Chapter 518 - When the Plan Proceeds (4)

PS: Thanks to the bookmate "Roommate A" for his guidance, the bug in chapter 339 has been corrected to Wesley Sneijder.

Fiorentina's answer to the questions raised by Benfica Club was also very simple: these players were personally screened by Chairman Antonio Corleone and decided to recommend them to Benfica, if you are not satisfied, you can naturally choose not to buy them, but I hope you will not regret this in the future.

The Florentina man's sentence "don't regret it in the future" made Benfica speechless, after all, Fiorentina did fulfill the obligations stipulated in the contract, but Benfica didn't like the players recommended by Fiorentina at first, and felt that their fame was a little unworthy of Benfica, one of the three giants in Portugal.

In the eyes of Benfica, the young players who can join this club must at least have a small reputation in their home country. However, the four players recommended at Fiorentina broke this perception for Benfica.

Motta and Lucio have not yet played in the professional league, and their position on the field in Brazil, which advocates attack, also determines that their popularity cannot be very high, which naturally does not meet this standard of the Portuguese giants; Edmilson, who has been playing professionally in Sao Paulo for three and a half years, is still not a regular in the team; Not to mention Deco, who has been in Brazil for more than two years, he is stunned that no team is willing to want it, and he doesn't look like a potential star.

Of course, it's hard to say whether Benfica had any intention of pretending to reject these players first, and then taking the opportunity to get a few more players from Zhuang Mingge to play at the Stadium of Light (Benfica's home stadium).

It's just that the little calculations in their hearts have just begun to be strangled in the cradle by the Florentines.

At the same time, Rui Costa, a former Benfica player who plays for Fiorentina, learned the news from some sources, and sent a message to the parent team that trained him: "Although I don't know who the players he recommended to Benfica are, I absolutely trust the vision of Mr. President, because he has never made a mistake in this." ”

So, after a slap of dust at Fiorentina and a reprimand by "its own man" Costa, Benfica Club began to calm down and think seriously - these people are certainly clear about the Fiorentina president's vicious eyes.

Could it be that he really lost his eyes this time? Do these under-looking players actually have great potential?

In the end, it was Zhuang Mingge's reputation in the transfer market that played a decisive role, and the Benfica club gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, deciding to believe the eyes of the Fiorentina president once, and brought all four players to Lisbon to let them play here for a season first - these players are not worth much anyway, and the likes of Deco can even join for free and it won't cost them a few dollars.

The price of these people is naturally a big joy for both sides, and even if they can't play, it's just a waste of a few first-team places, which is not a big deal.

The four players immediately earned their place in the first team with their outstanding quality and diligent training attitude, and they joined forces with young striker Nuno Gomez, who also joined the team this summer, to help Benfica beat defending champions Porto with super centre-forward Jadel in the league to regain the trophy.

In addition to these four players, Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been in Fiorentina's youth squad for more than two years, has also been loaned to Benfica this time by Zhuang Mingge. After all, Italian football has never had a tradition of cultivating wingers, and it is God forbid that a Donadoni emerged a few years ago. Therefore, Zhuang Mingge intends to let Ronaldo return to Portugal to receive a five-year long-term training session with Benfica club.

Although Benfica does not produce as many wide players as Sporting Lisbon, the players produced by this club are very distinctive, and the strengths of the players themselves can often be brought to the best at Benfica, such as Maniche and Rui Costa.

Therefore, if Ronaldo is loaned to Benfica to play, his strengths should also be discovered and strengthened by Benfica's coaches, instead of being copied by a large group of coaches into the template of a traditional winger like he did in Sporting Lisbon in the past, and he was forced to develop him into a flashy wide attacker.

Cristiano Ronaldo's trajectory shows that he is actually very malleable, and since leaving Sporting Lisbon, the Portuguese has continued to grow, eventually growing from a wide player obsessed with fancy dribbling to a team leader who is proficient in all kinds of martial arts.

Therefore, Zhuang Mingge believes that Ronaldo, who has been honed by Benfica, will be more practical and stronger than the little Ronaldo's playing style in the same period in history.

Before leaving for Lisbon, Ronaldo made a request: he wanted to meet the uncle who had brought him to Florence to lift him and his family out of poverty.

After Zhuang Mingge learned of Ronaldo's request, of course he agreed, although he was an Italian fan in his previous life, this did not prevent him from appreciating Ronaldo, especially his attitude of changing when he knew his mistakes, which was really valuable in a star.

Don't you see, no matter how much criticism they receive, have the Barcelona players never thrown away the two magic weapons of individual acting skills and besieging referees?

"Lord, Uncle Chairman." The twelve-year-old Ronaldo walked into Zhuang Mingge's office, his face was full of nervous expression, full of anxiety about the future, and he couldn't see that this child would grow into a football superstar who would always be full of confidence, "In the future, can I still go back to Fiorentina to play?" ”

"Well, of course. Cristiano, who is loaning you to Benfica this time, is to allow you to learn something that you can't learn in Italy, and that will benefit you for the rest of your life. Zhuang Mingge stretched out a hand and gently touched Ronaldo's head, and said with a smile, "Cristiano, let's make an agreement here." As long as you can become a professional footballer, I can guarantee you here, and as long as Cristiano wants to, you can stay in Florence until the day you want to leave or retire. ”

At this time, Zhuang Mingge did not realize that it was this agreement between him and Ronaldo that completely changed a player's life.