Chapter 103: Internal Challenges (Part 2)

Of course, Ridell is not a brainless person. He will not run to Tiger like a teenager who is used to fantasy and passionate comics and say, "Let's fight one-on-one, and those who lose will give up the position of the center of the midfield." In fact, in the circle of professional football, it is not difficult to do this. As long as you show that you can conquer everyone in training, at least you must be able to conquer the coach's ability, and then lead the team to win with actual performance in the game, then it will not be too difficult to become the core of the midfield.

So at the beginning of the training camp, Ridell worked extremely hard. His speed, skills and crossing ability on the wing were indeed quite excellent. At least in Preston, who was still at the English League Two level, he was definitely outstanding. So after the first day of training, Ridell's role on the wing conquered the hearts of most Preston players. At least the left forward Brian believed that his crossing ability might not be much worse than Ridell, but in terms of breakthrough and speed, he was a bit worse than the boss...

The impact of Barlek, who has left, is not bad on the right, but it may not be as good as Ridell. In terms of crossing ability and technology, it is left by Ridell on two streets. In this regard, Ridell does have the capital to be proud of, and it is the top attacking midfielder in the League One...

While Ridell performed well in training, he was also observing Tiger's performance. What made him a little happy was that during this day of training, Tiger did not show too much. He just honestly mixed up training in the teammate group, not looking too excited, and not playing with any fancy things.

This made Lidell more confident. In his opinion, after a long vacation, a motivated player must have taken the initiative to force himself to quickly enter the state before the start of the season after a few days of the start of the pre-season training, so that he can accumulate enough physical fitness. If he didn't seem excited at the beginning, it can only prove that the player was playing too wild during the holiday and has not yet calmed down...

So Ridell basically determined that Tiger was like a young player who played well for a season and then started to expand his confidence. He has seen many such players. After becoming famous at a young age, he began to think that he didn't care about anything. As long as he continued to play like this, there would be a main position and countless beauties of money. He began to slack in training and relied on his talent to earn his old capital. The final result would be to slowly fade...

Is it a very difficult thing to grab the core position of the midfield here by a young player? As long as you show your side beyond the opponent in training and save the team once or twice in the game through your performance, the balance will naturally slowly turn toward you.

If Ridell's judgment is not wrong, his experience is naturally richer than that of many Preston players. However, his wrong judgment on one thing made his final judgment go in the opposite direction - that is, Tiger did not play all summer, but trained all summer...

He has been training during this period, and the sweat he shed every day is no less than every day in last season. In this case, he certainly would not seem too excited. The initial training was mainly based on physical reserves, and Tiger did not show his progress this summer on the court. Perhaps only Barrett and Moyes knew that Tiger is no longer the same as two months ago.

Ridell has to pay more to compete for Tiger's position as the core of the midfield in the team - you should know that although Tiger has only played the main player for more than half a season, what has he done in this more than half a season?

He came on as a substitute and scored two goals alone, helping the team tie the then-strong leader Berry while falling behind one to four, making the morale of the entire team extremely sluggish. That game was also the biggest turning point for Preston from sluggish to peak!

After becoming the main force, he quickly used his organization to combine the entire team's frontcourt offensive combination. First, he conquered the hearts of two main strikers in training, and then stated in the game that he was not a kid who only knew how to play tricks on the training ground. He could help his teammates score goals and scored goals by himself when his teammates were not in a good mood. It was this series of games that gradually established his position in the team.

Next, he used an assist and a goal to help the team defeat the Premier League team Wimbledon, who was two divisions higher than himself in the FA Cup. This victory was later regarded as crucial. It was precisely because the Preston players gained absolutely enough confidence in the game against Wimbledon that they launched a crazy counterattack in the second half of the season!

Then in that epic thirteen consecutive wins, Tiger had either assists or goals in almost every game, and brought a team that could barely enter the top six to the league championship, allowing Preston's players to win the league championship that they had never dreamed of!

It is precisely because he has done so many things and created so many miracles in more than half a season that he has fixed his position in this team! This position is not easily shaken by anyone...

Ridell didn't understand this, and he also misjudged Tiger's position in Preston, so he was destined to be bleeding.

In the next few days of training, the team still focused on restorative training and physical reserve training. Ridell did not have the opportunity to show his skills and abilities, but he is also a very dedicated professional player. He knew how important the physical reserve was before the start of the season, so nothing happened.

However, on the fourth day, a small episode appeared.

During the training interval, Ridell didn't know if his feet were itchy or wanted to prove something. Instead, he walked to the middle of the training ground, picked a ball, and started playing the ball alone.

His skills are indeed very good, especially among British players. After playing several fancy football moves in succession, Ridell was also very satisfied with his condition - he is not particularly good at playing this, but today it seems that he is in good condition and several actions have been completed smoothly.

The applause from Preston players rang out on the sidelines, but what made Ridell not very satisfied was that the applause from his teammates seemed not very enthusiastic...

"Hey, Tiger, go up and perform. I haven't seen you play fancy football for a long time!" Nogan shouted at the top of his voice. He had wandered in various teams a few years ago. Although he had not made any name for himself, his insight into people's hearts was quite good. After Ridell did this, he almost guessed what Ridell intended...

When he saw Ridell playing those fancy moves, he couldn't help laughing. The movements that Taeg played during the training interval last season were much more fancy than Ridell. You should know that Taeg was criticized by his coach for being "fancy flirting"...

Compared with Ridell, Nogan and Tiger had a good relationship, so he shouted that he wanted Tiger to show his skills.

"Hey, why are you playing with this?" Tiger waved his hand with a smile.

"Go up, Tiger, let's see if you have made progress this summer!" The other players also started to cheer.

Tiger smiled, got up from the ground, patted the dirt on his butt, and then walked onto the training ground.

Ridell gave up the space and stood aside, wanting to see how good this guy is.

Want to convince me? I have to show some skills!
Chapter completed!