At the start, Mane and Salah flew on both wings

Now that the transfer is over, Zhou Xu can now start training and pre-season friendly matches.

Although players such as Kanter and De Bruyne still have the opportunity to sign, Zhou Xu is no longer invested. He must ensure that in addition to the transfer budget, the club's salary budget is sufficient, and the remaining money is sufficient for the operation and use of the club.

In the pre-season friendly match, Zhou Xu selected four opponents and played one game every week for a month to ensure that the players could get enough rest and still have games to play every week.

The four opponents are Chelms and Stafford in the amateur league and Millwall and Watford in the Championship.

Zhou Xu personally coached the first friendly match against Chelms. This was also the first football match that Zhou Xu coached. This game will be a touchstone to test his tactics.

In the starting list, in addition to Zhou Xu's 8 signings, the left back choice is Joel Taylor. He is not strong, but he is already the best left back that Zhou Xu can choose.

24-year-old Christian Pierce is Maguire's central defender partner. The Barbados international has good defensive abilities and is considered a strong player in the English League One.

The starting right back, 24-year-old Aaron Nyman, started the game. This English player has extremely fast speed, but apart from speed, this full-back can be said to be useless.

The starting 11 are confirmed, and most of the substitutes are Notts County players.

Since the opponent was an amateur team, the result of this game was naturally very crushing. 7:1, Notts County won easily.

In the next game against amateur opponents, Zhou Xu asked assistant coach Williams to coach in his place.

Williams took over Zhou Xu's job, and he was able to walk around Nottinghamshire. As he walked, he met a woman

"Hello, you are Zhou Xu, the new chairman of Notts County. You look so young."The woman greeted her warmly and handed something over.

I'm just young, okay?" He complained in his heart, but still took the thing the woman handed him.

It was a resume. Zhou Xu, who had just become the chairman, kept When recruiting the coaching staff, there are also a lot of resumes, but this is the first time I have submitted them in person.

"I also submitted my resume to other clubs, but they didn’t even take a second look at me because I was a girl and decided that I was not good."The woman is only 21 years old. 21 years old, that should be a girl. The resume says that her name is Laura and she wants to apply for the position of recruitment analyst at Notts County.

This is the sixth recruitment analyst position that Zhou Xu has received. Resume, but with a prestigious university and good looks, Laura will be a strong contender for this position.

Looking at it again, she is indeed very beautiful, eh.

"You have been accepted, Laura. The director of football will discuss the relevant contracts with you later. Your task will be to inspect and analyze with me the players I need you to inspect, and to observe and report on the characteristics of the opponent's players before I coach the team against them."

"Really? Thank you, boss."Laura is very excited. After graduating from university, she has been looking for a job in football. Her father, as a Notts County fan, very much hopes that she can work in Notts County, because in this way her father can get the exclusive job of the club staff. The old man had a hunch that under the leadership of the new chairman and head coach, the team would reach a peak that was unimaginable before.

"Do you want to go shopping with me or go to the club?"Zhou Xu asked Laura, although the hint was obvious. However, Laura was obviously stupid in studying. She actually chose to work in the club. Helpless, Zhou Xu could only find a tavern at random and meet Novo in the tavern. Notts County fans watch the friendly match against Notts County together

"Wow, Pogba, where on earth did our beloved president find this French genius. This wonderful pass, the physicality, the free kick, it was wonderful."

A fat man praised Pogba. Pogba just scored a free kick directly into Stafford's goal.

"Zidane? This French guy happens to be from France too, so he may be the next Zidane."

Everyone is still discussing Pogba. Notts County has led 3:0 in this game. In addition to Pogba's goal, the other two goals are also related to him. He sent two assists.

"No, he is Pogba, not the next Zidane."

Zhou Xu suddenly interrupted the topic

"What to say?"

The fat man glanced dissatisfied. He was a super fan of Zidane. His love for Zidane was only second to Notts County.

"Chairman Zhou," the fat man was stunned and quickly introduced himself,"Chairman Zhou, my name is Harry. My father, my grandfather and I, and even the previous generation, we are all Notts County fans. Thank you, Chairman Zhou. , although I don’t know where you found these geniuses, but it seems that we can really achieve everything by relying on these geniuses."

Zhou Xu was stunned for a moment. He had found a family fan. He shook hands with Harry and learned that Harry had no time to watch the game and could only watch the game while working in the bar. Only then did Zhou Xu find out about this fat man. The man had a bar.

The bar quickly became lively, and everyone wanted to say hello to Zhou Xu.

"Chairman Zhou, I really doubted you before, but seeing your investment, we no longer doubt you. Chairman Zhou, take us to the Premier League!"

Gradually, everyone's pleasantries turned into taking us to the Premier League.

"I know how to do it, and everyone has seen it. I have recruited a lot of geniuses. Someone once was questioned that I can't win anything with a group of kids, but I will win everything with this group of kids. We are going to the Premier League!"

Zhou Xu shouted at the end. Immediately afterwards, Harry Maguire scored the last goal. His header left the opponent helpless. Notts County won again in this game 4:1.

"Chairman Zhou, why don’t you coach this game?"An old man asked Zhou Xu,"The coach should coach his own team more."

"Old man, you know. Notts County is currently in dire straits. I have been interviewing staff. I just finished the interview and came here to watch our team play."

He replied with a smile. Looking at this group of fans, Zhou Xu understood that he could lead this Notts County team and win everything with the support of the fans.

Now that the game is over, Zhou Xu has returned to the club. He just returned When he arrived at the club, Zhou Xu received information from Montagu. It turned out that Viseu and Covija of the Portuguese First Division wanted to invite Notts County for a friendly match. After confirming with the fitness coach Ian Hutton, two more people were added. After a friendly match that would not lead to a physical collapse of the players, Zhou Xu agreed to the friendly match invitation.

Zhou Xu personally coached the match against Viseu. The Portuguese League is almost as strong as the English League One, and the strong teams even include the English Championship. intensity, but Viseu cannot reach it.