Li Mudi's trip back to China this time is still very tightly arranged, throwing out more than 20 hours of round-trip flights, leaving him with almost a full day of time to deal with personal affairs, which can indeed be called a vacation is busier than staying in Europe to coach the team.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Turin manager, who had barely adjusted to the jet lag, came to the Cambridge Film and Television company in Beijing and held an important meeting with several key leaders about the future development of the company. Cambridge Film and Television has risen rapidly in just two years after its establishment under the leadership of CEO Lin Zixu, although the overall strength is still weak, compared with giants like Penguin, Alibaba, Huayi, and Wanda, even people's toes are not comparable, but because of the success of several film and television dramas that have been invested in before, the fame has become a legend in the industry. Coupled with the good connections brought by Lin Zixu and Li Mudi, the company's potential is really amazing to the outside world.

However, after the Torino coach got the stake in the Northern Volcano Springs, he decided to use this hometown team to train his hands, and after accumulating enough experience in management, it is possible to buy a club in Europe, so as to fulfill the dream that he has been dreaming about for many years. Li Mudi, who has no extra energy to devote himself to the film and television company, simply decided to divide part of the shares in his hand, in addition to increasing the voice of the original shareholders, he can also introduce some powerful helpers to the company.

The final result was: Li Mudi's stake was reduced from 50% to 15%, Baozi was reduced from 20% to 15%, Lin Yuner increased to 21%, and the three of them together reached 51%, which can play a decisive role in critical situations; CEO Lin Zixu's shareholding ratio rose to 25%, which is the largest share among shareholders; Of the remaining 24%, Sun Honglei's eldest brother got 4%, he was very optimistic about the development of Cambridge Film and Television, and decided to participate in earning milk powder money for his children; The last 20 percent was eaten by Penguin Films, who had formed a strategic partnership with Cambridge Film and Television after beating out several other giants.

20% of the shares, Boss Ma took out more than 150 million soft girls, stunned Li Mudi, who had just learned the news, after Baozi and Lin Zixu's explanation, he knew that the company he started only to invest in the drama "In the Name of the People" had a market value of nearly 800 million! Cambridge Film and Television is naturally not worth the money, but due to the recent hot box office of "Operation Red Sea" in China, the impression that the company's works are classics has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone is very optimistic about its development prospects, which has raised the share price to this point in the competition between several giants.

Because he is the main shareholder of equity, in proportion, Li Mudi can get more than 100 million yuan, which is double his total investment in two years. However, considering the company's future development needs, he only took 50 million, and the rest of the money was left in the company's account for emergencies.

On Wednesday and Thursday, there were business promotion activities held by various endorsement companies, and when the Turin coach returned to the hotel, his voice was almost speechless, and his legs and stomach showed signs of cramps because he had been standing for too long, which could be said to be very hard. And because the TV series "Celebrating More Than Years" is about to start filming in Duyun Qinhan Film and Television City in early April, Lin Yuner has already gone over to participate in the script discussion in advance, and without his girlfriend by his side, Li Mudi's mood is also a little low.

After finishing all this work in the capital, the Torino coach took a flight back to his hometown in Bingcheng at noon on Friday, and the most important matters of this return are still waiting for him to deal with.

The schedule of the 2018 Tianchao Football League has officially started on March 10 and 11, and last season's second division champion went to the domestic second division as the champion, and the goal of the Northern Xinjiang Volcano Mingquan team in the preparation period is relegation, as for the possibility of promotion, even the most optimistic people will not consider it.

This season, the Tianchao Football Association has made certain changes to the team's registration and player policy, the Tianchao League is mainly for the use of U23, and the Tianjia League is for foreign aid. The new regulations of the latter are: the foreign aid policy that can register three people and three people will be changed to register three people and two people this year. This has led to a great change in the use of foreign aid by the teams in the Tianjia League.

The level of domestic football, everyone knows, is very different from the world's top. Although in recent years, SIPG, Quan Jian, Evergrande, Yifang and other Tianchao tycoons have continued to wave checks to introduce world-famous stars such as Oscar, Hulk, Carrasco, Pato, etc., but judging from the continued sluggish performance of the national team, in fact, the development of Tianchao football is far from as glamorous as shown in the league. And even the clubs with deep pockets, except for Evergrande, the performance of the rest of the clubs in the AFC Champions League also proves that the Tianchao League is not as good as the Chinese people imagined.

As for the next level of the Tianjia League, the gap between it and the Tianchao is a world of difference, not to mention anything else, just looking at the investment data in the transfer market in the past three seasons, there is almost a five- or six-fold gap between the two leagues. According to the data provided by authoritative media such as "Transfer Market", the total value of all players in the two is also seven or eight times different, and the gap between the club's total assets is even greater, but the overall level of the Tianjia League is much lower than that of the second-tier football league, including other Asian countries.

The low level of players means that the dependence on foreign aid is greater, and when the three foreign aid system was implemented before, the Tianjia team generally used a backfield and two frontcourt foreign aid configurations, and foreigners were the core at both ends of the offense and defense, but more attention was paid to the former. This method is also the most common among Tianchao, which directly leads to the fact that China has never been able to cultivate a good striker at the intercontinental level like Hao Dong and an excellent defensive core like Fan Zhiyi, and even players of Li Jinyu and Li Weifeng have not been seen for many years.

The purpose of mentioning this situation here is not to criticize the clubs' quick success, but to show how the change in the Football Association's policy will affect the teams in the First Division.

Since winning the second division championship at the end of last year, the Northern Xinjiang Volcano Mingquan team has started preparations for the introduction of foreign aid in advance (Tianyi does not allow the use of foreign aid, so there is no matter of dealing with the original foreign players). However, at that time, the club's financial situation was very unsatisfactory, not to mention that it could not pay a penny of transfer fees, and even a slightly higher salary could not be paid, so the club's management set their sights on those free agents who could join for free.

However, as the old saying goes, "cheap is not good", although it is somewhat absolute, but in most cases it is still in line with objective facts. After more than two months of inspection, general manager Liu Pengfei and relevant staff failed to find excellent foreign aid that met the requirements of head coach Duan Xin. In desperation, two weeks before the deadline for registration, a trial camp was organized, bringing together more than a dozen foreign players who had still not been able to find a new owner and had previously made a living in various leagues of the Celestial Empire for final screening.

In the end, Brazilian midfielder Victor Bolt, Kenyan winger Masika, who played for Jingren last season, and Senegalese center Babakalgueye, who played for the Western Regions Tianshan Club, became the new signings finalized by Duan's guidance. However, just when the club was about to start negotiations with the three men, Li Mudi confirmed that he became one of the shareholders of his hometown team (although it was in his cousin's name, but everyone knows what was going on), and then the Torino coach and his agent said that they could find stronger foreign players from Europe, which directly caused the three foreigners who had finally had the opportunity to sign a contract to be abandoned.

In less than three days, he joined forces with the sports agency behind Kaka to send three outstanding players to the Volcano Springs.

Diego Capel, born in 1988 in Spain, is a short winger who debuted in the Sevilla academy, in addition to his parent team, he has also played for European teams such as Sporting de Portugal, Genoa and Anderlecht, and was selected for the Spanish national team at the age of 20. Although he is often regarded by the outside world as a representative of Zhongyong, and the speed of his youth has disappeared with age and injury, his personal dribbling skills and rich experience in more than 300 professional games have made Capel still enough to play the core of the team in the Tianjia League.

He has been out of work since his contract with Anderlecht expired last summer, which may have led to a lack of competitive form at the moment, but it has also lowered his requirements for a salary of 300,000 euros a year plus a living allowance.

The second foreign player has a poor reputation in China, Portuguese striker Joshua, who was born in 1990. This gentleman debuted from the Porto academy and has made three appearances for the national team, and belongs to the kind of player whose strength is far greater than his fame. His passing ability is more outstanding, and he has been favored by Coach Duan and has been given the opportunity to play in the Far East. Joshua, who also does not have a club contract, does not have high requirements for treatment, which can be called a model of good quality and low price in the Tianjia League.

As for the last one, it is a real big name, or a star who has a certain status in world football in the past. Antonio Nocerino, a midfield veteran born in 1985, has played for world giants such as Juventus and AC Milan, and has also worn the blue jersey of the Italian national team for 15 games, and can be regarded as an excellent player in the world in the central midfield position in his heyday. With nearly 500 professional game experience, even if he enters the end of his career, he is enough to provoke the midfield of a Tianjia team.

Nocerino officially became a free agent after his contract with Orlando City expired earlier this year. Originally hoping to return to his native Italy to find a club to retire with, he unexpectedly suffered a thigh muscle injury and did not recover until early February, missing the winter transfer window. If you want not to waste this half a year, you can only look beyond the European continent.

Just as Nocerino was about to go overseas to play football through his agency, his teammate Kaka in the United States called and suggested that he go to the Celestial Empire to try a completely different style of football from European and American countries. Since Nocerino had previously played for Torino and was an old acquaintance with Valentino Cairo and Castellazzi, he finally agreed to end his career in Asia after a detailed communication with Li Mudi, a native of the Celestial Empire. And in order to sign the veteran midfielder, the Torino coach privately subsidized the Volcano Springs club with 2 million soft girls to pay wages in line with Nocerino's status.

In this way, three strong foreign players officially became part of the promotion of Tianjia on February 23, making the club one of the hot spots chased by domestic media news reports in those two days.

However, because these players are either absent from the battle for a long time, or have just recovered from injuries, they do not have the state to participate in official competitions in a short time, and they have to run in tactics with completely unfamiliar teammates, so the effect of rushing into the game will definitely not be too ideal, so Duan Gui, who has not suffered too much pressure on the results this year, decided to play with an all-local lineup of players in the first two rounds, and this plan has also been approved by the club's senior management.

However, the reality gave this new team a resounding slap in the face, on March 11, the Northern Xinjiang Volcano Mingquan was a guest in the Special Economic Zone to challenge the Kaisa team of the sixth special zone of last year's league, and the result was a goal in the first seven minutes of the opening game and was reversed by the opponent to win 2-1. In the second half, Volcano Mingquan's midfielder Cao Kang also wasted a precious penalty opportunity, causing the first minor league point in the team's history to slip away from his eyes.

A week later, the team lost to the Beijing North Control team led by Gao Hongbo in Beijing, although the score was only 2-0, but the gap on the field was very huge.

After two rounds, the Northern Xinjiang Volcano Mingquan team lost both games, ranking only in the penultimate third place of the standings with a slightly more goal difference, and was full of relegation favorites. Although the domestic media will not pay much attention to the poor performance of this promoted horse, the provincial leaders and some sports people will inevitably be disappointed by this result, and at the same time, it will also pour cold water on the originally active fan base. Seeing that the situation was getting worse and worse, the club held a high-level meeting immediately after returning to Ice City this Sunday. Although the team is not required to get any good rankings this season, relegation is absolutely not allowed, and Coach Duan, who was originally very relaxed, also feels a lot of pressure now.

Li Mudi returned to his hometown this time, in addition to meeting relatives and friends here, to relieve the pressure on the team. He is full of confidence in relegation, after all, the overall level of Tianjia is there, except for a few teams such as Beijing Beikong and Jiangcheng Zhuoer, the strength is obviously higher, and there are also a lot of fish belly, and it is not too difficult to get a midstream ranking with the current strength of Volcano Mingquan. Coaches and players must not be burdened with heavy psychological baggage, and the rush for quick success is one of the biggest reasons why the football of the Celestial Empire has not developed for decades, and their own clubs should not step into the same river again.