Chen Lin's chosen target was the Prato Football Club, an established club founded in 1908 in the east of the city, marked by a golden spear standing under a blue and white sky. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info But for a club that has been around for more than 80 years, the accolades are lackluster. Only in 1980 and 1983 did they win Group A of League C2, which is Italy's fourth-tier league, which also includes League C1, League B and League A, which means that FC Putoka has been promoted to Division C at the highest level in its 80-year professional league career, and has never even been promoted to Division B.

The long-term struggle in the bottom league has also made the club's economy very poor, there is no player dormitory, there is no professional training turf, the playing field is rented, the players of the youth team and the first team usually crowd into a common turf for training, and even the club's office space is rented, which makes Chen Lin spend a lot of effort to find it.

However, before coming, Chen Lin inquired about the Prato Club clearly, thanks to the ubiquitous Chinese organizations in the local area.

Prato Chinatown is not a completely deformed Chinese society, there are 4 Chinese communities in Prato, the Prato Overseas Chinese Friendship Association, the Prato Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Overseas Chinese in Italy and the Italian Overseas Chinese Buddhist Association. These overseas Chinese groups have played an active role in stabilizing the Chinese community, sponsoring the weak, relieving the poor, and coordinating relations with the local government. Therefore, in terms of information, it is natural to communicate with each other.

President of the Prato Club, Falken. Tokafundi is the owner of a small local textile business, the club is left to him by his ancestors, he himself is not keen on club affairs, and low-level league clubs like Putoka club, itself has no income at all, TV stations, newspapers and other media have little interest in them, naturally there is no broadcast fee, and in this way, the sponsorship fee is pitiful, the majority of the club's income basically depends on tickets, but the tickets deduct the salaries of players and coaches, there is little left, but there is still venue rental, equipment maintenance, league deposits, etc., so basically a sum of money has to be invested every year to maintain operations.

This made Tokafundi, who was not very interested in football, have the intention of getting rid of it, and complained many times at friends parties. It's just that for one, a small club like Prato, which lacks influence, few people are interested in it; Second, in a football country like Italy, as the president of a professional club, it can still bring him some aura and facilitate him to talk about business, so the Prato club is still in Valken. Tokafonti in his hands.

Chen Lin, who has mastered the inside story, is still cautious, this is the character he has cultivated in the past few years of leaving his hometown and wandering abroad, and everything must be thought about again and again, and then he will do it after thinking about it. He knows his own family affairs, half a month or even a few days ago he was still struggling at the bottom of the society on the poverty and clothing line, and now let him complete the acquisition of a football club, no matter how he prepares, it is inevitable that he will lack confidence, which involves the strength of the aura during the negotiation. Falken. Tokafundi is also a professional businessman anyway, and negotiation is almost a must-have skill for him.

So Chen Lin entrusted a local law firm in Florence to help him deal with this matter. And his decision is also very wise, with the help of a professional lawyer who has been eating this bowl of rice for a long time, Chen Lin quickly got the qualifications and some documents he needed, if he let him run alone, I am afraid that he will not be able to find it completely in two or three months. Moreover, the law firm also proposed several packages for him, including the acquisition of Falken. Some of Tokafondi's debts forced him to sell the club to Chen Lin.

Eventually, Chen Lin accepted the law firm's plan and went to Falken accompanied by a lawyer. Tocafondi's office. In this room, which was also the office of the manager of the textile factory and the office of the Prato Club, the two sides engaged in several "friendly" negotiations, and a week later, the Prato Club was sold to Chen Lin for 50,000 pounds. This is not a bargain for the Prato club, which has only a dilapidated bus left, and the value of the currency is still very strong before the inflationary inflation, and the Rumbisenzio Stadium leased by the Prato club costs only 240,000 lira (£1,200) a year. The only thing that is worth the Prato club is the player and his professional qualification in the second league.

After the acquisition, Chen Lin rented a small building on the outskirts of Prato, near Chinatown, as the club's new office, not far from the club's training grounds, and even the grass in the distance could be seen from the windows on the second floor. The next step is to get to know the current state of the club.

But fortunately, Chen Lin has a "cheating" artifact in his hand, and he can fulfill the club's situation even if he doesn't go out. In fact, before the acquisition, he checked the players and coaches of Prato Club through the computer, which can be described as miserable.

In "FM Football Manager 2030", there are two main values to measure the overall attributes of a player: Ca and Pa. CA is the player's current comprehensive ability value, and PA is a player's maximum potential value, from 1 to 200, the higher the value, the higher the ability, the more potential.

And in this Putoka club, there is no one with a CA value higher than 90, most of them are even only sixty or seventy, and there is no PA value higher than 110. You must know that even in China's second-tier league A B League, there are many players with an ability value of more than 100, and a PA value of more than 120 abounds. After inquiry, Chen Lin found that the national team players of some European football powers, such as Italy, France, and the Netherlands, generally have a CA value of more than 160, and basically will not be lower than 150, and their leading stars even have a CA value of more than 180. This shows how scummy the players of the Prato club are.

Among them, the highest CA value is the team's captain, 32-year-old right-back player Pitini, his comprehensive ability value reaches 89, but the PA potential value is only a pitiful 91, and all the players in the Putoka club are on semi-professional contracts, most of them have other formal jobs, such as Pitini works in a small auto repair factory, these players just spontaneously gather together to train for two or three hours a day, and the meager weekly salary provided by Putoka is not their main income at all.

However, Chen Lin knew that it was such a team that won the runner-up in Group B of League C II in the following 92/93 season and qualified for the play-offs of League C 1. And all thanks to the team's head coach, Stefano. Although the 35-year-old is unknown in Italian football, Chen Lin's computer shows that his coaching ability is as high as three and a half stars, especially for young players, as high as 18 (up to 20). He plus the physical trainer Amberto. Bucilini and goalkeeper coach Andrew. Pugli is all the regular employees of the Prato Club.

Now that he knows that the team's results this season are good, Chen Lin does not plan to have major surgery on the club, but the necessary strength reinforcement is still needed, although Prato has qualified for the play-offs this season, but because of lack of stamina, it was not promoted in the end. Chen Lin's goal is very ambitious, and the fourth-level C2 League can't support his dream. So Chen Lin is now full of thoughts about how to add a few strong reinforcements to the team. In this era, Italian football has a completely different attitude towards the senior league and the lower league, for Serie A and Serie B, the attitude is very open, many players like Inter Milan and AC Milan are almost composed of multinational forces, and for the lower league, Italian football believes that it is the soil for young players to survive, so the number of foreign players is strictly limited, and each team can send up to 3 foreign players at the same time. It was still 1992, and the Boseman Act had not yet been published, which meant that players from all countries except Italian players were counted as foreign players, including EU players. Moreover, Chen Lin has already drawn a red line in his heart, and all of Prato's foreign aid quotas will be used to introduce Chinese players, so if Prato wants to bring in reinforcements, he can only consider domestic players.

However, Prato's fame is there, a team in the fourth division, and the scope of recruitment is only a team in the fourth division, what players can there be? ……