Germany's famous sports magazine "Süddeutsche Zeitung" pointed out in an article that Maximilian is likely to be a partner for his younger brother Johannes to transfer to the new club, although the latter's name is very loud in the European continent, but few people think that he can be worth 10 million now. The fact that the Torino club, which has never had much money to spend on big money, was indeed beyond everyone's expectations, and there may be reasons why they wanted to finalize the deal as soon as possible before the other teams reacted, but the cost was still much higher than the normal market price.

Therefore, the article speculates that Bremen took advantage of the other party's eagerness to put the elder brother of the two brothers into the transaction in the form of a bundle, which raised the final transaction price to a price that was difficult to imagine before.

For this statement, the agent of the two players, Neuhaus, only replied in an interview with the reporter of "Kicker" that there was no follow-up, which made many followers have various associations, and for a while there was a lot of controversy about whether Maximilian Egerstein's level and potential have a chance to play in top leagues such as Serie A and Bundesliga. Many Italian media took the opportunity to launch another wave of doubts about Li Mudi, believing that this transfer is very similar to AC Milan's choice to introduce his younger brother Digan in order to keep the top Kaka, which is a small trick to follow suit.

However, the reason why Galliani did not cause controversy at the time was that it was understandable to do whatever he did for Kaka, after all, he was the first person in world football at that time, but the choice of the Torino coach would not be recognized. Johannes Egerstein looks like he has unlimited potential now, but it's only potential, and with so many injuries in front of him, who knows what his future holds? That's why Li Mudi's reinforcement has attracted so much criticism.

The Torino coach, who came out of his apartment early on Thursday morning to go to the club's training base, was blocked by a number of media reporters waiting there as soon as he walked to the garage door, and when he heard someone ask about whether there was anything wrong with bringing in Maximilian, he replied with a surprised face: "Your brain hole is too big, it's a waste to be a sports journalist, you should write science fiction." I am very optimistic about the potential and quality of these players that I am strongly advocating, and I believe that they will be able to help the team further improve in the near future. Maximilian is an exception, only he will be in the first team this season and I am looking forward to his performance in Serie A. After answering, he got into the car under the protection of Forsina and drove away.

Just when the outside world thought that these words were just a cover-up for the Torino coach to refute the doubts of the outside world, the 20-year-old German midfielder walked into the Fiat Athletic Training Center wearing a training uniform printed with the number 29 in the daily training of the Torino first team that day, and greeted everyone with the help of an interpreter, and then joined the ranks of warm-up activities.

When he appeared in the squad for the Green team in the afternoon practice match, the club had officially submitted the shirt number, but because he was under 21 years old, he did not need to register in the league to play. This made all those who pay attention to Maximilian know that Li Muddy is indeed coming for real, and the new signing is likely to appear in Serie A this season, which suddenly increased the interest of the outside world in this young player, and people want to know what kind of advantages he has that can touch the heart of the head coach of the Celestial Empire, so that the latter actually made a move that violated the previous consensus that "the younger brother is better than the elder brother".

However, their curiosity is destined to not be answered before this weekend, because the most important traditional festival of the year in the Celestial Empire, the Spring Festival, will come on this Saturday. Now the focus of the entire Turin club has been on how to show the people of the Celestial Empire how much the Red Bull attaches importance to this day, from the president Urbano Cairo, down to the janitorial staff, all the members of the club have canceled their vacations and started to meet frequently half a month ago to prepare for this important period.

With the live broadcast of the Torino team by CCTV and Xiaoshi Sports and various promotions, the Red Bulls have become the home team of all Celestial Dynasty fans, with tens of millions of fans in that great country with a population of 1.4 billion, which has made the club gain a lot of popularity and business opportunities, so Cairo will say: "No matter how important this Spring Festival is, it is not too much." They also invited several so-called experts in the folklore of the Celestial Empire to help the club create a New Year's atmosphere that is more in line with the senses of the people of the Celestial Empire, in order to attract the attention of more people in the Far East.

At this moment, the Olympic Stadium has been renovated, and there are items and slogans related to the Spring Festival everywhere, traditional New Year paintings, beautiful red lanterns, auspicious words of providence bilingual, and hundreds of large inflatable dolls in the shape of roosters of various sizes are placed in the stadium, making people feel as if they have entered a chicken coop. The 22nd round of the league with Atlanta was scheduled for Saturday noon, that is, January 28, Beijing time, the first day of the Lunar New Year, at 19:30 p.m., which is an absolute prime time.

At the press conference on the day of the game, all the reporters said "Happy New Year" in the Celestial Empire dialect before asking questions, indicating that not only the club attaches great importance to this holiday, but even the Italian media and even the Football Association hope to use this opportunity to brush up on the presence of the people of the Celestial Empire. However, the questions they raised were not all harmonious, the Torino team's current unfavorable position in the standings and the recruitment policy of Wenger in the winter window were the focus of attention, and even the Celestial Empire reporters who were present mentioned that it would be a little unlucky to play the game during the New Year if they failed to win, which brought a lot of pressure to Li Mudi.

As for the outcome of the game and the battle for the top five in the league, the Torino coach said that some of them are not certain, and several teams, including Atalanta, are close to each other, and only 100% of the energy and effort can be successful, but the Red Bulls are still very confident in this.

As for the pressure he faced when he played on the first day of the new year, Li Mudi felt that there were still some of them, after all, there would be countless people in the motherland who were paying attention to this game, and the tradition of the Celestial Empire paid attention to a good start, and if he failed to win or even lost the game on the first day of the new year, he would definitely be disappointed. However, the players know how important this game is, so they will do their best to live up to the expectations of the fans.

Finally, on the issue that the team has introduced nine young players under the age of 21 in half a month, Li Mudi believes that the team's youth training is one of the links that he attaches great importance to, and the current chemistry in the team is very good, he doesn't want to break the ring easily, so he used the funds to strengthen the strength of the academy, which can be regarded as an investment in the future, I hope everyone can maintain enough patience and wait for the day of harvest.

Overall, the increasingly experienced Torino boss has successfully completed the test at the press conference, and what awaits him is no less than a derby test. According to the prediction of the Celestial Empire media, the game will attract more than 100 million Celestial Empire viewers through the live broadcast of CCTV Sports Channel and Xiaoshi Network Platform, which will once again create a new record in the history of Serie A broadcasting.

Today's ticket sales are also a bit peculiar, as they can be purchased at half price if they can show valid documents from countries that have made the Spring Festival a traditional holiday, and are aimed at tourists from East Asia and several Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, or those living in Italy with green cards. When the performance is about to begin, the club's staff will also distribute a two-piece dumpling takeaway for each of the 27,985 fans on the scene, so that everyone can feel the atmosphere of the New Year, even if there is no dipping sauce, but this movement is not small, I don't know if nearly 30,000 people eating dumplings together can apply for a Guinness World Record.

As for the forty-minute performance, it is unusually wonderful, so that those foreigners are stunned, the acrobatics of the lanterns, the quintessential Peking Opera and folk music performances performed by professional groups invited from China, and some unique folk art displays of the Celestial Empire, such as paper-cutting, shaking bamboo, stepping on stilts and so on. At the end of the stage was the famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (Andrea Bocelli) and the "first brother" of the Celestial Empire Continent Liu Xiao teacher sang a song "Friendship Lasts Forever" in the Chinese dialect of Italy, when Bocelli, who is known as the "fourth tenor", actually sang in the Celestial Empire language "Raise a glass and drink bitterly, sing friendship in unison for a long time", the Celestial Empire audience who was guarding the live broadcast on the Internet felt a feeling of "the whole world is speaking the Celestial Empire" (the reason why there is no audience in front of the TV, Because this CCTV is not broadcast), because the president of Turin and the vice president of the Italian Football Association also spoke two sentences of Chinese when they delivered a supporting speech, it seems that our motherland is really rich and strong, and can make so many foreigners kneel and lick.

After the performance, when the staff entered the venue to dismantle the simple stage, today's protagonist, Torino coach Li Mudi, came to the venue with a microphone in his hand, sending New Year's greetings and greetings to everyone in the Celestial Empire, and the electronic screen above was translated in English and Chinese. After he finished speaking, the screen was unexpectedly released the video of the chairman of the Celestial Empire, the supreme leader on behalf of the people of the whole country to the Italian friends and compatriots living here, overseas Chinese once again sent a New Year blessing, and finally highly affirmed the Torino club and Li Mudi for the outstanding contribution to the sports exchanges between the two countries, which made the Torino senior management and the head coach feel very excited and excited.

However, not everyone can laugh at this time, early the next morning, Gines came to the door, and the General Administration of Sports of China sent a fax to add the Torino coach as the special contribution award of the 2016 CCTV sports figure. This selection activity, known as the most authoritative and socially influential in the sports world of the Celestial Empire, has been awarded on the 15th, and there is nothing Li Mudi to do in the whole process, but now that they have spoken, they dare not tell the truth that Xiao Li is not qualified enough or did not give the judges a confession, so they did not even nominate it, and hurriedly made such a four-like award to make up for it.

In this regard, Li Mudi said that no one collected this thing when it was sold for scrap, but Gines felt that the previous interpersonal relationship in the Celestial Empire was still too shallow, and if he could take this opportunity to get in touch with those large units, he would still gain a lot, so angry that the Turin coach laughed and scolded: "When the trophy arrives in a few days, you can take it home directly for it, I don't have a place to put this kind of garbage here." ”

That's all for later, but now it's time to turn the clock back to Saturday's game. When the players from both sides lined up into the stadium, people could find that the home team's jersey today was specially made, in addition to the club logo and the logo of the main sponsor Hua Yan on the chest, a rooster icon was added to the right chest, and the back of the jersey was printed with the words "Happy New Year" under the number, and the bottom of the pants were replaced by firecrackers on both sides of the line. When the head coaches of the two teams shook hands on the sidelines, Gasperini also smiled and expressed his holiday wishes to Li Mudi, which is indeed evident in the influence of this Spring Festival.

Atalanta since the start of 1 win 4 losses, in the next 16 rounds of the league 11 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, in the same stage of the points rate after the old lady in Serie A, second only to the old lady in Serie A, as of the last round of home Sampdoria, they have a total of 38 points, with the advantage of the relationship between the winner and the defeat of Torino and Inter Milan in the fifth place in the standings, with a tiptoe advantage ahead of the European qualification battle. However, the days of the boss are far from easy, and their recent away results have shown a clear downward trend, with one draw and two defeats in the remaining three games, except for Chievo, who have been in poor form recently, which is far less strong than when they played at home.

In this round, the Red Bulls, who have a home record of 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, are generally believed to be difficult for the Son of the Sea to retreat, and the best ending is to barely force the opponent to draw. However, Gasperini used an unexpectedly attacking tactic, starting from the moment of kick-off, taking advantage of the home team's players to gain a foothold and attacking directly, and Slovenian striker Kurtic became the heart of Atalanta's playmaking, opening with two consecutive long-range shots to give the visitors the upper hand in momentum.