The Era of Emerald

After the initial completion of the club's reorganization work, another week has passed, and various internal tasks in Florence are proceeding in an orderly manner.

In terms of commercial development, since Fiorentina has just been relegated from Serie A, Kenyon, who is in charge of commercial development, did not make any big moves, but just got some good commercial sponsorships for Fiorentina as much as possible, but the deadline is only set for one year. Because he believes what Zhuang Mingge said to him, Fiorentina will return to Serie A at the end of next season.

Antonioni used the fastest speed to sort out a list of recommended players and a list of potential players that the scouts were optimistic about, and handed it to Zhuang Mingge.

Zhuang Mingge carefully browsed the list, and circled all the famous players in the future. After some consideration, he finally made a decision...

Three days later, in the chairman's office of the Florence headquarters, Zhuang Minge called Antonioni and Poirot for a small meeting, the topic of which was the team's signings for next season.

"Giancarlo, what's the current mood of the team members?" Zhuang Mingge opened the topic first.

"Not too good, after all, the team was relegated this year, and many of the main players approached me, hoping to allow them to transfer to other teams; but Gabriel (Barty) and Stefan (Effenberg) told me They decided to stay with the team, and some substitute players expressed the same meaning to me, but I hope the club can retain some main players, they are the biggest reliance for us to return to Serie A next season."

"Hehe, since they don't want to stay here, let them go." Zhuang Mingge doesn't care about so many players wanting to leave Fiorentina. Their choices are understandable. After all, people go to high places, who likes to go to low-levels? Playing in the league?

Antonioni looked at Zhuang Mingge in disbelief.

"Did I hear you right, boss?" Antonioni, the oldest among the participants, swallowed hard. "You mean, sell all the players except these few players who publicly expressed their willingness to stay on the team?"

"That's right, Gabriel (Barty) and Stefan (Effenberg), two foreign aids, have expressed their willingness to play with the team in Serie B. As local players, if they cannot guarantee their loyalty to Fiorentina, it is better to take advantage of the current situation. Hurry up and sell it, so everyone can get together and leave." Zhuang Mingge said firmly.

"However, the team's players for next season..."

Zhuang Mingge waved his hand and interrupted what Antonioni was about to say, and handed a list to Poirot, the new head of the transfer department sitting next to Antonioni: "As for the players, I have sent them from Giancarlo (Antonioni) to I have selected the roster here, their names are on this paper, and I hope to see their names appear on the team's roster when the team starts training."

Poirot took the list and carefully browsed the names on the list. Antonioni also leaned over to satisfy his curiosity:

Francisco Toldo, December 1971, 12, goalkeeper, Ravenna;

Matteo Guadalben, born on June 1974, 6, goalkeeper, Verona;

Gianluca Pesotto, born on August 1970, 8, full-back, Bologna;

Marc Iuliano, born on August 1973, 8, central defender, Bologna;

Aldo Filicano, March 1967, 3, central defender, Cagliari;

Alessandro Bilindelli, born on November 1974, 11, full-back, Empoli;

Luigi Di Biagio, born on June 1971, 6, midfielder, Foggia;

Giuliano Gianni Keida, September 1974, 9, midfielder, Sola;

Federico Jonti, August 1971, 8, midfielder, Perugia;

Damiano Tomasi, May 1974, 5, midfielder, Verona;

Eugenio Corini, July 1970, 7, midfielder, Sampdoria;

Philip? Inzaghi, August 1973, 8, striker, Albino Lefe;

Christian Vieri, July 1973, 7, striker, Pisa;

Vincenzo Montella, June 1974, 6, forward, Empoli;

After reading the list, Antonioni put forward his own opinion: "Boss, young players account for the vast majority of your list. From this we can see your determination to rebuild the team, but I have a little doubt, Why do you think they have the strength to lead the team to upgrade?"

Zhuang Mingge smiled wryly in his heart: Can I still tell you that your boss, I have traveled from the future, and the worst of these people on the list can also serve as the main force of most Serie A teams?

But Zhuang Mingge still wanted to find a plausible reason.

"Some of these players have already proven themselves in the professional league, and some have just stepped into the door of the professional league. I admit that it is a bit risky to promote young people on a large scale, but in the Serie B next season, as long as one or two of these players If we become talented, our Fiorentina will benefit immensely. As for the results, I don’t think the remaining substitute players in the team can’t even deal with the second division.”

After thinking about it, Antonioni felt that Zhuang Mingge's words were correct, so he agreed with Zhuang Mingge's idea. ,

At the same time, Poirot also said that he would complete all the transfer work within the specified time, and try his best not to let Zhuang Mingge suffer from the transfer fee.

From here we can see the difference between Poirot and Antonioni: Poirot is a member of the Corleone family, he is only responsible to Zhuang Mingge, everything is subject to Zhuang Mingge's opinion, he is in charge of specific operations; while Antonioni pays more attention to The interests of Florence itself.

"Also, because the previous head coach Aggropi resigned, the team's head coach also needs to be confirmed, otherwise the team's season preparations will have big problems."

Zhuang Minge thought about it carefully. He remembered that at this time in his previous life, Florence was relegated. It was "Tinker" Ranieri who made this hot potato and became famous in Florence, but he couldn't remember where Ranieri was coaching now, so he had to ask Antonioni, who knows Italian football well.

"Ranieri, he is currently coaching the Naples team. I heard that due to the poor performance last season, the Naples board of directors intends to terminate his contract." Antonioni quickly answered, and at the same time he heard Zhuang Mingge's words. It means, "Boss, are you going to hire Ranieri to coach Fiorentina?"

"That's right, Ranieri has a wealth of coaching experience. Although his tactical thinking is slightly conservative, he is our best choice at present." Zhuang Mingge sighed secretly in his heart, although he has an international A-level coach Certificate, but I have not fully digested those memories. For the coaching team, I am now a paper tiger, "Also, Giancarlo, don't call me boss in non-public places in the future, just call me Antonio. good."

"Okay, Antonio."

Although Zhuang Minge is very aware of the strength of the players he advocates bringing in, it doesn't mean that Ranieri can see it.In addition, it can be seen from the coaching resume of the later generations of Ranieri that "Tinker" is a good player to rectify the team and lead the team out of the trough, but he lacks a kind of domineering that can lead the team to glory.

"It seems that this year we have to hurry up and learn all kinds of knowledge about coaching the team." Zhuang Mingge secretly made up his mind.