Chapter 17: The end of signings and seeking the moon
Chapter 17 The signing ends (Fourth update, please give me a monthly vote!)
As everyone knows, Chen Yingxiong and his team did not stay in the reserve team for too long. A few days after the game against San Giovanni, they reappeared in the warm-up match against the German team Pfullendorf.
This also means that seven first-team main players who were detained for the fight and went to the reserve team have returned.
Of course, this is the return that outsiders see, but in fact their return will be several days earlier.
Almost the day after the match against San Giovanni, several people were called to the office by Mazzari.
"I hope you have fully realized your mistakes."
Marjo was the first to jump up and said, "Recognize it! We have realized it very fully!"
He was afraid that Chen Yingxiong and Casano would say something else to make everyone doomed, so he simply answered the answer.
Mazarri turned her sight to the other two people.
Casano and Chen Yingxiong did not say anything.
"Okay, starting today, you can go back to the first team." Mazarri didn't plan to continue to get involved in this issue.
The media have not hyped it up, so there is no need to continue doing this. Just give a step down, and the team's performance is the most important...
Macho cheered, and smiles appeared on the faces of the other people.
And so, they returned to the first team.
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While these seven men went to the reserve team to reflect on their mistakes, Naples did not stop and continue to buy people. Their lineup still needs to be supplemented.
The offensive end has a very luxurious lineup, but their defense is still full of problems.
Last season, the team played three-back tactics, so they stocked up a large number of central defenders. However, the levels of these central defenders are uneven. Paul Cannavaro is the team's captain and the unstoppable main central defender. Among all the central defenders, he has the highest level, the richest experience, and the most trusted by previous head coaches. Neither Rea nor Mazzari had ever thought of moving his position.
So in Mazarri's 433 formation, among the four defenders, who will play as a center back with him?
San Croce is very talented, but he is too young and...he is not tall enough, only 1.81 meters. As a central defender, his air defense ability is naturally weak. He lacks experience, has relatively rough skills, and has too much movement in defense, which can easily make the opponent play tricks, and even cause free kicks and penalty kicks in some dangerous areas...
He played thirteen times in his first season at Naples and received six yellow cards. He had made four appearances last season and received three yellow cards and two red cards, and was a well-known "villain". However, such a fierce player on the court was just a so-called so-called when fighting, which really surprised ***...
Contini didn't have many opportunities to play last season, but there were also many. Because Napoli played as a three-back, he could get a lot of opportunities to play. However, his performance gave people a feeling of embarrassing the responsibility.
Leonard Renaudo transferred to Naples last season, but his performance was average. Although he was big, he had nothing but excellent headers. His speed was too slow and he was easily injured, so he almost became a forgotten figure in Naples. Chen Yingxiong had met him in the reserve team before.
Aronica is a central defender that Mazari trusts very much. He is experienced and looks very stable on the defense line. If you really can't buy a suitable central defender, you can also use him and Paul Cannavaro.
But it's okay to deal with the central defender combination in Italy's domestic leagues, but it won't work if you want to go to the European arena.
We must continue to strengthen our strength.
His target is currently playing for the newly promoted Barry team, but belongs to Genoa's central defender Andrea Ranocchia (andrea_ranocchia).
This new star on the Italian football defense line once attracted the attention of many teams, but he missed all the games in the second half of last season due to injury. This also made many clubs who are very optimistic about him hesitate - if the central defender always plays like this for half a season and lies in bed for half a season, it will not work...
This player is indeed very talented, but his physical fitness...
Many clubs have backed down, and those who have not yet retreated have decided to watch for one more season before talking about it.
At this moment, Naples took action decisively.
Bigan took the game and after a fierce bargaining with Genoa, he finally brought the Italian defender, known as the "Canavaro Man" and "Nesta Man" from Genoa to the Sao Paulo Stadium for 13 million euros.
The club and the players signed a five-year contract, but the specific annual salary was not disclosed to the outside world.
Head coach Mazarri seemed very happy about his arrival.
"We have the main central defender of the Italian national team in the next ten years!" He announced this at the press conference, with a very high evaluation.
Many media also exclaimed that Napoli signed La Nokia, showing their ambitions this season.
"Lanokia's transfer to Napoli means that Napoli has begun to transform their defense line. To improve their defense, Mazari is obviously very clear that if he wants to make a difference in European courts, he has to rely on defense!"
"I'm becoming more and more interested in Napoli's performance in the new season. I want to see what kind of surprise this team will bring to us!"
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After Mazari took over La Nokia, Naples has invested 48 million euros in the transfer market this summer, and this transfer fee investment is rare in Serie A football.
But Naples did not stop.
Then they bought the Argentine wing forward Jesus Datolo (jesus_datolo), known as the "copycat Messi" from the Boca youth team for 5 million euros, and continued to strengthen his offensive power in the frontcourt. Datolo was fast and was not as good as Sanchez and Ravizi who walked away, but his cross was much better than both of them. His arrival was obviously prepared for Chen Yingxiong.
In the frontcourt, Chen Yingxiong is the team's offensive core. Whether he shoots or creates opportunities for his teammates, he is a role that cannot be avoided.
He only made it to Serie A last season and took half a season to win the league's top scorer. This is the result he achieved after wasting half a season. If he was allowed to fire fully... what would it look like?
Mazary wants to give it a try.
So this season he unswervingly established Chen Yingxiong as the core of the offensive.
Although Datolo is an Argentine player, no one is worried that he will create another Argentine gang in Naples because he is a newcomer, and he is not the kind of person who likes to be a leader.
So this time, there is no need to worry that the Naples locker room will split again.
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Naples' expansion of its army did not stop there. They continued to recruit soldiers. This time, Bigan spent 9.5 million euros from Atlanta to bring Luca_cigarini, a core member of the organization who plays as a back-end midfielder.
In addition, the team also bought Siena's main right-back Suniga (camilo_zuniga) from Siena last season for a transfer fee of 7.5 million euros. The player's outstanding performance even attracted Juventus's attention. Like Marjo, he can play almost all positions on the right. He will be a powerful addition to Marjo. Mazzari will decide who will play in a good state.
In this way, Napoli has sufficient personnel reserves, both in the midfield, front and backcourts.
Of course, it is not completely without weaknesses.
In the left-back position, Napoli has never found a suitable candidate. Currently, in the warm-up game, Mazari puts Aronica in the left-back position.
In fact, he fell in love with the young left-back who played for Genoa but owned by Juventus, but he had no choice but to ask Juventus for purchase, but Juventus said he had no idea of selling Criscito.
Despite this, so far, the Naples club has spent 70 million euros on players this summer, not counting the contract salary offered to these players... so to speak, De Laurentis fulfilled his promise to Mazari - when the team scored into the Champions League, he devoted no effort to make the team stronger.
At the same time, it also proved to the whole of Italy that the second five-year plan formulated by this famous Italian football player is not just a joke, he is already serious!
After failing to buy Criscito, Mazari announced that their summer signing work for this season has been completely over.
"Yes, we will not buy any player anymore. What I want to say is that our transfer window has been closed. I am very satisfied with the team's current lineup, thanks to the generous boss Aurelio de Laurentis, and also to Mr. Bigan who works hard. I am very satisfied with the club of Naples. We have a very powerful lineup. I understand the fans' expectations for the team next season. But no matter how powerful the giants are, they will start step by step from pre-season training... Yes, the end of the transfer so early is to hope that the media will not hype us up again. Now what Naples need is not those rumors, but to calm down and train. Ending the transfer cycle early will also help the team focus more, because they all know that they are in my plan."
After Mazari announced that the team ended the transfer cycle early, he said this in an interview with reporters.
Before August, Naples ended all transfer activities at a speed of thunder, scattered checks in the transfer market, signed the players on Mazarri's roster, and then announced the end of introducing and selling players.
The training camp before the season will officially begin for them.
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***, Naples' new season signings have ended, and the outbreak of two consecutive days has also ended~
Although the outbreak is over, I still have to ask everyone for a ***!
There are less than a few days left this month, and everyone has any extra *** in their hands, so let’s throw it over!
Chapter completed!