Volume 1 Chapter 265 Unpopular
The salary increase and contract renewal were all happy, and the next day, Zhang Shubin's stellar sports agency was also announced in Florence.
Chen Yu and Gao Fei, as one of the shareholders, sent out invitations and invited many football stars and football celebrities to attend, and the opening ceremony was lively.
Before the opening of Zhang Shubin's agent company, few people knew Zhang Shubin's name except for people in the industry, and after Zhang Shubin opened, fans and players found out that Zhang Shubin not only has well-known stars with huge potential like Chen Yu, but also Shao Gang, Sun Hai, Gao Fei and other powerful factions, which can be said to be the strongest agent in China.
On the opening day, Ricano, who has always been his own agent, officially joined Stellar Sports Agency, which started the first business for Stellar Sports Agency.
After the salary increase, Chen Yu really jumped into the ranks of stars, although because the time of fame is too short, the status is not stable enough, can not be compared with first-class stars, but Chen Yu has an advantage that is difficult for other stars to compare, that is, behind him is the vast market of China, even if Chen Yu does not have too dazzling performance in Europe, as long as he can stand still, China's huge fan base can also make him a force that cannot be ignored in the world of football.
Before the salary increase, there were a lot of rumors about Chen Yu, and many Fiorentina die-hard fans also had a lot of misunderstandings about Chen Yu, and they felt that the reason why there were so many transfer rumors in the outside world was because of Chen Yu's attitude.
On the opening day of his stellar sports agency, Chen Yu also expressed his loyalty to the reporters and football people present.
"Florence is my second home and I want to give more for the purple lily. Every time I go back to China, there are voices saying that I want to go away from Fiorentina to another team, and now I want to reiterate to everyone: I want to continue to play in Fiorentina, I want to win all the titles in Fiorentina, I will not give up the noble purple. Now that the holidays are coming to an end, we need to keep our mood and fighting spirit and play with joy instead of treating football as a burden. ”
Chen Yu's agent Zhang Shubin gave a more specific explanation of this: "No team can sign Chen Yu, first, Fiorentina has no intention of selling him; Second, Chen Yu wants to lift the league championship trophy in a purple shirt, he has lived in Fiorentina for three years, and he only has Fiorentina in his mind. ”
Chen Yu and his agent expressed their loyalty at the opening ceremony, although De La Valle paid an extra 1.3 million euros a year, although it was a little distressing, but finally retained Chen Yu, which far exceeded the value of 1.3 million euros, so De La Valle also reciprocated, and highly praised Chen Yu in an interview with reporters: "Chen Yu chose to stay." We are very happy, most of the European giants are jealous that we have him, no way, we feel sorry for them, if we don't have such a player, we will be jealous; The past year has been a bumper year for Chen. The 45 goals he scored in Serie B made him known to the world. After promotion to Serie A, he was in better form, scoring a goal in 16 rounds that shocked the world of football, and now, all Fiorentinas love him, this is his home, he is the king of Chen here and never stops, he always has the desire to play and score goals, and his next goal should be to win a title with Fiorentina. ”
After Chen Yu's salary increase, the player shook hands with the owner, the transfer rumors temporarily disappeared, and now only three days before the end of the winter break, Fiorentina began to turn their attention to the league.
The first game after the winter break was very important as he determined the team's form in the second half of the season.
It is not uncommon for many teams to have an eye-catching first half, but after the winter break, their form has slipped and the two halves have been diametrically opposed.
The focus of this round of the game is the Rome derby, the theme is the old First Division teams clash with each other, the promoted horses grab points from each other, and the giants abuse the belly of the fish.
The rivalry of the old teams is: Brescia∨ Bologna, Sampdoria∨ Udinese, Juventus Parma, Milan Lecce
The battles for promotion are: Cagliari∨ Messina, Reggina ∨ Palermo, Fiorentina and Atalanta
The only clash between the giants and the promoted side was Inter Milan's home game in Livorno looking for a win.
This season, Roma and Lazio's record has declined, and they have been unable to win the championship, and the focus should have been a little less attractive than before, but the top three opponents are not strong, although Juventus is playing away, but the opponent is the second-to-last Parma team, as long as the Zebra themselves do not give up, there should be no problem with all three points away, AC Milan's opponent is also a weak team, although Lecce has strong offensive ability, but in the face of the Rossoneri, I am afraid that there is no way to fight back. Fiorentina's opponent Atalanta has not won a game so far, there is no suspense about the outcome of the game, there is no suspense in other games, the Rome derby is even more important, the newspapers are full of the names of Roma and Lazio, and the TV station has been talking about the Rome derby.
Roma have won four of the last 10 Rome derbyes, with the last defeat to Lazio coming in March of UU. Lazio also has a lot of injuries, and the outside world is optimistic that Totti will lead the Red Wolves to continue their prestige at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
However, the derby can never be measured by form, injuries and history, and the final result was a 3-l defeat for Roma, who had not won for five years.
If Lazio's defeat to Roma was not an upset, then Fiorentina's defeat to Atalanta was an absolute upset.
The win over Fiorentina was Atalanta's first win of the season, after sitting bottom of the table and almost sealing a relegation spot, with no one favouring them to win before the game.
However, in this game, Fiorentina was not only in poor shape, but also unlucky, Mondonico sent a new trident combination, Chen Yu, Portillo and Micoli, but the three forwards each hit a post, did not score a goal, the last moment, Fiorentina sent five forwards, but never able to pry open the door of Atalanta, but at the last moment by Atalanta striker Pacini a counterattack to break through the ten fingers of Saijas.
Fiorentina's defeat to Atalanta was the biggest upset, Juventus' draw with Parma was the second biggest upset, although Parma was one of the famous "Seven Sisters of Serie A", but after losing to Roma by a score of L5 in the round of 16, the team suffered four consecutive defeats. They are second from bottom in the standings, just above Atalanta.
However, Juventus, like Fiorentina, did not seem to have come out of the holidays, with weak attacks and frequent defensive mistakes, and although Ibrahimovic scored first, Parma's Marchioni took advantage of a mistake in the Juventus defence to score the equaliser.
Juventus and Fiorentina in the top three drew and lost one, but AC Milan, who ranked third, showed excellent form, 5: Pepper Lecce, three strikers Crespo, Shevchenko, and Tomasson scored five goals to help Milan surpass the old woman Juventus to the top of the table.
After this game, Fiorentina has fallen to third, three points behind AC Milan and two points behind Juventus. Although fourth-placed Udinese also lost and did not chase the points closer, the bad news was that the draw masters Inter Milan won this round. After 27 draws this season, the Inter Milan were moved to tears of emotion by breaking the draw curse, feeling as if they were cursed by the devil because no other team could have won so many draws.
Now that the draw has been broken and the pace of progress in the top two has slowed, the Nerazzurri manager Roberto Mancini has reverted to his dream of winning the title, "We still think we can be the protagonists of the league, we worked hard for it before the winter break, now we are more convinced, in the last two games we have been more focused, but this is still the same Inter team, it is only in other games that we let the victory slip out of our hands. ”
Beaten by bottom-to-bottom Atalanta, the team dropped to third in the table, with Inter Milan chasing from behind, putting manager Mondonico under great pressure.
In fact, Mondonico was not the coach that the owner de la Valle liked, after Fiorentina was promoted last season, Fiorentina was not able to immediately renew his contract with Mondonico, until July, because De La Valle's favorite Prandelli had to take care of his sick wife, Fiorentina could not find a suitable candidate, and the Fiorentina club finally decided to renew Mondonico's contract for one year after repeated negotiations.
This season, Mondonico has been able to sit at this time, mainly because the team's results are too good, even if it is in the top four, in a period of slump before the winter break, the media still spread the news that Fiorentina wants to change the coach, which shows that Mondonico has never received all the trust of the club.
After the game with Atalanta, Mondonico did not attend the press conference, but let the assistant coaches Danny and Chen Yu replace, which also became an excuse for the media to criticize Mondonico, saying that he did not dare to face mistakes and could not bear the consequences of failure. Don't forget that their opponents Juventus and AC Milan are both champions, and they have almost all of the league titles in recent years, so Milan and Juventus can beat Fiorentina in terms of their experience in winning titles.
"Roma Sport" also pointed out that while the schedule is not yet halfway through, Fiorentina had better change the coach as soon as possible, so as not to be too late to change at the last moment.
The newspaper La Repubblica believes that there must be no change of manager in the middle of the process, which is a big taboo, and now Mondonico has made a small mistake, but the team has a good result, and now it is in third place, and there is still hope of winning the championship, and there is no reason to change the head coach because of this small mistake.
For the media hype, the Fiorentina senior management did not say a word, Mondonico also remained silent, everyone seems to be waiting for the results of the weekend's game, if Fiorentina beats Lazio at home at the weekend, it is estimated that the media will not take the change of coach as a topic, but at this time, "Milan Sports Newspaper" suddenly came out with a news, saying that Prandelli revealed that he will return to coaching next season, and he has been taking care of his sick wife at home for half a season after resigning from Roma. His wife's condition has improved under his careful care, and the former Parma manager is ready to return to football.
Due to the renewal of his contract with Mondonico, the chairman of the purple lily, de la Valle, had personally called Prandelli to ask him to come out of the mountain. However, Prandelli claimed that he would not accept an offer from any club as a sign of respect for Roma. Then Mondonico was able to continue to coach Fiorentina to play in Serie A, and this news once again raised questions about whether Fiorentina wanted to change the coach.