The Era of Emerald

() After arriving in Amsterdam, Zhuang Mingge, who had just stepped out of the airport, received a call from Florence.

"Boss, I just received a transfer offer here." Antonioni's tone on the phone was very bad, and it seemed that the matter was serious. "Sampdoria just sent us a transfer offer."

Zhuang Mingge never imagined that before he could poach other people's corners, someone was already planning to attack Florence, "Enrique (Mantovani Jr.) who is he looking at again? It's Gabriel (Battie) Stuta), or Philippe (Inzaghi)?"

"Neither, it's Vincenzo (Montella)." Antonioni on the other end of the phone could only smile wryly. Regarding the many first-team members in the Fiorentina team and the good youngsters in the youth team, the club has already renewed their contracts with them as soon as possible. , but there are still several players who have not signed a new contract. One of them is Montella. When he signed him in 93, the club gave him a three-year contract, which will expire next summer.

"What does the player think?" Antonioni's tone on the phone gave Zhuang Minge a bad feeling: the team might lose Montella in the summer.

"Vincenzo said that he wants to play in a team that can guarantee his main position...Of course, he also said that if Fiorentina can guarantee his playing time in the first team next season, then he can agree to stay in the team .”

Montella is already telling the team in disguise that he hopes to transfer, because his request is very unrealistic. First of all, after the arrival of Roberto Baggio, the number of players who can play forwards in the first team has reached five. With the mention of Batistuta, who is definitely starting, the remaining Baggio and Inzaghi will split most of the playing time in another position, and Vieri is now more of a natural substitute for Batty, and Montella, who has a similar style to Inzaghi, will hardly have the opportunity to get a lot of playing time unless someone is injured or the team is rotated. This is absolutely unbearable for Montella, who is in the rising period of his career. one thing.

Therefore, when Sampdoria sent a representative to contact Montella in private, assuring him of the main position in the Navy Blue Army and hoping that he could put pressure on Fiorentina, Montella, who had long wanted to get more chances to play, agreed to the match. Fang Fang proposed a transfer intention to Fiorentina, but Montella did not agree to the request to put pressure on the club. After all, there is no need for him to turn his face with Fiorentina in order to transfer to Sampdoria.

In fact, Montella would not have planned to leave if his position in the team was not very stable. After all, according to the development of the past few years, staying in Florence must have won more honors than going to Sampdoria. In a few years, Fiorentina will become a giant in Serie A. Naturally, there is no need to fight against the current club for the sake of Sampdoria.

"Let Hercule (Poirot) talk to them and ask for as much transfer fee as possible. After all, there is still one year left in Montella's contract, and he can become a free player next year." Zhuang Minge thought about it , I decided to let Montella go. After all, with my memory of more than ten years ahead of football, it is not difficult to get a better striker. , as long as possible to sign the deadline."

"Okay, I see, boss." After speaking, Antonioni hung up the phone.

"Let's go, Karin." With that said, Zhuang Minge took Karin's hand, rented an Opel from a car rental shop near the airport, and headed to the headquarters of the Ajax club.

As the capital and the largest city of the Netherlands, Amsterdam has a population of only 70 people. The city is criss-crossed by large and small waterways. Various areas in the city are connected by more than 1000 bridges, and it is known as the "Venice of the North".

The real Venice is longing for a Serie A team to be born in the city, but Ajax, which is entrenched in this "Northern Venice", has won five championship trophies in the past four years (two Dutch leagues, one Cup, a European Cup, a UEFA Cup).

"Chairman Corleone, welcome!" At the door of the Ajax club headquarters, an Ajax official was sent out to greet Zhuang Mingge and others.

"My name is Michel van Prager, and I am currently the head of the public relations department of the Ajax club."

"Is that Mr. Van Prager? I have heard of you for a long time..."

Van Prager didn't know where the young Florentine boss had heard of his name, but Zhuang Mingge secretly called it a fluke: This world is really too small, and any public relations manager who pops up at random is at the chairman level.

Zhuang Mingge vaguely remembered that this unattractive public relations manager in front of him would become the chairman of Ajax Club in the near future, and later became the chairman of the UEFA competition committee!

Therefore, it is very necessary to make friends with such a person. At least in case Platini takes the stage and looks down on Florence in the future, there will still be a high-level person who can speak for himself...

Historically, after Van Prager became the chairman of the Ajax club, in addition to maintaining the original Ajax model, he expanded the club's scouting system to the world. After several years of pain After that, under his guidance, Ajax achieved a revival in the early 21st century. Local young talents led by Van der Vaart and foreign players led by Ibrahimovic jointly created the last batch of Ajax. Alex youth army.

After the arrival of the Bosman era, for the heads of various football clubs, their wisdom will be tested even more.

For the giants, they only need to consider how to poach corners from other teams and maximize their income, such as Real Madrid and Chelsea; The players of the team use limited resources to buy the most cost-effective players, such as the current Lazio and Naples; some teams have also begun to scour good seedlings from more remote areas for re-training, and obtain huge profits by reselling players To maintain the operation of the team, such as Udinese; and those clubs that cannot adapt to this era will sink, such as Nottingham Forest...

This is an era of wisdom. Anyone and clubs that cannot keep up with the changes of this era will be ruthlessly abandoned and submerged in the long river of time. The splendor of ri.

What Zhuang Mingge has to do is to let Florence adapt to this "big era" as quickly as possible, conform to the tide of the times, and make Florence a top giant in Europe.