18 January 2008.

Serie A giants Inter Milan announced on their official website that the team had acquired the team's captain, Russian international Andrei Arshavin, from the Russian Premier League stadium Zenit St. Petersburg for 9 million euros. The two parties signed a four-year contract, with Inter Milan having the right of first refusal in the fifth year.

The official website also published a photo of Arshavin holding up Inter's scarf after passing his personal medical examination.

On the official website, a small video was also played, in which the Russians said in stumbling Italian: I love Inter Milan!

This is obviously a very pleasing move for the fans.

"This Russian international is very much favored by Coach Leon, this is the player named by Coach Leon, in Russia, Andrei Arshavin is nicknamed 'Tsar', from this nickname can also show his name and strength in Russia, welcome: 'Tsar'!" - Inter Milan's official website sent a welcome speech.

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Inter Milan's transfer deal to bring in Arshavin has been relatively hidden, even in Russia, when Arshavin made his departure announcement, even the Russian media did not link Arshavin with Serie A giants Inter Milan, because there has never been any news about Inter Milan taking a fancy to Arshavin before.

On the contrary, there are media suspects that the future of Arshavin is linked to the Premier League giants Arsenal, and it has been reported that Arsenal's French coach Arsene Wenger is interested in Arshavin, and the Russian media are very excited about this, if Arshavin can join Arsenal, he will also be called the only Russian international who currently plays for European giants.

Now, it was the Serie A giants Inter Milan who suddenly broke out to sign Arshavin, and the Russian media was boiling, praising the transfer and sending blessings to Arshavin.

And the news that circulated was that Coach Li Ang named Arshavin by name, which also made the Russian media and fans very excited.

"St. Petersburg Red Star" even bluntly said that the favor of the world-famous coach Li Ang is a recognition of Arshavin and Russian football!

Many Chinese reporters who followed the news of Inter Milan, as well as some Chinese in Russia, were full of emotion when they saw such words from the Russian side, and then they were honored and proud.

With Li Ang, the overall image and status of Chinese football seem to have become different.

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The Russian side was cheering, and the Italian media reacted differently.

Both Roma Sport and Torino Sport are questioning the transfer deal, arguing that Inter Milan spent nine million euros to bring in such an 'older youngster' as a risky move.

"Andrei Arshavin is 26 years old, he has never played in a team outside the Russian league, Russian players have always been not very good in playing abroad, it is said that this is the player named by Leon, it is difficult to understand what this Russian has attracted Leon's attention, we will wait and see what the Russian's prospects for Inter Milan are......" - Roma Sport.

If Roma Sport is just questioning, the Turin media is going a little too far.

Andrei Arshavin?

Who is he?!

The newspaper Torino Sport even used such words.

This media really doesn't know who Arshavin is? Of course not!

Andrei Arshavin may not be well-known in the major European leagues, but he is a Russian international, how could Torino Sport not know.

This media only used this way to satirize and question Leon's recruitment, considering the grievances between Leon and the people of Turino, Arshavin was so suspicious, which is equivalent to being 'implicated' by Leon.

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Torino Sport is Leon's number one enemy in the Italian media, and black Leon is their daily job, although it is difficult for them to find opportunities and reasons to criticize Leon.

Leon only fights with "Torino Sport" when he is really bored (idle egg - pain), and usually doesn't like to deal with this media.

However, now that Torino Sport is directly attacking his players, Leon can't bear it.

"The people of Turin said they hadn't heard of Arshavin's name?tsk, I can only say that this is a closed country for losing and losing, and not asking about the world?"

"Someone once asked me what my usual hobbies were, and I said that I have a wide range of hobbies, and he said, "Say a favorite, I thought about it, and my favorite thing is the most, it must be 'eat, sleep, beat Juventus!'"

The combat effectiveness of Leon who turned on the 'calf guard' mode is amazing, he didn't mention Arshavin too much, let alone how good Arshavin's performance would be, which will only bring more attention and pressure to the player himself.

The Juventus were furious.

It's the Torino Sport newspaper that is doing it, and it's about us?! They feel that they have suffered an unjustified disaster.

Leon shrugged at this, "Torino Sport" is the mouthpiece of Juventus, who told you to have a good relationship.

For Leon to scold Juventus so much, Inter Milan fans are very happy, for Inter Milanese, fighting with Juventus, this is politically correct, there is nothing wrong.

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After signing with the team, Arshavin made his debut at the Pinenati base.

Inter Milan captain Zanetti welcomed the Russian international on behalf of the team.

After the end of the day's training session, the players of Inter Milan had an initial understanding of this new Russian teammate, although the cooperation with his teammates was not tacit, but, in the limited training, Arshavin still showed his good personal ability, especially the foot technique is good, the speed is also good, at least the personal ability is good, in the team training, Arshavin once suddenly changed to cut inward, easily passed Samuel, so that the Argentine star in the back to eat ashes, all the way back, and Arshavin sent a beautiful slash ball, this is a very good open goal, but unfortunately there is a lack of tacit understanding between Aguero and Arshavin, not plugged in time. Although this breakthrough and distribution are not perfect, it also shows that the Russian still has two brushes.

Leon's coaching staff also has a good evaluation of Arshavin, Pablo Banderas had a very general impression of Russian players, and now after watching Arshavin's training, I have to admit that the Russian international, nicknamed 'Tsar', has good strength. He had to express his admiration for Leon's eye for seeing people again.