"The 0-3 defeat to Leon's Inter Milan 'second team' caused strong dissatisfaction among Juventus fans, a few days ago, some Juventus fans gathered outside the Vinovo training base to express their dissatisfaction with the team's record, and at the same time protest against the team's inaction to recruit ......" Italian national television's sports news is broadcasting what happened in the morning local time in Italy.

More than 200 Juventus fans can be seen gathered outside the Vinovo training base, holding banners with words dissatisfied with Juventus' experience with Marotta, expressing their dissatisfaction with Juventus' poor recruitment.

Leon took a sip of tea, glanced at the TV, whistled, and gloated with a look of schadenfreude on his face.

However, Leon clearly did not expect the chaos on Juventus' side to reach his Inter Milan and cause a chain reaction in the final stages of the transfer market this winter.

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At the Vinovo training base, a closed-door consultation meeting is taking place at the Juventus club's hierarchy.

The topic of the meeting is about winter signings, which are less than a week away from the closing of the winter transfer window, and Juventus will have to hurry up if they want to improve their squad through signings.

Claudio Ranieri has suggested that the team should target Liverpool's Malian midfielder Mohamed Sissoko.

In fact, as early as the summer of 2007, Sissoko was Ranieri's favourite, having worked together in Valencia in the 2004/2005 season, when Ranieri saw Sissoko as the "new Vieira". The Juventus coach said helplessly in an interview on December 11 last year, "We wanted to buy Sissoko, but Liverpool's offer was as high as 34 million euros. We didn't have that much money, so we had to buy Thiago ......"

Now, Sissoko, who has barely played time, has been relegated to the bench for Steven Gerrard, Marcos Alonso and Mascherano and his relationship with Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez is deteriorating. In the final group stage of the Champions League away to Marseille, Sissoko angrily expressed his determination to leave after missing the squad: "I'm really going crazy, it's in France, my whole family is there to see me play! For a long time, I asked myself if I wanted to leave. You can only start once in five games, and I can't stay in a team like this. ”

In Ranieri's view, Mohamed Sissoko has completely torn his face with Liverpool, and now is the perfect time for Juventus to bring in Mohamed Sissoko. He has a good impression of the Malian midfielder he has worked with.

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Juventus manager Gianluca Pexoto sat back in his chair and leaned back to make himself as comfortable as he could, listening to Ranieri, but instead of speaking immediately, Pexoto looked pensive.

The Juventus man, who is revered by Juventus fans as the 'Juventus man who died once', is now under tremendous pressure on his shoulders.

In 2006, Juventus was stripped of the Serie A title due to the "phonegate" scandal and was relegated to the second division. Soon after, there was shocking news that Juventus leader Pesoto, who had been with the team for many successes, committed suicide by jumping off a building on June 27, when the Italian national team was still playing in the World Cup in Germany. Thankfully, he was eventually rescued from falling from the Juventus FC headquarters building, and after that incident, Pexoto was appointed as Juventus manager after recovering.

This is a Juventus own person who is deeply loved by Juventus fans, but respect and love cannot be eaten, Juventus's poor record and poor recruitment have caused the anger of fans, and Pesoto is also under great pressure.

"Mohamed Sissoko could be an alternative to Liverpool first. "I've decided that our first target is Marchisio!

Ranieri showed a surprised expression, before Juventus asked to buy Marchisio, Leon and Inter Milan refused, there is no room for negotiation, in that case, they have given up on bringing in Marchisio, how can this plan that has been shelved be taken out again?!

"But ......" Ranieri wants to persuade Pesotho to stop wasting time on Marchisio, Inter Milan can't let Marchisio go, and now time is precious, so it's better to be pragmatic and focus on Mohamed Sissoko.

"That's it!" said Pexoto.

Ranieri was stunned, he understood that this was still the after-effect of Inter Milan's Coppa Italia, and Marchisio's two goals stimulated Pesoto and irritated the Juventus club hierarchy.

In the end, Ranieri could only nod helplessly, and when it came to player recruitment, he only had the right to suggest, not the right to decide. It can also be seen from here how much power Leon has at Inter Milan, and the huge power to control the team's recruitment is enough to make the vast majority of coaches around the world envious and jealous.

"Bringing Marchisio back to the Alps is a midfielder that the team needs at a competitive level, it will greatly improve our midfield, and it will also ease the frustration of the fans, which is our own player at Juventus, and now his return is a big thing. Gianluca Pexoto said.

"Of course!" said Ranieri, who said that although his request for Mohamed Sissoko was put on the list, Ranieri would be happy to see Marchisio brought in.

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In the 20th round of the 2007/2008 Serie A season, the day before Inter Milan's away match against Udinese, Leon was surprised to find that Juventus' fax for Marchisio had once again 'appeared' on his desk.

"Didn't you already refuse? Why did it come again? Leon asked his assistant Mihajlovich, and after Mihajlovic retired, he obtained a coaching license, and then joined Leon's coaching staff and became his assistant. Later, Mikhailovich once said that the days of working by Leon's side helped him greatly, and he was forever grateful to Leon for his support and teaching.

These documents, as well as the faxes, were all put on Leon's desk after Mikhailovich had sorted them out in advance.

"Fax received in the morning. Mihajlovic shrugged, meaning that he didn't know what the Juventus people were thinking either.

Leon was about to throw the fax away, but Mikhailovich dissuaded, "Sir, I think you should look at the quoted price on that fax." ”

Leon retrieved the fax he was about to throw into the trash, glanced at the price, and showed a stunned expression.

PS: In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that the manager of Juventus was Marotta, but the author was mistaken, in 2008, the manager of Juventus was Pesoto, and Marotta only became the manager of Juventus in 2011.

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