Chapter 111: Interview

With the end of the May season, clubs in most of Europe, with the exception of the higher Nordics, have completed all their matches for the season, leaving only some of the more complex leagues to play some play-offs. Castilla only have two games left to play after beating the Vukang University football team, on June 5 and 9 respectively, they will face Reus for the championship of this season's La B B, but this is a false name and does not count towards the team's trophy because it has no trophy at all.

As for the opponent Reus, Li Mudi and his players said that they had prepared various "small notes" for the opponent for a long time. Both teams have basically determined the situation of promotion after the first leg of the semi-finals, so they have made a lot of preparations for each other as imaginary opponents early, and in this regard, the coach of Castile, who has no dead end information in the FM system, will naturally have an incomparable absolute advantage, and have two weeks to study this team, what else can not be taken!

In addition, this Catalan team also has its own "aura of hatred", not only is it not far from Barcelona, but also has a number of players who have been eliminated from La Masia, I believe that the lads of Castilla will never miss the opportunity to perform well in front of the "pseudo-mortal enemy".

Just when Xiao Li was very leisurely leading the team to prepare for the last two games, his agent Gines suddenly called, Mr. Urbano Cairo, the president of the Torino Football Club, had officially invited him, hoping that the current coach of Castilla could go to Rome on June 1, and Mr. President wanted to have a personal communication with him about the future development of the team, so he should pay attention to confidentiality.

Li Mudi, who heard the news, was a little surprised, Ventura has not expressed any intention of leaving at present! In his previous life, his contract with Torino did not expire this summer, but was automatically terminated because the Italian Football Federation wanted him to take over the national team. But now that the European Championship has not started, and Conte is still in place, it means that the old foxes should not have hooked up with the national team, so what does Urbano Cairo mean by being in such a hurry to interview himself? Could it be that something is going on inside the club?

His question was answered at a later date by Valentino Cairo, who had just toppled a mountain above his head. The latter's father was criticized for the "transfer of black gold", and he was in an extremely bad mood, and whenever he thought that his club would lose a lot of money every year because of these moths, and further seriously affected the team's results, his heart felt like it was dripping blood. And the mastermind turned out to be his most trusted "Fa Xiao", which made him feel deep anger and hatred, and when he saw the infallible evidence from his son's hands, he almost sent someone to kill Peppa alive. However, in the end, it was still due to the friendship of the older generation, so that the other party took the initiative to leave the club with dignity, but the anger that had nowhere to vent was getting deeper and deeper, and under the intentional or unintentional provocation of Valentino, he transferred this hatred to Ventura, who said that "although there is no evidence, but logically analyzed, he must have been involved in those transfer events", and even made a direct decision to terminate the contract with him. It's just that Li Mudi swore that the old fox would definitely take the initiative to leave this summer, so Valentino stopped his father's decision in anger, since he would leave by himself, there was no need to pay another liquidated damages.

However, the departure of the old fox, who has been in charge of the team for five years, is already a certainty, so the new coach next season has naturally become the top priority of the current club management, just when Mihajlovic's name appeared in the chairman's mind, Valentino Cairo introduced his father to Genes Carvajal, who took Urbano Cairo to meet the deputy director of the Celestial Empire, and got in touch with that ancient and mysterious country that is now in the spotlight of the world.

Although the senior official of the Celestial Empire did not give any promises, but simply introduced that there are a number of Celestial Empire companies that want to come to Italy to seek business partners, and the market of the Celestial Empire also welcomes foreign high-quality enterprises to invest, but when Gines made all kinds of hints on the side, the veteran businessman with a net worth of hundreds of millions of euros still understood an amazing meaning: as long as he agreed that although the coaching ability is not very strong, but the famous Celestial Empire head coach is in charge of Turin, Then the benefits will be great! This immediately made Urbano Cairo's heart move.

In essence, the current president of the Torino club is not a pure fan, and in this respect he is far worse than his second son, Valentino Cairo, who seems to have a more businessman factor and a strong interest in him. It wasn't just because he really loved the team when Torino went bankrupt and was about to follow in the footsteps of teams such as Fiorentina and Parma, and was almost delisted. Born in the 50s, not too far from the city of Turin, Marcio was naturally attracted to two of Italy's most famous teams at the time, but his relationship with the Rossoneri was no less unusual in the 80s as secretary to AC Milan president and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. After that, he gave up politics and business, and he still attached great importance to economic interests, and being able to take over the club when Turin went bankrupt, zero cost was also a key factor to a certain extent.

Cairo Pubblicità, which he founded in Milan in 1995, has become the top media group in the Apennine Peninsula in just two years of development through cross-holding and cross-control. In 97, the company established the Cairo Communication Group, after successively merging and controlling a number of traditional publishing institutions, he made a fortune in the field of television broadcasting, and after taking the La7 channel from the Italian communication group, it became one of the top media giants in Italy. Those who are familiar with the history of football may be able to find that his family history is exactly the same as that of his previous boss, the now discredited Silvio Berlusconi, except that the former does not have the desire and ability to make a big difference in politics. And Lao Bei should still have a lot of feelings for AC Milan in his heart, but the chairman gives people the feeling that he is using the Torino club to expand his popularity and influence for commercial development.

In the 08-09 season, when Torino were relegated to the second division, fans expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the club's hierarchy, and the team's poor record in the first half of the first season of Serie B brought the relationship between the two sides to an all-time freezing point. In February 2010, Urbano Cairo revealed to the media that he was ready to sell the team because of the protests of the fans and would resign as the president of the club. After taking over the team for five years and only investing 30 million euros in it, is there still such a strong chairman in this world? In short, this person is a natural businessman, and as long as he can make a profit, then all transactions can be negotiated.

After being tempted by a business opportunity from the Celestial Empire, Urbano Cairo asked his other think-tank, Antonio Comey, about Li Mudi, and decisively agreed to his son's proposal to include the Castilla coach in the team's list of candidates for the new manager.

The reason why he is in such a hurry to arrange a meeting with Li Mudi is because he has just received from the "related unit" that the final negotiations for AC Milan's acquisition by Celestial Empire Enterprises have been basically completed, and the payment process will be executed soon, and the invitation to the press conference on the transfer of Inter Milan, another traditional giant in Milan City, has been sent to his TV station, and the holding of the Nerazzurri by Celestial Suning Group will be completed in a few days. These two top giants in world football will be deeply branded with the Celestial Empire from now on, and you can imagine how strongly they will be supported in that eastern country, and then he may only be left with some leftovers. So Urbano Cairo, who has always been decisive in the mall, decided to meet Li Mudi immediately, and at the same time thought in his heart, as long as this person is not too bad, let him work for a season, and get those benefits first.

The meeting was a bit rushed, but it was easy for Li Mudi, who had an idea of coaching Torino more than a month ago, to study the club through the FM system up and down, and his starting point was also in line with the other party's focus, that is, how to trade small investment for big improvements.

It was a consensual decision to set the venue in Rome rather than Turin, and before everything was decided, Urbano Cairo did not want to be found to be in contact with a manager with such modest qualifications, which would make his supporters who have not always supported him very much feel more and more unreliable; Gines, on the other hand, does not want to be informed that their manager has been contacted by Castilla before the season has been played, which will inevitably upset some at Real Madrid.

Since it can barely be regarded as "Lang has a concubine intention", the two protagonists naturally did enough homework beforehand, and the Castilian coach was not surprised to see the media tycoon who looked like the British movie star Liam Neeson, and the other party did not show any unusual expressions when he saw such a young manager, and they all started with small talk after greeting each other with a smile on their faces. However, the topic was quickly turned on track by the "interviewer", after all, his mentality at this time was more urgent.

"Coach Li's coaching achievements in the Real Madrid reserve team are indeed very dazzling, as far as I know, the record you have led the team should be difficult to break in one or two decades, congratulations!"

'Thank you, but I owe it to the whole team, the two presidents, the first-team coach Zizou and my colleagues from Castilla have supported me with all their hearts, and the lads have been very cooperative with my training requirements and tactical play, which is why I have played so well this season.

"It's true that the success of a club is inseparable from the joint efforts of all the staff, but Coach Lee's talent cannot be concealed. My second son admires your coaching ability, especially when it comes to training young players in the world, so I would like to take the liberty of asking you what you think of the lads in Turin and whether they can win back the glory of the past for the club. When he said this, Urbano Cairo's attitude was still very sincere.

After thinking for a while, Li Mudi slowly replied: "With all due respect, from my simple understanding, it seems that the proportion of players in your team's huge U20 and U18 echelons who can gain a foothold in the first team in the future is very small, and considering the cost paid to maintain these players, the cost performance is a little low. ”

Although the chairman of the "......" Torino is very stingy in terms of transfer fees and wages, he still attaches great importance to his own youth training, and before the intention to sell the team, a quarter of the funds he invested in the team were used in this aspect, and in the following years he has continued to do a lot of work to improve the youth training facilities. But here, he was questioned by a hairy boy who was almost half his age, and his unhappy mood can be imagined, so after relieving himself, he still stabbed the other party angrily: "Oh? So there are a lot of talented players on Real Madrid's side? ”

There was some doubt in the lines that those talented players accounted for a large part of the credit for the other party's achievements, but he didn't expect that this Celestial Empire, who was very prone to fierce resistance to contempt and provocation in the information he had received before, still sat there calmly and took a sip of coffee, and then replied lightly: "If I say that when I took over that Castile team last summer, the players in the team were not better than the current Turin!" After seeing the president of Torino on the other side with a somewhat incredulous expression, he continued to smile and explained: "It's true, except for about three or four players, the rest of the players are difficult to gain a foothold in La Liga in terms of potential, and there are probably only one or two who can play as substitutes in the Real Madrid first team, and they have to be like Guti who was willing not to get a guarantee of playing time." If you have a very detailed source of information, you should be able to inquire, I suggested to the top management to bring in a number of talented young talents such as Mbappe, Kuchi, Zhivkovic, Mele, etc., among which the Frenchman definitely has the potential to become a superstar, maybe he will have a big explosion next season. ”