Before he knew it, time entered November. As an unscrupulous hand-off manager, Zhuang Mingge handed over most of the club's work to the three general managers. He just discovered some useful things from the memories of his previous life to give guidance. He sat in the office and taught himself the coaching course, teased Karin from time to time and was chased by the shameless Karin. When Florence had a home game, Zhuang Mingge would appear in the private room on the stadium to watch the game on time, and his life was extremely regular.

During this period, Fiorentina played three more league games, with a record of 2 wins and 1 draw. Ranieri began to let more first-team players rotate while ensuring that the team's combat effectiveness did not decline. Zhuang Mingge's regular life continued until November 18, and the cause was a newspaper news.

"Shame! Ginola! The Sinner of France!"

This was the front page headline of the French media "Team" that day.

What exactly caused the always fair team newspaper to be so furious?

There is only one answer: in the World Cup qualifiers the day before, France lost to Bulgaria 1:2 and missed the World Cup in the United States.

Let's review this game again:

On November 17, 1993, in the 6th Group of the European Region of the qualifiers in the 1994 US World Cup, France and Bulgaria, the French team only needs to tie the opponent in this game to qualify successfully.

Until the end of the game, the score between the two sides was still 1-1. At this time, French midfielder David Ginola dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and the game would end at any time, and the French team qualified.

Yakai, then assistant coach of the French team, stood up from the coach's seat and wanted to convey to the players the message that "if you hold on for a while, the game will end", but in just a few seconds it became the Frenchman's nightmare:

Ginola was intercepted by dribbling the ball, and the Bulgarian player passed directly to the frontcourt. Forward Kostadinov shot vigorously. The ball passed through the French goalkeeper and pulled the horse on the top of the goal beam and shot into the net...

France lost its ticket to the 1994 World Cup in the last 10 seconds.

In Zhuang Mingge's opinion, the current situation of the French team is purely due to its own fault:

Originally, with the last two rounds of the World Cup qualifiers, France, which had 6 wins, 1 draws and 1 loss, had already led the opponents in the same group. The French team could ensure qualifying as long as they scored 1 point in the last two home games. However, in a match against Israel, they conceded 2-3 goals in 8 minutes, and France lost 2-3; and at the midnight break with Bulgaria, French coach Hollier actually took out champagne to celebrate qualifying in advance...

The French team was eliminated. Zhuang Mingge, who had known about this incident for a long time, would not be surprised at all. He was concerned about the benefits this incident could bring to him...

In terms of money, Zhuang Mingge, who had known the result of this game for a long time, ordered Hercred Poirot to hand over the $10 million in his account (the other $2 million was delivered to the construction company as the second phase of the training base) through a series of operations to major underground casinos in Southeast Asia, and the scoring players bet the result of the game.

The reason why Zhuang Mingge did not choose the famous European bookmakers to bet is that although these companies are for-profit commercial institutions, most of them are subsidiaries of some large groups. For example, Libo is affiliated to Hilton Hotel Group, and Botiantang is also a subsidiary of AIM.

However, among these bookmakers, the real dealers are those large consortiums that have always been low-key but strong. They all have a significant influence in the political and economic circles of Europe. It is these strong consortiums that have always controlled the order of the entire European gambling industry.

If Zhuang Mingge wants to make profits through gambling, he must avoid the controllers of these orders and open up another new battlefield.

The original gambling capital of $10 million is no longer small. If Zhuang Mingge bets on the competition, he will inevitably share a large "cake" from those large gambling institutions.

However, the "cake" is limited. If you touch the "cake" that others have already distributed, new "variables" will inevitably arise.

Zhuang Mingge is very clear that although the overall environment of European football is very good, it is generally difficult for the will of a betting company to affect players, coaches, referees, but what if it affects some fans and media? In Zhuang Mingge's opinion, this is not a difficult task. If this is true, the "variables" outside the memory will be even more unpredictable, because this will truly fulfill the truth that "the competition outside the football field is in the opposite direction of the game."

In addition, Zhuang Mingge has another important reason for strategic abandonment of European markets, that is, his concern for his own identity sensitivity. It is precisely because the large European gambling institutions have strong backgrounds of large consortiums and even official ones that they have strict monitoring of gambling funds, and there are more or less some indescribable hidden rules here.

Zhuang Mingge's 10 million gambling investment could already attract a lot of attention at this time in 1993.

Although the large European gambling institutions led by Libo will not refuse any large amount of bets. However, Zhuang Mingge has heard of the "big customer monitoring mechanism" established by these gambling companies in his previous life. If he is accidentally controlled by the gambling company, it will be a bit unworthy of the loss.

After all, if those gambling institutions that have lost their eyes at that time think that Zhuang Mingge, as a person in the football world, must have been mixed with some kind of "famous" in the process of gambling, it would be really unreasonable.

What's more, the typical case of Tapi has just appeared in the football world, and it is cracking down on counterfeit football. If Zhuang Mingge gets involved, he will definitely get into some trouble. Therefore, choosing the European game is obviously not in line with Zhuang Mingge's interests.

Before he achieved success, he became a thorn in the eyes of those special interest groups and a thorn in the flesh? Zhuang Mingge doesn’t like this feeling.

"Tony, the news from Southeast Asia has been passed back. Conservatively, your net profit for gambling reached 50 million US dollars." On the train, Karin Segrand reported to Zhuang Mingge the profit of gambling in Southeast Asia. The clever Karin did not ask Zhuang Mingge how he guessed the detailed results of this game. She chose to trust her "childhood sweetheart" and unswervingly believe that Zhuang Mingge would not do anything that violates sports ethics. "In addition, Tony, I want to ask, why do we rush to Paris, France?"

That's right, Zhuang Mingge was taking his "senior secretary" Karin to transfer from Milan to Paris, France on a express train. He wanted to use this incident to obtain an "unexpected" benefit, that is, the culprit of the French exit incident - David Ginola.

Ginola's last-minute mistake ruined the French team's dream of the 1994 World Cup. His destiny changed since then. French public opinion media and fans scolded him. Ginola went from a rising star of hope to a murderer and sinner who "wounded" the French team.

The then head coach of France, Hollier, believed: "Ginola made two mistakes: he made free throws too quickly before the scene and did not delay time; he also criticized Papan before the game, which affected the morale of the team..."

In the original world, Ginola left the French national team forever because of this mistake, but Paris Saint-Germain did not abandon Ginola. Ginola devoted all her energy to the club and helped the team win the Ligue 1 championship and the French FA Cup in the next two seasons. Such results made Ginola very popular in the transfer market.

However, in Zhuang Mingge's current world, the Paris Saint-Germain Club where David Ginola is playing for is also rejecting Ginola's existence at this time. The club has transferred Ginola to the reserve team. Ginola, who has no official game to play, maintains its state through training while trying to seek the possibility of a transfer.

But to his disappointment, in addition to the long-declined English teams that expressed interest in themselves, most of the teams in the top leagues have no intention of introducing a foreign player who cannot represent the team because the quota of foreign players in the team is full.

Ginola is not willing to play football in England. After all, he has heard of the rough style of the English court in France. French people who advocate romance and art avoid this.

After Zhuang Mingge saw in the newspaper that Ginola became a "cross-the-street" situation in France, he carefully analyzed the possibility of Ginola joining Fiorentina. He felt that Ginola, who had no ball to play, should not reject joining Fiorentina, which has hope of returning to Serie A this season; another point is that after the team was rebuilt, the team's beginning gradually became divided into two tactical systems: Batistuta relied more and more on the crosses of his teammates, and Effenberg's pass was increasingly biased towards Inzaghi and Montera. This was not because of any conflict between the two, but because of the difference in technical styles between the two, which led to this situation.

From history, we can also see that the best 1998-99 season in Fiorentina played for Batistuta was Batistuta, Edmunddo and Rui Costa formed the frontcourt partner. The reason is that Batistuta is not top-notch in terms of technology, speed and breakthroughs. He is a pure center, and Costa's technical style is more suitable for matching with speed or strong point forwards like Shevchenko or Inzaghi. Therefore, an all-round frontcourt player must be used as a fusion agent between the two, and Edmunddo is such a fusion agent.

Zhuang Mingge believes that Effenberg is the defensively enhanced version of Costa, and Ginola should also become another "Edmunddo": both passing and scoring skills are excellent, and they are also good at breaking through. After Ginola joins, he can have a good chemical reaction with Effenberg and Batistuta, which is a very good choice for Fiorentina.

So Zhuang Mingge made a quick decision and took action immediately, telling Karin to call and notify Paris. He simply packed up his things, took Karin, and went to Paris, France to prepare to grab Ginola.
Chapter completed!