Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

With their first ever Europa League victory, FC United were full of laughter on their way back to Manchester.

In addition to Barbosa, the Brazilian wears headphones and looks out the porthole expressionlessly, it has been three months since he came to the English team, at the beginning, whether in training or in the game, Barbosa was able to score some extremely high-quality shots, but I don't know why suddenly I couldn't find the feeling of scoring, shouldn't I really come to Europe?

Barbosa's question mark is getting bigger and bigger, he left Brazil for Europe last year to prove his strength on the biggest platform in the football world, but last season Inter Milan did not have a chance to play for the whole year, and came to Europe with a value of nearly 30 million euros, in exchange for only one goal.

Lu Wei sat quietly next to Barbosa, he also knew the reason why Barbosa would not score, in the history of this season, Barbosa was loaned to Benfica, Portugal and Brazil speak the same language, the football environment is also very similar, but Barbosa is still in bad form at Benfica, was returned to Inter in half a year, and returned to Santos in the winter of 18.

Returning to Santos, Barbosa immediately found his true self and fought in the Brazilian domestic league, although the team had an average record, but won the golden boot in the first season after returning home.

So what troubles Balbosa's goal may not be the environment, but the pressure brought by high-intensity games, and there is a Chinese idiom to describe him very appropriately, called bullying the soft and afraid of the hard.

How to manage such employees, Lu Wei has his own method.

Barbosa noticed the figure of the head coach and took off his headphones, but did not dare to look at Lu Wei and continued to silently look at the dark clouds outside the window.

Seeing Barbosa's appearance, Lu Wei was confident.

"Gabriel, there's nothing to see outside now, why don't you get some sleep, and you will have jet lag when you get off the plane back to Manchester."

"I can't sleep, head."

"Do you think that the environment in England is not as comfortable as Brazil, and Manchester is an industrial city, and it is not as comfortable as the sunshine and beaches of Brazil?"

Balbosa didn't speak, just nodded silently. Not only the environment, FC United has no Brazilians, no Portuguese speaking players, everything he has to rely on a portable translator in the team, the same is true during the game, Lu Wei's communication must be translated to understand, against the weak team is okay, but when it comes to key games and the need to strictly implement tactical deployment, Barbosa will be half a beat later than his teammates.

Lu Wei looked at the silent Barbosa, thinking that it is really difficult to adjust the players, Barbosa, who was born in 96, is only 21 years old now, and he is still a veritable young player, and there is still room for saving.

"Gabriel, do you think it's because you haven't been able to score because you're not playing in Brazil?"

Barbosa turned around, he did have this idea, and he had discussed it many times in private with his agent and family, but this was the first time he had heard it from the mouth of the team's coach, and it seemed that he might not really be suitable to play in Europe.

Watching the light in Barbosa's eyes gradually dim, Lu Wei's voice gradually became lower.

"Do you really think so? Do you know how many Brazilian players are in the Premier League right now? I'll tell you, including you, there are 14 players this season, and half of them are all strikers, do you know which teams these people are in? Except for Richarlison, who is a year younger than you, who is at Watford, the other strikers are all in Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool, all of them are teams that have won the Premier League, and I will choose to loan you because we are aiming for the Premier League title.

Barbosa slowly raised his head.

"If you really think so, I'm sorry, I would also think that you are a bitch, I am really disappointed, I didn't expect that the football kingdom Brazil would also cultivate such a bully striker, I thought everyone wanted to be Pele, Ronaldo, although Pele has never played in Europe, but that is the reason of the times, shouldn't the current Brazilian strikers be proud to be able to stand in Europe?" Hehe, the Olympic champion is no more than that.

"I'm not a bitch!"

Barbosa's eyes were bloodshot and he gritted his teeth in response.

"Isn't it? You look at what teams you scored in the game, can you name them? Have you scored a goal for AC Milan? Have you scored a Chelsea goal? Don't talk about these giants, even the goals of Burnley and Astana you can't break, what kind of Brazilian striker are you?

Barbosa was speechless, he felt that Lu Wei was wrong, but facts are facts, a striker who cannot score cannot gain a foothold in a big team.

Lu Wei looked at Barbosa's expression and knew that his fire was hot enough, and it was time to put the main course.

"Your inability to score is only temporary, I don't think you have seen your statistics in these games, in the last ten games, you have only played an average of 36 minutes per game, But there are 5.6 shots on goal, an average of 3.1 shots on target per game, this shot rate is very high, you can get a shot opportunity every seven or eight minutes, and every two shots can hit the target, you didn't score just bad luck, I don't believe in fate, I believe luck must be constantly hard work and persistence in exchange, I also hope you can have a little patience with yourself.

"And your movement, breakthrough and passing coordination are also the weapons that our team needs, the striker is not only able to score, but also a good striker who can create goals for the team, Gabriel, our team needs your strength, I hope you can help me."

Barbosa clenched his fists unconsciously, his eyes gradually became resolute, and he nodded heavily at the head coach.

"I'll try, head, and I'll prove it to you."

Lu Wei sat back in his position satisfied, giving chicken blood to employees is my strength, Barbosa has the ability and potential, but just came to Europe to participate in high-level competitions and has some lack of confidence in himself, and the best way to deal with people who are not confident is to coax.

Barbosa's actual average of shots per game is only 3.6, and the number of shots on target is only 1.3, and these statistics Barbosa usually does not pay attention, Lu Wei exaggerates the data, it is easy to slowly retrieve Barbosa's self-confidence, and the mentality is correct, all he needs now is a goal.