After Baines brought a group of Leeds United's young players into the training ground, other players on the team also arrived one after another.
Familiar and unfamiliar people gathered together in twos and threes, chatting and warming up.
"Alan, did you see Robin that day?"
Robben, who was warming up, caught up with Smith who was running in front and asked.
"When I saw him, I even joked with him and asked him if he would go back to Leeds United."
Van Persie, who was originally planning to move to the Premier League, flew to Germany after being let go by Manchester City. Several old teammates at Leeds United bid farewell to Van Persie after a brief reunion.
"He must be unwilling. After all, the boss has already bought a new striker."
As Robben spoke, he tried his best with his mouth and motioned Smith to look to the sidelines, where new forward Ibrahimovic, who had just come to the team to report, was warming up.
Unlike the others who were jogging, Ibrahimovic was constantly doing leg raising and sideways movements. At the same time, he was also listening to his national team teammate Granqvist introduce his Leeds United teammates.
"The three running together over there are the team captain Alan Smith, and the one next to him is the winger Robben, who played for Chelsea before. And then this one who is joining them to chat is... "
"I know, we are teammates in Ajax." Ibrahimovic pointed at Sneijder and said.
Then, Granqvist pointed to the other side, where Baynes and others had just entered the field first. They have finished jogging and started simple training with the ball.
After a short vacation, they need to go through a little training to regain their sense of the ball before training.
"Gareth Bale, left winger of the team."
"Charlotte Black, right back."
"Milner, right back."
"Muamba, you should know this. He was the one who was found to have a heart problem, but he has recovered now. He is the team's defensive midfielder."
"Arnesen, but we prefer to call him JR. He can play on the wing or as a forward. He may compete with you as the starting forward."
When Ibrahimovic heard this, he couldn't help but curl his lips a little. He didn't come here to play as a substitute.
Then, they saw the last two players walking out of the locker room.
As soon as he saw them appearing, Smith kept counting the players on the court with his fingers. He didn't speak to the last two players until he had counted them all: "Gilway, Danny, you were almost late. do you know?"
Sigurdsson immediately pointed to Danny Rose beside him and said: "Captain, it's his car that has a flat tire, otherwise we wouldn't be late."
Ross also immediately added: "The two of us abandoned the car on the side of the road and ran here, so we can save the warm-up."
"Where's the car?" Smith became concerned about the car with two people parked on the side of the road.
"The keys are given to the people at the club and they will take care of it," Rose replied.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Smith motioned for everyone to stop warming up, and then looked expectantly towards the team's office building.
Everyone knows that it is time for their head coach to appear.
However, they did not find that Li George came out and was replaced by the team's physical coach Colin McGee.
As soon as this physical trainer, who looked like a personal trainer in a gym, appeared, he spoke loudly to everyone in the venue: "Everyone, gather the medical team there. I will do a check-up on all of you. If I find anyone If you eat and drink so much in the off-season, you’ll be waiting to swim across the English Channel and then run from France to Spain.”
Hearing this, several players who usually like to play looked at the people around them to see if anyone was oversized.
At this time, they are obviously more concerned about others being punished, so that they can enjoy hearing about it. As for whether they meet the standards, they are not worried. Is it possible that the head coach can really let them go from France to Spain?
The best thing to do is to do some extra training during training. This has happened more than once or twice. Their physical fitness coach McGee can always use "reasonable" methods to get them to meet the standards before the start of the season.
"Let's go, guys. I'm not kidding, your boss is going to be serious this time. Although he won't run from France to Spain, there is a chance to run around Madrid three times."
"Spare us, Coach McGee."
"I will introduce two nightclub girls to you. Please give me a 10% discount when you write down my weight later."
"Shut up, Jonathan. I think you've gained at least ten pounds."
McGee pushed Woodgate, who was still chatting with him, toward the medical team, and motioned for everyone to follow him.
In an office building not far away, several Leeds United coaches were looking at these players from the conference room window. Not only did the players need to prepare for the new season, but their coaches also needed to make adequate preparations for the new season.
Moreover, they gathered earlier than the players. They began to gradually discuss the tactical ideas for next season three days ago.
Seeing all the players walking away, the coaching staff returned to their seats one after another and continued their discussion.
George Lee knocked on the whiteboard again. The rough starting lineup for Leeds United this season has been drawn on it, but there are still one or two areas that need to be discussed.
"In the frontcourt, the positions of Ibrahimovic, Robben, Sneijder and Smith can basically be determined." He made a big circle with his hands in the frontcourt, and then moved to the left side of the team. Stopped at the forward position, "I think our first choice here should be Bell, and JR is the second choice. This is not because I don't agree with JR's ability, but we need to keep him to deal with different situations." location requirements.”
And hearing what he said, the following assistant coaches also agreed.
In the two seasons since Bell came to Leeds United, he has shown extremely strong personal abilities, especially his breakthrough on the left, which has always been Leeds United's magic weapon to defeat the enemy.
"We have no problem with the frontcourt. Although JR can't play in the ideal starting position, he can make up for the lack of players on the forward, left or right wing as soon as possible, right." John Sheridan said.
And Sheridan's words are also very unnutritious nonsense. After all, the team sold Kuyt and Davis forwards in the offseason. Now the only remaining forwards are the newly arrived Ibrahimovic and Arnesen. Having an 18-year-old Edmundson is negligible.
However, Sheridan then asked several questions in the assistant coaches' minds. This was the key point.
"We have now lost Matthijssen and the team now only has three centre-backs left..."
Halfway through Sheridan's words, he was nudged by Speed on his side.
Now the team does not only have three central defenders. In addition to Woodgate, Albchesson and Granqvist, Lee George has moved Sean Wallace to the first team.
When Sheridan said this, he couldn't take off George Li's face at all.
And George Li also knew what they wanted to say, and signaled Speed not to dwell on what Sheridan just said.
"I brought Sean up just to let him experience the feeling of the first team. I won't let him play unless it's an important game. Although he is very good, I still don't think he can play in the intensity of the Premier League. After all, official Premier League games are different from youth team and reserve team games."
"I want to let Daly and Charlotte try the center back position more."
They were a little dumbfounded when the head coach said this.
It's okay for Blind to play as a central defender, but Blake is already one of the best young right backs in the Premier League, and it is beyond everyone's expectation to switch to a central defender.
However, with the examples of Smith and Van Persie in front of them, they can only accept suggestions like George Lee.
After all, the multi-directional development of players has always been the focus of George Lee's work.
