winning hand

Christmas passed quickly, and Parma returned to the training ground in order to play well next season.

However, at this time, the team is already missing an important figure - Yaya Toure has returned to Africa to play in the African Cup of Nations. The current team also has to train some new playing methods to adapt to his absence.

situation.

During this winter break, as Li Bin said, the team did not introduce anyone - there are not many big fish in the winter transfer market. If you really want to poach people, you have to pay a big price. Although Parma has changed its boss,

It's not like he got rich overnight. At this time, Li Bin was still unwilling to buy people on a large scale.

And Sanz did not make a similar request. Although as a Spaniard, he really wanted to introduce La Liga players, but now La Liga has a very special rule: they stipulate that a player must play more than five games for the team in the first half of the season.

Players cannot be transferred in the winter. In the eyes of Spaniards, those players who have played less games can request a transfer for a change of environment, but those who have played a lot should not make a fuss - this rule will not be used until

It was removed after 10 years, so now even if Sanz wants to buy someone, he can't buy any good players, so he no longer has this idea.

But no matter how reluctant you are to buy people, sometimes some problems are inevitable. During the training during the winter break, bad news still came from the team.

"There is nothing special about the training, but it is another matter that I have to tell you." When Borg found Li Bin, he said to Li Bin very solemnly, "Tudor has been examined. His problem

, got some answers.”

Regarding Tudor, half a year ago, Li Bin had people continue to check him, but his problems have always been serious. Half a year passed in a blink of an eye, and he didn't get sick, and Li Bin didn't go there anymore.

I thought, after all, problems that have persisted for so many years cannot be found in a short time. Li Bin also asked several experts to visit, and now, he has finally reached a conclusion.

"We invited a lot of people. At first, we just thought it was the accumulation of injuries and illnesses. We looked in the wrong direction, and there was no gain. However, later, we thought about the problem of illness and got some answers..."

Borg explained that after changing the direction of the investigation, an American physical therapist found out the problem. It was not an accumulation of old injuries caused by injuries, but a rare chronic disease in his ankle.

This is the important reason why he often gets injured.

"Can't it be cured?" Upon hearing the news, Li Bin didn't know whether to be happy or anxious.

Borg shook his head, "Of course not. Although this disease is not mild, it is not very harmful in itself. It is just that it will make the ankle easily injured. If he is not an athlete, such a disease will almost

There is no harm. Tudor’s personal problem is due to the accumulation of multiple injuries caused by chronic diseases, which is a big trouble. I have seen his injury record. Although minor injuries continue, overall, the problem is not

It’s not very serious. The key problem is that post-treatment treatment is time-consuming and requires the club’s attitude.”

"As for his disease, it is possible to cure it. Ankle joint disease is difficult to cure. Professional doctors told me that they do have medicines to choose from, but the key is that the treatment lasts for one and a half years and is divided into six courses of treatment.

Moreover, this treatment process is only for chronic diseases and does not help the recovery of old injuries. What is even more unacceptable is that this drug is still in the experimental stage. They told me that after use, the possible consequences are:

Edema, after edema, naturally you will not be able to play..."

"In one and a half years, we can arrange for him to treat his injuries in the next six months, but in the next year, we have no choice. Let's discuss it with him and see if he is willing to treat it."

"If he is willing to treat it, should we really let him treat it?" Borg asked, "We don't have a substitute."

"Anyway, if a player is injured, we can't just sit back and ignore it, right? I will consider the issue of substitutes, but we cannot ignore the player knowing that he is injured." Li Bin shook his head, "Let him treat it.

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However, Li Bin also had something urgent in mind: if Tudor was really asked to treat his injury, then there would not even be a useful person on the team's bench. As for the defender, he also had no choice.

No more buying people.

After thinking about it for a while, he also thought about who to buy. It was just a substitute anyway, and there was no need to buy someone who was too good. What he thought of was to find a similar player.

"When I went to Hertha Berlin in Germany, I took a fancy to one of their defenders, a Congolese named Christopher Samba. This is a very good substitute. You can buy him for about 500,000 euros. If you buy him

, even if Tudor cannot play in time, we still have backup personnel."

The player Christopher Samba is now the Congolese international, but he has French nationality and does not occupy the non-European quota. However, in Hertha Berlin, he is just a substitute player. Born in 1984, he is now 22 years old

, but he is only a substitute, and his worth is not very high. The reason why Li Bin chose him is, firstly, because he is cheap and can be bought for about 500,000. Secondly, because of his excellent physical fitness.

Color——The height of 1.93 meters and the athletic ability of a top black player allow him to become a precocious good player. In the Bundesliga, he did not play, but the Bundesliga environment is special, unless it is a defender who likes to step in.

Otherwise, he would not be able to play in the Bundesliga. But in my memory, he played well in the Premier League and later seemed to be worth more than 10 million pounds. It should be possible for such a player to be a substitute.

Regarding this transaction, Sanz did not say much: This is not unexpected. I am afraid Sanz will not have a hand in buying a substitute for 500,000 euros. He still gives Li Bin certain authority - this is also

The reason why Li Bin asked Samba was that after all, his task this season was not light, and Li Bin didn't want to get into trouble with Samba at this time.

This is probably the only signing during the winter break. After finishing this, Li Bin also turned his attention to the competition field.

"How are you preparing for our next game?"

"The preparations are okay." Esposito, who was in charge of training these days, was a little dissatisfied. "The third line is too tired - look at the teams that have won the Triple Crown in history. We are obviously not that kind of team.

A strong team, why fight for the third line?"

"You can just think that I'm crazy."

Li Bin did not explain. He agreed with Sanz's statement from the bottom of his heart. Since Sanz gave him good suggestions, he would naturally accept them. Let's talk about the future. At least, in this game, he

No matter what, I don’t want my team to lose. The eighteenth round—this game is between Parma and Milan.

"No matter what, play this game well. As you know, if we win this game, we can sit in the second position for a few more days, but if we lose, we will not be in the top three. No matter what

Anyway, we can't lose this game."

Now Parma is second in the league, two points ahead of Milan. If they win this game with Milan, the gap between them and Milan will be five points. But if they lose, let alone Milan, even

Inter Milan may even surpass him, and he must think about letting the team win.

However, as the first game of the second half of the season, this game is also the focus of many people. After all, this is the battle for the second position in the league, and it is also the battle between Milan and Parma this season.

, I need to settle my grudges.

This season, Milan and Parma are not so much in a competitive relationship as they are feuding with each other. Parma sold two players to Milan, Gilardino and Bonera, and neither of them performed very well.

Well, Gilardino was replaced. Crespo last season was much worse. Milan chose a poor forward between Crespo and Gilardino, so naturally there were a lot of complaints.

Bonera, on the other hand, has frequent problems with his football. He doesn't have the posture of an Italian super defender at all. Compared with his predecessors, he plays completely different kinds of football. Let alone Nestor's successor.

Even qualified substitutes from wealthy clubs can't do it, which makes Milan helpless.

They bought something that cost money. Neither of these two people performed well, and they were both sold to Milan by Parma. When Milan looked at these two people, they naturally complained about Parma - who has ever seen buying parallel imports and paying them back?

Want to pack it up? How come Milan is in such trouble?

After spending 30 million to buy two bad players, no matter who they replaced, I'm afraid they wouldn't be very happy. At this time, Parma's results were even better than Milan's, which also attracted a lot of attention from Milan's media.

Complain.

"Parma has indeed played well this season, but it seems that he has stayed in the second position in the league for too long. It is time to let them know how different Parma's strength is from Milan. They

Maybe they are playing well now, but don't forget that Milan is the team with more foundation."

The comments made by the media are also more inclined to Milan - among all Italian football teams, except for Juventus, the team name does not contain any place name, so it also has fans all over Italy, with the largest number of fans.

The most popular one is Milan, and Milan is Berlusconi’s team. As a media tycoon, Berlusconi has many media outlets, so his words are quite weighty. The Italian media are also more biased towards

of Milan.

As for Li Bin's comments to the media, he didn't say much for the time being. After all, it was still early before the game started, and Li Bin didn't say much until he could speak.

What surprised Li Bin was that he didn't say much, but others did.

"I hope that through this game, I can gain an advantage in the second half of the season. Parma is not strong enough to compete with Milan. We will let them show their true colors."

Soon, someone in Milan's newspaper published something about Milan. The person who spoke was not another grumpy person, but Nesta, who never liked talking very much.

"How come Nesta wants to talk? I remember that after he arrived in Milan, he didn't talk much." Li Bin was also a little puzzled by this.

"Are you pretending to be stupid, or do you really don't understand? We relegated Lazio last season, do you think Nesta will like us very much?" Esposito glanced at him, "If he doesn't look for trouble,

That’s weird.”

This made Li Bin laughable.

When Nesta was at Lazio in his early years, he didn't have a very good temper. But later, when Lazio was in financial crisis and sold to Milan, he became less talkative and was even considered by many to be a quiet person by nature.

However, his temper has not changed after all, and he has always been thinking about Lazio. Lazio was relegated, so he was naturally full of anger, and when Parma played against them, he still couldn't help but complain.

to express his indignation.

"You want to take revenge by kicking Lazio...Okay, come on." After looking at Nesta's words, Li Bin nodded, "Then let's see if Milan is really much better than us.

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