Rebirth Football Simulator

Chapter 150 Transmission Control System
Thanks to the successful promotion of the Premier League, well-known Premier League teams are not only well-known at home, but also their training bases are well-known.

Such as Manchester United's Carrington training base, Liverpool's Melwood training base, Arsenal's Colney training base, Chelsea's Cobham training base and so on.

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

Since the Abu Dhabi consortium took over in 2008, Manchester City spent 2 million pounds and spent six years to finally build this luxurious training base.

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

But when it comes to perfect hardware facilities and equipment, etc., Manchester City is definitely even better.

After all, being rich is self-willed.

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

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

Zhang Chaoqiang was taken to the training base by Manchester City staff because it was inconvenient to drive by himself.

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

"Hello, Mr. Chairman." Zhang Chaoqiang greeted with a handshake.

When signing various contracts before, Zhang Chaoqiang met with Mubarak many times, and everyone is considered an acquaintance.

"Zhang, welcome to the park."

Inside Manchester City, everyone generally refers to the Ittihad training base as the park to distinguish Manchester City's home stadium, the Ittihad Stadium.

Under the leadership of Chairman Mubarak, Zhang Chaoqiang entered the head coach's office all the way.

Pep Guardiola is already here.

After the three met, they exchanged simple greetings and pleasantries.

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

In the end, Mubarak concluded: "I believe you all know that Manchester City is an ambitious team. We are not satisfied with the Premier League championship. We need to win the Champions League and reach the top of Europe."

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

"Pep, you are a top coach, and Zhang, you are a top player. I hope you can cooperate sincerely to help Manchester City realize their dream of the Champions League..."

Mubarak went straight to the point and said everything thoroughly.

Manchester City invited Guardiola to coach with an annual salary of 1500 million pounds, and spent another [-] million euros to introduce Zhang Chaoqiang, just for a Champions League champion.

Having said that, Mubarak said goodbye: "You are all top talents in the football industry, so I will not disturb your communication."

After Mubarak left, Zhang Chaoqiang and Guardiola stared blankly.

Finally, Zhang Chaoqiang said: "I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon, Coach Guardiola."

"You don't have to be so pretentious, just call me Pep."

After opening the topic, Guardiola began to talk endlessly.

"Actually I didn't notice you at first because I didn't pay much attention to Ligue [-]."

"But last season in the Champions League quarter-finals, you left me very impressed."

"At that time, I had already confirmed the coaching of Manchester City, and after careful consideration, I decided to invite you to join Manchester City."

"Currently Manchester City has Aguero and Sterling. Aguero mainly plays in the center and Sterling plays on the right. It is suitable for you to go to the left, which can facilitate the inside shot."

"In this way, Manchester City can form a competitive striker combination..."

Guardiola didn't talk much at first, but he couldn't keep his mouth shut when he spoke.

In fact, these contents were more or less mentioned during the phone conversation between the two.

After Zhang Chaoqiang came to Manchester City, he served as a left forward and formed a trident with Aguero Sterling.

The right-footed player kicks the left, naturally for the purpose of cutting inside, which is conducive to directly attacking the opponent's goal.

From this point of view, Guardiola has high expectations for Zhang Chaoqiang, and hopes that he will take on the task of scoring the most goals for Manchester City.

Just when Guardiola was about to say something, the door of the head coach's office was pushed open.

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

Manchester City's coaching team is quite large, but Arteta is the first assistant.

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

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Arteta was more active. Under his leadership, Zhang Chaoqiang quickly got to know the Manchester City players.

At present, in the Manchester City team, only team captain Kompany is temporarily absent due to injury, and everyone else is basically actively preparing for the game.

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

Soon under the arrangement of the Manchester City coaching team, the players were ready to start training.

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

Goalkeeper: Caballero;
Defenders: Kolarov, Stones, Otamendi, Zabaleta;

Midfielders: De Bruyne, Fernandinho, David Silva;

Forwards: Zhang Chaoqiang, Aguero, Sterling.

This is basically Manchester City's current main lineup.

If there is a change, Kolarov will rotate with Sagna at left back.

There is also the goalkeeper position. Since Manchester City's original main goalkeeper Joe Hart was abandoned, Guardiola can only make do with substitute goalkeeper Caballero.

However, I heard that Manchester City is actively operating, trying to introduce Barcelona's substitute goalkeeper Bravo.

For two consecutive America's Cups, Bravo's outstanding performance helped Chile beat Argentina to win the championship, so Manchester City wanted to take a small gamble.

The training match officially started, and Zhang Chaoqiang immediately showed his best state.

He is very clear that even though he joins under the huge gimmick of Mr. Yiyuan, if he fails to perform properly, he will still be abandoned.

What Zhang Chaoqiang has to do now is to use his qualified performance to win the fans and the media's opinion and become Manchester City's recognized number one star.

Otherwise, even if Manchester City really achieved results, it would not be his turn to win the award.

In the past, Manchester City's number one star was Aguero, but after De Bruyne joined last season, the two have a tendency to stand on each other.

Therefore, the competitors Zhang Chaoqiang faced in the team were Aguero and De Bruyne.

De Bruyne is a midfielder. As long as Zhang Chaoqiang shows the performance of a super forward, he can largely cover up his brilliance.

Aguero is a little more troublesome. After all, he helped Manchester City win two Premier League titles, and even won the Premier League Golden Boot in the 14/15 season.

Therefore, Zhang Chaoqiang must obtain the approval of 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 Mr. Yili's enthusiasm on the court, he quickly showed some performances to confirm Manchester City's top name.

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In Manchester City's first training match, Zhang Chaoqiang scored four goals with head kicks in good form.

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

What's more, De Bruyne, David Silva and others passed the ball to him continuously, all wanting to see how good Mr. Billion is.

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

Guardiola wants to convey the idea of ​​the pass control system to Zhang Chaoqiang, so that he can quickly integrate into the team.

Pass-and-control football pays attention to controlling the football at your own feet, and oppressing the opponent through continuous football passing.

This requires a high level of mutual passing and coordination awareness among the players.

Pay attention to one kick, and when each player gets the ball, the others have to respond.

Once you see an opportunity, you must attack quickly and efficiently.

Forward running, colliding with the wall, and triangle pass, these are all skills that need to be mastered and used continuously in pass-and-control football.

The lecture was about the same, and the assistant coach Arteta suggested: "For the Champions League match in the middle of the week, Zhang, you should rest first."

"Wait until the weekend for the Premier League debut."

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

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

Manchester City won the opponent and advanced to the main match, which is basically a sure thing.

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

So Zhang Chaoqiang was arranged to rest in rotation, and he will make his Premier League debut on the weekend.

(End of this chapter)