In summary, this is the first time that Li Mudi has changed the position of a player in the real football world, and he has rarely done such things in his previous more than ten years of football manager game career, at most it is just the premise of a full-back with a strong desire to attack, such as letting Robert Carlos play as a full-back in the distant CM4 era. Rather than a time-consuming, labor-intensive transformation with unknown results, he still believes in the best roles that professional coaches have identified through technical ability analysis at a very young age.

There is no shortage of examples in football of an ordinary player who has become a star or even a superstar after changing positions, but most of them have been transformed at a young age, and the rest are the premise of a full-back like Bale, or a slight change in defence, switching between a midfielder and a centre-back. It would be a bit fantastical to say that a full-back in his 20s suddenly turned into a goal-scoring centre-forward, and although I dare not say absolutely, the possibility is indeed infinitely small.

So is it easy to go from a goal-grabbing centre-forward to a winger who combines the ball more frequently? The answer may not be easy for the Torino coaching staff. There has been an extremely successful example of the reverse switch: Thierry Henry, the king of Highbury, has practiced dribbling and split-second judgment on the flanks of the front court, helping him to become the most dangerous striker before the king of the ball. The classic shots of the Yellow Dragon from the start of the own half can illustrate why when the ball appears at the feet of such a person, no matter what area the other person is, the opponent will be terrified.

However, the reverse is quite difficult, and it is difficult to imagine how the excellent finishers in front of goal such as Inzaghi and Lewandowski will behave when they are pulled down the wing. Even Shevchenko, who is the world's top in dribbling skills and speed, played a mess when he appeared in the winger position after joining Chelsea, and was wronged by the world as a parallel import, which indirectly led to the fall of Ukraine's nuclear warheads.

Boyer's ability is naturally 108,000 miles away from Sheva, but fortunately, he still has two advantages, one is that the young Argentine, who has just celebrated his 21st birthday, has not yet fully established his technique, which can be adjusted through a lot of practice; In addition, the technical characteristics mentioned earlier, dribbling, speed are good, and the willingness to defend is still outstanding, if you can practice in terms of physical strength and endurance, it is indeed a copy of Kuyt, this type of winger is very rare in the entire world football, and will definitely find opportunities to realize their own value.

However, this adjustment will take enough time, and Li Mudi does not want to and does not have time to focus all his energy on this matter, so he handed over the task of transforming to attacking coach De Leo, and Scholes will assist from the side. At the start of Friday morning, after handing over the day's practice to the assistant coach, the Torino boss left the training ground and walked straight to the conference room on the other side of the building, where he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to adjust his form before the game and the task was not too important to meet with Valentino Caiiro to discuss the work on summer transfers.

Thanks to the Boseman Rule, the club can contact players whose contracts with their former owners are about to expire six months in advance to discuss free transfers. According to the signing time of the contract, between January 1 and June 30 every year, it is the stage when relevant negotiations and news break out. As early as the end of the winter window, Pantario Longo, who is now the director of human resources, and Valentino, the head of marketing, began to make frequent trips to find suitable targets, and today's meeting is to put their respective situations together to see who is worth following up.

Due to the departure of the former director of football, Page, the current Torino club does not have this position, so the transfer power that should have been held by the person in this position alone has been divided equally between Valentino and Longo, which is indeed a rare situation. Two people doing a job will inevitably cause friction and even contradictions, but Valentino's status as the crown prince of Turin minimizes possible problems between the two parties. In addition, the two people usually pay attention to communication and make the division of labor very clear, so there is nothing unfavorable to unity for the time being.

This meeting was not very formal, so there was no assistant around, so the three of them got together to exchange information, and everything was simple. Longo first took out his own list and gave an overview of the latest situation: "There is almost nothing to negotiate on the Juventus side, and after Patrice Evra joined Marseille for free in the winter window because the old woman was unwilling to let us go, right-back Brazilian Alves is completely out of play." Even my willingness to bid the maximum annual salary of 4 million before tax failed to impress him, and according to his agent, the former Barcelona defender has reached a verbal agreement with Paris to join the Ligue 1 giants in the summer. The rest of the Brazilian goalkeeper Neto and the Spanish teenager Lirola did not give me a chance to speak, and directly refused, but were willing to open the trade of Venezuelan international Tomás Rincón. ”

Ghana international Akwa has improved a lot this season, but due to the team's style of play, the player's growth seems to be focused on the attacking side, and the defensive end has basically stagnated. Coupled with Las Diarra, who is an all-round midfielder, the Torino team does lack a full-time midfielder to grab the ball, while Rincón, who is just 29 years old and at the peak of his career, has 19 marking and 18 tackles, and 14 dribbling and passing ability, in addition to the weaknesses of poor defensive positioning, slow speed and too short (175 cm), it is definitely a super beast waist, of course, the aggressiveness of up to 19 is also a hidden danger, The percentage of cards should set a new record in the club's history.

However, in the case of only considering the defensive ability of the player, combined with his current situation at Juventus, his asking price is only about 7 million, this value for money is still very high. In this regard, the Torino coach still did not make up his mind to win after a short period of careful consideration, he felt that there are currently two good defenders in the team, and the demand for Rincón is not so urgent, if the price can be compressed to less than four million, it is okay, otherwise it is better to drag it out. The club's transfer budget for next season has not yet been made, and now it only has 20 million brought by the new sponsors of the Celestial Empire, and 4 million has been spent on Lianco, and the money still has to be used to the cutting edge.

After the three of them confirmed the decision, Longo continued to introduce the domestic situation in Italy that he is good at: "Let's take a look at the Milan duo, at present, it seems that the Celestial Consortium behind them is ready to start exerting force, and it can be expected from all kinds of signs that this summer, the two Milan teams are likely to usher in a big change, and Coach Li's compatriots are really local tyrants!" He shook his head pretentiously as he spoke, which made Li Mudi quite helpless.

"AC Milan still don't forget Andre every year, and their director Mirabelli called me the day before yesterday to pack Poli and Kuczka together to give us a package, and if Watford doesn't trigger the buyout clause of French winger Niang, they can also join the deal. The opponent valued the three players at 6 million, 8 million and 10 million respectively, which are all lower than the immediate value, and then wants to use the 25 million worth of players to fill in another 50 million euros in exchange for Belotti. I contacted Mr. President as soon as I could, and the results speak for themselves. However, it is not difficult to understand from Mirabelli's words that these three players are no longer in their plans, and if we have ideas, we can take advantage of the fact that the other teams have not yet reacted. ”

"Neither Kuczka nor Niang are suited to the style of the team, so I don't want to give them for free, unless I get my salary free, so I can still think about it. As for Poli, it's still a little useful, but it can only be used as a replacement for Baseli and Benasi, and it is better to use Maximilian or dig someone from his own academy with him, after all, the salary gap is there, plus the transfer fee of 5 or 600 million, forget it. This time, there is no need to waste time to think, Li Mudi directly refused.

"And what about Japanese midfielder Keisuke Honda? His contract expires in the summer, and AC Milan have already said that they will not renew his contract, so we can get him for free. ”

"His current annual salary is 4.35 million euros before tax, would he agree to a salary cut if he had joined Torino on a free transfer? And this player's performance after joining Serie A is not outstanding, this season has completely fallen out of the rotation lineup, the strength has declined too quickly, and he is no longer capable of playing in the top five leagues, and signing him is a waste of money. As for Honda's view, the Torino coach did not carry the special emotions of the Celestial Empire towards the Japanese, but just told the most realistic situation.

However, he is not completely dismissive of the Rossoneri players, and there is one person who has been gradually forgotten: "Donnarumma hasn't renewed his contract yet, has he? Can we have a chance? ”

Longo flipped through the information in his hand, and quickly replied: "Yes, the contract has not been renewed, the current contract was signed in the summer of 2015 and terminated in the summer of 2018, with an annual salary of 1.5 million before tax." At present, the outside world has begun to circulate that Donnarumma wants to leave, Real Madrid have shifted their target to De Gea after the failure to buy him last year, and Juventus have also reported that they want to bring him in to replace Gianluigi Buffon, who is likely to retire after next season. In addition, many other giants are also paying attention to this young goalkeeper with unlimited potential, so let's not be delusional about a small team like us with no money and no prestige, or put all the time on other goalkeepers. ”

Although he always knew that he was just holding on to the possibility of winning the lottery and wanted to keep a glimmer of hope, the fact still ruthlessly told the Torino coach that the chances of the toad being able to eat swan meat are greater than Torino to win the fourth goalkeeper with a potential value of more than 185 after Buffon, Neuer and Casillas, and he is so young that he has almost locked this position in the top three in the world for at least ten years in the future.

The less enthusiastic Li Mudi shook his head slightly, signaling that Longo could continue with the following, and the latter began to introduce the situation of the other Milan team: "Inter's operation in the summer does not look much smaller than that of their rivals in the city, as far as I know, they are contacting Spalletti of the Roma team. Although Stefano Pioli has performed extremely well since taking over the team at the end of October last year, two draws and three defeats in the last five rounds of matches have gradually left Inter behind, and the pursuit of European qualification for the whole season is almost hopeless, no wonder the club's hierarchy will make the decision not to retain the current manager at this time. Whether or not Spalletti takes over the reins of the Nerazzurri, there is a great possibility that there will be a big change in the squad and I think it will provide us with a good opportunity to find our best in the world. ”

After the presentation, the Torino director turned his gaze to the head coach and waited for his response.

Li Mudi looked through the list of players handed over by the other party before, and began to analyze it in combination with the FM system in his brain, because he had prepared before, so he quickly gave his own answer: "If I want to say that the player I am most optimistic about in their team, of course, is the Brazilian striker Gabriel Barbosa, who is not yet 21 years old and combines speed and technology so well, and the future is limitless!" It can just make up for the lack of winger positions in our team, but I just don't know if it's good or not. ”

Hearing the name coming out of the mouth of the team's manager, Valentino Cairo and Longo were both happy, and the former teased: "No wonder someone is making you the second professor now!" It's really a Zhengtai control, but he likes to introduce young players, and if he meets a good guy, he will feel uncomfortable if he doesn't buy it. ”

"Go! What is this called? What coach would want to see young players with high potential talent and not want to recruit them under his wing? It's all human nature! Besides, I'm also considering the club's financial situation, and I have the little money in hand...... It's almost 16 million, plus the part that may be added in the summer, I estimate that it won't exceed 30 million in total, which big name is enough to buy? The team still needs to strengthen the goalkeeper, central defender, winger or center forward position, and the players who can help us move further in the table next season, with the current market, it is almost impossible to do without 20 to 30 million, what can I do if I don't play the idea of Zhengtai who may grow rapidly? ”

After breathing a sigh of relief, Li Mudi continued: "Do you think Wenger likes to develop new talents so much? If it weren't for the fact that Arsenal's financial situation was so bad in those years, only a fool would let go of the stars who had proven themselves, and instead gambled on pieces of jade. Wide. This thing is like a gambling stone, who knows which stone has an emerald gem in it, and which one has no fart in it? Isn't this all forced by money! ”