Chapter 1224: Another Youth Army

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After beating Ajax at home, Fiorentina has won three of four games and one draw in the group stage of this season's Champions Cup, and is only one step away from qualifying for the round of 16.

Seeing that the team is in sight of qualifying, Fiorentina fans are naturally extremely satisfied. Although Fiorentina's surprise draw in Amsterdam dashed the Purple Lily's hopes of progressing to the Champions League rematch with a clean sheet, Fiorentina's current progress in Group B is enough to satisfy their supporters.

In contrast, Ajax, who have won one, drawn one and lost two in the penalty area in the first four rounds of the group stage, are not in such a good mood. With main rivals Real Sociedad beating Dynamo Kyiv on an alternate pitch, third-placed in the group will have to go all out to win their next two games to keep their hopes of progressing to the round of 16 alive.

If Ajax's poor performance in the last two Champions League group games leads them to return home after the group stage, it will undoubtedly be an extremely fatal blow for the Eredivisie giants!

You know, if Ajax fails to reach the knockout stage of the Champions League, then the financial loss alone is enough to make the Ajax hierarchy feel distressed, not to mention the negative impact that this result may have on the prestige of the Ajax club. After all, although Ajax is still the well-deserved number one club in the Netherlands, clubs such as PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord that are slightly inferior to Ajax in terms of heritage are now developing very fiercely, and if they are not careful, they are likely to be overtaken by the other side, so as to fall behind in the increasingly cruel competition.

Therefore, in the face of such a critical situation and the possibility of losing a large amount of financial revenue, the Ajax management, who did not care much about the infighting between Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic, finally cheered up and began to reorganize the dressing room environment, trying to reunite these players and get another place in the last 16 of the Champions Cup!

After all, no matter what, Ajax's book strength is still quite strong. If they can settle these internal conflicts as soon as possible and devote themselves to the game, then it is still possible to overtake Real Sociedad in the group standings.

As for the league, Ajax are not too worried. Although the feud between Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart has caused the team to plummet, Ajax's position in the Eredivisie is still quite solid with the overall strength of the domestic team. PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord will find it difficult to pose a threat to them this season, even if they try to catch up.

However, although the ideas of the Ajax club's hierarchy were good, when they did get to deal with these conflicts, they found that the level of difficulty was far greater than they had previously anticipated. Neither Van der Vaart nor Ibrahimovic are willing to take the initiative to bow to each other at this time and admit that it is their own fault. As a result, the two are still unconvinced by each other in the game, Ajax's promotion path is still hopeless, and other players are also disappointed in the club, and they have secretly contacted their respective agents to seek the possibility of transfer.

Faced with this difficult situation, the Ajax management had to decide to adopt the most simple and direct solution, that is, to sell one of Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart, and leave the other as the core of the team, so as to completely solve the current problems in the team's dressing room. However, in this way, the overall strength of Ajax is bound to be seriously weakened, and they will no longer be able to compete for any heavyweight honors in the European competition.

Of course, even if Ajax does do this in the end, sending Ibrahim or Van der Vaart away next summer may only be a long time to spare, and the outcome of being carved up by various giants will never change.

With that out of the way, let's turn our attention back to Florence. After the match against Ajax, the Purple Lilies welcome the ninth round of Serie A this weekend, this time against Parma, who have been reduced from a strong man to a henchman.

Due to the loss of Parmalat, the queen and biggest financial main platform, Francesca's Parma did not move much in the summer transfer market, and it was already Parma's biggest success to retain the main goalscorer Adriano under the watchful eye of a hungry wolf, and at the same time to introduce Bonella and Mofeo at a low price.

I have to say that Fiorentina's schedule this season is really quite bad. From the fifth round of the league against Inter Milan to the current round of the Tardini Stadium to challenge Parma, the Purple Lily's five consecutive games against teams that have the quality to cause them problems, considering that this period is also interspersed with Champions League matches and national team matches, Fiorentina may lose a lot of points if they are not careful, thus losing the top position in the standings and losing the initiative in the league battlefield.

In fact, if it weren't for the two strong rivals of Inter Milan and Juventus, who have had key players who have suffered serious declines in form or suffered injuries this season, Fiorentina, who are fighting on both fronts, could have suffered several defeats in these five league rounds.

Despite complaints about the Football Association's hard-pressed schedule, Fiorentina did not address these complaints. Because they know very well in their hearts that the reason why the Italian Football Association arranges the schedule like this is to create obstacles for Fiorentina to defend the title to the greatest extent, and the purple lily always announces the championship a few rounds in advance, so that the ownership of the league championship loses suspense early.

To be honest, the Italian Football Federation has done a fairly generous job in this regard. At least they were just embarrassing Fiorentina on the schedule, not allowing the referees to apply double standards on the blowing scale, or even deliberately making decisions against Fiorentina in the game. If it were replaced by Stern's NBA or the FA with a lack of heart, and the UEFA led by Platini in the past, then Fiorentina would really be killed by them with these tricks.

As for specific examples of this, you can look at the sixth game of the 01-02 NBA West Conference Lakers vs. Kings, Chelsea before Mourinho's departure this season, and the infamous Stamford Bridge tragedy.

Of course, then again, if the Italian Football Association really dared to let the referee blow the Fiorentina game like this, then Zhuang Mingge would definitely not sit idly by. At that time, it is really hard to say which side will suffer the loss~