The Era of Emerald

After arriving at the headquarters of the Italian Football Association, Zhuang Mingge heard a lot of complaints from the old man Perot, which made him think that someone would attack the representatives of these Serie A clubs at this Football Association meeting, so while waiting for the meeting to start For a while, Zhuang Mingge made a lot of countermeasures in his mind.

However, the progress of the meeting was far beyond Zhuang Mingge's expectations: During the meeting, the Football Association stated that it would, and fully agreed to the league reform plan submitted by the club representatives; at the same time, Chairman Perot also agreed with Zhuang Mingge and others. The Football Association also needs to invest in youth training.

The old man Perot didn't even bargain with Zhuang Mingge and the others. He said bluntly that from now on, the Italian Football Association will spend at least 1500 million US dollars a year on the construction of domestic youth training, including providing financial support to clubs that lack financial resources to help them build Basic youth training facilities; building football schools nationwide, further improving the youth training system, etc.

Zhuang Mingge naturally didn't know. During the time he was waiting for the meeting to start in the lounge, Perot called all the Football Association personnel who participated in the meeting to his office for a short meeting: He wanted to unify himself before the meeting started. The thinking of the people and horses here can save time from going wrong during the meeting.

And the last sentence of the old man Perot shocked many people who were still unconvinced: "If any of you are unconvinced, then I have nothing to say, so I have to let Mr. It was taken!"

In this way, under the tip-off of the old man Perot, the meeting came to an end in a harmonious atmosphere between the Football Association and the club.

Although the Italian Football Association does not do any serious business on weekdays, its work efficiency is quite fast when there is pressure from the outside world.

The day after the meeting, the Italian Football Association issued a public statement: Cancel the current limit of only one non-EU player in a single season in Serie A, and change it to a maximum of 25 players for each club in the first team. Can include five non-European foreign players.

The other clauses in the statement are exactly the same as those proposed by Zhuang Mingge in the professional league meeting before, so I won't explain them here.

With the Italian Football Association leading the team in charge of league reform, Zhuang Mingge can naturally turn his attention back to the Fiorentina club.In any case, he is the president of Fiorentina, not the Italian Football Federation.

"Boss, this is the news he just sent back from Kenyon." Antonioni walked into Zhuang Mingge's office and reported to him the construction of the satellite club network. We signed a contract where we agreed to an annual fee of an annual fee in exchange for the right of first refusal for players on their teams."

"Oh? Kenyon's speed is very fast! The two clubs have been settled in less than a month." Zhuang Minge took the report from Antonioni, flipped through it and said, "Now, he should have arrived Portugal?"

"That's right, Kenyon just arrived in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, by plane yesterday. According to the plan, he intends to meet with the two clubs, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, to see their asking prices before making a decision."

"Huh? I remember that Portugal still has a very strong team called Porto? It seems to have won the European Champions Cup more than ten years ago. Why didn't Kenyon mention it here? ?” As a time traveler, Zhuang Mingge is naturally familiar with the grassroots miracle that Porto and Monaco jointly played in the European Champions Cup in the 03-04 season.

Especially Mourinho, who was the head coach of Porto at the time, no matter whether the outside world's attitude towards him is good or bad, Zhuang Mingge has always firmly believed that Magic Bird is definitely one of the top coaches in European football. There are only a few people like Ancelotti, Ferguson, Benitez and others who can be compared with him.

The most important thing is that Porto is quite good at training players, Deco, Carvalho, Pepe, Falcao... top players can be said to emerge in endlessly!Therefore, when both Sporting Lisbon and Benfica began to decline due to the impact of Bosman, Porto held up the banner of Portuguese football and became the overlord of Portuguese football in the new century!

Therefore, unlike Kenyon and Antonioni, in the eyes of Zhuang Minge, Porto is much more attractive than the other two clubs.

"Uh, I had some conversations with Kenyon before, and he said that the Porto club requires us to pay an annual fee of more than 1000 million U.S. dollars before they are willing to sign a contract with us on the right of first refusal, so..." Antonioni said Here he stopped talking, because he knew that he didn't need to continue talking—didn't you see that the boss's face turned black? !

Tsk, Porto is indeed the most famous black shop in Europe, is it showing its signs at this time?Zhuang Mingge somewhat understood the reason why Kenyon abandoned Porto.After all, in this day and age, if you spend tens of millions of dollars on a club and get only a piece of paper of first refusal, it is estimated that no one will do it?

You know, before the advent of the new century, Sporting Lisbon and Benfica were much more famous than Porto, and now most of Portugal's golden generation players come from these two clubs.When the two teams learned that Fiorentina intended to cooperate with them to some extent, their asking price did not exceed $500 million.

It is precisely because of this that it is only natural for Kenyon to give up the choice of Porto when the reputation of Porto is not as big as the other two and the price is even so high.

"Giancarlo (Antonioni), tell Kenyon that if the asking prices of Sporting Lisbon and Benfica are similar, we will choose Benfica." After pondering for a while, Zhuang Mingge said to Antonioni.

"Is it because of Rui?" Antonioni quickly understood the meaning of Zhuang Mingge's words. As a professional player, he was naturally quite sensitive to this aspect.

"Well, Rui is a very emotional person. Benfica has lost a lot of main players because of Bosman's affairs. This is something everyone knows." Zhuang Mingge nodded, acquiescing to Antonioni's guess, " If Benfica has a closer relationship with Fiorentina and gets a certain degree of support from us, I believe Ruy can play in Fiorentina with more peace of mind, without always worrying about the future of his home team in his heart."

Zhuang Mingge knew that Rui Costa, who has an elegant style of play, is very affectionate, but he doesn't pay much attention to honor. Otherwise, he would not be sold to AC Milan by Cherigoli to pay off his debts until Florence fell into an extremely serious financial crisis. He is already 29 years old-you know, Batistuta, as the totem of Florence, moved to Rome, which is more hopeful for the championship, two years ago in order to complete the dream of the league championship!

Later, Benfica fell into a crisis. Costa, who originally planned to die in Milan, returned to his home team to play for his home team. After retiring, he even became the manager of the club, using his connections as a player to help Benfica tide over the difficulties.

This shows how emotional Rui Costa is.