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Chapter 340 Gathering of heroes, pre-season preparations

The signing fee of 7500 million has fully demonstrated Sheffield United's ambition and sincerity to Neymar.

Under this kind of generosity, even though there are still many media in Brazil who believe that Neymar should go to the La Liga giants, they do not reject the result of Neymar's final transfer to Sheffield United.

To be honest, Sheffield United won the British domestic triple crown last season, and they did not lose a game against the final champion Bayern in the Champions League. Their strength is strong enough.

It is said that in terms of reputation, it is indeed weaker than the traditional giants, but in front of the huge financial resources, it seems that the strength has become more important. The reputation, after several seasons of strong performance, will always accumulate slowly. It's not.

So after the transfer was concluded, public opinion in Brazil immediately turned to look forward to Neymar's performance at Sheffield United.

In terms of comparison objects, one of the off-the-shelf ones is not.

Bale, who barely qualified as a superstar at Tottenham last season, was already a world-class left-wing king last season.

The media likes to analyze and find reasons for such things.

After looking around, apart from Kai Bell's own efforts and growth, the two major reasons for his successful transformation are Speed's tactical tilt and Li Mo's selfless help.

Li Mo has his own system, and the rumors that he can help his teammates get better have become more and more a fact.

After all, it's not just the big improvement in Bell's statistics, Joaquin's [-] assists that broke his own record in a single season, and De Bruyne's performance of [-] assists in a single season as a rotation all strongly illustrate this point.

At least now the media and fans in Brazil believe this is true, and they very much hope that Neymar can transform into a real world-class superstar by Li Mo's side.

After all, since Kaka's "fall", Brazilian football has lost its leader in world football.

This is simply unbearable for Brazilian fans who have experienced the glory days of Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho and Kaka in the past ten years.

Robinho is a disappointing guy, and now all of Brazil is counting on Neymar to become a leader and lead the Brazilian team to compete in next year's home World Cup.

So now they are eager to come up with the argument that "Neymar will definitely succeed in Sheffield United".

Bell's success story reassured them a lot, and the good relationship between Neymar and Li Mo was also disclosed by reporters as the transfer dust fell, which made Brazilian fans feel a lot more at ease.

As long as the relationship is good, at least Li Mo, the leader of Sheffield United, will take care of Neymar a lot. As long as Neymar can quickly integrate into the Sheffield United system, that is the best start.

But what they didn't expect was that Li Mo and Sheffield United were more enthusiastic than they thought, and Neymar was more "mature" than they thought.

Just three days after the transfer official announcement that shocked the football world, Neymar appeared in Shanghai in a low-key manner with his assistant team.

Because Ma'er was low-key enough this time, the media in Huaguo didn't get any news that day.

It wasn't until another two days later, when Li Mo and Neymar hugged warmly at the airport after finishing their business activities in Pengcheng and arriving in Shanghai, that the media in Huaguo and Brazil reacted.

The two brothers had already made an appointment to meet in Shanghai!

Just from the few photos, it can be fully seen that the relationship between Li Mo and Neymar seems to be better than the outside world guessed.

Now the big and small media of the two countries couldn't sit still, and they sent their own capable reporters to fly to Shanghai, hoping to get first-hand information and dig out more news about the relationship between the two.

But Li Mo didn't have the consciousness to avoid suspicion at all. In the next few days, besides running activities, he generously took Neymar and Wu Sanshi to walk around the streets of the magic city.

Indulgent eating, drinking and having fun is not counted, but the three of them did visit a lot of famous attractions in the magic city in a relaxed manner, which caused a large number of reporters to pour into the magic city, and the security personnel in places where the three brothers appeared were more than usual. Quite a lot.

After this wave of limelight was over, Li Mo and the others went to Jinling again, and then welcomed their "immediate boss" in Jinling.

When Speed ​​also showed up in China with his family, countless Sheffield United fans old and new in the entire East Asia region became excited!

But it's a pity that Speed ​​just brought his family to Huaguo as a tourist this time, so he didn't show up too much.

But on the scarf that Li Mo updates every day, both Speed ​​and Neymar have their daily side after taking off their star clothes, which makes domestic Sheffield United fans very satisfied.

It is undoubtedly very good news for the team's preparations for the new season that Neymar and Speed ​​can get to know each other in advance in this relaxed situation.

Of course, Li Mo didn't disclose how the few people communicated in private, but judging from the photos of the few people smiling and playing everyday in the media, the process was relatively smooth.

On June 6, the three parted ways after visiting the Great Wall in the capital of China.

Speed ​​returned to England with his family to make final preparations before the start of pre-season training, while Neymar returned to Brazil to rest.

Li Mo seized the time to complete all the business activities in the capital, leaving the rest of the business to be negotiated with Charlie and the others, and he himself returned to Sichuan to do the last business after returning to China.

From June 6th to June 25th, for nearly a week, Li Mo stayed in the Fucheng Youth Training Base, which had begun to take shape, checking and familiarizing young players one by one.

Although two young players have been sent to Europe for training, in fact, most of the children in the echelon do not have the talent to go to Europe for trial training.

But Li Mo didn't feel depressed at all, after all, this was the most real situation, and he had already been mentally prepared, so he didn't feel the slightest thought of "failing".

On the contrary, when he saw those children training seriously because of their love, and seeing the youth training competitions held between middle schools in full swing, he felt very relieved!

This is the first breeding field he cultivated!
In this small city that loves football more and more, he saw the solid foundation laid.

Although there is nothing on this foundation now, neither flowers nor fruits.

But after sowing the seeds of love and scientific training, he believes that in the future, this will be a fruitful and fruitful place.

General Fan was drunk again. The night before he parted with Li Mo, Lao Fan took Li Mo's arm and was extremely satisfied.

"We engage in youth training. It takes a few years or more than ten years. As long as we can finally send good seedlings to the world continuously, so that these children can have dreams and dare to dream, it will be worth it! If I don't coach the national team, I will spend the rest of my life here, and I am satisfied."

In those murmured drunken words, many sad and grievances of the past were wiped out by General Fan.

Li Mo could tell that Lao Fan had already found a career that he could work hard and be willing to devote to for the rest of his life.

But there is one sentence that Li Mo does not agree with.

"Guide Gao has retired from the rapids, and you can come here to continue the youth training. At that time, Brother Fan, you have to shoulder the burden. You have learned so much, and you have gone out to see so much. From now on, one you, one thank you Brother, we have to support the national team, and the good seedlings cultivated by our youth training must be our own talents to use, right?"

In Li Mo's view, Lao Fan still has to join the coaching staff of the national team to display his ambition and talent.

In the past, the national team could not tolerate him, but the future national team will be able to tolerate his arrogance and ruthlessness. A football team on the rise also needs such a passionate head coach to lay the foundation of skills and style.

Director Gao has been working hard for these years, and his physical condition has not been very good, and it is time to take a good rest.

Here, you can make more contributions and have enough time to recuperate your body.

Li Mo has already figured it out. If Director Gao is going to leave his post in the next few years, he will "cut off the guy" and send him directly to Fucheng. When Director Xu finishes taking the last batch of young players on the island, he will be gone. Come to Fucheng, when the time comes, turn him into the Clairefontaine of China!
When the young players here grow up, those who can go out, those who can't, pick out the best ones to stay in the local area.

Li Mo has already discussed with his uncle Li Lijun to buy the former local professional team, and invite Xie Hui, who has returned from his studies, to be the head coach in the future, so as to surpass him!
In this way, both internal and external publicity will let all fans know that their place is a place where football is serious, and young players who want to make their mark can also come to Fucheng to try.

At least, here you can get a fair chance and a chance to continue to grow.

Although all of this is just a plan and still on paper, Li Mo has great confidence in the success of his plan.

A Xie Hui, a youth training base that can steadily deliver talents, a good reputation, and a generous start-up capital are enough!

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Amidst the reluctant farewells of countless young players, Li Mo finally embarked on the trip. He didn't have a good rest at home for a few days, and then boarded the plane to the distant England.

At this time, most of the players are still in the offseason, enjoying the beautiful sunshine in the warm Apennine Peninsula and the Iberian Mediterranean area, but Li Mo plunged into Sheffield with the special training plan given by his master. Union training base.

Speed ​​has recently returned to work with the coaching staff. Li Mo's early return made his coaches prostitutes for nothing.

On the premise that the team doctor strictly checked every day, Speed ​​reluctantly agreed to Li Mo's seemingly unscientific special training.

After three to five days passed, Speed ​​and the rest of the teaching assistants only felt their scalps go numb.

But when Li Mo's ten-day short-term special training ended, Speed ​​had gradually gotten used to it amidst the horror.

He had heard before that Essien of Chelsea was a maniac of individual performance. It was said that the African buffalo was still interested in fighting with his wife for several rounds after returning home after training every day, and his wife even wanted to run away.

At that time, Speed ​​only thought it was a joke, and it was a boring report made up by the media, but now that he watched Li Mo's special training in hell, he felt that he was still too young back then.

There are always very few players in this world who are gifted in physical fitness and endurance.

Now it seems that Essien was like this at the beginning, and so is Li Mo under his command now.

However, Essien has suffered more injuries in the past few years, and he no longer sees the shadow of the tough maniac in the past.

Speed ​​didn't want Li Mo to "squeeze" his talent like this, so he told the team doctor many times to strictly give Li Mo a daily physical examination, and tell him immediately if there is something wrong.

But Li Mo's physical talent seems to be even higher than that of Essien back then. He looked tired like a dead dog every day, but he recovered almost after a night's sleep. It was really at the limit, and he would stop training for a day at most. Let Speed ​​have a good experience of Li Mo's limit.

After staying with Li Mo for two weeks, when approaching the team's training camp, Speed ​​inexplicably gained confidence in other Sheffield United players.

But when Vardy and Trippier reported on the slightly "bloated" training site in Switzerland on July 7, Speed ​​immediately covered his forehead.

Amidst Li Mo's sniggering, a group of teammates who were obviously overweight began a rigorous fat-reducing training under the leadership of the assistant coach.

And players like Li Mo who maintained sufficient training during the offseason started with a gentle recovery training.

Neymar and Felipe Luiz started to get to know each other with their teammates in such a training experience.

Old acquaintances in the Premier League like Barry and Lescott, everyone still knows each other well, and they get acquainted quickly.

Li Mo and Lescott can be regarded as "not knowing each other without fighting". From opponents to teammates, the previous unhappiness has directly become a joke that can be teased. Mo took special care of them, and within a few days, they became acquainted with the Sheffield United team.

After the training camp is on the right track, the original players will naturally adjust their physical condition as soon as possible, and the tacit understanding with the teammates will naturally exist, and they will be able to cooperate well if they adapt.

The new players will take longer to learn and adapt.

From the team's tactical play, to learning English to actively communicate, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Fortunately, Speed ​​and his coaching staff were also prepared for this and seemed very patient, not adding any psychological burden to these players.

The original players of Sheffield United are very friendly, and many players in the team understand Portuguese, so Neymar and Felipe Luis quickly showed the unique optimism of the Brazilians in a positive team atmosphere and positive.

Li Mo naturally played the role of a lubricant. He can speak English, Spanish and Portuguese, and even taught himself some Italian. The new teammate naturally wants to get closer to him.

During the hard training in Switzerland, the Sheffield United team was running in quickly, and Speed ​​was also constantly adjusting new tactics.

With the gathering of heroes, Sheffield United has slowly come to the time to test the results of the new formation and new tactics.

(End of this chapter)