Chapter 11 You want to roast me
Zhang Desheng will never carry bags and shoes for people, but he also doesn't want to cause trouble.
Therefore, he simply used his lack of Portuguese as an excuse to avoid and minimize communication with his new teammates.
Zhang also knows that this will not be able to form friendships with his new team-mates, but the problem is that he will not need to get to know these people much in a short period of time, after all, it is impossible to say how many of them will stay in Porto next season.
At this stage, he can get to know some newcomers who can apply for the team, especially to get the favor of the manager, which is the most important thing.
Besides, this is not in the national football team, he will not be chased to find fault, right?
Zhang Desheng couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of this, if he was really in the national football team, then under the rush of luck, it would be possible for a mad dog to bite him from nowhere.
But in Porto, he's not so annoying.
Even on the contrary, in this training session in the afternoon, some first-team players with good English actually took the initiative to greet him.
"Zhang, you should go and say hello to Andersson!"
Not all the veterans in Porto now choose to lie down, and Costinha, who is quite a big brother, is very kind to Zhang Desheng, and even reminded him to take the initiative to deal with Deco, Carvalho and others.
At this time, Porto's midfield leader Deco is also introverted and a little proud, so he naturally will not take the initiative to come up and greet a rookie.
Zhang Desheng really can't communicate at all when he thinks about it, he can't let a group of famous stars come to show him hello first.
So after the talkative Costinha confirmed the approximate status of the team, he took the initiative to greet his new teammates in English one by one.
Naturally, there are people here who are warm, some are cold, and some are even hostile.
Deco, Carvalho, Silva and others belong to the group with a cold attitude, and these Mesozoic people do not care much about these newcomers who have just been transferred.
At this time, they can't say that they support Mourinho, after all, Mourinho, who has not yet proven himself in the top team, is not the magic bird that even many big stars admire.
They are now just going to be worthy of their salary while continuing to fight for the next bigger contract and a better place in the team.
The most important thing is that they also need to use excellent performances to impact the final squad of their respective national teams!
And those who are hostile to him are, of course, veteran players such as Lyubinko, Secretario, and Dimitri.
These veteran players are not only hostile to him, but even to many young players, because they know that Mourinho has brought these people up to stimulate them to no longer lie down.
In addition, these young players are playing in exactly the same position as them, which is clearly Mourinho's plan to kill two birds with one stone.
If these veterans really can't force it, then simply use the newcomers.
He was able to lead the team to fifth place in the league in all time, where a group of lesser-known players could be brought out by him to several future Portugal internationals.
Porto's youth team is now ten times stronger, and the second-tier teams here have a group of reserves who can start in the middle and lower reaches of the Portuguese Super League.
He has made good use of Porto's internal potential, and it is not that he cannot replace these veterans who have lost their ambitions.
Therefore, these young people are not only catfish used to kick the butts of veterans, but also want to use these veterans to force out a new team that can be used.
The next day, Zhang Desheng finally saw his head coach in the first team.
"You're Zhang?"
Mourinho looked at Zhang Desheng with a collagen face, and was very satisfied with him.
The Porto players naturally don't know about the fact that he went to say goodbye to Alberto yesterday, but Mourinho already knew.
This kind of person who appreciates gratitude, no matter what country or nationality he is in, is certainly the most popular type of person.
The same is true for Jose Mourinho, and the point he is most optimistic about Zhang Desheng is actually what Alberto said a few days ago - "He is the kind of genius that Porto can't stay for long".
This sentence touched him completely, because Mourinho does not think that he is the kind of person who can stay in Porto for a long time, and his stage will be much higher than here in the future.
So for Zhang Desheng, he will naturally pay special attention to it.
If he coaches a new team in the future, he will definitely bring his own team, and he must not have the same predicament as he is today.
At this time, the person who is talented and knows how to repay his kindness must be his best confidant.
"Mr. Jose, it is an honor to play under your guidance, and I hope to give me more guidance in the future!"
Zhang Desheng naturally will not pretend to be forced in front of the head coach, and at this time, neither humility nor arrogance is the best way to deal with it.
"Very well, you have to remember that whoever prepares in front of me will definitely get a piece of candy!"
Zhang Desheng didn't want to pretend, but Mourinho had to pretend in front of him, and after saying something he thought was beautiful, he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, meaning that you can get out.
Zhang Desheng bowed slightly, the kind that didn't bend down at all, and then turned around and went back to training.
"Raphael, what do you think of him?"
Mourinho waited for Zhang to leave, and then asked his assistant casually.
"Yesterday afternoon's physical tests were very good, the explosiveness and speed are amazing among players of the same age, the movements are very agile, the body balance is excellent, and the body reacts very quickly!"
Rafael is the team's strength and conditioning coach and yesterday afternoon he put all three new players to the test.
The most surprising thing for him in this test was naturally Zhang Desheng, who was less than 17 years old, and Postiga, a striker who was 3 years older than him and ate with explosiveness and speed, was just a little faster than Zhang Desheng in the test yesterday.
But you must know that the difference between the two is 3 years old, so in terms of physical potential, Zhang Desheng is obviously much stronger.
"I mean, do you think he can start?"
Mourinho's question made Rafael speechless for a while, and he didn't know what this kid's skills were, who do you ask about this!
"I don't think there's any need to rush it, he's still too young."
Raphael could only say truthfully, he felt that even if Zhang Desheng was really a genius, there was no need to be in such a hurry.
"Don't worry, no!"
Mourinho sighed in his heart, he didn't know that he was in a hurry.
But Porto, who have lost two in a row, are already 8 points behind Sporting Lisbon, and now that they are not even in fourth place, how can they not be in a hurry?
He has to make a big change in the team's mental outlook, so he needs a big catfish to stimulate everyone.
The younger Zhang Desheng is, the better the stimulation effect can be achieved, and even the team's middle generation players can react.
But I just don't know if this kid can resist the pressure, this is the first team of Porto!
Such a rookie, who has just joined the second-tier team for less than half a year, will he hurt him in the end if he boldly throws him out as a catfish?
Mourinho was also very entangled, so he simply asked his team to play a training match in the afternoon.
And in this team training match, he unexpectedly put Zhang Desheng on the starting side, and he is the weakest left side of the team at present.
This arrangement surprised the whole team, and Zhang Desheng's camp and position were too sensitive.
Porto's players are not fools, so how can you not see the importance that Mourinho attaches to Zhang Desheng?
"Made, didn't you roast me on the fire?"
Zhang Desheng was also complaining in his heart, which was equivalent to putting him on the target of everyone.
But he won't run away, and he can't run away.
Even if it wasn't necessarily a good thing for him, it was even a hateful thing.
That's right, he's only on his second day on the team.
This will make everyone not even remember his name, and Mourinho raised him so high all of a sudden.
This will undoubtedly make everyone resist and even disgust!
Besides, he really doesn't have trust at all, so Deco won't give him the right pass on the left wing.
Zhang Desheng is not angry about this, because if he is one of these Porto starters, if the new head coach suddenly stuffs a 16-year-old kid who is not familiar to everyone at all when the team's results are not good.
Then he will also feel very unhappy, and even feel that the manager is deliberately humiliating them.
So Porto's starters all treated him as a transparent person in this training match.
Zhang Desheng played for almost ten minutes and didn't touch the ball once.
But he is still not angry, as long as the team starts to attack, he tries to run with the team's offensive ideas, and he intersperses the run with the same whether he passes or not.
And when the team is defending, he also actively uses his sparse defensive ability to join in the fun.
I won't mention whether this kind of positivity has any effect, but it's very positive anyway.
This made Deco secretly smile bitterly in his heart, because in the past ten minutes, he was keenly aware of several passing opportunities on the left side, but in the end he deliberately ignored these opportunities and did not pass the ball.
But this is really painful for a midfield commander with outstanding vision on the field and excellent reading and defensive ability!
"Made, why don't I pass one on to this kid?"
Deco soon couldn't help it, this kid's running position is really fucking good.