Although Ajax was not willing to sell Cruivet in his heart, the sky-high price of 25 million US dollars raised by AC Milan still shakes their psychological defenses.

Two years later, Cruivet's contract will expire and then he will not get a penny if he makes a free transfer. Now he will have 25 million US dollars to train several Cruivets.

Speaking of Xiao Hua's original memory, Cruivet's transfer to AC Milan was two years later, and it was a free transfer without money. The main purpose of Berlusconi's introduction was to fight against the talented striker Ronaldo, who was introduced by Inter Milan.

Now history has changed due to the arrival of Xiao Hua. Ronaldo has arrived in Inter Milan two years ahead of schedule. With the young Vieri and Inzaghi, the outside world generally believes that Inter Milan will have the strongest forward line in the world in the next 10 years. Berlusconi cannot tolerate this situation. His city rival Inter Milan surpasses his AC Milan in any aspect will make him feel uncomfortable. At present, he has a strong demand for Cruyvert, a genius as famous as Ronaldo. He is now eager to immediately put on a red and black arrow shirt so that he can fight against several young forwards of his city rival Inter Milan. As for how much it will cost, he doesn't care.

As the saying goes, poor people are short of ambitions, and the temptation of money finally made Ajax agree to Cruivet's transfer. However, Ajax still hopes to defend the Champions League this season, so Cruivet will officially join AC Milan for US$25 million after the end of this season. Two other players, Davis and Rezig, have privately agreed to go to AC Milan in the form of a free transfer after the end of this season, and they will both receive a sky-high annual salary. It can be expected that once these two players cannot perform at a superior level next year, there will definitely be discord in AC Milan next year.

The European football world during Christmas was a bit quiet on the eve of the storm. The whole of Europe did not complete a heavyweight transfer. Most people were secretly making moves, waiting for the Boseman Act officially implemented after the end of the season. In addition to raising prices several times, Inter Milan also received several offers. The more important one was Barcelona tentatively quoting $22 million to Xiao Hua for Ronaldo. Of course, Xiao Hua refused it simply. Ronaldo is currently not a product!

Rest is always short. For the entire Inter Milan team, the 10-day holiday of Christmas is just a small rest point during the long journey of the whole season. All the players and coaches returned to the Pinetina training base after ending their happy vacation life.

There are no Inter Milan players who leave the team in the winter transfer. Although these professional players have long been accustomed to separation, everyone is still very happy to be able to reunite with the whole team again.

The teammates who had been away for a while were greeting each other happily. The happy mood during the holidays had not yet subsided. Everyone was enthusiastic about their experiences and gains from traveling. The newly joined Coku also quickly integrated into this young group under the introduction of Ronaldo, an intermediary.

Xiao Hua, who was standing by, looked at the united and harmonious group in front of him, and felt warm. How great would it be if these players could all play happily in Inter Milan until they retired! But the cruelty and reality of the football world made Xiao Hua himself not believe that his beautiful wish could be realized. I wonder if he would blame me when I ruthlessly traded a player?

In the four sides of the first team training grounds, Inter Milan's youth teams at all levels also began their first training after vacation. The only thing Xiao Hua knew about youth teams of all levels was that in Italy, the U19-age youth team nicknamed "The Spring of Italy". At present, this team has reached the national finals of the Italian Youth League this year (PS: The Italian Youth League is divided into various regions and the finals are a bit like the NBA's competition system). Judging from the strength he showed, he is very promising to win the championship.

Coach Tardley on the court was directing these young stars of hope to train hard. Xiao Hua looked carefully on the sidelines for a while and felt a little ashamed. He found that he knew no other players except Buffon.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on Xiao Hua. When he first took over the team, Xiao Hua thought of trying to make Inter Milan a situation that is maintained by the youth team's continuous blood transfusions. At that time, he was still very concerned about the youth team and even invited the coach Tardelli, for them. However, after he gradually gained deeper understanding of Inter Milan and professional football, Xiao Hua immediately overturned his point of view, and gradually he no longer cared about the youth team.

Xiao Hua quickly realized that Inter Milan is not Ajax, and relying on the youth team to maintain it is an unrealistic idea that it does not conform to Inter Milan's own characteristics. From its scale and nature, the European super team like Inter Milan determines that it is definitely not an ideal growth paradise for young players.

Teams like Inter Milan need stars rather than young players, which makes the growth space for young players seem very narrow.

At the same time, the results that Inter Milan needs most cannot be without results at any time, which makes the relaxed growth environment that young players need very much become a luxury. It can be imagined that once a young player goes through hardships to get a chance to make a comeback, he is very likely to make mistakes because he cannot withstand huge pressure. Once a mistake occurs, he may lose his position in Inter Milan from then on, and he himself is very likely to be in a slump from now on. Super teams like Inter Milan cannot allow any mistakes.

Moreover, after the development in recent years, especially after the implementation of the Boseman Act in the future, the gap between the rich and the poor in the world football will become increasingly larger, and the work of the clubs of all types in football will be clearer. Small and medium clubs will be mainly responsible for training and training young players, and these clubs have the growth space needed by young players. Finally, the top young players stand out from these small and medium clubs will inevitably come to Inter Milan, a super team that stands at the top of the pyramid.

It can be said that Inter Milan is only suitable for cultivating young players, but not for cultivating young players. Moreover, Inter Milan does not need to cultivate young players at all. Cultivating young players is not something a super giant like Inter Milan should do. There are hundreds of small and medium-sized clubs under him that train young players for him. Inter Milan only needs these newly emerging stars to combine to win one championship and honor after another, and just give it to others.

Therefore, Xiao Hua is no longer experiencing unrealistic expectations for Inter Milan's youth training system. For example, the entire Italian youth training system has its own rules. These players in front of Xiao Hua can be predicted that they will basically be resold to small teams of all levels next year. What Inter Milan should do is to try to be responsible for their future and help them choose a good destination. Perhaps only 1 or 2 players will have the opportunity to enter the first team, and their growth after entering the first team may not be comparable to that of the teammates of the small team. Even Ronaldo has to be a substitute. You can imagine what kind of competition is waiting for them in the future. Of course, there are also geniuses, which is an extremely rare one.

Young talents are all players who have gained a foothold in small and medium clubs early, rather than players who are trained in the youth teams of giants.

Inter Milan's strategy should choose from the most potential and most suitable goals for young players after they become famous, and to cultivate what other teams should do at this stage.

If the entire youth training system can cultivate a genius in 10 years, then he will have completed his mission.

On January 3, Inter Milan had a warm-up match with a Class C team at the Pinetina training base. In the end, Inter Milan's main substitutes took turns to play, and the 8-0 score completely made many of Inter Milan's forwards find the feeling of shooting.

Four days later, Inter Milan came to Barrie and challenged Barrie away. It should not be a very difficult task to defeat Barrie, but Wenger still dared not take it lightly. Although Inter Milan will go to the UK to face the veteran team Liverpool in three days, Wenger still sent his strongest lineup in this game. The only surprise was that Bergomi sat on the bench in this round and replaced him was Cannavaro. Barri's current situation is not very optimistic. The shadow of relegation was overwhelming at the beginning of the season, so even though they were facing Inter Milan, they were still ready to fight with all their strength to get at least one point.

The Barry team members were indeed very hardworking and diligent on the court. With the cheering of the home fans, they relied on fierce fighting and slightly rough movements to compete with Inter Milan tenaciously.

Unfortunately, Inter Milan has stars and can decide the game. Baggio, who has gained full trust in Inter Milan this season, has gradually rejuvenated his youth. He has scored 8 goals in the first 15 rounds of the game. At present, the calls from all walks of life in Italy to call Saki to call him into the national team again are getting higher and higher.

In this game, Baggio once again demonstrated the value of the star. In the first half, he relied on a supplementary shot and a direct free kick to score twice, allowing Inter Milan to lead the second half with a score of 2:0.

The 2:0 score also allowed Wenger to arrange the second half calmly. Barry's rough style really made him feel a little scared. He replaced Baggio and Costa during the halftime break, and the newly joined Coku got his first chance to play.

The entire second half was calm, and Barry's strong fighting spirit was almost wiped out after 2:0. In the 60th minute, Cannavaro scored a header, and Inter Milan finally won the game 3:0.

January 7, Britain, a very cold day! Liverpool City encountered a rare heavy snow in 10 years in the past two days. The snow had no sign of stopping on the day of the game. Looking at the heavy snow falling outside the window, the Inter Milan players on the bus were all uneasy. From the warm Italy to the cold Britain, they encountered such heavy snow. It seems that this game is not easy to play! Fortunately, the weather is still beautiful. The heavy snow stopped in time one hour before the game. The staff of the stadium quickly pushed all the snow accumulated on the stadium to the edge of the field. The conditions of the British stadium can be regarded as the best in the world. After more than an hour of processing, the impact of the heavy snow during the game is basically invisible.

This game is the first leg of the League Cup 32 to 16. Liverpool VS Inter Milan is definitely not inferior to most Champions League games played in that round.

British fans always have great enthusiasm for visiting Italian teams. They eagerly hope that their team can defeat the strong teams from the small World Cup, thus proving that the Premier League level has surpassed Italy and that they are the world's number one league now.

Since it is a double-round knockout match, the importance of the game for both teams with ambitions is self-evident. Whoever can break out of this game will undoubtedly automatically upgrade to the strongest contender for the League Cup championship of this year.

Liverpool's strongest is their offensive line. The midfielders: Redknapp, McMalaman, Borg, Fowler, Barnes, and Collimore are all world-class players. Relatively speaking, defense is not their strength. Except for goalkeeper James, who is a member of the British national team, no other players are famous. It should be said that as long as Inter Milan does a good job in defense in this game, it is still very sure to rely on the team's strong attack line to knock on the opponent's door.

In this game, Wenger sent Ronaldo's partner Baggio on the forward line. Carlos, who had a slightly weak defensive ability on the back line, gave up the main position, and Cannavaro replaced him on the court. His task will be to see the genius forward Fowler who is decisive.

The difference between away and home courts is still very obvious on the football field. Liverpool, who played at home at the beginning, made great efforts amid the audience's crazy cheers. Inter Milan's players were obviously not very adaptable to the cold weather. Soon, several tiger players in Liverpool's midfield frontcourt took the advantage of the midfield.

Inter Milan was basically on the defensive stage throughout the first half. Fortunately, with luck and Paliuka's brave performance, they finally saved the goal and entered the second half with a score of 0:0.

Wenger made an unexpected substitution at the beginning of the second half. The newly joined Coku replaced Costa. Inter Milan on the field had two tough midfielders, Coku and Di Biagio, while Baggio slightly retreated from the forward line to play the organizer position. Inter Milan's formation actually became 4411.

This substitution quickly achieved results. Coku and Biagio actively fought over Inter Milan's midfield and slowly regained the lost ground in the first half. He straightened his waist and slowly made Inter Milan begin to gain an advantage in the field, but this is how football has the advantage sometimes not necessarily a good thing.

Liverpool, who fought back, got a chance in the 25th minute of the second half. After intercepting the ball in the midfield, McMaraman dribbled the ball and broke through to the front of the penalty area and shot a long time. The powerful and heavy shot made Paliuca lose his hand. Liverpool has a chancer Fowler, one of the best opportunists in the world. He appeared at the landing point of the ball like a ghost, and a calm shot.

Liverpool took the lead 1:0.

The current situation is already very unfavorable for Inter Milan. It is probably not easy to catch up with the goal behind the local snake in the cold away game. At this time, Wenger's goal for this game has been reduced to a draw, and it is also a good result to be able to take away a draw from here. He is still confident of returning to the warm Italy to defeat Liverpool.

After Liverpool took the lead, they didn't have much time left, so they completely narrowed their defense line, and Inter Milan launched a siege against the opponent's half.

In the 30th minute, Inter Milan won four consecutive corner kicks, but unfortunately they were all destroyed by their opponents without any danger.

In the 35th minute, Inter Milan forced a long shot in front of the penalty area by Koku who was inserted from behind. Unfortunately, the ball hit the post with a very regrettable moment.

In the 38th minute, Ronaldo was knocked down by an obvious foul by his opponent in the penalty area. Unfortunately, the referee clearly stated on the spot that there was no foul on this ball! Inter Milan's protest did not achieve any effect.

One minute later, Inter Milan once again formed a siege in the opponent's penalty area, but unfortunately, the attacking goal that had to be made three consecutive shots was rescued by the opponent's goalkeeper and defender by blocking the gun hole.

The Liverpool fans of the game are ready to celebrate the victory. The victory over Inter Milan is definitely a result that can be shown off for many British colleagues in 1995.

Finally, Inter Milan's patience and strong attack line still paid off. In the 88th minute of the game, Koku intercepted the ball near the center circle and organized a fast counterattack. The ball broke through Liverpool's dense defense in the middle and moved to Lombardo on the right side. "Poplar" took a high ball to the newly played Vieri. In the penalty area, Vieri lost the opportunity to attack directly under the pull and pull of two opponents' defenders. However, he stubbornly grabbed the landing point and headed the ball back. Baggio inserted into it and grabbed a sliding tackle before the opponent's defender's foot.
Chapter completed!