Chapter 43 Red Cloak

Raul Gonzalez is a little regretful now - if he retired one year late, he might be able to use the tenth European Championship Cup in the club's history as his gift for his retirement. Now he is the manager of Real Madrid Club, mainly responsible for communication between senior management and players. Many times he is still in the team, like a player in a suit.

When the team was training, he stood on the sidelines and watched with Coach Michelle. He did not express his opinion unless Michelle asked him.

But today he talked a little more.

"Michelle, tomorrow's game..." Raul frowned.

"Do you want to ask me how confident I am to win?" Michelle smiled. "I don't know."

"No, I'm worried that Nottingham Forest's playing style will just restrain the style we are good at." Raul shook his head gently.

When Michelle heard him say this, she was stunned for a moment, then said: "This is a problem... But Real Madrid's football is like this. No matter what kind of opponents we face, we always play in our style. Do you have any suggestions, Raul?"

Raul obviously had no good advice, so he shook his head and stopped talking.

"Our scouts have already brought out the latest information from the Forest team. They unexpectedly used the full attack tactic in the FA Cup final with Tottenham Hotspur in the first half. I think this may have something to do with us." Michelle was still talking to himself. He suddenly turned his head and looked at Raul, "Maybe Don wants to attack us at the Bernabeu."

Raul, who is focused on observing the team's training, was startled by his statement.

"Attack?" As soon as he said this, he laughed first. "This is crazy."

Yes, at the Bernabeu and Real Madrid, there are few teams in the world who dare to do this. Maybe Barcelona is one. But it is definitely not Nottingham Forest.

"I think it's unlikely... The characteristic of the Forest team is defensive counterattack. Coach Don Eun has always believed that the championship comes from defense. He cannot fight against us in such an important game, and the possibility of defensive counterattack is very high."

Michelle smiled as she watched Raul talk and said, "Why didn't you choose to be the head coach after you retire? Raul?"

"I?" When asked suddenly such a question, Raul didn't react at once, "I don't think I'm suitable to be a coach."

"It's not like being the head coach. You can be the youth training supervisor... If you want to do it, I can recommend it to Mr. Chairman."

"It's not the difference between head coach or coach." Raul thought about it before saying, "In Real Madrid, I think it's too tiring and difficult to be a coach..."

He didn't continue to say the following words, but Michel already knew what he was going to express. He nodded silently.

Raul came to the point. Although Michelle has played well in Real Madrid in recent years, he has always been subject to power checks and balances by the club's senior management. Although this is the tradition of most Spanish clubs, the head coach is subject to extremely high restrictions in teams like Real Madrid. He only has the right to suggest and not the right to decide when introducing and transferring players. There are too many factors to consider when buying a person for a club like Real Madrid, and the competitive level has become less important.

In the management of the locker room, the head coach's actions are also limited. The locker room factions are inevitable, but the Premier League coaches do better than them in this regard. Because the Premier League coach has absolute authority, the factions in the locker room cannot beat a head coach. The authority of the Premier League head coach comes from their football tradition and the support of the club's senior management. The players are in awe of the head coach like a group of children under the head coach's hands. The coaches in La Liga are a bit miserable. If they have a gap with a certain faction, then his authority here will be greatly challenged. In addition to the small movements behind the club's senior management, the head coach is a bag of wretched between the senior management and the players, and they are not pleased with both ends.

Michelle is doing well in Real Madrid now because he meets a good general manager - Bardano. Think about Mijatovic in the past. Being a head coach under him is simply a torture. Bardano knows that proper decentralization is good for the team, and he will not make many troubles on the head coach's transfer list. This is why Real Madrid's revival is a revival.

Otherwise, this team might even fall in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, which is really a laughing stock in the century.

Michelle and Raul both put these problems behind their heads. They don’t need to have such troubles now. Otherwise, they will not be able to reach the Champions League final. Tomorrow’s game is a good opportunity, a game to prove the value of Real Madrid to the world again, and an opportunity for Florentino to re-establish the Real Madrid Empire. Such games cannot be lost.

Don Eun will not have time to get involved in being the head coach with the people around him. He is taking the team to conduct tactical exercises on set pieces. Setting pieces are absolutely not neglected in important games. Don Eun expects to play against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu. The team will face great pressure. At that time, set pieces may be the key to knocking on the door of Real Madrid.

After all, there are free kick players like Gareth Bale in the team.

Chris Lark explained the players' cooperation in offensive set pieces on the court, and the coaching staff designed a number of set pieces tactics, hoping to come in handy in the game.

The team's training place is the Bernabeu Stadium, which can be considered as adapting to the field training.

The turf of the Bernabeu is better than that of the city stadium, but there is no obvious difference. And Don't guarantee that by the next day's game, the stadium workers will sprinkle too much water on it...

The reporters have been driven away by him, and the team's current training content must not be known to outsiders. For this reason, he also emphasized to the Bernabeu that he does not want the Bernabeu to have any equipment to take pictures of their training content. You must know that this is Real Madrid's home court after all. It is difficult to guarantee that Real Madrid will not use tricks. His repeated reminders and persistence also angered the Bernabeu staff. In their eyes, Don En did this to question their professional ethics... and Real Madrid is a club that attaches great importance to its reputation. They told Don En clearly: Real Madrid Club disdained to do such despicable things.

Only then did Tang En shamelessly give up his persistence.

This is really a typical villain's heart to judge a gentleman - I always do this at a city stadium, and there is no reason other clubs don't do this.

But in fact, Real Madrid did not put any cameras or send people to peep at the Bernabeu. As the staff said, the great Real Madrid disdained to use this despicable means to help the team win.

Tang Enke still kept looking into the stands. Searching for suspicious characters.

At the afternoon press conference, Don En was "sieged" by Spanish media.

The Spanish and English media are clearly divided into two factions. The Spanish media are keen to ask questions that embarrass Donn, such as: "The outside world is unanimously optimistic about Real Madrid's championship. Will you be affected by this prediction?"

For example: "The outside world criticizes Nottingham Forest football as conservative and utilitarian. Will you consider changing this situation?"

Spanish media have obviously studied Tony Don and knew that he was a irritable person and was unrestrained. So deliberately stimulating him can actually achieve miraculous effects and obtain some very gimmicked revelations.

But their research is not professional. They just want to stimulate Tang En, but forget that Tang En is not a hedgehog himself. When he was besieged, he curled up and defended himself. He is a cunning wolf. If you dare to provoke him, you should be ready to bear his anger.

Don Eun was very disdainful of the first question: "If the outside world is optimistic about Real Madrid, Real Madrid will definitely win the championship? Then don't play in this Champions League final, just let the outside world announce that Real Madrid has won the championship, okay?" Don Eun spread his hands and looked at the Spanish reporters coldly.

Such rhetorical questions embarrass the Spanish journalists.

As for the second question, Tang En pretended to be surprised: "Why should I change this situation? I can win the championship now, why should I give up the championship to satisfy the wishes of the outside world? I think... no one with a normal mind would make such a choice, right?"

When he said this, he stared at the reporter who asked the question with a smile, as if saying to him: "Only people with abnormal brains like you can ask such a mentally retarded question, Mr. Reporter."

The Spanish reporter's face turned red and white. Finally, he sat down angrily.

"But it doesn't necessarily mean you won't win the championship if you play beautifully, Mr. Tang En." Another reporter stood up.

How could this be a press conference? This is clearly the Champions League version of the verbal battles.

"I don't need to choose a more risky way to win the championship. Besides, in my opinion, playing well is equivalent to the runner-up. "Tang En deliberately wanted to upset the Spaniards who seemed a little arrogant because they took advantage of the home court.

Fortunately, Michelle had already ended his press conference before, otherwise it would be hard to say what conflict would be between the two of them sitting together.

"So are you suggesting that your tactics will be a defensive counterattack tomorrow?" A middle-aged man who thanked the head of the head stood up and asked, with a slight look on his face. He still touched the Forest Team's second-day tactics.

Of course, Tang En knew what he was trying to make. He wanted to take advantage of the chaos to find out his tactics tomorrow, but there was no way! "That's hard to say, maybe I will attack and defend all the way tomorrow?" Tang En spread his hands, "In addition, don't you think I can only defend and counterattack? Oh, I think it's interesting to have a battle against Real Madrid..."

"Don't you want a championship anymore, Mr. Tang En?" The middle-aged man remained calm and continued to argue with Tang En.

"Of course I want it. Why don't I want it?"

"Then you said that playing well is equivalent to the runner-up..." The man who thought he had grabbed Tang En's handle laughed.   There were many people around him who laughed.    These are Spanish journalists.

In their hearts, this is a vicious cycle - Don En thinks that if he plays well, he won't win the championship, but he wants to win the championship, so he must be conservative football, but he does not admit that he plays conservatively, and also says that he wants to fight against Real Madrid. Then let's see how he can accomplish this game!

Unexpectedly, Tang En looked relaxed and said leisurely: "I still have confidence in winning the game against Real Madrid."

As soon as this was said, the reporters at the venue were surprised, whether from Spain or England.

A reporter wanted to ask, but Tang En stood up and signaled that the press conference would end here.

"Mr. Tang En..."

"Mr. Tang En, please stay!"

"Coach Tangen..."

"Hey, Tony!"

A group of reporters panicked, so what were they doing before? They were bickering with Tang En, but what was there to besides a whisper?

David Chris Lack sat in the guest room, savoring the fragrant and rich coffee while slimming through the newspaper with glasses. Of course, he knew nothing about Spanish, but fortunately there were enough pictures, so it was better to use them to pass the time.

"Half is football, and half is bullfighting. The Spanish are really poor in their hobbies..."

The assistant coach muttered, and suddenly heard a slight sound from the door lock. He raised his head alertly and stared at the door with a burning gaze. The door slowly slid into the gap, then reached into one hand, put a few tricks on his fingertips, then shook quickly, and threw out a scarlet cloak like magic.

The door of the room was opened, and Tang En proudly held his head up, stepped on the rumba step and danced into the room arrogantly, humming in a tone like "One Dada and Two Dada". His strong and upright body swung twice in place and suddenly appeared: "Ahhh! Come on! Madrid Bull!"

The poor assistant coach suddenly looked forward, and his mouth full of coffee whale flew to the newspaper and table in his hand like a squirting. Some of them flowed down the corners of his mouth and chin, splashing onto the newspaper in his hand. Ribery in the newspaper was grinning at Chris Lak, and a drop of black coffee fell on his white teeth, and it looked like one was missing...

While Chris Lack was rushing to wipe the coffee from the corners of his mouth and chin, he rubbed the newspapers randomly to wipe the table, and asked Donn: "Have you gone to see the bullfighting show in the afternoon?"

"No, I went to buy this one after attending the press conference." Tang En shook the cloak in his hand and made a rustling sound.

“Tourism souvenirs…?”

Tang En shook his head and smiled: "Isn't the souvenir a Champions League? I have a special function." After that, he made another signature move of a bullfighter. He waved left, right, and then turned around casually, as if an angry bull passed by him just now. The wind blowing up moved Chris Lak's hair. "Look at how I learned?"

"I have never seen such an old bullfighter." Chris Lack finally cleared the mess in front of him. He looked at Don Eun and laughed. "What are you going to do with it?"

"Secret, secret." Tang En blinked at him, and then he laughed happily.
Chapter completed!