Christmas passed quickly and Parma returned to training in order to be able to play well next season.

It's just that at this time, the team is already missing an important figure - Yaya Toure has returned to Africa to play in the Africa Cup of Nations, and the current team also has to train some new ways of playing to adapt to his absence.

And this winter break, as Li Bin said, the team did not bring in anyone - there are not many big fish in the transfer market in winter, and if you really want to poach people, you have to pay a lot of money. Although Parma changed its boss, it was not an overnight getaway, and Li Bin was still reluctant to buy people at this time.

And Sans didn't make a similar request. Although as a Spaniard, he would like to bring in La Liga players, but now La Liga has a very special rule: they stipulate that players who have played more than five games for the team in the first half of the season cannot make winter transfers. In the eyes of the Spaniards, those players who have played less can ask for a transfer in a different environment, but if they play more, they should not make a fuss - this rule was not removed until 2010, so now it is Sanz who wants to buy people, and he can't buy any good players, so he has no idea about it.

But no matter how reluctant you are to buy people, sometimes, some problems are inevitable. During the training during the winter break, there was still bad news in the team.

"There's nothing special about training, it's another thing, I have to tell you." When Borg found Li Bin, he said very solemnly to Li Bin, "Tudor has been examined, and his questions have been answered." ”

Tudor's matter, half a year ago, Li Bin asked people to constantly examine him, but his problem has always been very big, half a year has passed, he has not been sick, Li Bin has not thought about it anymore, after all, the problem of so many years can not be found in a short period of time, Li Bin also asked people to visit a few more experts, and now, finally got a conclusion.

"We invited a lot of people, at first we just thought it was the accumulation of injuries and injuries, and we found the wrong direction, and we didn't get anything out of it, but later, we thought about the problem of illness and got some answers......

Borg explained that after changing the direction of the investigation, an American physiotherapy specialist found out that the problem was not a problem with the accumulation of old injuries caused by injuries, but that he believed that he had a rare chronic disease in his ankle, which was an important reason for his frequent injuries.

"Can't it be cured?" Hearing the news, Li Bin didn't know whether to be happy or anxious.

Borg shook his head, "Of course not. Although this disease is not mild, it is not very harmful in itself, but it can make the ankle easily injured, and if he is not an athlete, such a disease is almost harmless. Tudor's own problem is due to the accumulation of multiple injuries caused by chronic illness, which is the big problem. I've seen his injury record, and although there are a lot of minor injuries, overall the problem is not very serious. The key problem is that post-treatment is time-consuming and requires a club attitude. ”

"As for his illness, it is possible to cure it. Ankle arthropathy is very difficult to cure, and the doctors told me that they do have a choice of medicines, but the key is that the treatment lasts up to a year and a half, divided into six courses. And this treatment process is only for chronic diseases, and does not help in any way for the recovery of old injuries. What's even more unacceptable is that this drug is still in the testing stage, and they told me that after using it, the possible consequence is edema, and after edema, it is natural that you can't play it......"

"A year and a half, in the next six months, we can arrange for him to be treated, but in the next year, we can't do anything. Go and talk to him and see if he's willing to be cured. ”

"If he's willing to cure, we'll really let him cure?" Borg asked rhetorically, "We don't have a replacement. ”

"Anyway, the players are injured and we can't just sit idly by, right? I'll think about the substitutions, but I can't ignore them knowing that the players are injured. Li Bin shook his head, "Let's let him cure." ”

However, Li Bin also has something anxious in his heart: if Tudor is really allowed to treat his injury, then there will be no one on the team's bench who can be used. On the issue of defenders, he also had to buy people.

And after thinking about it for a while, he also thought of who to buy, anyway, it's just a substitute, and there is no need to buy someone who is too good, what he thought of was to find a similar player.

"When I went to Hertha Berlin in Germany, I took a fancy to one of their defenders, the Congolese named Christopher Samba. This is a very good substitute, you can buy it for about 500,000 euros, and if you buy him, even if Tudor can't play in time, we have a backup. ”

Christopher Samba is a Congolese international, but he has French nationality and does not occupy a non-European quota. However, at Hertha Berlin he was only a substitute. Born in 1984, he is now 22 years old, but he is still only a substitute, and his value is not very high. And the reason why Li Bin chose him is because he is cheap, and he can buy it for about 500,000 yuan. The second reason is that he is very physical - his height of 1.93 meters and the athleticism of a top black player make him a good player who is precocious. In the Bundesliga, he didn't play, but the environment in the Bundesliga is special, and unless he is a defender who likes to plug in, he can't play in the Bundesliga. But in my memory, he played well in the Premier League in the future, and later seemed to be worth more than 10 million pounds, so it should be okay for such a player to be a substitute.

And for this deal, Sans didn't say much: this is not unexpected, Sans is afraid that he will not have to intervene in the purchase of 500,000 euros of substitutes, he still gives Li Bin a certain amount of authority - this is also the reason why Li Bin is looking for Samba, after all, this season's task is not light, Li Bin does not want to have a dispute with Sans at this time.

This, it is estimated that it is the only reinforcement during the winter break. And after doing this, Li Bin also shifted his attention to the game.

"How's the preparation for our next game?"

"It's okay to prepare." Esposito was in charge of training these days, and was a little dissatisfied, "The third line is too tired - you look at the teams that have won the treble in history, we are obviously not that kind of team, why fight the third line?" ”

"You're supposed to think I'm crazy."

Li Bin did not explain, and he still agreed with Sans's statement from the bottom of his heart. Since Sans had given him good advice, he would naturally accept it. In the future, at least, he doesn't want his team to lose this game anyway. Round 18 - This game is the match between Parma and Milan.

"Anyway, play this game well. As you know, if we win this game, we will be able to sit in second place for a few more days, but if we lose, we will not be in the top three. In any case, we can't afford to lose this game. ”

Now Parma is second in the league, two points ahead of Milan, and this game with Milan, if they win, the gap between them and Milan can reach five points, but if they lose, not to mention Milan, even Inter Milan may surpass, he has to think about letting the team win.

However, this game, as the first game of the second half of the season, is also the focus of many people, after all, this is the battle for the second place in the league, and it is also the season of Milan and Parma, which is about to settle the grievances.

This season, Milan and Parma have formed some grudges against each other rather than rivalry. Parma sold two players to Milan, Gilardino and Bonella, both of whom played really badly, Gilardino was raised last season's Crespo I don't know how much worse it was, Milan chose a poor striker between Crespo and Gilardino, and naturally complained a lot.

And Bonella plays football with frequent problems, and there is no point in the posture of Italy's super defender, compared with his predecessors, he plays two kinds of football, not to mention Nestor's successor, even qualified giants can't do it, which makes Milan helpless to buy money-losing goods. These two people didn't play well, and they were both sold to Milan by Parma, and when Milan looked at these two people, he naturally complained about Parma - who has ever seen a parallel goods to be packed? How did Milan encounter such a heartwarming situation?

spent 30 million to buy two bad players, no matter who they replaced, I'm afraid they won't be happy. At this time, Parma's results overpowered Milan again, and the Milan media complained a lot.

"Parma have played really well this season, but he seems to have stayed in second place for too long. It's time for them to know how much Parma's strength is different from Milan's. They may be playing well now, but, let's not forget, Milan are the more solid team. ”

The comments made by the media are also more inclined to Milan - among all the football teams in Italy, except for Juventus, the team name does not contain any place names, so there are fans in all Italy, in addition to the largest number of fans, the most popular is Milan, and Milan is still Berlusconi's team, Berlusconi, as a media tycoon, has a lot of media, and his words are still quite weighty, and the Italian media are also more inclined to Milan.

And Li Bin's comments to the media didn't say much for the time being, after all, it was still early before the game started, and Li Bin didn't say anything before he could speak.

To Li Bin's surprise, he didn't say much, but someone else said more.

"I hope to use this game to get the advantage of the second half of the season. Parma are not strong enough to compete with Milan and we will let them shine as they are. ”

Soon, someone published the words of Milan in the Milanese newspaper. And the person who spoke was not other grumpy people, but Nesta, who had never liked to talk much.

"Nesta, why do you want to speak? I remember when he arrived in Milan, he didn't talk much. Li Bin was also a little puzzled by this.

"Are you pretending to be stupid, or do you really not understand? We relegated Lazio last season, do you think Nesta will like us? Esposito glanced at him, "It would be strange if he didn't look for trouble." ”

This made Li Bin ridiculous.

In the early years of Lazio, Nesta's temper was not very good, but later, after Lazio's financial crisis and the sale of him to Milan, he had fewer words, and was even considered by many to be a quiet person by nature.

However, his temper has not changed after all, and he has always been thinking about Lazio, Lazio was relegated, he was naturally full of anger, and when he met Parma and their game, he couldn't help but complain to express his indignation.

"You want to kick Lazio for revenge...... Okay, come on. Looking at Nesta's words, Li Bin also nodded, "Then let's see if Milan is real, much better than us!" ”