Chapter 121: The word "service" with a capital letter
In fact, when he used scouting tools in the previous few times, the "tasks" were not very many, so Li Mudi also consciously used the remaining time to search for a large number of powerful staff, but unfortunately, most of the talented people are either too famous and obviously look down on the small temple in Turin, or they have a contract, and they can't dig it up without a lot of money. Therefore, on the list of more than 100 people who have been queried several times, there are not too many people who have the opportunity to "appreciate their faces" and give them a chance to negotiate, and it is difficult to say the probability of success. Of course, there is no shortage of staff in the football circle, as long as the standards are lowered, there will be a large number of people who need to work at home. However, Li Mudi still hopes to be able to choose a partner under the existing conditions, after all, his previous "plus points" are too biased, except for the offensive and tactical aspects, everything else is a mess, and he needs a reliable helper to make up for his weaknesses.
In addition to the leader-head coach, a team needs at least one assistant coach, multiple general coaches, a youth director, more than one goalkeeper coach and a fitness coach, and this is only the standard configuration of the coaching staff. Scouting teams and medical teams also need a lot of staff, and for some big teams that focus on these two aspects, these two departments may have more people than the coaching staff, such as Chelsea's first team scouting as many as 14, not including the role of director of football, chief scout and data analyst who are mainly responsible for transfers. Even if the Torino club can only be regarded as a third- or fourth-grade existence, the staff required by these three departments together needs at least 20 people, and most of them need to be re-searched by the new head coach or relevant senior management, after all, with the departure of the old manager, not many of the original old staff will remain.
Although each of these staff members is very important, the most important of them is the assistant coach candidate, as the first assistant to the coach, he is the actual executor of many specific tasks, coupled with Li Mudi's lazy way of working, so it is necessary to find a partner with a good personality and strong ability. After careful screening, he put Kevin Sumfield's name on the first pick of contact. The 59-year-old Englishman, who turns 57 next month, only started his coaching career in his mid-thirties as an amateur, having held positions as youth coach, assistant coach and first-team assistant coach with eight different English teams, including Southampton and Sheffield Wednesday. In 2014, he was invited by then-new Birmingham City boss Ivot to become his assistant until the end of his contract this summer. This person's work style is very calm and steady, although a little rigid and serious, but he is definitely an excellent "second master". Among the values given by the FM system, his motivation is 17, his judgment and potential are both 16, and the personnel management is 15.
Such a talent naturally needs the big boss to come out in person, not to mention the three visits to the thatched house, at least take the initiative to invite them. However, considering that the other party is still in the contract period and he has not become a regular, he still asked the club to send someone to test it first, and then exert his strength after getting good feedback, so as to save himself from being rejected as soon as he comes to the door, which should be so faceless!
In addition to the most important assistant coach, Li Muddy has also prepared the "top seed" for other positions, such as the youth director Dario Scozzari (Italy), the fitness coach Italian Antonio Gualtieri, and the super scout Derek Langley (Derek Langley), who has just left Manchester United...... Valentino's kid was busy.
At noon the next day, the prince of Turin sent an e-mail that Gualtieri was completely impossible, and the old woman, a sworn enemy, also handed him an olive branch, and only after the invitation of the staff of Turin had been sent. At this stage, unless it is a die-hard Red Bull loyalist, no one will be stupid enough to refuse the offer of Italian overlord Juventus, so let's take a look at the second candidate on the list of Li Mudi, and if you don't act as soon as possible, the good staff will be signed by other big teams.
The bad news is not only this, a Serie B team asked Torino U20 team about the sale price of a player with little potential in the Turin U20 team, and Li Mudi learned about it according to the value given by the FM system, as he did before, and asked Valentino Caiiro to sell at least this figure, which scared the other party away, and a great opportunity to exchange some money was missed. After knowing this result, Li Mudi felt for the first time that the plug-in brought by the crossing was not omnipotent, and his previous success in Castile made him get carried away, thinking that he was already an all-powerful all-round commander. In fact, in the transfer negotiation, he is still too rigid, the value given by the FM system is just a reference price, but according to the different supply and demand relationship, the actual transaction price will fluctuate differently. It's the most basic common sense that a player that the team doesn't need can't sell its own value, but he still thinks about this aspect with the mentality of a football manager and gamer, and he can't be too calculating to lose money, and he can't start from the reality of the situation and lead to the bankruptcy of a transfer deal that would have benefited both parties. After Valentino's careful reminder and his own reflection, he decided to try his best to delegate power in transfer matters in the future, let professionals operate, and only make suggestions when necessary in addition to retaining the right to make decisions, so as to avoid some unnecessary losses and mistakes caused by laymen directing insiders to the greatest extent.
Just when the three of them were pinching the time and preparing to go out to the Oracle Arena to watch the final tie-break of the NBA Finals, Li Mudi's mobile phone rang again, and he took it out to see that it was a text message from the prince of Turin who had just been contacted: Sampdoria has proposed a transfer fee of 2.7 million euros for the veteran striker Quagliarella, who has been on loan to them for half a season, and because this figure triggers the buyout clause in the loan contract, the Torino club must unconditionally agree. This means that the only academy player in the team's current first-team squad will also leave, and Torino will become the only club among the 20 Serie A teams to have a regular squad without players who have been trained by themselves, which is really sad!
Li Mudi, who had predicted this result for a long time, did not have any special emotional fluctuations, after all, this situation had been foreshadowed when the club sold players on a large scale a few years ago, and it was necessary to work harder and unite to complete the previously planned revival plan, so after replying to a text message that encouraged the morale of the other party, he picked up his mobile phone and went to the stadium with his friends to witness the birth of a miracle.
At 18 o'clock local time in Oakland, USA, at 18 o'clock local time, this world-renowned tie-break battle officially started at the home of the defending champion Golden State Warriors. The two sides began to put more effort into defending instead of the previous six games, resulting in scores on both sides being well below the previous average. Dream Green ushered in a big explosion after the slump in the last game, not only did he completely suppress Love's projection on the defensive end, only allowing the opponent to score a pitiful nine points, but also showed his super all-round ability on offense, scoring a game-high 32 points, plus 15 rebounds and nine assists in 41 minutes of playing time. Unfortunately, the Splash Brothers were both in a slump in this game, Curry had 17 points, 5 rebounds and 4 turnovers, while Klay Thompson only scored 14 points. On the Cavaliers' side, Kyrie Irving had 26 points and 6 rebounds, and the 30-year-old had a triple-double of 27 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists, and blocked Iguodala's key layup in the final minute. In the end, the Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors 93-89 on the road, and achieved a shocking comeback from a big score of 1-3, winning the first NBA championship in team history and the first professional sports championship title in Cleveland in 45 years.
Looking at the painful expressions of the home team fans and the crazy celebration of the Cavaliers players in the stadium, Li Mudi didn't wait for a chance to express his feelings about the cruelty brought by sports competition, and was hugged by the two sworn friends who were already crazy, and Qingzi shouted excitedly: "OMG, you are god!" You can guess that! It's incredible! Baozi was much calmer, after all, he had experienced more fantastical events before, but his eyes also showed an extremely excited look. The new "fortune teller", who has been paying attention to the demeanor of the two friends around him, saw this scene and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that his secret has not been discovered for the time being. Baozi, who has witnessed miracles twice in a row, seems to be suspicious, but because he never looks at the network that he thinks is "garbage literature", he has not been able to associate with rebirth and crossing in this direction, and Li Mudi has almost no ability to predict so accurately in the future, so he should be able to conceal the past. And Qingzi is because the previous matter of buying football handicap is related to the reputation of the football coach, and he didn't get the slightest information from the two dead friends, and he only experienced this magical event, plus he didn't have Conan's superpower to solve the case, so there would be no weird ideas. The crisis that Li Mudi may face has once again been successfully resolved under the protection of Lady Luck.
It was already midnight when they came out of the stadium, and the three of them wandered the street that was still lit up for the finale of the finals, and found a bar to celebrate. As a result, it was filled with a large number of desperately lost Warriors fans, shouting and even crying out for tonight's defeat. As soon as they saw this scene, the three of them lost any interest at all, and each of them ordered a glass of soda and drank it all before hurrying out and returning to the hotel. In Baozi's room, they drank mineral water and chatted until they became sleepy and went back to their respective rooms to rest. At noon the next day, Li Mudi came to the airport with his suitcase and took a flight to France to meet his agent. Two hours later, Aoko also embarked on the journey back to China, leaving only Baozi who had been waiting for a few days to collect the gambling prize. As I said before, after this reunion, the next time we meet, I don't know if it will be the Year of the Monkey.
Just after Li Mudi got into the Mercedes-Benz car rented by Gines who came to pick up the airport, he just received a text message on the phone, Quagliarella's transfer to Sampdoria has been confirmed, and the deal will be officially completed as soon as the transfer window opens on July 1, presumably the relevant information has been released on the official websites of the two clubs. In addition, the transfer of Pontus Janssen to Leeds United has also completed the final formalities, and 5.2 million euros will also be remitted to the account in Torino on July 1, these two transactions will bring another 6 million transfer funds to the incoming manager, which is a good gift.
On 21 June, the pair watched the final round of Group D at the Stade de Bordeaux, where Spain and Croatia, who had topped the group in the first two rounds, battled it out for top spot in the group. In contrast to the Matadors, who only need a draw to secure top spot in the group, the Plaid Legion will have to win to avoid stronger opponents in the next knockout rounds, and at least one draw to secure qualification. As a result, this different state of pressure led to the specific performance of the two teams in the game, and the opponents who were already equal in strength, one was desperate, the other was reserved, and the victory after 90 minutes of battle naturally belonged to the more committed side. The defending champions, who were unanimously favored before the game, were finally defeated by a score of 1-2 at the hands of their all-out opponents, unfortunately falling to the second place in the group, missing the roadmap of the semi-finals and even the final, which was previously hailed by the media as the weakest one.
A day later, at the Pierre Moroy Stadium in Lille, in the final round of Group E, the Italian team, which had won both of the previous two games, was defeated by Ireland 1-0, and finally was defeated by Belgium with the same goal difference but fewer goals to seize the top spot in this group. Due to the increase in the number of teams participating in the finals of this European Championship from 16 to 24, and the number of teams entering the knockout round has also increased from 8 to 16, the matchup in the first round of the knockout round is generally the meeting of two teams with clear strengths and weaknesses, and the matchup between the two traditional strong teams in Italy and Spain is naturally the most eye-catching game. Some people even shouted the unso-called slogan of the finals in advance, which made Li Mudi laugh.
The final result also proves that the course of history is not so easily tampered with. After Italy beat the former world football hegemon by two goals, the old coach Bosque announced his resignation; Six days later, the Germans proved their prowess in this area after a thrilling penalty shoot-out, keeping the Azzurri out of the last four. Antonio Conte followed in his footsteps after hand-ending Bosque's international career, resigning as manager and heading to Stamford Bridge to enjoy the Premier League. The Italian Football Federation immediately announced the start of the selection process, and then the news that Ventura was about to take over the reins spread across the continent.
Valentino Cairo, who got the news that night, hurriedly made a video call, and Genes, who was also surprised at that time, had already "broken in", and the two of them praised in their hearts after seeing Li Mudi's calm face: This B can pretend to score full marks, and we are all convinced!