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Chapter 118 Transfer Finalized
The "temporary" head coach of the Turin team, De Biasi, was very upset when he got the news. He ran to find the chairman of the Turin club, Cairo, "Why didn't you discuss it with me! We will have a European competition next season. Are you just buying the team's offensive core for the next ten years?"

The chairman of Turin sat calmly in his seat and watched De Biasi's fury. He couldn't help but think of the man in front of him who complained because he was dissatisfied with the club's transfer operation, and then decided to expel him. However, there is no suitable replacement for him yet, so let's appease him first.

So Cairo thought for a while, and said to the current head coach of the Turin team, De Biasi, who was extremely excited: "Giovanni, we have known each other for many years. I understand your feelings, but you must also understand my pressure. Do you think I don't want to keep Zhu and strive for better results next season?"

De Biasi seemed to be moved, and folded his hands on his chest with an expression of willingness to hear more.

"Although we don't want to admit it, we are a small club now, and we have absolutely no resistance in front of the giants. Inter Milan wants to buy it, and Zhu is willing to go. Why should we be such villains? You should also know the truth that twisted melons are not sweet. It's better to charge a transfer fee to maintain a good relationship between everyone."

While listening to the chairman's explanation, the head coach nodded thoughtfully.

"If you have money, don't we buy any players you want? Also, if you are interested in players that Inter Milan is selling, or young players who are looking for a loan to get a chance to play, we can talk to them. Do you think what I said makes sense?"

"Okay, I was convinced by you, you are the chairman, you have the final say, but I ask the team to strengthen, especially Comotto will go to Fiorentina to die, now the team has no real right back, how can we play next season if we don't buy players.

If Zhu leaves the team, the offensive line will be even tighter. It is best for these forwards to let them all leave. None of them will be useful. I think..."

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Knowing that Zhu Hantao was sold to Inter Milan by the club, the Turin fans were the saddest. After this ups and downs season, the supporters of the Red Bulls have fallen in love with this childish young player who always smiles but works hard on the court.

Not to mention that Zhu Hantao is still the guarantee of scoring goals for the Torino team. How can he not keep it in just one season?
Turin fans took to the streets spontaneously and organized a parade to keep Zhu Hantao. Many fans held banners saying "Stay here, Turin is your home", "Please don't leave" and so on. There were also fans holding enlarged photos. If Zhu Hantao saw it, he would definitely recognize it.

Some even ran to the club's office to block the door. They wanted to question Chairman Cairo why he sold Zhu Hantao.

Then Zhu Hantao’s family’s Zhu’s restaurant was also affected to a certain extent. He heard from his father that there were so many Torino fans coming here in groups to drink and have dinner every match day and watch the game together. Zhu Hantao was a little worried about what would happen when he left the Turin team.

Fortunately, the Torino players who came here were quite qualified, and they didn't act aggressively, and they didn't even affect the hotel's business too much. They just silently put up a banner at the door, trying to persuade Zhu Hantao to stay in the Torino team.

Zhu Hantao could only pretend that he didn't know about all of these things. In fact, he was also worried that he would be moved by these lovely fans and choose to stay. However, Zhu Hantao had already made his decision, and naturally it was impossible to change it due to outside influences.

Mom Lin Xiuyan can see these fans coming to the door of her hotel every day to do these things just to keep Zhu Hantao, and she can't help but say to her son:
"Son, otherwise we'll stay in Turin, isn't it good to be close to home? I'm really worried about you going to Milan alone. Look at how sincere these Turin fans are."

"Mom, I can take care of myself, and the club has arranged everything for me. If you don't run a restaurant, you can go to Milan with me and let the club arrange a job for you. Don't worry about it."

It is true that Zhu Hantao is about to leave Turin, where he has lived for more than ten years, to go to Milan, a relatively unfamiliar place, to start a new journey. Zhu Hantao is inevitably a little nervous.

The Nerazzurri’s training base, Pinettina, is located in Appiano Gentile, a small town between Milan and Como in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, so the club originally wanted to rent Zhu Hantao a house in Como, the city closest to the training base.

In the end, the staff of Inter Milan could only help Zhu Hantao rent an apartment in advance in the small town of Appiano Gentile, which is very close to the training base and can only be walked.

He also said that he arranged for a special person to take care of Zhu Hantao's life. In fact, he would clean his house regularly, and Zhu Hantao would take care of his meals. Of course, his food is also very simple. Fresh ingredients can be eaten raw, and those that cannot be eaten raw can be boiled in plain water, which is healthy and easy.

The Pinetina base was built in 1962 at the strong request of Inter Milan's coach Herrera at the time, and was funded by Moratti's father, Angelo Moratti.

But the purpose of building this base is only for training, and accommodation facilities are not considered at all, only training grounds, gymnasiums and swimming pools.

It was not until three years later, in 1965, that there was a small main building at the Pinettina base, but the problems of uncoordinated structure and incomplete functions of the Nerazzurri training base have been left over.

The players' rooms at the Pinettina base are small and poorly lit. The only window is near the roof, which is only the size of a palm. The air-conditioning system is a mess, cold in winter and hot in summer.

On January 2003, 1, Vieri and Di Biagio did not play against Modena. The team claimed that they had the flu. In fact, they left the Pinettina base without authorization. The two repeatedly insisted that it was because the room was too hot and could not sleep.

Before Mancini took charge of Inter Milan, the club had always been used to letting players sleep in the rooms at the Pinetina base before home games. This is the same as AC Milan. Closed training before the game at the base can not only avoid external interference, but also save a lot of money.

It is impossible not to secretly make some comparisons between the players of the same Milan City giants team.In AC Milan's Milanello base, the player's room is decorated according to the standard of a five-star hotel, the restaurant is warm and stylish, and there are billiards room, wireless Internet access and other facilities.In almost every respect, Inter Milan's Pinetina base seems a bit backward and outdated.

So during Mancini's previous coaching period, he asked the whole team to stay in a hotel before the game, because he could not accept the unreasonable or even crude facilities in the rooms at the Pinettina base.Moratti spent a lot of money to let the team stay in five-star luxury hotels such as Milan Melia before the game.

But later, Dad changed his mind, not only because he could no longer bear to continue to bear this huge expenditure for the team, but more importantly, the team stayed in a luxury hotel. Not only did the team not sleep better and play better, but there were many rumors related to external interference and violation of discipline.

In the end, Moratti compromised and redecorated the base’s rooms. In fact, Zhu Hantao didn’t understand it very well. Obviously, Inter Milan’s players usually live in their homes in Milan.

Back to Turin City, there was an episode. While the fans of the Turin team still had a glimmer of hope to keep Zhu Hantao in the team, some Juventini who had nothing to do also came to join in the fun.

The Juventus fan organization also ran to the streets to protest, asking why the club didn't take Zhu Hantao back to the Bianconeri first, but was preempted by the old rival Inter Milan.

Many Juventus fans have a good impression of this little guy from his own youth training, especially when Zhu Hantao performed well. He scored goals in both home and away rounds of the Turin Derby. He was obviously abandoned by the team but still nostalgic for nostalgia.

This farce in Turin also made many people dumbfounded.

After Inter Milan lost 2007-08 to Red Wolf Roma in the Coppa Italia final, all the results of the [-]-[-] Italian season were announced. Inter Milan only won one Serie A trophy.

People are always greedy. Originally, the Nerazzurri had won the Serie A championship for three consecutive years after a lapse of 16 years. Many Nerazzurri were still dissatisfied and believed that the team should get more honors. Club chairman Moratti had the same idea as them, so they invited the famous Portuguese coach Mourinho.

Mancini struggled to lead the team with a full camp of injuries this season. With Materazzi, Vie LS Muer, Cordoba and many other main players injured and absent for half a year, Inter Milan still overcame many difficulties and once again stood on the top of Italy, winning the thrilling championship, which still dissatisfied Inter Milan fans.

So shortly after announcing that Mourinho was in charge of Meazza, Inter Milan rushed to release the news that Zhu Hantao was about to join, also to give their supporters confidence and tell them that the team still has some ambitions and wants to make a big difference.

Speaking of this transfer, at the beginning Cairo, the chairman of the Turin club, thought that they could sell half of Zhu Hantao's ownership, and Zhu Hantao would continue to earn millions of dollars for them, that is, the Turin team.

After learning that Inter Milan was here for real and wanted to buy Zhu Hantao to play in the game, Cairo was even more unwilling to sell Zhu Hantao completely directly. He still wanted to keep half of the ownership, that is, Inter Milan paid him to play for Inter Milan, but Torino still owns half of Zhu Hantao.

In this way, when Zhu Hantao shows his value in the future and transfers again, the Turin team will still make money, and make more money. This is not much better than a one-time transaction.

However, Inter Milan did not let go of their bite, and did not even leave half of the ownership to Turin, and brought Zhu Hantao to Milan City completely.

Speaking of the co-ownership of this Serie A, I would like to say a few more words here. Serie A was once very popular for this kind of general ownership of shared players.

There are primary and secondary half ownership. The team with the primary half ownership can use players, pay players, etc., just like normal team members.

But if a player needs to transfer, it needs to be agreed by the two teams.

The most common form of "half ownership" is that wealthy clubs sell half of the ownership of young players to small and medium-sized clubs. Compared with leasing, small clubs will give more opportunities to play and exercise after owning half of the players, so that the players can appreciate and earn back their investment.

Another situation is that the Serie A giants looked at the young talents of the small and medium-sized teams, first acquired half of the ownership, and then decided whether to start with a full buyout depending on their development.

For clubs, especially small clubs, simply renting players from giant clubs was not cost-effective in the past, because it meant that small clubs might face the embarrassment of training new players for others in vain, and returning as soon as the loan period expired, training players without any benefit.

Therefore, in order to maximize profits, many small clubs in Italy require half of the ownership of the players, otherwise they will not be allowed to play, and the rich clubs have no way to intervene in the playing time of the players.

With half of the ownership, the small club can give the newcomer more opportunities to play, let him perform well, increase his worth, and then earn the difference by selling the half of the ownership.

This is also the way of survival for these small clubs in Italy. They prostitute their combat power for nothing and have the opportunity to make money. The rich clubs train young people, and everyone gets what they want.

All in all, half ownership is a way for both teams to jointly own players between a loan and a transfer.

At the same time, half of the ownership has club options at the end of the season. For example, if you want to take back half of the ownership, you can make a bid to another club that owns half of the ownership. If the other club agrees to bid, you can take back this half of the ownership by paying a transfer fee (both teams want to take it back, and the bidder with the highest priority). If neither club has the intention to purchase the remaining half of the ownership, it can be automatically delayed for one season.

There have also been many times when foreign teams want to buy players jointly owned by two Serie A teams. One team wants to sell, but the other team asks for sky-high prices.

This characteristic system, which was only popular in Italy, was abolished by the Italian Football Association after 2014 due to opposition from many parties.

In order to restrict the participation of economic agents and third parties in the ownership of players, UEFA makes the sale of players controlled by other parties and generates a large amount of additional costs. In theory, co-cultivation is also a kind of third-party ownership.

This transfer amounting to more than 1000 million euros is not a small investment even for the giants Inter Milan, not to mention that under Raiola's negotiations, Zhu Hantao got a signing fee of 200 million, a weekly salary of [-] and other miscellaneous bonuses.

Zhu Hantao was a little surprised and said to his agent: "It seems that Inter Milan really value me, they are quite discerning."

(End of this chapter)