Chapter 156: Inputs and Benefits

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The name of the Empoli club is the name of the local city, but it is too small, more like a small town, with a permanent population of only 30,000 or 40,000 people, plus the same Tuscan (Toscana) and other big cities such as Florence and Siena. However, they still relied on the growth of batch after batch of youth players to intermittently reach the Serie A league many times, making this small city well-known to the outside world.

Summing up the team's pattern of relegation and relegation, it will be found that although several young players are promoted to the first team every year, their quality and potential are very different. Surprisingly, every time a good seedling emerges, several appear at once, and it is thanks to the rise of young players of a similar scale to the "golden generation" that Empoli can be promoted to the first division. However, after a season or two, this group of players will be completely matured, and they will be divided up by many big teams, and they will naturally be relegated back to the second division because of the big drop in strength, and the previous first few trips: 1986-88, 1997-99, 2002-04 and 2005-08 were all in this pattern, without exception.

Aurizio Sarri took over the small team and led Albanian full-back Elseid Hysaj, Georgian international Levan Mchedlidze, Mesozoic central defender Lorenzo Tonelli and other academy players, as well as veterans such as Valdi Fiori and Croce, plus Macarone, who returned after a decade, to achieve the top four in Serie B for two consecutive years. and returned to the first division the following year. In the 2014-15 season, as the biggest favorite for relegation, Empoli finally finished 15th in the league and successfully avoided relegation. However, the coach is also too unauthentic, and at the same time he moved to a new club, he also poached the two core teams of Hisayi and Valdi Fiori, which led to the strength of the old club being seriously weakened and the relegation situation further worsened.

But just when everyone thought the team would be relegated in the 2015-16 season, the club poached the previously unknown Marco Giampaolo from Serie C side Cremonese, and the middle-aged man under the age of 50 broke his glasses by raising the team's ranking from 15th to 10th with just a bad hand. Such an excellent performance naturally could not escape the pursuit of big teams, and Sampdoria, who were poached by the Rossoneri, snatched the blockbuster manager with a two-year contract with double the annual salary. To add insult to injury, the former head coach still hasn't given up poaching his old club, and Napoli bought the team's defensive core Tonelli for 10 million euros this summer, leaving Giovanni Martini Martinciello, who has just been righted from his assistant coach position, a mess that can't be broken again.

In the summer transfer window that has just ended, Empoli has lost Tonelli, Rui (loan to Roma), Zielinski (left the team at the end of the loan period), Paredes (left the team at the end of the loan period) four absolute main players from last season, but only eight players were brought in, most of which were completed through loan and visa waivers, with a total fee of only 3 million euros and a net profit of 7 million in the transfer market. At this stage, when the young players have not grown up, and the new signings are all leftovers that other teams don't want, the strength of the team will decline in a big stride, and relegation seems inevitable. Although this judgment has been said for the past two years, and the result has been slapped in the face, but for this season, 99% of the media believe that with Empoli's current situation, unless there is good luck against the sky, they have already booked a relegation place in advance.

In fact, in modern football, the role of capital investment has actually played a pivotal role, and the leagues and Champions League have been completely monopolized by those financially powerful giants. In the last two decades, the Champions League has been won by traditional top teams, with the exception of Porto in 2004. Even if the Portuguese team won the championship with some luck in it, but in the end it was also the most famous "black shop" in the world, and it was not bad for money, and most of the Porto team at that time were national internationals, Deco, Maniche, Costinha...... Didn't you throw it with money? Therefore, a small team like Empoli is destined to have no chance to turn over, although it can occasionally break out by relying on years of accumulation, but there is no money and results to guarantee it, and good players will soon be divided by big teams, and they will return to understand overnight. Before it was released, it could only continue to cycle this state until it withdrew from the stage of history...... Or there is a big tyrant who has money and nowhere to spend it, buys the team and desperately spends the money......

Generally speaking, it is not necessary to invest a lot of money to have a big return, and it is often the case that tens of millions of dollars are thrown in and you don't even see a splash (such as a country's super league), but if you don't invest, it must be completely unrewarding. Modern football has become a business, in line with most of the laws of business, such as Chelsea, Manchester City and Grand Paris have never been seen before, and will become the norm in the future, one day, the skin will become the color of money, pink football should not be ugly!

As the saying goes, "Money is not everything, but no money is everything." "That's the way it is for the club, it's the same for people. In today's society where values have collapsed, the perception that money is king has been accepted by most people, and those who scoff at this kind of values, except for a few people who are really noble, the rest are useless guys who have no ability to make money but only know how to be "cynical". Ordinary people and even those well-known people are scolding on the Internet, flirting with girls everywhere in private or changing girlfriends every day, they will definitely be sprayed by the majority of Internet fans, but if the protagonist is Principal Wang, it is estimated that they will only think that this is just a daily routine, even if there are people who are not used to it, few will scold it. Why? Daddy is super rich! Just set a small goal is 100 million soft girls, and with so many accounts as the foundation, everyone will think that Principal Wang is qualified to play like this.

Although Li Mudi also likes money, whether he was so poor in his previous life that he couldn't even pay the rent, or he had adventures after crossing over and suddenly had assets of more than 10 million euros, he didn't feel that his social status had changed because of money. Now he has become a well-known person in the Great Celestial Empire and world football, and it is also because of the identity of the football head coach, the achievements he has achieved in leading the team, and the characteristics of his yellow skin, which have nothing to do with money. However, after the huge amount of money invested in the crew of "People" was exposed, he instantly felt that the attention of those people in the Celestial Empire entertainment industry to himself suddenly reached a crazy level. Every time I open WeChat, there are countless fellows in the "popsicles" group, and they are all people around them who want to ask for the contact information of the Turin coach. Because Li Mudi's number of logins to WeChat is really limited, he only goes on when there is something, and it can appear about ten times a month on average, and in many cases, he can't deal with it at the first time, so it is easy to create an overly arrogant image for outsiders, and these big brothers and sisters have to help explain, which makes them a little anxious. Bao Xiaolei, who has the closest personal relationship with the Turin coach, has repeatedly proposed in private that she should find an agent or agent who is responsible for these affairs as soon as possible, and Li Mudi has already started to operate this matter, which has caught a good helper and naturally can't be let go easily, so his sister Xiaolei also naturally joined the team of Brother Hong Lei to help Baozi find an excellent agent or agent.

If the Celestial Empire paid attention to him at the beginning of it was only some crew members who needed someone to invest, then after the last episode of "People" on September 15 was announced, the entire domestic film and television industry exploded, and Li Mudi's name suddenly entered the ranks of legends. The first drama of investment was a divine drama that was rejected by countless senior investment companies at that time, what kind of vision is this? Although before the success or failure of the next investment, everyone still doesn't know whether this is the luck of the blind cat meeting the dead mouse, or whether it really has a pair of golden eyes, but this does not prevent the insiders in the circle who are more concerned about interests and fame from temporarily putting Li Mudi in the top position.

Those who don't know the specific details are so "admired" Li Mudi, so the agent next to him, who had just learned the truth of the matter, was even more dumbfounded when he looked at a list of benefits that Baozi had passed from China. CCTV has been constantly adjusting the advertising cost of prime-time according to the rise in the ratings of "People", and when the value reaches 10%, the standard becomes 450,000 per 15 seconds, almost three times the normal standard. And the charging standard for the last episode reached 2.2 million per 15 seconds, creating the highest record since the opening of CCTV's golden theater, but in this way, there are still many companies competing like crazy, after all, this is the most popular TV series in the past ten years, and the orientation is absolutely correct, and the publicity effect will naturally be so bad that there are no friends. In the 23 days that this drama was broadcast, CCTV got nearly 720 million advertising fees, and compared with the 200 million buyout fee, it made a net profit of 520 million soft girls, with a net yield of 260%. According to the 6% sharing agreement on advertising fees agreed with them before, Li Mudi has an income of 43.2 million, and because the previous buyout fee has recovered the cost, these money are all his personal net profits, almost achieving a one-to-one investment-to-income ratio. Even after deducting various taxes and commissions for buns, there is still 28 million left, and CCTV confirmed that it will arrive at the end of the month, making the Turin coach the second largest beneficiary of this drama.

Gines has been completely numb, the cost of 6 million euros, in just five months to get back 9.7 million, although the 160% income ratio is not too strong, but the key is that the cycle is so short, if you operate like this twice a year, you can turn 6 million into 100 million in three years. Of course, in reality, it is certainly not so simple to calculate, there are many good projects, but there are too few that can be discovered and participated. Under normal circumstances, before everything settles, no one knows whether a project will make money or lose money in the end, and maybe if it is tossed again, the 6 million will be lost. However, this did not prevent the Spanish economic tycoon from feeling impressed by the partner in front of him again, and it really became the lyrics: "If you are willing to peel off my heart layer by layer, you will find that you will be depressed." In the days that followed, Li Mudi did notice a subtle change in the agent's attitude towards him, although he was very respectful before, but there was still some strong and weak, but now it is a feeling of complete equality between the two parties.

After this incident, the time quickly came to the third weekend of September, and Torino welcomed the fourth round of the league on their home turf. After Lazio's 3-0 thrashing of promoted Mapeska last night, the media naturally did not miss a good opportunity to ridicule Limaudi, but the latter ignored the boring questions and focused entirely on how to take all three points.

Belotti, the team's top scorer and the league's top scorer with five goals, unexpectedly sprained his left wrist during training on Friday afternoon, and the team's head of medicine, Greco, suggested that the game be rested for this round of fixtures, and whether he can play against Pescara next weekend will depend on the recovery. Although the opponent is not strong, it is the same one win and two losses with Torino in the previous games, and it is evenly matched in points, so the head coach of the home team does not dare to be careless at all. But with the loss of the team's most important scorer all of a sudden, coupled with concerns about Joe Hart's integration into the team, Li felt that this game might not be as easy to win as the pre-game media predicted.

The home side continued in a 4-3-3 formation, but there were rotations in some positions. The goalkeeper is still Joe Hart, right-back Bruno Perez, central defenders Rosettini and Vallejo, left-back is teenager Bareka, midfielder Wives, central midfielders Benasi and Baseli, right winger Rajjadzic, left winger Iago Farke, and central striker Lucas Boyer, who is only 20 years old.

Empoli, on the other hand, is playing in addition to the injured players, and the players worth paying attention to include the veteran left-back Manuel Pasqual, who has just joined from Fiorentina in the new season, the 25-year-old forward Riccardo Saponara (Riccardo Saponarara), who has reached a potential value and just returned from AC Milan two seasons ago, and Alberto Gilardino, a former Italian international and a famous striker in Serie A. Their formation is a 4-3-1 with a midfielder.

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