I Want to Be the King of Football

Chapter 81: Absent Derby

   After Boloni announced that he had finished the eighteen-man roster, everyone in the dressing room turned their heads and looked at Su Dong incredulously, with various emotions in his eyes.

   Most of them are with doubts and surprises, but some people feel secretly happy, even gloating.

   It was the first time that Su Dong encountered such a situation, but he didn't care what others thought, he was just surprised and disappointed.

   Why can’t I make the big list?

   "Su, you come to my office." Boloni stopped in front of Su Dong and said before he left the house.

   Su Dong also stood up, and in the eyes of everyone, he followed Bologna out of the locker room.

   The two arrived at the head coach’s office one after another.

   "Sit down," Boloni said, pointing to the sofa.

   Su Dong was not here for the first time, he just found a seat and sat down.

   He was waiting for Boloni to give himself an explanation and see why he was absent from the derby list.

   Boloni poured himself and Su Dong a glass of water, walked back, and sat down opposite Su Dong.

   "Su, I'm sorry, due to many considerations, I decided to let you absent from this derby match against Benfica."

   "Why?" Su Dong looked up at the coach.

   "Next weekend, we will face Porto."

   It was the final of the Portuguese Cup. The venue was around Lisbon. It will also be the last game of Sporting Lisbon this season. It can even be said to be the most important game.

   The league match against Boavista is certainly a strong dialogue, but in fact, before the game, Sporting Lisbon has established a certain advantage. As long as it does not lose, winning the championship is a high probability event.

   If the championship of the league depends on accumulation, then the championship of the cup is a game of victory.

   "After Mourinho took over Porto, his coaching results are obvious to all."

   Midway through the fire fighting in Porto, Mourinho's situation is not optimistic.

   The European competition was eliminated, and the league is falling behind the leaders Sporting Lisbon and Boavista. This has caused Porto to have suffered heavy setbacks on two of the three fronts, but they performed very well in the Portuguese Cup.

No one can tell that Mourinho did not perform much surgery on Porto during his six months of coaching, nor did he even adopt the four-four-two or four-three-three formation he was good at in Leiria. Limited by the current Porto lineup configuration.

   But Mourinho did stabilize Porto's decline and began to bottom out.

Especially recently, Porto has swept the Portuguese Super League and won five consecutive victories, including defeating Vicente 2-1 at home, defeating ** Sergio 3-0 at home, defeating Guimarães at home 3-0, and away 4-0. The bloodbath of Braga and the five-to-three home reversal of Santa Clara in the last round can be said to be big wins.

   Compared to Porto’s strength, Sporting Lisbon’s recent state of decline is obvious.

   Especially since Sa Pinto was injured.

   After the 29-year-old Portugal’s popular international was injured, he had to go to Madrid for surgery. He not only missed all the remaining games of the season, but also missed the upcoming Korea-Japan World Cup.

   Because of this, Boloni put Ronnie on the list of eighteen people.

   Sporting Lisbon, which is in poor condition and plagued by injuries, faces the regrouped and strong Porto, Boloni does not have much chance of winning.

"The only meaning for us in the last round of the league is the same city derby. Its outcome has nothing to do with the overall situation, but I don’t want you to play in this game, because I know that Mourinho and his team I will definitely focus on this game."

   Boloni looked at Su Dong sincerely, and he tried hard to convince himself of Su Dong.

   Of course, this is not to worry about Su Dong, but because as a head coach, he needs the trust and support of the players.

   Based on Su Dong’s recent performance, he hastily excluded him from the big list. There is no appropriate statement, let alone Su Dong himself. It is estimated that the dressing room will have opinions on him.

   No one can guarantee that he will be the next one, right?

   "I want to let Nalizis come on. This is not only to give him the last chance, but more importantly, I want Mourinho to be uncertain about our ideas."

   "After playing Benfica, we will conduct closed training, and then I will focus on rehearsing your tactics. At the same time, in the Portuguese Cup final, I hope you can show the best state and performance."

   At the end, Boloni stared at Su Dong with a pair of eyes.

   Su Dong felt the trust conveyed in these eyes, and he believed Boloni's statement.

  Football match is like a war, and soldiers are not tired of fraud, this is what the ancestors said.

   This kind of smoke bomb may be useless, but what if it works?

   "Don't worry, boss, I know."

   Boloni was relieved and said with a smile: "I heard that you were not selected for the national team list. After that season, will you go back?"

   Su Dong shook his head, "I'm not going back, I have an appointment with Ronnie, and we will go to Madeira to train together."

   "Yeah." Boloni nodded appreciatively, "It's quite quiet there, you can concentrate on training, and show better performance in the new season."

   "Understood, boss." Su Dong agreed.

   "There is a paradise for vacation, beautiful women, if you have a chance, make a girlfriend." Boloni joked rare.

   Su Dong shook his head and smiled awkwardly.

  Since Ronnie had that incident in the sky bar, everyone on the team knew that Su Dong had no girlfriend.

   Single high-quality potential stocks.

   Thinking about it, I know how popular such people are.

   From then on, Su Dong often encountered someone who offered to introduce him to his girlfriend.

   But he hasn’t met a favorite so far.

  …………

  …………

   The fact that Su Dong was absent from the big list was quickly settled in the locker room.

   He accepted it himself, and the captain Barbosa and others also understood some inside information, so naturally no one said anything.

   However, in the weekend game against Benfica, Sporting Lisbon's performance was not ideal at all.

Boloni not only hid Su Dong, but also Quaresma and Ronny, both of whom were on the squad, but did not play the game. Sporting Lisbon also adjusted the past four-three-three play style and adopted four-four-four. One by one tactics.

   Needless to say, the derby at home was played very badly, and the offense was delayed.

   Instead, in the 73rd minute, Benfica scored a sneak attack.

   This is a wonderful assist from Portuguese midfielder Thiago.

   Then the two teams became more and more popular, and the atmosphere on the court became more and more popular.

   Nalizis came on as substitute captain Barbosa in the 79th minute, but in the following game time, he did not perform very well, and so did Jardel, who started and played the whole game.

   The Brazilian center did not get enough support tonight.

   Instead, Quaresma came off the bench in the 74th minute. In the final stage of the game, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area and swayed two opponents consecutively before being tripped in the penalty area.

   This triggered a fierce conflict between the players of the two teams. Benfica defender Angel and midfielder Zahović pushed Quaresma and were shown yellow cards by the referee. Since they both had yellow cards in their bodies, they were both sent off.

   Jarder personally took the penalty kick, and in one fell swoop, he scored the equalizer goal for Sporting Lisbon.

  ……

   "Jarder's condition has declined a lot recently."

   In the stands, Su Dong looked at Jadel, who was flying in the stadium to celebrate his goal, and let out a long sigh.

   Early in the season, Jardel was very high-spirited. This season he created the most efficient scoring record of his career, but recently, he has indeed shown fatigue.

"It's normal. He is twenty-nine years old. He wanted to transfer to the four major leagues during the winter break, but he didn't get any results. This seriously affected his enthusiasm. Coupled with years of injuries, multiple reasons led to his current state It is indeed a little sluggish, and even if it doesn’t come out again, it may not be able to improve next season."

   Obviously, Mendes is not optimistic about Jarder's prospects in Sporting Lisbon.

To put it bluntly, when he created the highest single-season scoring record in his career, and when he caught up with the record of legendary stars such as Eusebio 30 years ago in the Portuguese Super League, he has no record in the Portuguese Super League. Hungry.

   For professional players, not pursuing is a very scary thing.

   Su Dong respects Jarder very much, and even his shooting footwork, as well as many shooting skills are taught by Jarder hand-in-hand, which makes him feel very complicated when he sees Jarder showing fatigue.

"Aurelio and the technical team have done an evaluation, and they all agreed that let him leave and go to the four major leagues to seek new excitement ~ www.NovelMTL.com~ It is a good thing for him and for Sporting Lisbon. "

   "Really leaving?" Su Dong asked with concern.

   This not only involves Jadel, it also concerns him.

Mendes shook his head, "I don't know. His age and salary are not low. Even if Sporting Lisbon makes concessions on the transfer fee, there are not many teams willing to accept his salary. This is why he did not have a winter break. The main reason for success."

   Su Dong nodded.

  Many fans only see the transfer fee, but don’t know that the player’s salary is also a key factor for the club’s signings.

   It’s hard to say whether Sporting Lisboa paid a lot of money to introduce Jarder a year ago.

In terms of performance, Jardel’s record-breaking goal brought Sporting Lisbon a Portuguese Super League champion and also reached the Portuguese Cup final, but from the perspective of doing business, this deal is indeed a loss. It's a mess.

"I have entrusted my partners in Italy and the United Kingdom to help find the right team. The biggest problem now is that Jardel may not be willing to go to the middle and lower reaches of the four major leagues that cannot play in the Champions League or even the European competition. team."

   Mendes is also helpless about this.

  Su Dong understands this very well, after all, people go to high places.

   Sporting Lisbon is now the champion of the Portuguese Super League. According to the European Championship points, the new season can play the UEFA Champions League qualifiers. As long as they win the qualifiers, they can participate in the UEFA Champions League group stage. In this case, Gaddell may not be willing to leave the team.

   "It's okay, no matter if he leaves or not, I have the confidence to get more chances in the new season!"

   Su Dong's face was filled with determination.

   This is not a question of confidence, but he has to do it.

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