The Legacy of the Number Four Position

Guardiola was truly a perfectionist.

He was clearly a Capricorn, so how had he become even more demanding than Su Dong, a Virgo?

From the team's overall tactical framework to the specific details of execution, and then down to each day's training exercises, Guardiola not only broke down his tactical philosophy and instilled it into the players, but even pursued perfection in every detail.

Did you think that was all?

Wrong. Completely wrong!

That man even had extremely high standards for the training grounds.

After arriving at the training base in the United States, he discovered that although the area was surrounded by wire fencing, fans could still watch the team's training from outside. To prevent people from watching, especially rival teams from secretly filming them, he immediately applied to the club for advertising screens and had the wire fencing around the entire training ground covered.

Even after doing all that, he still wasn't reassured. He arranged for people to patrol everywhere and question anyone who looked suspicious.

This gave the players inside the sealed-off training ground the illusion that they were being guarded against James Bond.

But to be fair, Guardiola's preparations were truly meticulous to the extreme.

Before training every day, he required the players to arrive in the dressing room an hour early. He and the coaching staff would put up different tactical diagrams on the walls each day, then use that hour before training to explain their contents to the players.

Before the players stepped onto the training ground, he and the coaching staff would once again emphasize to each player the details they needed to pay attention to during training. What they should do and what they should not do would all be made perfectly clear.

Su Dong was also extremely surprised by this, but