Seeing that the Torino coach became easy to speak, the media poured the enthusiasm that had been held back for a long time on him, and the three players sitting on the stage together did not receive a single question after fifteen minutes passed, and it became a mere decoration.

The reporter of "Milan Sports Newspaper" asked: "Coach Li, you have lost two games in a row, and you have lost to the team's two biggest rivals, have the chairman and senior management not had any negative evaluation or even doubts about you?" Now that we're almost halfway through the league schedule and we all know you have a one-year contract, do you think you'll get a new deal before next summer? ”

"Although I have only been in the club in Turin for a short time, I have established very good communication channels and habits with Mr. President and other club staff. The team has had a very difficult schedule in the last three weeks, and the ups and downs of form due to over-fatigue have led to a disappointing result, but I haven't heard any complaints from anyone in the club. Of course, it can't be ruled out that they are holding back for the time being so as not to interfere with the team's preparation, but I am always open to all valuable advice, and everyone knows that, so ...... If someone says something or wants to say something, I'm always ready. ”

Li Mudi wasn't sure if someone was talking about him behind his back, so he left room to save others from being slapped in the face after turning it over. "As for next season...... It's too early to talk about it, the team and the manager are always a two-way street, and if they're happy with me, they're going to come up with a new contract. If I don't meet the team's goals, or if I don't fit the club's philosophy, I'll walk away and go home and post my resume online. Of course, it's not a good choice, and trust me, unemployment doesn't taste so good. Alright, next. ”

A reporter from La Repubblica asked: "Coach Li, we found that the state of the players in this game seems to have improved a lot compared to the previous two games, does it mean that they have come out of the trough and can meet the games before the winter break, especially Napoli in the next round?" ”

"The rebound of one game doesn't mean much, especially since it is still a city rival who needs to be taken out of 19 league opponents alone. I've got exactly the same information as you have at the moment, the players are really in better shape today than they were when they played Chievo, Sampdoria and the cups, but I don't have the ability to predict what the next week will bring. But no matter what kind of situation we are in, we will do our best in every game, and when we are in good form, we have a good way of playing, and when we are bad, we have bad luck, and people who work hard enough are not too lucky, right? As for Napoli, as I said before, they are second only to Juventus this season with Roma, and the rest of the team is very different from them, including us. Challenging them at the Stadio San Paolo is a tough task, and even the old woman doesn't always get a good result, so we have to do everything we can and leave the rest to the football itself. ”

Zhu Feng, a CCTV correspondent in Italy, is still biased towards his compatriots, and his inquiries are not as aggressive as those of Italian reporters: "After the game, all the spectators who were still in front of the screen heard the team song "Ancora Toro" sung by more than 20,000 Torino fans. Because I saw something that seemed to have some glint in your eyes from the close-up of the broadcast footage given to you, was it tears? ”

The domestic media is really meticulous enough, and they like this kind of material that excavates people's inner emotions, but Li Mudi does have some feelings to share with you at this time, which can be regarded as crooked. I saw that he was silent for a while, brewed his feelings for a while, and then responded at a relatively slow pace: "Everyone knows that when I was in elementary school, Serie A landed in the sports program of our Tianchao TV. The opening credits and occasional links will broadcast the team songs of each team, which was the strongest era of the Milan dynasty and Sampdoria, giving birth to a large number of fans of the Celestial Dynasty of those two teams, and their team songs should have played a big role in this. For myself, the first two songs I could hum in Italian were 'Milan, Milan, solo con te' and 'Forza Doria, Forza Sampdoria'...... Oh, I'm sorry, as the manager of the Torino team, I shouldn't have sung Samp's team song, please forgive me. ”

Another little humor that caused most people to smile, and then went to the point: "At that time, the Torino team was not very valued by the fans over there, after all, after only winning the third place once, it quickly slipped to the middle and back stream, and later after having the name of the Seven Sisters of Serie A, it was relegated to the second division." "Ancora Toro" must have been played on the show at the time, but it barely made an impression, and I learned it after listening to it a few times before I was ready to take over the team, but I didn't think it was ...... at first Again, I ask the Torino fans to forgive me for not thinking this song is so good, at least it is more than a notch away from the anthem of AC Milan and the other team. However, after the match that had just ended, I was in a state of extreme depression, and when I heard the song "Ancora Toro" from the fans, I immediately felt an infinite amount of power rushing into my body. This is really not an exaggeration, I believe that the three people around him, Belotti, Benassi and Rosettini should have similar feelings, and the body that was already spread on the turf at that time was instantly injected with strength. ”

The three Torino players, who had been in the background for more than ten minutes, immediately nodded solemnly, and Benasi, the team's fourth captain, leaned over the microphone and replied: "That's true, the fans' singing has given us great encouragement and support." ”

Then Li Mudi took over the topic again: "From this song, I feel the endless love of the Torino fans for this team, even after we let them down again and again, they still choose to continue to trust me and my players, and believe that the Red Bulls can fight tenaciously, this emotion really makes me too ...... How to say it, there is a famous saying in the Celestial Empire called 'Death for a confidant', and I can't think of any other form than to fight everything to repay the support of the fans. So here, I would like to say thank you to every fan who has supported, has always supported and even always supported the Red Bulls, and then please see what we do in the future...... That's it. ”

This was a bit sensational, even a little hypocritical, but most of the people on the scene felt the sincerity of the Torino coach, so no one jumped out to pick a thorn without opening their eyes, so that the press conference was carried out in the rest of the time, and the media reporters finally got a lot of reporting resources from the Celestial Empire coach, who has attracted much attention since the new season, and it can be regarded as a full load.

The Coppa Italia has reached the main event, that is, the round of 16, and the next game is to challenge AC Milan away, which is scheduled for 21 o'clock in the evening of January 12. The following weekend was the start of the second round of the league competition, with Torino back at home to the Rossoneri, and it was a coincidence that the two teams would meet twice in four days. That is, before the winter break, each team has only two games left. The Red Bulls will face Napoli at 15 p.m. on December 18 seven days later, and return home four days later to welcome Genoa, who are no longer in form at the start of the league, and then they can enjoy a two-week holiday that includes Christmas and New Year's Day. With such a long opportunity to adjust, I believe the players should be able to get back to their form.

Li Mudi had planned to cancel the rest of the day after the match in order to prepare as much as possible against another strong opponent, but after checking the fitness and condition of the players with the FM system, he gave up on this idea. The physical strength of all the main players has dropped to below 50%, among which Bareka and Baseli and others are less than three percent left, plus it seems to be an improved morale, so let them recuperate for a day, after all, the way of civil and military affairs is still about one by one.

However, the players can rest, but the coaching staff and the club's hierarchy cannot relax, with the former getting together early to discuss how to contain Napoli's formidable attacking line, and the latter looking at squad changes during the winter break and the manager's contract.

After 16 league games, the White Dolphins have scored a total of 32 goals, placing them in fourth place in Serie A behind Roma (36), Torino (36) and Juventus (35). However, after the main goalscorer Polish striker Milik was seriously injured, coach Maurizio Sarri had no hope of acquiring Belotti, and he was very bold to push the Belgian international and left winger Dries Mertens, who is only 1.69 meters tall and weighs only 61 kilograms, to the center forward position. As a result, this helpless move brought a great surprise to the team, with a 2-1 win over Udinese, a 1-1 draw with Sassuolo, a 3-0 win over Inter Milan and a 5-0 away win over Cagliari, the White Dolphins regained the top four with this wave of strong performances, and they were only one point away from AC Milan who could qualify for the Champions League. Mertens scored his first hat-trick against Cagliari in Serie A, making him the team's top scorer with six goals, and he will be a big problem at the back of Torino.

The Red Bulls' defensive problems have exposed a lot of problems in the latest period, in the last eight rounds of the league, except for the 2-0 victory over Crotone, they have not conceded a goal, and the other seven games have been successfully scored by the opponent a total of 13 times, which is almost an average of two goals per game, which is already the level of a relegated team. This is why the frontcourt players can score goals, so that the team can rush to the top of the table, if it is still at the level of only 1.37 goals per game last season, it is estimated that the Torino team can only be ranked 12th in the league now. However, this is already the result of the very hard work of the defensive coaches and players, after all, the team lost the original three main defenders of Glick, Maksimovic and Molinaro in the summer, and the new defensive line that has been put together temporarily is considered the strongest combination in the team at present. Therefore, if you want to further improve the defensive stability, you can only start with the introduction of reinforcements, which is also something that the club's top management, especially Valentino Cairo, who is responsible for related work, has been busy with.

Li Mudi had planned to spend a lot of money on Hoffenheim's 21-year-old centre-back Niklas Süle, but the club simply ignored Torino's enquiries, and when the promising star made his international debut for Schweinsteiger at the end of August at the German Football Association, the Torino boss knew he was no longer worth a non-first-class team. However, without waiting for the foreign giants to make a move, the FM system has already given Bayern that Bayern is negotiating to buy this young player with a potential value of up to 168, and the two sides have basically reached an agreement on the value of 20 million euros, and if everything goes well, the transfer will be completed by next summer at the latest. Freiburg's Marc-Oliver Kempf, who has just returned to the Bundesliga, is also a bargain option, but his injury history is hardly reassuring, and Lee has to list it as his last option. In addition, there are several potential young players under the age of 23 who have the opportunity to develop into first-class centre-backs in the future, but none of them have a second nationality in the European Union and cannot join in the winter.

However, there is a new situation in the goalkeeper position, according to the British media "The Sun" the day before, if the Torino team wants to sign Joe Hart from Manchester City, they only need to pay a transfer fee of more than 10 million euros to close the deal. The Manchester Evening Post also published a report on the England goal, claiming that Joe Hart has been outstanding during his loan spell at Italy, and should be bought by the Red Bulls at the end of the season. The Blues are willing to sell Hart to a non-Premier League club for £10 million, which is almost €12 million at the current exchange rate. Valentino Cairo, who was the original advocate of bringing in the goalkeeper, thinks the price is still very cheap, after all, according to the price tag given by the German "Transfermarkt", Joe Hart is still worth 20 million euros.

Although Li Mudi is very unhappy that the British goalkeeper loves to hit the ball too much and tries to hold it when the situation allows, and the occasional low-level mistakes, it must not be otherwise, his reaction and goal-line skills are still the world's top, and the goalkeeper of this level and who has just entered the golden period can be bought for only 12 million, which is definitely a great deal. However, the biggest issue now is salary, Joe Hart's weekly salary before tax at Manchester City is 120,000 pounds, or about 140,000 euros, which will translate into an annual salary of more than 7 million euros, far exceeding the club's upper line. Considering that the player and his agent are unlikely to accept a salary cut of up to 50% or more, the Torino boss believes that the deal is impossible, at least until the club's finances develop by leaps and bounds. However, Valentino did not give up his last hope, and still wanted to fight with his father, the chairman and other senior executives, whether he could break the salary structure for once, and at the same time kept in frequent contact with Hart's agent to try to persuade him to lower the conditions.