Chapter 140 The first person to leave

Chapter 140 The first person to leave

The contract renewal negotiations seemed to have reached a deadlock, but Mendes himself seemed very confident. He told Bruno not to worry and just focus on training. Anyway, he would eventually come up with a contract that satisfies him.

In addition to the contract, Mendes also brought Bruno happy news, that is, a large number of companies were lining up to come to him, hoping to cooperate with Bruno.

This is naturally because Bruno's performance last season was so good.

Although the official selection of the best players by the Italian Football Association will not be released until the end of the year, the best selections by other media have already been selected when the Serie A season ends.

One of the more representative ones is Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy's largest newspaper, which selected the best player based on the post-match ratings of all Serie A players in the 2013-2014 season, and Bruno was elected without any surprise.

Throughout the 2013-2014 season, Bruno played 36 Serie A games on behalf of Udinese, contributing 18 goals and 23 assists. He was the number one contributor to Udinese's eventual third place.

Bruno's outstanding performance has frequently earned him high scores in post-match ratings.According to statistical results, Bruno's final season rating was as high as 8.77 points, far ahead among all Serie A players.

In addition, Bruno was also selected without any doubt in the selection of the best team of the season conducted by the famous technical and tactical analysis website "Squawka". According to data provided by "Squawka", Bruno scored 36 goals, assisted 18 times, and sent a total of 23 key passes in 112 games. He is the only player among all players to have exceeded 75 in this data, far exceeding Candreva and Pjanic, who sent key passes, are tied for second place.

With his outstanding performance, Bruno became the assist king in Serie A last season. His record-breaking 23 assists in the season improved the original record of 16 assists by a large margin.

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Of course, the biggest impact on Bruno was his performance in the Europa League.

Although the influence of the Europa League is far less than that of the Champions League, it is a European competition after all, and its influence in football is still extremely strong.

Last season, Bruno represented Udinese in a total of 16 games in the Europa League play-offs and main matches, scoring 13 goals and 9 assists, and won the Europa League Golden Boot and assists king.

In addition, Bruno performed well in the Europa League final. He scored twice and was the number one contributor to Udinese's victory in the Europa League. He was also elected as the best player in the Europa League final.

These honors have a very practical significance for Bruno, that is, more sponsors will come to him, hoping to sign an endorsement contract with him.

Bruno was very happy about the news, which made him feel less miserable during the boring special training.

Although Bruno is not the kind of greedy person who is obsessed with money and only wants to make money, he will not refuse if he can get more money.

However, Bruno told Mendes that he must pay attention to the endorsement targets he signs. For example, those brands that are too controversial, even if they are very famous and offer high endorsements, Bruno advises not to sign.

Although we know that "sports have no national borders" is just a gimmick created by Europeans and Americans, we should still try to avoid companies that involve negative news such as "racial discrimination" and "regional discrimination".

Mendes was very satisfied with Bruno's idea. He was also worried that young people would not be able to control themselves in the face of money and would agree to any company that wanted to cooperate with him.

Mendes told Bruno that this was the reason why he did not sign any endorsement deals for Bruno this past season.

He hopes to manage Bruno's image well and then sign several high-quality endorsements, which is much better than signing indiscriminately.

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In addition to these endorsement brands, there is also a very important endorsement contract, which is the endorsement of sports brands, which cannot be ignored for any football player.

According to Mendes' feedback, Nike, Adidas and Puma, the three most powerful sports brands, are now interested in Bruno. Mendes is negotiating with these three companies at the same time to see which of the three has the greatest sincerity and the most favorable conditions.

Of course, he didn't forget to ask Bruno if he had any preference for brands. Some people just like Nike and don’t consider anything else except Nike, while others just like Adidas.

Bruno has no preference for this, which is good news for Mendes. He can give full play to his abilities and get the best contract for Bruno.

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Bruno is in Udine. Although he focuses on training every day, the atmosphere of the World Cup still affects him all the time.

On the streets of Udine, promotional posters for the Italian national team can be seen everywhere, and people wearing Italian national team jerseys passed by him.

At this moment, there is no Udinese, only the Italian national team.

After returning home from a day's training, Bruno, although very tired, still wanted to turn on the TV to watch the World Cup games.

<divclass="contentadv">As a professional player, watching high-level games is also a way to accumulate experience.

Of course, Bruno is most concerned about Portugal, after all, this is the team that he has a direct relationship with now.

As for the Chinese team, there is no need to mention it. They are unlikely to enter the World Cup anyway.

However, in Brazil, Portugal, the former suzerain country of Brazil, behaved very awkwardly.

In Group G with Germany, the United States and Ghana, Portugal had a bad first match and was swept by the German team 4:0. The Five Shields team was simply unable to fight back.

Bruno's parents told him that this game had a great impact in Portugal. The media was reporting on it and there were endless calls for Paul Bento to be dismissed from get out of class.

Of course, there are also many media reports speculating whether the situation will change if Bruno is called up. Many people believe that Bruno's strong passing assist ability and good scoring ability will be beneficial to enhancing Portugal's strength. Maybe they will still lose to Germany, but at least they won't lose so miserably and lose so hard that they won't be able to fight back.

For this, Bruno just laughed after hearing this. It is useless to rely on speculation about things that have not happened.

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In fact, in the face of such a tragedy, Bruno felt that there was nothing he could do if he went.

Fortunately, Portugal performed fairly well in their second match against the United States, their direct competitor for qualifying. A draw allowed the Five Shields team to retain a glimmer of hope of advancement.

However, Bruno knew that this was also Paul Bento's last good day. As long as he waits for the last round of the group stage to end and Portugal is eliminated without any surprise, the calls for dismissal will completely drown him out.

In another time and space, Paul Bento still persisted until September. Now because of his affairs, I'm afraid he will leave get out of class two months early.

Bruno's guess was correct. Although Portugal defeated Ghana 2:1 in the third round of the group stage, they were eventually eliminated. They were eliminated from the group stage again after 2002. There was already a loud voice in Portugal to sack Paul Bento. .

Under such circumstances, on July 7, just after the Portuguese national team flew back to Portugal from Brazil, the Portuguese Football Association announced the dismissal of national team coach Paulo Bento.

However, the Portuguese Football Association did not announce the new coach immediately. This means that it is actively investigating and will determine the candidate as soon as possible.

Bruno knows that if nothing else happens, Fernando Santos, who is still the head coach of the Greek national team, will be Portugal's next head coach.

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As time enters July, the summer transfer window in international football has officially opened, and the transfer peak of the new season is about to arrive.

Especially since this year coincides with the World Cup, the international football transfer window this summer is destined to be uneventful.

As a well-known black shop in European football, Udinese has a large number of player transactions in every transfer window. In addition, Udinese performed so well last season, there must be many players who were targeted by other teams and transferred away, so Bruno knows very well that when the new season starts, there will definitely be many familiar faces gone. , and many new faces will join the team.

However, Bruno did not expect that the first player to leave would be Mahrez, who has a very close relationship with him.

On July 7, the first time the international football summer transfer window opened, Udinese officially announced a transfer news: the transfer of team midfielder and Algerian international player Riyad Mahrez. Premier League newly promoted Leicester City, the team thanks Mahrez for his contribution in the past season and wishes Mahrez a bright future in Leicester City.

This news really surprised Bruno. He immediately contacted Mahrez, who was still playing in the World Cup in Brazil.

Algeria performed well in this World Cup. They defeated Russia and South Korea in Group H and advanced to the top 16 as second place in the group.

In the quarter-finals, Algeria's opponent was the German team that bloodbathed Portugal in the group stage.

However, in the just-concluded game, the two sides tied 90:0 in 0 minutes of regular time, and then Algeria lost 1:2 to Deutsche Chariot in overtime, ending the entire journey of this World Cup.

Mahrez played in the game but did not contribute goals or assists.

After chatting with Mahrez, Bruno also knew where Mahrez was willing to transfer: too much!

As a newly promoted team from the Premier League, the Blue Fox's biggest goal in the new season is to avoid relegation, because staying in the Premier League means huge economic benefits. For this reason, they will naturally recruit players this summer and make every effort to stay in the Premier League.

Leicester City took a fancy to Algeria international Mahrez, who performed well in Udinese last season, and made him his main target.