Chapter 128 The Idealist

Moratti's conditions?

Blanca followed Moratti's eyes to look at the court, and he was smart enough to guess it immediately.

Deegan!

"I can agree to Mourinho's conditions, but Mr. Mendes needs to persuade Degan to join Inter Milan!"

Moratti's thoughts on Degan have long been no secret. When Degan was loaned to Atlanta, he tried his best to introduce Degan, but at that time AC Milan did not respond to Inter Milan's offer.

Later, when Degan publicly stated that he wanted to leave AC Milan, Moratti tried to make an offer. He was very confident at the time, but he didn't know what he was thinking at the time, and he actually listened to Mancini at the last moment. According to the opinion, Zlatan Ibrahimovic was introduced and Digan was given up.

Now is the time to make up for the mistakes of the past.

Branca couldn't help frowning when she heard this: "Mr. Chairman, I have to say, I'm afraid it will be very difficult. Florence will not let their king leave, and Delaware is very willing to invest more in the team. Florence is not short of money!"

Moratti couldn't listen to Branca's words at all: "What if Digan is willing to leave? Can Florence still insist on staying!?"

While Moratti was speaking, Degan scored. He received a cross from Maggio on the left side of the penalty area, beat Samuel, and headed straight past Cesar.

Seeing Degan who opened his arms and celebrated wildly, Moratti's face became more gloomy, but his eyes were shining. People who are not familiar with Moratti just regarded him as a football lunatic. It is his public image, but people ignore that while he is the chairman of Inter Milan, he also has another identity, a businessman.

Moratti is certainly not a shrewd businessman, he is more like an idealist.

"Also, tell Roberto Mancini now! Tell him to leave immediately!"

Blanca was stunned for a moment, he really wanted to remind Moratti that the game was not over yet, Inter Milan had already lost and there was nothing left, so they still had to take care of their face, but he knew it from the look on Moratti's face , this one made another mistake.

It is well known that Moratti has no patience with the head coach. Since he took over Inter Milan in 1995, it has been thirteen years now. From Bianchi to Mancini, Inter Milan has changed a total of fifteen coaches. coach.

Of course, Moratti's interference with the team is nothing more than that. He has neither red-headed file addiction nor four-character control. He is a businessman and chairman, but he is also a fan, a pure fan. The sincere love of the rich second generation of the Italian oil family for Inter Milan is a gentleman's inheritance of family glory, not a local tyrant's bowing to power.

A man who only has 1,000 yuan but is willing to buy you a bicycle for 900 yuan is more reliable than a local tyrant who is worth billions but only buys you a BMW. This is the logic of girls, but girls in the material age would rather sit in a BMW and cry.

However, if it is a rich second generation with a net worth of less than 2 billion, even if the hope of being the champion fails again and again, even if his ideal big country can only play the role of the Italian army during the two world wars for a long time, he will still be very happy. For three years and one day, he spent more than one billion bravely for his own team. Then, he is the true lover in this football era where business has become pervasive, enough to move the whole world.

This is a story about chasing after love and letting go because of love. In the past 13 years, Moratti has personally invested more than one billion euros in the Nerazzurri, which is even more than half of his total personal assets. What he is looking forward to is the "big international era" belonging to Massimo.

Sometimes deep love just needs a simple encounter. For Massimo Moratti, such an encounter into life took place when he was four years old.

In 1949, his father took Massimo, who was only four years old at the time, to watch an Inter Milan game for the first time. Since then, his life has been occupied by rich blue and black.

At the age of 18, Massimo happened to be invincible in the UEFA Champions League when Inter Milan was invincible. Because his father did not send him a car, he rode a bicycle across half of Milan City and rushed to the stadium to watch the UEFA Champions League match of his beloved team.

In the stands of Meazza, his heart was completely melted by the fans' roaring and tsunami celebrations, and he was also overwhelmed by the glory of the team's great international era. He was hopelessly in love with the team he had followed for 14 years, and made a promise: to create his own big international era.

From then on, a life journey mixed with pain continued to boil with the blue and black blood that Moratti integrated into the bone marrow.

Due to physical reasons, Moratti's father Angelo chose to sell Inter Milan, so he said goodbye to his beloved team for 30 years. In these long years, he is still the most loyal supporter of Inter Milan. Even when the team slipped step by step and the pain eroded his heart, he never lost a trace of love.

In 1995, Inter Milan ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the league and was on the verge of relegation. The team had no funds to introduce reinforcements. The desperate Meazza fans found Moratti in the stands watching the game as a fan, and then indulged in shouting "Mo Ratty is back."

That heartfelt cry also touched Moratti's heartstrings. In fact, as early as Christmas a year ago, he insisted on acquiring the Moratti team despite the opposition of his brother Gianmarco, who was in charge of the family wealth. A team with Ratti family blood.

No one knows how much pressure Moratti has endured to acquire Inter Milan. His brother and even the whole family scoffed at this money-burning behavior. Only he stubbornly persisted in his ideals and invested in personal assets.

"I wanted to stay on the sidelines and just be a fan because no one in the family agreed with the idea of taking over Inter, almost everyone said to me 'don't do that, it's a mess and you'll suffer for it. .' But I did it anyway, and if you ask me why, I'd say it's one of the uses of wealth: to buy love."

On February 18, 1995, the head of the Moratti family named Massimo entered the football circle strongly. He bought 69.6% of the shares of Inter Milan Club from Pellegrini with a lot of money. Milan once ranked 14th among the 18 teams in the league. The century-old giant was on the verge of relegation and officially became the big boss of Inter Milan. At that time, Moratti did not bargain at all.

Such handwriting is just the epitome of Moratti's thirteen-year Inter Milan career. For his beloved team and for the love he said, he has accumulatively spent more than one billion euros for the team to increase the team's strength and fill the team. fiscal deficit.

Don't mention Abramovich, and don't mention the Abu Dhabi consortium. You must know that Massimo Moratti is not the richest man in the family. Even in Italy, his wealth is only ranked around 100. . But it was this bastard whose personal wealth was close to 2 billion euros at his peak, who resolutely exhausted more than half of the team's assets.

He buys love with wealth, and also endures pain for love. This is Moratti's most paranoid attachment to Inter Milan.

For Moratti, happiness can become very simple in more than ten years. He would occasionally ride a bicycle from Via Bilini in Milan to reach the Meazza Stadium through half of the city of Milan as in those days. The old man would also dance in the box for a victory like no one else.

Just like a loving father who is always willing to buy the best toys for his children at any cost, Moratti's way of doting on Inter Milan is to keep investing, as if there is no end.

From the day he took over Inter Milan, Moratti began to burn money: 3.99 million euros in 1996; 37.5 million euros in 1997; 68.5 million euros in 1998; 32.5 million euros in 1999; In 2000, it reached a record 133 million euros!

Since then, he has never been ambiguous. It seems that money is just a tool to serve Inter Milan in his eyes. The Italian media was surprised: "Moratti's love for Inter Milan is as much as his money."

Spend a sky-high price of 42.8 million euros to invite Ronaldo, exchange 1 million barrels of oil for Vieri, and retain Recoba with the world's first annual salary of 7 million US dollars. Moratti regards these stars as his own children. Similarly, he also loves to pursue these court treasures like an ordinary fan.

The elder brother Gianmarco often complained: "Massimo, you spent too much money for Inter Milan. If you don't restrain yourself, be careful that I will seal your bank account."

Massimo always replied: "The money will never be worth my love for the team, I did it for Inter Milan. Isn't this the ideal of my father? Sooner or later, Inter Milan will reach the top again, because It was ordained by God."

Inter Milan has indeed reached the top again, but the price is not everyone is willing to accept.

In order to realize his promise, Moratti spent 42.8 million euros to bring him from Barcelona to San Siro, with the dream of dominating Serie A and even Europe.

Moratti took care of Ronaldo meticulously like a father, even though he was unable to play football for a long time due to serious injuries, even if he resolutely decided to switch to Real Madrid, even if Ronaldo later joined his arch-enemy AC Milan, his father always explained to his child: "He Not a traitor, I allowed him to leave."

Moratti's doting on stars goes beyond a boss's concern for employees. This kind of doting also creates conflicts and infighting in the locker room. When stars and coaches cannot coexist, the coach is mostly the scapegoat.

Under Moratti, Inter Milan has changed 15 coaches in 13 years, many of whom are famous coaches like Lippi and Cooper. Moratti's butcher's knife is always swung at the coach, so that the Italian media joked: "When the team did not perform well at San Siro, the first thing Massimo thought of was the coach."

Moratti is indeed not a shrewd boss, but he can also afford the weight of the word great. In March 2005, Burdisso's daughter Angelina was diagnosed with leukemia. Burdisso had no intention of playing football and wanted to return home to take care of her daughter, so he said to Moratti: "I want to go back to my daughter. So I have to give up Inter Milan, give up the World Cup, give up the high wages here, you can use this money to buy an excellent defender."

But Moratti said: "You do what you have to do, Inter Milan will help you, we will wait for you."

In this way, he loves Inter Milan in his own way, even if this kind of doting made it a "star black hole" and "coach's grave" in the ridicule of the outside world.

As described by his brother Gianmarco: "Massimo is not a shrewd businessman, he is more like an idealist." In the face of difficult reality, it is naturally an idealist like Moratti who has suffered a lot.

He invests regardless of the cost, hoping to reproduce the "Great International Era" in his own hands, but every year the huge investment always sinks into the sea, devouring the hope that people weave year after year.

As a result, the Nerazzurri also began to divide: Some people sympathized with his experience, thinking that all his mistakes stemmed from doting on the team; the other faction clearly regarded him as the biggest obstacle to the team's development.

In world football, Moratti was once full of ridicule and doubts. Many people regarded him as a willful and incompetent "taken advantage", and some people thought that he just used money to pile up his own football manager game in the real world.

If you change to team owners like Berlusconi and De Laurentiis, most of them will laugh it off. But Moratti is always fettered by his deep love.

Just like in January 2004, when he resigned as the chairman of Inter Milan, not only because of the poor results of the team, but also the banners of those fans "Go away, Moratti, don't harm Inter Milan again". Those doubts that deeply hurt his heart made him choose to stand behind the scenes.

In 2006, when the "great left-back" Facchetti died of illness, Moratti became the chairman of the club again when he was in danger. No one knows the price he paid for the so-called title of the chairman. Since Inter Milan's financial deficit was as high as 46 million euros in the past one and a half seasons, the money will be borne by Moratti himself after the study of the Inter Milan board of directors.

Without hesitation, Moratti opened his personal checkbook.

Pain is never far away. From the family's incomprehension and little support, to the abuse of the fans and the stagnation of the team, to the satire and ridicule of the media. The curse of "you will never win the championship by spending money" even made Moratti lose sleep for a week.

Last season, when the team really relied on their own strength to win the league championship trophy, Moratti really thought that he was going to succeed, but when the short-term happiness passed, what he waited for was the familiar pain.

The Coppa Italia was eliminated, the Champions League was eliminated, and the Serie A league actually had to be at home to witness the opponent's enthronement.

It is difficult for ordinary people to understand the pain in Moratti's heart.

Finally all the pain turned into an outburst: "Get him out of here immediately!"

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