Ancelotti is worried about the injuries suffered by AC Milan.

In fact, before Ancelotti, someone had already pointed out this.

Capello pointed out that AC Milan is Inter's biggest opponent in the league championship. Although AC Milan is a little thin in terms of lineup, if there is no major injury in the season, it will only rotate among 16-18 people, especially Zhang Yang's joining, greatly enriching AC Milan's offensive methods. This young man is more worth looking forward to than Shepchenko back then, so AC Milan's strength is not inferior to Inter Milan. However, in Capello's view, the team's health has become the biggest variable that AC Milan performs this season. If injuries frequently occur as the league progresses, although the current lineup has four forwards, Inzagi and Ronaldo's easily injured physique, this makes AC Milan's dedication probably slightly thin.

In fact, the Milan Sports Daily also said that Zhang Yang's joining was the most sensational transfer in Italy this summer. However, the improvement of AC Milan's strength this summer is not entirely reflected in the transfer market. Compared with last season, the players have had 50 days of full rest in the summer and have a greater supplement in physical fitness. This should be a place of improvement compared to last season. Another improvement is that Ronaldo can play in the European Champions League, which will be a huge guarantee. After a summer of hard training, will Ronaldo further recover his form. In addition, the value brought by healthy Nesta and Carazze are really worth paying attention to.

After the AC Milan team returned to Milan from Moscow, Ancelotti held a closed-door meeting with his coaching staff and summarized the gains and losses of the team in this Railway Cup.

The problem with AC Milan comes from several veterans. Judging from the warm-up matches of the trip to Moscow, Cafo and Serginho are in very poor condition, while Maldini missed these warm-up matches due to injury. At critical moments, can Ancelotti still trust them? This will be an important choice to influence the results of AC Milan in some important matches.

Judging from the results of the warm-up match of the trip to Moscow, AC Milan's "old wine in new bottles" lineup was average. If Zhang Yang hadn't performed well, the team's performance would not be quite satisfactory.

The biggest problem is that Ronaldo only participated in the warm-up match against Bayern Munich in half and left the game. The preliminary diagnosis now is that the "Aliens" have to wait for the third round of the league before they can recover from injury. In addition, Seidorf was also injured and had to rest for a month. Fortunately, Pirlo has no big problem.

"The Team" warned: AC Milan was the European champion last year, but it was far from enough to become a top team. Apart from Zhang Yang's joining, the team has not changed as a whole. However, while always maintaining the nobleness of the team and the pride of the "Senate", subtle changes are taking place inconspicuously. In the match against Bayern Munich, they tied the score from zero to two to two in just half an hour, showing their strength, but obviously, Zhang Yang's personal ability takes the initiative, and the team is not in the best overall condition. Just look at Milanello's wounded soldiers in the camp.

The warning from Team News is still in my ears, but there is indeed something wrong.

On August 11, during training, Girardino and Brokey fell to the ground in a fight. The team doctor on the sidelines knew that something was wrong at first sight, so he quickly went up to check.

Brokey was also stunned. He kept explaining that he was just a normal fight and did not act excessively. However, who would still pay attention to or blame Brokey at this time? Injury during training is almost a common occurrence. It is just that Milan is a bit too unlucky to appear at this time.

It's indeed unlucky.

A few hours later, the diagnosis of the Milan laboratory came out, and Giladino was strained in the cruciate ligament and would rest for at least three months.

This is like a blow to the Red and Black Legion. Before, Ronaldo was injured and would not be able to recover until mid-September. Inzagi is still recovering from his injuries and will only be able to return after he returns. At the earliest, it will take three weeks to return. No one can guarantee his status after his comeback.

Well, even Ronaldo and Inzagi are quite brave after their comeback, but what should we do before they recover from injury?

Now, Milan has only one healthy striker.

Although Zhang Yang performed well in the previous warm-up match, he just came to the team and his tacit understanding with the whole team still needs to be improved. In addition, his performance in the warm-up match can only be used as a reference. The real big test is after the start of the league. Even if Zhang Yang still performed well, he must have a forward partner.

Therefore, there are four major shooters on the front line, Ronaldo, Inzagi, Zhang Yang and Giladino. Milan, who is considered to have the best attack power in Europe, suddenly found that they only have one shooter.

Now, the only good news is that the transfer market has not closed yet, and you can still buy people, but then again, the team already has four scorers. Is it worth it to buy people if you spend a lot of money? After buying it, Ronaldo and Inzagi are both injured by then. What should I do? But if you don’t spend a lot of money and just get a striker, it won’t work. If you don’t buy people, it won’t work. You can’t point to Zhang Yang alone and support him for more than a month. Besides, what if Zhang Yang is injured again? Will you let head coach Ancelotti play as a striker?

On this day, Leonardo went to Galliani's office.

"Hey, Adriano. Are you free now?" He walked in and asked after knocking on the door of Galliani's office.

"I'm about to get off work." Galliani was packing the table, and he asked Leonardo to sit down and poured a cup of coffee himself. "Is there anything wrong, Leo."

Although Galliani and Leonardo had a conflict in introducing Zhang Yang, there was no big conflict between the two, and there was no big conflict between them. Moreover, Galliani knew that Leonardo was not out of selfishness. Although this Brazilian had always wanted to bring Ronaldinho to Milan and wanted to expand the power of the Brazilian gang in Milan, this was not necessarily a bad thing from a competitive perspective. Moreover, Lyon's recommendations are very good. Not to mention anything else, Leonardo is the biggest contributor in the operation of Kaka's transfer to Milan. Leonardo has strong connections in Brazil, which is also the main reason why AC Milan can repeatedly buy outstanding players from Brazil at a relatively low price.

"Actually, there's nothing to do, I'll talk to you." Leonardo smiled.

Galliani also smiled. Of course he guessed that Leonardo was not here to chat with him. This man had never been to the Three Treasures Temple for no reason, but the old fox Galliani was not in a hurry.

As expected, Leonardo did not know much and got straight to the topic: "What do you think about the difficulties the team is facing now?"

"Difficult?" Galliani knew what Leonardo was saying. He pondered for a moment, "I don't think that now we have Zhang, Kaka has recovered from injury and will be able to return to the team next week. By then, we have Kaka and Zhang, and we can deal with the offense. Ronnie and Pipo will also come back in more than a month."

Galliani means that Zhang Yang can play as a single arrow alone, and Milan can play the Christmas tree formation. In fact, Ancelotti's Milan is very good at this formation.

Leonardo didn't expect Galliani to say this. He thought about it and said, "Don't you think it's necessary for us to add another shooter?"

"Is it necessary to add a shooter?" Galliani asked back.

"certainly."

"Do you have any good recommendations, Leo?" Galliani smiled.

"Yes, yes." Leonardo had no patience to deal with Galliani, and he spoke out his thoughts directly.

After hearing his words, Galliani began to take serious attention: "Since Leo personally recommended it, I am very interested in knowing, who will it be?"

Leonardo issued a name: "Pato?"

"Who?" Galliani didn't hear it clearly.

"Alexander Pato, Brazil International's forward," said Leonardo, "You should still remember last year's Club World Cup."

The information about the player Leonardo said began to appear in Galliani's mind. Pato, whose full name is Alexander Pato, is an 18-year-old Brazilian young player. He was born on September 2, 1989 in a small city in Brazil. He has been hidden in Brazil International for nearly a year. His hometown is Pato Blanco (meaning "the city of white ducks"). People who like him call him "Pato" (Portuguese meaning "duck").

Pato plays forward position on the court with great talent. He is very similar to Ronaldo's football style and professional trajectory. They can mobilize every part of their body to play football. They once challenged Ronaldo face to face in the 2006 Club World Cup, and finally won the final championship. Although this young man is only eighteen years old, he has won two important awards in his career, winning the 2006 Club World Cup and the 2007 South American U20 Championship.

In fact, Galliani is not unfamiliar with this name. In fact, the vice chairman of Milan noticed this young man when he first watched the Club World Cup last year. He was a very talented player. At that time, Braida also commented on Galliani in this way.

Seeing Galliani thinking, Leonardo did not disturb Galliani, he was also thinking, can he recommend Pato to Galliani at this time make Galliani moved?

In fact, in May this year, Brazilian professionals analyzed that Pato's position on the court was very suitable for Inter Milan, and Inter Milan also wanted to buy it. However, Pato's parents found Leonardo and asked him to help analyze it. All of this is because of Leonardo's reputation in Brazil, especially his success in operating Kaka's joining AC Milan and Kaka's success in AC Milan, as well as Ronaldo's joining AC Milan, which made Brazil pay great attention to Leonardo's opinions.

Leonardo answered Pato's parents' questions seriously. He said, 'I hope he goes to AC Milan, not only because I am AC manager, but also I think there will be many Brazilian fellows in Pato in AC Milan. This is very important for a player who is wandering abroad. Moreover, the two teams in Milan are competitive. If you go to another one, then there will be a lot of inconvenience to reunite with fellow villagers. Inter Milan likes to buy Argentine players, and most of the Argentine players who play in Serie A are concentrated in Inter Milan.

You are like the only Argentine player in AC Milan, Grimi, and you seem very lonely! Secondly, I think AC needs such a young and talented player to relieve the problems of frontline weakness and aging, and he can also adapt to Milan's entire tactical requirements well, and he will also improve himself greatly. Milan's staff, coaches, and bosses are all kind to others and are very suitable for dealing with South Americans. You see, Kaka has adapted well to Milan's life and even fell in love with this city!’

Well, that's what Leonardo said at that time. He really admired this "duck". He wanted to bring him to Milan, but Leonardo did not expect that Galliani actually caused Zhang Yang's transfer to AC Milan, and then Pato's transfer to Milan became impossible.

At this time, the three major players on the AC Milan front were injured one after another, and the hidden worries that Ronaldo and Inzagi on the front line were too easy to be injured also made Leonardo see the hope of bringing Pato to Milan, so he immediately came to Galliani without hesitation.

In a sense, Leonardo wants to bring Pato to Milan, because he is his Brazilian fellow, and he wants to expand his influence in Milan. In addition, he is really optimistic about Pato and thinks that this is a genius. Such a genius will naturally take advantage of his family first.


Chapter completed!