After a while, Chu Zheng came to the locker room under the leadership of De Bruyne. At this time, there were already many players from Manchester City's first team in the locker room.
When Yaya Toure saw Chu Zheng, he immediately thought of the scene when he saw Chu Zheng furiously through the rearview mirror, and a sneer flashed across his face.
Aguero was chatting and laughing with David Silva, and was stunned when he saw Chu Zheng.
"Hey guys, look who I brought here!" De Bruyne clapped his hands as soon as he entered the locker room, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
After Aguero reacted, he immediately stood up and greeted him, smiling: "Chu, welcome to join our big family!"
"Thank you, Sergio!" Chu Zheng leaned forward and gave Aguero an instant hug.
Seeing Aguero's attitude, Chu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Regardless of whether this guy minds being stripped of his 10th jersey by Guardiola, this enthusiastic attitude is a good start.
Even if Aguero has a grudge hidden in his heart, Chu Zheng doesn't believe that he can't dispel it by feeding him ball after ball.
Next, other Manchester City players also welcomed Chu Zheng's arrival under the greeting of captain Kompany.
Chu Zheng's locker was arranged next to De Bruyne.
Seeing Chu Zheng come back and put on training equipment after saying hello, De Bruyne came over and lowered his voice and laughed: "Chu, I thought you were going to beat him up just now."
Chu Zheng couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, "I take back what I said in the car that you have become smarter!"
"Hey!" De Bruyne smiled and pushed Chu Zheng.
Chu Zheng took out the GPSsport black vest from the locker and put it on.
But as soon as he put it on, he felt a little uncomfortable and too small.
As soon as Chu Zheng turned around and saw the gully squeezed out of Chu Zheng's chest, De Bruyne burst into laughter immediately.
Then the laughter spread like a virus in the locker room, causing everyone to laugh again and again.
Chu Zheng also followed Lehe with a helpless expression.
After realizing that this was a good opportunity to integrate, he even folded his arms and squeezed deliberately, causing everyone to laugh even more joyfully.
Kompany held back his laughter and came to Chu Zheng and said with a smile: "Chu, take it off, I'll go to the equipment department to ask Alistair to help you change into a bigger one!"
"Thank you, captain!" Chu Zheng nodded.
This thing is not an ordinary vest, but a very important training equipment that must be worn during training.
This sports vest is equipped with positioning trackers, accelerometers and gyroscopes.
On the one hand, it can record the player's running distance, jump and acceleration and other information, and it can also detect the player's movement status and position, so that the head coach can promptly discover the team's tactical problems during training.
On the other hand, it can also detect the player's physical condition and measure the player's cardiopulmonary function and metabolic capacity in real time.
The collection and analysis of these data through professional software can allow the coaching staff to have a detailed understanding of each player's training and physical condition.
This kind of thing also exists in Leicester City. It is very common in Europe, even the youth training teams have it.
But Manchester City is indeed one of the richest clubs in the Premier League. Chu Zheng discovered that the sneakers were even implanted with detection chips.
After a while, under the urging of assistant coach Domenech Torrent, everyone left the locker room in groups and walked to the first team training ground.
Yaya Toure was trailing behind, looking at Chu Zheng walking with De Bruyne and Aguero, talking and laughing, and the smile on his face grew stronger.
Thinking of Chu Zheng's friendly meeting and handshake with him just now, without questioning him face to face, he thought that Chu Zheng, who had just arrived, had given up.
It's a pity that he doesn't understand Chu Zheng's character.
Soon, Chu Zheng arrived at the training ground.
Under the leadership of several assistant coaches, everyone began to stretch and warm up.
Because this is a pre-season training camp and the players have just returned from a comfortable vacation, the training content of these days is to improve the players' physical fitness, strengthen the tacit understanding and cooperation between the players, adjust the players' mentality and competitive state, and restore physical fitness.
Wait for the training content to be the main focus.
After a while, Chu Zheng saw Guardiola, dressed in shorts and sportswear, walking up with a whistle.
After Guardiola gave a brief lecture, the training officially began soon.
The first training item is a mini-game for teamwork and physical fitness.
The players stood outside the boundary line of the court and were divided into two groups.
In front of the crowd, two red poles stood eight or nine meters away.
What Chu Zheng and the others had to do was sprint quickly, go around the pole and come back, and then be pulled up by the relay players and continue running until they pulled the last player in the group.
Looking at Yaya Tulay standing in front of him, preparing to be the first to start, Chu Zheng looked around Tulay and the pole, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face.
"Chu, what are you laughing at?" De Bruyne, who was next to Chu Zheng, opened his mouth and asked.
The corner of Chu Zheng's mouth twitched, then he leaned over and lowered his voice, saying: "Get ready to watch the show!"
De Bruyne's eyes suddenly lit up.
Aguero and Sterling next to him didn't hear clearly what Zheng said.
The happy boy was very curious, but because he was not familiar with Chu Zheng, he held back his words.
Soon, assistant coach Arteta blew the whistle, and Yaya Toure and David Silva on the other side suddenly jumped out.
Although Yaya Tulei's competitive form has declined, his body is actually still stronger than many players.
He took the lead and rushed back around the pole.
Returning to the starting point, Yaya Toure immediately slowed down, turned around, and reached out to pull Chu Zheng.
According to the training regulations, Chu Zheng, who was relaying, had to pull him to run.
Chu Zheng moved quickly and directly held Yaya Toure's hand.
The next second, Chu Zheng kicked his feet hard and launched himself into action. He jumped out like a cheetah attacking on the grassland. The starting speed was so fast that everyone was stunned.
Before Yaya Toure could start, he suddenly felt an irresistible pull from his right hand, and he couldn't control his center of gravity and fell forward.
Chu Zheng, on the other hand, seemed unaware and actually dragged Yaya Turedo for two steps before stopping.
Seeing this funny scene, everyone burst into laughter, including the coaching staff nearby.
Among the crowd in Chu Zheng's group, De Bruyne laughed the most.
At this moment, De Bruyne really admired Chu Zheng for actually thinking of using this method to take revenge on Yaya Toure.
On the lawn, Yaya Toure heard everyone's laughter, and her face turned a little darker with anger.
But he didn't dare to have an attack, Guardiola was watching.
His feud with Guardiola was forged in Barcelona.
In 2007, Barcelona extended an olive branch to Yaya Toure and brought this all-around fighter with excellent offense and defense to Camp Nou.
But Barcelona at that time was star-studded, with Xavi, Busquets and others in the midfield.
Therefore, Yaya Toure can only play the role of an important rotation player in Barcelona.
Especially after Guardiola took charge of Barcelona, he was more inclined to use newcomer Busquets in the defensive midfielder position.
Guardiola naturally has his reasons for making this choice.
Although Yaya Toure's personal ability is strong enough, he is too sticky with the ball and the ball speed is not as fast as Busquets.
Moreover, Barcelona already had Messi, Iniesta and other super breakthrough players at that time, and they did not need Yaya Toure to get the ball.
In 2010, Yaya Toure and Guardiola broke up and left Manchester City.
He left as soon as he left, but this guy had a bad mouth. In an interview with Manchester City, he once said that Guardiola had not spoken to him for a year before he left.
Then he was instantly slapped in the face by Barcelona defender Alves, which turned into a farce, making it difficult to tell the truth from the lie.
Arteta next to him was stunned.
He just announced his retirement this year and just accepted Guardiola's invitation to join the Manchester City coaching staff in early July.
Arteta is relatively familiar with Chu Zheng, as the two played against each other last season.
But now Chu Zheng gives Artat the feeling that his physical fitness is stronger than it was a few months ago.
Although Yaya Toure's physical condition has declined, he is definitely not something that ordinary players can pull down at will.
If it were him, he probably wouldn't be able to knock him down even if he dragged him for a long time.
As a result, Chu Zheng pulled him down immediately and he didn't even have time to react.
Chu Zheng quickly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to pull Yaya Toure up in a friendly manner.
Yaya Toure gave Chu Zheng an ugly smile, saying that he was a mute eating Coptis chinensis and could not express his sufferings.
He knew that Chu Zheng was retaliating against him, but he couldn't say it out loud.
After a while, the training continued.
But as the training progressed, some interested Manchester City players soon discovered that Chu Zheng and Yaya Toure were competing.
For example, in the offensive and defensive confrontation training, the two people's movements were very fierce. It looked like a PK. Although there was no intention to hurt anyone, it seemed like they were really competing.
Seeing Yaya Toure being knocked down by Chu Zheng again and again, many Manchester City players looked in their eyes and laughed in their hearts.
At the same time, he also had a clear understanding of Chu Zheng's physical resistance. He is a monster.
On the sidelines, Manchester City fitness coach Lorenzo Buenaventura silently collected data fed back through a GPSsport vest.
Guardiola walked over and said with a smile: "How is Chu's physical condition?"
Hearing this, Lorenzo Buenaventura looked weird, looked up at Guardiola, and said: "It's unbelievable. After a holiday, Chu's physical condition is still very good, like, like...
It’s like no vacation I’ve ever experienced, it’s incredible!”
Guardiola smiled even more when he heard this.
This was what he admired most about Chu Zheng, his ability to control his desires.
At this point, Guardiola felt that even Messi couldn't do this because the little guy was too greedy.
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Time has entered August, and with the major Premier League clubs in full swing preparing for training camps and warm-up matches, they are also not idle in the transfer market.
Every few days, big-money signings from the Premier League's Big 6 are revealed.
As of August 1, the total expenditure of Premier League teams has broken last year's record, reaching 1 billion pounds, once again crushing the other four major leagues.
European media have been shocked by the increasingly powerful purchasing power and competitive appeal of the Premier League. Even the civilian clubs in the Premier League can casually spend 50, 60, 70 million to sign players.
Some media even publicly declared that a large number of stars and world-famous coaches joining the Premier League will bring huge attention and fame to the Premier League on a global scale.
Perhaps in the near future, the Premier League will become the well-deserved number one league in the world.
There are also media outlets that openly criticize individual Premier League clubs for engaging in money-dollar football, blatantly violating UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Act, and the names of Manchester City and Manchester United are not mentioned.
Because of the total transfer fee of 1 billion pounds, Manchester City contributed 240 million pounds.
To sign Chu Zheng, Sane and Stones, Manchester City spent nearly 200 million pounds.
Initially, the media thought that Manchester City would not invest any more, but as August just entered, Manchester City announced two more signings.
Spanish forward Nolito, who scored 36 goals in three seasons, was poached from Celta Vigo from La Liga for 17 million euros.
Immediately afterwards, Manchester City bought Guardiola's favorite general Gundogan from Bayern Munich, Guardiola's old club, for 26 million euros.
Then Manchester City directly announced that their signings for this summer transfer window were basically over.
After buying people, Manchester City began to sell people and purge them.
After Nasri and Mangala, the 35-year-old veteran Demichelis became Manchester City's next purge target.
Manchester City directly announced that it will not renew the contract of Demichelis, whose contract has expired.
What followed was a series of player loans to slim down the team.
Even young defender Zinchenko, who was signed for 2 million euros just over a month ago, has been loaned to Eredivisie Eindhoven.
However, according to the analysis of European media, Manchester City's future is still not optimistic.
Manchester City's poor performance last season was not due to major problems with their lineup and tactics.
On the contrary, Manchester City's lineup is actually very strong.
Especially in the midfield and frontcourt, Fernandinho, Fernando, Yaya Toure, Aguero, De Bruyne, Sterling and others can be said to be the best in the British Isles.
This year, they also bought Chu Zheng, a super midfielder with 100 million pounds, as well as Gundogan and Sane, so the attacking power of the midfield and frontcourt will be even stronger.
Therefore, European media and fans believe that Manchester City's biggest hidden danger is actually its almost polarized age structure.
Players such as Kolarov, Kompany, Sagna, Zabaleta, Yaya Toure, Clichy, Silva and Fernandinho are all in their thirties.
Therefore, the aging of Manchester City's lineup is relatively serious.
For senior players, maintaining physical fitness and competitive condition will be a big challenge.
It is this unreasonable age structure that makes Manchester City's state extremely unstable, good and bad!
In addition, there are also problems in the defense line.
Kompany's health remains a concern.
If Kompany can get rid of the injury problem, and then buy Stones who is in excellent form from Everton, then Manchester City will definitely have the strongest defense in the British Isles.
Unfortunately this is just wishful thinking.
Looking at the trajectory of Kompany's career over the years, it is simply a fantasy to hope that the Manchester City captain can remain stable after recovering from injury and no longer be injured.
As for Manchester United, their contribution is not small.
After signing Pogba and Ibrahimovic, Mourinho spent 42 million to recruit Mkhitaryan from Klopp's old club.
Then he bought Bailly from La Liga Villarreal for 38 million euros to improve Manchester United's poor defense.
Everyone in the world knows that Manchester United's strongest players right now are their goalkeeper and striker.
De Gea can be called the strongest goalkeeper in the Premier League, and his substitute Romero is also Argentina's national goalkeeper.
After the introduction of Ibrahimovic and Mkhitaryan on the front line this summer, Manchester United is infinitely close to saturation in the forward position.
Although the frontcourt structure is good, Manchester United's defense is also in a mess.
Last season it could be said that it was De Gea's defense alone.
Therefore, it is still unclear whether Mourinho's purchase of Bailly can improve the defense, and whether Pogba can adapt to the Premier League and show strong dominance in the midfield.
After the Portuguese has been baptized by wealthy clubs such as Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, his coaching style has basically taken shape. Solid defense and quick counterattacks will become Manchester United's main tactics.
But "The Times" directly pointed out in the report that for Mourinho, his biggest challenge may not be on the court, but in Manchester United's locker room.
Whether the Portuguese coached at Real Madrid or Chelsea for the second time, his collapse had a lot to do with his loss of control of the dressing room.
