Chapter 128: The Idealist
Moratti's conditions?
Blanca followed Moratti's gaze to the pitch, and he guessed it right away.
Degan!
"I can agree to Mourinho's conditions, but Mr. Mendes needs to convince Digan to join Inter!"
Moratti's thoughts on Degan have long been no secret, when Deegan was loaned to Atalanta, he tried his best to bring in Degan, but AC Milan did not pay attention to Inter Milan's offer at that time.
Later, when Digan publicly stated that he was going to leave AC Milan, Moratti tried to make an offer again, and he was very confident at the time, but he didn't know what his mind was thinking at the time, so he actually listened to Mancini's opinion at the juncture, brought in Ibrahimovic, and gave up Digan.
Now it's time to make amends.
When Blanca heard this, he couldn't help frowning: "Mr. President, I have to say, I'm afraid it's difficult, Florence won't let their king leave, and De La Valle is a person who is very willing to invest more in the team, and Florence is not short of money!" ”
Blanca's words, Moratti didn't listen to them at all: "What if Degan is willing to leave? Can Florence still be able to stay!? ”
As Moratti spoke, Digan scored, receiving Maggio's cross from the left side of the box and squeezing Samuel past Cesar with a header.
Seeing Degan with open arms and frantically celebrating, Moratti's face was even more gloomy, but those eyes were shining, people who were not familiar with Moratti just regarded him as a football maniac, that was his public image, but people ignored that he was the president of Inter Milan at the same time, he also had another identity, a businessman.
Moratti is certainly not a shrewd businessman, he is more of an idealist.
"Also, tell Robert now. Mancini! Let him get out of here! ”
Blanca was stunned, he wanted to remind Moratti that the game was not over yet, Inter Milan had nothing left to lose, and his face still had to be taken into account, but looking at Moratti's face, he knew that this one had made another mistake.
Moratti is known to be impatient with the manager, from 1995 to 13 years now, from Bianchi to Mancini, Inter Milan has changed a total of 15 managers.
Of course, Moratti's interference in the team is nothing more, neither red-headed file addiction, nor four-character row control, he is a businessman, the chairman, but also a fan, a pure fan. The sincere love of the rich second generation of the Italian oil family for Inter is a gentleman's inheritance of family glory, rather than a local tyrant's subservience to power.
A man who only has 1,000 yuan but is willing to spend 900 yuan to buy a bicycle for you is more reliable than a local tycoon who is worth hundreds of millions but only buys a BMW for you. This is the logic of the dicks, but it's a pity that the girls in the material age would rather sit in the BMW and cry.
However, if he is a rich second generation with a net worth of only 2 billion, even if the hope of the championship is disappointed again and again, even if his ideal big international can only play the role of the Italian army during the two Shijie wars for a long time, and he will spend more than one billion dollars for his team for thirteen years, then he is the real saint in this era of football where business has pervasive, enough to move the whole Shijie.
This is a story about the chase of love, and also the story of letting go because of love. Over the past 13 years, Moratti has personally invested more than a billion euros in the Nerazzurri, which is more than half of his total assets, and what he is looking forward to is the "big international era" that belongs to Massimo.
Sometimes love only takes a simple encounter. For Massimo. For Moratti, such encounters took place when he was four years old.
In 1949, his father took Massimo, who was only four years old at the time, to watch Inter play for the first time, and from then on, his life was occupied by a rich blue-black.
At the age of 18, Massimo was at the time of Inter Milan's Champions League invincibility, and because his father did not send him a car, he rode his bicycle through most of Milan to the stadium to watch his beloved team's Champions League match.
In the stands of Meacha, his heart was completely melted by the tsunami of celebration from the fans, and he was also impressed by the glory of the team's great international era. He fell hopelessly in love with the team he had been with for 14 years and made a promise to create a big international era of his own.
Since then, a life journey mixed with pain has been boiling with the blue and black blood that Moratti has integrated into the bone marrow.
Due to physical reasons, Moratti's father Angelo chose to sell Inter Milan, so he was separated from his beloved team for 30 years. In these long years, he is still the most loyal fan of Inter, even when the team is slipping into the trough and the pain erodes his heart, he has never lost a trace of love.
In 1995, when Inter Milan were in the middle and lower reaches of the league and on the verge of relegation, the team had no funds to bring in strong reinforcements, and desperate Meaza fans found Moratti in the stands as a fan, and then indulged in chanting "Moratti is back".
The heartfelt cry also tugged at Moratti's heartstrings, and in fact, as early as a year ago on Christmas, he insisted on buying the team that was part of the Moratti family's blood, despite the opposition of his brother Gianmarco, who is in charge of the family's wealth.
No one knows how much pressure Moratti came under to buy Inter, and that his brother and even the entire family scoffed at the money-burning act, only that he stubbornly stuck to his ideals and did not hesitate to invest his personal assets.
"I wanted to stay out of the circle and be an honest fan, because no one in the family agreed with the idea of taking over Inter Milan and almost everyone said to me 'don't do that, it's a mess and you're going to suffer from it.'" But I did it anyway, and if you ask me weishenme, I would say that this is also a use of wealth: to buy love. ”
On February 18, 1995, the head of the Moratti family named Massimo entered the football circle strongly, and he bought 69.6% of the shares of the Inter Milan club from Pellegrini, when Inter Milan once ranked 14th among the 18 teams in the league, and the century-old giants were on the verge of relegation and officially became the big boss of Inter.
This is just a microcosm of Moratti's 13-year Inter career, for the sake of his beloved team, for the sake of that love, he has accumulated more than one billion euros for the team, to increase the team's strength and fill the team's financial deficit.
Don't say Abramovich, don't mention the Abu Dhabi consortium, you know, Massimo. Moratti is not the richest man in the family, and even in Italy he is only about 100 rich. But it was the second commodity who had a personal fortune of nearly 2 billion euros at his peak and resolutely used up more than half of the team's assets.
He buys love with his wealth, and he is also suffering for love, which is Moratti's most paranoid attachment to Inter.
For Moratti, happiness can be so simple in the course of more than a decade, as he occasionally cycles from Via Billini through most of Milan to the Stadio Meazza as he did in the past, and the old man dances in the box as if no one was around for a victory.
Like a loving father who is always willing to buy his children the most haode toys at any cost, Moratti's way of doting on Inter is to keep devoting himself to it, as if there is no end to it.
From the day he took over Inter, Moratti began to burn money: in 1996, he invested 3.99 million euros; 37.5 million euros in 1997; In 1998, it reached 68.5 million euros; 32.5 million euros in 1999; In 2000, it reached a record 133 million euros!
After that, it was never ambiguous, it seemed that money was just a tool to serve Inter in his eyes, and the Italian media was surprised: "Moratti loves Inter as much as his money." ”
Spending a whopping €42.8 million to bring in Ronaldo, 1 million barrels of oil in exchange for Vieri, and $7 million to keep Recoba with his first year salary, Moratti treats these stars as his own children, and he also loves to chase these stadium treasures as much as an ordinary fan.
His brother Gianmarco often complained: "Massimo, you spend too much money for Inter. If you don't relent, be careful that I close your bank account. ”
Massimo always replied: "That money will never be worth the love I have for the team, I did it for Inter. Isn't that the ideal of a father? Sooner or later, Inter Milan will reach the top again, because it is destined by God. ”
Inter did make it to the top again, but the price was not something that everyone was willing to accept.
In order to fulfill his promise, Moratti spent 42.8 million euros to bring him from Barcelona to the Meaza Stadium, with the dream of dominating Serie A and even Europe.
Moratti took care of Ronaldo like a father, even if he was unable to play for a long time due to a serious injury, even if he resolutely decided to switch to Real Madrid, even if Ronaldo later joined the arch-rival AC Milan, the father has always explained for his children: "He is not a traitor, I allowed him to leave." ”
Moratti's doting on his stars goes beyond a boss's concern for his employees, and this doting also creates tensions and infighting in the dressing room, with coaches being the scapegoats when stars and coaches can't coexist.
Under Moratti's Inter Milan, 15 coaches have been replaced in 13 years, including famous coaches such as Lippi and Cooper, and Moratti's butcher's knife is always swung at the coach, so much so that the Italian media joked: "Once the team does not perform well in Meazza, Massimo first thinks of the head coach." ”
Moratti is certainly not a shrewd boss, but he also deserves the weight of greatness. In March 2005, Burdisso's daughter Angelina was diagnosed with leukemia, Burdisso had no intention of playing football, and only wanted to return to China to take care of his daughter, so he said to Moratti: "I want to go back to my daughter, so I have to give up Inter Milan, give up the Shijie Cup, give up the high wages here, you can use the money to buy a good defender." ”
But Moratti said: "You do what you have to do, Inter will help you, we will wait for you." ”
He loves Inter Milan in his own way, even if this doting makes it once a "star black hole" and "coach's grave" in the ridicule of the outside world.
As his brother Gianmarco described: "Massimo was not a shrewd businessman, he was more of an idealist." "In the face of difficult realities, it is natural to suffer from idealists like Moratti.
He invested at any cost, hoping to recreate the "Great International Era" in his own hands, but every year the huge investment is always lost in the sea, swallowing up the hope that people weave year after year.
As a result, the Nerazuri began to divide as well: some sympathized with his plight, believing that all his mistakes stemmed only from doting on the team; The other faction clearly sees him as the biggest obstacle to the team's development.
In Shijie football, Moratti was once full of ridicule and doubts, many people regarded him as a willful and incompetent "wronged boss", and some people thought that he was just using money to build his own football manager game in reality.
If you change to team owners like Berlusconi and De Laurentiis, they will laugh it off. Moratti, on the other hand, has always been bound by his deep love.
Just like in January 2004, when he resigned as president of Inter, not only because of the team's poor results, but also because of the banners of those fans who said ", Moratti, stop harming Inter". Those doubts that pierced his heart deeply made him choose to stand behind the scenes for a while.
In 2006, when the "great left-back" Facchetti died of illness, Moratti became president of the club again. No one knows that the price he paid for the so-called title of president was that Inter Milan had a deficit of 46 million euros in the past season and a half, and the money would be borne by Moratti personally after the Inter board of directors studied it.
Without hesitation, Moratti opened his personal checkbook.
Pain is never far away. From the family's incomprehension and lack of support, to the invective of the fans and the stagnation of the team, to the sarcasm and ridicule of the media. The curse of "you should never win by spending money" even left Moratti sleepless for a week.
Last season, when the team really lifted the league championship trophy on its own, Moratti really thought he was going to succeed, but when the brief happiness passed, he waited for the familiar pain.
The Coppa Italia was eliminated, the Champions League was eliminated, and Serie A was actually on its doorstep, witnessing the opponent's ascension to the throne.
It is difficult for the average person to understand the pain in Moratti's heart.
All this pain turned into an outburst: "Let him get out of here immediately!" ”