Mister Legend

Chapter 306 Preseason Warm Up
Although Li Moody thinks that this Turin team has the strength to compete with the top European teams, the outside world, especially the Italian media, does not seem to think so. There are always so-called experts in newspapers or on the Internet these days Express your dislike for them.Everyone generally feels that the structure of the Red Bulls players this year is unreasonable. It can be described as old and young. There are too few players who should be the backbone of the team and are at the peak of their careers.

Another part of the media and netizens are questioning the team's transfer strategy this summer. Although the international footballer Immobile was poached from Lazio, he paid a premium and at the same time picked up three future development prospects. A young talent who is widely favored, this deal is considered by most people to be a bit of a loss.Those who praised the Turin Club for its emphasis on their youth training before thought that this was exchanging the future for the current results, and it was a gambling-style overdraft behavior, and expressed disappointment with Li Moody's eagerness for quick success.

However, none of these comments can affect the mood of the Turin coach, because he simply does not have the time to pay attention to these things now. The running-in drill of the new tactical system is an important training task before the start of the season.He wished he could extend the practice time to ten hours a day. In the rest of the time, he had to hold meetings and discuss with his colleagues, and he also had to find time to study transfer matters, so he was too busy.And because of the tight working hours, and Lin Yuner has also entered the critical period of album release and promotion, so the two people have been maintaining a daily video connection, which has been changed to once every three days, and even the girlfriend is a little concerned. Li Modi, who is no longer on the show, has no time to read criticism from other irrelevant people.

The Turin team's first warm-up match of the new season also indirectly refuted those views that they have not become stronger, although Reggina is no longer the team with good strength that could gain a foothold in Serie A. It was still a third-tier professional team, but after a nine-and-ten-minute matchup, the 10-9 score on the scoreboard still took everyone by surprise.This score was also ridiculed by many fans as the "reason for the end of friendship" between the two sides, because the Turin players blasted 0 shots in this game, and 37 hit the target. If it weren't for Reggina goalkeeper Tomasi Tommaso Cucchietti's high block blocked half of the danger, and the game really went from a carnage to a Lingchi.

It is worth mentioning that Cucetti came from the Turin youth training camp and is currently the No. 19 goalkeeper of the Italian U[-] national team. He is a young player who has just been loaned to Serie C this season. The Red Bulls currently have a good goalkeeper reserve. world class.

However, even though they won the first warm-up match with a big score, some people still use the reason that the opponent is too weak to deny the strength of the Turin team. Four days later, Li Mudi led the team again to bloodbath the "friendly team" 11-0. After Renate, this temporarily suppressed the smearing momentum of this group of people.Just a year ago, the first game that Tianchaoren directed after joining the home team was against this opponent. The score of 2-0 at that time made his debut very ugly.However, after one season, the strength comparison between the two sides has reached this level of difference. Leaving aside the on-the-spot performance, the growth of the Torino team is still very obvious, which gradually increases the number of people who are optimistic about them.

However, in the warm-up match at the Blue Italy Stadium on the 24th, when the two teams that were evenly divided in the league last year, after an hour and a half of fierce confrontation, only dedicated a goalless draw for everyone, the direction of the media changed again. changed.The sports websites of many newspapers published articles after the game or the next day, expressing their disappointment with the two teams that emerged as big dark horses last season.In the past week, there have been many jaw-dropping transfer transactions in European football, and some amounts have set various records one after another, making everyone fall into madness.

The defending champion of the Premier League spent more than 4000 million euros to buy three players within ten days, which opened the curtain of this good show.After winning Roma central defender Rudiger for 3500 million and buying Monaco midfielder Bakayoko for 4000 million, Conte finally got a super shooter. Although his favorite Lukaku was intercepted by Manchester United, but Chelsea also reached a retaliation, 7000 million euros (this price has always been controversial, the figures exposed by several media have discrepancies, there are several prices between 6200 million and 8000 million, here is an average) to buy the oath Morata wants to leave Real Madrid.This transfer not only broke the transaction record of Spanish players, but also basically announced the fact that the beauty of the prosperous age, Diego Costa, will definitely leave the team, and the plan to return to Atletico Madrid has already begun to instigate.

In addition, Barcelona is still chasing Verratti. It is said that the offer of 6500 million euros plus Rakitic has been placed on the desk of the Paris Saint-Germain club. His agent has long been privately settled by the La Liga giants.However, according to the speculation of the French media, this price cannot impress the local rich chairman of Greater Paris. Nasser Khalefi does not intend to let the Italian go at all at present, and the two sides still have time to argue.

The domestic transfer market is also very lively. After a quiet early July, Spalletti finally made a move. Inter Milan first bought Slovakian central defender Milan Shik from Sampdoria for 2300 million. Rignal, who spent only 550 million to win Fiorentina's Spanish midfielder Borja Valero, perfectly filled the vacancy left by the departure of Banega and others.

The defending champion Juventus also operated a wave of signings, allowing all opponents who expected to pull it off in the new season to see their determination to defend the league title for the sixth consecutive time.Loaned Brazilian winger Douglas Costa from Bayern, and bought Arsenal goalkeeper Szczesny and AC Milan right back De Sciglio twice at a cost of about 1200 million. Pound Bomb: 24 million to get Purple Beibei——Bernardeschi, I am afraid that the boy will officially change his name to "Black and White Beibei".

But the noise they made was not as big as that of the Rossoneri. After "Brother Li shook his body and showed his might", Montella finally enjoyed the once-in-a-century treatment of a local tyrant. The money was like a strong wind. flower!After spending 3000 million on five new aids, AC Milan, which missed the European competition last season, spent another 4200 million to persuade the old woman to let go of the defensive backbone Bonucci. Earth's eyeballs.Two days later, Lazio captain Biglia also arrived at San Siro with a worth of 1700 million, which immediately increased the team's signing expenses to 9000 million. If you add the buyout fees of Casey and other loan players , it has reached nearly 2000 million [-] million, which is really too embarrassing!

Torino and Atalanta, who ranked fourth and fifth in the league last season, looked too different when their competitors were reinforcing like crazy.The former has a lot of lineup changes, but the reliable signings seem to be only a deal for the former Lazio striker, and the rest are old, weak, disabled or unknown, seriously lacking in competitiveness.But compared to the Red Bull, the Son of the Sea God was even worse, and the new aid was far worse both in terms of quantity and quality.After selling Conte Jr. for 2500 million, Gasperini used the funds to buy ten players in one go, but the most famous of them are Lazio goalkeeper Berisha and Fiorentina midfielder Ilicic. Most of them are second-rate or even third-rate players in Serie A, and it is difficult to bring immediate results to the team.

In this warm-up match, the two sides contributed a total of seven shots, and only Turin teenager Pieto Pellegri hit the goal frame once. From this data point of view, it is indeed a game. There is a lack of exciting scenes in the confrontation, but the sunspots did not find other shining points hidden under the boring and boring.

In this duel, Jiashuai still used the 3-4-3 formation that helped the team achieve good results last season. After the changes in the team lineup, there were not many changes in specific skills and tactics.But the Red Bulls played differently. Li Moody did not continue to use the 4-3-3 formation of the previous two warm-up games, but arranged the 3-4-1-2 formation that will be practiced after the start of the new season in the first half. After a big wave of his hand in the second half, the players changed to a 4-4-2 style of play again, which made the Atlanta coach a little confused.

Although due to the strong strength of the opponent and the use of these two sets of tactics in the official game for the first time, the team's offensive power did not play as it should have, but whether it is three backs or four backs, the Turin team's defense is very good. He has always ensured a very high quality and did not give the opponent any opportunity to take advantage of it. Compared with last season, the improvement is very obvious.However, the poor performance on the offensive end can be forgiven at this time. With the strengthening of training, the tacit understanding between the frontcourt players will gradually improve, and a consistent step may be found soon.

The reason why Li Mudi arranged seven official warm-up games before the season is that he hopes to speed up the matching feeling between new and old players through a large number of games, which is the so-called game-based training.What the outside world doesn't know at this time is that in the training on weekdays, he will also spend the last half hour of each day mixing the first team and the U20 youth team, dividing them into four teams and then pairing each other for a match. Three 10-minute contests.This also shows the determination of the Turin coach to give young players more opportunities in the new season. However, before the official start of the league and before the confrontation with those opponents, no one knows whether he will have the opportunity to realize this plan. We'll have to wait until later to see the specific situation.

On July 7th, the club’s official website released important news again. The core of the team, Benassi, officially signed his name on a new contract. His annual salary also increased from the original pre-tax 25 million to 130 million. Until June 180, 2022, the playmaking midfielder will be wearing a crimson jersey.

In an interview with reporters that night, Benassi responded with a smile on his face: "The reason why I am willing to stay in the club for a long time is because I had a very happy year last season. Give me the highest level of respect and have been patiently helping me to improve further. Fiorentina? Yes, they approached my agent a few days ago, hoping to bring me to Frankie Stadium to replace Valero Although I feel very honored to be able to be compared with such a great player as Borja, I almost declined the invitation of the other party without thinking. I am very happy in Turin and have no plans to leave for the time being.”

Benassi's contract was originally due to expire in 2021, and there was no need to rush to renew the contract at all, but when Moody Li discovered through the FM system that Viola was poaching, he immediately realized his negligence.Due to the large amount of sponsorship from Chinese companies, the salary index of the Red Bulls in the new season has increased a lot. The 280 million pre-tax annual salary signed by Belotti last winter can only be ranked second in the team.Leaving aside Cassie who has a special reason, the pre-tax salary of the newly joined Immobile has reached 350 million euros, and Benassi and others who are also the main force are naturally unwilling to only get one-third of the former Even if there is no team willing to buy, they will express their dissatisfaction with this income gap.

Therefore, the Turin coach immediately contacted the club's top management, expressing that it is necessary to resolve the emotions that may cause civil strife in a timely manner. Except for Ranocchia, who has just signed a contract and whose salary is not too low, the other main players Players have to start new contract negotiations.Even Belotti, who has just signed a new contract for more than half a year, will start discussing salary increases this winter, and the players should not be in a bad mood just because they want to save the money.

Although the chairman of the club is used to being stingy, he is also a very powerful businessman. He understands the trade-offs and what is the key to his ability to get such a beautiful finance today. Good results.Spending more money to retain outstanding players in the team can guarantee the team's performance in the new season, so as to get more funds from sponsors. It is still very clear which is more important.So before mid-August, the club renewed their contracts with Barreca and Farke one after another. The former's annual salary doubled to 120 million before tax, and the latter became a salary equal to that of Nokia. Tied for the high salary group.

In fact, Li Moody has always been hesitant about the renewal of the Spanish winger's contract. Farke's performance last season has indeed far exceeded the expectations of the outside world, and he has become a high-ranking existence on the list of the best signings.However, his unstable state has always been a big problem, which is not conducive to the team's head coach to arrange his appearance plan.When the Valencia club intended to buy him in the first half of the year, the Turin coach had the idea of ​​​​agreeing to release him if the price was right. Unfortunately, he did not receive an offer from the La Liga team in the end, so it was nothing.

Afterwards, Li Moody thought again, the Turin team may have to use a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 formation in some games in the new season, so as the most powerful winger in the team, Farr Ke still has a lot of value, so he agreed to the player's contract extension.What really bothered him was actually only one person: Rajajic.

(End of this chapter)