Chapter 24: Two or Three Things During the Winter Break
GM was founded on New Year's Day 1994, at a time when all leagues in Europe, with the exception of the struggling Premier League, had been suspended because they were about to have a winter break of varying lengths.
Before the winter break, Fiorentina had 11 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses and 24 points in the 17 Serie B games that had ended, and they were temporarily ranked in the league standings, only one point behind the top Bari team (10 wins, 5 draws, 2 losses, 25 points), and the team's road back to the first division has begun to show a ray of light.
In the second round of the Coppa Italia last month, Fiorentina eliminated Torino in Serie A with an aggregate score of 5:1 (4:0 at home, 1:1 away) over two legs to reach the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia, where the team will face Serie A giants Inter Milan with Bergkamp, Ruben Sousa and Bergomi.
Now that the time has entered the new year, it means that the door to the European transfer market has opened again, and the European teams are gearing up to see if there are opportunities to further strengthen their strength in the market, and the teams with poor results are also trying to find some new force in the transfer market as a supplement.
However, none of this has anything to do with Fiorentina, and on January 2, Fiorentina officially announced the introduction of their attacking core, Yuri Djokaeff, from Ligue 1 club Monaco for $6.5 million, and announced that Fiorentina's transfer door has been closed.
At the same time, the Monaco club also held a press conference to announce the purchase of their midfielder Zinedine Zidane from the Bordeaux club for $2 million, and at the same time poached Nantes' midfielder Claude Makelele; Acquired goalkeeper Barthez from Marseille, who have been ordered to play in Ligue 2 next season, for a transfer fee of $1 million; The 19-year-old left-back has moved from Toulouse for $400,000.
Although the outside world generally believes that the Monaco team that has lost its core Djokaeff introduced four young players in one breath during the winter break is more like a remedial act, saying that it is not optimistic about Monaco's prospects in the second half of the season, the odds of "leaving class at the end of this season" offered by major European bookmakers for coach Arsène Wenger have begun to soar, only Zhuang Mingge knows how powerful the "golden finger" he gave Wenger that time.
The other teams have not made any major moves, after all, they are just halfway through the season, and the records of the big teams are also quite good, and due to the restrictions on foreign aid places, there is no suitable prey in the winter transfer market, so the clubs are basically focused on maintaining stability.
In addition to the affairs of the Fiorentina club, Zhuang Mingge is now most concerned about whether there will be any big discrepancies between this season's Serie A and some other competitions and his memory, after all, Kripa did not join Parma as in history, and the "dark horse" Foggia was also poached by himself A big general, although his actions are small, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no unavoidable chain reaction.
After all, the results of these competitions are directly related to Zhuang Mingge's money-making plan! (In fact, it is to rely on the little "memory" left in Zhuang Mingge's brain to make money by gambling)
The result is very worthy of Zhuang Mingge's rejoicing, his little "butterfly" has not yet been able to cause a tornado, and the situation since the start of this season's Serie A league is almost the same as he remembers:
As soon as the Serie A season of 93-94 opened, AC Milan, which had already won two consecutive league titles, showed the championship appearance, Boban, Massaro, Papan and others scored alternately, and the Rossoneri reported successes frequently. Even more strikingly, from the 1-0 win over Lecce in the first round, the Rossoneri's goal felt like a big lock, and goalkeeper Rossi did not concede a goal in seven consecutive league games until the eighth round when Foggia scored his first point.
Milan is not willing to be lonely, "pigtailed" Gullit wore a Sampdoria shirt, scored four goals in the first seven rounds, and led the team to chase after his old club; Inter Milan and Juventus faced the Czech Zeman's Foggia and could only end up 1-1 to give their opponents a point.
In the ninth round of Serie A, Parma striker Meli helped the team beat Reggiana, and Parma was able to tie AC Milan at the top of the standings.
On October 31, the 10th round of Serie A was exciting, scoring 30 goals in nine fierce battles, only Roma won a 0-0 away game against Reggiana, and the two teams at the top of the table were defeated 2-3 away from home, AC Milan challenged Sampdoria as a guest, Albertini and Laudrup Jr. helped Milan lead by two goals in the first half, but the home team equalized in the second half by Catanich and Mancini, facing the old club, Gullit scored in the 78th minute to help Sampdoria complete the reversal and successfully slash the old owner; Parma faced Inter Milan and although Belgian defender Green took the lead, Inter Milan's Uruguayan striker Ruben Sousa scored a hat-trick that made Minotti's goal useless. Robert Baggio scored a hat-trick and Juventus swept away with four goals. Rise to the top of the table with Sampdoria.
However, in the 11th round, the situation of Juventus and Sampdoria took a sharp turn for the worse, with "Bantam" Zola and "Parma Variable" Brolin scoring a goal each to help Parma eliminate Juventus 2-0, Sampdoria lost 1-2 at home to the underdog Cagliari, and Allegri and Matteoli opened the door to victory for the visitors. Goals from youngster Panucci and French sharpshooter Papin gave AC Milan another Milan derby to victory and join Parma in returning to the top of the table.
In the 13th round of Serie A, England internationals David Pratt and Ruud Gullit scored to help Sampdoria defeat Cremonese and tie AC Milan and Parma, which were tied with each other, and the three teams were at the top of the table; Inter Milan drew 2-2 with Juventus in the "Italian Derby", and at the beginning of the season, no one watched Haode Napoli beat Reggiana 5-0, and the "Silver Fox" Lippi showed his edge.
In the 14th round, Sampdoria was forced to draw in the derby, Parma lost 0-2 away to Roma, and due to the unexpected loss of points between the two teams, AC Milan, who beat Torino 1-0, finally shook off their rivals and led the standings alone.
The battle for the top spot is not listed for the time being, and it is said that Inter Milan can be helped by the "Ice Prince" Bergkamp. Inter Milan were fifth in the league until the end of the round of 16 with 20 points, and are just four points behind city rivals AC Milan.
However, in the 17th round of matches on January 2, Inter Milan unexpectedly lost 1-2 at home to Atalanta, and then lost away to Reggiana in the 18th round of the league a week later, suffering two consecutive defeats, which made the long-accumulated conflict between Bergkamp and Ruben Sousa begin to erupt, the Dutch "Ice Prince" believes that the Uruguayan "civetcat" plays too alone, accusing Sosa of treating himself more as an opponent than a teammate, and Inter Milan's dressing room began to have infighting.
Although Zhuang Mingge can't remember all the details (such as the script, the results of the game, etc.) like a god with "complete memory ability", he still has an impression of some things that are often mentioned in later generations, such as Milan's 2:3 Sampdoria Gullit revenge battle, for example, Inter Milan was almost relegated at the end of this season, for example, AC Milan will win the league three consecutive championships at the end of this season...... He is very sure of these things that Zhuang Mingge remembers (the specific person in charge is naturally Karin), but the amount of bets is not very high, each amount does not exceed 1 million US dollars, but the profits obtained from this small-scale "investment" behavior are also very considerable, and it has provided enough funds for Zhuang Mingge's recent various expenditures (such as building a training base, buying players, etc.), so as not to force Zhuang Mingge to use the 50 million "gray income".
Fiorentina is still strong after the winter break, Vieri, Inzaghi and other young players in Batistuta, Effenberg, Kripa and other words, performance is becoming more and more stable and excellent, Fiorentina in five league games in January with 4 wins and 1 draw unbeaten, counting the previous games, Fiorentina has achieved 16 consecutive league games unbeaten, points finally surpassed the long-time entrenched top of the Bari team, with 33 points (15 wins, 3 draws, 4 losses) to dominate.
After the opening ceremony of GM on New Year's Day, Zhuang Mingge returned to his previous extremely regular life, studying a little coaching course by himself every day, caring about how much "gambling money" was left in his usual account......
"Hey, hello, are you Mr. Antonio Corleone?" One day in February, Zhuang Mingge, who was bored in the chairman's office, received a phone call.
"That's right, I am, who are you?"
"Uh...... Crown Prince Al Thani? Oh there, it's a pleasure to be able to talk to you......"
"What? Do you have something to ask me for? ”
"Haode, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Thani, I will fly to Doha (the capital of Qatar) as soon as possible."
This is how Zhuang Mingge's trip to Qatar began.
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