Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

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

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

When he first met Abu at the airport, Li Ang's first impression was very good.

The Abramovich in front of him perfectly matched the Chelsea boss he remembered as the best.

When Li Ang spoke fluent Russian to say hello to Abu, Abu and his assistants 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 Li Ang about the team in the new season. Instead, he talked with Li Ang a lot about China and Russia.

In this regard, Abramovich feels that Li Ang is the player he can talk to the most among the players he has met.

Abu's talkative nature became more intense, and Abu's assistant was also surprised inwardly when he saw this.

As a boss, he is usually very easy-going and has a good relationship with the players in the club.

But it's really rare to have regular conversations with players like this.

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

It's definitely not just as simple as signing a new football star.

And just when Li Ang rushed to London on Abramovich's private plane, all the media in London, large and small, also sent their capable reporters to rush to the airport.

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

The young Chelsea players, who were being panted by Ruifalia, still had time to talk about topics related to Li Ang during the short break.

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

Moreover, his club poached Li Ang with a higher liquidated damages, which also shocked these young Chelsea players born in the 1990s.

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

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

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

It doesn't matter to Lukaku and De Bruyne, the current little transparent players in the Chelsea team.

After all, they are still training hard to stay at Chelsea.

They don't have any opinions on who should be the core of the team in the future.

But for Oscar and Hazard, who performed well last season, this news naturally brings them mixed feelings.

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

By then, with Li Ang's defensive protection, players who play in the frontcourt attack position will also have more room to play.

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

What if he wants to switch from playing as an attacking midfielder to a ball-holding attacking midfielder?

Can Oscar's position and Hazard's ball rights be protected by the coaching staff?

This is a big trouble and problem for the two of them.

It's not that they want to embarrass Li Ang, but that there are only two or three people playing the ball-holding point and offensive midfielder position in a team.

If those who come later want to share more ball rights and tactical status, those in front must make concessions and tactical sacrifices.

Just by talking, anyone can say it, and anyone can become a team player with a spirit of sacrifice.

But when it comes to implementing the above and it is related to one's own vital interests, it is another matter.

The slight absent-mindedness shown by the two people at this moment was naturally noticed by Mourinho.

However, Mourinho does not plan to talk to the two people immediately.

Matters between players are best left to the players themselves to resolve.

Do you deserve this tactical position? Do you want to cooperate honestly 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 crazy physical training was over, and all the young Chelsea players rushed to the physiotherapy area for massages.

Chelsea veterans who are still doing recovery training today are continuing to listen to Essien telling the story of his honor harvest at Real Madrid in the past year and a half.

Naturally, these Chelsea veterans are more interested in the part related to Li Ang.

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

That’s a true training maniac. If he asks you for additional training in the future, seriously, don’t agree!

After the extra practice, he said he wanted to invite you to dinner, but don't go, absolutely don't go! "

When talking about this, Essien seemed to remember the time when Li Ang and Ronaldo "enthusiastically" invited him to have a big dinner together after the extra training.

Good guy, he really doesn’t want to touch those boiled vegetables, baked potatoes, fried steaks and boiled chicken breasts sprinkled with coarse salt!

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

When Terry heard what Essien said, he became more interested.

His understanding of Li Ang basically came from previous reports in the British media.

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

At least it's much more vivid than the unfeminine, boring, homely, and overly calm image described in the newspapers.

Maybe by then, these old guys will get along with Li Ang much more harmoniously than he thought before.

The grand occasion of Li Ang's arrival in London that day was filmed by reporters near the airport, and soon spread all over the world.

Local Chelsea fans in London were not the only ones who met up near the airport and held up welcome banners.

There are also many London-based Real Madrid fan groups and Asian fan groups.

And looking at the sniper in the photo, the group of reporters were scrambling to interview Li Ang.

Countless melon-eating fans on the Internet are also very surprised. Just looking at this battle, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Ang is currently the top superstar in football.

Let’s not talk about whether the status and strength have reached the standard of a superstar. The influence and sensational effect are obviously almost enough.

However, just like his style in Madrid, Li Ang still refused all media requests for interviews with him during the offseason.

In the eyes of the local media in London, this was a showdown given to them by Li Ang!

At this point, Li Ang is almost identical to his mentor Mourinho.

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

For the sake of sales, the media in London had to find ways to get in touch with Li Ang.

But now the reporters in London are not panicking. They feel that there will always be a time when they can 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 you find a house, if you don’t like the place, you have to find a way to renovate it and buy some furniture that you like, right?

Reporters with connections in these areas can actually easily get in touch with players in need first.

When the time comes, if you say something nice and help a little bit, won't the interview be completed smoothly?

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

Yes, when a star with Li Ang's status and income level, generally speaking, he pays more attention to the quality of life.

But Li Ang is different.

He neither lives with his family nor has a heterosexual partner.

There was no need to consider other people's opinions. He directly set four residence requirements for his assistant team and ignored the matter.

First, it is close enough to the Cobham training base.

Second, the environment is good enough and the green coverage area is large enough.

Third, don’t make it too noisy. It’s best to have a single-family villa.

Fourth, hire the best security team. It doesn’t matter how much money you spend. Li Ang doesn’t want to go home one day and find that his bedroom has been pried open. That would be really bad!

When it comes to cars, Li Ang's requirements are even simpler. It's comfortable to drive and has enough space, and that's all.

Therefore, the London reporters who were waiting and waiting have not yet received the big news that Li Ang's team is looking for a house in London.

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

Early in the morning on July 20, a small number of Chelsea fans squatting outside the Cobham training base were surprised to see Leon arriving at the training base in a club 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 over the head by this huge surprise quickly posted photos with Li Ang on social media.

And Leon, who gave reporters all over London a surprise, also gave his new teammates a big surprise at the Cobham training base!

After completing several simple physical examinations, Li Ang first met with Mourinho and Mr. Ruifaria.

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

"Hello Li Ang, welcome to Chelsea! Have you been maintaining basic training recently? Your physical condition looks quite good!"

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

Although Li Ang also started normal pre-season training with Real Madrid in Madrid, after all, he has to deal with transfer matters these days.

Steve Holland originally thought that Li Ang would stop training for a few days to concentrate on completing the transfer.

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

Mourinho and Ruyfaria were not surprised.

After the physical examination, Li Ang only made a brief visit to the internal environment of the Cobham training base.

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

There had been no intensive training for two days, and Li Ang felt that his body muscles were already eager to exercise and sweat.

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

Over the years he has been at Chelsea, he has seen quite a few new young players join the team.

But no one is like Li Ang, who is ready to actively start training as soon as he arrives at the training base!

The key is that Li Ang had no intention of showing off at all. Mourinho directly asked Steve Holland to take Li Ang to the locker room and weight room first.

He and Ruifaria went to the office to review today's training content.

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

After accompanying Li Ang through an hour and a half of so-called "warm-up" strength training, Steve Holland also kindly reminded Li Ang.

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

Li Ang shook his head when he heard this.

"I know, Mr. Steve, the boss told me before I came here that I will do physical training today. I have also read the training plan in advance. It will be fine. I am just making up for the rest of the training..."

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

He participated in the entire recent physical training session.

Hazard and Lukaku were trained to the point of ecstasy every day, but now Li Ang said that he wanted to make up for the surplus in training?

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

"Perhaps Li Ang is serious, and this amount of training really cannot reach his limit?"

Holander had such an idea in his mind, and then he said nothing more.

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

There are already many Chelsea players chatting and changing training clothes in the locker room at this moment.

The moment they saw Holland leading Li Ang into the locker room, these Chelsea players immediately stopped communicating and all took a fancy to their new teammate who had not shown up in recent days but had always been in their chats.

Li Ang, who has seen countless big scenes in Real Madrid, is not afraid of stage. He introduced himself 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 memory of this group of Chelsea players was a little blurry.

But after the actual meeting, Li Ang still called every Chelsea player by name very enthusiastically and accurately.

His behavior is naturally quite pleasing.

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

After spending a few minutes getting to know their new teammates, Li Ang and Essien gave each other a familiar high-five and hug at the end.

After chatting for a while, Holland arrived at the training ground with all the Chelsea players.

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 directly put more familiarity sessions into today's training.

The young Chelsea players, who had been trained by Ruifalia in the past few days, had a preliminary understanding of Li Ang's physical strength in just two hours in the morning.

Is a player strong? How strong is he?

It’s really easy to see in training.

At least after the first physical training session in the morning, Hazard was quite convinced of Li Ang's physical level.

They were wailing, and Li Ang was enjoying it!

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

All the other young Chelsea players are dissatisfied with Li Ang.

But they don't know that the current physical training plan formulated by Ruifaria is basically the result of reducing the burden on Pintus' previous devilish physical training plan.

That set of devilish physical training can make Benzema and the others vomit directly, but Li Ang can endure it completely and uses it as his normal physical stimulation training.

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

It feels very painful now. Is it difficult to hold on?

Li Ang just smiled and said nothing.

He knows that Mourinho will definitely start a real devilish physical training later, so that Chelsea players can feel it first. Only then will it be fun to watch~

After the morning's physical training, Mourinho announced something that is completely good news for the current Chelsea players.

This afternoon they will not be practicing physical fitness, but will practice tactics and play another team training match.

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.

Young guys like Lukaku and De Bruyne are holding back their energy, just waiting to perform well in front of Mourinho!

The reality turned out to be quite cruel.

The physical fitness of this group of young men is sufficient, but in the afternoon tactical drills and competitions, their performance can only be said to be separate and scattered.

After all, you also want to perform, and I also want to perform, but football is just one place, and there are many people who want to gain more rights to the ball, so naturally this situation easily occurs.

After all, Hazard and Oscar took a long time to get along last season, and there was some tacit understanding between the two when they worked together.

But in Mourinho's eyes, he could only give these two young men a passing grade.

In contrast, Li Ang, who was assigned to a group of veterans, integrated quite quickly.

His sweeping style of play on the defensive end made Lampard, who is currently transitioning to playing as a defensive midfielder, feel comfortable for a long time.

And Li Ang's habit of quickly inserting the ball in the middle and then distributing the ball in time also surprised Torres in the veteran group.

Now Li Ang is also slowly changing his playing style, but after all, he doesn't take the ball very much, and he can combine the front and backcourt very well, playing an important role on both offense and defense.

To describe it more straightforwardly, it is Li Ang's way of playing that can make the veterans who partner with him more comfortable and more practical.

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

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

Therefore, he basically does not occupy the right to shoot, and he is active in rushing forward to receive the ball.

What veteran wouldn't like to partner with such a young man?

Li Ang's excellent training performance was expected by Mourinho.

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

However, compared to three or four years ago, Mourinho is now more patient with the plasticity of young players.

When it comes to talent, there is no shortage of young players in Chelsea's current team.

What they lack is just more game time, and more patience and tolerance from the coaching staff.

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

Although Lukaku always likes to play wide on the training ground, De Bruyne always likes to disobey tactical instructions and has a bad habit of passing bold balls unexpectedly.

But Mourinho, who had been tortured by Morata's double inverse feet before and was worried about Jose's lack of tactical discipline, is now able to look at the shortcomings of these young players with a normal mind.

In general, Chelsea's current group of young players have a lot of potential and a lot of problems.

But with Li Ang sitting at the bottom of the midfield, Mourinho is confident.

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

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