After a happy Christmas, Charlotte and her family left Milan - this time the Monaco royal family came to Milan for a very low-key vacation, so even the local newspapers did not report on it, Dick naturally did not know that the family that had dinner with him several times during this time was the whole of the Monaco royal family, he just listened dizzily as Charlotte introduced him to his family, grandfather, uncle, mother, brother, brother, sister...... It's a good thing the stepfather didn't come along, otherwise Dick would have been even more chaotic.

After Christmas, the winter break is almost over, and on the second day of the new year, Inter Milan began the second half of the season, and the good results in the first half of the season gave all the players a lot of encouragement......

For the second half of the season, Dick has been well prepared, from January to May, five months, Inter Milan has a lot of games to play, if Dick's goal is to move forward on three fronts, then in these five months, Inter Milan has to play 22 league games, seven Italian Cup games and nine League Cup games, a total of 38 games, an average of nearly eight games a month, almost all of them are one game at a time, such a schedule is indeed extremely tight.

But Dick doesn't care about this, he doesn't plan to rotate at the back, even if he rotates, it's just an occasional rotation, and in the frontcourt, he can give full play to the characteristics of his many attackers at hand, and constantly use rotation to strengthen firepower, league-based, cup supplemented, no Champions Cup, to some extent, it also helped Dick's first season a lot.

Inter Milan does not lack strength, but lacks the championship foundation, if this season to play the Champions Cup, with Dick's character, that is to go for the treble, under such pressure, in the first half of the season Inter Milan can have such a good run-in opportunity? Unlikely, you must know that in the first half of the season, Dick's attention was all in the league, whether it was the UEFA Cup or the Italian Cup, it was a place for him to experiment, which brought great benefits to the run-in of the whole team.

In the second half of the season, it's time to exert force!

When the Inter players returned to the training base with the joy of the holiday, they were greeted by a line of medical staff......

"Mr. Comby, I'll leave the rest to you." Dick said to Comby, the head of the medical team beside him.

Komby has been the head of Inter Milan's team doctor for a long time, because there is a lot of time when Inter Milan's players always have a lot of injuries, and it also gives him a nickname of "veterinarian", many fans think that it is his bad treatment that makes Inter Milan's players injured so much, until the year of the 09-10 season when he won the treble, people found out - that season, Mourinho's players were almost overloaded, Mourinho does not need too many rotation players, eleven main players, Two or three proper rotations, one or two super substitutes who can bring about a tactical change, for him, fifteen or six players in a team are enough, but the players have been injured very little that season, thanks to the fact that he has the club install underfloor heating on the training grounds, so that the players will not be injured because of the hard grass in the winter, so that people suddenly realize that the players have always strained a lot in the past, and it is because of the turf......

It's just that after Mourinho left, the so-called success of people and waste of people, Inter Milan's strains began to increase again, which is not only due to training.

So the first thing Dick did when he took charge was to improve the training facilities, and at the same time urge the players to move as much as possible before the start of training to reduce the possibility of injury.

Hearing Dick say this, Comby nodded, there is no training content today, what the players have to do is to undergo a physical examination to see if they have gained weight this holiday......

Inter Milan's medical team originally did not have so many people, this is Dick's application, the club temporarily brought in various sports doctors from Milan to check the players' health - now Inter Milan has a lot of South American players, compared with European players they often seem less disciplined, Dick does not want the extra fat to make their form decline.

When he got the results, Dick frowned.

Everyone else is fine, it's Adriano, the top scorer...... Before the winter break, he weighed 93 kilograms, which is very strong at his height of 1.89 meters, but now? Ninety-five kilograms......

It's not muscle, it's all fat.

Adriano stood anxiously in front of Dick, he also got the results of his physical examination, he had a good time in Brazil during this winter break, so he didn't train much, and he gained two kilograms in less than ten days, which is four catties of meat!

Wright...... You're fucking annoying me......"

Dick cursed: "Boy, in the next few days, you have to increase your training volume, don't regain your previous weight, you want to play for me, understand?" Do you know what your characteristics are? The perfect collection of power, speed, and technique! With two more kilos of fat, your speed will be affected and your strength will be depleted faster! Remember, go do what Robert told me and get back to ninety-three kilograms, and I'm not going to let you play, understand? ”

Adriano nodded obediently, and then ran to Marriner for weight loss training, Dick breathed a sigh of relief - fortunately, this kid can still hold it down now, and Inter Milan now has too many good players in the frontcourt, if Adriano dares to talk to himself at this time, then he really has to put him in the reserve team to calm down - even if it is a king, he has to listen to me, a tyrant!

Adriano started his own weight loss training, but it is easy to increase fat, and it will be very difficult to lose it, not to mention that Adriano is the kind of physique that is easy to gain weight, growing up in the slums, and he can grow so strong without eating any good things, which shows how strong his absorption capacity is, if this is really nonsense...... Dick had a vision of what he would look like when he would weigh one hundred and forty kilograms......

Weight loss is not going too well, but a lot of physical consumption has also made him gradually feel more flexible, although he doesn't seem to be able to catch up with the next round of the league, but Dick has made up his mind, even if it affects the next game, this rule must be set, if the weight is not up to standard, you are not allowed to play, not only for Liwei, but also to give Adriano a vigilance, as long as he still wants to play at Inter Milan, he has to train honestly and maintain his physical condition, Don't think you're strong enough to do whatever you want!

Naturally, the punishment was done within the team and did not leak out of the team, and before the arrival of January 6, Adriano was unable to lose his weight, although he trained hard......

"Lose a kilometre, that's a good situation, keep up the good work, Wright." Dick said this to Adriano, and then read out the starting lineup for this game.

Goalkeeper Toldo, defenders Córdoba, Zanetti, Materazzi, Cannavaro, midfielders Zanetti, Perrotta, Stankovic, Pandev, forwards Toni, Recoba.

The subs are Cesar, Arbeloa, Maggio, Mascherano, Di Natale, Cruz and Martins.

Adriano looked at Dick very innocently, Dick put down the list in his hand, and then shrugged his shoulders at Adriano: "I'm sorry, Wright, I won't let you play until you get back to your previous weight...... Rules are rules. If you want to play quickly, keep trying, you'll lose a kilo in three days, and it won't take long to get back to your previous lean appearance. ”

There was a burst of laughter from the players, and Adriano couldn't say anything more in front of such a straightforward approach, he could only walk to Marrina with a sad face, and then start running laps again under Marriner's command......

However, it is clear that the first half of the season was extremely good, with 15 goals in 16 league games, and Adriano, who scored 10 goals in nine consecutive rounds, did not appear in the starting line-up, and even the substitute list did not have his shadow, which caused many people to be surprised.

In response to such a question, Dick only replied lightly: "Adriano is not in very good physical condition, so he will rest for a while, we have a lot of good forwards, and we can still win enough." ”

Many people are skeptical of Dick's statement, after all, Adriano's fifteen goals in the first half of the season accounted for a full third of the team's goals, as well as five assists, and Inter Milan scored forty-five goals in sixteen league rounds, such a terrifying goal rate is inseparable from Adriano's excellent performance, and his role on the field is even more than these goals and assists, every time he gets the ball, he can attract the attention of two or three opponents, and also pull enough space for other players, Can Inter Milan really score so many goals without Adriano?

With such doubts, Inter Milan went to the away stadium to challenge the "Communist Army" Livorno.

After 90 minutes of play, the results were in - Inter did not score as many goals, but their defence seemed to be much more solid, and Livorno did not have many chances throughout the game, Materazzi did well, not only staring at the opposition centre-forward Lucarelli, but also taking advantage of a corner before the end of the first half to head home the opening goal for Inter, shortly after the start of the second half, Toney received a cross from Recoba wide and headed it into his eleventh league goal of the season. Sealed the win for Inter Milan!

'We don't have one, we have two, so don't think we're going to have a problem without a player...... As things stand, Zanetti is the only one we can't live without, because I can't really find a left-back who I can completely reassure me about, and if Zanetti can be full of work this season, then the title will definitely belong to us. ”

Zanetti, who was with Dick at the press conference, laughed and honestly didn't like to play at left-back, and although he could play well in that position, he could really win the league title he dreamed of...... Then he doesn't mind staying in this position, and if he can fill the black hole on the left side of Inter Milan for nearly a decade, it would be a good choice......