Chapter 43: The Transformation of Team Building Thinking!

Triple Crown!

Simon? In his first season in charge of Barcelona, Grayson led the team to win the Champions League, La Liga, and Copa del Rey, which is already the title of all competitions that Barcelona can win, and only next season they may win more titles.

The brilliant results have made the Catalans very satisfied, and the management of Barcelona is even more satisfied, especially when the chairman Russell regained the joy of success, and he received the season's financial statements from the treasurer, he felt more about how much return it brought to Barcelona last season.

In the season just ended, Barcelona's financial expenditure reached the highest in history, 146 million euros in salary expenditure, 103 million euros including championship bonuses, loyalty bonuses, top scorer bonuses and other bonus expenses, 58 million agent benefit fees, 45 million taxes, plus 25 million game expenses, 11 million field maintenance, as well as youth training expenses, loan interest, staff salaries, etc., Barcelona spent as much as 736 million euros in a season!

However, with the arrival of the "Treble", Barcelona has also reaped huge returns, and has also set a record high in terms of team revenue, ticket revenue, season ticket revenue, TV broadcast fees, merchandise revenue, player sales, bonuses, sponsorship fees, match day income, etc., after adding up the miscellaneous income items, Barcelona's revenue has also reached 713 million euros.

Although the team still lost 23 million euros last season, if you take into account the team's current player value, as well as the various sponsorship fees that will be increased next season, and the expansion of intangible assets due to the expansion of influence. Barcelona have actually been ...... this season It's a big profit!

At this time, Russell really tasted the coolness of opening and closing when Florentino formed the first and second phases of the "Galaxy Battleship", and this feeling was really addictive.

Without any doubt, Russell gave Simon again? Grayson has increased the amount of transfer funds and the amount of player wages, and Barcelona's wage expenditure has reached 146 million this season, and the salary budget for next season is as high as 200 million euros. And there is almost no upper limit on transfer funds, Barcelona to Simon? Grayson's transfer budget is as high as 350 million!

350 million euros!

Regardless of Simon? Whoever Grayson wants to buy, as long as this player is what he needs, he can buy people!

Even if "Brutal Simon" messes around, he can build another team with a luxurious squad, and the money ...... Definitely make Simon? Grayson has made waves in the transfer market.

What's more, this money was given to Simon by Barcelona while maintaining various other expenses? Grayson's, which also shows how healthy Barcelona's finances are today.

But Simon, who just led the team to win the "Triple Crown" and completely confirmed his title of "Champion Coach"? Grayson. This season is not going to burn money like last season, the current Barcelona squad is strong enough, and the tactical style of play has been formed, and it is completely unnecessary to make major adjustments, and some additions are needed in individual positions.

Can Simon? Grayson's idea was good, but things didn't go his way, and after a perfect season, Barcelona's players were all skyrocketing. Like Shaq, Vasquis, Alaba, Ganso, Fabregas, Batista, Rivero, Ben? Parker and other key players will not be poached, but many substitutes and players who have not played many times have been tempted.

Didn't wait for Simon? Grayson and his coaching staff are looking for players to add to the team. Someone approached him to communicate with him to transfer.

Obviously, "Brutal Simon" is known to more people because he is famous enough, and the person who wants to transfer does not play any tricks such as putting a smokescreen to probe the wind, but directly talks to him about the transfer.

Venezuelan striker Salomon to find Simon? Grayson, not at all, is no surprise, having played just 18 games for the team last season. And they are all rotating the right winger position with the "little pharaoh", which makes the Venezuelan's unbearable, he wants to play the main striker, but he can't compete with Shaq, then he can only ...... Gone!

And right-back Montoya has good reason. He believes that his playing opportunities at Barcelona will decrease next season, so he hopes to maintain his form through a transfer, and he needs to impress the Spanish national team coach Rafael Benitez so that he can represent Spain in Euro 2020.

For honest Salomon, Montoya, Simon? Grayson really can't afford to keep them, after all, next season they will only get worse than this one, and he can't delay the future of the players because of the team's results, and he can't reuse them...... Then let it go.

Anyway, Barcelona is really rich now, if there is a shortage of people, they will go to the transfer market to buy it, and Gonzalo can also continue to play as a substitute after Montoya leaves, and there are still Rafael and Gonzalo in the right-back position, as long as Gonzalo can show the form of the B team, it is enough to play as a substitute.

As for the vacancy left by Salomon, it can really only be supplemented in the transfer market, and it must be spent to buy a good enough player, "Little Pharaoh" Shaarawy has performed well this season, scoring 14 goals and assisting 20 times in 41 games, and playing very smoothly in the right winger position, but Barcelona's right side still lacks a traditional winger in the true sense, and it is necessary to have a strong ability to tear apart all defenses on the right side.

Such a player...... It's not so easy to find now!

If the departure of Salomon and Montoya can still make Simon? Grayson felt that it was within reason, but when Ayew applied for a transfer to him, it really made "Brutal Simon" start to think about his own approach to building the team.

Ayew, who transferred from Arsenal last season, is Simon? Grayson personally introduced, even if not his descendants are all his own people, and he has been a diligent substitute in a season, but he has never had a chance to play except for 2 times as a right winger, he and Salomon play the same position as Shaq, and Shaq's state is ...... That's great!

Stable, efficient, and injury-free!

Competing with a "ball king" who scored 157 goals and assisted 25 times in 60 games is really desperate!

After sitting on the cold bench for a season, Ayew finally made the decision to leave, Ghana is only 27 years old, he has just entered his golden period, at this time in Barcelona to play Shaq as a substitute, he will really be wasted in the future, and even shorten his career, so he and Simon? Grayson admits that he will leave even if he doesn't get his current high salary at the new team.

Simon? Grayson didn't say much, he also felt that Ayew only played two games a season for the team with an annual salary of millions, it was too wasteful, think about it more deeply, this is a mistake when building the team by himself, knowing that Shaq's stable state is shocking, but he still has to prepare a substitute for him, isn't it nothing to look for!?

Fortunately...... There is still a chance to remedy!

Simon? Grayson agreed to let Salomon, Montoya, and Ayew go, and even though Gonzalo, a rookie, was on top at right-back, there were still problems with the attack on the right side, and it was necessary to make additions......

Barcelona's players should go on vacation, but the coaches of the coaching staff have no vacation to speak of, and the management is even more prepared to start all kinds of work, even the chairman Rosell has to deal with a lot of business, sponsorship contracts and the like every day, and many people have to be busy with negotiation work, and even two or three negotiations a day is normal, and the finance department is inseparable from people 24 hours a day, for fear that a certain work of the club will be delayed because of the slow operation speed.

At this time, the most idle person in the Barcelona club is probably the club raised as many as eleven scouts, after a busy season, eleven scouts have submitted a report on their work for a season, all continents, countries, and leagues in the stars, rookies to make an evaluation, even talented young players can not let go, and if the officialdom has been tracked last season, this time it will be more and more detailed to point out where the player has improved, All of them are then entered into Barcelona's player database for archiving.

Simon? Of course, Grayson doesn't personally select players from a huge database, and his assistant McAndrew does all of this, and he just needs to make the final selection.

After communicating with his old partner, McAndrew knew that the team was missing attacking players on the right flank, and according to Simon? Grayson's meaning, don't buy a player like Ayew who will directly cause competition and contradictions, since there is a "little pharaoh" on the right side, then the target of this transfer is on young players, at least these young players will not compete for the main position after coming to the team, they also have patience, have time to wait for opportunities, no matter how bad they are, they are willing to accept to go to the youth team or B team to hone, like Ayew has become a famous player can not do this.

Mike Andrew for Simon? Grayson offered two right-wing prodigies to choose from, the twenty-year-old German prodigy Matthews from Schalke 04? Muller, and Frank, a twenty-year-old black player from Auxerre, France? Otara.

Matthews? Muller started playing as a substitute at Schalke 04 last season, and can play in the midfielder and right midfield position, which is considered to be starting to emerge, while Frank? Otara is a main right-sided attacker who scored 12 goals and provided 3 assists in 35 games for Auxerre last season, and was nicknamed "New Ribery" by French football because of his strong right-side assault ability.

After providing these two choices, McAndrew doesn't care about the follow-up, how to make the choice naturally Simon? Grayson took the idea. (To be continued......)