Chapter 90: The Last Act

On the training ground of the first team of Derby County, every player was sweating and devoting themselves to training. Their hard work made people feel a little moved.

It's not that they have the fighting spirit or something, it's really Wansheng's punishment of Michael Johnson... It's so cruel!

It's so ruthless that it makes their hearts go cold!

Two years in the Derby County youth team! This almost amounts to ruining Michael Johnson's career!

How many years can a professional player play in total?

That was two years!

Michael Johnson is already 27 years old. After two years in the youth team, he will be 29 years old. At that time, if he wants to continue to be a professional player, he can only play in the lower leagues. League One is definitely something you don't even have to think about.

Before, many people on the team were very angry with Michael Johnson. After all, what Johnson did was too much, but now they are a little pitiful, sympathetic to him, and also very scared.

There are also many of them who have no respect for Wansheng. It is because Wansheng is too young and has no qualifications. Even if he leads the team to complete the relegation and proves his ability, he is indeed not very dignified in the team. .

Before they didn't think that the Chinese coach would really take Michael Johnson.

The results of it?

No one thinks that way now!

On the training ground, every player put on a stance of training hard. It seemed that everyone had become a training madman. The scene of scrambling to make Derby County's normal training look full of vigor and vitality, but in fact they were all worried about Wansheng. dissatisfied with yourself.

In case that Chinese person is also dissatisfied with himself, and then he ends up with Michael Johnson... think about it, it's terrible!

Diamares was amazed to see how serious everyone's training was...and also happy, it made his job a lot easier.

In fact, Diamares was also surprised by Wansheng's approach.

He and the players think differently. He's a coach, and he knows Wansheng is about punishing Michael Johnson to establish his authority on the team. His majesty was really not high before, and many players privately disapproved of him.

But what surprised him was Wansheng's approach.

"Let Michael stay in the youth team until the end of the contract? Does he have the right? Will Mr. Wilcox agree?" But seeing Wan Sheng's confident smile, Diamares understood something.

Wansheng should have discussed it with Wilcox. and got some rights. Otherwise he could not have done so.

...

As a pitiful fellow sympathized with, Michael Johnson must have struggled between the cogs of fate.

It is impossible for him to stay in the youth team for two years, then his career will really be ruined, maybe he can think about what to do after retirement in these two years.

But he was only twenty-seven!

He played in the Premier League with Derby County two years ago and is now considering retirement? He was completely unprepared to accept it.

Michael Johnson didn't go to the youth team at all. He called his agent Beavers as soon as he left the field. told him about it. Then asked Beavers to negotiate with the club. He didn't believe that the Chinese had the right to stay on the team if he was "useless".

He was also the main player of Derby County before. Even if his performance was not very good, he didn't even have the chance to play at the end of the league, but there were still reasons for the club to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy him.

Beavers soon came to the Derby County club.

He immediately found the club's general manager Wilcox to negotiate. Derby County's transfer, management and other powers are in the hands of Wilcox. He believes that Wilcox will not sit idly by. occur. But in the end Wilcox just sighed and left him a sentence. "The team's affairs are all managed by Wansheng. He is the team's head coach. If he thinks Johnson is important, then I will not interfere."

Very solemn answer.

After saying this, Wilcox politely asked Beavers to leave.

When the office was closed, Wilcox sat back in the chair again with a helpless, wry smile on his face, and he finally understood Wan Sheng's last request.

That's all for him to establish his majesty in the team!

Losing a Michael Johnson for his majesty is a bit extravagant. How could it be hundreds of thousands of pounds? Wilcox felt a bit of a headache, but he also knew that he and Wansheng had already negotiated, and that he should no longer be Stuff like that.

So... Michael Johnson, good luck...

The only thing Wilcox can do for Johnson is to pray in his heart, and Wan Sheng doesn't take it seriously at all. The guy named Beavers also came to him, but Wan Sheng heard that the other party was Johnson's agent ignored him.

Then he started making arrangements for the final two games.

No one on the team took the last two games to heart, because they have been relegated successfully, and the last two games are not important at all. There is no difference between the 17th and 21st league rankings, they are both at the bottom of the league and they are both successful in relegation.

In short, these two games are not important.

However, Wan Sheng still has his own ideas. He wants to treat these two games as a training exercise. It can also be said that it is to experiment with the power of various formations, such as all-out attack, half-attack and half-defense, etc. Wait, he's going to use the actual game to test the effect of 'platoon formation'.

He had been arranging for everyone to train together two days before the game against Walsall.

Everyone was shocked by the Michael Johnson incident. When they saw Wan Sheng arrange the training in person, they all participated in the training with 200% of their spirit. They soon found that Wan Sheng was experimenting with tactics.

They understood, "The coach is preparing for next season!" Thinking that Wansheng said that the goal for next season is to upgrade, they will be more energetic.

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Time passed quickly, and the game with Walsall began in a blink of an eye.

This round of the game is not important to both sides, and the game has become unimportant. There are not many fans and reporters who came to watch the game. For both teams, this is a dispensable game. .

But since it is a competition, there is a winner and loser. Victory or defeat is not important to both teams, but victory is always better than defeat, so the two sides are still serious about fighting.

In this game, Wansheng used a formation of 'balanced offense and defense'.

Since it is a balance of offense and defense, a fixed formation is used to 'arrange troops'. Offensive and defensive ratings are not high. Such a formation will not show much strength in normal games. At that time, it will be like when Gregory is coaching, the team's offensive ability is not strong, and the defense is not good.

Wansheng's "offensive and defensive balance" is naturally not like this.

Now he has a very good understanding of the 'platoon formation' system, and he is very clear that the same lineup can also play different defensive and offensive abilities. For example, defensively. The defense of opening the offensive formation is naturally not good, but if the defensive line is compressed and the three fronts are pressed in front of the goal, no matter how bad the lineup is, the defensive evaluation will not be low.

The same goes on offense, opening up the formation so that every player has room to play, even if the overall lineup is a little off. It won't be too bad in terms of offensive evaluations either.

This is the 'platoon formation'.

If you just use systematic routines instead of mixing your own ideas into them. 'Arranging troops' is difficult to play a role, so this is just an 'assistance', and can't really decide anything.

The tactics of the Wansheng experiment were the same as the attack that suddenly broke out against Ipswich in the last game.

Using a set of formations to retreat to the entire line of defense can increase the ability to defend as much as possible, and then suddenly open the defense line to attack, which can greatly enhance the offensive ability.

The focus is on running.

Running back and forth, running from position, and running fast in transition from offense to defense. During training, the most difficult thing for the team to adapt to is the change of rhythm. When defending, the team shrinks the defense line slowly and passively to defend, while when attacking, The speed suddenly increased. This change of rhythm was a bit shocking to outsiders, and it was not easy for the players involved to really play.

The training effect in this area is not very good.

Now facing Walsall, Wansheng still decided to try the actual combat effect. As a result, Derby County was very chaotic in this game. The attack was chaotic, and the defense was also a little chaotic. Wansheng, who was standing on the sidelines, watched The team's performance can only shake their heads and smile bitterly. It still takes a lot of time for the team to adapt to this tactic.

However, Wansheng did not change his tactics, he still let the team continue to play like this.

In the end, Derby County lost the game.

However, they also had a bright spot in the game. It was the goal in the 65th minute of the second half. At that time, Derby County suddenly turned from defense to attack and caught Walsall by surprise. As a result, Morris got the opportunity and stabbed the ball with his toes. Going into the goal, the process of that goal was quite exciting. After the game, many media reported on the goal.

In the next game, Derby will face Gillingham.

Wansheng did not let the team adapt to the complex tactics of changing rhythm. He just sent out a set of the strongest offensive formation, and then let the team let go to attack. The evaluation of this offensive formation reached as many as '84' ​​points. , is the strongest attacking formation that Derby County can currently discharge.

Defensively, Derby County used full-court pressing.

"You don't need to retreat to defend! Start defending in the frontcourt, defend the whole court, and attack with all your strength!" This is Wansheng's requirement.

Derby County's players are somewhat used to the game and mainly focus on defense. They did not expect Wansheng to come up with such an open attacking tactic. This is completely ignoring defense and attacking. As a result, everyone is eager to try.

Derby County is full of fighting spirit.

Gillingham's players are all thinking about ending the game as soon as possible, and then they can start vacation after the league is over.

The mentality of the two teams was so different that their fighting spirit was not at the same level. As a result, the final battle at Pride Stadium was completely reduced to a massacre against Gillingham by Derby County.

It took only five minutes for Derby County to complete the first goal, and then in the 21st minute and 43rd minute of the first half, Derby County scored two goals to make it 3-0.

By this time Gillingham finally realized that if they continued to play like this, they would be reduced to a joke of the League One team, so they reorganized the defensive counter-attack in the second half to deal with the crazy attack of Derby County.

But the fighting spirit of the two teams is not at the same level. In addition, the Derby County players played very smoothly, and everyone showed their strength. The offensive evaluation of the team's '85' was at least '84' ​​by them. The result The slaughter continued in the second half, Morris, Marcus, and Reiter scored goals one after another, making Gillingham's goal pierced four more times.

The final match ended at 7:0.

Derby County also ended the season with a big win.

Many media reporters who were hostile to Wansheng were a little disappointed. They originally thought that they lost the last two Derby County games, so they could ridicule Wansheng in the summer and get a little revenge, but they failed to do so.

But the result is no longer important.

Wan Sheng attended the press conference after the game. This was the last time he appeared in public interviews this season, so many reporters came.

In front of the media and cameras, Wan Sheng walked to the podium with a kind smile on his face, "Ladies and gentlemen, this season is over!"

"Everyone of us did a good job. We finished the relegation ahead of schedule, and we beat Gillingham in the last game... Of course, it doesn't matter." The Gillingham coach on the side listened with a black face.

But Wan Sheng ignored him at all, and just said to a group of reporters, "In the past two months, what impressed me the most is that I just became the head coach. When I attended the press conference for the first time, many people came to interview me. , Some of them were on the scene, and some were not. The questions they asked at the time were very complicated...I couldn't answer them with normal human thinking..."

"After attending the press conference in earnest, I saw such a newspaper the next day."

Wan Sheng took out a newspaper from his arms like a conjurer. He opened the newspaper and handed it to the reporters in the front row, so that they could see it more clearly.

I saw a big headline on the homepage - "Who is he?"

This is a local "Life News". Except for the title, this report does not satirize Wan Sheng, but just introduces Wan Sheng, the new Derby County coach, like a search.

The reporters in the audience were immediately confused. They didn't quite understand what the Chinese meant.

Wan Sheng looked at the crowd with a smile, but suddenly clenched his fists and said loudly, "Two months ago, you didn't know me, and then asked me my name in the report, I have not answered, now the season is over, I can tell you clearly you……"

"My name is Wan Sheng, I'm Chinese, and I'm the head coach of the League One team Derby County!"

Wan Sheng said solemnly and left the press conference scene, leaving only a group of dumbfounded reporters looking at each other.

This is the final scene at the end of the season.

---The second update today, there is another update tonight, weakly asking for a monthly ticket---(To be continued ~^~)