"Perhaps I'm too conceptual. The simple point is that times are changing, football is constantly evolving, and the outside world and ourselves are asking us to repeat the past, and once we obey this request, it means that we will continue to evolve gradually. It's a step backward." Wang Ai took a breath, sorted out his thinking, and said softly: "Coach, when you appeared in front of international football ten years ago, when you led Chelsea to create a series of records and break the Premier League pattern, Ferguson, Wenger, Capello, Van Gaal, etc., are they behind you? Did you show up with more cutting-edge technology, ideas, and style of play? Now?"

"You mean..." The voice on the phone was hoarse: "I've become them? Now?"

"There are two poems in the collection of poems I gave you. There are talented people in the country, and they have been leading the way for hundreds of years. Think about it, today, the era of me, Messi, Ronaldo and the previous era is Ronaldo. How different are their eras? How different are Ronaldo's and Van Basten's eras? Every era has challengers who show up to change the rules, refine the rules, and drive progress. When the master of an era is immersed in an established track It means that he has begun to fall behind, gradually becoming rotten in the face of the budding, new power."

"...Is that why you suggested me to take a year off?" Mourinho was silent for a while before continuing: "But my agreement is about to be signed, as you said, I have a track record. It's time to be on your own."

"Yeah, so do I." Wang Ai sighed: "That's why we need to be more sober, even if we are no longer the creators and leaders of new powers, we must remain sensitive enough to first Time catches up with the trend, continuing our, high-end, continuing our careers, and even further.”

"...I don't understand very well, Doctor, please tell me briefly." On the phone, Mourinho had a rare peace of mind and a rare modesty.

"For us, we have enough wisdom, but what we can't control is our mentality." Wang Ai thought for a while before continuing: "Coach, what I said next may not be right, but I promise it is mine. Seriously, do you want to hear it?"

"Am I the one who doesn't listen? Besides, this is our private call."

Wang Ai was about to speak, when he suddenly saw Xu Qinglian beside him waving her hand at him, she brought a glass of juice over, Wang Ai smiled and took a few gulps, feeling calm before putting down the glass: "Coach, you are in Real Madrid. Three years must be different from what you expected before you went, right?"

"Of course, but what do you think I envisioned before I went?"

"Five consecutive championships? Five consecutive Champions League titles?"

"Ha ha."

Wang Ai also smiled happily for a while: "After all, we have fought side by side for so long, just like you know me, I also know your coach. I can feel your ambition when you reached the peak of coaching. You changed Real Madrid and changed the football world. Ideal, so I can better understand your current loss and unwillingness."

"..."

"But the question is, can you come out of this loss and unwillingness? In the past, you have always been on the rise. Now, this should be one of the few setbacks you have admitted to yourself."

"Why can't you come out?" Mourinho asked rather strangely on the phone: "I have started self-analysis, and I will always analyze in the future, just like you stayed in the quarter-finals in the 2006 World Cup, are you? So many years of summing up and then breaking out in 10 years in South Africa? Me too.”

Wang Ai thought for a while, then sighed: "Yes, we will all conclude, but the problem is that me and my national team are on the rise, and as I said just now, you are at your peak and you are about to be defeated. The marginal period of the new force being crowded out. Moreover, our reflection and summary are also inevitable things, and they are also in our established track.”

"……Simpler."

"That is to say, your reflection and summary are inevitable things that will happen in your career as a professional coach. This does not mean that you have changed your career trajectory, especially in terms of mentality." Wang Ai paused: "Coach, you are a stubborn person and a person who does not admit defeat, which supports your perseverance to yourself in difficult times and supports you to create great achievements. But in turn, this kind of character also makes you suffer once setbacks. What's more, there is a stronger urge to prove yourself than others. This kind of personality will help you stick to the right things until the good results come, but it will also make you slip further and deeper if you choose the wrong one."

As Wang Ai was speaking, a small white hand waved in front of him. Wang Ai went to see if it was Xu Qinglian. She pointed to the juice on the small table and asked Wang Ai to take another sip. Wang Ai smiled, picked it up, took another sip, adjusted his language again, and then said in Mourinho's silence: "Coach, the times will always improve. Originally, if you changed the place, you interrupted the original trajectory and started a new one. The opportunity is also for you, and of course it also includes the opportunity for me or anyone to keep up with the times. But there is a premise that we must get rid of the past and start anew, instead of being emotionally and mentally immersed in the past, still Subconsciously using the present to prove the past, this strong subjective emotion will weld the two careers together without leaving a gap to breathe.”

"Is that why you always change clubs and always improve?"

"I don't know." Wang Ai replied for a moment in a daze: "I just did it subconsciously, and it was necessary to do it. You know why I left Chelsea, Inter Milan, and Bayern now."

"Although you did have a reason to leave, it's not that you can't stay." Mourinho kept up with the rhythm and said: "There are problems with staying, but there are problems with leaving, not necessarily less than staying. I Remember that when you first arrived at Bayern, you were unstable? If you stay at Inter Milan or go to Real Madrid with me, that's not the case."

Wang Ai laughed: "Yes, but maybe I go so frequently, which objectively gives me a chance to start again. Maybe, coach, you also need such an opportunity and such a mechanism."

"It seems you are worried about me going back to Chelsea?"

"Yes." Wang Ai hesitated and answered decisively, ignoring Xu Qinglian's concerns: "Real Madrid is the pinnacle of anyone, whether it's a player or a coach, I'm very worried that you can't get rid of your depression, so you subconsciously use Chelsea's Coaching to prove that you were right at Real Madrid. Maybe you can partly prove it, but at the cost of your second Chelsea career and even missing out on this real opportunity to help you improve again."