Chapter 161: This Is the Age of Stupidity

"I'm very sorry, Chairman Corleone, but Chairman Jacques is now in talks with the first team manager, Louis van Gaal, and there is a bit of a timing conflict as we only received the news of your visit to our club earlier today...... Why don't I show a few of you around the club? Van Praag said cautiously, of course he knew the impact of the Bosman Act on Ajax now. Therefore, at this juncture, he didn't dare to put on a stand with the other party, in case the other party was not satisfied, he would easily poach a few excellent players from the club at a low price or even for free, and the stingy Chairman Ark had to eat himself alive.

Although Van Praag also knows that the long-standing racial discrimination and unfair treatment in the Ajax squad has made it impossible for these black players to choose to renew their contracts with the club after the Boseman Act came out, even if the chairman of Jacques has made a move to renew his contract with a salary increase.

And through the conversation just now, Van Praag found that the young president of Florence seemed to have a little kindness to himself and Ajax, so he could not choose to leave the president of Florence who showed kindness to him here.

"No problem, Director Van Praag, then please take us to ......" As he was talking, Zhuang Mingge saw Ajax's head coach Van Gaal walking over from the opposite side with a pale face.

"Humph!" Seeing Van Praag cautiously walking in his direction with a man and a woman, Van Gaal of course guessed the intentions of these people, snorted heavily, ignored the few people in front of him, and left.

"Well, I'm sorry, Chairman Corleone, I think it may be that Coach Van Gaal and Mr. Chairman just had some unpleasantness, I hope you don't mind."

"Hehe, I can understand that, after all, a good coach like Mr. Louis van Gaal naturally doesn't want his excellent players to be lost from his hands in vain."

"Thank you for your understanding, Chairman Corleone." Van Praag thanked Zhuang Mingge.

But what he thinks in his heart, Zhuang Mingge doesn't know, maybe the Dutchman is scolding in his heart: If it weren't for your rich guys eyeing our Ajax players, how could Van Gaal, who has always been calm, behave so irritable in front of outsiders?!

Now that Van Gaal has left the chairman's office, Zhuang Mingge and others do not need to visit the headquarters of Ajax to pass the time, and the group under the leadership of Van Praag walked into the office belonging to the chairman of Ajax.

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The atmosphere in the office was quite bad, and the two sides were silent in the room, after all, Chairman Ark, who was known for being stingy and greedy for money, could not have a good face for a guy like Zhuang Mingge who came to take advantage.

Chairman Ark then remained silent for more than ten minutes, and finally couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere in the room, and took the lead in breaking the deadlock:

"Chairman Corleone, according to the latest transfer rules, if you want to sign with Kluivert, you don't need to go through our club, after all, they are already ...... Free agent too. Chairman Yak seems to have struggled to get the term "free agent" out of his mouth.

"Hehe, Chairman Yak, we naturally know this, maybe at this time of conversation between you and me, another player who played here last season has accepted an offer from another team." When Zhuang Mingge spoke to Chairman Yak, a "racist", his tone did not remain calm, but instead said something that made the other party even more angry.

"Then you are still here......" Chairman Yak, who was in a very depressed mood, was just about to explode, but Van Praag, who had been standing next to him as an observer, quickly stopped the chairman of his club, and said to Zhuang Mingge with a wry smile:

"Chairman Corleone, if there is anything you want to say directly, if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will have some irreparable impact on the relationship between our two clubs."

“haode,haode。” Zhuang Mingge raised his hand to show that he had understood what Van Praag meant, carefully considered his words, and said, "Chairman Jacques, maybe in some aspects, we at Fiorentina may be able to reach a cooperation with Ajax Club. ”

"Huh? What do you mean by that? Chairman Ark heard Zhuang Mingge's words, suppressed his anger, and asked.

"Chairman Jacques, think about it, if Fiorentina sign a couple of Ajax players who are on a free transfer, and then you send someone to convince them to agree to continue playing at Ajax on loan, then your results for next season can at least be guaranteed, right?"

Zhuang Mingge's words made Axmouth pause:

Yes, if you keep a few key players on loan, although you still don't get any benefits in terms of transfer fees, but with these players, plus manager Louis van Gaal, Ajax may be able to go further in the Champions League next season and get more game bonuses......

At the same time, the wealth of experience of these players is passed on to the young players who are still playing for Ajax, and if there is a buffer time for the next year, it will indeed minimise the losses suffered by Ajax in this Boseman shockwave.

However, these assumptions are based on the premise that Ajax can get Fiorentina's signed players to agree to "stay" in the Netherlands for a year.

"But, Chairman Corleone, I don't think you can sign too many free agents, right?" At this point, Van Praag raised his own question, saying, "As far as I know, your first team now has five strikers and eight midfielders, and the players we have become free agents here are all midfielders except Reziger......

'Mr. Van Praag, you're right, so I have another suggestion here, which is to loan some of the players in our squad to you for free.

As soon as Van Praag heard the word "free", he knew that the problem had been solved by the Fiorentina president, who didn't know that the current Serie A league was Shijie First League? Fiorentina is the Serie A champion this season, even if the substitute players in their team are loaned to Ajax for free, it will be of great benefit to Ajax's own combat strength, and Fiorentina has also trained the players in their team, which can be described as a win-win solution.

After all, Ajax, lacking a source of funds, is not like other giants who can wave cheques and make a splash of signings, and the financial situation and income of the Dutch club make it impossible for such a phenomenon to happen here.

Therefore, it now seems that supporting Zhuang Mingge's proposal is the best way to get Ajax to ask for the current predicament.

What a bunch of stupid people...... If a club always puts its fate in the hands of other teams, then the fate of this team is already doomed, relying on loan to get out of the predicament this year, then Ajax, who has tasted the sweetness, will definitely seek to loan players to Fiorentina next year, and the result of this is that Ajax will be slowly infiltrated by Fiorentina and become Fiorentina's "satellite club", will it have other paths to choose at that time?

Look no further than Siena! When Juventus was strong, Siena as Juve's "second team", there were always players from Juve's first team "devolved" to play here, and every season was basically a worry-free relegation look, and the small life was quite nourishing, but later Juventus was relegated due to the phonegate incident, and Siena, which lost the support of the giants' resources, was immediately relegated from Serie A......