Chapter 21: Coming to Bilbao (《》)

Most of Mallorca veterans are. These veterans have basically established their skills and have no potential to explore. If they rashly implement new and gorgeous tactics, they may have all collapsed before they can get the results. If the old guys don’t want to run so hard on the field and have a passive slack work, their so-called modifier will not work. No matter how awesome Jose is, he will have to go back to the reserve team to play in the Spanish Second Division.

After all, he is not Li Fanzhuo, he doesn't have that amazing modifier, nor is he Xiao Ming. He has almost unlimited money to support him in replacing all the players!

Jose is just Jose, an ordinary fan of his previous life. After being reborn, he studied football coaching courses. He had some money at hand and some goods in his stomach. But what did Jose think and how he felt frustrated.

"I want to invest in Google! I want to modify the players!"

Then a cowhead hummed a song and replied: "This is not allowed, dear."

"Old man!"

It was precisely because of the restriction of a certain bullhead that Jose could only carefully complete his plan step by step. He held 200 million US dollars in his hand and did not dare to easily acquire the Mallorca Club, for fear that he would not have money to invest after he got it. You should know that the expenses of maintaining a club are also very large. Even if he is thrifty, Jose's cash on hand is only enough to support the Mallorca Club for a few years. Of course, this is the Mallorca Club under Jose. If it were the previous business methods of the Asensio family, there would be dividends every year.

It is precisely because of this that Jose will only fine-tune the team instead of major surgery, and Mallorca's management will not support him in any major surgery.

It is also because of the limitations of many objective factors that Jose adopts his current style of play. The old guys on the defense don’t need to run too much on the court. All they need to pay is their experience and stability. This situation is something they like. In the frontcourt, young players are mainly composed of young players. After formulating several more effective offensive tactics, young players with sufficient physical fitness will make a lot of effort in the frontcourt to score goals. Whether it is old players or young players, everyone is happy - at least in Mallorca, this tactic is enough!

Mallorca fans naturally don’t know what the head coach is thinking. They are just excited about the team’s two goals leading - the successive victory made the fans feel crazy. Although Mallorca did not have three consecutive victories last season, it is obvious that against the backdrop of the poor record in the first half of the season, the winning streak during this period made the fans feel even more excited!

Jose's tactics also made Mallorca fans more satisfying - although in the bones, Jose used tactics during this period are not much different from last season, but whether it is luck or anything else, Jose's Mallorca scored much more goals than Cooper's Mallorca.

As long as you can always see goals, Mallorca fans don’t care what tactics Jose uses!

During the halftime break, Jose did not make any adjustments, but emphasized the continued stability of the defense and the counterattack when there was a chance - the good situation of leading two goals gave Jose enough confidence to adjust.

And Mallorca's luck seemed to have begun to be bad. With not many attacks, Mallorca scored again six minutes after the start of the second half!

Ibagasa made an unreasonable breakthrough on the wing and got rid of the defense of the opponent's full-back, and then made a beautiful cross in the run. Tristan's ball was at the right time and scored a beautiful and powerful goal!

"goooooooooooooooooooal! The goal scored! Three to zero! Mallorca is far ahead at home! Diego scored the goal-"

The commentator on the scene raised his voice and shouted, and more than 20,000 Mallorca fans at the scene answered his words in unison: "Tristan!"

The commentator of Spanish TV station is not so passionate: "Three consecutive games, four goals were scored, Tristan was fully fired... A beautiful goal, this is the ninth goal scored by a young Spanish scorer this season! With his recent momentum, it is easy to break through the number of goals to double digits, and a new star is rising..." Hidalgo said.

"In a club like Mallorca, on the contrary, it is good for Tristan. At least when you are in trouble, the team needs Tristan more... Such training is indeed good for him, and Jose seems to be very clear about how to use this player... This can be seen from the fact that Tristan scored consecutive goals after Jose started coaching Mallorca! Maybe Mallorca will soon have a headache, that is, after the end of this season, can Mallorca still retain Tristan?"

Many Mallorca fans who stayed at home to watch the live broadcast began to scold these two commentators - what are you doing? My buddy was so happy that you two bastards were talking about Tristan's transfer... That's right, maybe Mallorca really couldn't keep him after the season, but why are you talking about this at this time? They are really two bastards!

Jose naturally wouldn't know the words of the two commentators and the fans' scolding. After seeing that he had already led by three goals, Jose nodded, then called Etoo from the bench, and after giving him a few words, he replaced Carlos with Etoo.

For Etoo, Jose did not use him as a firefighter - what is the firefighter? He played the game and used it to death until his condition was not good - and his careful use of Etoo is proven by Jose's emphasis on Etoo.

If Etoo was a person like God Ba, he might not understand it, but Jose believed that Etoo could understand his intentions and would know the benefits of doing so.

"Three to one! Mallorca defeated Real Sociedad at home, which was their three consecutive wins... Ngonga, Nino and Tristan helped Mallorca get a three-goal lead in the first fifty minutes. Next, Real Sociedad only relied on midfielder Alan Bru to score a goal in the 85th minute. Although this goal was the first goal lost by Mallorca executive head coach Jose Alemuni after taking office, it could not affect the excited celebration of Mallorca fans..."

"Although he has won three consecutive games, Mallorca's strong reply seems to stimulate other La Liga relegation teams. Several teams with danger of relegation have performed well in this round. Except for Real Betis who lost to Valencia, Sevilla, who had only one point ahead of Mallorca, defeated Atletico Santander, who was also the relegation opponent, by 1-0. Atletico Madrid tied Zaragoza 2-2, and Ovido defeated Espanyol 1-0. Mallorca still ranked last with 21 points, but compared with the previous situation, it is much better..."

"In another game that has attracted attention, La Coruña swept Real Madrid five-2, while Barcelona was surprised to lose Alaves at home with a small goal, so La Coruña will expand its lead to four points, and this team is likely to win the first La Liga championship in club history! Dejaminha and Makai both performed well..."

After this round of league, there are good things and good things. Of course, Mallorca fans don’t care about other teams. After all, they are in good momentum now. Although relegation still seems to be very slim, the gap between them and the second-last Betis has decreased from fifteen points to twelve points. There is hope for progress.

Mallorca was also very happy. Chairman Alemani highly praised the team's performance, and Mallorca's players were also very happy because the newly appointed head coach was able to achieve good results in addition to the tactics arranged by them.

Amidst the joy, Etoo seemed to be in a bad mood. Unlike the last game where he got a direct assist, he performed mediocrely after he came on the court and failed to score a goal. Instead, he made Real Sociedad score.

Jose saw it all, but he did not comfort Etoo. He had already said and done enough for Etoo before. If there were too many, it would easily lead to arrogant players. The degree between them was very subtle.

Next, another week of tactical drills, and the next round of the league is away against Athletic Bilbao. During this period, Jose still needs to adjust the players' physical fitness and condition, and allow them to adapt to new tactics faster.

Jose is lucky, and the next few opponents are not particularly strong opponents. However, Jose knows that except for Real Madrid, Mallorca, the strong teams of La Coruña and Barcelona and Valencia, have not encountered them in the league. If you want to grab points from them, the team needs to adapt to their tactics and adjustments more.

On February 11, the entire Mallorca team set off and flew directly to the Basque region. Although it was in a small place, Mallorca had its own airport, so it was very convenient to go wherever it wanted.

Athletic Bilbao is a very special team - they are not only one of the only four member-based clubs in Spain, but also the most stubborn and traditional club in club blood. Perhaps there is only such a club in the world. All their players are not Spanish players, but they emphasize that players can only use Basque-derived. For example, the main left-back of the French national team, Lizarazu, once played for Athletic Bilbao for one season. He is not a Spaniard, but he also has a passport from the Basque region and has Basque blood, so he was able to play football at Athletic Bilbao. Of course, Athletic Bilbao was unable to retain this world-class left-back in the end.

Although Athletic Bilbao's performance this season is average, it is still a team that was still playing in the Champions League last season. The team's center Urses, winger Echeberia, and midfielder Guerrero are all members of the Spanish national team. Urses and Echeberia debuted from Real Madrid youth team and Real Sociedad youth team respectively, while Guerrero is the standard Bilbao youth training and ended in Bilbao.

To a certain extent, Athletic Bilbao is the most difficult team in the world to coach. Because it is impossible to buy players of other blood, it makes it very difficult to coach this team. So many football managers and gamers have regarded coaching Athletic Bilbao as a model of self-abuse. However, they are often the best teams to coach, because you don’t need to make any effort to buy people, you can only rely on existing players and youth training. Often, Bilbao fans are not too harsh. When choosing this club tradition, they have to bear the reality that the team may not have a championship for a long time.

However, recently, Bilbao fans have been quite dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction is not for the team to be ranked in the middle of the lineup - they have all endured worse results than this, but because their head coach Fernandez always substituted midway in many previous games, but the substitution is always their captain, a model of loyalty, Bilbao's golden boy Hulun Guerrero.
Chapter completed!