This is a very reasonable structure.
If everything goes as planned, San Remo will be promoted to Serie B next year, and the team’s strength will also enter an upward phase due to the growth of young players.
After honing for one or two seasons in Serie B, once the potential of these young players is fully tapped, getting promoted to Serie A is absolutely not a problem!
According to Sotu’s plan, he hopes the team can enter Serie A within two years of being promoted to Serie B.
This is his requirement for himself and also the promise he gives to everyone in the team.
After all, if they fail to get promoted to Serie A for two consecutive years, it will be hard to keep core players like Morici and Lu Yang.
Of course, if this batch of players grows rapidly enough, or if Morici and Lu Yang perform extraordinarily, they might only spend one year in Serie B.
But all of this is based on the condition that no accidents happen.
And now, an accident has appeared.
Chairman Russell hopes the team will have more star players.
He has already experienced the endless charm a star player brings to football through Lu Yang.
Although he looks down on the team’s current sponsorships, jerseys, and ticket sales.
But this doesn’t mean he doesn’t know that most of the team’s current revenue comes from the name "Lu Yang."
Lu Yang’s jerseys sell the best.
Many fans come to the home field just to watch Lu Yang.
Many sponsors are also drawn by Lu Yang.
Even many celebrities frequently visit the San Remo City Stadium, making this stadium shine brightly with stars.
Including the city of San Remo, tourism traffic has increased by more than twenty percent compared to the same period in the past six months because of Lu Yang.
One can imagine, if San Remo had more players like Lu Yang, then after one and a half years, when the new four-star stadium is completed, the scene of forty thousand seats in the San Remo Stadium being fully occupied would be spectacular.
And by that time, Russell would be tempted by the revenue.
In doing things, vision needs to be long-term.
If by that time so much popularity is needed, one star player like Lu Yang may not be enough.
Add another Morici?
That’s not enough either.
Otherwise, why would Real Madrid build the Galaxy Battleship?
A top team requires every player to be a star!
San Remo should buy more star players or purchase players with the potential to become stars.
But a paradox emerges.
No matter how popular San Remo is, it remains an Italian Third Division team, and Serie A stars in their prime absolutely will not come.
So they can only buy stars from Serie B or Italian Third Division teams.
Among these stars, some young players can become stars in Serie A after playing for years.
But Russell doesn’t know that because of the issues within their teams, these stars are often the absolute core of the team. They’ve become accustomed to being the standout and must be the most focused and privileged person in the team.
Even if they are not the locker room leaders, they will still be like Messi, the one who holds the most sway within the team.
There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s what they’ve earned through their abilities and hard work.
But such treatment... San Remo can’t provide.
Because a mountain cannot hold two tigers!
Except maybe for Lu and Morici!
In this team of San Remo, there can only be one person who holds sway!
Don’t look at how Rondo is the first captain and locker room leader of San Remo, but he decided last season to retire.
He’s a local child born and raised in San Remo, considering everything for San Remo, and he desperately hopes to find the next leader for the team.
So Rondo is very willing to share the spotlight of the locker room leader with Lu Yang.
Similarly, don’t be fooled by how Morici was undoubtedly the on-field core in the team, but firstly, he has a close relationship with Lu Yang and Lu Yang is willing to contribute for him.
If it were someone else, it might not be the same.
Relationships being in place bring about many other things being in place.
Secondly, Morici’s core playing style does not harm Lu Yang’s playing style.
The role he assumes happens to be the part that Lu Yang is least good at... organization, adjustment, and control.
Even Morici’s most brilliant final pass can completely serve Lu Yang, who eats the most Morici-curated goal opportunities!
Moreover, after Morici’s return, Sotu plans to let him and Lu Yang form a dual attacking midfield, eating both wing positions and maximizing their offensive talents to form a super dual-core.
By then, Lu Yang’s possession will decrease, but his data will probably not drop.
Because Morici’s favorable setups for him are likely more delightful than the analyzed and figured out wing shots he currently has!
The two of them, perfectly matched!
Regardless of past or future!
But Russell wants to introduce star forwards, especially wingers, which relatively speaking will affect Lu Yang’s ball possession.
It was mentioned earlier, if Vedian were still in San Remo, he might not be this strong now.
From this, it can be seen that Lu Yang’s playing style requires sacrifices from the wingers.
Fernandez’s ineffectiveness, Bai Zhami’s character and style defect, just barely allow such sacrifices, even not considered sacrifices.
But if you let players like Sevajos from the Star of Italy Team or Aguirre, the right winger from Rome, play this way, they would never agree.
Lu Yang’s nurturing style actually undermines the creativity of the wingers, which is an undeniable fact.
To avoid undermining the winger’s creativity, Lu Yang’s creativity and firing rights must be sacrificed to make him more of a "workhorse."
Will Lu Yang be willing to sacrifice for others?
This remains a question mark.
If it is Morici, maybe there is a possibility.
If the other party is kind and can consider each other alongside Lu Yang, there is also a certain possibility.
What’s feared is someone "as important as the emperor" comes.
Then by that time, Lu Yang may not hesitate to show his "dominant ballholder" side.
He loves football.
For football, he can confront the entire world.
This entire world includes opponents and also... teammates!
Sotu understands this deeply.
Everyone who equally loves football can read these words from Lu Yang’s eyes.
Lu Yang, seemingly a revolutionary brick on the field, is actually not someone who compromises for others, teammates, the team, or even the head coach.
He has his way of playing, his understanding of football.
The most crucial is, Lu Yang is unwavering in his belief that his understanding of football is the most correct.