British sports media will pay attention to every Premier League team, but in comparison, the giants receive more attention than ordinary small balls.

As a newly promoted player, Millwall is always given a prefix when mentioned - "the first time in history to enter the Premier League", fans' impression of Millwall will be, "This team is not strong", or "This team's goal will be relegation", or "It's good that they can relegate".

Then, there is no more.

During the pre-season preparation period, only some London media would pay attention to it occasionally, while other media would not pay attention to it at all.

There were also some reporters interviewing Millwall’s warm-up match. After the game, the Millwall Club held a press conference to summarize the matters related to the game and pre-season preparations. However, the number of reporters interviewed, including cameramen, assistants, etc., did not exceed 30 people, and a large part of them were small media.

Zhang Yang found that he still had to deal with the "London Regional Media", and he was really uninterested at all.

So the press conference became very official.

The match between Mirwall and Ipswich did not cause any trouble. In the eyes of more people, it is normal for Mirwall to win Ipswich in the warm-up match. The score is not surprising. If even a team of English Championship can't play, their English Championship will be too much.

Zhang Yang is very satisfied with the team's performance.

The problems revealed during the game still remain unchanged: the team's adaptation to new tactics has not yet reached the level of skill.

After the game ended, Zhang Yang only said one thing, "For some time in the future, until the season officially begins, our main task will be tactical training."

With ten days left before the start of the season, Millwall has not found any other opponents in the warm-up match. Zhang Yang discussed with the coaching team, and they all thought there was no need to find opponents. They had played against an amateur league team and a champion team in the Championship. If they found an opponent, they would have to find Premier League level.

That's not a good thing.

Few teams would want to play warm-up matches with their opponents in the same class because they are opponents themselves.

It is even more unnecessary to leave the English football range.

Millwall has no European competitions in the new season. All their opponents will be English clubs, which will give the team an experience in confronting other league teams, which is completely meaningless for the time being.

Next, the time schedule will be completely fixed when the new season officially begins.

Millwall just needs to prepare for training.

As the first round of the new season approaches day by day, Zhang Yang's heart has become more anticipated, and he has not forgotten a very important task: to add a killer weapon to the team.

What is the killer weapon?

That is the means to score goals with personal abilities.

Last season, when the team was weak in offense, Zhang Yang promoted David Livermore and asked him to train his long-range shooting ability to help the team score more goals.

That is a killer move, and Livermore's long shot will also make the opponent feel helpless.

Livermore's long-range shooting training relies on the ability of "Shi Ling Gua" that can "force the designated followers, and followers can obtain the designated ability of the Speech Spirit".

After Millwall won the league championship last season, the ability of "Shi Ling Gua" has been improved and the number of followers has increased by one.

Now you can specify another follower.

Before the season preparation training began, Zhang Yang considered the issue of followers. In fact, his choice range was not large, because the designation improvement effect was related to the trust of followers. He would definitely choose the old players on the team so that they would have greater trust in themselves.

Choosing Livermore before was actually a helplessness. At that time, few players on the team trusted themselves. For guys like Livermore who were stupid or marginal figures, as long as they gave him a little trust, he would repay more trust.

It's different now.

After more than half a season, as the team created a miraculous victory in the English Championship, many old players trusted their coaching abilities very much, so there were more options.

Zhang Yang chose two people, one was Jody Morris and the other was Josh Simpson.

“Which one should I choose?”

This is a difficult question to make a decision.

Jody Morris's strength lies in his outstanding personal ability; Josh Simpson's strength lies in his youth.

In terms of technical strength, Josh Simpson is a little worse, but his speed is very fast and his "embroidered legs" are also good. Considering that he is less than nineteen years old, he can be said to be the first genius in Millwall's team.

Before Zhang Yang coached Millwall, Josh Simpson performed well, but he was only a substitute on the team like Curtis Weston.

Zhang Yang directly used him as the main force, because the original right forward Brenin was 34 years old and could not run at all.

The process of Josh Simpson being promoted to the main force was natural, and even Brenin did not object to it. After that, his performance was indeed quite outstanding, and he began to help the team score goals by the end of the season.

This season, Zhang Yang also used Simpson as the main force.

Josh Simpson's shortcomings are also obvious, that is, his personal ability is insufficient and his overall view is not very good. He is a little frivolous on the court. He suddenly got off the ball last season. He doesn't need to talk about his experience. He is less than nineteen years old and has only participated in a professional league for one season. It's strange if he has any experience.

Jody Morris is much better.

Morris is almost a perfect player. Even the media admits that "Morris cannot give up the main position to Smitchell". You can know how outstanding Morris is.

Morris is no worse than S Mitchell. He is five years younger and is at the peak of his career.

Zhang Yang thought carefully, but he didn't expect who to choose. He could only use the old method to call the two of them to ask. The person who was called that afternoon was Morris. Morris walked into the head coach's office with some confusion. Then he was asked a strange question, "Jody, I think you have a good talent for free kicks. How about you train more free kicks in the next period of time?"

"I have a talent for free kicks?"

Jody Morris looked full of doubt. He seemed to understand Zhang Yang's meaning, "Boss, there are indeed no free kickers on the team, but my level is not very good. In fact, I tried hard to train ten years ago. I remember that all England were saying 'David Beckham' at that time, but no matter how hard I tried, I didn't improve much."

"Yeah?"

Zhang Yang found that he could not "scam" Morris.

Morris' tone was quite certain, "I'm sure, the team needs a good free kick, but I think the new Vladimir (Smitchell) is very good. If there is a free kick in the future, he can play it!"

Zhang Yang didn't know what to say.

Morris was still talking to himself, "I can also play in some good positions, but whether I can score a goal depends on luck. Free kicks are not something I can do by just playing hard, it requires talent."

"Boss, you haven't been a professional player, you may not be very clear about it, but some things do require talent. There are not many good players in the world who play free kicks, and there are only a handful of them, such as..."

“…”

In the next five minutes, Zhang Yang kept listening to Morris' nagging, and his ears were so uncomfortable that he found himself "educated" by Morris, and finally he said powerlessly, "Okay, you go first, I'll think about it."

"Then I'll leave first."

Morris seemed to think that after a rare "education" coach, he suddenly felt very good. He even hummed a song in the corridor.

Zhang Yang hammered the table hard and vented, gritting his teeth, "It seems that it can only be Xiao Qiao (Josh Simpson)!"

This is Zhang Yang who obtained the "nickname" in private. There are too many players in the team who are pronounced "Joe". Jody, Joey, Josh, and Josh. According to age, it happens to be Big Joe, Middle Joe, and Xiao Qiao. But thinking about Simpson's appearance, combined with the nickname "Xiao Qiao", I feel the desire to vomit.

The next morning, the whole team gathered together.

After the team's name ended, Zhang Yang pulled Josh Simpson alone and said in a forced tone, "Xiao Qiao! That's all you!"

"What?"

Many people were stunned, "What the hell is Xiao Qiao?"

Zhang Yang quickly coughed lightly and said, "Josh, I'm calling you."

"Ah? Boss, what's the matter?"

"From today, you have to reach an hour early in the morning, practice an hour at night, and use two hours to train free kicks." Zhang Yang put on a stunning attitude, "I found that you have a talent for free kicks. In the future, you will definitely be better than Beckham in free kicks. Our set-pieces depend on you, and you will definitely become the leader of England's free kicks in the future, and you will be Beckham's successor, and you will be even better than him!"

Zhang Yang said and cooperated to give him a thumbs up.

Everyone else was stunned.

Beckham's successor, Josh Simpson, also played a right-back, is not an exaggeration to say this, but the premise is that Simpson can become famous, such as first scoring ten and eight goals in the Premier League?

The next moment, many people laughed, and their focus was on "move one hour in the afternoon".

"Josh, no, Xiao Qiao, come on and work hard in the future! You are Beckham's successor!"

"Xiao Qiao, you are our hope!"

"England will count on you if it wins the World Cup!"

"Must work hard!"

“…”

Josh Simpson was almost crying, and he received two bad news: one was that he had to get up early in the future and went back an hour later in the afternoon; the other was that he had a nickname, what the hell is "Xiao Qiao"?

Many people on the team were laughing, thinking that this matter was very interesting, and they kept guessing, "Did Josh offend the boss?"

"It's very likely!"

Many people are thinking this way, and they think of Simpson's new girlfriend, "Will she have something to do with the boss?"

I also recalled what Simpson joked in the locker room, 'If my boss and I were walking on the street, passers-by would definitely regard him as my brother'. Could it be that the boss knew this?

The only person in the team who did not participate in the discussion was Livermore. He comforted Simpson instead, "The boss asked me to train for long shots. Look? My long shot ability has improved rapidly. Now the boss says that you have free kick talent, you should be happy. Maybe you will be better than Beckham in the future!"

This sentence made Simpson very pleased.

But when the training began, the words revealed by Jody Morris made Simpson feel cold. "The boss asked me yesterday and he asked me to train for free kicks, but how could I believe it so easily?" Morris said and looked at Simpson with pity, "It's a pity that you don't even have a chance to refute."
Chapter completed!