Football: I can see player entries.

Chapter 31 Warm-up Match

On June 19, Burton Albion played their first preseason friendly.

Nasri has confirmed his loan move to the team and has completed his medical examination, but he will not attend the pre-season friendlies for the time being.

He was 10 kilograms overweight, so his only task this month was to lose weight. Li Yanqing had already told him that if he didn't meet the weight requirement, he would be benched.

Even if he spends all the club's budget, it will be the same.

Nasri had no objection to this and spent all his time in the gym sweating profusely.

As for the other players, there aren't many forwards in the first team right now, but Murphy has recovered from his injury and returned to the team, so they are barely enough if he doesn't get injured.

Most of the defenders were not of good quality, so in a fit of anger, Li Yanqing promoted two more young men from the youth team to play as full-backs.

Since they're all bad anyway, we might as well use more young people and hope they'll suddenly wake up someday.

The most worrying part is the midfield.

With veteran Williamson leaving the team and Nasri temporarily unavailable, Quinn is the only player left who can play as an attacking midfielder.

李延青的解决办法是，让球队改踢4—2—3—1，在奎因也不能出场的情况下，就变阵4—5—1。

Learn from Mourinho and focus on defense.

The result was, of course, a loss; the players played awkwardly.

But it's okay, there's still some time before the new season starts, enough time for them to gel.

It's worth mentioning that Sun Yan came on as a substitute in this match, playing as a right winger, and almost scored a goal.

In order to ensure that the boy could participate in the new season, Li Yanqing went so far as to persuade Robinson to use the special talent clause.

This clause can help players obtain work permits quickly, and each club only has one opportunity per year.

As for Li Yichuan, he is only 15 years old. It's not too late for him to train in the youth team for a year before joining the first team.

Burton lost all five of their five preseason friendlies.

This has led the media to be very pessimistic about Burton's prospects for this season.

People online have already started analyzing it.

Of the 21 players in Burton Albion's first team, seven are academy graduates.

The only reinforcement is Nasri, whose form has plummeted.

On the one hand, the squad is too thin, and there is a high probability that there will be a wave of injuries in the second half of the season, just look at Manchester United last season.

Secondly, there are too many young players, so their performance is bound to be inconsistent.

What can a bunch of kids win?

Ferguson's Class of '92 miracle is unrepeatable!

The most outrageous thing is that they also provided other clubs with at least three different strategies.

They also used game footage from last season to create a very detailed player data analysis to support their claims!

This really annoyed Li Yanqing, because these people's analysis actually made a lot of sense.

The season hasn't even started yet, and my weaknesses have already been exposed!

Burton Albion were newly promoted to the Championship last year and barely made it out of the league. Is it really necessary to target them like this?

"I'm afraid we're being watched again, Li."

Chris became worried again. He had just finished dealing with the club's contract matters when he learned of this news.

"Normally, only teams in the top leagues are analyzed so thoroughly."

"Could it have been Blackburn? Or perhaps Palmer, Kevin...?"

“They’re not that good at it,” Li Yanqing shook his head.

Blackburn suffered a humiliating defeat, but the club's relegation was mainly due to their own poor performance; they can't blame anyone else.

As for Palmer and Kevin, they couldn't do such a detailed analysis.

After thinking it over, Li Yanqing could only think of one person.

Raiola!

His team could do this effortlessly.

This guy is really fast, and his methods are much more sophisticated than Kevin's.

It seems that his only way to fight back is to win more games!

The only question is, why does he have to go with Burton Albion? Right now, every Championship team except for the newly promoted ones is stronger than them.

Or perhaps, he was targeting him?

"Forget about all that, we'll win and show them!"

"After these few games, the team's level is already within my acceptable range."

"If we can get good results in the first half of the season, the second half will go much more smoothly."

Li Yanqing's idea was also very simple.

It's true that their squad is weak, but as long as they can maintain their hopes of promotion before the winter transfer window, many players will be willing to join them.

Helping a club get promoted is also an opportunity for many players to make a name for themselves.

The addition of fresh blood can prevent injuries caused by player fatigue and enrich the club's playing style.

However, under these circumstances, winning the first half of the race is also a very difficult task.

"Who exactly wants us to be relegated?"

It seems that Raiola hasn't approached Chris yet, and he's still completely unaware of the matter.

"We finally have a glimmer of hope; our strength is not bad."

"This is really bad!"

“That’s right, but we can’t panic, Chris.” Li Yanqing looked at the latter with an unusually firm gaze.

"The more people want us to lose, the more we must win."

"They're taking advantage of our poverty, but if we get promoted to the Premier League, we'll earn over 100 million!"

"Then all the problems will be solved."

"What? You still want to lead the team to promotion?" Chris was a little incredulous that Li Yanqing still had this confidence under these circumstances.

But soon, he shook his head with a smile.

"Okay, I didn't believe you when you said you would lead the team to avoid relegation."

"But the fact is, you did it."

"Then this time, please lead us to victory again!"

PS: The explanation of work permits is at the end of Chapter 73.