"Boss, Ajax, help this Cheng dù, it should be okay, right?" Seeing Zhuang Mingge hang up the phone, Antonioni, who was standing aside waiting for Zhuang Mingge's latest instructions, immediately stepped forward and asked respectfully.

Antonioni, who has witnessed Fiorentina's relegation from Serie A, witnessed the team's rebirth from the second division, and climbed to the top of Europe step by step, knows very well that the current Fiorentina can operate normally except for one person, and the only thing that cannot be lost is the chairman sitting in front of him.

If it weren't for this miraculous young man, Florence would have had to wait until the Year of the Monkey to reach its current heights in the hands of the Cherrigori man.

It is precisely because of this that over the years, Antonioni's attitude towards Zhuang Mingge has become more and more respectful. You must know that when Fiorentina was still in the hands of Cerrigori, Antonioni, as the general manager of the club, had many conflicts with the former owner, and was finally dismissed for repeatedly contradicting Cherrigori.

"Well, you're right, Giancarlo." Zhuang Mingge drew a few strokes on the player list and said, "Mackay, Romedahl, Ljungberg, these are the three players we recommend to Ajax; Add to that the previous loan signings of Dainelli, Di Natale and Zivo, and Fiorentina have already backed them up with a full six, which is already a lot, and if it goes any further, I am afraid it will cause displeasure among the Ajax people. ”

"In that case, which club do you plan to support first, boss?"

"Hehe, Giancarlo, what do you say?" Zhuang Mingge smiled and said his plan, "The clothes are not as good as new, the people are not as good as the old, of course we have to take care of those old friends first, after all, we still know how they are." As for clubs like Anderlecht and Benfica that have just established a relationship with Fiorentina, I think we can't invest too much in them this year, but we must first observe the level of players they are developing now, otherwise if a talented player is discarded, it will be our Fiorentina sin. ”

"Well, if that's what you think, boss, I think we might as well pick a few players from the list who have good potential and recommend them to look at the previous year and then decide whether we want to invest more in them." Antonioni thought for a moment and gave his advice.

"Well, what you said makes a lot of sense, so it's decided." Zhuang Mingge thought about it and felt that Antonioni's construction was quite safe, not only could he take care of the feelings of these satellite clubs, but also cultivate a group of powerful players if he went along with it, and Fiorentina would be able to profit from it at that time, which was really a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

By the way, in the process of establishing a network of satellite clubs, Kenyon has achieved more than Zhuang Mingge imagined, not only did he achieve the goals set in the club's internal meetings, but also added a new clause to the contracts signed with Anderlecht, Benfica and other clubs, that is: from now on, all players recommended by Fiorentina to these clubs want to transfer away (except for free transfers) and join a team other than Fiorentina. Fiorentina can get 20% of the profits.

For example, if Fiorentina recommends a player to Anderlecht, Anderlecht buys it for $3 million, and two years later sells it to a team other than Fiorentina for $10 million, then Fiorentina can take 20% of the difference (10 million - 3 million = 7 million) from this transfer in return, which is $1.4 million.

Kenyon has written this clause in his contracts with Monaco, Benfica and Anderlecht, believing that doing so will best protect Fiorentina's interests. And Zhuang Mingge also recognized Kenyon's approach after learning the news, and said that the general manager was really a demon, and he could actually think of this method to make the club get more benefits.

The most important thing is that Kenyon's way of accumulating money will not cause much disgust to these clubs, after all, the players are recommended by Fiorentina, and if they make a profit from it, they will naturally have a share of the credit of Purple Lily, and it is reasonable to take a "mediation fee", which is not too much.

The only thing that Zhuang Mingge regrets is that the contracts of the two clubs, Vicenza and Ajax, do not have this clause on them, which means that Fiorentina will lose a lot of dollars on these two clubs.

However, Zhuang Mingge didn't complain too much about this, after all, this belonged to his own inconsiderate thought in advance, and he couldn't complain about others, so he could only take this incident as a lesson and warn himself that he must be fully prepared before making decisions in the future, otherwise it is very likely that he will suffer unnecessary losses due to negligence.

The list of players to recommend to Anderlecht was quickly finalized, as Fiorentina's intention to build a satellite club in Belgium was to allow those non-European players to obtain EU passports as much as possible, so most of the players introduced to the Belgian giants this time were from outside the EU.

In this way, Peruvian striker Claudio Pizarro, Czech striker Jan Kohler, Japanese midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura, Uruguayan defender Diego Lugano and Croatian rising star Igor Tudor all joined Anderlecht on Fiorentina's recommendation. Although these players are not as talented as Zidane and Ronaldo in terms of football talent, if they can grow normally, they are definitely a group of powerful players who can occupy a place in the four major leagues.

As for Benfica Club, Zhuang Mingge sees that it is Rui Costa's parent team, so he naturally takes more care of the Portuguese giant. Therefore, the players recommended to Benfica this time are much more potential than Anderlecht's, although for some well-known reasons, most of the players introduced to Benfica are Brazilians.

When Benfica FC saw the list of recommendations sent by Fiorentina, they immediately felt a little dumbfounded: it is just that they are all Brazilians, after all, Brazil and Portugal are in the same strip, and the players there do not have to spend too much effort to adapt to the environment when they come to Portugal to play; Brazil is also known as the "Kingdom of Football", where there is an endless stream of talented players. So, at first glance, Florence's recommendation is still very reliable.

However, who can say that Thiago Motta, Edmilson, Anderson Deco, Lucio and other players were dug from which corners the Italians dug up? Why have we never heard of their names before? You can't be mistaken, right?