Chapter 638: The End of the Season

With the Champions League final over, the curtain of the 2025-26 season of European football in the conventional sense can be officially called history, and the time that follows is the moment when everyone temporarily shifts the focus to Central and North America in anticipation of the opening of this World Cup.

After that, there is the summer transfer window that opens at midnight on July 1, which is also the focus of attention of fans and sports media, and until then, in addition to various reliable and unreliable transfer rumours about various clubs, only Real Madrid's celebration parade can occupy an important place in the newspapers and on the website.

However, for Li Mudi, who has once again led the team to a dream season, there is still a lot of work to deal with before entering his vacation mode, and this summer is destined to keep him too busy to think about other matters. Except for spending almost all of his personal time with his pregnant wife and daughter, the rest is nothing that makes him happy.

As the Real Madrid coach with the highest salary in the world of football today, the day after returning to Madrid after winning the Champions League, Li Mudi signed his name in the club's president's office, extending the contract period by two years, which was only one year left. Looking back at his past coaching history, everyone will be surprised to find that this is the first time that this is the first time that this up-and-coming manager has renewed his contract with his club, which is quite strange for a coach who has always led the team well.

After this contract extension, his annual salary after tax has skyrocketed from the original 12.5 million euros to 18 million, plus many bonus clauses, which is even higher than many top players. Therefore, as soon as this news was disclosed by the media, it immediately attracted many onlookers who ate melons, although there were many accusations criticizing Li Mudi for being greedy for money and ignoring the financial safety of the club, but the vast majority of people still recognized the value of the world's No. 1 coach and did not cause much controversy.

And since he has received a high salary, the Real Madrid coach must handle all his work well, and he must be strict with himself to the highest standards. For example, in terms of how to adjust the team's lineup, how to cultivate fresh blood, and how to adjust the slackness or complacency that may occur in the team after this season's super success, he needs to make the final decision, and some even need to participate in the process of formulating a detailed plan.

However, Real Madrid is not the whole of his business, at least all the major affairs of the two clubs, Coventry and Ebro, need Li Mudi to spend more energy to deal with.

After a very successful cycle last season, the Sky Blues returned to the Premier League after a long hiatus, and the Blues suffered a rough second year of trouble, with results slipping instead of the top half of the table as some overly optimistic predicted.

Especially in the month and a half after the winter break, Coventry's league ranking was on the verge of entering the relegation circle, which disappointed all the experts and fans who had been optimistic about them, and even spread the fake news that Scholes was about to leave class, which made the team's external atmosphere very bad.

Fortunately, the players' form has improved significantly in late February, and the Spanish defender Pepelou, who switched from the Bernabeu to the Ricoh Stadium last summer, also found a feeling of full integration with the team in time, and played a wave of six unbeaten records in the whole army, and finally got rid of the crisis of being kicked back into the Championship.

However, due to the poor performance in the early stage, the Sky Blues only came to the very embarrassing position of 14th place at the end of the season, which is still quite different from the goal set by the club before the start of the season.

Although there are many reasons for the poor results, such as the team has suffered a serious injury situation, several new signings have taken too long to adapt to the new environment, and many young players who have been given a lot of expectations have not shown the desired growth trend, but in the final analysis, it is the overall strength of the pot. Therefore, after discussions with Scholes and the relevant management of Coventry City, a large squad replacement this summer has become the primary task to avoid encountering a similar situation next season, and Li Muddy, who has a pair of "golden eyes", naturally has to participate in the whole process.

Even if he doesn't need to haggle over the transfer fee and the contract himself, just being able to make the manager accept his offer or persuade the other side to put aside the idea of cleaning up a player can kill many Real Madrid managers. After all, he can't say that he has a plug-in on him, which can prove what the future development prospects of such and such a player will be, and he has also reached a gentleman's agreement with Scholes before, and he will try not to interfere with his exercise of transfer affairs.

You know, it is a very difficult task to convince such a professional, especially if the other party has a rather stubborn personality, and that day is like living in hell.

However, things were easier to deal with on the British side, because Ebro's problems were more troublesome.

At the end of April this year, when the major European leagues had begun to enter the final sprint, the Spanish police suddenly arranged a large-scale operation, arresting a total of 54 football players in as many as eight cities across the country in one night. At the same time, many referees who enforce low-level leagues have also received a call from the referee committee of the Football Association to join the ranks of being reviewed. Soon, the country's largest match-fixing case to date gradually surfaced and was known to the outside world.

According to the official report at the time, more than 50 matches in the third and fourth divisions of Spain this season are suspected of being manipulated by the match-fixing organization behind the scenes, and there were also a large number of questionable games in the previous two seasons. Based on weeks of hard work and reports from credible informants, the West police finally obtained conclusive evidence and completed the operation under the unified deployment of the higher authorities.

Judging from the preliminary information, the mastermind behind this match-fixing case should be inextricably linked to the Asian organization that was dismantled in 2018, and it is very likely that the original team has revived.

Since the lower Spanish leagues are unlikely to be as strict as La Liga and La B, and the difficulty of promoting to the top two leagues is too difficult for the vast majority of small teams, many players and even clubs are more likely to be tempted by Asian gambling groups to gain unethical benefits for them by violating the principles of competitive sports fairness.

According to incomplete statistics, gambling groups can obtain a huge income of more than 36 million euros within a year through this way of regulating odds, which is only the number in Spain, but it is already nearly 20% higher than the net profit of the world's top giants such as Bayern and Juventus in a season.

In order to strengthen the ties with players and certain clubs, members of the organization from Celestial Haojiang, Singapore and Australia will often go in and out of the cities where the teams involved are located, and even stay there for a long time, but this time they have also been given a nest by the Spanish police, which is naturally indispensable in the region where the football industry is not yet developed, but there are many low-level teams - the autonomous region of Aragon, where the Ebro club is located.

This is broken, because according to the proposal made by the Spanish anti-match-fixing organization to the Football Association and the relevant regulatory bodies, this time it is clearly trying to make a big deal. In order to give an extreme warning about the rapid development trend of match-fixing in China, the former even proposed to deduct the corresponding points from all the teams that have problems in the game this season, and then apply additional penalty points to them according to the penalty clause specified later.

Although this news caused strong opposition from many clubs as soon as it was exposed, there is still a possibility that it can be approved in theory, and Ebro, who is in the hardest-hit area, has become one of the possible targets of wrongdoing, because the police found that one of them frequently appeared on the road to the club's residence.

For such vague evidence, Ebro must have defended himself to the death, because they were completely innocent.

In the season that has just ended, the fourth-tier team in which Li Mudi holds a large stake can be said to have performed unbeatably in the league journey of Group 7 of the Spanish League and has not encountered any decent difficulties at all. Not only did they have a strong record of 30 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses after 38 rounds of competition, but they also broke the group's longest winning streak with a wave of 11 consecutive wins in the middle of the game, and locked a place in the promotion play-offs early.

After two rounds of play-off competition, they successfully returned to the stage of La B with a strong performance of four wins, and was recognized as the strongest team among all 21 promoted teams, and there was no one.

In addition, in the Federation Cup with the participation of the La B team, Ebro also became the only fourth-tier team to reach the semi-finals, and they did not rely on luck to get to this point, because on the way forward, there are two upper-level teams who have become their foot losers, which is enough to prove that the club that has just changed the owner of the Celestial Empire (on the surface is Su Ning Group) has indeed been reborn in terms of strength.

It's just that if it is "wrongly killed" by the Spanish Football Association or the anti-match-fixing organization, then all these achievements will immediately disappear without a trace, and it will also have an extremely bad impact on the development of the club, which is unacceptable to all locals and club management.

In addition to doing his best to communicate with the governing body, Ebro has also formed temporary alliances with other clubs that are suffering from the same tragic situation, and is prepared to seek legal means to defend his rights in case things go wrong. This is definitely not alarmist, because from the degree of brain damage, in addition to the Argentine Football Association, that is, the Spanish Football Association, you can't expect their IQ to remain above the normal level at such a critical moment.

In the end, the aftershocks caused by the match-fixing earthquake only got a slightly sloppy result before the World Cup opener began. The Football Association obviously does not want this kind of scandal to spread too widely, after all, their reputation is already very famous abroad, so don't give others more laughing stock.

Therefore, on a list of penalties with no bottom line, people actually saw that only those players and referees who were determined to be involved in the case were punished by suspensions and fines, and some club management that was suspected by the outside world did not even have a, which caused all the complaints in Spain.

However, none of this had anything to do with Li Moodi and his club, and after two months of fear, they were finally able to take a breather and focus on the squad adjustments. The old rules, this aspect also needs to be led by the Real Madrid coach, because there must be no problem on the side of the senior coach. All his work has focused on developing his coaching staff and promoting the direction, at most he has only proposed the type of players he needs to the club, and has no ambition at all to take control of the transfer power.

As long as they can be promoted to the second division, the team will have two places that can use non-European foreign players, which is definitely a boon for those domestic players who have not been able to gain a foothold in European football for many years.

It's just that after year after year of "development", the results of the men's football team have never been as expected by everyone to see the possibility of rising, in the case of the expansion of the World Cup finals to 48 participating teams, they still failed to qualify, and can make fans, especially those practitioners who have contributed a lot to the cause of football in the Celestial Empire, open their mouths to say something? Perhaps they couldn't do anything other than a sigh.

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