Time unconsciously entered November, Zhuang Mingge as an unscrupulous shopkeeper, most of the club's work is handed over to the three general managers to be responsible, he just found some useful things from the memory of his previous life to point out, the rest of the time to sit in the office to learn coaching courses, from time to time to tease Karin and then be chased by the embarrassed Karin, when Fiorentina has a home game Zhuang Mingge will appear in the stadium box on time to watch the game, the small life is extremely regular.

During this period, Fiorentina played three more league games, with a record of two wins and one draw, and Ranieri began to rotate more first-team players without a decline in the team's performance, and Zhuang Mingge's regular life continued until November 18, when it was reported in a newspaper.

Shame! Ginola! Sinners of France! 》

This was the front-page headline of the French media newspaper "Le Corpus" that day.

What is it that causes the always impartial team newspaper to be so angry?

There is only one answer: in the Shijie Cup qualifiers the day before, France lost 1:2 to Bulgaria and missed the Shijie Cup in the United States.

Let's recap the game:

On November 17, 1993, in the 94 American Shijie Cup Qualifiers European Group 6 match between France and Bulgaria, the French team only needed to draw their opponents to qualify.

The score was still 1-1 until the end, at this time, French midfielder David Ginola brought the ball to the front, the game will end at any time, and the French team is in sight of qualifying.

Jacquet, who was the assistant coach of the French team at the time, stood up from the dugout and wanted to convey the message to the players that "hold on a little longer, the game will be over", but it was these few seconds that became a nightmare for the French:

Ginola was tackled with the ball, the Bulgarian player played a long ball directly to the front, and striker Kostadinov volleyed hard, the ball went over the head of French goalkeeper Rama and hit the crossbar and refracted into the net......

France's Zuihou lost his ticket to the 1994 Shijie Cup in 10 seconds.

In Zhuang Mingge's view, the current situation of the French team is purely self-inflicted:

Originally, when there were two rounds left in the Shijie Cup qualifiers, France, with 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, with 13 points, was already far ahead of its opponents in the same group, and the French team only needed to get 1 point in 2 home games in Zuihou to ensure qualification. However, in the first game against Israel, they conceded 2 goals in 8 minutes, and France lost 2-3; At halftime in the crucial battle with Bulgaria, French coach Houllier actually took out champagne to celebrate the qualification in advance......

The French team is out, Zhuang Mingge, who has known about this incident for a long time, will not be surprised at all, he is concerned about the benefits that this incident can bring to him......

In terms of money, Zhuang Mingge, who had long known the outcome of the game, instructed Hercule Poirot a week ago to hand over $10 million of the "private money" in his account (another $2 million as the second phase of the construction of the training base to the construction company) through a series of operations into the major underground casinos in Southeast Asia to bet on the outcome of the game and the players who scored the goals.

The reason why Zhuang Mingge did not choose those famous bookmakers in Europe to bet on is because although these companies are for-profit commercial organizations, and most of them are subsidiaries of some large groups, such as Ladbrokes is affiliated with Hilton Hotel Group, and Bo Heaven is also a subsidiary of AIM.

But in these bookmakers, the real bookmakers are those who have always been low-key but powerful large consortia, they have a decisive influence in the political and economic circles of Europe, and it is these powerful consortia that have always controlled the order of the entire European gaming industry.

If Zhuang Mingge wants to make money from gambling, he must avoid these controllers of order and open up a new battlefield.

The original gambling capital of 10 million US dollars is not small, and if Zhuang Mingge bets on the outcome of the game, he will inevitably take away a big "cake" from those large gaming institutions.

However, the "cake" is limited, and if you move someone who has roughly allocated the haode "cake", it is inevitable that there will be new "variables".

Zhuang Mingge is very clear that although the overall environment of European football is very good, it is difficult for the will of the bookmaker to affect the players, coaches, and referees under normal circumstances, but what if it affects some fans and media? In Zhuang Mingge's opinion, this is not a difficult matter. If that's the case, "variables" outside of memory. It will be even more unpredictable, because it will truly fulfill the adage that "the battle outside the football field determines the outcome of the game".

In addition, Zhuang Mingge also has an important reason for strategically abandoning the European plate, that is, his scruples about his own identity sensitivity. It is precisely because those large gambling institutions in Europe have a strong background of large conglomerates and even official backgrounds that they have a relatively strict degree of monitoring of gambling funds, and there are more or less indescribable hidden rules.

And Zhuang Mingge's gambling capital of 10 million. At this time in '93, it can already attract a lot of attention.

Although the large European gambling institutions led by Ladbrokes will not refuse no matter how large the bet amount is. But the "big customer monitoring mechanism" set up by these bookmakers, Zhuang Mingge has heard of it in his memory in his previous life, if he is not careful, and the bookmaker who is waiting for him controls some of the details on his side, it will be a little more than worth the loss.

After all, if those gambling institutions that have lost red eyes at that time think that Zhuang Mingge, as an insider in the football world, must have mixed some kind of "famous" in the process of gambling, it will really be indisputable.

What's more, the football world has just come out of the typical case of Tapi, and is cracking down on match-fixing, at this time, if Zhuang Mingge gets involved, he will definitely get into some trouble, so it is obviously not in the interests of Zhuang Mingge to choose the European handicap.

Before you become famous, you become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of those special interest groups? Zhuang Mingge doesn't like this feeling.

"Tony, the news from Southeast Asia has come back, and it is conservatively estimated that your net profit from this gambling has reached $50 million." On the train, Karin Sigelin reported to Zhuang Mingge the income of gambling in Southeast Asia, the smart Karin did not ask Zhuang Mingge how she guessed the detailed results of this game, she chose to trust her "childhood sweetheart", and firmly believed that Zhuang Mingge would not do anything unsportsmanlike, "In addition, Tony, I want to ask, weishenme We are in a hurry to Paris, France?" ”

That's right, Zhuang Mingge was taking his "senior secretary" Karin at this time, transferring from Milan to take an express train to Paris, France, and he wanted to use this incident to obtain an "unexpected" benefit, that is, to introduce the culprit of this French exit incident - David Ginola.

Ginola's mistake at the moment buried the French team's dream of the 94 American Shijie Cup, and his fate changed from then on, and the French media and fans rebuked him, and Ginola turned from a rising star of hope to a murderer and sinner who "scourged" the French team.

Then-France coach Houllier said: "Ginola made two mistakes: he gave the penalty too quickly before the game without delaying the time; He also criticized Papin before the game, which affected the morale of the team......"

In the original Shijie, Ginola left the French national team forever because of this mistake, but Paris Saint-Germain did not abandon Ginola, and Ginola also devoted all his energy to the club, helping the team win the Ligue 1 championship and the French FA Cup in the next two seasons, which made Ginola hot in the transfer market.

But in Zhuang Mingge's current shijie, the Paris Saint-Germain club where David Ginola plays at the moment is also excluding Ginola's existence at this time, and the club has relegated Ginola to the reserve team, and Ginola, who has no official games to play, is trying to seek the possibility of a transfer while maintaining his condition through training.

However, to his disappointment, apart from the long-lost English team, who have expressed interest in him, most of the other top league teams have no intention of bringing in a foreign player who cannot represent the team because the squad is full.

Ginola was reluctant to play in England, after all, he had heard of the rough style of play in France, and the French who admired romance and art avoided it.

After Zhuang Mingge saw in the newspaper that Ginola had become a "rat crossing the street" in France, he seriously analyzed the possibility of Ginola joining Fiorentina, and felt that Ginola, who had no ball to play, should not exclude joining Fiorentina, who is expected to return to Serie A this season; On the other hand, after the rebuild, the team began to gradually split into two tactical systems: Batistuta became more and more dependent on his team-mates' crosses to score goals, while Effenberg's passes became more and more biased towards Inzaghi and Montella. This is not because there is any conflict between the two, but the difference in the style of the two has led to this situation.

Historically, we can also see that Fiorentina's most successful 98-99 season at Batistuta was the formation of a frontcourt partnership of Barty, Edmundo and Rui Costa, the reason is that Barty is not the top in terms of jishu, speed and breakthrough, he is a pure center forward, and Costa's jishu style is more suitable for speed or strong point strikers like Shevchenko or Inzaghi, so there must be an all-round frontcourt player between the two to act as a fusion agent. Edmundo is one such fusion agent.

Zhuang Mingge believes that the current Effenberg is a defence-hardened version of Costa, and Ginola should also be another "Edmundo": excellent passing and scoring ability, but also good at breaking through. After Ginola joins, he can have good chemistry with Effenberg and Batistuta, which is a very good choice for Fiorentina.

So Zhuang Mingge made a quick decision and immediately took action, telling Karin to call the Parisian side, simply packed up his things, took Karin, and went to Paris, France to prepare to snatch Ginola.