The Era of Emerald

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It is precisely because Rui Costa attaches great importance to feelings, so Zhuang Mingge will always give special care to Rui Costa in many aspects: a player who values ​​feelings more than honor and money can be said to be rare in the football world. It is a rare treasure for the team.

I am afraid that even Zidane is not as empathetic as Costa - after Zidane became famous, who has seen him help the two clubs he once played for, Bordeaux and Cannes, which are at a low point?

Therefore, Zhuang Mingge doesn't mind losing a little bit of money to help Rui Costa, and put Benfica into the Fiorentina satellite club system, and by the way, it can also improve the Portuguese midfielder's sense of belonging to Fiorentina.

Moreover, in Zhuang Minge's view, Benfica has another advantage over its city rival Sporting Lisbon, that is, it has a wider range of choices for young players.After the arrival of the Bosman era, Benfica changed its business strategy and began to dig out good seedlings from all over the world to cultivate them and exchange them for a lot of money.As a result, Benfica has not only cultivated local rookies, such as Thiago, Maniche, Coentrao, etc.; there are also many foreign players who have successfully landed in European football through Benfica, such as Di Maria, Ramirez and David Luiz. Is one of the leaders.

Sporting Lisbon, on the other hand, has been sticking to the one-acre three-point land in Portugal, digging potential newcomers in the country. Although there have also emerged stars such as Nani, Cristiano Ronaldo, Quaresma, etc., but from the number From the point of view, after the advent of the Bosman era, the number of stars trained by Sporting Lisbon is still at a disadvantage among the top three in Portugal.

The different attitudes of the two clubs towards foreign players have also become the focus of Zhuang Minge's consideration. The purpose of Fiorentina's establishment of a satellite club in Portugal is to better absorb those players from South America, instead of being stuck in Portugal. Select talents.

Although I don't know how Sporting Lisbon considers these issues, this does not prevent Zhuang Mingge from making a more reasonable choice in his opinion.

Therefore, it is precisely because of the comprehensive consideration of the above factors that Zhuang Mingge chose Benfica instead of Sporting Lisbon.

Of course, Zhuang Mingge actually prefers Porto. This club is more open in terms of business strategy than Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, and uses more foreign players than the other two.But who made da Costa (Porto president) ask for such a high price?So Zhuang Mingge had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and chose Benfica, which was equally good in terms of various conditions.

With the intervention of Zhuang Mingge, can Porto still dominate Portuguese football in the new century as it did in history?

Unknowingly, the time has entered August 1997.

After Kenyon sent back the news of "you're done" from Portugal, Zhuang Mingge finally started to make a move in the transfer market.

However, this time his goal is not to attract people to the Fiorentina club, but to give some sweetness to those teams that have just joined the Fiorentina satellite club system, so that they can understand a truth: follow in the footsteps of Fiorentina and there will be meat.

Zhuang Mingge is going to use the player database built by the Fiorentina employees over the years to compare with his own memory, and find some good seedlings that can be cultivated from the massive data.

The first thing Zhuang Minge has to take care of is naturally Fiorentina's regular clientele, Ajax Club. This Dutch giant has bought or rented many players from Viola over the years who have no chance to play in the Fiorentina first team, such as Corini, Gianni Al Qaeda, Inzaghi Jr. and others.And after Ajax trained them into talents, Fiorentina also made a lot of profits: the transfer of Inzaghi and others brought a lot of transfer income to the club; The team can safely let go of the experienced Veljo Ward.

Since Ajax has brought him so many benefits, Zhuang Mingge will naturally not treat him badly.He first loaned two players from the youth team, Di Natale and Dainelli, to Ajax to make up for the loss of the opponent after Materazzi and Inzaghi were recovered by Fiorentina.

Then, as compensation for taking back the two absolute main players of Ajax, Zhuang Minge also spent a small sum of money to buy the Romanian teenager Christian Chivu with a transfer fee of 30 U.S. dollars, and signed a contract with him. After a five-year long contract, he was also rented to Ajax for free.

Historically, Chivu grew up in Ajax and became a world-class defender. Later, his poor performance in Inter Milan was more due to his serious injury in a game (to be precise, Chivu The serious injury he suffered was a skull fracture and brain injury, and he was even dying at one point, which caused great damage to his motor nerves. Therefore, Zhuang Mingge expressed no pressure on himself to send the Romanian to Ajax three years in advance-since the Romanian received systematic training from Ajax a few years in advance, this may make him stronger than in history. He needs to be stronger, which is what Zhuang Mingge hopes to see.

After loaning three players to Ajax, Zhuang Mingge began to try to recommend some players he admired to Van Prager, and let him judge whether it was worth introducing.

However, something that surprised Zhuang Mingge happened.After receiving this recommendation list, Van Prager only roughly calculated the amount of money needed to introduce these players, and after confirming that Ajax's financial resources can bear it, he ordered the transfer department to get these players out as soon as possible. Snare to Ajax's account.

Of course Zhuang Mingge didn't know. His vision for selecting players has been recognized by the entire European football world. Now every year, many teams try to find out Zhuang Mingge's favorite players to see if they can get a share of it.

Van Prager, who has benefited a lot, is also a staunch follower of Zhuang Mingge. The Ajax chairman who has received too many surprises from Zhuang Mingge will naturally not have any doubts about Zhuang Mingge's vision.

Therefore, under the recommendation of Zhuang Mingge, Roy Mackay transferred from Arnhem Waiters, his worth is only 500 million US dollars; at the same time, Ajax also bought the Swedish Ljungberg (Halm Stadt, $250 million) and Danish winger Rommedal (free transfer).

These players successfully joined Ajax, indicating that Fiorentina's satellite club plan is proceeding in an orderly manner.

When they matured in Ajax, it was the harvest time for Fiorentina!