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Chapter 413 The Great Shift of the World
Before the start of the league, Inter Milan has already left five players. Last season, there were only 26 players left in the 21-man first-team lineup. In the long league, Inter Milan, which is fighting in the third line, is not enough to last a whole season with only 21 players. .

But fortunately for Inter Milan fans, last season's main lineup is still very complete, and Baggio only needs to strengthen his strength in a few positions.

The first is the forward line.

Now there are only three strikers left in Inter Milan, Zhuang Feng, Ibrahimovic and Martins. Although they are all good players in their prime, I have never heard of that giant relying on only three strikers in a season. Conquer the world.

Although Ronaldinho can also play as a guest striker, in Inter Milan's lineup, he is more powerful at the right winger position, so it is still necessary to introduce an experienced forward with strong impact as a substitute.

Baggio took a fancy to Cagliari's Honduran striker Suazo. The 29-year-old striker has long been famous in Serie A. He can bring about 10 league goals to Cagliari every year, and he does not There are reasons for adapting to Serie A. In fact, Inter Milan has not been chasing Suazo for a day or two. Before Baggio took office, Branca had already started negotiations with Cagliari. Soon, Suazo paid 600 In the new season, he will wear the No. 18 jersey left by Crespo to play for Inter Milan.

At the same time, Inter Milan also took back the 19-year-old Swedish striker Slavkoski from Messina, plus the long-term substitute Greek Giottos, I believe this striker with a reasonable age structure is enough to support the league next season.

In terms of midfield, Inter Milan did not undergo much surgery. Although Stankovic and Dacourt left, Inter Milan’s midfield is still the most powerful part. Vieira, Cambiasso and Ma Scherano has the strength of the main players, plus a Barone who can play in almost all positions in the midfield, Ronaldinho also has Mariano Gonzalez as a substitute, so Baggio will only be 18 years old. Ibrahim took back from Catania to enrich the thickness of the bench.

However, in the back line, especially in the central defender, Inter Milan has serious flaws. After Samuel left, Inter Milan's central defenders are only left with the vice-captain Cordoba and Materac. Three people with Burdisso, plus Andreoli who can play as a central defender or a right back. Among them, Cordoba and Materac are both veterans over [-] years old. Burdisso was the only one in that year, and it was imperative to add a new central defender.

Blanca gave a candidate, Fiorentina's central defender, Italian international Dainelli, due to salary issues, Dainelli and Fiorentina's top management were not very happy, just gave Inter Milan a chance.

Both Baggio and Mario are very satisfied with this candidate. First, although Dainelli is not well-known and belongs to the kind of unknown player in Serie A, he is an absolutely capable faction with Italian tradition. The defender's solid defense and the characteristics of rarely making mistakes, such a defender is the most suitable for Inter Milan's habit of playing offensive teams.Second, he is the same age as Burdisso, both 27 years old. He is in the golden age of a defender and can guarantee Inter Milan's defense. Third, Dainelli himself said that if he came to Inter Milan , he can accept to be a substitute, he believes that with his own strength, he can play the main position, which is very rare.Fourth, he is an Italian, which is of great help to the localization of Inter Milan.

There were some twists and turns in the negotiations. Fiorentina was reluctant to let go of this powerful defender, but they only had two years left in their contract with Dainelli. According to UEFA rules, players over 27 years old can be released. Money sells out the rest of his contract, and Dainelli's salary is really not high, only 80 euros a year, so Inter Milan only needs to pay 160 million euros to buy him out, and Florence has to accept Inter Milan. The price of 300 million euros was offered, and Dainelli's salary has also increased greatly, reaching an annual salary of 150 million, almost doubled, so Dainelli is very happy to come to Inter Milan.

These two transactions are small businesses. The biggest acquisition of Inter Milan this summer was used on Wang Xiaomin, one of the main players of last season. Blanca bought out the remaining half of Wang Xiaomin at a price of 900 million euros. , Wang Xiaomin finally became a complete Inter Milan player.

While the fans of Inter Milan were looking forward to another big acquisition, Inter Milan suddenly announced that their acquisitions this summer have all ended, and Inter Milan will play the entire season with the existing players!

This news made Inter Milan fans worried. Inter Milan left a world-class defender like Samuel this season, a world-class midfielder like Stankovic, and a world-class striker like Crespo. It's just that people who can only be said to be powerful like Dainelli and Suazo, and "stars of hope" like Slavkoski and Ibrahim, their strength has definitely dropped by a considerable part!

Facing the surge in strength of AC Milan, can this year's Inter Milan continue to maintain the excellent results of last year?

What worries them even more is that the Argentinian Javier Zanetti, the most loyal captain of Inter Milan in the past ten years, has applied to the club for retirement a few days ago because he felt that he was a little powerless. Under Moratti's persuasion, he agreed to play for another two years, playing a good role as a mentor.

For a long time, Zanetti has been the most reassuring symbol. His terribly stable performance has made people forget that the captain born in 1973 is already 35 years old this year. Maybe this age is too exhausting for a central defender It's not too big for a player in a small position, but as a full-back who consumes a lot of energy, there is hardly any player who can maintain his best form at the age of 35 like Zanetti of!

Even Roberto Carlos, the Brazilian monster who is known as never tireless, faded out of European football at the age of 33 and changed to the Qatar League, which has less pressure and less physical exertion!

If the captain retires, what will happen to Inter Milan's right-back position?
Although Maicon has become the main right back of the Brazilian national team, his strength lies in his offensive ability, and he obviously cannot compare with the captain in defense!And Andreoli, who has high hopes, is more suitable for playing in the middle, and his height of 1.8 meters [-] also determines that he can't go up and down the side like a normal full-back!

Moreover, as a captain, he will not retreat bravely after winning the honor. It seems that the captain must really feel that he can no longer make the right side of Inter Milan a watertight corridor like before!

Although the captain stayed, it is conceivable that his playing time will be greatly reduced, besides... what about next year?What about the year after?

In the midst of anxiety and turmoil, Inter Milan ushered in the first game of the new season: the UEFA Super Cup, where last year's Champions League champion Inter Milan faced last season's UEFA Cup champion Spain's Valencia team.

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The pre-season turmoil made all the fans think that this season will be a very difficult one for Inter Milan, and their most threatening player, the core midfielder Pei Wei, was in a horrible state last season. Under normal circumstances, after a player performs very well in one season, there will often be some weakness in the second season. This is not a question of the player's strength, but a player always has highs and lows. It's normal to have a dip after a climax, so Valencia sees this as their opportunity.

As the winner of the UEFA Cup last season, Valencia's strength is not bad. In addition, there has been bad news for Inter Milan before the game, so Valencia also wants to use this opportunity to take the best of last season. The best team pulled down and won the first UEFA Super Cup in their history.

But Inter Milan quickly let them know why Inter Milan was the strongest club in Europe last season.

In just 3 minutes of the opening, Inter Milan gave Valencia, which is known as the strongest defensive ability in La Liga, a blow to the head.

Cambiasso scored a goal in the midfield, Ronaldinho crossed after forcing a breakthrough from the side, Zhuang Feng headed back, Ibrahimovic flicked the ball back after pretending to shoot, and then inserted Pei Wei catches the ball and dunks a defender, and kicks a volley from the penalty area line!
"The goal was scored! Only 3 minutes into the game, Inter Milan opened the scoring through a fantastic cooperation! Pei Wei's shot was very calm, it seems that his good form is still continuing! Who else can stop him? Who else can Stop Inter Milan?"

The Valencia players all stared blankly at the celebrating Inter Milan players. No one expected that Valencia, who conceded the fewest goals in La Liga last season, conceded a goal in 3 minutes of the first half!

This goal disrupted all of Valencia's arrangements. They originally planned to rely on defense to withstand Inter Milan's offense and then use the speed of Joaquin and Villa to counterattack, but conceding the ball so quickly made Valencia West Asia's careful preparation has become useless!

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