Chapter Seventy-Eight: Eight Consecutive Victories
I'll it, it turns out that this is the legendary boss who spends money like water! After Zhuang Mingge learned the true identity of this man, he began to keep replaying all kinds of "generosity" of this great boss in his mind:
Massimo Moratti is a very emotional, emotional person. He likes to collect big-name strikers, often buys players from other teams according to his own preferences rather than the actual needs of the team, and often interferes with the manager's line-up.
"Inter's dugout is a hell." This was the consensus of Italian football during Moratti's reign. Moratti wants the team to play beautiful attacking football and to win all the titles. But he doesn't support the manager mentally or professionally – whenever the team's big stars misbehave and get into trouble with the manager for a variety of reasons, Moratti is usually on the side of the stars. He was very tolerant of the disciplined and picky behavior of the players, but he was extremely strict with the team's head coach, and he changed coaches frequently during his tenure, resulting in the Inter Milan head coach always having low authority within the team, and at the same time the head coach lacked a voice in the transfer market.
The most typical example is Cooper's desire to bring in Nesta in the summer of '02, because the team's existing several central defenders such as Córdoba and Materazzi are all attacking central defenders, but Moratti brought the same type of Cannavaro to Cooper.
Moratti is willing to pay high transfer fees and pay huge wages to famous midfielders because of his penchant for collecting big-name strikers, as exemplified by Recoba, who is a talented man but is unlikely to be offered $8 million a year by any club other than Inter Milan.
"Well, Antonio, are you alright?" Moratti also obviously noticed Zhuang Mingge's "abnormality" and asked suspiciously.
"Oh, it's nothing, I just got a little distracted, I'm so sorry." Zhuang Mingge quickly recovered from his memories and apologized to Moratti, "By the way, Massimo, just now you said that if you are the president of Inter Milan, do you plan to buy Inter Milan from Pellegrini?" ”
"That's right, I have the plan." Moratti nodded affirmatively and said, "Under the old fool of Pellegrini, Inter Milan cannot become a real giant team at all, every year this miser has to grind for half a day for the team's expenses and Tronchetti, and he doesn't want to think about how Inter Milan can win the championship without a large investment!" Last season he almost tossed the team to the relegation zone!! So, I'm going to save Inter Milan from this old fool!! ”
"Massimo, if you could become president of Inter Milan, how would you build this team?" Zhuang Mingge asked with concern, after all, he also wanted to see if this great boss was really as generous as the legend said.
"Hehe, I know I'm a novice in this area, but luckily I have a template to follow." Moratti said proudly.
"Who?"
"It's Antonio!"
"......" Zhuang Mingge was speechless, what can you, an old boy, refer to from me?
Moratti glanced at Zhuang Mingge with interest and said: "Antonio, I have carefully observed your actions as the president of Fiorentina for more than a year, such as the introduction of large-scale stars, such as Kripa and Djokaeff; There is also the construction of a top training base in Europe...... I'm very inspired. ”
"Uh......" Zhuang Mingge was about to say something, but was interrupted by Moratti, who was in a frenzy:
"So, I'm thinking, if I become the president of Inter Milan, I must buy all the best stars in the whole Shijie to Inter Milan, so that the fans can enjoy the most gorgeous offensive football, let Inter Milan win all the championships that can be obtained, and reproduce the big international era when my father was in power!"
"Uh, this Shijie's big boss's habit of always buying stars can't have anything to do with us, right?" Zhuang Mingge secretly wiped a handful of cold sweat and thought wordlessly.
However, although many of the stars purchased by the boss did not give full play to their strength, and even Inter Milan was later named "Star Black Hole", no one can deny the fan chairman's love for Inter Milan, and he wholeheartedly wants to make Inter Milan return to the glory of the "big international era", so he will spare no effort to collect stars from all over Shijie to enhance the strength of the team. Although before Facchetti became Inter Milan's president, most of Moratti's own signings were cups......
Just when Zhuang Mingge was talking to Moratti, time had passed quietly. At this point, Fiorentina and Inter Milan had reached the second half, and the score was currently 1-0, Fiorentina was leading away, and Effenberg took advantage of a free kick opportunity to assist Batistuta to score with a header.
And the reason why Inter Milan is able to maintain this score now is thanks to its own goalkeeper Pagliuca, if it weren't for his high and low blocks in these dozens of minutes, and even saved Batistuta's close header in first-half stoppage time, Inter Milan would have been several goals behind the opponent now.
It can be said that the separate battles of the two foreign players on the front line directly led to the passive situation of Inter Milan in this game.
Now the game has reached the 65th minute, Inter Milan attacked.
Berti drove forward from the left and saw Effenberg rushing towards him, and immediately made a pass to Ruben Sousa in front of him.
Ruben Sousa did not rush to break through with the ball after receiving the pass, but looked up at the position of the Fiorentina player, hoping to find a gap in it and send a beautiful through ball.
But to his chagrin, he did spot the passing line, but the Pogchop, who was supposed to be in that position, was nowhere to be seen - the brother was still hanging behind Sousa.
"Damn Dutchman!" Sosa cursed in his heart, and had to break through with the ball himself, and before he could run far, Cripa and Di Biagio had already approached, and the Uruguayan civet was directly thrown into the air by the two of them closing the door.
Sosa quickly got up and signaled to the referee that it was a foul, but the referee ignored the Uruguayan complaint, and the referee just saw it very clearly, it was entirely because Sosa was too big of the ball himself and was tackled by the opponent, and the fall was only because he couldn't close the momentum and hit Di Biagio's body......
While Sosa was still complaining to the referee, Fiorentina, who had the ball, had already begun to launch a new round of attacks.
Kripa and Effenberg played a one-two in the middle to get past the Inter defenders in midfield, and Zuihou sent a ball over the top by Effenberg to penetrate the entire Inter defence.
With Inter Milan still on the offensive just now, there is a lot of space behind their defenders, which is a good opportunity to extend the score!
Zhuang Mingge was very excited to see Inzaghi receive a wonderful pass from Effenberg, but he couldn't laugh when he saw where Inzaghi was, and Pippo was at least 25 meters away from goal......
In Italy, there is a saying that is dedicated to Inzaghi's dribbling: the first foot is shijie, the second is Serie A, and the third is amateur......
Inzaghi also seemed to feel that he was not suited to the difficult maneuvers of a long run, and decisively handed the ball to Djokaeff, who had already caught up with him.
Djokaeff is clearly much better than Inzaghi on the dribble, and while the Frenchman isn't top-notch, Paganin, who is closest to him, is even slower......
Paganen struggled to catch up with Djokaeff, but to his dismay, he found himself farther and farther away from the Frenchman in front of him, but he couldn't slow down just like that, there were tens of thousands of fans in the stadium watching.
Djokaev had already dribbled into the Inter penalty area, and in the face of the attacking Pagliuca, the Frenchman did not waste this one-on-one opportunity to slick the ball with his left foot, easily break through the right side of Pagliuca, and then score with an empty goal.
Djokaeau's goal shattered the morale of Inter's players, and the score remained 2-0 until the end, giving Fiorentina eight wins in a row in all competitions (four in Serie A, two in the Cup Winners' Cup, one each in the Italian Super Cup and Coppa Italia) before the start of the league.