Vol 2 Chapter 60: The biggest enemy is only you

European football has generally no major waves during this winter transfer period, and the Bundesliga is even more calm.
It’s not just Schalke that’s playing, the other three teams in the championship group are mainly sending players. Dortmund’s loan from Ghana star Kevin Boateng from Tottenham has been regarded as the top hand of the ranking. Bayern, the No. 1 gold champion in Bundesliga, did not concentrate on this winter window. Just signed the free Croatian striker Olich, and the loan of Captain Donovan from the North American Major League Los Angeles Galaxy, the cost of the entire transfer market is only 2.5 million euros.
Even if the performance in the first half was a mess, Bayern General Manager Hernes still firmly believes that the team's current configuration does not require major repairs and overhauls. In the second half, it will be able to kill the contender group again. As for the media's half-season coaching remarks, Henes again supported Klinsmann with a clear banner.
In terms of player transfers, Bayern dismissed Saniol, who has been suffering from injuries, and loaned Tony Cross to Leverkusen for a year and a half to borrow players from the midstream to train the players.
No one can imagine that until the winter window was closed at the end of January, the Bundesliga standard king actually had only 3.2 million euros. Stuttgart's introduction of Gaborhardt from the German Bundesliga Munich in 1860 reached this number. All Europe knows that since the beginning of the financial crisis in Dortmund at the beginning of the century, the German Football Association began to advocate healthy finances to prevent repeating the same mistakes. The Bundesliga club is considered to be the most cautious league in the transfer window every year, but the standard king is only more than 3 million euros. Too shabby.
In comparison, Schalke's transfer is not too much, it can only be said to be a big move, and the media's expectations of the league leaders are relatively high.
Schalke did not go abroad during this winter training. After all, there was not much time, and the club was arranged in the northern city of Hamburg. Winter training this year is actually relatively easy. The coaching staff focuses on one task: let all players quickly return to the game.
Of course, the newly introduced player Purr is also the focus of attention of the coaching staff, but what makes the coaching staff happy is that the player has quickly integrated into it. Within a few days, Slomka found that this player is only one meter. The height of the eighth five, but the ability to confront and grab points is extremely strong, and he cooperates with Zhou Tiancheng particularly well-as long as he can accurately put the ball on his head, Purr has great confidence to grab points before the defensive player. , And long pass is one of Zhou Tiancheng's housekeeping skills.
Sloemka watched the new player's eye-catching performance, and couldn't help but talk quietly to the assistant Biskens: "Mike, it seems that we don't have to worry about Kevin's bench problem."
Since the last half of the season, one of the biggest problems that has troubled Slomka is that the team has only a forward type of Kuranyi. So many games, even if he knows that Kuranyi’s condition is hidden, he dare not change him. End. Slomka initially wanted the club to introduce Ibisevich, but in fact it was strengthened in this regard. As a result, Ibisevic failed to dig a corner. He had already prepared the worst. Who knew that this young man who had no hope had actually given such a big surprise.
Think about Zhou Tiancheng and Rakitic again, and Slomka secretly reassures: Is this really God's will this year, Schalke is finally going to run?
But Biskens thinks this does not explain anything: "Now they are passing to him every week, and this player seems to be only heading, and his skills are..."
"Mike, as coaches, we don't need to make players all-rounders, we just need to use their strengths to serve the team, otherwise how can players like Makelele and Inzaghi become legends?"
It has to be said that it is enough to see Sloemka's level of coaching when he can lead the team to a third year in a place where Schalke is a "high-risk profession".
As a coach, knowing how to use people is the core quality.
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At the end of the half-month short-term winter training, most players have recovered to fit the game. Although there is still a gap between the peak state before the interval, Slomka is still confident that each team will face the same Difficult, the opponent may not be as good as himself.
The closing of the winter window transfer means the end of the two-month league interval. In the eighteenth round of the league, Schalke played away against Hanover.
Schalke had an absolute advantage in the whole game. The number of shots was twice that of the opponent. The ball possession was as high as 70%. Hanover loaned the important wing player Husti to the Russian superpower Zenit in the winter window just past. It is impossible to compare with Schalke.
However, Schalke's offensives only met the brave German second country Mennke. Not only did the particles fail, but in the end, they were also scored by the former German international Hank because of negligence in corner defense. Hank didn't celebrate after scoring, he still missed the old feelings. After all, he also had an unforgettable time at Schalke U19.
0:1, after the winter break, the first round of the popular upset broke, not to mention the upset of the German Cup, Schalke 04 so far two losses at the league level have been lost to the second half of the standings The team lost to Cologne in the first half because of Zhou Tiancheng's red card suspension.
After the game, Hannover head coach Hekin attended the press conference and faced the spring breeze. Even he felt that defeating Schalke 04 was an unexpected result: "It is hard to believe that we beat the best team to win the Bundesliga this season. The players played. It was an unforgettable game, but again, this victory has God’s favor, Schalke has more chances than us, and the beam and the pillar have played three times, so this victory is to thank my players and thank God. "
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Afterwards, it was Sloemka’s turn to attend the press conference. A lot of media with a joke look, Schalke 04 Winter Window’s almost inaccessible behavior seems to some reporters to be very confident in the existing lineup, so now these people So I was looking at Slomka with the mentality of sitting and watching.
Sloemka sat down and glanced at the reporters below. He looked at everyone's expressions and went straight to the door: "Everyone here, this result is in line with the wishes of some of you?"
The reporters were stunned for a moment and then whispered to each other. They had never seen Slomka so aggressive.
Slomka waited for the audience to quiet down, and then said: "A lot of people waited to watch us overturn the ship, and then began to bombard our signings, or render the Bundesliga leader to start downhill, follow you, as the team coach, as long as The club does not dismiss me. These have nothing to do with me, but in order not to let the things you write to affect the mentality of the players, I must explain here that those who are gloating, I am afraid that they will be happy earlier. Any team after the intermission period There is a recovery period, this defeat is just because everyone is not in the best state, but even in this scene we still have an absolute advantage, you can refer to our first half of the play, now our biggest enemy is only ourselves, and soon the team You will find the rhythm of victory."