Chapter 257: Everyday Troubles

In the next few days, I originally wanted to tune in to those little Zhengtai in the training ground. Li Mudi, who taught a lot, finally failed to get what he wanted, because there were too many other things, even if most of them didn't need him, the head coach of the team, to be in charge of specific affairs, but he couldn't be absent at will when he should come forward.

On the afternoon of Saturday 25 March, the press room at the Olympic Stadium in Turin was once again packed to capacity, and the signing ceremony of the club's second sponsors for the season began at 14 o'clock on the same day. Twenty-four well-known companies listed in the latest National 500, including Ping An Insurance, COFCO and CITIC Group, have become partners of Red Bull, and they have won the club's advertising seats and the image rights of the head coach and all the players, while also bringing in more than 50 million euros in funds for the club.

With the addition of this huge amount of money, the Torino club has directly entered the top five in the Serie A sponsorship list this season, which is their best result since the large-scale commercialization of football in the late eighties and nineties. The main reason for attracting so many companies to cooperate with the club is Li Mudi's identity and team leadership.

Although due to aesthetic fatigue and some other factors, the ratings statistics of the last few rounds of the league are not as good as before, the viewership of the games played by the Torino team in the Celestial Empire has gradually dropped to the level of 50 or 60 million, which is almost a discount from the peak. But this data is still proud of the entire domestic live sports program, only the day before yesterday's Tianbao battle can brush up on 124 million such anti-sky ratings, and other games can be watched by 30 million people, even if it is a big hit. Of course, the Olympic Games have the finals in which the Celestial Empire women's volleyball team participates, and the record in this regard is unshakable.

The high ratings prove that the Chinese people pay high attention to this team, and they can exchange a not too expensive expense for good advertising benefits. However, the latter was still very happy to get a lot of transfer funds, so he kept a good mood throughout the signing ceremony, and finally had dinner with these fellows, which was a joy for the guests and hosts.

In the evening, the Torino manager, who had not drunk much, was not given the right to rest after returning to the apartment, and Valentino Caiiro came to him again to confirm the final situation of a signing. The Torino club have basically agreed with Brazil's Sao Paulo that they will pay 4 million euros plus 2 million floating bonuses to bring in 20-year-old Brazilian centre-back Lianco, and once Li Mudi agrees to the deal, the two sides can make an official announcement at any time.

The Torino boss still has a lot of doubts about the player, and through the double confirmation of the FM system and the club's scouting, he knows that the youngster has many suitors behind him, including giants like Juventus, and if he does not hurry up and settle down, he is likely to miss out. Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, he nodded and agreed to the deal. Thanks to the return of Brazilian centre-back Carlo in the winter window, Torino could have two places to bring in non-EU players from overseas next season, one of which was used up before the end of the season.

However, the staff of the marketing department are following up to investigate the player's relatives to see if they can get a household registration book for him, after all, Lianko has a second nationality in Serbia. Considering that Croatia and Slovenia, both of which were previously split from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, are members of the European Union, if you can find evidence that the player is still directly related in those two countries, you can have a sneak in the day.

Just four hours after Li Mudi nodded in agreement to the deal, Di Marzio broke the news on his website in the early hours of Sunday, and he was given almost 100 per cent of the details, raising doubts about whether the Torino club informant was a senior figure. The website reads: "Torino beat Juventus in the transfer market to snatch Brazilian Sao Paulo defender Lianco. Earlier in the news from Brazil, Juventus did not negotiate a replacement plan with Sassuolo (that is, the former mentioned earlier did not want to waste overseas reinforcements to let the latter help), so they gave up the introduction of Lianco, and Atletico Madrid and Wolfsburg also withdrew from the competition due to price issues, which made Torino have the last laugh. It is reported that they will sign a five-year contract with Lianco, who will arrive in Italy next week to train in Turin in preparation for next season. ”

The Brazilian football league schedule does not span the year, starting in mid-May and ending in early December each year, so the players who play in that league are currently in the off-season and can report directly to European teams. However, because the registration period for the league has passed, he still cannot directly participate in the rest of the Serie A league of the season, and can only wait five months later.

However, before this reinforcement could make any splashes on the Internet, it was completely suppressed by a strong news. At noon that day, the website of "Sky Sports" broke the news again that Inter Milan and Roma were interested in bringing in Torino right-back Zampacosta, who had just established himself in the national team. The article states: "The 24-year-old right-back is another outstanding product of Atalanta's academy, having joined the Red Bulls for €4.3 million in the summer of 2015. And after Ventura coached the Italian national team, Zampa Costa got a lot of opportunities, and his market price has also increased a lot. In Italy's win over Albania yesterday, Zampacosta assisted Immobile to score a goal. The journalist also made an estimate of the transfer fee, and he believes that Zampa Costa, whose current contract with Torino expires in 2019, should be worth around 15 million euros at the moment.

As soon as the news broke, it immediately caused a lot of heated discussions in the outside world, and many Torino fans have even begun to speak out to send a petition for the retention of the defender, who has started to make a name for himself this season. After Li Mudi learned of this situation, he immediately contacted Valentino Cairo and asked him to immediately refute the rumors, saying that the club would not let go of the player who had become the main force of the team, which temporarily calmed down the rumors.

But clearly, saying no to this player's suitor is not enough. finally cooled down the transfer rumors of the team's main right-back, but Belotti was still worried about a large group of teams. No, taking advantage of the opportunity of the national team training camp, some media came to the door and asked the Torino striker about whether he would switch to a new club in the summer. He assured the fans that he would continue to play in Turin next season and did not allow journalists to find an opportunity to play on the topic. And the cause of this incident made the Torino coach feel very helpless, because it was not another team that showed favor to the red babe, but Cappello's gun.

At noon on this day, the famous coach who has a lot of status in Italy and even the whole world football revealed the details of why he left Roma in 2004 in an interview with "Milan Sport", but in the end, he didn't know which nerve was wrong, and shifted the topic to the current Italian national team. After commenting on the commanding talents of his old acquaintance Ventura, he turned his attention to the Torino striker, claiming: "He is one of the best goalscorers in Europe, he has a good movement and is very well-rounded, he is very fast, he has a lot of power, and he may even be better than Batistuta in terms of technique." ”

This annoyed Li Mudi, who is a diehard of the god of war, although he also recognized that Belotti's form this season is very good and can be regarded as one of the best in Europe, but there is still a big gap from the legend Barty. The impact of the Argentine is definitely no worse than Belotti, and in terms of shooting, it is even more complete with all the current strikers, coupled with that superhuman fighting spirit, which makes it difficult for latecomers to match. If he can add a prime-time Barty to the current Torino team, then Li Muddy feels that there is hope for a top-three finish, and it will definitely not be so difficult to compete for a Europa League qualification as in reality.

Capello, who coached a late career striker in the two-and-a-half-year period after 2000, may have seen an aging goalscorer whose form had plummeted and his goalscoring prowess suddenly disappeared, but at least in his first season together, Barty helped Roma to their third and so far final league title with his golden 20 Serie A goals. In the decade before that, the entire Serie A league was an era of witnessing the miracle of "BatiGol", and as a famous Serie A coach during this period, Capello would not know what the name Batistuta meant? Therefore, his praise for Belotti is definitely extremely disgusting, which makes the Torino coach have to be vigilant to avoid being clouded by others and not knowing it.

In the evening, another piece of news came from the national team training camp in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, about the red bebe, and the Atalanta striker Petagna, who was selected for the first time in the blue team, also praised the Torino striker in an interview with reporters, saying: "For me, Belotti is ahead of everyone. He's a crazy striker, he's scored a lot of goals and he's proven himself in Turin. I saw that he was very calm on the way to the goal, and he was able to get the ball into the net almost every time he touched it. In the forbidden area, I have to be as ruthless as they are. In second place is Gonzalo Higuain, who is a myth in football. Next up were Icardi and Dzeko, and it was great to see them play and I learned a lot from them. ”

This ranking is obviously the player's family statement, but it has been hyped by the media as a topic of great controversy, netizens have participated in it to express their opinions, and the phenomenon of mutual black spraying has become the norm, so that in the past few days, reporters have begun to gather outside the Torino club's residence, wanting to get a response to the incident from the team's head coach. Li Mudi, who never tires of it, is already going crazy. The good mood of teaching the little Zhengtai has also been ruined.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the big-mouthed chairman Urbano Cairo stood up again and promoted the concept that he believed that Belotti was the No. 1 striker in Italy today, and helped the team attract a lot of firepower, which did not let the Torino coach launch a surge.

Having been cleared for a while, Lee was finally able to focus on training and personal matters, and the young players who joined in the winter window, such as Egerstein Jr., Marchiza and Manuel Pellegrini, were pleasantly surprised by the talent of the young players who joined in the winter window on the training ground.

These young men, who were brought in by the head coach, quickly became the main force after joining the Under-20 youth team, helping the team to rise three places in the youth league in two months, and after being selected to the first team this time, their performances have also been eye-catching many times, and Li Mudi's super vision has finally been recognized by everyone, so that his recruitment plan has not been questioned by others for a long time afterward.

And every night, he has to find time to hold a video conference with Lin Zixu and Lin Yuner in Asia to discuss the signing of the contract. Judging from the feedback received by the company, the situation is not very smooth, and the other party obviously does not want this top Asian idol with high popularity and strong ability to attract money out of his control, and his attitude is very tough. However, it is not completely without good news, Lim Yoona had a profound exchange with the members of Girls' Generation yesterday, and has learned that Tiffany, Choi so-young and Seo Joo-hyun are all considering not renewing their contracts with the company, and this is likely to announce that the only group that won the title of "Empress" in her teenth year has finally fallen apart inevitably.

Because it is very likely to lose the No. 1 female group in Asia, and she doesn't dare to force Lin Yun'er too much, who is the pillar of the platform, so although she has always wanted to complete the contract renewal work with her, she has not reached the level of tearing her face and forcing her to comply, but she still gives a certain amount of respect on the surface. President Kim Young-min was naturally very dissatisfied after learning that she wanted to sign a contract with the brokerage companies of Tianbao and Tianbao at the same time, but at this critical moment, she didn't make any excessive moves, and she still used her feelings and interests for many years to persuade Lin Yuna. He even went to the door to find Father Lin in person, analyzed the benefits of renewing the contract with him, and tried to find another way to achieve his goal.

It's a pity that Lin Yun'er, who has already strengthened her beliefs, is not a person who can be easily shaken, and still sticks to her own proposition: if you don't cooperate, you will break up, and the company will feel that it is out of ground for a while.

On Monday night, Lin Zixu also brought Li Mudi good news, Cambridge Film and Television Company joined the production of the film "Iron Fist of Shame", which is adapted from the play of the same name of Happy Twist. This is Happy Twist's third big screen work, and the previous "Charlotte Troubles" and "Donkey Gets Water" have achieved box office or word-of-mouth success, and this time it naturally attracted everyone's attention again. The reason why Cambridge Film and Television was able to join is actually very simple, that is, the original team wanted the Torino coach to make a cameo in the film in exchange for it. Lin Zixu thought that this was a rare opportunity, so he hurriedly contacted Boss, hoping to reach a cooperation agreement.