On the morning of December 20, 2016, Italian time, a sudden news came from Spain that was both surprising and natural: the head coach of La Liga Valencia Football Club and the Italian coach Prandelli suddenly held a press conference to announce his resignation, and only a few hours later did the club issue a statement on its official website that it had accepted Prandelli's resignation, and at the same time appointed former B team coach Voro Gonzalez as the team's interim coach. This is the fifth time he has played this role, and he is a veritable "firefighting manager".

The Spanish powerhouse signed the former Italian national team coach on October 3 this year, after taking over the reins from Gary Neville, Pako Ayestaran, received a dismissal from the club after a four-game losing streak at the start of the new season, but Prandelli, who had previously enjoyed great success at Parma and Fiorentina, was also unable to bring back the team that had been able to knock Barcelona down last season. In the eight league games he took over, the team only achieved a poor result of 1 win, 3 draws and 4 defeats, except for the first game against the underdog Sporting Gijón, the next seven consecutive rounds without a win, always hovering in the relegation circle of the standings.

However, before the club's top management could say anything, he resigned voluntarily, much to the annoyance of Valencia president and Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim, whose assistant accused Prandley of being a coward at a press conference and announcing his departure in a surprising manner in such a dire situation as the team is in the making, something only a deserter can do.

Then the coach and the club's senior management began to fight and even attack each other, the former accused the latter of not keeping his promise before signing the transfer, while the latter ridiculed the former for simply looking for an excuse for resignation, asking the club to bring in reinforcements without giving the player's name, which is to shirk responsibility. Just when the media in Spain and Italy were busy analyzing who was right and who was wrong in this matter, "Marca" broke a big news in the afternoon of the same day: Valencia President Lin Rongfu expressed his intention to hire the current Torino coach Li Mudi to take over the team in an interview, and was willing to offer a contract of no less than one and a half years.

The ancestral home of Licheng, Fujian, his father is the early Republic of China to sell fish in the South Seas of Singapore's "stockbroker king", now worth more than one billion US dollars, since childhood football fan Lin Fuhao in the successive acquisitions of Liverpool, Manchester United, Atletico Madrid and Middlesbrough failed, finally in May 2014 400 million euros to buy more than 70% of Valencia's shares, become the club's new owner.

Although the relationship between the two countries is complicated and has gone against each other in recent years, this does not prevent the people of the two countries, who are still one family at heart, from communicating in private. At the very least, Chairman Lim Rongfu is proud of Li Mudi's previous achievements in Castile and now in Torino, and it is not easy for the Chinese to finally have a head coach who can gain a foothold in Europe. So he had the idea of whether he could bring Coach Li back to the Iberian Peninsula, although Valencia's current record is very bad, but the background and real strength are definitely more than a step ahead of the Torino team, I believe that the vast majority of normal people know how to choose. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that he wants to attract the attention of more Celestial Empire fans through Li Mudi, after all, he is still an excellent businessman in essence.

The coach of Turin, who was far away in Italy, also got the news very quickly, and Gines called almost immediately, and then flew over on the nearest flight after telling the former not to make a statement. Because Li Mudi said in advance that he would never coach a Spanish team other than Real Madrid, Gines did not really want to operate the matter of joining Valencia, but it was an excellent deterrent tool to deal with some people. Sure enough, not long after the Spanish agent entered his client's apartment, Valentino Cairo came to the door, he came to test the tone for the club's senior management - nominally, in fact, the prince, who had already stood in the same boat with Li Mudi, also brought the results of the high-level meeting that had just been urgently held.

The Torino club is interested in starting the contract extension of the head coach immediately, and Pantario Longo has proposed to offer Li Mudi a new contract with a base salary of one and a half million a year, until the summer of 2018. That's roughly double the current salary, and while it's still not close to the managers of a few traditionally strong teams, it's still mid-stream. However, Gines believes that this salary is still not as good as the team's current sixth-ranked performance and has a good chance of challenging for European qualification, and he thinks that 1.5 million is a more reasonable number, and this is already the standard after Li Mudi generously made concessions.

After receiving an answer from the manager that the team's form had recovered and that the results were likely to pick up, Ginés and Valentino Cairo both suggested rejecting the club's request for a contract extension and waiting for the results to rebound as expected. After all, whoever takes the initiative more before the negotiation will get more benefits, and the alliance under the city and the food that comes to you are the worst choices.

Regarding the shelving of the contract renewal first, Li Mudi feels that this can be had, but it is too unparticular to use hype to join Valencia to put pressure on the club. It's tragic enough that half a season has passed and is only ranked fourth from the bottom, and it would be too unkind to delay the other party to find a new coach because of the pretense of thinking about taking over. Therefore, at the strong request of the Torino coach, Gines had to give up this plan, and without this biggest weight, I believe that the senior management of the Torino club will not easily bow to Li Mudi, and this new contract can wait.

In the evening, a notice was issued on Torino Sport, Sky Sports and Di Marzio's personal website at the same time, in which Gines expressed his gratitude on behalf of his client for Valencia President Haurishi Rongfu for favoring the Turin manager, but because Li Mudi had just moved to Italy and did not want to give up halfway in such a short period of time, he could only regret to refuse the other party's kindness. In the end, he gave the other party a deep blessing, hoping that Valencia can find a suitable captain as soon as possible and successfully get out of the current predicament.

As soon as this news came out, it completely calmed down the rumors that the Torino coach would change jobs, and many Red Bulls fans also breathed a sigh of relief, although the team has not been in good shape recently, but the work ability of the Celestial Empire has been recognized by the vast majority of fans, and it is indeed difficult to find a better successor during this time period, so the announcement of his own head coach to stay behind still makes Turin supporters very happy.

After handing over the contract extension to his agent, Li Mudi focused all his experience on the final game before the holiday. Although the situation of Genoa is even worse, the current Torino team cannot afford any more accidents, otherwise it will really be impossible to say.

As mentioned earlier, last season Gasperini led the Griffins to a surprising 10th place finish in the league in the middle and late stages of the season, but the club's hierarchy did not support the decorated manager when the team hit a low point in the early stages of the league, which made the coach think of leaving early. And this summer, the team's previous main players Perotti (8.5 million euros to Roma), Ansaldi (5.5 million euros to Inter), De Maio (3.2 million euros to Samp), Zemaili (left the team at the end of the loan period), Suso (left the team at the end of the loan period) and others have left the team, although they have also added Uruguay fringe international Diego Laxalt, Atletico Madrid coach son Giovanni Simeone, Lazio veteran Santiago Gentiletti (Santiago Gentiletti) and Portuguese international Miguel Veloso (Miguel Veloso) have loaned Marseille demon Lucas Ocampos (Lucas Ocampos), but their strength has declined.

However, they did surprise at the start of the season, finishing in the top four of the table for five consecutive rounds and almost becoming the biggest dark horse. However, as other teams became familiar with the tactics of the new head coach Juric, the Genoa landscape was gone, and the situation became more and more difficult. But even so, they did give the leader Old Lady a third defeat of the season at home, and then helped Palermo escape the relegation zone at home, which is indeed a bit unpredictable.

The Griffons have continued their tradition of defending well this season, conceding only 21 goals in 17 games, ranking eighth among the 20 teams, but the offensive side has only scored the same number of goals, which is indeed a bit weak. Leonardo Pavoletti, the top scorer in Serie A last season, has missed six consecutive league games due to a sprained ankle and will not be back against Torino, which is good news for the home team.

The tall but not clumsy player has been hailed by the media as Toney's successor, with a double 16 shooting and heading ability that would put a lot of pressure on the Red Bull backline if he could play. However, when Li Mudi turned on the FM system and was ready to finally confirm whether the opponent's main center could pay in the line of fire, he found that Napoli, who had lost Milik, had made an offer of 16.2 million euros to Genoa, ready to take Pavoletti away in January, what a local tyrant! After all, the late-blooming striker is 28 years old, has only played in three seasons of Serie A, has scored 21 goals in a total of 46 appearances, and has no experience in even mid-to-upper teams before.

Although it may not have any important effect, but Napoli's aggressive recruitment has made Li Mudi feel a strong sense of urgency, after half a season of adjustment and running-in, each team understands where they are deficient, and the introduction of reinforcements in the winter transfer window is to check and fill in the gaps. And once the rivals have strengthened and the Torino team is stuck in place, there will be more difficulties waiting for them in the second half of the season, and it seems that they will have to hurry up and study the issue of squad changes with Valentino Cairo.

On Tuesday night, Atalanta jumped from 17th to seventh in the 18th round of Serie A and won 2-1 at home to Empoli on their home turf, dashing their attempts to move further from the relegation zone. The winning Poseidon Son also won the tenth victory of the new season, temporarily surpassing the Red Bull by two points, and took a solid step towards European qualification.

However, Li Muddy and his team naturally did not easily cede the top position in the table, and in the second kick-off game, the home team fielded all the main players who could play, and tried to reverse the previous decline in one fell swoop. Joe Hart, Zampacosta, Kastan, Rossettini, Barreca, Akwa, Benasi, Febas, Jesse, Rajadzic and Belotti make up the starting eleven. In addition to Pavoletti, the main scorer who is injured and is expected to join the White Dolphins in two weeks, the original main players such as Gentiletti, Veloso, and Luca Rigoni (Luca Rigoni) are also unable to play, resulting in only 11 substitutes on their bench (Serie A can put 12 players on the bench per game, which is much more humane than seven in other leagues), and the seriousness of the injury situation can be seen.

But such a "remnant soldier" did not adopt a stubborn defense strategy in the away game, but used the fierce scramble and interception to deter the momentum of the home team, and also decisively seized every opportunity to attack the goal in the attack, and dared to kick up when he saw the vacancy. Although this style of play makes the number of fouls far more than the opponent's opponents, and the risk of cards is greatly increased, it really makes the Torino players afraid to make moves, and they look afraid of injuries before the Christmas holidays. At the end of the first half, Genoa had the advantage in possession and led in shots on goal, which was indeed a surprise to everyone.

Fortunately, Li Mudi criticized the weakness of the players in time in the locker room, so that they left the burden of fear of injury and finally returned to normal in the second half. Four minutes after the kick-off, Jesse's free-kick from the left side headed straight into the box, but the visiting goalkeeper Eugenio Lamanna didn't choose to make a decisive move and was slotted home by Belotti from five yards out. 1-0, with Red Babe scoring in three consecutive league games, the home team finally took the lead. Six minutes before the break, a through ball from teenager Febas gave compatriot Jesus a one-on-one chance, who dribbled past the onrushing Ramana and pushed the ball into the empty net to seal the win for Torino. In the end, the Red Bulls won by two goals in a statistically equal but quality game, ending a three-game losing streak while holding on to a one-point advantage over Atalanta.

And this victory is even more precious for Li Mudi, which allows him to get more initiative in the contract renewal negotiations with the club, and lays a good foundation for the smooth recruitment of reinforcements in the following winter.