Mister Legend

Chapter 481 The training camp opened in advance

Although his desire to win the Serie A championship has not diminished in the slightest, after learning that Ronaldo is about to join Juventus, Li Moody's confidence in success will inevitably be shaken to a certain extent. He feels that if he cannot If you do some more preparations, the ending after ten months may not be as satisfactory as planned.

Under the influence of a strong sense of crisis, he resolutely communicated with the CCTV sports channel, rejected all the commentary work for the knockout matches except the World Cup final, and rushed back to Italy overnight on July 7.After that, he contacted Antonio Comey, the director of the Turin Club, in the early morning of the next day, and submitted the new preparation plan that he had just rushed out, kicking off the Red Bulls 5-2017 season ahead of schedule.

Although due to the impact of the World Cup, the assembly time of the major European league teams will generally be postponed, but the overall strength of the Turin team can be ranked among the top 7 European club teams. It is rare that there is no original player A special case of being shortlisted for this competition.Therefore, before the end of last season, the coaching staff had a full discussion with the management, and set the time for players to report for the new season on July 18, which is three days after the end of the World Cup.

This time point should be relatively comfortable for the Turin soldiers. Although they have less rest than other teams for four days to a week, they did not consume too much energy due to participating in the World Cup. Come back a few days earlier to resume competition State, those players who hope to go further in the new season will naturally not have much resistance, so they all happily agreed to the date of this report before the vacation.

However, after feeling the tremendous pressure from his rivals in the same city, Li Moody decided to start the training camp ahead of schedule, but he did not force the players to join, but expressed his wish for those new players to change their personal vacation plans in a suggested tone.

After adapting to the season, the old players are very familiar with the operation of the team coach's 3-4-1-2 formation. Naturally, there is no need to return to the training ground too early, but the newcomers need a certain amount of time to learn the team. Tactical idea.According to Li Moody's previous plan, Bruno Fernandez and other players who have just joined the team will use the opportunities of the warm-up match and the first few rounds of the league to find a tacit understanding with the entire team. The moment to blend into the red bull.

However, under the circumstances that Juventus' upper limit of strength may be improved due to the arrival of Ronaldo, the Turin coach has to give the highest level of attention to every game and even every point. If the running-in is good, then it is very likely to reduce the possibility of losing points and lay a good foundation for the final championship.So under the guidance of this kind of thinking, Li Mudi made the decision to gather for training in advance.

Facts have proved that the professionalism of the players who can be regarded by him is basically above the average level.Not only did several new players reply quickly that they would return to Turin as soon as possible, but even the Polish iron guard Glick, who returned to his old club after two years, also stated that he would end his rest immediately and join the training camp immediately.The former captain of the Turin team took the lead, and other players naturally did not dare to neglect. Even though the coaching staff repeatedly emphasized that this is not mandatory, but before the practice program officially started on the morning of the 8th, apart from the fact that they were basically determined to join Baron Except for Falk in West Asia, all the other first-team players stood in front of Li Moody's eyes, which moved him very much.

Even Benassi, who is negotiating personal treatment with Inter Milan, and the three teenagers Bonifaczi, Hou Yongyong and Maximilian Eggstein who are about to leave the team on loan are not absent, which is really enough for Li Mudi Very proud of it.

The next step is the difficult physical reserve training. Led by the physical coach Bo Wenqi and Philip Lambert who also returned to work early, the existing 30 players of the first team started painful and tedious practice.The rest of the coaching staff took the time to study how to make reasonable arrangements for various subjects within the extra ten days, so that the sacrifices of the players would not be wasted.

While the atmosphere on the training ground began to develop in a fiery direction, Li Mudi was still in constant communication with the marketing department. He hoped that the few signing deals that were originally planned to be opened after the World Cup would be the best. Now is the time to start negotiations.

The Red Bulls have joined Portugal international Andre Gomes as a contender after agreeing to Benassi's departure.Although Li Mudi prefers to get the Croatian midfielder Modric, the latter expressed his desire to change to a more comfortable environment after winning almost all honors at the Bernabeu, and the departure of Qi Zu and Ronaldo's current situation The transfer status also made the veteran who is about to turn 33 feel tired.

Just in order to devote all his energy to the last World Cup trip in his playing career, Magic Flute's agent has stated many times before that before Croatia is out, the legendary midfielder will not discuss personal club matters. any statement.And through the feedback from the FM system and Raul, Real Madrid is also busy with the issue of whether the president will stay or not, and has not made a final decision on whether to consider selling Modric.Therefore, according to the Turin coach's estimation, even if he can rule out issues such as transfer fees and personal treatment of players, and recruit the world's top organization master, the time will not be earlier than early August, which is really important for the team's preparations. too late.

So even though he was full of reluctance, Li Mudi finally decided to give up the plan to introduce the Magic Flute, and made the first backup candidate for reinforcement at the central midfielder position - the profile of Andre Gomez, who has never been able to integrate into the Barcelona team , placed on Valentino Cairo's desk.He asked the club's prince to determine whether he could win the Portuguese who had fallen into a trough at the Nou Camp within five days. If he could not get a positive response, the team immediately contacted other candidates. After all, time is precious, Turin The team has no capital to waste.

Fortunately, the La Liga giants seem to have had enough of this midfielder who has been out of the team's tactical system since joining for two years. The 2016 million euros spent to take him away from Valencia in the summer of 3400, in At the time, it seemed like an extremely cost-effective deal, but only two years later, Barcelona's management regretted it so much that their intestines were green.Although they also insisted that the Portuguese, who is not yet 25 years old, still has the opportunity to prove his worth at the Nou Camp, but whether it is Luis Enrique or Valverde, these two La Liga coaches have a lot to do. Nothing was found to bring Andre Gomez back to his former high-profile performance at Mestalla (home of Valencia).

In the 2017-18 season, Gomez, who has a high salary of 400 million, has a total reserve of midfielders. Barcelona has played 31 times in various competitions, and the cumulative time is 1185 minutes. Both statistics have created him. The lowest value since landing in La Liga four years ago.And his estimated worth in "Transfer Market" has also dropped from the peak of 2700 million two years ago to the current 1350 million.Since he was not selected for Portugal's 23-man squad for this World Cup, the midfielder, who was once thought to be likely to take over Harvey's mantle, is likely to continue to depreciate.

In order to reap as much cost as possible, Barcelona's management had the idea of ​​selling it for cash as early as last summer, when the Premier League upstart Tottenham Hotspur once intended to become a receiver.In the subsequent winter transfer window, AC Milan and Juventus joined the ranks of Gomez's chasers, but due to various reasons, they failed to conduct substantive negotiations in the end.

When the time came to the end of June and the beginning of July, the Rossoneri had already withdrawn from the transfer market on the buyer's side due to financial problems; the old lady shifted all her focus to "seduce" C Luo's direction is going up, even if he still hopes to get the Portuguese midfielder, he has no time to be distracted now, and after spending at least [-] million to introduce the president, Juventus will be short of funds in a short period of time and cannot open The rest of the signing plan; and Tottenham's disappearance means that after a season of observation, Pochettino seems to have a new goal.

When the departure of Andre Gomes seemed to be at an impasse, his old club suddenly jumped out. At the end of June, Valencia general manager Alemani said in an interview with reporters that he was eager to loan Back to the old general.At that time, Gomez's agent also expressed to the outside world that the player was very willing to return to Mestalla to play football, and he looked forward to regaining confidence where his dream started.

However, just when the outside world thought that another scene of rebirth from the ashes was about to be staged in reality, things took a surprising turn the next day.Barcelona's mouthpiece "Mundo Deportivo" broke the news that Valencia did not intend to pay the transfer fee to bring the old player back under his command, they were only willing to introduce the player on loan.But what is even more surprising is that after Singaporean Chinese billionaire Lin Rongfu entered the club, the Bat Corps, which is not short of money, even asked Barcelona to pay part of Gomez's salary.

The Catalan giants, who feel extremely humiliated by this offer, will naturally not agree to sign such a "disgraceful and humiliating" alliance in the city. Barcelona sports manager Braida immediately stated in a private occasion that he would rather send the Portuguese center forward. If the game is bad, it will not let those teams who want to rob the team succeed.

But these words reveal the helplessness of the Barcelona people. They are currently chasing Lazio midfielder Milinkovic, Juventus' Bosnia and Herzegovina midfielder Pjanic and Sevilla's French central defender Lenglet. , the demand for funds is still huge.If you can get rid of Gomez, Arda Turan and Vermaelen who are no longer in the head coach's plan for the new season, you can not only get a sum of euros, but also save their considerable salary share. It's something that everyone in the club loves to see.

It's just that the cleansing plan has not been going very smoothly so far. Even though they have lowered the price of the Portuguese midfielder from the previous 5000 million to 2200 million euros, they have attracted a large group of followers, but they have not only attracted a lot of attention. It was very frustrating not to get a formal offer.

On July 7th, Arsenal, which has been making a lot of noise in the transfer market since Emery entered the team, suddenly expressed their intention to sign Andre Gomez, which brought a lot of excitement to the La Liga giants. Got a good news.However, BBC TV disclosed in the evening program that the arsenal was also asking Sevilla for the Argentine player Banega at the same time, and after successively introducing German goalkeeper Leno and Sampdoria's Uruguayan international Torreira, the Premier League The transfer budget of the giants this summer is running out, and their most realistic purchase method can only be payment in installments.

While the Catalan media was still analyzing the bottom line acceptable to the club, Italian transfer expert Di Marzio suddenly published an article on his personal website, saying that the Red Bulls had suddenly entered the game, and within 24 hours Become the frontrunner in the battle for Gomez within a short period of time.

On the morning of the 11th, without waiting for others to react, the two clubs issued official statements at the same time. Andre Gomez switched to the third place winner of last season in Serie A. He will get a four-year contract from his new club. , A contract with a pre-tax annual salary of 425 million euros and an annual increase of 10%, which is at least 40% lower than when he played in Spain, but with various incentives, the annual income is still barely acceptable.But from this point, it can be seen how strong this player's desire to escape from Camp Nou is.

In order to get the Portuguese midfielder, the Turin team paid Barcelona 2000 million euros, and was set a number of floating terms that could add up to a maximum of 600 million.This number did not cause the sellers to lose too much of their original investment, and it was stuck at the critical moment when they urgently needed funds to introduce new aid, so Barcelona, ​​who had already lost patience, quickly accepted it.If it weren't for a series of haggling with the player's agent about personal treatment, the deal might have been finalized faster.

But it's not too late now. Gomez, who joined the training camp only four days later than his teammates, quickly put all his energy into adjusting his physical condition and learning new team tactics.Although he has just started to learn Italian systematically, with the help of his compatriot Bruno Fernandez, he gradually adapted to the rhythm of life in Turin. He also showed the strength of a world-class midfielder in the training ground and won the team. Unanimous approval from top to bottom.

In this way, when the Turin coach was about to set off for Moscow to comment on the final, the Red Bull's stupid bird-flying strategy had already achieved good results. At least when the players of other Serie A teams were still on vacation, they had already taken the lead. The arrival of the new season has made good mental and physical preparations.

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