Coaching career started as a college team coach

"Diogo Jota!"

Guo Guangchang subconsciously asked Wei Le if he had any recommendations, and Wei Le took out a player report directly from his handbag.

(ps: Jota was later translated as Jota, and he will be called Jota from the next chapter)

"As far as I know, this player has just joined Atletico Madrid for 7 million euros, and Atletico Madrid obviously has no place for him. But this young man who has scored 18 goals and 14 assists in the Portuguese Super League needs game time."

This is a function brought to him by the system. The system will regularly recommend some players to him. Some of them are already famous, and some are talented in the system evaluation, but now they are still unpopular. Jota is the player he saw from the system recommendation.

Guo Guangchang took the report and frowned. He roughly flipped through it. Not only did Wei Le's various evaluations of the player's performance and ability in the game, but even his position in the future team tactics had been designed.

Guo Guangchang didn't know who Diogo Jota was, but Matt Hobbs, the football director who had been sitting next to him without saying anything, looked serious. He leaned over and said a few words to Guo Guangchang. Wei Le saw Guo Guangchang put down the report and looked up at Wei Le's eyes. Wei Le just looked at him calmly.

"Coach Wei, when you hand me this report now, it looks like you have become the head coach of the team."

Wei Le knew that it was time to get to the point. He thought about it and shook his head.

"I am just making suggestions as a head coach candidate. Wolves is the first team I have entered my coaching career, and I hope to do something for the team. Even if I can't become the head coach of the team immediately, you can share this report and other player suggestions that have not been given to you with the next head coach."

Guo Guangchang didn't know this player, but Matt Hobbs knew it very well. After Fosun Group took over the team, it made many personnel adjustments. At this time, Mendes came to the door because he saw the lack of experience of Fosun Group. He hopes to sign some terms with the team's sports management department to allow him to recommend players for the team and serve as a consultant to share the team's profits.

Of course, he recommended his own Portuguese players.

But Diogo Jota was one of the players he recommended. The transfer price of 7 million euros in 2016 was already very high for a 19-year-old teenager, but in that transfer window where superstars shone, Pogba's transfer fee of over 100 million attracted most people's attention.

In any case, Hobbs didn't know how Wei Le got the information about this player. But it seems that his views on player selection are very advanced.

After Wei Le finished speaking, the room fell into silence for a while.

In the end, it was Guo Guangchang who sighed first.

"As you can see, I have never been involved in the sports industry. The team's personnel adjustments are not stable yet. We only know that Kenny Jackett can't achieve our goal, but who can achieve it?"

After that, Guo Guangchang stood up and stretched out his hand, "We will tell you the result soon."

Wei Le also stretched out his hand. This handshake only represented friendship and courtesy. Wei Le couldn't see more information from the other party's face. Although he was a little disappointed, he knew that it was useless to be anxious at this time, so he turned around and left.

Although the final result has not yet come out, Wei Le is already thinking about his return to the U21 team in the next season. Maybe in a few years, he will try this position again, or maybe he will go to other teams to seek job opportunities.

"Wait a minute."

When Wei Le had already opened the door and stepped out of the room, he heard Guo Guangchang calling him.

So he turned around and saw that the successful businessman took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind.

"To be honest, I think I haven't made such a "casual" decision for a long time. But sometimes, courage is what we need." Guo Guangchang said with a smile, "Coach Wei, do you have any requirements regarding salary?"

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When Wei Le walked out of the Molineux Stadium, he looked back at the towering stands.

It all seemed too unreal.

On July 1, 2016, the young head coach Wei Le took over the Wolves' coaching position. A year ago, Wei Le was still preparing for the final week and worried about his schoolwork. And a year later, Wei Le was ahead of all the head coaches in China and stood in front of the coaching bench of the English Championship.

But this is just the beginning, and the real challenge has not yet arrived. After a brief joy, Wei Le calmed down. In terms of salary, Guo Guangchang suggested that Wei Le could first serve as an "intern head coach" to alleviate the pressure from the media.The pressure on the body. At the same time, it can also make it easier for fans to accept.

Wei Le does not have a particularly high pursuit of living standards. He thinks that the salary can support his normal life. He can stay in the training base all day without going out, so he specifically asked to add a set of folding beds in his office.

The news of Wei Le's appointment will be made public before the start of the season, and the team will need some time to start training. And Wei Le needs to organize his own team during this time.

For now, Jacket took away his assistant coach Joe Gallen, and there were no major personnel changes in other positions in the coaching bench. Wei Le needs an assistant coach who can lead the training, and at this point, U23 team head coach Scott Sellars is obviously the most suitable choice.

Scott Sellars was very surprised by the new head coach. He has had many assistants since he served as the U23 team in 2014, and this Wei Le is obviously extraordinary.

He soon replaced the original U23 assistant coach and began to be responsible for the team training. Sometimes he would give some suggestions to Celars on the details of the game tactics, and most of the results of these suggestions surprised Celars.

Although Celars hopes to have the opportunity to coach alone, he believes that at this moment, becoming Wei Le's assistant coach may maximize the chemical reaction between the two. The British man who was born in 1965 but is still full of energy is looking forward to working with Wei Le.

The original goalkeeper coach Pat Muntien still remains in office, and Wei Le proposed that he hopes to re-establish a data analysis team.

"Data is the oil of the 21st century, and analysis is the internal combustion engine." Wei Le quoted a famous saying in the data age, and he didn't need to say much. As a businessman, Guo Guangchang agreed with this very much. He immediately asked the football director Hobbs to issue a letter of appointment.

After Wei Le arrived, the football director Hobbs was actually a little depressed. Because in the draft contract, Wei Le hopes to get more rights to transfer players, and the club cannot directly carry out the buying and selling of people without consultation.

This actually comes from the discovery when investigating Jota. Jota is not the player that Atletico coach Simeone wants. He is also the result of Mendes' operation to go to Atletico. Simeone did not even plan to arrange Jota into the training lineup, which made the player very dissatisfied, which made Wei Le think of renting players.

Mendes, a big agent, once tried to reach a high degree of cooperation with the team, but Guo Guangchang thought carefully under Wei Le's suggestion and realized that something was wrong. Wei Le said, "If this goes on, what should a team of all Portuguese people do? They can't be sold, and they can't be used well. Do we have to continue to accept Mendes' advice and bring in more Portuguese people?"

Wei Le expects all-round trust from the team management, and as a head coach, trust is reflected in team management. An important player in the head coach's plan is sold without authorization; or a player who was not originally in the plan must play because of the contract terms; these situations also happen from time to time in modern football.

Of course, modern football has left the traditional manager era. There are fewer and fewer traditional English coaches like Ferguson, and the division of labor in the team is becoming more and more professional. It is impossible for the head coach to directly bypass the work of the football director, but Wei Le hopes to gain greater freedom within a limited space, leaving him more energy to coach rather than intrigue in the board of directors.

Although Hobbs was depressed because his authority was restricted, he had no choice but to make some changes to the details of his work, but after all, the new boss gave him a salary increase, so he didn't say anything.