July 10th is the beginning of the pre-season training camp in Leiden Oriental.

Although it seems a bit early, the Premier League this season started about a week earlier than usual. The reason is that in order to give national teams enough time to prepare for the World Cup, the start of major leagues this season was one week earlier. Correspondingly, the time for the League One game was naturally advanced.

The first game of Leiden Oriental this season will be held on August 9th. If it weren't for training one month in advance, Leiden Oriental, which has many new players, will likely have to pay a few rounds of results to get the team together.

Goalkeepers: No. 1 Yussie Jaskleinen (22 years old, Finnish), No. 12 Paul Gerrard (24 years old, English), No. 22 John Mackenzie (22 years old, English)

Defenders: Daniel Sun (19, English), Sammy Hepia (23, Finnish), Japi Stam (25, Dutch), Ashley Otno (25, England), Anderton McCasey (25, England), Steve Finnan (21, Irish), Matthew Upson (18, England), Cahha Karaze (19, Georgian), Darren Perth (20, England)

Midfielder: Neil Lennon (26, Northern Ireland), No. 13 Michel Barack (20, German), No. 10 Attirio Lombardo (31, Italian), No. 16 Matt Holland (23, Irish), No. 7 Jozell Jinklaze (24, Georgian), No. 14 Danny Murphy (20, English), No. 19 Seth Johnson (18, English), No. 15 David Morrison (22, English), No. 17 Simon Davis (18, Welsh)

Forwards: Robbie Keane No. 18 (17, Irish), Jankoler No. 9 (24, Czech), Kevin Phillips No. 24, England), Stephen McGrady No. 20 (23, England)

The above is the last big roster of Leiden Oriental this season, with a total of 25 players. Compared to last season, there will be more fierce competition than last season, especially in the midfield and back line, nine guards and nine midfielders. Xiao Ming is used to using the 442 formation. Most of the players among them will have to work very hard to get the chance to play.

Now Leiden Oriental can be regarded as a standard multinational force. There are only twelve Englishmen in the team, less than half, three Irish, two Finns, two Georgians, one Dutch, one German, one Italian, one Czech, one Welsh, and one Northern Ireland - this is the players of Leiden Oriental in the new season.

But it's pretty good that Stam, Barack, Jankoler and Jinklaze have been in the UK for quite some time. Their English level is not bad, at least there is no problem communicating with others. Keane, Holland, Finnan, Davis and Lennon, etc., Irish, Welsh, and Northern Irelanders, wouldn't have any problems in communication. Hypia and Yass Clanin knew each other, and they wouldn't feel lonely in the club. Xiao Ming specially helped them hire a tutor to teach them English. I believe that it would be fine if they could understand tactical arrangements in the future. Karaze had his predecessor, Jinklaze, and there would be no problem with him. Lombardo is an experienced veteran. He has been in London for a while and has been working hard to learn English. Although he still needs an interpreter to help, no one has any opinions with his fame.

After Huckby left, the number ten he left was worn on Lombardo, and everyone was convinced. After all, Lombardo is the most famous player in the team now, and Lombardo, who has a good temper, soon became familiar with his teammates. Two young players like Davis and Murphy who play in the same position as Lombardo have followed Lombardo and started calling out in a short time. After all, for young players like them, Lombardo's experience is a very valuable asset.

The two Finns also left a deep impression on the other players. Jass Kleinen's reaction to close-range shot made Paul Gerrard feel inferior. He knew that he might have a chance to play as the main player after he knew that Given had left, but Jass Kleinen, a goalkeeper who was only 100,000 pounds, showed better abilities.

After seeing Jasquelenen miraculously save Yankoler's header from close range in training, Gerald was surprised to say to third goalkeeper Mackenzie: "Are you sure he is worth 100,000 pounds? Isn't it a million pounds?"

Mackenzie could only shrug his shoulders. He was just the third goalkeeper, and Gerald might still have a chance to play, and he was just a backup candidate...

Hypia showed his outstanding ability in bounce and positioning. After seeing his performance, even the most harsh people had to admire Xiao Ming for his business. When Brin left, he was worth at least two million pounds. Hypia was 500,000 yuan cheaper than him, but his strength seemed to be much better.

Karaze showed his comprehensiveness in training. He can play center back and left back, and even left forwards can play. His arrival made Upson feel threatened. Upson has similar characteristics to him, but Karaze can play one more position than him...

Finnan's steady defense and Keane's speed and skills also left a deep impression on the old players.

This season, the competition for the main lineup is unprecedentedly fierce, but the improvement of the team's overall strength has also made all the players secretly happy. With its current strength, entering the Premier League should not be too difficult, right? The teams relegated last season were Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough. Although their strength is not bad, as long as Leiden Oriental plays its level in the Cup last season, no one can become their competitor.

Ten days after training at the Leicester training base, Leiden Oriental ushered in its first warm-up match of the season, and its opponent was Leiden Oriental Friendly Club, Tottenham Hotspur, who is also in London.

The relationship between Tottenham and Leiden Oriental has always been good. In the past, Leiden Oriental was often able to loan some young players from Tottenham. However, with Leiden Oriental's outstanding performance in recent years and Xiao Ming's change in the team-building policy, Leiden Oriental has never loaned Tottenham players except Carl. Tottenham also was a little dissatisfied because Leiden Oriental did not sell Solskjaer and Pobosky to them. However, at that time, Tottenham was indeed unable to compete with Manchester United. Their funds were not very strong, and Solskjaer and Pobosky were more willing to go to Manchester United, so the friendship between the two sides did not break down.

Before the start of the league, Leiden Oriental will play two friendly matches with Tottenham Hotspur. The first game was played at the Forrest Stadium in Leiden Oriental, and the other game was played at the White Hart Lane, Tottenham. In addition, Leiden Oriental also contacted two warm-up matches, one was Walthamstowe United, which shared the stadium, and the other was another team in London. Fulham, who is now playing in the English League Two. They just advanced to the English League Two last season. Although they have the first foreign boss of the English team (Xiao Ming’s current nationality is in the United Kingdom), Egyptian Fayed, it seems that it will take a long time to become the team in the Premier League.

These four warm-up matches are quite targeted. Tottenham is a strong team in the Premier League. Their two rounds can be tested regardless of the outcome of the current team, Leiden Oriental. The match with the local team Walthamsto United is to thank them for giving up their home court to use Leiden Oriental together. As for the match against Fulham... it is to allow the team to increase confidence before the start of the league.

"Well, although this is a stadium owned by the Walthamsto Regional District Government, looking at this locker room is not as good as our previous home court."

Standing in the locker room at Forrest Stadium, Xiao Ming looked at the decoration in the locker room with a slightly picky look, then turned around and smiled and said to all the players.

The old players laughed knowingly. Although the new players didn't know what the locker room on Brisbane Road looked like before, they couldn't help but nod at the same time when they saw the simple and slightly dilapidated locker room.

"I'm sorry for you. I'll play football in such a stadium in the next season." Xiao Ming found a place to sit down and smiled relaxedly: "But it only takes one year of patience. At this time next year, we will play at the brand new Brisbane Road Stadium, which will be a stadium that can accommodate 30,000 people. We will also have the most modern locker room and enjoy a perfect life that most Premier League teams cannot enjoy."

Xiao Ming's words made the players excited. What do professional players need? In addition to income and honor, being able to play in a fanatical and well-equipped home court is also an extremely important factor!

Next, Xiao Ming changed his mind: "But everyone has to cheer on this season. If we are still playing in the League One next season at such a good home court, it would be a bit embarrassing... We suffered an undue defeat last season. This season, we will take back all the losses!"

He pointed his fingers one by one: "Nottingham Forest, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Royal Garden Rangers, Manchester City... These are the strong teams in the League One, but we are also strong teams now, so there is no doubt about this... What we have to do in the new season is to beat these strong teams one by one and then become the strongest team in the League One! Today's game will be an excellent opportunity to test our strength! In this game, Tottenham will send all the main players to compete with us. Tottenham was the tenth place in the Premier League last season, a standard mid-range team. This season they lost their number one striker Sheringham. Let's see what the Premier League team is at now!"

Xiao Ming's words aroused the heroic spirit in the hearts of the players. They waved their fists to give Tottenham a good look in the game. In fact, they also knew in their hearts that the two games with Tottenham were their excellent opportunities to show their strength. In the two most important warm-up matches before the start of the season, it is obviously the most important to show their strength beyond their competitors.

In the first half, Xiao Ming sent a lineup with goalkeeper Paul Gerard, defenders Finnan, Hepia, Stam and Daniel, midfielders Lennon, Barack, Jinklaze and Lombardo, and forwards were Jankoler and Phillips.

Tottenham has indeed sent all its main players. Although their number one star Sheringham has basically confirmed to transfer to Manchester United and has not appeared in the lineup of this game, the forward line composed of England forward Armstrong and Dutch forward Evonson, the midfielder composed of two veterans, Anderton and Fox, and the defense composed of Carl and Campbell are still full of stars.

Three of Leiden Oriental's starting lineup are new players. Although their strength will not be a problem, their cooperation with other players is still somewhat unfamiliar. For a period of time after the game began, Tottenham relied on its strong overall strength to suppress Leiden Oriental and continuously launched an attack through the two wings composed of Anderton and Fox.

In the 16th minute, Carl, who assisted forward, received Anderton's return pass and made a cross. Evosson's jump attracted the attention of Stam and Hypia. Armstrong seized the opportunity and shot and scored a goal first!

However, in the following game, Leiden East immediately launched a counterattack. Lombardo began to show his strength that matched his fame. After receiving the pass from Lenon, he threw away the opponent's defender and cleverly stuffed the ball into the penalty area. Phillips stretched out his foot in the chaos and stabbed the ball into the goal guarded by Walker.

After scoring this goal, the morale of the Leiden Oriental players was greatly boosted and they began to launch a counterattack amid the shouts of more than 10,000 Leiden Oriental fans, and relied on a personal breakthrough from Jin Klaze to overtake the score before the end of the first half!

This goal made the fans of Leiden East very excited, but after the second half, both sides began to make a large number of substitutions. Xiao Ming changed ten people in one breath. Except for Daniel returning to the right back position, all other players were replaced.

Goalkeeper Jass Kleinen, defender Daniel, Perth, Upson and Karazer, midfielder Johnson, Holland, Murphy, Davis, forward Keane and McGrady.

This lineup can be said to be a standard young lineup. The players are basically under 20 years old. The oldest Holland and McGrady are only 23 years old. In fact, the main lineup of Leiden Oriental is not very old. If it weren't for the two veterans Lenon and Lombardo, perhaps the average age of Leiden Oriental's main lineup would be under 23 years old.

Young players dare to fight and have sufficient physical fitness. This is their advantage, but not being calm enough and being easily excited is their shortcomings. It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming gave up the policy of infinite youth last season and introduced Lombardo, a veteran over 30, to gradually improve this point.

The talent and potential of this substitute lineup are unquestionable. These players are basically the top league players in the future, but they may not be able to perform like this now.

So although the young Leiden Oriental players relied on fighting and running shortly after the start of the second half, they were dragged the pace of the game into a slow situation by experienced Tottenham players. After defeating Leiden Oriental's three axes, they immediately launched a counterattack as Leiden Oriental's spirit was just set!

Two veteran strikers Rosendale and attacking midfielder Dozer scored two goals in a row, and took the opportunity to overtake the score!

Seeing this, Xiao Ming shook his head. Perth and Upson are still too young. The two young center-back partners still have too many flaws to allow the opponent to take advantage of. Johnson and Holland's protection at the front of the penalty area is not as good as Lenon and Barack. The overall defense has dropped by a level, and it is normal for this situation to occur.

But for young people, they are not afraid of failure. As long as they can learn lessons from failure, it is enough... and in terms of offense, this lineup will not be too bad...

Sure enough, five minutes later, three young offensive players teamed up to complete an excellent offense.

Johnson passed the ball to Davis in the midfield. After Davis forced a breakthrough on the wing, he passed the ball to Robbie Keane at the front of the penalty area. Just when the opponent's defender thought that this thin guy would pass the ball, he dunked the ball into the penalty area and then forced the ball to break through!

The Tottenham defender, caught off guard, was immediately thrown away by Keane for a meter or two!

Facing the goalkeeper who was attacking, Keane equalized the score with a light shot!

"Look at how he feels in front of the goal and how agility he shows! He is only seventeen years old, a genius! A standard genius!" McDonald was so excited that he couldn't even say clearly. He knew that if this goal appeared in the Super League, then Robbie Keane would immediately become famous overnight like David Beckham and Michael Irving, who had already scored a league goal last season!

"This genius was recommended by our chief scout Gael. It only cost us 100,000 pounds of compensation." Xiao Ming said with a smile, and then pointed to the court: "There are more than him in our team... These young people on the court are all geniuses, and they are all valuable wealth for our club in the future... But how to enable these geniuses to realize their potential requires us to carefully cultivate them."
Chapter completed!