Chapter 139: A Tale of Two Cities

Cassano's move to Inter Milan has become the talk of the Italian media and fans.

Most Italian fans are happy that Cassano is back in Italy, the bad boy they loved and hated is back.

The head coach of the Italian national team, Donadoni, welcomes this, Cassano's devastation in Madrid, so that the Italian national team has temporarily closed the door to Cassano, and now, Cassano is back in Serie A, and is currently the strongest and most mature team in Serie A, playing under the championship coach Leon, which is very helpful for Cassano to regain form.

The signing of Cassano, Leon, was also well thought out, and Cassano will be an important addition to Inter's attacking line, with his technical characteristics very different from Adriano's, and unlike Sergio Aguero and Diego Milito, who is considered to be the most talented star in Italian football right now, and his football intelligence up front will help enrich Inter's attacking routine.

Three days later, Inter Milan travelled to Hamburg, Germany, for a warm-up match against Hamburg, with goals from Diego Milito and Luka Modric helping Inter Milan to a 2-1 win at home, with Cassano making his debut in the Inter shirt as a late substitute.

After the game, Leon received a fax from assistant coach Banderas that surprised him.

This is a fax of an inquiry and purchase request for Inter Milan's 25-year-old Italian goalscorer Marco Borriello.

It's no surprise that Borriello has other teams to pursue, and since he was poached by Leon from AC Milan in the summer of 2005, Borriello has improved a lot in his two seasons at Inter Milan, and Borriello has occasionally performed well in his limited playing time. So, it still won the favor of some teams.

However, to Leon's surprise, the offer came from Inter Milan's local rivals AC Milan, who also played for Borriello's former club.

Inter Milan's forward line, there are currently five players Adriano, Diego Milito, Aguero, Borriello and Cassano, which seems to be a little redundant, but, considering that Inter Milan needs to fight on three lines, it is not necessary to say that the configuration of five players is not indispensable.

Moreover, Leon still admires Borriello, this player has always had a good attitude towards the game and is very pragmatic, and no manager will dislike such a player.

Therefore, Leon directly rejected AC Milan's request for Borriello.

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Although Inter Milan and AC Milan are sworn enemies in the same city, the hatred of the two teams off the field is much lighter than that of other sworn enemies in the same city, and the player 'exchanges' between the two teams are still relatively frequent.

However, looking at the player exchange between AC Milan and Inter Milan at the top of the form, there is no doubt that AC Milan took advantage of the deal, in 2001, 22-year-old rookie Andrea Pirlo defected to AC Milan for 10 million euros, and as a result, he played an extremely important role in AC Milan's continuous championship journey for many years to come, and was selected by UEFA as one of the "20 players who changed football history" He is currently the heart of the midfield of the Italian national team and won the "Bronze Ball" at the 2006 World Cup. Brockie, who joined AC Milan in the same year as him, did not have an immediate effect, but the late bloomer Brockie gradually played an important role in AC Milan, and when Brockie joined AC Milan, it was in an exchange with Argentinian Guli - a name that has been forgotten for many years.

Similar things continued, in the summer of 2002, the two clubs did a few more business, AC Milan loaned to Barcelona and played the main Koko, joined Inter Milan, in exchange for the occasional appearance under Cooper, but did not have a main position, it seems that Inter Milan earned, but in fact, Seedorf has been the main force of AC Milan in the following five years, and helped the team win two Champions Cups and a league title, Koko's career was quickly scrapped.

Simic, meanwhile, was swapped for Mitt Davara and the exchange between the two substitutes looked like little to come, but Simic played an important role in AC Milan's 2002/2003 European Cup triumph and is still a regular substitute, while the Turk was quickly dropped without playing a game at Inter.

Previously, Milan was still very open to player transactions between the two giants, and even Inter Milan bought Hlwig but loaned the Dane to AC Milan for two consecutive years, but after 2003, there were very few player exchanges between the two clubs, during which there was a possibility of Caron exchanging Serginho, but it was stopped by Moratti.

Until the summer of 2005, Leon's Inter Milan and AC Milan also had another player exchange, in AC Milan has not been able to play, Borriello has been repeatedly loaned out of the country was sent to Inter Milan, and Inter Milan's veteran Favali was sent to AC Milan as an exchange object, Favalli's performance in AC Milan can only be said to be average, of course, the existence of Italian veterans can allow Jankulovski to devote more energy to the European arena.

However, Borriello has been even better at Inter Milan, with the 25-year-old Italian striker now having been selected for Donadoni's Italian national team several times with his outstanding performances at Inter.

Therefore, overall, Borriello's deal to exchange Favali is a rare bargain in the player trade between Inter Milan and AC Milan over the years.

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Leon rejected AC Milan's offer for Borriello and thought that was the end of the matter.

However, during the pre-match training camp in Hamburg, Borriello tactfully expressed to Leon his desire to let him go back to AC Milan.

Inter Milan has introduced Diego Milito and Cassano two strikers one after another, in this way, Adriano will occupy a main position, in addition, Diego Milito and Aguero are in the priority position in the competition for another starting position, and even considering Cassano's technical characteristics, Cassano's appearance order may be in front of Borriello, so Borriello is still more worried and confused about his future at Inter Milan.

Tomorrow is the European Championship and Borriello has to work hard for a place in the European Championship, so he is looking forward to playing.

In addition, it has to be mentioned that Borriello was born in the AC Milan academy, and his return to AC Milan is also very attractive to him.

Coupled with AC Milan's current forward line, Inzaghi has been repeatedly injured, and Oliveira, the Brazilian goalscorer introduced last season, has long been labeled as a 'parallel import', and only Gilardino is a stable goalscorer, Borriello has been promised to a certain extent that he can get more opportunities to play when he returns to AC Milan.

Therefore, in the face of the call from AC Milan, the former AC Milan goalscorer was indeed tempted, took the initiative to find Li Ang, and expressed his desire to transfer to AC Milan.

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