Chapter 677: A Galaxy Battleship that is not invincible and equally terrifying
Parrott's current ability in the FM system is 174 and his potential is 177, considering his current age of 27, the next three to four years will be the peak of the most talented player in Irish history, so in order to get the super goalscorer, Real Madrid also had to shell out a huge sum of up to 120 million euros, but overall it is still relatively good.
Because in 2029, when the player's inflated value is still not subsiding, but is still intensifying, a casual star with an ability value of about 165 can be labeled with a price of nearly 100 million yuan in the transfer market.
Of course, Coventry City is not at a loss, on the one hand, 120 million euros has increased their all-time record of selling players by almost 40%, which is definitely a rare huge amount of money even among Premier League teams with generally high budgets. And with this funding, the Blues can take advantage of the fact that there is more than a month left before the transfer window closes to effectively strengthen the team's slightly weak goalkeeper and centre-back positions. As for the lack of goals caused by the departure of the leading goalscorer, it is not too much of a problem, as they can just correct the younger English talent Jermaine Murray, and as one of the most famous monsters in European football, Coventry's academy has never been short of good fresh blood.
And considering the 5.25 million pounds it cost to bring in Parrott in the first place, and being able to earn 20 times the difference, this can already become another textbook classic in the history of world football transfers.
For Li Mudi, who is suspected of completing a "left-handed-to-right-handed" transaction, this new signing was personally poached from Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur to Coventry City back then, and his technical characteristics and adapted tactical play can be said to be clear. Kane II is not just a title given to Parrott for a year in north London, but the Irish star's style of play is more like a replica of England's all-time top scorer than Manuel Pellegri when he wasn't quite at his prime.
Whether it is physical indicators such as height and weight, or all-round skills and a larger range of motion than players in the same position, it can be said that it is carved out of a mold, the only difference is that Parrott is slightly inferior to Tottenham Hotspur in terms of mental attributes such as willpower and vision, but his advantage in speed can also ensure a very high goal efficiency, on the whole, the strength of these two British strikers is still not much different.
What's even more commendable is that the new signing can also play a certain power in the left winger position, so that Li Mudi can fully exert the single-forward and double-forward tactics he wanted to use last season.
Riverola, who has already shown the temperament of a generation of quasi-ball kings, is in the middle, and with two strikers who can act as arrows and pull to the wings, the energy that this front trident can produce is obviously beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Previously, because Manuel Pellegri was only good at operating in the middle, there was little room for the Real Madrid manager's tactical concept to be used. Even when Rodrygo was still around, his combination with Mbappe lacked the means to deal with opponents' swings because no one was good at protecting the ball with his back to him.
Now, with Parrott on board, the team's new attacking combination has theoretically reached a near-perfect fit, but whether it can finally show up on the court as Li Mudi wants it to be, everything still needs to be tested by the official game.
In addition to the change of the main striker, Real Madrid also sold a player who was considered to be more important before the start of pre-season, and French centre-back Benoit Bediachal accepted an offer from Liverpool for a transfer fee of 71 million euros due to the lack of minutes played by the rotation system. In order to fill the vacancy left by him, Li Mudi activated the former Real Sociedad centre-back Victor Chaste for 17 million, bringing the 29-year-old homegrown star from his own academy back to the Bernabeu.
After that, Vallejo, the vice-captain who originally intended to leave the club to join Parma in the summer, also chose to stay in order to add an extra layer of insurance to the team's backline, which made the club and all the Meilinger very moved. While playing in the Apennines may have taken him a bit of a financial loss, Vallejo has been able to enjoy football even more, because as Tom Almeida has grown up, he has struggled to get too many opportunities in the current Real Madrid team, and sitting on the bench for long periods of time is definitely an ordeal for a world-class centre-back who has just turned 32 and is at the end of his prime. However, these are obviously insignificant in the face of endless love for Real Madrid.
In the end, the Real Madrid coach signed former Italian international Emile Odro, who became a free agent after his contract with Inter expired, replacing De Gea, who joined Li Mudi's personal training base after retiring, and became the second goalkeeper of the Galaxy Battleship. The three young people under the age of 21 who do not need to occupy the registration quota have also become another group of Castilla players who have been promoted to the first team after Zori and the other three. So far, the six-time champions have all the personnel changes in place this summer, and they will be challenged by all European teams.
In six consecutive warm-up games, including the Bernabeu Cup, Li Muddy also tried his best to adjust the state of each player, so the record was not particularly ideal, including losing to Manchester United and Bayern Munich, showing a rare embarrassment.
However, in the two Super Cup matchups, Real Madrid still did not drop the chain at the critical moment, although the process seemed to be more difficult, but it still succeeded in defending the title, so that the hope of winning the six crowns for the second consecutive year was not dashed at the first time.
In addition to the integration of new signing Troy Parrott, Ndididi, who will turn 33 at the end of the year, also has physical problems, the veteran who has been sitting in the world's No. 1 midfielder for eight years, finally failed to resist the magic of the old man of time, and could not reproduce his old man's stunt of being able to protect the entire team with one person.
Add to that Marcos Llorente, who is more than 10 months older than him, and this super midfield line, which has been almost invincible in the past few years, has finally become less hopeless. Several major media have also published special reports, believing that Li Mudi's actions in this summer window seem to be a bit overbearing, or too womanly, and he did not purge several of his favorite generals in time, resulting in a significant reduction in the team's midfield strength, which may become Real Madrid's Achilles' heel in the new season that has just begun.
It's just that about a third of the way through the 2029-30 season, people still feel helpless to find that although they have regained more than one weak link, and other teams can enjoy the thrill of beating the world's best in the occasional match, it still seems that it can't change the reality that Galaxy Battleship continues to hold the top favorite to win the championship in all formats.
For example, in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage on November 21, Liverpool hosted Real Madrid, the home team was suffering from many injuries and suspensions, so that there was an obvious lack of strength, while the home team can use all their strength, as long as they win this three points, they can achieve a huge advantage in the battle for the top spot in the group.
But no matter how fierce the Reds' offensive momentum was, and even formed a siege on the defending champion's penalty area for more than ten minutes, only failed to create particularly good scoring opportunities, but was accidentally beaten into a counterattack by Mbappe in the second half, and finally capsized at home when everyone was optimistic about them, and failed to complete the task of forcing the European football public enemy onto a more difficult forward path.
Subsequently, in the 13th round of La Liga's Madrid derby at the weekend, the two giants, who were temporarily in first and third place in the standings, with a difference of only three points between them, played a classic duel at the Bernabeu. Lee, who was severely short of manpower, unexpectedly used more attacking tactics, and when superstar Riverola was unable to play, he frantically sent a frontcourt combination of two center strikers and two strikers, aiming at the weakness of Atletico Madrid's central defender's slightly poor air defense, and played with high crosses on both sides, completely abandoning the attack in the middle.
This untechnical strategy was turned into a brilliant move by the brilliant performances of Parrott and Solzano, allowing the Galacticos, who had been on the back foot in the battle for midfield, to threaten almost the same goal as their opponents in terms of attacking numbers, and to take a one-goal lead before half-time.
After gaining the advantage in the score, Li Mudi made two substitutions before the kick-off in the second half, replacing two center forwards at the same time, putting Mbappe, who was mainly active on the wing, at the front, and completely played a defensive counterattack. Later, when Atletico Madrid was about to take a hard fight, Manuel Catana, a teenager with a speed rating of 18 in the FM system, was sent to attack the French central defender Diacabi, who was a little weak in short-distance acceleration ability of the visiting team, and achieved great results in the second attempt. The young man assisted Mbappe to complete a brace after a successful breakthrough, and then helped Real Madrid seal the victory in this crucial battle.
After the game, Allegri, who has retired from professional football but occasionally writes football commentary, published a signed article in the "Milan Sports Newspaper", praising Li Mudi fiercely, hailing him as a combination of Spalletti and Lippi, and both are high-end versions. The article pointed out that Real Madrid had achieved a series of unbelievable great results before, but due to the strength of the squad, the outside world often overlooked the role of the team manager. However, the current Galaxy Battleship has experienced the most difficult time in several years, many of the main players are unable to play, but the team can still maintain the top competitiveness, which fully reflects the superb skills of the world's No. 1 head coach, which is indeed difficult for other colleagues in the current team to achieve.
In this way, while the new wave of touting the Real Madrid coach swept the entire European football scene, Li Mudi also used an extremely stable and strong performance to prove to everyone that the slogan shouted by this team before the start of the season to replicate the miracle of the six crowns is not just a rhetorical cannon.
Especially in the national derby at the beginning of December, in the face of the unfavorable situation that the number one star Mbappe could not play, the away Galaxy Battleship still played unexpectedly tough and overall strength, if it were not for the Camp Nou's goalpost twice to protect the home team, Barcelona who have also performed well this season would definitely not have been able to get such a draw.
As a result, before the winter break, Real Madrid, which welcomed back all the members, defeated promoted Osasuna with an 8-0 victory, completely announcing the official return of the king who once ruled world football.
What is even more gratifying to all Melinger is that during the previous injury wave, several young players who have just been promoted to the first team have received a lot of practical training, and they are getting closer and closer to a qualified professional player, which makes other teams have infinite worries that the future world football may still be dominated by Real Madrid.
After the schedule entered 2020, in order to consolidate the small lead in the league and deal with the Champions League, Li Mudi increased the playing time of several key players in these two most important events, so that before the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, some rotation players plus young players will deal with the domestic cup competition. However, even though they were always 4-5 years younger than their opponents in terms of average age, Real Madrid reached the final of the competition for the sixth year in a row, setting a new record.
The process was not smooth, as the youngsters were 2-0 down at Valladolid away and narrowly missed Betis in the quarter-finals, but they all survived, and these hardships turned into rare nourishment to help them grow rapidly, which is more precious than one victory after another.
In the end, after the health of the players on the team and the competitive condition were adjusted to a very good level, the Galaxy Battleship, which has always played its best in the second half of the season, did not disappoint the hundreds of millions of fans who supported them around the world. After winning the Copa del Rey through extra time, Barcelona won the Copa del Rey title, and with a wave of 14-2 super performance, he locked the La Liga championship in the first round, and finally defeated his old rival Juventus 2-1 in the Champions League final, only to be scheduled to win the Club World Cup in early August to win all six championship trophies for the second consecutive season.
However, this did not affect the outside world's evaluation of them, including "Team Newspaper", "Kicker", "Times" and many other authoritative media in the world after the final game of the Champions League, invariably pressed the name of "the strongest team in history" on this Real Madrid team, and Li Moody's status as the best coach in history has also been affirmed by the entire football world.