The next day, Gao Zheng was surrounded by reporters outside the training ground, and everyone asked him what he said about the show on Channel 5.

"Everyone has the right to express their opinions, no matter how stupid this opinion is," Gao Zheng said. "I don't think that a normal transfer of players can be linked to 'voting with feet'. This is just a fantasy."

"What do you think of the core statement?"

Gao Zheng smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter whether the core is not a core, what matters is the team's performance."

He did not directly argue with this statement because this would hurt Icardi who had left the team. After all, this topic was not raised by Icardi. There are faults and debts, and what he should look for is not Icardi, but an expert who makes a fuss.

And there is actually no need to answer this kind of question. When the season starts, won’t you know it by looking at the actual performance?

The media are really focused on making big news, but he has no obligation to play with them.

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After selling Icardi, Sampdoria naturally wanted to strengthen the front line.

Di Francesco told Zagramora that he was attracted to the young forward Domenic Berardi in the newly upgraded Sassuolo team and hoped that Zagramora would satisfy his wish.

This gave Zagra Mora a headache.

"Eusebio, don't you know that we have a tight relationship with Sassuolo?"

Di Francesco shook his head: "Why?"

"Uh...this matter has something to do with Gao..." Zagramora then told Di Francesco about their past in the Serie B.

After listening to it, Di Francesco was also a little amused. He did not expect Gao Zheng's original actions would make the relationship between the two clubs so tight, and the incident more than a year ago also affected his current signing plan.

"Is there no way?"

"I can send a fax to the Sassuolo Club, but I guess it's very likely that the other party will take the opportunity to humiliate me."

"Then forget it..." Di Francesco waved his hand, there was no need to come up and let someone slap in the face.

But he still had a pity.

He is quite optimistic about Berardi. This young player was a main player of Sassuolo in the Serie B last season. He played 37 times, scored 11 goals, and had six assists. One person created seventeen goals.

Such a performance was very impressive. He originally wanted to sign up to be a partner with Gao Zheng.

But now it seems that I am afraid I will not be able to do it with me.

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Di Francesco has turned to consider other forward candidates, but things are quietly changing without him knowing it...

Sassuolo, who has just been promoted to Serie A, needs to strengthen his strength to ensure that they can stay in the first league after the season ends, rather than fall back to the second league. After all, this is the first time they have been promoted to the first league since their team was founded. When the whole team is excited, they should also consider the actual situation.

Sassuolo fell in love with Juventus forward Manoro Gabiadini.

The young center who debuted in Atlanta, performed well in the U21 European Youth Championship this summer, attracting the attention of many teams.

However, Juventus has half of his ownership. He was loaned to Bologna last season. He made 30 appearances in the Serie A, scored six goals and assisted twice. This performed very well for a 19-year-old player. After all, not everyone is Gao Zheng.

So Sassuolo asked Juventus for the young high center forward.

As a result, Juventus looked at Sassuolo's Domenic Berardi.

This made Sassuolo a little confused.

Finally, after some bargaining, Juventus signed all the ownership of Berardi from Sassuolo for 12 million euros and half of Gabiadini's ownership and bought it out directly.

Half of Gabiadini's ownership was discounted by 5.5 million euros, so Berardi's value was about 17.5 million euros.

The decision to sell Berardi puts Sassuolo club under pressure from Sassuolo fans, and only 12 million euros in cash is indeed a very important huge sum for Sassuolo.

At the same time, although they lost Berardi, they also gained another striker Gabiadini who is not inferior to him. The impact should not be very big for Sassuolo's forward line.

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When Zagramora heard that Berardi was actually bought by Juventus, he immediately ran to Di Francesco: "Eusebio, are you still interested in that Berardi?"

"Didn't you say you can't buy it? I'm not interested..."

"What if I can get it?"

Di Francesco looked at the club's general manager strangely: "What's wrong?"

"Just say if you want him to come!"

"Of course, it's better if you can come."

After getting the answer, Zagra Mora said the most: "Juventus bought Berardi from Sassuolo, and now this is an operational project!"

Di Francesco frowned and said, "He can't play in Juventus."

"So this is our opportunity. We can rent it or buy half of the ownership with Juventus. There is a lot of room for operation here..."

Di Francesco nodded and said, "Okay, I'll wait for your good news."

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Berardi felt unrealistic about suddenly becoming a Juventus player.

With the team's results, he was very excited and was thinking about how to perform well in the league in the new season, with his idol Gao Zheng as his goal and role model. Of course, he could not really win the league's golden boots in his first Serie A season like Gao Zheng, but scoring more goals is indeed his wish.

But what frustrated him was that he was sent off with a red card and was suspended for three games because of a malicious foul in the last round of the Serie B last season. He was unable to play in the first three games of the new season.

Everyone was very happy after the upgrade, but he was fined by the club after the game as a punishment.

In fact, Berardi is not the kind of irritable person in private, but in the game, his adrenaline surged, and he could not control his emotions.

In the Serie B last season, he received a total of five yellow cards and one red card. He was suspended for one game because of accumulating yellow cards. As a striker, this data is really scary. He is also the player with the most cards in the entire team.

Because of discipline issues, he suffered a lot.

Also after the team's success, he was too excited and celebrated all night long and didn't hear the alarm the next morning. As a result, he was supposed to be gathering at the Kovilcano base and the U19 national team, but he didn't appear, so he missed the flight to Russia to participate in the European Youth Championship.

At that time, the coach of the National Youth Team, Evani, tried his best to call him, but because his cell phone ran out of power and turned off when celebrating all night, and he didn't care about charging at all, the phone was turned off... In the end, there was no way, the u19 National Youth Team could only find Pescara's young forward Di Francesco to replace him...

Coincidentally, the young Pescara striker is the son of Sampdoria coach Di Francesco.

The final result of this incident was that Berardi was banned by the national team for nine months. It is said that the person who made the final penalty decision was Saki, and the executor was the head coach of the national youth team Evani.

This incident casts a shadow on Berardi's career prospects. After all, few young people who are proud of themselves like it.

This incident also reduced his evaluation in the hearts of the senior management of the Sassuolo Club. The club used to train him as a star of hope, but last season he got so many cards in the league due to discipline issues, which made the club management very troubled.

Unexpectedly, the team has been upgraded and he has made such a big mistake again.

If he can't control his temper on the court and does not change his habit of contempt for discipline, the club believes that his future may be very limited.

Berardi also decided to reflect seriously.

At this moment, news came that the club was going to sell him to Juventus.

Unlike other young players, Berardi doesn't think this is a good thing, because he knows very well that even if he goes to Juventus, he will not be able to play.

Joining a wealthy family is just a thing that sounds good, and the actual benefits are zero.

What he needs now is a team that can play in the game stably, not the so-called giants.

He also knew how deep the wealthy family was.

But this matter was obviously no longer diverted by his will.

On the one hand, the club is troubled by his discipline issues, and on the other hand, it is not sure whether he can still perform like that when he performed well in the Serie A. Gabiadini at least played in the Serie A and proved his ability.

By comparison, as long as Juventus offers a price right, selling Berardi is not impossible.

So, Berardi found himself a Juventus player.

But he was not happy at all. He was worried about how he would get a stable chance to play next.

It is obviously impossible to achieve this goal at Juventus.

Juventus should be loaned him out.

But everything is strange and he has to start from scratch.

I have always been in Sassuolo and I am most familiar with it. Maybe I can ask the agent to make suggestions to Juventus to see if I can rent it back to Sassuolo.

While planning his future career route in this way, Berardi received a call from his agent Simeone Segdoni.

"Hi, Domenic, how do you think you're going to change another team?"

"Are they planning to rent me out?" Berardi was not surprised by Juventus's operation.

"No, it's not renting, it's reselling half of your ownership. Then you'll belong to the team that bought half of your ownership."

"Okay... this kind of operation is also very common..." Berardi sighed, "Where are we going?"

"Sampdoria!"
Chapter completed!