Mister Legend

Chapter 601 Invincible momentum
Strengthening the interception ability of the midfield is a signing policy that anyone who has watched Real Madrid's performance this season can guess, so in the process of opening each transfer window, there will be Torreira, Ruben Neve The names of many of the world's top midfielders such as Santiago Ascacivar and Santiago Ascacibal have always been associated with the Galaxy Battleship, which shows that there are still many players who know the ball.

It's just that almost everyone knows who the number one target that the Real Madrid coach wants to introduce is.

In the last three or four seasons, many outstanding talents have emerged in the position of defensive midfielder. The stars mentioned above are only 28 or 9 years old, and they are in the golden period of their careers. A large number of newcomers such as the Dutch star Ryan Gravenbirch, the Frenchman Claudio Gomez, known as Kanter III, and the newly promoted Italian international Sandro Tonali, etc., began to grab power.

However, the title of the world's No. 1996 defensive midfielder is still firmly controlled by one person, and it has never been shaken.Wilfred Ndidi, a Nigerian midfielder born in December 12, took over Kanter's class after being brought to Arsenal from Leicester City by Li Moody that year and became a The world's best defensive midfielder.

During the five years he played at the Emirates Stadium, his state has always been maintained at a very high level, which is one of the key factors for the Gunners to not quickly fall to the bottom after reaching the top of the world.

In terms of honors, following his former mentor Li Moody, he won the six championships three years ago, and then led the re-emerging Nigeria to win the Africa Cup of Nations, and entered the World Footballer and Golden Globe for five consecutive years It can be said that as a pure defensive player, he has every reason to proudly claim that he has achieved an extreme.

Although some minor injuries and illnesses gradually found Endidi's body as he got older, but his beast-like physical fitness and excellent professional attitude made him not far away from the age of [-] years. In terms of performance, he was able to perform almost the entire season, which formed a huge contrast with most of the short-lived African players.

Therefore, the combination of the world's No. [-] club and the world's No. [-] player in this position is what everyone expects or can predict.

But what outsiders don't know is that Li Mudi actually hesitated for two days before making up his mind to attack Endidi. There are two main reasons.

The first is that after returning to the Bernabeu, I have always wanted to establish a plan that emphasizes my own youth training. Martin Calderon, Mustafa Cardron, who was born in Castile and was loaned out to practice Young talents such as Pi and Torrey Bravo, who is still playing in the reserve team, have good potential, and the skills of these young people are also worthy of their Spanish blood, and they can play a role on the field It is more comprehensive than a single defensive midfielder.

However, as for the choice of whether to pursue current achievements or focus on future development, after communicating with Raul, he quickly got the answer.With Juventus, Bayern, Barcelona and other old strong teams gradually recovering, and Manchester City and other new generation giants occupying the top positions in European football year after year, Real Madrid, which had made a good start in the 21st century, has recently In the past few years, it has fallen into a bottleneck period.

Although it is regarded as the favorite to compete for the championship of various competitions every year, it has never really ascended to the throne. Even if it regained the league championship under the leadership of Li Mudi, the advantage is not obvious, and the club pays more attention to it. The Champions League is also broken halfway.

In order to keep the team's influence in world football from being further enlarged by other giants, Real Madrid needs to play a period of absolute dominance, such as the five-year triple crown from 1998-2002, or the five-year period from 2014-18 The four crowns once again dominate the world, and that is where they should be.

After solving this problem, the second difficulty is not a big deal in the eyes of Li Mudi and Raul.Although the introduction of Pellegri at a high price in the previous winter window squeezed out this summer's transfer budget, leaving Real Madrid with only about 3000 million euros of available funds on hand, but the players in the team are all capable. For them who have been recognized by the outside world, making up for Endidi's transfer fee is just a matter of selling one or two people, don't be too easy.

Just in order to complete this signing as soon as possible so that the Nigerian midfielder can join the team's training camp in advance, Li Moody still suggested that Hierro make some compromises in the negotiations with the clubs that intend to poach from Real Madrid, so as to be able to more. Get your funds back quickly.

As a result, on July 7th, the deal for Oyar Sabal to join Valencia was finalized. Lin Rongfu, the Singaporean Chinese chairman of the Bat Corps, made a rare big deal and paid 4 million euros for " Sky-high price" took away the frustrated Spanish international from the Bernabeu.

And two days later, the high center forward Villalivre, who lost his position in the team due to a serious injury last season, also announced that he had found a next home.The former Athletic Bilbao star, who has recovered his competitive state after recovering from injury, switched to Sevilla at a price of 3850 million euros. In the new season, he will become the new head scorer of the Pisjuan Stadium.

With the remittance of these two large sums of money, coupled with the sale of many young players who were out on loan and unable to meet the requirements of the first team, Real Madrid finally obtained enough euros to impress Arsenal and obtained the opportunity to negotiate with the players. allow.

Since Endidi has long expressed his willingness to follow his former mentor to the Bernabeu, the subsequent process has also proceeded very quickly. The summer transfer window has just opened less than ten days, and some important player transfers are still in the process. At the stage of wrangling with each other, Real Madrid completed the steps of strengthening the midfield, which can definitely be called super fast.

But in exchange for two, no matter how powerful the beast is, it cannot make up for the loss of the two Spanish internationals leaving the team. This wave of operations by the defending La Liga champions still seems to be a bit of a loss.

However, Li Moody quickly resolved the concerns of the outside world with the next actions. In a temporary interview after the training, he confirmed to reporters that he would keep Cesar Heralbert, who had just returned from the loan period, so that this The 25-year-old frontcourt versatile player who came from the team's youth training replaced Oyar Sabal and became Real Madrid's regular rotation.At the same time, the team is still considering reclaiming Miguel Baeza, who was sold to Malaga two seasons ago. This summer is the deadline to trigger his 1200 million buyback clause. Can resell for a good price.

To be honest, although Real Madrid has done things similar to "middlemen earning the difference" before, it is indeed a bit too disrespectful for the players themselves, and it will also bring great negative effects to other youth training players Impressions will eventually be given a ruthless evaluation by the outside world. For that little profit, it is really not worthwhile.

So Li Mudi expressed his opinion frankly when Hierro asked for Baeza's position in the team, thinking that Real Madrid should show the spirit of the world's number one club, and should not Doing despicable things just for petty profits.

As a result, the club director listened to the persuasion of the team coach, and after communicating with the Malaga team and Baeza himself, he gave up the plan to buy back this winger with excellent strength and potential, which won the overwhelming majority of the media. And the praise of the fans can be regarded as saving some of the bad reputation caused by a series of cold-blooded operations of Lafayette when he was in office.

And Li Moody also believes that the team's current frontcourt configuration is generally enough for a season. Even if there is an injury, he still has those boys in Castilla in his hands.

The three young players Elias Zidane, Jorge Solzano and Fernandez Villiar who were promoted to the first team last season will still be kept, and they will learn from the big brothers on the training ground. Experience that is difficult to obtain in the field. Although their current ability is still far behind for a giant team like Real Madrid, their potential of more than 170 and selfless efforts make their progress very amazing. Occasionally play as a substitute There is still no problem, it just allows the teenager to further integrate what he has learned off the field through the official game.

However, Real Madrid's lineup adjustment for the new season has not come to an end. Because of the joining of Endidi, the team has a bloated staff in the central midfielder position and needs to be streamlined.

After some discussions that did not consume too much time, Peperu, who overlapped with the new aid, became a victim. Even though the Real Madrid coach liked the local midfielder he personally brought to Castilla, but for the team The stable and peaceful atmosphere in the locker room is also for the player's own development prospects. He can only choose to reluctantly give up.

Fortunately, the result of the matter is quite satisfactory in the end. Scholes had always hoped to get a tall, tough central midfielder who can also play a role in the offensive end. After Chance got the news from Peperu, he immediately expressed his proposal to the club's top management to pursue it with all his strength.

In the end, under the coordination of Li Mudi, Coventry only paid 2950 million euros to acquire this excellent midfielder who was rated as 160 in the FM system, and it really made a lot of money.

Of course, Real Madrid did not suffer too much. Sending this excellent player who knows each other with the team to a foreign league avoids the situation where Peperu staged a counterattack. Completed the tragedy that broke out when facing himself, this time it can be regarded as directly eradicating the trouble from the root cause.

Moreover, the transfer fee close to 3000 million euros is already a huge profit compared to the funds spent when buying the player from the Levante reserve team.Even if it is certainly not the greatest value Peperu can bring, for a loyal fighter who has been willing to give his all for the team for the past nine years, it is better for him to get an ideal place than the club can. How much profit you get is much more important.

From Raul's point of view, he is more willing to learn from Real Madrid's legendary chairman, Bernabeu, and become a humane manager, rather than being like Lafayette who obviously made a lot of contributions to the club when he was in office, but because he always does things wrong. It is really a failure to be willing to keep a leeway and not get the most fair evaluation from the outside world after retirement.

Going back to the topic of team lineup adjustments, when the summer training camp lasted until July 7 and Real Madrid was about to usher in the first pre-season warm-up match, they sold the Swiss full-back Lotumba to FC for 16 million euros. He bought the Bundesliga powerhouse Schalke 1300 and temporarily recruited 04-year-old local defender Alvaro Herrera from Castilla to prepare for the first team, which officially closed the door to the transfer market.

So far, compared with the same period last year, the Galaxy Battleship has generally made adjustments in four positions, namely the midfielder, winger, midfielder and center.If it takes time to test that Hrabbert, who can play both as a winger and as a midfielder, can completely replace Oyar Sabal, then Pellegri will replace Villalivre and Ndidi. The replacement of Peperu or Aouar is a recognized upgrade.

As for Dybala's departure, although the fans still regret it, judging from the actual effect of the previous season, Real Madrid's demand for the midfielder position is not great, which can be completely ignored.So just comparing the overall strength of last summer and the current team, there is no doubt that the latter is stronger. Compared with the team that won the league and the Copa del Rey last season, and almost reached the final of the Champions League With an excellent foundation, people will naturally have more expectations for the performance of the Galaxy Battleship in the 2025-26 season.

According to a recent survey from the Internet, more than 25% of the participants believe that Real Madrid has a chance to complete the triple crown, and more than [-]% of them think that when they arrive at the end of May next year, at least in terms of honor It will not be worse than the season that just ended, and it is indeed relatively rare for a high proportion of them to be optimistic.

And Li Moody and his disciples did not disappoint all the supporters. In all the seven warm-up matches, they not only achieved a record of complete victory, but also scored 3.86 goals and conceded 0.71 goals per game. Strong performance.You know, apart from Standard Liege from Belgium, the warm-up opponents are all recognized Champions League-level teams such as Lazio, CSKA Moscow, Schalke 04 and Chelsea. There was absolutely no hope of winning the game.

More importantly, the new aid Ndidi quickly found a rhythm that was relatively in tune with his teammates, and he integrated into the new environment almost effortlessly, making all players who regard Real Madrid as their main competitor in the new season The team all felt chills down their backs.

Especially in the Spanish Super Cup held on August 8th, the Galacticos at home beat their sworn rival Barcelona 9-3, showing an invincible aura. All the Meilingers are looking forward to the new season of La Liga, which will start a week later.

(End of this chapter)