Chapter 803: A Lively and Noisy Summer
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Although after receiving support from Fiorentina, Guidolin finally managed to make up for the scattered offensive line that had become scattered after the departure of Tony and others, but for Vicenza, which still has to face a third-line battle this season, such a staffing is inevitably too thin.
Moreover, they also need to make targeted reinforcements in other positions, who have also lost a lot of blood. After all, no team can play an entire season with a single squad, and with Vicenza still playing in the European Cup Winners' Cup this season, it's easy to see a main player.
So, if Guidolin still wants to strive for results, then it is imperative to replenish new blood.
Therefore, the Vicenza hierarchy, who urgently needed to strengthen the depth of the bench, immediately took the opportunity to retrieve and study the data from the pool of players shared with them by the Fiorentina information center overnight, preparing to screen out the players who met their needs in the shortest possible time.
As a result, according to a sift of information from Fiorentina's player pool, Vicenza was able to sell heavily in the transfer market while also quickly completing several acquisitions.
Argentine striker Diego Milito, who has Italian nationality, moved from Tenerife for $4 million (I don't know if anyone remembers that he was sold there by Fiorentina); Fresh out of the academy and yet to play a professional game, Erik Abidal has moved to Guidolin on a free transfer, and the French left-back is pleased to have Vicenza as the start of his career; After a disappointing season at Paris Saint-Germain, the tired Okocha is back in the small city of northern Italy, and Vicenza has spent only a quarter of the money on his $13 million transfer to Paris after the World Cup in France.
Vicenza did not blindly bring in foreign aids, in addition to the aforementioned Milito and Okocha, they also introduced local players such as Cassetti and Marco Zanci, these young talents are quite optimistic about Fiorentina's scouts, and Guidolin, who admires the vision of Fiorentina scouts, naturally signed without thinking.
Anyway, Vicenza got a lot of liquidity from selling players, and signing these little-known youngsters didn't cost Guidolin much of his transfer budget, so even if only some of them eventually succeeded, the profits would be enough to cover the current expenses.
Some people may ask, if Vicenza took this opportunity to find out and introduce some future superstars that Zhuang Mingge focused on, such as Ronaldinho or Kaka, who had just debuted at this time, and then bought them and cultivated them to become talents, so that their strength rose and broke away from Fiorentina's control in one fell swoop, wouldn't it be a big deal?
Regarding this problem, Zhuang Mingge himself, as well as Karin and Rebecca, who have been working diligently for him behind his back, naturally would not have imagined that they had already formulated corresponding countermeasures for this possible situation.
In fact, although Vicenza has access to the pool of players that Fiorentina has created, the managers of the information center only give them access to the data of players with a potential rating of less than three and a half stars (up to a maximum of five stars). In other words, if the potential of these players is fully developed, they will at most be able to serve as a qualified main rotation in the big clubs, so even if they stay in Vicenza after they mature, they may be a force to be reckoned with in Serie A, but they will never reach the level of competing for the league title.
In this way, the huge gap between the two sides in terms of football status and strength is enough for Vicenza to be a henchman behind Fiorentina.
By the way, Diego Milito was originally classified as a four-star star, but Zhuang Mingge considered that Vicenza, which had lost Larsson and Tony in a row, would be difficult to ensure that he had enough firepower when fighting on the third line if he only relied on Di Natale and Lucarelli, so he secretly downgraded the Argentine's rating by half a star, which should be given to the benefit of Vicenza, the younger brother. In the same way, Abidal would have been selected by Vicenza, otherwise Guidolin would not have been able to spot the young defender who had not yet had any representation in official matches.
Of course, Vicenza didn't know this, so at best they thought that Fiorentina's scouts were too cautious when looking at their players and wouldn't give high ratings...... As for whether they will find out about Milito and Abidal, who are dressed in three-and-a-half-star clothes but actually have four-star potential, it depends on Vicenza's own ability.
After talking about Vicenza, which has been almost completely poached by all kinds of giants and has to make up for it in the summer, let's take a look at the actions of other Serie A teams in the transfer market.
The first thing to say is that when the transfer door was just opened, the Red Wolves Roma, who spent a lot of money to eat the two forwards of Toni and Montella, in one go.
The main reason why Roma have been so proactive in the transfer market this summer is because they have a huge amount of TV fees in their books after a good performance in recent years. At the same time, with the improvement of the stadium environment and the continuous development of commercial surroundings, ticket revenue and commodity income have also increased significantly compared with before the reform.
It is these changes, the huge amount of liquidity that Roma has received without the club's shares being publicly listed, and Franco Sensi's continued large injection of money into the club, has made the Red Wolves unexpectedly one of the focal points in the transfer market this summer!
Lazio, who has been calling for wind and rain in the transfer market, and the top three in the north are also unwilling to be lonely this summer, and the ambitious Cragnotti brought Diego Simeone and Veron to the Blue Eagles, making Lazio's Argentine gang further stronger; Moratti has made a series of moves in the transfer market according to the new coach Lippi's construction, and has confirmed the introduction of Real Madrid's main right-back Panucci, Juventus goalkeeper Peruzzi, Yugoslav midfielder Jugovic and other stars who play for Atletico Madrid; On the Juventus side, Mogi, who sold Peruzzi, quickly bought Dutch international Edwin van der Sar as a stand-in, while at the same time spending heavily on young talents such as Tudor, Ambrosetti and Thierry Henry from several Fiorentina satellite clubs such as Anderlecht, Vicenza and Monaco, and the strength of the book has increased.
As for AC Milan, although Galliani was cut off by Fiorentina in the middle of the transfer of Shevchenko and Kaladze, the arrival of the likes of Rebrov, Ambrosini and Koko has greatly boosted the competitiveness of the Rossoneri.
It can be said that this summer, all the teams that aspire to compete for the Serie A title are desperately trying to improve their strength, just to be able to overturn Fiorentina's five-year domination of the league trophy in the new season!