Armando Marcos' piece of cake was so big and tempting that even the cautious Cantarero was so moved by him that he couldn't resist it.

It has been 12 years since the establishment of Chinatown, and according to Armando Marcos's plan, three years later, that is, 15 years, to create a European quasi-giant team, which is undoubtedly a great miracle.

But it's not enough just to keep up with the financial revenue and keep up with the pace of the club's business operations.

"From now on, in the next few years, the salary structure of our club must be further strictly controlled, and it must be maintained at about 45 percent, and absolutely not more than 50 percent, which is the bottom line." Gao Han said loudly.

He has a strong premonition that player salaries will increase significantly in the coming years, both in the Premier League and in La Liga.

Chinatown's salary expenses can rise, but it must rise steadily, in proportion to the club's financial income, otherwise, once it is burdened with a heavy debt burden, Chinatown will fall into the quagmire of operation.

The closest is La Liga, Barcelona in the 08-09 season, when they won the Grand Slam, the club's salary accounted for nearly 70% of the financial income, which also became the fuse for the fall of Laporta, so that after Russell came to power, he has been cutting salary expenses, but even so, it remained at 55% last season.

Real Madrid did the best relatively well, and in the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship, Real Madrid's salary ratio reached 90% at its peak, which was a staggering figure, so much so that Florentino later had to abandon the blue-collar players, unable to meet Makelele's demand for a salary increase, and let the French midfielder leave Chelsea.

After learning the hard way, Real Madrid's salary ratio has been controlled at about 45 percent, which is undoubtedly a relatively reasonable figure.

After Atletico Madrid's grand slam in the alpine cold, due to the continuous salary increase of many players, the club's salary once exceeded 60%, but with the departure of players in recent years, coupled with the move into a new stadium, and the increase in financial income, the salary proportion of the Sheets Army is also controlled at 50% to 55%, although it is slightly higher, but it is also controllable.

The same is true for Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Tottenham Hotspur, especially Tottenham Hotspur, a north London team that has been inconspicuous but has steadily improved in quality and salaries have been kept within 50 per cent, even more reasonable than Arsenal's 56 per cent.

But the most outrageous is Aston Villa, which is as high as 85 percent, and is already on the verge of bankruptcy.

Chinatown's current salary is 48 percent, whether it is in La Liga or European football, it is relatively good, but the team has begun a new round of contract renewal salary increases, if the financial income can not be improved, the next will definitely break 50 percent, and then it can only continue to sell people.

Of course, if, as Armando Marcos said, it is possible to increase commercial income to more than 200 million euros in three years, then the club's financial income will be double compared to now, and there is still a lot of room for the player's salary structure to be raised, and the probability of retaining key players will be greater.

The more core players are retained, the more competitive Chinatown will be, and the more hopeful it will be to challenge the status of the three giants of La Liga, as well as many of the giants in Europe, and even have the opportunity to compete for the championship trophy.

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As the European Championship came to an end, the arms race of the major giants began to burn in full swing.

Chelsea were the first to ignite the fire, with the Blues announcing the €35 million purchase of Brazilian midfielder Oscar, who scored a hat-trick in the previous World Youth Championship final and was named to the Brazilian national team after the World Youth Championships, and is hailed as the world's most promising midfielder.

Chelsea followed in the wake of Arsenal's announcement of the €20 million acquisition of Spanish midfielder Cazorla from Malaga, a player who excelled with Málaga last season and was well-rounded and valued by Arsene Wenger.

Not to be outdone, Ferguson was ambitious to see a more successful outcome before retiring after winning the Champions League last season, so he made another move this summer, bringing in Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa from Borussia Dortmund for €25 million.

Following the departure of South Korea's Park Ji-sung for Queens Park Rangers, the move from United's Shinji Kagawa was seen as a positive sign for continued development of the Asian market.

However, what really shocked the entire European football world was in mid-July, after the major teams began pre-season training, the exciting news from the Portuguese Super League, the Russian Premier League player Zenit St. Petersburg brought in Brazilian center Hulk from the Portuguese Super League Porto for a sky-high price of 60 million euros.

This transfer quickly detonated the entire European ball market, and everyone was shocked.

Sixty million euros, bringing in a player who has never proven himself in the big four leagues, is it too outrageous?

But immediately afterwards, the news came again, it was Zenit St. Petersburg, and the Belgian midfielder Witsel who was targeting Benfica had a transfer fee of up to 45 million euros, which not only surprised everyone, but also made Gao Han, who got the news earlier, a little stunned, because Mendes said that it was 40 million euros, why did it rise by 5 million?

That's 5 million euros, which is 50 million yuan.

The whole European football world was shocked by the successive shots of the Russian tycoon, but it was not surprising.

Russia, Ukraine and Turkey are all big leagues, and they recruit some great stars from European football and around the world every year, and they can play in the Champions League, and some can even reach the knockout rounds.

It's just that these two transfers of Zenit St. Petersburg this year are a bit surprising.

Just when everyone was shocked by the Russian tyrant's big spending, the French tyrant Paris Saint-Germain finally made another move.

50 million euros, Paris Saint-Germain announced that at a price second only to Hulk, the Argentine winger Di Maria was brought in from Real Madrid, this player was not valued in Real Madrid last season and failed to play the main team, which made him a little dissatisfied, so he was eager to switch to Paris Saint-Germain to play.

The French team newspaper also quickly confirmed the transfer transaction and revealed the specific details, saying that Di Maria was recommended to Gao Han by technical director Antro Enrique, and was handpicked by Gao Han, in order to persuade Di Maria, after getting the approval of Real Madrid, Gao Han in Madrid also specially met with Di Maria and persuaded the Argentine to join.

"According to the information obtained by the reporter, Di Maria will play a crucial role in the tactical framework of Gao Han's new season, so Gao Han did not hesitate to personally come forward to persuade Di Maria to join."

As a chain reaction, after announcing the sale of Di Maria, Real Madrid soon announced that it would bring in Carvajal, a right-back who shined in the European Championship, from Chinatown for a high price of 50 million euros.

This transfer once again detonated the ball market.

A full-back in his twenties, worth 50 million euros?

This allowed Carvajal to surpass Alves as the most expensive right-back of all time.

What is surprising is that after learning that the club has brought in Carvajal for 50 million, Real Madrid fans are very excited, and President Florentino even said in an interview with the media that the right-back born in the southern suburbs of Leganes will become the future of Real Madrid.

Coincidentally, after Real Madrid announced the introduction of Carvajal, Atletico Madrid also quickly announced that they had finalized the midfielder Herrera from Chinatown for 40 million euros, which is another poaching of Chinatown's midfielder after Schneiderlin.

After announcing Herrera's transfer, Chinatown soon announced that Rakitic would stay, and the club would sign a new contract with Rakitic in the near future, and the Croatian midfielder also made it clear that he would stay in Chinatown.

This undoubtedly cut off the tentacles of many teams such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris Saint-Germain.

Barcelona had to shift their targets immediately after announcing Rakitic's stay in Chinatown, and soon announced the arrival of lagging midfielder Alexander Song from Arsenal for a whopping €25 million.

The Arsenal captain has been at odds with the Gunners in the past six months due to contract renewal issues, and it has been revealed that Arsenal are interested in selling him, and Barcelona quickly met Arsene Wenger's asking price of 25 million euros.

Song's arrival was to fill the weakness of the team's midfield, but Vilanova's most important thing was the addition of a left-back.

After a stalemate in negotiations, at the end of July, Barcelona finally announced that they would bring in left-back Jordi Alba from Chinatown for 50 million euros plus Montoya, and the former Barcelona academy player was finally able to return home.

It was soon reported in the media that Chinatown had been targeted at left-back, including Málaga's Monreal and Valencia's Bertena, but the result was a surprise when Chinatown announced the introduction of 20-year-old left-back Alberto Moreno from Sevilla FC for 3 million euros.

Matayana, a member of the Marca newspaper, broke the news that Chinatown was originally the first choice for Monreal, followed by Bertena, but the offers of the two clubs of Malaga and Valencia made Chinatown feel embarrassed.

"Gao Han's rational investment strategy has made it difficult for Chinatown to invest more than 10 million euros in the left-back position, but the asking price of both clubs is significantly higher than Chinatown can accept."

Chinatown's technical director Cantarero was also quick to explain, saying that the club's introduction of Moreno was based on the youngster's quality and believed that he could succeed in Chinatown and compete well with Alex Sandro.

When asked by a media reporter about the transfer rumors of Aubameyang, Cantarero also made it clear this time that the final result will be announced in the near future.

Sure enough, three days later, Chinatown and Paris Saint-Germain announced at the same time that the Ligue 1 tycoon had brought in Gabonese international Aubameyang from Chinatown by paying liquidated damages, and Antero Enrique said that the African player has lightning speed and outstanding scoring ability, which will bring a huge boost to Paris Saint-Germain in the new season.

At the same time, Paris Saint-Germain also announced that the team's 21-year-old N'Golo Kante transferred to Chinatown, but the transfer fee was not disclosed, but some media broke the news that it was only a symbolic euro.

However, under the seismic transfer of Aubameyang, Kante's arrival did not attract the slightest attention.

Even if it is the Spanish media, they are more concerned about whether Chinatown will bring in reinforcements on the right side after sending off Aubameyang? If so, who will bring it in?

(End of chapter)