The Calderón Stadium is ideally located on the banks of the Manzanares River, southwest of Madrid. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The two nearby streets are the commercial street in the south of the city, there are national highways and city railways on one side, the traffic is also very convenient, the facilities in the stadium are very perfect, and some modern facilities, such as the large screens on both sides of the stadium, are also difficult to see in other stadiums.

This course is undoubtedly one of the best in the world.

In 2003, UEFA rated Stadio Calderón as a 5-star football stadium.

But there is one biggest problem with Calderón, as the home of Atletico Madrid, one of Spain's top teams, the 54851 stadium capacity is really a bit small.

Back in the 90s, Atlético de Madrid wanted to expand the Calderón stadium, but it ultimately failed, because the relocation of the neighborhood alone would cost a lot of money, which the club could not afford at the time.

Entering the 21st century, Atlético Madrid's economy has been in trouble, and plans to expand the Calderón stadium continue to be shelved.

In 2007, Hill Jr. led two companies and signed an agreement with each other, hoping to move the team out of Calderón in about three years, and use the expanded 73,000-seat Madrid Olympic Stadium as the new home stadium, and the Calderón Stadium will be demolished and converted into "Atletico Madrid Park".

Until Atletico Madrid was acquired, the two sides still failed to reach an agreement, and the plan was strongly opposed by many Atletico Madrid fans, "The club's money should be spent on team building instead of demolishing the home stadium for many years!" ”

Among the fan groups of Atletico Madrid, there is a very influential association called sena-les-de-humo (which translates to "smoke signals").

It is a highly critical association founded in 2002 by a few minority shareholders of Atletico Madrid, which regularly monitors and criticizes the club's management operations.

According to their own words, the association was formed primarily for the purpose of "studying and inspecting the operation of the club and defending the club's property".

The "smoke signals" were the main group that opposed the relocation of the stadium.

When a reporter asked, "Don't you support changing the stadium at all?" Do you want to leave Calderón and move to a new stadium, or do you want to stay? ”

One person in the "smoke signals" group, who asked not to be named, replied, "It depends on how the pitch is changed." For us, there must be four prerequisites for the replacement of the pitch to be realized: the operation of the pitch change must be profitable, it must be legal, it must be agreed by the members of the club, and the club must have ownership of the new venue. The new stadium plan doesn't do anything, so we're against changing the home stadium! ”

The plan had to be shelved due to opposition from many fans and groups, and negotiations between Atletico Madrid and the two companies were suspended.

In fact, the two sides are still interested in working together, but Atletico Madrid must take into account the huge opposition from the fans.

At the end of the day, it's the financial problems of Atletico Madrid.

Atletico Madrid could not afford to build a new stadium, and even if it was to expand the old stadium, it would require a lot of financial support. If Hill Jr. wants to bring investment to the club, he must pay a lot of price, and those companies that invest cannot help Atletico Madrid for 'free'.

Now the club's big three: chairman Cerezo, CEO Hill Jr. and head coach Wan Sheng, are looking at the possibility of expanding the stadium or building a new one.

Among the three, there is no doubt that Wan Sheng has the right to speak.

Wansheng is not only the head coach of the team, but also the largest shareholder of the club, his Taiwan investment development, control the most shares of the club, in June last year, Taiwan investment and development acquired 51% of the club's shares, 10 months later, through scattered acquisitions, Taiwan investment and development has controlled more than 81% of the club's shares.

In Atletico Madrid, Wansheng has the absolute right to speak.

As soon as Wan Sheng came to the office, Cerezo and Hill Jr. talked directly about the club's stadium, and they focused on two points, one is that the expansion of the Calderón stadium is 'almost impossible'.

"That's a lot of money, it's better to build a new stadium!" Little Hill affirmed.

As the CEO of the club, Hill Jr. is in charge of the economic side of things, and has done research on the expansion of the stadium, and the biggest difficulty in expanding the Calderón stadium is to demolish a nearby commercial building, but that would cost a lot of money, which can be said to be impossible, and it is difficult for the club to obtain permission from the Madrid government.

The second is the plan for the Olympic Stadium in Madrid, which was shelved in 2007.

"I think it's the best plan and we can still talk about it. The club doesn't need to come up with a lot of money, and if we start expanding now, we will be able to move into the new stadium by around 2016. ”

The Stadio Olimpico in Madrid is a very old stadium.

This stadium is located on the outskirts of Madrid, renovation and expansion are not too much of a problem, before the Atletico Madrid club has drawn up a plan, the biggest problem is that the Madrid Olympic Stadium belongs to the municipal government, if you want to buy the stadium from the municipal government, it will cost a lot of money, and then renovate and expand, and consume more money.

Previously, Hill wanted to lease the Olympic Stadium in Madrid, giving the city government a certain amount of money as a rental fee every year, and then negotiating with the investing companies to sell the stadium naming rights, advertising spaces, etc., so that they could come up with the funds for renovation and expansion.

In this plan, Atletico Madrid Club hardly has to come up with funds.

The reason for the strong opposition to the plan was that the Stadio Olimpico Madrid did not belong to Atletico Madrid, but to the municipality, and at the same time, the naming rights of the stadium were sold, which was simply unacceptable to Atletico Madrid fans, and it was better to stay at the Calderón Stadium.

Little Hill put forward the plan again, hoping to get Wansheng's support.

As long as Wansheng can support this plan, the resistance of fans will be much less, after a season, Wansheng has conquered many fans, even the most discerning fans, have nothing to say about the team's current results.

But...... Wansheng can't be supported!

Atletico Madrid, which can be said to belong to him for the most part, how can he rent a stadium as his home stadium? In addition, the naming rights of the stadium are handed over to other companies, and it is better to hand them over directly to the Tagore Wan Group!

Under Xiao Hill's goal, Wan Sheng shook his head directly, "This is not good, I have the same opinion as the fans, we can't rent the stadium, let alone sell the championship." ”

Little Hill was disappointed.

But then, Wan Sheng asked, "How much money will it cost to buy the Olympic Stadium in the city government?" ”

"At least 100 million euros!"

"So much?"

Wan Sheng frowned.

If it were a flashy modern bad stadium, it would not be worth hundreds of millions of euros, but the Madrid Olympic Stadium has been abandoned and cannot be used anymore, and the land is worth more than the stadium itself.

"100 million euros is not much, the stadium was built for the Olympic Games, the surrounding area is very large, the city government is not a fool, they can't sell a stadium in the middle alone, if you want to buy it, you must ...... it with the surrounding area"

It's a big deal.

After that, he lowered his head and thought about it for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said with a smile, "Whether it is the construction of a new stadium or the expansion of the stadium, it is impossible to negotiate directly, so, Mr. Hill, your next job is to negotiate with the city government......

"We're going to buy the Stadio Olimpico and the surrounding area, the bigger the better!" (To be continued.) )