Chapter 027 The Best Player in the Warm-up Game

On the other hand, in Brazil, the Brazilian international team is the popular star Alexander. In an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Independent, Pato said that the young Brazilian nicknamed "Duck" wants to play in Europe, especially in Italy, and it is a very dream to play with Ronaldo and Kaka. Milan is a great team. With a serious expression on the young man's face, he almost said that joining AC Milan was his biggest dream of playing football since he was a child...

This also made the Brazilian media realize that the 18-year-old may leave Brazil and throw himself into the arms of the European giant AC Milan.

Leonardo won the best interest he could for AC Milan at the negotiating table - 12 million euros, and in installments. This is also the reason why although Galliani and Leonardo have differences on some things, he still respects the former AC Milan star and current AC Milan manager. He has no doubt about Leonardo's love for Milan at this time. In addition, of course, Leonardo's influence and connections in Brazil are crucial for a rich family like AC Milan. Just look at this person who can directly price the business of 20 to 30 million to more than 10 million.

Leonado and Galliani arrived in Brazil, and they met Pato's long-awaited agent and Pato's father at the airport.

The two sides immediately started negotiations on Pato's treatment in a cafe near the airport. Both sides are sincere, and Pato's agent also knows that Pato is still very young and has no experience in playing in Europe. The salary at the beginning will certainly not be high. At the beginning, the salary is not important. The important thing is to have a good performance in Milan. As long as he performs well, he will be eligible to ask for more salary in the future.

Coupled with Leonardo's influence and the good trust he has established with Pato's father, the negotiations are progressing smoothly.

When the first cup of coffee is finished and the refill is made, all the details of Pato's contract have been negotiated. The annual salary for the first year is 800,000 euros, and the second year and then can be seen as Pato's performance, with a 20% increase. This salary is quite considerable for an 18-year-old player who has no experience playing in a European club.

A day later, AC Milan and Brazil International Club issued an announcement, saying that 18-year-old Brazilian striker Alexander. Pato officially transferred from Brazil to AC Milan for a transfer fee of 12 million euros, which will be paid in two years.

This is the new season. AC Milan spent more than 40 million euros on Zhang Yang and spent another big money on the front line. If the strikers of AC Milan are healthy, then after the team owns Ronaldo, Inzaghi, Zhang Yang and Girardino, AC Milan continues to consolidate their offensive end that frightened their opponents.

Pato did not go to Milan to report immediately, because he was two days late. At the registration deadline of August 31, Pato could not sign up for the competition. He had to wait until after the winter break to play for Milan.

After Pato signed the new contract, AC Milan Vice Chairman Galliani and Pato's cordial handshake was filmed by the media. In the photo, there are also some shy Brazilian young people with joy and vision for the future.

AC Milan is willing to set up a glorious image. This can be seen from the gorgeous-sounding name Milanello. In Milanello, the lattice-shaped steps surround the low buildings, where there is also a rose garden and many pleasant groves.

After the morning training, Zhang Yang was walking on the road by the woods and chatting with Maldini. Vitolio, director of the club's press office, came. This is a lively and cheerful middle-aged man. He came to look for Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang could only say goodbye to Maldini and leave with Vitolio.

"You can go around." Vitolio, with a beautiful beard, patted his back and said to him, "But the first thing to do is to have lunch."

Zhang Yang was a little confused. The gentleman didn't say what to do, but just said to follow him. Moreover, looking at the strange smile when Maldini left just now, the captain obviously knew something.

In the team's bar, Vitolio asked Zhang Yang for an Espriso coffee, and then took him to the Milan Club Restaurant. Here, several players from the youth team are sitting comfortably in a luxurious high-back chair for lunch. Seeing Zhang Yang coming, these young people greeted Zhang Yang kindly, and their eyes were quite envious. Although they were produced by the Milan Youth Training Camp and had noble blood, the person in front of them was obviously qualified to be proud in front of them.

This is the second time that Zhang Yang came to the administrator's office. Last time he didn't have time to observe, he looked carefully and saw that the whole building was perfectly decorated. The color of the team is painted on the door: it is full of red and black horizontal bars. The white sofa chair looks dazzling, just like Ian. Schlager (an American hotel tycoon, one of the pioneers of the "design hotel" concept) is like those sofa chairs in hotels.

At this time, Maldini came in happily with something like a trophy in his hand. Behind him was a group of cheering waitresses and other employees in Milanello.

Behind Maldini, the team members entered the house one by one.

AC Milan's captain and deputy captain carefully arranged the next scene: a team of the world's top players - Paul. Maldini, Ambrosini, Sedorf, Gattuso, Pirlo, Ronaldo and Inzaghi came forward one by one to shake hands with Zhang Yang, and took turns to hug and were a little overwhelmed.

Subsequently, captain Maldini announced loudly that he would award the trophy in his hand to Zhang Yang, who was the best player in the season warm-up selected by AC Milan.

"Does our team still have this award? Was it selected by the fans?" After Zhang Yang was surprised, he happily took the trophy and asked the news reporter to take a picture. He lowered his head and asked Gattuso softly.

"It's an award created by Paul a few years ago. It hasn't been there before." Gattuso said with a smile.

Zhang Yang's heart was warm. In the past, he only heard others say that the atmosphere in AC Milan's locker room was very good, and he didn't take it too much. After all, he was too far away from himself, but at this time, he felt it deeply. The atmosphere is really great. Whether Captain Maldini did it deliberately or not, for Zhang Yang, the newcomer, he was really moved.

"Do you want to know who won this award last?" Gattuso squeezed his eyes.

"Who?" Zhang Yang asked, and at the same time, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Olivilla." Gattuso said with a smile.

"I knew it." Zhang Yang muttered in his heart. However, in any case, I feel very comfortable. At the beginning, when Zhang Yang joined Milan, he was still a little worried about getting along with his teammates. After all, this is a rich team. Many of the players are world-class. It is inevitable that kind of strange temper and it is not easy to get along with. However, these days, it seems that it is still relatively harmonious. Of.

I have to say that this boy is very proud on the court, in fact, Zhang Yang has not developed the consciousness of treating himself as a superstar.

That night, the whole team had dinner again. On the first day when Zhang Yang met his teammates, they were in the captain Paul. Maldini's family dinner, this time, it was the team's deputy Ambrosini's turn.

While the players are enjoying food and improving their relationship at Ambrosini's home, AC Milan head coach Ancelotti is having a meeting with his coaching staff.

Last season, Ancelotti was very sad and happy. At one time, he had been sentenced to "death penalty" by the media, but the European Champions League champion gave him the opportunity to renew his contract. He won the European Cup in such a difficult season, which was enough to completely stabilize Ancelotti's position. However, Ferguson in Serie A is not easy. Serie A coach is good at tactical research. Few head coaches coach a team for so many years and the opponent has no choice. Ancelotti has done it, but in order to continue to sit firmly, he needs to bring new changes to the team with the lineup basically unchanged.

He coached for six and a half years in the Berlusconi era, and now this record is expected to be extended. Ancelotti has his own place. Although his personality tends to be conservative, in terms of tactics, Ancelotti is recognized as a master. Otherwise, a team has used a little change in the lineup in six years, the same head coach, how How can you achieve such an excellent result? In the past six years, he has won two European Cups for AC Milan, a league champion, an Italian Cup champion, an Italian Super Cup and a European Super Cup. Due to the excellent performance last season, AC Milan's goals in front of this season are the European Super Cup, the World Club Cup, the Serie A, Five trophies for the European Champions League and the Italian Cup.

Ancelotti's excellence is that he can strike a balance between the "political" of the president of the club and his own tactical requirements, the requirements of the big names in the team and his own tactical choices, realize his tactical intentions on the court, and satisfy all parties off the field. This is already a relationship that is beyond tactics, which needs It is not what every head coach can do to make some compromises. Some people say that Ancelotti is not iron enough compared with Capello, but AC Milan's locker room has never had so many problems as Real Madrid last season. At this point, the best in Serie A is Ancelotti and Spaletti. Therefore, Ancelotti is not only a tactical master, but also a first-class manager. Master.

Ancelotti is now making final arrangements and considerations for the tactics of the new season. Galliani has made it clear that after buying Pato, the team will not make other moves on the front line. In fact, in the long run, this is not necessary. However, Pato has to wait until winter to sign up for the competition. Now Nardo, Inzaghi and Girardino are injured, and Sidorf is also injured. In this way, within a month after the start of the season, even the 4-3-2-1 single striker Christmas tree formation is overstaffed.

As the most understanding of the difficulties of high-level officials, Ancelotti, who is good at exerting his subjective initiative to make up for the gap, also has a headache.

The only good news is that Kaka has recovered from his injury and is about to return to Milan from Brazil.

That is to say, in the month after the start of the league, he can only rely on Zhang Yang and Kaka to score goals. And Kaka has just returned to the team, and the two have never run in. I'm afraid it's difficult to have a tacit understanding.