There is another reason for the introduction of Gurkuf that can attract Li Mudi, who has a "miser character", that is, his salary requirements are very low. At present, in Rennes, the highly sought-after striker in football can only get an annual salary of about 950,000, which can only be regarded as relatively cheap in French Ligue 1, where the treatment of players is generally not high, maybe it will reach the average. But you must know that he used to be a French international, and he once played as the core for a while, and his performance in Bordeaux was also the top in the country before, and now he is really down to a certain extent.

It is also worth noting that Gourcuff's contract expires on 30 June next year, and due to the current situation of the father and son at Rennes, it is certain that they will not be able to stay any longer. Migliasio thinks he can be confident that he can convince the Ligue 1 side to agree to a peaceful termination of the player's contract before the end of the year, and then he will be able to join the new club as a free agent without spending a single cent of transfer fees, which is also a big bargain.

After thinking about it for a while, the Torino coach said that he did have some motivation, but this matter still needs to be studied and studied with the club's marketing department and senior management before making a final decision. However, he also reassured Migliasio that no matter what the result is, the Torino side will notify him as soon as possible to facilitate the agent's next operation, after all, if he can't join the Red Bulls, he still has to contact another next home, and the time can't be said to be very short, but now it won't be too easy to find the right team in the short term.

The trio then moved on to something other than football, with both managers complaining that they didn't have much personal time to rest and expressing their envy of Migliasio's semi-retired state. The French agent responded with a smile: "When the time comes, you will know what it is like to have nothing to do for a day, but I hope you two can adapt to the change of identity from the spotlight to the unnoticed, and don't have any unbalanced problems." ”

After ordering some takeaway and a quick bite at noon, the two guests headed to the airport to return to Spain. Li Mudi came to the club's training ground and began to train with a mix of first team and youth team. In the evening, he also went to the hospital with Valentino Cairo, visiting Belotti, who was still in the hospital for observation, and asked about the latest developments in the injury.

There is no change from the attending doctor, because the player himself does not want to leave the field for too long and chooses conservative treatment, so the treatment plan without surgery is still relatively easy to control, as long as the injury is recuperated step by step, it will be officially returned in about four weeks. However, when they came to the ward to see the wounded, some people actually expressed their dissatisfaction, which was somewhat unexpected by the two visitors.

However, the object of the dissatisfaction is not the Turin Club, and the person who speaks is not the Red Babe herself. As mentioned before, it has been rumored that Belotti's then-girlfriend and current wife, Giorgia Duro, will personally replace the original Sergio Ranchi and accept the business of Turin 9. This rumor finally became a reality after 40 days of marriage, and on July 25, major Italian media websites broke the news that Belotti fired his agent and would let his new wife participate in negotiations on various matters on his behalf with the help of professional accountants in the future.

Needless to say, the person who made dissatisfaction on this inopportune occasion this time is naturally this "non-professional broker" who is a headache for everyone. The reason for the incident is also very simple, this afternoon, the president of the Italian Football Federation, Tavicio, was interviewed by the Ansa Society (equivalent to the new of the Celestial Empire. Huaxin) said in an interview that he was not too worried about Belotti's injury.

'I don't think Belotti's injury absence will have a big impact on our play-offs, we need to be optimistic and we don't need to cry. I'm sure a great guy like Belotti will recover very quickly, but without him we would still be very strong as a team. If no surprises happen, Italy will still be the better side against Macedonia and Albania, so good luck with the lads! ”

This was originally to cheer for the team, but somehow, in the ears of Duro, it became that the president of the Football Association did not value his husband and thought that he was a dispensable character, which was angry with this woman who had just taken over the business and wanted to run her "client" into a world-class superstar. In front of the head coach of the team and the head of the club's marketing department, she scolded the boss of the Football Association severely, and she didn't care what negative consequences it would bring to her man if this word was spread.

Fortunately, Belotti still knew how to take a moment, and after his wife vented for a while, she used other things to divert the topic, and did not let outsiders continue to watch the jokes. However, Giorgia Duro's social skills are still good, but his ambition is not small, and after a few words, he began to hint that the club is not considering raising his husband's salary. And this is also one of the messages that the prince of Torino came to inform, because when the contract was renewed at the end of last year, the club promised to raise the salary of the star when the budget was greatly increased, so Valentino simply put forward a preliminary intention.

The annual salary has increased from 2.8 million before tax to 3.5 million, but the number of liquidated damages must be adjusted accordingly, and the club believes that 150 million should be a more reasonable setting now. However, this proposal obviously did not satisfy Douro, and after a little thought, she frowned and replied that she wanted to discuss it with her family, and could not give a positive answer. This was also expected by Valentino, who and the coach of the team left after wishing Belotti a speedy recovery, leaving room for a private exchange between Red Bebe and his agent's wife, who were noncommittal about the contract extension.

This contract renewal proposal was first applied for by Li Mudi, because of the previous agreement with Belotti's former agent Sergio Ranchi, the club's financial situation is now much better than at that time, plus the salaries of new signings such as Casey and Immobile are relatively high, so it is reasonable to sign a new contract with the team's number one star after a year. However, the president of Torino is still worried about the team's top card in the first half of the year and the past summer, which was almost poached by other giants, and this time he agreed to the contract renewal work so quickly, naturally in order to change the previous liquidated damages that had been as high as 100 million euros.

It's just that judging from the attitude of the player's new agent, the negotiation of a new contract this time may be very difficult, anyway, the Torino coach will not be personally involved, and this problem will be left to the director Pantario Longo and them to solve.

After throwing this hot potato to others, Li Mudi devoted himself to tuning. Teaching young players is in the middle of the fun. In the next two or three days of training, he patiently guided Malkiza and Little Egerstein who were drawn from the U20 team, and also arranged a large number of opportunities for them to play against the same team members, so that the atmosphere in the training base is still relatively hot, and the young men's abilities have also improved, which can be said to be a thriving good situation.

However, the World Cup qualifiers on the evening of the 6th still had a lot of negative impact on everyone, making almost all the local players look not very emotional in the training on the second day. Although it was almost determined before the game that they could only finish second in the group and fight for the play-offs, they still held the hope of being able to counterattack in theory, so the fans on the Apennine Peninsula were still very concerned about this round of competition that night.

As a result, the matadors defeated Albania, who were third in the group, 3-0 at home, and at the same time won the ticket to Russia, and at the same time, the Italians' dream was completely shattered. But what is difficult for fans to accept is that the performance of the blue team is too unbearable, and Ventura led the team to a 1-1 draw at home by the weak Macedonia, which is simply a loss of face.

Although the team was absent from this game, including De Rossi, Belotti and other big players, at the Turin Olympic Stadium, the Italian national team, which has a total value of about 100 times that of the opponent, behaves like a child who can't play. They kept their opponents at bay in the first 75 minutes of half-time, but the constant siege was slow to get a goal, neither Immobile, Insigne, nor Bologna winger Loudi, who made an unexpected start, could really threaten Macedonian goalkeeper Dimitlevski.

It wasn't until the 40th minute that Italy knocked on the door of the visitors and took a difficult lead, but it was the veteran centre-back Chiellini who broke the deadlock for them, which has to be said to be an irony! After the home team's corner kick was cleared by the opposing defender, Insigne from outside the box fought for the second spot, and his sudden through ball pierced the Macedonian defence, which was not in good position (coincidence!). When Mobile cut in on the left and knocked across the middle, the unmarked Juventus centre-back followed up and slotted home with ease. 1-0, although very dissatisfied with the team's performance, there were still not too many cheers and applause, but the support of the fans did not pay off accordingly.

The second half of the game was still a situation where the home team could not attack, but Ventura's substitution caused a lot of controversy after the game. In the obvious need to strengthen the attack, he even replaced the latter's team-mate Barzagli at the club with Rugani at half-time, and the same position of the central defender was adjusted, which was confusing. Although it was later revealed that the player made this choice because he felt that his muscles were a little problematic and made this choice in order to reduce the risk of injury, even if he wanted to replace the central defender who had almost nothing to do in the first half, he should let a frontcourt player play to increase the attacking power! It was when the team needed another goal to secure the win, and such a conservative substitution was drunk.

However, after continuing to besiege for 20 minutes, the Italian team was still unable to break through the opponent's goal for the second time, and was instead attacked twice by the Macedonian players, and even was killed in the heart of the penalty area. At this time, Ventura seemed to react and replaced the average performance of Verdy with Bernardeschi, but the Juventus winger, who had become a "black and white bebe", did not have any outstanding performance, but the attacking players of the visiting team led by Pandev gradually found their form and attacked the goal guarded by Buffon one after another. Seeing that the situation was not going well, Ventura made another stupid move, and he sent Atalanta central midfielder Cristante to replace Inter's Gagliardini, neither strengthening the attack to suppress the opponent, nor increasing the defensive intensity to contain the attacking team.

As a result, just two minutes after the substitution, Macedonia seized a counter-attack opportunity to equalize the score. In the 77th minute, Pandev sent a delicate through ball, Trajkovski burst into the box and volleyed from a tight angle on the right, the ball passed through Buffon's fingertips and slammed into the far corner of the net, causing an uproar among the home fans.

In the following game, although the Italians were unwilling, they still attacked hard, trying to exceed the score again. However, the visitors' defence remained solid and did not leave much chance for their opponents, but they also had a late chance in front of goal, but Tritowski headed wide of the post. Finally, when the referee on duty, Thiago Martins from Portugal, blew the whistle for the end of the game, the entire Turin Olympic Stadium resounded with huge boos, and the broadcaster's camera kept switching back and forth between the Italian coach and the stars who are worth tens of millions, as if to express something.

Criticism from the media and fans after the game was unleashed, but the players at the time kept excusing themselves and their managers in interviews. Barzagli criticized: "It's disappointing that some of the spectators booed today, but everyone who bought the tickets wanted the match to be worth the ticket price. Maybe they expected more, sometimes we could have done more, but it was sad to end the game with boos. ”

Goalscorer Giorgio Chiellini felt his team's form was not good, but there was room for improvement: "When we broke the deadlock, we had to control the game better, obviously losing to Spain discouraged our desire to work hard. Now we need to be calm and relaxed, and even though we didn't play well enough, it was the first game of our World Championship that had a little bit of a mistake. Now we need to keep working hard, stay fit and calm, that's the only secret to our success. We need to win the game to get the applause from the fans and we understand their disappointment, but at this stage we need them to be with us and help us. ”

In 1982, former World Cup winner and former national team captain Giaccarlo Antonioni believes that the former Torino coach's change of squad reform in the national team has failed, not only completely destroying the good foundation left by his predecessor, but also making the player's form very bad, and it may be time to discuss this aspect. Others even aggressively suggested that the Football Association should change its coach immediately, and that the old guy should no longer be allowed to sabotage the national team's hard-won way to re-emerge, and for a while the entire Apennine Peninsula was arguing about this terrible draw, and Ventura's life became more and more difficult.