Chapter 6 The Situation Is Dire

Chapter 6 The situation is serious

In a small conference room in the team's office building, Gao Bo met his assistant in Luton.

Most teams in England do not have a manager or technical director who is above the head coach, so now in Luton, apart from the owner David Morton, the most powerful is the head coach. High wave.

"This is Mr. Gao Bo from China. Starting today, he will be the head coach of the team!" David Morton said.

The coaches and staff in the room were looking at Gao Bo with curious eyes.

Luton is a small town near London. Most tourists from China like to go to London to see Big Ben, or to more famous cities such as Manchester and Liverpool. There are not many opportunities to see Chinese tourists in Luton.

There are not many Chinese tourists, not to mention that a Chinese suddenly came to the team and became everyone's boss.

Today's Gao Bo was wearing a black suit, black suit pants and black leather shoes, and a long trench coat on his body. He did not button up, revealing the shirt inside, his angular face and thick eyebrows. The sharp eyes, the straight bridge of the nose, the curved mouth, and a friendly smile.

A twenty-seven-year-old young man, still Chinese, is the head coach of Luton. The news spreads that the local media in Luton and even the media in London will pay attention.

However, do the Chinese understand football?

Everyone's curiosity gradually turned into suspicion. Everyone looked at this young man who suddenly appeared in Luton. Can this seemingly harmless young man lead Luton out of the predicament?

"Mr. Gao Bo was the head coach of the Chelsea U18 youth team and once led Chelsea U18 to win the FA Youth Cup! He also has a UEFA A-level coaching certificate!" David Morton continued.

Everyone showed a surprised look, being able to coach Chelsea U18 and lead the team to win the championship, which at least shows that Gao Bo is a capable person, a capable person, no matter which country he is from, at least he will gain at least at least respect. However, the UEFA A-level coaching certificate did not make these English people feel that there was anything special. In the current English football, especially in the middle and lower leagues and low-level leagues, the market for academic coaches is really small.

After a brief introduction to Gao Bo, David Morton introduced him to his colleagues here.

Due to the crisis of the team, the former coach left before the end of last season, and his colleagues also left his coaching staff, so now there are only two first-team coaches in this room.

Assistant coach John Aston, he was a legendary player of the team. Before becoming the assistant coach of the team, he was also in charge of the Luton youth team. Today, John Aston is the acting head coach of the team. Of course, after Gao Bo took office, his role went back to being an assistant coach.

However, John Aston was not dissatisfied because Gao Bo robbed him of his head coaching position. John knew where his level was. Let him take the team to play in the Second Division. There was no hope at all, and he stayed It's not because of coveting the position of head coach, but because of the love for the team. So John still smiled and greeted Gao Bo.

There is also a fitness coach Mel Donald, who is also an old minister who has served the team for more than 20 years, so when the team encountered a crisis, he did not leave.

In addition to these two coaches, the others are the coaches of the youth team.

The Luton first team has been very turbulent in the past two seasons, but the youth team is still stable. The youth training system of the English teams is very complete. Even some teams in the seventh and eighth tiers often have a perfect echelon. system.

So is Luton,

From U8s all the way up to U18s, Luton has dedicated heads for every age group. This kind of situation is very common in England. Of course, for Luton, the age group below U14 is more of a wide-spread net, similar to the nature of domestic football interest classes, and there are also a lot of staff. Starting from the U15, it is the elite training mode. Starting from this age group, it is the echelon that really needs to invest some funds to maintain.

There are not many coaches in the Luton youth team, and there are only a dozen or so coaches of all age groups combined.

In addition to coaches, there are also stadium maintenance staff, team scouts and so on.

Gao Bo smiled and greeted his new colleagues one by one, showing his friendliness and respect. In general, this meeting gave everyone a good impression of Gao Bo.

Now that the season is over and the players have left the team to start their own vacations, Gao Bo has no chance to meet his players now.

However, it does not hinder Gao Bo's upcoming work.

This afternoon, Gao Bo entered the state of work. He first needed to understand the current situation in Luton.

And when John Aston gave Gao Bo the current roster, Gao Bo discovered that the team's condition was far worse than he thought.

There are currently only three players on the team over the age of 21.

The captain of the team, the 32-year-old Kevin Keane, is also the main midfielder of the team-a midfielder who is enough to stand in the British Championship. A veteran who is already on the team. Although he is 32 years old, Kevin still has many suitors, but when the team is in crisis, Kevin Keane chooses to be loyal to the team.

Forward Sam Parker, the backup forward last season, is 27 years old this year. John Aston sees little hope of the striker staying on the team this season. And the reason why he is still in the team now is because Sam Parker suffered a serious injury last season, so it's not that he doesn't want to go, but that he can't go temporarily.

Central defender George Parker, a product of the team's youth training, is 26 years old this year, and his strength is not bad. At least in the English Second Division, George is still able to do it well.

In addition to these three players, the other players are all young players under the age of 21!

This means that the lineup of teams that competed in League One last season has basically left. So now the team only has players who have been promoted from the youth team available!

Most of the youth team players have no experience of playing in the professional league. Even if such a team composed of young people is not deducted 30 points, it will be difficult to avoid relegation in the second league...

Gao Bo rubbed his forehead, it seems that the situation is much more severe than imagined.