Volume 1 Chapter 171 Transfer Tide (I)
The dust has settled on the European Cup, and the European transfer market has also changed from secretly plotting and poaching corners, to becoming a real knife and a public callout.
The only names in the European transfer market can be Real Madrid and Chelsea, who have a plan to buy a superstar every year, and they have Figozida Nero Naldo and David Beckham, and they are targeting Owen this season.
Chelsea, which is backed by the Russian billionaire Abou, fired Ranieri this season and poached the new Champions League champion Porto coach madman Mourinho, behind which Abramovich is a big god of wealth, Mourinho is not stingy than Ranieri in terms of spending money, and a series of powerful players such as the new Czech god Cech, Marseille monster Drogba, and Dutch winger Robben are their targets.
In Italy, the transfer market is the biggest and hottest, except for Inter Milan, which has always changed a year a year, and Fiorentina has been promoted.
With money comes ambition, Fiorentina's boss de la Valle is the king of the Italian shoe industry, although he cannot be compared with a super-rich man like Abu, but in the Italian business world, de la Valle is also a man of the hour.
Fiorentina fell to C two years ago, but completed the triple jump in two years, proving that they are still a fighting team, and their appeal has not weakened.
Fiorentina club president de la Valle did not see himself as a promoted horse, his goal is to bring Fiorentina back to the European stage, after the end of the season, De La Valle once considered bringing Zaccheroni out, but the current manager Mondonico is trusted by these players, De La Valle called and asked about the team's three core players, Di Livio, Chen Yu and Ricano, these three will still be important players for Fiorentina next season, they are all inclined to support Mondonico to stay, The hesitant de la Valle went along with the boat and offered Mondonico a new one-year contract.
After Mondonico confirmed his stay, Fiorentina's operations in the transfer market also began to pick up. Mondonico, who played Serie A for the first time, was ambitious, and he said at the contract renewal ceremony: Although Fiorentina will have a big change in the new season, the team is still a player who is working hard for promotion. Fiorentina are not just tasked with relegation this season, they have a higher pursuit.
Subsequently, Fiorentina negotiated contract renewal with the old player while recruiting heavily in the transfer market.
Fiorentina's targets are very broad, in addition to the original Fiorentina veterans Baggio, Batty and Rui Costa, Barcelona midfielder Gerard, Bologna's Locatelli, Empoli's Guerrera, Almeida, who has a contract with Inter, Inter Milan midfielder Caragonnis who performed well in the European Cup, Lazio defender veteran Negro, Juventus' rookie Brigi, Empoli's former international Di Natale, Brazilian star Kribari, Chievo rookie Bazali and Lecce defense core Stoveni and other names, They are also linked to Florence.
While many of the aforementioned players are not top-notch and unlikely to be all signed, it should not come as a surprise if Mondonico is properly integrated and Fiorentina have the same form as Sampdoria last season.
Fiorentina is attacking everywhere in the transfer market, quite a bit of the flavor when Moratti just took over Inter Milan, but the media and many senior football people believe that the results are not necessarily proportional to the purchase, and the run-in is a big problem.
In fact, the old players are more difficult to get than the new players, due to the winter transfer last season, Fiorentina hastily introduced a lot of players, the annual salary is very high, the salary structure is completely subverted, many old players have suffered losses, this season's powerful old players do not want to repeat the mistakes of last season, hoping to get a good contract.
Among the three cores, Chen Yu is the fastest rising player, and now he has become a symbol of Fiorentina, and there are many clubs that want to dig him, and Chen Yu also has half of the image rights that he hates, Fiorentina feels that it must be the most difficult to renew the contract with Chen Yu, and the 38-year-old Di Livio should be easy to renew.
Facts have proved that Chen Yu's contract renewal negotiations are indeed very difficult, his agent Zhang Shubin's conditions are very harsh, if he gives up his portrait rights, he will have to pay at least one million euros per year, this annual salary is definitely unacceptable to the club, and the negotiations are destined to be long and hard.
Fiorentina hopes to be able to renew the contract with the spiritual leader Di Livio first, the team's second scorer Ricano, to put pressure on Chen Yu, Rigano is desperate for Fiorentina, and he doesn't even care much about the annual salary, he completed the contract renewal early.
But the club's spiritual leader Di Livio's contract renewal is not as easy as the Fiorentina top management thinks, the old captain Di Livio's agent put forward the condition of a one-year contract extension: 700,000 euros, the annual salary is more than 3 times that of the second division, the club general manager Lu Kexi who has just been promoted, thinks it is a bit outrageous, saying that Di Livio "can only share the pain and not the same happiness", Di Livio can definitely only play as a substitute in the new season, and the substitute player wants the annual salary of this first-line star, which is a threat.
In this regard, the media, football celebrities, and players all have different opinions.
The player thinks it's okay two years ago, Chezi. Fiorentina in the Gouri era fell into the C League, as the captain Di Livio resolutely chose to "sink" with the team, refused the invitation of several Serie A clubs, and Barty only went to the second division, and for the 35-year-old Di Livio at the time, it was too cost-effective to play C. In a difficult environment, he never asks for too much, and it is not an exaggeration to ask for a "seemingly luxurious" contract pension after returning to Serie A.
The media believes that Di Livio's behavior is a double-edged sword, and if it is dealt with, this is the club's reward for loyal veterans, and can use this opportunity to greatly improve the image of Purple Lily. If it is not handled well, it may increase the team's money worship ideology and weaken the team's cohesion.
Barty and some other football celebrities believe that in the current Serie A environment, the salary expenditure has been much worse than before, in line with the principle of sustainable development, the team should be distributed according to the contribution in the case of taking care of the whole, Di Livio is no longer old and strong, it stands to reason that there should be no high salary, but Lu Casey's tough attitude is a bit "short-sighted", for a "promotion horse" who urgently needs combat effectiveness and cohesion, how to treat the team's veterans, this is definitely not a vague thing, A cold-hearted refusal may leave the shadow of "unloading the mill and killing the donkey" for the other team members.
At this time, Mondonico and Lu Casey also showed a flexible wrist, temporarily cold treatment, first sell some players who want to transfer, or can not gain a foothold in Serie A, introduce players, and then deal with the two core problems later, after all, Chen Yu and Di Livio's contracts have not expired, as long as they don't let go, they can't run if they want to, and the reinforcements are snatched from other teams, and if you shoot slowly, you may be snatched away. That's why it's the most important thing.
The first to join is Nigerian midfielder Christian Obodo. Obodo originally played for Perugia FC and was Fiorentina's opponent in the promotion play-offs, and the year-old Nigerian midfielder international has been looking for a new club since Perugia's relegation.
The second to join Fiorentina was Real Madrid's talented striker Javier Portillo, although he was on loan, not on transfer.
Portillo came from Real Madrid's youth army, and he was a young striker who former Real Madrid coach Bosque focused on developing. More than 400 goals have been scored in more than 700 games between Real Madrid's youth and development teams. Due to Real Madrid's concentration of masters in the forward line, after Camacho took charge of Real Madrid, Morientes and Raul and Ronaldo are all world-class forwards, and Owen will come this season, and it is difficult for the young Real Madrid youngster to get a chance to play in the Real Madrid first team, so Real Madrid hopes to loan him to other clubs in Europe to gain more game experience. Clubs such as Lazio and Zaragoza wanted him, but the Real Madrid youngster opted for Fiorentina in the end.
Fiorentina then seemed not satisfied with this one-by-one buy-in game, and on July 18, general manager Lukaesi announced three successful transfers in one go, with Roma substitute goalkeeper Lupatelli and left-back Gigu and Brescia centre-back Dainelli.
After signing five players in the space of a week, Fiorentina's acquisition plans don't end there. As one of the former 'Serie A Seven', Fiorentina have yet to make a big splash in the transfer market this year, but they have been trying.
In order to quickly restore the team's popularity in the minds of the majority of fans, Fiorentina has been hoping to recall some of the famous players who played in the past, Baggio, Costa Batistuta names have appeared in rumors, but with Baggio's retirement, Batty is sure to continue to play in the Qatar League, Rui Costa after AC Milan switched to the back, these exciting plans for fans have not been realized.
Now, Fiorentina has put the mind on Inter Milan striker Caron, Juventus forwards Di Vayo, Mikoli and Maresca, and Parma midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata.
The transfer of Caron, Di Vaio, Mikoli and Maresca is very difficult, because it is not decided by the club, but by the recruitment of Inter Milan and Juventus this season, if Inter Milan buys Chevinton, Caron is expected to leave, and Juventus if they succeed in buying Ibrahimovic, Mikoli will definitely leave, but before these two transfers, these transfers are difficult to succeed, and now Fiorentina's greatest energy is spent on Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata.
Hidetoshi Nakata landed in Serie A in 1998 when he joined Perugia. After Perugia shone brightly, Serie A giants Roma offered him an olive branch, but Hidetoshi Nakata has not been able to secure a stable main position in Rome. After winning the Serie A championship with the team, Hidetoshi Nakata came to Parma. But here he was relegated to a defensive midfield position that he was not good at, and was loaned out to Bologna last season.
Fiorentina has been looking for the core of the midfield since the promotion, the original goal was Costa, and now Costa is sure that he can't join, they think that Nakata Hidetoshi's organizational talent will help Purple Lily regain its glory, Nakata Hidetoshi also hopes to be able to go to a place where he can play his organizational talents, both sides have the will, now the only obstacle is Nakata Hidetoshi's annual salary, 00,000 euros, which is difficult for Fiorentina club to accept, because the team's new god of war Chen Yu asked for 1 million euros, they are too much, If Nakata Yingshou is given 00,000, it is difficult to guarantee that Chen Yu will not ask for more annual salary.