After bringing Drogba back to the Monaco club, Spalletti unexpectedly met Zhuang Mingge, who happened to be visiting. The latter came here for two main reasons: first, to sign a new cooperation agreement with the Monaco hierarchy to officially integrate the Ligue 1 club into the Fiorentina satellite club system; The second reason is that the Fiorentina first team has also arrived here and is preparing for a warm-up match against Monaco in order to prepare for the new season.

However, the day before the warm-up match, Spalletti approached Zhuang Mingge and invited him to the training ground to watch Monaco's first team train. After that, the two had a rather in-depth exchange of issues in Spalletti's office.

'Chairman Corleone, do you think Claude [Makelele] is more suited to a central midfield role than the right back now?" Spalletti asked, somewhat puzzled, that he had intended to use Claude Makelele to replace the retiring Di Meco as the starting right-back, with newcomer Sagnol as his replacement. Unexpectedly, as soon as the opponent came up, he put forward an idea that he had never considered, that is, to change Makelele's position on the field and let him play in the back midfield.

"Yes, as a right-back, you can play a role that is not inferior to Di Meco in defence, but in attack Makelele is not able to provide the necessary support to the team to broaden the team's attacking width like Di Meco." Zhuang Mingge nodded and continued, "Moreover, after the transfer of Petit and Darkett, Monaco has a huge vacuum in the midfield position, although we Fiorentina have loaned you two young players, Giannaro (Gattuso) and Simeone (Perrotta), but neither of them has any experience in the tournament. For Monaco, who are facing a third-tier battle this season, this is really not enough. ”

Spalletti is an Italian, and he also has one quality that almost all Italian managers have, which is that he is quite rich in tactics. And Spalletti does not have a fixed coaching style of his own, he often arranges specific tactical plays according to the team's existing configuration.

Just like when he was in charge of Rome in the past, because the Red Wolves did not have a reliable centre-forward at that time, and the Sensi family at that time could not afford much transfer money to support the club. So Spalletti decisively pushed Totti, who originally played as a striker, to the position of center forward, and used a set of "wolf pack tactics" to rejuvenate Roma, which was already declining.

Therefore, for Zhuang Mingge's suggestion, Spalletti did not rush to deny it, but seriously considered whether it was feasible.

Some people may ask, why didn't Zhuang Mingge talk about it to Wenger, who had a better relationship with him, before? The reason is very simple, because Zhuang Mingge kept an eye on it back then, and he didn't want the "professor" to know the true strength of Makelele. Regarding Wenger's style of digging up fellow villagers, Zhuang Mingge is very clear in his heart.

If Zhuang Mingge had made Arsene Wenger discover the great value of Makelele in the midfield position and had a favor for him, how could there still be Fiorentina's share? Wenger, who had already run to Arsenal, wiped his mouth and wiped it clean.

Before the construction of the new stadium, Arsenal was not the team that sold the core of the main team every year, and now they are still one of the few giants who can wrestle with Manchester United at home.

"Crowder's skills are excellent, he mostly relies on his skills to steal the ball when defending, he is very tight on the mark, and he rarely loses his position." Spalletti has been in Monaco for more than a month, and he also has some impressions of the player Makelele, at this time he is analyzing the characteristics of Makelele's skills to see if he has the feasibility of changing to a midfielder, "I have seen his previous game video, and I was very puzzled at the time, obviously he has excellent skills, but he never presses the midfield to participate in the attack. In retrospect, he may really be a standard template for a defensive midfielder. ”

As he spoke, Spalletti himself began to get excited, he originally thought that the Monaco team he took over was a mess, but he didn't expect that there were so many treasures in the team that had lost a lot of blood in the summer.

Sure enough, the club's choice to rely on the big tree of Fiorentina is a correct choice, such a player configuration is much stronger than his previous coach Empoli, and if you plan carefully, it is not impossible to complete the league four consecutive championships (note: Spalletti knows that Zhuang Mingge has helped Monaco in the past).

There are now Trezeguet and Drogba in the forward line, and Thierry Henry and Gyuley dominate the flanks on the left and right (note: there is no mistake here, Henry has always played as a winger before joining Arsenal. In the middle of the midfield, there are Gattuso, Perrotta and Claude Makellele, and the goalkeeper position is the world-class goalkeeper Baia.

It can be said that in addition to the backline, Monaco's starting lineup is already quite powerful.

Thinking of this, Spalletti couldn't help but look at Zhuang Mingge's eyes.

"President Corleone, due to the departure of Ismael and Leboeuf, Monaco does not have a reliable player in the central defensive position at the moment, I wonder if you have any good players to recommend to us?" Spalletti asked cautiously, after all, the question he asked the other party was a bit beyond the scope of normal communication between the two, Zhuang Mingge is not from Monaco, and he is already kind enough to instruct him to change Makelele to the back.

Of course, Spalletti doesn't know what to do, Zhuang Mingge's purpose is to let Monaco have more good seedlings and play better results. Otherwise, how would Fiorentina take a commission from the transfers of these players?

"Well, let me think about it." Therefore, Zhuang Mingge did not refuse to answer Spalletti's question, but began to think in his mind that there are those future stars that can be recommended to each other.

Zhuang Mingge does not plan to recommend only one or two central defenders to Monaco and let Spalletti complete the main lineup, and he is also ready to throw a few good players to the opponent for rotation. After all, if Monaco don't play well in European competition, it will be difficult for these players in the team to sell for a price.

Monaco and Porto in '04 are the best examples, and if they hadn't both reached their final in the Champions League, how could their players have sold for so much money in a summer when the transfer market was relatively sluggish?

Therefore, for the benefit of Florence, Zhuang Mingge also has to keep Monaco fighting enough.