Chapter 315: Bulls Have Fangs?
With Borussia Dortmund's talented midfielders unleashed by late July, their enthusiasm for Serbia's midfielder must have plummeted, and the problem for Li Mudi now is that he doesn't seem to want to keep Rajjadzic. If it is put up for sale, it will have to be reduced at a lower price, and it will have to be discounted to attract buyers, and the Torino manager, who is unwilling to be a big wrongdoer, will naturally not make such an unwise choice.
According to his idea two days ago, it was a big deal to keep this player for half or even a season, but in the past two days, Rajjdzic seems to have lost his temper again because he failed to get a chance to play in the warm-up game against Atalanta, and he didn't smile at all in training, as if everyone owed him a million, which seriously affected the atmosphere in the team. Li Mudi had to find his agent and ask him to think about his client's future and whether he was sure he didn't want to continue with the Torino team. If you want to stay, give me some good acquaintances; If you want to leave, you can contact the new owner yourself, and as long as you can come up with euros that match your value, the club will immediately agree to release him.
With the dissuasion of his agent, Rajjdzic didn't continue to make trouble, but secretly he should have started to contact the next family, but he didn't gain anything until half a month later, so he had to honestly train seriously with his tail between his legs, otherwise Li Mudi really dared to send him to the youth team, anyway, his contract won't expire until 2020, see who can play whom!
Due to the large number of young players in the team, and the manager will always change all the starters in the game, so everyone's fitness has been good, so the warm-up games are arranged more closely, after the draw with Atalanta on the 24th, the Torino team will leave for Austria, they will face the Austrian league powerhouse Vienna Rapid on the 27th.
They have been in the top three of Austria's top flight for the past six seasons and have played in the Europa League almost every year, so it was an important training opportunity for Li Mudi and his team before the start of the Europa League group stage. The result of this game once again surprised the outside world, the fast team fighting at home was suppressed very badly, less than 30% of the possession rate and 3-0 shots on goal all showed the huge difference in strength between the two warring sides. The score of 0-6 caused many Italian media to shout: "This red bull is not only as strong and powerful as last season, but this year it has grown fangs and is even more terrifying." ”
There is no doubt that Immobile, who scored a hat-trick in this game, is what those journalists call a sharp fang, while Belotti, who scored a brace and gave a friend an assist, is another, and a number of new signings have also played well, and the run-in of the Torino team is improving to the naked eye. This big win also basically dispelled the doubts after the draw against Poseidon Son in the last game, Paolo Casiatori, a well-known journalist of La Repubblica who has been writing the prediction of the new season of Serie A, lowered the odds of the Red Bulls to win the championship a little in the next day's article, and became the fourth place in his eyes that he may win the league title, second only to Juventus, Napoli and AC Milan, and beat Inter Milan, which has not made much moves in the transfer market, and Roma, whose apparent strength has declined due to the sale of a number of quality players.
Rather than leaving home after a win over their fourth pre-season opponent, the Torino team headed straight for Germany, where they will play last season's 11th Bundesliga winners Eintracht Frankfurt on the last day of July at the Commerzbank Arena in Hesse.
Since this club is the place where Yang Chen once fought, most of the people of the Celestial Empire still have a very strong affection for Frankfurt, which is nicknamed "Airport", and Li Mudi will naturally be no exception. It is the fifth largest city in Germany, an important industrial, commercial, financial and transportation center in Europe, and a world-famous cultural city, with Frankfurt Cathedral, Goethe's house and numerous museums attracting visitors. According to the habits and hobbies of the Turin coach, he should naturally have a good stroll here, but unfortunately, there is too much work in his hands, which really makes him lacking skills.
After arriving at the hotel near the Eintracht Frankfurt club's residence, Li Mudi handed over the management to the assistant coach and others, and the players were allowed to wander outside for a while in their free time, but they had to follow the team's rules. As for the manager himself, he rushed into the room and put the finishing touches on both the personal side and the team's recruitment.
After nearly a month of hard work, the "lyrics" of the solo single written by the company to his girlfriend came out. Of course, strictly speaking, the Chinese lyrics temporarily named "If You Also Think of Me" have not yet taken shape, even if Li Mudi has asked Lin Zixu to contact two well-known domestic lyricists for advice, he has not been able to achieve a reasonable rhyme setting. Fortunately, after reading this version, the two industry leaders think that it is full of affection, which can be regarded as a "heartfelt work", and the requirements can be less strict. Regardless of whether they were comforting the Turin coach or not, he felt that his limit was like this, so he broke the jar and sent the lyrics and related ideas to Sunny, asking her to help transfer them to his uncle Li Xiuman, and then how about love, anyway, he really tried his best.
After finishing this personal work, Li Mudi dialed the Internet video connection and began to communicate with Valentino Cairo, who stayed in Italy to handle affairs, about the work of the two days, and the first important event was about Balotelli's inspection work.
After an "accidental" exchange with Raiola on the day of the Champions League final, the Torino boss mentioned to the club's hierarchy the other party's plan to bring the god back to Italian football, not to mention, it really aroused the interest of several people, including the chairman. They immediately mobilized their resources to find the information of this mysterious genius who was previously regarded as the savior of the Italian fans, and the information on the Ligue 1 field last season, and came to the conclusion that except for the two injuries that were a few hidden dangers, the other links were the performance of the top players in Serie A. However, at that time, Li Mudi was focusing on Immobile with all his might, and did not show any subjective thoughts on the matter of "intermittent brain-dead children", he was neither in favor of the introduction nor against it, and just watched the rest of the club jump up and down there.
However, after more than a year of negotiations, Bashen finally did not find the door to return to Italian football, although some Torino executives crossed the team coach and promised Raiola that he would give the player a main position, and the always greedy agent predator also rarely did not make too many requirements in terms of annual salary, signing fees, etc., but the 25 million euro price given by Nice was unanimously rejected by the marketing minister and director Longo, the two current heads in charge of the transfer work. Although the team can still use 26 million in the transfer market after the budget for the new season comes out, since the head coach still retains the idea of bringing in new signings in the central midfield and wing-back positions, it is simply unacceptable to spend so much unplanned.
As mentioned before, the whole club knows that the team's performance is one of the main reasons for their large number of sponsorships and status improvements, so at least before Li Mudi's team performance declined, no second stunned person jumped out at this time to interfere with the head coach's team building ideas. As a result, Balotelli, who has rebounded to a greater extent than in the previous two years, has almost reached more than 90% of his peak, but still has no reassurance mentally, announced that he will not compete with the Red Bulls this summer.
Surprisingly, Raiola did not feel resentful because of this, and after a face-to-face exchange with Li Mudi in Turin City, and learned that the deal was completely hopeless, he still maintained an extremely kind attitude, expressing his willingness to have more contact and cooperation between the two sides in the future. In this regard, Li Mudi naturally readily agreed. In order to show his sincerity, the top agent in Europe revealed a shocking secret to the Torino coach before leaving: Paris Saint-Germain will not only not agree to sell Verratti to Barcelona, but are also planning to poach Neymar in revenge.
Li Mudi, who learned the news, felt that his scalp was instantly tightened, and his face involuntarily showed a rather surprised expression, which was seen by Raiola, and then smiled very happily, and made a slight gesture to the Turin coach who was still in a state of selflessness, and left the café located not far from the other party's apartment, and left on his own.
Li Mudi, who had recovered for a short time, immediately got up and called up the FM system interface while thinking about how to seek some benefits for his team in this transfer incident that is likely to become the king of this summer. It's not that he's been stimulated to be a little out of his mind, it's actually a very consistent operation in the laws of football. If Neymar's move to Paris becomes a reality, then Barcelona will have to bring in at least one replacement in this position, so that those first-class wingers from other teams will become targets for the La Liga giants. Once Coutinho or Bitolo join Camp Nou, their former club will once again select a replacement from the secondary range, which is the perfect opportunity to sell Rajjadzic, and all they have to do is how to get the most out of it.
Of course, this is just a personal YY, only when Neymar's transfer becomes a reality, there will be follow-up opportunities, and now is far from the time to put too much energy into this.
Leaving aside this sudden variable, the Torino boss is currently struggling with the choice of reinforcements in the central midfield position. After a long period of scouting by the head of the scouting team, combined with the FM system and the results of the use of scouting at the end of last month, Li Mudi has narrowed down the final scope of the introduction to three players: Nikola Vukcevic, a Montenegrin international born in late 1991 who plays for the Portuguese Super League club Braga, and Argentine midfielder Franco Mussis, who was born in 1992 and now plays for San Lorenzo. and Santiago Ascacibar, a 1997-born teenager who graduated from the academy of Estudiantes de La Plata.
The three of them are both offensive and defensive midfielders, and they can also play their strength in the position of the back midfield, what is rare is that their current reputation is not high, and their value is still relatively low, which is completely in line with Li Mudi's strategy of low-cost Taobao.
The youngest, Ascarcibal, has the lowest estimate of around €2.1 million on Transfermarkt and FM, but his potential is undoubtedly the biggest and most promising, so if you want to bring him to Europe from the Argentine league, it will be the most expensive. And the player is not yet registered in the EU and needs to occupy one of the team's overseas signings this season, but Torino have unlocked a second overseas spot after selling Akwa to Nice. Then there's the fact that his current ability is shown at 118 in the scouting tool, which is still a bit of a distance away from becoming a regular rotation for the team. But these shortcomings are indifferent in the face of its potential value of up to 162, as a pure positive. Taikong, Li Mudi's interest in Ascarcival is naturally quite large.
The highest estimate is Vukocevic at €4 million, which is understandable given that he is the only active international among the three. In addition to the relatively ordinary speed, all attributes are very balanced, and the double values of 137 and 144 also show that this player can immediately become an instant combat force in the team. If Montenegro are bought, Torino will only have to worry about the integration of the team with more brains, and nothing else will have to worry about it. And because the Braga club basically has no influence in European football, Vukocevic's popularity is not high, and he belongs to the kind of players whose strength is far greater than his fame, and the transfer fee will even be lower than that of Ascarcival, who is more than five years younger than him, which is undoubtedly the highest in terms of cost performance from the point of view of the first order. The disadvantage is that there is not much room for improvement in the future, and Montenegro will not officially join the EU until 2022, so he can be regarded as a non-EU player.
The last Musis has an innate advantage in this regard, as he has a second nationality in Italy and does not have to occupy overseas quotas. And in the summer of 2014, he was introduced by the Danish club Copenhagen and loaned to Genoa for half a season, but unfortunately he did not gain a foothold in Europe at that time, and returned to Argentine football only half a year later. But he can speak basic Italian and has lived in the Apennine Peninsula for five months, giving him an advantage in terms of adaptation. However, Musis only has a double value of 131 and 136, which is the worst of the three, making the estimated value of 2.6 million and the estimated transaction value of 4.5 million low-cost performance, but his strong mental attributes and the possibility of being transformed into a ball-grabbing machine show that he can gain a foothold in the current Torino team and can succeed Las Diarra, who has shown a little old age.
The choice of the three that could have been continued to be investigated and discussed, after Stuttgart suddenly became interested in Ascarcival, became a little urgent, if a decision is not made soon, it is likely to face direct competition with the Bundesliga powerhouse, Li Mudi had to come up with his final opinion in the next few days.