The Era of Emerald

While the press conference was going on, Zhuang Mingge contacted Dr. Thomas Carter, and through his contacts in the United States, he found a hospital that had a cooperative relationship with a research center specializing in the treatment of leukemia.

After the other party agreed to be in charge of Fortunato's treatment and rehabilitation, Zhuang Mingge left a special person to take charge of the matter, then bid farewell to Fortunato and left Turin.

Back in Florence, Zhuang Mingge and Karin sat in the office and began to study the team's next signings in a thick stack of player information.

"We have already decided to lose Pessoto and Iuliano, so that the team has vacancies at the center back and left back."

"We have signed Ferrara from Naples as a central defender. This player is enough to raise Fiorentina's defense to a higher level." Zhuang Mingge said, "The key now is the vacancy of the main left back. According to the diagnosis of experts, Fortunato It will take at least June next year to fully recover, and it will take even longer to recover to the physical condition that can participate in regular competitions. The distant water cannot quench the near thirst, and we can't count on him now."

Zhuang Mingge's idea is correct. In this era of restrictions on foreign aid, most of the positions in Italian teams are occupied by local players. Once a player in a position is transferred and leaves, the club will find another player who meets the requirements. It's a very troublesome thing to say.

For a specific example, you can refer to Inter Milan. In the days after Facchetti retired, Bremer was the only outstanding left-back who played for Inter Milan. Zanetti switched to the left to re-insure the left-back position.

"Cremona's Francesco Colonese is good, he can play left-back and center-back. He has played 28 times for Cremona this season. I think he is enough for most of the team's next season." Karin Pick out a document from the pile of paper.

Zhuang Mingge recalled, in his own impression, the player Colonese seems to have played for Inter Milan and Lazio for several years, and won the UEFA Cup as a main player in Inter Milan. Moratti didn't pay much attention to the signings in the backcourt. His strength was that of a giant's last substitute. His performance in Lazio later proved this point.

"Colonese has no European experience. Fiorentina will participate in the European Cup Winners' Cup next season. He can only be regarded as one of our candidates."

"How about Francini in Naples?" Karin quickly gave another opinion, "He is 31 years old and won the Serie A championship with Naples in the 1989-90 season. His performance in Naples this season is also quite good. , now that the Naples, who are in financial crisis, are selling players, it will not be too difficult for us to introduce him."

Francini?Zhuang Mingge is not very impressed with this name, and this can’t be blamed on Zhuang Mingge. For Naples in the Maradona era, most fans will only remember how Maradona was “a bullshit” and led Naples against the top three in the north. League champions...

But how many fans can tell the lineup when Naples won the championship, and who was the head coach of Naples at the time?

Many stars were overshadowed by Maradona's light when they played in Naples. For example, De Napoli, as the main midfielder of the Italian national team in the 1990 World Cup, he played with Ancelotti, Giannini, Donna Doni formed the most artistic midfielder in the history of Italy, and he is also the player with the most appearances for the Italian national team in the history of the Naples team.

And so on, there are Bagni (the main midfielder of Italy in the 86 World Cup), Careca (the silver boot winner of the 90 World Cup), Giordano (the main striker of Italy in the 86 World Cup), etc., few fans I can remember that they also had a glorious period in Naples.

This is the tragedy of playing with Maradona.

However, since Francini can meet Maradona's picky requirements, he believes that his strength should be trustworthy. Although the age of 31 is a bit too old, it should not be a problem to cope with the implementation of the Bosman Act in the winter of 95...

"Okay, the position of left back is tentatively decided to be Francini." Speaking of this, Zhuang Minge remembered something, "By the way, Sister Karin, Sampdoria's main force when they played in the Champions League final in 92 Who are the guards?"

"The left back is Marco Lanna, born on July 1968, 7, and transferred to Rome in the summer of 13; the right back is Fausto Parri, born on September 1993, 1962, and is currently the same as Francini , played for the Naples club, and the central defender combination is what we know now, Pietro Veljoward and Moreno Mannini." Karin quickly found the information that Zhuang Mingge wanted from a stack of materials , and handed these scouting reports to Zhuang Mingge, "Tony, do you want to transplant Sampdoria's entire defense line to our Fiorentina?"

"Miss Karin, you guessed it right, but it's a pity that there is no reward~" Zhuang Mingge was very proud of being able to come up with this idea, "The two full-backs, Lanna and Parry, have quite a lot of experience in European wars , since they can play the main force in Sampdoria, and also participated in the 90 Cup Winners' Cup final and the 92 Champions League final, it shows that their defense is excellent and their skills are good enough. We have been partners for several seasons, and we will not make too many mistakes in cooperation when we come to Florence together."

"Besides, Sensi has just become the president of the Roma Club. Lanna is the direct descendant of Roma's former president Viola. The old Sensi will not mind selling him; Naples is suffering from an economic crisis, and Parry's transfer is also very likely to be completed " Karin was doing analysis on the side, "But Veljo Ward and Mannini are not so easy to dig."

"As long as we can get one of them, and, I believe, under the management of Enrique (Mantovani Jr.'s name), there is no player who cannot be sold."

The performance of the later generations of Mantovani in Sampdoria is indeed the same. During his tenure as the chairman of Sampdoria, he indulged in the pleasure of player transfer transactions. The players in the team changed frequently, completely ignoring the team itself The required stability will eventually cause a top team to be relegated from Serie A sadly.

After confirming the signing target, Zhuang Minge called and instructed Poirot to ask Sampdoria for a price, and started the transfer of Veljo Ward and Mannini; as for the transfer of Parry, Lanner and Francini, Zhuang Minge arranged for several senior staff members under the transfer department to handle it.

However, when Poirot brought back the reply from Sampdoria, Zhuang Minge muttered with his mouth curled up, "Damn, is there such a good thing?"

Sampdoria's reply is: as long as you are willing to accept Wiljo Ward, we can give it away for free!The fly in the ointment is that Mannini's transfer seems to have been strongly opposed by Samp coach Eriksson, so Fiorentina's offer failed.

"If Mannini can't come, he can't come. Anyway, we still have Filicano and Ferrara at the center back." Zhuang Minge said to Karin.

Lanna, Francini, Verjoward, Ferrara, Filicano, Parry, Bilindelli... Fiorentina's defensive lineup next season is enough to make most Serie A coaches drool .