Chapter 989 - Operation to Change Doors (II)
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"Boom click......" As soon as Antonioni's words landed, he heard the sound of a large number of glasses shattering.
Looking at the group of reporters in the audience who were so surprised that they seemed to be about to hit their jaws on the surface of their feet, Antonioni's heart couldn't help but feel a pang. However, due to the constraints of the occasion, Antonioni could not show these feelings in front of everyone, so he could only look at the group with a smile on his face, and wait for them to recover from their surprise before continuing the press conference.
I'll it, big news, it's definitely big news! The reporters present ignored the glasses and cameras they had just dropped on the ground, and quickly packed up their surprise, staring at Antonioni standing on the stage, waiting for the Florentina general manager to continue to break more fierce news.
"Well done! With Gianluigi Buffon, who other team will be able to break through our Fiorentina goal in the future! Meanwhile, the Fiorentina fans in front of the TV cheered for joy after a brief silence. At this time, they have already begun to imagine in their minds the beautiful picture of Buffon after joining the team.
Although Fiorentina's main goalkeeper for the past seven years, Toldo has played superbly at the recently concluded European Championship and is one of the heroes of Italy's ability to win the Delaunay Cup despite Gianluigi Buffon's absence due to injury. But Fiorentina fans who are familiar with Toldo know that there is obviously a certain gap between him and Buffon when it comes to the stability of form and the ability to be in the goalkeeper position.
Although Toldo's reaction speed and goal-line saving skills are among the top in the world, his grasp of the timing of the attack has not improved much, so whenever Fiorentina plays against the opponent, he will always concede a lot of goals due to this reason, and Toldo's state is greatly affected by the situation, and there is often a lack of excitement in some games against weak teams; Buffon, on the other hand, has been known for his all-round ability and stable form since his debut, which can more effectively ensure Fiorentina's ability to score points in the game and minimize the occurrence of accidents. Although they are not as good as Toldo in terms of saving penalties, with Fiorentina's current quality, how many times can they give their opponents a penalty in a season?
Therefore, Fiorentina, who got Buffon, will inevitably have a higher strength than last season!
Subsequently, when the fans finally calmed down and learned from the TV that Buffon was worth as much as $50 million this time when he transferred to Fiorentina, their mood that had finally calmed down began to boil again!
After all, no matter how strong Buffon's ability and fame are, he is only a goalkeeper after all, and he should be destined to be inferior to attacking players such as Figo and Crespo in terms of value. Therefore, when people find out that Fiorentina will actually pay a huge sum of 50 million US dollars for a goalkeeper, they will naturally unconsciously ignore Figo, who has just transferred to Real Madrid at the world's first price, and focus on Buffon!
It is no wonder that although Real Madrid has Figo, the "most expensive player in the world", as a publicity stunt, in fact, because of the previous attack player Crespo, who is also worth more than 50 million US dollars, people are surprised by this transfer Cheng Dรน is more because Figo, who is the ace of Barcelona, will choose to go to his sworn enemy, rather than because of his worth of 10 billion pesetas.
And now, a goalkeeper has actually sold for a sky-high price of 50 million dollars, which naturally arouses people's curiosity and media hype. Even those who don't usually pay much attention to Serie A and football will be interested in Buffon's transfer and pay attention to it. As a result, people naturally have a lot less focus on Real Madrid.
As for whether Buffon himself will be burdened with a heavy psychological burden because of his high value...... Zhuang Mingge feels that the probability of this kind of thing happening is very low, you must know that Buffon in his previous life also joined Juventus with the first value of a goalkeeper, and then used his excellent performance to help the old woman regain the league championship after a four-year absence, which shows his psychological endurance.
Incidentally, Zhuang Mingge and Francesca did agree on the transfer of Buffon, agreeing that Fiorentina would bring in the talented goalkeeper from Parma for $45 million in cash plus Sanctis. However, in order to ensure that Buffon's transfer value has a stronger visual impact, in the final implementation stage, Zhuang Mingge changed the way of trading and decided to directly pay $50 million to buy Buffon from Parma at one time. As for De Sanctis, Parma only need to take five million out of Buffon's transfer fee and send it back to Fiorentina's account.
Of course, in order to ensure that Parma's interests will not be exploited by the tax authorities as a result of this change, in practice, this excess tax will be borne by the Florentine side.
It has to be said that after a series of operations, Zhuang Mingge's plan to suppress Real Madrid's limelight has achieved considerable success. Gianluigi Buffon's record-breaking $50 million move to Fiorentina shocked the entire European football scene and downplayed the impact of Figo's transfer.
Add to that the collective transfers of first-class or quasi-first-class goalkeepers such as Toldo, Peruzzi, Maciegiani, Balotta, and Fiorentina's subsequent announcement of the sale of De Sanctis to Parma for five million dollars, and this goal-changing operation has already involved six goalkeepers from four teams! In this way, after Real Madrid bought Figo and became the club that attracted the most attention from fans around the world, it took only three days for Serie A to refocus on them!
However, Buffon's sky-high transfer to Fiorentina is only the climax of the Serie A team's "change of door" action planned by Zhuang Mingge, but it is not the final destination. The next day, on the morning of the 28th, another transfer was announced in front of the fans: after successfully signing Toldo, Inter Milan announced that they had brought back Sebastien Frei, who had been trained there on loan from relegated Verona, and that the French youngster would play in the blue and black jersey in the new season!
Obviously, this is another typical Moratti deal. The fan president has always liked to stuff the team with players who are not so necessary, for example, this time, when Toldo's quality is clearly higher than Frei's and he will definitely be in the main line, the goalkeeper's failure to keep it will become a time bomb in the Inter dressing room.
With Frei's transfer to Inter Milan, so far, after two days, this goal-changing action involving five Serie A clubs including Fiorentina and Inter Milan, as well as seven well-known goalkeepers including Buffon and Toldo, has finally come to an end in the heated discussions of fans and media!