A brand new season is about to begin!

Gao Han held his hands on the edge of the washbasin, raised his head, looked at himself in the mirror with watery face, and muttered to himself.

Today is the day for Manchester City's summer training camp, and all players will gather at the Carrington training base.

This is also the first time Gao Han has made his debut as Manchester City head coach. He is very clear about the challenges he has to coach Manchester City.

Everyone knows that Gao Han has always been known for his good at cultivating young players, but this time he coached Manchester City, he was abnormal and introduced superstars one after another, which is undoubtedly a subversion of his past.

One of the important reasons for this is that the strategy formulated by Manchester City itself is the superstar strategy, while Gao Han is following the situation, hoping to use Manchester City's superstar strategy to win the league championship as soon as possible and return to the Champions League as soon as possible.

He also hopes to verify as soon as possible whether his tactics can work.

Although, in the past few years, many media reporters and fans have felt that Gao Han’s technical and tactical style has not changed much, and they are mainly based on passing and control, only he and many friends in the circle, including Ferguson, know that the big framework has not changed, but the details have changed a lot, which has led to his amazing results that have been invincible in the past few years.

Otherwise, with the fierce competition in European football, if Gao Han had no progress in recent years, he would have been stared at him long ago.

But this time it was obviously different from before.

It should be said that this time it is more difficult and more challenging.

Manchester City seems to be a superstar, and even according to some media reporters and fans, as long as they put these superstars on the court, they are like killing gods and killing Buddhas.

But the question is, is it really that easy?

It is one thing to have a high level of stars, but how to integrate these stars into a complete team and activate their strongest competitiveness is the key.

Today's Premier League is completely different from when he coached Chelsea.

Manchester United was still in the metabolic stage at that time, and defense was also full of problems, but now it has been obviously completed. Although Arsenal is no longer as brave as it was, maintaining its strength in the quarterfinals of the Champions League every year is enough to prove that the Gunners' power is still there; and Liverpool's current strength is far better than that of the past.

As for Chelsea, after the management of four head coaches Ranieri, Gao Han, Mourinho and Rijcard, the Blues' foundation is still quite outstanding, enough to compete with the top teams in European football today.

But the real test of the Premier League is not just these four traditional giants, but other teams are also very strong.

In the past few years, the revenue of Premier League broadcast rights has increased soared, and each team can get a considerable amount of broadcast revenue, making the purchasing power of Premier League teams quite amazing. They can wield the pound to introduce strong players unscrupulously on the European continent, which makes even the bottom teams in the Premier League have very strong competitiveness.

Therefore, the Premier League is the most fiercely competitive league in football today.

For Gao Han, the Premier League is more like a trial field. Whether it is to recover the grudge between him and Chelsea, or to further improve himself, Gao Han must make a breakthrough.

Thinking of this, Gao Han stared at himself in the mirror with his eyes tightly, and his eyes revealed an unprecedented firm determination.

"I'm back in the Premier League!"

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The hotel car took Gao Han to a place called Carrington west of Manchester city.

Walk south along a small path and you will reach Manchester City's training base.

Interestingly, following this road, Manchester United's training base is next to Manchester City.

Gao Han got off the bus at the gate of the training base and looked at the path in the distance, but he thought with amusement in his heart, if he found a group of people, lie here, waited for Ferguson to drive by, stop him and beat him up, the old man might have cried miserably.

By that time, wouldn’t I betray myself?

As he thought about it, Gao Han felt funny himself.

But at this moment, a car drove behind him and stopped directly beside Gao Han.

The car window slowly lowered, revealing Ferguson's red rosacea image, but it made Gao Han feel guilty for no reason.

These days, it’s really impossible to say that people are right and wrong.

"Good morning, sir." Gao Han laughed and walked forward.

"You were pretty early, too." Ferguson looked in a good mood.

Gao Han laughed and said, "Yes, I'm afraid you'll beat me up, so I'll come early and hide from you."

Ferguson was also funny, and of course he knew what Gao Han meant.

Benzema was recommended to Ferguson by Gao Han, but Manchester United thought it was too expensive at that time, so Ferguson finally chose Berbatov, but unexpectedly, the Bulgarian striker performed poorly.

After the Champions League final last season, Ferguson made up his mind to buy Benzema, but the club needed to raise some funds. Unexpectedly, Gao Han won the first place.

"If you don't say it, I almost forgot." Ferguson looked fierce and vicious, "But don't hide, you can't hide."

"What's the meaning?"

"What does it mean?" Ferguson raised his brow and laughed, "Don't you know where your new home is?"

Gao Han frowned. He really didn't know that he had never been there these days since he came to Manchester.

"It seems like someone named O."

"Aldley Edge." Ferguson smiled bitterly.

How could there be such a person?

I went to buy a house for millions of pounds, but I didn’t even know where the house was. Is this still the Gao Han he knew?

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, Aldley Edge." Gao Han suddenly realized, "But what does this have to do with you?"

But after the question was asked, Gao Han remembered it himself again.

He vaguely remembered that Ferguson once said that he lived in Cheshire. Could it be...

"Remember it?" Ferguson smiled wickedly, "My home is very close to your home. I want to find you. Do you think you can still hide from it in minutes?"

"Hey, old man, don't scare me. Believe it or not, I'll go over and ask someone to beat you up now?" Gao Han's face seemed to write, I'm not easy to mess with either.

"If you don't believe me, just call me and try it." Ferguson laughed and became excited.

Gao Han pointed to the unyielding old man, nodded and said, "Okay, wait." After that, he turned around and left.

"Hurry up, I'll wait for you."

"If you have the habit, don't leave, wait." Gao Han turned around and came back and threatened again.

"I'm just waiting for you here, see what you can do?"

This time Gao Han just turned around and pointed at him, looking like I want you to look good, and continued to walk towards the security room.

If there were media reporters present at the scene, their glasses would definitely be broken.

It's like two naughty little kids talking, where is there any demeanor of a famous European coach?

But when Gao Han walked away, Ferguson thought, something was wrong.

How bored do you have to be to wait here for Gao Han to find someone to beat me up?

What's more, Gao Han is not so bored.

Waiting for you? I was so stupid that I waited for you!

Thinking about this layer, Ferguson laughed and knew that he had been fooled. He stepped on the accelerator and drove away with a bang.

Gao Han just walked to the gate and heard the accelerator sound. He turned around and saw the speeding rear of the car and smiled bitterly.

Being a neighbor at work is already miserable enough. After work, he is still a neighbor. Why are you unlucky?

Would you like to move?

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On the first day of the team's training, all the coaching staff members came very early.

Because they all knew that Gao Han would come to the training base early in the morning and arrange some of the training situations of that day.

It is summer training now, focusing on physical fitness reserves. Gao Han said before during a meeting that the third, fourth and third formations have very high requirements for players' running coverage, which puts higher requirements on players' physical fitness, so summer preparation is crucial.

Lorenzo Buenaventura is the best physical coach in European football at present. He is fully responsible for the team's entire summer physical reserve training. Pedro Harro is still responsible for goalkeeper training. He worked with Peter Cech during his time at Atletico Madrid, and there is no big problem.

As for Sergio Garcia, he is still responsible for data analysis and intelligence collection. He has also initially established a data analysis system in Manchester City and has begun to improve it, preparing to officially put it into use in the new season.

Steve Peters is still in charge of psychological counseling, but when Chuchu comes to a team, he needs to grasp the players' psychology as soon as possible.

Chief assistant coach Brian Kidd is responsible for leading the team training and assisting Gao Han in formulating game countermeasures, especially his familiarity with the Premier League, which Gao Han lacks.

In addition to these core coaching staff members, Manchester City also has a series of other staff members. Gao Han has met them early and has also held meetings to explain his requirements to them.

But one thing is still unresolved so far.

That's the captain of the team.

After a major cleanup this summer, Manchester City's lineup fell apart last season, with not many players able to stay, and the team captain Richard Dunn is one of them.

Dunn has been playing for Manchester City for nine years. In 2006, he took over the captain's armband from Distin and has been the captain of the team for three years. He has always been the pillar of Manchester City's defense line. But the problem is that the Irish international does not meet Gao Han's requirements for the central defender. He is too frizzy, does not live well enough, and does not have enough ability to pass the ball.

Gao Han had already talked to him a while ago and hinted that Dunn had reminded him that the coaching staff could not guarantee his chance to play after staying in the team. This depends on his performance and whether he could integrate into the team's tactical play.

And at that time Dunn meant that he wanted to give it a try.

It can be seen that he has feelings for Manchester City and really hopes that he can achieve something under Gao Han's command.

But Gao Han and the coaching staff must carefully consider another issue, that is, if Dunn cannot play as the main player, who should be the captain of the team?

After all, it is impossible for a team to lead everyone to train and play with a captain who has been unable to play as the main player for a long time, right?

What's more, in the Premier League environment, the captain's responsibilities are very important. He must be a leader who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of the team. Even if he cannot be as brave as Roy Keane and Vieira, he must at least be able to lead the team to defeat all powerful enemies. This has high requirements for the players' courage and courage.

Who is suitable?

Many people in the coaching staff have proposed different candidates, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Peter Cech, and others have proposed to choose according to the length of time they join the team...

In short, there are all kinds of proposals, and even the coaching staff is in controversy.

After discussion a few days ago, no result was achieved, so everyone handed the hot potato back to Gao Han.
Chapter completed!