Chapter 398: Diego Simeone
When Zhang Huasong appeared, the negotiation process between Feixun and Atletico Madrid was much faster.
On the one hand, Zhang Huasong's achievements and world popularity in the sports world are greatly admired by the members of the Hill family. On the other hand, it is because of Zhang Huasong's personal wealth.
Although Zhang Huasong's personal wealth is not comparable to the total assets of the Hill family, it is richer than every individual member of the Hill family.
Therefore, everyone's status is equal.
Negotiations on equal status are much easier to negotiate.
One party wants to buy, the other party wants to sell, Zhang Huasong is not short of money, and the Hill family no longer insists that it is not for sale.
Therefore, after the preliminary negotiation of Qin Zhuozheng's team, Zhang Huasong went to Madrid to communicate with the Hill family and the municipal government, and finally determined the wholly-owned purchase price of the club.
On June 17, 2011, Atletico Madrid held a press conference, and Hill Marin and Zhang Huasong, as representatives of the Hill family and Huaguo Flying Corporation, signed to announce the change of ownership of the club.
The Hill family sold the ownership of Atletico Madrid to Huaguo Finex for 150 million euros, and Hill Marin stepped down as the club's CEO, and the new CEO was Zhang Huasong, the president of Flycom.
However, Zhang Huasong naturally has no energy to take care of the club's trivial affairs.
Therefore, after Zhang Huasong communicated with the club's staff, the club's current president, Enrique Cerezo, and general manager Caminello remained in charge of the club's day-to-day work.
Other staff members who are willing to stay will continue to stay and work, and there will be a certain salary increase, as a welcome gift to the new boss Zhang Huasong.
Of course, Feixun has also sent a financial director and staff to Atlético Madrid to be responsible for financial audits, supervising the operation of the club, and so on.
The Madrid City Government and even the Prime Minister of Spain sent representatives to attend the signing ceremony between the two sides and expressed their welcome and expectation for Zhang Huasong's appointment.
In Madrid, the capital of Spain, there are two strong teams, one is Real Madrid, and the other is Atletico Madrid, which has just been acquired by Zhang Huasong, and the game between the two sides is called the Madrid derby.
Real Madrid can tell from the name of the team that they are supported by the Spanish royal family. Every time Real Madrid celebrates the championship, there are members of the Spanish royal family and even the king himself.
Real Madrid's members and supporters are also mostly aristocrats and high-income people.
As the other side of the derby, Atletico Madrid's supporters are mainly middle- and lower-class workers and salaried people in Madrid. As a result, Atletico Madrid has even more supporters in the Madrid region than Real Madrid.
It's just that in terms of international reputation, Atletico Madrid is not as good as Real Madrid.
Because Atletico Madrid's supporters are mainly working-class and numerous, and the election of Spain's prime minister depends on these voters.
Therefore, the Prime Minister of Spain and the City of Madrid have always supported Atletico Madrid, which is different from the position of the royal family.
Therefore, the signing ceremony of Zhang Huasong and the Hill family attracted representatives from the Madrid city government and the Spanish prime minister.
After the signing ceremony was completed and Atletico Madrid officially changed hands, this big news quickly spread around the world, much more influential than Paris Saint-Germain's change of ownership.
First of all, because of Atletico Madrid's league, La Liga is more influential than Ligue 1, and Atletico Madrid's popularity is also higher than Paris Saint-Germain.
The second is because of Zhang Huasong's popularity, the current sixth-ranked international superstar, which naturally has a natural attraction to the media and audiences around the world.
The last point is because of the purchase price, which is three times the 50 million euros that Qatar Investment Authority acquired for Paris Saint-Germain.
After the press conference, Marca, the Spanish sports newspaper with the largest sales volume and the more neutral newspaper, reported:
"Zhang Huasong, an international superstar and the richest man in the world's sports world, bought the ownership of Atletico Madrid from the Hill family for 150 million euros, which may change the current pattern of La Liga!"
Real Madrid's loyal fan "As" ridiculed:
"Non-membership clubs are in danger of being acquired, and Atletico Madrid is no longer a club for Madridians, but for Chinese!"
Barcelona loyalist Le Monde Sport welcomed Zhang Huasong's arrival and gloated over the threat to Real Madrid in the Madrid derby:
"Zhang Huasong's 150 million euro acquisition of Atletico Madrid means that the Madrid derby will enter a new era. Moreover, with the development momentum of Feixun Company under Zhang Huasong's name, Zhang Huasong's personal wealth may surpass Florentino in a few years, and President Zhang, who has a steady stream of cash flow, will definitely put Real Madrid under great pressure! ”
Of course, World Sports looked at the problem from the perspective that the Madrid derby could consume more energy from Real Madrid, and they did not see Atletico as a threat to Barcelona's existence.
If they knew that Atletico could threaten Barcelona in the future, they would not have gloated so much.
In addition to these three Spanish newspapers with different positions, the French "Team Newspaper", the German "Kicker", the United States "Times", the stars and stripes "Sports Illustrated", the Chinese "Sports Newspaper" and other authoritative media around the world have reported heavily on the news that Atletico Madrid, the third strongest in La Liga, was acquired by Zhang Huasong.
In addition to the news of the club's change of ownership itself, the views of Atletico Madrid fans on the club's change of ownership are also the focus of media follow-up reports.
In street interviews and sample surveys conducted by many newspapers, Zhang Huasong's entry into Atletico Madrid has only won the explicit support of less than 10% of Atletico fans, while the opposition is as high as more than 30%.
More than 50 percent of Atletico Madrid fans chose to wait and see for the time being, and did not express their position.
The words of a young Atletico Madrid fan in his 20s speak for most Atletico fans today:
"Zhang Huasong is a world-renowned international superstar, and his arrival will bring natural attention to the club and enhance Atletico Madrid's international reputation and commercial value. In addition, the current world football is a golden era of competing to burn money. The successes of Chelsea and Manchester City, as well as the change of ownership of Paris Saint-Germain, have clearly revealed this fact. UEFA's so-called principles of financial fairness are just a dead letter, and there are too many ways for wealthy clubs to spare UEFA's financial fairness policy and buy superstar players to improve their strength. It is not unacceptable for us to have a rich man take ownership of Atletico Madrid, as long as the name and logo of the team remain unchanged and the strength of the team is improved, we will not object. Therefore, most of us have chosen to wait and see for the time being. If President Zhang's arrival can bring a significant improvement to Atletico's results, we will support him. Otherwise, we'll booed him at the game in front of the world's audience watching the live stream. ”
This is the current mentality of many neutral Atletico Madrid fans, they do not strongly oppose the injection of foreign capital, but choose to wait and see for the time being, to see if Zhang Huasong can bring changes to Atletico Madrid's results, and no longer even qualify for the Champions League.
As for those who oppose it, as long as Zhang Huasong leads the team to continue to win in the future, except for a few extreme racists, most people will still return to Calderon and continue to support Atletico.
To say that the world is most excited about Zhang Huasong's entry into Atletico Madrid, of course, it is the media and fans in China.
Because this is the first club in Europe's top five leagues to be acquired by Huaguo Capital. Moreover, it is not a small club, nor a low-division club, but Atletico Madrid, the traditional powerhouse of the Spanish Liga A.
It's only 2011, and Blue Star, like the Earth in parallel time and space, has not yet set off a high tide of Chinese-funded acquisitions of European football clubs.
Therefore, Zhang Huasong is currently the first to go to Europe to acquire the ownership of the five major league clubs, and he is the first person to do so, which will naturally attract domestic media reports and enthusiastic discussions among fans.
When Chinese football was in the dark, Zhang Huasong invested 1.5 billion yuan in Chinese football, and the world's highest salary invited Otto the Great to be the coach of the national football team, which has brought certain changes to domestic football.
On June 5th and June 8th, the Chinese national team defeated Uzbekistan and North Korea with a score of 3-0 and 4-0 in the warm-up matches in Kunming and Qianyang respectively.
The average attendance rate of the Chinese Super League has increased compared with the previous year, and the warm-up matches of the national football team are even full every game, and the enthusiasm of domestic fans is recovering.
Of course, the low level of domestic football is well known.
Outside of the international break, fans usually watch more matches from Europe's top five leagues.
At this time, the news broke that Zhang Huasong successfully acquired Atletico Madrid, the third strongest in La Liga, and the Chinese media naturally had to carry out a long and heavy report: because the fans must be very interested in this news.
As a matter of fact, as time goes by, the heated discussion about Atletico Madrid's change of ownership in various countries around the world has gradually declined, but domestic media reports and fan discussions have not cooled down.
Countless Chinese fans have become supporters of Atletico Madrid, looking forward to the start of the new La Liga season and hoping that Atletico Madrid will achieve better results after President Zhang takes over.
The Chinese media will naturally be loyal to the intentions of the fans, and the number of Chinese media reporting on Atletico Madrid in the new season will definitely be very large, and CCTV's live broadcast arrangement for La Liga will definitely be tilted towards Atletico Madrid, and the number of Chinese media tracking the latest news behind Zhang Huasong is also increasing.
However, after signing the contract, Zhang Huasong has flown to London, the United States, to participate in the Wimbledon Tennis Open, and those media who follow and report Zhang Huasong can only follow Zhang Huasong to the United States.
The handover, transfer, etc. of the club are handled by the professional team of its own Feixun company, and Shu Yufei supervises it.
Atletico Madrid's former head coach Flores also had his contract expire this summer, and the club's president, Enrique Cerezo, told Flores that the club would not renew his contract and wished him another good job.
The team's new coach intends to be the candidate, Zhang Huasong told Cerezo that it is Atletico Madrid's former meritorious player, Diego Simeone.
At this time, Simeone had just finished his short-term coaching at Catania in Serie A, with only 7 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses in 18 games, and did not receive a contract for Catania in the new season.
According to the trajectory of parallel time and space, Simeone is about to leave Europe and return to his native Argentina to coach Atlético Argentina for a short time, and then come to Atletico Madrid in December to replace the poor Manzano and put out the fire for his old club.
However, Zhang Huasong naturally did not wait until December to invite Simeone, but told Enrique Cerezo and the club's general manager Caminero, and asked them to contact Simeone after they had dealt with the affairs of the club and ask Simeone to coach the Sheets Army, where he had played.
Of course, Simeone's current experience as a coach is not dazzling.
Therefore, in terms of the head coach's salary, Zhang Huasong only offered Simeone an annual salary of 100-2 million euros.
The specific salary depends on the specific negotiations between Cerezo and Caminero, the two actual heads of the club, and Simeone.
For the summer transfer operation, Simeone's opinion will be asked after Simeone officially signs the contract.
On June 20, Zhang Huasong began his 2011 Wimbledon season at Wimbledon in London.
Although there was a delay in the negotiation and signing of Atletico Madrid this year, and there was no grass adaptation training in advance, Zhang Huasong still swept the opponent in the first round with an aggregate score of 3-0 and only one game.
Although the opponent will get stronger as the match progresses, Zhang Huasong will also become more familiar with the grass court game as the match progresses.
Coupled with his own strength and serious attitude towards the game, Zhang Huasong won the Wimbledon championship for the third consecutive year, and there is not much suspense, just to see if he can achieve the obvious advantages of the Australian Open and the French Open.
Just when the Wimbledon Grand Slam was going on schedule, Caminero, the general manager of Atletico Madrid, also stepped in to get Diego Simeone in person.
A short period of underwhelming spell at Catania has kept Simeone out of a formal contract for next season and no other club in the top five leagues has invited him.
In desperation, Simeone is ready to go back to his native Argentina to find work.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Caminero, the general manager of Atletico Madrid, who had just changed the owner of his old club and had just changed owners, came to the door and claimed that the new owner of the team, Zhang Huasong, had named him and hoped that he would go to Spain to coach Atletico Madrid.
Simeone was surprised, but naturally he was very excited.
can coach Atletico Madrid, the third best in La Liga, Diego Simeone will naturally not go back to Argentina to find a job.
After all, Europe is the epicenter of modern football.
Moreover, Simeone played for Atletico Madrid and won the La Liga title and the Copa del Rey double in 1995 as a key player. It can be said that at Atletico Madrid, Simeone reached the pinnacle of his playing career.
Therefore, Simeone also has feelings for Atletico Madrid. Simeone would love to be able to return to Atletico Madrid as a coach.
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