Lazio regained their top spot thanks to Juventus' mistakes, but that doesn't mean they don't have problems.

A team that looks good on the outside is bound to have problems on the inside.

Lazio, who have always won, is ironclad, and in fact it is no exception.

The question is about keeping people and not keeping people.

The results of the winning teams are indeed very good, but there is more to it than that. Money is very important for professional footballers.

There are a couple of players in the squad who don't plan to renew their contracts because their salaries don't meet their requirements, which gives Chang Sheng a bit of a headache - he can't solve this problem, so he has a headache.

Lotito, for his part, refused to budge.

So there was a stalemate.

Riverani and Gianni Keda are two people who want to go, even though they are the main players of the team and despite their excellent performances.

Maybe it's because they're the main players in the team and they're doing so well that they want to go.

Gianni Keida wanted to leave a season ago, and the result was persuaded by the captain of the team at the time, Di Canio, not to abandon the team at this crucial moment. So Gianni Keda accepted the demand for a pay cut and a one-year contract extension with the club.

Now halfway through the year, the club's finances are still tight, and if he wants to stay at the club, he is afraid that he will have to accept the annual salary that has been cut in half.

If it had been before, now with the arrival of regular wins, Lazio's results are good, his performance is also excellent, and there are more and more teams interested in him, Gianni Keda is naturally unwilling to stay in Lazio and get such a salary. He is already thirty-one years old, and at the end of his career, he hopes to earn more pension money, and it is obviously impossible to stay in Lazio like this.

So he wanted to go.

Liverani's situation is similar to that of Gianni Keida, whose contract expires in July 2006.

According to the Boseman Rules, they can actually contact other teams now.

He was approached by a number of teams during the Christmas period.

Liverani has a better money profile than Gianni Keida, and as Italy's first black international, he has no shortage of suitors in Serie A.

Now he is doing well at Lazio, which has attracted him to enough big clubs, considering that he is a free transfer, those big clubs will also give him a big contract and fully meet his requirements in terms of salary.

Who can not be tempted by such temptations?

Liverani has now played 20 league games and is the heart of the team's midfield, with seven goals and five assists, which is a perfect performance.

As a midfielder, it's remarkable to have that statistic.

This is also the confidence and capital that allows him to jump to other big clubs.

Liverani is only 29 years old now, and he is still looking forward to going to a big club in the last glory of his career.

In Lazio, it may be famous at the moment, but unfortunately it can't make money.

Professional players rely on this to make money to support their families, and if they can't make money, they can't do it.

So there's been a lot of news about the departure of Liverani and Gianni Keida this winter break.

Chang Sheng, of course, wants to sign another contract with them and then sell them. Otherwise, he won't get a penny. It's a shame.

However, Liverani and Gianni Kaida are resolutely not to renew their contracts, or to renew their contracts, and raise their salaries.

And it's not a little bit more, but a 50 percent increase than before the salary cut.

Their previous annual salary was between 1.5 million and 2 million, and an increase of 50 percent on top of that would be unaffordable for Lazio's finances.

So don't talk about Lotito, Chang Sheng himself is not willing.

His annual salary of two million is Lazio's top brand, and even he didn't get that much money, and the two players seemed to get more than him?

Stop dreaming!

The two sides could not reach an agreement, and Liverani and Gianni Caida planned not to renew their contracts, and when their contracts expired, they left on a free transfer.

In this case, Lazio will not get a penny.

If it weren't for the small transfer budget at the beginning, it would have been best to sell them all before the start of the season.

It's a pity that at that time, there were not many people who were available for regular wins, and Liverani and Gianni Keda were the main players, and he had to use them.

As a result, after helping the other party to fight up, they kicked Lazio...... Chang Sheng talked to the two players alone, hoping to make them change their minds and stay.

He started with the team's accolades, assuring the players that the team would get the honours as soon as possible.

He then said he was confident that the club would solve the financial problems as soon as possible, and that by that time everyone would be paid a normal amount.

However, Liverani and Gianni Keda did not accept the persuasion of Chang Sheng.

Now that they've made a difference, there's no need to stay at Lazio.

In the past, Lazio was a ship that was about to sink, and now Lazio will not sink for the time being, but who knows what the future holds? Maybe after a season, everything will change...... It's better to get out of here sooner.

Although there is no saying in Italy that "the king does not build a dangerous wall", everyone understands this truth.

Then Chang Sheng hopes that the two of them will not leave the team for free, so that Lazio will not earn a penny, which is a very heavy blow to Lazio, who are in dire need of money.

He wants the two to renew their contracts with the club for two years, and then he promises to send them to a place that they are both satisfied with by July next year.

But this was naturally rejected.

Liverani and Gianni Keda believe that winning is nothing more than a delaying tactic.

Once they sign, they will continue to play for Lazio for the next two years. As for what will happen in July next year, who knows?

They feel that Chang Sheng is doing this as a cheap player who wants to use as much time as possible.

As for Chang Sheng's statement that this can be written into the contract, they can't believe it.

They don't know much about the law, and when the time comes, they really have to go to court, and the Lazio club obviously has more energy than the players themselves.

They don't believe the words of the capitalists.

If you sign it, it's too late to regret it.

So the two of them were very resolute to leave.

Persuasion is ineffective, and there is no way to win often.

What he should be thinking about now is what happens after Liverani and Gianni Keda are gone.

Originally, he didn't want to let Modric play a major role in Serie A so early. So Modric has always been a substitute and has a lot of appearances, but he is not the main core.

Now, Modric has to come up.

After Gianni Qaida is gone, he can't rely on one Melo, and Khedira also has to play the main team.

Now, there are two people missing.

In case of a rainy day, he has to react now, and it will be too late to wait until the summer to buy someone.

Chang Sheng searched in his own mind, and finally locked on Inle.

The best time to buy Inle cheaply is during the winter break this year, and you have to start quickly, if you wait, Inle will go to the Swiss giants Zurich Football Club, and it will be difficult to buy him at that time, because after half a year, Zurich, who has regarded Inle as the absolute main force, will not let him go easily, and after a year and a half, they will have to compete with Udinese.

Changsheng's current transfer strategy is not to compete with anyone, as long as the competition will raise the price, and Lazio simply cannot afford to raise the price.

So the people he buys are players that no one is interested in for the time being.

The same is true of Inle.

At that time, Udinese had no competitors and paid a million euros to buy Inle from Zurich, and if there were competitors, it is not known how far the price would go.

Now, Changsheng is confident that it can be done within 500,000 euros.

But move fast.

At this time, Zurich should have made contact with Aarau, the club that Inle currently plays for.

He is a little late, and the only thing he can rely on is that in the minds of the players, Lazio's fame and strength are greater than Zurich's, and the Italian Football League is more tempting than the Swiss Football Super League...... He hoped to use this to entice Inle to abandon Zurich and choose Lazio.

※※※ Chang Sheng did not go to the matter of buying people, and he did not even let the general manager of the club go, he told Lotito about it, and Lotito went by himself - in order to save human resources, Lotito wears many hats, and the current general manager Demita is in a semi-resignation state, basically nothing.

Lottito does all the club things himself, so you can save costs.

He even bought a plane ticket to Switzerland in economy class, not first class.

But Chang Sheng didn't care how he went, anyway, as long as he came back with Inle.

Lotito has no doubts about his ever-winning vision.

Chang Sheng said that whoever he buys, he will buy whomever he wants, provided that the price is not expensive......

Chang Sheng told him that Inler would be worth up to 300,000 euros, but that he would be worth around 20 million euros in the future.

So Lotito rushed on a flight from Rome, Italy, to Zurich, Switzerland, like a wolf with green eyes.

※※※ The matter of buying people does not need to be always victorious, and Changsheng squeezes the focus of work into competitions and training.

In the second round of the league, Lazio hosted Cagliari and eventually beat their opponents with a score of 0, while Juventus also beat Empoli 2 at home.

The two teams continue to lead the table with the same number of points, with Lazio leading the table for the time being, with goal difference, goals scored and win-loss relationships between them.

In the Coppa Italia in midweek, Lazio, who continued to play on all substitutes, lost 0:0 away to Inter Milan and was eliminated.

But Chang Sheng didn't care at all.

Coppa Italia champions, you can do it whenever you want.

But not now.

Waiver of the Coppa Italia allowed him to be more focused in the league.

Now he is in a fierce competition with Juventus, and he doesn't know if he will still be able to win the league title at the end of the season, but he has no reason to give up now, and he must fight when he should fight until he can't fight anymore.

In the 22nd round of the league, Lazio won 0 away to Treviso, and of course, Juventus also won.

Chang Sheng knows very well how terrifying Juventus have been this season. Let's not talk about whether they were taken care of by the referee, but they are really strong.

In the 2005-2006 season, Juventus won the league title with 91 points, losing just one game in the whole season...... Of course, it wasn't to Lazio, it was away from home: to AC Milan.

Such a strong team is its own opponent, and there is a lot of pressure to win.

But fortunately, his overall mentality is more relaxed.

Because his goal is to finish in the top four in the league and now he is playing extraordinarily. If you can make Juventus a little embarrassed, why not win?

(To be continued)