After getting a lot of information and advice from Zhuang Ge, Wenger immediately took action to promote his team’s main central defender Thuram to Inter Milan and Parma. At the same time, he recommended fabien barthez to some rich teams interested in him to get the maximum benefit. At the same time, he asked Monaco Club to transfer Ismail and Roa immediately to make up for the loss of their separation.
Chapter 15 Champions League Grouping ()
After returning from Monaco’s training base, hou zhuang made a special message to Moggi, telling the old fox that Monaco had agreed to sell Thuram and fabien barthez. In the message, the old fox thanked Zhuang Ge. After all, when he first made an offer, Monaco almost immediately rejected the two transfers, and there was no intention to negotiate.
Although Thuram will increase the opponent’s strength no matter which Serie A team he goes to, Zhuang Ge can’t admit that Thuram can affect the Serie A championship this season. Of course, he should not join Juventus before …
Careful Moggi quickly made his own offer for Thuram and fabien barthez, and Juventus was willing to transfer $50,000 to take them to Turin.
Of course Monaco won’t accept such a price. After all, they were the French champions last season. In 9394, they won the semi-final of the Champions League. If they were sold at such a low price, wouldn’t all European teams have to regard Monaco as a player supermarket?
At this time, Thuram and fabien barthez privately expressed their willingness to transfer to a higher level. At this time, Serie A is very attractive to stars.
Therefore, the top management of Monaco Club decisively threw Mo Lao Fox, who was biting the price of 50,000 yuan, aside and turned his head to sell Thuram to two teams, Inter Milan and Parma, and recommended fabien barthez to Rome and Sampdoria, who had problems in the goalkeeper position after pagliuca left-the owners of these teams wouldn’t mind taking Mo Lao Fox’s prey and the other thing was that they didn’t mind spending money.
However, I have been worried about the team’s defense line. When the top management of several teams heard that the French champion Monaco was going to sell people or their main force, the central defender and goalkeeper joined in the battle for two people. At one time, the Monaco club was filled with smoke and wanted to lower the price a little more. Moggi reluctantly took out more silver to compete with these peers.
After all, it is getting closer and closer now that the transfer door is completely closed. Mo Lao Fox has no spare time to find a suitable candidate.
Although Moggi decisively took out more silver after Moratti and others came in to spoil the game, the old fox finally fell short. Parma still "sincerely" defeated Juventus again in the transfer market and took Thuram for $60,000. In the battle for fabien barthez, I always hoped that I could make Rome have the strength to challenge the top three in the North. This time, I finally defeated the stubborn old Juventus man who didn’t like me the most in the transfer market. A $750,000 transfer took away the French goalkeeper and gave the stingy old fox a loud slap.
After receiving this huge sum of money, Wenger did not vaguely and quickly withdraw part of his income from South America to bring Carlos Roa, Argentina’s national gate; At the same time, he brought Ismail, a young central defender, from his hometown of Strasbourg (Wenger’s birthplace is Strasbourg), but Wenger was not satisfied with taking away such an old home player, Strasbourg young midfielder Dakot, who was also taught to transfer to Monaco for 120 thousand dollars
After a busy time, Mo Lao Fox left this European casino without saying hello to Zhuang Ge. After all, after this battle, the calendar has been turned to the 25th of the month, and there is not much time for Mo Lao Fox to reinforce the team …
On the same day Moggi left Monaco, Florence flew to the city to make final preparations for the upcoming European Super Cup.
Fiorentina’s pre-match training venue is naturally the Monaco club’s transfer market, which has gained a lot. Wenger agreed to Zhuang Ge’s request to borrow the training ground quite generously and personally said that when the stadium allowed Florence to have more suitable venues,
Everything is going on in a tense and orderly way, but the day before the European Super Cup, that is, on June 26, Zhuang Ge will attend a very important ceremony, that is, the draw for the European Champions Cup group.
In the past, there was no group stage in the European Champions Cup, just like the Winner’s Cup at this time. From beginning to end, the situation changed during Johansson’s administration. The Swedes were bent on expanding the influence of European football. In the 9192 season, they set up a group stage in the Champions Cup and gained greater influence and profits. On the whole, Johansson did quite well. He promoted the influence of European football and the income of participating teams doubled.
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Zhuang Ge looked around the venue and found that the club owner who attended the ceremony seemed to have his own person. However, sitting in the venue, he still saw several acquaintances, namely, Monaco coach Wenger, the French champion of the season, and Ajax coach Fan Jiaer. It seems that Van Prager still kept this meritorious coach …
Oh? It turns out that the guest of this lottery is this great god!
Zhuang Ge recognized someone sitting in the guest seat at a glance. The guest who will draw lots in Taiwan later is the new president of UEFA, Johansson, who was nicknamed "Pu michel platini" michel platini by the fans.
Platini’s career is glorious. The midfielder won three Serie A Golden Boots and three consecutive European Footballer Club honors in 193195. There are also many champions, Serie A champions, French champions and Toyota Cup champions …
After he led the French national team to another peak after the Copa era, he led the French national team to win back the first European Cup in 1994.
After taking charge of UEFA, Platini didn’t say that he didn’t do anything good in time. He devoted himself to promoting financial fairness policy, hoping to curb the disadvantages that football clubs often make ends meet, and he also made some achievements. At the same time, he also insisted that the number of young players in the club must be set aside to strengthen the training of young players around the world when participating in the European War Club. These measures will help improve the football atmosphere after the arrival of the bosman era.
However, Zhuang Ge, the future president of UEFA, has no good impression. Although he won the support of most small countries during his reign, his position as president of UEFA is stable. However, an ordinary Italian fan in his previous life did not like the UEFA president who suppressed the giants and prohibited the club from investing too much, such as "michel platini". But now Zhuang Ge is naturally not naive enough to express his dissatisfaction with Platini in such a public occasion. After all, Platini has not even got the seat of UEFA Executive Committee yet.
Chapter 16 Champions League Grouping ()
"Tony, which teams do you think Florence will be in a group with?" Flying to Monaco with the team, Karin sat on the right hand side of Zhuang Ge, and on the left was Little Groz. Two flowers sandwiched Zhuang Ge, which attracted the attention of many people present.
"Er, this ….." Zhuang Ge scratched his nose and looked at the paper with the names of sixteen teams in the Champions League.
At present, the European Cup allows national league champions and defending champions to participate, unlike later generations, which allocate places according to the total points of national leagues in Europe, so it is impossible for the four major league giants to form a group to appear in the European Cup.
Unlike later generations, the grouping method is not based on the points of each team in the last five seasons in Europe, and then draws lots, but a series of qualifiers are held in June, and the team is finally determined to be divided into four groups in advance.
Although the Bosman Act has appeared, it is obviously not enough to change much in just one and a half months. Although the gap between the rich and the poor has appeared, it is not yet obvious. This can be seen from the process of the second Champions League qualifiers. Gothenburg, the Swedish league overlord, was eliminated from the qualifiers by Leguia from Poland, which is enough to say that the influence of the Bosman Act has not finished changing the football pattern in Europe.
Thanks to Florence’s presence in Serie A, the UEFA ensured the ratings and fans’ attention, and the four major league champions will definitely be selected into the seed team list, which made Viola successfully avoid the Champions League qualifiers and form a seed team. Otherwise, in case of capsizing in the qualifiers, Florence will probably become the laughing stock of European football for a long time.
However, it also makes it more difficult for Zhuang Ge to guess that Florence will meet an opponent in the group stage. After all, there is no saying of avoiding the league team now-because the roots are not from the same league club.
"Well, I didn’t know that this kind of thing depends on luck." Zhuang Ge shrugged his shoulders and told the truth. "I hope Florence won’t be assigned to a group that is too strong."
After a brief white-field, the special guest Platini came to the stage with a big smile, and there were two boxes containing the names of the teams that participated in the European Champions Cup group match and the teams that entered the competition after going through the elimination rounds.
"Thank you very much for having this opportunity to invite special guests to attend the draw ceremony of the next Champions League group. I sincerely hope that after the draw results come out later, everyone will not laugh because everything is the will of the emperor." Platini said here that Naitan’s hands caused a burst of laughter.
It’s a ghost that UEFA won’t cheat in the lottery. After listening to Platini’s Bai Zhuang song, he left his mouth contemptuously and looked at the scenes of Barcelona and Liverpool almost every year after Abramovich took over Chelsea. If there is nothing tricky in it, I don’t believe Zhuang Ge.
Of course, the first thing that will happen in this situation is to create enough gimmicks to attract fans’ attention. Is it better for Barcelona and Chelsea to compete at the peak than for Porto against Monaco?
Secondly, the reason why Chelsea will meet so many strong teams in the Champions League is that it inevitably infringes on too many people’s interests in the process of its rise, such as raising the transfer price of players and disturbing the order of the transfer market. To appease those giants who are dissatisfied with Chelsea, it is naturally necessary for UEFA to have a difficult schedule.
However, Florence doesn’t seem to have any contact with these teams present in recent years. After all, before Zhuang Ge entered Florence, Viola’s record could be called the middle level of the league. UEFA doesn’t seem to have any gimmicks to make, and Florence didn’t get the players through malicious price hikes when building the current array. It shouldn’t be punished by UEFA officials …
At this time, Platini reached to the stage and reached out with a big hand and pulled out two pieces of paper from the transparent carton with the planting team.
"The two teams selected for Group A are Porto, Portugal and Monaco, France!" Platini announced, smiling.
Zhuang Ge saw that Wenger, who was sitting in front of his side, was relieved after hearing Platini’s announcement of the lottery results. It seems that he is very satisfied with his team being able to join Porto.
Before the arrival of the bosman era, the gap between Italy, Spain, Germany, France and Holland was not much like that of Ajax in the Netherlands. In recent years, the French team won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League successively, and the French team also performed brilliantly in the European war. Therefore, Porto from Portugal is relatively easy to deal with in this team.
However, Florence was not as lucky as Monaco. Platini drew La Liga champions Real Madrid and Florence together, and then threw Su Chao overlord Glasgow Rangers and Romanian Bucharest Star into Florence’s Group C from another box.
After the lottery results of Florence’s Group C came out, it means that the grouping ceremony has been completed. The final grouping is like this. Group A includes Greek champion Panathinaikos, French champion Monaco, Portuguese champion Porto and Danish champion aalborg; Group B includes Russian champion Sparta Moscow, Polish champion Leguia, Norwegian champion Rosenberg and Premier League champion Blake; Group C includes Serie A champion Florence, La Liga champion Real Madrid, Romanian champion Bucharest Star and Su Chao champion Glasgow Rangers; Group D includes Ajax, Bundesliga champion Dortmund, Hungarian champion Lenk Varos and Swiss champion Cao Meng.
"UEFA is really keen on making gimmicks!" Zhuang Ge couldn’t help saying in his heart that La Liga and Serie A teams have always met in European wars in recent years after seeing the situation of Group C. This kind of resentment is the place that attracts the fans’ attention most.
Moreover, among these four groups, Florence is in the group, and three teams have won the European Champions Cup, namely Real Madrid (6 times), Glasgow Rangers (1 time) and Bucharest Star (1 time). From this point of view, Florence is in this group, which can also be called the death group.
Chapter 17 Analysis
"It’s great to be a group of Real Madrid and Florence." Back to the couch hotel, Zhuang Ge wiped a handful of sweat on his forehead and said to himself happily, but he didn’t want his words to arouse Karin’s doubts
"Antonio what to say that? It sounds like you don’t pay much attention to coach valdano’s Real Madrid. Anyway, they are also champions of La Liga last season. "
"Hehe, I don’t underestimate the club Real Madrid. After all, it has won the European Champions Cup the most times!" At this point, Zhuang Ge changed the subject. "But I don’t think Real Madrid can achieve a good result this season."