Stavanger, Norway's fourth largest city, is a harbour city located on the west coast of Norway in the Bokenfjord.

On the doorstep of the city's most luxurious hotel, all the Leeds United players who had come to train had just stepped off the bus to see their three former coaches after a long absence.

Jordi Cruyff, Peter Schmeichel and Alf Haaland are already waiting for them in front of the hotel.

Leeds United's pre-match training camp was held in Stavanger, Norway, home to Erling Haaland's Stavanger Football Club.

The reason why George Lee chose this place is because Leeds United, as the league champion of last season, did not need to play the Champions League qualifiers before this season, so George Lee chose a relatively high-dimensional place to escape the summer.

At the same time, it is also to test the results of the club's MCO management model. Leeds United came to Norway and invited Kasper Schmeichel's Rambi to come to Norway for a training camp to warm up.

After deciding on three teams, George Lee and the others discussed it and decided to simply invite another team for a warm-up cup.

Since they were all old friends, Cruyff Jr.'s Wollewieckels club was chosen for the selection of the fourth team. After receiving the invitation, Cruyff Jr. decided to leave after discussing with the club, after all, Leeds United, who have deep pockets, reimbursed all the round-trip and accommodation expenses. With the idea of "fighting local tyrants" and the idea of being able to compete with high-level teams, Cruyff Jr. also led the team to Norway.

The big names are often the last to appear, and Leeds United are the last to arrive in Norway, as the team has to announce new signings before that, so it will be two days later than scheduled.

Leeds United's summer signings also made their debut at Elland Road a few days ago, with Arjen Robben, Sneijder, Bale and Barry not only giving media interviews as newcomers to the team, but also holding fan meetings at Elland Road Stadium. Robben, in particular, appeared alone and did not do it with anyone else.

The No. 10 shirt of Leeds United, which was concerned by the media, was finally shown in front of everyone.

Robben, whose hair has begun to fade, smiled brightly to show all the media what he looked like in the white Leeds United 07/08 shirt.

There was only one person, and that was the previously reported £2 million midfielder brought in by Leeds United from Arsenal, Fabrise M'amba, who has Congolese roots, did not appear in front of the media. According to the club, the player was found to have a heart problem during a medical check-up and is now undergoing treatment and is expected to return at the end of the season.

In this regard, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger also expressed his gratitude to Leeds United and praised George Lee in front of the media. He said: "Thanks to the medical team at Leeds United for being able to find this problem with Fabrice, if there is a heart abnormality on the pitch it is very fatal. At the same time, he also expressed his gratitude to Coach Lee for continuing to accept Fabres, and hoped that Fabraith Muamba could recover soon and play well under Coach Lee. ”

It stands to reason that Leeds could have returned the deal, but George Lee accepted the deal anyway. Not only is he optimistic about Mbaba's future, but he also hopes that the tragedy will be avoided.

In the previous two consecutive Europa League finals, George Li took the initiative to find the opposing player after the game and told the opponent to take care of his health. The two are Sevilla's Puerta and Spaniard's Dani Halque.

In front of the hotel, some Leeds United players hugged their former coaches after getting off the bus, and some even stopped to talk to Cruyff Jr. after getting their luggage.

Especially Smith, who kept talking to Cruyff Jr. and won several championships himself, and Cruyff Jr. was also red-eyed. I can only blame myself for leaving too early, if I can stay for another year or two, then my reputation may spread, and I can find a good team as a manager when I return to the Netherlands, instead of a little-known club like Wollewikels.

"Alright, alright, let's go catch up. Leave it to me, an old man. ”

Brian Kidd stepped up on his own initiative, and he wanted the rest of his team's coaching staff to catch up with the three other teams' head coaches, so he stepped up and took care of the team's move-in arrangements for them.

"I'm sorry for you."

"You're such a nice guy, Brian."

"I'll bring you canned herring." That last sentence was uttered by Chris Casper, who almost took a kick to Kidd.

^^^

After the Leeds United coaching staff put their luggage at the front desk of the hotel, they went to the café in front of the hotel with the other three managers. Gary Kelly, who has already joined the coaching staff, chose to stay and help Kidd on his own initiative.

The nine of them occupied a long table in the store, ordered their coffee and tea, and began to chat.

The first is to take the Casper and open the shabu.

Haaland hooked Casper's neck and asked: "What are you doing with a computer, you think it's a coaching staff meeting, don't forget that there are three coaches here who are not Leeds United, especially Jordi and we are not all the way." ”

The others also laughed because the three teams that came to Stavanger this time, plus the host Stavanger FK, will play a single round-robin match to compete for the friendly trophy. Although it is known that Leeds United won the result, the other three coaches will certainly not let go of this opportunity to practice, and even George Lee will not let go of this opportunity, he will not let go of this opportunity, he will have to test the new players and practice some new tactics.

Generally, Leeds United's pre-match training camp and friendly matches abroad George Lee attaches great importance to it, and will personally go into battle to direct the game, because he is not too worried about his new season's tactics being exposed abroad. Instead, when he returned to the friendly matches in China, he usually let the other coaches of the team take command, and he looked for inspiration and found problems through watching the game and post-game videos.

After the coffee came up, these people began to chat in twos and threes, and they were all acquaintances anyway, and they were not afraid that they would not be able to let go. And you don't have to think about a tactical meeting, where one person speaks and the others listen.

Cruyff Jr. first approached George Lee and asked about Leeds United's signings this summer.

"You ended up buying Sneijder, I remember recommending him to you three years ago, why didn't you do it now?"

George Lee picked up his coffee and took a sip. Then he replied: "Three years ago, what I needed was instant combat power, and I didn't have time to train him. It's different now, he's grown and our team has gone up, and that's not just right. ”

"Why not Van der Vaart?" Cruyff Jr. continued to ask, because the other one he had recommended to George Lee was Van der Vaart. Two of Ajax's midfield prospects, Van der Vaart went to Hamburg in the Bundesliga first, while Sneijder stayed at Ajax until this summer when George Lee took him to Elland Road.

"Compared to Sneijder, I think Van der Vaart is a little bit more delicate, he's closer to a shadow striker. I need to match him with a high striker, two wingers. There are also two midfielders behind him, one to defend and one to comb the pass. ”

"Leeds United doesn't have anything now, isn't it a good fit for him?"

"Hmph, I have some spare time, I just go straight to Alan Smith, what else do you need Van der Vaart."

"Sneijder is different? He hasn't played in the Premier League, but Van der Vaart has at least worked in the Bundesliga. Cruyff Jr. is still holding his fingers, and he still sees himself as a Leeds United manager, struggling with the team's signings. In his opinion, Van der Vaart is a better fit for Leeds than Sneijder, so he is now trying to convince Lee George.

After all, Leeds United is rich and famous, even if they buy another Van der Vaart, it doesn't matter.

"Jordi, you know I don't like to use the midfielder, the shadow striker or something, too sticky, too tempo, not defensive."

"So Sneijder's position ......"

"You'll know when I play against you in two days." George Li smiled slightly.

The others happened to hear their last conversation, and they all looked at little Cruyff with bad intentions.

Especially Haaland and Schmeichel, the two of them know that Cruyff Jr.'s Waller-Wickers team is miserable, and they will be used as a test by George Lee to test the team's tactics.

Fortunately, the first game was Cruyff Jr. against George Lee, and they could observe from the sidelines first.