Prominence in Football Community

Lu Bing stood in the apartment and looked around. The small apartment with one bedroom and one living room is full of simple home furnishings, sofa, dining table, open kitchen, bed in the bedroom, wardrobe...all of them are there. This is finally like a home. Instead of a hotel.

This is an apartment he just rented.

He finally got rid of the days of going back and forth between the two cities of Milan and Genoa every week, and finally didn't have to wander in various hotels in Genoa.

This is the final result after a month-long tug-of-war between him and domestic newspapers, including applications, reports, and approvals.

The work unit agreed for him to rent an apartment in Genoa as a place to live and work for a long time, so that he could follow up and report Gao Zheng's news, and reimburse him for renting an apartment in Genoa.

As for the resident in Milan, I don't want it.

The focus of his work has also shifted from his original report on AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus, the top three in the north, to Genoa, focusing on Gao Zheng's situation.

Domestic fans are now most concerned about Gao Zheng. Compared with him, the news about the top three in the north is not so urgent.

Besides, there are many media that report on AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus, and many news can be found on the Internet, and their newspapers also have cooperative relations with media such as Gazzetta dello Sport and Gazzetta dello Sport. , You can directly use other people's news reports.

On the Genoa side, there are not so many news sources. And to report on Chinese players, it is naturally more convenient for him as a Chinese reporter.

But in fact, his movements are still relatively slow. The most active person is somewhat unexpected, and it is Wang Yixing.

He had already rented in Genoa half a month ago, and the work in Rome naturally took a back seat, and this was his main battlefield.

When he heard the news for the first time, Lu Bing was very surprised—he never thought that a pessimist would be so quick and confident in Gao Zheng's future that he would abandon his career in Rome and run to Genoa is a small place.

Lao Wang and he do not belong to the same newspaper, and the domestic sales and popularity are inferior to the unit he works for, but the efficiency of his unit is really high...

Lu Bing sat down on the sofa and opened the newspaper he bought downstairs.

In the twenty-fifth round of the match that ended yesterday, Gao Zheng failed to score, and Sampdoria and Empoli drew 1:1.

Currently forty-seven points,

Currently ranked seventh.

The league has reached its thirtieth round, and the competition is getting fiercer. Even if you want to advance one place in the standings, it becomes very difficult. Sometimes even if you go up, you may not be able to stand up. Maybe you will be overtaken by your competitors after a round of the league.

For more than a month, Sampdoria has lost, won and tied in the league. Gao Zheng also came off the bench but failed to score. After all, football is a team sport. Turn the tide and help the team win.

There were times when he didn't score and the team won the game. Sometimes even if he scores, the team still loses.

But even Lao Wang will no longer observe and analyze Gao Zheng's every game with a magnifying glass, nor will he make any worried and pessimistic remarks just because Gao Zheng didn't score in one or two games, which will attract domestic fans to criticize him. He was very dissatisfied.

Now it's not just Pharaoh, the domestic fans are not as concerned with Gao Zheng's performance as they were at the beginning.

Everyone still pays attention to whether Gao Zheng scores a goal, but they can already look at Gao Zheng's performance in every game with a very normal mentality.

Lu Bing felt that maybe everyone matured together.

In fact, this is a normal situation, no one can stand being surprised every day. And it is also a great pressure for the players themselves.

At the beginning, he and Lao Wang were worried that everyone had too high expectations for Gao Zheng, and they artificially poured cold water on him.

I didn't expect that everyone's peace of mind had nothing to do with them pouring cold water, but because Gao Zheng scored too many goals, everyone got used to it, and it's not surprising to see it. Even if Gao Zheng didn't score, no one would feel anxious that Gao Zheng was going to finish...

Thinking of this, Lu Bing laughed.

It's really interesting.

When will Chinese fans get used to our players' outstanding performance in the European league...

Gao Zheng really made history.

Lu Bing refocused his attention on the newspaper.

Yesterday's make-up draw where Gao Zheng didn't score a goal was not the focus of this issue of "Nineteenth Century Daily".

The next game is the focus of media attention.

It was the 30th round of Serie B, and Sampdoria challenged Sassuolo away.

Sassuolo currently ranks second in the league with 55 points. If they can end the season with this ranking, they will be directly promoted to the first division.

For Sassuolo, this is undoubtedly the most celebrated honor in the history of the club.

But it is not easy to upgrade. Behind them, Pescara and Verona are eyeing, wanting to get a place for direct promotion. Sassuolo and Pescara actually have the same points, but Sassuolo has a slight advantage in goal difference, so it ranks second.

At the same time, Sassuolo is only one point ahead of Verona, who is fourth in the league. Therefore, in the home game against Sampdoria, they cannot afford to lose.

Sampdoria is currently ranked seventh, only one point away from Varese, who is sixth in the league. If Sampdoria wants to retain the hope of promotion, it must reach the top six.

Looks like a game where two teams collide with the same goal of qualifying.

But the fundamental reason for the media to play up so much is because of Gao Zheng.

Three days ago, before the twenty-fifth round match between Sampdoria and Empoli, "Nineteenth Century" suddenly published an investigation by a reporter. The report claimed that the reporter received an insider who did not want to be named The news broke that Gao Zheng, who had tried out at Sassuolo, failed to sign a contract with Sassuolo in the end, not because of Gao Zheng's poor performance during the trial training.

On the contrary, Gao Zheng performed very well in the trial training. He has won the recognition and acceptance from the coach to the players. The reserve team is ready to provide him with a professional contract.

But because of the opposition of the owner of the Sassuolo club Squenzzi, the signing finally fell through.

Gao Zheng left Sassuolo disappointed and came to Sampdoria.

All readers of Nineteenth Century should know what happened next.

As soon as this news came out, it naturally caused a sensation.

Reporters including Lu Bing and Wang Yixing went to the training base to interview Gao Zheng, wanting to know whether the truth of the matter was as the anonymous whistleblower said.

How did Gao Zheng answer at the time: "I don't know about the owner of the Sassuolo club. I didn't have any contact with him during the trial training at Sassuolo. So I don't know why I didn't talk to Sassuolo. I can only say that I am personally satisfied with my performance during the Sassuolo trial training, and I don’t think my failure to pass the Sassuolo trial training has anything to do with my personal strength.”

This answer is intriguing.

He said that he performed well during the Sassuolo trial training, but he didn't know anything about the owner of the Sassuolo club... Is this a tactful admission of what was said in the breaking news article?

There are also media reporters trying to contact the Sassuolo club, and the interviewer is Nerio Bonato, the manager of the Sassuolo club.

He, of course, completely denied the claim.

"The club is not the chairman's word, and he will not intervene in the signings of the reserve team."

But when the reporter asked why Gao Zheng failed the trial training of the Sassuolo reserve team, Bonato could only evade his words and could not come up with a convincing statement at all.

That's where it gets interesting.

Since it was not Squinzi who vetoed the signing, why is it unclear why Gao Zheng was not able to sign with Sassuolo?

Is it unclear or hard to say?

It was originally a very simple matter, but it suddenly became complicated and confusing, and doubts arose.

The issue of "Nineteenth Century News" that Lu Bing is holding now claims to be the end of the suspenseful story between Gao Zheng and Sassuolo.

The front page is a composite photo of Gao Zheng and the Sassuolo club logo, with a very eye-catching title: "Squinzi: We don't need Milan outcasts!"

Lu Bing couldn't help whistling when he saw this appalling title.

It is worthy of being a colleague in a developed country in the media, but the incitement skills of this headline are extraordinary.

A simple sentence not only aroused everyone's curiosity, but also made the Sampdoria fans suddenly rise up to complain about Gao Zheng, and also pulled out the giant club AC Milan to increase the astonishment of the news itself... It is the master of the headline party.

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PS, the timeline skipped a month directly, because there was nothing to write about in this month, it was nothing more than various competitions. So I skipped it directly in this way, which is equivalent to the shady transition in the movie "One month later", the key is the next plot.