After midweek, the Champions League round of 16 and the 32 teams that qualified for the knockout stages of the Europa League were all produced, with the exception of the Group of Death, the results were largely expected in advance, with only three Bundesliga teams, Cologne, Berlin Hut and Hoffenheim, all of them exiting in the Europa League.

In particular, Huocun, a team coached by Julian Nagelsmann, the youngest coach in the top five leagues, has fallen into a small slump this year after a very good season last season. Sixth place in the league is not a big regression, but the performance in Europe has been a bit worse, and after six group games, it is disappointing to be at the bottom of the points, especially when the overall quality of this group is not strong. And Hoffenheim's early exit has also made the two youngest managers in Europe's top five leagues who have been looking forward to come to naught, which can be said to be a big pity!

The draw for the knockout rounds of these two tournaments will be held at noon next Monday at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, because the weekend league will still be in full swing, so there will not be too many team managers on the scene, at least Li Mudi will not fly to Switzerland, Torino Club will send director Antonio Comey as a representative to watch the draw process.

Therefore, the members of the team do not need to spend too much time on European competition for the time being, except for silently wishing themselves two words in their hearts and hoping to meet a slightly weaker opponent, and the tricky level of the opponent in the next round of the league does not allow them to have other spare energy to think nonsense. Lazio, who have developed a high-intensity rivalry with the Red Bulls since last season, will sit at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome and wait for the Torino team to challenge them. Combined with another controversial transfer deal this summer, when it was thought that the buyer was losing money on Immobile at a premium, only to prove with a string of goals that the loser was the seller, a new pair of bitter rivals seemed to be on the way.

Putting aside the confrontation with this opponent, Li Mudi, who set a goal for his team to go further and break into the top three in the league before the season, also attaches great importance to this game. Although the Torino team is currently ranked fourth, the performance of the top three in the standings is too buggy, and the record is simply too much for the chasers behind to touch the edge, resulting in the Red Bulls still have no hope of qualifying for the Champions League next season. If you don't want to be pulled away by the leading group early and announce that you can only play in the Europa League for another year, you must try to bite the current points difference, and then wait for the trough that Inter Milan and Juventus may have, so you have to fight for victory in every game, which can be said to be every point.

Compared with Napoli and the Bianconeri, who are still ahead of them in terms of player ability and squad depth, strong opponents like Inter Milan and Roma who are basically the same strength as the Torino team are the most important points to score. This season, Li Mudi believes that it is still too difficult to wrestle with Allegri and Maurizio Sarri, and does not dream of beating them, but he is still somewhat confident that he will overpower the remaining strong teams. However, the previous draw at home to Roma and the defeat away to Fiorentina made him realize that reality and plan are completely different things, so he had to work harder and be patient to prepare for each game and try to achieve his goals.

So in the past two weeks, it has become obvious that the club's staff have been staying at the site for longer and longer, still coming to the canteen early to eat every day, but in the afternoon they will not return to the apartment after training as before, but often work overtime until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and even stay here for two days, this diligent attitude has been praised by everyone.

However, when the Torino coach put all his energy into the sixteenth round of Serie A with Lazio, an unexpected news still disrupted his plans, and the impact was still more serious.

On the evening of Saturday 9th, after watching the first leg of the Italian derby of the season (Juventus was forced to 0-0 at home by Inter Milan), before he had time to sort out the joy in his heart because of the point difference, he received a call from Zheng Xiaoyang, the coach who had already established himself in the team brought an unusual news to his Moodigo and boss.

Just ten minutes ago, Zheng Xiaoyang received a call from China, the other party was the head of a powerful brokerage company in the Celestial Empire, and he was very famous in the domestic football circle. The Turin coach, who originally had no concept of this company, was also speechless and even felt a little incredible after learning about the huge strength that the other party now had under the explanation of his younger brother.

I won't mention the name of this brokerage company, because there are "people on it", so the ability is indeed not small. They control a large number of young domestic players, and those young men with a little potential are like wholesale goods to be gilded in overseas clubs, and then join the national echelon to achieve the purpose of increasing the value of players, or even selling them to domestic clubs at a high price. This alternative "export to domestic sales" model has made countless profits for the company's senior management, and has also given birth to a large number of so-called "young geniuses". But in the face of the bigwigs hiding behind them, everyone can only deliberately pretend to turn a blind eye and let these people act recklessly.

Such a "monster" in domestic football actually took the initiative to find Li Mudi's head, which made the Turin coach, who was unprepared for it before, somewhat surprised, and accompanied by a little worry, for fear that they would be pulled down the quagmire and never recover. Fortunately, Zheng Xiaoyang's subsequent narrative kept up in time and did not make him react too excitedly.

It's quite simple to say, the agency found the coach of the team, basically it is related to the transfer of players, and the other party wants to sell a domestic "genius star" to the Torino team, known as the "Heavenly Dynasty Ronaldo" post-95 striker Wei Shihao.

Li Mudi is still relatively familiar with this name, he has always paid attention to the situation of young players in the Celestial Empire after the crossing, and he has also searched for the ability and potential value of domestic players many times when he can use scouting tools frequently, but he has never gained much. At present, the level of our own players is really embarrassing, the highest potential value of the international players is more than 120 years, and the ability value is generally more than ten points lower, such strength is basically unable to gain a foothold in the top 15 leagues in Europe.

Among the young generation, except for Hou Yongyong, who was purchased by the Turin team (the young man is a Norwegian national, but there is a possibility of returning to the Celestial Empire), the rest of the people really don't have too many bright spots, only a few people such as Shan Huanhuan, Zhang Yuning, Liu Ruofan and so on are barely hopeful, and Lin Liangming also showed signs of "falling" after Li Mudi left Castile. According to the last record before, Wei Shihao's potential value is not the top among the youngsters, only fluctuating between 110-115, but the 87-point ability value is still relatively good, and he is still outstanding in speed and dribbling, and he hopes to become a permanent candidate for the national team after improving some potential.

But even so, the Torino coach couldn't think of why a domestic agency would recommend this player to him, and Zheng Xiaoyang's explanation was very intimate and immediately offered. It turned out that in the just-concluded first round of the 2017 East Asian Cup men's football team, the youngster opened the scoring for the team in his debut for the national team, helping the national football team draw 2-2 with his bitter master Kimchi Country, which can be said to be a goal to become famous.

With the consistent style of the Celestial Empire football circle, coupled with the impetus of this brokerage company behind it, I believe that Wei Shihao will become the new hope of domestic football as soon as possible, and even the savior of the new generation of national football. This also made him and the team behind him begin to burst with confidence, and the result is that he wants to take advantage of the situation to land in the mainstream European league and confirm the status of the first person in domestic football in the future.

After learning the meaning of Zheng Xiaoyang's analysis, Li Mudi immediately opened the personal interface of the player in the FM system in his mind and carefully checked the specific situation. After the previous search, it seems that the ability has increased to a certain extent, but it is still a little insufficient, not to mention the Serie A team to play, even if his current strength is considered to be the main force in the Tianchao team, because every club has a relatively strong foreign striker, who is not a little bit better than him. Just looking at the ability, it is impossible for an Italian team like Torino to introduce players of this level, you must know that the "North Korean Ronaldo" Han Kwang-song, who is 3 years younger than him, now has an ability value of almost 120, Cagliari also loaned him to the Serie B team Perugia to exercise, and Wei Shihao may not be able to enter the rotation lineup in the Serie C team.

Even if the Torino club plans to sign a player over there in order to enhance its influence in the Celestial Empire, it will not choose this "Celestial Dynasty Ronaldo", because Li Mudi has already tested his team Lechon Ish in the Portuguese Liga through the FM system, and the other party actually asked for 3 million euros, which is 20 times the estimated value given by the system and "Transfer Market", which is simply crazy! If it is bought at a low price, there is still a small possibility, but the premium is so much, even if the chairman Urbano Cairo is fooled, his remaining sanity will first cut himself off and become the laughing stock of the whole world.

After casually complaining about two sentences about the transfer fee, it was Zheng Xiaoyang, who was a "jack of all trades in the football world of the Celestial Empire", opened his mouth to solve the confusion of the Torino coach, it turned out that the Portuguese team named Lechon Ish was actually a puppet controlled by the Celestial Empire brokerage company. In the past few years, the gangsters who have earned a lot of income by using the "export to domestic sales" method just mentioned are no longer satisfied with only getting a certain percentage of the brokerage fee, but have taken a fancy to the full transfer fee, so they simply funded the purchase of some small and medium-sized Portuguese clubs with poor economic conditions, and started to hype themselves and finally reap huge benefits.

At the same time, this agency has also maintained a very close cooperative relationship with the youth echelons of the national brand, and during Li Ming's tenure as the head coach of the national youth, a number of players under the company were selected for the national youth team at that time, which caused a lot of controversy on the Internet. It wasn't until with the poor performance of the national youth that after Li Ming got out of class, this past was also sealed in the memory of the Celestial Empire, and no one mentioned it anymore.

It's not just this transfer, almost every major event in Westhowe's short career so far has been related to the agency behind it. When he played for the Luneng Academy before, the performance of the young player attracted a lot of attention, and everyone felt that he would be the rising star of the team, and he would have the opportunity to become the main or even the top player of the Luneng team in the future.

However, no one expected that under the company's arrangement and instigation, Wei Shihao went to Botafogo Club in Brazil for a trial without permission when his contract with Luneng Youth Team had not expired, and even completed the transfer to Boavista of the Portuguese Super League on his own initiative, which made the two sides finally face off in court, and also made him infamous as a traitor. Taking advantage of some loopholes in the domestic terms of player transfers, in the summer of 2014, the Qilu hopeful star went to the European continent for zero money, leaving not a dime or even a word of thanks to the parent team that cultivated him.

A year later, with a record of 292 minutes played, he switched to the Portuguese side Ferense for 150,000 euros. But he still didn't get the basic training opportunities, and throughout the 2016-17 season, Westhowe played just five games for the team, with a total of less than 151 minutes, which was a complete waste of time. So in the summer of 2016, he changed his door and joined the Lechon Ish team, which was controlled by the agency behind him. After getting the record of 20 games and the report card of 2 goals, he was called up by Lippi to the national senior team, and instantly became the hottest new star in football.

However, they are obviously not satisfied with a single transfer fee, and this time they hope to be able to operate players to play in the top European leagues by the way, which is the rhythm of fame and fortune!

Li Mudi naturally couldn't agree to this kind of foolish dream sales, but he was still worried about the other party's power in China and whether it would have a negative impact on him when he returned to China in the future. But fortunately, it was Zheng Xiaoyang's words that rescued him, "People didn't say that they had to join our team, they just asked if there was any possibility, if not, they would sell the players back to China." Brother, I'm afraid you don't know yet, if you can join Turin, you will give us a preferential price code, but if you return to China, without 100 million soft girls, people won't care about it at all, how about it, cow! ”

"......" The Turin coach who had just put his mind at ease heard that 3 million euros was actually a preferential price, and the figure of 100 million, his head was completely unthinkable, what kind of is this! That's how Celestial Empire football messes around and never comes back to life, it's fucked up!