Mister Legend

Chapter 532 The Lively Winter Window

Li Mudi's 2020 can be said to be very fulfilling. In March, he welcomed one of the three most important women in his life - his daughter Li Xiyin, who willingly became a child slave. Although she was too busy to be a dog, But the happiness in my heart is full to the point of overflowing.

At the end of May, as a "temporary worker", he led the Russian men's football team to escape from the death group of the European Cup without being favored by the outside world, and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, marking his comeback The first shot was fired, and at the same time, he made a lot of extra money.

And during the European Cup, Li Moody took over Arsenal in a flash and became the successor of the professor in the true sense.Afterwards, the same scene was staged again. When no one thought that he could achieve any outstanding results in his first year in the Premier League, he led the Gunners, who had not changed much in the lineup, all the way down the standings. The many records in the club's history have allowed the team, which was about to retreat from the aura of the rich, to temporarily gain a firm foothold in this ranks. This achievement is really not small.

To sum up, it can be barely recognized that he stole most of the limelight in the football coaching world in just half a year.

However, the honors obtained are one aspect, and the challenges and difficulties faced are equally arduous.The foundation of the Arsenal team is still too weak. If they want to become the strongest king in English football where there are many strong players, what they lack is really not at 01:30, so at the end of the No.20 round of the battle with Manchester United Afterwards, Li Mudi immediately devoted most of his energy to the second half of the adjustment, even the time spent with the little princess was forced to be cut down.

On the 28th, the winter break officially started. The players have already entered the state of vacation, but their coach has to continue to work hard at work, but the office has been changed from the Kearney training base to the Highbury club. In the resident building.

The reason why he has to race against time is because Li Moody's most important signing target in this transfer period has already sent his agent to London. As long as all differences can be resolved on the issue of personal treatment, then the deal is basically It can be officially announced in the shortest possible time.Otherwise, among the many suitors of the opponent, there are top giants such as Juventus and Barcelona, ​​which are not relatively speaking for the Gunners who are inferior in terms of financial resources and status.

In fact, if it weren't for the high reputation of the Gunners coach in training young players and the players' individual demands for more opportunities to play, the current Arsenal might not be able to win this popular fried chicken.

On the afternoon of the 30th, the world's major sports media broke the news at the same time that the leader of the Premier League spent 4120 million pounds to sign Argentina's newly promoted international footballer Esquee, also known as Messi II, from the American major league team Atlanta United. Ezequiel Barco (Ezequiel Barco), the official transfer will be completed after the opening of the winter window on January 1, but the former midfielder of the independent Argentine team can already be regarded as a gunner.

England's "Sky Sports" website immediately announced the player's information in detail and the details of the contract obtained after joining the new club, which instantly attracted a lot of hits.

Born on March 1999, 3, Barco plays the role of midfielder. He often has outstanding performances in the positions of the left and right wingers, and can occasionally play as a central midfielder.Personal technical characteristics are super dribbling ability, good at creating scoring opportunities for teammates, and also has a world-class free kick and penalty kick skills. He is a rare excellent attacker among Argentine frontcourt players who can take into account both personal attack and teamwork.

In the FM system, this player's free kick ability is as high as 17, and the penalty kick has an evaluation of 18. With 16 corner kicks, he is an absolute master of set kicks.In addition, his dribbling, crossing, passing and receiving technical abilities are all above 15. Driven by 17 imagination and 15 vision ability, he is enough to play the core role of a world-class team.

What makes Li Moody more important is Barco's mental attributes, 19 for willpower, 17 for bravery, 16 for ambition, 15 for calmness and work dedication, so that this player can still play his own in the most difficult environment. Capable and a reliable partner for teammates.

Although he is only 168 cm tall and plays a similar position, he is hailed as Messi II by the American media, and because of this, he is considered by Europeans to be unable to gain a foothold in the fiercely competitive English league, but the Arsenal coach still believes in himself With vision and the data provided by the plug-in in his head, despite the opposition of some high-level members in the club, he used the special talent clause to introduce this young frontcourt player who could not immediately obtain a labor certificate.

In Li Moody's plan, Balko will not only become the team's important frontcourt rotation or even the main player in the next two to three seasons, but also make up for the Gunners' weakness in free kick ability and enrich the team's offensive methods.Therefore, he did not hesitate to provide the Argentine who is not yet 22 years old with a weekly salary of up to 18 pounds, thus strengthening the determination of a member of the team to leave.

Just when the entire European football world was turned upside down by countless transfer rumors, the Southampton team, which had been fluctuating up and down in the middle and lower reaches of the standings but could not get rid of the embarrassing situation, was suddenly revealed by the British media that they were going all out. The pursuit of Swiss international Xhaka, and less than 24 hours after the news spread widely, it evolved into a reality.

The Saints, which is controlled by Chinese capital, issued an official announcement that the midfielder, who was in the golden period of his player career, was introduced from the Arsenal team at a total price of 4800 million pounds and paid in installments over three years. The latter will receive a The fat contract with a weekly salary of 20 and the commitment of the core of the team's midfielder are exactly what he cannot have in Arsenal.

After two adjustments involving large transfer amounts, one in and one out, Li Mudi's winter window plan has just begun. He first transferred French midfielder Guendouzi and local Five future stars under the age of 22, including center Mavi Didi and versatile midfielder Ben Sheff, have been loaned out.Except for forward Nketiah who has joined Norwich, the Premier League deputy squad leader who continues to strengthen his offensive power, the rest have gone to the English Championship, which will provide them with a stable playing time, so that the head coach of the home team can Better to make the most appropriate judgment for their future development direction.

None of these operations attracted too much attention from the outside world, but what followed was an in-and-out matchup adjustment, making Arsenal one of the most active giants after the transfer window opened.

The Greek central defender Papastathopoulos, who had been sidelined by Li Moody, took a flight to Germany on January 1th. He returned to his old club Werder Bremen for a price of 4 million pounds.When interviewed by the media, the hot-tempered Greek international expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the Gunners coach, thinking that the latter did not give him enough respect, and he wanted to use his performance to fight back against the mistakes of the Chinese man.However, after that, the news about the 650-year-old veteran basically failed to exist on the mainstream European media, and no one paid any attention to his bold words and ambitions, and eventually they all disappeared.

And before Arsenal supporters started worrying about their defense because of the sudden purge, their manager had found a solution.Spanish international Diego Llorente has joined Arsenal for £3980million, reuniting with his former mentor from his time in Turin.

In the 2017-18 season, the two teamed up and spent a wonderful period of cooperation in Italy, helping the Red Bulls win the European League Championship that year.It's just that Llorente suffered an injury at the end of the season. Not only did he regret not being selected for the Spanish national team's squad for the World Cup, but he also missed the best running-in period after returning to Real Madrid in the new season. Tegui's men were reused, and finally left the Bernabeu in the winter of 2019 and switched to Real Sociedad.

There, the player who was born in Real Madrid's youth training but is no longer young finally got the opportunity to show his ability. Appreciated by the current coach Enrique, he participated in the 2020 European Cup as the main central defender of the Matador Corps, and was promoted to the ranks of world-class defenders at the age of 27.

Last summer, Real Madrid intended to repurchase this player of their own lineage, but because Llorente himself did not want to go back and continue to suffer humiliation, the transaction was aborted, but the request for contract renewal proposed by Real Sociedad was not received. Agree, so his liquidated damages still stay at the figure of 5000 million euros.This is obviously not a big price for an excellent central defender who is scarce in the entire world of football. As long as the player himself agrees, I believe that many teams that urgently need the core of the defense will be willing to pay this fee to forcibly take him away.

However, Diego Llorente eventually transferred to Arsenal, who had never had any news about him before, at a price lower than his liquidated damages. This was somewhat beyond everyone's expectations, but as long as Considering the personal relationship between Li Moody and the player himself and the influence of Guinness's agency in Spain, people will no longer have any other speculations about it.

However, this is still not the last big move of the Gunners coach this winter. It was less than 1 hours before the winter break of the English League officially came to an end on January 9, and each Premier League team started their respective FA Cup journey. , Arsenal and West Ham United, two teams at the top of the standings, completed a player swap transaction.The league leaders use Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Elneny and French talent left-back Dabo Abdoulaye, who joined the club's youth academy from Ligue 4 side Nantes a year ago, plus £200m. Cash, in exchange for their former pride - Jack Wilshere - from the Hammer Gang.

Although this last transfer cannot be compared with the previous two operations in terms of the value of the players or the effect on the team's reinforcement, it is precisely the fact that the gun fans talk about it and even want to celebrate. The return of the "Little Threat", after all, this is the real one!
Since Wilshere, who was only 2001 years old, joined Arsenal's youth training camp in 9, he has become the core figure of youth teams at all levels, and has been selected into higher age groups many times. Straight to the previous generation of genius Cesc Fabregas. In 2008, at the age of 16 years and 256 days, he broke the record of the youngest appearance in the history of the Gunners, and was praised by the world as the leader of Arsenal for the next 15 years.

It's a pity that just as the little threat was gradually growing into a rising star in the Premier League, at the age of 19, he suffered a very serious ankle injury, which not only cost him a whole season, but also caused him to suffer a serious injury in the next few years. It brought him seemingly endless surgeries and pain.

Due to injuries, he missed the best growth period, his personality is a bit irritable, and his self-control ability outside the court is not enough after he became famous at a young age. It will not be surprising that Zhong Yong, a British-style injury, happened.Although the professor at that time gave him countless opportunities to prove himself, Wilshere failed to grasp it. In the end, he was also cleared out by the new coach after his teacher resigned.

Fortunately, after joining West Ham United, with the help of Pellegrini, his mentality finally began to mature.In addition, he also deliberately changed his way of playing football, greatly reducing the options for personal dribbling, and began to develop in the direction of Harvey's passing to mobilize the situation on the field, and achieved considerable success.

All of this makes Li Moody, who hopes to find someone who can complete the same job as Ramsey, sees in his eyes. Although the current ability and potential of this gunman's direct line is not too high, but the various aspects displayed in the FM system Very important attributes, but they are all excellent. Technical abilities such as passing and running positions, vision, and teamwork are all above 15, which can make a lot of contribution to the team's midfield sorting.In addition, after changing the way of playing football, the number of encounters with strong defenses from opponents is also decreasing, which makes his physique of the glass man less prominent, and finally became the candidate used by the Gunners coach to replace Xhaka.

So far, the Arsenal team has completed all the tasks in this transfer period, and all the top targets in various positions have been directly succeeded. This is the first time in the history of Li Mudi coaching the team. Appearance seems to be a good omen.

But even with such multiple operations of three in and three out (Abdoulaye, who is the leader of the transaction, can be ignored), it failed to become the biggest focus of European football in the first week of 2021. There are even more interesting deals.

On January 1, Manchester City announced on their official website that they had signed Brazilian international Casemiro from Real Madrid for a transfer fee of 8 million pounds, making the latter the most expensive defensive midfielder/central midfielder so far. , For a while, it aroused enthusiastic responses from the media and fans.

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