagues for so long. And even if we win the Super League championship, maybe we will disband the next day. ”

"Huh? It's a goal again. What is the score now? ……”

The game is over.

Robertson panted and returned to the locker room with his teammates, sat on the bench and reflected on his performance, feeling hopeless.

The team lost 0:3, with zero goals and zero assists, and two goals were scored on the defensive side of the team.

With such a performance, the chance of being selected by that man is less than 1 in 1,000, no, less than 1 in 10,000!

This kind of poor performance is not convincing at all.

Robertson suspects that if he continues to play like this, let alone being favored by the Bundesliga coach, even a low-level team like Queen's Park will not be able to stay.

And since the start of the game, Robertson has found that he has never looked at himself again!

It seems that the glimpse at the beginning of the game is really that he is self-inflicted, alas.

And just as he was about to leave the locker room after changing his clothes, the team's manager opened the door and entered:

"Andrew? Andrew Robertson? Come over here. ”

Robertson subconsciously agreed, and then froze.

What's the situation?

How could it be that the manager came in and called his name?

All the teammates were a little stunned, and a pair of surprised eyes kept wandering between the manager and Robertson.

The manager said a little impatiently, "What are you still doing?" Don't let Mr. Pan Yi who came from afar wait for a long time. He's decided to buy him out of our team, so you're ready to talk to your family about going to Germany. ”

Pan Yi?

Buyout?

Germany?

Am I really going to play in the Bundesliga?

In the midst of everyone's incredulous eyes, 18-year-old Andrew Robertson stood in the dressing room.

The water bottle in his hand had tilted over, and the water inside was spilling onto the floor, but Robertson didn't notice it!

……

500,000 euros, this is the price Pan Yi paid to take Robertson away.

It's a small amount of money, but it's already a huge amount of money for an amateur team.

And Robertson has just played the main team this season, and Queen's Park has no burden on letting him go, but he feels that there is a big dog who has come to buy one of his own players, and he can use it instead.

With the Bundesliga's winter transfer window not officially opening until 1 January, it will take two more days for Robertson to negotiate with Hamburg and sign a formal contract.

Of course, Pan Yi has also introduced Robertson to a professional agent in Hamburg very intimately, so as to avoid the little radish head from suffering in some details because he is too young.

And the act of personally going to Scotland to introduce Robertson itself made the scandal between Pan Yi and other clubs self-defeating.

How can there be a coach who is about to leave the team and still have to talk about the transfer of the winter window? Isn't that a blind rush?

So this also reassured the team's top management and fans - Pan Yi will stay in Hamburg, he will not leave!

……

After getting Robertson, Pan Yi's target turned to the position of midfielder.

In the first half of the Bundesliga, this was an old problem.

Casemiro's partnership with Makoto Hasebe has been very good for the most part, but some problems will be exposed when encountering some teams with better skills that require tougher physical confrontations.

Casemiro is fine, but Hasebe is a little weaker in this regard.

And in terms of switching from defense to offense, neither of them did a very good job.

Makoto Hasebe's ball is not bad, but it is not up to the top level in the world.

If you count the skills of long-range shooting and breakthrough, they will not be able to reach a higher level.

Hamburg are currently very reliant on Kevin De Bruyne's organisation, and if the opposition team focuses on Tintin, then Hamburg will also have problems with the attacking organisation.

So Pan Yi thought about bringing in a hexagonal warrior in the winter transfer window to make up for this shortcoming.

A true "Box to Box" midfielder!

The first thing that Pan Yi thought of was Bayern's defender Gustavo.

Gustavo's ability is outstanding, and it also meets Pan Yi's requirements for the midfield.

And after the arrival of Xavi Martinez this season, Gustavo's position at Bayern is slightly awkward.

In search of a stable place in the Brazilian national team, he is already looking for a transfer, and it is a good time to cut the beard.

But the problem is still that problem.

How can this kind of Brazilian international player, who has landed in Europe and was once the main force of European giants, be cheap?

When he joined Bayern Munich from Hoffenheim in the winter window of 2011, the transfer fee was already as high as 17 million euros!

In fact, in Pan Yi's previous life, when Gustavo really left Bayern at the end of this season, Wolfsburg also paid a price of 16 million euros.

Therefore, for Pan Yi, who currently has only 5 million euros, no, a budget of 4.5 million euros, signing Gustavo is already an impossible task.

So, Pan Yi set his sights on another Brazilian.

This is a guy who is still playing in Brazil, but is already a fringe international of the Brazilian national team like Casemiro, and he is a little famous.

He is the future Changzhou Hengtai and Barcelona celebrity - "Violent Bird" Paulinho!

Although Paulinho is now 24 years old, he still belongs to an unknown Brazilian second division team, Coimbra Sport.

It's just that he has been loaned to Brazilian giants Corinthians in recent years, and he has performed well, winning the Copa Libertadores and Club World Cup for the team, which allowed him to be called up to the Brazilian national team.

Pan Yi's opportunity is that the Brazilian team has always been more picky.

Corinthians have rented Paulinho for two years, but they have not paid for it, and they want to keep prostituting for nothing, which has caused dissatisfaction among the other party.

As long as Pan Yi throws out 4.5 million euros with a wave of his hand at this time, there is still a good chance to grab a tiger's mouth!

And if it was a little later, Corinthians would grit their teeth and stomp their feet, and really pay four or five million real money to buy Paulinho.

A little later, Corinthians will sell Paulinho to Tottenham Hotspur, and the status will fly to 20 million euros......

So, it's better to act immediately, Pan Yi went directly to Brazil to find someone to chat!

……

When Pan Yi returned to Hamburg, he used this written word to introduce Paulinho when he told the executives and coaches about his proud deal.

- This is almost a scouting report, the difference is that people report first and then want to buy it, and Pan Yi buys it first and then writes the report......

'His style of play is a bit like Frank Lampard at Chelsea, who often shows incredible talent when it comes to splitting his attacking and defensive options in midfield.

"He's very physical, he's extremely physical, and he's got world-class big-picture, control and tactical quality on both the offensive and defensive ends. His tireless, efficient movement allows him to be anywhere between the two penalty areas at any time to finish an opponent's attack or deliver a lethal blow. ”

"He's very well-rounded in all his skill attributes. Defensively, he is like a bloodthirsty beast defending every inch of territory in the midfield, with imaginative tackles and interceptions, and his excellent aerial superiority makes him an insurmountable barrier for the team, which can instantly help the team complete the change from defense to attack. ”

"His world-class defensive performance blossoms naturally in him all the time, and his ability to read and control the game, as well as his control of space and timing on the pitch, is unrivalled as a world-class midfield strangler and metronome."

"On the offensive end, Paulinho can perfectly show the delicacy of samba football, as well as the rich imagination and creativity. Excellent manball combined with dribbling breakthrough skills and lightning-fast striking ability can be found in him. ”

'He's a midfielder, but he can even play as a striker. He can not only blow the horn of counterattack through accurate long and short passes, but also control the situation of the game through the change of rhythm; It can also tear apart the opponent's entire defense through superb individual skills and powerful impact, and sharp back attacks often become the key weapon for the team to open up the situation. ”

"He is also particularly good at the powerful long-range shooting of precision-guided missiles, and can stage a shocking work of sending a lever-type blast to break the goal with super explosive power!"

"Finally, Paulinho is strict and disciplined in his personal life, always away from off-field interference, and can be a training model for the team, as well as a player that his teammates trust and recognize!"

"I believe that after Paulinho joins the team, there will be a qualitative change in our midfield, both in terms of defensive hardness and offensive vitality!"

……

Pan Yi's evaluation is not too exaggerated.

In other words, praise is a little praise, but not much.

The most commendable thing about Paulinho is his offensive and defensive attributes.

Not to mention the defense, he was originally born as a defensive midfielder.

In Pan Yi's previous life, Paulinho often had excellent works of forward shooting, long-range guidance, and ultra-long-range free-kick goals even when he joined Changzhou Hengtai.

And his excellent performance in the Chinese Super League even attracted the attention of La Liga giants Barcelona, and directly paid 40 million euros for liquidated damages to bring him to Barcelona.

This proves at least two things:

First, Paulinho has the ability to gain a foothold in the giants; In fact, he played 49 games for Barcelona in one season, scoring nine goals and providing two assists, and helped the team win La Liga and the Spanish Copa del Rey.

Second, he has an excellent work ethic and can maintain his good form even in a lower-level league such as the Chinese Super League, rather than being assimilated by that big dye vat-like environment.

In other words, Paulinho is Pan Yi's favorite type of player: technical, physical and mental attributes are all very good!

And when he arrives in Hamburg, he can form a new Brazilian international-level midfield combination with his compatriot Casemiro, which is not only hard, but also more tacit.

After all, although these two Brazilians are not the main players in the national team, they have also partnered together, and there is no problem with the run-in between the two.

Makoto Hasebe, the original main player, can be used as an important rotation, and even the three central midfielders can be sent together when needed to further improve the midfield sweep.

In this way, both in terms of bench thickness and flexibility in tactical options, Hamburg has improved a lot.

What Pan Yi has to do now is to train the newcomers Robertson and Paulinho well, so that they can become familiar with their tactical system as soon as possible and integrate into the rhythm of the whole team.

Of course, there is plenty of time.

Unlike the Premier League, the Bundesliga has a relatively long winter break.

It will not be until 20 January 2013 that Hamburg will have the first match of the second half of the season, the 18th round of the league against Nuremberg.

Most teams will assemble between January 1st and January 5th, and then train, play warm-up games, and hurry up to buy and sell......

But for Pan Yi, who has spent all the 5 million euro budget, this winter transfer period seems to have nothing to do with him?

No, Pan Yi also has a reinforcement plan.

This plan is even very important, and only when it is completed can Pan Yi be satisfied that he and Hamburg will be able to enter the training camp that began on January 3rd.

……

As early as a month or two after the start of the season, Pan Yi faintly felt that the team had some problems in terms of physical reserves and state adjustment.

It stands to reason that Hamburg, the main framework dominated by young players, should not have physical problems at such an early stage, even if Pan Yi often uses a pressing style of play.

At that time, Pan Yi felt that the main reason was the mental health problems of the young players and the lack of experience in the distribution of physical fitness, so he arranged the rotation.

After paying the price of losing points to a certain extent, Pan Yi finally stopped the decline and led Hamburg back on track.

Looking back now, Pan Yi probably knows where the real problem is.

That is, he has always focused on the tactical and technical training of the team, including assistant coaches Inzaghi and Nagelsmann.

But what they overlook is that physical training is just as important!

In terms of training level, there is a gap between Hamburg's fitness coach and AC Milan's coach.

Or it can be said that not only the executive coaches, but also the overall facilities and management of the club have an all-round gap.

After all, it's AC Milan!

That's why Pan Yi rarely felt that a player had a physical problem when he was in Milan, but in Hamburg he immediately felt something different.

A good physical trainer can make a detailed training plan for all the players of the whole team during the summer training period, record all the detailed data for analysis, and then carry out targeted supplementary training.

For example, a player's daily running distance, sprint distance, number of sprints, time when fatigue occurs, and physical changes after supplementary training......

In this way, you can gradually improve the fitness of your players and make it a physical function that can continue to play in long leagues.

And ordinary strength and conditioning coaches can often only do superficially, that is, they look good enough to cope with the recent games.

But if the competition is extremely intense, and the schedule is long, it will be revealed immediately.

Nagelsmann's set of high-tech monitoring equipment can only monitor the player's current heart rate and other indicators, but it cannot predict his physical condition in the future period, let alone make the player's physical fitness better out of thin air.

Moreover, a good fitness coach can not only improve the physical fitness of the players, but even play an important role in adjusting the condition of the players.

For example, when a team is facing an opponent, if the opponent is not a particularly aggressive team and a particularly aggressive team, the strength and conditioning coach may suggest that the head coach develop a training plan for the next opponent.

In this training program, the players' physical fitness will try to maintain a relatively balanced state, so that the Hamburg players will run more than their opponents in this game, but not too much.

After all, there is no player who can run infinitely at full strength on the field all the time, so it is necessary to adjust the intensity through training so that the player can play a little higher than the opponent's running level.

The reason is very simple, the opponent can only run 10,000 meters for an average player, so I only need to run 10,000 to stabilize you, and there is no need to run another 12,000.

In this way, the team can use pressing tactics perfectly while saving as much energy as possible.

This is also the reason why there are some teams that can still stay alive even in the late stages of the league.

Pan Yi had only tactically allowed players to save energy on the court, but he had neglected these practices in daily physical training.

And if you can do both, it will definitely be of great help to Hamburg's future competitions.

Therefore, it is very important to find a reliable strength and conditioning coach.

This will also be Pan Yi's most important reinforcement before the start of winter training, and it may even be more important than Robertson and Paulinho to a certain extent!

Of course, as an all-knowing and all-powerful traverser, Pan Yi already had a suitable candidate in his mind.

Hehe, when it comes to physical trainers, how can you get around that cute bald head......

(End of chapter)