Chapter 131: Morris's Replacement
After the award ceremony at the CalderΓ³n Stadium, all the Atletico Madrid players took a bus to the city hall and were received and blessed by the mayor of Madrid. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Afterwards, the Atletico Madrid bus went around the city to celebrate, the players stood on the roof of the bus, showing the championship trophy to the fans on the street, the bus ended at the club's training base, and when it arrived at the finish line, it was already 8 o'clock in the evening, and the club still had an interactive activity with the fans.
In celebration of the league championship, a lot of fireworks were set off at the training base.
That's even livelier than Christmas!
Atletico Madrid came together to celebrate the team's title.
Atletico Madrid fans really dreamed about the half-season, the team finished in the middle of the league last season, and after the club was bought in the summer, many fans were worried that the team would collapse, but they didn't expect Wansheng to lead the team to win the league championship and the Copa del Rey.
Many fans are reminded of the 1995-1996 season, which was the pinnacle of Atletico Madrid's history, and now the team has won two domestic titles, which means that the team is at the top again.
So will it still be the same as it was 15 years ago......
Fans are a little worried.
The 1995-1996 season was the pinnacle of Atletico Madrid and the beginning of the club's decline, like a cycle of fate, after reaching the peak, there was always a decline.
At that time, Atletico Madrid's results were not as good as year after year, and even slipped to the extent of falling to the second division, which was a dark period in the club's history, and many fans were reluctant to look back.
Now that Atletico Madrid has won two titles again, will the cycle continue, will it be the same?
Some fans have this concern.
In fact, long before Atletico Madrid won the league title, the hostile media made similar claims, citing Atletico Madrid's decline 15 years ago as an indication that Atletico Madrid's glory would not last long.
As the newspaper Marca put it, "It's like reincarnation." Atletico Madrid are at the top again, they have won two domestic titles, they have reached the top, but while they are glamorous on the surface, there are already problems inside, and next season they will have no time to worry about other things......"
"That's fate!"
The Marca report has been called 'fatalistic' by other media outlets, meaning that Atletico Madrid's good results will not last long.
Some media have used the debt of Atletico Madrid as a basis.
"So far, Atletico Madrid's debt is still as high as 150 million euros, and it is not easy for them to pay off this arrears, even if they can play in the Champions League next season and their income will increase somewhat, but the huge debt pressure of more than 100 million euros is enough to collapse them......"
The "As" newspaper, which supports Atletico Madrid, immediately refuted with the huge economic capacity of the Taiwan Investment Group, "Atletico Madrid Club is already a club controlled by a Chinese company, and they have the support of the Taiwan Investment Group, which belongs to the huge Tagorewan Group, according to Hong Kong media reports, in the past year, affected by the huge development of China's network, the asset valuation of the Tagorewan Group has skyrocketed by 100%, and the equity value of other companies has reached nearly 30 billion US dollars......"
"This multinational investment group owns shares in many top network companies such as Tengxun, Youku, Youbo, etc., and they have recently entered China's real estate industry, and their capital has expanded rapidly......
"They have become one of the world's heavyweight conglomerates."
"And the head coach of Atletico Madrid, Wan Sheng, is the largest controlling person of the Tagore Wan Group, and he still owns more than 20% of the shares of the Tagore Wan Group......"
"Tywan Development Investment, as a subsidiary of the Tagore Wan Group, is actually the company controlled by Wan Sheng and his classmate when he was a student at University College London, and also his former agent, Kevin Tagore, in other words, Atletico Madrid, which can be said to belong to the club controlled by Wan Sheng's personal ......control."
"As a famous Chinese on the Forbes list, how could Wan Sheng let Atletico Madrid go bankrupt because of a mere 150 million euros in debt?"
The rebuttal of the newspaper "As" is quite forceful.
The entire Atletico Madrid club, from top to bottom, actually looks at it this way, Wan Sheng is the head coach of the team and the largest controlling person of the club, how can he watch Atletico Madrid collapse because of a little debt?
Wansheng really doesn't care.
But Wan Sheng is not 'playing football' like Roman Abramovich, for Roman Abramovich, Chelsea is like a toy in his hand, he can do whatever he wants.
The acquisition of Atletico Madrid Club, Wansheng is not throwing money to play, but wants to really run Atletico Madrid, and European football is a bit unplayable with money alone.
In 2009, UEFA passed the Financial Fair Play Act, a financial bill for teams participating in UEFA's competitions.
The Financial Fair Play Act is designed to regulate the financial behaviour of individual clubs, control club deficits, and penalize teams that violate the rules. Teams participating in all UEFA competitions (UEFA Champions League and Europa League) must provide financial statements for the current year and the previous two years, which will be reviewed by UEFA in order to qualify for the European competition.
The two basic provisions of the Fiscal Fair Play Act are the Balance of Payments and Late Payment Fee Provisions.
Break-even is the calculation of the team's related income and related expenses, and the team's loss must not exceed 5 million euros.
Under the Financial Fair Play Act, when the club receives funding and can fully cover its deficit, the maximum loss of the team can be 45 million euros in 2013-2015 and 30 million euros in 2015-2018.
The income includes broadcast income, sponsorship fees, player transfer income and financial income, etc.; Expenses include cost of sales, payroll expenses, related expenses incurred in transfers, and other financial expenses.
At the same time, the Financial Fair Play Act also has a late fee provision, which means that all teams participating in UEFA competitions must not have a record of non-payment of payments, including fees related to clubs, players and agents.
Teams that violate the Financial Fair Play Act or fail the audit will be subject to UEFA penalties, including warnings, fines, reduced registration and, in some cases, disqualification from UEFA competitions.
To give clubs some time to spare, the Financial Fair Play Act will come into effect in the 2013-2014 season.
The explanation of the Financial Fair Play Act may sound complicated, but in reality, in simple terms, it means, "No club should run too much deficit in its finances, and it should try to remain profitable." β
This is to promote the normal development of European football.
In other words, from the 2013-2014 season onwards, private investors who invested a lot of money to buy stars to strengthen the team's performance no longer worked, as Abramovich did.
Like a small club, suddenly buy a large number of stars, the expenditure will increase significantly, but the income will not increase, the deficit on the financial statements will be very high, the club will be subject to a huge fine, more serious, good results will not be able to participate in the next year's European competition.
In my previous life, Manchester City in the English Premier League and Paris Saint-Germain in the French Ligue 1 were fined a huge amount of 60 million euros for violating the financial fair play policy, and the team was required to reduce the salary level and limit the maximum amount of a single transaction.
In addition, the number of participants in the Champions League has also been reduced from 25 to 21.
That was only in 2014, when the bill was first introduced.
In order to make the healthy development of European football, UEFA must continue to strengthen the management of various clubs, including giant teams are no exception, and will definitely become more and more strict in the future.
So it's very important to keep the club healthy.
Wan Sheng knows this very well, and he will not invest large sums of money uncontrollably because he doesn't care about a little money.
The second argument in the media is that Atletico Madrid has a lot of internal problems, such as Forlan, who is just leaving, and Aguero, who has always been at odds with the manager.
"These former Atletico Madrid players have a strained relationship with manager Wan Sheng, and they have performed quite well in the team."
'Atletico Madrid have undergone a big change and this summer, they will definitely have a change. After talking about the change of Atletico Madrid, the media talked about Wan Sheng's coaching experience, "Although he has been very successful, in fact, he has never coached a real giant. When the whole team, everybody is a star, dealing with the relationship between the players becomes the biggest problem. A lot of experienced managers have fallen here, and Atletico Madrid will soon have to face the same problem......"
There is some basis for this statement.
For example, some big clubs, the most obvious example is Real Madrid, there are too many stars in the team, and most of the manager's energy is focused on dealing with internal problems.
But in fact, Wansheng is not a simple head coach.
Unlike other managers, he has absolute authority at Atletico Madrid, and even the club's president, Cerezo, and CEO Hill Jr., have not been able to shake Wansheng's position, and he is also the actual controller of the club.
In this case, which player would dare to say 'no' to him?
Maybe some players will be dissatisfied with Wansheng in their hearts due to the number of appearances, salaries and other reasons, but they definitely dare not show it publicly, otherwise it will be equivalent to cutting off their time in the team, and there is only one way to leave.
Wansheng is also very prestigious.
Many players in the team, including Sergio Aguero, are very convinced of Wansheng's coaching ability, and the club with very good results will have very few internal contradictions.
Atletico Madrid's results are very good, and there will naturally be few internal contradictions.
The internal problems mentioned by the media are actually not too big a problem when it comes to Atletico Madrid.
Atletico Madrid is already a team on the road to success.
Those hostile media certainly don't want to see them succeed, but some inconsequential remarks can't stop Wansheng from leading the team forward.
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After winning the league championship, Wan Sheng gave the whole team two days off.
The club has become very busy, they have already done work on the summer transfer, and the next day, Atletico Madrid announced on its official website, "Atletico Madrid and Porto have agreed on the transfer fee of James Rodriguez, and the Colombian star will sign a five-year contract with Atletico Madrid." β
In addition to the announcement of the transfer, the official website of Atletico Madrid also released some transfer details, James Rodriguez's transfer fee is 18 million euros, the salary of the first year is 2.4 million euros, and there will be a 10% increase every year.
"World Sports" analyzed the salary, "This little-known young Colombian star, whose salary has surpassed Reyes and is on par with Felipe Luiz, it is obvious that he will be an important player for Atletico Madrid next season." β
The newspaper Ace has been more extensive about Atletico Madrid, interviewing an official from the Atletico Madrid club's athletic department, who broke the bombshell news, "James Rodriguez will take over Morris' number 10 shirt!" This represents the importance of Wan Sheng, and he may become the core of Atletico Madrid's midfield! β
The news of the newspaper "As" was accurate, but the rest of the media scoffed.
Morris is 33 years old, and his performance is still very good, many people think that Morris is two years younger and can compete with Messi in Barcelona, and Morris won the Ballon d'Or three years ago.
The most important of Atletico Madrid's squad is undoubtedly Morris.
Maurice is indeed old, but it is not something that can be replaced by a 'random Colombian', James Rodriguez's value of 1,800 euros may say something, but in today's European football, what is 18 million euros?
"It is impossible for him to replace Morris, Wansheng will definitely find a more suitable one!"
So the media began to 'help' Atletico Madrid sort out the top stars of world football, such as Messi, C-Ronaldo, Kaka, as well as talented strikers Muller, Bale, Suarez, Neymar, etc., all of which were included in the list.
"Most likely, Kaka who plays for Real Madrid and the Brazilian genius Neymar!"
"The Sun" analyzed, "Neymar's name has been linked to Atletico Madrid before, and they are likely to bring in the Brazilian talent." In addition, Kaka will also be one of the best candidates to replace Morris......" (To be continued.) )