"I didn't expect this to be true." After carefully reading all the news in the newspaper clippings, Manager Babich said with some embarrassment, "I'm very sorry, we haven't seen decent sports news here for a long time due to the war." ”

Zhuang Mingge was speechless, obviously Croatia and Italy, a country with the first league in Europe, are only separated by a not wide Adriatic Sea, but the speed of information transmission between the two countries is indeed very different.

While many of Europe's biggest clubs are secretly watching Bosman's lawsuit against UEFA, the general manager of Dinamo Zagreb, who is in the war-torn region, still has the impression of five or six years ago.

It has to be said that the regional wars and political turmoil in the early 90s completely destroyed the originally powerful Eastern European football, and in the following two decades, although Eastern Europe also had stars such as Vidic, Dzeko and Modric, they never won major tournaments such as the Shijie Cup and the European Cup.

In Zhuang Mingge's impression, the '98 Shijie Cup was the "Zuihou dinner" of the older generation of Eastern Europeans, and the talents of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Croatia who had passed their years of standing bloomed in front of Shijie fans, while the youngest Czech Republic, who grew up under the socialist system, only persisted until the 2004 European Cup.

When the Czech golden generation came to an end, there was no more success in Eastern European football.

This bleakness is very different from the situation before the upheavals in Eastern Europe, when the capitalist countries could only resist the footsteps of the Easterners by relying on the bias of the referees.

Although Zhuang Mingge is powerless to revive Eastern European football, he is still very interested in the rich football resources buried in Eastern Europe.

After all, in later generations, Croatia is a very good team, although there are not many big stars in the team, but the strength is undoubted.

What Zhuang Mingge has to do now is to receive these Eastern European teams into his account in advance before the implementation of the Bosman Act, even if not all of these high-quality resources can go to Fiorentina to play, but they can also make a fortune by reselling players.

"Manager Babich, I have an idea." Zhuang Mingge said, "I wonder if you are not interested in the cooperation between the two clubs? ”

Cooperate? When Manager Babić heard this, he couldn't help but glance at the young Fiorentina president in surprise, could it be that this young man rushed here with all his might, not because he fell in love with a certain player in the team? Was he just there to watch a Cup Winners' Cup?

Thinking of this, Babich felt a little disappointed.

Originally, the Zagreb club was overjoyed by the arrival of Zhuang Mingge, the owner of Fiorentina, and their greatest hope was that the young "gold owner" would take away a transfer fee from the current Dinamo Zagreb club just like Berlusconi poached Boban in the past. In this way, the club's financial crisis will be greatly alleviated, after all, the previous match bonuses received by the team only solved the problem of players' wages, and there are still many projects that need to be solved without funds!

"Well, Chairman Corleone, I wonder what you mean by cooperation?" Although disappointed, Manager Babich still cheered up and raised his doubts to Zhuang Mingge.

"As you can see, in a nutshell, I would like to buy a part of the shares of Dinamo Zagreb in the form of a personal contribution, in this way to establish a close partnership between Fiorentina and Dinamo Zagreb."

"It can't be!" After listening to Zhuang Mingge's thoughts, Babich couldn't help but refute the other party's remarks.

"If it were me, of course it wouldn't be, and UEFA wouldn't have agreed." Zhuang Mingge replied as a matter of course, but then changed the subject: "But UEFA only stipulates that 'the same group or individual cannot control two football clubs at the same time'." ”

"Chairman Corleone, what do you mean ......" Babiqi's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard Zhuang Mingge's words.

"For example, if the sponsor of this acquisition is not me, but the personal investment of our club staff, then there is no reason for UEFA to block it?"

Zhuang Mingge's approach was actually modeled after a piece of news that later generations saw, when Seedorf, who was playing for AC Milan, personally funded the acquisition of Monza club, and his approach did not cause criticism.

"That's right! Why didn't I think of this way?! The manager was excited to take to the streets to celebrate, and if it went well, Dinamo Zagreb would be able to board the Florence boat and never have to worry about the club's finances again.

And according to the Fiorentina president, once that Bosman appeal is successful, the players he has worked so hard to develop will be poached for free by the damn big teams. And with Fiorentina's financial aid and asylum, the team should be able to leave a lot of good seedlings behind.

After all, even in the future when Bosch slowly implemented the law for a long time, the giants will not maliciously poach each other (except for Manchester City and Chelsea, two undisciplined ones, I have always believed that it is because of the 'ignorance of the rules' behavior of these two clubs that they will be repeatedly troubled by the referee), even the free transfers of Flamini and Ballack are all greeted by the club in advance.

Of course, there are also strange teams like Barcelona that have to let their players pay for themselves in order to bring in Fabregas.

In the eyes of manager Babic, Fiorentina can undoubtedly be regarded as a giant club.

For Zhuang Mingge, part of the proceeds from the Shijie Cup gambling has flowed smoothly into his account in Italy under the operation of the Groz family, and he has become a legitimate billionaire, so he naturally does not care about the small amount of money spent on the acquisition of Zagreb.

Croatia's league is also quite open, and the restrictions on the number of foreign players are very relaxed (the Croatian First Division rules that the number of foreign players who can play at the same time cannot exceed 6, but there is no limit on the total number of foreign players in the team), and the high-quality resources of Eastern Europe can be concentrated in Zagreb as a stronghold, and a steady stream of excellent players can be provided for Fiorentina.

After some talks with Babić's manager, it was agreed that Fiorentina would send a "representative" to take over the devastated club and buy all of Dinamo Zagreb's shares for $3 million.

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On October 26, the match between Fiorentina and Dinamo Zagreb was about to begin, and the Maximir Stadium (home stadium of Dinamo Zagreb), which can accommodate nearly 40,000 spectators, was full.

The reason why it is called a cement stand is because most of the seats in the entire stadium are made of cement, and the biggest function of this stand during the game is to allow the fans to have a foothold.

It is said that the quality of a country's fans is directly proportional to its economic level, but Zhuang Mingge, who is immersed in the scene, believes that in this country with a per capita annual income of less than 350 US dollars, no one cherishes their own stadium more than the fans here. There was no littering, no foul language in the air, and the local fans were genuinely enjoying a long-awaited game.

PS1: Since last night, the switch in the author's dormitory has broken and can't access the Internet, and this chapter was sent from a classmate's computer......

PS2: With the maintenance speed of the school's cheating father, it is estimated that we will not be able to get on the Internet today, so I am really sad......