The Era of Emerald

After bringing Drogba back to the Monaco Club, Spalletti unexpectedly met Zhuang Mingge who happened to be visiting.The reason why the latter came here is mainly for two reasons: one is to sign a new cooperation agreement with the top management of Monaco to formally incorporate this Ligue [-] club into the satellite club system of Florence; Because the Fiorentina first team has also come here and is preparing to play a warm-up match with Monaco to prepare for the arrival of the new season.

However, the day before the start of the warm-up match, Spalletti took the initiative to find Zhuang Mingge and invited him to the training ground to watch the training of the Monaco first team.After that, the two had a fairly in-depth exchange on some issues in Spalletti's office.

"Chairman Corleone, do you think Claude (Makelele) is more suitable to play as a defensive midfielder, rather than the current right back?" Spalletti asked with some doubts. Originally, he planned to let Makelele take over. Dimeco's mantle, who has already retired, served as the starting right back, and the newcomer Sagnol served as his substitute.Unexpectedly, as soon as the opponent came up, he proposed an idea that he had never considered, that is, to change Makelele's position on the field and let him play as a midfielder.

"Yes, as a right back, he can indeed play a role not weaker than Dimeco on the defensive end, but on the offensive end Makelele cannot provide the necessary support for the team to broaden the team like Dimeco The offensive width." Zhuang Mingge nodded and continued, "Moreover, after Petit and Dacourt left, Monaco has a huge vacuum in the midfielder position, although we Fiorentina will Jenner Luo (Gattuso) and Simeone (Perotta) are two young players who are rented to you, but neither of them has much experience in major competitions. For Monaco, which will face a third-line battle this season, this manpower is really important. Not enough."

Spalletti deserves to be an Italian. He also has a trait that almost all Italian coaches have, that is, he has a lot of tactical literacy.Moreover, Spalletti himself does not have a fixed coaching style. He often arranges specific tactics based on the team's existing configuration.

Just like when he was coaching in Rome in history, because the Red Wolves did not have a reliable center at that time, and the Sensi family at that time could not afford much transfer fee to support the club.So Spalletti decisively pushed Totti, who was originally playing the midfielder, to the center position, and used a set of "wolf pack tactics" to revive the already thinning Roma.

Therefore, for Zhuang Mingge's suggestion, Spalletti did not rush to deny it, but seriously considered whether it was feasible.

Some people may ask, why didn't Zhuang Mingge tell Wenger, who has a better relationship with him, about this before?The reason is very simple, because Zhuang Mingge kept an eye out back then, he didn't want the "professor" to know Makelele's true strength.Zhuang Mingge knew very well about Wenger's style of poaching fellow villagers.

If Zhuang Mingge made Wenger discover the great value of Makelele in the midfielder position and gave him the grace to support him, how could there be Florence?He was wiped out by Wenger who ran to Arsenal a long time ago.

Before the new stadium was built, Arsenal were not the four-maniacs who sold their core players every year. Now they are still one of the few powerful players who can compete with Manchester United in the country.

"Claude's skills are excellent. Most of his defenses rely on his skills to grab the ball. He marks people very tightly and rarely loses his position." Spalletti has been in Monaco for more than a month. For Makelele, a player I also had some impressions in my heart. At this time, he was analyzing Makelele's technical characteristics to see if he had the feasibility of changing to a defensive midfielder. "I watched his previous game videos, and I was very puzzled at the time. Very good technique, but never overwhelmed the midfielder to participate in the attack. Now it seems that he may really be a standard template for a defensive midfielder."

While talking, Spalletti himself became excited. He originally thought that the Monaco team he took over was a mess, but he didn't expect that there were so many players in the team that had already lost blood in the summer. baby.

Sure enough, it was a correct choice for the club to rely on the big tree of Fiorentina. This kind of player configuration is much better than that of Empoli he coached before. If you plan well, it is not impossible to complete the league championship for four consecutive times. (Note: Spalletti knows that Zhuang Mingge helped Monaco in the past).

Now the team has Trezeguet and Drogba on the forward line, Henry and Giuly are separated from the left and right to dominate the wing attack (Note: There is no typo here, Henry has been playing as a winger before joining Arsenal.), There are Gattuso, Perotta and Makelele in the middle of the midfield, and there is even a world-class goalkeeper Baia in the goalkeeper position.

It can be said that, apart from the defense, Monaco's starting lineup is already quite powerful.

Thinking of this, Spalletti looked at Zhuang Mingge with fiery eyes.

"Chairman Corleone, due to the departure of Ismail and Leboeuf, Monaco does not have a reliable player in the central defender position. I wonder if you have any good players to recommend to us?" Spalletti He asked cautiously. After all, the question he asked the other party was beyond the scope of normal communication between the two. Zhuang Mingge was not someone from Monaco. It would be an outpouring of kindness to advise him to change Makelele into a midfielder. up.

Of course Spalletti didn't know that Zhuang Mingge's goal was to let Monaco have more good seedlings and achieve better results.Otherwise, how can Fiorentina get a commission from the transfer of these players?

"Well, let me think about it." Therefore, Zhuang Mingge did not refuse to answer Spalletti's question, but began to think about those future stars that could be recommended to each other.

Zhuang Mingge doesn't intend to just recommend one or two central defenders to Monaco and let Spalletti complete the main lineup, and it's over. He also plans to throw a few good players to the opponent for rotation.After all, if Monaco did not perform well in the European competition, it would be difficult for these players in the team to sell for a price.

Monaco and Porto in 04 are the best examples. If these two teams hadn't reached the final of the Champions League, how could their players have sold so much money in the summer when the transfer market was relatively sluggish?

Therefore, for the benefit of Florence, Zhuang Mingge also has to keep Monaco with enough fighting power.

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