Chapter 642: The World Cup and the Transfer Drama (Part II)
After getting his favorite main goalkeeper Früchtel, Li Mudi immediately made the final adjustment to the goalkeeper's position. With the German not able to resume normal training until early November at the earliest, and it is estimated that the time he will be able to play will be after the winter break, so in the first half of the new season, Moja Ramos will take on the starting role, so the third goalkeeper has become a position to focus on.
The Real Madrid boss first sold former third goalkeeper Quintla Moya, who had not played for two seasons, to Valladolid, and then retained Lucas Canizares, who had just returned to the first team from a loan spell, completing a personnel change. At this point, the position of goalkeeper in the team has completed a complete renewal, and the three familiar faces have been replaced by newcomers, which is still extremely rare in the history of the team.
Born in 2004, Lucas Canizares, the youngest son of former Spanish international Santiago Canizares, a Real Madrid academy player, joined Valencia's academy at the age of six before arriving at La Fabrica four years ago. Although it cannot be regarded as a real Madrid lineage, the young man's loyalty to the Galaxy Battleship is still unquestionable, and in addition to inheriting his father's solid basic skills and stable state, Canizares Jr. also has a height of 1.93 meters, which is much better than his father in defending high-altitude balls, so it is very affirmed by the coaching staff of Real Madrid's youth teams at all levels.
It's just that the potential value of 145 is destined to prevent him from winning the favor of the big teams throughout his playing career, and even the heights that his father once reached like Valencia's main goalkeeper are difficult to be too competitive. However, Li Mudi is still willing to provide him with a "gold-plated" opportunity, after all, unless there are very special circumstances, the No. 3 goalkeeper will not have much playing time, and occasionally in the first few rounds of the Copa del Rey and the league against some weaker opponents, his level is still enough to deal with, and will not become an obvious weakness of the team.
But as the saying goes, a wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts! No one could have predicted what would happen in the future, and the seemingly irrelevant decision made by the Real Madrid coach at this time would almost undo all the hard work of the team for a year, which really scared him and others. But that's all for later, so let's pull the timeline back to normal.
While the goalkeeper position is being completely transformed, Li Mudi has also been paying attention to the transfer dynamics of other players, after years of training, his "multi-line operation ability" has reached the world's top level, and the help brought by plug-ins is immeasurable
Varane's departure, so that Real Madrid in the position of central defender appeared a big and small hidden danger, although Zori's emergence so that the Galaxy Battleship has a reliable defensive leader in the next ten years, but the other main Skriniar also spent his 31st birthday half a year ago, and the ability value will slowly show signs of decline from the peak, judging by the FM system and the personal experience of the Real Madrid coach, The Slovak star will be able to maintain his current top level for a maximum of two years or so, and it is time to look for a replacement to be his place.
Born in 1997, Vallejo can continue to play his role as a semi-main and semi-rotational role, as long as he does not suffer serious injuries that could threaten his career, and with his status as a team descendant, there is still hope of ending the Bernabeu. However, in terms of overall quality, the hopeful, once expected by Spanish football, has not been able to realise his full potential, and it will be difficult to shoulder the responsibility of defending the team after Varane's departure.
As for Mele, who was introduced by Li Mudi back then, it was even more disappointing, because the speed of progress has not been ideal, resulting in the former Sporting Gijón defensive talent, who had a potential of 160 in 2015, and the evaluation of the outside world is decreasing year by year. If it weren't for the fact that Lafayette attached great importance to the localization of the team in order to flaunt how much he attached importance to the construction of the team, and forcibly retained this local central defender who had shown a tendency to stand out from the crowd, I believe it would be difficult for him to complete the reunion with Li Mudi.
It's just that after giving him two consecutive years of opportunities, the Real Madrid coach also had to force himself to harden his heart and make a belated correction of the "wrong decision" he may have made back then.
On July 19, just one day before the start of the team's training camp for the new season, the centre-back, who was once thought to be the main defensive partner of the Spanish national team for the next ten years with Vallejo, switched to Real Betis for a transfer fee of 17.5 million euros, drawing an unsatisfactory end to his ten-year career in white.
As a result, Real Madrid will only have three centre-backs left in their first team, and bringing in new signings has become an urgent task for them. And because apart from Zori, Castilla really doesn't have any excellent seedlings, so as early as when Varane decided to leave the team, Li Mudi paid attention to those top defenders in world football today.
The number one target is of course the recognized No. 1 central defender, now playing for Manchester City, the Dutch international De Ligt, who failed to acquire this defensive genius with unlimited potential and finally fully cashed in at a super reserve price, which can be said to be the biggest mistake Real Madrid has made over the years.
Now Li Muddy and Raul just hope to get a chance to make up for their mistakes, but unfortunately no matter what amazing price they quote, they can't touch the heart of Manchester City Club, even if it can be seen from the FM system, the player himself is very interested in joining the Galaxy Battleship that has just won the Treble and has a good development momentum, and finally failed to complete the poaching operation, unless De Ligt's liquidated damages of up to 800 million are triggered. Otherwise, it will be difficult for Real Madrid to snatch the central defender superstar from the Blue Moon, who is also not bad for money.
So the next best thing, Li Mudi's target was soon changed to French international Benoit Bediachar. The former demon, who represented Monaco in Ligue 1 at the age of 17, has a potential of 173 in the FM system, which is exactly the same as his predecessor Raphael Varane. However, from the point of view of technical characteristics, Bediachar, who is nearly two meters tall, is naturally not comparable to the former Real Madrid captain in terms of speed ability, but its air defense ability is beyond doubt. And as a new generation of defenders with knives, he is very good at using his excellent heading ability to help the team occupy a huge advantage in set-piece tactics, which can be used to make up for Real Madrid's weakness in this regard.
It's just that in terms of type, Bediachar is somewhat similar to Skriniar and Zori, both of them are interception-oriented, and they are not at the top level in terms of defensive awareness, so there is a lot of problems with the effect of the three of them matching each other. Of course, there is still plenty of room for Zori to develop in the future, and Li is confident that he can gradually improve the young centre-back's relevant qualities, but that will take time. At least for two seasons, Real Madrid will definitely have to suffer if they only have Vallejo as a well-equipped central defender.
As a result, another local central defender who has been recognized by the Real Madrid coach has become the target of the Galaxy Battleship's recruitment, but due to some special reasons, the introduction of this player has encountered a lot of interference.
Jose Martinez, born in 2002, is now 24 years old, currently playing for La Liga powerhouse Sevilla, and is only 1.83 meters tall, he is the typical kind of player who plays with excellent awareness and technique, and is also the invisible core of the defense that is most easily overlooked by the outside world.
With no particularly glamorous accolades on his resume and no favour from previous managers in the national team, the not-so-well-known defender would not have received much attention in the transfer market. It was only when the news of Real Madrid's intention to bring him in came out that it immediately pushed it to the forefront, because Martinez was born in Catalonia, grew up in La Masia, and is a pure-blooded Barcelona descendant, who only left Camp Nou two years ago to come to Pizjuan, and the red and blue marks on his body are far from completely fading.
Judging from the hostile relationship between the two teams, Jose Martinez, a player who will never be separated from Barcelona for life, cannot choose to join the sworn enemy of his parent club under the concept of agreement, even if he even thinks about it, he will not be able to get support in public opinion.
And those predecessors who have really completed the "defection" behavior have also used bloody lessons again and again to issue a solemn warning to all latecomers, that is, when there are other options, do not easily challenge the bottom line of these two giants, especially their respective fans.
But a miracle happened, when everyone was analyzing whether this rumor was a fake news created by Real Madrid in order to lower the price of Bediachar's owner Dortmund, Sevilla officially announced that it agreed that its defender began to negotiate personal terms with buyers, because Hierro directly threw out 50 million euros to trigger Martinez's liquidated damages clause.
A day later, the transfer was announced, and even though everyone was excited about the upcoming World Cup semi-finals, it was still the deal that temporarily diverted their attention. Although in theory, Jose Martinez's behavior is not strictly a defection, and his influence cannot be compared with Figo, but his decision to join Real Madrid still broke the unspoken rules of non-aggression between the two giants of the Western Super League in the transfer market for more than ten years, and was scolded by countless Barcelona fans, further intensifying the tension between the two teams.
Especially when the elections for regional councilors are about to take place in Spain, this kind of behavior will be forcibly labeled as ZZ by many people with ill intentions, and become an excuse for them to attract attention and even build momentum for some dirty purposes.
As we all know, Catalonia has always wanted to be independent from the Kingdom of Spain, and since it was formally incorporated into the Kingdom of Aragon in the mid-12th century (the prototype of Spain at that time), it has always played the role of the spokesperson and standard-bearer of European independence, and has repeatedly created rebellions in an attempt to return to the level of full autonomy, but has never succeeded.
In 2006, Catalonia held a referendum on the expansion of local autonomy, which resulted in 73.9% of votes; Eleven years later, the "independence referendum" that shocked the world ended, ending that more than ninety percent of voters supported secession from the Kingdom of Spain, resulting in a fierce confrontation between the Spanish ZF and the region, and even bloody clashes.
Later, the officials sent by the Western ZF to Catalonia were expelled, and the latter announced the establishment of its own ZF, which brought the relationship between the two sides to a fever pitch, and some even made comments that the war was already on the verge of breaking out.
Fortunately, thanks to the intervention and mediation of the European Union, no more terrible things have happened, but everyone knows very well that the independence movement in Catalonia will continue, and both the means and the process will only become more and more intense and extreme. Especially this year, there is a good chance that some big events will happen that no one wants to see.
As mentioned before, football should theoretically have nothing to do with ZZ, but in reality, it is impossible to escape the fate of being involved or even kidnapped.
As the biggest symbol of Catalonia, FC Barcelona is the unlucky one who is caught between the country and the region and cannot find a balance. Although after the Spanish professional football league issued an official warning that Barcelona would be expelled from La Liga if Catalonia finally became independent, one of the club's top brass at the time had arrogantly stated that they could go to Ligue 1 or even the Premier League. But the harsh reality is that even if the two leagues would welcome the top giants, it is impossible for England and France to agree to accept such a controversial team in order not to anger Spain's ZF.
Therefore, in order to avoid the tragic fate of having no league to play, the strength of the cliff decline, and finally becoming the belly of the football world, Barcelona can only repeatedly say against its will that it will not make positive support for the independence of the Catalan region, which makes the club and its supporters hold back a anger that almost burns themselves to ashes, and then all vent on the official capital team of the West - Real Madrid. The century-old hatred is not just at the level of athletics, at least half of it comes from ZZ.
So, when the news of José Martinez, a descendant of La Masia, to join Real Madrid was confirmed, the central defender became the number one public enemy in the entire Catalan region, and the explosion of online social platforms such as Instagram was already a small incident, and even his former home in Seville was painted by radical fans from top to bottom for a new "dress", and the mailbox was blown up by countless death threat letters, which became the focus of all the media in the country in those days.
Real Madrid's preparation and response to the series of violent incidents against their new signings was perfect, bringing Martinez and his family to Madrid early on, arranging a high-security apartment for them, and employing six security personnel to protect them 24 hours a day.
Raul also publicly condemned the behaviour of the unscrupulous fans in the media in his capacity as the club's president and expressed his willingness to help Martinez through the difficult time. He firmly believes that as long as the club and the fans can work together, then all undeserved injuries will be kept away from football, and everyone will work together to keep the only pure land on the green field.
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