N-A-A Chapter 304
Chapter 304
The new season is coming, and the new season is coming.
Chapter 304 Serie A? Even dogs don’t go!
Juventus’s interest in him was unexpected to Ling Feng.
Although they just lost to the more powerful Barcelona in the Champions League final, it is not strange to want to strengthen and continue to fight for the Champions League title.
What’s more, they were also facing a stage of lineup renewal last summer.
On the forward line, Tevez returned to Boca Juniors, Llorente left for La Liga, and Morata was alone.
The midfield position has the biggest changes.
As Pirlo’s contract expired and he left for the Major League Soccer, and Vidal transferred to Bayern, Juventus’ strongest midfield trio consisting of Pirlo, Vidal and Pogba collapsed in the summer.
However, in the summer, they got the popular young player Dybala as they wished, and introduced strikers such as Mandzukic and Zaza and Kingsley Coman.
In Juventus, in addition to Pogba, there are also midfielders such as Marchisio, Khedira, Hernanes, Robert Pereira and Sturaro.
From the perspective of the lineup, both the forwards and the midfield are very balanced and deep.
Juventus doesn’t need to spend a lot of money to buy himself!
Even if Juventus wants to sign him, he will form an upgraded version of the strongest midfield combination with Pogba and Marchisio.
But Juventus should also be able to see from the attitude of the team’s midfield core Pogba that Pogba is not very interested in himself.
Spending a lot of money to bring himself in may also cause conflicts with Pogba, who has been trained for several years.
There is no need!
So, this is why Ling Feng was a little surprised.
More importantly, Ling Feng doubted that Juventus could come up with so much transfer fee to bring himself in!
Since the “Phone Gate” incident, the once “small World Cup” Serie A has begun to decline slowly.
As for the reasons for the decline, professionals have analyzed and there are probably several reasons.
First, under the general environment, Italy’s economy is in recession, and the purchasing power of teams and fans has declined;
Second, the league is not commercialized and the team income is low;
Third, the reputation has been hit hard, the league tactics focus on defense, and the offensive frontcourt stars are unwilling to come;
In the current Serie A league, there are only a handful of superstars.
Perhaps only Buffon, Chiellini, and Pogba
According to the value update just made by the German transfer market, Ling Feng’s value has risen from 75 million euros to 80 million euros!
If you want to win Ling Feng, the transfer fee must be at least 80 to 90 million euros before you can negotiate.
With Juventus’ financial resources and business philosophy, it is impossible to spend so much money to buy a 20-year-old player who has never played in Serie A.
Of course, nothing is absolute.
Sure enough, when Mendes told Juventus’s little calculation, it also confirmed Ling Feng’s guess.
“Marotta told me that Juventus does not intend to trigger your termination clause directly, but plans to wait until after the summer window to negotiate by player exchange or transfer fee installment.”
Hearing this, Ling Feng, who was and is now a hardcore FM player, is too familiar with this trick.
Isn’t it the legendary installment method? !
Hearing this, Ling Feng couldn’t help but sneer, “Haha, they might as well wait until my contract expires and then sign them for free.”
Due to lack of money to buy players, many Serie A giants like to use the free signing trick to recruit some capable young players and veterans.
Among them, Juventus and AC Milan are famous for free signings!
Juventus manager Marotta is known as the first free signing master in football!
Compared with Milan’s free signings of varying levels, in recent years, under Marotta’s operation, the quality of Juventus’ free signings every year has been guaranteed.
Cannavaro in 2009, Pirlo in 2011, Pogba in 2012, Llorente in 2013, Kingsley Coman in 2014, Khedira in 2015.
These powerful stars are also the heroes who have helped Juventus steadily regain its dominance in Serie A.
Hearing Ling Feng’s ridicule, Mendes also smiled and nodded in agreement: “I also think Juventus is not a good choice”
You know, Ling Feng’s current contract termination fee is 90 million pounds, equivalent to 100 million euros!
If Leicester City agrees to pay in installments, in two or even three years, as Serie A
The dominant Juventus can still afford it.
However, even if Juventus can really afford this huge sum of money to spend on him, Ling Feng will not go to Juventus.
As for the reasons, there are too many:
Head coach Allegri is a mysterious man with extremely low tactical level and only knows XJBT tactics;
Teammate Pogba is a fool and doesn’t want to play with him;
The environment of Serie A is not good, the defense is too good, which is not conducive to his data;
And the reputation is low, the media hype and public relations ability are poor, which is not conducive to his competition for the Golden Ball;
The income of Serie A is low, even if he joins, Juventus can’t give too high a salary.
Therefore, in Ling Feng’s plan, he never thought of joining Serie A during the rising or peak period of his career.
Unless he is over his thirties and his body functions begin to decline, he may go to Serie A to retire.
After drinking the champagne in the glass, Ling Feng immediately said to Mendes:
“Take your time with the transfer. Anyway, as long as I perform well on the field, I will definitely have no worries about the next club.”
Hearing this, Mendes’ eyes flashed with admiration, and then he put his hand on Ling Feng’s shoulder and said earnestly:
“That’s right, everything depends on the performance on the field! As long as you concentrate on playing football on the field, leave the rest to me!”
. . .
After the annual football event, the Ballon d’Or, Barcelona fans and Argentine fans were celebrating Messi’s fifth Ballon d’Or with laughter.
However, the entire European transfer market was quiet.
Transfer transactions have always been an indispensable part of football.
From the perspective of players, transfer transactions can bring them better career development opportunities and higher salary benefits.
From the club’s perspective, transfers can enhance the team’s strength, pursue better results and honors, and attract more fans and sponsors.
However, the winter window is in the middle of the season. Considering various factors, most of the transfers in the winter window are small-scale repairs, and there are rarely big deals.
And this year’s winter window is also particularly quiet.
In such a calm but undercurrent season, Leicester City ushered in the second league of the new year.
They came to London to challenge the “White Hart Lane Youth Army” Tottenham, which has performed well this season.
This season, under the leadership of young coach Pochettino, Tottenham has set off a youth storm!
After the bumps and bruises at the beginning of the season, Tottenham’s team offensive system has slowly run-in.
And the much-criticized defense has also been improved with the arrival of Belgian Alderweireld.
The Belgian central defender combination composed of Vertonghen and Alderweireld, one is responsible for intercepting and the other is responsible for filling in the long pass.
Most importantly, Alderweireld has an accurate long pass!
And this pair of Belgian central defenders helped Tottenham become the team with the fewest goals conceded in the first half of the Premier League!
With a stable defense, the two full-backs can more confidently assist, and the local advantages and routines of the frontcourt attack are naturally more diverse.
And Tottenham’s two speed-type full-backs have become the main boosters of the team’s offense.
As Walker and Rose move along the wing, midfielder Dale will retreat to the back line and form a three-back formation with the Belgian double central defenders. At this time, the team’s tactical formation will change from the initial 4231 to a more aggressive 352.
It is worth mentioning that as Ali’s ability to insert himself from behind has repeatedly helped the team in the game, his position has also changed from the back midfielder to the front midfielder behind Kane.
It is precisely with Ali’s ability to insert himself from behind and attack the second point that Kane, who is at the forefront, has a relatively reliable partner who can pull the defense line for him and pass the ball for him.
After not scoring a goal in August, Kane slowly found his scoring feeling and became the most relied-upon goal machine of Tottenham, helping the team to steadily climb up the standings.
Of course, he is still young and has a lot of room for improvement.
If Tottenham wants to continue to qualify for the Champions League, they must do everything they can to get Kane to score more goals!
However, facing the Blue Foxes, who are very strong in both offense and defense this season, Tottenham’s youth storm cannot blow up at home.
Ranieri knows very well that this Tottenham team relies heavily on the attack from the wing.
Especially Eriksen, who is still the only midfield brain in Tottenham who can pass threatening balls.
However, he came to the left side and became a core role of the wing organization.
When he came to the wing, he was away from the densely defended middle, and got more passing space and time, so that his passing ability can be better exerted.
Regardless
Is it to feed the ball to Kane and Ali, or to cooperate with the left-wing back Ben Davis to complete the bottom cross
Therefore, in this game, Ranieri specially arranged Kante to focus on Eriksen and limit the passing of his core players, so as to achieve.
And this tactical arrangement is very successful!
Eriksen and Ling Feng have similar playing styles. They are both modern front midfielders who use passes to organize the team’s offense, connect teammates, and occasionally intersperse to complete the end.
However, the physical fitness of the Danish genius is completely different from Ling Feng!
This is the huge gap between him and Ling Feng that cannot be filled by technology!
Ling Feng’s ability is more comprehensive.
If he is focused on by the opponent, even if he has no teammates to receive his pass, he can directly use his speed and breakthrough to make a bloody way to pass and advance!
But Eriksen can’t do it.
His speed and confrontation are average, and his dribbling ability is also average, which can’t support him to break through like a winger.
What’s more, the person defending him is Kante, the most difficult “future waist” in the Premier League!
In the Premier League, few people can gain an advantage in a one-on-one match with Kante.
Because once Kante sticks to you, unless you can, he will always follow you until you force you to pass the ball or intercept it!
On this side, Tottenham’s midfield commander Eriksson was restricted to death. Every time he got the ball, he either passed it back or kicked it out, and he didn’t dare to keep the ball at his feet for too long.
On the other side, Leicester City’s brain Ling Feng was unstoppable on the field!
Even in the first 20 minutes of the game, Tottenham’s possession rate reached 65%, but most of them were invalid passes and cross passes.
After several steals, Leicester City played a very high-quality counterattack.
In the eighth minute of the game, Kante grabbed the ball from Eriksson’s feet and passed it to Mahrez on the right.
The Algerian Eagle rushed along the sideline with the ball, and after entering the heart of Tottenham, he made a direct cross pass and found Ling Feng who was inserted in the middle.
However, the Blue Fox No. 7’s push outside the penalty area was too angled and slightly missed the goal;
In the 13th minute of the game, Leicester City completed a steal in the backcourt, and Ling Feng advanced all the way to the frontcourt and sent a surgical pass to Albrighton who successfully countered the offside.
The latter pushed the ball into the far corner, but was saved by the fast-reacting French goalkeeper Lori;
From the direction of the game in the first 20 minutes, Tottenham did not create too many good opportunities.
On the contrary, the Blue Foxes, who played away, counterattacked wave after wave, and they were very close to scoring.
Just when the Blue Fox fans who followed the team to London thought that this game would be easily won, the situation on the field suddenly changed!
When the game came to the 23rd minute, Leicester City once again defended a wave of Tottenham’s offensive in the backcourt.
Lamela’s cut-in shot hit Huth hard and bounced to the feet of the water-drinking brother.
The latter looked up and glanced ahead, then passed the ball to Ling Feng who was advancing.
At this moment, Tottenham’s backcourt formation was still relatively complete.
Therefore, Ling Feng did not choose to pass the ball, but dribbled forward, waiting for his teammates to run and pull space, looking for opportunities to break through or pass the ball.
And Dell, the last barrier in front of Tottenham’s back line, did not rush to grab the ball, but retreated again and again.
In the national team, Dell, as a substitute midfielder, often played against Ling Feng in the team’s training matches.
Therefore, he knew very well that as long as he rushed to grab or kicked, he would be cleanly passed by Ling Feng!
In the end, Ling Feng still found it, sent a straight pass to Mahrez who was advancing from the ribs.
The latter was about to receive the ball in the penalty area when he felt a figure rushing towards him.
Without any hesitation, he stretched out his left foot and pushed the ball out.
This push just let the ball pass by Vertonghen’s feet.
The next second, Vertonghen was like an unstoppable truck, knocking Mahrez to the ground!
With a scream of “Ah”, Mahrez fell hard in the penalty area.
Ling Feng and Ulloa, who witnessed this scene, subconsciously opened their arms and complained to the referee:
“Hey! Foul!”
“This is a penalty!”
However, the referee Atkinson ignored it, but waved his hands and made a very firm judgment.
No penalty!
And the Tottenham players did not stop because Mahrez fell in their own penalty area.
Vertonghen passed the ball straight and handed it to Walker who was running forward at high speed on the right.
After
The player dribbled forward and then sent a cross pass.
Kane, who was leaning against Huth with his back, knocked the ball back directly, and Ali, who came in from behind, shot directly from outside the penalty area!
With a “bang”, the ball shot out, and flew directly between Morgan and Huth, two central defenders, and hit the upper right corner of the goal at lightning speed.
Even if Schmeichel made a flying dive, he couldn’t stop the ball from entering the net.
(End of this chapter)