Chapter 542: A Lively Winter Window

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Li Mudi's 2020 can be said to be very fulfilling, and in March, he ushered in one of the three most important women in his life - daughter Li Xiyin, who willingly became a child slave, although he was busy as a dog, but the happiness in his heart was full to overflow.

At the end of May, he led the Russian men's football team as a "temporary worker" to win out of the group of death of the European Cup without being favored by the outside world at all, and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, firing the first shot for his re-emergence from the mountain, and at the same time earning a lot of extra money by the way.

During the European Cup, Li Mudi entered Arsenal in a flash and became the successor of the professor in the real sense. The same drama played out again, and when no one thought he would be able to produce a good result in his first year in the Premier League, he led the Gunners who had not changed much to lead the way down the table, not only breaking many records in the club's history, but also allowing the team that was almost retiring from the glory of the giants to temporarily gain a foothold in the ranks, which is really no small achievement.

To sum up, it took only half a year for him to steal most of the limelight from the football coach world, and he can still be barely recognized.

However, the honors received are one thing, and the challenges and difficulties faced are also daunting. The foundation of the Arsenal team is still too thin, and if you want to become the strongest king in English football, which is full of strong players, what is lacking is really not a little bit, so after the end of the 20th round of the big battle with Manchester United, Li Mudi immediately put most of his energy into the adjustment of the second half, and even the time to accompany the little princess was forced to cut some.

On the 28th, the winter break officially began, and the players were already on vacation, while their manager still had to work hard, but the office space had been changed from the Kearney training base to the club's compound building in Highbury.

The reason why it is necessary to race against time in such a race against time is because Li Mudi's most important target in this transfer period has sent his agent to London, as long as all the differences can be resolved on the issue of personal treatment, then the deal can basically be officially announced in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, among the many suitors on the other side, there are also top giants such as Juventus and Barcelona, which are not relatively inferior to the Gunners in terms of financial resources and status.

In fact, if it weren't for the Gunners manager's reputation for developing young players and the player's personal desire to get more playing opportunities, Arsenal might not have been able to win the popular fried chicken now.

On the afternoon of the 30th, the world's major sports media broke the news at the same time that the Premier League leader spent 41.2 million pounds to sign Argentina's new international from the American major league team Atlanta United, known as Messi II Ezeiel Barco (Ezeiel Bar), the official transfer will be completed after the opening of the winter window on January 1, but the former Argentine Independiente forward can already be regarded as a Gunners.

The website of Sky Sports England immediately published details of the player and the details of the contract he received after joining the new club, which instantly attracted a lot of views.

Born on 29 March 1999, Balco plays as a midfielder and has also been a regular performer on the left and right wingers, with occasional cameo appearances as central midfielders. His technical characteristics are super dribbling ability, good at creating scoring opportunities for teammates, and he also has a world-class free kick and penalty kick skills, which is a rare excellent attacker among Argentine frontcourt players who can combine individual attacks and team cooperation.

In the F system, this player has a free kick ability of 17, and the penalty kick has an evaluation of 18, and with 16 corners, he is an absolute set-piece master. In addition, his technical skills such as dribbling, crossing, passing and receiving are also above 15, and with the imagination of 17 and the vision of 15, he is enough to play the role of the playmaker of a world-class team.

What Li Mudi values more is Balco's mental attributes, 19's willpower, 17's bravery, 16's ambition, 15's composure and dedication, so that this player can still play his due ability in the most difficult environment, and is a trusted partner of his teammates.

Although he was hailed as Messi II by the American media because of his height of only 168 cm and playing a similar position, and was also considered by Europeans to be likely to be unable to gain a foothold in the fiercely contested English league, the Arsenal boss still believed in his own vision and the data provided by the plug-in in his head, and despite the opposition of some senior management in the club, he used the special talent clause to bring in the frontman who could not immediately obtain a labor certificate.

In Lee's plan, Balko will not only become an important frontcourt rotation or even a main candidate for the team in the next two to three seasons, but also make up for the Gunners' lack of free-kick ability and enrich the team's attacking style. Therefore, he did not hesitate to offer the Argentine who was not yet 22 years old a salary of up to £180,000 a week, thus strengthening the determination of one of the big players in the squad to leave.

At a time when countless transfer rumours were stirring up and turning the whole European football world upside down, Southampton, who had been floating up and down the middle of the table but could not get out of the embarrassing situation, was suddenly revealed by the British media to be pursuing Swiss international Xhaka, and this news evolved into a reality less than 24 hours after it was widely circulated.

The Chinese-controlled Saints announced that they have brought in the midfielder, who is in the prime of his career, from Arsenal for a total price of £48 million, paid in three-year instalments, and the latter will receive a contract of 200,000 a week and the commitment of the team's midfield core, which he cannot have while staying at Arsenal.

After two large adjustments involving transfers, Li Moody's winter window plan has just begun, and he first loaned out five future stars under the age of 22, including French midfielder Guendouzi, homegrown center Mavididi, and versatile midfielder Ben Shef, in just two days. With the exception of striker Eddie Nketiah, who has joined Premier League vice-captain Norwich who continue to strengthen their attacking arsenal, the rest have moved to the Championship, where they will be provided with a steady stream of minutes and the parent club's head coach will be in a better position to make the best judgment about where they will go forward.

None of these operations have attracted much attention from the outside world, but what has followed is another adjustment of the alignment of one in and one out, making Arsenal one of the most active giants since the opening of the transfer window.

Greek centre-back Papastathopoulos, who has been beaten by Li Mudi, took a flight to Germany on 4 January, returning to his former club Werder Bremen for £6.5 million. In an interview with the media, the hot-tempered Greek international expressed his extreme frustration with the Gunners manager, who did not give him enough respect and wanted to use his performance to hit back at the Celestial man's mistakes. However, since then, the news about the 32-year-old veteran has basically not existed in the mainstream media in Europe, and no one pays attention to the ambitions he is talking about now, and finally it is gone.

And before Arsenal supporters began to worry about their own team's backline over the sudden purge, their manager had already found a solution. Spanish international Diego Llorente joined Arsenal for £39.8 million, reuniting with his former mentor from his time at Torino.

In the 2017-18 season, the two men had a wonderful time working together in Italy, helping the Red Bulls to win the Europa League that year. However, Llorente suffered an injury at the end of the season, not only unfortunately missed the Spanish national team's squad for the World Cup, but also missed the best run-in period after returning to Real Madrid in the new season, resulting in him not being reused under Lopetegui, and finally left the Bernabeu in the winter of 2019 and switched to Real Sociedad.

There, the Real Madrid academy player, who is no longer young, finally got the opportunity to show his ability, sitting in the absolute main position of the team's defense for two consecutive years, and won the appreciation of the current Spanish coach Enrique with his consistent performance, participated in the 2020 European Championship as the main central defender of the Matadors, and was promoted to the ranks of the world's leading defenders at the age of 27.

Last summer, Real Madrid were interested in buying back the player from their family, but the deal was stillborn because Llorente himself did not want to go back and continue to suffer humiliation, but Real Sociedad's request for a contract extension was not agreed, so his liquidated damages remained at the figure of 50 million euros. This is obviously not a big price for a good central defender who is scarce in the whole world football, as long as the player himself agrees, I believe that many teams in urgent need of the core of the defense will be willing to pay this fee to forcibly take him.

However, Diego Llorente eventually moved to Arsenal, who had not been linked to him for less than his liquidated damages, which was somewhat unexpected, but as long as you think of the personal relationship between Li Doudi and the player himself and the influence of Ginez's agency in Spain, there is no other speculation about it.

However, this is not the Gunners manager's last big move of the winter, as Arsenal and West Ham United, who are at the top of the table, completed a player swap less than four hours before the English league break officially ended on 9 January and the Premier League sides began their FA Cup campaigns. The league leaders traded Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Elneny and talented French left wing-back Dabo Abdoulaye, who joined the club's academy from Ligue 1 side Nantes a year ago, plus £2 million in cash to bring back their former pride, Jack Wilshere, from the Hammers.

Although this last transfer cannot be compared with the previous two operations in terms of the value of the player or the role of reinforcement for the team, what makes gun fans talk about and even want to celebrate is the return of the "small threat", after all, this is the real one!

Since joining Arsenal's Academy in 2001 at the age of nine, Wilshere has been a central figure at all levels of the youth team and has been selected into the higher age groups on a number of occasions, rivaling the previous generation of talented Cesc Fabregas. In 2008, he also broke the Gunners' record for the youngest appearance in the history of the Gunners at the age of 16 years and 256 days, and is known as the leader of Arsenal for the next 15 years.

Unfortunately, just as the young threat was growing into a rising star in the Premier League, at the age of 19, he suffered a terrible ankle injury that not only cost him an entire season, but also caused him endless surgeries and pain for years to come.

Having missed out on the best growth period due to injury, his personality is a bit irritable, and his self-control off the pitch after becoming famous at a young age is not enough, it is not surprising that a British-style injury Nakayong happened. Although the professor gave him countless opportunities to prove himself, Wilshere failed to grasp it, and was eventually cleaned up by the new coach after his mentor stepped down.

Fortunately, after joining West Ham United, with the help of Manuel Pellegrini, his mentality finally began to mature. In addition, he deliberately changed his style of play, drastically reducing his individual dribbling options and starting to move in the direction of Xavi's pass-through action, which was quite successful.

All this makes Li Mudi, who hopes to find a person who can complete the same job as Ramsey, although the Gunners' descendants are not too high in terms of current ability and potential, but all the important attributes shown in the F system are very good, and the technical ability and vision such as passing, running, and team cooperation are all above 15, which can make a lot of contributions to the team's midfield combing. This, combined with the fact that he has been exposed to less aggressive defence after changing his style of play, has made his glassy physique less prominent, and he has finally become the Gunners manager's choice to replace Xhaka.

So far, the Arsenal team has completed all the tasks in this transfer period, and they are the number one target in all positions, which is the first time in the history of Li Mudi's coaching team, which seems to be a good omen.

However, even this three-in, three-out (Abdoulaye, who was the head of the deal is negligible) did not become the biggest focus of European football in the first week of 2021, because there were more high-profile deals.

On January 8, Manchester City announced on its official website that it had signed Brazilian international Casemiro from Real Madrid for a transfer fee of 10.5 billion pounds, making the latter the highest-priced midfielder/central midfielder to date, which caused a warm response from the media and fans.