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After learning that Ballack had decided to defect to Fiorentina and had signed the contract, Baldano and Blanca, who had lost the battle, had to leave Miami in despair and return to Madrid and Milan to report to their respective owners.

In this way, Fiorentina only needs to transfer the previously agreed transfer fee to Vicenza's bank account, and report the transfer to the Italian Football Federation for the record, then Ballack can officially become a member of Fiorentina!

After winning Albertini and Ballack, Fiorentina's midfield has made a qualitative leap in strength, and its bench depth is the highest in Europe, and no club can compare with it.

After all, at this juncture, no team has the ability of Fiorentina to bring together the six midfielders of Andrea Pirlo, Deco, Albertini, Ballack, Effenberg and Redondo, and have not yet made them unhappy with the team because they are too competitive for places.

If they were not willing to retire to the last bench and did not rely on their past achievements in the 18-man squad or even the starting lineup, then Fiorentina would have been foolish in their desire to acquire both Albertini and Ballack in the midfielders this summer, let alone recruit so many excellent players at the same time.

After the defeat in the race for Ballack, Inter Milan and Real Madrid had to shift their attention to other candidates. For example, Cooper fell in love with Ballack's German countryman Frings and Argentine rookie Esteban Cambiasso, known as Redondo II, but unfortunately the former is closer to Bayern Munich, and the latter is already in the pocket of Real Madrid. On Bosque's side, after having both Zidane and Figo in attack, the Real Madrid coach hopes to find a defensive-focused midfielder in the transfer market to replace Elgra, who is ready to transform into a central defender due to age, and at the same time better balance the team's offensive and defensive balance to avoid a top-heavy situation.

Originally, what Bosque wanted most was Fiorentina's main defender Makelele, and Florentino's optimistic Ballack was just a good choice in his eyes, but it is obviously impossible for both of them to come to Madrid now. Therefore, after some deliberation, the Spanish coach has set his sights on Brazilian defender Marcos Senna, who plays for Benfica, and Mexican international Rafael Marquez, who has a good record in the World Cup.

However, whether or not he can convince Florentino depends on Bosque's own eloquence and whether this Lafayette pays attention to the team's defense. After all, although Florentino, who is focused on the development of the club's commercial value, has Fiorentina as a reference, his mentality of attacking rather than defending has not changed much. This can be seen from the fact that Lafayette in this life still put forward the "Zidane + Pavon" policy.

You know, even the Italian clubs that produce excellent defenders dare not guarantee that their youth products can be guaranteed to be of quality and quantity, all of them are top defenders like Maldini and Baresi, why does Florentino have such sufficient confidence that Pavon has the potential to compete with first-class central defenders such as Hierro?

Real Madrid and Inter Milan are here for now, but now let's turn our attention to Fiorentina. In order to win Ballack, a hot fish in the transfer market, Fiorentina has paid enough real money this time, and the sky-high transfer fee of 35 million US dollars is enough to set off a lot of waves in this slightly depressed summer transfer market, and it can also make Vicenza, which has sold the core of the team, have enough funds for a new round of talent development.

It should be added here that Ballack is not the only player to be sold to Fiorentina in Vicenza this summer, as Di Natale, who left Fiorentina for three years due to lack of quality, also announced his return to the Purple Lilies for $7.5 million this summer. The unpretentious homegrown striker, who scored 20 goals in all competitions last season, has the ability to fill the flanks left by the departures of Shevchenko and Ljungberg in all positions of the attack, and to pull space and deliver shells for Vieri and Inzaghi.

This is one of the reasons why Shevchenko decided to leave Fiorentina, and his excellent performance of scoring 24 league goals in two seasons after joining the Purple Lily has made the Ukrainian nuclear warhead no longer satisfied with his tactical positioning in the team, and he prefers to replace Vieri and be closer to the goal in the game, rather than squandering his scoring ability by pulling space for his teammates on the wing.

From Shevchenko's point of view, there is also some truth in his opinion. It's true that as a top striker, scoring goals is what he does best, but there's one thing that the Ukrainians clearly forget, and that is that football is an eleven-man team sport and that if you want to get good results, someone has to sacrifice for it.

Yes, putting Shevchenko in the middle can indeed maximize his power on the offensive end, but on the other hand, Vieri and Inzaghi, who left the middle, have no way to play the kind of containment of Sheva on the wing, and their ability to break through with the ball is even more different. Therefore, if Sheva is moved to the middle, it will not be able to maximize the power of Fiorentina's attack, but will weaken the threat of the purple lily in attack.

Shevchenko is not stupid, he certainly understands that Heynckes' arrangement is indeed the best solution, after all, he came here when he played under Lobanovski. However, with the gradual increase of fame and honor, the Ukrainian is also becoming more and more ambitious, thinking that he should enjoy some special treatment after quietly dedicating himself to the team for so many years. As for the work of attracting firepower and pulling space on the wing, it should be left to those newcomers to do, and it is always a matter of letting him make a cameo.

As a result, at the end of last season, before Zhuang Mingge returned, Shevchenko had a long talk with Heynckes, and had an in-depth exchange on the team's positioning and playing time, but did not achieve the results he hoped for, and the meeting ended in failure.

It is precisely for this reason that Zhuang Mingge made up his mind to sell Andrei Shevchenko, who is no longer satisfied with the status quo and affected by injuries, to AC Milan, and exchanged this Ukrainian nuclear warhead for $30 million in cash and the vice-captain of the Rossoneri, Demetrio Albertini!