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The ranking on the monthly ticket list is a bit low, it makes me sad!

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Mazzarri thought like this now. Although some fans shouted the slogan "We want the league title" after the draw results came out, he knew very well that it could not represent the vast majority of Napoli fans. More fans still hoped to see the team perform well in the Champions League.

This was also supported by the club chairman, De Laurentiis. At last year's Christmas dinner, De Laurentiis gave head coach Mazzarri a very expensive watch as a club tradition to celebrate the New Year, but this was the most expensive gift the club chairman had ever given. Even Chen Hero, who was called his "godson" by the media, did not receive such generosity.

From this, it can be seen that Mazzarri has conquered the picky and demanding club chairman with his actual coaching performance.

At that Christmas dinner, De Laurentiis sat next to Mazzarri most of the time, and the two put their heads together to discuss the future of the team. They said a lot, including the team's plans for next year.

Mazzarri told the club chairman that although the team had drawn Real Madrid as their opponent in the round of 16, he still wanted to fight hard, so he would focus his main energy on the Champions League in the first half of the year.

"...The factor that determines how much energy we invest in the Champions League is how far we can go in the Champions League..." This is what he said to De Laurentiis at the time.

The club chairman expressed satisfaction with his plan and told him that if he wanted to strengthen the team during the winter break, he could come to him and make a list. As long as the names on it were not too outrageous, he could bring them to him.

He has already given the list to the boss, let's see how many he can deliver...

The plan is to focus on the Champions League, so the domestic league has become a training ground for the Champions League, not to mention the Italian Cup...

Therefore, although the Italian Cup four days later is a battle between Napoli and Juventus, Mazzarri will resolutely give up.

For many Napoli fans, this may be a game that cannot be lost no matter what, but Mazzarri doesn't think it's a big deal. No matter how big the hatred is, it must be divided into occasions.

So on January 14th, in the fifth round of the Italian Cup, Napoli challenged Juventus away. Mazzarri left almost all the main players at home and only took a group of substitutes and second-team players to Turin. The final result was predictable. They were beaten 0:3 by Juventus away and were eliminated.

But this time no one criticized him. Except for a small number of Napoli fans who were dissatisfied, most people didn't take this game to heart.

Because everyone knew that in order to prepare for the round of 16 against Real Madrid, Mazzarri had already begun to prepare at this time.

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Although they lost the Italian Cup to Juventus, Napoli fans still welcomed good news - the team has a new aid!

The first name Mazzarri wrote on the list—Morgan De Sanctis—officially transferred to the team.

He transferred from Sevilla and was very cheap, costing the club only 1.7 million euros.

De Sanctis has been famous for a long time. In his early years, he also joined Juventus, but he got very few opportunities to perform in Turin, playing only three games in two seasons. His career really began to flourish after transferring to Udinese. There, he gradually grew into the team's main goalkeeper and was even called into the Italian national team.

In his seasons at Udinese, he became the best goalkeeper in Italy besides Buffon.

But Udinese is only a mid-level team, so in 2007 he turned to Sevilla, a strong team in La Liga. Those two years were the most glorious time for Sevilla.

Unexpectedly, after going to Sevilla, he only played eight games and was abandoned by Sevilla. In the second season, he was loaned to Galatasaray, a strong team in Turkey.

Although he got 26 appearances at Galatasaray and Galatasaray also intended to buy him, he had no intention of continuing to play in Turkey. He wanted to return to Italy to play. The 2010 South Africa World Cup was imminent, and he hoped to impress national team coach Lippi with his performance and get on the last train to the World Cup again.

And Italian football has a habit, that is, they only care about players who play in the domestic league, because it is more convenient to examine them...

In the 09-10 season, he returned to Sevilla, but still could not get a chance to play.

Sevilla certainly wanted to let him go, but the premise was to sell him at a good price.

For this reason, they didn't even register De Sanctis in the Champions League, just in case this reason would prevent him from transferring smoothly.

However, those teams that were interested in De Sanctis before gave up the acquisition because the price was not negotiated.

It was not until the intervention of Napoli at the end of 2009 that things took a turn for the better. In addition, De Sanctis' own wish was very firm, and he must ask Sevilla to reduce the price for sale.

After some wrangling negotiations, Napoli finally won this former Italian second national goalkeeper.

His arrival can help Napoli stabilize their defense.

In the first half of the season, Napoli's defense was very unstable and often had problems. They almost never had a game without conceding a goal.

On the one hand, this is because Napoli still needs an adaptation process for the four defenders, and Ranocchia needs to find his feeling when he first arrives.

On the other hand, it is naturally related to the low level of the goalkeeper.

Now Napoli's main goalkeeper is Iezzo. He came to join the team after Napoli went bankrupt. He is considered an old minister, but his level is really limited. If Napoli had not been unable to find a suitable goalkeeper, he would have been on the bench long ago.

If Napoli wants to perform well in the Champions League, the goalkeeper position must be improved.

The arrival of De Sanctis filled the last obvious shortcoming of Napoli.

So Mazzarri was very happy that the club was able to bring in De Sanctis: "Yes, I like Morgan very much. He is an excellent goalkeeper. His arrival can help us concede fewer goals. I'm not kidding. If the team wants to go further, it needs an experienced and technically outstanding goalkeeper like Morgan." He said in an interview.

There is still a month before the Champions League starts, just enough time to run in the tacit understanding between goalkeeper De Sanctis and the defense line.

An excellent goalkeeper is not just able to save many shots, there is also a very important quality that must not be forgotten, that is...commanding the defense. A goalkeeper who can command the defense will be much easier, because many offensive opportunities are all resolved by the outstanding performance of the defense line, and there is no threat to the goalkeeper at all.

But if you are not familiar with your defenders at all, you will naturally not be able to command the defense.

De Sanctis is the only transfer transaction for Napoli in the winter break. Other players are either very difficult to bring to the team at this time, or there are no suitable candidates in the transfer market. So Mazzarri thought, just do it this way. Anyway, the team's tacit understanding is good, and it is not impossible to rely on a group of players to win the world. We will talk about buying someone when the summer comes.

At present, just pay attention to not letting the main players get injured.

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Chen Hero has been in a good mood recently, which can be seen from the smile on his face all day long. There are many reasons for his good mood. First of all, it is related to the beauties around him.

In the two days when Cabrella was not around, he was extremely unaccustomed to it, so he reflected on the past days. He found that he was a bit indifferent to Christine Cabrella. Although the other party was only his bodyguard in name, she actually did a lot of non-bodyguard work. And what about himself? He rarely communicated with her on weekdays.

After the casino incident during the holidays, he discovered that Christine Cabrella, the usually strong and capable all-around bodyguard, was just an ordinary woman. She also had her own unsolvable troubles.

He felt that he should perhaps care more about the people around him?

So now he doesn't spend all his time in dungeons and nightclubs, but takes some time to accompany Cabrella—of course, perhaps in Cabrella's opinion, Chen Hero is actually asking her to accompany him to do some...things she finds very boring.

Secondly, it is related to the arrival of De Sanctis.

The team has new reinforcements and the team's strength has been strengthened. This is certainly a good thing. Because in a month, the team will challenge Real Madrid. As an ambitious player, he certainly hopes that the club is ambitious. A club that strengthens its strength at this time, rather than selling its meritorious players, is ambitious.

His choice was not wrong, which made Chen Hero very happy.

Third, it is related to winning awards.

Last December was the "Awards Ceremony" in the world of football. For a whole month, the most eye-catching news was the selection of various awards. But in fact, those are all worldwide selections, and in Italy, the grand awards ceremony of Italian football is in January.

That is the annual selection of the Italian Players Association, which is known as the "Italian Serie A Oscar".

This selection activity is to select the best of Italian football in the past year: best player, best foreign player, best coach, best defender, best goal, most popular player...

Because it is voted by Serie A players, the gold content of this award is very high - the votes obtained by the best are mostly from their opponents. Being recognized by opponents is the highest evaluation.

And Chen Hero?

He is on the shortlist for the best foreign player.

In addition, the Serie A Best Player is produced in a PK between the Best Local Player and the Best Foreign Player.

So, he still has a chance to win last year's Best Player.