After determining the future direction of Parma, Francesca's situation was obviously much better, and she immediately ordered someone to inform the other 16 Serie A clubs of the temporary meeting on July 20, and then she personally sent Zhuang Mingge out of Parma's headquarters, and stood at the gate and waved goodbye to him.

Returning to Florence, Zhuang Mingge watched Parma's movements as he began to prepare his speech for the upcoming professional league meeting, and he wanted to see what Francesca would do next, with a clear direction.

In fact, Parma's current problem is very obvious, that is, after the Dairy Legion was promoted to Serie A, they have been spending a lot of money for many years, so that the team's current total salary is obviously beyond the club's capacity.

In the original history, although Parmalat was not very generous in terms of transfer fees, they could still use some funds to smooth out Parma's debts, after all, the player's salary at this time was not as exaggerated as later, in 99 when Litmanin joined Barcelona and got a salary of five million US dollars, it was the top salary, not to mention that it was only 1997.

However, Francesca, who had managed to pull Parma out of Parmalat's banner, was unlikely to accept any more funding from Parmalat, so she had to find a way to cut the club's spending, starting with the players' wages.

Originally, if Parma wanted to cut their total salary, there were only two ways to go.

One is to persuade high-paid players to agree to take a pay cut to stay in the team, but in the context of a general increase in player salaries, this is obviously a bit unrealistic, and players also eat youth, unless it is a veteran who can no longer play the main team and has a deep affection for Parma, who will agree to the request for a salary cut?

The other is to sell all the players who are paid high salaries in the team, which can not only effectively reduce the total salary, but also get a large transfer fee, which Parma can use to reintroduce a batch of good seedlings for training, and sell them for money after they have achieved results, thus forming a virtuous circle.

However, the risks involved are significant. After all, those who can get high salaries in the team are basically the main players, and the most recent is the main rotation level, if too many main players are sold, Parma's results will decline rapidly next season, it will be worth the loss. You know, Parma can participate in the main round of the European Champions Cup next season, as long as the team reaches the knockout stage after that, the profit is quite huge.

Francesca hopes that Parma can steadily transition from a money-burning machine to a black shop, and she doesn't want to see the team just focus on saving money and end up being a mid-tossed relegation club, even if they want to be a black shop. Without a result guarantee, who will pay a fortune for your players?

With the help of Zhuang Mingge, Francesca found a third solution to the club's financial problems.

Guys, do you remember the Japanese Football Association, which is trying to get its players to play in Europe's top leagues? Under the guidance of Zhuang Mingge, Francesca, who is sponsoring Parmala all over the world, and Saburo Kawabuchi, who is eager to send a group of his country's hopeful stars to the top league for tempering, hit it off. After some haggling, Parma finally announced the acquisition of Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata from Shonan Sea Club for a low price of $1 million.

Parma's introduction of Hidetoshi Nakata is not worth the loss from a sporting point of view, because Ancelotti already has Croatian midfielder Stanić under him, and spending a non-European quota to bring in Hidetoshi Nakata, who has overlapping positions, feels like a waste of resources no matter how you look at it.

Although Parma did make a bad transfer from a purely competitive point of view, in terms of commercial development, Parma was very richly rewarded: after signing Hidetoshi Nakata, a large group of Japanese companies came to this small city in northern Italy, expressing their willingness to sign various commercial sponsorships with the club.

Seeing this group of Japanese companies that took the initiative to send them to the door to be slaughtered, Francesca was directly stunned by this big pie, and quickly signed a lot of sponsorship contracts with these companies that she thought were "stupid and have a lot of money".

Toyota bought the jersey chest ad for $15 million over three years, and Sony won the title of electronics supplier for $10 million in five years...... The billboards in the Tardini Stadium have also been swept away by many Japanese companies at prices much higher than the market price.

With such a large amount of sponsorship money injected into the club, Francesca can finally take a breather.

And Zhuang Mingge was not idle, although for some well-known reasons, he was reluctant to introduce Japanese players in his heart, but he would not get along with money, so he signed a contract with the Japanese Football Association.

The general content of this agreement is that the Japanese Football Association can send outstanding domestic players to Florence for short-term training ranging from three months to six months in the next five years, and the training cost is proportional to the training time, which is one million dollars for three months, and if you want to stay in Florence for half a year, then the Japanese Football Association will have to pay two million dollars for each player.

Keeping the cost of training down is Kenyon's goal, and as Florence's performance has increased dramatically over the years, so has its commercial value. Therefore, under Kenyon's chairmanship, many of the club's current commercial sponsorship contracts, if the price of training players is too high, then the Japanese companies that feel that they have been slaughtered by the other party may give up continuing to sponsor Fiorentina, which is a situation that Kenyon does not want to see.

Huge profits can only be made quickly, and a long stream of water is the king.

And the Japanese Football Association, not ambiguous, immediately sent Shunsuke Nakamura, who had a good performance in Florence in the first half of the year, to Purple Lily, intending to let him continue his studies in this giant, and strive to stay in Europe like this, instead of waiting for the training time to return to China in disgrace.

Although there is a rule in Serie A that does not allow trial players to participate in official matches, there is no such rule in the youth team league, and Shunsuke Nakamura is fully qualified to play in the youth league in Fiorentina, so they should adapt to the rhythm of the European league in advance.

The other Serie A teams salivated at the generosity of Japanese companies, but they had no way to intervene now, and Parma, who was the first to make a move, had already eaten all the meat in the pot, and the rest of the soup was basically covered by Fiorentina.

The financial resources of Japanese companies are also limited, and after spending a lot of real money to feed the two evil wolves of Parma and Florence, they have no intention of continuing to burn money.

Therefore, the Serie A clubs, who were a step slower, could only watch this delicious meal being divided between Parma and Fiorentina, and then hide under the covers and feel sorry for themselves.