For Milan, once the Olympic Bridge can be successfully introduced, then, undoubtedly, the strength of the team in the new season, especially the backline, has been greatly improved. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, bringing in O'Bridge, too, is Milan's only planned signings this off-season, after all, Milan are not short of good players in other positions.

Just three days later, Milan and Liverpool reached an agreement on the transfer of the Olympic Bridge, and then Milan officially announced that Milan had brought in England defender Olympic Bridge for a transfer fee of 20 million pounds.

In the new season, Oqiao will play for Milan, and his main position in Milan is Carvajal's replacement, of course, if he performs well enough, then he can completely squeeze out Carvajal as Mourinho's first choice. After all, as a manager, the first element of Mourinho's formation is to look at the condition of the players.

For today's transfer market is full of money and hundreds of millions of dollars in transfers, Serie A champion Milan only used 20 million pounds to sign a backup defender, which is indeed unexpected by many people, and at the same time, it has also caused many people to question.

Will Milan fall sharply in the new season and match last season's astonishment? Was Milan's recovery short-lived?

All kinds of doubts are flying, but in this regard, whether it is the Milan players, the head coach Mourinho, or the Milan management, they have not made any perversion, they are just very low-key to prepare for the new season.

Of course, they are full of confidence that not only will they defend the league title in the new season, but they also have another big goal, which is to make another breakthrough in the Champions League and complete the tasks that were not completed last season.

Ten days later, on August 24, 2024 Beijing time, all the Milan players returned to the Milan Melo training base, which was the team's first collective training before the start of the new season.

On the training ground, Chen Long and the others met the team's new recruit Aoqiao, and also saw Wentu who returned from injury, and everyone was joking lightly.

In fact, to a certain extent, this Milan team is very lucky, because as of the current team, there are more than 20 players in the team, and none of them have injuries, which is almost unbelievable in football.

Mourinho looked at the players on the training ground, and he was also in a good mood, for him, a team without injuries is almost a gift from God, such a big advantage, but it makes him full of pride, looking forward to the arrival of the new season.

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"Wentu, congratulations on your return from injury, you know, we are all looking forward to your return, everyone wants to kill you, haha......"

Chen Long and Ventu pulled a big chest bag and said jokingly.

"Haha, I also think of everyone, I really regret missing the scene of the team winning the league championship last season, but, brothers, in the new season, everyone will work together to win another league championship..."

Ventula is also very excited.

However, for the current Ventula, his return is indeed a strength bonus for Milan, but it also faces some problems.

For example, his playing time in the new season, although he was the main force of the team before his injury last season, but after his injury, the young player Rugani, who started in his place, also performed very well and was fully capable of becoming the team's starter.

In particular, Rugani was also selected for the Italian national team in the off-season, and started every game at the European Championship held in Italy, and finally performed well, helping the Italian team to successfully cap the European Championship held on home soil.

It seems that Rugani is now one of the top midfielders in Europe.

Therefore, the problems facing Ventura in the new season are more awkward, and there is no doubt that with Mourinho's personality, he will definitely prefer the younger Rugani.

Of course, this is just speculation, and it is not ruled out that Ventura is in better form and can become Mourinho's first choice again, after all, on the football field, it is a region where miracles can happen at any time.

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Milan, who have been baptized by the championship, are very good in terms of tactical coordination, although it is only pre-match training, but they also show a very good level.

However, Mourinho still found some problems, or very serious ones, and the reason why he said them seriously was because this problem, in the current view, is really nothing, but as the game goes on one game after another, it becomes more and more prominent.

What's the problem?

Naturally, it was the physical strength of some of the team's players.

In the off-season, many players in the Milan squad have national team competitions, such as the European Cup, such as the Olympics.

In the European Championship, Carvajal, Varane, Khedira, Gomez, Sanchez, Rugani, Desiglio and Stegen all participated in the Italian European Championship, and almost all of them were the main players of each national team.

In the Olympic Games, Chen Long, Cai Heng, and Polly also made moves.

For these players, last season's double is already a serious physical exertion, and it is difficult to fully recover after only a month's vacation, so once the new season begins, the physical problem is the most important problem that Mourinho needs to solve at present.

These players who play in the national team are almost two-thirds of Milan's starting lineup, especially the aging backline, and almost all the starting four defenders have participated in the national team competition.

As a result, it is difficult for Milan, who are now injury-free, to ensure that there will be a wide range of injuries at the beginning of the new season, so this is a problem that must be solved as a matter of urgency.

However, the good news is that in the first five rounds of the new season, Milan has not encountered very strong opponents, all of whom are teams in the middle and lower reaches of the league power rankings, which is in favor of Milan.

Mourinho obviously also has a countermeasure, two days before the start of the first round of the new season, Chen Long was told that he did not have to play in the opening game of the new season, and he did not even enter the squad, and the reason given by Mourinho was only two words ~ rotation rest.

In addition to Chen Long, Carvajal at the back was rested, and new signing Aoqiao started the game.

It seems that this is Mourinho's countermeasure, taking advantage of the generally weak opponents in the first few rounds of the league, and seizing the time to rest the players to recover their fitness.

For Mourinho's arrangement, Chen Long naturally has no problems, for his physical condition, Chen Long is very knowledgeable, indeed, this offseason, he almost didn't get any chance to rest, first in Portugal special training, and then with the national Olympic team round, to participate in the Olympic Games, so, he also knows that he should rest for a while now.

In addition, Chen Long also understands that because he is young, he can recover his physical fitness in a short time, and when the time comes, he can completely re-play, so this is one of the reasons why he accepted Mourinho's arrangement. (To be continued.) )