Chapter 668: A New World Record

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After obtaining Zhuang Mingge's permission, Moratti and Cragnoti hurriedly sent their most capable subordinates to Barty's residence, ready for various conditions to win over the Argentine center forward.

Between the two teams of Inter Milan and Lazio, Barty himself is still more inclined to join the Nerazzurri, on the one hand, because there are Baggio, Djokaeffe, Lanna and other old friends there, and they will not feel lonely when they go to Milan City, on the other hand, Moratti, who is the president of Inter Milan, personally rushed to Barty's residence to lobby, which also made the Argentine god of war feel the importance of the Nerazzurri.

On the other hand, Lazio, although Dino Zoff, as the general manager of the club, personally visited Barty, compared to Inter Milan, who Moratti personally lobbied, the Blue Eagles are still inferior to the Nerazzurri in terms of personnel level.

With this stark contrast, Barty didn't hesitate too much, and after briefly discussing personal treatment with Boss Mo, he politely declined Zoff's offer, and then readily signed his name on a four-year contract with an annual salary of $5 million.

In this way, after Diego Simeone, Lazio lost the competition against Inter Milan again, and watched as the Argentine god of war wore a blue and black sword stripe instead of the sky blue shirt that represented Lazio.

As soon as the news of Battistuta's transfer to Inter Milan for a world record of $45 million came out, it immediately caused an eight-magnitude earthquake in European football!

Although Batistuta, the 1995 European Ballon d'Or winner, Fiorentina's first captain, and the Argentine god of war who scored five goals in the previous World Cup in France, Batistuta is indeed eligible for a very high transfer to Inter Milan, but the price of $45 million is too expensive!

You know, players in the position of strong center generally rely on physical elements to play, so the prime of their careers ends much earlier than players in other positions. So even a player like Barty who is not plagued by injuries will probably find it difficult for him to maintain this good form for long after the age of 30.

And now that the Argentine god of war has reached the age of 29, this means that Batistuta's peak can continue for two or three seasons at most. Therefore, many experts and celebrities have objections to the world-record sky-high transfer operated by Moratti, thinking that Moratti's move to introduce Barty is understandable, but spending so much money is really a bit unjust.

However, fans and major sports media obviously don't care whether Inter's acquisition is justified or not, and they are now talking about this world-record transfer as if they were doping, spurred by the 45 million figure.

At this moment, the most unhappy is probably Real Betis, who have just signed Brazilian winger Denilson for a world-record transfer fee of $34.6 million. Betis President Lopella originally planned to use this gimmick to hype up this summer and expand Betis's influence in European football and even world football.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, Barty's transfer fee of up to $45 million directly left Denilson's 34.6 million far behind! At the same time, the huge shock wave generated by it directly knocked out the little news between Denelson and Betis.

Leaving aside the depressed Lopera, let's look at Florence again.

After Barty announced his move to Inter Milan, Fiorentina fans did not take a march or anything else in the city to protest the club's move, as they did when Roberto Baggio was traded to Juventus eight years ago.

Because fans with a little brain can see that with the successive rise of young players such as Vieri and Ronaldo in recent seasons, Barty, who is not dominant in age, is actually playing less and less in Fiorentina, so the Argentine God of War chose to leave at this time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he transferred to Inter Milan for the main position and playing time.

Therefore, for Batty's departure, Fiorentina fans did not lose their minds as they did in history, tearing down the statue erected by the fans after Batty led Fiorentina back to Serie A, but sent sincere wishes to Batty who went to Inter Milan and turned a new page in his career.

By the way, since Effenberg was not sold back to Germany by Florence after the middle finger incident, as is the case in history, the bronze statue erected by the Florentine fans is not a scene of Barty standing alone, but a picture of the tiger and the god of war standing together and hooking their backs.

And after the announcement of this transfer that shook the entire world of international football, the Fiorentina players who had a wonderful holiday returned to the team and began to prepare for the upcoming new season.

It's just that the first thing the players have to participate in is the last thing anyone who wants to face when they come back from vacation, and that is physical training.

So, after the start of the summer training camp in Florence, the main task of the players for the first two weeks was to receive a specially designed restorative training by a team of sports medicine experts from the physiotherapy center. These trainings will correct some of the bad habits that the players have developed on vacation in the shortest possible time, adjust their competitive and physiological conditions, and prepare them for the new season.

However, players like Vieri and Ronaldo, who played in the World Cup, did not return to Fiorentina at this time. Because while the other players are out on vacation to recover from the fatigue accumulated over the course of a season, they are still playing for the national team on the battlefield of the World Cup, and they deserve more time to rest.

As a result, Vieri and Ronaldo were granted a week-long extended vacation by the physiotherapy specialists, giving them more time to relieve the fatigue accumulated over the past year, as well as a special benefit for the team to give them.

After a two-week recuperation period, the Fiorentina players took part in a series of warm-up matches that the club had already planned, led by Fabio Capello:

On 29 July, Fiorentina played the first match of the summer tournament against Como from Italy's League C1.

The reason why he chose such a weak opponent, Capello's purpose is very clear, that is, to use this warm-up game to let the players who have just returned from vacation regain the state of the game, and at the same time, he also wants to let Claude and other new signings and other players have more opportunities to run in to form a tacit understanding, so as not to lose the game due to the lack of tacit understanding when encountering a strong opponent.

Facing Como, who is very different from their own strength, the Fiorentina players who have suffered from half a month of training finally found an outlet this time.

Although Ronaldo, Vieri and Inzaghi were all absent from the squad because they were still on holiday, Fiorentina, who came off the bench, was not something of Monza's calibre.

In the end, Di Natale, who finally returned to Fiorentina, opened the scoring for the Purple Lily, and the two new signings, Ljungberg and Deco, scored a goal each to help the team win 3-0.