"Haqi!"

While Raul and Rakitic, who were far away in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, were discussing Gao Han, in the Chinatown training base in southern Madrid, Gao Han sneezes heavily and he caught a cold.

With the promotion of Chinatown's new stadium project, Gao Han has too many things to be busy with, and he travels to and from Manchester and Madrid even more frequently. Sometimes he even goes in Manchester during the day, returns to Madrid at night, and flies back the next morning.

He was like a flying man during this period. Fortunately, the team had old partners such as Brian Kidd and Sergio Garcia. They all knew Gao Han and clearly knew Gao Han’s requirements, so everything went well in Manchester City.

After playing Real Madrid's Champions League group stage, Manchester City began to enter the winter break period to adjust their physical fitness, defeating West Ham United 3-1 away and defeating Everton 2-1 at home. Both games were largely rotated and their performance was not stable.

But everyone can see that Gao Han is actively preparing for the Christmas schedule.

After playing the 18th round of the Premier League on the 18th, the team ushered in an eight-day window period, and the next game will be December 26th.

Therefore, after organizing the Christmas dinner, Gao Han decided to take two days off, so that the whole team would accompany his family in advance, and he also took this opportunity to return to Madrid again to deal with some things.

During this period of time when Manchester City was making great progress, Chinatown's performance during this period was relatively stable.

After drawing Valencia 1-1 in the 12th round, Chinatown first defeated Zaragoza 3-0 away, and later defeated Sevilla 1-0 at home, ushering in two consecutive victories.

But in the 15th round, the team challenged Getafe away and staged a southern Madrid derby, but unexpectedly lost 0-1 to 1 away in Chinatown and failed to win Getafe.

However, a week later, Chinatown returned to home to welcome Real Mallorca. Finally, with Hazard's pass and shot, Michu and Aubameyang's goals, defeated Real Mallorca three-to-one, and ushered in Christmas with a victory.

After sixteen rounds, Chinatown ranked third in the La Liga standings with 36 points, behind Barcelona with 43 points and Real Madrid with 41 points. The Spanish Super League two are still the most powerful contenders for the La Liga title this season.

After Chinatown, Valencia scored 28 points, while Atletico Madrid ranked fifth with 27 points.

In the scorer list, although Mi Chu failed to continue the amazing goal momentum before the season, she also scored frequently. After chasing Messi with fourteen goals, Barcelona superstar scored seventeen goals in 16 rounds, leading the La Liga scorer list.

This time Gao Han returned to Madrid, he wanted to rediscuss and study the use of Michu with Pochettino and Cantalero in the second half, especially when other league competitors began to increase their defense against Michu, if Michu's technical and tactical characteristics are better played to ensure Chinatown's goal-scoring ability.

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“I never believed in the so-called rookie wall or something.”

When talking about the evaluation of Mi Chu's performance by many media, Gao Han did not hide his disdain.

"Every player's condition will fluctuate, that's for sure. Michu has scored 14 goals in 16 rounds so far, and the efficiency is not low. The most scoring players in other La Liga have scored 11 goals. It's impossible for us to use the standards of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to demand Michu, which is unfair to him."

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are recognized as the two superstars in the world, with super scoring ability, while Michu is just a midfielder who spent one million euros to introduce in Chinatown. She only broke out after the transformation.

The reason he is said to be ling lèi is because he can not only stand at the forefront, rely on his personal ability to score, but also cooperate with other teammates. He has excellent ball control skills under his feet, and has performed exquisite ball control in the penalty area many times, but at the same time, he also has excellent air advantages and great tactical role.

But the coaches of the professional league are not just a good deal. Mi Chu was able to catch them off guard at the beginning with the freshness, but once they entered their focus, Mi Chu would be under greater defensive pressure than before.

This is why Mi Chu's goal efficiency has declined and even performed mediocrely in many games.

"Now Mi Chu has adapted to the task of siegeing cities and villages in the frontcourt. As the team's arrow figure, he can complete the task well, but I think that in the second half of the winter break, the opponent's defense against him will become more and more stringent, and the pressure he is under will be greater and greater. He must learn to adapt to playing football under the opponent's strict defense."

Everyone also understood Gao Han's meaning.

Since Mi Chu's amazing success at the beginning of the season, many teams have not taken him seriously enough, which has led to Mi Chu's eye-catching performance. However, as other teams gradually attached importance to him, Mi Chu's performance declined.

It is the winter break now, and every team will use this period to make adjustments and research. In the future, every team may treat Mi Chu as the number one superstar to defend when encountering Chinatown.

"His header is excellent and his running awareness is very strong, so I think that when we encounter the opponent's tight defense and fail to form effective control within the 30-meter area, Mi Chu should actively retreat, or even retreat deeper."

Gao Han said as he pulled back on the tactical board, representing Mi Chu's chess piece.

"In this case, we can play more directly. For example, Mourinho's use of Drogba when he was at Chelsea, using Michu as a tactical fulcrum to launch an attack. Hazard on the left is good at controlling the ball, Aubameyang on the right is strong in impact, James Rodriguez is good at passing deadly balls, and our two wings..."

"As long as we can use Mi Chu to pull out the opponent's defense, especially if it is pulled deeper, then our offense will have more room. And don't forget that the front midfielder and midfielder are both areas that Mi Chu is very familiar with. We should pick up his feelings about this area again."

After hearing Gao Han's words, everyone felt enlightened.

Especially Pochettino, he really admires Gao Han's ability in offensive organization. The problem he originally thought was very difficult was solved by Gao Han's hands.

Of course, this also proves that Gao Han did make quite a lot of preparations before.

"When it comes to Jamez Rodriguez, I have a problem here." Cantalero said with a frown.

"What's the trouble?" Everyone looked at the technical director one after another.

“We just received an official fax from the Colombian Football Association and they hope we can allow James Rodriguez to return to South America in mid-January to compete in the U20 South American Youth Championship.”

"South America Youth Championship?" Gao Han frowned. Of course he knew about these events.

Each continent has its own national youth competition, and youth competitions like South America often select several teams to represent the continent where they are located to participate in the World Youth Competition.

"If I remember correctly, this year seems to be the year of the competition in South America."

Gao Han's words immediately raised everyone's attention.

In order to stagger the World Cup and European Cup, the continents, such as South America and Africa, often arrange their continents to be held in odd years. 2011 should be the Copa America in South America.

"Yes, and the Colombian Football Association also made a fax, hoping that we can support their work."

"What's the job?" Pochettino asked with concern.

"The U20 South American Youth Championship, which started in mid-January, lasts a month, but starting from June, Colombia's U20 will participate in the Toulon Cup held in France, while the Argentina Copa America in early July and the World Youth Championship in early August."

"World Youth Championship?" Gao Han was surprised, "What World Youth Championship in Colombia?"

"Did you forget?" Cantalero reminded with a wry smile, "The host of this year's World Youth Championship is Colombia, so they will form a team to play in the Toulon Cup in advance. Colombia's national team coach Eduardo Laura also called in person and asked us to let James Rodriguez participate in the national team's game."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but smile bitterly. The schedule was very intensive.

Strictly speaking, Chinatown really has no way to refuse because FIFA has strict regulations on this. With James Rodriguez's performance in Chinatown and La Liga this season, he will definitely be the core main force of the Colombian national team. If Chinatown refuses to let it go, they may even sue FIFA.

After all, this year's World Youth Championship will be held in Colombia, so the whole country is paying attention to it and looking forward to the results.

As for players, playing for the country is also an opportunity that all South American players will not easily miss.

However, in this way, James Rodriguez may miss the game from mid-January to mid-February, as well as all training camps this summer.

"What do you think about this?" Gao Han looked at Pochettino.

This is not only a respect for the head coach, but also a request for Pochettino's opinion.

Pochettino replied with a wry smile: "It seems we can't refuse, right?"

The game between the national team and the club has been around for a long time, and Chinatown is not the one that suffers the most.

In fact, this issue has begun to be on the table of the club's management after the team performed well.

Not to mention the rest, just talk about Spain. De Gea, Carvajal, Alba, Isco, Cork, Ilia Lamendi, Igor Martinez, Morata and Hesse. Chinatown has many selected international players of Spain at all levels, not inferior to Real Madrid and Barcelona.

This is a recognition of Chinatown's youth training strength and the reason why many young Spanish players are eager to Chinatown. Everyone wants to enter Chinatown, with the purpose of becoming a talented person and being selected into national teams of all levels.

In addition, Otamendi, Hazard, Aldevelde and others have also been selected for the national team, among which Otamendi also played in the World Cup for Argentina, which has led to Chinatown being affected by the national team competition.

This is a good thing, but not a good thing either.

"By the way, how is Rakitic's transfer progress?" Gao Han asked suddenly with concern.

If Schneiderlin transfers to Atletico Madrid and James Rodriguez goes to the national team again, from mid-January to mid-February, Chinatown's midfielder will be seriously short of people, which is something Gao Han has to guard against.

"We have already had some contact with him and his agent. The progress is just starting. I plan to go to Gelsenkirchen in person these days. If I can convince him, try to get Schalke Zero Four before Christmas." Cantalero replied.

Gao Han nodded with a serious look on his face and said, "Then you must be quick. If necessary, call me diàn huà."

"Well, don't worry, there should be no need to send you out." Cantalero smiled confidently.

He is now also a highly respected master in European football, and he is confident that he can come forward to deal with Rakitic.

"In addition, Maolicio, accelerate the training of Isco and Cork, and we will need them very much in the future." Gao Han reminded.

Pochettino nodded, "I understand."
Chapter completed!