Although the team will travel to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on Wednesday night to play the mighty Red Wolves in the Coppa Italia 8-4, and although New Year's Day is not a very important holiday for Western countries, the Torino club still gave everyone a holiday on the first day of 2018, so that all the staff and players can feel the joyful moment of the new year in the company of their families.

Li Mudi also spent this holiday with his parents, and the second elder, who was indifferent to foreign festivals such as Christmas, still attached more importance to the Gregorian New Year, and did not refuse his son's invitation again, and flew over from Mallorca a day in advance. However, the family of three is all traditional Celestial Empire people, and there is not much interaction between them, except for having a hearty dinner together, they are doing their own things. Li's father guarded the laptop and didn't let go, although it has been some years since he came to Europe, but the old man still maintains the habit of being in China, and in his free time he is watching TV programs, of course, it is the Celestial Empire CCTV and various David TV, watching it through the Internet with video software, and every day has a good time.

Li's mother also has no special hobbies in her daily life, reading newspapers, listening to the radio, which she often does in China, but after coming to Europe, she completely gave up, and can only spend her time and energy on taking care of the farm. But because she hired a professional to operate, she herself is also old and her health is not as good as before, so naturally she can only follow blindly and busy, and it can't play a big role, so she is so willing to return to visit relatives or travel to various places.

However, since his son got a girlfriend, the focus of the two old people has obviously been more focused on this aspect, although they have not urged marriage, but Li Mudi's age is there, to say that they are not in a hurry to hold their grandson, it must be a lie. No, after arriving in Turin City at noon on the 31st, after taking a look with his son, the second elder hurried to the newly bought house to check the situation inside. After a simple renovation, it has basically been cleaned up and can be moved in at any time, and the new electrical appliances have been installed, but Li Mudi hopes to move over with Lin Yun'er after she comes, so she is not in a hurry to pack up the things in the apartment.

After seeing the situation on the other side of the new house, Li's mother began to urge her son to sort out all the luggage at home as soon as possible, even if he didn't have to move immediately, he had to prepare in advance. However, the Turin coach thinks that there is nothing to prepare, everything is new in the new home, and there is no way to make the current old things, and when he moves, he just takes the opportunity to put them together and throw them away directly, anyway, his current net worth is not low, there is no need to care about this little money. The clash of ideas between the two generations at the end of the year and the beginning of the year actually produced a fierce collision, which was indeed not expected before.

To say that Li Mudi is also a filial son, but he didn't expect that he was just because he was lazy and didn't like to clean up and refuted his mother's suggestion, which made the old man angry, and when he found out that the situation was not good, the situation was about to develop to the point where it was difficult to control. Fortunately, he reacted in time, sincerely apologized to his mother, and said that he was willing to obey the command and promise to complete the assigned tasks.

However, Li's mother, who knew her son's lazy temperament, did not give too many verbal reminders, and simply took the work of packing up the old belongings into her arms, and decided to stay in Italy for two more days, and then return to Spain after sorting out the things by herself. After the persuasion failed, Li Mudi had to return to the bedroom with his tablet alone, while making a tactical plan for the midweek game, while keeping in touch with Valentino Caiiro on the phone, and discussing the possibility of adjusting the squad for the upcoming winter transfer window.

Since Li Muddy joined the Red Bulls in the summer of 2016, the Torino team has been in a very active state in three successive transfer windows, and they have all made plans early. However, before this winter, the club really didn't have any special ideas in terms of recruitment. Although at the beginning of December, director Longo had already come up with a budget of about 20 million euros for the club's available transfer funds, but because the inflated value of the player caused by Neymar's sky-high price to join Paris Saint-Germain has not dissipated, the team coach believes that it is too cost-effective to spend money on new signings at this time, so he proposed to keep the transfer fee for use in the summer according to the specific situation.

However, there is a saying in the Celestial Empire called "people are not as good as heaven", Belotti's injury, and there were two problems in the same position, which still made the club worry about the strength of the team's forward, Li Mudi estimated that Mr. Chairman's heart may have begun to regret that he did not take advantage of the previous summer when there were many giants to buy, even if no team took out the 100 million he marked, 80 million can agree to it, this really feels like it has been smashed into his own hands.

Let's not mention whether it is worth it to keep the red bebei, judging from the current lineup arrangement of the Torino team, there were only three strikers in Zhengyin, and now there is one injured, which is indeed very stretched in terms of appearance arrangement. Although the 19-year-old Johannes Egerstein of the youth team can be transferred, the young man's current ability value is only less than 120, and there is still some gap between the 125 Pellegri and the 125 Pellegri will be a little difficult in Serie A, so it is obviously impossible to expect the German to replace the top scorer in the league last season.

Of course, it does not mean that the new signings are coming to the Torino team to succeed Belottti, and it is impossible to buy people according to this ability requirement without 50 or 60 million euros. Moreover, the team's No. 9 will return in three weeks, even if in order to prevent another injury, the team will strictly control his playing time, but there will not be too many opportunities for newcomers, and well-known players are reluctant to join the Red Bulls in this situation. Fortunately, the team only needs a temporary emergency striker, as long as they hold on for the remaining half of the season, everything will be said when the summer window opens and the transfer fee is sufficient, so loan has become the most reliable option now.

Although the incident happened particularly suddenly, and there was not much time left for the club staff, with the FM system in hand and the use of the scouting tools at the end of the year, a list of reserve personnel was quickly passed to the hands of all the relevant personnel, and the scouting team began to book tickets one after another and began to travel around the country. The number one target proposed by Li Mudi was Belgium international Michy Batshuayi, who had struggled at Chelsea, and former Manchester United decorated Englishman Longley had travelled to London two days earlier to watch the Blues' five-goal home win over Stoke City. However, the Belgian striker, who has made few appearances this season, only came off the bench in the final moments and has not been able to shine again after contributing a shot that was off target.

As of New Year's Day, Michy Batshuayi has played a total of 16 games for Chelsea this season, scoring seven goals, which is a decent result, but most of the statistics have been brushed up in domestic cup competitions such as the League Cup, which are not taken seriously. In the 21st round of the league, he made just 11 appearances, all as a substitute, scoring two goals in a total of more than 260 minutes. With Diego Costa out of the game and Alvaro Morata suffering injuries since October, Conte has never been able to reuse him, and in Limdoudi's mind, the difficulty of loaning him is already relatively small.

There is no doubt as to whether the striker's ability can help the Torino team, and his failure to play at Stamford Bridge has a lot to do with Conte's tactical play. Michy Batshuayi joined Chelsea in the summer of 2016 for a high price of nearly 40 million, because the beauty of the world was very sluggish in the previous season, so in order to continue to be competitive enough in the competition for the league title, Abobou paid the conversion fee that was considered a premium at the time (the player was only worth 15 million at the time) to take him. But no one expected that Costa would suddenly regain his world-class center forward strength last season, although there were occasional minor injuries, but when he was healthy, he was always killing all sides, and was one of the biggest contributors to the Blues' early Premier League crown.

This made Batshuayi, who had a lot of wonderful performances at the beginning of the season, collapse directly, and was firmly pressed on the bench for many consecutive games, with no chance to kill the enemy with empty skills, and his mentality changed. In the second season, it was not easy to survive until Costa was deposed, and the new recruit Morata grabbed the position of the main force, and he was still a reserve. And Conte's tactics this season also require the center forwards to have a strong ability to fight for the ball in addition to the individual ball, so as to give full play to the crosses assisted by the wing-backs on both sides, and the Belgian, who is not very good at this, will naturally not be favored by the manager.

Of course, there is another point that needs to be paid attention to is that the former Marseille player was not brought in by Conte when he joined the team, but the Chelsea uniform team made a good deal from the perspective of player ability, as the template for this player is Drogba. The Belgian striker is a relatively rare impact center forward in current football, with good back-to-back skills, and can also retreat to play the role of a fulcrum, which is actually rare. But although he has a certain ability to grab points, he is relatively bulky, his ability to pass is not strong, and his ability to create opportunities is very limited, which are all shortcomings that Conte does not like, and it is reasonable to be abandoned.

However, Batshuayi, who has an ability value of 140 and a potential value of 155, is still a good pillar center, and if he can get rid of the demons of playing in England and stop shooting, his shooting skills are still quite reliable. Coupled with the fact that you can act as a target for long passes in the midfield and defend against the opposition in the penalty area, create opportunities for your teammates, and it is still possible to replay your strength after changing environments, it should be said that it is still worth looking forward to if you can use it on loan for half a season at a low cost.

In addition, behind this list of forward reinforcements, there are several players who may not be familiar to all fans, but who are also ideal for the Red Bulls. Senegalese striker Kumar Babacar, who has been completely reduced to a substitute in Fiorentina, is currently playing for Las Palmas in La Liga and has always been the main player in the team, but former Chelsea French center Lodge Remy, who suddenly fell out with the coach last week, Swede Johan Goudeti, who was once a demon of a generation in the football manager game and switched to Celta Vigo in the summer but did not perform well due to injuries and water problems, and Wolfsburg's sluggish form, Veteran Mario Gomez, who could switch to a new environment in order to re-enter the national team, are among the strikers who are likely to leave in the winter transfer window.

In addition to these players who are all good at playing on the spot, Sassuolo center Falcinelli, who has been put on loan by Fiorentina, and Pazzini, a veteran who has been unable to play in Verona, are both guaranteed options, and once several previous players cannot reach an agreement with the Red Bulls due to various problems, Li Mudi will use them as temporary replacements. However, from the perspective of strength and cost performance, these two are naturally a lot worse, and I hope they will not end up in this situation.

Shortly after Scouts in Turin began their investigations, the first day of 2018, the first day of the UEFA Europa League winter transfer window, was marked by an impressive number of big deals that surprised small and medium-sized teams who thought they had a little money to spare.

First of all, the Premier League giants Liverpool poached the Dutch international Van Dijk from Southampton in a way that set a new record for the transfer fee of a defender in world football, with a cost of 78.8 million! The player had also been on the Torino manager's radar before, and he had wanted to buy it to strengthen the defensive line, but last summer's estimate of 12 million and the 35 million price obtained through FM system feedback directly made him cut off the idea of bringing in. But who knew that a year and a half later, the player's transaction price would more than double, which is unimaginable.

Diego Costa then returned to his old club Atletico Madrid after six months without a ball to play, with a transfer fee of €66 million more than three and a half years ago when he joined the Blues at the peak of his life. After winning two Premier League titles with the world's top striker, returning him to his 'original factory' before he developed ageing problems, and making a fortune, Chelsea's deal deserves praise from everyone except Atletico.

In the 24 hours leading up to the second day of the new year, 4,352 players were traded in world football (mainly on the European continent) (including transfers, loans, free agents to new teams and contract terminations), with a total transfer fee of 26.5 million euros, which is slightly less than the same period last year, but still one of the most active natural days in the transfer market.