After the game, Xiao Ming was very proud to laugh - Look, there is nothing wrong with my rotation, right? At least I didn’t encounter any trouble in the league. In this game, the main players of Leiden East entered the game from the first minute, which proved that their adjustments were quite effective!

MacDonald and his assistant coaches were quite speechless. Obviously, Xiao Ming's approach was very wrong, and he was even just a fool, but the effect was quite good. After having a relatively large advantage in the league, it didn't matter if he lost a few points. After sending some substitutes, Leiden Oriental's advantage on the court was greatly reduced, forcing Leiden Oriental's original main players to use their best form in every game to win - from this perspective, Xiao Ming's original intention of starting a large rotation has already been achieved.

After getting used to exercising all their strength in every game, the main players of Leiden East can quickly enter the state no matter what the game is. Although this is not obvious now, they are moving towards Xiao Ming's ideal step by step.

"How is it? Everyone? Don't have any doubts now?" Xiao Ming said to the coaches proudly: "In the next game, we will continue to use this rotation tactic. Of course, we should not go too far, but at least we should let all players have a chance to play. Like last season, we sent a large number of substitutes when we had basically advanced. But how can we train players in such a pressure-free game? Let the substitutes quickly adapt to the atmosphere of the game, so that they can play in such a more important game. If the league confrontation is very fierce, I will only allow one or two substitutes to adapt to the atmosphere of the game at most, and the competition is not very strong now. It is definitely beneficial to let the substitutes receive training more."

McDonald and the others were completely convinced. Xiao Ming's obvious nonsense behavior can have such a good effect, so let's do it as he said... In fact, the biggest problem with this method is the players' psychology. Everyone wants to play more games, especially players who are indeed stronger than their competitors. If you let him sit on the bench, he will definitely not be happy, but Xiao Ming doesn't know what method he used to let the players accept his arrangement willingly. Like Pobosky, they are always chatting and laughing while sitting on the bench, without any unhappy expression.

In fact, it is very simple to put it bluntly. Xiao Ming almost found them one by one and told the main players in a straightforward way that in order to allow the team to go further in the League Cup and the FA Cup, and to allow the team to maintain sufficient physical fitness and combat effectiveness in the two-line battles that may encounter in the second half of the season, he will reduce their appearances in the next game and let the substitutes share their pressure. In short, Xiao Ming also promises that in the more important League Cup and the FA Cup, they will definitely not lose their main position.

Open and honest publication often can have a good effect. At the same time, Leiden Oriental is not without benefits in the League Two. The main players such as Leiden Oriental basically do not have formal agents. Most of their so-called agents are mainly their families. Such agents may not be of high level, but they still think about the interests of the players themselves. They will not try every means to instigate players to play games, play the main position, and increase their salary... In addition, the media will not pay too much attention to Leiden Oriental, and there are no miscellaneous things, so after Xiao Ming told them straight to the point, these main players did not have much opinion when they sat on the bench or even the stands.

After getting the main players, the substitutes will be much easier - they didn't have many opportunities to play, but now they have increased a lot of opportunities to play in vain. How could they agree with Xiao Ming's move?

This will naturally have hidden dangers, that is, will substitutes ask for more opportunities after getting enough opportunities to play - people are always lacking, but the gap in strength between Leiden Oriental's main lineup and substitute lineup is indeed quite large, and there is no fear of such a thing happening for the time being.

In the next few months, fans of Leiden Oriental were immersed in great joy. Although Leiden Oriental's lineup was always not particularly stable in the league, there were three or four substitute players appearing in each game. Such a move would fluctuate to a certain extent, but Leiden Oriental's advantage in the league was still huge. After only twenty-four rounds, Leiden Oriental ranked first in the points list with an outstanding record of 19 wins, four draws and one loss, leaving Svendon, who ranked second, with more than seven points!

Just halfway through the schedule, Leiden Oriental already has such a huge advantage. Leiden Oriental fans have had an extremely happy Christmas.

In the League Cup, Leiden Oriental also made great progress. Since eliminating West Ham United in two rounds in the second round, Leiden Oriental defeated Grisby City three-to-one at home in the third round. In the fourth round, they went to Coventry in the central part to challenge the second Premier League team they encountered this season.

This game is also of special significance to the old goalkeeper Hilton. In his career, his last stop before coming to Leiden East was in Coventry. Although he did not stay in this team for a long time and did not achieve particularly outstanding honors, he still had a deep relationship as a team that almost ended his career here.

However, due to the deep feelings, Hilton still performed very well in the game, saving two extremely threatening direct free kicks from two Scottish free kicks by Coventry, Ian Jace and Gary McCaulist, who kept the goal safe.

With no worries about the back defense, Leiden Oriental's offensive ability was fully demonstrated. Stam, who assisted forward, scored a header in front of the goal and broke the deadlock. Solskjaer expanded the score shortly after the start of the second half. Although Dabring, who once played for Manchester United, scored a point, he still could not stop Leiden Oriental from taking away this precious victory at the Heyfield Road Stadium!

Last season, Leiden Oriental stopped in the fourth round of the League Cup. This result is already the best result that Leiden Oriental has achieved in this cup since the launch of the League Cup. This victory has allowed Leiden Oriental to break its club record and enter the quarterfinals of the League Cup for the first time!

The only trouble comes from the post-match.

Before the end of the game, Hilton flew over and saved McCallister with a very accurate free kick. Although he saved the opponent's shot, Hilton, who could not hold back the momentum, hit the post hard and had a fractured shoulder. After Colin Levine's emergency treatment, it would not be a big deal, but he would have to rest for at least two months.

Leiden Oriental's first crisis this season has quietly arrived...

Peter Hilton is the most accomplished and oldest player among Leiden East. Although he is 46 years old this year, he is still able to play games, he is already on the verge of retiring. Even if there are not many players who are ten years younger than him, they are still playing football. Although the special goalkeeper position allows him to show considerable strength, after all, he is so old that he may retire at any time.

However, Xiao Ming was not in a hurry to find Hilton's substitute. First of all, excellent goalkeepers are not easy to find. Although Hilton is old, his experience, judgment and eyesight are still not comparable to ordinary goalkeepers. Xiao Ming is not willing to find a goalkeeper to replace Hilton. He originally planned to buy Cudicini, but before the start of this season, Cudicini was still playing a substitute in AC Milan, and has not reached the point of playing the main player in the Serie C League. I guess he can't dig, so Xiao Ming planned to wait until Cudicini left AC Milan next year before attacking this future Chelsea goalkeeper, but this emergency caught Xiao Ming off guard.

The forty-six-year-old Hilton is the most indispensable figure in Leiden Oriental. In the past one and a half seasons, Hilton has played almost all the games, but only after advancing early last season, the second goalkeeper Cardville played several games. Now Hilton has to rest for two months. Even if he is injured, he probably won’t continue his career. It’s no exaggeration to say that as soon as Hilton was injured, Leiden Oriental immediately encountered a goal desertion!

This Christmas, Xiao Ming is destined to be restless.

On the day Hilton was injured, Xiao Ming immediately gave the team's chief scout Ronnie Gale an instruction - filtered the goalkeepers of all first-team teams in the Premier League One teams, evaluated the players who might be bought by Leiden Oriental, and then gave them to Xiao Ming for review.

Xiao Ming himself did not have the energy to find the goalkeepers who might buy them and he liked them one by one. However, after Gale, a scout with a very good vision, he could also find out if there was a familiar name in it. If he really couldn't find it, he would probably have to travel to Italy. I don't know if Cudicini was willing to come to a League Two team after being an iron bench in AC Milan for a year and a half...

Xiao Ming gave Gael three days. Although the time is very tight now, Xiao Ming is not too anxious. There are still four days before Christmas. After Christmas, five consecutive games are in the League Two. It is still okay to use Cardwell for a while. Even if you lose a few points, it is no big deal. However, the fifth round of the League Cup will start on January 8th. There is also a away game to challenge the League One team Reading in the first round of the FA Cup. If the new goalkeeper cannot be allowed to practice with the team for a period of time before that, he may not be able to enter the semi-finals. After all, the goalkeeper position is too special. Is there a good goalkeeper who can even determine the performance of a team!

Gale is quite efficient. He only took one day to pick out seven or eight players that he thought Leiden Oriental might buy, including Manchester United's third goalkeeper Pikinton, Arsenal's third goalkeeper Batram, and Chelsea's Northern Ireland goalkeeper Korgan...

Looking at these names, Xiao Ming kept shaking his head. He had never even heard of these people. He probably was a player who had just been drawn from the reserve team. He really didn't dare to use such goalkeepers. Instead of loaning them over, it would be better to use Cardville, at least it would be thoughtful.

Just as he was about to turn to the last name, Xiao Ming began to feel a little desperate and planned to go to Italy tomorrow. However, when he opened the last piece of paper, a name jumped into his eyes - Sai Jiwen!

Another leader in the Irish national team in the future, he has played for more than ten seasons in Newcastle and played more than two hundred games! Xiao Ming clearly knows Jiwen's ability. He came to England at the age of 18. Although his reputation in the world is not particularly great, he is a standard and powerful goalkeeper. Such goalkeepers are almost the best choice besides Buffon, Cesar, Casillas, Cech and other top-notch goalkeepers.

Now, it seems that Jiwen has been transferring to Blackburn for more than two years, but he has not even gained a chance to play in Blackburn. Because another outstanding goalkeeper, Flowers, has occupied the main position, the goalkeeper who is just 19 years old, has no chance to play at all. He was loaned to the English League Two for three months. However, in those three months, Leiden East did not play with Svendon, and Xiao Ming did not notice this.

Since Jiwen has just returned to Blackburn after being loaned, it proves that Blackburn does not attach much importance to Jiwen. Just at this time, Hilton was injured again. If you don’t take advantage of this time, when will the second captain of the Irish national team be obtained in the future?

After deciding on the candidate, Xiao Ming immediately asked the transfer department staff to send a letter to Blackburn to ask about the possibility of Jiwen's transfer. After all, Blackburn's main goalkeeper Flowers is only 28 years old now. As the third goalkeeper of the England national team, Blackburn cannot let Jiwen, who is only nineteen years old, replace him.

Blackburn responded quickly - renting is OK, not selling!

Xiao Ming's first round offer was 300,000 pounds, which was quite good for a goalkeeper, but Blackburn still rejected Xiao Ming's offer. After hearing the news, Xiao Ming threw a cup in the office.

"Damn, do you look down on us?" Xiao Ming thought fiercely, and then he called Coft and asked him how much working capital there is left in the club now.

"About one million and three million." Kaft looked at Xiao Ming with a painful face. He knew that Xiao Ming wanted to buy someone now...

"Increase the offer to Blackburn to 500,000." Xiao Ming said after gritting his teeth.

Kaft went out as if he had lost his parents. Although he didn't spend his money, he still felt a pain - this is a necessary quality for an excellent accounting staff.

Blackburn refused this time, but there were already signs of softening: "Jiwen is our reserve for the future. If there is no sufficient reason, we will not give up ownership of him."

"Seven hundred thousand!"

Xiao Ming raised his offer for the third time. This time Blackburn finally agreed to Xiao Ming discuss personal treatment with the players, but the next day, Xiao Ming, who was full of longing, suffered a cruel blow.

"Jiwen is unwilling to transfer to a League Two club."
Chapter completed!