When Chen Yu built a villa in China, the "Catania farce" in Italian football became more and more intense, and the Italian Football Association let the Italian Football Association expand the Serie B army by 19 Serie B clubs, because of the fear that the 19 clubs would boycott, the Italian Football Association did not dare to expand the army, and could only continue to maintain the status quo, and the relegated Catania was unwilling to be relegated, appealed everywhere, and shouted the slogan of letting the president of the Football Association, Carraro, step down.

Neither side will make concessions, and no one can come up with a better solution, so they can only stalemate and let time solve everything.

The battle in the second division has no effect on C1, nor does it have any effect on Serie A, and it is still promoted and relegated. Their recruitment and contract renewal work is also proceeding in a step-by-step manner.

In the blink of an eye, June has passed, and the players at all levels of the league have returned to the team one after another to participate in the holiday training, but Chen Yu, the hottest striker in the C1 League, has not yet completed the renewal of the contract with the team, although Chen Yu and Fiorentina still have a two-year contract, but everyone knows that if Chen Yu is not given a salary increase, the two-year contract is a piece of waste paper, and there are many teams that are eyeing Chen Yu, some C1 teams have offered an annual salary of 100,000 euros before tax, and in the Florence area, the annual salary of an ordinary worker is only 20,000 euros, The average annual salary of the players of the Serie A Perugia team is a little higher than 120,000, which is the top in C1.

Fiorentina can't afford this annual salary, De La Valle is an Italian shoe giant, not bad money, but giving Chen Yu this annual salary means giving Rigano such an annual salary, Rigano has signed a contract, with an annual salary of 70,000 euros, and an annual salary of 100,000 to Chen Yu, Rigano is definitely not happy, this is not just a matter of money, but also status and face, last season Rigano came to Fiorentina in C2 from La Lanto in C1, not for money, but not for face.

In addition, what makes Fiorentina more a headache is the salary structure, the first grade is Rigano and Di Livio, Di Livio is an exception, he came from Serie A, the annual salary of 120,000 has fallen ten times, the second grade is Longo, Gu Zuo, Scotti, Gao Fei and other main forces, the annual salary is about 50,000, and the substitute is about 30,000, this ladder is just right, if Rigano and Chen Yu take 100,000 euros, the second-tier players will definitely quit, football is a team sport, and the championship is not won by one or two players, Promotion does not depend on the promotion of stars, their contribution to the team is not so different from the stars, and the difference in annual salary is so big, no one will be satisfied.

This is a matter that affects the whole body, De La Valle and Galli are both shrewd businessmen, not emotional people like Moratti, and they certainly don't want to spend money on this, and the reason why Fiorentina has been in financial crisis before, and finally bankrupt, is because of Chezzi. Gao Li is not good at management and burns money indiscriminately.

So Florence has a headache, Chen Yu they don't want to let go, and this annual salary is difficult to give, so they can only negotiate with Chen Yu's agent Zhang Shubin to let Chen Yu lower his requirements a little, or make up for Chen Yu's losses from other aspects.

Chen Yu didn't want to lower his requirements, the C1 team offered him an annual salary of 100,000, and the Serie A team wanted him to join, at this time, he could agree to stay as long as 100,000 annual salary, and the club could not ask every player to be as selfless as Di Livio, and it was also shameless to unilaterally ask the other party to be selfless.

Just when the negotiations between the two sides reached an impasse and teams such as Perugia and Rimini stepped up their offensive against Chen Yu, an accident changed the course of the negotiations.

In order to compensate for Chen Yu's annual salary requirements, Fiorentina gave the No. 11 jersey to Rigano and the No. 9 jersey to Chen Yu after Quagliarella's loan expired, and the No. 9 jersey was sold by Fiorentina in a week after Fiorentina announced that Chen Yu would wear the No. 9 jersey next season.

You must know that a genuine Fiorentina jersey costs 20 euros, the net profit is more than 10 euros, and 500 pieces is 5,000 euros, although it is impossible to sell so well every week, and the Chinese fans in Italy and foreign Chinese fans are not unlimited, but it is still possible to reach 10,000 a year. Originally, all this income belonged to the club, but now Fiorentina decided to give half of Chen Yu's jersey income to Chen Yu in order to keep Chen Yu.

Although other players do not have this income, but the sales of other players in the Fiorentina club are very poor, last season Di Livio because of his loyalty, there is also a lot of appeal, jersey sales are gratifying, this season is also very low, less than 100 pieces a week, it is difficult to say whether this season can still play the main team, jersey sales will only be lower.

Ricano's image is not good, the status of the idol was snatched away by Chen Yu, and even the No. 9 jersey was given to Chen Yu, although he didn't care which number, but in the hearts of the fans, it was very hurtful, and the jersey sales were not as good as last season.

In this way, Chen Yu can get an actual income, or even more, without causing the collapse of Florence's salary structure, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement to wait for Chen Yu to return to renew the contract.

On July 5, Chen Yu and Gao Fei returned to Florence a day early.

At the Florence International Airport, Florence manager Guri and Chen Yu's agent Zhang Shubin personally drove to greet Chen Yu and Gao Fei, and more than 300 fans and seven or eight reporters came to the airport to greet them, most of whom were members of the Chinese Fan Association.

Gary was worried about long nights and dreams, so Chen Yu was brought from the airport to the club and held a contract renewal ceremony, Chen Yu's annual salary increased to 70,000 euros, Gao Fei's annual salary increased to 40,000 euros, and the contract between the two was increased by two years, renewed until 2007.

After signing the contract, Chen Yu showed his No. 9 jersey at a press conference to express his loyalty to Fiorentina.

"I've always been a Fiorentina fan, it's an honour to play for Fiorentina and I never considered leaving Fiorentina unless they didn't need me anymore. We were very good last season and we will continue to work hard this season to try to reach Serie B next season. ”

Club manager Gary said with emotion: "Thank you Chen Yu for choosing to stay in Fiorentina, only in it will you understand how difficult it is for Chen Yu to make this choice, because of the temptation of our competitors' high salaries, the main force of the Serie A team promised, but in the end Chen Yu chose to stay in Florence to play C1, which is out of love and loyalty to Fiorentina, before it was Barty and Di Livio who showed this love and loyalty, this season is Chen Yu, this loyalty and love, is the hope and guarantee of Fiorentina's rise." ”

Although the training camp began, but Chen Yu's contract renewal is not the end of the recruitment, from C2 to C1, the opponent's strength has increased by a level, Fiorentina wants to impact Serie B can no longer use the original main lineup, must buy more powerful players, the original set of lineup can only be half of the main force in the new season at most, the absolute main force is only Chen Yu, Rigano and the physical fitness of Di Livio. , the rest of the players left behind can only be on the bench.

During training the next day, Chen Yu met several new teammates introduced by the team.

Some of these players were recruited from the substitute squad of Serie B, and some were recruited by Fiorentina after the promotion or relegation of the C1 team.

One of the standouts is goalkeeper Sejas, a 28-year-old Newell boy from Argentina, who is only 1.84 meters tall, but quick to react and experienced, and was attracted by Casingwa as the main goalkeeper, and Kassinwa also persuaded Sgerty to give up the No. 1 shirt to Sejavi.

Another strong player introduced is left-back Maggio, Maggio is only 21 years old this year, is a substitute for Vicenza in Serie B, young, but fast, good assists, good strength, and has a lot of development potential.

These players are stronger and more famous than most of Fiorentina's original players, and they are also very proud, except for the captain and spiritual leader Di Livio, they don't pay much attention to veterans like Rigano and Chen Yu.

The players have just returned from a long holiday and the vast majority of the players are still dormant, with the C1 League, like Serie A, kicking off on 30 August. There was still a long time, and the head coach Casingwa did not play much, and the first week was mainly for recovery and adaptation training, and due to the fear of injury, even the training games within the team were rarely played.

In the second week of training, Casingwa began to increase the amount of training, arranging intra-team matches in the morning and afternoon, in order to frustrate the arrogance of the newcomers, during the 7-a-side and 5-a-side confrontations. Cassinwa put the new signings together and fought against the old team, Chen Yu in order not to be limited by time, when he can bind professional intermediate players, he is still bound to professional junior players, even so, Chen Yu and Rigano teamed up, or every day to torture these uncooperative newcomer combinations.

Although the new signings are not convinced, because they have never worked together before, and the old Fiorentina have played together for a season, they also have to admire Chen Yu and Ricano's individual ability is indeed outstanding, not the level of C2. It doesn't seem to be much of a problem to play Serie B, and it is also rumored that Perugia of Serie A has pursued Chen Yu, which also makes the new signings have some awe of Chen Yu, and the players who can be chased by the Serie A team, even if they are Chinese players, must have a little strength.