Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

In the first game of the new La Liga season, Real Madrid won Valencia 2-0 at home at the Bernabeu.

This result was expected by the media before the game, but the game process exceeded the expectations of the media and fans.

There is a lot worth talking about, whether it is the performance of Real Madrid's rotation players, Mourinho's tactical arrangements, or the progress of new aid Matuidi's integration into Real Madrid.

After the game, major Spanish sports newspapers were ready to stir up the topic and let so-called experts analyze Real Madrid's probability of defending the title this season.

But after Barcelona's opening game, the direction of public opinion suddenly changed.

After the result of Barcelona's 5-0 victory over Real Sociedad came out, pro-Barcelona newspapers spoke out and said that Barcelona would regain the La Liga championship this season and avenge its past humiliation.

This is a bit exaggerated. After all, Real Madrid and Barcelona are about to play the Spanish Super Cup. This time it is the Spanish Super Cup in the middle of the season.

If Barcelona loses the game then, the scene will be like, tsk tsk.

I don’t know who are the senior officials within Barcelona, ​​or the pro-Barcelona media that Guardiola expressed his dissatisfaction with and made a lot of noise on the first day, but stopped the next day.

The two giants of the Western Super League are also intensively making final preparations for the Western Super Cup.

In this year's Spanish Super Cup, Barcelona will play at home first, so the offensive pressure on Real Madrid will be greater, and they must strive to get more away goals in the first round.

Real Madrid's main players, who have almost rested, are still very confident in this.

Last year's overall advantage over Barcelona made them optimistic enough about the outcome of the first round of the Spanish Super Cup.

At this time, Mourinho no longer forced every Real Madrid first-team player to maintain a desire to challenge Barcelona and a hostile attitude.

It was really different in the first few seasons. Barcelona was too strong at that time, and Real Madrid did not have the record and honors to compete with Barcelona in those years.

Therefore, Mourinho at that time could only keep his players angry at all times, in order to stimulate their own potential and desire to fight against Barcelona.

However, after the Grand Slam of Honor last season, he also had a brief conflict with Casillas during the season.

Mourinho gave up this way of stimulating players' fighting spirit.

He had necessary reasons to do this before. Subjectively speaking, he does not like Barcelona, ​​but this does not mean that he is stupid.

Mourinho in front of the camera is different from Mourinho in private.

When there is no need to take risks and continue to disagree with the team captain, he will also step aside appropriately.

The normal motivational methods and verbal communication before the game made Casillas feel respected.

But when Li Ang looked at Mourinho, who seemed to have no grudge against Casillas and hugged and encouraged him cordially, he always felt that something was wrong.

Yes, Mourinho is indeed very kind and easy-going to the players in private, as long as it is outside training time.

But Li Ang just felt something was wrong.

What exactly was wrong, he couldn't tell, it was more like a hunch.

And in the end, he chose not to get involved in this struggle, which might not happen at all, or might already have an undercurrent surging under the calm conditions.

Because he suddenly remembered Lafayette's previous public display of intimacy towards him.

Florentino is an excellent president, a staunch Madridist, but he is also a shrewd businessman.

A shrewd businessman would do something in front of the camera that seems unnecessary and involves too much personal subjective emotion?

No, maybe other presidents would do this, but Florentino's every move under the camera has a purpose.

Li Ang would not make any too dark speculations about his chairman, but he did not want to get himself into trouble, so he had always been cautious in this matter.

He recalled some previous rumors that seemed exaggerated, but upon closer inspection, they made some sense.

Well, before being confused by these random speculations, Li Ang made a straightforward decision.

Focus on the field!

He just wants to continue playing well now.

Stabilizing the relationship between Casillas Ramos and Mourinho last season already gave him enough trouble.

If it happened again this season, he didn't think he would be able to rekindle the relationship between the two parties.

So he might as well not care about anything and play the game first.

This is what Li Ang thought. Before the game against Barcelona, ​​he put aside unnecessary distractions and put more energy into training.

However, there are many things that he can't simply avoid if he doesn't want to participate.

His youth training status, the way he established himself in the Real Madrid team, and his growing popularity among Real Madrid fans.

The combination of these conditions meant that he was destined to be unable to stay out of the situation.

At least some people didn't want him to stay out of it.

On the afternoon of August 22, Real Madrid CEO Sanchez asked Leon to have a cup of coffee together after training.

The location is in the training base, in his office.

This is the first time Li Ang has received an active invitation from the team manager since the last contract renewal negotiation ended.

At first, he didn't think much or speculate too much, thinking that Sanchez wanted to talk to him about the length of the contract again.

But after a meaningless exchange of greetings and encouragement, Sanchez asked him what he thought of the club's senior management's "internationalization" policy.

When Li Ang heard this topic, he subconsciously raised his eyebrows and looked at Sanchez.

The other party was still smiling, and he didn't seem to find it awkward at all to talk about this sensitive topic with Li Ang.

In other words, what the real great god behind him wants right now is a positive attitude from Li Ang.

After taking a deep breath, Leon stopped going around in circles with Sanchez. He rubbed the side of the coffee cup and asked directly.

"If I have to be on the team, can't Mr. Chairman wait until next season? We have great hope of winning the heavyweight championship trophy again this season."

"Oh, you may have a bit of a misunderstanding, Li Ang. I just want to talk about your views on this policy."

"I think there is no need to beat around the bush, Mr. Manager. I don't want to know what verbal agreement the president has reached with the coach or other players in the team. I just want to play the game well. If I have to join the team, next time Let’s talk about this during the season, okay?”

The smile on Sanchez's face gradually faded away, and he didn't say anything more. After changing the topic, he asked Li Ang to go back and practice more.

When leaving Sanchez's office, Li Ang's face darkened.

This guy is really afraid of whatever he wants.

But it doesn't matter to him, if he insists on wasting this season to clean up the team in the fight above.

Anyone who dares to force him to take sides will flip the table over!

At least, he's going to overturn his own table!

As the plot progresses normally, the Real Madrid buddies who know this should all understand that this is Lafayette's follow-up team building policy, and no one can avoid it. The protagonist's positioning is also destined, and he will definitely be found.

But let’s just mention it briefly. There is a power struggle, but the main line is definitely the competition.

There are two more chapters today.