Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 159 The competition for the Golden Boy Award is getting fiercer!
The "championship speech" of the head coach and core players means that Roma no longer regards winning the championship as an impossible goal in the short term.

Roma's status in Serie A is somewhat similar to Tottenham's in the Premier League.

It is not a strong team, but it can often reach the top four, enter the Champions League, and even win the league runner-up;

If it is a strong team, it often loses the chain and wanders up and down the Europa League. Even the two teams "hand in hand" entered the first European Cup this year, and they have become the two most famous teams in the Europa League.

Let’s say it’s not a giant. Roma’s reputation in Serie A is second only to the three giants. Tottenham is also one of the BIG6 in the Premier League. No one dares to underestimate its existence.

Let’s say they are giants, maybe even the fans of the two teams are ashamed to say that they are giants... Firstly, they don’t have the glorious ancestral honors like Manchester United and AC Milan, and secondly, they don’t have the excellent recent results of Manchester City and Chelsea, but Tottenham have become One of twelve founding teams in the planned UEFA Super League.

Tottenham fans will also say that Arsenal does not have the great results of their ancestors. Even in the past three major European cups, Tottenham has won two UEFA Cups and one European Cup Winners' Cup, while Arsenal has only one. A European Cup Winners Cup champion, in the past ten years, there were no 4 spokesmen who found 4, and the number of times in the football forum far exceeded the number of times in the honor list. In the past 5 seasons, he missed the Champions League in a row. Why is Arsenal a giant?
Roma shouted the championship slogan, just like Tottenham shouted the championship slogan in the Premier League. Not to mention whether the fans of the team think it is feasible, even the fans of Manchester City and Liverpool are too lazy to talk to you.

However, it is precisely because of this mentality that it makes it more difficult for the team to achieve good results.

How can you achieve something that you don't even believe you can do?

Obviously, in Mourinho's calculations, he felt that the time was ripe. Shouting the championship slogan was not to deter opponents, but to change the team's mentality step by step.

This is also the purpose of his introduction of these players in the summer.

Patricio is the Portuguese Cup champion and the European Cup champion;

Abraham just won the Champions League and European Super Cup this year;

Even Cesko won the Austrian Bundesliga once at the age of 17.

Although he is the same as Chen Xiaoliang's Soviet Super League champion, he is far behind the five major leagues in terms of gold content, but in the league throughout the year, he has to deal with opponents of various levels and face-to-face with the main competitors at critical moments to stabilize the point advantage. experience is invaluable.

Coupled with the unique drive of several young people and Chen Xiaoliang's strong spiritual effect, Mourinho set his goal, no matter what, he must win a championship in the third-tier competition this season.

But the meal has to be eaten bite by bite, and the road has to be walked step by step.

Mourinho made some adjustments in his starting game against Mulla.

He put Cesco, Pellegrini, Zaniolo, and Ibanez on the bench to rest.

The back four are Niles, Smalling, Mancini and Karlsdorp;

Single midfielder Chen Xiaoliang, midfielders Kristante and Mkhitaryan;
Left winger Zalewski, right winger Carles Perez, and Abraham returned as center forward.

This set of lineup is hard-working, but the attack power and tacit cooperation are naturally a bit worse than the full main lineup.

What's more, Mourinho still puts those main players in the big list, because even if the game is rotated, he still has to be sure to win, so that he can accumulate 10 points, which is one step closer to qualifying for the group.

Mulla still played their usual 4-2-3-1 formation in this game. They have not won a game and they treat every game as an opportunity to fight and show themselves.

Before the game, the Italian media calculated their starting value, which was only 753 million euros. It can be said that almost any player in Rome is more expensive than the entire opponent's team.

Despite the limited strength, the team's style and will on the field have been unanimously praised by the Italian media and Mourinho at the pre-match press conference.

In the 3rd minute, Roma took the lead. Carles Perez made consecutive breakthroughs from the right and passed an inverted triangle pass to Mkhitaryan outside the penalty area. The Armenian footballer shot the ball, but the angle was not tricky enough. Branch hugged.

Facing Mulla's young winger combination, Karlsdorp, who was abused by the strong team's winger in the league, turned into a god of war, blocking up and down, as if he had done what Special Olympics did in the last game against Milan He has learned all the work, and he was the busiest person on the field in the first 10 minutes.

But Mu La saw that he couldn't play from the left, and Martin, the midfielder in the center, was firmly locked by Chen Xiaoliang. There were back and forth, and the fans watched it lively.

But the goal took a long time to appear.

In the 43rd minute, Karlsdorp made a short pass from the right to the center. Christante received the ball and made a light pass. Abraham and Mulla central defender Kesput failed to get the ball completely when they competed. The goalkeeper Mateko was blocked by the two of them again, and the shot was not far away. Zalewski on the side pushed the empty goal and scored a goal.

Roma leads 1-0 at home.

During the half-time break, Mourinho rarely asked the team to have an overall formation to keep the distance between the midfield and the front and back courts. Therefore, the second half of the game became more open.

However, the performance of Niles, who was on loan from Arsenal, made Mourinho shake his head.

Niles, who joined Arsenal's youth training at the age of 6, can be said to be an out-and-out gunner, but it seems that the Englishman has only learned the fur of the Gunners' offense under Wenger, but has not trained his own abilities.

Although he is positioned as a right-back, when he was loaned to Roma, the two sides negotiated and the players personally nodded. He will often play the role of left-back.

Mourinho made his first substitution in 56 minutes, replacing Niles with Carafioli and Chen Xiaoliang with Dalbo.

I don’t know if I don’t change it, but I’m startled when I change it.

Chen Xiaoliang's fate directly caused the team's offensive and defensive balance to be completely unbalanced. After several times of pressing and attacking, they couldn't get back. After being almost succeeded by Mulla's counterattack, Roma, who had a one-goal lead, had to retreat completely and played a defensive counterattack at home.

As soon as the waist softened, the entire team immediately collapsed.

However, the fans in Roma seem to have gotten used to this kind of scene. In addition, there were indeed many substitutes in this game. More than 50000 fans present were still cheering for the team.

In this game, Mourinho specially invited Pinto, the club's football director, to the field and sat on the bench to watch the game.

After 60 minutes, he, Joao, Rapetti and Pinto almost used the sidelines as a conference room to discuss the progress of the transfer in the winter window.

Only then did Chen Xiaoliang understand why Mourinho was willing to take the risk of replacing so many main players, especially when he replaced himself after a one-goal lead. The team accelerates its own buying process.

According to Mourinho's personal ideals, it is best for the team to buy another useful winger, a defensive midfielder who can assist Chen Xiaoliang and a pair of solid defensive fullbacks.

He has many candidates for the winger position, and the most recommended is the Croatian Ivan Perisic, who he asked the board of directors to buy countless times when he was at Manchester United.

Moreover, Perisic's international contract will expire next summer. Inter Milan's poor financial situation forces them to reduce high-paid players and reduce the team's overall expenditure. Perisic re-signs.

However, the Croatian's request for a weekly salary of 14 euros was clearly rejected by Pinto for a good reason - the Financial Fair Play Act.

And at the beginning of the season, Mourinho just let the Spaniard Pedro go to the rival Lazio in the same city on the grounds that he was old and could not run fast.

In the midfielder position, he took a fancy to Manchester United veteran Nemanja Matic.

Matic was bought from Chelsea for 4000 million pounds when he was at Manchester United. Now the 32-year-old Serbian has reached the last year of his contract at Manchester United. Manchester United should be willing to let him go in the winter window , and may only charge a nominal transfer fee.

Pinto did not refuse this deal. The problem is that Manchester United is in a precarious state at the moment. After experiencing the rapid progress in the early stage of the league, the team suddenly lost the chain. In the last 6 rounds of the league, they played an embarrassing record of 1 win, 1 draw and 4 losses. , directly fell out of the top 10.

Solskjaer's coaching position is in jeopardy. At this juncture when a new coach is likely to take office, the club will not be willing to communicate with the outside world about transfer matters too deeply.

Therefore, Matic's transfer can only be temporarily stranded.

Finally, there are two full-backs. After Riise's operation, Malaysia and Celik, who can reach a transfer intention, are not Mourinho's first choice.

His first choice is Kieran Trippier, 30, of Atletico Madrid.

Pinto has already contacted Atletico Madrid, and both the club and coach Simeone are willing to let him go. Since the contract only has one and a half years left, the transfer fee will be the same as other competing teams, around 1 million euros.

But Rome met a strong competitor - Newcastle United.

沙特主权财富基金“公共投资基金”在上个月、具体来说是2021年10月7日花费了3亿英镑收购这支老牌英格兰球队100%股份后，谁都知道英超又将有一家挥舞着石油支票的球队诞生。

Not only did Newcastle agree to a transfer fee of 1200 million pounds, but they were also willing to give England's right-back a weekly salary of 14 pounds, which is equivalent to 16 euros. This price is unbearable for Rome.

Since Mourinho left Porto, this is the first time he has tasted such a stretch...

Fortunately, his heart is still stable. At least after Dan Friedkin took over, the funds of Rome are guaranteed. The main reason why they can’t spend money now is that the club’s own profitability is limited. It will exceed the requirements of UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act.

At that time, not only will they be fined, but they will also be deprived of the qualifications to participate in European competitions, and even be punished for 1-2 transfer windows and banned from transferring.

So as long as the performance of this season can be improved, the traffic will increase, the cost of commercial endorsement will also increase, and after the total income increases, the loss will decrease, then the boss can continue to provide funds for the team through capital injection.

Now that Trippier fell through again, he had to settle for the next best thing and agree to buy Celik and Malaysia.

Compared with the boring game on the court, the director turned more to Mourinho's four-person discussion, and invited lip language experts to discuss the communication content of these people.

After talking for 68 minutes, Mourinho asked Joao to replace Carles Perez with Wu Lei, Abraham with Maraiol, and Cristante with Trippi, and he simply played five defenders formation.

Although Mulla's offensive has increased under the retreat of Roma, the substitutes in Roma are working harder one by one, especially Wu Lei. Actively scrambling and running on the right has become a right wing back.

The game also came to an end in a dull situation, with Rome winning 1-0.

Mourinho was even happier after the game, gushing in his press conference.

One is that the team spent the smallest cost and won a victory with most of the main players resting. At the same time, it also increased the actual combat opportunities for the substitute players and teenagers.

The second is that when he learned that in another group match that started at the same time, Tottenham Hotspur had a 2-2 tie with Waiters in the second match at home, and he was even more excited.

In this way, Roma ranks first in the group with 3 wins, 1 draw and 10 points. As long as they beat Vitesse at home in the next round, they will lock in the top spot in the group.

而维特斯2胜1平1负积7分排在第2；

托特纳姆热刺1胜2平1负积5分排在第3；

Mulla was at the bottom with 0 points in all four games.

Seeing his rival Conte hit a wall in the European Cup, how could Mourinho not take the opportunity to make things worse?
He first unexpectedly "appreciated" Conte's transformation of Tottenham. After all, Tottenham ranked 7th in the Premier League at the end of last season, and now ranks 14th with 10 points. This transformation is not unsuccessful.

Secondly, congratulations to Tottenham on their upcoming acquisition of a heavyweight trophy.

The reporters were stunned. Although they could hear him being sarcastic, what the hell is winning the championship?

Mourinho said a name of the event very seriously-the European Cup, which is called the European Cup for short.

He plausibly said that in the European group stage, the third-ranked team will participate in the first knockout round of the next level of competition. The third place in the group stage will participate in the first knockout round of the European Cup.

What about the third place in the European Cup group stage?Naturally, it is to participate in this "top" event created for Conte, the Euro Cup!
Because Conte claims to be a "champion coach", he must be given a championship.

And since only Conte's Tottenham participated in this event, Mourinho specifically congratulated him for winning the championship in advance.

Recording pens, video cameras, cameras, and mobile phones all focus on his face, and some senior reporters have already edited the content of the newsletter on their mobile phones and notebooks.

May I ask, which football reporter doesn't love Mourinho? !

With him, there will always be news!
Then the reporter directed the question to Chen Xiaoliang, who has been hot recently.

At present, Chen Xiaoliang has surpassed Dortmund's England midfielder Bellingham in the odds of the Golden Boy Award, ranking second with 5.5 odds, while Bellingham's odds have risen to 11;

As for Barcelona midfielder Pedri, who is still ranked first, his odds have risen from 2.5 to 4.

Since in late November, "Turin Sports News" will hold an official press conference to announce the selection results of the 11 Golden Boy Awards, so with about 2021 days left, the odds have changed so much, it can only show that other than Pedri And all other players except Chen Xiaoliang have basically withdrawn from the competition for this year's European Golden Boy Award.

Mourinho naturally wants to create momentum for his favorite players.

He first mentioned the praise of Chen Xiaoliang from many celebrities in the circle, such as the praise of Chen Xiaoliang by AC Milan coach Pioli after the last round of league matches, as well as Totti, De Rossi, Gerrard, Beckham Tom, Cannavaro and so on.

Secondly, he compared the data of the two. The 19-year-old Pedri played 40 times for Barcelona last season, scoring 4 goals and assisting 6 times. Already scored 17 goals and assisted 16 times.

This season, Pedri suffered a hamstring injury on September 9 and is expected to recover from the injury for 30 days, so there is no game record.

He can be far ahead in the odds, mainly due to his performance last season and the excellent performance of representing the Spanish team in 6 games in the European Cup this summer.

However, Mourinho also said that since it is the Golden Boy Award in 2021, this year's performance should be considered.

In the end, Mourinho gave an example of his worth. Pedri, who was born in 02, signed from Las Palmas for 19 million euros in 17 years when he was 500 years old;

And Chen Xiaoliang, who was born in 04, was bought by Rome at the price of 17 million euros when he was 4100 years old, that is, this year.

Although Pedri and Bellingham are worth more, one is 8000 million euros and the other is 7500 million euros, this is obviously due to the environment they are in.

Both are Europeans, and Pedri, who is a Spaniard, also has EU status.English players have always been dubbed "hukou books" and benefited from the popularity of the Premier League. Once Bellingham is willing to leave Dortmund and return to the Premier League, it must be a sky-high transfer fee or a sky-high contract.

Coupled with the fact that Pedri's team is the top giants Barcelona, ​​this alone can add a lot of aura to him. Mourinho is frank, this kind of aura unique to giants is incomparable to Rome.

That night, this piece of news was quickly released by several media outlets.

This kind of big news, everyone must be rushing to publish it.

Passing back to the Red Country, the fans are also discussing hotly:
[Bird is right, the giants do have a halo, I didn’t look at the big guys at Manchester United, they played like shit, and their worth is ridiculously high. B Fee and Rashford are both worth 8500 million euros, which one is normal? Who would pay so much for both of them? 】

[Just a joke, B wastes 8500 million euros, De Bruyne 9000 million euros]

[It's a pity for Chen Xiaoliang, there is no record of participating in the national team, and he is missing a very important piece compared to Pedri! 】

【Are you crazy upstairs?If Chen Xiaoliang played in the top [-] with the national football team, would he still win the Golden Boy?Take a golden sea cucumber]

[Laughing, what time is it that you still have illusions about the national football team, if Xiao Liang plays for the national team, won't he be isolated by those big guys? 】

[I just read Pedri's detailed information. He is 170 tall and weighs only 60 kilograms. How can he play?It’s so light, you can’t even fight against it]

[Look upstairs, the Red Country football is not doing well, and it's not just the Football Association's reason]

[Barcelona: Pedri is awesome, Harvey: Pedri is awesome, Golden Boy Award: Pedri is awesome, netizens: Pedri is too light to play]

[Maguire is 99 kg, according to this logic, he is the king of confrontation? 】

　Thanks to the club director [Pengzhou Kaneshiro Takeshi] for the monthly pass!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)