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Chapter 24 Two or three things during the winter break

The establishment of GM company was on New Year's Day in 1994. At this time, except for the hard-working Premier League, the rest of the European leagues have suspended their battles because they are about to usher in a winter break of varying lengths.

Before the winter break, Fiorentina achieved a good result of 11 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses and 24 points in the 17 games that have ended. It is currently ranked second in the league, only one point behind the top Barrie (10 wins, 5 draws, 2 losses and 25 points). The team's road to returning to the First Division has begun to reveal a bright future.

In the second round of the Italian Cup last month, Fiorentina eliminated the Serie A team in the Serie A with a total score of 5:1 (4:0 at home and 1:1 away) in two rounds and successfully entered the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup. The team will face the Serie A giants Inter Milan in the next round with famous players such as Borgkamp, ​​Ruben Sousa, Bergomi.

Since time has entered a new year, this means that the door to the European transfer market has been opened again. The European teams are ready to take good performance to see if there are any opportunities in the market to further enhance their strength. Teams with poor record are also trying to find some new forces in the transfer market as supplements.

However, these have nothing to do with Fiorentina. On January 2, Fiorentina officially announced that it would introduce their offensive core from the Monaco club in Ligue 1 for US$6.5 million. Yuri Djokaf also announced that Fiorentina's transfer door had been closed.

At the same time, Monaco Club also held a press conference, announcing the introduction of their midfielder Zinedin Zidane from Bordeaux Club for $2 million, and at the same time poached Nantes midfielder Claude Marklele; acquired goalkeeper Badz from Marseille, who has been ordered to play in the French Ligue 2 next season, with a transfer fee of $1 million; 19-year-old left-back Vincent Candela transferred from Toulouse Club for $400,000.

Although the outside world generally believes that Monaco, which has lost its core, has introduced four young players in one go during the winter break, is more like a behavior of making up for the failure, and expresses that it is not optimistic about Monaco's prospects in the second half of the season, the odds of "subsidy this season" issued by major European bookmakers for head coach Arsena Wenger have begun to soar. Only Zhuang Mingge knows how powerful the "golden finger" he gave Wenger that time is.

Other teams have not made any big moves. After all, they are just halfway through the season, and the performance of the giant teams is also quite good. At the same time, due to the constraints of foreign aid quotas, there are no suitable prey in the winter transfer market, so all clubs basically focus on maintaining stability.

In addition to the affairs of the Fiorentine club, Zhuang Mingge is most concerned about now whether there is any major difference between the Serie A and some other events this season and what he remembers. After all, Kripa did not join Parma as in history, and the "dark horse" Foggia was also poached a general by himself. Although his actions were very small, it is difficult to guarantee that there would be no unforeseen chain reaction.

After all, the results of these games are directly related to Zhuang Mingge's plan to make money! (In fact, it is to rely on the little "memory" left in Zhuang Mingge's mind to make money)

The result is worthy of Zhuang Mingge's gratitude. His little "butterfly" does not have the ability to cause a tornado. The situation since the start of the Serie A League this season is almost the same as in his memory:

As soon as the Serie A stadium was opened in 1993-94, AC Milan, which had won two consecutive league championships, showed the championship appearance. Boban, Massarro, Papan and others scored alternately, and the Red and Black Army's victory was frequent. What's even more amazing is that from the first round of defeating Lecce, the Red and Black Army's goal seemed to be locked. Goalkeeper Rossi did not concede seven consecutive league goals, and it was not until the eighth round that Foggia scored the first point.

Milan's abandoned player is not willing to be lonely. "Braided Coach" Gulit wore Sampdoria's jersey and scored four goals in the first seven rounds, leading the team to chase his old club; Inter Milan and Juventus can only end 1-1 against Foggy led by Czech Zeman and give their opponent a point.

In the ninth round of Serie A, Parma striker Meli decided to the top of the league and helped the team beat Regiana, Parma was able to go to the top of the standings with AC Milan.

The 10th round of Serie A on October 31 was exciting, with 30 goals in nine fierce battles. Only Roma played away against Regiana and scored 0-0. Both teams ranked first failed in the away game 2-3. AC Milan was a away game to challenge Sampdoria, Albertini and Lauderup Jr. helped Milan lead two goals in the first half. However, the home team equalized the score in the second half, facing their old club.

Gulit helped Sampdoria complete the reversal in the 78th minute and successfully defeated the old owner; Parma faced Inter Milan, although Belgian defender Green won the first goal, Inter Milan's Uruguayan scorer Ruben Sousa performed a hat-trick, which made Minotti's goal in the future useless. Robert Baggio contributed a hat-trick, and Juventus swept four goals and advanced to the top of the list with Sampdoria.

However, in the 11th round, the situation of Juventus and Sampdoria took a sharp turn. The "blank tiger" Zora and the "Parma variable" Brolin each scored a goal, helping Parma eliminate Juventus 2-0. Sampdoria actually lost to the weak team Cagliari 1-2 at home, and Allegri and Matteoli opened the door to victory for the visiting team. The goals of young player Panucci and French sharpshooter Papan made AC Milan win another Milan derby and returned to the top with Parma.

In the 13th round of Serie A, goals from England internationals David Pratt and Gulit helped Sampdoria defeat Cremona, and scored points to tie AC Milan and Parma, which were in the match against each other, with the three teams ranked first; Inter Milan drew Juventus two-2 in the "Italy derby". Napoli was unpopular at the beginning of the season, defeating Regina five-to-zero blood, and "Silver Fox" Lippi showed his strength.

In the 14th round, Sampdoria was tied by ** in the derby game. Parma lost 0-2 to Roma away. Due to the unexpected loss of points between the two teams, AC Milan, which defeated Turin by 1-0, finally left behind the competitors and led the standings alone.

The battle for the top spot is not to be mentioned. Let’s talk about Inter Milan, which received the help of "Ice Prince" Borgkamp. Inter Milan ranked fifth in the league with 20 points until the end of the 16th round, and was only four points less than his arch-rival AC Milan in the same city.

However, in the 17th round of the game on January 2, Inter Milan unexpectedly lost to Atlanta one-to-two at home, and then lost to Regiana away in the 18th round of the league a week later, suffering two consecutive losses, which caused the long-accumulated conflict between Borgkamp and Ruben Sousa to break out. The Dutch "Ice Prince" believed that the Uruguayan "spirit cat" played too independently, accusing Sousa of treating herself more as an opponent rather than a teammate. Inter Milan's locker room began to have internal strife.

Although Zhuang Mingge cannot remember all the details (such as scripts, game results, etc.) like a great god with "full memory ability", he still has an impression of some things that are often mentioned in later generations, such as the Milan 2:3 Sampdoria's Gulit revenge battle, for example, Inter Milan was almost relegated at the end of this season, for example, AC Milan will win three consecutive league championships at the end of this season... He bets with certainty (the specific person in charge is naturally Karin), but the amount of bets is not very high, and each amount does not exceed $1 million, but the profits obtained by this small-scale "investment" behavior are also quite considerable, providing enough funds for Zhuang Mingge's recent expenditures (such as building training bases, purchasing players, etc.) to not force Zhuang Mingge to use the 50 million "gray income".

After the winter break, Fiorentina is still strong. Young players such as Vieri and Inzagi have performed more and more stable and outstanding under the words and deeds of Batistuta, Effenberg, Kripa and others. Fiorentina achieved an unbeaten record of 4 wins and 1 draw in five league games in January. Including previous games, Fiorentina has achieved 16 consecutive league unbeaten games, and finally surpassed the long-term top-ranked Bari, and took the lead with 33 points (15 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses).

After the opening ceremony of GM company on New Year's Day, Zhuang Mingge returned to his previous extremely regular life. He taught himself a little coaching course every day, caring about how much "gambling money" is left in his commonly used account, and he often teased Karin and was chased by the blushed Karin...

"Hey, hello, are you Mr. Antonio Corleon?" One day in February, Zhuang Mingge, who was bored in the chairman's office, received a call.

"Yes, I am, who are you?"

"Uh...Crown Prince Althani? Oh, hello, I'm glad to be able to call you..."

"What? Do you have something to ask me?"

"Okay, His Highness Prince Al Thani, I will fly to Doha (the capital of Qatar) as soon as possible."

Zhuang Mingge's trip to Qatar began like this.
Chapter completed!
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