Chapter 663 Renewal of Contract
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Although the main players of Effenberg and Redondo are still there, Davis's departure still makes the outside world worry about the journey of Fiorentina's new season, and the odds of winning the championship in various events have been greatly reduced by ** Company.
Midfielder Davis defected to his archenemy Juventus, while Fiorentina's other main midfielder Diviagio, in previous seasons, switched to Rome with his teammates and Tomasi, one of the main rotation players in the midfield position of Purple Lily, which led to a huge vacuum in the defensive midfielder position.
Although Marklele was introduced from the French Ligue 1 overlord Monaco, people did not take this French midfielder too seriously - a player who can't even get into the national team, no matter how capable he is, he must not be as good as international players like Davis and Dibiagio - this is what most fans think of Marklele as a new player.
In addition, the rotational players such as Cruise, Angeloma, and Ze Roberto and the bench bandits left Fiorentina together this summer, which led to many people thinking that Fiorentina's overall strength has declined significantly. After all, a season is very long. If you want to achieve good results, you not only rely on a strong main lineup, but also the depth of the bench is very important.
Now that there are so many outstanding substitutes who have left all of a sudden, even if they are as powerful as Fiorentina, I am afraid that the results of next season will not be as perverted as those in previous seasons, right?
Although Fiorentina's recruitment efforts this summer are not small, and they have introduced fresh blood such as Voger, Gattuso, Deco, and Madawiki, and people also have high expectations for their future. However, some experts and professors popped up at this time, claiming that although these players have great potential, they have never played in the Italian league before. It is still unknown whether they can adapt to Italian football now and provide Florence with the necessary instant combat power for Fiorentina. So if they are not done well, Fiorentina, which has dominated Serie A for four years, is likely to repeat the mistakes of former overlord AC Milan this season.
Under the instigation of these experts, many fans who support Fiorentina have begun to worry about the team's future. Many people have written letters or sent emails to the club, hoping to introduce some strong players during the transfer period to enhance the team's strength, so as not to fall at a disadvantage in the fierce arms race between Serie A teams.
Antonioni shook his head and smiled bitterly when he saw these letters. He did not blame the fans for pointing fingers at the club's work, because he knew that the fans' starting points were for the good of Fiorentina, and he also knew that they were all incited by the media and experts who were afraid of the world.
Therefore, in order not to hurt the hearts of these enthusiastic fans, Antonioni had to arrange a special person to reply to the fans one by one to calm the fans' emotions and avoid them from doing more radical behavior under the agitation of those unscrupulous media.
Although the outside world is not optimistic about Florence's new season, the inside of Purple Lily is calm at this time, and all departments are operating in an orderly manner, without any signs of confusion due to the outside world's low evaluation of them.
After all, they had experienced these things once in the two years when Zhuang Mingge first entered Fiorentina. At that time, the chairman almost cleaned up the entire first team, and brought a large number of unknown players and head coach Ranieri. Then, amid the doubts among people, Florence, which had already fallen into a trough, rose again after two years of being relegated from Serie A!
Now, Florence is not only standing on the championship podium, but also with the whirlwind caused by Florence, the whole of Europe has been dyed with this gorgeous and luxurious purple!
Since Mr. Chairman succeeded in this way five years ago, he can do this five years later. This is what all Florence staff think of their boss at this moment.
Although this view is somewhat extreme and somewhat idealistic, Zhuang Mingge can now give everyone who knows him this feeling, a feeling that he is omnipotent in the football world!
Okay, now let's bring the topic back to the transfer market. After selling Davis to Juventus, Florence has only the last blood exchange mission this summer, and the most important one has not been completed, that is, the transfer of Argentine war god Batistuta!
Although with the rise of Vieri, Ronaldo and Inzagi, Batistuta's data has declined in recent years, which is far less glorious than the season when he led Purple Lily back to Serie A. But everyone who is concerned about Fiorentina knows that Batistuta's significance to Fiorentina is not just that he scored a few goals in the game. This god of war is Purple Lily's well-deserved spiritual leader!
Therefore, if Batistuta had not actively applied for a transfer in order to make the main position of the national team, Zhuang Mingge would not have let the Argentine center transfer even if he was beaten to death.
The only thing that Zhuang Mingge is that although Batistuta's idea of transfer is unshakable, Effenberg, another locker room leader of the team, did not stab Fiorentina at this time, but instead signed his name on a four-year contract with an annual salary of up to $5 million!
After learning this news, people were extremely shocked by the high salary that the tiger easily obtained. After all, it was 1998, and at this time, there were very few people who could reach this number of professional players’ annual salary.
You should know that after Manchester United won the triple crown in history, the annual salary of the team captain Keane and the heartthrob Beckham were only more than two million US dollars. In the end, the Manchester United captain threatened to transfer to the club and had to raise his salary; Louis Figo only received this level of salary after transferring to Real Madrid with a world record value. Before that, as the captain of Barcelona, he had an annual salary of only three million US dollars!
Therefore, Effenberg's contract can be said to have put him in the top level in Europe, making all his peers who seem to be in a state of envy and jealousy - why can't we get such a generous and rich boss?
Through this contract renewal, people saw Florence's determination to leave the German tiger, because no one dared to offer such a generous contract for Effenberg like this to Florence.
Fiorentina can offer such a high price because when Barty confirmed the transfer, Effenberg is the team's well-deserved leader and the treatment should be the top; and if the Tiger goes to another team and enjoys this treatment, it will inevitably cause a storm in the locker room. The old man in the team will definitely not want to see a newcomer get a much higher salary than himself, such as Litmanin in history...
Chapter completed!