When Chen Yu was building a villa in China, the "Catanian farce" in the Italian football world became more and more intense. The Italian Football Association's method of expanding Serie B was boycotted by 19 Serie B clubs. Because they were worried that these 19 clubs would strike, the Italian Football Association did not dare to expand its army and could only continue to maintain its original state. Catania, who was relegated, was unwilling to be relegated, appealed everywhere, and shouted the slogan of letting Football Association Chairman Carraro be dismissed.

No one concessions were made, and no one could come up with a better solution. They could only hold a stalemate and let time solve everything.

The battle in the League B has no effect on C1 and Serie A. What should be upgraded or what should be relegated or what should be relegated. Their recruitment and contract renewal work is also carried out step by step.

June has passed in a blink of an eye. Players from all levels of leagues have returned to the team to participate in holiday training. However, Chen Yu, the hottest striker in the C1 League, has not yet completed the contract renewal with the team. Although Chen Yu and Florence still have two years of contract, everyone knows that if Chen Yu is not given a salary increase, the contract in the past two years will be a piece of waste paper. There are many teams eyeing Chen Yu. Some C1 teams have offered annual salary of 100,000 euros before tax. In the Florence area, an average worker's annual salary is only 20,000 euros, and the average annual salary of a Serie A Perugia player is a little higher. In C1, this is considered the top level.

It’s not that Florence cannot afford this annual salary. Dela Valée is an Italian shoe giant and is not short of money, but giving Chen Yu an annual salary means giving Rigano an annual salary of 70,000 euros. Rigano is definitely not happy to give Chen Yu an annual salary of 100,000 yuan. This is not just a matter of money, but also status and face. Last season, Rigano came from Laranto in C1 to Florence in C2. It was not for money, but for face.

What makes Fiorentina even more troubles is the salary structure. The first level is Rigano and Dilivio. Dilivio is an exception. He followed him from Serie A. The annual salary of 120,000 has been ten times. The second level is main players like Longo, Guzuo, Sgerty, and Gao Fei, with an annual salary of about 50,000 yuan and a substitute of about 30,000 yuan. This ladder is just right. If Rigano and Chen Yu get 100,000 euros, the second level players will definitely not do it. Football is a team sport. The championship is not achieved by one or two players. Promotion is not achieved by stars. Their contribution to the team is not that big and the stars. The difference in annual salary is so big that no one will be satisfied.

This is a matter that affects the whole body. Dela Valée and Galli are both shrewd businessmen. They are not emotional people like Morati. They definitely don’t want to spend money randomly in this regard. The reason why Florence was in a financial crisis before and eventually went bankrupt was because of Cheqi. Goli was not good at managing and burning money randomly.

So Florence is a headache. Chen Yu and the others don’t want to let go. This annual salary is difficult to give. They can only negotiate with Chen Yu’s agent Zhang Shubin to ask Chen Yu to lower his requirements or make up for Chen Yu’s losses in other aspects.

Chen Yu did not want to lower his requirements. Team C1 offered him an annual salary of 100,000. The Serie A team hoped that he would join. At this time, he would agree to stay for only 100,000 yuan in annual salary. The club cannot require every player to be as selfless as Dilivio, and it is shameless to unilaterally demand that the other party be selfless.

Just as the negotiations between the two sides were at a deadlock, and teams such as Perugia, Rimini and others increased their offensive against Chen Yu, the process of negotiations accidentally changed.

In order to compensate Chen Yu for his annual salary requirement, Florence gave the No. 11 jersey to Rigano after Quarliarera's loan period ended and gave the No. 9 jersey to Chen Yu. Chinese fans have a special liking for No. 9 jersey. After Florence announced that Chen Yu would wear No. 9 jersey next season, Florence No. 9 jersey sold more than 500 pieces within a week.

You should know that a genuine Florence jersey costs 20 euros, with a net profit of more than 10 euros, and 500 pieces is 5,000 euros. Although it is impossible to sell so well every week later, Italian Chinese fans and foreign Chinese fans are not limitless, but it is still possible to reach 10,000 yuan a year. Originally, this income belonged to the club, but now in order to retain Chen Yu, Florence decided to give half of Chen’s badminton jersey income to Chen Yu.

Although other players do not have this income, the jersey sales of other players in the Fiorentina club are very poor. Last season, Dilivio had great appeal and had a gratifying jersey sales. He also lost a lot this season, selling less than 100 pieces a week. It is hard to say whether he can still play as the main player this season, and jersey sales will only be lower.

Rigano has a bad image, and his idol status was snatched away by Chen Yu. Even the No. 9 jersey was given to Chen Yu. Although he doesn't care which number, in the hearts of the fans, this hurts the popularity, and the jersey sales are not as good as last season.

In this way, Chen Yu can obtain actual income, or even more, and will not cause the collapse of Florence's salary structure. The two sides quickly reached an agreement and waited for Chen Yu to come back to renew the contract.

On July 5, Chen Yu and Gao Fei returned to Florence one day early.

At the international airport in Florence, Florence manager Galli and Chen Yu's agent Zhang Shubin personally drove to welcome Chen Yu and Gao Fei. More than 300 fans and seven or eight reporters came to the airport to pick up the plane, most of whom were members of the Chinese Fan Association.

Galley was worried that the night was long and dreaming, so he took Chen Yu from the airport to the club and held a contract renewal ceremony. Chen Yu's annual salary increased to 70,000 euros, Gao Fei's annual salary increased to 40,000 euros, and the two's contract increased by another two years, and the contract was renewed until 2007.

After signing the contract, Chen Yu showed his No. 9 jersey at a press conference and expressed his loyalty to Florence.

"I have always been a fan of Fiorentina. Playing for Fiorentina is an honor. I have never considered leaving Fiorentina unless Fiorentina no longer needs me. We performed very well last season and we will continue to work hard this season and strive to enter the Serie B next season."

Club manager Galli said with emotion: "Thanks to Chen Yu for choosing to stay in Fiorentina. Only in this way can we understand how difficult it is for Chen Yu to make such a choice, because of the temptation of our competitors' high salary and the promise of the main players of the Serie A team, but in the end, Chen Yu chose to stay in Fiorentina to play C1. This is out of love and loyalty for Fiorentina. Previously, it was Bati and Dilivio who showed this love and loyalty. This season is Chen Yu. This loyalty and love are the hope and guarantee for the rise of Fiorentina."

Although the training camp has begun, Chen Yu's contract renewal is not the end of the signing. From C 2 to C 1, the opponent's strength has been improved by one level. If Fiorentina wants to attack Serie B, she can no longer use the original main lineup. She must buy more powerful players. At most half of the original lineup can only become the main force of the new season. The absolute main force is Chen Yu, Rigano and Dilivio, who has excellent physical fitness. The other players who stayed can only be on standby on the bench.

During the training the next day, Chen Yu met several new teammates introduced by the team.

Some of these players were recruited from the substitute lineup in Serie B, while others were recruited by Florence after the C1 team was upgraded or relegated after they were transferred and Florence contacted the agent.

The best among them is goalkeeper Sejas 28 years old, an old boy from Newell from Argentina. He is only 1.84 meters tall, but he is quick to react and has rich experience. It was Casinva who attracted the main goalkeeper to use it. Casinva also persuaded Sgerty to give the No. 1 jersey to Sejavi.

Another powerful player introduced is left-back Maggio. Maggio is only 21 years old this year and is a substitute for Vicenza in Serie B. He is young, but he is fast, has good assists, and has great strength. He still has great development potential.

These players are stronger and more famous than most of the players in Fiorentina. They are also very proud. In addition to being more respectful to the captain and spiritual leader Dilivio, they don't take veterans like Rigano and Chen Yu seriously.

The players have just returned from a long holiday, and most of the players' bodies are still dormant. The C-1 League, like Serie A, started on August 30. It was still long, and the head coach Casingva did not play a lot. The week started mainly for recovery and adaptive training. Due to concerns about injury, the team rarely played in training games.

During the second week of training, Casingwa began to increase the training volume and arranged the team's confrontation matches in the afternoon. In order to defeat the arrogance of the new players, Casingwa put the new players together and fought against the old team. In order not to be limited by time, Chen Yu still tied up professional junior players when he could bind professional intermediate players. Even so, Chen Yu and Rigano joined forces and still killed these uncooperative new players every day.
Chapter completed!