The first thing to do after the new season is to do the medical examinations of the players, except for a few new signings who have already completed this task before signing and do not need to be tested again, everyone else has been led by captain Moretti to the side of the medical room. Using the club's existing equipment and a few high-tech set-ups borrowed from the central hospital in Turin, the team will check the fitness of the players who have just returned from the holidays, and hopefully they will not disappoint the manager.

The medical examination will be completed before lunch, so the coaching staff will leave the training ground and return to the previous conference room to continue discussing the first phase of the training schedule to store fitness and adjust the condition of the players.

At half past four in the afternoon, after the first day of adaptation practice, Li Mudi got the examination report personally sent by the team doctor Greco, and the results were quite gratifying, and everyone's physical condition was above the passing line. In particular, Lucas Boyer and Goldaniga, several players with a strong sense of crisis, have adjusted their personal state to the extent that they can directly participate in official matches, giving the team coach a big surprise.

The training on the 6th was still mainly based on relatively easy events, but after getting the results of the physical examination, the coaching staff had made timely communication and advanced the next step. Starting tomorrow, the team will start a week-long intensive physical training camp, and although the scientific arrangement makes this activity less hellish, it also requires a lot of perseverance for the players, especially the veterans, to get through it, and it can be used to train their nerves.

During this period, the team manager did not have much work, and after handing over the inspection to assistant coach Sumfield, he took advantage of this relatively free opportunity to frequently meet with several directors of the club to discuss the renewal of the contracts of some veteran players in the team. Li Mudi has previously made a rough list of the names of the players that the Torino team will focus on developing in the next two or three years and will not be sold easily. Some of them are not far from the expiration date of their contracts, and some of them are because their original salaries are no longer in line with their status and need to be updated in time to prevent the players from becoming dissatisfied or even choosing not to renew their contracts and taking advantage of the Boseman Act to leave on a free transfer.

Li Mudi's work in the past few days is not only that, there are currently as many as 40 first-team players trained in the physical training camp, far exceeding the league's registration limit. In addition to the existing personnel and new signings this summer, there are also a number of players who have been promoted from the youth team because they are over 20 years old, and the boss needs to get rid of those who have no place in the Torino squad as soon as possible. The task is undoubtedly much more daunting, as Valentino Cairo has been working on it since last summer, and even though he has tried hard, he has not been able to achieve the goals he set out in the beginning, as evidenced by the fact that there are more than a dozen players who have no future here.

However, the meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, with the assistance of Li Mudi, last season, the team has already disposed of the excess burden such as Tazittes Diss and Joseph Martinez, and most of the rest are youth training with low salaries, even if the contract is terminated early, it will not cause too much loss. The Turin Club is no longer the poor ghost it used to be, and after receiving a large amount of sponsorship from the "Celestial Father" for two consecutive years, they have entered the ranks of the people who are not bad for money, and a little loss is still acceptable. Of course, the termination of the contract is the last resort, and if these players can be cleared up through loan or even transfer, it is the best choice.

Judging from the ability and potential of this group of players, except for a very few players, it is really difficult for the remaining clubs to attract other clubs to buy them, so going out on loan and letting the other side share the salary has become the best option for the Torino manager. In this way, the club needs to find more satellite teams to help, and with the quality of these players, it is not possible to play in Serie A level competitions, but they may still be able to play at the level of Serie B or even Serie C.

On 9 July, Torino and Serie B club Novara, together with the two clubs, announced a partnership in which the former would have the right of first refusal to buy all the players in the latter's squad, while the latter could receive some instant power on loan or even free of charge from the former. On the same night, two deals were announced, first with former Torino Under-18 captain Marco Chiosa, born in 1993, moving to Novara for €500,000, and then Ghanaian centre-forward Abu Diop becoming the new recruit for the team that finished ninth in Serie B last season for a fee of €230,000. It is worth mentioning that both prices are more than a third lower than the player's actual estimate.

On the morning of the 10th, the official website of the Torino team released four news one after another, the first one: the team's midfielder Baseli has signed a new contract with the club, and the two sides will renew the contract until the end of June 2022, and the annual salary will increase from the previous 925,000 to 1.7 million (all before tax), and there is no liquidated damages clause in the contract. The 24-year-old has made 80 appearances for the Red Bulls in two seasons since joining the Red Bulls from Atalanta for €6 million in the summer of 2015, with six goals and 14 assists. While there have been rumours that both Roma and Fiorentina are interested in bringing in the playmaker, this contract extension would almost certainly announce that he will stay for at least another season.

The remaining three are news of the player's departure, Uruguayan left-back Gaston Cival, who was loaned to Granada in La Liga last season, transferred to the National Autonomous University of Mexico for a fee of 1.7 million euros; The team's academy and left winger Simeone Rosso moved to another satellite of the Torino team, Serie B Vercelli, for 200,000 euros; The team's youth academy, Senegalese goalkeeper Alfred Gomis, was bought by Serie A newcomer SPAL for 1.5 million euros.

After selling the player, Li Mudi scraped together enough funds of 4 million and "returned" it to the chairman of the club. In order to buy the teenager Dimarco before, he had to pay 4 million on credit from Urbano Cairo, and it was liquidated in just a few days, and he was rich, so it is not difficult to borrow and borrow again.

With the remaining million (1 million saved by buying Dimarco at the time), the team bought out the Chinese midfielder John Hou Seth, who was on loan last season, from Rosenborg (with a turnover of 400,000 yuan, with a series of floating clauses), making him officially a member of the Red Bulls academy.

On the 12th, the Torino club's finance department officially calculated the detailed figures for the new season's budget, and the manager of the team did not care about anything else, but also wanted to know how much transfer money he could use before the transfer window closed. The result is still more gratifying for him, 25 million, although he can't buy any big-name stars, but it is enough to effectively supplement some of the team's weak links. After Akwa's departure, the Red Bulls were still lacking in midfield, and Li Mudi wanted to bring in a defensive central midfielder to add an insurance against tough opponents, and Juventus' Venezuela international Rincón was once again in his sights.

By the end of the training camp on the 14th and the start of the second phase of practice, there were only 32 players left in the first team's squad, including as many as 12 U21 members (here to popularize this situation, the algorithm of U21 players is not calculated by birthday, but by year). This year, for example, the league that started in 2017 is considered U21 for those born after 1996), and there are only 20 players left to sign up, even if only one adult player is Bareka who belongs to the club's academy, it means that there are at least two additional places in the team to increase.

However, Li Mudi does not plan to fill the remaining positions, his thinking at this time is similar to Lafayette, and he believes that the team wants to preserve its strength for a long time, and at the same time of introducing strong reinforcements, it is still necessary to rely on the growth of the team's youth training. So with a lot of strength enhancements this season, he wants to give more game time to these young people and help them grow as soon as possible. From this point of view, he deserves the title of "the best coach at discovering and cultivating Shota" evaluated by the outside world.

Aside from the new midfielders, Torino will not bring in any new players and will be streamlining what they already have, with the Torino boss's ideal plan to keep the number of first-team players at around 28, including around seven lads who can be deployed between youth and first team. This also means that the team currently has at least five players who will leave before the start of the season, and the first ones are those who are difficult to get playing opportunities in the hands of Li Moodi and have buyers to focus on.

Including youth academy graduate Bonifaczi (U21) and Real Madrid loanee Diego Llorente, who have just been promoted to the first team, the team now has 10 players who can play at centre-back, which is obviously far more than the necessary number, and even if Li Mudi wants to deploy three central defenders in the new season, then six or seven reserves in this position are enough, so sending the extra people out is an inevitable task.

On the 15th, the day of the Torino team's media open day, a reporter familiar with the situation in the team found that Senegalese central defender Beye (booked from Novara in the 2017 winter transfer window), who had already come to the team to report, and Brazilian Lianco, who arrived early in Italy, were no longer in the training team. Someone immediately learned the latest news from the official, Beye has been loaned to Serie A newcomer Benevento for a year, and former Napoli star Marco Baroni, who led the team to a double jump, promised to use the tall black central defender as an important rotation player.

The Griffons have suffered heavy losses at the back this summer, with three reliable centre-backs Burdisso, Ezequiel Muñoz and Lucas Orban all looking for other opportunities, forcing coach Juric to look for cheap and durable replacements. After it was clear that he would not be a regular in Torino next season, and Genoa said they would provide him with a lot of playing time, and the deal was reached.

And that's not all, on the afternoon of the 16th, Verona, another new team in Serie A, announced that they spent 1.5 million euros to buy Uruguayan goalkeeper Salvador Ichaso, who has a second Italian nationality, from Torino, and he will compete with the team's main Brazilian Nicolas last season. Ichaso was loaned out of Uruguayan side Danubio in the winter of 2015 and bought out by the Red Bulls for €1.2 million in the summer of that year, but in the following two seasons he was loaned to Bari and his parent club for training, never receiving the attention of Torino. In the face of Verona's offer that he would not lose money, Li Muddy happily nodded and agreed, and then he transferred Zacanio, the main player of last season's Under-20 team, to the first team as the third goalkeeper.

There are basically no remaining players that Li Mudi wants to give away, even Rajadzic, who is incompatible with him, because Dortmund has not made an offer, and has changed from a state of great interest two months ago to a slight interest, so the idea of keeping him for another year has arisen. Although the Serbian international has a bad temper, it is more than enough to rotate in the top teams of Serie A, and the team's new tactic of 3-4-1-2 forward midfield will still have value until Benassi and Baseli are fully adapted, and it would be good to stay for another half or a year.

Therefore, in the first warm-up game of the new season on the 17th, before the home game against the Serie C team Regina, the Torino coach had to praise himself after looking at the group of players under his command who were ready and full of morale. To be able to put together such a strong lineup, it is really not easy for the current red bulls, don't look at the sponsorship of the local tyrants of the Celestial Empire, the club has provided a total of about 90 million transfer fees in the two successive transfer windows, but after deducting the funds obtained from the sale of players, the actual total investment is less than 40 million, which is not enough for more than half of the Lukaku that Manchester United snatched from Chelsea on the 10th.

But Li Mudi, the head coach of the Celestial Empire who has a plug-in but does not have rich benefits, actually used these small money to save up this lineup of world champions, league top scorers and many highly talented young people, and also led the team to the fourth place in the league last season, which can definitely be said to be the strongest Torino team in the past two decades. Of course, this is a negotiable age, as the last time the club was able to boast this level of talent was in the distant 1991/92 season, when a third-place finish in the league was unattainable by any manager and player for more than 30 years.