Golden Greenery

Why did Berlusconi sell Zhuoyang in such a brilliant season when he just won the Triple Crown? Things started in the first half of last year.

In 2007, the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis broke out and quickly swept the world. In the first half of 2008, the European economy turned sharply downward due to the U.S.'s tendency to divert troubles eastward and cut off leeks. Berlusconi's 'Italian version of reform and opening up' economic revitalization plan had already seen results, but the onset of the subprime mortgage crisis made all this come to nothing, and instead worsened Italy's financial difficulties.

Nowadays, Italy, one of the Group of Eight countries, is collectively known as the "European Pigs" together with Greece, Portugal, and Spain. They have seriously hindered the EU economy. In contrast, China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, and India began to be called "BRICS".

As the third largest economy in the European Union, Italy has almost survived. The government debt ratio has reached 130%. Berlusconi's personal property has also shrunk significantly, and his ruling position is in jeopardy.

For Berlusconi, his huge Pelican Group and the Forza party and the right-wing ruling alliance are his foundation. In comparison, the AC Milan club is simply insignificant. In front of the Pei Group and the regime, football is nothing. The Triple Crown is not even a fart.

In 2008, Berlusconi tried his best to maintain the Bayes Group and the right-wing alliance. In order to consolidate his interests and status, Berlusconi also took the opportunity to internally integrate his huge money empire. The integration naturally included Reallocation and segmentation, internal staffing adjustments. It is full of power tactics and strategies, as well as various undercurrents of palace battles.

Pierre and Barbara's struggle for power in the AC Milan club is only the final extension of this integration behavior. The real sinister struggle occurs within the core of the Pei Group and the right-wing alliance.

AC Milan is in a fierce battle for succession. In fact, Barbara and Pierre are just pawns. Galliani and Braida are just small pawns. Maldini and Zhuoyang are just pawns. Not even chess pieces, just a bunch of idiots following the crowd.

In the face of Berlusconi's grand strategy, the honor and disgrace of people like Maldini are not worth mentioning, and it is not worth his voice for it. The entire AC Milan is insignificant in front of Berlusconi's money and power empire.

Including the divorce case and the removal of Barbara, they are only part of the integration operation, but people like Zhuo Yang do not have that kind of vision and are completely unaware of it.

The first people to react were Galliani and Braida. They noticed an unusual atmosphere from the eldest daughter Marina's aloof attitude towards AC Milan.

Marina is Berlusconi's eldest daughter. She has an extremely prominent position in the Bayes Group and can even be called the housekeeper of the Bayes Group. Dad Bayi values ​​and trusts her very much. She came with the imperial edict of the power of life and death to support her younger brother Pierre, but Marina barely interfered in the specific affairs of the club and allowed Pierre to do whatever he wanted.

Marina only told Pierre: Zhuoyang must not be touched, and others can do whatever they want.

Marina is almost fifty years old this year, and she knows her father's lust and greed for power too well. Although AC Milan is insignificant, as long as Berlusconi doesn't die, he has the final say in this club. No one can try to sideline him, not even his children. Anyone who touches his rights is seeking death. Letting you compete here is just a game, and dad wants to see who is more sensible.

From Marina's attitude, Gatou and Mr. Bu quickly realized that they had followed Berlusconi for many years and knew him very well.

This time it was just a moment of confusion. Fortunately, I woke up early. The two club bosses quickly withdrew from the succession battle and started doing their jobs in a down-to-earth manner, waiting for the boss to return to the helm.

Marina saw all the truth clearly. She knew that her little brother was just an ineffective actor. She warned Pierre not to touch Zhuo Yang because she knew the importance of Zhuo Yang to her father. This importance went beyond football. and the category of Milan Club.

And if Zhuoyang is stabilized, he can ensure his competitive results this season and become a result that can be used to claim credit from his father. As for the rest, the Round Table and Martini and Ancelotti are just child's play, so go ahead and do it if you want.

But how can Pierre forget the hatred of Zhuo Yang and Maldini for their support for Barbara? He successfully retaliated against Maldini with the three tricks of "only giving low-level positions after retirement", "dispersing the round table group" and "buying fans in the farewell game". How could he be willing to watch Zhuoyang go free? Zhuo Yang choked him with words in the media many times without saving any face. How could he forget it! Because of his eldest sister's warning, Pierre did not dare to provoke Zhuo Yang openly, but he always wanted to drive Zhuo Yang away quickly.

There is also a little cleverness in the job, and Pierre quickly found an opportunity, which was the Milan laboratory.

The Milan Laboratory is the leading sports medical research institution in the football world, and there is no problem with its capabilities. However, the biggest difference between the Milan Laboratory and those hospitals outside is that outside hospitals, regardless of profit or reputation, must first serve patients, while the Milan Laboratory As an internal organization of AC Milan, it must first serve the club. AC Milan’s interests are higher than the interests of patients, that is, players.

Under this fundamental purpose, the Milan laboratory made many diagnoses that violated medical ethics. For example, from the perspective of a player's career life, it is better to use surgical treatment for a certain injury. However, in order to ensure the immediate interests of the team, under the instruction of the club's top management, the Milan laboratory will change the data and persuade the players to use conservative treatment to shorten the time. Training time.

Take Kaka as an example.

In the 06-07 season, Kaka carried the team almost full-time, but this caused great invisible damage to his body, and his playing method was also a high-risk behavior for his knees. In the UEFA Cup final of the 2007-08 season, Kaká was injured in the knee by Tymoshchuk. This injury was very fatal to him, but if surgical treatment is used, Kaká will have a high probability of being cured, and his speed will be affected thereafter. It will have a certain impact, but it can greatly extend career life.

But this is not in AC Milan's interests, because Kaká's most valuable asset is speed, and the surgery will cause a truce until the second half of the 2008-09 season before he can return. Players are only assets and tools of the club. In order to ensure that the tools do not depreciate and to ensure the team's competitive performance, under Galliani's instruction, the Milan laboratory changed Kaká's examination data and strongly recommended Kaká to receive conservative treatment.

As a result, Kaká did not miss many games in the new season, and the team successfully reached the peak of competitive performance. However, Kaká's knee was almost on the verge of collapse and suffered irreversible damage.

But what does it matter? Just sell Kaka as soon as possible while you are still alive and healthy. Therefore, the most fundamental reason why Milan Club agreed to Kaká’s transfer to Real Madrid is here.

Kaka is by no means an isolated case in the history of AC Milan.

Regardless of ethics, the Milan laboratory is still quite top-notch in terms of business, and their analysis of players' sports health is very accurate. Many players in the history of Milan were tested by Milan laboratories and predicted that they were about to reach their peak, so they quickly sold them in various ways.

This is the case for Koko, Rivaldo, and Shevchenko. The Milan laboratory found through testing that they were about to fall from their peak. Their experiences after leaving also proved the level and advancement of the Milan laboratory. Now, this prediction has fallen on Kaka again.

Of course, for players at the level of Kaka and Zhuoyang, no one in the club dares to make the decision privately, let alone Pierre, even Marina does not dare to make the decision. Such a decision can only be made by Berlusconi himself.