"I didn't expect this to be true." Manager Babic said embarrassedly after carefully reading all the news on the newspaper clippings, "I'm very sorry, because of the war, we haven't seen decent sports news for a long time."

Zhuang Mingge was speechless. Although Croatia and Italy, a country with the No. 1 European League, were only separated by a not-wide Adriatic Sea, but the speed of information dissemination between the two countries was indeed a huge difference.

When many European clubs were secretly paying attention to Boseman's lawsuit against UEFA, the general manager of Dynamo Zagreb, who was in a war-torn area, still had the impression he had been five or six years ago.

It has to be said that the regional wars and political turmoil in the early 1990s completely destroyed the originally powerful Eastern European football. In the following twenty years, although stars such as Vidic, Dzeko and Modric have also emerged in Eastern Europe, they have never been able to win major competitions such as the World Cup and the European Cup.

In Zhuang Mingge's impression, the 1998 World Cup was the "last supper" of the older generation of Eastern Europeans. The thirty-year-old geniuses from Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Croatia have shined their last ray of light in front of world fans, and grew up under the socialist system and the youngest Czech Republic only persisted until the 2004 European Cup.

When the Czech golden generation came to an end, Eastern European football had no more outstanding results.

Such dismalities are very different from the situation before the drastic changes in Eastern Europe. At that time, the capitalist countries could even resist the footsteps of Eastern Europeans by relying on the bias of the referees.

Although Zhuang Mingge is powerless to revive Eastern European football, he is still very interested in the rich football resources buried in Eastern European areas.

After all, in later generations, Croatia was a very good team. Although there were not many big-name stars in the team, its strength was unquestionable.

What Zhuang Mingge has to do now is to receive these Eastern European teams under his account in advance before the Boseman Act is implemented. Even if these high-quality resources cannot be played in Fiorentina, they can still make a profit by reselling players.

"Manager Babage, I have an idea." Zhuang Mingge said, "I wonder if you are interested in the cooperation between the two clubs?"

Cooperation? When Manager Babic heard this, he couldn't help but look at the young Fiorentina president in surprise. Did this young man come here without hesitation because he fell in love with a player in the team? Was he just to watch a Cup of Winners game?

Thinking of this, Babic felt a little disappointed.

Originally, the Zagreb club was overjoyed about the arrival of Zhuang Mingge, the Fiorentine boss. Their greatest hope was that this young "financial owner" would take out a transfer fee from the current Dynamo Zagreb club just like Berlusconi poached Boban back then and take away a few valuable players. In this way, the club's financial crisis will be greatly alleviated. After all, the game bonuses received by the team before only solved the players' salary problem, and there are still many projects that need to be solved urgently and have not been settled!

"Uh, Chairman Corleon, I don't know what you mean by cooperation?" Although disappointed, Manager Babic still cheered up and raised his doubts to Zhuang Mingge.

“As you can see, simply put, I hope to buy a portion of the shares of the Dinamo Zagreb Club in the form of personal contributions, and in this way, a close cooperative relationship between Florence and the Dinamo Zagreb Club.”

"This is impossible!" After hearing Zhuang Mingge's thoughts, Babic couldn't help but refute the other party's remarks.

"If it were me, of course it would not be possible, and UEFA would not agree." Zhuang Mingge replied naturally, but then the topic changed: "But UEFA only stipulates that 'The same group or individual cannot control two football clubs at the same time'."

"Chairman Corleon, what do you mean..." Babic couldn't help but lit up when he heard Zhuang Mingge's words.

"For example, if the investor of this acquisition is not me, but the personal investment behavior of our club staff, then UEFA has no reason to stop it?"

Zhuang Mingge's approach was actually based on a news that later generations saw. At that time, Seedorf, who worked for AC Milan, invested in a personal name to acquire the Monza Club. His approach did not arouse people's criticism.

"Yes! Why didn't I think of this method?!" Manager Babic was excited and almost ran to the street to celebrate. If it went well, Dynamo Zagreb could board the big ship Florence, and he would no longer have to worry about the club's financial problems.

And according to the Florence president, once the Boseman appeals successfully, the players he has worked hard to train will be poached for free by those damn big teams. With Florence's financial aid and shelter, the team should be able to leave many good seedlings.

After all, even in the later generations where Boss has been slowly implementing the bill for a long time, the giants will not maliciously poach each other (except for the two unconventional behaviors of Manchester City and Chelsea, I have always believed that it is because of the "do not understand the rules" behaviors of these two clubs that are repeatedly troubled by the referees). Even the free transfers of Flamini and Barack all greeted the club in advance.

Of course, there are also strange teams like Barcelona who have to let players pay for their own money in order to introduce Fabregas.

In the eyes of manager Babic, Florence can undoubtedly be regarded as a wealthy club.

For Zhuang Mingge, the part of the profits from the World Cup betting have flowed smoothly into his account in Italy under the operation of the Groz family. He has become a legitimate billionaire and naturally does not care about the small amount of money it will cost to acquire Zagreb.

Croatia's league is also quite open, and the restrictions on foreign players are very relaxed (the Croatian League 1 stipulates that the number of foreign players on the court shall not exceed 6, but there is no limit on the total number of foreign players in the team). High-quality resources from Eastern Europe can be concentrated in the stronghold of Zagreb, continuously providing excellent players for Fiorentina.

After some negotiations with manager Babic, the two sides reached an agreement that Florence would send a "representative" to serve as the chairman of the devastated club and acquire all shares in Dynamo Zagreb for US$3 million.

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On October 26, the match between Fiorentina and Dynamo Zagreb was about to begin. The Maximire Stadium (Dynamo Zagreb home court) which can accommodate nearly 40,000 spectators was packed. Zhuang Mingge refused the invitation to let him enter the only "VIP box" to watch the game. Under the escort of the stadium security guards, Zhuang Mingge took Karin to the cement stands.

The reason why it is called a cement stand is that most of the seats in the entire stadium are made of cement. During the game, the biggest function of this stand is to allow fans entering the venue to have a foothold.

It is said that the quality of a country's fans is proportional to its economic level, but Zhuang Mingge, who is in the immersive situation, believes that in this country with an annual income of less than US$350, no one cares about their own stadiums more than the fans here. There is no littering, and there is no dirty words that permeate the air. Local fans are completely enjoying a long-lost exciting game.

PS1: Starting last night, the switch in the author Jun’s dormitory broke down and could not access the Internet. This chapter was sent from a classmate’s computer...
Chapter completed!