Chapter 64 The transfer market in the summer of 1994
The popularity of the World Cup has not yet passed completely, and fans around the world are still savoring the little things that the American summer brings to them.
However, the managers of Serie A clubs had no time to recall the classic scenes at this time, because it was July now, and the door to the European transfer market had been opened, and all the general managers who wanted to strengthen the team had devoted themselves to this market without hesitation.
Florence may be the only exception, because most of their transfer work has been submitted to the Italian Football Association for filing and completing all relevant procedures before July 1st. On the first day of the opening of the transfer market, the Florentines were already the first to complete their goals. Now they are just unscrupulous in front of the onlookers.
Since Berlusconi, who had just been elected Prime Minister of Italy, was deeply involved in a bribery scandal and had no time to take care of his AC Milan club. Therefore, since Old Bay took over, Milan, who has been spending money to sign ups, rarely held his pocket tight this summer. He only bought forward Dicanho, who had performed well in Napoli last season (on loan) from Juventus, and bought back midfielder Gulit who transferred to Sampdoria last season, to replace Rentini who suffered a serious car accident last season (Lentini's car accident can be said to be a household name in Italy) and Van Basten, who is still free of battle cards.
After Moji became general manager, Juventus changed his previous style of making big signings and began to make careful calculations. They first dug up the head coach Marcelo Lippi who led Napoli to win the sixth place in the league last season, and then signed two defending players from Fiorentina - Pesotto and Uliano. Although Moji was played by Zhuang Mingge and failed to bring Ferrara to the Alp Stadium, the arrival of Portuguese midfielder Paul Sousa and French star Didier Deschamps allowed Juventus fans to see the prototype of a super midfielder.
As the third place in the league last season, Sampdoria's new chairman Mantovani seemed to think that the team's current personnel configuration did not meet his "genius" idea, and sold Veljoward to Zhuang Mingge's Fiorentina, and also let go of two foreign players Gulit and Prat of the last season. Although he later bought Yugoslav central defender Mikhailovic from Roma, he then made another deal that shocked many people: Palioca, who was at the peak of his career, exchanged for the dizzy Zeng Jia.
Since Cranioti was still busy integrating resources from the Cirio Group, Lazio, who had no spare money, only hired the Czech Republic Zeman, who led the club in recent years, who had performed well in Foggia, to replace Italian legendary goalkeeper Dino Zov as the team's head coach. After Zeman came to Lazio, he poached young central defender Adani from the second-tier team Modena (this guy later played for Fiorentina and Inter Milan) as a substitute, as his subordinate in Foggia, Argentine defender Chamot. The Czech Republic is full of confidence and is ready to show off his skills in Lazio.
Parma, who lost the defending Cup of Winners, continued to seek opportunities to strengthen its strength in the transfer market with the financial support of dairy giant Parmalat. They purchased Italian veteran international Musi from Torino, Fernando Couto, one of the representatives of Portugal's golden generation, also came to Parma from Porto, and also introduced the main goalkeeper of the Brazilian national team to enhance the strength of the defense.
Old Tanji, who also felt that the team was not strong enough, continued to poach people everywhere and could not resist Parma's "offensive". Juventus sent star midfielder Dino Baggio to Tanji. At the same time, in order to make up for the vacancies of the main shooter Meli, Old Tanji poached their main shooter Blanca from the relegated Udinese (the person who is now the general manager of Inter Milan).
Inter Milan, who was almost relegated from Serie A last season, has not yet welcomed the generous "Moda Boss" and Pellegrini, who is preparing to sell his shares to the Morati family, will not continue to inject funds into the team. So throughout the summer, Inter Milan's move was simply to recall the young forward Delvicio who was loaned to Udinese.
Overall, the Italian transfer market in 1994 had already shown a certain downturn overall, and the emergence of this situation is inseparable from Italy's economic situation.
Since 1994, the domestic economy in Italy has begun to show signs of a downturn, so many team owners have begun to tighten their pockets, without the financial support of the backstage bosses, and the insufficient income obtained through normal operations (especially the TV broadcast fee), many small teams have lost the courage of the early 1990s since then and have begun to live on their own one-point three-point land. From then on, the Serie A has also slowly slipped from the throne of the world's No. 1 league...
It's too far to talk about it, and the topic is back to the transfer market. Although Italy has no major moves except Parma, this does not mean that teams from other countries will also learn from Serie A, especially Real Madrid and Barcelona, which have a huge number of members.
Within Barcelona, which suffered a crushing defeat in the Champions League final, the differences between coach Cruyff and chairman Nunez are already well known to everyone. Therefore, in terms of introducing players, the Dutch, who once had the power to transfer, was constrained by the management. Danish star Michel Lauderup transferred to his arch-rival Real Madrid, and the Romanian national team captain Haji was replaced by him.
Real Madrid, who successfully poached Lauderup from Barcelona, was obviously not satisfied. Former Real Madrid star, Bardano, who served as Tenerife's head coach last season, moved to Madrid. He also brought his favorite player, Argentine midfielder Fernando Redondo, and Real Madrid also introduced local young midfielder Amavisca.
This year marks the last year of Real Madrid President Mendoza's tenure as president. He witnessed his arch-rival Barcelona finishing four consecutive league championships and he has no intention of continuing to run for the position of chairman. Therefore, he has been doing his best this summer, repeatedly making big moves, looking like he is coming in full force.
Although the Premier League, which has been established for two years, has been very prosperous on the British Isles, there are still few foreign players willing to go there to play football.
Due to the unsatisfactory performance of the German national team in the US World Cup and the lack of German teams in European competitions in recent years, the German Football Association called on their own players to return to the country to play football and revive the Bundesliga, which is at a low point.
It has to be said that the German players during this period were really a group of people who were extremely obedient to the team's command. Many of them played for overseas giants overcame many obstacles and returned to their motherland: Andres Muller transferred to Dortmund, Rudy Vorel returned to Leverkusen, Hasler joined Karlsruhe... Except for Klinsman, who had already decided to transfer to the Premier League Tottenham Club before the World Cup, Effenberg, who was unwilling to return to China due to the "China Finger Incident", and Coral who was "stuck" in Juventus, almost all well-known German stars returned to the Bundesliga.
However, the matter in the European transfer market has nothing to do with Florence. After all, Florence's signing goals this summer have been completed. What Zhuang Mingge has to worry about now is how much US dollars the team can "circle" from negotiations with sponsors this year.
Chapter completed!