Chapter 18: Mighty Juventus
After a short break, the trip to Italy in Notts County began.
David is also on the plane, because he also wants to go to Juventus to learn from the experience, the success of the giants has the reason to succeed, he only has the grasp of the future, and the construction of the club is only limited to paper.
The plane was flying at high altitude, and if it was those stars with rich experience, they would have already rested in their own accustomed way, but the young people in Notts County were like countrymen who had never seen the world, and the uncontrollable excitement along the way made Loew scratch his head for a while.
It can't be helped, these new players in the first team have either been in the academy or in the lower divisions before, and it is the first time for them to play abroad, and excitement is inevitable.
When he got off the plane, he was already greeted by Juventus staff at the airport, which surprised David.
Juventus don't show pride just because Notts County are a League Two team, on the contrary, in David's view, Juventus are passionate, at least they value this traditional friendship.
After a night's rest in the hotel, the team arranged a normal training session with the ball the next morning, and in the afternoon, the team visited Juventus FC, which was a friendly activity before the warm-up match.
Juventus' infrastructure doesn't seem to be as impressive as it is with Notts County's old training grounds and Meadow Lane, which is also determined by the Italian football environment, which does not have ownership of their own home stadiums.
Before the game, Juventus President Moggi took the time to meet with David, although there were many elements of face engineering, but David didn't care, because he didn't want to have more contact with this conspirator, and he also knew that Moggi was really busy at this time.
Moggi is busy with a summer transfer for Juventus.
This summer, the old lady really made a huge wave in the transfer market, shocking the whole European football world.
The first is to turn out.
Zinedine Zidane, the World Footballer, officially joined Real Madrid from Juventus in Serie A for a transfer fee of up to $64 million, setting a new transfer fee record in world football.
Super goalscorer Inzaghi joined AC Milan for $22.5 million, which is also a win-win deal for all three parties.
In addition, because of the arrival of Buffon, Van der Sar also left Italy to join the Premier League team Fulham, if nothing else, this old and more demonic guy will be brought to Old Trafford in the future to rejuvenate the second spring.
Although there is a huge transfer income, this summer, Juventus's net income in the transfer market is negative, because in terms of buying people, the old woman is also a big deal.
The first is the transfer of Gianluigi Buffon and Thuram from Parma, who are worth a combined $71 million, which has exceeded Zidane's transfer fee.
Nedved and Salas came in from Lazio, and the two spent another $47 million on the old woman.
These big-budget transfers need to be handled by Moggi, and the Juventus president is naturally busy.
Even at the beginning of the warm-up match, Moggi was still not able to attend, but was accompanied by the vice president of Juventus to sit in the box to watch the game.
Because he is a guest at someone else's house, David is not willful, otherwise according to his temperament, he will definitely have to watch the game in the coach's seat, which is enough to taste.
I don't know if it's for the purpose of running in the team, Juventus has sent a full main lineup, and what a valuable experience it is to be able to play against such a luxurious division.
As the game began, David's expression gradually became solemn, as Notts County were suppressed by Juventus in their own half for ten minutes, and there was no room to fight back.
In the previous three games in England, Notts County did not play well because the technical and tactical system has not yet been formed, but in this game, Notts County's passivity is not due to the problem of unformed technical and tactical problems.
The players were too nervous, their technical movements were completely deformed, their feet were slow, and they didn't even dare to take their feet lightly when defending.
There is no way, in the face of Juventus's luxurious squad, these young players will inevitably be burdened with baggage, nervous and panicked, maybe only Hubnell can calm down on the field, because he used to play Juventus twice a season when he was in Serie A.
In the 15th minute of the game, Czech iron man Nedved broke through the middle and made a straight shot, Piero grabbed the ball before Lescott and Westermann and stabbed the Notts County goal, rewriting the score.
Piero didn't look very excited after the goal, just high-fived Nedved to thank him for his pass, and it seemed that the Bianconeri had no interest in an opponent like Notts County at all, and there was no emotion at all when scoring against opponents of this level.
David was very unhappy with the feeling of being slighted, but he couldn't change that reality at this moment, because Notts County are a low-level team that can't be talked about, that's true.
Gritting his teeth, the idea of making Notts County the world's top giant once again filled David's mind, extremely strong.
The expressions of the players on the field were dazed, and there was a sense of powerlessness in their hearts, in front of such a powerful opponent, they seemed to be incomparably small, so small that they could not muster the courage to fight each other.
After the resumption of the game, Juventus slowed down a little and played more casually in the Notts County half, with wonderful combinations showing from time to time, as if they were half-time attacking and defending drills in a normal training session.
At the end of the first half, the score had become 3:0.
In anyone's opinion, this is a perfectly normal scoreline, and it is the gap between the big teams and the lower teams that should really be there.
But David definitely doesn't think so, because his team definitely shouldn't be in the current state.
Although this group of players is still young and not yet mature, you must know that the future achievements of these players will definitely not be inferior to those of these players on the Juventus field, and Notts County really need time.
Unwilling, David clenched his fists as he watched the players go down, and the exposed green tendons on his arms highlighted his restless heart.
The Juventus vice-president next to him seemed to be enjoying a game that had nothing to do with him, and this indifferent attitude made David even more annoyed.
"Sorry for the mistake!" David confessed, hurriedly left the box, and went straight to the locker room.
As he pushed the door in, Loew was angry with the players, criticising the poor first half, and most of the players listened in silence with their heads down, perhaps unhappy with their performance.
"I won't make any substitutions in the second half, if you want to continue to be humiliated on the pitch, then please continue with the first half!" Seeing David come in, Loew also ended his speech, coldly dropped a sentence, left the players in the locker room, and walked out first.
When they passed by David, their eyes met, and they both seemed to understand the meaning contained in each other's eyes.