Sitting in the car, Sun Jihai felt a surge of heroic feeling welling up in his chest.

He had officially retired at the end of last year, but in the years leading up to his retirement, his ambitions had long been worn away.

When he was young, he also wanted to do his best to carve out a path of hope for Long Country football.

But his influence was far from enough, and he could only retire helplessly with regret.

Now, he rekindled his hope. Zhao Gang, this young man, had unparalleled fighting spirit and talent. He could become a world-class star, and in the future, he could influence domestic and even world opinion.

"Lianhai used to be a football city, with a deep football foundation and excellent football culture.

It is difficult for us to directly change the entire Long Country football scene, but we can change it little by little.

This road is long and arduous, but I still have to try.

I want to start from Lianhai..."

Sun Jihai recalled Zhao Gang's words, "I am not good at dealing with those people, and I don't have enough energy to contact those people now. Teacher Sun, if you have this idea, I hope we can do something for Long Country football together."

"The road is long and difficult." Sun Jihai sighed, but the first step must always be taken.

Zhao Gang hoped to establish a new football order. Of course, with his current energy, it would probably be difficult even in Lianhai.

But at least there would be children, and parents, willing to believe in the reputations of Zhao Gang and Sun Jihai.

Even if they ultimately succeeded, it would probably take ten or twenty years of hard work.

Sun Jihai heard Zhao Gang's vision and agreed without hesitation.

He would use his contacts to find professionals to start building a new football system in Lianhai.

This would take time and money.

They couldn't be too hasty.

As for money? In the early stages, Zhao Gang would probably have to invest it himself.

In the future, they might attract more funds by leveraging their influence.

Zhao Gang returned home and asked Sun Jihai about the national team's performance.

Because in his memory, although the national team lost, it wasn't this devastating, losing seven goals in two games without scoring a single goal!

This was completely unreasonable.

Sun Jihai gave him a reason, and the more Zhao Gang thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

"I know Gao Bo very well. Gao Bo's ability is indeed not comparable to that of a world-class coach, but he is very pragmatic and good at defense. It is basically impossible for him to lose so many goals. His tactical arrangements in the two games were so amateurish that they were not even as good as those of professional fans. There must be a big problem here.

He has always wanted to do something for the national team, so he took over this hot potato at a critical moment, with little money and destined to be scolded.

Long Country football is terrible, but there are many football players like him, just not strong enough.

The reason why they lost like this, I think, is because he has realized that he can't save this national team.

Only by losing miserably enough will the Football Association be under greater pressure and have greater determination to make changes.

You will have a greater chance of being called into the national team.

For some reasons, he couldn't call you up, but now, because of these two disastrous defeats, you are almost certain to enter the national team, and the national team will also have new opportunities because of these two disastrous defeats."

It was difficult to change, so they had to destroy the old to build the new. Gao Bo deliberately made the tactical arrangements so amateurish, deliberately losing so miserably and embarrassingly.

After two disastrous defeats, Gao Bo was fired. In order to calm public opinion, a new and stronger coaching staff and a completely new look for the players were needed.

If Sun Jihai's guess was wrong, Zhao Gang hoped it was true, which would prove that there were still many football players in Long Country who were painstakingly trying to save it.

If Sun Jihai's guess was true, Zhao Gang hoped it was false, because it was too difficult for Gao Bo, who had paid so much for Long Country football and had to bear the terrible scolding.

After communicating with Sun Jihai, Zhao Gang was about to return to England with Orli.

On the 15th, there was still a home game against Everton. After that, on the 20th, the most watched Champions League group stage match would take place. Manchester City, who were in extremely hot form this season, would be visiting the Bernabeu to challenge La Liga powerhouse Real Madrid!

In the past few days, Orli and Jiang Ping had been getting along fairly well. Although there was a little misunderstanding at the beginning, Jiang Ping felt that this foreign girl was too fierce and not suitable.

Little by little, Jiang Ping found that Orli's personality was also acceptable. She was very proactive in expressing her emotions and wouldn't hide them, so there wouldn't be any pressure to get along with her.

Moreover, Jiang Ping noticed that Orli looked at Zhao Gang with joy, passion, and admiration.

Zhao Gang was both her lover and her idol.

Zhao Gang would definitely be very happy with her.

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After returning to the team, Zhao Gang trained with Manchester City for two days.

While he was in Long Country, he had been maintaining his training. If he didn't work hard, his ratings could drop.

With the help of Manchester City's professional trainers, Zhao Gang's original stamina rating of 90 had reached 92.

At his age, there was still considerable room for growth. If he wanted to increase his physical fitness through training in a few years, it would be very difficult.

During previous training sessions, he kept learning from Fernandinho, studying defensive techniques and timing for tackles.

Although he was still far behind, there was a very obvious improvement.

Interception had reached 56, an increase of 10 points, and tackling had reached 48, an increase of five points.

Now he could use system points to increase his ratings, but he wasn't in a hurry to add them, because the lower the rating, the more likely it was to increase it through his own training and matches.

He still had a lot of room for improvement. It would be a waste to directly use system points to increase his ratings.

After the national team match week, Manchester City's players' form had declined, which was what Guardiola was worried about.

Especially Aguero, who was prone to injuries, and with such a dense schedule, his body could easily be overwhelmed.

Therefore, Aguero was directly placed on the bench by Guardiola for this home game against Everton.

Although Sterling also participated in the national team matches, his playing time had been squeezed before, so his body wouldn't have any problems.

This time, Sterling appeared in the starting lineup, occupying his usual right wing, while De Bruyne remained on the left.

"Guardiola has very distinct coaching characteristics. He likes to have players appear in different positions. Ordinary coaches really don't dare to make this kind of adjustment.

This time, he has arranged Zhao Gang in a position he has never appeared in before!

The lone striker position!"

"Although Zhao Gang made his name as a forward in the Norwich era, he has never played as a single center forward. He has always had a strike partner in front!

This time, he is the only one on the front line!

Let's look forward to Zhao Gang as a lone striker, what kind of surprise he will bring to Manchester City and to us!"