Chapter 140 The First Person to Leave

The contract renewal negotiations seemed to be deadlocked, but Mendes himself seemed very confident. He told Bruno not to worry and just focus on training. Anyway, he would definitely come up with a contract that satisfied him in the end.

In addition to the contract, Mendes also brought Bruno a happy news, that is, a large number of companies lined up to come to him, hoping to cooperate with Bruno.

This is naturally because Bruno's performance last season was too good.

Although the official best selection of the Italian Football Association will not be released until the end of the year, the best selected by other media has been selected at the end of the Serie A season.

Among them, the more representative one is the best player selected by Italy's largest newspaper "Gazzetta dello Sport" based on the post-match scores of all Serie A players in the 2013-2014 season, and Bruno was selected without surprise.

In the entire 2013-2014 season, Bruno played 36 Serie A games for Udinese, contributing 18 goals and 23 assists, and was the number one contributor to Udinese's final third place.

Bruno's outstanding performance has earned him high scores in post-match ratings. According to statistics, Bruno's final season score is as high as 8.77 points, far ahead of all Serie A players.

In addition, Bruno was also selected without any doubt in the selection of the best team of the season by the famous technical and tactical analysis website "Squawka". According to the data given by "Squawka", Bruno scored 18 goals and assisted 23 times in 36 games, and sent a total of 112 key passes. He is the only player who has broken 100 in this data, far exceeding Candreva and Pjanic who sent 75 key passes. The two tied for second place.

With his outstanding performance, Bruno became the assist king of Serie A last season. His record-breaking 23 assists in the season has greatly improved the original record of 16 assists.

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Of course, the biggest influence on Bruno is his performance in the Europa League.

Although the influence of the Europa League is far less than that of the Champions League, it is a European event after all, and its influence in football is still very strong.

Last season, Bruno played 16 games for Udinese in the Europa League play-offs and the main competition, scoring 13 goals and 9 assists, winning the Europa League Golden Boot and Assist King.

In addition, in the Europa League final, Bruno performed well. He scored twice and was the number one contributor to Udinese's victory in the Europa League. He was also elected the best player in the Europa League final.

These honors have a very practical meaning for Bruno, that is, more sponsors will come to him and hope to sign endorsement contracts with him.

Bruno was very happy about the news, which made him feel less bitter in the boring special training.

Although Bruno is not the kind of greedy person who is obsessed with money and only wants to make money, he will not refuse to get more money.

However, Bruno told Mendes that he must be careful when signing endorsement objects. For example, those brands that are too controversial, even if they are very famous and offer high endorsement, Bruno recommends not to sign.

Although we know that "sports have no borders" is just a gimmick made by Europeans and Americans, we should try to avoid companies that involve negative news such as "racial discrimination" and "regional discrimination".

Mendes is very satisfied with Bruno's idea. He is also worried that young people cannot control themselves in front of money and agree to cooperate with any company.

Mendes told Bruno that this is also the reason why he did not sign any endorsement for Bruno in the past season.

He hopes to manage Bruno's image well and then sign a few high-quality endorsements, which is much better than signing randomly without choosing food.

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In addition to these endorsement brands, there is another very important endorsement contract, that is, the endorsement of sports brands, which cannot be ignored for any football player.

According to Mendes' feedback, the three most powerful sports brands, Nike, Adidas and Puma, are now interested in Bruno. Mendes is talking to these three companies at the same time to see which of the three has the greatest sincerity and the best conditions.

Of course, he did not forget to ask Bruno if he has a preference for brands. Some people like Nike and don't consider anything else except Nike, while others like Adidas.

Bruno doesn't have any preference for this, which is good news for Mendes, as he can give full play to his abilities and get the best contract for Bruno.

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Although Bruno is focused on training every day in Udine, the atmosphere of the World Cup still affects him all the time.

On the streets of Udine, posters of the Italian national team can be seen everywhere, and people pass by him wearing the jerseys of the Italian national team.

At this moment, there is no Udinese here, only the Italian national team.

After returning home from a day of training, Bruno, although very tired, still has to turn on the TV to watch the World Cup game.

As a professional player, watching high-level games is also a way to accumulate experience.

Of course, Bruno is most concerned about Portugal, after all, this is the team that has a direct relationship with him now.

As for the Chinese team, there is no need to mention it, anyway, they can't enter the World Cup.

However, in Brazil, Portugal, the former suzerain country of Brazil, behaved very awkwardly.

In Group G with Germany, the United States and Ghana, Portugal had a bad first match and was swept by the German team 4:0. The Five Shields team was simply unable to fight back.

Bruno's parents told him that this game had a great impact in Portugal. The media was reporting on it and there were endless calls for Paul Bento to be dismissed from get out of class.

Of course, there are also many media reports speculating whether the situation will change if Bruno is called up. Many people believe that Bruno's strong passing assist ability and good scoring ability will be beneficial to enhancing Portugal's strength. Maybe they will still lose to Germany, but at least they won't lose so miserably and lose so hard that they won't be able to fight back.

For this, Bruno just laughed after hearing this. It is useless to rely on speculation about things that have not happened.

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In fact, in the face of such a tragedy, Bruno felt that there was nothing he could do if he went.

Fortunately, Portugal performed fairly well in their second match against the United States, their direct competitor for qualifying. A draw allowed the Five Shields team to retain a glimmer of hope of advancement.

However, Bruno knew that this was also Paul Bento's last good day. As long as he waits for the last round of the group stage to end and Portugal is eliminated without any surprise, the calls for dismissal will completely overwhelm him.

In another time and space, Paul Bento still persisted until September. Now because of his affairs, I'm afraid he will leave get out of class two months early.

Bruno's guess was correct. Although Portugal defeated Ghana 2:1 in the third round of the group stage, they were eventually eliminated. They were eliminated from the group stage again after 2002. There was already a loud voice in Portugal to sack Paul Bento. .

Under such circumstances, on July 1, just after the Portuguese national team flew back to Portugal from Brazil, the Portuguese Football Association announced the dismissal of national team coach Paulo Bento.

However, the Portuguese Football Association did not announce the new coach immediately. This means that it is actively investigating and will determine the candidate as soon as possible.

Bruno knows that if nothing else happens, Fernando Santos, who is still the head coach of the Greek national team, will be Portugal's next head coach.

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As time enters July, the summer transfer window in international football has officially opened, and the transfer peak of the new season is about to arrive.

Especially since this year coincides with the World Cup, the international football transfer window this summer is destined to be uneventful.

As a well-known black shop in European football, Udinese has a large number of player transactions in every transfer window. In addition, Udinese performed so well last season, there must be many players who were targeted by other teams and transferred away, so Bruno knows very well that when the new season starts, there will definitely be many familiar faces gone. , and many new faces will join the team.

However, Bruno did not expect that the first player to leave would be Mahrez, who has a very close relationship with him.

On July 1, the first time the international football summer transfer window opened, Udinese officially announced a transfer news: the transfer of team midfielder and Algerian international player Riyad Mahrez. Premier League newly promoted Leicester City, the team thanks Mahrez for his contribution in the past season and wishes Mahrez a bright future in Leicester City.

This news really surprised Bruno. He immediately contacted Mahrez, who was still playing in the World Cup in Brazil.

Algeria performed well in this World Cup. They defeated Russia and South Korea in Group H and advanced to the top 16 as second place in the group.

In the quarter-finals, Algeria's opponent was the German team that bloodbathed Portugal in the group stage.

However, in the just-concluded game, the two sides tied 0:0 in 90 minutes of regular time, and then Algeria lost 1:2 to Deutsche Chariot in overtime, ending the entire journey of this World Cup.

Mahrez played in the game but did not contribute goals or assists.

After chatting with Mahrez, Bruno also knew what Mahrez was willing to do with the transfer: too much!

As a newly promoted team from the Premier League, the Blue Fox's biggest goal in the new season is to avoid relegation, because staying in the Premier League means huge economic benefits. For this reason, they will naturally recruit players this summer and make every effort to stay in the Premier League.

Leicester City took a fancy to Algeria international Mahrez, who performed well in Udinese last season, and made him his main target.