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It is precisely because Rui Costa attaches great importance to emotions that Zhuang Mingge will always give special care to Rui Costa in many aspects: a player who values feelings more than honor and money can be said to be rare in the football world, and it is a rare treasure for the team.

I'm afraid even Zidane can't compare to Costa's affection - after Zidane's success, who has seen him help Bordeaux and Cannes, two clubs he once played for?

Therefore, Zhuang Mingge does not mind losing a little bit of financial benefit to help Rui Costa and add Benfica to Fiorentina's satellite club system, which can also improve the Portuguese midfielder's sense of belonging to Fiorentina.

And, in Zhuang's view, Benfica has another advantage over its city rivals Sporting Leesbon, which is that it has a wider range of options for young players. After the Boseman era, Benfica changed their business strategy and began to dig up good seedlings from all over the world, cultivate them and exchange them for large sums of money. As a result, Benfica not only produced local rookies, such as Thiago, Maniche, Coentrão, etc.; There are also a number of foreign players who have successfully landed in European football, with Angel Di Maria, Ramirez and David Luiz being among them.

Sporting Lisbon has been struggling to defend the one-acre three-point land in Portugal, digging potential newcomers in the country, although stars such as Nani, Cristiano Ronaldo, Quaresma and other stars have also emerged, but in terms of quantity, after the advent of the Bosman era, the number of stars cultivated by Sporting Lisbon is still at a disadvantage in the top three in Portugal.

The difference in attitudes between the two clubs towards foreign players has also become a key consideration for Zhuang Mingge, and the purpose of Fiorentina's satellite club in Portugal is to better absorb players from South America, rather than being trapped in Portugal to select talent.

Although I don't know how Sporting Lisbon thinks about these issues, it doesn't prevent Zhuang Mingge from making what he thinks is a more reasonable choice.

Therefore, it is out of a combination of these factors that Zhuang Mingge chose Benfica instead of Sporting Lisbon.

Of course, Zhuang Mingge actually prefers Porto, a club that is more open than Benfica and Sporting Lisbon in terms of business strategy, and has more use of foreign players than the other two. But who made da Costa's (president of Porto) ask for such a high price? So Zhuang Mingge had no choice but to settle for the second best thing and chose Benfica Club, which was also good in various conditions.

With Zhuang Mingge's involvement, will Porto still be able to dominate Portuguese football in the new century, as it has done historically?

Before you know it, the time has entered August 1997.

After Kenyon sent back the news that it was "done" from Portugal, Zhuang Mingge finally began to make a move in the transfer market.

It's just that this time his goal is not to attract people to the Fiorentina club, but to give some sweetness to these teams who have just joined the Fiorentina satellite club system, so that they can understand a truth: follow in the footsteps of Fiorentina and have meat to eat.

Zhuang Mingge is going to compare the number of players that the Fiorentina staff has spent years building up with his own memory, and find some good seedlings that can be focused on cultivating from the massive number of players.

The first thing Zhuang Mingge has to take care of is naturally Fiorentina's old patron, Ajax FC, the Dutch giants have bought or loaned many players from the Purple Lily in recent years who have not played in the Fiorentina first team, such as Collini, Gianni Keda, Inzaghi Jr. and others. And after Ajax cultivated them, Fiorentina also made a lot of profits: the transfer of Inzaghi Jr. and others brought a lot of transfer income to the club; Materazzi's growth has allowed the team to let go of the experienced Wiljovod.

Since Ajax has brought so many benefits to himself, Zhuang Mingge will naturally not treat the other party badly. He first loaned out two players from the youth team, Di Natale and Dainelli, to Ajax to make up for the losses of Materazzi and Inzaghi Jr. after they were reclaimed by Fiorentina.

Then, as compensation for recovering Ajax's two absolute main players, Zhuang Mingge also spent a small amount of money, buying Romanian teenager Christian Zivo for a transfer fee of $300,000, and also loaned him to Ajax for free after signing him on a five-year long-term contract.

Historically, Zivo gradually grew up at Ajax and became a world-class defender, and later did not perform well at Inter Milan more because he was injured in a game (to be precise, Zivo's serious injury was a skull fracture and injured the brain, and even once his life was dying, and his motor nerves were greatly damaged, and since then he has been slumped, from a world-class defender to a colander in the mouth of Inter Milan fans), Therefore, Zhuang Mingge said that he had no pressure to send the Romanian to Ajax three years ahead of schedule - because the Romanian received systematic training from Ajax several years in advance, this may make him stronger than he was in history, which is also the result that Zhuang Mingge hopes to see.

After loaning three players to Ajax, Zhuang began to try to recommend some of the players he admired to Van Praag and let him judge for himself whether it was worth bringing in.

However, something happened to Zhuang Mingge's surprise. After receiving this list of recommendations, Van Praag only roughly calculated the amount of money needed to bring in these players, and after determining that Ajax's financial resources could afford it, he ordered him to transfer back to the department to do everything possible to finish these players and bring them to Ajax's account.

Of course, Zhuang Mingge doesn't know that his selection vision has been recognized by the entire European football world, and now many teams are trying to inquire about Zhuang Mingge's optimistic players every year to see if they can get a piece of the pie.

Van Praag, who has benefited a lot, is a staunch follower of Zhuang Mingge, and the chairman of Ajax, who has received too many surprises from Zhuang Mingge, naturally does not have any doubts about Zhuang Mingge's vision.

So, on the recommendation of Zhuang Mingge, Roy Mackay transferred from Arnhemvettes, and he was worth only $5 million; At the same time, Ajax also bought Swede Ljungberg (Halmstad, $2.5 million) and Danish winger Romedahl (free transfer).

The fact that these players joined Ajax shows that Fiorentina's satellite club plans are well underway.

When they mature in Ajax, it's time for the Florentine harvest!