Nine Hundred and Seventy-Two We Really Just Want to Avoid Relegation!

The team chooses the coach, and the coach often also chooses the team.

In fact, in European football, there are many good head coaches, but they often fail to choose a good team.

The one who impressed Gao Shen the most was Ronald Koeman, this is definitely a head coach who was pitted to death.

The Ajax youth guard team he coached back then won a lot of applause in European football. The team emerged like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Van der Vaart, Sneijder, De Jong, Heiting, etc. Wait for a vote of stars.

But after leaving Ajax, Koeman went to Benfica in the Portuguese Super League and encountered setbacks.

In fact, in Benfica, Koeman's coaching performance is not bad. He reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and finally lost to the winning Barcelona. Porto and Sporting Lisbon coached by Driance.

Returning to the Eredivisie from the Portuguese Super League, Ronald Koeman took over the giants Eindhoven, defeated his old club Ajax in the league, and won the Eredivisie championship, but Ronald Koeman never forgets go one step further.

So, in the second season of coaching Eindhoven, he took the risk of choosing Valencia to fight the fire.

But this time, it was completely reduced to Ronald Koeman's Waterloo, and he fell very badly.

When he took charge of Flores' Valencia, the bats were sixth in La Liga, but five months later when he sacked Valencia were 16th in La Liga and 18th out of the relegation zone. Huelva is only two points behind.

Since then, Ronald Koeman has almost cut off his connection with the five major leagues.

If you carefully analyze Koeman's failure in Valencia, is it really just the head coach's problem?

At that time, Valencia changed any head coach, including Gao Shen, and it would be bad luck if he stepped in.

Valencia chairman Soler is eager for success, seriously impatient, and there are many internal contradictions in the management, and he has imposed unrealistic performance pressure on the team.

As early as the previous season of Koeman's coaching, the former Flores had a quarrel with the sports director Caboni. He didn't use the Italian players introduced by Caboni. The locker room was panicked and everyone felt insecure.

After Flores got out of class, Koeman took over and tried to completely transform Valencia. From Flores' lifeless defensive counterattack, he held high the banner of offensive football, but this in turn caused Valencia Severe maladaptation of the players.

Because of this, the Valencia goalkeeper Canizares said in the media that he had played in Valencia for ten years, and Ronald Koeman was the worst head coach.

When a head coach is evaluated in this way by his players, the consequences can be imagined.

In Gao Shen's previous life, Ronald Koeman has missed the five major leagues since then, until he was appointed by Southampton to succeed Pochettino to coach the Saints.

He had another success with the Saints, but then suffered another failure at Everton.

In fact, Coman's experience is not bad.

In European football, there are many outstanding head coaches who have no chance of turning around because of one Waterloo.

Who can I turn to for reasoning?

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From Ronald Koeman's coaching resume, it is not difficult to see that for a head coach to succeed, he often needs the right time, place and people, and both are indispensable.

This naturally forms an interesting phenomenon.

The bigger the head coach is, the more he has the right to speak, the more support he can get from all sides, and the more likely he is to succeed.

And those head coaches in the middle and lower reaches often don't have very good choices, and many times they even do it for a job, to make a living, no matter whether it is good or not, the job has to be taken.

Of course, correspondingly, big-name coaches are often faced with heavy pressure on performance.

But one thing is certain, that is, choosing a suitable team is crucial.

Gao Shen believes that it is definitely not a wise choice to rush to take over the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League during the winter break.

Pochettino belongs to the kind of team-building head coach with his own tactical system. It is not wrong to be good at internal digging, but he often needs the support of the team and a lineup configuration suitable for his strengths.

Over the years, although the Premier League has been adopting a continental style and learning from the European continent, more teams are in the upper reaches, and there are fewer teams in the middle and lower reaches, and they often have very realistic performance needs.

To put it simply, they want to learn the European style of play, and more importantly, they want to improve their performance.

If the new tactics brought by the head coach can't effectively improve the team's performance, then I'm sorry, get out of class and get out of class.

Just like Queens Park Rangers, the current management of this team is very chaotic and there are big problems. The current head coach is the famous coach Mark Hughes. In the past two seasons, they supported Mark Hughes to introduce a team. A large number of players with British local style, such as Leeds United's former captain Howson, and Wright Phillips.

Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how difficult it is for a new head coach, coaching Queens Park Rangers, to transform this team from a native British style to a European continental style.

This is even more difficult, arduous and dangerous than Ronald Koeman's transformation of Valencia before.

Ronald Koeman at least has Ajax's coaching success, what about Pochettino?

Several other teams are similar.

After being analyzed by Gao Shen, Pochettino immediately realized that if he really wanted to take over a team like Queens Park Rangers, he might ruin his start with the Spaniard.

"Thank you, Gao, I understand." Pochettino was also secretly grateful.

Fortunately, he came to Madrid to ask for advanced advice.

"Mauricio, if..."

Gao Shen looked at Pochettino and said with a serious face, "I mean, if you are really interested in coaching the Premier League, you might as well wait and see in half a year."

Although Gao Shen didn't say it to death, Pochettino is also a smart person, and he immediately understood Gao Shen's meaning.

In recent times, Leeds United head coach Sarri has been associated with many Serie A giants, which immediately made Pochettino understand the profound meaning.

Juventus, Inter Milan, Naples and AC Milan are all interested in Sarri. Among them, Allegri of Naples is likely to leave, so De Laurentiis and Marino both hope that Naples Sarri will return to his hometown to coach.

Before, De Laurentiis called Gao Shen and talked about the Sarri matter, but before the dust settles on this kind of matter, everything is still hard to say.

Pochettino is an insider, of course he understands the twists and turns.

Ask yourself, if there is a chance to coach Leeds United, then he will definitely be willing to wait.

Not to mention anything else, Pochettino was greatly impressed by the team's team, management, and Gao Shen's ambition.

He is very clear that this is a team with great plans!

Because of this, when Gao Shen invited Pochettino to go to the UK for vacation after Christmas, watch a few Leeds United games by the way, visit Leeds United's training base, and also meet some Premier League friends and head coaches , Where would Pochettino hesitate, he agreed on the spot.

This is Gao Shen's support to him, helping him to establish contacts in the Premier League.

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It is also a coincidence.

Pochettino almost took over Queens Park Rangers here, and Leeds United played against this London team on Boxing Day. After Gao Shen and his team flew to London from Madrid, Spain, they went straight to watch the game.

In addition to Gao Shen and Pochettino, there is also Gao Shen's wife Su Qing in this business.

Su Qing is already a big belly now, Gao Shen really doesn't want her to follow her, but she can't hold back Su Qing's stubbornness.

In her words, her home in Madrid is almost growing mushrooms, so she wants to go out for a walk.

On the day they arrived in London, Leeds United defeated Queens Park Rangers 3-0 with goals from Jorginho, Icardi and Pogba.

Mark Hughes' team was slaughtered at home.

This sad reminder of England's local coach is now one step closer to dismissing get out of class.

After watching the game, Gao Shen jokingly asked Pochettino, "Do you still want to coach them now?"

Pochettino grinned.

If he really coached Queens Park Rangers, then he would probably win the title of head coach of a relegated team.

Of course, if he can lead the team to relegation, his reputation will be even better.

But it looks difficult.

After watching the game in London, Gao Shen, Su Qing and others did not go to meet the team, but greeted Lucas, Borel and others, and then set off north and returned to their home in Cheshire.

The hotel's housekeeping had been asked to clean up before, so Gao Shen and his group checked in directly.

After staying in Cheshire for two days, Gao Shen went to meet some friends, but Ferguson was not included.

Because Leeds United is going to challenge Ferguson in an away game next time, if they meet at this time, if they are reported by the media, they will be more or less suspicious.

This level of vigilance is still there.

However, despite the profound self-discipline, Leeds United still failed to upset in the away game.

In this battle at Old Trafford, Valencia assisted Rooney to score a goal in just nine minutes.

Afterwards, Leeds United and Manchester United fought frantically, but neither of them could score again.

Until the end of the game, in the 90th minute, Valencia sent another cross from the right, and Rooney scored in front of the goal, sealing the victory for Manchester United.

In the end, the Red Devils defeated Leeds United 2-0 at home.

After losing this game, Leeds United's league ranking fell to sixth place again, and Tottenham and Arsenal, who had won two consecutive victories, came from behind.

However, in the twenty-first round of the Premier League, Tottenham defeated Reading 3-1 at home and continued to maintain the fourth position in the league, while Arsenal drew 1-1 away.

Leeds United narrowly beat Fulham 2-1 at home, reversing Arsenal and ranking fifth in the Premier League.

Whether it is Gao Shen, or Lucas, Borrell and Sarri, or other professionals, including Ferguson and Wenger, they basically see the problem of Leeds United.

Although the performance of this team is very good, but the background is still lacking a lot.

After the Old Trafford battle, Ferguson asserted that Leeds United's goal should be to keep the top eight.

Top four in the league?

That's just overthinking.

Gao Shen also deeply agrees with this.

But at the beginning of the season, Leeds United's goal was obviously only to relegation.

To blame, he can only blame this group of young players from Leeds United for bringing him too many surprises.