After the two parties reached an agreement, the transfer procedures were completed quickly.
Gervinho officially left Naples for Arsenal with a transfer fee of 15 million euros.
Before leaving, the Ivorian made a special trip back to Naples, met with Gao Shen, and expressed his gratitude to Gao Shen for his careful training over the past year, and Gao Shen also encouraged him to keep working hard at Arsenal.
When it comes to developing young players, there are many risks. In addition to various uncontrollable factors such as injuries, puberty, and personality, there is also a decisive factor, which is the development direction and positioning of the players.
For example, when Wenger develops young players, he likes to let him try multiple different positions.
The advantage of this is that it can find out the position and positioning that is most suitable for the player and can best bring out his characteristics and advantages.
But there are also disadvantages, that is, players may get lost in this repeated attempt.
Gao Shen is very clear about his own advantages. The reason why he trains players quickly and accurately is that he knows in advance in which direction the players should develop, so he basically trains and uses them according to the direction of the players.
In this way, players will be able to perform more effectively, and their progress will naturally be rapid.
Therefore, Gao Shen told Gervinho that even after arriving at Arsenal, he should continue on the path he had planned for him. He firmly believed that Gervinho could become an outstanding winger in Europe.
Arsenal plays the main role.
Of course, Gao Shen has already cultivated the prototype. If Gervinho cannot play at Arsenal, it will not be Gao Shen's problem. It can only be said that Wenger is somewhat unworthy of his reputation in cultivating young players.
Although he only performed well in Serie B, Gervinho was able to spend 15 million euros on Arsenal, which shocked the entire Italian football world. Many teams that were still boasting Naples players couldn't help but start.
I weighed it secretly.
Gervinho's market valuation is about 8 million euros, but Napoli sold it for 15 million euros. What about the others? If they don't have 10,000 or 8 million euros, do they have the nerve to come and make offers to poach people?
But on the other hand, the top player was poached before the new season even started, which also cast doubt on Naples' season prospects. Many media believed that sending Gervinho away would greatly damage Naples' strength in the new season.
Especially the frontcourt offense.
Turin Sports News even concluded that selling Gervinho proves that Naples' goal in the new season is not to win the championship at all, but to avoid relegation!
"This is in line with their positioning as a newly promoted team from Serie B!"
As for Napoli's transfer fee of over one million euros to bring in Antonio Valencia from Villarreal, no one cared about this transfer at all.
Valencia is known to be the La Liga powerhouse and the Bat Legion, but who is Antonio Valencia?
Coming from Ecuador, he occupies a foreign player quota and just fills the vacancy left by Gervinho, but can he take Gervinho's place?
More importantly, when Naples sold Gervinho, Cupi, Savini, Grava, Vitale, Darabona and other senior players or courtiers were also sent away by Naples one after another.
This has made the average age of Napoli's first team even lower than it was in Serie B last season.
Everyone was wondering whether Gao Shen really planned to fight for the Serie A championship with a group of young players in their twenties.
But more people believe that Naples' goal has never been the Serie A championship, but relegation.
According to the odds offered by the betting company, after selling Gervinho, Naples fell directly to tenth in Serie A.
In other words, according to the data analysis of betting companies and the optimism of fans, Naples' Serie A ranking in the new season should be tenth.
This is quite good for a newly promoted team.
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After returning to Naples from Madrid, Gao Shen began to stay at home.
The coaching staff has also returned one after another, and everyone has begun to carefully prepare preparations and strategies for the new season.
Every league has some unspoken rules for organizing its schedule, which no one can avoid.
For example, in La Liga, the Derby of the Century is always decided first, and is basically scheduled for the end of November or December.
At this time, the league has entered its tenth round, the battle is in full swing, and the second round happens to be at the critical moment of the championship. This schedule can allow the Derby of the Century to attract the greatest attention.
If it’s too early, the situation is still unclear and there will be little attention; if it’s too late, the championship may have been decided early and the suspense will be lost.
Other teams in La Liga are also accustomed to this, because they all have to admit that the duel between the two teams in La Liga has a great impact on La Liga, and they can also benefit from it.
In Serie A, this is undoubtedly the case.
Things like the Milan Derby, the match between Milan and Juventus, and the showdown between Milan and Roma, these are all very attractive.
Naturally, it will also receive much attention in the schedule.
The league is all about ups and downs.
It would undoubtedly be inappropriate to arrange all these powerful dialogues together, so they are basically staggered appropriately and arranged in scenes that are more suspenseful and attention-grabbing, and generally not the finale.
As a newly promoted Serie A team, Naples has attracted much attention, but its priority is definitely not as good as Milan and Roma, or even inferior to Juventus, so in terms of schedule, a relatively bad situation has emerged.
That is the three rounds of the seventh round. Napoli played against Inter Milan away from home, Roma away from home, and Juventus at home. Three consecutive games were tough battles, and two consecutive away games.
Among them, between the two games against Inter Milan and Roma, there are two weeks of national team games.
The same goes for the second half.
This format is very bad.
If it's three consecutive games without a national team game in between, that's actually not bad, because the coaching staff can make adjustments through training and let the team get into shape during that period of time.
Or simply stagger the strong dialogue so that the team can focus on each game.
But like now, three games come in a row, but there are two weeks of national team games in between. This is actually very detrimental to the team's state because the time interval is too long.
Do not believe?
You can look at the schedules of teams such as A Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus. The strong dialogue between them is at least two rounds apart.
To put it nicely, this is to increase the enjoyment and interest of the league, but is it not taking care of the strong teams?
“The upper and lower halves, these three rounds are all crucial!”
After Gao Shen saw the schedule for the new Serie A season, his brows immediately furrowed.
Not only him, but everyone on the coaching staff felt overwhelmed after seeing this schedule.
Especially in the first half of the season, there are two weeks of national team competitions in October, which is very terrible.
"If we lose points in three strong games and two away games, we will fall behind before the halfway mark."
Gao Shen felt that this schedule not only failed to take care of Naples, but actually made things difficult for them.
Is it related to his status as an Italian public enemy?
It is a matter of course for the national players to go back to participate in the national team and national youth team games on the national team match day. No one can stop it, but they must try their best to compete in these three rounds of games.
That’s nine points!
"The winter break this season is longer, and the Italian Cup schedule is more reasonable. There is a full 21-day truce period, and then we can more generously arrange a round of physical strengthening training." Buenavin.
Tula suggested.
The reason why the winter break last season was short was mainly because of the Italian Cup.
Like some other teams that do not play in the Italian Cup, they actually have a long winter break.
But this season's Serie A starts on January 14th, and Naples' opponent is Milan, so they must prepare for the game with all their strength, and there is no room for failure.
And everyone knows that the first round of the league and the first round after the winter break are often difficult to play because the team is not in shape and in the rhythm of the season.
"The schedule has been given. No matter what we think, no matter whether it is beneficial to us or not, it has been determined anyway. What we have to do now is to make the best use of this schedule and arrange our plans for the new season. The most important thing is
Play well in these three rounds and other strong dialogues."
Gao Shen pointed at the schedule and said.
In all leagues competing for the championship, dialogue between strong players is always the most important.
Many people think that you can become a champion by abusing vegetables. This is certainly true, but it is difficult.
Because when you are abusing food, your opponent is also abusing food.
When it comes to bullying, can Napoli beat Inter Milan?
Someone in Gao Shen's previous life asked why Ancelotti and Zidane's Real Madrid couldn't win the league title when they won the Champions League four times in five years?
The reason is very simple, just look at the record of matches between Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.
If you extract the results of the two games between the two teams, you will find that it is these two century derbies that really determine the championship.
This is only about the importance of league points. If you combine it with the impact of strong dialogue on team morale, confidence, and the situation, it will involve even more.
If you are determined to win the league championship, you must win the strong dialogue.
Of course, in recent years, there has been a strange team that performed very well in the strong competition, but it just couldn't win the championship because it was too spicy.
This is Benitez's Liverpool.
Therefore, all teams that aim to compete for the league championship must not only be able to beat the competition, but also be able to win strong competition.
To put it simply, you must be able to score points.
At any time, for any opponent, first grab the three points.
Gao Shen has already experienced the strength of Serie A teams last season. He is confident in Naples' strength, but the team needs to be able to perform more stably and output.
As for the strong dialogue, this will test the overall strength of the team and the thickness of the bench.
All of these require senior management and the coaching staff to get the entire team into shape and adjust before the summer training camp.
The most important thing is the team's right wing.
We must help Lichtsteiner integrate into the team as soon as possible.
The 0-3 match last season is still fresh in Gao Shen's memory.
