Chapter 61: Scavenger Keeper

Allegri fixed his eyes and saw that the position Pan Yi was pointing to was the back of the entire formation - the goalkeeper.

"Abbiati?" Allegri wondered, "You mean, Abbiati's performance is not good?" ”

"Of course not. Abbiati's goal-line skills are still quite good. Pan Yi explained, "But he is a traditional goalkeeper, and his feet can't meet the requirements of our tactics." ”

Allegri's face was immediately revealed: "The goalkeeper just wants to guard the door well, what do you want to do with such good foot work?" ”

Pan Yi couldn't help but scratch his head a little.

At this point in time, the concept of goalkeeper playing the ball in the tactical system is still relatively rare.

Traditional giants are still accustomed to using traditional goalkeepers like Gianluigi Buffon, Iker Casillas and De Gea.

So he still had to think about how to explain it to Allegri.

"Let's go back to this tactic first. I just talked about the practice of pressing in the front court, and now let's talk about how to play when attacking with the ball normally. ”

Pan Yi straightened out his thoughts and said again:

"Our forward line will be a combination of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Inzaghi and Sadio Mane."

"As far as Inzaghi in the middle is concerned, although he is older, he runs well off the ball, has a good anti-offside move, and has a balanced left and right foot, and can finish quality shots with both feet."

"But his shortcomings are also obvious. One is that he has a weak ability to hold the ball with his back, and the other is that he does not have the ability to fight in a small space - this is completely different from Ibrahimovic. Therefore, with Inzaghi as the core of the attack, the team's tactics need to create opportunities for him to get the ball head-on and fight for him to speed up and sprint. ”

"If you want to create space to sprint, it's not appropriate to press on the opponent and compress the opponent's space. Therefore, our offensive organization is often launched from the backfield, and we are not in a hurry to move forward at the first time, but will pass between several defenders in the backfield to lure the opponent's forward line to press. ”

"But at this time, because our fullbacks will also put a lot of energy into attacking, so in addition to the two central defenders, we must also add the goalkeeper to participate in the backfield pass, otherwise it will be too easy to be predicted by the opponent, resulting in the ...... of being cut off."

Allegri looked at the tactical board and began to nod frequently: "I probably understand. It's similar to Bayern's Manuel Neuer. ”

Pan Yi also nodded and said, "Yes, it is a duty like a scavenger goalkeeper." ”

Allegri: "But Abbiati is not up to the task. ”

Pan Yi: "Yes. And the other thing is that the goalkeeper position in our team is on the older side. Abbiati is 34 years old, Roma is 36 years old, and even the youngest Ameria is 28 years old. IMHO, none of them are up to the standard of a world-class goalkeeper either. ”

Allegri can only admit that Pan Yi is right.

Even Abbiati, who is currently the most popular, is not at the peak of his career, and his competitive level is also declining.

Even if it weren't for this new tactic, Allegri would have to start thinking about a new Milan goalkeeper.

"Do you have any candidates?" Allegri touched his chin.

The main reason is that the current excellent young goalkeepers are too sought-after, and the price is also rising.

Just this summer, the 21-year-old De Gea moved to Manchester United for 20 million euros.

This is still the so-called "squatting goalkeeper" that Pan Yi can't look down on.

Also this year, the 25-year-old Neuer joined Bayern Munich for a transfer fee of 30 million euros.

This guy is Pan Yi's first choice, but first, the top management is unlikely to be willing to spend such a high price to buy a goalkeeper, and secondly, Neuer has gone to Bayern, so how can he come to Milan again?

That's why Allegri found it very difficult.

It's not that he doesn't want to update and iterate, it's really difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

"Well...... How about you look at this? ”

Pan Yi had already prepared, and he didn't know where to take out a piece of paper and handed it to Allegri, and easily inserted a USB flash drive into the computer on the table.

"Edson?" Allegri looked at the words on the paper and read softly, "Brazilian, 18 years old, Benfica Academy, now playing for Ribelang, in the Portuguese second division. ”

That's right, it's Brazilian international Ederson, who will play for Manchester City in the future.

At this time, Ederson is just starting out, but he has already shown great potential, so he can already play in the Portuguese second division.

In the timeline of Pan Yi's previous life, after the end of this season, Ederson will play in the Portuguese Super League, and gradually play the main team of Benfica, helping the team win 2 Portuguese Super League titles.

Then he joined Manchester City Football Club for a transfer fee of 40 million euros, and since then he has helped the team win four Premier League titles, and he has also won the Premier League Golden Glove Award several times.

The reason why the Manchester City manager at that time Pep Guardiola resolutely used Ederson instead of the previous England goalkeeper Joe Hart, including the Chilean goalkeeper Bravo in the back, was because of Ederson's excellent ability to play the ball.

Of course, that's not to say that Ederson's saving ability is not good.

Although his nerve-like attributes make him sometimes make some low-level mistakes, he can also make a good contribution, otherwise he would not have won the Premier League goalkeeper award very often.

And such a powerful goalkeeper, at this point in time, may only need to spend a very small price to sign - with Galliani's flickering ability, hundreds of thousands of euros should be the sky.

In fact, when Pan Yi considered the reinforcement of the goalkeeper position, he gave priority to another Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson.

He's just as good on the ball and a bit more solid than Ederson.

But Ederson has one of the biggest advantages, which is that he is a Benfica academy graduate, has dual Brazilian and Portuguese nationality, and will not take up Milan's non-European places.

That said, in this winter window, bringing in Ederson is feasible, but bringing in Alisson is impossible.

Then Allegri came to the computer and looked at the footage of Ederson's game that Pan Yi had collected.

Sure enough, this young Brazilian guy who is still immature seems to have a maturity that does not match his age on the field.

He dares to take the ball with his feet and control the ball in the backfield, and he will also yell at his teammates when directing the defense, so that everyone can organize the defense.

And when saving, he also dares to make moves, and his jumping ability is also very good.

"How can you always find this kind of player hiding in a strange small league......" Allegri patted Pan Yi on the shoulder with confusion and admiration.

If it had been put aside, he would have been very skeptical.

But after seeing the performance of those young players that Pan Yi recommended to introduce this season, how could Allegri doubt Pan Yi's vision?

"Hehe, it's not because we have a strong scouting system in Milan that allows me to see more good players." Pan Yi modestly gave credit to the scouts.

"Okay, I'll talk to Galliani." Allegri said.

In his heart, he actually sighed softly.

The problem that has given him a headache for so long, when he comes to Pan Yi, how can it seem so easy to solve?

Allegri feels like he's starting to wonder if he's going to be a manager......