"The score of 6:1 is not perfect enough, I would rather be 5:0. This means that our defense is not focused enough in the game and we are absent. A player who is determined to win the championship must pursue perfection and get rid of all shortcomings. Conceding the ball means that there are still hidden dangers in our defense."

At the post-match press conference, Mourinho actually expressed his dissatisfaction with the team's defense and believed that the team should not concede the ball. When talking about why Zheng Zhi was replaced in advance, he said, "When the overall situation is determined, I want to try other styles of play. After all, Zheng needs to participate in the Asian Cup, and I don't want to lose him, but I have to prepare in advance."

"I'm very glad to have Zheng. As long as he is on the court, he can make the game much easier. He shot the midfield volley. I think even if Maradona stood there, he might not be able to score such a wonderful goal."

By accident, Maradona was pulled out to walk again. How could he do not step on Maradona at this time? Maradona's words before the game were quite contemptuous, but Zheng Zhi slapped Maradona in the face with his excellent performance, which also made Maradona's Naples lose a big defeat.

"Zheng is not only a hero in this game, but also the best player. Before he left the court, almost all of Inter Milan's offensives were initiated by him, which shows his core position in the team. Due to Zheng's organization, we have completely gained the upper hand in ground advancement, which cannot be seen in the previous Inter Milan."

Then Mourinho talked about Adriano again, "He is amazing, we all saw that he can easily score goals. If I don't replace him, he will score. As long as he maintains this goal, he will soon become a world-class striker."

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Maradona originally wanted to secretly leave Meacha by car, but was blocked by a reporter from "Milan Sports".

"Diego, how do you view this game?"

Maradona thought for a while, "Times have changed. This is a football world dominated by money. It's not that Napoli is not playing well enough, but Inter Milan won the game with money. It's not embarrassing that Napoli loses the game because they don't have money. But if I stand on the court, it must be Napoli that wins."

Maradona is still stubborn and assumes he is standing on the court.

"Zheng Zhi scored a goal today and also gave an assist. How do you think his performance?"

"He just did what he should do. Inter Milan spent so much money to buy him, so he should have performed like this. Isn't that normal? If he can't do it, that's bad."

He still doesn't want to admit Zheng Zhi's excellence.

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However, the media's comments on Zheng Zhi were very fair. They hyped up Zheng Zhi's role.

"Milan Sports Daily" was titled "Zheng Zhi scored a goal and directed Inter Milan's big victory again", and believed that Inter Milan played very well under the command of the Chinese and did not give Naples any chance at all.

"Roman Sports" scored Zheng Zhi the highest score of 8 points in the game, believing that he was beautiful in his footwork and his passing was superb.

Turin Sports Daily rated Zheng Zhi as the best player of Serie A this week.

Chinese media also reported the news of Zheng Zhi's goal scored at the first time. Sina Sports said: One goal, one assist, compared with one goal and two assists in the Champions League, Zheng Zhi's performance has "fallen", but this is because he only played for 45 minutes. For Zheng Zhi, both goals and assists are two simple things. We have reason to believe that Zheng Zhi may replicate the glory of last season in Leverkusen this season. As long as he continues to perform like this, we have reason to believe that Zheng Zhi's name appeared at the European Golden Globe Awards at the end of the year?

The Sports Weekly gave the headlines to Zheng Zhi. They said in their headlines on Monday: The best midfielders in Europe this year are Figo, Zidane, Zheng Zhi, and Figo performed well in the club and national team. Zidane helped France win the European Cup, and Zheng Zhi helped Leverkusen to win the triple crown and also helped the Chinese team win the Olympic championship. Zheng Zhi is extremely competitive.

However, the view of Sports Weekly is too narrow. The Golden Globes are not based on the midfield alone. Isn’t the forwards’ competitiveness greater?

On Monday night, Serie A officials also announced that last week's Serie A best player was Zheng Zhi. Zheng Zhi won the first best player after he came to Serie A.

Last week, Ronaldo beat him and was elected, and this week it was his turn to beat Ronaldo to be elected.

Zheng Zhi became the cover character of "Sports War Report" and accepted an exclusive interview with "Sports War Report". Editor-in-chief Zazaroni personally took part.

Zheng Zhi was not excited at all when he talked about becoming the best in the week.

"I remember when I first entered the Bundesliga, I also won the Best of the Week in the second round. I have won the Best of the Week in the Bundesliga 13 times, but it was very special when I got it for the first time in Serie A. Ronnie won the Best of the Week last week, so I told him that I will try to get it once, but I didn't expect it to be so fast."

The next question is a variety of questions.

Zazaroni: "Why would you think of building a wall around your mansion?"

Zheng Zhi: "I just don't want paparazzi to crawl around my house, and I don't respect other people's privacy at all."

Zazaroni: "So you installed a lot of mouse clips?"

Zheng Zhi: "Yes, there are so many mice, how can I do it if I don't let some of them? No one does it, but I just like to be a mouse. What can I do?"

Zazaroni: "I heard that your annual income is $15 million, is this true?"

Zheng Zhi: "I haven't calculated these specifically. These are all managed by my agent, but this number should be more real. But now I have received several endorsements, so it should be much higher."

Zazaroni: "How much higher is probably?"

Zheng Zhi: "It's about five or six million, I don't know much about it."

Zazaroni:...

It's so damning that Zazaroni, who is knowledgeable, has to change the topic, "Is your current girlfriend Bangchen?"

Zheng Zhi: "No, we are just ordinary friends."

Zazaroni smiled strangely, not pointing out his words, ordinary friend? Who doesn't know that you are a fickle radish? He continued to ask:

"Who is your best friend in Inter Milan?"

Zheng Zhi said: "This is a lot. Grasco, Pirlo, and Ronaldo. We talk a lot. Grasco always runs to my house. When Pirlo says, we are more about football. As for Ronaldo, he doesn't like to come to my house."

"Where is Zanetti?"

"Actually, he is a very quiet person, a very good person. He helped me a lot on the first day I came to Milan."

"Vieri?"

"Bobo is also very good. He always invites me to nightclubs, but I don't like places like nightclubs."

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On Wednesday afternoon, in the first leg of the first round of the Italian Cup, Inter Milan challenged the B-class team Cagliari away. Mourinho almost sent out all the substitutes. The team won 2:1, with Recoba and Blanco Vieri handing over another blank sheet in the game, and he couldn't even score a goal even when he played against the B-class team...

Because Pirlo and Zheng Zhi did not play, Inter Milan's performance was not as good as the previous three games, and the gap was huge. Inter Milan, who had previously scored five goals, suddenly became a difficult victory. This also reminded Mourinho that it was unrealistic to rely solely on substitutes to defeat the world.

When playing away against Udinese on the weekend, Mourinho put back his original main player, and the team defeated Udinese 3-0 away. The game became easier and easier again. The goals were Ronaldo, Blanco and Recoba Adriano, who came from the bench, stopped scoring, and Vieri didn't even get a minute.

In a blink of an eye, the Champions League is here again. Inter Milan faces Glasgow Rangers at home. Mourinho is still attacking the main players, and the result is 4:0. Ronaldo, Pirlo and Zheng Zhi make contributions respectively. Ronaldo scored twice and Zheng Zhi contributed two assists.

Inter Milan won 7 wins and 1 draw in 7 games this season, without a single defeat.

Next, what they have to face is Roma, one of their championship rivals.

At this moment, the "Milan Sports Daily" revealed that AC Milan wanted to get the news that AC Milan wanted to get Recoba, Uruguayan player Recoba, who had been dissatisfied with Inter Milan, was targeted by AC Milan and gave him a contract with a weekly salary of US$160,000 to join, which would give him an astonishing figure of US$41.6 million in five years.

Last season was an upsetting season for Recoba. His agent Casar has been negotiating with the club in an attempt to get a new $10,000 contract. The negotiations ultimately failed to reach an agreement.

If Recoba really can get such a contract, his annual salary will exceed the annual salary of Roma's Batistuta and Toti, becoming the highest annual salary of Serie A.

Because Recoba can become a free transfer player by the end of this season, his contract with Inter Milan will expire at that time, which means that AC Milan can successfully recruit Recoba as long as it can meet the salary requirements put forward by Recoba's agent Paco Casar.

AC Milan head coach Zacheroni believes that Recoba can make great achievements after joining AC Milan, because this player is not only an excellent striker, but also competent for the midfield position, which makes Zachroni more skilled in the future. Currently, AC Milan's Croatian midfielder Boban and Brazilian midfielder Leonardo are both older and are definitely not as physically as young players. Recoba, who is only 24 years old, just meets the conditions for Zachroni. He hopes that Recoba can become an excellent versatile player and play a core role in AC Milan, just like Juventus' Nedved, Inter Milan's Zheng Zhi, Lazio's Peron and Roma's Toti.

In Inter Milan, Recoba rarely has the opportunity to take on such a heavy responsibility, and there he is the lowest-paid player, earning only $576,000 per year. More importantly, the new Inter Milan head coach Mourinho does not seem to appreciate Recoba and often lets him sit on the bench, which alone is enough to make Recoba consider whether to leave.

However, if AC Milan eventually recruits Recoba, head coach Zacheroni will face a new and more troublesome problem, which is the salary problem of the players. Based on a weekly salary of US$160,000, Recoba's annual salary is about US$8.3 million, and then you can get 41.6 million pounds in five years. In this way, AC Milan's Shevchenko, Albertini, Bierhof and others will definitely be "jealous". If they all ask for a long salary to Zacheroni, then the AC Master Lan Club will not go bankrupt?

so……

This is unlikely.

Of course, Inter Milan doesn't want to let Recoba go. Inter Milan has been negotiating with Recoba, but the negotiations are just deadlock. Inter Milan doesn't want to give so much. Recoba and his agent want too much.

Inter Milan is not the Inter Milan team last year. There are many forwards, and now there are only four forwards available in the first team. It is pitifully few. Recoba is relatively much more important than before.

Of course, Zheng Zhi also heard about it, and he started chatting with Recoba on the training ground.

“Alvaro,”

"If you really go to AC Milan, you will regret it."

"The situation next door is not much better than Inter Milan. In the forward position, no one can guarantee the position of the main player, even Zacheroni cannot do it. Bielhof, Shevchenko, Kaka, Komandini, Jose Mali, Shaodati, they have 6 forwards, and you have 7. As for the midfield? Do they lack the midfield?"

"You will be more unsatisfactory than you are now. But now the situation is not as complicated as you think. You can get playing time in almost every game."

"The only problem is money."

Zheng Zhi said it very calmly.

"As long as it is a matter of money, it can be negotiated, right?"

"Sometimes, you have to have your own judgment instead of just following your agent."

"It's not good for a lion to speak big. Without any honor, you can get a lot of money when you go to Milan, but what about the honor? Can't you see that we are better than Milan now?"

"You can try to make a little concession and get the salary you think is OK. Calm down, play the game well, and use goals to impress Inter Milan. Have you ever thought about it? Now Inter Milan really needs a striker who scores a stable goal. Bobo is in poor form, Ade is in a state of unstable condition, and Ronnie's body may also have problems. Isn't this your chance?"

Recoba was silent quietly, analyzing Zheng Zhi’s words in his heart.

Yes, I have never really thought of leaving Inter Milan, but I just can't play the main player here and can't get a matching salary. If I can do it like Zheng Zhi said, that's fine. And this Inter Milan is full of hope!
Chapter completed!