The Era of Emerald

"I didn't expect this to be true." After carefully reading all the news on the newspaper clippings, Manager Babbage said with some embarrassment, "I'm very sorry, we haven't seen it for a long time due to the war. Decent sports news."

Zhuang Mingge was speechless. It was obvious that Croatia and Italy, a country with Europe's first league, were only separated by a small Adriatic Sea, but the speed of information dissemination between the two countries was indeed very different.

While many European giants are secretly paying attention to Bosman suing UEFA, the general manager of Dinamo Zagreb, who is in a war-torn area, still has five or six years ago in his mind impression.

It has to be said that the regional wars and political turmoil in the early 90s completely destroyed the originally strong Eastern European football. In the next 20 years, although Eastern European players such as Nemanja Vidic, Dzeko, and Modric also emerged. He is a star player, but he will never have the chance to win big championships like the World Cup and the European Cup.

In Zhuang Mingge's impression, the 98 World Cup was the "Last Supper" for the older generation of Eastern Europeans. Talents from Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Croatia who had passed their thirties bloomed their last ray in front of the world fans Brilliant, and the youngest Czech Republic, which grew up under the socialist system, only persisted until the 2004 European Cup.

After the golden generation of the Czech Republic came to an end collectively, there were no more outstanding results in Eastern European football.

Such a bleak situation is very different from the situation before the drastic changes in Eastern Europe. At that time, the capitalist countries could only resist the footsteps of the Eastern Europeans only by relying on the bias of the referee.

Although Zhuang Mingge can't do anything to revive Eastern European football, he is still very interested in the rich football resources buried in Eastern Europe.

After all, in later generations, Croatia is a very good team. Although there are not many big-name stars in the team, its strength is beyond doubt.

What Zhuang Mingge has to do now is to receive these Eastern European teams into his account in advance before the implementation of the Bosman Act. Even if these high-quality resources cannot all go to Florence to play, they can also make money by reselling players. a sum.

"Manager Babich, I have an idea." Zhuang Mingge said, "I wonder if you are interested in the cooperation between the two clubs?"

cooperate?Manager Babiqi couldn't help but glanced at the young Fiorentina chairman in surprise when he heard the words. Didn't this young man work so hard to come here because he fell in love with a certain player in the team?Is he just to watch a Cup Winners Cup game?

Thinking of this, Babbage felt a little disappointed.

Originally, the Zagreb club was overjoyed by the presence of Zhuang Mingge, the Fiorentina boss. Their greatest hope was that this young "golden master" would be like Berlusconi who poached Boban from now on. Dinamo Zagreb paid a transfer fee and took away several valuable players.In this way, the financial crisis of the club will be greatly alleviated. After all, the game bonuses obtained by the team before only solved the salary problem of the players, and there are still many urgent projects that have not yet been funded!

"Uh, Chairman Corleone, I don't know what you mean by cooperation?" Although disappointed, Manager Babbage raised his doubts to Zhuang Mingge in spirit.

"As you can see, simply speaking, I hope to purchase a part of Dinamo Zagreb's shares in the form of personal investment. form a close working relationship.”

"It's impossible!" After hearing Zhuang Mingge's thoughts, Babiqi couldn't help but refute the other party's remarks.

"Of course it's impossible if it's me, and UEFA won't agree." Zhuang Mingge replied as a matter of course, but then changed the subject: "But UEFA just stipulates, 'The same group or individual cannot control two football clubs'."

"Chairman Corleone, what do you mean..." Babbage's eyes lit up when he heard Zhuang Mingge's words.

"For example, if the funder of this acquisition is not me, but the personal investment behavior of our staff in the club, then is there no reason for UEFA to stop it?"

Zhuang Mingge's approach was actually based on a piece of news seen by later generations. At that time, Seedorf, who played for AC Milan, invested in the acquisition of Monza Club in his own name. His approach did not arouse people's criticism.

"That's right! Why didn't I think of this way?!" Manager Babich was so excited that he almost ran to the street to celebrate. If all goes well, Dinamo Zagreb will be able to board Florence Since then, I no longer have to worry about the club's financial problems.

And according to the Fiorentina chairman, once Bosman succeeds in his appeal, the players he has worked so hard to cultivate will be poached by those damn big teams for free.And with Florence's financial aid and asylum, the team should be able to leave a lot of good seedlings.

After all, even in the later generations when Boss's bill has been implemented for a long time, the giants will not maliciously poach each other (except for the two unscrupulous Caos of Manchester City and Chelsea, personally I always think it is because of those two clubs. If you don't understand the rules' behavior, you will be repeatedly made things difficult by the referee), even the free transfers of Flamini and Ballack have been greeted with the club in advance.

Of course, there are also weird teams like Barcelona that have to let other players pay for themselves in order to introduce Cesc Fabregas.

In the eyes of Manager Babbage, Fiorentina can undoubtedly be counted as a wealthy club.

For Zhuang Mingge, the part of the proceeds from the World Cup gambling has flowed into his account in Italy under the control of the Groz family, and he, who has become a legitimate billionaire, naturally does not care about the acquisition of Zagreb. The little money spent.

The Croatian league is also quite open, with very loose restrictions on the number of foreign aids (Croatian League One stipulates that the number of foreign aids allowed to play at the same time is not allowed to exceed 6, but there is no limit to the total number of foreign aids in the team), and high-quality resources in Eastern Europe can Concentrated in the stronghold of Zagreb, it will continuously provide Florence with excellent players.

After negotiating with Babić's manager, it was agreed that Fiorentina would send a "representative" to assume the chairmanship of the devastated club and buy Sagler for $300 million. All shares of Budinamo.

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On October 10th, the match between Fiorentina and Dinamo Zagreb was about to start. The Maximil Stadium (the home of Dinamo Zagreb) that could accommodate nearly 26 spectators was full. Zhuang Mingge declined the opponent and allowed himself to enter the only Invited to watch the game from the "VIP Box" in the "VIP Box", under the guard of the stadium security, Zhuang Minge led Karin onto the concrete stands.

The reason why it is called the cement stand is because most of the seats in the entire stadium are made of cement. During the game, the biggest function of this stand is to allow the fans entering the stadium to have a foothold.

It is said that the quality of a country's fans is directly proportional to its economic level, but Zhuang Mingge, who is personally on the scene, believes that in this country where the per capita annual income is less than 350 US dollars, no one loves their own football more than the fans here. court.There is no littering, and there is no foul language in the air. The local fans are really enjoying a long-lost wonderful game.

ps1: Since last night, the switch in the author’s dormitory has broken down, and I can’t connect to the Internet. I borrowed this chapter from my classmate’s computer to post it…

ps2: With the school's crazy maintenance speed, it is estimated that we will not be able to access the Internet today. I am really sad...