Di Francisco and his coaching staff did develop a set of targeted physical training plans for Gao Zheng, and following this training plan, Gao Zheng could also feel that his physical fitness was much better than before.

However, his strength grew very slowly, and it was not as good as his physical strength.

Because the strength and conditioning coach told him that if he gains muscle quickly, it will affect his body coordination and flexibility, resulting in a significant decline in his ball control and technique. But this is precisely his advantage, so in order to increase his physical confrontation ability, he reduced his ability to control the ball, Gao Zheng was unwilling, and the coach was unwilling.

"If the other party's collision is too strong, just hide." The coach advised.

Gao Zheng was surprised: "Is this okay?" ”

The coach glared and said, "If you don't want to get hurt, why don't you hide?" ”

"But didn't I lose possession if I dodged?" Gao Zheng asked rhetorically.

"Losing possession or getting injured, which do you choose?"

Gao Zheng pondered for a while and said, "I don't want to choose any of them." ”

The physical trainer brought by Francisco smiled, thinking why this player was so naïve, and he shook his head: "How can there be such a good thing as the best of both worlds?" ”

"If the opponent fouls me, wouldn't it be possible to not get hurt and not lose possession?" Gao Zheng asked rhetorically.

"How can you not get hurt when you get fouled?"

"I dodged it." Gao Zheng said.

"How can you foul the other party if you dodge it?"

"Just because you dodge doesn't mean the other side doesn't foul, coach. The opponent shoveled me from the side behind, I jumped up to avoid the most dangerous one, but I still lost my balance and fell to the ground, is this considered a foul by the opponent? ”

The physical trainer thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Count." ”

Gao Zheng smiled: "Isn't that it?" ”

The physical trainer looked at Gao Zheng's smile and always felt that something was wrong......

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Di Francisco talks a lot, but he's right.

Despite the promotion achievements, the club has not invested much in the transfer market this summer.

They are looking to buy out Pelle, who has performed well since his loan loan last season, especially in the final moments of the league, and his tacit understanding with Gao Zheng has also impressed Sampdoria FC.

Pelle himself has expressed his willingness to return to Sampdoria.

However, the two clubs could not agree on Pelle's transfer fee.

Parma asked for five million euros, a money that Sampdoria could not afford to take.

Eventually, the negotiations broke down.

So Sampdoria planned to loan Pelle, but Parma were not happy to loan Pelle to Sampdoria again.

For this matter, Pelle also made a special call to Gao Zheng and apologized to him, and the promise he had made before could not be fulfilled now.

He also wants to continue playing with Gao Zheng, but he has no choice but to find another way out now.

“…… My agent told me that Parma were going to continue on loan, that Feyenoord were interested in me and that I might have to return to the Netherlands......"

Pelle used to play at AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands, but it wasn't as successful.

Gao Zheng is also very helpless about this kind of thing, everyone eats in this industry, but many things are involuntarily, especially those players who are not top-notch, they often go wherever they can play, and it is difficult to have a long-term career plan.

After Sampdoria's pursuit of Pelle failed, the only strikers that the first team could use were Gao Zheng, Icardi and Pozzi, which was obviously not enough.

Piovacari, the original parallel trade, has been loaned out – Sampdoria are keen to sell him, but no team is willing to take over.

Bertani, who did well last season, was sentenced to prison for being involved in a match-fixing case that spread across Italy, with many famous players and coaches under investigation, such as Lazio vice-captain Mauri, Italy international Crisitto, and even Juventus coach Antonio Conte's home was searched.

There are also strikers who clearly don't meet the team's requirements and are either out on loan or on transfer.

After failing to buy Pelle, Sampdoria had to spend 3.5 million euros to buy striker Eder Sittadine Martins from Cesena.

But there are only four strikers available, which is still not enough.

So Simeone Zaza, who was going to be loaned out, was retained, and head coach Di Francesco specifically talked to Zaza, saying that in his plan, although he could not promise the main start, he would definitely get the opportunity to play.

Zaza almost got used to the wandering life of constantly changing teams every year, but he didn't expect to stay this season.

However, he is quite happy to stay in the Sampdoria first team and play in Serie A.

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In addition to the striker, Sampdoria also need reinforcements in other positions, but Sampdoria's signings can tell how their financial situation is.

After buying Eder for €3.5 million, they spent another €2.5 million on loan from Catania to bring in Argentine centre-forward Maxi López, who played for AC Milan for half a season last season.

The club then bought Cluj's defensive midfielder Renan for three million euros.

Renan's arrival means that Palombo's living space is further compressed, and he has to leave if he doesn't go, and if he doesn't, he will definitely not be able to play.

In order to be able to play, he has to leave the team, either on a transfer or on loan. Sampdoria certainly wanted him to move away, but Palombo's salary limited his whereabouts.

In the end, Sampdoria and Inter Milan reached an agreement, and Palombo was loaned to Inter Milan for a season, after which Inter Milan were eligible for a buy-out.

Palombo went to Inter Milan, while another midfielder, Andre Poli, who spent last season on loan at Inter Milan, was dropped by Inter Milan and returned to Sampdoria. He was in a similar situation to Palombo, who was on loan last season and had a buy-out option at the end of the loan, and Inter Milan promised Poli in the middle of the season that they would buy him out at the end of the season and let him stay in Meazza. In the end, Inter Milan did not deliver on such a promise, and Poli had to return to Sampdoria. He himself didn't expect to return to Sampdoria, even the Genoa house was rented out, and now he had to find it again...... It's also depressing.

The rest of the signings are basically on loan or free transfers.

For example, right-back Lorenzo de Silvestri was loaned from Fiorentina for a loan fee of 250,000 yuan.

On loan from Malaga......

There are many more operations like this, and Sampdoria only spent more than 13 million euros on 12 new signings in the transfer market over the summer, not counting those who have been transferred from the reserve team to the first team.

Combined with the players who were already in the first team squad, the first team is very large now, but it is certainly not everyone who will be registered in the end, and some will be eliminated in the process.

It's professional football, and competition doesn't just come from your enemies, it's also from your teammates.

However, even Wang Yixing is not worried about Gao Zheng's status in Sampdoria at all.

After last season's outstanding performance, I'm afraid no one will think that Gao Zheng's status in this team will be a problem......

In fact, it is also the same, not long after the end of physical training, everyone can see from the tactical training - Gao Zheng has a faint intention to become the offensive core of this team.

There may be some players who have just transferred and come to this team on loan to be puzzled by the manager's decision, but after training with Gao Zheng for a period of time and playing warm-up games, all such doubts have disappeared.

Although there are some players in the Sampdoria team who have become famous at a young age or have been famous for a long time, they can all see that Gao Zheng is different from them.

In this regard, the owner of the "Sailor's House" Borata was very happy, and when Gao Zheng came to buy Forcacha again, he said to him: "It seems that the head coach this time is still a little level!" ”

Gao Zheng was confused and didn't understand why the fat boss said this.

"I know that you will be the core!"

Gao Zheng's confusion changed to sweat......