The Era of Emerald

() Eindhoven, located in the south of the Netherlands, is one of the leading technology centers in Europe and the fifth largest city in the Netherlands.The headquarters of the famous multinational company Philips is located in this city. At the same time, Philips is also the main sponsor of Eindhoven Football Club, one of the top three football players in the Netherlands. The home stadium of Eindhoven is called the Philips Stadium. It is enough to see the close relationship between it and Philips.

Although the financial backing of the team is Philips, a multinational corporation with deep pockets, it is obvious that Philips' habit of budgeting has also affected Eindhoven. It is rare to see Eindhoven using Philips in the transfer market. With their financial resources, they wantonly recruited players, and they still maintain the traditional habit of the Dutch club, using their own strong hematopoietic function to train players, and then resell them at a high price after they become famous.

Although the number of champions and domestic status is not as good as the leader Ajax, Eindhoven is still one of the three strongest clubs in the Netherlands, and the quality of the stars produced is also quite good: Luther Gullit and Romario's two "Football Players" both became famous in Eindhoven and went to the world.Eindhoven in later generations has become an amazing star manufacturing machine: Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robben and a series of football superstars have all been labeled "produced by Eindhoven".

Therefore, after the failure of the move to recruit Seedorf, Zhuang Minge decisively shifted his attention from Ajax to other teams in the Netherlands, and the first to bear the brunt was naturally Eindhoven.

In 1913, in order to commemorate the [-]th anniversary of the Netherlands from France du li, Philips created a company-sponsored sports club for the company's employees. Over time, this club eventually evolved into a professional football club, which is now of Eindhoven.

Speaking of Eindhoven in 1995, one person's name has to be mentioned, that is, "Alien" Ronaldo. He scored 1994 goals and became famous in one fell swoop. Next year, he will be signed by Barcelona at a price of 95 million US dollars, and he has officially become a first-line football star in La Liga.

Although the era of Bosman has arrived, the impact of the Bosman shock wave on PSV is much smaller than that of Ajax, because their players have completed their contract extensions long before the implementation of the Bosman Act.

Of course, Zhuang Minge did not expect all the club executives to be as unresponsive as Ajax. This time he came to Eindhoven mainly to settle some things in advance.

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On the afternoon of July 7rd, the atmosphere in the meeting room of the headquarters building of the Eindhoven club was extremely solemn, because they had just received a call from the chairman of Fiorentina. A transfer fee, thus obtaining the ownership of Ronaldo, the team's chief shooter this season.

"Frank, do you think Fiorentina's offer is worthy of our consideration?" The man who spoke was the chairman of PSV Eindhoven, Van Hany. Relying on the newly promoted general manager, as well as the team's current head coach Dick Advocaat (that is, the head coach who led the Dutch national team to participate in the 1994 World Cup and the 2004 European Cup), the two people's Opinion has no small influence on him.

"I think that if Florence's offer is suitable, I can consider accepting it." The man named Frank by Van Hanyi thought for a while before answering.

"This is impossible!" Advocaat became impatient when he heard the general manager say this, "Ronaldo was the number one shooter in our team last season. performance will be greatly affected.”

It can be seen from Advocaat's coaching career that although he was influenced by Michels' total attack and total defense in his early days, and the applied tactical system was also established based on this idea, his commanding offense There is really no creativity, just like Van Marwijk, who was dismissed last year, completely relying on the personal performance of the stars (Bergkamp in 94, Robben in 04), more emphasis on defense, and sometimes even can be called conservative.

Therefore, Advocaat attaches great importance to this kind of star who can change the trend of the game by himself. Of course, he does not want to see the team let Ronaldo go for the transfer fee. After all, this is related to his job...

"Dick, that's not right for you to say that." It was still the man named Frank who spoke, "Our club also sold the team's main striker Romario the year before last, but the team's subsequent results were not good either. There has been a sharp decline.”

Frank paused, and then said: "There is one more thing, don't forget, Dick. That is, our Dutch club itself relies on continuously selling leading stars to make profits, so as to maintain the club's operations."

At the end, he added: "Boss, if Ronaldo is successfully sold this time, I hope to use half of the transfer fee to supplement the team. After all, if a player like Ronaldo leaves, it is not just relying on internal potential." It will make up for the loss.”

Frank's words made sense, leaving Edvocaat, who held an opposing opinion, speechless.

Seeing that the opinions of the two parties have reached the same level, Fan Hei agreed to Frank's proposal and assigned him to be in charge of the negotiations with Florence tomorrow.

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Zhuang Mingge's car had just driven into the urban area of ​​Eindhoven when he received a message from Antonioni: Inter Milan just released an official news announcing that the main striker who played for Ajax last season, Nerily Asian player Kanu joins the Nerazzurri!

At the same time, Zhuang Mingge also received another piece of news, that is, Galliani, the general manager of AC Milan, has also rushed to Amsterdam, and there is also a superstar with great influence in the history of the Ajax team going there with him —Marco van Basten.

"Hehe, it seems that Massimo wants to win Kluivert this time, but it will be difficult." Zhuang Mingge commented with a smile after hearing the news.

After all, although Basten did not reach his peak in Ajax, his status in Ajax and his influence on these players are not weaker than Cruyff at all, like Kluivert, Reziger Many of these players are looking forward to repeating the footsteps of the "Three Musketeers of the Netherlands" in Milan. Therefore, if Moratti wants to successfully win Kluivert, the most important thing is to be able to use something to overwhelm Basten. Influence.

With the Milan duo coming to Amsterdam one after another, it marked that the European giants of the four major leagues began to set their sights on the Dutch league, where there are many stars. A sweep that radiated the entire Netherlands gradually kicked off...