The day after the match against Burnley is Thanksgiving, a traditional Western holiday. This commemoration of the first English Puritans to land on the North American continent to thank the local Indians for their sincere help has gradually become a worldwide holiday due to the spread of American culture.

After crossing over, whether it was in Spain or Italy, Li Mudi would have a big meal with everyone at the right time, which could be regarded as an effort to integrate into Western cultural life. Of course, the main thing is to enjoy the appetite, although the roast turkey is far less delicious than the chicken stewed mushrooms in the Celestial Empire's hometown, but it is also good to change the taste once in a while.

But when he became the manager of the Arsenal team and officially settled in London, he almost made a big mistake, which was related to this holiday.

On the day of Thanksgiving, Li Mudi, who had nothing to do, had a whim to post a message on his social media to congratulate everyone on a happy holiday, but was stopped in time by Genes, who came to his house as a guest. Through the agent's explanation, the Gunners coach understood that the British were only Thanksgiving, and even disgusted with this holiday, if Li Mudi really sent the blessings that had just been edited, I am afraid that he would immediately become the laughing stock and even the object of criticism from the outside world, and he was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Finally suppressed the shock with a meal of Celestial Empire food and kimchi country specialties (Lin Yun'er's habits must be considered), and the two men went to the study after teasing the little angel for a while, and studied Arsenal's transfer operation in the winter window together.

Regarding the general direction of the Gunners' lineup adjustment, Li Mudi has used his spare time outside of the previous two weeks of preparation to preliminarily sort out a plan. This time I talked to my agent, naturally not to ask for any opinions, but to ask the latter to contact the target player and his agent in a private way in the case of the club's absence, to test whether the other party intends to join the arsenal, saving time for rash quotations.

However, after reading the twelve or thirteen names handwritten on an A4 piece of paper, Gines did not nod his head directly as usual, but suggested to his partner very sincerely: "Lee, you should know that Arsenal is not Turin, Stan Kroenke is not Urbano Cairo, although both of them have almost the same desire for financial gain, but the level of trust in you is still quite different." ”

Seeing that Li Mudi frowned slightly and was about to open his mouth to refute, the famous agent who still has a lot of influence in European football hurriedly explained: "In Italy, although you have the absolute right to transfer, after all, you still have to work with the marketing department, that is, Valentino Cairo is your little fan brother or a firm ally, so in those three years, you have not encountered any major obstacles, but this is by no means the norm in European clubs." I know you've been spending most of your time at the training base since you took over at Arsenal and rarely going to the club's side, but not to the point where you don't know the three executives, Gazidis, Mislintat and Samriy, right? ”

Hearing these three names, the word "Chuan" between the Gunners coach's eyebrows immediately became more obvious, because he also knew that they would be the three mountains that he could not avoid in the transfer work.

Ivan Gazidis, a Johannesburg-born South African, of Greek descent, is 56 years old and became the CEO of Arsenal FC in late 2008. Previously, as a founding member of Major League Soccer, he was hired by the Kroenke family as an Arsenal Director for his outstanding achievements in promoting the sport's influence in the world. From the perspective of job responsibilities, Gazidis can naturally intervene in every decision of the club's various departments, and although he is basically not too involved, he also has a great influence on whether the proposal can be passed. If such a person takes a stand against himself, it is bound to be a big trouble.

And Raul Sanley, the former director of FC Barcelona, who transferred to Arsenal FC in 2018, is the head of the sports department. During Unai Emery's tenure, he was responsible for negotiating important transfer deals and maintaining the club's public relations in international and domestic football, and was the direct supervisor of the manager. Even if Li Mudi was given the right to decide on the transfer when he signed the contract, in theory, the opinion of the director of football must be respected, so the communication with Samrij must be maintained at a relatively good level.

As for the most difficult thing for the team's manager, there is no doubt that Arsenal's unique director of recruitment, Mislintaat. The former Borussia Dortmund head of football and chief scout, known as the "Diamond Eye", was once famous for digging Shinji Kagawa from Japan's J2 League, and he has joined Lewandowski, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ousmane Dembele and others, but he is a superstar in the industry.

In 2017, because of a serious conflict with the then Hornets head coach Tuchel, Dort, who had played for 11 years, angrily left Dort and came to Arsenal. However, due to the seniority of the position, the German could only be temporarily placed in the position of chief scout, but in order to compensate him, the Kroenke family came up with an inexplicable title of head of recruitment.

In the Emery era, in addition to overseeing the scouting team, Mislintat was also responsible for the recruitment of first-team and academy players, which was equivalent to taking a large chunk of power from the hands of the director of football, which also made Raul Sanley, who arrived two months late, seem quite helpless.

Although the relationship between the two people is still very good on the surface, the actual situation is not something that outsiders can know. And judging from the fact that Arsenal has brought in a number of players with Dortmund backgrounds, such as Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and Papastathopoulos, it is clear that Mislintat has gained greater trust from the club's hierarchy, which should make Samriel, who originally wanted to make a difference in the new environment, feel a little embarrassed.

In addition, there is actually a hidden boss in the club, and that is Stan Kroenke, the son of owner Stan Kroenke. The super-rich second generation was previously the president of the family's NBA team, the Denver Nuggets and the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, and is now a director of Arsenal, representing his family in London.

And just two months after the prince moved into Highbury, the team's legendary manager Arsene Wenger was announced to leave at the end of that season, who made this decision, is not a secret in the whole of the United Kingdom, the club owner who has developed a skill in the American business circle, will be an unpredictable variable.

After carefully analyzing the current high-level chaos of the Arsenal club with Gines, Li Mudi's head is almost painful, he is not good at dealing with people, like a little white who has just graduated from school, he stepped into a workplace comparable to Shura hell with one foot, and anyone who wants to escape as soon as possible, or directly untie his belt to break it himself.

At this critical moment, it showed Genes's old and spicy methods, and he also knew that the person in front of him was really not good at dealing with those intrigues, and his own identity was inconvenient to take the place, so he gave a quick and one-step solution. That is to go directly to Stan Kroenke and get support for this transfer plan from the other party, and not to participate in the operation of specific matters, as long as the goal can be achieved, no matter who handles it and how much money it ends up.

Although this will arouse the disgust of Mislintate, the fundamental interests of Gazidis and Sang Leyi, which will not be touched, can be regarded as the least offending choice among all the labor-saving strategies, and Li Mudi naturally readily adopted it after a little consideration.

So on Friday night, the British paparazzi were excited to find that the Arsenal coach did not return home immediately after training, but went directly to an upscale hotel in the city center. Less than five minutes after Li Mudi entered, Stan Kroenke, who has become a well-known figure in English football, also walked through the same door, and the media smelled the big news.

It was only after squatting outside the hotel for two and a half hours that the paparazzi's attempt to get some news from the mouths of the two men who had finished dinner and walked out of the door was declared bankrupt by a group of private security personnel. Since it is not clear what the content of this dinner exchange is, the subsequent reports are limited to some tabloids, and they are all unreliable speculations, without any actual meaning.

However, the next day, when it was learned at the last-minute meeting that the manager had submitted a proposal for squad adjustments, which had been basically approved by the team owners, the faces of the three giants of the above clubs became a little ugly. It was only when the meeting was over that it was clear to the rest of the participants that the club's CEO and director of football had returned to normal, while only the head of recruitment, Mislintate, was still grim-faced.

Taking advantage of the team's pretext to prepare for the game, Li Mudi did not attend the meeting in person, but he also learned from Mertesacker, the youth director who was present at the time, about the performance of several executives he focused on after the meeting.

Although the plan has been supported by the Kroenke family, it still needs to be evaluated by the team doctor, scouting team and other departments before entering the operation procedure, and the first evaluation meeting will be on Saturday morning. In Mertesacker's description, the Gunners coach did feel the cooperation of Gazidis and Samley, which shows that Gines's judgment is indeed correct.

As for Mislintart, who has always been cold-faced, Li Muddy can't care about his feelings, and if he wants to snatch the Premier League trophy from Manchester City and other strong opponents, he must act according to his own recruitment strategy. If you get in someone's way in the process, you can only hope that the other party can be generous, otherwise he can't do anything except for a sentence that he can't take care of.

However, the world's top scout still has a commendable professional attitude (18 on the FM system) and has done his job with dedication to scouting target players and some negotiation work, and is worthy of the generous salary paid by the club. In the direct communication with Li Mudi later, although the attitude was not very kind, there was still at least respect, and the impression left on the Gunners coach was still good.

Unfortunately, the relationship between the two colleagues only lasted until the summer of 2021, and Mislintaat, who wanted to take charge of the football affairs of a giant team, finally chose to change the environment again, and was poached by Inter Milan, who were in dire need of talents in this area.

As for the position he left, the title of director of recruitment was naturally cancelled, and the position of chief scout was handed over to Arsenal veteran Martin Keown, who came out of the Arsenal academy and helped his parent club win many honors at his peak, becoming another team celebrity in the club, making Arsenal's management also begin to develop in the direction of AC Milan's "old friends".

Of course, that's all for later, let's pull the timeline back to the end of November 2020.

On the 28th, the Gunners sat at their home stadium at the Emirates Stadium and ushered in their third league game in seven days, the 15th round against Watford, the dark horse of the two seasons.

Nicknamed Hornets (the same Chinese name as Borussia Dortmund), the visitors, led by manager Spaniard Javi Garcia, have been in the spotlight since the 2018-19 season with a jaw-dropping start to the season.

It was only because of the overall strength that the final ranking was only 11th in the standings, but this result was already the team's best end-of-season ranking since the inception of the Premier League.

And after a season of adjustments, the name of Xavi Garcia sounds famous, but he himself does not have many highlights in his coaching experience as a player or after retirement, but he conjured up a wonderful magic show in front of the entire European football world. He led Watford, who were almost unfancied, to sixth place in the table after the final round of the 2019-20 Premier League season, beating the likes of Arsenal and earning a place in the group stage of the Europa League.

This summer, in addition to retaining the original core of former Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley, Argentine midfielder Roberto Pereira and Spanish winger Deulofeu, the team from the southeast of the British Isles has spent a lot of money to bring in a number of strong players, aiming to achieve something on both league and European fronts.

After the start of the new season, although their performance was not as bright as the same period last year, the record of 6 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses in the first 14 rounds tied for eighth place still made many people who predicted that they would return to silence feel a little painful.

Watford came close to upsetting Chelsea at home in the last round and were beaten by a goal away at Tottenham a week ago, and the team is in excellent form and is considered by the media to have a chance to cause an upset at the Emirates Stadium and become a spoiler in the title race.

In this regard, Li Mudi naturally did not dare to be careless, and took all his strength to deal with it.

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