Chapter 64 Problems after the start of the new season
Although Fernandez hopes that the "Three Musketeers of Metz" in his mind can get along well, judging from the first meeting between the three of them, it is still a bit difficult.
Ribery has a lively personality and is the well-deserved boss in the locker room. Although Chu Zhongtian doesn't like to be a younger brother, he is Ribery's friend, and the relationship between the two is naturally nothing to say. Only Menez will show a very cool expression when he comes, and no one will throw it away. He naturally does not give Ribery's face. Almost all young players recognize Ribery as the boss. Menez has no expression except shaking hands with Ribery and saying hello.
Menez came here to play football because there was a coach he admired, and it had nothing to do with Metz. He didn't even regard himself as a member of Metz, and he looked down on these players of Metz. You should know that after the league ended last season, Socho's performance was above Metz.
He thought that if he came to this not-so-good team, he should be the leader as a matter of course.
In the first team match, he complained a few times because Oblaniak, who was on the same team, did not pass the ball to him in time, causing him to offside. "You should pass the ball to me earlier! Pass it as soon as you catch it! Don't be too slow!"
Oblaniak, who was said to be, had no reaction, but Ribery, who was not in the same team as him, frowned.
Later in the game, he found an opportunity to foul Menez, drove him out of the sideline, and threw him to the ground in a very embarrassed manner.
After Ribery pushed the person, he went to Ramenez enthusiastically, so that the other party could not realize that he was actually intentional... Chu Zhongtian saw all these scenes, and of course he knew that Ribery was doing it on purpose, targeting Menez.
Assistant coach David Carre was the referee on the court. The other coaches gathered together to watch the game and chat.
"Oh, ah... it seems that the two of them are not getting along well..."
"Is this normal? It's just a very ordinary foul."
"I'm quite worried about the atmosphere in the locker room..."
Amid the coaches' discussion, Fernandez never said anything.
After Menez received the ball, he rarely passes the ball, but instead rushes forward alone, and then forcibly shoots after passing through the ball continuously. His skills are indeed excellent, and his speed and explosive power are also good, but a tiger cannot defeat a group of wolves. When he frequently falls into double-teams of two to three people, no matter how good his skills are, he cannot use them.
"It's like Frank first came to the team..." Coach Tadio shook his head.
Fernandez, who had not spoken, suddenly said: "No, he is completely different from Frank."
Tadio looked back at him.
"Frank is just alone on the court, but in the locker room he has a good relationship with his teammates. And Jeremy is different..."
"Do you regret it now?" Tadio laughed.
Fernandez shook his head: "Good players always have personality. Take your time."
※※※In fact, Menez is indeed one of the focus of discussions in the Metz locker room. After all, in addition to Ribery, Metz is the most famous in France, and he really has the capital to be arrogant.
He is the best among the young generation in France. He has just become the youngest hat-trick finisher in Ligue 1 history. He is also the youngest professional and playing player in Ligue 1 history. He has also won the European Youth Championship for the French Under-17 youth team. In the final, they defeated the Spanish National Youth Team, known as the "king of youth training". He has excellent skills and is completely comparable to Ribery in the team.
He can understand such conditions even if he is arrogant.
So except for Ribery, other teammates were not surprised or indignant at the arrogance that Menez showed.
Even Chu Zhongtian was not very sensitive. He just felt that this new teammate was not easy to get along with, and he always felt a strong sense of superiority when speaking. Moreover, he did not show this on purpose, he was completely subconscious.
Whenever he felt superior again, Chu Zhongtian frowned. He thought that he was not the captain or the locker room leader, and taught a lesson to a new player? It seemed that he did not have the qualification yet... Let's see what Mr. Fernandez would do.
Compared with Menez, he hated the group of Chinese journalists even more. He compared him with Ahn Jung-hwan all day long and said "Asian Double Stars". This made him get goosebumps, which was so numb and disgusting. I had nothing to do with Ahn Jung-hwan, just because everyone is Asian players, so I have to mention "Asian Double Stars"? I also "wear double star shoes and travel around the world without any fear"!
When Ahn Jung-hwan was calling for the wind and rain at the Japan-Korea World Cup, he was just a bartender working in a bar. No matter what Ahn Jung-hwan has at least participated in the World Cup, what about him? He didn't know what he and Ahn Jung-hwan could be said together. He didn't know if the Korean media would hype it like this, and probably wouldn't. With Chu Zhongtian's understanding of Koreans, they should only be Ahn Jung-hwan in their eyes now. Ribery, himself and Menez, don't take it seriously.
Chu Zhongtian found that he would also be stubborn. He ignored many reporters' questions at all, walked straight through the crowd and walked towards the locker room, and the group of reporters did not dare to stop him. It was not that he deliberately wanted to stubborn, but that the questions asked by the reporters were too mentally retarded... He was embarrassed to answer.
※※※Mess’ pre-season preparations passed under such circumstances.
After buying Reimenez, Fernandez stopped further action in the transfer market. Menez was the "final work". French media were a little surprised that Menez chose to leave Sociolemes. They thought that Menez would either reject all teams and stay in Socio with peace of mind. Or they should choose a larger team, such as Monaco and Marseille, rather than a small team in a small town in northern France. There are not many people who know the relationship between Menez and Fernandez in the media.
The media even think that Menez's transfer to Metz is a very failed choice. He will only gradually sink here, stay away from everyone's vision, and eventually become obscured by everyone. Although the French do not know that allusion, the meaning is actually similar.
Menez, who debuted in Soshau, is a forward, but he can play in almost all positions in the midfield and frontcourt.
Fernandez believes that he is best at three positions - front midfielder, shadow forward and center. Among them, the front midfielder and shadow forward are the front midfielder, and the center is because he is tall and strong, and he can also play center. In fact, Laconb used Menez as the center from the beginning, and in the French under-17 youth team, Menez also played center.
Fernandez decided to change his face for Menez.
So in the warm-up match and training, he trained how to hide behind his teammates and make a fatal blow.
With Chu Zhongtian in the front midfielder, this position seems to be useless and there is no need to exist. Menez was fixed in the position of the shadow striker by Fernandez.
※※※Before the start of the new season, each team must submit the player's numbers to the Football Association for registration.
Chu Zhongtian hopes to change his current number. No. 30 doesn't look like a main number. In fact, he used to be a favored number, but since he played the No. 8 in Wimbledon Athletic for two seasons, he has fallen in love with this number. In the new season, he hopes to be able to wear No. 8 in the competition.
Head coach Fernandez did not participate in this matter. He asked Chu Zhongtian to negotiate with the original No. 8 master, the team's right-back Arigoro.
Chu Zhongtian didn't want to go when he heard that the head coach didn't care about this, but Ribery kept instigating him to go. "If you like that number, just say your thoughts."
So he bit the bullet and went to Arigolo and told him what he wanted.
Unexpectedly, Arigolo was very reasonable and said he gave up his number eight very readily: "Anyway, I don't look like a full-back in this number. I am always considered a midfielder, haha!"
Arigolo smiled as he touched his bald head.
In this way, Chu Zhongtian got the No. 8 jersey he liked. Ribery was still wearing his No. 10 jersey, no one snatched him, and no one dared to compete with him. Menez wore No. 18 jersey, and this number was fine. An Jung-hwan wore No. 19 jersey. The numbers of others were basically not changed.
Submit the number, it means that you have registered in the league and qualified to participate in the league and cup competition.
Register the number and the new season will be nowhere to go.
※※※On July 29th, the new season of the French Football League kicked off.
The opening match was staged between Marseille and Bordeaux, but Bordeaux, who played away, defeated Marseille 2-0. Marseille in the new season originally planned to let Fernandez be the head coach, but Fernandez refused Marseille's invitation after the end of last season. Marseille lost the first game in the new season at home. It seems that Marseille's club chairman Diouf still has to continue looking for a new head coach. It is worth mentioning that in this season, Rorik Cana, who once played for Paris Saint-Germain, had a falling out with Paris Saint-Germain's head coach Fornier and transferred to Marseille, the rival of the national derby.
This season, he will continue to fight against Chu Zhongtian as a Marseille player.
After this game, Metz was going to challenge Paris Saint-Germain away.
For the Parisians, this is a battle of revenge, because it was the penultimate round of last season that they lost to Metz to participate in the European League Cup. Paris Saint-Germain can only participate in domestic leagues and cups in the new season.
The Metz team did not continue their magical performance in the final moments of last season's last season. Their only highlight was that the Korean scorer Ahn Jung-hwan, who joined the team in the new season, started and scored a goal in the 67th minute. In addition, they were torn to pieces by the Paris Saint-Germain players who were struggling.
Menez started and was ambushed behind Ahn Jung-hwan as a shadow striker, but he did not cooperate with his teammates at all. When Chu Zhongtian passed the ball to him, he just buried his head in the dribbling, ignoring Chu Zhongtian was by his side, and waved to find the action he requested.
In the last stage of last season, Chu Zhongtian and Metz performed well, and they were inseparable from Chu Zhongtian's continuous running and passing balls in the midfield. He was like a lubricant to ensure that all parts could operate normally. But this time, Metz's machine composed of eleven parts was stuck in Menez. Chu Zhongtian's brand lubricant could not be applied to Menez's part.
A single shot moved the whole body, and Paris Saint-Germain scored a goal early. They scored six minutes into the game, which made Metz a little confused. After that, due to Menez's discouple, the team's operation was still not smooth. In the 37th minute, Paris Saint-Germain seized the opportunity of Menez's mistake in the frontcourt, intercepted the ball and counterattacked. Chu Zhongtian's defense was not effective, and was thrown away by the opponent with a simple two-pass one.
2:0, midfielder Eduwado Cisse (edouard_cisse) made contributions to the team, and Paris Saint-Germain led two goals.
Later, Chu Zhongtian no longer passed the ball to Menez, but passed it to Ribery and Oblaniak on both sides just like last season, and the situation improved slightly. However, the overall Metz team had been destroyed by one Menez, and no matter how powerful Ribery was, it was a bit unstoppable. Moreover, with Menez, the team's cooperation was not smooth, and many cooperation could not be played.
During the halftime break, even Chu Zhongtian thought that Menez would definitely get criticized by Fernandez, but the head coach Fernandez didn't say a word.
Just three minutes into the second half, Metz was hit hard again. Roten scored the third goal for Paris Saint-Germain and led Metz 3:0.
At the beginning, Metz's players were immersed in their dream of winning Paris Saint-Germain 3:2 last season. Now the score is bloody and they dare not face it.
Menez's performance still did not improve. So in the 60th minute, Fernandez replaced him.
He was replaced so early. Although Fernandez didn't say anything during the halftime break, everyone can see from this substitution that the head coach was very dissatisfied with Menez's performance. You should know that Ribery also played solo in the team's first few games last season. The saliva of the outside media was almost flooding him. Fernandez still insisted not to replace Ribery in advance, not excluded him from the starting lineup, insisted that he plays as the main player, and played for several months.
Ribery saw Menez walking down with his head down and whistled behind him.
Chu Zhongtian heard his whistle and looked back at him. He shrugged and spread his hands at Chu Zhongtian: That boy deserves it!
Menez himself was very depressed that he was replaced in just 60 minutes. Despite this, he shook hands with Fernandez after he got out. Fernandez said something in his ear, and no one knew what it was. Anyway, after hearing this, Menez went straight into the locker room. After a while, he changed his clothes and took a shower, and he appeared on the bench again. So the TV commentator speculated that Fernandez should have said to Menez: "Go and take a shower and come back."
"This is really a boring guess..."
After guessing, the commentator started to laugh at himself.
It's really boring. Mess' performance in the first sixty minutes was simply a tragedy, and there was nothing to praise at all.
However, after replacing Menez, Metz's performance improved.
In the 67th minute, Ahn Jung-hwan scored his first goal to join Mets, which excited the Korean reporters in the media table.
This goal was planned by Chu Zhongtian, assisted by Oblaniak, and An Jung-hwan scored.
But this goal has helped Messe too little.
Ten minutes later, Paris Saint-Germain scored another goal, expanding the score to 4:1. This goal extinguished Metz's fighting spirit that had finally ignited.
The final score of the game was 4:1. Paris Saint-Germain defeated Metz at their home court and avenged a revenge last season.
Losing this game made Chu Zhongtian very depressed, because it was not just that it was lost, but they also lost miserably. The 1:4 score and the difference between the three goals made him feel unwell all night.
Losing made everyone feel unhappy, especially to Paris Saint-Germain, who they won at the last moment of last season. Menez's poor performance on the court was also privately complained by some players, and some people asked captain Bobby Coni to respond to the problem to coach Fernandez. Bobby Coni shrugged: "This is the first league game. I think we should give the newcomers some time to let him slowly integrate into the team. Have you all forgotten what Frank performed when he first arrived at our team?"
As soon as he said this, it would be hard for everyone to make trouble again. Ribery also felt that it was a bit difficult to talk about. His performance at the beginning of last season was as bad as Menez, but the head coach gave him enough patience to integrate into the team. Now he has integrated into the team, but there is no reason not to allow other new teammates to make mistakes... He really has no position to accuse Menez of being too independent.
Ribery had no choice but to roll her eyes and stop saying anything.
Chu Zhongtian said nothing, he had his own concerns - he was worried that if this continued, the team would lose some games that should not have been lost at the beginning of the season. It would be fine if he lost to Paris Saint-Germain in this game. Anyway, there was still a big gap in strength between the two teams, and these three-pointers were not planned. But what about the future games? What if the always allowed Menez to continue to do this?
Do you really have to bypass Menez and treat him as air and pass the ball to him on the court?
Chu Zhongtian believes that head coach Fernandez bought Menez to improve the team's strength, because it can be seen from his daily training that he is indeed a very capable young man. His skills are excellent and talented. As long as he performs normally and integrates into the team, Metz's strength will definitely be enhanced.
But the problem is that after Menez came, he did not integrate into the team, and did not actively seek to integrate into the team. He waved to Chu Zhongtian again and again during the game, asking Chu Zhongtian to pass the ball to him, but he did not pass the ball after receiving the ball. Only when he was forced too hard by his opponent would he reluctantly pass the ball. He seemed to want to be the leader of the team, but he didn't see if he had the qualification.
Chu Zhongtian hopes that Mr. Fernandez’s plan will not be messed up by this Menez. He doesn’t want to experience another relegation battle this season. Although it’s thrilling, he needs to relegate to the end of each season, which only means that their performance in the previous dozens of league games was all shit.
This is too harmful to self-esteem.
Chapter completed!