Because after arriving at the headquarters of the Italian Football Association, Zhuang Mingge heard a lot of complaints from the old man Perrault, which made him think that someone would definitely attack the representatives of their Serie A clubs at this Football Association meeting, so while waiting for the meeting to start, Zhuang Mingge made a lot of plans in his heart to deal with it.

However, the progress of the meeting greatly exceeded Zhuang Mingge's expectations: in the meeting, the Football Association said that it would and fully agreed to the league reform plan submitted by the club representatives; At the same time, Chairman Perrault also agreed with Zhuang Mingge and others that the Football Association should also invest in youth training.

Old man Perrault did not even bargain with Zhuang Mingge, and bluntly said that from now on, the Italian Football Association will spend at least $15 million a year to invest in the construction of youth training in China, including providing financial support to clubs that lack financial resources to help them build basic youth training facilities; Build football schools across the country, further improve the youth training system, and so on.

Zhuang Mingge naturally didn't know that while he was waiting for the meeting to start in the lounge, Perrault called all the Football Association personnel attending the meeting to his office for a short meeting: he wanted to unify the thinking of his side before the meeting started, so as to avoid a mistake when the meeting started.

And the last sentence of Old Man Perrault shocked many people who were still unconvinced: "If there is anyone else who is not convinced, then I have nothing to say, so I have to let Mr. Agnelli take him away!" ”

In this way, under the ventilation of Old Man Perrault, the meeting came to an end in a harmonious atmosphere between the Football Association and the club.

Although the Italian Football Association doesn't do anything serious on weekdays, its work efficiency is still quite fast when there is pressure from the outside world.

The day after the meeting, the Italian Football Federation issued a public statement: the current restriction that Serie A can only bring in one non-EU player in a single season has been removed, and each club can only include a maximum of five non-European foreign players in the first team's 25-man roster.

The other clauses in the statement are completely consistent with Zhuang Mingge's previous proposal in the professional league meeting, so I will not explain it here.

With the Italian Football Federation leading the team in charge of league reform, Zhuang Mingge can naturally return his attention to Fiorentina FC. In any case, he is the president of Fiorentina, not the Italian Football Federation.

"Boss, here's the news Kenyon just sent back." Antonioni walked into Zhuang Mingge's office and reported to him on the construction of the satellite club network, "Anderlecht and Monaco have signed contracts with us, agreeing that we will pay a certain amount of annual fees each year in exchange for the right of first refusal of the players in their team. ”

"Oh? Kenyon is fast! It's been less than a month to get two clubs. Zhuang Mingge took the report from Antonioni's hand, and said while looking at it, "Now, he should have arrived in Portugal, right?" ”

"That's right, Kenyon arrived in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, by plane yesterday. According to the plan, he plans to meet the two clubs Benfica and Sporting Lisbon first to see their asking prices before making a decision. ”

"Huh? I remember that Portugal didn't have a very strong team called Porto? It seems to have won the European Champions Cup once more than a decade ago, so why didn't Kenyon mention it? As a time-traveler, Zhuang Mingge is naturally familiar with the grassroots miracle of Porto and Monaco in the 03-04 European Champions Cup.

Especially Mourinho, who was the head coach of Porto at the time, no matter whether the outside world's attitude towards him is good or bad, Zhuang Mingge has always firmly believed that Magic Bird is definitely one of the top managers in European football, and only a few people can compare with him, such as Ancelotti, Ferguson, and Benitez.

The most important thing is that Porto have quite a set of skills in developing players, Deco, Carvalho, Pepe, Falcao...... Top stars are endless! Therefore, when both Sporting Lisbon and Benfica began to decline due to the impact of Bosman, Porto held up the banner of Portuguese football and became the hegemon of Portuguese football in the new century!

Therefore, unlike the likes of Kenyon and Antonioni, Porto is much more attractive than the other two clubs in Zhuang Mingge's eyes.

"Well, I've had some conversations with Kenyon before, and he said that the Porto club requires us to pay an annual fee of more than $10 million to sign a contract with us on the right of first refusal, so ......" Antonioni stopped talking at this point, because he knew he didn't have to go on - didn't you see the boss's face turn black?!

Tsk, Porto is really the most famous black shop in Europe, is it actually showing signs at this time? Zhuang Mingge understood a little in his heart the reason why Kenyon abandoned Porto. After all, in this era, if you spend tens of millions of dollars on a club, you only get a right of first refusal, and it is estimated that no one will do it, right?

You know, before the new millennium, Sporting Lisbon and Benfica were much more famous than Porto, and now most of the players of Portugal's golden generation come from these two clubs. Nor did the two teams ask for more than five million dollars when they learned that Fiorentina were interested in some sort of partnership with them.

It is precisely for this reason that when Porto's reputation is not as big as the other two, and it still costs such a high price, it is logical for Kenyon to give up Porto's choice.

"Gianna Carlo (Antonioni), tell Sù Kenyon that if the asking price of Sporting Lisbon and Benfica is about the same, let's choose Benfica." After pondering for a while, Zhuang Mingge opened his mouth and said to Antonioni.

"Is it because of Rui?" Antonioni quickly understood the meaning of Zhuang Mingge's words, and as a professional footballer, he was naturally quite sensitive to this aspect.

"Well, Rui is a very emotional person, Benfica lost a lot of key players because of the Boseman thing, that's something everyone knows." Zhuang Mingge nodded, acquiescing to Antonioni's speculation, "If Benfica has a closer relationship with Fiorentina and gets a certain amount of support from us, I believe Rui can play in Fiorentina with more peace of mind, and he doesn't have to worry about the future of his parent team in his heart." ”

Zhuang Mingge knew that Rui Costa, who has a good style of football, is very emotional, but does not pay much attention to honor, otherwise he would not have been sold to AC Milan by Cherrigori to pay off his debts until Fiorentina fell into an extremely serious financial crisis, when he was 29 years old - you know, Batistuta, as a Totem of Fiorentina, transferred to Roma two years ago in order to complete the dream of the league title!

Later, Benfica fell into a crisis, and Costa, who had planned to retire in Milan, returned to play for his parent club, and even became the club's manager after retiring, using his contacts as a player to help Benfica through the difficulties.

This shows how much Rui Costa really cares about it.