The Glory of the Godfather

Byron reported a piece of news to Fang Jue.

The general manager of the Paris Saint-Germain club is likely to come to Milan City this time to target AC Milan's Brazilian central defender Thiago Silva.

After missing Cahill and Alex one after another, Fang Jue assigned a task to the club's top management to sign an excellent defender for the team, preferably a top central defender.

Aston Villa chief executive Bob Clarke favors Chelsea's Brazilian defender David Luiz.

The general manager of Aston Villa, Byron, prefers AC Milan's Brazilian central defender Thiago Silva.

However, it was only the investigation and discussion stage, and did not really start to contact the opposing club and players.

Now, knowing that Leonardo wants to help Paris Saint-Germain poach Milan and bring Thiago Silva to Paris, Byron naturally cannot remain indifferent.

Byron's opinion is that Aston Villa can observe through Leonardo's actions to see Milan's attitude towards selling Thiago Silva.

In the past two years of studying with Nesta, Thiago Silva has made great progress and is already considered one of the best central defenders in football today.

Under normal circumstances, Milan will not let go of such a top player, and the player himself seems to be very satisfied with the environment in Milan, and there is no basis for a sudden transfer and departure.

This is why Aston Villa has not really contacted AC Milan for the time being and is asking for Thiago Silva.

Now, Paris Saint-Germain's move can be used by Aston Villa as a touchstone.

Fang Jue discussed this matter with his coaching staff.

Leonardo is at his old club again, Ceballos said.

He is going to hollow out the Serie A. Werner also joked.

Leonardo is the most familiar with Serie A, so it's natural to target Serie A. Fang Jue said with a smile, Besides, the Serie A environment is not good. If you spend money, few teams can survive. .”

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Werner was joking when he said Leonardo was going to 'hollow out Serie A'.

But, in fact, this is exactly the 'plan' of Leonardo and Paris Saint-Germain.

Of course, this is not to say that this is a 'malicious' act by Greater Paris, but they are staring at the Serie A league for poaching, but it is very likely to cause this situation.

Why stare at Serie A?

As Fang Jue said, Leonardo is most familiar with Serie A.

Leonardo in the player era had a brilliant experience in both Serie A and Ligue 1. As an executive and head coach, he now works for AC Milan, Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain.

It stands to reason that he should take more care of his old club.

However, since becoming the general manager of the Paris Saint-Germain club, Leonardo has frequently poached corners from the Serie A arena, and the Apennines arena is gradually becoming the youth training camp of Paris Saint-Germain.

Last summer, Inter Milan had begun to build a team according to Leonardo's requirements, but the Brazilian resolutely left Ligue 1 and became the general manager of Paris Saint-Germain.

Since then, Leonardo has started to buy people from Serie A.

At the beginning of taking office, Leonardo made a big deal: he bought Argentine midfielder Pastore and Italian goalkeeper Sirigu from Serie A powerhouse Palermo at a high price of 46.5 million euros.

Among them, Pastore's worth is as high as 43 million euros.

At that time, Pastore, who had just emerged, attracted the attention of Inter Milan, AC Milan, Roma and Juventus.

However, no one expected that Paris would suddenly make a move and directly buy out at a sky-high price.

In the eyes of the giants in Serie A, Paris' move and some dog licking to drive up... Well, this behavior is simply an act of disrupting the market and driving up prices.

Compared with this single big deal, Roma winger Menez and Juventus midfielder Sissoko are worth 8 million euros each, which is nothing worth mentioning.

During the winter transfer period in January 2012, Leonardo continued his idea of ​​​​sweeping Serie A. This time he extended his tentacles to Inter Milan, which had served briefly.

Under the instigation of Leonardo, the Nerazzurri midfielder Thiago Motta was determined to leave the team. In the end, Moratti had to sell the Italian international. For this reason, Paris Saint-Germain paid Inter Milan 11 million euros.

After losing Thiago Motta, things have gotten worse for Inter Milan, who are now fifth in Serie A and their Champions League qualification is at stake.

Fang Jue does not pay attention to the situation of Inter Milan. He is thinking about the impact of Paris Saint-Germain's intervention on Aston Villa's reinforcement of the central defender.

In Fang Jue's view, Paris's spending of money is even crazier than another local tycoon, Manchester City.

Last summer, the cooperation between Aston Villa and Paris was very pleasant:

Paris Saint-Germain have signed Curtis Davies from Aston Villa for £31m.

Later, it cost 17.1 million pounds to bring Ronaldinho back from Aston Villa to the Princes Stadium in Paris.

Especially when the transfer window is about to close, Aston Villa is eager to deal with the Senegalese central defender. More than 40 million pounds, broke the transfer record of a central defender and won the Senegalese.

Fang Jue had a very good impression of such a proud buyer at that time.

However, he did not expect that the arrogance of Paris was even crazier than he had imagined.

After owning Davis and the Senegalese, they even targeted Tiago Silva again.

If Paris Saint-Germain succeeds, Paris' central defender configuration can even be said to be among the top in football, at least stronger than the current Aston Villa.

Fang Jue snapped his wrist and made a snapping sound.

He saw the huge ambitions of this team from Leonardo's behavior and Paris's behavior.

Of course, in the short term, Paris will be a very good local buyer for many teams.

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February 15th, night.

Italy, Milan, San Siro Stadium.

The camera is aimed at the stands of the San Siro.

Aston Villa, the defending champion of the Champions League, will play against the Serie A giants AC Milan, who have reached the top of Europe seven times. This game is one of the highlights of the Champions League round of 16.

Therefore, the game also attracted many stars.

Italian national treasure star Monica Bellucci.

The camera gave a close-up of the VIPs in the stands. When Monica Bellucci's figure appeared on the big screen, the fans cheered in the stands.

What's going on? Fang Jue asked.

Monica Bellucci, here to watch the game. Ceballos said.

Werner next to him was a little excited when he heard the words: Monica Bellucci came to watch the game, who watched whom?

Fang Jue nodded, so she came, no wonder, this woman is a national treasure in Italy.

Mentioning Monica Bellucci, Fang Jue thought of the classic scene in the beautiful legend of Sicily, men surrounded the heroine, vying to light her cigarettes...

In addition to Monica Bellucci, another Italian national treasure star, motorcycle racer Rossi, also came to the scene.

Rossi, who appeared on the big screen, also won cheers and applause from the fans.

He has been dedicating himself to this sport since he came into contact with motorcycle racing in 1990. Youth, time, and honor are all his medals.

This is Valentino Rossi, one of the most successful racing drivers in the history of the sport.

Italy's greatest motorcycle racer.

However, neither Monica Bellucci nor Rossi is a Milan fan, and Rossi is even a well-known hardcore fan of Inter Milan.

They came to watch the game live, not to support AC Milan, just because this is a football feast.

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At this time, the camera was aimed at a middle-aged man, and everyone immediately recognized Mourinho's famous face.

The head coach of Real Madrid seems to be in a good mood, talking to his friends from time to time.

There was a harsh booing at the scene.

Mourinho glanced at the big screen and knew he was being captured.

As for booing, he didn't care.

Isn't it normal for the coach who led Inter Milan to win the treble to be booed by Milan fans at the San Siro stadium?

For Mourinho, the booing will not make him unhappy, but will be proud. This is a medal and a symbol of his success at Inter Milan.

Real Madrid's Champions League quarter-final first-leg match will not be played until next week, so Mourinho has time to come to San Siro to watch the game.

In the commentary, everyone was speculating about the purpose of Mourinho coming to San Siro to watch the game between AC Milan and Aston Villa.

Obviously, Mourinho will not be idle.

There is only one reason for him to come to watch the game, to inspect a certain player in person.

Who is Mourinho's target?

Some commentators thought it was Pato.

Some said it was Thiago Silva.

However, the commentators on England's side and Spain's side had surprisingly the same attitude: Gareth Bell!

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The starting lineups of both sides were displayed on the big screen in the stadium.

AC Milan:

Goalkeeper: 32-Abbiati;

Defense: 20-Abate, 5-Mex, 33-Thiago-Silva, 77-Antonini;

Midfielder: 10-Seedorf, 4-Van Bommel, 22-Nocerino/27-Boateng;

Forward line: 11-Ibrahimovic, 70-Robinho;

Aston Villa:

Goalkeeper: De Gea;

Defense: Kyle Walker, Papastathopoulos, Ciron Clarke, Milner;

Midfielders: Clement, Modric, Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez;

Forwards: Suarez, Klose;

AC Milan was eliminated by Aston Villa in the last sixteen knockout rounds last season.

Therefore, this time they met Aston Villa again after a year. For AC Milan, the whole team also has a heart of revenge.

Moreover, AC Milan has been in pretty good shape recently.

The team's injury situation has also been greatly alleviated in this game. Boateng and Abbiati returned from injury to serve as the starters, and Pato and Nesta appeared on the bench after recovering from injury.

Van Bommel and Seedorf are also healthy and able to play.

As for Aston Villa, Fang Jue did not arrange for Mane to start. Although Mane came off the bench in the game against Manchester City, Mane's physical condition after returning from the Africa Cup of Nations is indeed not good and he is very tired.

Therefore, Fang Jue chose Ha Mei.

The game has started ten minutes ago.

The game scene was very intense.

AC Milan, who are playing at home, wanted to take the initiative, and instead of being conservative, they pressed forward to attack.

As for Aston Villa, due to Senderos' accidental injury, Fang Jue took the risk of using the young teenager Ciron Clarke as the starting central defender.

In order to 'defend the enemy from outside the country', Fang Jue also arranged for Aston Villa to take an offensive, burning the flames of war in the opponent's half as much as possible to protect their own defense.

In addition, Senderos' accidental injury and the hidden danger of Aston Villa's central defender also stimulated AC Milan and enhanced Allegri's confidence and drive to strengthen his offense!

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Mourinho stared at Bale.

Although the Spanish media has been building momentum that Real Madrid will introduce Bale.

However, to be more precise, this is the voice of Florentino's superstar policy, and Real Madrid chairman Florentino appreciates Bell very much.

Want to bring the Welsh star to the Bernabeu.

Especially after Bell defeated Ronaldo and Messi and won the FIFA Golden Ball, Florentino's idea became stronger.

However, to introduce Bell, for Real Madrid and Florentino, the first thing to do is not to convince Aston Villa and Bell himself.

But to convince Mourinho.

If it's another head coach, Florentino can talk about it, and don't need to pay attention to the head coach's thoughts. Anyway, I bought a star, so you can use it well for me!

However, for Mourinho, Florentino still pays more attention to his ideas.

Mourinho was not very active about the introduction of Bell at the beginning.

The most important reason is that Real Madrid's dressing room is already full of big names.

After Raul left, the Spanish native gang and Ronaldo's Portuguese department barely maintained a balance.

In this case, Bell's arrival may once again break or even detonate Real Madrid's dressing room.

In particular, this is most likely to stimulate Ronaldo's nerves: what do you mean? I am the boss of Real Madrid!

However, as Bell defeated Ronaldo and Messi and won the Golden Globe, which strengthened Florentino's determination to introduce Bell, it also forced Mourinho to waver:

Florentino's determination to win Bell cannot be changed. In this case, Mourinho began to seriously consider the possibility of this matter.

Under such circumstances, Mourinho chose to come to the San Siro Stadium to watch the game. On the one hand, he really wanted to see the performance of the new World Footballer of the Year with his own eyes. The most intuitive feeling is to witness it with his own eyes. .

In addition, this is also a strategy after the secret talks between Florentino and Mourinho, to test Ronaldo's reaction to this matter.

This temptation is relatively mild.

Because neither Mourinho nor Florentino will personally admit that Mourinho's trip is to investigate Bell.

As long as you don't say it yourself, there is room for relaxation.

If it doesn't work, you can use the mouth of the media to say that you are here to investigate Pato.

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