After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 140 The lineup is too thin

After the summer training camp in Hamburg, a warm-up match will be arranged almost every few days, so that the players returning from vacation can get back the feeling of the game.

The opponents arranged at the beginning were relatively weak, basically from the German paper-level leagues, and there were even amateur teams.

What Rosenheim 1860, Kiel Goldstein, Norderstedt... Pan Yi has never heard of it before.

Burgers all beat their opponents.

But when it comes to slightly stronger opponents, Hamburg's performance is not satisfactory.

They beat Seongnam Ilhwa from South Korea's K-League by one goal, drew with Denmark's Los Charant, but lost to Netherlands' Groningen.

This made the local media in Hamburg quite critical.

But the media and fans also understand that this is just a pre-season warm-up match, and Hamburg, as a Bundesliga relegation team, is not particularly unexpected when it loses to a mid-range Eredivisie team.

Their eyes are more focused on Hamburg's first game of the new season.

That was the first round of the German Cup that started on August 8, with Karlsruhe playing against Hamburg at home.

Karlsruhe, the former Bundesliga team, has now been reduced to the Bundesliga, and its strength is definitely not at the same level as Hamburg.

And in such an official game against the underdogs, if Hamburg loses again, the saliva sprayed on Pan Yi will definitely be indispensable.

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Pan Yi naturally didn't care about the results of the warm-up match.

He mainly tests the tactical effect in the game, especially which players are suitable for which position, and which players can better execute his tactical intentions.

Especially those old players from Hamburg, those players that Pan Yi is not familiar with.

After all, unlike when he was in Milan, Pan Yi can be said to be very familiar with those Milan players.

How could he not know people like Gattuso, Ambrosini and Nesta?

But it's different here.

Even the captain of Hamburg, the former German international Westermann, not many Dragon Country fans know him.

Including Lin Zhijian, Pan Yi only heard his name and knew some of his stories in his previous life, but he basically never watched his games.

As for what position he is good at playing and what role he can play in Pan Yi's 4231, we don't know at all.

So in the warm-up match, Pan Yi asked Westerman to play at center back, left back, right back, and even a midfielder, while Lin Zhijian even played all positions in the center and front field. Both played halftime.

Under such circumstances, isn't it natural that Hamburg did not perform at the best level in the game?

But as the warm-up matches were played one by one, Pan Yi not only gained familiarity with the players, but also realized a problem.

That is: the current lineup depth of Hamburg is still not enough.

Except for Pan Yi's "imperially appointed" main lineup, the rest of the Hamburg players feel that they are not as good in terms of ability, and their ability to adapt to new tactics is also very average.

Still not like when he was in Milan, Pan Yi not only had Salah, Ibrahimovic, but also Aubameyang and Inzaghi;

In addition to Gattuso, Van Dijk, Ambrosini, Nesta...

And, this is when the season hasn't even started yet.

As the season progresses, after the ability values ​​of these "potential stocks" under Pan Yi start to rise sharply, the gap between them will only become wider and wider.

In other words, in this season's Bundesliga, Pan Yi can only rely on the dozen or so main players.

So, how to solve this problem?
Buy another person?Already out of money.

Lease?
First, most of the people who can match Pan Yi’s requirements have high salaries, which will also cause financial pressure on Hamburg;
Secondly, based on Pan Yi's habit of playing FM games, he doesn't like to rent out players to play, because there is an uncomfortable feeling of helping others to level up but delaying the growth of his own children...

So this season's lineup is like this, at least until the winter window starts, or before new funds are injected.

Therefore, Pan Yi made a decision.

That is to try to maintain the results of the Bundesliga, and the German Cup will be played with a rotation lineup, whichever can be played.

With such a thin lineup, it is not easy to guarantee the quality of single-line combat, and there is no need to consider two-line operations.

As long as Pan Yi's goal of breaking into the top four that Pan Yi said at the press conference can be truly achieved, being able to enter the Champions League is much more important than the German Cup.

Entering the Champions League, the team's funds will be more abundant, and the attractiveness to players will also increase greatly. At that time, there will be another wave of buying and buying.

After enriching the lineup, consider the two-line and three-line operations.

Moreover, even if Hamburg goes all out in the German Cup, it may not be able to break through the blockade of strong teams like Bayern and Dortmund to get good results.

At that time, if the chickens fly and eggs are beaten, it will be a big loss with empty hands.

There is no shortage of such examples in the history of football in Pan Yi's previous life.

For example, Wigan Athletic in the Premier League made an all-out attack on the FA Cup in the 2012-13 season, and actually defeated Manchester City in the FA Cup final to win the championship!

But they were relegated in the Premier League at the same time. The following year they could only participate in the Europa League as a Championship team, and failed to qualify for the group.

Another example is the Spaniard in La Liga. In the 2018-19 season, that is, the season Wu Lei joined, he won seventh in La Liga, thus qualifying for the Europa League next season.

They performed well in the Europa League group stage and advanced to the top of the group, but they suffered repeated defeats in the league and were eventually relegated...

These teams, because the lineup is too thin, make them unable to support the pressure of multi-line combat.

Once players have transfers, injuries, etc., their strength will be greatly affected, and their performance will plummet.

So Pan Yi didn't want to repeat their mistakes.

Besides, the ancestors of Hamburg are considered rich, and there is actually no desire for the German Cup championship.

As long as the results in the Bundesliga go up, any German Cup is just a cloud.

Also, you can't expect a relegation team to go far in the German Cup, can you?

In summary, Pan Yi has already made a strategic plan for this season, including future seasons.

And with the passage of time, the Hamburg first-team lineup he will use this season has basically surfaced.

Forwards: Sun Xingmin, Wu Lei, Vardy, Marcus Berry, Marcel Janssen, Lin Zhijian.

Midfielders: De Bruyne, Charhanoglu, Casemiro, Makoto Hasebe, Jakopo Sala, Shelbrey, Tesher.

Defenders: Rudiger, Kjaer, Carvajal, Westermann, Ogo, Mancien, Geoffrey Bruma, Dickmeyer.

Goalkeepers: Navas, Neuhaus.

A total of 23 people.

Unlike other leagues, the Bundesliga is actually very loose in terms of registration.

If you like it, there is no problem in signing up to the 99 players, so youth training and non-European training are not a problem in the Bundesliga. This is why Pan Yi was able to introduce so many players from various countries in one go.

The 23-man list drawn up by Pan Yi is actually the first-team players who he thinks can compete in the Bundesliga this season.

If it is just to deal with the single-line battle of the Bundesliga, these people are almost enough, and there is no point in having more.

Those who did not meet Pan Yi's requirements in the training and warm-up matches had to go to the reserve team and the youth team first.

And in case there are some downsizing during the season and need to be replenished, he can just go down and promote some and put them up.

What he has to do now is to quickly improve the status of these 23 people to meet the upcoming official competition!

(End of this chapter)