Super Marshal

When Gao Han personally ran a professional team, he truly discovered how expensive it was.

Don’t talk about anything else, let’s just talk about the stadium.

As early as the establishment of the China Town team, the team has been using the football field of the Fermin Cacho Sports Center owned by the municipal government as a training venue, but later moved to its own venue after it had its own youth training center. .

However, the home stadium has always been rented at the Aldervilla Stadium. Although the annual rent is low, it is still an expense. More importantly, the team has to pay an additional sum of money for venue maintenance every year.

Over the past few years, the Chinatown team has upgraded year by year, gradually spreading its influence in the surrounding area, and its attendance rate has also been rising. Now it can basically be said that every game is full, but in fact, the club’s income in this aspect But very few.

The main reasons are two points. One is that the capacity of the Aldervilla Stadium is very small, with only a thousand seats. This is simply unable to meet the needs of Chinatown fans, but it is already the second largest stadium in Fuenlabrada. .

The largest stadium is the home stadium of Fuenlabrada Club, which can accommodate 2,500 people.

It can be said that the stadium problem has seriously restricted the development of the Chinatown team. Therefore, after Amado Marcos took office, the first thing he did was to negotiate the acquisition of the Aldervilla Stadium.

This stadium was not highly used before the Chinatown team. Therefore, the owner was happy to sell it directly to the Chinatown team. The asking price was also reasonable and within the acceptable range of the team. The two parties quickly reached an agreement. The acquisition not only acquired the Aldervilla Stadium, but also the surrounding parking lots and four vacant lots that were originally intended to be used as training grounds.

But this is just the beginning of burning money.

After buying the stadium, the Chinatown team will renovate the original main stand in the southwest and build a new stand in the northeast, so that the stadium's capacity can be increased to 5,000 people.

According to the popularity of the China Town Team, it is basically not a problem to seat these 5,000 people, but the renovation cost is expected to reach one million euros, which is definitely a big sum for the China Town Team.

However, according to Almodo Marcos's estimate, after the renovation, the annual ticket revenue alone will be able to increase an additional four to five million euros for the Chinatown team. In addition, after the renovation, some catering outlets and fan stores will be added to the site. Other facilities, as well as venue advertising, are expected to increase revenue by hundreds of thousands of euros per year.

After all, Chinatown is now a Segunda División team.

But the problem is that this income will have to wait until at least a year later, but the investment of one million euros is right in front of us.

In addition to the stadium, changes in the club's business methods will also greatly increase the team's financial pressure.

In the past, the club rented out many players, including players rented from La Liga teams such as Atletico Madrid. Many of them were paid part or even all of their salaries by the parent club. Therefore, the Chinatown team did not spend much in this area.

But now, the club wants to sign players, and all the salaries have to be paid by themselves, which adds a lot of expenses.

According to Almodo Marcos's budget, although the club has increased a lot in terms of sponsorship income, it can only barely maintain the club's investment and daily operations. It is basically impossible to spend more money on transfers. things.

"Unless, we sell one or two players to cash out." Amado Marcos said.

"No, this is absolutely not possible." Gao Han objected immediately.

He just felt Atletico Madrid's helplessness, how can he let the team sell players to cash out now?

Looking at the current lineup of the Chinatown team, there are only three truly attractive players, De Gea, Alba and Hazard.

These three players are young, but they perform very well, and they have the golden name of Gao Han. Any one of them can be sold for two to three million euros, no problem, but this is definitely something Gao Han cannot allow.

Not to mention Gao Han, Pochettino also disagreed with selling players and strongly stated that these three players are the backbone of the club's future.

But if you don't sell people, you have to invest money to recruit them.

Gao Han has just established a youth training center in China, and now he doesn't have much money on hand.

This was also the first time that he felt the benefits of being rich. At least when he saw Abramovich burning money, it was tens of millions and hundreds of millions, and he didn't even frown. Looking back at himself now …

It’s better to be rich!

However, there are also ways to have no money.

The simplest and most direct way is to eat the big ones.

Mendes, who was sitting silently aside, immediately felt Gao Han's eyes staring at him, and secretly screamed that something was wrong. Then he felt Gao Han's malicious smile, and he complained in his heart.

"Okay, tell me, as long as I can help, I will help." The Portuguese agent admitted his defeat.

Everyone present found it funny, but also surprised.

Who is Mendes?

In European football, he is a player who can cause earthquakes with just a stomp of his foot. The owners and presidents of many wealthy teams have to be polite when meeting him, but now they are forced by Gao Han to rush to the shelves. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes Who would believe what they saw?

"Don't worry, Jorge, I won't let you suffer."

But how can Mendes believe what Gao Han said?

"If we don't have money, we have to think of ways to do it without money."

After finishing speaking, Gao Han waved to everyone to come over.

"Jorge, are you familiar with AC Milan?" Gao Han asked.

Mendes nodded, "I have a bit of a relationship with Pato transfer before. Not long ago, they just called me and said they wanted to buy Ronaldinho and asked me to go to Barcelona to help with the operation."

"OK, that's enough." Gao Han smiled and said, "I know that there is a young player named Aubameyang in the AC Milan youth team. He is 19 years old and has Gabonese nationality. He is not taken seriously in AC Milan and is preparing to rent it out. You Please contact me."

"Then what?" Mendes asked concerned.

"I will buy it, but it cannot exceed 800,000 euros. Also, tell Galliani that it will be divided into three years."

Mendes opened his eyes and almost cursed.

Eight hundred thousand euros, in three years’ installments?

Are you sorry?

After all, you, Gao Han, are the most famous figure in European football. If word of this gets out...

But looking at Gao Han's face, Mendes knew that he must be the clown himself.

There is no other way, who can make me not only his partner, but also his agent?

Maintaining Gao Han's golden brand is also a major responsibility of his agent.

"Okay, I'll go talk." Mendes admitted defeat.

Gao Han narrowed his eyes, as if to praise his cleverness, and immediately pointed to the next one.

"Last season's Ligue 1 newly promoted Strasbourg team had a young midfielder named Schneiderlin, who was 18 years old and couldn't play in Strasbourg. But this team this season We have been relegated back to the Ligue 2. You help me come forward and invite Schneiderlin over and say we will give him the main force."

This matter is not difficult, it is just an errand. With Gao Han's reputation, he is always unfavorable.

"no problem."

Gao Han nodded and smiled, "Then Ajax should be familiar too, right?"

"Suarez was the one you recommended last year and I dealt with them," Mendes replied.

Last summer, Gao Han heard about Suarez from Robben. At that time, the Uruguayan played for Robben's hometown team Groningen. Gao Han took the opportunity to attend Robben's wedding and watched Suarez play. In the warm-up match, the result was very impressive, and Mendes was directly defeated.

Suarez later joined Ajax, and it was Mendes who operated from it, and the Uruguayan forward also performed quite well.

"There is a Belgian central defender in the Ajax youth team named Toby Alderweireld. He is 19 years old and has never appeared in the first team. Please help me talk about it. It is best to divide him up."

"Also, there is a 16-year-old Dutch central defender named De Vrij in the Feyenoord youth team. You can also help me negotiate the installment."

"In addition, in Brazil, there is a 21-year-old midfielder named Ramirez in Cruzeiro. He was transferred to the club for 200,000 six months ago. Please help me talk to him."

"Gremio, who is also in the Brazilian League, has a 17-year-old youngster named Douglas Costa. He has never played in the first team. He should be quite cheap. Please help me negotiate."

"There is a striker named Radamel Falcao from River Plate in the Argentine League. I am very optimistic about him. Please help me test it out. He should be more expensive."

"In addition, Armenia's Yerevan Phoenix team has a 19-year-old youngster named Mkhitaryan. This should be easier to negotiate, and the price will definitely be cheap. Please help me get him."

"Oh, by the way, Diego Costa, the Brazilian player who was loaned to our team by Atletico Madrid last season, if you go to talk to Atletico Madrid again, just say that our head coach appreciates him very much, and you can do it in installments if you can. No. Just rent it out first and sign a clause to buy it out within one or two years, but don't mention me."

The three giants of Atletico Madrid are all human beings. If they knew that Gao Han wanted to get Diego Costa, it would be impossible to sell him even to death, so they had to use roundabout tactics.

Mendes recorded everything Gao Han told him one by one, but something became more and more wrong in his mind.

"Wait, wait a minute." The more Mendes thought about it, the more something was wrong.

"What's up?"

"Can I ask a question first?"

"Well, ask."

"How much money are you prepared to invest in these transfers?"

Mendes is not worried about signings and negotiations. With his connections and connections in European football today, it is not a problem to get these players, but the problem is that he has to have money.

After hearing this, Gao Han smiled and showed two fingers.

Mendes secretly thought it was okay, "Pound?"

But Gao Han smiled bitterly and replied: "Euros."

Mendes was dumbfounded and almost collapsed. If the person in front of him was not Gao Han, he would definitely jump up and curse.

Two million euros to bring in nine players?

Yes, these players are not famous, but players in European professional leagues are not just cabbage in the vegetable market, right?

Apart from anything else, Falcao is River Plate's main striker. Even if Mendes has great hands and eyes, he wants two million euros, right?

When Diego Costa joined Atletico Madrid last year, it was 3.5 million euros, and now he is at least that price.

Mendes has heard of Douglas Costa's name. Gremio's talented rookie, can it be cheap?

In addition, Alderweireld, De Vrij, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang, Schneiderlin and Ramires, these players are cheap, but together they cost at least a few dollars. Millions, right?

Just want to get them all with two million?

Boss, is this task too difficult?

Gao Han felt a little embarrassed when he saw Mendes' tearless expression, but he really had no money.

As the saying goes, a good woman cannot make a meal without rice. If Pochettino is not given a lineup, how can he lead the team?

If the team cannot be promoted this season, it would be better. If it cannot be promoted next season, it will be difficult to retain players such as Hazard and De Gea.

"I know it's not easy, Jorge." Gao Han said with an expression of "I sympathize with you."

"But you are Jorge Mendes, and there are still things that you can't handle in European football?"

With this big hat on, Mendes knew he couldn't run away.

Gao Han never praises others, and once he praises someone, something will happen.

But who is Mendes?

As shrewd as he is, he figured it out with just a roll of his eyes.

If Gao Han eats his own big family, then he will eat others.

Judging from the importance Gao Han attaches to these players, they are definitely not bad. He can't suffer any loss by dealing with them.

When he thought of this, Mendes patted his chest on the spot.

"Okay, I'll contact you right away and give you the news as soon as possible."

Seeing how readily he agreed, Gao Han felt a little guilty.