Chapter 369

"Van der Sar?"

At Melwood training base, Houllier frowned when he saw the news in the echo that Chelsea had brought in Edwin van der Sar from Fulham, as if he was puzzled about the transfer.

"How could it be him?"

"We are all very strange about that." Phil Thompson shook his head with a wry smile.

The goalkeeper coach also said: "van der Sar's performance in Fulham is very unstable. He is good in high light, but bad in low light. On the whole, among the many goalkeepers in the Premier League, he is only average."

There is no shortage of good goalkeepers in today's Premier League. Yas kleinin, given, Bates, Dudek, Friedel are all very good goalkeepers. Judging from van der Sar's performance in joining the Premier League for two seasons, it would be very good to be in the middle.

"As a goalkeeper, van der Sar has many advantages, but his disadvantages are also fatal. He often shows off his footwork in the game and brings disaster to the team. He made a fatal mistake last season."

The goalkeeper coach's words immediately reminded the audience and recalled their memories.

"I forgot which game it was. It seemed that when I was passing back, I met with pressure and didn't get out of the way at the first time. Instead, I wanted to pass the opponent and pass again. As a result, I passed, but the ball didn't go out. I was broken and hit an empty goal." Phil Thompson laughs.

"Yes, that's right. It was Edwin van der Sar who only lost one goal in Fulham, and they fell into the relegation zone, so Edwin van der Sar was widely criticized at that time."

Someone nearby immediately remembered, "the Bolton game!"

"Yes, Bolton."

The crowd straightened it out.

At least, judging from his performances at Juve and Fulham, van der Sar's strength is not strong, even worse, but why would Chelsea want to introduce him?

"What did the high cold see in him?" Hollier asked, frowning.

Phil Thompson thought for a moment, nodded and said, "maybe it's to see the merit of van der Sar's wider range of activities."

"That's right." Goalkeeper coach also agreed, "as Phil mentioned in his previous report, the gap between the goalkeeper and the defence is too large when the defence of Chelsea is pressing forward. This is not simply to ask Cudicini to expand the scope of activities, because the Italian goalkeeper is not this type."

"Van der Sar is indeed very unstable, but at least he has a wide range of activities, which should be more suitable for the tactics of Chelsea. However, I still think that alpine cold is just a matter of urgency, there is no better choice, so he will be in a hurry to choose him. This is only a transition, and I'm afraid van der Sar has to have time to integrate into Chelsea when he first arrives."

The goalkeeper coach's analysis is reasonable and has been affirmed by Houllier.

"In that case, there are still problems for Chelsea, so we will continue to use the previous strategy

Hollier made a quick decision, and there was no comment from everyone.

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At London's Harrington training ground, Chelsea didn't even arrange a joining ceremony for Edwin van der Sar. They just announced it on the official website and sent a notice to the newspaper that the Dutch goalkeeper took part in the team's training for the first time.

Alpine is also fighting for all the time to help the Dutchman integrate into the team.

But just as everyone expected, the new arrival of the Dutchman and the team have not yet established enough tacit understanding.

In order to better establish their tacit understanding, Gao Han arranged the main line of defense to be in the same group with van der Sar in the drill, and asked Ibrahimovic and Eto'o to be in the same group to increase the force of closing down the back line and goalkeeper.

The effect is a little, but it is not enough.

This makes Harrington training ground, the cry of the cold in an endless stream.

For a while, he shouts for left back bridge to withdraw, for a while, he shouts for centre back not to press too close, for a while, he also shouts for Ferreira to try to get close to the goalkeeper to catch the ball

The league is just around the corner. The first round is to visit Anfield, the most terrible home of the devil in the Premier League. Everyone is under pressure.

"It's not enough time." Cantarello sighs.

If van der Sar had joined the team from the beginning of training, the situation would be better than now.

But join in in a hurry, training together for two days to go north, away to challenge Liverpool, this is definitely a tough one.

"Never mind, the game is the best training ground." Alpine is very open, and very confident.

"There's a lot of noise outside now. Many fans, encouraged by the media, think that there are problems in the trade of van der Sar, Makelele and even Veron." Cantarello sighed again.

Conspiracy theory is always easier to spread and to be believed than truth in this world.

Chelsea's transfer operations this summer are all conducted by Gao Han, but without the assistance of agent Jorge Mendes, Gao Han can't do so many things alone.

As the core coaching staff of the team, cantarello knows Alpine well and knows that it is caused by the chaos of the management of Chelsea, not what Alpine wants.

But in the eyes of the media and some fans who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, this is a sign of Gao's monopolization of power. They even think that Gao's involvement of his agent in these transfer operations is in itself for profit.

Today's high cold is really yellow mud, not so.

Fortunately, the management did a good job this time. Chairman Bruce Barker personally clarified that every transfer operation of the club was approved by the board of directors, and the management fully believed in Gao's coaching in the team.

Behind the scenes boss Abramovich also accepted the media interview, clarified the rumors about Gao's use of transfer for profit, and said that he would not give up his trust in Gao.

But Gao Han is right. If you want to add crime, you can't help it.

High level clarification not only did not resolve the misunderstanding, but increased the topic of media and fans hype.

Very simple, they think that this is a helpless move that the senior management of the club has to do, and even think that they have been kidnapped by the cold.

The situation outside is overwhelming, and almost all the pressure is concentrated on the cold.

Now, there's a problem with the team.

It's quite conceivable that if we lose away to Anfield this week, the cold situation will be even more difficult.

Can't a team set up with 200 million euros beat Liverpool?

"What they want is the topic of hype, let them go." It's very open to the cold.

Cantarello also felt that this can only be so, this kind of thing is more and more black, "but wait a moment before the match press conference, they probably won't let you off so easily, you still have to prepare early."

According to the usual practice, Gao Han will hold a pre match press conference in Harrington to announce the 18 people's Congress list of the team. This will be the best time for all media reporters to make trouble for Gao Han in public. It's quite conceivable that they will attack in groups at that time.

"Don't worry, I'm not a fuel-efficient light." Gao Han laughs.

From the beginning of Atletico Madrid to now, three years later, he is not the boy who would be nervous when he saw the media reporters. Now, he has the aura of Champions League and La Liga treble on his head. If the media reporters go too far, he dares to fight back face to face.

As Ferguson once said, British journalists are a group of hungry mad dogs. If you are afraid, they will rush up and tear you to pieces. But if you resist and beat them, they will not dare to provoke you again.

At that time, they just need to throw a piece of meat and bone at them every once in a while, and they will come up, lick your toes and wag their tail at you.

But that's what he said, but cantarello still felt uneasy.

He was born to worry about this kind of labor!

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It's the first time that I've been close to the media since I joined Chelsea.

The last time was at the joining ceremony of Ronaldinho, but he was standing in the Stamford Bridge Stadium, facing the media and the fans from a distance. This time, however, he was participating in the pre match press conference.

According to the news from the press officer, nearly 100 media will attend the press conference, which is the largest pre match press conference in the history of Chelsea, unprecedented.

Gao Han also attaches great importance to his debut in the Premier League. For this reason, he bought himself a new suit and uniform in the coaching system. The effect is [prestige].

If the two sets of uniforms purchased before have team effect, now this new set of uniforms only works on a person in the alpine region, making him look more stable and imposing, and the effect is to enhance his power in an all-round way.

I still remember Zhang Quan's saying that wide stripes, pocket towel and three piece suit are the details that show the identity and influence of a suit, which are beyond the control of ordinary people.

If we say that before the cold in Atletico Madrid, always take a low-key strategy, then now, he felt that he had to stand up.

Now not only the fans in England and Europe, but also all over the world are watching him, and all the people in the team are watching him. If he doesn't stand up at this time, his prestige in the team will be greatly reduced.

As a manager, if he can't defend his players, how can he ask them to listen?

So this time, Gao Han chose a dark gray suit uniform with wide stripes. It was still a white shirt inside, but he wore a tie to make himself more calm.

When he finished his suit, walked out of the room and returned to the office, the coaching staff, the team leader and the press officer were already waiting for him.

At the sight of Gao Han's clothes, all the people on the scene were dazzled, and even a little awe flashed in many people's eyes, which made Gao Han feel very satisfied.

"The reporters have come to the scene. This is the general process and the details that need to be paid attention to in the questioning process. Take a look." The news officer came up and presented a document politely.

There was no press conference when Gao Han joined the club, so the whole team attached great importance to his debut in the British media. However, the fatal thing is that there are a lot of comments that are not conducive to Gao Han.

It can be imagined that the British media will certainly bite the cold.

Gao Han opened it and looked at it. His brow was slightly wrinkled, but it immediately spread out. He handed the document back to the news officer, nodded and confidently said, "it's OK. Don't worry about it, just ask them."

The news officer was immediately dumbfounded.

Any questions?

What if you are asked dumb by the media?

But Gao Han obviously ignored him and walked straight out of the office towards the press conference room（ (to be continued.)