The re-loan of Jesse is also the last hole card of Li Mudi, after the forwards selected through various conditions have been unable to get loan, he even moved the idea of buying a potential young player directly, for which he has even communicated with the club president in advance, applying for more funds as preparation. However, the 30 million euros still failed to be spent, because the current transfer market is even crazier than he estimated, and the huge amount of money that could have been packaged up two years ago for Belotti and Immobile cannot even buy half of one of them at the moment.

Ajax replied to the Torino club's request for an estimate of €7.5 million for the 18-year-old striker Kluivert Jr. at €35 million plus an additional floating clause, which would be worth more than $45 million if all were met; Dortmund, a famous black shop, has a huge appetite, and the price tag for the Swedish demon boy Isak, who only played 300 minutes for the first team throughout the year, is 50 million, and he is not allowed to make a counteroffer; As for the geniuses who have long been famous in Italy, such as Cutrone and Pinamonti, they are naturally not for sale in various clubs, and they cannot be poached at all.

And Li Mudi's hard-to-circle target - North Korean striker Han Kwang-song, who was loaned to Serie B Perugia by Cagliari, ushered in the malicious price increase of the city's sworn rival Juventus because the news was leaked, and finally made the Sardinian team realize that the player in their hands is likely to be a rare treasure, and finally decided not to sell it for the time being, but to retrieve it from the second division in advance and put it in the first team to vigorously cultivate. As the first North Korean player to land in Serie A, Han Kwang-song performed well during his loan spell in Serie B in the first half of the season, scoring seven goals and providing three assists in 17 games, and his rating in the FM system has continued to rise, with the potential value detected by scouting tools reaching around 150. It's a pity that the old woman mixed it up like this, and the red bull could only pass by him.

In the end, after all options were lost, the Torino coach had to use his guarantee trick to reach out to his old club and bring in Jose, who had completely lost his place at the Bernabeu due to injury and rotation. The player deal was handled by Gines, and everything was finalized in just half a day, which can be said to be amazingly efficient. After all, Heqiu King is also a customer of this football bigwig. At the same time, this move also helped Li Mudi's friend Qi Zu, so that he reduced the unrest in the team, and also made it easier for him to make a more reasonable deployment of the lineup, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

And the loan of the king has the added benefit that although he has already played in the Champions League for Real Madrid this season, due to UEFA's latest rules on European competitions, after the group stage, before the start of the knockout stage, teams participating in the Champions League and Europa League can make changes to the entry list by up to three people, including substitutions, reductions and additions. However, there are specific requirements for the change of players, and he cannot play for another team in the same type of competition before. Real Madrid are playing in the Champions League and have reached the knockout rounds, while Torino have reached the knockout stages of the Europa League, and the two sides fit the bill, so Jesse can play for the new club in the next European competition.

It is worth mentioning that although the newly joined French veteran Tulalang played for Porto in the Europa League play-offs last summer, according to UEFA's latest rules: players who played in the first three qualifying rounds and did not qualify for the group stage of the original team are eligible to play for their new team after completing their summer transfer. Porto happened to be eliminated in the third round of qualifying, so Tulalang can also be included in the Red Bulls' European registration list, which is one of the reasons why media such as Torino Sports praised Li Moodi's two deals.

In the past few days, the transfer market has maintained the level of activity at the beginning of the opening of the window, but it is difficult to see large-scale transactions, which are all minor repairs, so that everyone's attention is back to the reopened national leagues. At noon on Sunday, January 21, Serie A, the last of the five major leagues to end their winter break, officially announced their return, and in the first meeting, league leaders Napoli won a narrow away goal against Atalanta in a close collision with a goal from Mertens, the top scorer, consolidating their position in the standings, while putting a lot of pressure on the pursuers behind them.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of Rome time, six games kicked off at the same time, including Torino away to Sassuolo. The Nerazzurri are currently 13th in the league with 6 wins, 3 draws, 11 losses and 21 points, and the results are not ideal, and it is the second consecutive season of decline. However, head coach Yakini, who took over at the end of November, has shown his ability to coach, leading the team to play a total of six league games and two Coppa Italia games since taking charge of the Mape tricolor, although the latter was eliminated from the quarter-finals 1-2 away to Atalanta, but the performance in Serie A is still much better than his predecessor. 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats helped the team temporarily escape the threat of the relegation zone.

Sassuolo's home results were excellent after the change of manager, not to mention the victory over Bari in Serie B in the cup and Crotone and Inter Milan in the league. In particular, in the one-goal win over the Nerazzurri on 23 December, they were able to boost their morale with a tenacious and effective defence that left many of Inter's stars at a loss with just 28 per cent possession. Sassuolo then continued their good form into the next week, drawing away from a mighty Roma side. Unfortunately, in the last round of the game before the winter break, they lost 0-1 away at the feet of Genoa, which was not outstanding, and suffered a big blow.

After the opening of the winter window, the Nerazzurri did not make any major changes to the lineup, only letting go of veteran right-back Gazzola, and then using the buyout clause in advance, officially bought the young Spanish right wing-back Lirola on loan from Juventus for 7 million euros. The Torino boss was the envy of the transfer, who had been optimistic about the 20-year-old's future and believed that the young man had the opportunity to develop into a new generation of the world's best right-back. It's just that due to the hostile relationship between the Red Bulls and the Bianconeri, he is destined to not be able to sign this potential young player, and now that he has been picked up by Sassuolo, can he not make Li Mudi feel envious, jealous and hateful!

In addition, Fiorentina striker Babakar, who has been included in the loan list by Torino, is also in talks with Yakini's team, and it is almost certain that he will join on loan this winter. The Purple Lilies had previously rejected the Red Bulls' loan offer on the grounds that they did not want to keep the player in Italian football, but the underlying reason was their reluctance to strengthen their rivals, and although the gap between the two teams has been widened to 14 points, it would otherwise be difficult to explain why they reversed their bid to Sassuolo's loan offer after Jesé's second move to Torino.

However, since the negotiation of several possible players to join the team, including Babakar, has not yet been confirmed, Akini can only continue to use the team's previous personnel to deal with the opponent in this game, but this can also allow them to play to the advantage of teamwork, and there is still hope of winning points at home.

Of course, Akini will not be confident enough to play against Torino, who have scored the fourth most goals in Serie A, and even at home, Sassuolo, who have been weaker in defense this season, can only choose to defend and counterattack, hoping that the backline, which has previously suppressed Inter and Roma attackers, will be in excellent form today. In the 4-3-3 position, all of the new manager's usual mainstays were introduced, with the midfielders Magnanelli, Misiroli and Ghana international Alfred Duncan all playing well defensively and being effective in protecting dangerous areas on the edge of the penalty area. The attacking end is handed over to Berardi, with centre-forward Falcinelli and left-winger Ragusa showing average form and goalscoring ability this season, but as long as Green Babe can show 100 per cent of his creativity, it is not impossible to score.

What is clear to the whole world, Li Mudi will naturally not be without targeted arrangements, today the main 3-5-2 formation, left wingback Barekka, left central defender Canneman and close to the left side of the back Muthis, are the three gates he prepared for the opponent's number one star. The Torino boss aims to force Berardi to abandon his best cut and instead use his average level of crosses as a means of attacking, and if he moves to the left, defenders such as Silvestri and Diego Llorente on the other side will also be watched, but the green babe who can only cross on the left will be much less threatening, which will reduce the threat of the visitors by at least half.

As for the visiting team's starting striker combination, although Belotti's injury symptoms have basically disappeared, Li Mudi does not intend to rush him on the field, but is very careful to let the team medical team keep track of him at all times, to minimize the possibility of recurrence of old injuries. So in this game, Red Beibei didn't even enter the 23-man squad, and was directly left in the club by the head coach. He was accompanied by two new signings, Tulalang who still needed to familiarise himself with the team's new tactics, while Jesus, who had just recovered from a muscle strain for around two weeks and were in poor physical condition to keep up with the pace of the game, is a good time for them to play next weekend. So today's starting striker was the combination of Immobile and Pellegri, with youth team's Johannes Egerstein once again being called up to the first team and on the bench for the second time.

Once the game starts, the Torino players will naturally have the initiative in possession against the home team that is focused on the defensive end, but without Belotti they have not had many ways to break down the dense defence. Although Pellegri is tall, he is only 17 years old after all, and he will not have the slightest advantage against the opposition's experienced defenders. Due to the overall retreat of the opponent's back line and being taken care of, it was also difficult for Immobile to give full play to the advantages of speed and running, and the two teams formed a stalemate on the field for a while. Although the visitors had possession for a long time, they did not have many attacks, and the home team's defensive counterattack was also unable to threaten Cassie due to the limited number of troops invested, making the game a bit dull and boring for the spectators.

Seeing that the players on the field could not open the situation for a long time, Li Mudi did not show impatience, after all, there is still a lot of time, and there is no need to gamble to take out all the ability to press the attack, and the away game should still focus on stability, and striving not to concede the ball first is the most basic goal. But he still got up and walked to the sideline when the game time came to the twentieth minute, signaling Benasi, Baseli and other midfielders in the front court to strengthen their individual breakthroughs and strive for more set-piece opportunities.

With veteran Cannavaro Jr. absent due to injury, Yakini had to partner 24-year-old Dutch centre-back Mo Lechette with Acerbi in a centre-back pairing, although the latter is 1.92 meters tall and has excellent header ability, but the former with less game experience can be a key target. His heading and bounce ability of double 14 looks good at first glance, and with a height of 188 cm, it is also a defensive tower, but the value of prediction and decision is not high, and his tackling ability is even more subpar, and it is likely that there will be mistakes under high pressure, which will become an opportunity for the Torino team.

Sure enough, it worked off quickly, with the visitors winning four or five free-kicks in half-time, three of which were very close to the home side's penalty area. A succession of long balls caused a lot of trouble for the Sassuolo players, and goalkeeper Conceli almost gave away an empty gift when he collided with a team-mate during a strike, but thanks to the veteran left-back Peluso's timely reaction to clear the ball with a single kick, the tragedy was averted.

But today's Lady Luck did not choose to stand on either side, so Sassuolo, who did not have a player to turn the tide and become a superhero, was constantly impacted by the opponent in the penalty area, and an involuntary mistake changed the score.

In the 30th minute, Manuel Pellegri was put on the right by an opposition player and won a free-kick for his team. Bareka sent a long, incisive left-footed ball straight to the back post, where Immobile suddenly kicked off his markers, and the Torino striker had already made a shot of the arch of his foot, just waiting for the ball to hit his protruding left foot. Lechett, who found that the situation was critical, immediately threw his body sideways in the middle, and blocked the flight path of the ball with his left foot, but he failed to master the footwork between the lightning and flint, so that the ball changed direction and went straight to his own goal. Fortunately, Consili's reflexes were as high as 17, and his knee-jerk saved the ball on the goal line with one hand, and did not make the Dutch centre-back's own goal come true. However, the goalkeeper of the home team could not control the ball in the first time, and Baseli, who was ambushed at the near post, easily made up for the empty goal, and the score finally became 0-1, but the scorer changed from his own player to the opponent.

The Sassuolo team will naturally feel very sorry for the conceded goal, and the cheering of the home team fans at the scene was also interrupted for a minute, and the head coach Yakini had to come to the sidelines to arrange the latest tactical arrangements for the players. Li Mudi, who is not far away, is waiting for the opponent's change of tactics and then deciding how to deal with it, this game is inevitable for his team, and getting a Champions League ticket is their most important goal in the second half of the season. We can't drop a single game in all the games we should have won, and the three points today were not originally necessary in the team's plan, but now that they are in the lead, it is a task to return to Torino with a win.