Dick's next problem was Ruyter's salary. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

Dortmund's high salary policy has actually been around for a long time, when the five highest-paid players in the Bundesliga gathered in Dortmund, so that Dortmund ushered in a glorious period, and as the last of those players to stay, Ruit, with his contribution and status, naturally got a fairly high salary, for Dortmund club, he will enter the management sooner or later, and it is nothing to give him more salary.

Dick doesn't actually want to be this villain, but Dortmund's current salary is only three million euros, if Ruyter gets more than Rivaldo, then what will Rivaldo think? The main reason why he joined Dortmund was to come to Dick, and there are conditions for getting a low salary - getting a low salary must be the highest one in the team, this is not a problem of money, but a problem of face, and this problem will have to be solved sooner or later.

But what Dick didn't expect was that Dortmund's management was not a dry meal, and he couldn't always be allowed to do everything - it was Dortmund's football director Zorke who solved this problem.

Zorge is also a veteran of Dortmund, and Ruyt, who are the main members of the top Dortmund team, began to work for Ruyter after learning that Dick was going to cut the team's salary.

And Ruit himself actually doesn't have too many requirements for money, after Zolke, an old friend, talked to him a few times, he finally figured out why Zolke wanted to chat with him - originally his contract with the team was signed once a year, after all, he was thirty-six years old, so he painfully agreed to the request for a salary cut, and reduced his salary from 3.1 million to 1.5 million, which was only the level of the midstream, and with it, the vice-captain Warnes also lowered his salary to 2 million, An extra surprise for Dick and the Dortmund club......

The next transfer also went well, with Evanilson joining Parma in Serie A for five million euros, and Jankole joining Everton for eight million euros.

So far, Dortmund's net income in the transfer market this summer is 26.5 million euros, which means that Dick is very likely to receive more than 10 million euros in rewards.

Through the transfer of these players and salary cuts, Dortmund's total salary expenditure has been reduced by a total of 13 million euros, plus the redemption of 51% of the ownership of the Westphal-Lun Stadium, which has reduced their annual venue rental expenditure by 8.5 million, which means that even if this year's income and expenditure are similar to last year, Dortmund's deficit will fall from 30 million euros to less than 10 million euros!

And this money can be earned back from the European Champions Cup, playing the entire group stage alone has 7 million euros in prize money, not to mention the transfer fee share and ticket revenue, Dortmund from last season's 30 million euros in a single season deficit to a possible profit, is not a dream!

After calculating Dortmund's current expenses and projected income and expenditure, Dortmund's management is ecstatic, if there is no longer a deficit, it will gradually reduce debt, because although Dortmund now owes a lot of debt, but this money can be repaid slowly, as long as the deficit is gradually reduced, so that the debt that will not increase every season will always be gradually repaid, after all, the financial balance of the Bundesliga stipulates that there can not be too many deficits per season, and Dortmund was mainly because of too much debt before, I have to pay back a lot of money every season, which leads to too much deficit, and now that the money is tightened, the situation will naturally get better.

Next, it's up to Dick to see if he can lead this team to good enough results.

"I'm confident that I can get Dortmund to do well in two years' time, but I'm not sure that Dortmund will have to live with their belts in the next few years...... So I hope you will continue to strengthen the youth training, try to develop as many young players as possible, and get some profits through the transfer of players, until the debt is paid off. Dortmund actually has a big advantage, as long as there is no debt, nothing can stop Dortmund from taking off. ”

This is Dick's proposal to Dortmund's management, and this kind of proposal has been approved by everyone, after all, football is still a sport that needs money, and Dortmund can make money, but now they have to pay off the debt of nearly 100 million first, and when the debt is paid off, it will naturally go up.

Dick can only make Dortmund's financial situation a little better in this situation, and at the same time let Dortmund try to challenge for some titles, but he can make more money, which is a long project, and in the end it depends on Dortmund's own efforts.

The training camp is going on day by day, this summer, the Bundesliga club's action is not particularly big, Bayern did not carry out a large-scale blood change, Ballack's joining is a great success for them, coupled with the addition of Deisler, Bayern began a steady change in the midfield, Bayer Leverkusen, who lost three titles last season, retained Topmuller, although they lost Ballack, but they introduced Brazilian defender Juan, local midfielders Prois and Bierovka, Brazilian striker Franza has been brought in up front, and although Ballack's departure has been a huge loss, it seems that they can expect a new start with the ability to develop people that Bayer Leverkusen has shown in previous years.

Bremen have invested a lot this season, and despite losing Frings, they have brought in a number of quality players such as Miku, Krasnić, Charlie Steas, Friedrich and Schulz, who will be one of Dortmund's main rivals on the way to the title.

Borussia Dortmund's rivals Schalke 04 and the old powerhouse Stuttgart have not brought in a lot of reinforcements, and now the Bundesliga teams generally have little money, which is why Bayern has been able to dominate, and their financial resources are the best in the whole of Germany.

Dick wants to lead Borussia Dortmund to good results, Bayern are definitely a tough opponent and they have now replaced Eeffenberg with Ballack and the midfield is starting to get tough.

For Dortmund fans, what they are looking forward to is the start of Dortmund to see in the next German League Cup, Rivaldo's joining makes them ecstatic, at least Bayern despite poaching Ballack, but Rivaldo also makes Dortmund fans not afraid of each other at all!

On July 27, the appetizer for the 2oo2-2oo3 season of the German Bundesliga appeared - that is, this year's German League Cup, which has not been held for many years, and the League Cup is equivalent to their first class.

The top six teams from last year participate in the League Cup, the top two go directly to the semi-finals, the three or six go head-to-head, and then the winner and the top two compete for the right to the final, such a game is the best warm-up before the start of the season - because the tradition of the Bundesliga team is to only find amateur teams in the region to warm up before the start of the season, this is to promote the rise of football in the whole region, before that Dortmund played two warm-up games, each of which was a double-digit score or more against the opponent, such a warm-up can only be regarded as a warm-up, The real warm-up game is the League Cup.

Last season's champions and runners-up, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen made it straight to the semi-finals, the other four teams were Bayern Munich, Hertha Berlin, Schalke Zero Four and Werder Bremen.

Hertha Berlin pulled out an upset in their two matches on 27 July, beating Bayern Munich 1-0 to reach the semi-finals, followed by Schalke 04 beating Bremen to reach the semi-finals against local rivals Borussia Dortmund.

Seeing this result, Dortmund fans are very happy, Bayern was killed, Dortmund seems to have become much more likely to win the championship, at least in their opinion, Schalke 04 is now far from comparable to Dortmund, although Dortmund has let go of a lot of players this summer, but also has a strong strength.

Unfortunately, in the semi-finals on August 1, Dortmund lost in a bad temper.

Dick sent a four-four-two lineup in this game, goalkeeper Lehmann, defenders Ismael and Vaughans partnered in the central defence, the wings were captain Ruyt and Dede, and the midfielder sent Guemel as a midfielder because of Kyle's injury, Rivaldo left midfielder, Frings right midfield, Rosicky in front, Kavinagi and Olic in front.

This lineup has changed a lot compared to last season, there are six people not to mention, and many people are not playing in the position of last season, for example, Ruyt was a right midfielder last season, but now the position has retreated to play right-back, plus the players in the front court have basically not cooperated with each other much, and the important thing is that before this, Dortmund has just finished the physical reserve work and has just started tactical drills......

The players are naturally very unfamiliar with the tactics, and there are constantly passing errors on the field, and although Schalke 04 has not changed much in the summer, it is to ensure the tacit understanding on the field, they continue to block Dortmund's attack in the midfield, and then continue to attack.

The only good performance is Dortmund's backline, which retains the backline of three veteran players and cooperates quite well, Ismael also showed his head-on confrontation ability and relatively flexible ability to turn and block, coupled with Lehmann's excellent swing, although Schalke 04 continued to attack, but also tore apart Dortmund's defense.

It's just that Dortmund's front court is too chaotic, Rivaldo always unconsciously leans towards the middle, squeezing Rosicky's position, the two forwards don't know how to respond to the midfielder's pass, and they are almost running around like headless flies on the field, and in the case of attacking almost to create pressure on the opponent's defense, Schalke 04's attack began to become ferocious, and finally they scored a goal in the second half and eliminated the defending champion Dortmund 1-0!

Dortmund is not the most unlucky, compared with Bayern who were eliminated in the first round, their performance does not seem to be too bad, while Bayer Leverkusen looks worse, they were beaten 3-0 by Hertha Berlin, collapsed, so far, none of the three teams participating in the Champions Cup won the League Cup, all lost to their opponents, and finally lifted the first German trophy of the season was Hertha Berlin, they defeated Schalke 04 on penalties in the final, Won the German League Cup for the second year in a row!