My name is Colani

The situation of the top three and Trapani is probably like this. Compared with the investment of other teams in the Italian Super League, Roma's investment is not bad. They have recruited a lot of players this summer and have acquired many potential stocks. Pallotta praised Trapani's business model the most at the Roma high-level meeting, because Trapani has always been willing to spend money on young people. In fact, more money means better products. Trapani's young people are not cheap. Young players such as Shalawi, Verratti, and Witsel, who are produced by youth training, are now almost being sold for 30 million euros in the market. Shalawi and Verratti did not cost much, but Witsel cost Trapani a lot of money to introduce him.

In addition, Pjanic was loaned to Roma last season and performed very well. No matter what Trapani thinks, Roma's senior executives believe that you get what you pay for. Pjanic is good, so their strategy has changed significantly in the new season, focusing on young players, and it is also equivalent to giving the new coach Luis Enrique a blank sheet of paper for him to plan.

Generally speaking, the main player in the Italian transfer market this summer is not Trapani, and the entire market is also dull. In the European transfer market, the Premier League has begun to spend a lot of money, especially Manchester City, which has received support from the Middle East consortium. Manchester City has tasted the taste of the Premier League championship, so the investment intensity has been further increased in the past two years, and it is the last carnival before the implementation of the financial fair policy.

Barcelona and Bayern Munich have made strong reinforcements. They are eager to challenge Trapani's phenomenal dominance in the Champions League. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the only team that successfully defended the title after the Champions League reform, which is very difficult.

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Now there is a sudden debate in the public opinion about the five-time champion Real Madrid and the successful defending Trapani. The focus of the debate is who has a harder time. Some people say that it is harder for Trapani to defend because when Real Madrid won five consecutive championships, it was the early stage of the European Champions Cup. There were not many teams participating in the competition, the competitiveness was insufficient, the quality was uneven, and the competition system was also very accidental. It is not like the strong teams participating in the Champions League now, most of them are fixed, and they have been in the circle for a long time. They are familiar with such competitions and are very competitive.

Some people also said that in the 1950s, the degree of openness of football was not as good as it is now, which led to the dominance of Real Madrid, so Real Madrid was able to easily win five consecutive championships, but Trapani's is obviously not the case. No matter how rich Hugo is, no matter how many stars the team has, now good players are not only Trapani, but also other teams.

If we talk about five consecutive championships, the glory of the five consecutive championships in the early stage of the Champions League is naturally not comparable to the five consecutive championships of the current Champions League. Since Trapani has not reached the standard of five consecutive championships, how can it be compared with the ancient times? !

But public opinion is just for fun, Hugo still has to save some face. He personally admitted: "If we can continue to defend the Champions League this season, then I think from the perspective of the historical status of the Champions League, we can be compared with Real Madrid. It's just a two-time championship. I don't think we are qualified to compare with them!"

The national team match day is not good news for Trapani. After the transfer window closed, several generals in Trapani were injured on the national team match day.

Captain Toni did not participate in the national team match day. He was injured during the training with the team. Then Modric strained his thigh muscle during the national team match day. He did not participate in the second game during the national team match day and returned directly to Trapani. The most painful injury was Messi. Messi was injured and will be absent for more than a month.

Trapani is heading in a bad direction. Hugo said at the end of last season that the team is dependent on Messi. Hugo likes Messi very much, but it does not mean that he wants such a scene to happen. He still thinks that football is a team sport and the team should not revolve around Messi alone.

Wenger does not have such an idea, but why is it shown on the court like this? Because of the subtle influence and inertial thinking, as the head coach Wenger cannot clearly tell everyone that you don’t have to rely too much on Messi on the court. Once this is said, there will definitely be a big problem. People’s minds are delicate. There are more than 20 people in a team, and Messi’s status is also very high.

Messi has become accustomed to playing, and his teammates have also become accustomed to it. Some experts have said that other players in Trapani are seriously dependent on Messi. No one in this team can compete with Messi in terms of status and ability. In the three games played in the new season, Trapani happened to win Porto when Messi played well, and Trapani failed to win the two games when he was not in good form. The responsibility lies with the whole team, but it cannot be said that there is any impact in this regard.

For Wenger, the season has just begun, and it is another test. Dealing with the days when Messi is not there is a problem he needs to face on the national team match day.

Trapani will go away to challenge Catania, the island rival, in the second round. Wenger talked about the problem of Messi's absence in the communication with Hugo before the game. Wenger finally expressed some real thoughts. He felt that the biggest challenge of the new season was to get rid of the dependence of the team members, and not let Messi go alone at the critical moment.

"Go ahead and do it! The responsibility of this team is not just Messi's, but everyone's. You have to tell everyone to have their own sense of responsibility. After a few games in the new season, not only is the running-in poor, but there are also problems in thinking," Hugo encouraged Wenger.

"Arsene, tell me, don't Kaka, Fontano, Aguero, Cavani have the heart to strive for progress?! Don't they want to score goals! Players who don't want to be the protagonist are not good players, especially on the offensive end!" Hugo said again.

If Wenger didn't know that Hugo would never let Messi go, he would have thought that Hugo was instigating others to rebel.

"Now is a good opportunity, and I absolutely don't want to see Messi's dependence. Now that he is absent for a month, it's just right to test the results!" Hugo suggested to Wenger.

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The boss is still the boss, but the head coach is no longer the head coach. The current head coach of Catania is Montella, the temporary caretaker coach of Roma last season.

Catania was ambitious before the start of last season, but unfortunately, the departure of Martinez affected the team's strength, and head coach Giampaolo failed to integrate the team into a whole. As a result, they could only be in the relegation group after the halfway point. Next, Argentine coach Simeone replaced Giampaolo. Under his leadership, Catania was on thin ice and finally succeeded in relegation. In the last season, Catania still played some good games, such as they prevented AC Milan from getting three points at home and humiliated Roma away.

Their transfer market in the summer was a true early write-up of the Italian transfer market this summer, without any waves. In terms of departure, Schelotto went to Atalanta, Takayuki Morimoto went to Novara, and Silvestre went to Palermo. After these three people left, Catania quickly filled their vacancies with signings. In the midfield, the return of Barrientos and the joining of Pagliarenga, plus the late introduction of Almiron, reduced Schelotto's loss to zero. To some extent, these two people made Catania's midfield stronger. In the forward line, the arrival of Lanzafame and Inter Milan striker Suazo made Takayuki Morimoto rarely missed. As for Silvestre's departure, Catania also tapped into the potential of the internal team to solve his replacement problem.