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While Zhuang Mingge and Mourinho finalized the summer signing plan for Fiorentina, the European summer transfer market was still in an extremely prosperous situation. Although affected by the overall economic recession, there were almost no single transfer fee of more than US$20 million in the transfer market in the summer of 2004, in terms of player quality and popularity, there was not much difference from previous years. The only gap was the number that symbolized the player's value.

In such an environment, when most teams have consumed almost the same ammunition in their hands, except for Lazio, under Abramovich's control, who is still desperately wielding the ruble in his hands and poaching people to upgrade the lineup, there is basically no club in European football that can compete with Fiorentina for financial resources. Not to mention, most clubs are now full, and even if they want to intercept Hooflorence, they are powerless.

After confirming this, Zhuang Mingge began to quietly operate the signing plan that had been formulated before, and sent out all the generals under him, preparing to complete all the transfer work as soon as possible so that the team can have more time to get the lineup together.

After all, in order to avoid being affected by other teams' malicious price hikes, Zhuang Mingge deliberately kept his hand in the transfer market and acted as if he wanted to tap potential from the inside. Therefore, when Fiorentina started to act, there was only about one month left before the start of the new season. This means that even if Fiorentina's transfer work went smoothly this summer, Purple Lily's pre-season preparations would be greatly affected.

On July 29, Fiorentina, who had been silent after the summer transfer window opened, finally announced their first signing this summer. Front court versatile, Danish national team and Udinese's midfield core Martin Jorgensen joined Purple Lily for 6 million euros, becoming the first player introduced by Fiorentina this summer!

Due to a serious injury a few years ago, although Jorgensen is still regarded as a very outstanding midfielder, he is no longer the genius midfielder that made the major giants salivate. It is precisely because of this that Jorgensen agreed to Fiorentina's invitation and agreed to play for three years at Frankie Stadium as a substitute in order to have the opportunity to give him a few more championship trophys in his honor book so as not to have no memorable things when he retires. That would be a bit sad.

Immediately after, Jorgensen announced his joining Purple Lily, Thiago Silva also became a member of the top giants. Florence received this promising Brazilian central defender after paying only 4 million euros in transfer fees.

However, just as everything was going on in an orderly manner, Zhuang Mingge, who was in charge of the overall situation in Florence, got a not-so-great news from Antonioni, who was discussing Alonso's transfer with Real Sociedad Club.

"Giancarlo (Antonioni), what do you mean is that Alonso said he was unwilling to play football in Fiorentina?" Zhuang Mingge asked in disbelief. Although he had estimated that Alonso did reject Fiorentina before, when the fact happened in front of him, Zhuang Mingge was somewhat reluctant to believe it. "Is it because of Mendeta and the others that Alonso was afraid of playing football in Italy?"

It is reasonable for Zhuang Mingge to think so. You should know that Mendeta, who was the core of Spain's new generation midfielder, was so glorious, but he eventually fell in Lazio and never regained his peak status since then. This deed really scared many Spanish players and made many Spanish players afraid of the Italian league, fearing that they would repeat Mendeta's mistakes and become the next victim.

"Boss, this is just one of the reasons why Alonso refused to join Fiorentina." Antonioni on the other end of the phone also smiled bitterly at this time. He did not expect that after the Real Sociedad Club, the player himself would clearly express his rejection. "One other reason is that he hopes to play football in a team that can give him the main position, rather than being someone's rotation or even substitute."

After listening to Antonioni's explanation, Zhuang Mingge immediately understood. He knew that Fiorentina would definitely miss the Spanish midfielder.

"Forget it, there are eight or nine out of ten things that are not satisfactory in life. Since Alonso doesn't want to play football in Fiorentina, we can't force it." Zhuang Mingge could only comfort himself in this transfer, which was doomed to fail, "Fortunately, I prepared a few candidate goals in advance, otherwise it would be really troublesome."

So, after Alonso's transfer was announced to fail, Zhuang Mingge began to operate the transaction to introduce Schweinsteiger from Bayern Munich. However, to Zhuang Mingge's surprise, Florence once again suffered a Waterloo in the transfer market, and the whole process was almost exactly the same as the transfer of Xavi Alonso!

Faced with the 10 million euros offered by Purple Lily and Chigalini, Ribery and Moretti's transfer offer, Rummenigge and Heness both agreed to release the person very readily. However, when Antonioni went to discuss personal treatment with Schweinsteiger, the Fiorentina general manager was once again turned away: Schweinsteiger said that in order to represent the national team in the World Cup held in Germany in two years, he was unwilling to leave Bayern Munich, which could provide him with enough opportunities to play, and play in Florence, where the competition is more fierce!

The reason why such an embarrassing situation is mainly because Fiorentina was unexpectedly eliminated by Chelsea in the European Champions League semi-finals last season, which made many people think that this former European overlord no longer has the strong dominance of the past and has become almost the same as other top giants in terms of strength. In this way, Fiorentina's attractiveness to these players has naturally decreased a lot invisibly.

If it was the Fiorentina who won the double championship in the league and the Champions League last year, Alonso and the others would definitely be willing to be substitute even if they went to Purple Lily. You should know that Fiorentina at its peak had such attractiveness and level, even those players who played rotation or even substitutes here were qualified to occupy a place in the national team. The best example is Davis and Di Biagio and others back then.

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Chapter completed!