Next, Atletico Madrid went to Bilbao to challenge the Basque lion Athletico Bilbao, and Mark did not go with the team. Mark still stayed with the youth team to train with the youth team players.

Mark may be very weak in offense because of the influence of two main players, and finally tied the opponent away, but such a score is acceptable. After all, Athletic Bilbao is also very strong, and being able to score a point away is not a bad thing for Atletico Madrid players.

Although Mark was not satisfied with the score, Mark had no choice but to do so because he could not play in the game at all, so Mark had to train every day to maintain his due state.

After Athletic Bilbao drew against the game, Atletico Madrid's ranking dropped one place and ranked fifth.

But next thing is going to happen, that is, the winter transfer gate has begun, and Atletico Madrid can finally introduce new players.

This time, Atletico Madrid introduced an Argentine player, Mascherano, which was also a request made by Cooper to the board of directors after joining Atletico Madrid.

The board of Atletico Madrid relied on their strong ability in Argentina to do this. With Simeone playing the match, Atletico Madrid soon found Argentina's Riverbed team to discuss the transfer issues of Mascherano.

The negotiations also went very smoothly. In Maschela, he raised the Atletico Madrid jersey and smiled with a satisfied smile.

The reason why Atletico Madrid signed Mascherano was entirely because of Cooper before. After joining Atletico Madrid, Cooper proposed to the club to acquire players, and the club also affirmed Cooper's request.

The joining of Mascherano is also considered as the club fulfilling their promise, but Atletico Madrid has not finished the transfer, because the club had promised Cooper to introduce two Argentine players.

Another Argentine player, Tevez, is also a striker that Cooper urgently needs. If Tevez can join the team, Cooper can completely change the team's tactical style and play double strikers, or arrange Tevez to attack in the midfield.

But Tevez's identity is a bit special. He joined the Brazilian League at the beginning of this season, and his ownership is entirely in his agency.

Moreover, when Tevez first joined the Brazilian Corinthian team, his net worth had reached 15 million euros. If he was introduced at this time, it would definitely not be less than this amount.

Moreover, Tevez himself is not very enthusiastic about joining Atletico Madrid. He himself is planning to conquer the Brazilian league first and then join the European League.

Although Atletico Madrid has made some attempts, they all ended in failure. Atletico Madrid's board of directors also believes that it is enough to have a player Torres on the forward line of the club.

So they are not very enthusiastic about Tevez's franchise, of course, it is mainly because Atletico Madrid does not have much spare money, and Tevez's agency does not agree with the loan franchise. Both parties gave up on this issue.

Although Cooper was full of dissatisfaction, he was just a head coach after all. Even if the board of directors didn't keep his word, he had no more ways. Cooper had no choice but to propose to the board of directors to buy another striker.

At the same time, Cooper also guided Mascherano, hoping that Mascherano can become the core of Atletico Madrid's midfield, whether it is offense or defense.

"Hi, welcome to Atletico Madrid, I'm very happy to be able to work with you." After joining Mascherano, Mark also went to the first team's training base to say hello to Mascherano.

"Hello, I'm glad to join this team." Mascherano also greeted Mark very friendly.

As an Argentine player with dual nationality between Italy and Argentina, Mascherano is still very good at Spanish, which is why he chose to join the La Liga. This is because there are not many obstacles in language and habits, which can allow him to better go to the Honor League.

"Javier, come here," Cooper shouted at Mascherano, because he had something to say to Mascherano.

Mascherano obediently ran to Cooper and talked with Cooper for half an hour. Due to distance, Mark did not hear what both sides said together.

In Mark's impression, Mascherano still stayed at the title of the Athens Olympics for Argentina. People at that time may only remember Tevez's performance when destroying the city and capturing the village, and forgot Mascherano's contribution on the defensive end and his ability to pass the ball.

Mascherano is an all-around midfielder, and his template is Redondo, although his defense and offense are not as pleasing to the eye as Redondo comes.

But Mascherano does have the ability to be a midfield metronome. Mascherano can often pass long passes that threateningly, and at the same time, he can often contribute his strength in defense.

"Mark, don't go to the youth team for training anymore. You'd better go back to the first team to train, and help Javier adapt to the team as soon as possible," Cooper walked over and said to Mark at this time.

"No problem coach" Mark said to Cooper.

Mark was about to tell Cooper that he wanted to stay and continue training, but he didn't expect Cooper to give such instructions to Mark so understandingly, so Mark naturally couldn't get it.

The reason why Mark is so happy is that Mascherano is a certain top defender. If Mark can train and fight with him more, Mark feels that he should be able to learn a lot, so Mark naturally likes to train with Mascherano.

"Brother, you can do it. Have you ever thought of greatly improving your strength?" Mark Mascherano trained together for a while and then asked him.

"Higher expectations." Mascherano thought he was already excellent enough. He had already had the experience of participating in the national team at a young age and joined the European team. So what he had to do was to adapt to the rhythm and method of European competitions. Then he could perform normally. He never thought that he could greatly improve his strength.

After all, he has done well enough on the defensive end! I'm afraid it's hard to improve anything! Perhaps the only thing that can continue to improve is to enhance his physical fitness and make himself stronger on the defensive end.

"That's right! Higher expectations!" Mark said to Mascherano with certainty. Mark felt that Mascherano's defense was more fierce than himself. Mark's defense relied on his own movements, while Mascherano's defense relied on his position to complete it.

In this regard, Mark needs to learn carefully from Mascherano. Mark's sense of position is very poor when he is in the back of the seat. Although Mark has improved a lot after hard work, Mark feels that there should be a certain gap between him and Mascherano.

"You talked very much like the coach," Mascherano said to Mark at this time: "The coach just now also helped me improve my ability."

"So that's it. It seems that my head coach and I have an amazing agreement," Mark said with a smile.

Mascherano was still very awesome at this time. He was the kind of player who had not been successfully created, so Cooper was also preparing to transform him.

Cooper is planning to keep Mascherano's strong defense while allowing Mascherano to control the long passes in the midfield and become a character similar to Barcelona's Xavi and Guardiola.

At the same time, the midfield is equipped with players with excellent physical fitness like Lucin who can run and grab. In this way, Atletico Madrid's midfield can improve in both offense and defense.

The offense will also appear more three-dimensional and the defense will be stronger, but after all, Mascherano needs to do it by himself. As for whether Mascherano will do it well, it depends on his ability. However, Cooper still believes in Mascherano's personal strength, and he is willing to believe in him, an Argentine fellow.

"If Mascherano keeps training to control the rhythm of the midfield and continues to ensure his defensive ability, I don't know what kind of midfielder will be cultivated!" Cooper was also thinking in his mind, and at the same time he also had a bold plan in his mind. This plan completely violated the tactical concept, and Cooper is not planning to implement him at this stage.

Mark was chatting with Mascherano. The more they talked, the more they became more speculative. As defensive players, there were naturally more topics. At the same time, they could also discuss how to pass the ball in defense.

Mark has been kindly guided by Argentina veteran Simeone before, so Mark is naturally not unfamiliar with the defensive philosophy of Argentina players. Unfortunately, Simeone returned to Argentina after the start of the season.

This made Mark lose the honesty of asking for defense issues. Now Mascherano is here, and he appears in front of Mark like a young version of Simeone. Of course, Mark will not waste it. Mark wants to squeeze out all the knowledge on Mascherano's defense.

Then Mark wants to turn this knowledge into his own thing. Mark is so studious, otherwise he would not have succeeded at a young age.

It was a matter of talent that Mark had not succeeded before, but after Mark got the necklace and his diligence, it was strange that Mark was not successful.

After the day's training, Torres said to Mascherano in order to unite within the club: "Let's go out for dinner together tonight. What do you think? Let's ask your female companions to come out, and Christmas is coming soon. Let's celebrate in advance."

"Okay, I saw you that night," Mascherano nodded and agreed.

Mark returned home and asked Colos to dress up quickly because there was a party in the evening, and the party was in a hotel in Madrid, and almost all Atletico Madrid players were invited.

Many of the hotels within the center of Madrid's city are connected to nightclubs. Atletico Madrid players can go and dance immediately after dinner.

Of course, because these players are afraid of trouble, most of them go from the kitchen to the private room in the hotel, so that no one can see them, and they naturally don’t have to avoid the media’s pursuit. These players are also very annoying about the media’s pursuit.

But they obviously have no choice. Since they are celebrities, they are not allowed to endure the pursuit of the media. The media is still chasing them, which means they still have a certain hype effect, otherwise the media will not be too lazy to wait for interviews.

Media time is also very valuable, so for these players, some people paying attention to them is a matter that proves their role.

Atletico Madrid's first-team players were all here, and the players took their respective female companions to sit at the extended table and started chatting while enjoying this hearty dinner.

"Javier, what happened when you were in Argentina? Let's talk about it," Mark said to Mascherano.

"Argentina is very good, there is a good football, suddenly, we all played wild football, and then we became valued by the club after we became a little famous," Mascherano said simply.

However, although Mascherano said it easily, these players did not think so, especially these European players, who had never thought about playing wild football at all.

They used to participate in the school league, and then the scouts from each club would observe. Once there were good seedlings, the scouts would contact them.

After successful contact, they will be arranged by the club or the Spanish Football Association to train in a football primary school or the club's own youth training camp. Then, after these players really show their strength, the club will sign with them.

So it is almost unimaginable for such a player, who was born in Europe and have been undergoing regular training since childhood.

However, there are many players like Mascherano in South America. Maradona, the king of Argentina, was the former street football boss. After gaining fame on the street, he attracted the attention of club scouts and finally became the most dazzling star in the world football world.

"You are pretty good. Even if you play wild football in my country, you don't want it. You can only treat it as a personal entertainment event," Mark said at this time.

There is something called the system in Mark's motherland, and that system completely restricts the development of football. It is not that the quality of Chinese players is too poor, but that there is no fertile football soil. Brazil's country is not very large, but there are as many as 1,000 people in their Junior Leagues.

Although Argentina has fewer youth leagues than Argentina, their scouts from each club have that kind of informant in every region. These informants will provide scouts with a list of young players for these scouts to inspect every month.

In these South American countries, basically the children of poor families are the children of poor families. These children know that only playing football is the secret to their success and can change the lives of their families.

There are very few children from middle-class families like Kaka who are playing football and are famous.

Because these players have goals, they all see their seniors going from being paupers who have nothing to world-class superstars with a net worth of millions, so they are trying so hard to play football.

However, in China, the situation is the opposite. Generally, children who play football need to have a certain brokerage foundation at home, otherwise they will not be able to learn football, let alone play in professional leagues.

Without the recommendation of a professional coach, no matter how good you play football, the club cannot choose you because you have no one and do not comply with the rules.

After Mark finished speaking, the players all showed surprise eyes at Mark because they had never heard of such a country before, but Mascherano, who was still honest, said to Mark: "Mark, your country is really a magical country."

After hearing this, Mark also smiled bitterly. Mark was powerless to change the status quo, so Mark could only smile bitterly to express his mood at this moment.

"Mark, don't think about something unhappy," said Colos next to him to Mark.

Mark also caressed Colos's hair, and nodded.

Everyone couldn't help but feel very envious when they saw Mark's happy appearance, especially Mark's ability to have such a beautiful girlfriend also made the players who were not satisfied with their girlfriends feel a little unbalanced.

"Why can Mark find a beautiful fiancée, and have a beautiful reporter chasing him every day behind his butt every day, why can't we?" These players thought so.

"Javier, I'll take you to meet someone tomorrow. I think he should help you improve your career," Mark said to Mascherano at this time.

"Who is it?" Mascherano asked curiously.

"Secret" Mark pretended to be mysterious: "You will know until tomorrow. You must be prepared at that time. He is an absolute superstar and a great player."
Chapter completed!