Mister Legend

Chapter 438 A big gamble?
Torino drew with Lazio at home, which is not too surprising.After all, the ranking and points of the former are higher than those of the latter. In the eyes of the public, the overall strength is already regarded as the leader of the second group of Serie A. If you face Juventus and other teams other than Naples at your doorstep, you will Occupying a greater chance of winning, the draw is naturally nothing worthy of attention.

And the Red Bulls, who once again sent many young players, can basically force a balance with the opponent when facing the Blue Eagles who still maintain a good combat effectiveness, which is a bit unusual.The loss to Atlanta in the last round of the away game gave the outside world a good look at the growth of the boys of the Torino team. It was very surprising, but some people thought it was an accidental performance.But facing the stronger Lazio this time, these young talents can actually play in style, and they have been able to perform like this in two consecutive games, which can already be called very amazing.

It was just that on the second day's "Gazzetta dello Sport" and "Gazzetta dello Sport" and other media, the report praising the Red Bull's youth training achievements did not occupy an important page, because there was a more eye-catching news.A photo of the famous agent Mino Raiola sitting in the stands of the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, chatting happily with Urbano Cairo while watching the game, has become the focus of Italian football.

In the text below the picture, the reporter broke the news that the big man's agent is recommending Balotelli to the Turin team.The latter's contract with the Ligue 2019 team Nice will expire in the summer of [-], but he can choose to resume his free agency early at the end of June this year, so as to join any team for free, so he has become a free transfer market. on a big fish.

Last weekend, before the start of the No.30 Ligue [-] No. [-] league match between Nice and Montpellier, Bashen wrote on his Ins: "Thanks to everyone here, it has been an amazing two years, Now I have five more games to play." There is no doubt that this has expressed the message that he will leave the team, which has caused a lot of repercussions.

After several terrible seasons in the Premier League and Serie A, Balotelli actually ushered in the second spring of his career in Ligue 63, which was somewhat surprising before.However, after coming to Nice from Liverpool, he did regain his former style and became the team's striker thigh.He scored 40 goals in [-] games played on behalf of Nice, with amazing efficiency, and also led the team to achieve better rankings in the league consecutively.Even if the level of Ligue [-] is at the bottom of the five major leagues, this result can also put him back to the ranks of the end of the world's first-class forwards. If you don't mention his unique spiritual world, he is definitely an excellent player.

But after regaining their status, Bashen and his agent Raiola are not satisfied with the football environment in France. The attention there is too low, which is not conducive to the commercial development of players. No coach seems to like to recruit players who play abroad, so Balotelli, who was still thinking about returning to the national team, naturally made a plan to return to China as soon as possible.Previously, there were media reports that the Washington, D.C. United of the American major leagues had contacted Bashen, and the other party offered him a very generous personal treatment, but the Italian striker, who is not yet 28 years old, refused after careful consideration. The reason given at the time was that going to the United States would reduce the possibility of returning to the Azzurri.

Since Balotelli showed a very good state in Nice last season, there have been rumors that he will switch to a stronger team. Roma, Naples and his old club AC Milan have all been with him. There have been rumors of transfer scandals, but none of them came true in the end, and they were all regarded as fake news that was caught on the wind.But Li Mudi, who has the FM system in hand, knows that some of them are not groundless, at least when Chelsea include Dzeko in the signing plan, forwards such as Kalinic and A. Silva cannot bring stability to the team. When the goal was scored, the Red Wolves and the Rossoneri really considered getting in touch with Bashen, but they finally gave up because of the salary, especially because of the fear of his "brain disease" recurring, which made the offensive efficiency very high. Excellent players are still in France, unable to go home.

And on Saturday night, Bashen said in an interview with the French media after the league that he was basically sure that he would leave Nice, but the next family has not yet been determined, but the possibility of returning to Milan has been ruled out.He said: "Will I stay in Nice next season? Although there is no final decision, I can almost say that I will not stay here. This is the best season I have played in France. It is also very good. Probably my last season here. I want to return to Serie A, many teams are following me, but I can say that AC Milan is not one of them, I have no chance to return to the Rossoneri."

These words reveal a lot of information, for example, he has great confidence to return to Italian football, and after excluding Juventus (there is no shortage of strikers at all, and it will not introduce a big trouble), Milan duo (Even if Inter Milan lacks forwards, they will not welcome back Bashen, who betrayed the team and turned to the rival in the same city.) After that, the only teams he can look up to are Naples, the Roma duo and the Turin team.

Among the four teams, although the Blue Eagles have the lowest league ranking this season, they have the strongest offensive firepower. Unless the current main striker is sold, there is no room for newcomers.The other top three are also in a similar situation. Only when the original main force leaves the team will they consider buying new players. This has also led to media speculation about Balotelli's next home. It is difficult for YY to talk about wars on paper, to be recognized by the public.

But when Mino Raiola appeared in the stands of the Red Bulls, the answer seemed to be ready. Will this talented striker with a way of thinking like an alien join this newly revived old Serie A team? ?This topic has swept across the entire Apennine Peninsula, and even other European countries have joined the discussion. The long-lost siege outside the Torino club residence again made everyone feel extremely inconvenient.

On Monday afternoon, the Turin coach, who was supposed to be staying at home because of the holiday, suddenly came to work in a Maserati SUV driven by his own driver, which excited all the reporters guarding outside the gate.It's just that although they intercepted the car, they couldn't get any answer from Li Moody about whether Balotelli would join the Red Bulls, because he really didn't know which direction the matter would develop in the end.

It is true that Raiola recommended this striker to the club chairman. It has been eleven months since he talked with the Turin coach face to face about the transfer of Bashen in the Champions League final last year. The football agent Although the boss did not wait for any response from Li Moody, but after looking for a new home for his clients, he still thinks that making him a member of the Red Bull is the best choice at the moment.That's why at this time, they bypassed the Celestials and directly communicated with Urbano Cairo, who was in charge of the club.

Li Mudi came to the station at this time, naturally he didn't work overtime to prepare for the mid-week European war, otherwise he would go out early without his girlfriend's company.He was summoned by a phone call from the chairman's assistant. The club's top management will hold an emergency meeting to discuss several important signing plans for the team.Let’s briefly sort out the cause and effect. It doesn’t take too much IQ for the relevant people to come out easily. This discussion is definitely related to Balotelli. This is a shame for the Turin coach who is unwilling to accept this completely uncontrolled bomb. Not good news.

And if nothing unexpected happened, at the behest of Urbano Cairo, Pantario Longo, the director in charge of transfer affairs, listed all the benefits of signing Bashen at the meeting Come out: No transfer fee, the technical ability that has grown to the peak can be regarded as a first-class existence among Italian players, and the worldwide popularity can help improve the club's prestige. Solo winger Bernardi is better.

Yes, Li Modi had been secretly planning to introduce Lu Beibei before, and the plan had already reached an advanced stage.Through the testing of the FM system, he determined that as long as the Turin team can come up with 4000 million euros plus the team's potential star Simone Edra in exchange, he can include this 172-year-old striker with a potential of 24 under his command.Although this price is much higher than the real-time valuation of the player by "Transfer Market", considering the current situation of inflated player prices, the Turin coach can still accept it.

Green Beibei's current strength is slightly inferior to Bashen's by five to six points. Specifically, among the various abilities provided by the FM system, it is his physical fitness and shooting (including headers, long-range shots, free kicks, and penalty kicks). They are slightly inferior in both aspects, but they are far ahead in terms of spiritual attributes such as stability, willpower, teamwork and work commitment.But Balotelli can no longer improve, and Bernardi still has the opportunity to continue to improve, so as to even out the gap between the two sides and even achieve a lead. This is one of the reasons why Li Mudi is more optimistic about the latter.

These situations were pointed out by the club prince Valentino Cairo, who supported the team coach's plan, in subsequent speeches.In addition to being more in line with the club's youthful team building philosophy, Lu Beibei's requirements for personal treatment are far more conducive to the stability of the team than Balotelli, who will definitely demand a high salary. A contract with an annual salary of at least 500 million euros after tax, which has exceeded the salary cap of the Turin team next season, and that has been adjusted upwards by about 15% on the basis of this season.

In addition, I still have to mention the age and development prospects of these two players. Unlike Li Moody's judgment on whether the player's ability still has room for development, the head of the club's marketing department starts with the future sales prospect and convinces everyone on the scene in one fell swoop. Most of the upper floors.Bernardi's age is still three to five years away from the peak period of ordinary players. At this stage, his worth is not only preserved, but also has a great possibility of rising continuously. After training young players in today's world football After the head coach of the most well-known team personally tunes and teaches, everyone can roughly estimate what will be gained when selling the green beibei.

At this point, the 28-year-old Balotelli has no advantage at all.Even if his peak ability can be maintained for two to three years, and there is no precedent for stars over [-] years old to sell sky-high prices, it’s just that almost no one will believe that Super Mario is missing a tendon in his head and has a bad professional attitude. , will be able to stabilize its output for a relatively long period of time.He is like a powerful nuclear bomb, which may explode at any time, but it is not necessarily the opponent or himself who is hurt.Therefore, it can be easily judged that Bashen will not be able to sell for a high price two years later, and he may have to be allowed to leave on a free transfer, which will greatly reduce his attractiveness without spending a transfer fee. .

After nearly an hour of various analyses, most of the executives have already had a clear preference for this two-choice signing plan. Of course, their influence on transfer matters is limited, and the key depends on the chairman and The coach's view.

Urbano Cairo had agreed to introduce Bernardi before, otherwise the marketing department would not have been in contact with the Sassuolo club in the last month, but when Raiola called for free When Banner recommends Balotelli to the Red Bulls, he will inevitably have the idea of ​​taking advantage of it. The way of thinking of a businessman makes him always unconsciously hope to get all the benefits.It was just that after the team coach and others made it clear that they preferred Green Beibei, the chairman of Turin did not forcefully object, because from a long-term perspective, it was a good deal, so even if he still didn’t want to Abandoning Bashen, but also acquiescing that Bernardi's deal can continue.

So on Wednesday morning, "Sky Sports Italia" and the personal website of transfer expert Di Marzio broke the news at the same time that the head star of the Green and Black Legion has started negotiations on personal terms with the Red Bulls, because the two clubs have already entered into negotiations. A transfer deal worth 4700 million euros was agreed, and Bernardi is very likely to switch to Turin City this summer.

And his joining seems to mean Belotti's departure. Di Marzio also revealed that AC Milan has completely lost patience with the team's striker. And Borini will be purged a month later, general manager Marco Fassone has put forward an offer of 8000 million euros plus Cutrone to the Red Bulls to buy Red Beibei.

If the transaction is successful, this is undoubtedly a gamble for both teams.Although the Milanese got their favorite shooter who has been chasing for two seasons, the team's tactics and lineup configuration have to be greatly changed. test.The pressure on the Turin people is not small. Letting go of the team's striker core for the past three seasons will inevitably have a certain negative impact, and it is unknown whether the new aid can perfectly replace the seniors.The most important thing is that when the Coppa Italia and the Europa League are about to advance to the final match, the news of the lineup change was revealed, whether it will affect the team's preparations, these are the goals of everyone's attention.

As a result, Li Mudi enjoyed the treatment of a superstar again. As long as he walked out of his new home, he would always be surrounded by a group of reporters, which made him more irritable until the Marseille team arrived in the city on Wednesday morning. It was only after Ling Casele Airport that the media turned their eyes away for the most part, and finally they did not drive the Turin coach completely crazy.

(End of this chapter)