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Chapter 167
Before going to Italy, Long Bisheng went to Qingdao, and then he was slammed by Li Erlong, Lu Dashan and other local tyrants for a while. Qingdao Haifeng has done a good job in rebuilding this season, and now ranks fifth in the first division. Compared with last season, there is a big difference, but there is still a distance from Cai Sheng's ambition.

It’s just that Cai Sheng firmly believes that Qingdao Haifeng’s spring will come sooner or later—his signings this season are mainly young people, basically selected from the group of players in the same age group as Long Bisheng. Super League, let’s make a blockbuster—it is said that Changchun Asia Pacific’s performance in the Chinese Super League this season really deserves the word blockbuster.

Afterwards, Ning Xi's work in Italy went smoothly. Naples planned to do something ambitious this season. The owner, Laurentiis, gave the head coach Rea a transfer budget of 500 million euros. Naturally, Rea would not be stingy with giving a potential backup striker a little better treatment.

This summer, the pattern of Italian football has undergone earth-shaking changes. Naples’ upgrade plan was hit hard at the beginning by Calciopoli, which shocked the world. In the first trial of Calciopoli, the three Serie A powerhouses Juventus, Fiorentina and Lazio were sentenced to relegation to Serie B.

Perhaps because of this consideration, Fiorentina and Lazio still retained their Serie A qualifications in the second trial of Telephone Gate, and started the league with the deduction of [-] points and [-] points in the new season; Juventus will undoubtedly occupy an upgrade spot, and they still have at least two upgrade spots to fight for.

After the second-instance verdict on July 25, the Naples club started to take action. Their policy for the new season is very simple. If three Serie A clubs are punished for relegation, they would rather stay in Serie B for another year and focus on training young players.But now, since there is only Juventus as the biggest competitor, there is still hope for a fight.

Although the second trial is not the final penalty, everyone knows that the final trial will only be lighter, not heavier, because no one wants the Calciogate incident to hurt the vitality of Italian football too much. In addition, the Italian national team, mainly composed of players from Juventus and AC Milan, won the World Cup not long ago.

In the main lineup of last season, except for Fontana who announced his retirement, all the other main players stayed on the team. This group of players themselves has the level to gain a foothold in Serie B, and their cooperation has become more tacit after last season.

The first thing to make up for is of course the vacancy brought about by Fontana’s retirement. Amodio has good abilities, but he is too young to take on the important task of organizing the team’s offense. The defense needs to add an excellent central defender to become Domizzi’s partner. These two positions are the most important.

Rea quickly found these two people - the superstar who debuted from Naples, the younger brother of the current Italian national team captain Cannavaro, Paul Cannavaro, who played for Parma, transferred here for 150 million euros.Leaving Parma in Serie A and joining Naples, which was promoted to Serie B, besides Cannavaro Jr. is a native of Naples, his optimism for this once wealthy team is the biggest reason for Cannavaro Jr. to choose Naples.

With such a powerful central defender who has been in Serie A for many years to join, Naples' defensive strength has been greatly improved. Immediately afterwards, Rhea also found Fontana's substitute. He was loaned from AC Milan to Italian midfielder Dara Bona.

The next two transfers are not good news for Long Bicheng -Naples dug the Italian left Feng Desie on the left side of the Italian Left, and then dug from Modina at a price of 280 million euros to the best Sagittarius, Christian Bica, at a price of 300 million euros. Lea still introduced a center when there were two centers in the team, and naturally he had his consideration.

Sosa is 31 years old and often suffers from injuries. Long Bisheng is only 17 years old. He performed well in Serie C last season, but it is still unknown whether he can perform equally well against the higher-level Serie B this season. Bucky is 29 this year.

Bucky is at the front, Carayo is pulling behind, and De Zerby is responsible for breaking through the side. This is the main striker in Rhea's mind for the new season, while the Brazilian Pia, the Argentine Sosa and the Chinese Long Bisheng are their substitutes.

For a team that plays three forwards, is six forwards too much?Not too much, not too much, how much?Not much!Rhea thought so.

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In addition to Cannavaro Jr., Dara Bona, De Zerby and Bucky, four heavyweight players joined the Naples club. The club also introduced a young backcourt player Garic from Hungary. This versatile defender is Rhea’s investment in the future, just like Long Bisheng. The investment is not much, and the salary is not high. Sometimes staying in the first team can play a role. Young teenagers generally have no complaints when they are on the bench. For small and medium-sized clubs, such acquisitions occur every season. , Maybe it can bring extra income to the club, even if it can't be played, the club has nothing to lose.

After the pre-season training camp started on August [-], whether it was the veterans from last season or the newly joined players, they were training hard, hoping to squeeze into the main lineup, but Rhea naturally had his own main lineup in mind.

The main goalkeeper will still be Chu Ran. This Chinese goalkeeper has been bought out by Naples this season from Inter Milan at a price of 50 euros. For this reason, Naples' signings this season are all Italian domestic players and EU players. After paying such a price, they will naturally not use him as a substitute. The old goalkeeper Jezzo will be the most reliable substitute.

On the defensive line, last season's main force Domizzi and the newly joined Cannavaro Jr. will be the partners of the main central defenders. The two full-backs will still be Grava and Maldonado. The three main midfielders will be captain Montevino, Darla Bona and Uruguayan Boliciano. Amodio, Trota and Caparella will be substitutes. , Naples has sufficient confidence to fight for a good ranking in Serie B.

It’s just that for Reia, although he has such an enviable lineup in Serie B, it is still more difficult to complete the task of promotion to Serie A. Needless to say, Juventus. What's more, they also have Zanetti, Paladino, Chiellini, Balzaretti, Zebina and other powerful players in their team. This lineup is completely overwhelming in Serie B.

In addition to Juventus, Naples also has a lot of opponents. Genoa, like Naples, entered Serie B from Serie C last season. If this team hadn’t been relegated to Serie C due to a match-fixing case a year ago, then they would have appeared in Serie A last season. In addition, familiar names such as Bologna, Bari, Brescia, and Piacenza also have strong competitiveness!
Although Naples is not afraid of any opponents, they have only been promoted from Serie C No. [-] after all. Facing these teams with the strength of Serie B and even Serie A, Naples has a long way to go in the new season.

It is precisely because Serie B has so many outstanding teams this season that the Italian media called this season's Serie B game "the prosperous Serie B"!
As the training time is coming to an end, the footsteps of Shengshi Serie B are getting closer and closer.

Before the start of the Serie B game, the first game waiting for Naples is the Coppa Italia game that started on August [-]. In the first round of the Coppa Italia, Naples played at home against Frosinone, who is also a Serie B team. It became the first game of Naples' new season journey.

(End of this chapter)