Chapter 3 Preparation for the New Season
After the initial reorganization of the club was completed, another week passed, and all the work in Florence was being carried out in an orderly way.
In terms of business development, kenyon, who is in charge of business development, has not made any big moves because Florence has just been relegated from Serie A. He has managed to attract some good business sponsors as much as possible, but the deadline has only been set for one year because he believes Zhuang Ge told him that Florence will return to Serie A at the end of the season.
Antonioni quickly sorted out a list of recommended players and a list of potential players that scouts are optimistic about and handed it to Zhuang Ge.
Zhuang Ge carefully browsed the list and circled all the famous players in the later generations. After some consideration, he finally made a decision …
Three days later, in the president’s office of Florence headquarters, Zhuang Ge invited antonioni and Poirot to have a small meeting on the theme of the team’s season signings.
"What is the current mood of Giancarlo’s team members?" Zhuang Ge took the lead in making a topic.
"Not so good. After all, the team has been relegated this year. Many key players have found me and I hope I can allow them to transfer to other teams. However, Gabriel (Batty) and Stefan (effenberg) told me that they decided to stay in the team and some substitute players also expressed the same meaning to me, but I hope the club can keep some main players, who are the biggest reliance for our return to Serie A this season. "
"Hehe, since they don’t want to stay here, let them go." Zhuang Ge is indifferent to so many players who want to leave Florence, and their choice is also understandable. After all, people go to higher places. Who likes to play in lower leagues?
Antonioni looked at Zhuang Ge strangely.
"Did I hear you right, boss?" Antonioni, the oldest member of the club, swallowed hard. "Do you mean that other people are selling except these players who have expressed their willingness to stay in the team?"
"It’s true that Gabriel (Batty) and Stefan (effenberg), two foreign AIDS, have expressed their willingness to play in Serie B with the team. If they can’t guarantee their loyalty to Florence, it’s better to sell them now and get together." Zhuang Ge said firmly.
"But the team’s season players …"
Zhuang Ge waved and interrupted antonioni’s speech and handed a list to Poirot, the head of the new transfer department sitting next to antonioni. "I have sent the players to me from Giancarlo (antonioni), and I have chosen their names on this paper. I hope to see their names appear in the team’s big list during team training."
Poirot took the list and carefully browsed the list. antonioni also leaned in to satisfy his curiosity.
Francesco Toldo goalkeeper ravenna on December 2, 1971;
Matteo Gwadar goalkeeper Verona on June 5, 1974;
Gianluca pessotto fullback Bologna on 11th, 1997;
Mark iuliano, central defender Bologna on 12th, 1973;
Aldo Felicano, central defender Cagliari on March 21, 1967;
Alessandro birindelli full-back Empoli on November 12, 1974;
Luigi Di Biagio midfielder Foggia on June 3, 1971;
Giuliano Grazioli midfielder Sola on September 21, 1974;
Derek Giunti midfielder Perugia on March 3, 1971;
Damiano tommasi midfielder Verona on May 17, 1974;
Eugenio corini midfielder Sampdoria on July 3, 1997;
Filippo inzaghi striker Albino Lai on September 9, 1973;
Christian vieri striker Pisa on July 12, 1973;
Vincenzo Montella striker Empoli on June 1, 1974;
After reading this list, antonioni put forward his own opinion. "Boss, young players account for the vast majority in this list. From this, you can see your determination to rebuild the team, but I have a question. What do you think they have the strength to lead the team to upgrade?"
Zhuang Ge smiled bitterly in his heart. Can I still tell your boss that I’m from the future? Can these people be the main force of most Serie A teams at the worst?
But Zhuang Ge still needs to find a plausible reason.
"Some of these players have already proved themselves in the professional league, and some of them have just stepped into the professional league. I admit that it is a bit risky to recruit young people on a large scale, but if one or two of these people become talents in Serie B this season, Florence will suffer from poor performance. I don’t think those reserve players left in the team can even cope with Serie B."
Antonioni thought that Zhuang Ge’s words were right and agreed with Zhuang Ge’s idea.
At the same time, Poirot also said that he would do his best not to let Zhuang Ge suffer losses in the transfer of all transfer workers within the specified time.
From here, we can see the difference between Poirot and antonioni. Poirot is a Corleone, and he is responsible for all Zhuang songs. Zhuang songs allow him to be responsible for specific exercises. Antonioni, on the other hand, values Florence’s personal interests more.
"And because the former head coach Agerlo Pi resigned, the head coach of the team also needs to make sure that there will be big problems in the team’s season preparation."
Zhuang Ge carefully recalled that at this time in his previous life, Florence was relegated by Ranieri, a tinker, which resulted in this hot potato and made him famous in Florence. But he didn’t remember where Ranieri is now teaching and asking about antonioni, who knows Italian football like the back of his hand.
"Ranieri, who is currently coaching in Napoli, heard that the Napoli board intends to terminate his contract because of his poor performance in the season." antonioni quickly answered and he also heard the meaning in Zhuang Ge’s words. "Boss, are you going to hire Ranieri to coach Florence?"
"Yes, Ranieri has rich coaching experience, although his tactical thinking is slightly conservative, but he is our best choice at present." Zhuang Ge said here, but he secretly sighed. Although he has an international A-level coaching certificate, he has not finished digesting those memories. Now he is a paper tiger for coaching the team. "After Giancarlo, don’t call me boss in public. Just call me Antonio."
"Good Antonio"
Although Zhuang Ge knows very well that he advocates the introduction of these players, this does not mean that Ranieri can see it. In addition, from Ranieri’s teaching experience in later generations, it can be seen that "tinker" is a good hand to rectify the team and lead the team out of the trough, but he lacks a skill that can lead the team to glory and domineering.
"It seems that we should learn all kinds of knowledge about coaching the team this year." Zhuang Ge secretly made up his mind.
Chapter 4 Meet Ranieri
Claudio ranieri signed the contract very smoothly because of his poor performance in leading the team. Napoli club didn’t want to keep the contract, which was about to expire. The young coach didn’t stop Florence from poaching, so claudio ranieri successfully canceled his contract and came to Florence without paying liquidated damages.
President Florence’s office has become a place to handle daily affairs and call small meetings.
Ranieri sat opposite Zhuang Ge and looked at this young man who was a little too young. Mr. Chairman could not help but recall the dribs and drabs when he coached various teams in the past.
From 1999 to 1991, he led Cagliari, who was still in the third division, to complete the magical triple jump. After the end of the 1991 season, he received an invitation from the Napoli club, which was in full swing at that time. Ranieri came to Naples with a good dream and confidence. He believed that he could lead Diego Maradona Naples, the king of the ball, to create brilliant achievements.
But …
Diego Maradona refused to continue playing for Napoli and moved to Seville after the suspension;
Alemao announced his retirement …
The team has high hopes and Silenci is embarrassed …
Napoli lost his soul after leaving Diego Maradona. Ranieri tried to put Naples back on track, but he failed. In recent years, Naples has exhausted its strength to find help for Diego Maradona, but the fans and club executives didn’t realize this. They saw that Napoli, with Zola, Lala and other stars, only ranked 11th in Serie A after the end of the 9293 season.
So naturally Ranieri was blamed for the team’s poor performance.
Ranieri naturally knew that Napoli would not tolerate his continuing to coach the team. He entrusted his agent to secretly ask Serie A teams if they were interested in inviting him to coach.
However, because Ranieri has only two seasons of top-level league coaching experience and his leading performance is not very good, no Serie A team is willing to extend an olive branch to him.
Just as Ranieri was disheartened, Florence sent him an invitation from Serie A relegation, and Ranieri agreed to come without hesitation.
Since all your top league teams look down on me, I will try again. I will lead Florence to shake the whole Italy!
Zhuang Ge is the first time to see Ranieri’s famous tinker at close range, and now he is still a little unknown. His head is not so white, but his face is a little sad, but he has not seen that kind of miserable expression in the video broadcast.
Zhuang Ge looked at the one in front of him, which was much younger than he remembered. Ranieri handed it to Ranieri in a folder full of information about the players that antonioni gave Zhuang Ge. "This is the information about the first-team players expected in Florence. Do you have any questions?"
Ranieri hit the folder and looked through it carefully. To his surprise, half of the people in this Fiorentina first-team squad are prepared to bring in young players from other teams.
It seems that the boss really attaches great importance to these new people by selling almost all the main teams and introducing new people in a big way
Ranieri thought this way and carefully closed the folder and asked, "May I ask Mr. President, what do you think of the Florence Youth Army that you personally built?"
"I don’t think it should be a problem for them to reach Serie A at the end of the season," Zhuang Ge said confidently, and then added, "Claudio, you can call me Antonio instead of my boss or Mr. President."