Extraordinary coach

Officially took over the Southampton team.

On the first day, Sun Yi did not make any arrangements, but let them conduct daily training under the leadership of the original coaching staff.

Sun Yi had only a rough understanding of the situation of the Southampton team before, and the specific situation still needed him to learn more.

On this first day, Sun Yi basically observed the players on the sidelines and checked the players' information.

After a day of careful observation, Sun Yi basically had a general understanding of the situation of the Southampton team.

In general, Sun Yi was quite satisfied with the lineup of the Southampton team.

This is a team with reasonable matching and great potential.

The ratio of the three generations of players in the Southampton team is very good.

There are both veterans and strong players of the Mesozoic generation in the team. But what makes Sun Yi most satisfied is the young players of the Southampton team.

Southampton has a large number of young players with good strength and high potential.

The most representative of them is Ward Prowse. Sun Yi observed that this young man, who was born in 1994, had an A-level comprehensive ability and A+ level potential.

Such a young man, as long as he is trusted, will soon become the backbone of the team.

And Ward Prowse is from the youth training camp of Southampton. He is very popular with fans. Such a player with a good background is worth training.

Without Ward Prowse's knowledge, he has become one of the cornerstones of the team in Sun Yi's mind.

And Ward Prowse also gave Sun Yi enough confidence in Southampton's youth training system. He plans to find time to see the youth training team after dealing with the front-line affairs. See if he can bring up a few potential kids to train.

Ward Prowse is a player that Sun Yi is more impressed with.

Except for some bright situations, Sun Yi found that Southampton has a lot of problems on the front line.

The strength of the three current main forwards is disappointing.

The top forward is Gabiadini from Italy. The strength of this center forward is only A-level. He can't compare with Balotelli, who is also Italian.

And judging from the situation, the strength of this center forward is almost reaching the peak. His talent potential is not higher.

Such a striker is obviously difficult to satisfy Sun Yi. What makes Sun Yi speechless is that this guy has just been here for a short time. There is no way to sell him.

Another striker is Charlie Austin. He is a high center forward, but he is also only A-level. This older striker has no potential at all.

The third one is also a center forward, named Sean Long. His strength is also A-level.

Apart from these three, there are no better strikers in Southampton. There are younger ones, but they are not yet worthy of reuse.

Such a striker of Southampton is really disappointing to Sun Yi. It can't be compared with Nice. Even without Salah, Nice's striker strength is still higher than Southampton.

In terms of midfield, Southampton's strength is not bad. In addition to Ward Prowse, there are several other capable players who can be used.

For example, Raymond, who was also born in 1994, is a bearded player. Although his strength is also only A-level, he is better than Prowse. And his talent potential is also A-level. Judging from the situation, it seems that it will not be too far to break through to A-level.

The core of Southampton's organization is Dusan Tadic from Serbia. Although this player is only A-level, he is at the peak of his career. He can still be used.

In addition, there is still a player who is said to be the main player last season, Boufal. He also has A-level strength.

The main midfielders of Southampton are basically at A-level. This strength is not inferior to that of Nice.

However, Southampton's defense line is very satisfactory to Sun Yi.

Speaking of the goalkeeper alone, the main goalkeeper Fraser Foster actually has the comprehensive strength of A-level.

The goalkeeper's situation is really a big surprise to Sun Yi. This is much better than Nice's goalkeeper, who is only at level B at best.

The defense line also gave Sun Yi constant surprises.

Among the main defenders, many are above level A-.

Like the side defenders Cedric and Bertrand, they are both strong defenders with comprehensive ability reaching level A.

And this is not the strongest. The strongest is a central defender named Van Dijk, whose comprehensive ability has reached level A+. What surprised Sun Yi even more was that Van Dijk had not reached his upper limit. He has S-level talent potential.

Although the S-level talent potential cannot be compared with the S level, it is also very amazing. This is also very rare.

In addition to these three more powerful ones, there is also a young defender named Jack Stephens who is very much expected by Sun Yi.

Although Stephens is only at level B+ at present, he also has A-level talent potential. And this player, who was also born in 1994, also came from the youth training system of Southampton.

In addition to these defenders who made Sun Yi's eyes shine, there is another defender in the team that surprised Sun Yi.

It was not the strength or potential of this defender that surprised Sun Yi, but the identity of this defender, who was actually from Japan. His name was Maya Yoshida.

Sun Yi was really surprised to see an East Asian face in his own team.

Yoshida Maya's strength also surprised Sun Yi, who actually has A-level strength. This strength is not outstanding in Europe, but it is not easy for an East Asian player to have this strength.

This at least shows that as long as the youth training is done properly, East Asians can fully reach the level of Europeans and Americans. The Japanese can produce such players. As long as China really does a good job in youth training, it will definitely produce more good players with this strength in the future. Even stronger and better players.

But thinking of this, Sun Yi felt a little uncomfortable. Judging from the current situation of Chinese football, he may only envy Japanese football for a long time.

However, Sun Yi only sighed and put away this emotion. Although Yoshida Maya is Japanese, Sun Yi will not treat him differently.

Looking at the entire Southampton team. Sun Yi found that Southampton and Nice are completely opposite.

Nice is strong in attack and weak in defense, while Southampton is strong in defense and weak in attack.

As for Southampton's defense line, Sun Yi believes that it is very enviable in the Premier League. With such a strong back line, I can't say they can win, but at least the back line will be very stable.

As for Southampton's situation, Sun Yi knew that his next main task would be to recruit forwards.