Chapter 496 The Champions League is my World Cup!

Since he decided to leave Barcelona, ​​Su Dong has been looking for a new team.

A star player of his level basically doesn't need to worry about not having a ball to play. The difference lies in transfer fees, annual salary and other factors.

But it is precisely because of these restrictions that Su Dong has few choices, and they are basically all major giants.

Manchester United have been in contact with Mendes, but the Glazer family is not very interested.

After successfully acquiring Manchester United, this family was heavily in debt. They wanted more to suck blood from Manchester United without thinking about making this team outstanding. In fact, to some extent, their situation is somewhat similar to that of Arsenal. They are content with a small fortune and basically don't worry as long as they stay in the top four of the league.

But after Sudong terminated his professional contract with Barcelona, ​​Manchester United began to show interest.

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 maintained close ties with Su Dong from beginning to end.

They had previously expressed their willingness to raise funds to buy Sudong, provided that the transfer fee could be kept within an acceptable range. Later, Sudong terminated his contract with Barcelona, ​​and Bayern Munich immediately became more enthusiastic.

After many discussions, it was found that Su Dong and Bayern Munich's strategies have many similarities.

First of all, Su Dong is aiming for the Champions League, and Bayern is also determined to win a Champions League in the next two to three years.

Secondly, Bayern Munich has very healthy finances.

In terms of wealth, it is certainly not comparable to Chelsea, Real Madrid and other wealthy teams, but in terms of financial health, Bayern is definitely the healthiest and most sustainable giant in European football.

This is the conclusion Su Dong came to after looking at Bayern Munich's annual financial reports over the past few years.

How healthy?

Among many European top teams, Bayern's revenue is only slightly lower than Manchester United in the Premier League, Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.

Interestingly, in terms of match-day revenue, Bayern is not ranked among the many top European teams because their ticket prices are the lowest, but this also makes Bayern's games almost always sold out.

As for broadcasting revenue, Bayern also has the lowest among the top teams, and is even similar to the mid- and lower-level teams in the Premier League.

The reason why Bayern can compete with top clubs such as Real Madrid and Manchester United in terms of financial revenue is due to their outstanding business income. In other words, in terms of money-making ability, Bayern is not inferior to Manchester United and Real Madrid, and can easily surpass Barcelona by several blocks.

This is very interesting.

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"I have a question. Why is it that when I look at Bayern's financial statements, their total profit is tens of millions of euros every year, 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 others in confusion and asked them about the doubts in his mind.

"If it was just one year, then it would be understandable, but if it happens every year, I'm a little curious."

Ma Dawei knew nothing about finance, but Wang Chuqing took the financial report from Su Dong with a smile, flipped through two pages, and pointed out one of the places, "You see, the devil is in the details."

"Depreciation?" Su Dong was very surprised.

Looking at other items, I found that it is the same every year, with depreciation of tens of millions.

In other words, depreciation just reduces the team's profits.

"In fact, Bayern is very rich. If you look at their data, their labor expenses, the so-called salary costs, have been kept at around 50 percent of the team's revenue over the years, which is very, very healthy."

Wang Chuqing said with admiration, "Among the financial reports of so many top teams I have read, only three teams can do this: Arsenal, Real Madrid and Bayern."

Su Dong suddenly realized. No wonder many people said that when Real Madrid sold Makelele, it was to reduce salary expenses.

"In fact, Bayern and Arsenal are similar. Both are burdened with debts for new stadiums. Especially this year, Munich 1860 is unable to afford the loan and fees of the Allianz Arena due to financial problems, so they decided to withdraw. Bayern Munich has acquired it in full. This will increase their spending pressure, but overall, they are still very healthy."

As soon as Wang Chuqing finished her analysis, Mendes laughed and said, "Don't worry. Bayern has a lot of money in the bank. Those old foxes are misers like Grandet. They only take in money and never spend it."

Su Dong and others laughed when they heard it.

One of the important reasons why he cares about Bayern's finances is that he wants to know whether Bayern can support the prospect he wants, that is, to build a team capable of winning three consecutive Champions League titles.

A very important reason why he decided to leave Barcelona is that he felt there was no hope for Barcelona this year.

Why is there no hope? Because after the peak of defending the title, Barcelona's players have obviously started to slack off.

For example, Ronaldinho and Deco are basically left alone now.

After Ten Cate left the team, Neeskens and Eusebio were simply unable to fill his vacancy, which led to Rijkaard having to do everything himself, even worrying about the management of the locker room, because Neeskens could not control Ronaldinho and Deco.

It is well known in Barcelona that the two Brazilian uncles often go to nightclubs.

After leaving Barcelona, ​​Su Dong wants to go to a team that can win three consecutive championships.

Bayern's league environment is very good, and the competitive pressure in the Bundesliga is relatively small, which will allow Bayern to pay more attention to the Champions League, which is also a problem that Su Dong is considering.

He is suitable in all aspects, so the only thing left is Bayern's recruitment strength.

There is a saying in European football that you may not win the championship by spending money, but you will definitely not win the championship without spending money.

After seeing that Bayern did have a strong enough foundation, Su Dong felt relieved.

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Su Dong chose to meet with Beckenbauer and others in a manor hotel in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal.

The entire meeting was arranged by Mendes himself. Both parties came to Lisbon by private jet and did not disclose their whereabouts to the outside world at all.

Four people came from Bayern, Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, Hoeness and Hopfner, while Su Dong, Wang Chuqing, Mendes and Ma Dawei came from Su Dong's side, among which Wang Chuqing was responsible for translation and legal issues.

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Both parties can be said to have done sufficient preparation and were very sincere, so the entire meeting process went very smoothly.

Beckenbauer, on behalf of Bayern Munich, promised Su Dong that he would make continuous investments in the future to ensure the team's competitiveness in the European arena, and would also build the team around Su Dong as the core.

"We hope that you can lead us to achieve a revival in the European arena in the next few years."

Beckenbauer said that Bayern has already started preparations for this, including Ribery and Modric, who are all recruitment targets of Bayern Munich.

The Soviet Union is very familiar with Ribery, who is hailed as the new Zidane and shines in the World Cup, but is somewhat unfamiliar with Modric because he is not familiar with the leagues in Eastern Europe.

But it doesn't matter, Bayern prepared a video of Modric's game for him.

Su Dong 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 matter three times.

"You all know that I can't participate in the World Cup. The Champions League is my World Cup!"

Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, Hoeness and others all nodded with a smile. This is Su Dong's goal and also Bayern's goal.

As the leader of German football, if Bayern cannot make a breakthrough in performance, other Bundesliga teams will only be in a worse situation.

After determining the tone of the cooperation, Beckenbauer invited Su Dong to go outside and left the specific negotiations to the agent and Hoeness and others. The reason was very simple. What were going to be discussed next were all some table-slamming things, and there was no need for them to get involved.

That's what a broker does, it's like a firewall.

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Su Dong accompanied Beckenbauer around the garden 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 Bayern alone, but in fact it is not.

Every championship that Bayern has won was not easy to come by, and 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 like the ranking that a company that monopolizes the Bundesliga should have?

"It's a bit embarrassing to say this. Since the year 2000, in the past seven years, we have won four Bundesliga titles, but we have only won one Bundesliga Golden Boot, which was won by Elber."

"Even before Elber, our last player to win the Bundesliga Golden Boot was Roland Wolfart in 1991. I hope you will also be mentally prepared that scoring in the Bundesliga is not that easy."

"Did you know? The last time the Bundesliga's league Golden Boot winner scored more than 30 goals was 30 years ago. Since 1997 and 1998, when Kirsten won the Golden Boot for two consecutive years, in the past eight years, there have been eight Bundesliga Golden Boot winners. Not only has no one successfully defended the title, but no one has even won it a second time."

"Why?" Su Dong was surprised.

He really didn't pay attention to what Beckenbauer said.

"There are many reasons, including the management problems of the Bundesliga teams, the stability of the club's technical and tactical skills, and the problem of fighting on two fronts. In Bayern's case, I think the team's tactical style is also part of the reason, and there are also problems with the players themselves."

It can be seen that Beckenbauer is not very satisfied with Roy Makaay's performance in Bayern.

"We all expect you to lead Bayern to play more offensive football, just like you did in Valencia and Barcelona, ​​to ignite our market, excite our fans and bring us more titles, including the Champions League you expect."

Su Dong felt Beckenbauer's sincerity and expectations, smiled and nodded, and stretched out his hand, "Don't worry, I have only one goal in going to the Bundesliga, and that is the championship, all the championships!"

"I believe it firmly!" Beckenbauer shook Su Dong's hand tightly.

(End of this chapter)