After returning from the training base in Monaco, Zhuang Mingge made a special phone call to Moji and told the old fox that Monaco had agreed to sell Thuram and Barthez, and the eluded Mo Lao Fox thanked Zhuang Mingge on the phone, after all, when he made his first offer, Monaco almost immediately rejected the two transfers, and he had no intention of negotiating.

Although Thuram will increase the strength of the opponent no matter which Serie A team he goes to, Zhuang Mingge does not think that Thuram alone can affect the competition for the Serie A title this season, of course, provided that he does not join Juventus......

The budget-conscious Moggi was quick to make his own offer for Thuram and Barthez: Juventus were willing to package them up for a $5 million transfer fee.

Of course, Monaco will not accept such a price, after all, they were the Ligue 1 champions last season, and even reached the semi-finals of the Champions League with this squad in the 93-94 season.

It was at this point that Thuram and Barthez privately expressed their desire to move to a higher league, and Serie A at this time was very attractive to the stars.

So the management of the Monaco club decisively threw aside the old fox who was biting at a price of 5 million and did not let go, turned his head and began to sell Thuram to the two teams of Inter Milan and Parma, and recommended Barthez to Roma, who had been worried about the lack of good goalkeepers, and Sampdoria, who had problems in the goalkeeper position after Pagliuca left - the owners of these teams would not mind taking the prey of the old fox, and the other point was that they did not mind spending money.

As soon as the senior management of several teams who have been worried about the team's backline heard that the French champion Monaco was going to sell, or their main central defender and goalkeeper, they joined the battle between the two.

After all, now that the time is getting closer and closer to the complete closure of the transfer door, Mo Lao Fox has no spare time to find a suitable candidate.

Although Moggie decisively took out more silver after Moratti and others came in to stir up the situation, the old fox Zuihou still fell short, and Parma still used their "sincerity" to beat Juventus in the transfer market again and snatched Thuram for $6 million; In the battle for Barthez, the old Sensi, who has always hoped to make his Roma have the strength to challenge the top three in the north, finally defeated his most unpleasant Juventus in the transfer market this time, and the stubborn old man took away the French door god with a transfer fee of 7.5 million US dollars, and gave the miserly Mo Lao Fox a resounding slap in the face.

Arsene Wenger, who received this huge sum of money, was not ambiguous, and quickly pulled out a part of his income to bring Argentine international Carlos Roa from South America; At the same time, he brought young central defender Ismael from his hometown Strasbourg (Wenger's birthplace is Strasbourg), but Wenger, who has a soft spot for his hometown, was not satisfied with taking only such a player from his hometown, and Strasbourg's young midfielder Dacourt was also brought to Monaco by the professor for a transfer fee of $1.2 million.

After a busy time, the old fox Mo left the European gambling city depressedly without saying hello to Zhuang Mingge, after all, after this battle, the calendar has turned to August 25, and there is not much time for the old fox to strengthen the team......

On the same day that Moggi left Monaco, the Fiorentina team flew to the city to prepare for the upcoming UEFA Super Cup.

Fiorentina's pre-match training ground is naturally Monaco FC's, and Wenger, who has gained a lot in the transfer market, generously agreed to Zhuang Mingge's request to borrow the training ground, and personally went out to persuade the stadium to give Fiorentina more time to adapt to the venue.

Everything is going on in an intense and orderly manner, but on August 26, the day before the start of the UEFA Super Cup, Zhuang Mingge will also attend a very important ceremony, that is, the draw for this season's UEFA Champions Cup.

In the past, there was no group stage in the European Champions Cup, and like the Cup Winners' Cup at this time, it was a knockout round from start to finish. By the time Johansson was in power, the Swedes were bent on expanding the influence of European football, and the group stage of the Champions Cup in the 91-92 season had gained more influence and profits. Overall, Johansson has done quite well, and he has helped to boost the influence of European football and the profits of the participating teams have increased exponentially.

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Zhuang Mingge looked around the venue and found that the club owner who attended the ceremony seemed to be the only one, but he still saw a few acquaintances sitting in the venue: Wenger, the head coach of last season's Ligue 1 champion Monaco, and Van Gaal, the head coach of Ajax......

Oh? It turns out that the guest of this lottery is this great god!

Zhuang Mingge recognized someone sitting in the guest seat at a glance, and the guest who was going to go on stage to draw lots later was Michelle Platini, who succeeded Johansson as the new president of UEFA and was nicknamed "Pugan Dad" by fans.

Platini had an illustrious career, winning three Serie A Golden Boots as a midfielder and three consecutive European Footballer of the Year titles between 1983 and 1985, as well as club honours: Champions League, Serie A, Ligue 1 and Toyota Cup......

Under his leadership, the French national team reached another peak after the end of the Copa era and led the French national team to their first European Championship in 1984.

After taking charge of UEFA, Platini did not say anything good, during his tenure he committed to the implementation of financial fair play policies, hoping to curb the shortcomings of football clubs that often make ends meet, and also achieved certain results; At the same time, he also insisted that clubs participating in European competitions must set aside a place for the club's youth players when submitting their squads, which will be used to strengthen the development of young players everywhere, which will help to improve the football atmosphere after the Boseman era.

However, Zhuang Mingge has no good impression of the future UEFA president, although he has received the support of most small countries during his administration, so that his position as the president of UEFA is as stable as Mount Tai, but in his previous life, as an ordinary Italian fan, Zhuang Mingge was quite uninterested in the UEFA president who suppressed giants, banned clubs from investing too much, and titles such as "godfather", but now Zhuang Mingge will naturally not be naïve enough to express dissatisfaction with Platini in such a public occasion. After all, Platini has not even reached the UEFA executive committee seat yet.