If everyone in Manchester City had been mentally prepared for Gao Han's lofty status before this, then the first core high-level meeting of the new season, through Mansour's video and Mubarak's recognition, completely established Gao Han's absolute authority in the team.

Manchester City's amazing investment of more than 400 million euros this season is entirely to conduct an unprecedented experiment for Gao Han.

If this experiment is successful, Gao Han's position in Europe and even the world football world will undoubtedly go further until he becomes the god.

Because looking at the European football world for more than a hundred years, there has never been such an experiment.

Chelsea was halfway through the success that year, but suddenly died in the middle. At that time, Chelsea's head coach was also Gao Han.

After the first core high-level meeting, led by Gao Han, general manager Paul Fottery, chief assistant coach Brian Kidd, youth training director Rudolph Borrelli, and scout department director David Harrison and others held a technical department seminar in the same conference room.

This was also proposed by Gao Han.

As a head coach, he needs to let all his assistants and subordinates understand their thoughts and ideas from the beginning and understand their tactical intentions.

Everyone knows that he wants to test, but how do you try? In which direction? To what extent?

These are all problems, and Gao Han needs to give a correct letter.

The first problem to be hit is that Gao Han’s decision to implement the decision of three defenders, and many people have reserved it, especially the English local coach Brian Kidd, who believes that the three defenders’ style of playing will be difficult to succeed in the Premier League.

"The Premier League's league pattern is completely different from that of the Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga. It is very fast, has a strong impact, and has a particularly obvious rhythm change, especially on the wing. Now every Premier League team has its own wing skills, using three-back play, especially for players who do not have regular wing defense. How can we defend the wing?"

Brian Kidd seemed to be still feeling a little unsatisfied. When he said this, he kept staring at Gao Han, as if he was observing Gao Han's face, for fear that his public rebuttal would annoy this super famous coach in European football.

Gao Han noticed his eyes and smiled slightly, "It's okay, Brian, our team, I said, everyone will hold a meeting to discuss and speak freely. Even if you point at my nose and scold me in front of everyone, as long as you say something, I will accept it."

Paul Futrey was also very aware of Gao Han's temper and nodded, "I can testify to this point. Just scold him, and I will take care of it if something happens."

This immediately made everyone in the conference room burst into laughter.

The benefit of having an acquaintance is here. If Gao Han was just talking, the others would definitely be confused, but when Paul Futre came forward to say this, everyone believed it.

"I have been coaching in the top league since the 1980s. I have witnessed the technical and tactical changes in the English League. In fact, as early as the 1900s, many famous head coaches have been constantly trying and innovating. Many people have used the three-back system, but they have never been popular in the Premier League. This is not without reason."

As an old Premier League official, Brian Kidd is very familiar with the Premier League and is very familiar with it. Gao Han is also particularly interested and nodded, "Then please tell me in detail, Brian."

Brian Kidd thought for a while, "Everyone should know that when Wenger took over Arsenal, many people mentioned the five defenders, who were left since George Graham's time. They played fierce football and won the league championship that had been away for more than a decade in the 88 to 89 seasons."

As she said this, Brian Kidd stopped again and sorted out his thoughts.

"I still remember clearly that in the last round of the league that season, Arsenal, ranked second in the standings, fell behind Liverpool's three-pointer. They could only counterattack and win the championship by defeating their opponents at Anfield Stadium. At that time, Liverpool's defense was the best in the entire Premier League. As a result, George Graham arranged a three-back formation away and attacked at full speed."

"As a result, in that final, Arsenal defeated Liverpool 2-0 away, and the Gunners finally won the championship."

Although everyone was just listening, they could feel Graham's enthusiasm from Brian Kidd's words and words, and dared to boldly change the formation at such a critical moment and eventually defeat his opponent. Graham won the championship well.

"Perhaps because of Graham's influence, more and more Premier League coaches began to try three-guard styles, including Chelsea's player and coach Hodel. He also tried three-guard styles, but he never made Chelsea's league rankings reach the top ten."

"You know, after Chelsea upgraded from the second level, they won the top five in the league in their first season. The team has famous players including Gulit, Hodel, Mark Hughes, and Petrescu, and their strength is not bad. However, Chelsea's best result is the 11th league record. They reached the finals of the FA Cup, but were completely defeated by Manchester United by four to zero."

"What's more interesting is that after Hodel left, Chelsea's worst result so far is sixth in the league."

"However, Liverpool coach Roy Evans also used the three-guard style to play, and the result improved by leaps and bounds, occupying the top four in the league for four consecutive years, and even was very close to the league championship at one time. However, at a critical moment, he lost to Manchester United one-to-three and missed the opportunity to reach the top and failed to win the championship in the end."

Gao Han nodded repeatedly when he heard this. Brian Kidd was indeed experienced. Speaking of these past events in the past, it was well-known. And if Gao Han remembered correctly, he should have been Ferguson's right-hand assistant in the 1990s. He often has more weight in his personal experiences.

"The last three defenders who left a deep impression on people should be in the England national team. McLaren faced Croatia in the qualifiers in the 2008 European Cup, but they played a terrible game and finally lost a crushing defeat."

Gao Han silently listened to Brian Kidd's words and nodded, "Thank you, Brian, you let me understand Ying's efforts over the past few years, but I want to say what I think now."

Brian Kidd and everyone else nodded together, listening very seriously, and even some people took notes.

"As early as two years ago, I had a discussion with Ferguson, Benitez, Wenger, Guardiola and Ancelotti, and the focus was on three defenders, and when we reached a consensus, the defense of three defenders would not be a problem."

"Why do you say that? Because the current defense mainly relies on the overall and coordinated combat, even on the wing road with more space, the quality of the defense does not depend on whether we have wing defense players, but on the meticulousness of the defensive formation, as well as the player's execution and positioning rate."

Everyone had to agree with Gao Han's judgment, because this has long become the consensus of top European teams.

Gao Han resolutely uses single-middle midfielder at Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, and Bayern Munich, and is also a technical single-middle midfielder. However, his defense has never had any problems.

There are also Barcelona, ​​in the three midfielders, Xavi and Iniesta are both creative and technical players, and Busquets is not a traditional defensive player, but is their defense a problem?

"With this consensus, we can continue to talk." Gao Han said slowly.

"As early as when I was coaching Chelsea, my midfielder Deco told me something. He said that the pressing and pressure in the Premier League is very fast. Often, he just received a pass from his teammates. Before he could stop, the defensive player rushed over, forcing him to pass it out as soon as possible."

When everyone heard this, they nodded tacitly. This is indeed a feature of the Premier League, with fast-paced offense and defense.

"Many people understand this: the way of passing and controlling play is not played in the Premier League, but I don't think so. On the contrary, I will be happy to let the opponent push up and play. In a widely popular saying on the football field, the ball is always faster than the person. The reason why the way of passing and controlling play is curbed is that the passing and controlling play is not solid enough, the speed is not fast enough, and the response points are not enough, which has nothing to do with the opponent's way of playing itself."

Gao Han has always believed that the way of passing and controlling play is to focus on me, and there is no need to consider the opponent's tactical play. Whether they want to press or defend the penalty area, they have nothing to do with their own side.

Gao Han has encountered a team that likes to press and press, but what is the result?

As long as the pass and control fight is good, the opponent will often die even more miserable, and it will be terrible.

"In my opinion, the biggest improvement in the Premier League in the past few years, or the biggest improvement brought by head coaches such as Wenger and Benitez, as well as many high-level foreign players, to the Premier League is the word precision."

After Gao Han said this, everyone present was surprised. Brian Kidd frowned even more, looking puzzled, as if thinking about Gao Han's meaning.

"Passing, running, spacing, and man-tapping...all of this has become more accurate, and many traditional English players, including Gerald and Lampard, seem brave, can attack and defend, can attack forward and defend backward, but their role is far less than what they seem on the surface, because they are not accurate enough."

Brian Kidd is not young and has assisted many head coaches. He has become a master of human nature. Naturally, he can hear Gao Han’s implication, that is, the Premier League is too shoddy from the player level to the technical and tactical level.

But this sentence is undoubtedly too heavy. It's okay to say it here. If it is spread, it will definitely be sprayed to death by local British fans. But as a veteran coach, Brian Kidd has to admit that Gao Han's words hit the nail on the head.

Why can Ferguson's Class 92 sweep the Premier League?

The skillful and accurate transmission and transfer of the Golden Four midfielders made great contributions. They were like high-rise gun barrels, and the Black Wind Double Evil and Van Nistruy in front were taking advantage of the opportunity in the frontcourt, running out of the gap, and hitting wherever they pointed.

Why can Wenger's Arsenal be invincible?

You know, when Wenger first came to the Premier League, he had alcoholism, irregular daily routines and training in a mess. These were the norm in the Premier League, but he completely changed these bad habits of Arsenal alone.

The players he brought in Pire, Borgkamp, ​​Henry, Vieira, Lungberg and other players made Arsenal's overall technical and tactical level more meticulous and more accurate.

Gao Han, Mourinho and Rijkald's Chelsea, Benitez's Liverpool...

Brian Kidd had to admit that Gao Han was right.

Perhaps, many people will miss the passionate courage of the Premier League in their early years, but in recent years, the Premier League is gradually leaning towards a mainland style, making themselves more accurate and more delicate.
Chapter completed!