When choosing a suitable replacement for Villarivre, Raul mentioned three names from Real Madrid's academy: Sergio Diaz, a Paraguayan international who currently plays for Valencia, Mayoral who has repeatedly entered and exited the Bernabeu but has never been reused by previous managers, and Elliott Gomez, who has been in amazing form immediately after his loan move to Getafe.

Among the three, except for Diaz, who joined Castilla at the age of 18, the other two were trained in Real Madrid's academy before the age of 14, and they are all inheritors of the white jersey.

And in terms of potential and current ability, they also have an evaluation of around 160, plus the bonus of being familiar with the club and La Liga environment, it is more than enough to return to the Bernabeu as a substitute striker.

But this proposal obviously could not convince Li Mudi to agree, and even Hierro expressed his disapproval, because the ceiling of the three players is not high, and there is no development potential. It is not in line with the team's philosophy that only the best players will be brought in, and it is difficult to expect how they will help the team, but it will repeat the tragedy of having these players on the bench before, which is an unacceptable loss for both sides.

So the three bigwigs quickly reached a consensus to try to bring in a top center forward this winter, because even if Villarivre can return in time as planned, his potential value is only 170 at the highest (Li Mudi got the data from the FM system, and the other two are judged from the actual ability), with his 27-year-old age, there is also little room for improvement, if there is a chance to buy a more dominant striker, The president and director of Real Madrid will not hesitate to choose to make a move.

So when Li Muddy put Manuel Pellegri on the table in today's football, it was only natural that he had no trouble getting enough support from the other two to start the initial contact with the target and the club behind him.

Born in 2001, Pellegri was regarded as a super-talented man at the time, and in 2017-19, he was second only to Mbappe in a series of football games, and deservedly ranked second in the list of rising stars of the future.

And from his development history over the years, those who have been optimistic about him before are indeed worthy of pride, because the common tragedy of injury Zhongyong did not appear in the Italian international, who is still improving year by year.

During his time at his parent club Genoa, the player equalled the record for the youngest player to make an appearance in Serie A at the age of 15, and later set a new record for the youngest player to score in Serie A history. After joining the Red Bulls in the summer of 2017, he successively put a series of titles under his name, such as the youngest player in the league to score two goals and the youngest player to score ten goals in the Champions League.

In the winter of 2019, Pellegri who encountered a development bottleneck in Turin City moved to Ligue 1 powerhouse Monaco with 50 million euros that broke the transfer fee record for players under the age of 18 at that time, ushering in a new period of personal development in a new environment. So far in 2023, the Italian has made 117 appearances for his new club in all competitions, scoring 41 goals and providing 10 assists, which is an impressive list of achievements for his age.

It is precisely because of the sufficiently stable and bright play that in the transfer window last summer, Paris Saint-Germain spent a huge sum of 124 million euros to recruit him and gave Pellegri the status of the main striker.

And after more than a season, wearing the No. 9 shirt in Grand Paris, he did not disappoint the club that invested heavily in it, scoring 27 goals and dishing out 8 assists in 4,007 minutes in 57 games, and an average goal rate of nearly 0.5 per game is already the standard of the world's top strikers.

Judging from the values given by the FM system and scouting tools, on June 30 this year, it showed 186 potential value and 171 current ability, and in the case of the older generation of strikers such as Harry Kane, Lukaku and Icardi due to age, they are already the young players who are most likely to hit the first center forward in terms of overall ability in the next three or four years. Even though the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Marcus Rashford and Timo Werner are more mature and efficient than Manuel Pellegri at the moment, the huge age advantage gives the Italy international a promising future.

In terms of technical characteristics, although the young man's template is considered by the French media to be Polish striker Lewandowski, in Li Mudi's opinion, Harry Kane, the top scorer of the Three Lions over the past many years, is the most appropriate reference, and the two are almost carved out of the same mold in terms of height and body type and playing style.

For example, they are good at shooting, but they are not only responsible for finishing the final blow, they are excellent in passing and awareness, they are good team players, and they can even share part of the playmaker's work if necessary.

In addition, Pellegri's header is also very powerful, which is incomparable to Lewandowski, the young man knows how to use his body advantage in the game, although the power of the top ball is not as great as Kane, but the skill is better, he has completed many headers to score the goal, and has also been selected as one of the top ten goals of the season in Ligue 1 for scoring a goal with a very bizarre arc.

Another reason why he has become one of the most popular players in world football today is that Manuel Pellegri has many brilliant goals, just like the Swedish god Taib in the past, which always surprises everyone, which brings him a lot of commercial added value.

It's just that although Paris Saint-Germain is also recognized as a top team, since they stepped into this class, the bad impression left by people that they rely on the Jinyuan offensive to fight the world has never been removed, which makes this Ligue 1 hegemon still have a lot of distance from the real traditional giants like Huang Saren in the minds of most people.

Because they don't have the same luck as Manchester City, although they all year round dominate the top of their respective domestic league standings and even the championship position, but the global influence of the Premier League is not comparable to the increasingly declining Ligue 1, so even if neither team has won the Champions League before (as of last season, the Blue Moon finally kissed the Big Ears Cup in the 2023-24 season), Manchester City's status in the eyes of the public is at least half a level higher than that of Grand Paris.

So the presence of a Ballon d'Or winner in the Blue Moon squad (Kevin De Bruyne in 2020, and this year's highest individual award in European football can almost lock in a member of this team, who let them win the Champions League just a few months ago, and a number of players in the team have performed well in the German European Championship, and even the top three is very likely), while Paris Saint-Germain cannot bring an extra aura to the players in the team, no matter what kind of dominant performance they play in the domestic league.

When he first joined the Torino team, Pellegri had an in-depth exchange with his mentor, and the young man expressed his wish since childhood with a slightly shy expression, that is, to one day grow into the world's No. 1 striker, like his second idol alien Ronaldo, standing on top of the world. And he also set a preliminary goal for himself, who had just debuted in Serie A at that time, that is, to catch up with the first idol, Genoa star Signori, and become a top scorer in the domestic league, so he did not accept the invitation of some foreign giants and finally chose to join the Red Bulls.

Unfortunately, his initial goal was not achieved. However, after going to France, the young man has been working very hard to give his all in training and games, continuing to catch up with the figure of the Brazilian, and judging from the performance of the 23-year-old age group, although there is still a certain gap from Ronaldo, who was a two-time world footballer at the time, it is not an unreachable distance, and there is still a chance to continue to approach or even equalize.

It's just that Pellegri, who doesn't have much time to waste from his peak at the age of 25 or 6, needs to make a crucial decision now, if he still hasn't given up on the dream of being with him through countless painful or exciting days, then he must seek to join a real big team, because only there can bring him more intense tempering and wider attention, otherwise it is difficult to say where the ceiling of future achievements will be.

The most typical example of this is Neymar, a Brazilian superstar who made people see the hope of breaking the Mero duo in the three years from 2014 to 2016, but switched from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain because of problems such as status and treatment (in the author's opinion, it is too short-sighted). As a result, the absolute core position he wants to obtain is there (in this life, because Mbappe was poached from Real Madrid early, no one in the new club can threaten his position), but the actual performance, especially the prestige of world football, is actually going downhill, you must know that he was born in 1992 at that time should have just entered the age of the best form of his career!

His departure not only extended the reign of Melo and his wife to football for another three or four years, but also greatly damaged Barcelona's strength, otherwise Real Madrid's miracle of winning the Champions League three times in a row would not have been easily achieved.

As for Neymar himself, he also lost the perfect opportunity to attack the world's No. 1 person, even though he won a bunch of trophies in Paris and led the Samba Army to win the Copa America, but his status in football did not rise but fell, and was surpassed by Eden Hazard and De Bruyne and others, and finally fell out of the ranks of the top ten superstars.

Fortunately, he woke up in time and joined Manchester United, which can be regarded as a stage to show his ability to more people again. It's just that when he landed at Old Trafford, he was already 30 years old, and the golden years of the previous five years were wasted, which cannot but be said to be a huge regret. Otherwise, with the Brazilian's form at Camp Nou, it is still possible that he will lead the brightest figure in contemporary football.

However, Neymar's experience is a big warning for young players such as Pellegri, and it is such a classic case that reminds everyone with lofty goals that several big teams will always have an overwhelming advantage in terms of recruitment, making the world's talents have no resistance to the lure of these teams.

So after a period of less than five minutes of chicken soup for the soul "flickering" ended, Li Muddy got the center forward he has always been very optimistic about, and the rest of the work could be handed over to Hierro to complete.

In theory, this is certainly a violation, but no matter how much FIFA and UEFA increase the penalties, there is nothing they can do to prevent the buying team from having private contact with the target, and unless they can spy on everyone's communications, as the United States does, it will be extremely difficult to prove it.

In short, as an excellent manager, the Real Madrid coach will no longer maintain too much focus on this matter after confirming Pellegri's intentions, and his work direction should still be put on leading the team to win one victory after another, which is the most important job as a team manager.

On 24 November, after returning to club action after two weeks of national team assignments, the Real Madrid squad regrouped for less than three days of preparation before heading to the Anoeta Stadium in the Basque Country to take on Real Sociedad away. The latter, under the leadership of the legendary midfielder David Surutusa, who had previously spent 12 seasons with the team and is now the most sought-after young coach in the country, played a pleasing attacking football, and the results were also surprisingly good, temporarily placing seventh in the table, the highest in the same period in five years.

However, the matchup that the Catalan media expected to stop Real Madrid's progress was a big disappointment, and the game was very exciting, but it was the visitors who came out on the side.

Due to the absence of Villarlivre, who will start today as planned, Li Mudi tactically arranged a routine of focusing on ground and fast attack, and the front trident of Mbappe, Rodrygo and Asensio played with amazing power with the assistance of Kutchi as a striker, and continuously beat Real Sociedad's defense to the point of almost collapse through super individual skills and dizzying continuous passes.

In the end, the 3-0 scoreline allowed Real Madrid to prepare for the Champions League group stage in three days' time, while building confidence for the national derby a week from now, with high expectations for the upcoming fixtures.