Chapter 192 There Is Great Potential and Many Problems, but Mourinho Is Confident that He Can Create a Youth Storm!

The first impression Abramovich gave to Leon was not that of a wealthy boss or a rich man, but that of a middle-aged uncle who looked low-key and kind.

Jeans, a plaid shirt, and a pair of sunglasses.

When Leon first met Abramovich at the airport, his first impression was very good.

The Abramovich in front of him was a perfect match with the best Chelsea boss in his memory.

When Leon uttered fluent Russian to greet Abramovich, Abramovich and his assistant on the plane were all stunned.

After the surprise and simple explanation, the atmosphere in the plane suddenly became more relaxed.

Abramovich did not immediately talk to Leon about the team in the new season, but talked to Leon a lot about China and Russia.

In this regard, Abramovich felt that Leon was the player he could talk to the most.

Abramovich's talkativeness became high, and Abramovich's assistant was also amazed in his heart.

Although he is a boss who is usually easy-going, he has a good relationship with the players in the club.

But it is so rare to have a casual conversation with players like this.

This can only mean one thing, that is, Li Ang has a unique position in Abramovich's heart.

It is definitely not as simple as signing a football superstar.

When Li Ang took Abramovich's private plane to London, all the media in London sent their capable reporters to the airport in a hurry.

In the closed Cobham training base, Mourinho was standing on the sidelines in a good mood watching Chelsea players train their physical fitness.

And the young Chelsea players who were panting heavily during Rui Faria's training still had the leisure to talk about topics related to Li Ang during the short break.

There is no way, Li Ang made too much noise in this summer window.

And the fact that his own club dug Li Ang with a higher penalty than the penalty also shocked these young Chelsea players born in the 1990s.

No matter what era it is, the transfer fee can well reflect the status of a player in the new team.

No one would think that Li Ang, who spent 80 million on Chelsea, just came to London to continue to be a pure defensive player.

In other words, these young Chelsea players also understand that they are likely to rebuild the team around Li Ang.

For Lukaku and De Bruyne, who are currently unknown in the Chelsea team, it doesn't matter.

After all, they are still working hard to stay in Chelsea.

They have no opinion on who will be the core of the team in the future.

But for Oscar and Hazard, who played well last season, this news naturally makes them mixed.

Li Ang's arrival will undoubtedly further strengthen Chelsea's offensive and defensive strength in the middle of the midfield.

At that time, with Li Ang's defensive protection, these players who play in the frontcourt attacking position will also have more room to play.

But what if Li Ang comes to Chelsea not to play as a defensive midfielder?

What if he wants to change to playing as a front midfielder and transform into a ball-holding attacking midfielder?

Then Oscar's position and Hazard's ball possession, can they still be guaranteed by the coaching staff?

This is a big trouble and problem for the two.

It's not that they want to make things difficult for Li Ang, but there are only two or three people in a team who hold the ball and play the offensive midfielder position.

If the later ones want to share more ball possession and tactical positions, the ones in front will have to make concessions and tactical sacrifices.

If it's just about words, then anyone can say it, and anyone can become a sacrificial team player in words.

But when it comes to doing it, when it comes to their own interests, it's another matter.

The two men's absent-mindedness at this moment was naturally noticed by Mourinho

But Mourinho didn't plan to talk to them right away.

It's better to let the players solve the problems between the players themselves.

Whether they are worthy of this tactical position, whether they want to cooperate frankly with stronger teammates.

Mourinho believes that after Li Ang officially participates in Chelsea's training, these young Chelsea players will know how to make choices.

Another day of devilish physical training is over, and Chelsea's young players all rushed to the physiotherapy area for massage.

The Chelsea veterans who are still doing recovery training today are listening to Essien telling the story of his honors in Real Madrid in the past year and a half.

The part related to Li Ang is naturally what these Chelsea veterans are more interested in.

"I dare to bet with you, watch, I will never take the initiative to contact the little lion today, but tomorrow at noon at the latest, you will see him appear on the training ground!

He is a complete training maniac. If he asks you to practice more in the future, really, don't agree!

After the extra training, he said he would treat you to dinner, then don't go, absolutely don't go!"

At this point, Essien seemed to recall that Leon and Ronaldo "enthusiastically" invited him to have a big meal together after the extra training.

Good man, those boiled vegetables, baked potatoes, fried steaks and boiled chicken breasts sprinkled with coarse salt, he really didn't want to touch them again!

Compared with those things, he even felt that looking up at the stars was not so hard to swallow.

Terry was more interested when he heard Essien say this.

His understanding of Leon was basically from previous reports by the British media.

But with Essien's vivid narration these days, he found that Leon was a very interesting young man.

At least it was much more vivid than the image described in the newspapers that he was not interested in women at all, boring and homely, and too calm.

Maybe by then, these old guys will get along with Leon much better than he had imagined before.

The grand occasion of Leon's arrival in London that day was quickly spread all over the world with the shooting of reporters of all sizes near the airport.

The fans holding up welcome banners near the airport are not only Chelsea fans in London.

There are also many Real Madrid fans and Asian fans in London.

And looking at the long guns and short guns in the photo, the reporters are scrambling to interview Li Ang.

Countless fans on the Internet are also very surprised. Just looking at this scene, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Ang is currently the top star in the football world.

Whether the status and strength have reached the superstar standard is not discussed first, the influence and sensational effect are obviously enough.

However, just like the style in Madrid, Li Ang still refused all media interview requests during the off-season.

In the eyes of the local media in London, this is definitely a show of strength from Li Ang!

In this regard, Li Ang and his mentor Mourinho are exactly the same.

But there is no way, who makes Li Ang the focus of traffic in the entire football world now?

For sales, the media in London have to try their best to contact Li Ang.

However, the reporters in London are not panicking now. They think that they will have a chance to interview Li Ang.

After all, Li Ang has just arrived and is not familiar with London. He has to find a house and buy a car, right?

After finding a house, if he doesn't like the place, he has to find a way to renovate it and buy some furniture he likes, right?

Reporters with connections in these aspects can easily get in touch with the players in need.

When the time comes, just say a few good words and help a little, and the interview will be completed smoothly, right?

But what these reporters never expected was that after Li Ang arrived at the hotel in London, he directly handed the RV problem to the assistant team to solve, and he didn't want to ask at all.

Yes, stars of Li Ang's status and income level generally pay more attention to the quality of life.

But Li Ang is different.

He neither lives with his family nor has a partner of the opposite sex.

Without considering other people's opinions, he directly set four housing requirements for his assistant team and ignored it.

First, it should be close enough to the Cobham training base.

Second, the environment should be good enough and the green area should be large enough.

Third, it should not be too noisy, and it is best to have a single-family villa.

Fourth, hire the best security team. It doesn’t matter if it costs more. Li Ang doesn’t want to find his bedroom pried open when he returns home one day. That would be really bad!

As for the car, Li Ang’s requirements are even simpler. It should be comfortable to drive and have enough space.

So the London reporters who waited for a long time did not wait for the big news that Li Ang’s team was looking for a house in London.

Instead, some Chelsea fans who were ambushing outside the Cobham training base received an unexpected surprise.

Early in the morning of July 20, a small number of Chelsea fans who were squatting outside the Cobham training base were surprised to see Li Ang coming to the training base in the club’s special car.

What surprised them even more was that Li Ang signaled the staff to stop the car at the gate of the base, and then Li Ang got out of the car to greet them and sign autographs.

The lucky Chelsea fans who were hit by this huge surprise quickly posted photos with Li Ang on social media.

Li Ang, who gave a surprise to all the reporters in London, also gave his new teammates a big surprise at the Cobham training base!

After completing a few simple physical examinations, Li Ang first met with Mourinho and Mr. Rui Faria.

Then he got to know the team's new assistant coach Mr. Steve Holland and the rest of Chelsea's new coaching staff.

"Hello Li Ang, welcome to Chelsea! Have you been keeping up with basic training recently? Your physical condition looks pretty good!"

After Steve Holland greeted Li Ang, he patted Li Ang's arm in surprise.

Although Li Ang had started the pre-season training with Real Madrid in Madrid before, he had to deal with transfer matters these days.

Steve Holland thought that Li Ang would stop training for a few days to complete the transfer.

Unexpectedly, Li Ang's condition looked much better than he expected.

Mourinho and Rui Faria were not surprised.

After the physical examination, Li Ang just took a simple tour of the internal environment of the Cobham training base.

Then he asked Mourinho directly where the locker room and strength room were.

After two days of not doing intensive training, Li Ang felt that his body muscles were eager to exercise and sweat.

Steve Holland was stunned by Li Ang's vigorous style.

He has seen many new young players in Chelsea for so many years.

But none of them is like Li Ang, who is serious and starts training as soon as he arrives at the training base!

The key is that Li Ang did not mean to show off. Mourinho directly asked Steve Holland to take Li Ang to the locker room and strength room first.

He and Rui Faria went to the office to check the content of today's training.

On the way, Li Ang and Steve Holland communicated enthusiastically.

After watching Li Ang's so-called "warm-up" strength training for an hour and a half, Steve Holland kindly reminded Li Ang.

"Today, the whole team will train for physical training, but your training volume has been increased. How about I tell He Sai later and ask you to do some recovery training today?"

Li Ang shook his head when he heard it.

"I know, Mr. Steve. The boss told me before I came that we would do physical training today. I also read the training plan in advance. It's okay. I'm just making up for the training surplus..."

Before Li Ang finished speaking, Steve Holland thought he had heard it wrong.

He participated in the recent physical training throughout the whole process.

Hazard and Lukaku were trained to death every day, but Li Ang said he wanted to make up for the training surplus?

Steve Holland wanted to persuade Li Ang kindly, but he suddenly remembered Li Ang's performance in Real Madrid.

"Maybe Li Ang is serious, and this amount of training really can't reach his limit?"

Holland had such a thought in his mind, and then he didn't say anything more.

After watching Li Ang finish a full set of strength and aerobic training quietly, Holland took him back to the locker room.

At this moment, there were already many Chelsea players in the locker room chatting and changing training clothes.

The moment Holland took Li Ang into the locker room, these Chelsea players immediately stopped communicating and all looked at the new teammates who had not appeared in the past few days but had been in their chats.

Li Ang, who had seen countless big scenes in Real Madrid, was not stage-frightened. He introduced himself very enthusiastically as soon as he opened his mouth, and then shook hands and hugged his new teammates one by one.

Perhaps before this, Li Ang's impression of this group of Chelsea players was a little vague in his memory.

But after the actual meeting, Li Ang still called out the names of every Chelsea player very enthusiastically and accurately.

His behavior is naturally quite pleasing.

At least in the eyes of Holland and Chelsea players, Li Ang had done enough homework before coming to Chelsea, and was willing to communicate with them enthusiastically.

After spending a few minutes getting to know the new teammates, Li Ang and Essien finally hugged each other with a tacit understanding.

After a while of greeting, Holland led the neat Chelsea players to the training ground.

Before the training started, Li Ang naturally stood at the front again and introduced himself to all the new teammates and the current Chelsea coaching staff.

Mourinho put more familiar links directly into today's training.

The young Chelsea players who were crying and screaming in Rui Faria's training a few days ago only took two hours in the morning to get a preliminary understanding of Li Ang's physical strength.

Is a player strong, and how strong is he?

It is really easy to see in training.

At least after the first physical training class in the morning, Hazard was quite convinced by Leon's physical fitness level.

They were wailing, but Leon was enjoying it!

Yes, looking at the relaxed expression on Leon's face, Hazard could only think that he was enjoying this training.

All the other young Chelsea players were also unconvinced by Leon.

But they didn't know that the physical training plan formulated by Rui Faria today was the result of reducing the burden on Pintus's previous devil physical training plan.

That devil physical training could make Benzema and others vomit directly, but Leon could hold on completely and use it as his normal physical training.

Hazard and others have not even experienced the original devil physical training.

Do you feel very painful now? Do you think it is very hard to hold on?

Li Ang just smiled and said nothing.

He knew that Mourinho would definitely start the real devil physical training later, so that Chelsea players could feel it first. Then, it would be fun to watch~

After the physical training in the morning, Mourinho announced something that was completely good news for the current Chelsea players.

This afternoon, they will not train their physical fitness, but will practice tactics and play a training match within the team.

This is a complete relief for Chelsea's young players.

And they finally have the opportunity to show their technical characteristics in front of Mourinho.

Very excited.

Like Lukaku and De Bruyne, the two guys are even more full of energy, just waiting to perform well in front of Mourinho!

The reality is quite cruel.

The physical fitness of these guys is enough, but in the tactical drills and confrontation matches in the afternoon, their performance can only be said to be fighting on their own, a mess.

After all, you want to play, and I want to play, but there is only one football, and there are many people who want to have more possession of the ball, so it is easy for such a situation to occur.

After all, Hazard and Oscar had a long time to get along last season, and they had some tacit understanding when they worked together.

But in Mourinho's eyes, he could only give these two guys a passing score.

In contrast, Li Ang, who was assigned to the group of veterans, integrated very quickly.

His sweeping kick on the defensive end made Lampard, who is now transforming to play as a defensive midfielder, feel a long-lost comfort.

And Li Ang's habit of distributing the ball in time after a quick breakthrough in the middle also surprised Torres in the veteran group.

Li Ang is also slowly changing his kicking style, but he doesn't have much possession of the ball after all, and he can bond the front and back courts very well, playing an important role on both offense and defense.

To describe it more directly, it is Li Ang's way of playing that can make the veterans who partner with him play more comfortable and more down-to-earth.

He does a lot of work. He can actively retreat to defend and protect the defensive midfielder. He can even directly retreat to the defensive midfielder position to protect the central defender line!

When attacking, if there is no good shooting opportunity, Li Ang will not shoot easily.

So he basically does not take the right to shoot, and he is active in passing the ball forward.

Which veteran does not like to partner with such a young man?

Li Ang's excellent training performance is within Mourinho's expectations.

Of course, the immature performance of Chelsea's current group of young players is actually within Mourinho's expectations.

However, compared with three or four years ago, Mourinho now has more patience for the plasticity of young players.

In terms of talent, the young players in Chelsea are not lacking at present.

What they lack is more game time, and more patient training and tolerance from the coaching staff.

It can be said that the experience of training Castilla in Real Madrid in the past two years has made Mourinho more calm and more patient with young players.

Although Lukaku always likes to pull to the side in the training ground, De Bruyne always likes to disobey tactical instructions and unexpectedly pass the ball, which are not good habits.

But Mourinho, who was previously tortured by Morata's double inverted feet and worried about Hesse's lack of tactical discipline, can now look at the shortcomings of these young players with a normal heart.

In general, Chelsea's current batch of young players have great potential and many problems.

But with Li Ang sitting in the midfield, Mourinho is confident in his heart.

Set off a youth storm for Chelsea in the new Premier League season!

I may only be able to update 10,000 today. There will be another chapter later. I have to have dinner with my family. I will continue to update 15,000 tomorrow!