Wang Xiaodong's words made Li Ronghao extremely embarrassed.
Speaking of which, only the No. 7 right back Paul Statri on the Tottenham team is a dual citizen of Canada and Italy.
In 2002, what South Korea did to Italy in the World Cup made everyone and God angry. After that, Serie A completely purged South Korean players, including Ahn Jung-hwan, who was kicked out by Perugia.
In the 2006 World Cup that just passed, Ahn Jung-hwan still appeared on the field as the main player. But his performance was mediocre and he completely lost the spirituality he had four years ago.
Four years have passed. Some Italians may have forgotten all this, but most Chinese people still remember it.
"he is..."
"He is Dong who just joined the team this season and is the main defensive midfielder." Paul took the initiative to introduce.
"Hello, Dong, I have long admired your name." Li Ronghao, who was born in 1977, took the initiative to extend his hand to Wang Xiaodong, who was born in 1989.
"The coach has started to warm up in groups. You'd better look forward to being in the same group with me later."
Wang Xiaodong rolled his eyes and ignored the other person's extended hand.
Lee Young-pyo was a little embarrassed. He didn't want to get into trouble with the new main players as soon as he returned to the team.
But he knew very well that the "awkwardness" between him and Wang Xiaodong was mixed with too many factors. An "angry young man" like Wang Xiaodong would not accept this "old antique" like him.
Looking at the "4" on Wang Xiaodong, Li Ronghao began to regret that it was too early to reject Roma.
If he had known that this would happen after returning to the team, he might have agreed to Roma's invitation.
But it's too late to say anything now.
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After the warm-up, the team members were divided into two columns. Judging from their appearance, Lekja seemed to be divided into groups according to "newcomers" and "former ones."
Tottenham's signings this season are not many, but they are all elite players.
Just from Wang Xiaodong's No. 4 and Berbatov's No. 9, we can see that Martin Joel has high hopes for the two newcomers.
After everyone stood still, Martin Joel coughed lightly.
"It's great to see you all standing here before the opener. I always say the biggest enemy of an athlete is injury."
"I hope that in the new season, there won't be any injured players in my team!"
Martin Joel's words represented his good expectations for the new season, but many substitutes in the crowd sneered.
If the main player is not injured, how can I have a chance to perform?
"Tottenham are a young and energetic team in the new season. I don't want to see some people promoting some dark thoughts. This is the biggest taboo in my opinion."
"You can retain your personality, or you can let yourself go appropriately."
"But once I find that what you do is not conducive to team unity, don't blame me for exercising my coaching power."
Martin Joel is not a handsome guy like Magic Bird.
In fact, in some teams that are trying to climb up, it will be more conducive to team cohesion if the head coach doesn't have much temper and gets along well with the players.
In some powerful giants, the head coaches always have a straight face, as if someone owes him tens of thousands of dollars.
In this high-pressure atmosphere, it is difficult for players to perform as they should.
Martin Joel's words made many players feel relieved. They are all professional players and they all know what can be slightly over the line and what must not be touched.
Judging from the Tottenham lineup in the new season, there are really many unique players!
"Finally, I hope that everyone can unite as one and work hard for one goal."
"We are not afraid to tell you that our goal for the new season is to top four in the Premier League and win a place in the Champions League."
"Do you have confidence in this?"
"Yes!!!" the team members shouted in unison.
After the two teams ran a few laps around the playground and fully stretched, the team warm-up match was about to begin.
Just because they knew there would be an intra-team match today, many Tottenham fans came outside the training ground early and watched the team's new stars through the fence.
Many people pointed at the newcomers. They only knew that the club spent a lot of money in the transfer market and even sold the captain, but they did not know what the virtues of the players they bought were and how they could play their original roles. How much ability is there in the team.
Both Bell and Berbatov were assigned to a group with Wang Xiaodong. The young and energetic Monkey King had blond hair and his face was much younger with fewer freckles than last year.
The handsome Berbatov is prematurely bald. The hair in front of his broad forehead is all horizontal, because only in this way can he cover up his premature baldness.
In the previous warm-up match, Wang Xiaodong had cooperated with the pharmaceutical company's top scorer several times, and he felt that he was completely opposite to Bell.
One is quiet and the other is active.
Feeding the ball to them is completely two ways.
Players from both sides were already in position, with Danny Levy also showing up as a favor.
On such an important day as the first day of full-team training, he had to show up to take a look at the situation.
Last year's lasagna incident caused a lot of shock and pressure to him, and he has also been exposed to some of the dark side of England.
This season, he has to monitor Martin Joel at all times to see how well he trains his players.
"Which one is winter?" Danny Levy asked.
"The one who just knocked Davis away." The entourage pointed to the ball-controlling player on the court.
The transfer window has not closed yet, but Danny Levy is ready to stop making purchases.
Most fans only know that the team sold Carrick for 27 million, and then used 25 million to buy Wang Xiaodong and Bell. But few people take a closer look. Among them, Wang Xiaodong spent 2000W, and Bell only accounted for 500W.
Compare Berbatov's 16 million, Wang Xiaodong is Tottenham's top transfer bidder this season!
The Bulgarian Footballer of the Year and the pharmaceutical company's top scorer can't compete with the British Championship's Best Young Player?
Faced with such doubts, Tottenham's official answer is very simple, with only two words: hope!
Berba is 25 this year, while Wang Xiaodong is only 17.
From the perspective of professional players, there is a generation difference between the two.
Theoretically speaking, Wang Xiaodong will be the main force for Tottenham for another 10 years and is still in the prime period of his career; while Berbatov will be eliminated after another 5 years of playing for Tottenham.
So when Tottenham officials gave this answer, Bai Baihe fans shut up.
They may not know Beba very well, but everyone knows what Wang Xiaodong has done in the past year.
Especially fans in London.
This group of Bai Baihe dreamed of taking down the all-powerful Gunners, but Wenger single-handedly dyed the North London Derby red.
Now that Wang Xiaodong has come to White Hart Lane with the title of "London Killer", and has a strong record of beating the Gunners 5-0, how can the fans not look forward to him?
Just the words "We bought him to deal with Arsenal" are enough to make Wang Xiaodong capture Bai Baihe's confidence.
Danny Levi tightly held up Wang Xiaodong on the court. For him, Wang Xiaodong was the light of hope for the team.
On Martin Joel's notebook nearby, the "4" representing Wang Xiaodong was circled around, indicating that Wang Xiaodong is the core of the team in the new season.
In order to buy Wang Xiaodong, Tottenham gave up Ivory Coast midfielder Didier Zokola, who performed extremely well in this year's World Cup. Now Danny Levy is eager to know whether Wang Xiaodong's deal is worth it.
"What kind of player is Dong? Can he integrate into the team and integrate with his teammates in a short period of time?" Danny Levi asked.
During the last meeting, his group of officials blew Wang Xiaodong to the sky after returning.
But this kind of bragging gave him a feeling of not being down to earth.
So today he came to the scene and wanted to get the answer from Wang Xiaodong's actual performance and Martin Joel's data.
"Mr. Chairman, look." Martin Joel did not explain, but stretched out his hand and pointed at Wang Xiaodong who had just delivered the big kick.
After passing the ball, Wang Xiaodong was still running, non-stop.
His running position is not very accurate, but the victory is to keep running.
As long as Wang Xiaodong was running, the main team's midfielder never completely controlled the ball, and even the offense was panicked.
Finally, when Wang Xiaodong's cross from a 45-degree angle hit Berbatov's bald head and hit the net accurately, Martin Joel continued to speak: "Mr. Chairman, do you have any questions now?"
