Then Zhuang Ge and Karin drove away from Amsterdam and went straight to Eindhoven, the fifth largest city in the Netherlands.

Chapter 165 Sweeping the Netherlands ()
Eindhoven, located in the south of the Netherlands, is the leading technology center in Europe and the fifth largest city in the Netherlands. The headquarters of the famous multinational company Philips is located in this city. At the same time, Philips is also the main sponsor of Eindhoven Football Club, one of the top three Dutch football teams. The name of the home court of Eindhoven is called Philips Stadium, which shows that Philips is close.
Although there is the financial backing of Philips, a multinational company with deep pockets, it is obvious that Philips’ habit of careful calculation has also affected Eindhoven. It is rare for Eindhoven to benefit Philips’ financial resources in the transfer market and maintain the Dutch club tradition of cultivating players with their own strong hematopoietic function and reselling them at high prices after they become famous.
Although it can’t compare with Ajax, the number of champions and national status, Eindhoven is still the top three clubs in the Netherlands. The quality of the stars produced is also quite good. ruud gullit and romario, two "footballers", became famous in Eindhoven and went to the world. Eindhoven has become a great star maker. Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Luo and a series of football stars have all been labeled as "Eindhoven Out".
Therefore, after the failure of attracting Seedorf, Zhuang Ge resolutely turned his attention from Ajax to other teams in the Netherlands, and naturally Eindhoven was the first to bear the brunt.
In 1913, in order to commemorate the centenary of Dutch independence from France, the staff of Philips Company established a sports club sponsored by the company, which eventually evolved into a professional football club, which is now Eindhoven.
Speaking of Eindhoven in 1995, he had to be named "alien" Ronaldo, a Brazilian striker who scored an incredible three goals in 33 Dutch leagues in 199495, and became famous in 2005. He will be signed by Barcelona for 1.95 million US dollars in La Liga and officially become a first-class football star.
Although the era of bosman has arrived, the impact of bosman shock wave on Eindhoven is much less than that of Ajax, because their players have already completed their contract renewal before the implementation of Bosman Act.
Zhuang Ge certainly didn’t expect all the top management of the club to be as unresponsive as Ajax. This time he came to Eindhoven mainly to settle some things before.
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On the afternoon of July 23rd, the atmosphere in the conference room of PSV headquarters building was very solemn, because they had just received a message from the President of Florence, in which the owner of the new Serie A champion wanted to pay a transfer to get the possession of the team’s season top scorer Ronaldo.
"Frank, do you think Florence’s offer is worth considering?" The speaker is Van Hanyi, the president of PSV Eindhoven Club, who is very good at the management of the club, but he still relies more on the new general manager and the current head coach dick advocaat (the head coach who led the Dutch national team to the 1994 World Cup and the 24 th European Cup), which has a great influence on him.
"I think if Florence’s offer is suitable, we can consider accepting it," Van Hanyi called Frank a little thoughtful and replied.
"This can’t be done!" When the general manager said this, Edward Carter was anxious. "Ronaldo is the top scorer in our team last season. If he leaves the team so rashly, his season performance will be greatly affected."
From the teaching career of Edward Walcott, it can be seen that although he was influenced by michels’s offensive and defensive thought in his early days, the tactics system was also established in this thought, but he really didn’t have any creativity in commanding offense, just like Van Malvik in last year’s class. He relied on the individual players to play (in 1994, he relied on Bergkamp for four years) and paid more attention to defense, sometimes it can be called conservative.
So Edward Walcott attaches great importance to this star who can change the trend of the game by himself. Of course, he doesn’t want to see the team move and let Ronaldo go. After all, it’s his job …
"Dick, it’s wrong for you to say that." It’s still the man named Frank. "Our club also sold the team’s main striker romario the year before last, but the team’s performance did not slip sharply."
Frank paused and then said, "Don’t forget Dick, that is, our Dutch club keeps operating by constantly selling leading stars to make profits."
In the end, he added, "If the boss sells Ronaldo successfully this time, I hope that half of them can be transferred to supplement a team. After all, players like Ronaldo can’t make up for their losses just by tapping their potential."
Frank’s words are reasonable, so is Edward Carter, who disagrees.
Van Hanyi saw that the two sides had reached an agreement, so he decided to agree to Frank’s proposal and sent him to be in charge of negotiations with Florence.
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As soon as Zhuang Ge’s car drove into Eindhoven, it received a message from antonioni. Inter Milan just released an official news announcing that Kanu, the main striker of Ajax Club and Nigerian player, has joined the Nerazzurri!
At the same time, Zhuang Ge also got another news, that is, AC Milan general manager Adriano Galliani also arrived in Amsterdam to go there with him, as well as Marco Van Basten, a superstar with great influence in Ajax team history.
"Hehe, it seems that Massimo wants to get Kluivert this time, but it is difficult." Zhuang Ge commented with a smile after hearing the news.
After all, although Basten didn’t reach the peak in Ajax, his position in Ajax and his influence on these players are not weaker than that of cruyff. Many players like Kluivert and reiziger are looking forward to repeating the footsteps of the "Dutch Three Musketeers" in Milan. Therefore, the most important thing for Moratti to successfully win Kluivert is to be able to overcome the influence of Basten.
With Milan’s arrival in Amsterdam one after another, it marks that the four major leagues in Europe have set their sights on the emergence of stars in the Dutch league, and a sweeping sweep of the whole Netherlands has gradually begun …
Chapter 166 Sweeping the Netherlands ()
Adriano Galliani’s sudden visit made it impossible for Kanumarati to come here to celebrate, and he hurried to Kluiwitt to discuss the conditions for joining Inter Milan.
It is not only Serie A teams that stare at the fertile soil of football in the Netherlands.
On the day Galliani arrived in Amsterdam, he was eager to recapture European football. The English teams also made their own moves, but they didn’t target the big clubs because they knew that the attraction of the Premier League teams could not catch up with those of the Serie A teams. The Premier League coaches turned their attention to the second-and third-rate clubs in the Dutch league.
This time, it was a battle in the form of a rope and a legion. The Premier League club exhibited a crazy acquisition in the European football paradise in the Netherlands. On July 23 alone, more than a dozen players who played in the clubs outside the three giants of the Dutch League joined the Premier League in a free transfer way. However, such losses are barely tolerable for these small clubs. After all, there is a most unlucky big brother Ajax in front of them …
However, all these have been lost with Zhuang Ge. After a night’s rest at the local hotel in Eindhoven, Zhuang Ge met with Frank Assen, the general manager of Eindhoven Club, in the hotel room the next morning.
At this time, Arsene is not yet thirty-nine years old. Although he has become the general manager of the Dutch giants Eindhoven Club, he is still far from the kind of "domineering" tone of the future generations. Of course, this may also be Zhuang Ge’s identity.
"Chairman Corleone, I contacted Ronaldo yesterday. He is still on vacation in Brazil, but he is very happy to join a club with great prospects like Florence. Therefore, if you finally give him a job contract that will satisfy him and we can reach an agreement on the transfer, the deal can be passed."
"Does Ronaldo know that there are a lot of strikers such as batistuta Inzaghi in our Fiorentina first team?" After the "Seedorf incident", Zhuang Ge had no hope of introducing Ronaldo. This time, he came to Eindhoven with a try attitude. I didn’t expect Ronaldo people to be quite keen on joining Florence.
"Ronnie (Ronaldo’s nickname) of course he knows that Florence has made a big splash this year. How could he not notice it?" Arsene smiled and said, "The newly promoted Serie A team won the league and the European Cup Winners’ Cup, which is not something that ordinary teams can do."
"batistuta, Inzaghi and Montera are excellent strikers with good strength, and you have already decided to come to Roberto Baggio … I think Ronnie will face great competition pressure after he goes to Florence," Arsene continued after drinking coffee. "Personally, I think Ronnie is very confident that he can find a place in the first team in Florence, and he won’t care who his competitors are."
Zhuang Ge thinks Arsene’s analysis is very reliable. Think about the future when Inter Milan was full of people in the Nerazzurri front line, such as vieri, recoba, Baggio and zamorano … But if Ronaldo is allowed to play a game, he will definitely play in the game. No big-name players can take his place.
Perhaps it is because Ronaldo has great confidence in his ability that he has no problem with joining the highly competitive Florence.
Having solved the question of Ronaldo, it is naturally time for both sides to bargain.
"Ten thousand dollars in one lump sum" Zhuang Ge still doesn’t change his nature and wants to take advantage of it.
"It is impossible for us to accept this offer from President Corleone," Arsene also entered the negotiation state. "Ronaldo scored 30 goals in the Dutch League last season. Has Basten achieved what you mean in the last ten years in the Netherlands?"
"But don’t forget that the defense strength of Italy and Holland is not the same level, and a top scorer Bergkamp who came to Holland in Italy didn’t play very well in Serie A." Zhuang Ge immediately objected.
"We all know exactly what Dennis (Bergkamp) is capable of. If we look at his performance in the World Cup last year, we will know that he is definitely not a parallel importer. Canon said that Inter Milan made a mistake in positioning him by $20,000."
"But in any case, it is an indisputable fact that Bergkamp has not adapted to Serie A. Moratti sold him to Arsenal at almost the price of cabbage last month. Similarly, we have to bear the risk of bringing Ronaldo to Florence for 10 thousand dollars."
"Ajax sold Basten to AC Milan for 30 thousand dollars, and Ajax was the laughing stock of the whole European football for many years." Arsene also quoted the classics. "Florence can take Ronnie for 10 thousand dollars."
In this way, after the bargaining process between the two sides, we finally reached an agreement on the transfer issue. Florence will introduce Ronaldo and other Brazilian strikers to sign their names at a club record price of 1.75 million US dollars, and the deal can be reached.
To tell the truth, it is very correct for Zhuang Ge to introduce Ronaldo at this time, because at this time, most of the giants who want to introduce strikers are chasing the Champions League final and killing the European hegemon AC Milan Kluivert, and the Liberian striker george weah Premier League Club, who has performed well in the Champions League, is paying attention to the local center alan shearer for the battle for strikers of this level. They are still unable to get in touch.
Zhuang Ge would also like to thank Milan here. If they hadn’t shown their strength and dominance in various competitions in recent years, Ajax wouldn’t have brought them such high popularity and attention in this final, which completely obscured the brilliance of Ronaldo, the top scorer of the Dutch team.
When all eyes were on Ajax’s free agents, Zhuang Ge quietly signed the greatest striker in the future world and personally created the most horrible striker group in Europe in the future.
Chapter 167 Uruguayan counterattack
On the second day after the negotiation, a contract with a weekly salary of $15,000 and a five-year term with Ronaldo’s name signed in person arrived in the office of Eindhoven Club from Rio Geruzhen.
Zhuang Ge really breathed a sigh of relief when the contract was obtained. If there were no big accidents, Florence’s striker combination would not be replaced in the next five years.
The next workers are Eindhoven and Florence, who reported the transfer deal to their respective national football associations and put it on record.
After exchanging "Happy Together" with Arsene, Zhuang Ge and his party left Eindhoven and returned to Amsterdam to fly back to Florence from there.
Now Amsterdam is packed with heroes AC Milan general manager Adriano Galliani, Inter Milan boss Massimo Moratti, Barcelona vice president Gaspar, Real Madrid coach valdano … Even Juventus Mo Lao Fox is out. It is said that his target is Ajax goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.
However, Zhuang Ge is not going to "carve up Ajax" with these people again. After finishing the transfer target of Holland, Zhuang Ge and his party boarded the plane and returned to Florence without stopping in Amsterdam.
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"Hi Gabriel, why didn’t you go on holiday with your family but flew straight back to Florence?" After returning to Florence, Zhuang Ge was surprised to find that batistuta had actually returned to the club for basic recovery training before himself.
"Alas, boss, don’t bid farewell to this America’s Cup. We met Brazil in the strong match." batistuta shook his head and smiled wryly this time. "You also know that the schedule of the America’s Cup is very tight. After the last group match on the 15th, we will play the knockout match with Brazil only one day later, and the result is tragic and eliminated."
"Well, who is the winner of the America’s Cup?"
"It was Uruguay who killed Brazil in the final, but I’m afraid it was that they were able to win the last big trophy." batistuta didn’t seem to care about Uruguay’s championship. "francescoli officially announced his withdrawal from Uruguay’s national team after the end of this cup. The remaining players alone are not enough to become a first-class strong team."