"Haha, Antonio, I knew you were going to be here!" The next day, Zhuang Mingge, who appeared at the Monaco club's training base, was warmly welcomed by the team's head coach Arsene Wenger.

Don't wonder Wenger Weishenme will be so enthusiastic, when Zhuang Mingge first came here more than a year ago, although he took away the team's attacking core Djokaeff, but this is nothing to Wenger, who has long been accustomed to Monaco's "reselling players", after all, Monaco has always sold main players during his time in charge, and Zhuang Mingge gave him a "gift" in private to make Wenger, who is good at training young players, feel extremely happy. This made Wenger, who has always attached great importance to young people, to introduce Zhuang Mingge as a confidant.

"Antonio, thanks to your previous call to alert me to the movements of the Bosman case, otherwise this time we Monaco would have followed in the footsteps of Ajax and been devoured by that group of hungry wolves." Monaco's contract renewal move was so swift and efficient mainly because Zhuang Mingge made a phone call to Arsene Wenger in June this year to alert him to the Boseman case pending before the European Court of Justice.

"Hehe, where is this, Arcena, we have such a good relationship, how could I forget to remind you of this kind of thing?" Zhuang Mingge said with a smile that he has high respect for Arsene Wenger, the manager who has single-handedly built Arsenal into a strong team.

"By the way, you're not just here to watch Florence's Super Cup, right?" Wenger affectionately pulled Zhuang Mingge aside, just standing outside the hearing range of Little Groz, "Say, which player do you fancy this time, as long as the price is right, it's no problem, I'll convince the player!" ”

"Of course, it would be nice if you could recommend a few more players to me." Speaking of Zuihou, Wenger added in a whisper.

Hehe, Wenger, the way you look now, you really look like a middle-aged uncle who is too controlled. Zhuang Mingge, who was covered in cold sweat, listened to Wenger's undisciplined remarks twitchingly, and thought in his heart.

"Well, Arsène, I'm sorry, it's not us Fiorentina who wants to bring in Monaco players this time." "You also know that Fiorentina's squad is quite neat now, and there is a reliable substitute for each position, and if you buy someone from you, you have to go to Frankie to sit on the cold bench." ”

"Oh? So Antonio, what else did you do this time? Wenger asked, curiously.

"Yes, Arsèna, you should also know that Juventus are asking for Thuram and Barthez."

"What? Antonio, are you going to come and be a lobbyist for Juventus and persuade me to sell these two players to them? Arsene Wenger felt a little strange, Juventus is Fiorentina's main rival in the league anyway, and there is no need for the Fiorentina president to make such a move!

"Do you think they can resist Juventus' call?" Zhuang Mingge glanced at Wenger and said angrily, "Although Monaco can temporarily retain their people with long-term contracts this time, if the hearts of the players are scattered, then it is useless to just keep people." ”

"Well, that's a problem." Although it has entered the Boseman era, Wenger's thinking is still stuck in the previous era, which is also a common problem for many team managers at that time, so we see how miserable the end of Sacchi's second charge of AC Milan is for the violent team, not so much that his tactical thinking is backward, but that the status of the player has changed dramatically after Bosman.

Monaco's Ligue 1 league has declined very badly after the Marseille match-fixing case, and there has been a large loss of excellent stars, which can be seen from the decline rate of the French team's European performance after 93, and the match-fixing case has only recovered some vitality in Ligue 1 in the past ten years; The same was true of the Serie A phonegate incident in later generations, and the outbreak of a match-fixing case was enough to devastate the entire league.

So, under the lure of Serie A giants Juventus, how many Monaco players can really hold back? Arsene Wenger, as a manager, is certainly well aware of this.

"I'm here just to tell you that Juventus are picking on the issue of bringing in players, and if you really want to sell Barthez and Thuram, I personally suggest that you better attract the attention of Inter Milan and Parma."

"You're saying that I'm going to pull Moratti and Tanzi into this transfer so that I can earn more transfer fees?"

"That's right, now Inter Milan and Parma are in a period of rebuilding between the old and the new, and the owners are also quite rich and willing to invest money, if they are allowed to join, Barthez and Thuram's transfer fees will never be unilaterally suppressed by Juventus." Zhuang Mingge saw that Wenger had understood what he meant, nodded and said.

"But if the two of them leave, it will be a big shock to Monaco's results this season." Although he said before that he didn't mind selling people, when it came to implementation, Wenger still had some hesitation.

To tell the truth, although Wenger has done a good job in cultivating young players, he is really not good at the timing of selling players, to give a few examples, 04 was the time when Vieira was the most valuable, Real Madrid was even willing to pay more than $40 million to buy, as a result, Wenger kept his life for a year, and Zuihou cheaper Juventus at half price; It's the same with Henry, Wenger insisted on staying for an extra year, which led to Zuihou being sold cheaply again, not to mention Flamini, Fabregas and other famous players in the future, overall, Wenger's sellers have always been passive and quite unresponsive.

"Arséna, Monaco's financial situation and status are not unclear to you, this is its mode of survival, if you can't sell a player when he is at his most valuable, then it will only be the club itself that suffers."

"Okay, I see." Wenger hesitated for a while, and finally figured this out, he believed that with his ability to develop players, it would not be difficult to adjust a second Thuram or Barthez, "Antonio, since you persuaded me to sell these two main players, you have to give me a little compensation, right?" I'm not asking for much, just recommend two players who can fill the void left by Lilian (Thuram) and Fabian (Barthez). ”

"Hey, are you taking advantage of the fire to rob it......" Zhuang Mingge shook his head with a smile, originally he befriended Wenger, and the purpose of supporting Monaco was to make Monaco the "talent training base" of Fiorentina in France, although Zhuang Mingge was a little unhappy that he was poached by others before he used it, but his basic point of view has not changed, "Strasbourg's central defender Ismael is good, and if you are a goalkeeper, you can consider Argentine international Carlos Roa." ”

After getting a lot of information and guidance from Zhuang Mingge, Wenger immediately began to take action, selling his team's main central defender Thuram to Inter Milan and Parma, and at the same time recommending Barthez to some wealthy teams who are interested in him in order to maximize the benefits, and at the same time, he asked the Monaco club to immediately start the transfer of Ismael and Roa to make up for the loss of their departure.