Chapter 318: The World's Hottest Head Coach

Just when Tiande and Germany were in an uproar because of this incident, Li Mudi, who handed over all the follow-up work of the matter to the ZF officials of the Celestial Empire, had already flown back to Turin City with Zheng Xiaoyang the day after the team members returned to Italy. In addition to appearing in most of the world's sports media as the head coach of the upper Serie A team, he has also been interviewed by as many as eight media reporters from various countries in the past two days, and has been accusing the so-called fans in Frankfurt, the local media and the German Football Association of misconceptions and actions.

Later, he continued to express his opposition to this violation of sports rules on online social software, and he relayed the famous words of Coubertin, the "father of the modern Olympic Games": "Ah, sports, you are peace!" You make pleasant connections between peoples. You are born out of a controlled, organized, and skillful physical contest, so that the youth of the world can learn to respect and learn from each other, and that the different national traits can become the driving force for noble and peaceful competition. Within three days, it received more than 12 million likes from netizens, setting a record for a head coach-level person in various online activities. And his followers on Instagram have also reached the highest peak in his history: 6.87 million, undoubtedly the No. 1 in the coaching world.

For the first time, the Torino coach has received a four-and-a-half-star rating for the instant prestige value displayed in the FM system, which is already the level of the world's best managers such as Mu Bird, Gua Shuai and Zizou. Of course, after the influence of the incident declines, the prestige value will definitely return to below four stars or even three and a half stars, but the current title of "the world's hottest coach" definitely belongs to Li Mudi, and no one can compete with it. Even U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his admiration for the Turin coach in an interview, and the "cannon" president believed that he had the courage to rush to the stands alone to fight against the Germans who had an absolute advantage in both numbers and size, and this kind of courage was difficult for ordinary people to do, "Lee is a real warrior!" This remark made the name of the Torino coach completely popular in Western countries, and poor Zheng Xiaoyang was ruthlessly ignored.

In the Celestial Empire, whether it is ordinary people, celebrities in the entertainment industry, popular Huadan Xiaosheng, or business bigwigs, they all praised Li Mudi's behavior at that time, and Brother Hong Lei praised his brother Li three times in an interview. For a while, Li Mudi and "Wolf Warrior 2" became a hot topic in the whole country during this month, once again consolidating the former's position as the "leader" in the domestic sports industry, and naturally it was also happy for those companies that had just signed a sponsorship contract with him. These top companies that are not bad for money have even contacted Lin Zixu, hoping to send someone to Italy to visit the "wounded hero" and bring some "materials" back by the way, but this idea will obviously not be agreed.

On the night of the incident, when the news spread all over the Internet, Lin Yuner, who got the news, almost ignored the final publicity work of the team's 10th anniversary album, and immediately felt that Frankfurter was coming by plane, and was persuaded by Li Mudi. But she cried so much in the video connection that it was called a pear blossom with rain! The Turin coach was both self-reproachful and helpless, he was a little impulsive at the time, and in the face of the Germans with big arms and round waists, he rushed up to fight with them, which was undoubtedly an egg to hit a stone. But at that time, there was no time to think about it, and we must resolutely stop this kind of bad behavior. Fortunately, the result was not too bad, except for some small injuries at the corners of the mouth, several bruises on the face and upper body quickly faded without much impact. It's a pity that he doesn't know kung fu, otherwise he will make those Germans look good, you see, is he introspecting?

However, I can persuade my girlfriend who is about to make an important announcement, but I can't persuade my girlfriend to wander around except for staying on the farm - ah, no, my parents who travel everywhere. When Li Mudi just returned to his apartment, he saw that the second elder was already sitting in the living room, although he didn't say anything, but after seeing that his son was only a minor injury as he said in the previous call, he could still clearly feel their emotions relaxed. Fortunately, the two of them were also simply, after a family of three ate a meal of takeaway from the Celestial Empire (because they were abroad for the previous week, there were no ingredients in the apartment, and the old man had no chance to cook by himself), he said that in the next few days, a group of old domestic neighbors would go to Mallorca to play, and they directly booked an afternoon flight back to Spain.

The next day was August 4, and the official website of the Torino club released the news in the morning that Ascacibal had been bought out by the team for a transfer fee of 7 million euros, but he would stay with his parent club Estudiantes de La Plata for another year, and officially land in Europe after the transfer window opened on July 1 next year. The young man's base salary reached 750,000 yuan per year, and in addition to the 15% increase per year, there were some additional clauses that could allow him to receive an additional 150,000 per year, but that was after joining the Red Bulls.

So far, Li Mudi's optimistic three central midfielders have all been included in his pocket, spending a total of 16.5 million, an average of 5.5 million per person, in the past two years, especially this summer, the value of players has risen to the outrageous environment, it seems inconspicuous. However, the Torino boss has basically planned to close the door to this year's signings, and unless there are further surprises, there will be no new players until the end of the transfer period on September 1. The rest of the time is for the players to get used to the new tactics as quickly as possible, and try to build a good foundation at the start of the league.

In the evening, the first team hosted a visit from satellite team Vercelli, and this impromptu warm-up game attracted a lot of media reporters because it was the first time Li Mudi appeared in the coach's box after being beaten. However, before the game, the protagonist did not mention even a single piece of information that had nothing to do with the game, because someone above had already given him a reminder last night, not to respond too much to the Frankfurt incident in the near future, and the leaders of the two countries were already negotiating, waiting for things to be clear before making plans.

However, the reporters who failed to dig up the big news did not return empty-handed, because the Torino team suddenly lost their excellent form abroad, and after 90 minutes, they narrowly beat their opponents from Serie B with a score of only 3-1, which surprised almost everyone. This was the first time the team had conceded a goal since preparing for the new season, and the opponent's direct free kick changed direction after hitting the human wall, and Cassie, who had made a prediction in advance, was unable to adjust his movements in time. Although it was just a surprise goal and didn't say much about it, Vercelli had seven chances on goal in this game, and four of them hit the woodwork, which showed that there were quite a few problems at the back of the Torino team.

When the back three faces the opponent's advance from the ribs, there are always small flaws in the cooperation, and the tacit understanding of strong opponents such as Atalanta seems to have disappeared suddenly, and even Serie A veterans like Ranocchia have made a mistake of not making up for the defense in time when they are on a team, and it seems that the team's defensive system is far from being rebuilt, and it will take time to run in. After the formation changed to 4-4-2 in the second half and all 11 players were replaced, their attack was problematic again, and Farke still did not seem to be very comfortable with the role of full-back and nine-and-a-half, and the youngster Pellegri needed to strengthen his individual combat ability without the support of his teammates. All in all, the game stinked and exposed a lot of shortcomings that had been covered up by the previous big wins.

The usual "female cousin" attribute of the media was very obvious in the next two days, and they began to question the prospects of the Torino team in the new season, believing that the Red Bulls are still far from the stability of traditional powerhouses such as Juventus, as if the reports that praised Li Mudi's team in the previous ten days or so were not their hands at all.

However, the topic lasted less than 36 hours, and after the two countries quickly reached a consensus and settled the issue once and for all, the Italian media quickly diverted its attention from the aspects of the run-in trouble he and the team, because the "where is Belotti" farce that broke out last autumn is still unfolding.

After intercepting Lukaku, Manchester United is contacting Ibrahimovic, who is about to return from a serious injury, and intends to let the god tower return to the team as soon as possible to recuperate, which can be regarded as temporarily dispelling the idea of buying the Italian; However, Chelsea have not given up on the plan to bring in the red babe at the right price while taking Alvaro Morata, and after confirming that they want to clean the beauty of the prosperous era, Conte hopes that the team can have a double insurance in the forward line, after all, there are still many doubts about whether the former Real Madrid striker can adapt to the Premier League. The Blues' rivals are still AC Milan, and the Rossoneri retain a keen interest in last season's top scorer after buying A. Silva at a high price and loaning Kalinic and Bolini, and on 2 August, general manager Al-Fasone visited his Turin location again to discuss a possible move with the Turin hierarchy.

Li Mudi later learned from Valentino Cairo that his father had actually become extremely tired of Belotti's departure, and in the face of AC Milan, which has a deep relationship with him, he has almost given up the idea of "not selling to Italian teams" that he had always insisted on, as long as the other party can come up with 100 million euros, even if it is an installment payment, he may agree. Unfortunately, the money of "Brother Li" did not blow in the wind, on the contrary, he did not have as many euros in his pocket as the president of Torino, because a large part of the funds for the purchase of the club were financed by loans and other investment companies. So after burning more than 200 million in one go this summer, the Rossoneri really have no money to spare, and the proposed price is still 4, 50 million in cash plus player offset, which can't move the heart of the Red Bull at all.

Although he knew that his leading scorer would not leave more than 80 per cent, the Torino boss remained cautious enough to immediately contact scout Anderson and ask him to fly to Germany immediately to check on Dortmund's leading striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. If Belotti does switch to his team, the Red Bulls will make an offer for the American sheep as soon as possible, using the Gabonese striker, who has excellent speed and shooting skills, as a replacement. Although the two of them are at the same level in terms of ability, changing the main striker at this time will cause great difficulties for the team's run-in, and Li Mudi does not want the situation to develop in this direction in his heart.

Unable to get rid of AC Milan's dog-skin plaster-like entanglement, the team's head coach made a decision to reject all media interview requests before leaving for Spain on the 8th, saving everyone's free time to waste on the farce of Red Bebe's transfer.

Over the next two days, the Torino team added a lot of three-on-three, four-on-four and five-on-five offensive and defensive drills to the training, strengthening the sense of cooperation between the members at both the offensive and defensive ends. From the perspective of actual combat effect, when the three central defenders are in position, the combination of Canneman, Ranocchia and Diego Llorente is the most perfect combination, except for the speed is a little slower, both the header and the interception ability are very strong. And the degree of tacit understanding between them is also the best, it is hard to believe that it is the first time to meet forty days ago, no matter how bad the situation is, you can always choose a relatively correct way to deal with it, who grabs, who makes up the defense, and the instant team cooperation can score very high.

In the rest of the central defenders, the experience and judgment of the veteran Moretti are naturally indispensable, although his physical fitness has declined slightly compared to last season, but at the age of 36, it can be regarded as a representative of old and strong. And his high attributes in terms of bravery, concentration, teamwork and work dedication can help young players, so the new signing Gordanica successfully apprenticed under the advice of Li Mudi and learned how to improve his skills as soon as possible from the old captain. This is also one of the special projects that come with the FM system, which was used by the Torino coach to develop the team's future defensive backbone.

And Bonifaczi, who was promoted from the youth team this summer, has a potential of only 127, but the attributes are very well distributed, in addition to some poor defensive positions, headers, marking, tackles, anticipation, concentration and bounce and other central defenders must have good abilities, so Ranocchia has become the second teacher in the team to take students, and will give more guidance to young players in his free time. After a certain stage, Li Mudi also plans to disassemble and swap the two pairs of masters and apprentices, so that the two young people can fully absorb the technical experience of different masters and develop and improve in an all-round way.

However, in this way, Rosetini, who was able to play the main team last season, is somewhat embarrassed in the team. After more than a month of pre-season training and a number of warm-up games, he can clearly feel that he can only compete for the fifth central defender in terms of ability and status, and he will naturally be a little frustrated. After training on the evening of the 6th, Rosstini found the coach of the team who had not left the office, expressed his inner anxiety and expectations, and went home to rest with a calm face. But in the next few days, his agent began to be active, and it seemed that a new transfer was about to be made.