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Di Francesco and his coaching staff have indeed formulated a targeted physical training plan for Gao Zheng. After training with this plan, Gao Zheng can also feel that his physical fitness is much better than before.

However, his strength grew very slowly, not as good as his physical fitness.

Because the physical fitness coach told him that if he quickly gains muscle, it will affect his body coordination and flexibility, resulting in a significant decline in his ball control and technique. But this is exactly where his advantage lies, so in order to increase his physical confrontation ability, he lowered his ball-handling ability. Gao Zheng was unwilling, and neither was the coach.

"If the opponent's collision is too fierce, just hide." The coach suggested.

Gao Zheng was surprised: "Is this okay?"

The coach stared and said, "If you don't want to get hurt, why don't you hide?"

"But if I dodge, won't I lose possession of the ball?" Gao Zheng asked back.

"Losing the ball or getting injured, which would you choose?"

Gao Zheng pondered for a while and said, "I don't want to choose any of them."

The physical trainer brought by De Francisco smiled, thinking why this player is so naive, he shook his head: "How can there be such a good thing that has the best of both worlds?"

"If the opponent fouls me, can't I not get hurt and not lose possession of the ball?" Gao Zheng asked.

"How can you not get hurt if you get fouled?"

"I avoided it." Gao Zheng said.

"How can you foul if you avoid the opponent?"

"Dodging doesn't mean the opponent doesn't foul, coach. The opponent shoveled me from the side and rear. I jumped up and avoided the most dangerous blow, but I still lost my balance and fell to the ground. Is this considered a foul by the opponent?"

The fitness coach thought for a while, nodded and said, "Forget it."

Gao Zheng smiled: "Isn't that what it is?"

Looking at Gao Zheng's smile, the fitness coach always felt that something was wrong

Although Di Francesco talked a lot, he was really right.

Despite the achievement of promotion, the club has not invested much in the transfer market this summer.

They want to buy out Pellet. Pellet performed well after being on loan last season.

Especially at the last moment of the league, the tacit understanding between him and Gao Zheng also moved the Sampdoria club.

Pellet himself expressed his willingness to return to Sampdoria.

However, the two clubs failed to reach an agreement on Pellet's transfer fee.

Parma asked for five million euros, which Sampdoria could not afford.

In the end negotiations broke down.

So Sampdoria planned to rent Pellet, but Parma was not happy to rent Pellet to Sampdoria again.

For this matter, Pellet also made a special call to Gao Zheng to express his apologies to him. The promise he made earlier could not be fulfilled now.

He also wanted to continue playing football with Gao Zheng, but he had no choice but to find another way out now.

"My agent told me that Parma intends to continue to loan me, the Eredivisie team Feyenoord is interested in me, I may have to return to the Netherlands"

Pellet once played in Alkmaar in the Netherlands, but it was not very successful.

Gao Zheng is also very helpless about this kind of thing. Everyone makes a living in this line of work, but many things are beyond his control, especially for those players who are not top-notch, they often go wherever they can kick the ball. Long-term career planning.

After Sampdoria's pursuit of Pellet failed, the only forwards available to the first team were Gao Zheng, Icardi and Pozzi, which was obviously not enough.

The original parallel importer Piowakari has been loaned out and Sampdoria wants to sell him, but no team is willing to take over.

Bertani, who performed fairly well last season, was sentenced to jail for being involved in a match-fixing case. International footballer Criscito, and even the home of Juventus coach Antonio Conte were searched.

In addition, there are some forwards who obviously do not meet the team's requirements and are either loaned out or transferred away.

After failing to buy Pellet, Sampdoria had to spend 3.5 million euros to buy striker Edersitardin Martins from Cesena.

But there are only four strikers available, which is still not enough.

So Simone Zaza, who was going to continue to be loaned out, was kept. The head coach Di Francesco had a special talk with Zaza, saying that in his plan, although he cannot promise the main force, he will definitely get the chance to play .

Zaza is almost getting used to the wandering life of changing teams every year, but he didn't expect to be able to stay this season.

However, he is quite happy to stay in the first team of Sampdoria and play in Serie A.

In addition to the striker, Sampdoria also needs signings in other positions, but from Sampdoria's signings, it can be seen how their financial situation is.

After buying Eder for 3.5 million euros, they spent another 2.5 million euros on loan to rent Argentine center Maxi Lopez from Catania. AC Milan played for half a season.

Then the club bought Cluj's defensive midfielder Renan for three million euros.

The arrival of Renan means that Palumbo's living space has been further compressed. He has to go if he does not go. If he does not go, he will definitely not be able to get the chance to play.

In order to get a chance to play, he must leave the team, either through a transfer or on loan. Sampdoria certainly hopes that he can transfer and leave, but Palumbo's salary limits his whereabouts.

In the end, Sampdoria and Inter Milan reached an agreement. Palombo was loaned to Inter Milan for one season. After the season, Inter Milan has the priority to buy out.

Palombo went to Inter Milan, and another midfielder Andre Poli, who was loaned to Inter Milan last season, was given up by Inter Milan and returned to Sampdoria. He is in a similar situation to Palombo. When he was loaned out last season, he also had the priority to buy out when the loan expired. During the season, Inter Milan also promised Polly that he would buy him out at the end of the season. Let him stay at Meazza. But in the end, Inter Milan did not fulfill such a promise, and Polly had to return to Sampdoria. He himself never thought that he would go to Sampdoria again, and even the rent of the house in Genoa has been withdrawn, and now he has to look for it again, which is also depressing.

The remaining signings are basically on loan or free transfer.

For example, a loan fee of 250,000 was used to rent right back Lorenzo de Silvestri from Fiorentina.

Maresca on loan from Malaga

There are still many operations like this. In the entire summer transfer market, Sampdoria only spent more than 13 million euros and brought in 12 new players. This is not counting the transfer from the reserve team to the first team. of those people.

Coupled with the players who were originally in the first team lineup, the first team is now very large, but not everyone will be signed up in the end, and some people will be eliminated in the process.

This is professional football, and the competition is not only from enemies, but also from teammates.

But even Wang Yixing wasn't worried about Gao Zheng's position in Sampdoria anymore.

After the outstanding performance last season, I am afraid that no one will think that Gao Zheng's status in this team will be a problem

In fact, this is also the case. Not long after the physical training ended, everyone could see from the tactical training that Gao Zheng had a faint intention to become the core of the team's offense.

There may be some players who have just transferred or came to this team on loan who are puzzled by the head coach's decision, but after training with Gao Zheng for a period of time and playing the warm-up match, such doubts will disappear. It all evaporated.

Although there are some young or long-established players in the Sampdoria team, they can all see that Gao Zheng is different from them.

For this, the owner of "Sailor's House" Borata was very happy. When Gao Zheng came to buy Focaccia again, he said to him: "It seems that the head coach is still a little bit good this time!"

Gao Zheng was at a loss and didn't understand why the fat boss said that.

"Knowing let you be the core!"

Gao Zheng's confusion was replaced by sweat