Chapter 4 Everything starts with understanding!

Simon Grayson, with McAndrew, Lerotale and Divayo, has been training with the players for a while at the training base in Ganber Sports City. Although pre-season training is mostly physical training, they still play in the team training matches from time to time. Italian physical coach Ivan Caminadi has a high training level and the players' physical condition is getting better and better.

However, what Simon Grayson is most concerned about is not the players' physical fitness. As long as the players' physical condition is healthy, this thing can be improved through rotation and training. There is no need to worry too much. On the contrary, how many traditions are left in Barcelona today? This is the focus of the team's strength.

As a giant team, Barcelona has always insisted on playing ball, especially the direct players trained by Barcelona. Since the training of La Macia youth training camp, these players have been asked to play football with their heads and have trained their feet with great skills.

However, the "Red and Blue Legions" have always given people a feeling of soft-playing style. Even the "cosmic team" had to rely on touching to protect themselves. The lack of blood-deficient football seems to violate the meaning of football itself. Therefore, in the two years when Guardiola's team dominated the world football world, Barcelona was still criticized.

But no one can deny that the players from Lamacia's youth training camp have really superb skills. It is a wealth to put them in any team at any time.

Simon Grayson is most concerned about the current Barcelona team. How much technical content is left? The top ten stars he bought in the transfer market are actually not the type of reckless people. Even Shaq, who is extremely abnormal in body, has excellent skills, but these top ten stars are very resilience. They will inject some new elements into Barcelona. With Barcelona's traditional technology and no lack of blood-deficient football style, is what Simon Grayson wants.

During the pre-season training period, Barcelona's locker room was clearly divided into two factions, the "left-behind faction" led by Fabregas, Busquets, Valdes, and the "external faction" composed of the top ten stars such as Shaq and Ben Parker. Although there was no conflict between the two sides, the situation of neither of them was convinced by each other was not optimistic.

McAndrew once reminded Simon Grayson with great concern, worried that the troubles that the "Young Guards" might happen after Simon Grayson left, but the "brutal Simon" sneered and said: "If they are not smart enough, I don't mind buying some more people in the transfer market. Anyway, Barcelona is very rich. And... Tony, things are not as serious as you think."

McAndrew was a little puzzled, but the fact is that he seemed to be a little too worried. The newly formed Barcelona always performed very smoothly. The players were all very professionally training and working together, and there was no accident other than this.

The reason why the new and old factions are so stable is not that they really live in peace, but because there is a small faction in Barcelona, ​​the South American gang composed of Raphael, Neymar, Ganso, Acosta and Rivero. These players from South America have played a very good role as a lubricant. Among them are "left-behind gangs" like Neymar and Acosta, as well as "external gangs" like Ganso and Rivero. There is even Raphael, an old player who was once abandoned by Simon Grayson, who joined Barcelona for 26.5 million euros after he joined the Marseille team and made great progress here.

Logically speaking, Raphael should have a grudge against Simon Grayson. After all, he and his twin brother Fabio were both swept out of Manchester United by Simon Grayson, but now he is trying hard to help the two factions merge together in the team, because Simon Grayson had an hour-long telephone conversation with him as soon as he arrived in Barcelona. Simon Grayson made Raphael understand why he gave up on the two brothers at the beginning, and also made him understand that he is qualified to occupy a place in Simon Grayson's plan today.

Barcelona, ​​which was somewhat uneasy, did not have a locker room scandal as the media expected when the new season was approaching. Instead, "left-behind gangs" such as Fabregas and Busquets gradually began to praise Shaq.

"I've never seen a player like Shaq. He is indeed a unique existence in the world. He has the ability to make the game simple, and we can win it very simply."

Busquets said: "I used to know that Shaq was excellent. We all know that he once scored 200 goals in a season! It was an amazing record! But after training with him, I realized that he was a perfect player! Everything he showed... is perfect! Whether it is body, technology, consciousness, etc., anyway, as long as it is needed for football, he can perform perfectly! Of course, I still don't think he can play goalkeeper position, hahaha..."

Fabregas, Busquets said it was quite implicit. Vasquis, a 22-year-old Lamacia youth training camp, didn't think so much. He said excitedly in front of the reporter: "I used to think Messi was great, but now after playing with Shaq, I know why he can score 200 goals in a season! He is really perfect! Shaq is definitely the closest person to God on the Green Field! And he performed very... impact! Yes, it's impact! He can drive everyone, even affect everyone's thinking, and start with him towards victory. He is a natural king... Oh, Messi, Yes, although I shouldn't make an evaluation, if you want to compare, I believe Shaq is stronger than Messi, and I think this is also an objective fact."

The reason why the "Left-behind Gang" began to accept Shaq was very simple. They were really impressed by the personal abilities of the "King of Ball" Shaq.

After the pre-season warm-up match began, Barcelona's first game defeated Portuguese powerhouse Porto with a score of 3:0 at Camp Nou. At 21 minutes of the game, Shaq fought against the encirclement of three opponents through defensive counterattacks, and forced a angrily shot from the place where he had just entered the penalty area on the right of Porto.

There were 65,000 Barcelona fans who came to the Camp Nou to watch this game. They did not realize until this time what a magical "King of Football" their team has obtained. This is completely Shaq's performance alone!

In the second warm-up match, Barcelona narrowly defeated Galatasaray 3-2 away, and Shaq scored another goal and assisted Boyan twice in the game.

In the third game, Barcelona defeated Dutch powerhouse Ajax 4-1 away, and Shaq scored another goal and assisted twice in the game.

In the fourth game, Barcelona beat Aston Villa 8-0 away. Shaq ushered in a big explosion this time. He scored five goals in the game, but there was another assist.

With such a wonderful performance from Shaq, how could the old Barcelona players and fans not accept the team's new "King of Football"!?

When Messi took over Banronaldinho, didn’t Barcelona enter the “Messi era” so naturally!

In fact, for any team, selling the best player is not a problem. The key is whether the substitute is strong enough to replace the former position well.

The 25-year-old Shaq replaced Messi, who was 31-year-old. Now it seems that it is already a very successful new and old replacement for the club. The most important core player in the team successfully completed the new and old replacement, which means that Barcelona has really ushered in another opportunity to take off.

But just as Barcelona fans started singing praises for Shaq, Barcelona tied 0:0 against Torino away, and in this game... Shaq disappeared!

There is no shadow of Shaq in the starting lineup and substitute lineup!

Finally, the reporters gave the answer. It turned out that after playing away with Aston Villa in Barcelona, ​​Shaq took leave with Simon Grayson. He returned to Manchester to pick up his wife and daughter to his new home in Barcelona. He went to Spain with the family of three. There were also the British housekeeper, gardener, maid whom Shaq had retained after raising his salary, plus the bodyguards arranged by the two chefs and agents Glenn Oxley and his father-in-law Zong Xingyun, and someone with his family. This time, there were almost thirty people moving to Barcelona with Shaq.

Shaq also felt that his family was getting bigger and bigger. He is now a billionaire. After the World Cup, his personal contract with Adidas had expired. In order to prevent the tragedy of Messi as a Barcelona sponsor, Nike went crazy and snatched Shaq from Adidas with a sponsorship of 50 million euros per year.

Nike really has no choice. In the last two years of Shaq's at Manchester United, Adidas kept Shaq for two more years with a sponsorship fee of 30 million euros per year. This time... if you don't spend money, you'll be helpless!

It is precisely because of Barcelona's sky-high salary and Nike's madness that Shaq originally endorsed brands such as Armani, Mercedes-Benz, Philip, etc. Now Shaq's after-tax income is over 100 million euros every year. If there is no group of people around him, it will be a bit dangerous.

After Shaq arrived in Barcelona with a special plane, there were more than ten cars responsible for picking up the plane. Although Glenn Oxley had a lot of personal affairs, he specially arranged an assistant Lech Clark to be responsible for all Shaq's affairs, but helped Shaq arrange her new life in an orderly manner. Now, Shaq spent 15 million euros on the suburbs of southwestern Barcelona to buy a luxury coastal estate, which Lech Clark bought.
Chapter completed!