mtl008 Chapter 496 The Champions League is my World Cup!
Chapter 496 The Champions League is my World Cup!
Chapter 496 The Champions League is my World Cup!
Su Dong has been looking for a new team since he decided to leave Barcelona.
A star at his level basically doesn't need to worry about not having the ball to play. The difference lies in the transfer fee, annual salary and other factors.
But precisely because of these restrictions, Su Dong didn't have many choices, and they were basically all big giants.
Manchester United have had contact with Mendes, but the Glazer family has little interest.
After the successful acquisition of Manchester United, this family is heavily in debt. They want to suck blood from Manchester United more than they think about how good the team will be. To some extent, they are similar to Arsenal's situation. A small fortune means nothing.
But after Su Dong terminated his professional contract with Barcelona, Manchester United became interested.
However, Su Dong and Mendes have had a lot of contact and in-depth exchanges with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga.
It can be said that Bayern is a team that has been in close contact with Sudong from beginning to end.
Before they expressed their willingness to raise funds to buy Su Dong, the premise is that the transfer fee can be controlled within an acceptable range. Later, Su Dong and Barcelona terminated the contract, and Bayern Munich immediately became more eager.
After many conversations, Su Dong and Bayern Munich's strategies have a lot in common.
First of all, Su Dongzhi is in the Champions League, and Bayern is also determined to hit a Champions League in the next two or three years.
Secondly, Bayern Munich has very healthy finances.
In terms of wealth and wealth, it certainly cannot be compared with local tycoons such as Chelsea and Real Madrid, but in terms of financial health, Bayern is definitely the most healthy and sustainable giant in European football.
This is Su Dong's conclusion after seeing Bayern Munich's financial annual reports for the past few years.
How healthy is it?
Among the many European giants, Bayern's revenue is only slightly worse than that of Manchester United in the Premier League, Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.
Interestingly, in terms of game day revenue, Bayern is not ranked among the many giants in Europe, because their ticket prices are the lowest, but this also makes Bayern's games almost full.
There is also broadcasting income. Bayern is also the lowest among the giants, even similar to the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League.
The reason why Bayern can compete with top giants such as Real Madrid and Manchester United in terms of financial income is due to their excellent commercial income. That is to say, in terms of earning power, Bayern is not inferior to Manchester United and Real Madrid, and it is no problem to beat Barcelona a few blocks.
This is very interesting.
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"I have a question, why when I look at Bayern's financial statements, their annual total profit is tens of millions of euros, but in the end, after deducting taxes, the net profit is only two or three million euros?"
Su Dong looked at Wang Chuqing, Mendes, Ma Dawei and the others in bewilderment, and asked the doubts in his heart.
"If it's like this for a year, it's understandable, but if it's like this every year, I'm a little curious."
Ma Dawei also knew nothing about finances, but Wang Chuqing took the financial statement in Su Dong's hand with a smile, flipped through two pages, and pointed out one of the places, "Look, the devil is in the details."
"Depreciation?" Su Dong was surprised.
Looking through others, I found that this is the case every year, with tens of millions of depreciation.
It is equivalent to saying that depreciation just cuts off the team's profits.
"Actually, Bayern is very rich. If you look at their data, the labor expenditure over the years, the so-called salary cost, has always been controlled at about 50.00% of the team's revenue. This is very, very healthy."
Wang Chuqing said with admiration, "Among the financial reports of so many giants I have read, there are only three teams that can do this, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Bayern."
Su Dong suddenly realized that it was no wonder that when Real Madrid sold Makelele, many people said that it was to reduce salary expenses.
"In fact, Bayern Munich and Arsenal are almost the same. They are both burdened with the debt of the new stadium. Especially this year, due to financial problems, 1860 Munich has been unable to afford the loan and expenses of the Allianz Arena, so they decided to withdraw. Bayern Munich has fully acquired it. This will increase their spending pressure, but overall, it is still very healthy."
Just after Wang Chuqing finished the analysis, Mendes laughed and said, "Don't worry, Bayern is in the bank, and I don't know how much money they have saved. Those old foxes are misers like Grandet, they can only go in and out."
Su Dong and the others laughed when they heard this.
The reason why he cares about Bayern's finances is that it is very important that he wants to know whether Bayern can support the prospect he wants, that is, to form a team capable of hitting three consecutive Champions League titles.
He decided to leave Barcelona. The important point is that he feels that this year's Barcelona is useless.
Why no show?
Because after experiencing the pinnacle of defending the title, Barcelona's players have obviously begun to slack off.
For example, Ronaldinho and Deco are basically left alone.
After Ten Carter left the team, Neskens and Eusebio couldn't fill his vacancy at all, which caused Rijkaard to do everything himself, and even worry about the management of the locker room, because Neskens couldn't hold down Ronaldinho and Deco.
The two Brazilian uncles often go to nightclubs, which is well known in Barcelona.
After leaving Barcelona, Su Dong wanted to go to a team that could hit three consecutive championships.
Bayern's league environment is very good, and the Bundesliga's competitive pressure is relatively small, which allows Bayern to devote more attention to the Champions League. This is also a question Su Dong considers.
It is suitable in all aspects, and the rest is Bayern's signings.
There is a saying in European football that burning money may not win the championship, but you will definitely not win the championship without burning money.
Seeing that Bayern did have a strong foundation, Su Dong was also relieved.
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Su Dong chose to meet Beckenbauer and others in a manor hotel in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal.
The entire meeting process was personally arranged by Mendes. Both parties came to Lisbon by private jet, and did not disclose the slightest whereabouts during the whole process.
Four people came from Bayern, Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, Hoeness and Hopfner, while Su Dong, Wang Chuqing, Mendes and Ma Dawei came forward, and Wang Chuqing was in charge of translation and legal issues.
It can be said that both parties have done enough preparations and are sincere to each other, so the whole meeting process went very smoothly.
On behalf of Bayern Munich, Beckenbauer promised Sudong that he would continue to invest in the future to ensure the team's competitiveness in the European arena, and at the same time build a team with Sudong as the core.
"We hope that you can lead us Bayern to achieve a revival in the European arena in the next few years."
Beckenbauer said that Bayern has already started preparations for this, including Franck Ribery and Modric, etc., are Bayern Munich's signing targets.
Su Dong is very familiar with Ribery, known as the new Zidane, who shined in the World Cup, but he is a little strange to Modric, because he is not familiar with the leagues in Eastern Europe.
But it doesn't matter, Bayern prepared a Modric game video for him.
Su Dong also made no secret of his ambition. He said that if he went to Bayern, he would have only one purpose.
"Champions League! Champions League! Champions League!" Su Dong emphasized the important thing three times.
"You all know that I can't participate in the World Cup, the Champions League is my World Cup!"
Beckenbauer, Rummenigge and Hoeness all nodded with a smile. This is the goal of Sudong and Bayern.
As the leader of German football, if Bayern fails to make a breakthrough in performance, then other teams in the Bundesliga will only suffer worse.
After confirming the keynote of the cooperation, Beckenbauer invited Su Dong to go outside for a walk, and handed over the specific negotiations to the agent, Hoeness and others. The reason is also very simple. The next discussion will be about table shooting, and they don't need to participate.
This is what the broker does, like a firewall.
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Su Dong walked around the garden with Beckenbauer and listened to the Football Emperor introduce the situation of the Bundesliga.
Beckenbauer believes that the outside world has a deep misunderstanding of the Bundesliga, thinking that the Bundesliga is dominated by the Bayern family, but in fact it is not.
Every championship of Bayern has come very hard. Once there is a problem, it is easy to lose the championship.
Just like this season, Bayern is currently ranked fourth in the league. Does this seem to be the ranking that the overlord who monopolizes the Bundesliga should have?
"It's a bit embarrassing to say it. Since 2000, in the past seven years, we have won four Bundesliga championships, but we have only won one Bundesliga Golden Boot, which is Elber."
"Even before Elber, the last one we won the Bundesliga Golden Boot dates back to Roland Wolfart in [-]. I hope you have to be mentally prepared, that is, scoring goals in the Bundesliga is actually not so easy."
"Did you know? The last time the Bundesliga scored more than 30 goals in the league's Golden Boot was [-] years ago. From [-] and [-], after Kirsten won the Golden Boot for two consecutive years, to the present eight years, there have been eight Golden Boots in the Bundesliga. Not only did they fail to defend their title, but no one even won the second time."
"Why?" Su Dong was surprised.
He really didn't pay attention to what Beckenbauer said.
"There are many reasons, such as the management problems of the Bundesliga team, the stability of the club's skills and tactics, and the problem of two-line combat. There are many reasons. For Bayern, I think the team's tactical style is also part of the reason, and the players themselves are also problems."
It can be seen that Beckenbauer is not very satisfied with Roy Mackay's performance at Bayern.
"We all look forward to seeing you lead Bayern to play more aggressive football, just like you did in Valencia, Barcelona, to ignite our football market, inspire our fans, and also bring us more titles, including the Champions League that you are looking forward to."
Su Dong felt Beckenbauer's sincerity and expectation, nodded with a smile, and stretched out his hand, "Don't worry, I only go to the Bundesliga for one purpose, and that is to be the champion, all the champions!"
"I have no doubts!" Beckenbauer firmly held Su Dong's hand.
(End of this chapter)