Chapter 33

Fortunately, after waiting for another ten seconds, Mourinho fired the first ball towards Zhou Liran.

Zhou Liran stretched out his hand and slapped the football easily with the palm of his hand. He was a little happy, not because he saved the ball easily, but because although the coach was angry, he still didn't embarrass himself as soon as he came up. This was because he was preparing to give himself It’s increasing the difficulty little by little!

After ten goals, Zhou Liran's expression was still very indifferent, but he was very confused in his heart: Why hasn't the coach made it harder for him? Even if you warm up first to let yourself recover, it shouldn't take that long, right? Judging from how angry the coach was just now, it shouldn't be...

It should be faster. Maybe it's this ball. The angle of this ball is very tricky - hiss, the force of this ball is a bit weak, even though I pounced from the side. In the past, the football was shot out with just a little force, which did not increase the difficulty.

That's now? Increase the difficulty...huh? Is this the end? He didn't sweat at all.

Mourinho gasped and stopped, looked up at Zhou Liran, and said angrily: "Can't you do this? If you can't, can you throw the football away? Then why don't you do this in the game? Huh?"

Zhou Liran blinked. Blinking his eyes, he felt as if he understood something. He glanced at Mourinho and understood that this was definitely not the time to worry about whether the coach could do it or not.

Zhou Liran walked quickly to Mourinho, stretched out his hand to support Mourinho, and complained loudly: "Coach, it's really difficult to practice if there are only two of us. Without the caddy to help put the ball, our speed will be slow." I can't lift it up! It's such a waste of time to swing the ball by yourself!"

Listening to Mourinho's breathing gradually calming down, Zhou Liran calmly let go of his hand and continued: "Although everyone is usually there. I complain that the football ball server is not very useful, but I think the team can buy it and keep it. If we encounter a situation like today when everyone has left and there is no ball boy to help set the ball, then we can use this ball server To ensure the frequency of serving, in order to improve the efficiency of my throwing the ball, coach, what do you think?"

Mourinho rolled his eyes at Zhou Liran and said angrily: "The team has so many professional sparring partners, where is the need for this kind of useless? "The machine?"

When he heard Mourinho say this, Zhou Liran knew that he had just successfully resolved an invisible incident that might "make Mourinho lose face" - although he was not sure about Mourinho. He was not sure whether Neo was a face-loving person, and whether he would have some negative feelings towards him, the culprit who caused him to lose face, because he lost face.

Because he was not sure, Zhou Liran immediately chose to shift the conflict point of the matter and asked Mourinho to stop thinking about why all the footballs he shot just now were saved by him very easily - regardless of Mourinho, If Neo is that kind of person, there is absolutely nothing wrong with eliminating this situation in advance that may affect the relationship between the two.

Thinking of this, Zhou Liran continued to add fuel to the fire, "But if we encounter a situation like today again, then we don't need to put the ball on our own..."

Mourinho sighed and reached out to pat Zhou Liran's hand. Shoulder, "I'm too impatient. You can practice hard tomorrow."

"But I still want to continue practicing today..."

"Why do you continue to practice today? Why practice when everyone is gone? Now I know what you did before. What?" Mourinho glared at Zhou Liran, "Didn't you promise me two months ago that you would change it? Why did you act like this as soon as we played?" Huh

? , thinking that he had to find a reason for his habit of holding the football when he had to throw it.

If Mourinho could know the existence of the system, then this matter would be very easy to solve: these cute and lively football ladies have already been bound to a love relationship with me and are my most cherished girlfriends in this life. Of course I want to Hug them tightly, otherwise if I make these lovely football ladies sad, wouldn’t I become the biggest scumbag in the world?

Don't tell me this reason. It sounds like the same thing, but can you tell me this reason? No way! This reason cannot be said at all!

What to do? Tell the truth that you are afraid of pain? This is something I can say, but... I still have to pay attention to my speaking skills, otherwise I'm afraid I will become a weak and pain-shy man.

But what was he going to say? Said that he has disappointed Mourinho. He has only been able to grow up to the level where he can easily hold the football in his arms in only two months. If he wants to avoid being slapped in the face like today, he can only tell everyone Show that he also has an iron will in other parts of his body?

"Coach," Zhou Liran paused, raised his head and glanced at Mourinho quickly, then quickly lowered his head, "because it hurts too much to be hit in the face by a football."

No, he couldn't say that. He is not an adult, he is still a child, and it is understandable that children are afraid of pain.

"Although I have been very lucky not to be injured, as if I really have an iron face, but every time the football hits my face, it really hurts, because it hurts so much... So I thought about it if I got injured every time. If I can hug the football, I won't be hurt. I'm sorry, coach, I let you down."

Zhou Liran lowered his head and his voice gradually became less audible, but Mourinho still heard Zhou Liran's last words. Feel sorry.

It's so pitiful that Mourinho was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. If Zhou Liran was just his player, then he would not hesitate at this time and would definitely say bluntly: You have indeed disappointed me. Starting from tomorrow, you must train hard and get rid of this bad habit as soon as possible.

But Zhou Liran lived next door to his house for almost two months. At first, he drove him to Chelsea in the morning. Later, Zhou Liran went to the training camp by himself. When he came back in the evening, Maltide would call him over for dinner. He watched Zhou Liran with his own eyes every day. They are all making progress - this is why he was so angry before. He felt that Zhou Liran should not retain this bad habit under such training.

But he was afraid of pain... Mourinho didn't know how to deal with it, but now he had to speak, "You... why didn't you tell me earlier? You should have told me this kind of thing."

"I said. I got through it." Zhou Liran lowered his head and said helplessly: "The team doctors all knew about it before, but it was mainly because of me. I just thought it hurt, and I could just throw the football away. I didn’t want to ruin my good image by grinning and inhaling because it hurt too much, so I kept a straight face. In the end, maybe it was because I never said that it would hurt, and then everyone slowly forgot about it. It will hurt, just remember that I am some kind of Iron-faced Superman."

To be honest, if he was hit in the face by a football, but it would not hurt and it would not hurt, then Zhou Liran might be able to accept this calmly. It’s a nickname, after all, this title is completely genuine!

Oh, by the way, it seems that after Iron Mask, he never said a word about pain to the outside world.

What a shame! Sure enough, he was right to help cover up something before. He judged others by himself. He expected that Mourinho must be the same as him. He must have a good face, even if he may not say it or show it, but in his heart I definitely care a little bit.

"By the way, coach," Zhou Liran looked up at Mourinho, raising his chin slightly, obviously a little proud, "The number of times I've been hit in the face in the past two months has been reduced a lot compared to two months ago. The progress is just a little bit small, so this bad habit remains, but don’t worry, coach, I won’t be ashamed during the official game. I know that the team’s victory is the most important!

” Ao stood there for a long time and couldn't say a word. He touched Zhou Liran's head in silence and sighed softly. After a long time, he slowly said in a tone that seemed to have made some determination: "Let's go." , let’s go home first.”

There is nothing wrong with this. When Mourinho kept him to let him practice again, Zhou Liran had already guessed that he would have to take another ride when he went back today.

It’s not unusual to be driven home by Mourinho for dinner, because in the past two months, he would come over for dinner from time to time. Maltide welcomed Zhou Liran, who is good-looking, well-spoken, and very much his husband. A valued goalkeeper.

But when Zhou Liran got up to leave after dinner, Maltide said that he wanted Zhou Liran to stay overnight - which was a bit surprising.

This was a situation that had never happened before. Zhou Liran subconsciously glanced at Mourinho next to him, but the latter looked very calm and even raised his eyes to look back: What are you looking at me for?

"My house is next door, two steps away. Don't worry, nothing will happen to you." Zhou Liran rejected Maltide's kindness, "Besides, I accept the bed and will continue to train tomorrow. What if I don't get some rest?" Isn’t it over?”

“Then you can come over for dinner tomorrow morning, okay? Then you two will go together.” “ Huh

?”

What master and apprentice? When did this happen? Why didn't he know?

Although the unscrupulous media outside have long directly praised him as "Mourinho's personal disciple" because Mourinho drove him for a few days, the two parties actually did not take this matter to heart. , because what is false is false, Mourinho really took Zhou Liran to Chelsea along the way. As for the occasional meal at Mourinho's house in the future, it was entirely because of the gifts Zhou Liran gave him before and the reason why he bought some gifts from time to time.

It was hard for Mourinho to refuse, because Zhou Liran actually bought it for his mother and also bought it for Maltide. It wasn't anything expensive, just some novel gadgets. If Liz got tired of looking at them or didn't like them, they would become Holt's new toys.

Maltide did like Zhou Liran, a junior, but she had never said such a thing, so it was obvious - Zhou Liran silently turned to look at Mourinho.

"Go back to sleep quickly," Mourinho looked up at Zhou Liran with a calm face, "You have a lot to do tomorrow."

He didn't deny it, but he didn't admit it directly, tsk... What a disgusting adult~

Although he was full of complaints in his heart . , but Zhou Liran immediately acted in a very encouraged manner. When he lay on the sofa after taking a bath at night, the corners of his mouth did rise uncontrollably.

In other words, after so many years of reincarnation, he seemed to have finally seen an extremely bright light in his slightly gloomy life. Mourinho is a very particular person. He recognizes himself as his apprentice. No matter how much he grows in the future, he will always be able to play with Mourinho. He no longer has to worry about having no future. He is now Now I have someone I can rely on.

"Endrit Carter." Zhou Liran stared at the ceiling and whispered his current name.

People close to him always called him Ritter, people he didn't know well called him Endrit, and no one called him Zhou Liran, but in his heart, Zhou Liran didn't really see himself as Endrit Carter. How can it be so easy to forget a life of more than seventy years? Those memories that he deliberately forgot were not really forgotten, just because he didn't have so much time to recall the past.

But now, it seems that he has really begun to acknowledge Endrit Carter, and has really begun to accept this new self from his heart.

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Zhou Liran reached out to cover his eyes and sighed helplessly: This damn broken system, how could it ruin the atmosphere so much?

"I won't do it. Just give up and shut your mouth."

"If you suddenly speak again in the future, I will assume that you will give me a compensation reward!"

.........

After a dreamless night, my mood after waking up The good Zhou Liran always had a faint smile on his face when he came to the club, but after arriving at the team, Zhou Liran subconsciously put away his smile.

Calm, he must continue to remain calm!

The day after he officially became Mourinho's apprentice, Zhou Liran stood in front of everyone and was introduced to all Chelsea players by Mourinho.

"Endrit Carter, he will play football with you from now on."

After Mourinho said this, he stood aside with his arms folded, indicating that Zhou Liran could introduce himself to the Chelsea players.

"Endrit Carter," Zhou Liran introduced himself even more briefly than Mourinho said, "Nice to meet you all."

This process reminded Zhou Liran of when he transferred to another school in the third grade of junior high school, and the head teacher asked him to stand on it and introduce it. Own. It seems familiar, but after all, he is still different from before: he relied on grades in the past, but now he relies on football.

Ashley stood below and waved vigorously towards Zhou Liran. Zhou Liran looked over and nodded with a smile.

"Last season's record was not very satisfactory. We even lost the Premier League championship. This season, the first thing we have to do is to get back our Premier League championship."

Mourinho did not talk about the Champions League because it is far from the Champions League. There are still at least more than two months to go before the start, and the most important thing right now is the upcoming Premier League. These players have been wasting a vacation, and now they have just come back and need to practice hard to calm down.

After saying this, Mourinho directly announced that training would now begin. Ashley was about to take Zhou Liran to train with the team as an old man, but Zhou Liran was called over by Mourinho.

Then the Chelsea players discovered that Zhou Liran did not need to train with the team first, he trained alone! That's fine, after all, each of them has his own special training, but why is coach Mourinho staring at him and watching him train?

Coach, isn't he usually very busy? The assistant coaches are basically busy with training matters? Why was it that the coach was watching Zhou Liran's training when he arrived at Zhou Liran's place?

"Ashley, didn't you say that Endrit was also kept by the coach for training yesterday?" Glenn, the defender standing next to Ashley, couldn't help but asked: "Why are you staring at him again today? He was stared at yesterday Isn't the performance okay? "

"Well..." Ashley didn't know the reason, but his teammates asked him this. As a direct player of Mourinho in the team, Ashley naturally had to give a reason. "Perhaps it's because the coach has high expectations for him? Although in our opinion his performance is already very good, but in the coach's opinion it may not be enough?"

"That's it..." Glenn thought thoughtfully He nodded, "Then the coach thinks highly of him."

Glen Johnson, whose jersey number is No. 2, is a player in West Ham United's youth training system. He is the first player signed by Abramovich after joining the Blues. Before Mourinho came, he often started the game, but after Mourinho came to the Blues, he was unable to obtain a stable main position as before.

This is not because Mourinho excludes players who were signed before him, but because Mourinho pays great attention to defense. If Glenn performs poorly on the field or makes defensive mistakes, there is nothing to say about it. Mourinho will not use him in every game.

Glenn admitted that Mourinho is a good coach who can lead the team to achieve results, but in Glenn's heart, Mourinho is a bit too unkind and his demands on them are too strict.

However, because Mourinho has the same strict requirements for every player, they can't go to Porto, where Mourinho coached before, for verification, so they can't see any difference.

But now the team has Zhou Liran. One look at Mourinho's attitude and it's clear that Zhou Liran is not the legendary direct disciple. Zhou Liran is now Mourinho's real disciple.

Not to mention Glenn, most Chelsea players want to see how Mourinho trains his disciple. The mood of a small number of players who often fail to get a starting position at Chelsea is even more subtle. They want to watch and join in the fun, but they can't help but have a lemon heart.

The client, Zhou Liran, who was being beaten by a football, was a little dazed by the football.

He was originally a little worried that after what he said yesterday, Mourinho would be scrupulous about his face hurting during training today, but Mourinho stood on the sidelines and asked for a professional assistant. The coach made things difficult for Zhou Liran, and in disguise, the assistant coach kicked the football that failed to hit Zhou Liran's face yesterday.

"When there are only three to four seconds between each football, if you try to successfully save the football, you will be hit in the face by the football," Mourinho stood next to Zhou Liran with his arms folded. "But I have a doubt. "

Tell me, coach."

Mourinho frowned and stared at Zhou Liran's face, "How did you practice before? Why did you make your head more flexible than your hands?" When the football flies over, your first reaction is to shake your head. When the football is in front of you, you raise your arms to pounce on the ball!

"If your first reaction is to wave your arms, then this time can be shortened further! . In official matches, the reaction time given to you by most players when shooting is not that short, so you have every chance of not letting the football hit you in the face!

"My first reaction after seeing the football was to shake my head? " Zhou Liran was also surprised, "Is that so?" I don’t know, coach, how can this situation be changed?

Mourinho pursed his lips, "If you don't know, then your problem should arise here. " In this way, I will ask your previous coach for your previous training videos, and then you will train with your teammates first. I have told assistant coach Alec the specific training content before, you can just go to him later. "

Zhou Liran nodded slightly, and while he was searching for Alec's figure on the court, he saw Coach Mourinho, who had turned away just now, turned back and took out a candy from his pocket.

" The training over there isn't over yet, so take a candy and wait for them. "

Coach..."

"Don't stop training. Become good as soon as possible, and you won't have to get hit by football." "

Mourinho came over and took a candy and left in a hurry. Zhou Liran was holding the glove in his right hand and holding a candy in his right hand.

After finding the trash can on the sidelines, Zhou Liran tore open the package with his teeth. , and then squeezed the candy into his mouth with his right hand.

The packaging on the candy seemed to be in Portuguese, so Zhou Liran didn’t know what the candy tasted like. He had guessed it might be fruit-flavored, but the candy reached his mouth. Later, Zhou Liran realized that it was actually a toffee

, well...it was quite sweet. After eating the candy, Zhou

Liran

put his gloves back on and found Alec to tell him about Mourinho. The coach asked him to train with his teammates in the coming time.

Alec agreed with a smile, and after Chelsea's collective training was over, he called over the four defenders named by Mourinho

. Ashley, No. 20 Paul, No. 6 Carvalho and No. 22 Ben Haim.

"The next cooperative training is like this..."

After Alec finished speaking, the staff on the side began to prepare. Work. The five of them stood together. Zhou Liran had a better relationship with Ashley. Paul had played football with Zhou Liran yesterday. Although he didn't like or dislike Zhou Liran, he did have to admit that there was something about Zhou Liran,

and the coach specifically pointed out the four of them . Come here personally - to be honest, Paul still has some secret expectations in his heart.

He is a Portuguese. After being brought to Chelsea by Mourinho, he has been on the decline. From the beginning of the main force to the current bench, he has been on the decline. It only took one season, but Paul never gave up and continued to train hard to improve himself, from right back to left back and even center back - in short, Paul is now the team's first choice as a defender,

but he still has it in his heart. He wanted to return to the main player position, so when

he was called over at this moment and found that the remaining three people were Ashley, Carvalho and Ben Haim, he was very excited. A direct descendant of Neo, he was brought to Chelsea from Porto by Mourinho and broke Chelsea

's defender transfer fee record that year. Ben Haim, an Israeli international, moved to Chelsea as a free agent last month . Mourinho had been thinking about the defender he wanted to sign last season.

However, compared to Ashley's warm greeting, Paul was reserved and reserved. Although the remaining two people, Carvalho and Ben Haim, did not show off. But he did look at Zhou Liran expressionlessly, and then looked away silently: He is so handsome, haha.

Ashley coughed slightly and broke the strange calm between them, "Well, there." Special, I just saw you standing on the sidelines eating candy again. Are you a little hypoglycemic? "

"It was given by the coach," Zhou Liran explained concisely. "He said that your training is not over yet, so he asked me to wait for you with a candy. "

Ashley blinked, and suddenly he didn't want to continue talking.

Paul, Carvalho and Ben Haim also cast strange looks at Zhou Liran.

Zhou Liran suppressed his smile and looked up to the sidelines . Staff members who are busy.

Building a good relationship with your future teammates also requires skills. You must make some of your own things clear when they are not familiar with them, so that they will not care about these special things when the relationship is good in the future. , because they know that you are like this at the beginning.

But if you lower your attitude and make friends with them at the beginning, you will only gain a group of friends who treat you as your uncle, even if you want to stand up again. , if you get used to being your uncle’s friend, you won’t be your friend anymore, and he will turn around and say that you are not good enough: Tsk tsk tsk, I have known for a long time that he is not good enough. Look at him like this now. I really think we are willing to follow him. What about treating him as a friend?

This is all based on his past life experience. If you force yourself to accommodate your so-called friends from the beginning, you will have to accommodate them in the future, and even more.

This is not about making friends, this is about finding a father for yourself. Anyway , when he broke up with a group of friends in his previous life, he said bluntly: You always think that you are my father, but my father died long ago ,

why are you still alive?

Of course, he paid the price in the end. For example, when he was lying in the hospital bed, the person who came to see him at the last moment was a volunteer from the body donation organization.

Fortunately, before the atmosphere between them became more awkward, they cooperated with the training. The preparations were finally done. Zhou Liran stood in the middle of the goal. Ashley, Paul, Carvalho and Ben Haim lined up in front of the small penalty area.

As Alec blew a whistle, he stood in front of the goal . The four staff members facing off against the four defenders outside the penalty area kicked the footballs at the four defenders, and several people easily saved the footballs.

When the whistle sounded again, the four footballs were kicked towards them . In the middle of the goal, the four defenders need to save the football before it rushes into the goal. If there is no time to save it, then Zhou Liran will save the football from the goal, and the defender who just failed to stop the football will have to save it in time. The biggest purpose of this whole

set of training is to get Zhou Liran and the four defenders familiar with each other, to familiarize the defenders with Zhou Liran's saving habits, and to allow the defenders to collect the football in time to prevent the opposing players from making follow-up shots.

Mourinho's purpose is definitely for Zhou Liran's growth, but several defenders cannot fail to take care of it, so there is now cooperative training.

Perhaps in order to express themselves in front of Zhou Liran, Ashley and the others showed their best performance in official games. They didn't let Zhou Liran touch the football in the first ten rounds.

However, as the opponent's shots became faster each time, by the eleventh round, Paul failed to stop the football again. Zhou Liran looked around, and after discovering that Paul missed the ball, he immediately accelerated his trot, stretched out his hand and swatted the football towards Paul.

Paul calmly unloaded the football with his feet and kicked it outside the penalty area - only when the football is kicked outside the penalty area, it is considered a successful clearance. In a formal game, if the football fails to be kicked outside the penalty area, the opponent player may successfully make up for it. Shoot.

Paul's missed ball seemed to be a clarion call for Zhou Liran to start to get in touch with football. After this time, as the staff shot more frequently and their physical strength continued to decline as time went on, the four defenders missed the ball. The number of times is increasing.

At the beginning, Zhou Liran could tell clearly which defender missed the ball, and then swatted the football toward whom. But later, several footballs flew towards him at the same time. Zhou Liran flew to save and was hit in the face by the football. He could not tell who missed the ball. Shooting all the footballs out of the goal was the limit of what he could do. .

The four defenders were in very complicated moods. After the ball was leaked at the beginning, they successfully offloaded the football shot by Zhou Liran, which could be regarded as preventing the opponent from making a follow-up shot. It cannot be regarded as a mistake. But as time went on, they began to miss the ball on both sides.

Even when the staff in front of them kicked the football over, they failed to prevent the ball from leaking. When Zhou Liran shot the football from behind, they didn't have time to remove the ball from the ball...

If there were not four defenders but one defender. , then maybe they won’t miss both sides, because if they lose this one, they will definitely focus on that one. But four people, four balls came from the front and behind at the same time, and they all turned into the kind of irregular balls that came from various angles. If the four people didn't directly collide with each other on the court, they were all touched. Cooperate with the light of tacit understanding.

The four people did not collide with each other, but there were many times when two defenders who were close to each other collided with each other because of the same ball.

Zhou Liran was hit in the face by a football in front of the goal, and the four people in front of him were also directly hit by the football flying in the air from time to time.

An hour passed. The four defenders were panting and wanted to end the training. But when they turned around, they saw Zhou Liran, who was already covered in grass clippings but still in high spirits and seemed like he could come back for a few more hours. He gritted his teeth and continued to persevere through the afternoon.

Two hours have passed. Even if I grit my teeth and encourage myself, even if my mind tells myself "I can still do it," my body has completely reached its limit. After hearing Alec's whistle to end the training, The four guards, whose bodies had begun to shake, all lay on their backs on the lawn.

The mind is empty and the eyes are dull.

Zhou Liran stood on tiptoes and passed by the four people. While taking off his gloves, he walked to Alec and asked, "Sir, do I have any other training in the morning?"

The caddy who was picking up the ball couldn't help but look up. He glanced at Zhou Liran, then turned to look at the four defenders lying there. The surprise in his eyes was about to overflow: Can you still do it? Do you still want to continue training? !

The caddy was surprised, but Alec had already heard Mourinho say it, so he didn't lose his composure at this time. He took out the schedule and took a look at it before saying: "Take a break for ten minutes, drink some water and eat something." , and then just practice throwing for another hour."

After explaining to Zhou Liran, Alec led several staff members to the four of them and asked them to help them get up and walk slowly.

When the four of them were sitting around drinking water and taking a rest, they saw Zhou Liran, who had been resting just now, standing on the court again for pounce training.

Ashley held the water bottle and stared at Zhou Liran for a while, then sighed forcefully, "I finally know why the coach only gave him candy."

Kava hummed slightly inaudibly.

Ashley turned to look at him, and Carvalho looked up and rolled his eyes, "What? I can't express my opinion?"

"Who knew that the coach would be so angry that he would take notice of him?"

Carvalho was too lazy to talk to this man. Then, he changed his posture and continued to watch Zhou Liran training.

Ben Haim sighed softly next to him, "Are all your Chelsea players so good? Then can I still be in the starting position?"

"No, no, no, no," Paul quickly denied, "You are not a thousand Don't compare us with him. If I were like him, would I still be a substitute?"

Ben Haim's eyes widened, "You are actually a substitute?"

Paul: ...

even though I know. What this means is that Paul is actually quite powerful, but...why can't he be happy at all?

In the afternoon, Alec once again ordered the new four defenders to do cooperative training with Zhou Liran. Because of the experiences of the four in the morning, the new four defenders gritted their back molars and expressed that they would not lose to the four in the morning. personal.

They did not squander their physical strength like the four people in the morning. Instead, they distributed their physical strength step by step and very reasonably. Then they lasted half an hour longer than the four people in the morning.

The four guys lying on the lawn thought they had won, but ten minutes later they felt as if they had lost again as they watched some guy go through his diving drills again.

"Is this kid's physical strength so good?"

"I asked someone I know from the youth training camp. His physical strength has always been very good. He has been practicing like this for the past six months. Didn't he also practice when we were on vacation? So? ..."

"Damn it, I shouldn't have been playing during the holidays!"

On the first day he officially joined Chelsea and became a member of Chelsea, Zhou Liran didn't know anyone else, but the entire club knew him.

.........

The next day, Zhou Liran got a strawberry-flavored candy after finishing a football training session.

In the afternoon, Mourinho called him to the office before he had time to go to training.

"Yesterday I watched the video of your previous and current games, and I found that you started saving like this in the past six months."

After sitting in Mourinho's office and drinking a cup of black tea, Zhou Liran silently sat next to Mourinho and stared in front of him. computer to watch.

"In last year's game, what was your order of saving? It was that you stretched out your arm before you saw the ball, and then you reached out to stop it when you saw the ball. But starting from half a year ago, you will watch football first. , he will not touch the ball until it is in front of him."

Mourinho actually didn't understand, because logically, doing so would reduce the saving efficiency, but since half a year ago, Zhou Liran has gradually grown into a player who often keeps zero sheets. The opponent's goalkeeper.

"It's strange. Before, you were not sure where football was going to end up, so you prepared in advance. But now you have determined where football is going to end up before you pounce on the ball. Although your performance has indeed improved, I have always been I don’t understand why your saving habits that have lasted for several years have changed.

“Theoretically, if you don’t change your saving order after you can tell where football ends, your current results should be better. Better. "

Zhou Liran was stunned when Mourinho was halfway through what he said. After he finished speaking, he covered his face in annoyance.

Mourinho didn't know why this change happened, but Zhou Liran knew it very well: His ability to accurately judge the foothold of football now was completely achieved by being hit in the face. At the beginning, he was hit hard. There is no image at all of his grinning teeth. In order to avoid being hit, he would not stare at the football first when making a save.

The habit of nearly four years had completely changed in less than half a year, and he hadn't noticed it at all. A football hit in the face, so terrifying.

"It seems you know what the reason is?" Mourinho breathed a sigh of relief and did not ask the reason. He just patted Zhou Liran's head lightly and said: "I'll give you a break this afternoon. Go back and think about it." If you want to change it, I'll give you up to two months, can you do it?"

Zhou Liran nodded vigorously.

"Okay, you sit down and rest for a while." Mourinho asked Zhou Liran to pour himself some water. "I'll call Mendes and ask him to take you back to rest."

"By the way, I'll tell you in advance. Say, tomorrow's game is important to you. "

Tomorrow's game is important to him?" Aren’t you going to play football with Suwon Samsung from that Bangzi country tomorrow? Isn’t Suwon Samsung better than the Mexican American team?

Zhou Liran's doubts were answered the next day when he saw today's playing list.

Chelsea's starting forwards: Sinclair, Shevchenko

Starting midfielders: Michael, Mikel, Ballack, Sedwell

Starting defenders: Paul, Hutcheson, Alex, Benhaim

This list looks mediocre. Nothing surprising, but if you take a closer look, you will find that most of the players here are substitute players!

During the last game, Shevchenko saw Mourinho bring out Lampard in the first game of the club friendship, and he secretly complained that this was a waste of time, but in this game Mourinho brought out this lineup. , Shevchenko's expression was very complicated.

Just... Anyway, it's hard to describe, and I have mixed feelings. Although I started this game, I'm not happy at all.

Of course, others did not have such complicated emotions as Shevchenko. They even looked at Zhou Liran with a little sympathy in their eyes: Although you are the coach's disciple and you eat the coach's candy every day, this candy Obviously it doesn’t taste good!

The game started with all the players in very complicated moods. The coach of the opposite Suwon Samsung almost lost his voice when he saw Chelsea's starting lineup.

But after the 90 minutes of the game, looking at the final score of 2:0, the head coach couldn't help but smile.

On the way back to China with a sad face, I heard that the domestic fans were already calling them trash: With Chelsea's terrible defensive lineup, you didn't even score a single goal! You were shamefully sent abroad! We in the Great Cold Kingdom don’t have players like you!

As for Chelsea, the players who thought Mourinho would put so much pressure on his disciples only when facing teams like Suwon Samsung found out that they were terribly wrong, because in the next four club friendly matches, The starting lineup in every game is basically the bench.

Shevchenko started every game and scored in every game, leaving Nightingale fans in tears late at night.

The outside media are rumoring that Mourinho bows to Abramovich and uses Sheva in every game.

Of course, the above are only a small part of the comments made in these games. The focus of most media and fans is that Mourinho really regards Zhou Liran as his only disciple!

The most important thing is that the media really asked it directly, and Mourinho nodded directly and admitted it!

"Yes, he is my disciple. I think with him here, I no longer have to worry about the team's defense. He will be the best goalkeeper. I have never doubted this."

Everyone knows Murry . Neo-crazy, but none of them expected Mourinho to say these words!

For a time, Zhou Liran was in the limelight. Reporters who wanted to interview him were lined up from England to France. However, the media rarely interviewed Zhou Liran because Mourinho took Zhou Liran to work and directly refused the interview for Zhou Liran: What's the matter? Just ask me questions. Ritter is training and doesn't have time to answer your questions.

Unable to interview Zhou Liran, the media went to interview other Chelsea players and asked them what they thought of Zhou Liran. What did they think of Mourinho attaching so much importance to Zhou Liran?

Regarding the previous question, all the Chelsea players thought for a long time and came up with one word: working too hard.

As for the last question - to be honest, after seeing Zhou Liran training every day in the team for the past month, they went from jealousy at the beginning to numbness at the end. When they hear this question now, they just want to ask: What a blessing. Give it to you, do you want it?