Chapter 676: Challenges and Opportunities

Among the reform measures, the rectification plan for football clubs at all levels in the Celestial Empire is also one of the focuses of people's eyes, because according to the regulations, following the previous introduction of club name neutrality, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China has begun to carry out mandatory interference in equity.

Since 1994, when they entered the so-called professionalization, domestic clubs are strictly different from European and American clubs, because they can be regarded as subsidiaries of sponsors behind them, and are not independent entities. Even if the neutral name is changed, it is not a symptomatic treatment, because their control is completely in the hands of the head office, which has caused great constraints on the daily operation and long-term development of the club.

First of all, the main purpose of domestic companies investing in football is to do publicity, which is understandable, after all, you can't expect everyone to selflessly lose money and throw money into this bottomless pit all year round. And even if someone really makes such a "stupid", this is not a good thing for our football development, only a long-term and mutually beneficial operation is a healthy model.

It's just that except for a few cases, the vast majority of investment companies are very unreliable, either pure laymen in football management, or they are frequently tossed around for some reasons, and some are both.

What's even more terrifying is that due to the problems of the business operators themselves and the huge production deficit of the football industry all year round, the equity or owners of many clubs are always changing, which will obviously bring great harm to the long-term development of the club.

Among the several old teams, probably only the two teams of Beijing Guoan and Qilu Taishan have had relatively few historical changes in this regard, and the equity of the other teams has undergone several major changes, slowing down the pace of their sustainable development.

For example, Shenhua, the magic capital, although the name of this has been retained, but the owner behind him has changed many times, from the Shenhua Group that made water heaters at the beginning, to the seven holdings, and then to the cooperation between the Radio and Television Group and the Media and Radio Group, and then the Mr. Zhu who made a fortune in online games, and finally became the famous enterprise Greenland Group in the real estate industry. After each change of helm, the club's development policy will be subverted again, resulting in the original foundation and financial strength of the magic capital football has never been able to become a strong contender for the league title, until the management has stabilized in recent years.

As for the former Tianchao League overlord Yangcheng International, the previous Evergrande team, after experiencing many owners such as Sun God, Geely, Xiangxue Pharmaceutical, Rizhiquan, Yangcheng Pharmaceutical, etc., they waited for Evergrande Group to become the owner in a period of chaos, and finally turned over. Later, the world-class e-commerce boss Ma Boss joined, so that the entire club will not have a shortage of operating funds. But if Boss Xu hadn't chosen to enter the domestic football arena at the beginning, it is estimated that this veteran team in the A era would have disappeared from everyone's sight like many other teams.

Finally, there is the fate of Bincheng Wanda, the absolute king of the early stage of the professionalization of football in the Celestial Empire, which was completely wiped out in history because of the collapse of the parent company. Even if in the end, there is the reorganization of Albin and the takeover of a group, and when the Football Association issued the rules for the neutralization of the club's name, it changed back to Wanda, a name that is unforgettable for football people in the Celestial Empire, but in essence, this team has no direct relationship with the original eight champions, and it has to make people sigh!

Therefore, in order to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents, with the approval of the leadership, the Commission decided to further weaken the influence of enterprises on the club, follow the conventional club mechanism in Europe, gradually change the common single shareholder system to a more risk-resistant multi-shareholder system, and establish a strict shareholders' meeting, board of directors, managers, board of supervisors, shareholder authorization management model, so that the club can find a sustainable development path forward in a more stable and good environment.

In order to make up for the loss of economic interests caused by the existing club-holding enterprises because of this policy that is somewhat contrary to the laws of the domestic football environment, the Sports Reform Commission also announced that it will let the league business model, which cannot be called a complete separation of management and management, be directly put in place in one step, and only retain a small part of the benefits obtained by leagues at all levels to ensure the normal operation of the Football Association, and the rest of the majority will be handed over to the clubs for distribution, finally completing the dream of many football people for many years.

In addition, in the scope of the management of the Football Association, the management authority of the actual operators such as Tianchao Company composed of leagues and clubs at all levels and the relevant restrictions and punishment regulations, the support policies and construction investment of ZF organs in various places, etc., the system reform committee has also made drastic adjustments or issued new provisions, and the steps are not small, and the attitude is not firm.

It's just that whether or not the specific results can be achieved still needs to be tested in five years, ten years, or even longer. Everyone, including Li Mudi, the provider of some suggestions, does not know whether this reform can change the status quo of the backwardness of football in the Celestial Empire and cannot see the future, but at least they have done their best, after all, there is a certain gap between our country's environment and Europe and the United States in all aspects, and it has been proved to be a feasible plan after hundreds of years of practice, and it may not be effective if it is taken domestically. However, the laws of football in various places will eventually lead to the same end, and a healthy and positive development environment will be formed in the end, so as long as you don't go wrong in the general direction, some of the pains caused by change are still worth bearing.

In other words, the football of the Celestial Empire is already such a virtue, even if the reform fails, how bad can it be. Sitting back and watching it continue to develop in a mess should be the worst possible outcome.

Therefore, the establishment of the System Reform Commission and the introduction of various policies after that, from a macro point of view, still has a very positive significance, it has brought unknown challenges to the development of our football industry, but it has also brought huge opportunities, at least let countless people who really love this sport see the hope that football will rise one day. This is the precious wealth that this change has left to everyone after the passage of time.

Li Mudi, who returned to Madrid, also brought unknown challenges and opportunities to the team and the players in the team. After standing at the top of world football for three years in a row and winning six crowns last season, Real Madrid has a summer of major changes.

Flowing water is not rotten, and the hub is not beetle, which has always been one of the team-building philosophies that Li Mudi believes in, and every summer transfer window during his tenure, regardless of the previous achievements and the strength of the team, will make certain adjustments to the lineup. And every time there is great success, it is often the time for major surgery.

Just as he has previously sold the likes of Mesut Ozil, Dybala, Asensio and Rodrygo, there has been speculation long before the end of the season about which team Real Madrid will take this summer. And with the transfer scandal between Pellegri and Juventus, it seems that the answer to this question has been revealed.

When Real Madrid director Valero stopped using the negative in an interview with the media, more than half of the people were already convinced that the deal that would change the landscape of European football would be completed in the coming month.

It's just that when the transfer window officially opened on July 1, the news from Italy and Spain could not make people who have been concerned about this incident feel optimistic, because the old woman could not take out or was unwilling to take out the price set by the Galaxy Battleship, but blindly wanted to put various vouchers in the transaction, and this behavior of only wanting to take advantage of herself completely angered Li Mudi, who was studying the pre-season training camp plan. The Real Madrid coach was blocked by reporters at the door of the supermarket near the apartment on the evening of the 3rd and was forced to be interviewed, and strongly stated that the transfer window within the team would close early on the night of the 12th, because he did not want to change the lineup in the process of preparation, and if there was a potential transfer intention that could not be completed before then, it could only be terminated.

This is really not that he is alarmist, it is his habit to run in the lineup in advance, and it is also one of the key factors for the team he coaches to be able to play at the beginning of the season to establish a lead, so in the case that the club will not be forced to sell players at a high price due to financial reasons, Li Mudi has always adopted this way of early introduction of reinforcements and early closure of the team's transfer window to ensure that the pre-season training camp will not be affected.

Of course, there is an exception to everything, and when Asensio and Rodrigo were first sold, it was basically in early or even mid-August. But the former was not in his plan for a long time, and the stand-in had already been prepared; Although the latter happened suddenly, in order to give the Brazilian star the opportunity to impact the world's first person, the Real Madrid coach still chose to part with his love, but finally agreed to the prerequisite for Rodrygo to join Manchester United, or the rapid growth of the young player Riverola and the rapid addition of Zivkovic can largely make up for the loss of this core.

The departure of Manuel Pellegri will face the same problem, which is that the Galacticos will need to find a suitable replacement or more suitable replacements for him, but given the current ability of the Italian center to reach 186 in the FM system, this is by no means an easy problem to solve.

If Suya, Lewandowski, Benzema, and their players born in 1987 and 88 are regarded as the first generation of center forwards, then the second-generation striker born in 93 and 94 with Harry Kane, Icardi and Lukaku as the leaders, has long since retired in 2019, and several top scorers who are still active in football, in addition to veterans in their early 30s such as Rashford and Jesus, are the generation of Pellegri who has just entered the golden period of 27 and 8 years old.

Among them, the Italian star, who is one of the top three superstars in world football, must be an iconic figure, and Moisekean, Goberts and Eddy Salcedo, who are the same age as him, are also leaders for a while, but there is still a certain gap between them and the current Real Madrid No. 9 in terms of ability, and they are not suitable replacements.

As for one of the vouchers provided by Juventus, Czech center Adam Hlotze, and later proposed to join the Italian international Elia Petrelli in the trade, the current ability is only about 160, and the potential has basically been exhausted, and it is still capable of being a main player in an ordinary big five league team, but wants to replace a super scorer who can score 40 goals in all competitions in a single season at the Bernabeu (and under the premise that the playing time is limited by the rotation system), This is obviously completely unreliable.

Theoretically, the only two options that can make Li Muddy excited are the current striker Guiri of Barcelona, and the young and well-known Portuguese international Fabio Silva, but the former is impossible to join because of the relationship between the two clubs, and the latter has already started negotiations with Paris Saint-Germain.

You don't see Paris first because Verratti was seduced by Barcelona back then, and then there was De Jong's hatred of being cut off, and he has long regarded the Catalan giants as mortal enemies, and he has been fighting with the latter in the transfer market for many years. There is such a price-raising maniac and poaching maniac who is not bad for money, Barcelona has spent a lot of unjust money in the past few years, and Real Madrid does not want to be the next victim.

After all the calculations, the only thing Li Mudi can count on is the English center Troy Parrott, who can barely enter his eyes. However, Coventry's top scorer is currently being chased by no less than five other giants, and even if the Blues can grant Real Madrid the right of first refusal on the same terms because of Li Mudy, if Pellegri's deal is delayed to the end and is declared to be in vain, Coventry can't keep up with the torment of the top scorer's transfer that has been pending.

Therefore, in order not to have such a series of embarrassing incidents, Li Mudi must set a deadline for Juventus, otherwise he would rather keep Pellegri, presumably as long as he opens his mouth to retain, he can still make the world's No. 1 center forward dispel the idea of leaving the team, after all, staying at the Bernabeu is not necessarily without the opportunity to impact the goal of the first person in football.

However, perhaps because of the resolute attitude of the Real Madrid coach, Juventus finally made an unprecedented extravagance on July 10, and after selling a number of powerful players including Jeremy Duku and Leonardo Fernandez, the old woman who has always broken a penny in half and spent it still made up a staggering huge amount of money, with a down payment of 140 million, The mortgage of 140 million yuan was paid off in four installments over two years, and the local Italian superstar Pellegri was obtained, which opened another big scene since Ronaldo landed at the Allianz Stadium in 2018.

Real Madrid, on the other hand, quickly won Ireland's number one star Troy Parrott, who was born in February 2002, a day later, making the Englishman with Kane II (although this title is rotten, but it is still quite reliable for this striker) to become the first Irish first-team member in the club's 127-year history.

Subsequently, Real Madrid made a non-critical adjustment in the positions of goalkeeper and central defender, and closed the transfer channel early in accordance with the rules of the team manager, starting the first phase of preparation for the new season, and launched an attack on the unprecedented defending six-time champion.