Football: Banned for life, forced to travel to Europe

Chapter 689 Purchasing in progress

Of course, Mourinho is not just looking at signing targets, Chelsea also has many players who are going to participate in the European Cup, and he plans to look at them together.

It just so happened that in the opening match between the hosts France and Romania, Chelsea's new aid Kanter started, and Mourinho also deliberately chose this game for broadcast.

In this game, French national team coach Didier Deschamps put Kanter in the middle, and Matuidi and Pogba were separated on both sides. Obviously, Didier Deschamps was examining Kanter's ability to be in the middle and the overall situation.

Deschamps and Mourinho are old rivals. Mourinho's first Champions League title in Porto was to defeat Deschamps' Monaco head-on.

Mourinho is very familiar with Deschamps' tactics. In fact, the two are somewhat similar. They both like the 433 formation, both like to play defensive counterattacks, and both like to catch offense and defense transition.

So Deschamps did Mourinho a big favor. Through this game, Mourinho can intuitively see Kanter's performance in the 433 formation.

Kanter did not disappoint Mourinho. In this game, Kanter played the core position of the offensive and defensive system. Only when he can complete the tasks of receiving, distributing, intercepting, fighting and controlling can the French team play smoothly.

Kanter accomplished the task arranged by Deschamps very well. He kept running in the midfield, constantly intercepting the football and sending the shells forward, paving the way for the offense of Griezmann, Payet and Giroud.

However, these French forwards did not feel good on their feet, and they did not score throughout the game. Pogba, Giroud, and Griezmann all missed must-have goals.

Had it not been for Payet's lore in the last minute, France might not have scored three points.

Relying on the excellent performance of Kanter and Payet, the French team finally defeated Romania 2-1 at home. Kanter's European Cup debut was perfect.

After watching the game, Mourinho immediately went to Toulouse, France, to explain the group stage between Italy and Sweden.

Mourinho's target is Sweden's main defender, Victor Lindelof.

The 22-year-old Swedish central defender has obvious advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that he passes the ball very well, even better than Stones.

In the case of Sweden being suppressed by Italy, Lindelof contributed 45 passes, and the pass success rate was as high as 87%. In addition, he also contributed two steals, three interceptions and six clearances. average.

The disadvantage may be a bit fatal in the eyes of some people, that is, he is easy to lose his position, and his physical confrontation ability is not good. The only goal in Italy came from Lindelof's mistake.

But for Chelsea, Lindelof can be used because there is Van Dijk behind him. Lindelof only needs to do the work of Stones, grab and play the ball.

With Terry preparing to retire and Cahill gradually fading out of the main lineup, Lindelof is a very good supplement for Chelsea.

It just so happened that Sweden had two losses and one draw in the group stage, and they were still eliminated when sixteen of the 24 teams could advance to the knockout round.

After the game, Lindelof became the target of criticism from the media.

After all, if it weren't for his mistake, Sweden might be able to score a point from Italy and advance to the top [-] with their heads held high.

But they seem to have forgotten that in the only draw in Sweden, that goal was also created by Lindelof...

Sometimes competitive sports are like this, winners and losers are nothing more than winners and losers. As long as you don't have reasonable results, your mistakes will be infinitely magnified.

But for Mourinho, this is good news.

As we all know, Benfica is one of the most famous black shops in Europe. If Lindelof performs well in the European Cup, Chelsea will probably be slaughtered...

So after Sweden was eliminated, sister no contacted Benfica's director Goncalves and asked Lindelof's price.

The answer she got was not for sale...

Goncalves is not an idiot. He has been the manager of a black shop for so many years. He knows the psychology of buyers very well. Although Lindelof's performance in the European Cup was mediocre, as soon as Sweden was eliminated, Chelsea came over smelling it. It proves that they care about Lindelof.

As long as you procrastinate, I believe Chelsea will make an offer by itself.

But this time Goncalves made a wrong calculation, and sister no was cheated out of experience. Seeing that Goncalves didn't respond positively, she simply ignored it and went to contact the next player on Mourinho's list.

At first, Goncalves thought that Miss No was playing hard to get, but after the quarter-finals of the European Cup, he still didn't get a reply from Miss No, and he couldn't sit still.

What is sister no doing?

She is contacting Belgian midfielder Nainggolan, who was eliminated by Wales.

In the new season, Chelsea's midfield configuration is not strong. In the case of playing 433, there are only Matic, Kante, Fabregas, Inle, Brozovic and Erne, who was intercepted from Arsenal last season. With six players, Mourinho also needs a b2b midfielder who can go up and down.

The 28-year-old Belgian midfielder Nainggolan has entered Mourinho's vision. Last season in Rome, Nainggolan performed well. His dribbling, interception, and steals were all above the horizontal line. Very versatile with long shots and passes.

But his value is not low. Nainggolan, who was only 500 million two seasons ago, shined in this European Cup. He scored two goals and one assist in four games. He is the best player in the Belgian team. One of the great players.

After the European Cup, Nainggolan's value also soared to 500 million. It is definitely not cheap to win.

Fortunately, the relationship between Chelsea and Roma is very good. In the past few seasons, the turnover of players between the two sides has not been small. Salah was originally loaned to Roma.

It just so happens that Roma director Sabatini is worrying about KPI recently. In order to improve the team's strength, they just spent 100 million euros to pick up striker Dzeko from Manchester City.

The strength of the team has increased, but the books are not good.

Roma's offer of 500 million hit Sabatini just in time, and someone gave me a pillow when I fell asleep!

But as a qualified worker, Sabatini of course wants to make more profits for the American boss. He flatly rejected the offer from sister no, and then offered a price of 5000 million euros.

After some bargaining, Roma won Nainggolan at a price of 4000 million euros. At the same time, Chelsea also loaned midfielder Loftus Cheek to Roma, so that Roma can continue to strengthen without spending money. You can earn 500 million euros for nothing.

Both parties are very satisfied with this result...

And Goncalves?

He didn't wait for Chelsea's second inquiry or offer at all, he waited directly for a piece of news.

Germany's "Kicker" magazine reports, "European hegemony Chelsea's coach Jose Mourinho wants a new centre-back, and after a fruitless pursuit of Benfica teenager Victor Lindelof, he is targeting Valencia. German centre-back Mustafi..."