The Era of Emerald

() After returning from the training base in Monaco, Zhuang Minge specially called Moji and told the old fox that Monaco had agreed to sell Thuram and Barthez. When the first offer was made, Monaco rejected the two transfers almost immediately, without even intending to negotiate.

Although Thuram will increase the opponent's strength no matter which Serie A team he goes to, but Zhuang Mingge does not think that Thuram can affect the Serie A championship this season. Of course, the premise is that he does not join Juventus... …

Moggi, who is careful about budgeting, quickly put forward his own offer for the two players Thuram and Barthez: Juventus is willing to use a transfer fee of 500 million US dollars to bring the two to Turin.

Of course, Monaco will not accept such a price. After all, they were the Ligue 93 champions last season. In the 94-[-] season, they even used this lineup to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League. If it is so cheap, they will sell it. Don't all teams have to use Monaco as a player supermarket?

At this moment, Thuram and Barthez privately expressed to the club their willingness to transfer to a higher level league. The Serie A league in this period is very attractive to stars.

So the top management of the Monaco club decisively threw aside the old fox Mo who was biting the price of 500 million and refused to let go, turned his head and began to sell Thuram to Inter Milan and Parma, and to Rome, which has always been worried about not having a good goalkeeper. And Sampdoria, who had problems in the goalkeeper position after Pagliuca left, recommended Barthez-the owners of these teams would not mind stealing the prey of Mo Lao Fox, and another point is that they do not mind spending money.

And the high-level executives of several teams who have been worrying about the team's defense all the time heard that the Ligue [-] champion Monaco was going to sell someone, and they were still their main central defender and goalkeeper, so they joined the battle between the two. The smoke filled the air, and Moji, who originally planned to lower the price a little more, had no choice but to spend more money to compete with these peers.

After all, the time to completely close the transfer door is getting closer and closer, and Mo Laohu has no extra leisure to find a suitable candidate.

Although Moggi decisively took out more money after Moratti and others came in to disrupt the situation, the old fox still fell short in the end. Parma still used their "sincerity" to defeat Juventus in the transfer market again. The price of 600 million US dollars snatched Thuram; and in the battle for Barthez, the old Sensi, who had always hoped to make his Roma have the strength to challenge the top three in the north, finally defeated himself in the contest of the transfer market this time The most disliked Juventus, the stubborn old man took away the French goalkeeper with a transfer fee of 750 million US dollars, and gave the stingy Mo Laohu a loud slap in the face.

Wenger, who received this huge sum of money, was not ambiguous, and quickly took part of the income to bring Argentine goalkeeper Carlos Roa from South America; Strasbourg) brought in the young central defender Ismail, but Wenger, who has a soft spot for his hometown, is not satisfied with just taking away such a player from his hometown, Strasbourg's young midfielder Dacourt He was also brought to Monaco by the professor with a transfer fee of 120 million US dollars.

After a lot of busy work but nothing, Mo Laohu left this European gambling city depressedly without saying hello to Zhuang Mingge. After all, after this battle, the calendar has turned to August 8th, which can be used by Mo Laohu to strengthen the team Time is running out...

On the same day that Moggi left Monaco, the Fiorentina team arrived in the city by plane to make final preparations for the upcoming UEFA Super Cup.

Fiorentina's pre-match training venue is naturally owned by the Monaco club. Wenger, who has gained a lot in the transfer market, generously agreed to Zhuang Mingge's request to borrow the training ground, and personally persuaded the stadium to give Fiorentina more time to adapt to the venue. .

All work is going on in an intense and orderly manner. However, the day before the start of the European Super Cup, that is, on August 8th, Zhuang Mingge will also attend a very important ceremony, which is the UEFA Champions League group competition for this season. draw lots.

In the past, there was no group stage in the European Champions Cup. Like the Cup Winners Cup at this time, it was a knockout round from beginning to end.When Johansson was in power, the situation changed. The Swedes, who wanted to expand the influence of European football, opened a group stage for the Champions Cup in the 91-92 season and gained greater influence and profits.In general, Johansson's approach is quite good. Under his promotion, the influence of European football has been greatly improved and the income of participating teams has also doubled.

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Zhuang Mingge looked around the venue and found that he seemed to be the only club owner present at the ceremony, but he still saw a few acquaintances sitting in the venue: Arsene Wenger, the head coach of Monaco, the Ligue [-] champion last season, Ajax Van Gaal, the head coach of the team, it seems that Van Prager still retained this meritorious coach...

oh?It turns out that the guest of this lottery is this great god!

Zhuang Mingge recognized someone sitting in the guest seat at a glance. This guest who will be on stage to draw lots later is Michele who will succeed Johansson as the new UEFA president and is nicknamed "Pu Ganda" by fans. El Platini.

Platini's career is brilliant. As a midfielder, he won three Serie A Golden Boots, and won three consecutive European Footballer of the Year from 1983 to 1985. There are also many club honors: Champions League champion, Serie A champion, France A champion, Toyota Cup champion...

Under his leadership, the French national team ushered in another peak after the end of the Copa era, and led the French national team to win the first European Cup in 1984.

After taking charge of UEFA, Platini did not say that he did nothing good. During his tenure, he was committed to implementing the financial fairness policy, hoping to curb the disadvantages of football clubs that often cannot make ends meet, and achieved certain results; at the same time, he It is also rigidly required that when the clubs participating in the European war submit their squads, they must reserve places for the club's youth training players to strengthen the training of young players from all over the country. These measures will help improve the football atmosphere after the Bosman era. .

However, Zhuang Mingge did not have a good impression of the future UEFA president. Although he received the support of most small countries during his administration, his position as UEFA president was as stable as Mount Tai, but as an ordinary Italian fan in his previous life, Zhuang Mingge is quite unimpressed with this UEFA president who suppresses wealthy families, prohibits clubs from investing too much, and has titles such as "godfather". But now Zhuang Mingge will naturally not be naive enough to confront Pu Latini expressed dissatisfaction. After all, Platini has not yet obtained a seat on the UEFA executive committee.