Chapter 503: Serie A Reform (2)

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Allowing the stadium to be privately owned by the clubs, Prodi's introduction of this law immediately caused an uproar throughout Italy.

In Italy, almost everyone who follows or works in the football industry praises Prodi's "enlightened move" as the wisest decision Prodi has made since becoming Italy's prime minister; At the same time, the owners of Italian clubs have expressed their support for the bill.

Under the guidance of Zhuang Mingge over the years, intentionally or unintentionally, these owners of Serie A teams have long coveted the fact that the Premier League team can have a stadium of their own. Because if a club has such a stadium, it will be of great benefit to the club's commercial development and equipment maintenance and renewal.

When the stadium is not owned by the club, even if the team wants to carry out commercial development or expand the stadium, there are many restrictions, and the old-fashioned city government will not agree to it first; Not to mention updating the hardware facilities and maintaining the venue, the stadium is rented in the first place, who cares about the good or bad of something that does not belong to them? If you can deal with it, you can use it!

Therefore, Prodi's introduction of the stadium privatization bill can be said to be the appetite of these team owners. Although the law will not come into force until August 1, many clubs have already approached the local municipality to inquire about the sale price of the course.

Fiorentina was no exception, and the day after the bill was announced, Poirot was sent by Zhuang Mingge to negotiate with the Fiorentina city government about the sale of the Stadio Franchi.

For this team, which has won numerous championships and honors in recent years, equaling or even breaking many records, the city government has little intention of making things difficult for the other party. On the one hand, because the Corleone family behind Florence has a strong enough background, and no one wants to joke with their political life; On the other hand, because the purple lily, who has won the heavyweight championship in a row, has become a hero of the city in the minds of the citizens of Florence who love football, and can become another business card of the city.

Therefore, the city government did not ignore the Fiorentina club's request for the Frankie Stadium this time, but was quite active, and the mayor personally came forward to negotiate the price with Poirot for the first time.

It's just that as soon as the mayor came up, he opened his mouth and offered Frankie Stadium a price of $100 million, which really scared Poirot, who came to ask for the price.

"Mr. Mayor, don't you think it's a bit too outrageous to ask our club to buy this stadium for $100 million?" Although he knew that the other party's first asking price would definitely be quite high, the price of $100 million was still much more than Poirot expected, "I personally think that this price is completely unacceptable to our Fiorentina club. ”

"I don't think the asking price of $100 million is too much, but the Stadio Frankie is one of the best stadiums in Florence, and it underwent a major renovation for the World Cup seven years ago, so it's in the best of all aspects in Europe." As the mayor of Florence, although he is a politician by profession, in a way, a qualified politician is also a good businessman, at least where it is in his own interests, these people are never soft-hearted, and they seem to be extremely shrewd, "If you build a new stadium, I am afraid that you will spend more than 100 million, right?" ”

"Mr. Mayor, I can't agree with you." Poirot deliberately avoided the analysis of the cost of buying an existing stadium and building a new stadium, pointing to a major loophole in the opponent's remarks: "The Frankie Stadium has indeed undergone a renovation, but that doesn't mean that the level of hardware in this stadium can be called one of the best in Europe seven years later. Mr. Mayor, I strongly suggest that you go and look at the courses of the Britzes and then talk about the grade of Frankie Field. ”

"Well, Mr. Hercule, it seems that our city government doesn't have enough faith in the current state of Frankie Field, so I think this negotiation will stop here." Realizing that his side was not fully prepared, the mayor decisively chose to postpone the negotiations, "What do you think about restarting the negotiations after our side has done some research?" ”

"Well, okay, then I'll wait for your good news." Poirot also accepted it when he saw it, so that the other party could sober up and realize what kind of goods the chips in their hands were, so that he would not be wasting saliva and explaining to the other party.

Zhuang Mingge was not in a hurry after learning about the progress of the first leg of the confrontation with the city government from Poirot, and he naturally experienced a lot of negotiations after running the Fiorentina club for so many years, and he knew the truth of asking for money on the spot.

What's more, the two sides are only tentatively contacting now, the negotiations have just begun, and there is still a long time before the deadline for the development plan set by Zhuang Mingge and Kenyon, so now Poirot has time to negotiate with these people from the city government over the price.

In the midst of a heated exchange between Poirot and the city of Florence over the price of the stadium, the first club to announce the successful purchase of the stadium was born: the old Pozzo, who was good at management, moved the city of Udine to take the ownership of the Stadio Friuli for 80 million dollars!

According to the agreement signed between the Udinese club and the city government, the huge sum of 80 million US dollars will be paid in full within eight years, and Udinese does not need to pay additional interest for it, which is also a preferential treatment for the club from the city of Udine.

The success of the Udinese takeover has greatly stimulated other clubs that are negotiating, and not to be left behind, have stepped up their offensive and are ready to take ownership of the stadium from the government as soon as possible.

In this way, with the smooth implementation of this bill, Prodi's public support in Italy suddenly rose by a full ten percentage points! Completely secured the position of Italian Prime Minister.

In response to the government's proposal to privatize stadiums, the Italian Football Federation decided to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the impact of the law on Italian football on July 24, a week before the stadium privatization bill came into effect.

As the organizer of this meeting, the president of the Football Association, Perrault, specially invited several representatives of the Italian professional league to attend the meeting to discuss the development of Italian football in detail.

Among the invited clubs are the seven Serie A sisters led by Fiorentina, who represent the top teams in Italy and have a considerable influence in Italian football, and the Italian Football Federation certainly does not dare to ignore the existence of these big clubs, unless these football association officials want to apply for layoff.

In order to show its care for the small club, the Football Association also chose Vicenza as a representative of the small and medium-sized clubs to participate in this meeting this time, however, all discerning people know that Vicenza is purely a soy sauce player, and there is no strong team behind them to support it, and at this level of meeting, the opinion of this small club will not be taken seriously at all.