The outside world did not know that the president of Torino had the idea of building a new stadium, so it was natural that the various events that took place between him and the team's head coach were not known, but simply included the situation of the two men who seemed to be talking happily in the report, describing to the fact that the pair that brought new life to the Red Bulls is still in a state of intimacy. Then he predicted whether a new contract was about to be reached, or that some blockbuster transfer was about to appear, anyway, it was a baseless YY.

However, there is indeed something reliable in the media's description, and Urbano Cairo's purpose in inviting Li Mudi to dinner is to resolve the knots in the hearts of both parties. The president of Torino knows that the premise for the club to continue its rapid development is that the team's results are good enough, so as to gain more support from fans, reap greater economic benefits, and enhance the club's position in the football circle. If the results return to the way they were under Ventura, the new stadium will become a pipe dream and a laughing stock.

And the reason why this Torino team has been able to make a radical change in just two years, even if Urbano Cairo does not want to fully admit it in his heart, Li Mudi's credit is indeed the greatest. It was he who built a very good first-team team with insufficient transfer fees, allowing the Red Bulls, who had previously barely made it to the middle of the table in Serie A, to the top of the table and have a good chance of qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in more than 40 years. The domestic cup competition has also reached the final, and the Europa League has advanced to the quarterfinals, which can be said to be very impressive, and if it were not for the yellow skin, the 34-year-old manager might have put the title of future leader in coaching on his head.

What's more, Li Mudi used his super precise vision to recruit a group of extremely talented young players, rejuvenating the already withering academy and truly finding the most suitable path for the future development of the team. This is even more terrifying, you know, in modern times, only Lord Fergus has transformed the Red Devils into a top giant with Manchester United's 92 golden generation, and he has also become a "god" in one fell swoop, Barcelona has also confirmed the name of the world's giants because of the outbreak of Xavi, Iniesta and Messi's youth training (Barcelona, which had only one Champions League champion before, is really not high), and other "young player mentors" like Wenger have not allowed Arsenal to dominate the world in the case of their own youth training.

Of course, the state of Torino's academy is now only at the level of the Gunners a decade ago, and that is a cluster of talents. At the end of last year, SI launched the latest masterpiece FM2018 game, which set the potential value of players all over the world, and the many -9 and -8 in the Turin youth team really blinded the players' titanium eyes, becoming the most concerned demon gathering place. Although no one can predict how far these talented lads will grow in the future, after all, there are countless examples of injury Zhongyong, but at least their chances of success are far greater than those players with mediocre talent. Li Muddy has done the best he can do, and whether or not this group of players can develop smoothly will not affect his position in discovering young people.

If there are some coaches who can lead the Torino team under the current squad to play well, but if you add the impact on the development of youth training, then Li Mudi can be said to be the most suitable coach for this team at the moment, even if Mu Niao or Qi Zu comes, it is almost certainly not as popular as the former. In addition, because of his existence, it can also attract a large number of Celestial Empire enterprises to provide sponsorship.

Although the club has become a favorite among many sponsors due to its outstanding performance, more than 20 world-renowned European and American companies have been interested in partnering with the Red Bulls in the last two months. However, the high sponsorship fee from the local tyrants of the Celestial Empire is still a large amount of income that cannot be ignored, even if because of the exclusivity of business, the sponsorship position of many Celestial Empire enterprises in the future will definitely be replaced by larger European and American companies, but at least in the past two years, the Turin Club has to count on the "charity" of the "Celestial Fathers".

Therefore, whether it is from the perspective of the team or from the perspective of commercial interests, Urbano Cairo does not want to break with Li Mudi, at least to keep the manager who already has a lot of status in world football until he weighs the benefits and losses.

In the course of this sumptuous dinner, the president of Turin, who was once again shortlisted as one of Italy's 20 most successful businessmen at the end of last year, showed no lack of sincerity. He took the initiative to explain to the manager his vision for the new stadium and the general plan for it, in more detail than in the daytime meeting, and confirmed that the plan would not be implemented for two or three years. Later, he assured Li Mudi that he would not cut the funds available to the team in the transfer market, and the previously promised salary structure adjustment would continue to be implemented, while all team-related matters would still maintain the system in which the head coach was the final decision-maker.

However, Cailo also hopes that Li Mudi will stand up and support his plans to build a new stadium when the time is right, and he believes that those talents in the academy are likely to grow into qualified first-team players after two or three years of training. It is highly likely that the team will no longer need to spend money on new signings, and will probably be able to make a lot of money in the transfer market, so there should be no need for additional investment in terms of finances, and the club is spending most of the money on other important things, which is a perfect idea in theory.

But a businessman, even after nearly two decades in football, has not been able to transform his way of thinking into a non-businessman. It's not that he doesn't understand that the development of young players is always full of uncertainties, and his vision is naturally flawless in the best of circumstances, but in reality, no one can predict how many of the more than a dozen young talents in the Torino Academy will be able to realise their potential. But it's almost certain that even if the success rate is twice as high as normal, there will be only four or five players at most who can become the core of the team, and the rest of the positions will have to be found in the transfer market and wait for the next batch of good seedlings to grow.

And if the growth of the little demons does not meet the expectations of the outside world, it is normal, don't you see that the professor has almost sold the new stars Walcott, Chamberlain, Gibbs and Coquelin and others introduced that year in the past two years? With the exception of Bellerin, Ramsey and Wilshere, there are no Academy players in the current Arsenal squad, and Arsene Wenger's youth guard team that has spent two decades building has ultimately failed.

Li Mudi knows very well that it is difficult for a team that only relies on youth training to become a top team, so he will not be fooled by the ambition of the club chairman like Xiaobai, and after accepting the other party's goodwill on the surface, he called his agent Gines when he returned home, signaling the other party to terminate the new contract negotiations that have entered the final procedure. If the club can't write in black and white on his contract that he will be able to guarantee his investment in the transfer market every season, then he is not going to renew his contract and next season will be his final year in charge of the Red Bulls.

In this way, a storm caused by a new stadium has added great uncertainty to the future of the Torino team. However, after learning that the contract renewal process with the manager had been put on hold, the club's marketing staff were instructed by the chairman to fully cooperate with Li Mudi's recruitment plan, and it seemed that Urbano Cairo was intending to soften the opponent's position in this way, which also made the team's transfer work active three months before the summer window opened, adding a lot of material to the media afterwards.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the second match of the current national team break was played and the results were drawn. Italy came to Wembley Stadium and drew 1-1 with England thanks to Insigne's controversial penalty before the end of the game, and finally did not start the campaign of 2018 with a miserable two-game losing streak. Di Biagio continued to play in a 4-3-3 formation, using Immobile and Belotti alone, although the latter got more minutes in this game but still couldn't change his status as a substitute. Throughout the game, the Azzurri's attacking thinking was so chaotic that there was no hope of recovery, and the media expressed their disappointment with the interim manager.

The form of the Spanish national team surprised everyone, although they played 1-1 away from Germany four days ago, and did not have a very good performance, but after returning to their own turf, they burst out with unimaginable energy. At the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Atletico Madrid, the matadors played a historic level of attacking efficiency, and finally with Isco's hat-trick and goals from Costa, Thiago and Aspas, they swept away Argentina, which had just beaten Italy by two goals, 6-1, and handed the Pampas Eagles a joint first-place defeat in history. Even if Messi and Aguero still failed to play, the performance of stars such as Higuain and Mascherano was indeed too disappointing, no wonder the media from all over the world complained after the game that Argentina without the king of the ball was just a weak chicken.

Coincidentally, in almost the same time period on the same day, Argentina's Under-20 national team also lost 6-1 in a friendly against Castilla at Real Madrid's training base, although the latter also included five first-team players who were not selected for this national team squad, including Benzema, Marcos Llorente and Te'o. Stupid Ma staged a big four, abused and cried a group of young men, and became the latest material for many jokers.

However, the countries that cannot talk about these two 1-6 games are Italy in addition to Argentina. Almost the same lineup, four days ago defeated the Azzurri team, only to lose humiliatingly four days later under the Matador's sword, indirectly confirming how huge the current gap between the Spanish and Italian national teams is, it is estimated that it will not be smaller than the 0-3 away loss during Ventola's tenure. Until the restart of the league season at the weekend, the media in the Apennines had been analysing a team that had not been able to find a top team since winning the World Cup in 2006, but everyone knew how much of a role these words could play in the revival of the national team, and the savior of the Azzurri may have to wait for some time to come.

With the two European competitions set to resume in the middle of next week, and the 27th round postponed due to Astori's death scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, this weekend's Serie A has been rescheduled for Saturday to allow teams with more time to rest and adjust. One of the more special is Torino's clash with Crotone, which had to be postponed again due to the fact that the Red Bulls will face Red Bull Salzburg at home in the Europa League on Thursday night, with the Football Association tentatively setting a date for late April or early May.

In other words, if Torino can break into the last four of the Europa League, according to UEFA's plan for the fixtures, they will have a five-week or even six-week double schedule, which is hellish difficulty. In the face of this extremely unfavorable situation, Li Mudi had no choice but to grit his teeth and lead the team to the death. Fortunately, after a two-week period of national team competition, the injuries in the team have basically recovered, except for the veteran central defender Moretti who still needs to continue to recuperate for about a month, and the others have met the standards for playing, which has brought great convenience to the head coach's line-up.

On the afternoon of the 31st, the Torino team visited the Sant'Elia Stadium in Sardinia and challenged Cagliari away, and Li Mudi put out a reserved starting lineup. Although Belotti and Immobile formed the attacking pair, neither man played the full game, with the former being replaced by Manuel Pellegri before the start of the second half, while the latter only lasted 15 more minutes before sitting on the bench to recuperate for Thursday's European game. In addition, the two core of the central midfield, Ranocchia and Benasi, did not travel with the team to the away stadium, but stayed at the club to recuperate.

In the face of the home team that only has league tasks and still feels a trace of relegation pressure, the average strength of the Red Bulls players has been well played, even Goldaniga, Dickman and Gourcuff, who are recognized by the outside world as rotations or even substitutes, actually have the ability to gain a foothold in the middle of Serie A and even play the main role. Throughout the game, the visitors, who didn't look like they were at their full strength, were firmly in control, with 58 per cent possession and 7-of-7 shots on goal going far short of how much of an advantage they actually had.

Cagliari didn't look to attack much less than their opponents, but their chances of finding the heart of the Torino penalty area were woefully low, with none of their seven shots being a good chance, most of which came with some interference from defenders, and those two shots on target didn't cause Casillas even the slightest bit of trouble.

Due to the ample preparation time to prepare the information of the opponent's players, before this game, Li Mudi completely studied the technical advantages and disadvantages of the Cagliari players through the FM system, and restricted the deployment of them in a very targeted manner, which directly led to the achievement of a big victory, which made a good start for the extremely difficult schedule afterwards.