Chapter 3

After four rounds, Fiorentina have won two and drawn two, and are in third place behind Juventus with three wins and one draw and Lecce with two wins and two draws.

Before the start of the season, the club's president, Della Valle, boasted, "We are aiming for fourth place in the league and reaching the European stage will make Fiorentina football more developed." ”

In fact, De La Valle is not the final word, he does think highly of himself, and the only Serie A team without a TV contract is Fiorentina. Because Company Y was originally going to give them 15UU million euros for broadcasting, but Daravalle disagreed, saying that it must be 30UU million. It doesn't matter if no one can see Fiorentina's home broadcast, you can't lose your team's cards

In order to realize his ambitions, Daravalle bought Lupatelli, Portillo, Hidetoshi Nakata, Maresca, Obodo, Chiellini, Jorgensen, Uyfalusi, Mikoli and other well-known stars in the summer transfer, these names are rich experience and fame in Serie A or the international arena, and it can even be said that it is a star team.

But a star team is not a real team, and a real team must have at least a complete and fixed main lineup, at least one or two core players.

When Daravalle was confident and continued to use Mondonik as coach, he was thinking about giving the team more stability, but almost all the players have changed, and it is a big question whether Mondonico, who has no experience in Serie A coaching, can be stable.

Mondonico wants to establish the two cores of Di Livio and Chen Yu, so he will meet the high requirements of Chen Yu and Di Livio to renew their contracts before the start of the season.

But Di Livio is 38 years old, and Chen Yu is only dominating in Serie B, so it is difficult to say how much of a role he can play.

Therefore, before the game, the outside world has two attitudes towards Fiorentina's performance in the new season, one is that the Bundesliga Kaiserslautern miracle can be staged again in Italy; The other side believes that the new Fiorentina team will not be able to move the cheese of the Serie A top three and Roma this season, and they still have a lot to do to meet the goals of De La Valle next season.

At the start of the season, four Coppa Italia games, four league games, all the fears from the outside and within Fiorentina came up.

Mondonico's tactics were chaotic and his personnel were chaotic, with none of the eight games being the exact same starters, and his style of play was changing back and forth between the 4,433,443 formations.

The players in the midfield also had conflicts because of core issues, and Hidetoshi Nakata and Maresca fought hard.

The leader and captain of the team, Di Livio, could only play as a substitute, leaving only the spirit and not helping the team's record in any way.

Such a situation would have a fatal impact on the team's results in any team, but Fiorentina was an exception, because Chen Yu, the new god of war who brought Fiorentina to Serie A, shone brightly, scoring five goals in four Coppa Italia games and U goals in four Serie A games, once again carrying Fiorentina to third place.

Fiorentina's record has made Della Valle even more proud, and he now wants to not only restore Fiorentina's former status and glory in Serie A, make a difference in the European arena, but also want to have his own voice in the Italian league.

In Italian football, the giant clubs led by the Holy League occupy an absolute advantage in TV broadcasting, referee distribution, and the transfer market, and the difference between small and medium-sized teams and AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan and other giants has dozens or even hundreds of times, and in recent seasons there have been cases where small and medium-sized teams have threatened to boycott the game.

Although Fiorentina was originally the seventh sister of Serie A, they are still a disadvantaged group in Italian football, and Sky Sports gave them a broadcast fee of 15UU million, which is less than half of Rome, not to mention compared with Milan and Juventus, so whether it is for himself and Fiorentina's status in Italian football, or for the interests of the club, De La Valle must fight against the giants led by the Holy League.

Fiorentina's league and Coppa Italia victories emboldened Della Valle, and in early October, when Fiorentina beat Brescia to advance to the round of 16, Daravalle invited the leaders of Atalanta, Brescia, Bologna, Cagliari, Chievo, Lecce, Livorno, Palermo and Sampdoria at his industrial group headquarters in Milan to form an "anti-holy alliance".

After some discussions, the small club led by De La Valle put forward a series of demands such as the postponement of the presidential election of the professional league, the waiver of Galliani's candidacy, fair competition of the competition, and the redistribution of television broadcast fees.

Since Galliani was elected president of the league last year, the AC Milan owner is the prime minister of the government, he is the vice president of the club and the president of the professional league, Juventus manager Moggi has controlled the transfer market, and no one has ever posed a substantive challenge to the resulting conflict of interest.

Galliani and Moggi quickly met to discuss countermeasures, and then Galliani held a press conference to explain the previous issue of TV rights, which Galliani believed was economic, but insisted that the big clubs should be divided more. Galliani said: "Reason? The big names in Serie A have to compete with the top European clubs. From the media to the fans, everyone wants to give more revenue to the small and medium-sized clubs, but our foreign opponents have more resources, so we can't weaken our strongest clubs on our own. ”

Moggi also spoke out in support of Galliani, the transfer market king believes that De La Valle will only stir things up and will not come up with a solution to the problem. "De La Valle has a blank ballot, but he can't come up with any plans," he quipped. He told everyone that the question is not who will be the chairman, but that a plan is needed, but his plan is so mysterious that he still does not know what his candidate is called. ”

The two sides of Serie A are in dire straits, with clubs taking sides, with Atalanta, Brescia, Bologna, Cagliari, Chievo, Lecce, Livorno, Palermo and Sampdoria backing De La Valle, while Messina, Parma, Reggina, Siena and Udinese, Lazio are backing the Holy League.

Since Inter Milan has been under the pressure of the Holy League, has not won a league title for so many years, and has often suffered losses in the transfer market, Inter Milan expressed their support for De La Valle and his allies, President Facchetti said, "I am against Galliani's re-election, I am in favor of fair competition in the league, the Italian league has reached the point where it must be reformed." “

Although Rome is inclined to the small and medium-sized camps, because Rome is also the beneficiary in the negotiations with Sky TV, they get the second only to the top three in the broadcast fee, so Roma President Sensi has a wait-and-see attitude towards the "Anti-Holy Alliance Alliance" for the time being.

The competition off the football field is in full swing, but no matter what Della Valle wants to think about the TV broadcast and the power of the professional league, it is the team's record that will ultimately be decided, if Fiorentina has a good record and the fans are full, whether it is Murdoch of Sky TV, or the president of AC Milan Galliani and Juventus' Moggi have to take De La Valle's opinion to heart, if Fiorentina has a bad record, then no matter how many small clubs De La Valle contacts will not be able to compete with the Holy League.

Now the Serie A league is also in full swing, and in the past two weeks, it has been a double game a week, with the big teams going to the Champions League and the League Cup in midweek, and the weak teams playing the Coppa Italia, and only a few teams can be idle.

Fiorentina had just finished the Coppa Italia match against Brescia in midweek, after a 4-l away win, and back at home, Fiorentina won again with an L-0 score and easily advanced to the round of 16 against Serie A giants Parma.

The round of 16 knockout rounds will be played in a month's time, and from this round of knockouts, Milan, Roma and The Old Lady will also join the battle, so it can be said that from this round, the Coppa Italia will start to be a little interesting.

Fiorentina will face their Coppa Italia rivals Parma in the fifth round of the league at the weekend, and this league game will be a warm-up game for both sides.

Fiorentina are in third place in the league with two wins and two draws in four games, while Parma are in 19th place with two defeats and two draws, just ahead of vice-leader Brescia.

In this game, Fiorentina will aim to be the first and at least guarantee a place in the top three, so this game must not be lost to Parma, who are not in good form.

And Parma has not won a single victory in the four rounds of the league, for them, it is best to get three points, no matter what the process is, they have fallen into the relegation zone, if they don't play seriously, Parma's relegation is not big news, Fiorentina with the same strength as them have been relegated to the third league, what did Parma get from relegation.

The highlight of this round of matches is undoubtedly Roma's home game against Inter Milan, as two giants, not only have a huge influence in Italian football, but also in Europe, Inter Milan and Roma are also two famous teams, and their clash has attracted the attention of tens of millions of fans.

Compared with Rome and Inter Milan's Mars hitting the earth, the competition between Fiorentina and Parma is a little less influential, but because of Fiorentina's President de la Valle's off-the-field behavior, Chen Yu's hot state of scoring goals on the field, this game is also listed as one of the focus battles of this round, attracting the attention of many fans, including fans from China, Japan and South Korea from Asia.