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Chapter 59: A Season That Belongs to Me

Chapter 59 A Season That Belongs to Me

Yalding naturally understood what Rebochenov meant.

Rebochenov is naturally a bit ambitious.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have spent so much money after buying Monaco.

He just chose a more feasible route after recognizing the reality - after all, it's more expensive than Paris Saint-Germain, which has the Qatar National Fund behind it.

Don't say that Mr. Rebochenov is just a small oligarch who has fleeced the crumbling Red Empire and is always worried about being abducted by Putin and brought back to Russia for trial.

Even the Russian State Oil Investment Group may not be as rich as the Qatari consortium.

And now, Monaco does see some hope of winning the championship.

First of all.

The team's frontcourt combination is young enough and talented enough.

Sunshine, B Silva, Lemar, Mbappe.

These players have different characteristics, but they are quite complementary.

As a center forward with good ball-handling ability, Yangguang has top-notch physical fitness, strength and heading.

Especially his goal scoring ability.

Twenty goals were scored in nineteen league games.

To be exact, he only played 15 league games and scored league goals.

With such a striker with such high goal-scoring efficiency, many problems will be solved.

B席's dribbling and creativity, Lemar's physical fitness and ability to move back and forth on the wing, as well as certain passing and organizing abilities, and Mbappe's speed and ability to break through.

It can be said.

That's the offensive combination.

Young, talented and capable.

It is not much worse than Paris Saint-Germain.

Ibrahinovic is old, and he has not renewed his contract with Paris yet. It seems that he will leave as a free agent at the end of the season and sign a big contract.

Cavani has become like a little wife because of Ibrahimovic's presence, either on the bench or on the wing.

The remaining ones are Lavezzi, Lucas Jr., Di Maria and others.

Although there is no choice in personal ability.

But combined.

But it may not be as effective as Monaco's frontcourt combination.

Because of Yangguang's goal-scoring efficiency, Jardim is a little bit proud now - he actually thinks that Monaco's attacking line is no worse than that of Paris Saint-Germain.

That being the case.

That's the midfield and backcourt.

In fact, Monaco is quite good in the midfield.

The combination of Fabinho and Bakayoko is quite secure, at least in terms of defensive interception - because of the presence of B Silva and Lemar, what Jardim needs in the center of the midfield are two defensive midfielders who can run and steal.

After half a season of experimentation.

The combination of these two people is quite reassuring.

The two veterans, Toulalan and Moutinho, can be deployed as main substitutes.

therefore.

The team's problem lies in the defense line.

It's a whole defensive line.

On the left back side, Coentrao is injured again.

There is no doubt about the ability of this Portuguese defender.

It is difficult to compete with Marcelo at Real Madrid though.

But being able to play for a team like Real Madrid itself speaks volumes about his ability.

Just because you can’t compete with Real Madrid doesn’t mean you’re not strong enough.

But the problem is that his attendance rate is too low.

No matter how great you are.

Missing three or four months of games a season.

That would be a waste of time.

therefore.

The left back must be supplemented.

Right back here.

If Fabinho is determined to play mainly as a defensive midfielder.

The substitute player for the right back, Toure, does not quite meet the requirements - if the team wants to compete for the championship, then the right back must have at least one player who is strong enough to play as the main player.

The problem with the center back is even bigger.

The two old men, Carvalho and Raggi, played as the main players in the first half of the season.

To be honest, they have experience and strength, but the problem lies in physical fitness.

Monaco conceded 17 goals in 30 games in the first half of the season.

This is obviously not the defensive data that a championship team should have.

And among these goals lost.

Most of the goals conceded occurred after 70 minutes - that is, after the two veteran defenders' physical fitness declined.

If we want to solve such an obvious problem, we must buy players through the transfer market.

so.
If you want to complete the boss's task.

That entire defensive line.

You need to buy people.

Left back, right back, two center backs.

In this winter transfer window, we must try our best to replenish the team.

In fact, Jardim had noticed this problem when he just became the head coach of Monaco.

But at that time, the boss didn't give much support.

After all, Monaco's player tax rate will be aligned with that of other Ligue 1 teams.

Monaco's main goal at the time was to resolve the contract issues of the players in the team first.

For example, Falcao, the highest-paid player in the team, must be loaned out, otherwise the exploding salary expenditure alone will drag Monaco down.

And as the team gradually stabilizes.

The renewal of the defense line is imminent.

"We have a transfer budget of 50 million."

Yalding tapped the table lightly with his fingers.

Several Monaco officials in charge of transfer negotiations, including sporting director Karlsson, were in the meeting room.

“This is the first target of several positions circled by the coaching staff.”

Assistant coach Carlos opened the PPT.

"Right back, Djibril Sidibe, currently playing for Lille, transfer value: 1000 million euros."

"Left-back, Benjamin Mendy, plays for Marseille, Transfermarkt price: 800 million euros."

"Central defender: Germerson, Brazilian, currently playing for Atletico Mineiro in the Brazilian league, transfer value: 800 million euros."

"Central defender: Glik, currently playing for Serie A Torino, transfer value is 700 million euros."

Carlos put out the information of the four people, and the team's technical analyst printed out the information of the four people and handed it to Carlson and others.

They all know.

Transfermarkt's transfer price is not equal to the transfer value.

Although most of the teams these players play for will not mark them as "not for sale".

As long as the price is right.

We can talk about anything.

But the problem is the price.

Now is the winter transfer window.

Want to take someone away.

Need more money!
"To take them away, the total cost may be more than 50 million!"

Carlson reminded.

Yaerding nodded and said, "Indeed, so we still need to sell people."

"Who to sell?"

"First of all, we have to sell one of Carrillo and Traore as we don't need so many center forwards as substitutes. Each of them is worth around 7-8 million. In addition, Eder Costa can also be sold for a few million. Putting it all together, we can have a budget of around 60 million, which is enough for us to buy these people."

"Then we can release the contracts of fringe players like Loew or send them away for free to free up salary space."

"Then the forward line lacks substitutes?"

"It doesn't matter. If we keep a center forward, we can call Saint-Maximin back early."

Jardim already has a plan.

Before the start of the season, Monaco spent five million to buy the young striker Saint-Maximin from Hannover 96, who left a deep impression on Jardim.

But at that time the team had El Shaarawy.

So he made the decision to loan Saint-Maximin out for training. Now El Shaarawy has terminated the loan.

Recall Saint-Maximin to be a substitute for Mbappe.

Thus.

Four forwards are actually enough.

Sunshine and Mbappe each have a substitute.

And this forward lineup is young enough.

According to Yalding's idea.

The entire team should be younger.

A younger lineup.