On the night when he arrived in Cardiff, Wan Sheng received a call from Chairman Ji Smith. Ji Smith talked to Wan Sheng about the team, then talked about the club's transfer, and said sorry, "I think it will be difficult to work together in the future."

When Wan Sheng heard the Chairman say such sad words, he felt a little sad. After all, he has been together for more than two years and has achieved his current success, I have to say that he has to thank Ji Smith for giving him the opportunity to stay in Derby County. His ability to become the head coach of Derby County is inseparable from Ji Smith's trust.

Although he is very successful now, people cannot forget their roots. He has the ability and room for growth, but he also needs opportunities. So many clubs rejected him, and Ji Smith gave him a chance.

The fact that Derby County has the present is inseparable from his ability; but the fact that he has the present is also inseparable from Smith's trust.

So the two thanked each other.

Of course, Ji Smith called not to say thanks to Wansheng or something. He was concerned about the team's League Cup final. Calling was to encourage Wansheng, hoping that he could lead the team to the League Cup championship. In addition, Smith also talked about Wansheng's contract renewal.

"The other party promised that as long as the transaction was completed, the first step was to discuss the issue of renewal with him."

"Your treatment in Derby County will be greatly improved. The other party is a large American consortium, but it is not as stingy as me..." Ji Smith said jokingly.

The media said that Wan Sheng's salary is one-fifth of Mourinho's. In fact, this is a bit overestimated. Wan Sheng's new contract last season's annual salary was only 500,000 pounds. After a 30% increase, the annual salary was only about 700,000 pounds. This salary level is definitely the lowest among the Premier League head coaches. Because of this, Wan Sheng asked for a renewal.

In the world of football, the balance of ability and salary is always emphasized.

He led the team to compete with Chelsea for the league championship and firmly held the second place in the league, but his salary fell in the Premier League, which is absolutely unreasonable.

With the promise of the new boss, Wan Sheng felt much more at ease.

If the other party really renews his contract normally, Wan Sheng estimated that his salary would be at least 2.5 million pounds. This salary level can guarantee that he can get more than 2 million pounds even after tax. If the new boss is generous enough, his annual salary can even reach more than 3 million pounds. Compare with the top Premier League coaches.

But Wansheng believes that renewing the contract with him will definitely make a profit from the new boss.

He is extremely confident in his abilities. He can create value for Derby County that is far more than his salary, so he wants to try his best to win a better contract.

In fact, when thinking about the change of ownership of the Derby County Club, Wan Sheng's mentality was somewhat affected.

If Ji Smith is the chairman, Wan Sheng would rather get less salary. After all, he and Ji Smith have a good personal relationship, and thank Ji Smith for his kindness. But if they change it, they are different. If both parties don’t know each other, he will naturally have to get a salary that is equivalent to his ability.

Wansheng also has the confidence to be high-tech.

One is his team-leading performance in Derby County, and now it is also an opportunity to prove himself - to win the League Cup final against Chelsea. If you win this game, the team will win the League Cup and it is also the second championship honor this season after the Community Shield Cup.

Wansheng is determined to win this honor.

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Wansheng publicly talked about the acquisition of the club in the media, which triggered a new round of hype about the acquisition of the Derby County Club.

Before, Derby County was acquired, but it was just a variety of "good news". But as various news continued, after Wansheng affirmed the matter, all kinds of news became real news, and the American consortium that acquired the Derby County Club also officially surfaced. It was the GSE consortium from the United States.

The media have also reported on the acquisition of the GSE consortium in Derbyshire, but that was just a rumor, and there was no definite statement. After all, the acquisition was a private transaction between the GSE consortium and Ji Smith. Since the Derbyshire club was not listed, there was no board of directors or anything else. Even if the club was acquired, there would be no public big moves.

But as the acquisition progressed, the news naturally couldn't be kept.

Aprebi, chairman of the gse consortium, came forward to affirm the acquisition news, "Derbyshire Club is a century-old club, and they have a long history of football. The acquisition of Derbyshire Club will help us continue to develop the sports industry."

“We have visited Derby County Club and we were impressed by the potential and loyalty of the club.”

After talking about Derby County Club, Aprebi also talked about the team's upcoming League Cup and said that he would go to the Millennium Stadium to watch the game live. "This game is very important to Derby County, and I hope Derby County can win the championship!"

As Apulebi stood up and spoke, the media hype became even more popular.

Wan Sheng knew the news, but he didn't say anything about it. After all, he was just the team's head coach, not the director, decision-maker, etc. He was concerned about the team's performance, or his new contract. In his opinion, the GSE Consortium stood up a bit early. After all, in fact, the acquisition has not been completed yet. The current club is still owned by Ji Smith. It was still a bit too early for the chairman of the GSE Consortium to watch the Derby County game. It seems that the other party couldn't help but want to appreciate the feeling of having an English football club under his command in advance.

Wan Sheng doesn't care what the people in the GSE consortium think, and his entire experience is placed on the final match of the League Cup with Chelsea.

He did a lot of preparations for this game because he knew that Chelsea is not an easy team to deal with.

Derby County came to Cardiff two days in advance. They had to rest here for a Wansheng, then adapt to training for one day, and only participated in the game on the third day. In Cardiff local training, Wansheng still cared very much, which was related to whether the team could quickly adapt to the game when they appeared.

This is Derby County's third time coming to Cardiff. The first time is in the FA Cup final with Manchester United and the second time is in the Community Shield Cup, so the whole team is not very interested in Cardiff, and it is very familiar with it.

Wan Sheng put a lot of energy into this game and the whole team also put a lot of effort into this game.

The media is not optimistic about Derby County. The reason is that Derby County has irregular plastic surgery, but this is also Wan Sheng's trump card. It was not until the next day when Derby County was training that the media discovered that Lee Morris came to Cardiff with the team.

Suddenly, many media reporters exclaimed.

Some reporters holding cameras took photos wildly, as if they wanted to keep evidence of Morris' return from injury, especially Morris's condition was pretty good during training.

"Moris is likely to make a comeback in the game against Chelsea!" Some media said conclusively.

This is also Wansheng's trump card.

It’s a pity that this is the League Cup final, and the first day of training in Cardiff is open. There is no confidentiality in the small stadium assigned to Derby County for training, so Wan Sheng simply let Morris train with the team generously. After all, the 18-man roster will be submitted before the game tomorrow, so it is impossible to keep it confidential.

Before Christmas, Morris was still very careful when he was injured, but it was the end of February. With various restorative training, Morris had completely recovered last week. Considering that Morris had just recovered from his injury and was in a state of unstable condition, Wan Sheng kept him in his hands and did not send him to the game.

But this League Cup final with Chelsea is very important. With Morris playing, the team's performance will definitely improve a lot.

The only regret is that Van der Fate really can't play.

Van der Fate's injury is also very serious. Conservatively, it will not be possible to recover until at least mid-next month. He will definitely not be able to catch up with this final.

This has a great impact on Derbyshire.

The game will be held tomorrow, and the real training time is only one day. The whole team has no personal training. Overall confrontational training or something. It is better not to do too intense sports before the battle. Wan Sheng only requires everyone to practice some small-scale tactical cooperation.

These cooperations, in detail, are the team's various offensive routines.

On weekdays, Wan Sheng and other assistant coaches have designed many offensive routines for the team. Some routines are nested in the team's tactical system, while others are made separately. In the game, the process of scoring goals is obviously routines, and even players can know where the teammates are without even looking at it. This is the role of daily training. Playing routines in the game and exerting results, and cooperation will naturally be very tacit.

These offensive routines are the basis of tactics.

At the same time, various offensive routines are not fixed. As long as you go through enough practice, many changes can be derived.

The day before the game, Wan Sheng asked the team to repeat these tactical routines.

Such routine training is just about training according to tactics, but it is actually very complicated. Especially for the team coaches, the coach's seat needs to know what to do in every aspect of the offense, while the players only need to do it according to the coach's requirements. Each of them is just a link in the tactics, just do their own work well.

Every offensive routine of the team is the hard work of the entire Derby County coaching team. Those plans and complex tactical diagrams make people dizzy. These contents are reflected in the game, which is a smooth attack. The offense seems to be the performance of the players or tacit understanding. But in fact, these are inseparable from the coaching team that designs routines.

This is not Wan Sheng's job alone. If he did this job himself, it would probably take up all his time, so Diamares, Jim and others also shared the work together. Although they are not excellent coaches and have no talent in tactics, they are qualified assistant coaches after all, and it is still OK to do basic tasks to improve tactics.

Generally speaking, Wansheng gives a general idea, others improve the details, and finally everyone studies the entire tactical routine to analyze and find out some loopholes.

This is like programming.

For example, the project manager formulates the framework, then the small programmers fill in the content, and finally the software test, and everyone looks for bugs to modify.

In short, the process of formulating a set of tactical routines is very complicated.

This work is carried out by every coach in the team every day, and Wan Sheng devotes a lot of time to the research of tactical routines. He knows that this is not only an improvement to the team's tactics, but also a process for his own accumulation of tactical abilities. In this process, he will also gain a lot.

At this moment, Derby County is conducting tactical routine training.

Each player stands in a fixed position and runs in a fixed position according to tactical requirements. Since it is a review training, there is naturally no need to conduct tactical explanations. Everyone knows what they should do, and then there is a tactical routine drill.

This kind of training is boring, but the advantage is that it consumes not much physical energy and the effect is also real.

Making a metaphor is like reviewing knowledge before the exam. No one can be sure whether the exam will forget this knowledge, so it is always good to review it and deepen the memory.

However, in the boring tactical routine training, Wan Sheng stood in the scene with great energy. Whenever he thought of something, he would discuss it with other coaches, and then let the players on the field make some changes to the tactical routine. After routine and reality, they would know the good or bad of this change.

This is a process of improving tactical routines.

After two seasons, Derby County has still had a lot of tactical routines, but the teams have given up most of the routines in the First Division League. Those routines are targeted at the team at that time, and the current teams are obviously much stronger than those at that time, and tactical routines are more focused on cooperation and efficiency.

There are several common routines used by the team so far, and Wan Sheng often improves these routines before the game. This is actually unreasonable. After all, it is difficult for the team to truly adapt to some changes before the game and apply them to the game. However, Wan Sheng insists on doing this every time, and it is useless for other coaches to oppose it. Facts have proved that many times the team can apply Wan Sheng's temporary adjustments to the game. Many people, such as Diamares, were surprised by this. He was surprised by the team's ability to adapt to tactics.

Wansheng just smiled at this.

"My team has any possibility." Wansheng will answer this whenever others ask similar questions.

So the others could only look at him in awe.

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Wan Sheng was very satisfied with the results of the day's training.

During the training, the team repeated various tactical routines and performed very well. Wan Sheng also made some minor modifications. Then the team repeatedly trained the modified routines, and just one morning passed. In the afternoon, Wan Sheng asked the team to conduct regular tactical training, namely defensive position, offensive position, etc. In the end, the team arranged a 15-minute offensive and defensive drill. It was not until Morris cooperated with Ian Taylor to send the ball into the goal. Wan Sheng signaled the end of the training.

He applauded the goal and praised Morris' performance.

At the same time, I am very satisfied with the current state of the team, and I am more looking forward to tomorrow's game.

For Derby County, everything is ready, and we are waiting for tomorrow's game! (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!