After the completion of the new stadium in Chinatown, the naming contract with the Qatari consortium was officially launched, and the name of the new stadium in Chinatown will be called the Qatar Royal Stadium in the next 20 years.

According to the terms of the contract signed by the two parties before, after winning the Champions League, Chinatown can get 15 million euros in naming fees every year, which is indeed a bit of a loss for the current Chinatown.

At the beginning, Chinatown was preparing to build a new stadium and lacked start-up funds, so the Qatari consortium took the initiative to give a large amount of start-up funds to Chinatown in the form of stadium naming and jersey sponsorship, which alleviated the team's urgent needs, and Chinatown was still not famous at that time.

But in recent years, Chinatown has grown rapidly, and last season's two runners-up and a Champions League title have made the world recognise Chinatown, and Armando Marcos has become more confident in front of sponsors.

Chinatown will certainly not deny the black and white words signed that year, but in the terms of the contract signed that year, there is also a clause to increase the sponsorship fee according to the team's performance and influence, so after friendly negotiations, the two sides will increase the sponsorship fee to 15 million euros per year, and the maximum can be 20 million euros.

But the condition is that Chinatown goes to Qatar every winter break to train and play a warm-up game.

Of course, this will not be gratuitous, the Qatari side will cover all the costs and pay a considerable appearance fee.

The purpose of this is to use the fame of Chinatown to build momentum for the Qatar World Cup.

It's a shame that the stadium naming rights were sold, but fortunately, Chinatown didn't suffer from the two most important sponsorships.

The jersey sponsorship is about to expire, Nike and Adidas are interested in competing for the jersey sponsorship rights of Chinatown, of which Nike is a long-time partner, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are also Nike camps, and Adidas has only one Real Madrid in the La Liga semifinals, but the results of the Galaxy Battleship in recent years have not been ideal.

As a result, the two sides began a fierce battle for the sponsorship of the Chinatown jersey.

Chest advertising sponsorship is also a major source of commercial income for the club, in order to prepare for the construction of the new stadium, signed a five-year contract with Qatar Airways, from 2011 to 2016, now only two years left, many world brands have begun to contact Chinatown, hoping to sponsor Chinatown jersey advertising.

Qatar Airways is also interested in continuing to sponsor Chinatown, but the annual sponsorship fee of 12 million euros is no longer enough to meet Chinatown's requirements, and the Middle Eastern tycoon is also clear about this, and the two sides are negotiating a contract extension.

In addition to the two major sponsors, Chinatown has a large number of other sponsors, either in need of contract renewal negotiations or in need of metabolism, and general manager Armando Marcos can be described as busy, but every time he is busy, he will bring a lot of commercial income to the club.

Of course, as the owner of the club, Gao Han has never been stingy with the salaries of his employees.

In addition to the 100 million euros allocated to China's youth training, the remaining 50 million euros will be used to improve the treatment of the club's players, including the hardware facilities such as the training base and office environment, as well as the salaries of players, staff and employees.

The treatment that has changed the most is Zidane.

As a rookie coach before, he has never had any independent coaching experience, and his annual salary is only three million euros, but after winning a Champions League, Gao Han directly mentioned six million euros to him, which is more than any player in the club's team.

Is this pay expensive?

Indeed, in the entire European football world, the head coach is quite high, but Zidane politely rejected Real Madrid's offer of 10 million euros for an annual salary to stay in the team, and Chinatown gave 6 million euros, which is not outrageous.

What's more, Armando Marcos has calculated an account, Zidane coached Chinatown, and his image rights management can be described as a golden sign in football after the operation of Real Madrid that year, even if it is a five-to-five account, it can bring a lot of income to Chinatown every year, plus the superstar effect brings about the promotion of the club's influence.

It can be said that the annual salary of six million euros to renew Zidane's contract is very cost-effective.

Not to mention that on a competitive level, Zidane has helped many players in the team.

The only thing that is more disadvantageous to China City is that Zidane, like Gao Han, does not like long contracts, and he only signs for two years.

Gao Han did understand this, because he was like that.

A long-term contract is not only a constraint for a manager, but also an anesthetic, which can easily make people slack and lazy, but it is not as interesting as signing it every two years.

Of course, if Zidane has performed well in the past two years, he will still have to be given a salary increase.

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On the evening of August 22, in the southern suburbs of Madrid, the Qatar Royal Stadium.

This brand-new, simple and solemn appearance, with a strong Chinese style, finally ushered in the first game.

The 42,000-seat grandstand was packed, and the sound they created poured down the sloping stands and swept across the stadium, making every fan in the stadium feel as if they were in a raging sea of rage.

Aside from the capacity, everything else about the new stadium has been built to the world's best standards, such as the operation of the venue, which Gao Han personally poached Arsenal's maintenance staff Paul Boggs in London a year ago as Chinatown's chief venue operations officer.

Many fans may not have heard of Paul Boggs, but Gao Han is very familiar with him.

The 34-year-old Englishman, born in Manchester, worked in Blackpool at the age of 16, moved to Arsenal at the age of 18, and oversaw Arsenal's field operations four years later, and has since been nominated for the Premier League's best stadium manager every year, winning the award five times, and in 2008 he also won the Stadium Manager Award under the Stadium Management Association, which can be called the Golden Ball Award in the field of venue maintenance, the world's top award.

Gao Han knew him when he was coaching Manchester City, and once wanted to poach him to Manchester City, but then there was no follow-up, and when the new stadium in Chinatown needed to start preparing the turf, Gao Han first consulted him, and finally went to London to persuade him to join Chinatown.

Paul Boggs has been in charge of the construction and maintenance of the new stadium since a year ago, from underfloor heating to drainage to turf selection and laying, and he has built the new 105-metre-long and 68-metre-wide stadium for the team according to Chinatown's technical and tactical style.

Before the game started, all the fans sat in the stands and looked down at the beauty of the field, like a green carpet laid in the middle of the stadium.

Three days ago, Chinatown played Atletico Madrid away and the two sides played to a 1-1 draw.

Now, both sides have a crucial showdown!

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"Boggs is really good!"

In the middle of the chairman's stand, the two top executives of Atletico Madrid, Cerezo and Junior Hill, who are playing away, are sitting with Gao Han, accompanied by Cantarero and Armando Marcos.

When the two Atletico Madrid bigwigs saw this new stadium in Chinatown, they couldn't help but praise one after another.

As the saying goes, insiders look at the doorway, and laymen look at the liveliness.

Anyone who is immersed in professional football can see how difficult it is to maintain such a field.

Some people even joked that this is high-tech planting.

After listening to Cerezo's admiration, Gao Han was very impressed and laughed, "That's it, Paul can be called Maradona in the field maintenance world, what do you say?"

Many people think that site maintenance is a simple technical job, but it is not.

Once the turf is laid, it is susceptible to fungi and pests and diseases, and the work of the field maintainer may seem easy, but in fact it is often more busy, especially during the league season, when the pressure on the shoulders of the players and coaching staff is not lost at all.

Paul Boggs, for example, complained to Gao Han not long ago, he works 50 to 120 hours a week, wakes up at 7 a.m., patrols the course, and starts paying attention to the weather forecast at 8 o'clock to make a maintenance plan for the day.

It's better if it's a two-game game and it's an away game in a week, but if it's a two-game game, or when the turf is changed, you have to work around the clock, overtime, and sometimes even stay up all night to observe the turf situation.

In addition to Paul Boggs, there are many teams like him throughout the Qatar Royal Stadium, busy day in and day out, week after week, quietly preparing for the team.

In the end, we were able to deliver 90 minutes of high-quality play to the fans in front of the stadium and in front of the TV.

It is worth mentioning that each working group in Chinatown has at least two young students from China, who are basically high-achieving students who graduated from related majors, and Gao Han supports them to continue their studies in Europe and intern in Chinatown, and will return to China to work in Chinatown after completing their studies.

The two bigwigs of Atletico Madrid really admire Gao Han, because Gao Han is not only knowledgeable, but also willing to invest.

Paul Boggs and his team are indeed very professional, but they are not necessarily willing to let Atletico Madrid poach with a high salary, and of course, they may not be able to poach them.

Everyone can see that Paul Boggs came to Chinatown because of the cold.

Many people think that Gao Han has disappeared in the past year and has not done anything, but only those who really know him and Chinatown know that he has not done anything, but has done more than before.

It's just that all of this has been relegated to the background, and no one knows about it.

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The two sides of the game finally walked into the stadium one after another.

Since there was a hard-fought battle just three days ago, this time both sides made a proper rotation.

Zinedine Zidane was playing at home this time, with the attacking combination of Jesus, Morata and Dybala up front.

Although Simeone is playing away from home and lost the Champions League final before, he still has a lot of psychological advantage over China City, and this game also discharged an aggressive formation, pressing heavily from the beginning of the game, continuing to use high pressing and pressing, hoping to continue to suppress China City as before.

Unexpectedly, Chinatown seemed to have been prepared, and after the first unsuccessful pass to infiltrate, it continued to pass back to De Gea in front of the door.

Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres pressed in front of goal and forced De Gea to pass forward with a big foot.

Alvaro Morata retreated to meet and beat Ramos' header to the first spot.

Dybala grabbed the second landing point, didn't wait for the ball to land, and passed directly behind him diagonally.

I saw that Jesé was like a bolt of lightning, from behind the Atletico Madrid defense, straight into the penalty area, caught up with the ball and pushed it to break through Oblak's goal, the whole process was clean and clean, without the slightest drag.

Blitzkrieg!

1 to 0!

(End of chapter)