After doing some simple basic strength training in the gym at home, Chu Zheng went out to the Leicester City training base. Today is his official report day.
After putting away his belongings in the locker room, Chu Zheng appeared in the Leicester City restaurant.
At this time, there were already players and some staff dining in the restaurant.
Chu Zheng took a piece of chicken steak fried in olive oil and a vegetable salad, sat down and ate slowly.
After a while, there were more and more people in the restaurant.
During this period, Chu Zheng also saw the person in the team who interested him the most.
As reported by the media in his previous life, Kanter's character is really shy.
In order to verify it, Chu Zheng stared at Kanter, who was sitting across a dining table in front of him and facing him for a long time.
Kanter almost buried his face in the dinner plate. In the end, Kanter couldn't stand Chu Zheng's gaze and turned around and sat down.
After a while, Chu Zheng finished his breakfast and was about to leave.
As a result, a figure suddenly sat down opposite, causing Chu Zheng, who was about to get up, to sit back down again.
"Hi! Jamie Vardy! Nice to meet you!" Vardy smiled brightly and extended his right hand to Chu Zheng across the table.
Chu Zheng was a little stunned when he suddenly saw the grassroots legend opposite, the ordinary hero and inspirational brother.
"Chu Zheng!" Chu Zheng came back to his senses, smiled and took the hand that Vardi handed over.
In previous lives, the media used derogatory terms such as perverse and withdrawn to describe Vardy's character in reports.
But now Vardy gives Chu Zheng a very sunny and cheerful feeling, but also a bit uninhibited and social.
Vardy saw Chu Zheng's gaze, and he smiled curiously: "Chu, your eyes tell me that you seem to know me?"
"You can say that!" Chu Zheng smiled and nodded, "Among all the professional players in world football, your experience is legendary!"
"Haha!" Vardy didn't know what the point of the joke was, and suddenly laughed loudly, attracting the attention of some people in the restaurant.
Chu Zheng was not complimenting Vardy, he indeed felt that Vardy's experience over the years was legendary.
Compared with Rooney, Owen and other British compatriots who were successful as teenagers, the words Vardy experienced when he was just starting out were not enough to describe his experience.
In 2002, 16-year-old Vardy was released by his hometown club Sheffield Wednesday on the grounds that he was too short and lacked talent.
Looking at Vardy who is nearly 1.8 meters tall in front of him, Chu Zheng can hardly imagine that this guy was only 1.4 meters when he was 16 years old.
But the amazing thing is that in the few years after his contract was terminated, Vardy's height quickly increased, reaching his current height of 179cm.
Vardy later entered the eighth-tier regional league in England, the Stockbridge Park Steelers.
It was there that he began his legendary journey of grassroots counterattack.
Thinking of this, Chu Zheng suddenly thought of a report he had seen in his previous life, so he asked, "Jamie, have you really worn electronic shackles before?"
When Chu Zheng mentioned this, the smile on Vardy's face turned a little helpless. He nodded and said, "It's true!"
"I was still in the Stockbridge Park Steelers at the time. No matter how good my form was on the field, as long as it was an away game, I had to calculate the time and get off the field early and rush home quickly."
"At that time, I hated the shackles on my feet that couldn't be broken with a hammer."
"Every time I leave the game early and on the way home, I keep praying, hoping that the team can win the game!"
Speaking of this, Vardy also looked emotional.
Back then, he was sentenced to a curfew by the court because of a fight. He was not allowed to go out after six o'clock, and electronic shackles were used to monitor him.
Kante, who had his back to Vardy, also listened with interest.
Kanter wanted to join the conversation between Chu Zheng and Vardy. His experience told him that it is important to quickly integrate into the team.
But his personality makes him only a spectator.
On the second floor of the restaurant, Ranieri, Steve Walsh and Paolo Benetti, the assistant Ranieri brought to Leicester City, were also having breakfast.
"Jamie is such a clever guy!" Steve Walsh was immediately happy when he saw Vardy chatting happily with Chu Zheng downstairs. Vardy obviously also found out that Leicester City was about to welcome a new man.
Midfield commander.
"A good start!" Ranieri also said with a kind face.
If Chu Zheng is the brains of the team in Ranieri's tactical system, then Vardy is the charging trunk in his tactical system.
Ranieri already knows Vardy very well as a striker.
This player is a different kind of talent.
Ranieri believes that Vardy has the world's top ability to handle the ball with one hand.
In addition, this player also has excellent starting speed and the ability of secondary burst acceleration. He can flexibly control the ball in high-speed motion.
Like former Liverpool player Suarez, Vardy also has unconventional shooting skills.
Ranieri has watched all the videos of Vardy's goals in Leicester City, and he found that the player has no specific scoring posture at all.
Regardless of the situation or location, Vardy can always send the ball into the opponent's goal and single-handedly defeat the opponent's entire defense.
Therefore, this is a first-class striker and the main striker of the team in his mind.
He is happy to see that Vardy can establish a friendly and harmonious relationship with Chu Zheng.
When he thought of Vardy's ghostly running position and Chu Zheng's all-pervasive and aggressive passing style, Ranieri felt excited in his heart. He couldn't wait to see what kind of chemical reaction Chu Zheng and Vardy were going to have.
After finishing the spaghetti on the plate, Walsh wiped his mouth and suddenly asked: "Claudio, have you decided what tactics to use?"
Ranieri smiled when he heard this, shook his head and said: "Not yet, I need to fully understand the player's status and characteristics before I can make a decision."
After hearing Ranieri's answer, Walsh nodded and said nothing more.
In terms of qualifications, Ranieri has coached Chelsea, Juventus, Inter Milan and other wealthy clubs.
Although during this period the Premier League media were mocking Ranieri as a tinkerer whose tactics were conservative and decadent, everyone in the industry knew how powerful Ranieri was.
At 9 o'clock sharp, the Leicester City team gathered and began to warm up and do some stretching exercises under the leadership of Ranieri's assistant Paolo Benetti.
More than ten minutes later, under the watchful eyes of the coaching staff led by Ranieri, Chu Zheng began his first training session with Leicester City.
The first training item is sprint training.
Because Ranieri needs to understand the current true speed of each player, which is very critical for his subsequent tactical play arrangements.
In the middle circle, Chu Zheng and Vardy stood together, accompanied by Japanese player Shinji Okazaki and others.
After a while, it was Kanter and Shinji Okazaki's turn.
Seeing the petite Kanter swooping out after the whistle, Chu Zheng suddenly realized that he was indeed the man covering the entire earth.
Next to Chu Zheng, Vardy saw a look of disgust on his face when he saw that the new Shinji Okazaki as a forward could not outrun Kante.
Soon it was Chu Zheng's turn.
I don’t know if the coaching staff wanted to see Chu Zheng’s speed, so he and Vardy were placed in a group.
"Hehe!" Vardy looked at Chu Zheng standing on the right, and he showed a proud expression, "Chu, don't let me throw you away too much!"
"We'll see!" Chu Zheng grinned. He was never modest in terms of training and always used as much strength as he could.
Behind the two, Kanter, captain Morgan, Drinkwater, Schmeichel and others also focused their attention on Chu Zheng.
They already know Vardy's speed very well, and no one in the team is his opponent.
Now they are curious about whether the Bundesliga's fastest central defender, who is worth 40 million plus 20 million in add-ons, worth a total of 60 million, is really that fast.
"Beep!" the whistle sounded.
Chu Zheng and Vardy started almost at the same time, and their legs moved very fast.
Soon everyone was dumbfounded.
Because Chu Zheng was one body ahead of Vardy from the beginning to the end to the finish line of 30 meters.
“holy shit!!!!!”
Assistant coach Paul Benetti was so shocked that he dropped the whistle he was holding in his mouth. He stared blankly at the two electronic timers in his hands.
Chu Zheng’s time was 3.8 seconds and Vardy’s time was 3.9 seconds.
Both of them ran under four seconds. This kind of thirty-meter sprint speed can be said to be extremely rare in football.
Vardy also looked at Chu Zheng with a ghostly expression.
This result was something he never expected.
In Leicester City, and even in the Premier League, Vardy has absolute confidence in his speed.
However, he lost just now, even though he tried his best, he still lost.
Chu Zheng surpassed him in both starting speed and explosive acceleration!
Before today, Vardy learned that the club spent a huge transfer fee to buy a young defender and gave him the highest salary in the team. He was a little bit disgusted.
And now Vardy understands why Chu Zheng is worth so much at such a young age.
The speed and explosive power alone are already worth 5 million.
On the sidelines, Steve Walsh smiled and said: "Claudio, why do I feel that Chu is more suitable to play as a full-back or a wing forward?"
Walsh's words made the entire coaching staff laugh out loud.
Because everyone unanimously thought of Chu Zheng's barely acceptable shooting skills.
But soon, many Leicester City players saw Chu Zheng, who had an average feel for the ball, average passes, average shots, and average looks at everything else.
This has made many people wonder again whether Leicester City's chief scout Steve Walsh, who has just taken over as the club's sporting director, is as dim-witted as the Premier League media said.
Spending 60 million euros to buy such a thing?
Chu Zheng, on the other hand, has been training silently in the next few days.
He is neither close to the senior players group headed by Morgan nor the England gang headed by Vardy.
But Chu Zheng was not isolated, and instead gathered a small group of players around him.
Kante, Shinji Okazaki, Robert Huth, Inler, Fox and other new players like Chu Zheng saw that Chu Zheng would be called away by Ranieri after training every day to explain tactics alone, and they felt pulled.
Nieri attaches great importance to Chu Zheng.
So they all moved closer to Chu Zheng.
Chu Zheng found that he had become the boss inexplicably. He was a little dumbfounded, so he just let things take their own course.
