Chapter 780: Samp's Relegation (Part I)

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Sampdoria lost at home to Fiorentina and was relegated from Serie A two rounds ahead of schedule The news soon spread throughout Italy under the media publicity, becoming another blockbuster news after Fiorentina was eliminated in the Champions Cup!

Although many people expected that the results of the Aqua Blues, who were beaten by Mantovani Jr., would be very bad this season, no one could have imagined that Sampdoria, with stars such as Montella and Ortega, would be relegated at the end of the season.

This is a replica of Fiorentina's relegation six years ago! At that time, the Purple Lily also started high and low with the three foreign players of Laudrup Jr., Effenberg and Batistuta, and finally was relegated from Serie A at the end of the season.

If it weren't for Zhuang Mingge's rescue of the purple lily later, Fiorentina fans wouldn't dare to imagine what the team would be like now!

Unexpectedly, within a few years, Sampdoria followed in the footsteps of Florence and also embarked on this road of no return.

After all, Sampdoria, which has successfully won a league championship trophy under the siege and interception of teams such as the top three in the north and Napoli, and even almost won the cup in the first Champions Cup trip, only lost to La Liga giants Barcelona in extra time, has a lot of popularity in Italy and even in the whole of Europe.

It is precisely for this reason that when the news of Sampdoria's relegation from Serie A came out, many fans began to miss the golden Samp team under the leadership of Vialli and Mancini, the two striker twins. At the same time, they also expressed infinite contempt in their hearts for Paul Mantovani's successor in Samp, Mantovani Jr. - how incompetent this thing must be to toss the golden Samp, which could wrestle with the top giants, into the current miserable situation in just a few years!

As a result, after Sampdoria was relegated ahead of schedule, a large-scale fan demonstration broke out in the city, and tens of thousands of Samp fans gathered at the door of the club, demanding that Mantovani Jr. take the blame and resign, hand over the management and shares of the club, and let a reliable person manage the team and bring Sampdoria on the right track!

For the fans, Sampdoria's ** is naturally a thing that makes them choke. For other teams, Sampdoria's relegation is a good thing, because once a team like this is relegated, it is often impossible to afford the high expenditure and player pressure and sell some of the team's backbone at a low price.

And this means that there will be a lot of high-quality players at low prices in the transfer market, and other teams can take this opportunity to carve up these resources, so as to strengthen the team at the most cost-effective price!

In the historic world of European football, such cases abound, the most well-known are of course Fiorentina and Nottingham Forest, who were relegated in '93, when the Purple Lilies sold almost all first-team players except Barty and Effenberg, and Nottingham Forest also lost a large number of key players, the most famous of which is the current Manchester United captain, Irish iron man Roy Keane.

No, the league has not completely ended, Mo Lao Fox has begun to stretch out his claws to Sampdoria, as for his goal, it is naturally Sampdoria's top striker, Vincenzo Montella!

In Mo Lao Fox's view, this striker with extremely efficient goals can not only effectively make up for the weakness of Juventus's lack of forward scoring ability, but also form a powerful attacking combination with Zidane and Pierrot!

Think about it, Zidane is in charge of organization and scheduling, Pierrot is in charge of the final pass, Montella is in charge of converting the two of them into assists, and at the same time can also pull space for teammates.

Thinking of this, even Moji, an old fox who is accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, can't help but be greedy for this beautiful picture.

For this reason, the always stingy Moggie even made a hefty $16 million offer for Montela, in order to recruit this excellent homegrown forward before other teams reacted!

Moggi's move naturally can't hide that he is always paying attention to his Inter Milan and Roma, whether it is for the purpose of raising the price or for the purpose of strengthening the team, Moratti and Sensi Sr. also paid a lot of transfer fees for the homegrown center forward with high goal efficiency shortly after Juventus made an offer for Montella's transfer!

Mantovani Jr., who was already under pressure from the fans, saw that there were so many local tycoons who wanted his own team, and he was dazzled by the large amount of money, and he decided to make a fortune on Montella's transfer to fill his pocket before selling the club. The short-sighted little Mantovani did not realize what kind of price a Sampdoria could sell without Montella.

The battle for Montella will continue for a while, now let's take a look at Zhuang Mingge's actions.

Unlike Moggi and Moratti, who poached Samp to strengthen themselves, Zhuang Mingge, who had no idea about these players in the Sampdoria first team, was now working on the plan determined at the beginning of this year to use Sampdoria's relegation from Serie A to attract foreign investment for Italian football.

Thanks to his personal connections and financial background, Groz Jr. soon came into contact with Berezovsky, one of Russia's seven major financial oligarchs. Under the persuasion of Groz Jr., the most important domestic giant began to seriously consider the purchase of Sampdoria.

Don't look at Berezovsky's current glory in Russia, but the former mathematics professor knows in his heart that his current career is completely based on making a fortune and having Yeltsin, a big-name hardcore ally, once Yeltsin falls one day and is replaced by an iron-fisted leader, then Berezovsky, these Yeltsin supporters, will definitely be the first to be liquidated by the other side.

After all, in the history of Russia, there has never been a shortage of such iron-fisted monarchs. Moreover, during the transfer of power, the political struggle between the old and new factions was always bloody and impersonal, and Berezovsky naturally knew this.

Therefore, in the view of the cunning Berezovsky, if he can successfully buy Sampdoria with the olive branch extended by Zhuang Mingge, then this can undoubtedly leave him a back road to the West. Although such a back road is usually not visible, it may be able to save lives at a critical moment.