Chapter 15 Do you believe this? !

When Italian football enters the winter break, the winter transfer window also opens. Teams in major leagues have also taken action to check and fill vacancies in their team lineups.

However, this has nothing to do with Novara. The team owner, the De Salvo family, has no plans to increase investment in signings. They are relatively satisfied with the current situation of the team. The team is currently safe from relegation, but there is not much hope of promotion.

If the team is not deducted points, there may still be hope for a breakthrough, but after being deducted 4 points, judging from the team's performance in the first half of the season, there is basically no hope.

Novara has no plans to recruit reinforcements, but many teams are eyeing Novara and want to poach players.

Among them, Bruno is undoubtedly the most popular player in the transfer market. Several Serie B teams have made offers to Novara, hoping to poach this talented youngster who has performed well.

Not only Serie B teams, but also Serie A, several teams have contacted Novara. However, the club's general manager Giaretta rejected these offers one by one after discussing with the owner and the team's head coach.

Bruno is currently on the rise of his career, so naturally the longer he holds it in his hands, the more valuable he becomes. Judging from the current situation, selling Bruno will only earn a transfer fee of one million euros at most. Although this is equivalent to the price of buying Bruno five months ago, which is more than 20 times higher, this is obviously not Bruno's upper limit. .

With the potential Bruno has shown, his price may have to double by the end of the season.

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Of course, Novara has no intention of keeping Bruno forever. They know very well that as long as Bruno maintains his current performance, it will be difficult for Novara to retain Bruno when the summer transfer window opens.

Some teams also sent people to contact Bruno privately, trying to open a gap from him, but Bruno ignored them. On the one hand, this is an illegal operation. He is a grateful person. Novara gave him a chance when he was in the most difficult time. He does not want to strain the relationship because of the transfer; on the other hand, he thinks At present, Novara is the one that suits him best. Even if he wants to leave, he has to wait until the end of the season.

Furthermore, after learning that Bruno did not have an agent, many agents came to him and wanted to be Bruno's agent, but Bruno also ignored them.

Although Bruno is currently well-known in Italian football, he only plays for a Serie B team after all, and his influence is limited. Those big-name agents may have begun to pay attention to him, but they obviously have no plans to take action yet. All those who came were agents with little reputation or strength, and Bruno didn't want to hand over his future to these guys.

If top agents like Mendes and Raiola come to visit, Bruno may seriously consider it.

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On January 1, Novanello reopened, and Bruno returned to the training base as soon as possible and began additional training.

Three days later, other players returned to the team after their vacations, and Novara began winter training.

In the meantime, Tessel also arranged for Novara to play two warm-up matches with two Serie C teams to test the results of the team's winter training.

On the evening of January 1th, Serie B officially resumed after the winter break. The result was a big upset: Sassuolo, the top team, lost 25:1 away to Crotone, who was on the edge of the relegation zone. 2 defeats.

At four o'clock in the afternoon on January 1, 26 games in the 23rd round of Serie B started at the same time, including Novara's away game against Empoli.

Perhaps it was the one-month winter break that interrupted the state of the strong teams, or perhaps it was the arrival of a new cold wave that brought a deep chill to Italy. This round of Serie B is full of upsets!

联赛第六名摩德纳主场1:2不敌联赛第十四名的特拉纳，联赛第四的瓦雷斯主场1:2输给了联赛第十八的兰恰诺，副班长格罗瑟托则是在主场3:1战胜了第十一名的希塔德拉……

A bunch of big upsets sent people to the bone.

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The game between Novara and Empoli can be regarded as the focus of this round of Serie B. The records of the two teams in the previous 22 rounds were 9 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses. The strength is considered to be between equals. However, due to point deductions, Novara's ranking in the standings is far lower than Empoli.

In addition, the two sides also fought 2:2 in the first round at the Piola Stadium, so all aspects are not optimistic that Novara can score points in the away game.

At the Castellani Stadium, the game between the two sides was fierce. Novara, led by Bruno, started a fierce stranglehold with Empoli in the midfield, and the scene was always very anxious.

<divclass="contentadv">Until the 68th minute of the game, the score was still 0:0.

The deadlock was broken in the 69th minute. After Novara's continuous passes through the midfield, Bruno sent a scalpel-like precise through ball, which penetrated the two defense lines of Empoli's midfield and gave the goal to French forward Lepil, who successfully countered offside, hit an empty goal.

Lepiler scored overnight and opened the scoring for Novara.

Unwilling to fail, Empoli launched a counterattack amidst the cheers of nearly 20,000 home fans. Novara was united and blocked waves of attacks from Empoli.

In the 90th minute of the game, Empoli, who was fighting desperately across the board, made a passing error in the frontcourt. Bruno succeeded in counterattacking and ran the ball upfield. He quickly counterattacked and made a wonderful pass to Lazzari, rewriting the score to 2 :0 at the same time, it also completely killed the game.

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The teams at the top of the standings have all lost in this round of the league. Novara, which has won six consecutive victories, has climbed up again in the standings and appears in the sixth position!

According to the promotion rules of Serie B, the top two teams are directly promoted to Serie A next season, while the third to sixth place need to go through two rounds of knockout rounds, and the final winner advances to Serie A next season.

But no matter what, Novara has entered the upgrade zone!

Is it possible for Novara to be upgraded?

If someone had said this two months ago, they would have definitely been accused of being in a dream and not waking up. But two months later, the plot of the dream really appeared.

Can you believe this? !

Novara fans are really going crazy!

Fans of other Serie B teams are going crazy!

Even the fans of a certain team in Serie A almost went crazy after paying attention to the Serie B standings: Our nemesis...that terrible team may be back!

(Nerazzurri: Just name me!)

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Time has entered February, and the winter transfer window has closed.

Novara neither bought nor sold anyone at this window, and looked very Buddhist.

But fans who pay attention to the Serie B standings know that this team is not religious at all. They have created the biggest horror in Serie B this season: it only took 6 games to soar from 19th in the league to 6th in the league. !

The scary thing is that this crazy upward trend shows no signs of stopping.

At 2 pm on February 2, Novara faced Cesena at the Piola Stadium.

Both teams were relegated from Serie A last season, but Novara and Cesena are in completely different situations now. Novara has re-emerged after experiencing a period of decadence in the middle of the season and has now entered the promotion zone; while Cesena, which has been decadent since the beginning of the season, is currently ranked 19th in the league and is still hovering on the edge of the relegation zone.

In the first round of the league, Novara won 6:1 away from home. The goal of this game is naturally to get all three points.

However, the trend of the game was not smooth sailing. Novara, who attacked fiercely at the beginning, did not take the lead as expected. Instead, the opponent counterattacked and conceded a goal first.

In the 27th minute of the game, Cesena counterattacked. Although the ball was eventually broken out of the baseline by Novara defenders, they got a corner kick opportunity.

It was by taking advantage of this corner kick that Cesena defender Tonucci helped Cesena score and take the lead in the away game.

Then, Novara had to face Cesena's intensive defense.

Naturally, you have to fill the hole you dug yourself.Facing Cesena's comprehensive retreat, Novara, led by Bruno, launched a difficult attack.