Commanding Legends - Chapter 2

After Gao Shen came to the Real Madrid youth team, he studied with Carlo, who was then the head coach of the second team Castilla.

Gao Shen, who graduated from Loughborough University with a major in sports, was considered a rare professional even in the Real Madrid youth team, but he lacked practical experience. After talking to him several times, Carlo admired him very much. He even took Gao Shen with him after being transferred to the first team as a fire-fighting head coach.

In a sense, Carlo is Gao Shen’s mentor.

But unexpectedly, Gao Shen replaced Carlo.

It was this awkward relationship between the two that led to Gao Shen being directly turned away when he came to visit Carlo’s home in the Ortaleza district.

“Sorry, Gao, he just came back and said he was a little tired and didn’t want to see anyone.”

Mrs. Carlo said as she looked back at the second floor. There seemed to be a figure behind the curtains of the French window.

“I know.” Gao Shen looked very disappointed and sighed, but he had already guessed that this would happen.

If Carlo saw him at this time, he would probably really beat him up.

“Mrs. Carlo, please convey my apologies. I am very sorry about this matter. I still haven’t figured out the situation. I don’t know what’s going on and what to do. I will try to go to the Bernabeu to make it clear so that Mr. Carlo can return to the team as soon as possible.”

At this point, Gao Shen raised his voice, “Please tell Mr. Carlo that Real Madrid is in a precarious situation now and cannot do without him!”

After that, Gao Shen said goodbye to Mrs. Carlo politely and left “distracted”.

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Carlo hid behind the curtains, watching everything that happened at the gate of the courtyard, and heard Gao Shen’s words, with a very complicated expression on his face. At

the age of 43, he had already reached the age of 40, and he knew that Gao Shen could not be blamed for this matter.

If anyone really wanted to blame someone, it should be that bastard chairman Martin. He also vaguely guessed what Martin wanted to do.

But he didn’t expect that Gao Shen would be suddenly pushed to the forefront and become the unlucky fish in the pond.

Watching Gao Shen walking around the corner like a zombie, Carlo felt a little sympathetic towards him.

At such an inappropriate time, he had to take over such a hot potato. One can imagine how embarrassed he must be at this moment.

“Did you hear everything?” Mrs. Carlo returned to the second floor and saw her husband standing at the window.

Carlo frowned, nodded, and walked back to the sofa in the living room to sit down.

“This child must have been forced into a corner. Don’t blame him for this. He can’t help himself.” After saying that, Mrs. Carlo also sighed, both for her husband’s unemployment and Gao Shen’s predicament.

It’s all the fault of that crazy chairman!

With Gao Shen’s age and qualifications, let alone the superstar in the Real Madrid locker room, even any player in the first team would be obedient to him. How can he be the acting head coach?

Carlo leaned back on the sofa, raised his head, and stared at the ceiling at home in a daze.

After more than ten minutes, he finally made a decision and picked up his mobile phone to make a call.

“Hello, it’s me.”

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Gao Shen also lives in the Hortaleza district. He rented this two-bedroom apartment and asked Carlo for his opinion.

After buying some instant noodles for dinner, Gao Shen has been thinking about what he should do next.

He expected Carlo to not see him.

If he doesn’t see him today, he will go tomorrow. If he still doesn’t see him tomorrow, he will go the day after tomorrow, until Carlo is willing to see him.

This is a gesture. He wants everyone to believe that he is forced to do so, that he is also a victim, and that his situation is even more miserable than everyone else.

Only in this way can he stand on the side of justice with confidence.

The name is justified, and the premise of being righteous is to hold the righteousness in hand first.

If Gao Shen always carries the reputation of occupying the magpie’s nest and being ungrateful, who will obey him?

As for what he said, he hopes Carlo will return to Real Madrid, which is also his true words.

But he didn’t say when and in what capacity.

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While boiling water to make instant noodles, Gao Shen took out a piece of white paper and made a chart for the first-team stars.

This was a habit he had when analyzing problems before he traveled through time.

The horizontal axis from left to right represents the importance of the players to the club, and the vertical axis from bottom to top represents the support of the players for him. Then he marked the players in the team one by one.

As a result, he found a very sad thing.

That is, all the players are in the lower half, and there is not even one close to the horizontal axis.

This means that among the players in the first team, no matter how important or not, no one supports him.

He is now truly and truly alone.

How can he play this game?

Gao Shen was a little confused. Before he traveled through time, he had been in big companies for many years and had experienced a lot of ups and downs, but he had never encountered such a difficult problem.

However, the great leader *** said that problems are contradictions of things. Where there are unresolved contradictions, there are problems.

What Gao Shen has to do now is to grasp the core and main contradiction in the Real Madrid locker room, the superstar!

This is actually the problem that Carlo has always wanted to solve but has not solved since he took office. Otherwise, former chairman Florentino would not have resigned because of this, and Martin would not have taken office in a hurry.

After figuring this out, Gao Shen suddenly became enlightened.

At this time, the doorbell rang.

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soon as the door opened, Fernando Lucas rushed in.

When he saw the instant noodles on the table, he grabbed them and ate them, saying he was starving. Gao Shen, who was watching from the side, couldn’t help but feel hungry, so he could only make himself another cup.

“Tell me, what did you gain from going to the Bernabéu?” Gao Shen asked with concern while slurping the instant noodles.

Lucas was busy eating noodles at first, and finally recovered after finishing most of it. “It would be fine if I didn’t ask. Once I do, it will be a big deal.” After saying that, he slurped the instant noodles in his hand.

Gao Shen was not in a hurry. After making the noodles, he sat down opposite him and waited leisurely.

When Lucas finished the last noodle in the cup and drank a few sips of soup with satisfaction, the Spanish young man noticed Gao Shen opposite him and was surprised again.

Gao Shen gave him a very mysterious feeling today.

If they hadn’t been together all day, he would have suspected that Gao Shen had been replaced by someone.

“Tell me about it.” Gao Shen said lightly.

Lucas put down the instant noodles in his hand and looked at Gao Shen in front of him with a serious face. “The superstars have called the Bernabeu. They have no way to contact the new president Martin directly, so they called the vice president Butragueno and strongly protested the new president’s actions, believing that this is an extremely irresponsible decision for Real Madrid, the players, and the fans.”

Gao Shen said in his heart, “Oh, this hat is really big.

Are they going to give the new president a head start?

In fact, Gao Shen can understand the mood of the superstars because it is too bullying.

Apart from anything else, who can play in Real Madrid is not a world-class star?

Now they want a 25-year-old rookie to coach. Isn’t this a joke?

Who can accept it?

“How does Butragueno express his attitude?” Gao Shen asked with concern.

Lucas shook his head, “I don’t know. I think we should appease him.”

After a pause, Lucas added, “I guess Butragueno is a little unsure about the new president’s ideas.”

Gao Shen nodded. A new emperor has new ministers. The president has changed. Where will Real Madrid, the galaxy battleship, go next?

“After the change of president, have there been any major personnel changes in the Bernabeu departments?” Gao Shen asked again.

“Major personnel changes?” Lucas shook his head. “The biggest change is that the head coach Carlo was fired this afternoon. The other departments are basically the same. Butragueno is the vice chairman, director of the public relations department and technical director, Jose Sanchez is still the business department, and Floro is still the sports director. I haven’t heard of any personnel changes.”

Gao Shen nodded, and a scene had already emerged in his mind.

If we compare Real Madrid to a company, the company’s performance is very sluggish, and the public pressure is very high. The top leader decides to retreat behind the scenes. He was originally idle and had little real power. The nominal second-in-command was promoted to the top leader. He found that the heads of various departments of the company were still the predecessors. What would he do at this time?

Either he accepts this situation and acts as an obedient puppet like when he was the second in command, or he tries to make some moves. If

you want to make some moves, you must first test where the boundaries of your power are.

The head coach seems to be very important, but in the club’s management system, it is actually not that important, because this position is too risky and may be blamed at any time. It is a typical short-lived and thankless job.

Therefore, many people would rather work behind the scenes than come to the front stage. For example, AC Milan’s famous player Tassotti has been an assistant coach at AC Milan for nearly 20 years. He gave up several opportunities to coach alone.

Let me ask, if Tassotti was the head coach, could he have worked in AC Milan for so long?

In this way, Martin’s actions seem absurd, but there is actually logic behind them.

Moreover, according to the rules of Real Madrid, Martin will be the new president after Florentino steps down, but the presidential election will be held again this summer. If Martin intends to run for the election, he will not have much time to prepare.

As for the change of coach, Martin must have a head coach of his choice. He may want to support his own people to take the position, but he did not expect that because Gao Shen suddenly came through, he arranged Gao Shen to replace Carlo.

After figuring this out, Gao Shen’s current situation became clearer.

But Lucas still looked worried and worried about Gao Shen.

“I heard at the Bernabeu that Carlos has contacted many media and fan organizations. You know, he has played for Real Madrid for many years and is the third captain of the team. The relationship is very strong. You have to be mentally prepared.” Lucas sighed after he finished speaking. The

position of Real Madrid’s coach is very tempting, but also very dangerous.

Gao Shen, on the contrary, showed a confident smile, “Don’t worry, the more fierce they make trouble, the safer I will be for the time being.”

He even wanted to shout from a high place: Let the superstars’ artillery fire come more fiercely!

The more people discuss and pay attention to him, the better it is for Gao Shen.

If no one pays attention to him, that would be the most dangerous, because Martin can change his mind at any time and kill him with just one word.

But now it’s different. Once the superstars make a fuss, the whole world knows that Real Madrid has changed its coach.

Can Martin still change his mind overnight?

But Gao Shen doesn’t have much time left.

Lucas was confused and couldn’t figure out why the more the superstars attacked, the safer Gao Shen would be?

But Gao Shen’s confident and calm appearance still surprised Lucas.

Could he really have a way to deal with the dead end in front of him?

“What are you going to do next?” Lucas asked with concern.

“Tomorrow, I’ll find a chance to talk to Raul first.”

Lucas was stunned.

Raul? Captain? Local gang?