Coaching career started as a college team coach

"What are you talking about?" Allardyce still put on his usual cynical smile, as if he didn't care about anything. He handed Wei Le a piece of chewing gum. Wei Le hesitated for a moment, but still took it.

Allardyce also took out a piece, peeled off the tin foil and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing that Wei Le hadn't moved yet, he wondered, "Why don't you eat it? I didn't poison it."

Wei Le then reacted and threw the chewing gum into his mouth.

It tasted minty, not too delicious, but not too bad, just the taste of chewing gum.

After thinking about it, he also took out a small box from his pocket, took out two pieces of chewing gum from it, and handed over a piece of Yida chewing gum in Allardyce's surprised eyes, "Try the Chinese one?"

"You are really interesting." Allardyce took it with a smile, "I'll eat this one in the second half, and tell you if it tastes good after the game."

Wei Le chewed and chewed, and suddenly felt a familiar taste. He unfolded the tin foil and took a look, and actually saw a familiar trademark.

Green Arrow!

"I've been chewing this for ten years, and it feels okay." Allardyce said.

Wei Le nodded and said with some surprise, "This brand is also available in China. I never thought that the origin is actually the UK."

Allardyce shook his head, "It's something from the Americans. I've seen the one you gave me, it should also be from Wrigley, and it was brought over by the Americans."

"The watermelon flavor is delicious, but the strawberry flavor is also okay."

"Speaking of which, the mint flavor is indeed a classic."

When the players were warming up, they also saw the two head coaches standing in the middle of the court chatting as if no one was around. They saw the two people talking and laughing, and they certainly didn't think they were discussing chewing gum brands.

However, some media reporters who arrived in advance keenly captured this scene. The two tall head coaches, one was a very young Chinese man, with a straight figure and wearing a raincoat; the other was a British man who looked a little older, with a broad figure and wearing his favorite old suit jacket.

Sam Allardyce and Wei Le didn't mention much about football, let alone the situation of the two teams.

Allardyce is not having an easy time at the moment. Everton ranks eighth this season, which is a big improvement compared to the 13th place last season. However, considering the investment of Everton's board of directors in the team, this ranking does not seem satisfactory.

Everton not only brought Rooney back to Goodison Park, but also introduced "Little Tiger" Walcott from Arsenal and "Icelandic Sniper" Sigurdsson from Swansea. In order to change the situation that most of the backcourt players are old, Everton spent 15 million euros, which seemed very luxurious at the time, to bring Ben Godfrey, a central defender who had not played much in the Premier League, from Wolves.

After the strong rise of Wolves, Everton adjusted its goals appropriately, but they still expected to rank sixth or seventh.

But Allardyce did not do it.

In fact, it is not reasonable to blame Allardyce for this. After all, he only had four months to make changes. What really put him in crisis was his stubborn character and the conflict with Rooney.

In the recent Everton games, Rooney was replaced at midfield in two of the most watched games. The outside world has never stopped paying attention to and speculating about the relationship between Rooney and the head coach.

Although Rooney said in a media interview that there was no conflict between him and head coach Allardyce, the fact does not seem to be the case. More or less, Rooney still has some small emotions towards Allardyce.

Among the growing number of foreign coaches who are eager to learn in the Premier League, Allardyce is obviously a conservative. He is a real English player who grew up in the soil of British football. When he was a player in Bolton, he came up step by step. He was born in a humble family, hardworking and hardworking, with a tough and even a little arrogant quality.

The team led by Allardyce does not play beautifully, advocates physical play, and is good at using set pieces.

Using speed players to counterattack in the frontcourt is very suitable for a head coach like Allardyce who advocates defense and counterattack. In his last season as West Ham United coach, Allardyce used a 4-4-2 midfield diamond formation strategy, which impressed the fans.

At Everton, Allardyce did not adjust his tone. When he took over the team, he decided to use a steady and pragmatic style of play to ensure points.

However, this style of play is too simple and does not have much advantage in the increasingly complex Premier League.

Some fans are even more dissatisfied with Allardyce's Everton style of play. Previously, the good-natured "Mirror" interviewed Everton fans, and some people summarized Everton's game as "From the first minute to the 45th minute, Rooney was replaced, and then from the 45th minute to the 90th minute, there was chaos".

Although he is not in a good situation now, at least before this game, Allardyce did not show any negative emotions. Allardyce finally took two watermelon-flavored chewing gums from Wei Le.

In this game, the goal of Wolves is to get points.

Manchester City has won the championship. At present, they are 19 points ahead of Manchester United, which is in second place.

And Manchester United, which is in second place, is 4 points ahead of Tottenham, which is in third place. Liverpool is temporarily ahead in the competition with Chelsea and is in fourth place. Chelsea is in fifth place, 1 point ahead of Wolves.

However, Chelsea actually tied 1-1 in the away game against Swansea! This means that if Wolves can win this game, they can lead Chelsea by 1 point in turn!

Besides this game, there are two more games to play before the end of the season, and the advantage of 1 point is precious.

Therefore, although Wolves will play the semi-finals of the Europa League at home in a few days, Wolves will also play in this league. There is no relaxation at all.

In the starting lineup, Wolves goalkeeper is Martinez, in the back line, the left back is Alphonso Davies, the right back is Kounde, and the two central defenders are Ruben Dias and Marcos Kilman.

In the midfield, Wolves' midfield is Rodri and De Paul in the back. Van de Beek is still recovering from injury and was selected in the squad, but he did not enter the starting lineup. Instead, Gonçalves in the attacking midfielder position was replaced.

The left winger is Trossard, and the right side is Bouroullec. Well, the center forward is Jovic.

For Everton, the goalkeeper is Pickford, who has recently been promoted to England's national goalkeeper. The central defender combination is Godfrey on the left and Michael Keane on the right. The right back is Coleman and the left is Baines.

Schneiderlin, Idrissa Gueye and Rooney form the midfield, with Rooney on the left.

In the front court, Vlasic and Walcott are on the left and right, supporting the center forward Tosun, who has reached the peak of his career at Everton and is currently valued at around 30 million euros.