As the editor-in-chief of the French football magazine said, the European Ballon d'Or is roughly divided into three different stages of development, namely based in Europe, going to the world, and globalization.

In a way, these three different stages of development also represent the development of professional football in Europe.

Based on European soil, in part, due to the limitations of technology at the time, the team could only attract local fans at best.

But with the popularity of live TV, led by the four major European leagues, began to stake their seats all over the world, and the famous Italian Small World Cup has been talked about by countless fans so far, which represents the four major leagues beginning to go to the world.

Now, with the popularity of live television, the Internet era, and the globalization of European professional leagues, all clubs have begun to develop themselves based on a global perspective, which was previously something that only supergiants like Real Madrid could do.

It's like the TV rights of the Premier League, the biggest head in the past was always the UK, but in the past few years, everyone has begun to realize that overseas copyright income is gradually catching up with the UK, and the growth rate is very amazing, and even in the near future, it will definitely surpass the UK.

The other piece is the mobile Internet platform, the growth rate of this piece of copyright income is also very fast, and the Premier League has even begun to study to separate this piece of business and vigorously promote and develop.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the subprime mortgage crisis triggered by the United States is in full swing and harms the world, but at this end, European football is becoming more and more prosperous, from Abramovich to the Glazer family to Thaksin, and now the Abu Dhabi consortium, even Hicks and Gillette can be counted.

More and more international capital is pouring into European football, which means that European football is becoming more and more global.

But then there is a new problem, that is, when there is a huge influx of capital, professional football begins to rely more and more on investment, that is, it needs money.

If you have money and are willing to invest, you may not be able to succeed, but without money, you are reluctant to invest, and it is basically impossible to succeed.

It would be a shocking miracle for the world to have an upset win for any team in the middle and lower tiers, perhaps not even once in decades, but at the same time, it still needs to be invested.

It can be seen that transfer investment is the key to the success of professional teams.

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Yang Yang has played in European football for several years, and he doesn't dare to say that he is an old fritter, but at least he knows everything he should know.

Florenti promises a bright future and a hopeful blueprint, but there is a crucial question hidden inside: where will his money come from?

This is a sensitive issue, but at the same time it is critical.

Without understanding this, everything that Florentino had promised now was nothing more than a mirage.

Yang Yang secretly understood in his heart, and secretly glanced at Raiola, this kind of offending people has always been done by agents.

The Italian fat man knew this, smiled, and looked at Florentino.

"Mr. Perez, I beg your pardon for offending." Raiolapi said with a smile, "I have to admit that your plan is indeed very tempting, but I am curious to know how you can run such a huge project?" First of all, it will take a huge amount of money, and secondly, I want to know, are you going to do it in a few years like the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship, or will it be done in the short term? ”

Raiola's question is indeed sensitive, but it is also very critical.

Florentino still had a kind smile.

As a perennial businessman, he knew very well that Yang Yang and Raiola were both moved by himself, otherwise there was no need to ask such a sharp question, so instead of feeling annoyed, he was very happy.

But he did not answer personally, but his assistant Redondo answered on his behalf.

"As we said before, with the lessons learned from the first phase of the Galacticos, we can't do it in the long term, and our transfer budget for the first year will be up to 300 million euros."

"Three hundred million?" Raiola was taken aback.

This is an absolutely astronomical sum.

Although Yang Yang was still very calm on the surface, he was still startled secretly.

"There are three main sources of funding." Redondo has obviously experienced ups and downs, and when it comes to the figure of 300 million euros, he feels like 30 yuan.

"We have a good relationship with a number of Spanish banks for a long time, and we will borrow half of them from the banks, which is a low-interest loan of 1500 million euros, and as you know, we are a membership club, and many banks are happy to lend to us at low interest rates or even interest-free, which is our advantage."

For this, Yang Yang and Raiola both understand in their hearts.

"On the other hand, Real Madrid currently has more than 100 million cash on its books, and when the time comes, we will sell a group of players in the team and return a batch of funds, I believe that there is no problem at all to make up a transfer budget of 300 million euros, and according to our preliminary estimates, we will be able to pay off all the bank loans in two years at most."

Subsequently, Redondo said a lot of more convincing plans, so that Yang Yang and Raiola could be sure that they had indeed made full preparations for this, and had a very detailed plan.

People who are good at capital operation are different, not to mention Calderon, even compared with the two American bosses in Liverpool, Florentino's team is surprising enough.

After solving the problem of funding, Raiola asked a lot of sensitive questions, and Redondo answered them one by one.

For example, where does Real Madrid's transfer budget of 300 million euros intend to be spent?

Florentino's plan is to bring in a number of stars in one go, in addition to Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Cesc Fabregas, Villa, David Silva, Xavi Alonso, Mascherano, McConn, Ribery, Tevez and a number of other stars have appeared in the list of Redondo's words.

These players are all some of the best in the world, especially the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Kaka.

Redondo said they are starting to prepare and engage aggressively, and that what will happen and who will be brought in will still need to be finalised, but they are confident that they will be able to build a new star squad next summer.

Zinedine Zidane also took over at this time, playing his role as Florentino's personal adviser, and he believes that Real Madrid should learn from Barcelona, with local players as the core, rooted in the country, and cultivate the backbone of the dressing room.

At present, Spain's top players, Torres is at Atletico Madrid, Xavi and Iniesta are at Barcelona, and Real Madrid can really bring in David Silva, Villa, or Liverpool's Xavi Alonso and others.

Judging by the tone of Redondo and Zinedine Zidane, it is clear that they are very interested in Cesc Fabregas.

Yang Yang has been in the Premier League for two years, and he is also very aware of the strength of Arsenal's midfield.

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For the explanation given by Florentino's team, Yang Yang and Raiola were very satisfied, and even a little excited.

If it is really as they said, the introduction of a group of outstanding current stars, whether it is for Real Madrid or Yang Yang, it will be of great benefit, especially the agent Raiola, who is even more excited.

If Yang Yang and Ibrahimovic can play for Real Madrid at the same time, then his agent will definitely follow suit.

However, the Italian fat man, although greedy for money, was not stupid, so he quickly moved on to another sensitive topic.

That is Yang Yang's personal treatment.

Florentino personally promised Yang Yang that Real Madrid would definitely give Yang Yang the salary package that was most worthy of his identity and strength, and would make him the highest-paid superstar in the world, and would never let him suffer.

But there are still some differences between the two sides, that is, the division of portrait rights.

When Florentino first formed the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship, the image right was still a very new term, and no one even noticed the role of the image right, so at that time, including Figo, Zidane and Ronaldo and other superstars, all made concessions on the image right, and all of them were given to Real Madrid.

But in the following years, especially after Beckham joined Real Madrid, everyone was surprised to find that the original image rights could also bring such a huge income, and even Real Madrid made a lot of money in the image rights of superstars.

Now, Florentino wants to reorganize the second phase of the Galaxy Battleship, and he naturally wants to hold the portrait rights in his hands, so the plan they gave is 50%, but Raiola, on behalf of Yang Yang, clearly opposed Real Madrid's proposal, believing that Yang Yang would not give up any portrait rights.

Redondo wanted to fight for it, but Raiola refused to give in, and in the end it was Florentino who came forward and played a round, saying that these issues could be discussed slowly, not in a hurry, and the key was that the two sides could reach an agreement.

"Yang, I believe that we can all sit here, we are very sincere to each other, and you know our plan, I want to know, what do you think?"

After listening to Florentino's words, everyone looked at Yang Yang.

Whether it succeeds or not, it's all in his thoughts.

Yang Yang knew in his heart that this was an opportunity, and if he missed it, Florentino would immediately shift his target and revise his plan, and he would probably have to choose Barcelona.

Thinking of this, Yang Yang smiled and said: "Florentino, thank you very much for your continued favor to me, I am also very happy to go to Real Madrid to play, but I have one last question." ”

Florentino and his team all laughed, apparently relieved.

"You say."

"Liverpool's ......"

"We'll help you out." Florentino said confidently.

"There's a way?"

"We will definitely convince the management of Liverpool."

Although he didn't know what Florentino could do, since he said that he could do it, then Yang Yang must believe him.

With Florentino's status in European football, he wouldn't be a fool of himself, otherwise, what was the difference between him and Calderón?

"Okay, then I'll have no problem."