At the time of the battle between Dick and Marriner, Dortmund's management in the Ruhr region of Westphal-Lun in northwestern Germany was a gathering of Dortmund's management, and although their team had just won the third Bundesliga title in the club's history with a miraculous comeback over Bayer Leverkusen a month earlier, their faces were now gloomy.

Borussia Dortmund is not the property of any one person – in fact all German clubs are like this, and no individual is allowed to control more than 50 per cent, and the Bundesliga club is a standard club model, co-operated, co-owned, and the chairman of the club is only the manager, not the owner.

Dortmund's current chairman, Nepom, has been Dortmund's president for the last sixteen years, and under his rule Dortmund reached its peak, with almost all of Dortmund's major honours so far won during his tenure, including three Bundesliga titles, one Champions Cup and one Toyota Cup, and of course one German Cup and three German Super Cups.

However, now the silver-haired chairman has a sad face, and beside him, whether it is football director Zorke or the club's general manager Mayer, all of them have bad faces.

Because just two days ago, the former meritorious player who coached Dortmund for two years and won the league title, and now the excellent head coach Summer, submitted his resignation to Dortmund, on the grounds that he accepted the invitation of the German Football Association to become the director of the German Football Association's youth guidance center, in order to change the dilemma of the German national team.

In the just-concluded World Cup, although the German national team unexpectedly won the runner-up of the World Cup, but in fact the German team is still dominated by veterans, and the dilemma of the lack of new forces has not changed, although after returning from the European Cup two years ago, Beckenbauer raised his arms and shouted to strengthen the training of young players, and the Bundesliga clubs also responded, but only two years can not produce enough good players, as a former legendary player, Summerer contributed to the country, And for granted – the Germans have always taken this seriously, and this is evident from the explosion of outstanding young German players in a few years, and the Germans have always been capable of doing anything......

However, Nepom himself knows that Summer's decision to leave Dortmund to report on the national team is not only to strive to produce some top young players for the country, but also for a big reason - although Dortmund won the league championship last season, it is already the last afterglow - Dortmund's economy is now in a very difficult situation, although there was no deficit in the season just ended, but with their salary expenditure and personnel composition, If you don't get enough money next season, you will probably go bankrupt!

For Serie A La Liga clubs, bankruptcy is not a particularly big deal, Serie A clubs have always been good at making fake accounts, which Milan is very proficient in, often you sell me two young players for 10 million, I sell you two young players for 10 million, so that the income on the books is 10 million, anyway, no one can find the reason, and La Liga clubs can also drag it out if the economy is not good, it is a big deal to operate in debt, and force a few years to talk about it......

But the Bundesliga clubs are different! In the Bundesliga, which strictly enforces the policy of fiscal balance, if your club is in debt, then every penny of your income will be used to pay off the debt instead of reinvesting, everyone knows the difference, just like two businessmen, if they each have a million debts at the beginning of their business, one can pay it off after a few years, and the other has to pay off the debt every time he earns a sum of money, so that even if the two businessmen have the same ability to make money, the opportunity to get is about the same, but after two yearsMaybe the first businessman has earned tens of millions and easily paid off his debts, but the other businessman has just paid off his debts and started from scratch!

The management of Dortmund knows that if Dortmund can't make the deficit disappear and keep it profitable every season, then when Dortmund's deficit reaches a certain point, it will be a devastating blow to the club as a club!

This is no joke – Kaiserslautern suffered a deficit a year or two later, and it wasn't much, just six million euros, but they were forced to sell their top scorer Klose, and no more, no less, for exactly six million euros. At that time, Kaiserslautern did not want to let go, and Klose himself did not want to leave, but he had to go, because at that time, only Klose could let Kaiserslautern fill this hole!

In fact, also a few years later, Dortmund suffered a much greater economic crisis, Dortmund Club was forced to use the ticket revenue of the Westfa-Lun Stadium for the next two decades as collateral so that the club was not liquidated and bankrupt, and this was not enough, and finally had to sell the naming rights of Westfa-Lun Stadium, so that the club survived this catastrophe, which also made Dortmund, which was still one of the top clubs in Germany at the turn of the century, forced for nearly ten years, until the beginning of 11 years, before recovering, Snatched two league titles from Bayern!

An economic crisis has sunk a club like Borussia Dortmund with a proud tradition and impressive attendance for a full decade, as evidenced by the strict management of German clubs in this regard.

This has of course brought huge benefits, and at a time when other leagues are in financial crisis, the Bundesliga is the most financially healthy and well-run club.

However, such a harsh approach has put Dortmund to a severe test.

"Sameer is leaving, there is no way to do it, we can't keep them." Zolke sighed, he is the banner man of Dortmund, his entire career was handed over to Dortmund, and after retiring he became Dortmund's management - the Bundesliga club is basically composed like this, for example, in charge of Bayern, it is the three Bayern superstars Beckenbauer, Hoeness and Rummenigge!

"The question now is not to find a manager, but how to keep Dortmund alive." Shaking his head, Nepom said: "Actually, it's not impossible for us to do well, if we do well in the next Champions Cup and get enough prize money, our financial situation can be eased." In fact, we are not short of money, and our attendance is one of the best in Germany! Every year, there is a lot of revenue from tickets alone! As long as we survive this year or two, we will be able to recover...... It's also my business mistake, we bought a lot of people in the last few years, spent too much money, one amoruso cost us 28 million euros! It's an expense we can't afford to lose......"

"In order to win the championship, there is no way to do it." Mayer shook his head: "But Mr. President, your plan is difficult, next we want to play the Champions Cup, we must increase the salaries of the players, and bring in better players, otherwise we will not be able to go further in the Champions Cup." To win the championship, you have to increase investment, this is the consensus of everyone, otherwise, playing in the group stage of the Champions Cup, millions of income, will not be of much use. ”

"It's not like I'm unaware of that." Nepom sighed and said: "But if you want to achieve this goal, you can only take such a risk, I have calculated, even if we invest tens of millions in the summer, as long as we can enter the quarterfinals, we will still make money, and with our attendance, we can invest another year." ”

"Don't forget, Leeds United are in a serious financial crisis right now! It is because of such an adventure that it fails! The huge gain of the Champions Cup is a beautiful temptation, but it is also a dangerous temptation! Those who want to make money from this are losing money! Take Atletico Madrid, who recently won the Champions Cup but invested the least, they have also spent nearly 100 million in the transfer market in the past two years! And what about income? I've calculated that in two years, their income on the European stage will only be 50 million! Those who did not suffer from the economic crisis, who did not live on bonuses, have the support of a consortium or a membership system behind them, or a ......club with excellent financial resources like Bayern," Zolke objected.

"Damn Bayern, how do they have so much money!" Mayer couldn't help but curse.

"Speaking of Atletico...... Their head coach, the young Chinese, has been fired...... He doesn't have anywhere to go, the top big coaches are in a secure position, can we ask him to be the head coach? At least one of the two problems we are facing can be solved. Nebom said suddenly.

"You're not crazy, are you? Mr. President? Do you know how much Dick won at Atletico last season? Close to six million dollars! Summer's $2 million salary is too much for us to afford, and Dick's income is not something we can afford! Although we invite him, he will probably come, but although this guy can win the championship, he can also spend money! In Atletico Madrid, he won the Champions Cup and two league titles with 100 million in two years, if we could have spent money in previous years, it would have been a good choice to invite him, after all, he could win the championship! And yet now...... Are we going to be glorious once or twice at the end, and then die? Zolke immediately objected.

"You're right, Michael." Nepom smiled bitterly: "But can you win a championship with a low-paid manager?" Or will it be able to prevent us from having an economic crisis? No one has such a capability! If I had to choose, I'd rather have Dick in charge and take advantage of the fact that we haven't had an economic crisis before we break out to win a few more championships and make the fans happy again! Even if we die next, it's much better than being half-dead! ”

Nebom has always been a chairman who likes to take risks, otherwise he would not have spent money crazy in the past few years, and bought tens of millions of players such as Amoruso, Jankole, Rosicky, and Kyle in a row, and there are many examples of failure, although it has smashed a league championship, but it has also plunged Dortmund into the coming economic crisis.

Zolke and Mayer looked at each other, then closed their mouths at the same time.

They don't have this certainty that Dortmund will not be affected by the economic crisis, since according to the current situation, Dortmund will fall into a serious economic crisis in two or three years, then it is really better to be like Nepohm said, the last madness, ask Dick to play a game or two, maybe there is a chance to win the second championship in the club's history, in that case, even if it is followed by a long downfall, it will be worth it!

"Then I'm going to send an invitation to Dick." Zolke stood up as he said he would do it.