Ranieri was given the task of laying out the specific tactical details, leaving the internal affairs of the club to the three general managers, and at the same time informing Poirot to ask Torino and Napoli about the prices of Coyce and Kripa, Zhuang Mingge only had to listen to the report once a day, while the team's cleaning work was carried out in an orderly manner.

Zhuang Mingge, who traveled to this time, finally ushered in a rare break, at this time he was listening to Poirot's report on the team's purge.

'The purge is going well at the moment, a lot of Serie A teams are happy to bring in our players, and we have already received a total of $10 million from the sale of players, the biggest of which is the transfer of Brian Laudrup, for whom Milan paid $4 million.

"Good, good job." Zhuang Mingge nodded approvingly, expressing satisfaction with being able to earn so much transfer fee.

The transfer fee in this era is not as terrible as it was later, Maradona's transfer to Sevilla in 92 was only 7.5 million US dollars, and only Robert Baggio, Vialli and Lentini have broken the 10 million transfer fee mark, and now in this era, the transfer fee of top stars is only a few million dollars.

"Also, Napoli offered Kripa $2.5 million, and Torino rejected our offer outright."

"Then give up Koys and take Kripa." Zhuang Mingge thought about it and thought that it might be better to have such a player with championship experience in the team (Kripa won the UEFA Cup in the 88-89 season and the Serie A championship in the 89-90 season in Naples), and the 28-year-old Kripa is currently in the prime of his career, with a very tough style of play, excellent interception ability and running ability, just enough to bring these young people in the team.

"Haode, the next step is the introduction of our target players." Poirot flipped through the pages of the document in his hand and continued his report, "Toldo, Guadalben, Pesoto, Iuliano, Billindeli, Tomasi, Jonti, Gianni Keda, Inzaghi, Vieri, Montella have all agreed to join, Firicano will negotiate a contract with our club tomorrow, and as for Di Biagio and Collini, we are currently negotiating with both clubs for their transfer fees. ”

"It's a good progress, Hercule you're doing a good job, it's best to get all the transfers done before the team training camp on July 20th, the team has a lot of new players this year, and it takes enough time to get used to it."

"Haode, I'll get all the transfer work done as soon as possible." At the end of the report, Poirot immediately said goodbye to Zhuang Mingge, turned around and left the office to continue to deal with the unfinished transfer matters, Zhuang Mingge continued to sit in his boss chair and enjoy the leisure time, as the boss, he only needs to grasp a big development direction of the club and finalize the team's recruitment, and leave other things to his subordinates to do.

Fiorentina fans have already learned from media reports that the club has sold many of last season's main players, and they also understand this situation, after all, no player with the quality to stay in Serie A is willing to return to play in the lower leagues, and at the same time, to the delight of the fans, the team's two foreign players resolutely stayed with Fiorentina in this "most difficult moment for Fiorentina".

'With Gabriel [Batistuta] and Stefan [Effenberg] here, we can definitely go back to Serie A next year!" These are the words of an avid fan when the reporter of the Milan Sport newspaper was interviewed in Fiorentina, and this also represents the voice of the majority of fans.

Meanwhile, fans are also waiting to see what changes the new owner can bring to a struggling Fiorentina side.

July 1 is the day of the opening of the European transfer market, and during the period when Zhuang Mingge was waiting for the transfer period to begin, a major event happened in Italian football, and the protagonist of the event was Napoli.

After Napoli brought in Maradona in 1985 for a record-breaking price of $4 million, they spent a lot of money for many years to recruit helpers for the "football king": Giordano, Carnevale, Alemão, Carreca...... Together, these players led Napoli to one of the most glorious periods in the club's history, winning a number of trophies, including the UEFA Cup in 88-89, two league titles, a Coppa Italia and a Supercoppa Italia.

However, with Maradona's departure from Sevilla last summer and Napoli's results declining, the club's financial crisis began to manifest, and by June this year, Napoli had even reached the point where they could not afford to pay their employees' salaries normally.

Napoli's predicament alarmed the Italian Football Federation, which issued a warning to Napoli that they would be disqualified from next season's Serie A if the team remained in debt before the start of next season.

As a result, Napoli had no choice but to sell off their stars, with the names of Massimo Kripa, Gianfranco Zola, Carreca and others all appearing in transfer rumors, and Napoli's roots have been hollowed out.

Fiorentina, who also have a large number of stars leaving, have not received this level of attention, mainly because they have been relegated, and selling stars is an inevitable choice.

So, when the summer transfer door began, what attracted the most attention from fans was not which big-name star Milan or Juventus brought in, but the collective exodus of a large number of players from Napoli:

Gianfranco Zola, Maradona's "apprentice" in Napoli, who scored 24 league goals for Napoli in the last two years, was taken into Parma's account;

Careca, the winner of the 1990 Shijie Cup Silver Boot Award, was one of the "Three Masters of South America" in Napoli that year, and announced his transfer to the newly established Japanese J-League and joined the Kashiwa Sun God Club;

To the surprise of many fans, one of the main players in the heyday of Napoli, midfielder Massimo Kripa was bought by Fiorentina, who had been relegated to the second division, for a high price of $3.8 million, and a senior official of Napoli, who did not want to be named, said in an interview with reporters that Kripa's transfer to Fiorentina was far higher than the other competitors' $3.8 million played a decisive role, because no one else was willing to pay this huge transfer fee for Kripa.

In an interview with the reporter of the newspaper Sport, the Fiorentina fans expressed their satisfaction: "Massimo is a champion player, his arrival will greatly improve the quality of the team's defence, and we are satisfied with the ambitions of the club. ”

Subsequently, on July 2, the day after the transfer market opened, Fiorentina officially announced several transfer news:

Ravenna's main goalkeeper last season, Francesco Toldo, with a transfer fee of $100,000, will appear in Serie B as the team's main goalkeeper in the new season;

Verona's young goalkeeper Matteo Guadarben, who will be available as a replacement for Toldo, for a transfer fee of $50,000;

Serie A side Cagliari's main centre-back Aldo Filicano arrived at Fiorentina for $2 million; Luigi Di Biagio, who is also the main midfielder of Serie A side Foggia, also came to the city for a transfer fee of $1.5 million; And Eugenio Collini, who could not play in Serie A powerhouse Sampdoria, transferred to the Purple Lilies for $600,000;

Fiorentina brought in young defenders Marc Iuliano and Gianluca Pexoto from Bologna for a total transfer fee of $900,000; At the same time, two young players were also purchased from Empoli: Alejandro Billindeli and Vincenzo Montella, and the Empolins agreed to release them for $300,000;

As for Sola midfielder Giuliano Gianniqueda, Perugia midfielder Federico Jonti, Verona midfielder Damiano Tomasi, Albino Lefe striker Filipe Inzaghi, Pisa striker Christian Vieri and others, due to their youth and lack of particularly outstanding performances, the introduction of these players cost Fiorentina a total of $700,000 in transfer fees.

According to the survey, Fiorentina fans are happy that the team can bring in strong reinforcements such as Cripa, Di Biagio, Filicano, Collini, etc., and believe that the club's move shows the ambition to return to Serie A as soon as possible; At the same time, fans also said that they will take a wait-and-see attitude towards some of the young players that the team brings in from the lower leagues.

At this time, Zhuang Mingge was in the chairman's office to check the club's budget for next season.

After Zhuang Mingge obtained the financial statements, he found that the club only maintained a break-even in these transfers: he received $10 million from selling players, while he also spent $9.95 million on a large number of players; In terms of club spending, only the team's salary will drop significantly next season; In terms of revenue, due to the relegation of the team, the two most important parts of the team, broadcast fees and ticket revenue, have been greatly reduced.

"Well, if there is no family capital injection this time, it will be a loss of about $4 million this season...... It seems that the impact of the team's relegation on the club's income is more serious than imagined, and if it weren't for Kenyon getting a lot of sponsorship, it is estimated that it would have lost even more. Zhuang Mingge thought with a headache.