In the first warm-up game against Renate, the new head coach did not arrange too many tactics before the game, but simply used more wings, mainly playing the wingers inside and the two wingbacks inserting crosses in the back row, after all, many players are new recruits, and they can't complete too complicated cooperation with each other. However, he really didn't expect before the game that the team would only win by two goals against an Italian third-tier team, and it was really embarrassing when the opponent had two absolute main players who did not play.

In addition to the biggest problem of teamwork, the combination of the two players in the middle of the midfield is also not ideal. Ghanaian Akwa is more of a ball-grabbing machine, with amazing endurance and a large field area, but he has obvious weaknesses in header scrambling and passing, and sometimes he can't find the first offensive opportunity in time after grabbing the ball, and can only pass the ball to the players next to him or behind him, just like a strengthened version of Li Tie at his peak. And Benasi, who is only 21 years old but already has more than 80 Serie A league experience, as mentioned earlier, is very comprehensive, steals, marking, passing, technology, every ability is above the passing line, but none of them have an absolute advantage far beyond others, although the passing ability has reached 15, and theoretically it will be strong when he grows to his peak, but his imagination is only 11, that is, his decent passing will be very accurate, but it is difficult to send a genius hit, This is crippled in Serie A, where the defensive intensity is extraordinary.

So theoretically, for the current team's formation without a midfielder, Barceli, who has both passing ability and imagination of 16, would be the ideal choice for the core of the team, but the 24-year-old Italian player is very anxious in defense and can only play with Aceva. However, this will have to put Benasi, who has the potential to be the first in the team (only so far, of course), on the bench, which is difficult for both the player who is in the midst of a period of rapid growth and for Li Moodi, who is very optimistic about him, and the new coach of Torino is counting on the future to train him, Basel and Red Babe to become the main force of the Italian national team. However, if these two Italian midfielders are allowed to start together, the midfield defense will be completely unwatchable, and the three central defenders behind them will need to be able to fill in for them at any time. And the most critical problem is that Torino's existing defense is not much better than that, not to say that it is papery, and even Vallejo, the brightest in the future, has the weakness of failing to compete for headers, let alone expect the aging Moretti and Kastan, who has just recovered from a serious illness and is deficient in bounce and speed, to be possessed by gods. If Li Muddy wants to strengthen the team's organizational ability and force Benassi and Basel to play together, then in the central defender and goalkeeper positions, he needs to bring in players who can at least reach the world's first-class level, and then he has to sigh in his heart: If only Glick hadn't left, alas!

In addition, Avilar on the left side is not a player who is very suitable for the team's new tactical requirements, he is quite qualified in the technical link, dribbling, crossing, tackles and marking are also okay, speed and explosiveness have both reached 15, which is considered to be a very good comprehensive ability. However, 12's off-ball running and 13's stamina are not up to the tactical requirement of dominating the entire left flank, which requires him to run all over the pitch, coming back with the centre-backs and attacking with the front-backs. The poor ability to run without the ball means that he will miss some opportunities at the same time, and he will not be able to run to the right position at some times, resulting in a waste of physical strength, and it is precisely because his physical fitness is very poor, and he is not able to play the whole game, so it is even better to be able to hold on to 60 minutes per game, which is equivalent to Li Mudi to reserve a substitution quota for him on the field, which is too nonsense!

The other left-back in the squad is former Italian international Molinaro, who is about to turn 33 and is one of the few Salernitana Academy graduates who has played for both Torino and Juventus. The old Molinaro, like Moretti and Vives, can be called a model of old and strong, with a stamina value of up to 17 and a strength of 15, which shows that he is very strict with his requirements, coupled with the teamwork and work dedication of Double 16, the speed and explosiveness of Double 14, which really makes a lot of little fresh meat ashamed. However, after all, it has come to the decline period of the player's career, and the markers and tackles that used to rely on survival are no longer as brave as they used to be, and dribbling and crosses are even worse, unable to achieve both offense and defense. Being able to stay and use his experience to coach the young players and go up when the team needs to rotate is the positioning given to him by the new manager, and as for the main position, it depends on whether Avilar can compete or not.

Because the above two left wing-backs have their own flaws, and there have been few excellent left-backs in world football in the past decade, Li Mudi suggested that Valentino Cairo reject Chejewo's loan offer for the 21-year-old Italian youth team youngster Barreca, and the team's new head coach still has great expectations for the Torino academy player with a potential of 148. At present, the ability to cross 15, the passing and explosiveness of 14 are all remarkable, if you can adjust it well, and do some strengthening in defense and running, it is also a lot of hope to be able to enter the senior national team in the future. So on the plane back to Turin from Renate, Li Mudi pulled Barreca and Molinaro together, and used the unique apprenticeship mode of FM games to make the youngster become a disciple of the latter, and follow the opponent to learn experience-related abilities such as anticipation, concentration and defensive positioning, hoping to make great progress in a few months.

As for the recruitment of central defenders, Li Mudi really felt that something was so difficult for the first time since he played crossing, and it was simply a feeling of helplessness. Good players are generally not easily sold by the original team; The team finally agreed to the deal with the high transfer fee, but the players concerned did not look down on Torino, who had been playing in the middle and back of Serie A before; And those players who are not expensive and whose players are not resistant to joining, and whose strength is not looked down upon by the Turin coach, this is a world-class problem with no answers! The unrelenting Xiao Li submitted an inquiry letter to Palermo central defender Edoardo Goldaniga, who was priced at 2.5 million euros in the FM system, and was replied by the black-hearted Eagles with an astonishing condition of 10 million euros plus 20% of the next sale profit, so angry that Li Muddy scolded Palermo President Zamparini and head coach Diego López in front of Valentino Cairo, and said that he would never trade with each other in the future when he was most emotional, made the prince laugh.

In the current world football, good players and good seedlings with huge potential are monopolized by those giants, and it is difficult for ordinary small teams to find treasures. England and Spain are even better, the former is that every Premier League team is not bad for money and can buy all over the world; The latter is that Barcelona has always attached great importance to its youth training among the top two in the Spanish Super League, and Real Madrid has bought more top stars, which does not pose much threat to the country's excellent resources. But in Germany and Italy, it's completely different, the Bundesliga is completely a game for Bayern Munich alone, only when they occasionally nap, others have the opportunity to do things, and under normal circumstances, they don't have a one-man general. All the excellent players in the German league, unless Bayern doesn't like it, as long as people want to buy it, no team can refuse. Before, Bayer Leverkusen and Dortmund were fatally poached by the opponent at the peak of their ability to threaten Bayern's position, and thus collapsed.

And Italian football now seems to have followed the old path of the Germans, Juventus dominate the world, not only in terms of results, but also in the transfer market they also have a tendency to become absolute giants. Almost all the potential young players on the Apennine Peninsula have either become Juventus people, or have been booked by the old woman, Li Mudi previously searched all the Italian players under the age of 20 and the potential greater than 150 through the scouting tool, and the result is that more than 80% of them belong to the sworn enemies of the same city in Turin, and the group of the world's strongest scouting team equipped by the opponent is indeed worthy of the name! But this is indeed the most tragic thing for Li Mudi, who urgently needs to bring in excellent players, other teams can at least like Juventus to loan some substitutes who can't play for the time being or talents who need to grow, but there is no way for Torino to operate. Although the two teams have produced numerous direct player deals over the course of more than 100 years, the relationship has deteriorated over the last two decades, and there have been few direct conversations. Turin's captain Ogbonna's insistence on switching to rivals has brought the relationship between the rivals to a half-century low, and Turin fans have resisted the possibility of another exchange between the two sides, even if Li Mudi can buy superstars like Buffon and Chiellini for euros, fans will be frantically opposed. Just like Juventus will not directly play Belotti even if they lack strikers, but the "roundabout tactic" of letting other teams buy it first and then win it after a season will not be excluded.

Aside from the old woman who has most of the excellent resources, the remaining small number of good players are distributed among the teams, each of them is the treasure of the town team, how can it be allowed to be pried away by others! Because Italian players rarely have a precedent for success abroad, the future destination of these players is not to be bought by Juventus at the right time, and after playing a good game for a few years, they are let go and drift back and forth in various teams, such as: Baggio, Grosso and others, they were bought by Juventus at the right time, and after playing for a year or two, they found it difficult to integrate into the team and were let go, and they never lived up to the courage of the year, such as: Lerotale, Amaury and others. The Milan duo were able to wrestle with them back then, but now that they are both gone, no one can stop the old woman from dominating the rivers and lakes.

In addition, Serie A implements a "hukou" registration rule similar to the English Premier League, that is, the team must submit a list of 25 players each season, which must include 8 "hukou" (between 15 and 21 years old who have played for Italian clubs for 3 years, regardless of nationality), of which 4 "hukou" must also be club academy training. If there is not enough people in the "Hukou", the corresponding number will be deducted from the list. In other words, a Serie A team can only have a maximum of 17 non-academy players who are at least 21 years old, or 21 non-academy players who are at least 21 years old. To a certain extent, this has limited the introduction of foreign aid. But some people will ask, 17 foreign aid places are not too much? To explain here, the vast majority of those foreign players must be of EU nationality (including Switzerland), and if they are non-EU players, they have to play in the Italian league before, and Serie A only allows each team to bring in a maximum of two non-European players per season from outside Italy.

To give a specific example: after the start of the new season, Torino bought Wu Lei and Zhang Linpeng from the Celestial Empire, so they will not be able to buy any non-European players from overseas until the start of the next season. However, they can buy non-European players who have previously played in all levels of the Italian league, such as Inter's Japanese player Yuto Nagatomo.

But as mentioned before, the good players in Turin in China cannot be bought, and the rules of good players abroad do not allow more to buy, and after Argentine striker Lucas Boyer joined the team on a free transfer from River Plate, Li Mudi has only one last chance left to pan for gold overseas, which also explains why he was furious when he learned of this signing.

In the face of this is almost the only reinforcement that can improve the team's defensive strength, the Torino coach has been difficult to make up his mind, the current good central defenders on the market are indeed scarce resources, each of them is worth a lot of money, and the funds that can be used in their hands are about 30 million euros in addition to other expenses, and they will definitely not be able to buy the top batch of superstars. But if all this barely huge amount of money is thrown on second-rate players, it will be too distressing, and the media will laugh at themselves for spending money indiscriminately, which is still inappropriate! After some ideological struggle, Li decided to wait until August to use the scouting tool again, and try to buy a young player who has the potential to become the mainstay of the team for the next decade, which is at least much more valuable than bringing in a one-off "consumer product" that is in its prime, but will decline in form within two years.

When he woke up this morning, Li Mudi found that his hair had fallen out again, and he couldn't help but lament in his heart: This job is really not something ordinary people can do!