Chapter 10: Suppressing the Brazilian Gang
In Real Madrid's 4-2-3-1 formation, the easiest position to determine is the goalkeeper, and Casillas is the best choice.
Casillas's title will remain in Real Madrid for at least a few more years, which shows his strength.
Judging from the data of this season, Casillas is undoubtedly one of the best players in Real Madrid now.
Real Madrid goalkeeper has the world's best reaction ability and incredible saving ability. Unfortunately, due to his height, he is unstable in handling high balls, but this does not affect Casillas' status as the world's top goalkeeper.
Casillas will maintain this state until he gets older and his physical functions decline, causing his reaction ability to decline as well, at which time more weaknesses and shortcomings will begin to be exposed.
But this happened ten or eight years later.
On the right back side, Real Madrid has a total of five players, namely Salgado, Cicinho, Diogo, Ramos, and Arbeloa, a young player promoted from the second team.
There is no need to talk about Ramos, as Gao Shen positioned him as a central defender. Among the remaining four, Salgado is a bit old, Cicinho is slightly stronger than Salgado and is in his prime, but unfortunately he is a member of the Brazilian gang, and Diogo is the worst, and his future achievements will be relatively the lowest.
Gao Shen decided to reuse Arbeloa in this position.
Although Arbeloa is not well-known now and has always been in the second team, and is not liked by the first team at the age of 23, his strength is not weak. He is not only the captain of Real Madrid's second team, but also the captain of all previous Spanish national youth teams.
If Gao Shen remembers correctly, Arbeloa transferred from Real Madrid to Deportivo La Coruna in the summer of 2006. He only played for half a season before being bought to the Premier League by Liverpool at three times the price. Then they froze Messi and made him famous overnight.
From this we can see that Arbeloa's current strength is definitely not bad, he just lacks opportunities to show it.
Sometimes, that's just how it is with wealthy families and big companies.
They do not lack talent, but lack the soil to make good use of talent.
The same thing happened on the left side.
Carlos is almost 33 years old, and his condition has already declined obviously. His left side has always been the hardest hit area for Real Madrid's defense. The same is true for the left-back substitute Raul Bravo. The performance of the two on the left side is very unstable.
Under Carlo, Raul Bravo was even often arranged to play as a central defender, which shows how stretched Real Madrid's defense is.
But in this case, Felipe Luis was still placed in the second team.
This season, the Brazilian left-back has performed very well in the second team. Not only has he been present in every game, but he has also been good at both offense and defense.
Gao Shen still remembers that after he left Real Madrid in 2006, he was loaned to Deportivo La Coruna for two years. At first, head coach Caparros did not trust him and only let him serve as a substitute, but as the team's performance plummeted, Caparros was dismissed, and his successor Lotina entrusted Felipe Luis with an important task at the end of the season, and he also showed enough strength.
By the 2007-2008 season, Felipe Luis had firmly established himself as a starter on the left side of Deportivo La Coruña.
Like Arbeloa, this Brazilian left-back is not without ability, but just lacks opportunities to show it.
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As for central defender, Ramos will definitely occupy one of the positions.
He started out as a right-back and now occasionally plays as a left-back and a center-back, but Gao Shen knows that Ramos' future lies in the middle. Although his future is controversial, no one can deny that Ramos is one of the world's top center-backs, especially in terms of his personal defensive ability.
The key lies in the other center back.
Woodgate is very strong, with a height of 1.88 meters and excellent strength confrontation. These are Woodgate's advantages. From a technical point of view, he has almost no obvious weaknesses.
But he is injury prone.
Woodgate is not injured at the moment and is in pretty good shape, but he has huge hidden dangers and no one knows when he will get injured again.
This is fatal because the most important thing for the defense is stability.
As far as I can remember, Woodgate left Real Madrid in the summer of 2006. He put in a stunning performance in Middlesbrough in the Premier League from 2006 to 2007, proving his strength once again, but soon fell into injury again.
It can be said that as long as Woodgate is not injured, he is a world-class central defender, but he has too many injuries.
Helguera is also a veteran of Real Madrid. He started out as a defensive midfielder, but was transformed into a central defender by Bosque in 2000. He served as the central defender among the five defenders and helped Real Madrid win the Champions League in 2000 with their solid defense.
After that, Elguera has been hovering between center back and defensive midfielder, and his performance has been up and down.
Pavon, Ruben and Mejia are all from Real Madrid's youth training. Among them, Pavon is the most familiar. Zidane's policy of adding Pavon pushed him to the forefront, but it also showed Pavon's potential at that time.
But times have changed. Now, whether it is Paven, Ruben, or Messi, they all lack some maturity and have not met the expectations of the past.
Now it seems that the only ones who can be used are Woodgate and Elguera.
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Real Madrid has many midfielders, and many of them can play the defensive midfielder position, but the first person Gao Shen confirmed was Gravesen.
The Danish midfielder has good abilities. He played very well at Everton. Not only in defense, but also in organization and offense. It was because of this performance that he came to Real Madrid.
One of the important reasons why Gao Shen took a fancy to Gravesen was that he had deep conflicts with the Brazilian gang, especially Robinho.
This is actually normal.
Playing for Real Madrid, no defensive player in the midfield or backcourt would have a good impression of the superstar in the frontcourt, except Raul.
Robinho is a typical Brazilian genius, very self-centered, basically not involved in defense, and very sticky to the ball. Imagine if he dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and lost the ball, and he did not actively participate in the counterattack, resulting in the opponent's counterattack directly hitting the Real Madrid midfielder, who could accept it?
The conflict between the two sides has a long history. Gao Shen still clearly remembers that during Real Madrid's pre-season training in August 2006, Gravesen and Robinho had a big fight, which led to Gravesen being sold.
Gao Shen kept his distance from a genius like Robinho.
Facts have proved that geniuses who fight alone are about to be eliminated, and the future trend of football is teamwork.
Even a genius like Messi needs a team to shine.
This is also the reason why Gao Shen decided to suppress the Brazilian gang.
The enemy of my enemy is my teammate, and Gravesen is a player worth winning over.
Pablo Garcia has excellent defensive ability, but he needs further observation. Beckham can also play as a defensive midfielder. Although he is very close to the Brazilian gang, Gao Shen feels that he may not support the Brazilian gang in this matter.
Beckham has a very clear pursuit, and Gao Shen is confident that he can convince him.
Another one is Delared.
This young player is very well-rounded. He is 1.85 meters tall, has good physical confrontation, a diligent style, strong footwork and passing ability, a very good sense of the overall situation, and a sudden long-range shot from behind. He was later praised by Bosque as the best midfielder in Spain.
Of course, this praise is a bit exaggerated. At least compared with Harvey and others, he is still far inferior, but it is enough to prove Delared's strength and potential.
The only obstacle was his heart.
De La Red retired early because of heart problems. Gao Shen has asked Lucas to make arrangements and ask the team doctor to conduct a very detailed physical examination on De La Red, especially on his heart. I believe we will get the report soon.
For the attacking midfielder position, the most ideal candidate is definitely Zidane.
As he was able to lead the French team into the World Cup final this summer, there is no doubt that the aging Zidane has the ability to do so. More importantly, the French superstar understands the overall situation and knows how to advance and retreat, which is very rare.
With so many Real Madrid superstars, why did Florentino only bring Zidane with him when he returned to Real Madrid? Later, he focused on cultivating him and made him the head coach of Real Madrid. Was it just because of Zidane's football achievements?
Zidane has already announced that he will retire after the World Cup this summer, and Gao Shen believes that he certainly does not want to end his career in this way.
As long as you ask for it, there will definitely be an opportunity.
For the center position, Ronaldo is not considered for the time being. Raul, Negredo and Soldado are all candidates . There is also Cassano as a winger, who is also a smart player. If used well, the effect is very surprising.
Some other players, such as Adrian Martin, Jurado, Balboa, Barral and other young players, although they all performed well in the second team, but in Gao Shen's memory, he had never heard of any achievements of these players, so he did not include them in the plan.
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When he woke up, Gao Shen found that he had slept on the sofa all night.
He had been in the tactical library all night. When he woke up in the morning, not only did he remember clearly what happened in the library, he also felt full of energy, as if he had slept all night.
This is definitely a good treasure!
If nothing else, Gao Shen can continue studying when others are sleeping.
My mother no longer has to worry about me staying awake because I’m too obsessed with studying.
After quickly tidying up the house, Gao Shen went out to buy breakfast and bought two newspapers on the street.
It’s still AS and Marca.
Like yesterday's newspapers, today's AS and Marca are still focusing on Real Madrid's coaching change, and the focus is Gao Shen's remarks declaring war on the superstar at yesterday's press conference.
What surprised Gao Shen was that the reactions of the two major media outlets were so divisive.
There has always been a divisive debate over whether Real Madrid should purge its superstars, but Gao Shen has now openly raised the issue, which is the first time in the past few years. Reporters from both major newspapers have written articles in support, but some reporters believe that even if Real Madrid wants to purge its superstars, it should not be done by a rookie who has just graduated from campus.
But most media reporters still believe that Real Madrid’s problem is not the superstars, but how to make good use of them.
In fact, each view has its merits.
It’s like they are all superstars and can be killed with one blow?
Will Real Madrid be better if they send all the superstars away and support another wave of players to take over?
not necessarily!
Later, after Capello took office, he sent away so many superstars and brought in many talented players, but in the end, didn’t Beckham also rely on the team to survive in the second half?
Without Beckham, could Capello and his Real Madrid have won the championship that year?
You know, even when Beckham was banned by Capello and decided to move to the United States six months in advance, he still maintained his professionalism and helped Real Madrid finally reverse Barcelona and win the championship.
How many fans have completely changed their opinion of Beckham because of this season?
There is also Zidane. Judging from the way he plays football and what he does in the next few years, he is a very smart person who knows how to act, when to advance and when to retreat, and who can take the overall situation into consideration.
Gao Shen feels that among the foreign superstars, Zidane and Beckham are worth competing for.
Even if he couldn't get them to support him wholeheartedly, he must make them try their best on the court and implement the team's tactics, and he knew how to convince these two superstars.
They both have very strong desires and pursuits!
