Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 115

Whether Anton remembers it or not, his performance last night was super-burning.

His bad friends who had formed a band with him in college sent congratulatory messages one after another, celebrating their Anton's return to form.The younger sister, Chloe, reposted these videos on Twitter, adding a series of exclamation marks and palm expressions, expressing her extreme admiration.

Even a scout from a music production company contacted Anton and asked him if he was interested in joining——

Anton: ...No way!

Ronaldo has the habit of getting up early for training, and Spain is one hour earlier than England's time zone, so he sent Anton a private message around six o'clock: "For the first time, I feel unable to comment."

After a while, Ronaldo sent another message: "You should often release yourself like this!"

The words "release yourself" warmed Anton's heart.The eldest son in his family, he was used to responsibility and stress from a young age.During the preseason, the team's performance had ups and downs. Coupled with Bernard's incident, the pressure on him was actually a bit heavy, but after the commotion last night, Anton didn't remember much, but He was indeed refreshed at the moment, as if the pressure that had been accumulated for a long time had really been completely released.

——In the end, Ronaldo knows him best, no matter whether they are teammates or opponents.

In addition, Torres also came to greet Anton early in the morning: "Wow, it's amazing, Anton!"

"Seriously, you should come to Liverpool to see Lennon's hometown. This is the most rock city. I think it suits you very well!" things will be understood.

Still, Liverpool is worth a visit: Lennon's hometown, the birthplace of the Beatles, the mecca of rock 'n' roll.

"I will go, in September and next February, two times!" Anton was referring to Sunderland's away game against Liverpool and Everton. a mile.

"Okay, I'll wait for you!" Seeing that Anton didn't answer, Torres didn't say much.

Anton asked him with concern: "How is the team doing?"

Torres sent an emoji of "spreading hands".

It should be "hard to say" or "not so good".

Anton didn't ask any more questions.

But he is well aware of the state of this Liverpool team in reality.Liverpool played three pre-season games against Zurich Grasshoppers in Switzerland, Kaiserslautern and Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga. After three games, Liverpool had one draw and two losses.Hodgson, who has just taken office, has begun to be questioned.

Fortunately, there are still some small teams in the Europa League qualifiers that can be abused. Liverpool won Macedonia's Raportnic Football Club 4-0 and entered the group stage.Hodgson finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the doubts around him became quieter.

However, compared to the team's performance, the debt problem caused by the team's "dog-blood duo" is the real "timed|bomb|bomb". Liverpool will face huge repayment pressure in September and October. Unable to repay the loan, this old club may be sued by the bank and declare bankruptcy... Now Liverpool has reached the critical point of life and death, but many fans are still completely unaware, and they are eagerly looking forward to their team in the new season. Can fight a turnaround.

"Boss, boss, what are you thinking?" Ericsson asked Anton.

Only then did Anton wake up, and saw that everyone had already had breakfast, and both Macy and Eriksson had put all the used dishes into the dishwasher.

"I didn't think about anything... It's almost time, let's go! You two get in the car first, Eriksson will drive today!"

"Okay, boss!"

Eriksson has just obtained a British driver's license, and now he can drive a right-hand drive car.

And Messi still wholeheartedly rejects the right-hand drive car.

After everyone got into the car together, Eriksson concentrated on driving.

For some reason, Anton and Messi also talked about Liverpool.

"Boss, have you decided on your signing strategy?" Messi asked.Naturally, he asked about Liverpool in "Life in the Green". Messi was called up by the national team a while ago, and later he was preparing for the Community Shield, so he didn't take into account the progress in the simulator.

Eriksson at the front quietly raised his ears: what signing strategy?Are the summer windows closed?

Anton said: "It's decided, two youth training, and one transfer from the British Championship. It didn't cost much budget. So... I bought Mascherano back from Barcelona."

With a "wow" expression on his face, Messi opened his eyes wide, and turned to look at Anton: "Is there still such an operation?"

Eriksson, who was driving ahead, continued to be confused: He knew about Barcelona, ​​and he also knew about "Little Horse" Mascherano, but what did "buy it back" mean?

Anton quickly explained: "Christian, we are talking about a football simulation management game, so concentrate on driving!"

Then he explained to Messi: "I don't know how the simulator is set: but the transfer transaction in the simulator did not prevent reverse operations, and the player's worth is set according to the fair market price. I I made an offer to Barcelona, ​​and Barcelona somehow agreed..."

"Is the Barcelona coach also an NPC?" Messi asked.

"Yes, I checked it out." Anton replied.

Eriksson at the front: ... Oh!

"That must be a reverse Guashuai!" Messi concluded forcefully.

Isn't that reverse Guardiola?In reality, people buy Xiao Ma, but in the simulator, this one sells it instead, and the price has not increased!

Even Messi wanted to complain for Guardiola: Didn't it be agreed that all the NPCs in the simulator should be set to be extremely real?Gua Shuai...he is not like this!

"Otherwise, there would be no way to play this season." Anton sighed, saying sorry to Guardiola in his heart.He actually has a very special "signing" arrangement, but at this moment in front of Messi and Eriksson, Anton is not ashamed to say it.

"Gua Shuai seems to have an account in 'Green Life', and the level seems to be quite high!" Messi suddenly said.

Anton was taken aback: Guardiola's name was Josep and his nickname was Pep.According to the account allocation principle of "Green Life", he is either Player J or Player P.Before Anton bought Brother Pony back, he checked the two accounts and found that they were still empty and unregistered. That's why he played such a reverse operation... But now he suddenly heard that Guardiola also had an account?

Messi scratched the back of his head: "I don't know which player he is?"

Anton was very depressed. In the past, a player appeared and asked people to guess who the real player was through the code name.Now it is known that a real player has an account, making people guess what the player code is - but he still has no idea, there are still a few registered accounts in the simulator, he really doesn't know Guardiola will Which account is it.

It seems that he really has no talent at all when it comes to guessing vests.

Unexpectedly, Messi added another sentence at this time: "Did Gua Shuai come to watch the Community Shield match that day?"

Anton: ...?

Eriksson nodded repeatedly in the driver's seat: "Yes, yes, I saw it too."

Anton knocked on his seat and reminded again: "Concentrate on driving!"

But the shock brought to Anton by this news has not diminished. Guardiola came to Wembley Stadium to watch the game led by him in person?Come and watch him perfectly reproduce Barcelona's midfield and make Messi, a false No. 9, shine?

Anton's team can't play Barcelona's pass-and-control football, but this does not prevent Guardiola's tactics from giving Anton the greatest inspiration: this inspiration does not lie in the technical requirements of the players, or the specificity of certain players. It is not about the use of individual stars; it is about the entire system of the team, about the use of space.

At the moment Messi played in the Community Shield Cup, everyone thought that Sunderland would go directly to Messi after getting the ball and give everything to Messi.

However, after Anton watched Barcelona's games repeatedly and made a lot of calculations on these games, Anton came to the conclusion: Despite Messi's outstanding personal ability, he is still a member of the Barcelona system.With Barcelona's system, Messi can play better.

That's why Sunderland's performance in the Community Shield this time.

But Anton never thought that Gua Shuai would come to watch the team's game in person.At this moment, Anton can't help thinking about it. What would Gua Shuai think after watching that game?Do you feel like you're paying homage to him, or do you feel that the hero sees the same thing, that everyone has reached a consensus on how to use Messi?

Anton suddenly felt very annoyed: If he had known that Gua Shuai was at the scene, he should have found a chance to listen to the other party's opinion.Now this feeling is like finishing an exam paper and handing it in, and the graders read it silently, but they just don't give a grade.

It's really depressing!

Eriksson carefully drove the car to Guangming Academy and parked the car in the parking space.The habit of left-hand drive cars is still there, so Eriksson stopped the car close to the next car. The door on Anton's side could not be opened, so he had to move to Messi's side to get out of the car.

As soon as he got off the car, he heard Jiang Yueming's affectionate greeting in the distance: "Brother Lin——"

In addition to Jiang Yueming, the cameraman Qiao Lu also came, as well as a choreographer and an assistant.A total of four people stood guard at the gate of Guangming College.

Anton and the two boys around him turned their faces away together, Jiang Yueming's voice changed immediately, and he greeted Messi tremblingly: "Brother Mei!"

Messi didn't respond, he didn't know he was calling him.

——The surname is not "Mei".

Under the comfort of Anton's eyes, Jiang Yueming finally regained his composure, switched to English, put on a warm smile, and greeted the two respectively.

The two guys probably knew that this was a friend of the head coach, and they went up to shake hands with Jiang Yueming in a friendly manner.

An Dong introduced to the two: "This is a Chinese sports reporter I met in Lagos. They came to Sunderland to do a preview program about the new season of the Premier League."

Jiang Yueming's purpose of coming here was explained to Anton on the phone earlier.But Anton knew well that the Chinese reporting team came to Sunderland, probably not just wanting to do a simple season preview.

Under Jiang Yueming's call, the reporting team came to meet with An Dong and others.

Qiao Lu, a tall photographer, dressed quite formally in this workplace today, and didn't dare to wear a Barcelona jersey.He stepped forward to shake hands with Anton, but his eyes slipped to Messi who was beside Anton, and he said the wrong words: "Hello, Coach Anxi..."

Anxi = Anton + Messi.

Anton: ... Please, I don't teach basketball!