From the man behind the football king to the football king

After Bruno appeared at the Friuli Stadium, he quickly settled his accommodation problem in Udinese. With his current situation, he will naturally no longer stay at a fan's home, but plans to rent a villa by himself as his home in Udinese.

With the help of captain Di Natale, he rented a small detached house with a swimming pool on the outskirts of Udine. Many Udinese players live here in this community, including Di Natale.

In fact, their houses were right next to each other and they became neighbors.

Di Natale likes Bruno very much, because Bruno said at the debut ceremony that he would help him become the greatest goalscorer in Serie A history, although this seems a bit unrealistic.

Piola, the top scorer in the history of Serie A, has scored a total of 274 Serie A goals, but his current number of Serie A goals is only 176, which is almost 100 goals less than Piola. None entered.

If he wants to surpass Piola, even if he scores 20 goals per season, it will still take 5 seasons. He will be 41 years old by then.

But who doesn’t like to hear beautiful words?

What's more, it is said that this kid was specially bought by the club owner to help the team win the championship. Although he didn't know why Mr. Pozzo had such an idea, since the other party was the player appointed by the boss, he naturally had to have a good relationship with him.

As long as it helps improve the team's performance, he is willing to do it.

That kid has already won three championship trophies after just one year since his debut.

What if he really helps Udinese win a major championship?

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After solving the accommodation problem, Bruno's transportation to and from the training base every day was also solved. Di Natale promised to take him to the training base every morning.

As for the situation after training, it depends on the situation, because Bruno will practice extra after training every day. Di Natale, an old man who will soon turn 36, cannot stand the intensity of training.

Di Natale knew that Bruno's daily training plan was simply unbearable. If he trained like that, he would probably break down his body just by training without having to compete.

Bruno has joined Udinese's training since July 24, but has not joined the team's joint training for the time being because he has just joined the team and is not familiar with his teammates yet, which requires an adaptation process.

During this period, Udinese also held a warm-up match. However, Bruno spent the entire game in the stands and did not appear.

Even in Udinese's subsequent two Europa League qualifying third round games, Bruno did not play.

However, Udinese still defeated its rival Burrage Club from Bosnia and Herzegovina with scores of 3:1 and 4:0 respectively to advance to the play-offs of this season's Europa League.

Udinese was fifth in Serie A last season. Since Italy has been surpassed by the Bundesliga in the UEFA standings and has become the fourth league, there are only three Champions League qualifications. Both the fourth and fifth place will participate in the Europa League. cup. Especially the fifth place, which needs to start from the third round of the Europa League qualifying round.

In the first two seasons, Udinese participated in the Champions League qualifying rounds, but failed in the qualifying rounds in both seasons. In the 2011-2012 season, they were eliminated by the Premier League giant Arsenal with a total score of 3:1. The scores in the two rounds were 0:1 and 1:2 respectively.

In the Champions League qualifying match of the 2012-2013 season, Udinese and Malaga tied 1:1 in both rounds. The overtime was still a draw, and they finally lost in the penalty shootout with a score of 4:5. , missed the Champions League for two consecutive seasons.

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This season, Udinese can only participate in the Europa League. Guidolin originally planned to give up directly, because the benefits brought by the Europa League are too few, it is better to give up early and focus on the league.

After all, with Udinese's strength, there is no hope of winning the Europa League.

However, with the addition of Bruno, the team's plan has also been adjusted.

Of course, Guidolin will not naively think that Udinese can definitely win the Europa League. He just plans to compete at a normal pace and see what happens.

His goal is still to win the Italian Cup.

As a European team, Udinese has a great advantage in the Coppa Italia schedule: they will not participate until the fifth round, which is already the top 16 of the Coppa Italia. Even if they win the championship, it will only take 5 games to fully play. This is because the semi-finals are two-legged, home and away.

Compared with the Europa League, which includes qualifying rounds, play-offs and a series of other events, which requires 19 games to win, the Coppa Italia is much easier.

Competing for the Europa League championship is almost like playing half of Serie A!

However, in order to train the team, Guidolin still plans to let the team go far in the Europa League, at least participating in the group stage.

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Because they were summarily eliminated from the Champions League qualifying rounds in the past two seasons, Udinese has been nicknamed by the football world as the top scorer of Serie A teams in the European war. This is not a good thing.

Even the Italian Football Association expressed dissatisfaction with Udinese's approach, openly and covertly, because Udinese's approach directly hindered Italy's European war points.

It can be said that Serie A was surpassed by the Bundesliga and fell to the fourth league. Udinese, who failed to enter the Champions League for two consecutive seasons, played a major role.

Udinese is also helpless in this situation. As a team operating on a small budget, the team's lineup is too thin and unable to cope with the situation of third-line combat. Giving up the European war early and focusing on the league is the most reasonable choice.

There are many teams in Serie A that hold Udinese's idea. Their early disarmament in the European war has caused Serie A's ranking in UEFA to further decline, creating a vicious cycle.

But the situation is different this season. Boss Pozzo has rarely made a large-scale signing and plans to compete for a championship. The Europa League has also become a potential target.

In any case, among the three championships that Udinese may compete for, the Europa League is also ranked second in difficulty, which is much easier than winning Serie A.

Guidolin would not give up if possible.

After all, the boss has shown his willingness to compete for the title. If he fails to gain anything at the end of the season, he may not have many days to stay in Udinese.

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After Udinese and Burrage played their first Europa League third qualifying round match, on August 2, Udinese once again officially announced a signing: Udinese from Ligue 2 The team Caen has introduced 22-year-old midfielder N'Golo Kante!

According to rumors, Udinese paid 500,000 euros for the transfer. The two parties signed a five-year contract with an annual salary of 100,000 euros.

The French midfielder, who had just joined Caen for free for a month, then moved to Italy, the Serie A powerhouse Udinese, which made Kante a little confused.

After all, three months ago, he was playing in French C with Boulogne.

This change is really too fast.

Kante doesn't know why Udinese, a strong Serie A team, would like him, but it is difficult for him to refuse the temptation of playing in Serie A.

Caen was also very happy about the fact that a French C player earned 500,000 euros in a month through the visa exemption, and happily completed the signing with Udinese.

After arriving at Udinese in a state of confusion, Kante finally knew why he was chosen by Udinese. It was because the super talent Udinese had just signed was three years younger than him. Many young people recommended him to the general manager of Udinese!

After signing Kante, Udinese signed two other young players within a week.

On August 6, Riyad Mahrez, a product of the youth training of French second-division team Le Havre, joined Udinese for 300,000 euros.

On August 9, João Cancelo, a youth player from the second team of Portuguese giants Benfica, joined Udinese for 500,000 euros.

After continuously introducing three young players, Udinese's total expenditure in this summer transfer window has exceeded 26 million euros, and its net expenditure has also exceeded 13 million euros. The team's transfer budget has been exceeded, so the team's general manager Giaretta announced that Udinese's transfer market was closed early.