Southampton is the top of the Championship, with 47 points, Birmingham is 14 points behind Southampton, and Hull City, ranked sixth, has 39 points, and they are 6 points behind Birmingham.

If they want to advance to the top, Birmingham has to at least enter the top six before they have the opportunity to play in the playoffs, which is under a lot of pressure.

Birmingham is very different from the Crystal Palace coached by Wensheng.

Birmingham's organizational structure is very sound, and Crystal Palace was already too bad at that time. Crystal Palace had been playing in the English Championship for several years but failed to upgrade to the Premier League. Carlton put no pressure on Wensheng in the custodial state. If Wensheng could lead Crystal Palace to complete the heavy responsibility of relegation, everything would be fine. Now Houghton is different. Birmingham came to the English Championship with a relegation attitude, and their only goal is to return to the Premier League.

Birmingham is the key target of each team with dreams of upgrading to the Super League. Everyone wants to step on Birmingham, and Houton is under much more pressure than Wensheng.

So Hütton is actually not willing to play more FA Cup. The only pressure to play for the FA Cup comes from senior management and fans. Senior management is happy to collect more tickets and game bonuses, while fans respect this traditional English event.

Faced with Hütton's complaint, Wen Sheng was not about losing, but comforted him: "Chris, you can't look at the bad side! You should also think about the good side. Beating us will definitely improve your morale! Give everyone a lot of encouragement. I believe your ability and Birmingham's strength, and you will definitely be able to catch up!"

I don’t know if Houton was living too depressed, so he complained about Birmingham’s puzzle to Wensheng.

Away bug!

Birmingham is a typical away bug.

They either have no strength or are too bad away.

"In theory, I have never watched your away game, and I have no say!" Wen Sheng smiled, "But I think the poor away game may have a lot to do with the defensive state!"

Hütton is not a conservative coach, he actually pays great attention to offense.

When Newcastle was relegated, there were many players in the team who were above the Championship level. Houton had enough capital to play offense. That season that Newcastle was a bug in the Championship, scoring the most goals, more than 20 more than the second place, and conceding the least goals, so there was no suspense to be promoted to the Super League.

It was precisely because the Championship was easy that Houton continued his style to the Premier League. The first half of his team was generally quite decent, but he was studied thoroughly by his opponents two or three months later, and they played obviously not as exciting as the beginning of the season.

The nonsensical dismissal of Hütton by Newcastle prevented Hütton from being adequately tempered by the Premier League. To be honest, some of his views or tactical ideas need further enrichment.

The two chatted for a long time, so that the entire Crystal Palace team had to leave their boss behind and go home first.

Wensheng is a straightforward person at the very heart and doesn't like stupid things. Houtun has always had a good relationship with him, and Wensheng is also happy to talk to him about his views.

Hütton was very happy and drank a lot of wine.

The more he talked with Wensheng, the more he felt that Wensheng was such an incredible guy.

......

Back in South London, Morellery told Wensheng a good news that the team only spent £400,000 to get Mahrez from Le Havre.

There are many African-American players in France, and Mahrez is also one of them. There is no obstacle to labor permits at all, and the process is very easy.

There was the African Cup in 2012, and some Premier League teams were seriously affected, while Wensheng's team almost did not have such problems. He often did not like to introduce South American players and African players. During the transfer, he tried his best to avoid introducing players from these regions. What he was afraid of was his own player Lao Shi's expedition.

Wen Sheng did not spend any distractions in Mahrez's transaction, did not have any phone calls, nor met his agent, so it was directly handled by Morelli, Madel and others.

So training on Tuesday was also the first time Wen Sheng saw Mahrez.

Mahrez is very shy. To be honest, when he learned about Crystal Palace's interest from his agent Carmel, he was both happy and incredible, but Carmel was not that strange. He told Mahrez that the small Premier League teams like to start from France the most. Crystal Palace is not a wealthy family, and being taken by Crystal Palace is not a great honor.

If Wen Sheng knew that Carmel's comment on Crystal Palace like this, he would definitely have to give him two big mouths. Why?! He still looks down on us?!

Carmel said in his mouth that Crystal Palace is not a wealthy family and nothing is great, but his legs betrayed him. In order for Mahrez to transfer to Crystal Palace smoothly, this guy actually only received a tip of 30,000 pounds. Mahrez's salary is also very low. Carmel ran around and tried hard to negotiate with Le Havre, and relied on a pair of words to persuade Le Havre to release the person.

Of course, Le Havre will let people go, after all, their temple is small, and Mahrez itself is optional for Le Havre.

When he saw Wen Sheng's original master, Mahrez was actually very afraid. You should know that it was not the cat and dog sitting in front of him, but the most famous young coach in the continent. It is not too much to describe him as Alexander.

"Don't be nervous! Boy!" Wen Sheng felt inexplicably happy when he looked at the nervous Mahrez, but he didn't want him to scare this future superstar who had not yet become famous.

"Sit as you like!" Wen Sheng sat behind the desk and casually instructed Mahrez.

Mahrez actually said, "I'll just stand, coach!"

"In our place, you can call me the boss or the boss, don't call me the coach!" Wensheng corrected Mahrez's words, "Sit down, don't be nervous! I don't seem to like eating people! And you are also a deal I agree with. I have watched your videos and you have great potential!"

Wen Sheng said this as a reassurance for Mahrez. He was originally worried that he was not the player Wen Sheng asked to introduce.

Wensheng looked at the young man in front of him carefully.

Mahrez is not tall, only about 1.8 meters tall, but he looks really too thin.

Wensheng couldn't help but shake his head, "You look too thin! How heavy is it?!"

"61Kg!" Mahrez replied with a red face.

Wen Sheng was a little irresponsible. Mahrez's physical examination report was actually in front of Wen Sheng, but he didn't even read it.

"So thin!" Wensheng continued to shake his head.

"Do you know the difficulties you are facing now?" Wen Sheng continued to speak.

Mahrez grew up playing football on the streets and was not taken in by Le Havre until he was 19 years old. Now he has only been in Le Havre for less than two seasons and has not received professional and systematic youth training at all.

But his feet are very good, and his ball and dribble rhythm are very good.

Mahrez in his previous life is the template for Mahrez today. As long as Mahrez can do as well as the Mahrez in Wen Sheng’s memory.

Mahrez's biggest feature is his strong individual combat ability. He is good at breaking through and has a good speed.

Facing Wen Sheng's question, how could Mahrez answer? As mentioned above, Le Havre doesn't pay much attention to him. As if he was scratching the lottery, Mahrez's ball merchandise has not yet been developed and his mind is not mature enough.

"First, your physical fitness! You are fine with weight loss, but I hope you will strengthen your strength training. The Premier League is fierce. With your current physical condition, I think it is not easy to adapt to it!"

"Second, your pass, I need you to strengthen, your position will be defined as a winger! A winger cannot do without a good pass!"

"Third, your ability to read games needs to be improved! Smart people use this to play football!" Wen Sheng pointed to his head.

Mertens is different from Mahrez. Mertens has limited innate conditions and focuses on running and shooting, which makes it a bit difficult for him to be a blaster, at least in the Premier League environment.

But Mahrez is different. Considering the diversity of the team, Wen Sheng hopes that Mahrez will be what he remembers. He can break through and shoot, and there is no need to force too much running positioning. In short, he hopes that the team can have a burst point like Zaha to replace Zaha’s role.

Mkhitaryan has the ability to break through and is more versatile, but his speed is not fast enough, and his footsteps are not as good as Mahrez.
Chapter completed!