Green Journey

Chapter 338 The Dumb Eats Coptis! (two in one)

After a while, Chu Zheng came to the locker room led by De Bruyne. At this time, there were already many Manchester City first-team players in the locker room.

Seeing Chu Zheng, Yaya Toure immediately thought of the scene of seeing Chu Zheng jump into a rage just now through the rearview mirror, and a sneer flashed across his face.

Aguero was talking and laughing with David Silva, and he was taken aback when he saw Chu Zheng.

"Hey, guys, look who I brought!" De Bruyne clapped his hands as soon as he entered the locker room, and immediately attracted everyone's attention.

After Aguero reacted, he immediately got up and greeted him, and said with a smile: "Chu, you are welcome to join our big family!"

"Thank you, Sergio!" Chu Zheng leaned forward and gave Aguero a quick hug.

Seeing Aguero's attitude, Chu Zheng was relieved.

Whether the guy minds being stripped of his 10 shirt by Pep Guardiola or not, this enthusiasm is a good start.

Even if Aguero had a grudge in his heart, Chu Zheng didn't believe that he couldn't get rid of it by feeding him one ball at a time.

Next, other Manchester City players also welcomed Chu Zheng's arrival under the greeting of Captain Kompany.

Chu Zheng's locker was arranged next to De Bruyne.

Seeing that Chu Zheng came back to put on his training equipment after saying hello, De Bruyne leaned over and laughed in a low voice: "Chu, I thought you would beat him up just now."

Chu Zheng couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, "I take back the words I said in the car that you have become smarter!"

"Hey!" De Bruyne smiled and pushed Chu Zheng.

Chu Zheng took out the GPSsport black vest from the locker and put it on.

But when he first put it on, he felt a little uncomfortable, it was too small.

As soon as Chu Zheng turned around, De Bruyne immediately burst into laughter when he saw the gully squeezed out of Chu Zheng's chest.

Immediately afterwards, the laughter spread like a virus in the locker room, causing everyone to laugh again and again.

Chu Zheng also followed happily with a helpless face.

Realizing that this was a good opportunity to blend in, he squeezed his arms and squeezed them deliberately, which made everyone laugh even more happily.

Kompany held back a smile and came to Chu Zheng, and said with a smile: "Chu, take it off, I'll go to the equipment department and ask Alistair to change it for you with a bigger one!"

"Thank you, Captain!" Chu Zheng nodded.

This thing is not an ordinary vest, but a very important training equipment that must be worn during training.

The sports vest is equipped with devices such as location trackers, accelerometers and gyroscopes.

On the one hand, it can record information such as the running distance, jumping and acceleration of the players, and can also detect the player's movement status and running position, so that the head coach can find out the team's tactical problems in time during training.

On the other hand, it can also detect the player's physical state, and measure the player's cardiopulmonary function and metabolic capacity in real time.

The collection and analysis of these data through professional software will allow the coaching staff to have a detailed understanding of each player's training and physical condition.

There is also this kind of thing in Leicester City, which is very common in Europe, even the youth training teams have it.

But Manchester City deserves to be one of the richest clubs in the Premier League. Chu Zheng discovered that the sneakers were all implanted with detection chips.

After a while, under the urging of assistant coach Domenech Torrent, the crowd left the locker room in twos and twos and walked to the first team training ground.

Yaya Toure dragged behind, looking at Chu Zheng who was talking and laughing with De Bruyne and Aguero, the smile on his face became more intense.

Thinking of the friendly meeting and handshake between Chu Zheng and him just now, without questioning him face to face, he thought that Chu Zheng, who had just arrived, had given up.

It's a pity that he doesn't understand Chu Zheng's character.

Soon, Chu Zheng came to the training ground.

Under the leadership of several teaching assistants, everyone began to stretch and warm up.

Because this is a pre-season training camp, the players have just returned from a comfortable vacation, so the training content these days is to improve the physical fitness of the players, strengthen the tacit understanding and cooperation between the players, adjust the mentality and competitive state of the players, and restore physical fitness Wait for the training content to be the main one.

After a while, Chu Zheng saw Guardiola in shorts and shorts, dressed in sportswear, walking up with a whistle.

After Guardiola gave a brief lecture, the training officially started soon.

The first training program is a small game for teamwork and physical fitness.

The players stood outside the court boundary line and were divided into two groups.

Two red poles stood eight or nine meters away from the crowd.

What Chu Zheng and the others have to do is to sprint quickly, come back around the pole, and then be pulled up by the relay players and continue to run until they finish pulling the last player in the group.

Looking at Yaya Toure, who was standing in front of him and was about to set off first, Chu Zheng turned his eyes around Toure and the pole, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face.

"Chu, what are you laughing at?" De Bruyne, who was next to Chu Zheng, opened his mouth and asked.

The corner of Chu Zheng's mouth twitched, then he leaned over and lowered his voice, saying, "Get ready for a good show!"

Suddenly De Bruyne's eyes lit up.

Aguero and Sterling next to him couldn't hear what Zheng said clearly.

The happy boy was very curious, but because he was not familiar with Chu Zheng, he held back his words.

Soon, assistant coach Arteta whistled directly, and Yaya Toure and David Silva on the other side suddenly jumped out.

Although Yayatu's sports status has declined, his body is still stronger than many players.

He was the first to circle the pole and rush back.

Back at the starting point, Yaya Toure immediately slowed down and turned around, reaching out to pull Chuzheng.

According to the training regulations, Chu Zheng, who was relaying the relay, had to drag him to run.

Chu Zheng moved quickly and directly grabbed Yaya Toure's hand.

In the next second, Chu Zheng stomped heavily on his feet and started to catapult, like a cheetah attacking on the grassland, jumping out at once. The speed of the start was so fast that everyone was speechless.

And Yaya Toure hadn't started it yet, and suddenly felt an irresistible pull from his right hand, and he couldn't control his center of gravity and fell forward.

As for Chu Zheng, as if he didn't realize it, he dragged Yaya Tuledo for two steps before stopping.

Seeing this funny scene, everyone immediately burst into laughter, including the coaching staff beside them.

Among the crowd in Chu Zheng's group, De Bruyne laughed the most.

At this moment, De Bruyne really admired Chu Zheng, and actually thought of using this method to take revenge on Yaya Toure.

On the lawn, Yaya Toure heard the burst of laughter from the crowd, and his face darkened a little with anger.

But he didn't dare to attack, Guardiola watched.

His grievances with Guardiola were forged at Barcelona.

In 2007, Barcelona extended an olive branch to Yaya Toure and brought this all-round fighter with excellent offensive and defensive skills to the Nou Camp.

But Barcelona at that time was star-studded, with Xiaobai, Harvey, Busquets and others in the midfield.

Therefore, Yaya Toure can only play the role of an important rotation player in Barcelona.

Especially after Guardiola took charge of Barcelona, ​​he is more inclined to use rookie Busquets in the midfielder position.

The reason why Guardiola chose this way is naturally for his reasons.

Although Yaya Toure's personal ability is strong enough, but the ball is too sticky, the ball speed is not as fast as Busquets.

And at that time, Barcelona already had super breakthrough players such as Messi and Iniesta, and there was no need for Yaya Toure to get the ball.

In 2010, Yaya Toure and Guardiola broke up and left Manchester City.

He left as soon as he left, but this guy had a broken mouth. In an interview with Manchester City, he once said that Guardiola hadn't spoken to him for a year before he left.

Then he was slapped in the face by Barcelona defender Alves in an instant, which turned into a farce, making it difficult to tell the truth from the fake.

Arteta next to him was stunned.

He just announced his retirement this year and just accepted Guardiola's invitation to join the Manchester City coaching staff in early July.

Arteta is relatively familiar with Chu Zheng, and the two played against each other last season.

But now Chu Zheng gave Artat the feeling that his physical fitness was stronger than a few months ago.

Although Yaya Toure's physical condition has declined, it is definitely not something that ordinary players can pull down at will.

If it were him, it would take him a long time to drag it down, but he might not be able to knock it down.

As a result, he was pulled down by Chu Zheng in no time, and he didn't even have time to react.

Chu Zheng quickly reached out and pulled Yaya Toure up in a friendly manner.

Yaya Tourei gave Chu Zheng an ugly smile, saying that he was a dumb man who ate Coptis chinensis, and couldn't tell what he was suffering from.

He knew that Chu Zheng was taking revenge on him, but he couldn't say it out.

After a while, the training continued.

But as the training progressed, some interested Manchester City players soon discovered that Chu Zheng and Yaya Toure were competing.

For example, in the offensive and defensive confrontation training, the two of them moved very ruthlessly, and it looked like a PK. Although they had no intention of hurting anyone, they seemed to be in a real competition.

Seeing Yaya Toure being beaten by Chu Zheng again and again, many Manchester City players watched and laughed in their hearts.

At the same time, he also has a clear understanding of Chu Zheng's physical resistance ability, which is a monster.

On the sidelines, Manchester City fitness coach Lorenzo Buenaventura silently collects the data fed back through the GPSsport vest.

Guardiola walked over and said with a smile: "How is Chu's physical condition?"

Hearing this, Lorenzo Buenaventura looked weird, looked up at Guardiola, and said: "It's unbelievable, after a holiday, Chu's physical condition is still very good, like, like It’s been incredible to experience a vacation like never before!”

Guardiola smiled even more when he heard this.

This is what he admires most about Chu Zheng, being able to control his desires.

At this point, Guardiola felt that even Messi couldn't do this, the little guy was too greedy.

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The time has entered August, and as the major clubs in the Premier League are in full swing for training and warm-up matches, they are not idle in the transfer market.

Every few days, the Premier League big6 has heavy signings revealed.

As of August 8, the total spending of Premier League teams has broken last year's record, reaching 1 billion pounds, and once again crushed the other four major leagues.

The European media have been shocked by the increasing purchasing power and competitive appeal of the Premier League. Even the civilian clubs in the Premier League can casually throw out 5, 6, 7 million for signings.

Some media even publicly declared that a large number of stars and world famous coaches joining the Premier League will bring huge attention and fame to the Premier League on a global scale.

Perhaps in the near future, the Premier League will become the well-deserved No. [-] league in the world.

And there are also media who publicly criticize individual Premier League clubs for engaging in gold dollar football, blatantly violating UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act, and only mentioning the names of Manchester City and Manchester United.

Because of the total transfer fee of 10 billion pounds, Manchester City contributed 2.4 million pounds.

Manchester City spent nearly 2 million pounds to sign Chu Zheng, Sane and Stones.

Originally, the media thought that Manchester City should not continue to invest, but as soon as August entered, Manchester City announced two more signings.

1700 million euros poached Celta's Spanish forward Nolito, who scored 36 goals in three seasons, from La Liga.

Immediately afterwards, Manchester City bought Guardiola's favorite player Gundogan from Guardiola's old club Bayern Munich for 2600 million euros.

Then Manchester City directly announced that their signings for this summer transfer window have basically ended.

After buying people, Manchester City continued to sell people for cleaning.

After Nasri and Mangala, the 35-year-old veteran Demichelis became the next target of Manchester City's purge.

Manchester City directly announced that it will not renew the contract with Demichelis whose contract has expired.

This was followed by a series of player loans to slim down the team.

Even the young defender Zinchenko, who was just signed for 200 million euros more than a month ago, was loaned to PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie.

But in the analysis of the European media, Manchester City's future is still not optimistic.

Manchester City's poor performance last season was not due to a major problem with the lineup and tactics.

On the contrary, Manchester City's lineup is actually very strong.

Especially in the midfield, Fernandinho, Fernando, Yaya Toure, Aguero, De Bruyne, Sterling and others can be said to be the best in the British Isles.

This year, I bought Chu Zheng, a [-] million-pound super midfielder, as well as Gundogan and Sane, so that the offensive power of the midfield will be stronger.

Therefore, European media and fans believe that the biggest hidden danger of Manchester City is actually the almost polarized age structure.

Players such as Kolarov, Kompany, Sagna, Zabaleta, Yaya Toure, Clichy, Silva and Fernandinho have all passed their [-]s.

Therefore, the aging of Manchester City's lineup is relatively serious.

As for the senior players, it will be a big challenge to maintain their physical fitness and competitive state.

It is this unreasonable age structure that makes Manchester City's state extremely unstable, with ups and downs!

In addition, there are also problems in the defense.

Kompany's health remains a concern.

If Kompany can get rid of the troubles of injuries, then coupled with the purchase of Stones who is in excellent form from Everton, Manchester City will definitely get the strongest defense in the British Isles.

Unfortunately, this is just wishful thinking.

Looking at the trajectory of Kompany's career over the years, it is simply a dream to keep the Manchester City captain stable after his injury and no longer injured.

As for Manchester United, their contribution is not small.

After Mourinho signed Pogba and Ibrahimovic, he spent another 4200 million to poach Mkhitaryan from Klopp's old club.

Immediately afterwards, he bought Bailey from the La Liga Villarreal club for 3800 million euros to improve Manchester United's poor defense.

Everyone in the world knows that Manchester United's strongest is the goalkeeper and striker.

De Gea can be called the strongest goalkeeper in the Premier League, and his substitute Romero is also Argentina's national goal.

After the introduction of Ibrahimovic and Mkhitaryan on the front line this summer, Manchester United's position on the front line is infinitely close to saturation.

Although the structure of the frontcourt is good, Manchester United's defense is also a mess.

Last season can be said to be De Gea's defense alone.

Therefore, whether Mourinho's buying Bailey can improve the defense, whether Pogba can adapt to the Premier League, and show strong dominance in the midfield is still unknown.

After the Portuguese has been baptized by giants such as Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, his coaching style has basically taken shape. Solid defense and quick counterattack will become Manchester United's main tactics.

But "The Times" directly pointed out in the report that for Mourinho, his biggest challenge may not be on the court, but in Manchester United's dressing room.

Whether the Portuguese is in Real Madrid or coaching Chelsea for the second time, his collapse has a lot to do with his loss of control of the locker room.

(End of this chapter)