The corridor was all too familiar, as he had just walked through it yesterday afternoon. At that time, the corridor was crowded with people, but now it was empty and dim.
At the end of the corridor was the place where the meeting was held that day, and where he entered for the first time, the meeting room that was deleted in the system space.
Through the window beside him, Cao Baiming understood that it was evening. The sky outside had not completely darkened, but the sun was no longer visible.
Due to the low altitude, he could still see the dim yellow streetlights below and the scattered pedestrians coming and going.
Just then, a voice-activated light at the end of the corridor suddenly turned on, and footsteps came from that direction.
Cao Baiming's heart leaped, because he was familiar with these footsteps; he could tell from their weight and rhythm.
The person was actually Arteta!
Could there be a problem with the system? When he entered the system, he clearly thought of Guardiola as the team's head coach, so why would Arteta appear in this building?
Cao Baiming reconfirmed his surroundings and at the same time gradually confirmed that this was indeed the headquarters of Manchester United, which he had visited before.
Soon, the voice-activated light at the end of the corridor went out again. Even if Arteta was in this area, he was probably just passing by. He didn't walk towards Cao Baiming, so Cao Baiming breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to move forward to investigate further.
This dim atmosphere, coupled with the fact that there was no one around, was much more uncomfortable than the last time he entered this place. This was because he had to find information himself, which was a bit of a headache.
Thinking of this, Cao Baiming immediately thought it would be better to go directly into that meeting room to take a look. Perhaps at this time, someone was actually having a meeting. If someone could appear in this meeting room, then it could basically be confirmed that they were the core personnel of the entire team.
With this thought, Cao Baiming walked to the end of the corridor, gently pushed the door, and it opened. However, the room was empty, and the lights were not even on.
I messed up, I messed up! I don't have the patience to play this game with you any longer!
Cao Baiming had lost his patience. He thought of the current appearance of the Manchester United stadium and imagined everyone conducting pre-match training on the field, while he was on the sidelines as an observer.
He gently closed his eyes and reopened them after two seconds.
Before opening his eyes, Cao Baiming had already sensed the change in time and scene. The scene instantly shifted to the pitch, and he could hear the sounds of players training on the field and the "bang" sound of the football hitting the goalposts, which came at that very moment.
The sky had changed from a pale purple to white. It was daytime, and to be precise, it was around 10:50 AM. The sun was high in the sky, and it was even a little hot.
The first person Cao Baiming saw was Guardiola. This was exactly as he had expected. He had successfully hired Guardiola to coach the team as the head coach.
Unlike his previous memory, he could now see Messi diligently training on the field. The fact that he and Guardiola could play on the same team was a scene that made everyone happy and warm.
Cao Baiming glanced sideways at Guardiola, who was intently watching the situation on the field. It was clear that the old man's eyes had barely left Messi.
However, Cao Baiming didn't care how Guardiola took care of Messi. As long as the team achieved good results, these were minor issues, even insignificant.
After a moment, his gaze shifted to the vast green football field. Almost all the players were training on the training ground. This was basic possession and dribbling training. Since Guardiola was the head coach, there was no doubt that the tactic would be to implement a possession-based system.
However, compared to the possession-based system he had implemented at Arsenal, the content the players were training now was somewhat different. Cao Baiming saw some scenes and training content he had never seen before.
On the field, he also saw many players that Manchester United did not currently have, including Messi, Verratti, Kante, Carlos, Davies, and others. Before the simulation, Cao Baiming wanted to see how these people interacted with each other, their chemistry on the field, and their tactical compatibility, and then how they would perform in major competitions.
As the owner of the team, Cao Baiming's presence on the field no longer surprised anyone, because he was not like other owners. Cao Baiming was not just a financier, but also a football manager.
Most importantly, no one understood football better than him, not even the team's head coach.
Looking closely at the players on the field, they seemed to have good chemistry. They were laughing and chatting, and there were no obvious cliques. The entire team was more like a single, large group.
This made Cao Baiming very pleased.
In his opinion, the unity of a team was reflected in such details. The more united a team was, the more it would resemble a cohesive whole, with generally equal relationships between individuals, no small factions, and everyone playing together freely.
Conversely, in situations where the players had poor relationships within the team, it was more common to see them speaking less loudly and preferring to spend time with their friends during group activities.
Such a team would definitely show strong cohesion in major competitions, which was much more useful than tactics and even more important.
Then, Cao Baiming saw that almost everyone on the field was shouting loudly. No one was being excluded, which meant that these people got along well, and the locker room relationships under Guardiola's management were also very harmonious.
Their coordination on the field would naturally not be bad. However, to understand tactical compatibility and other issues, just watching their warm-up training was not enough.