Chapter 599: Before you know it, you'll become the team owner again

Arsenal has basically not invested much in the transfer market over the years, and the money from selling players has basically been spent on filling the shortfall. But since 2012, the debt for the construction of the new stadium has been paid off, and there is still some savings, so in the summer of 2013, the club finally came up with the legendary 70 million euros

Of course, the main reason is the rise of Chelsea and Manchester City. their banknotes. The recruitment policy has taken a toll on the Premier League's traditional powers, and if teams are to remain competitive in the league, not to mention the champions, they will have to make a difference in the transfer market if they want to qualify for the Champions League.

Arsenal, on the other hand, made a lot of money last season, including changing shirt sponsors and making them six times more money a year. The previous sponsor was Nike, a sporting goods company that has worked with Arsenal for nearly two decades, and Nike's most expensive contract was a seven-year investment of 55 million pounds. But as soon as Puma Sports came in, it gave a sky-high price of 1700 million pounds in five years.

In other words, Puma Sports alone has spent more than 47 million euros on Arsenal in a season, and if all this money is invested in the transfer market, Arsenal will be able to bring in some bigger and more competitive stars.

Speaking of which, Nike Sports is the most loss-making. They had just decided not to renew their contract with Arsenal, and then Arsenal won the first Champions League trophy in the club's 100-year history, along with the FA Cup.

This makes Nike's head of strategy and the head of advertising investment and sponsorship embarrassed, and at this time there is no chance to regret it, because Puma, the second largest sporting goods company in Germany, has signed a contract with Arsenal, and the sponsorship fee is several times higher than that of Nike before.

And fans will say that Puma is far-sighted and booked the new Champions League title in a short time after the season, and how stupid Nike is. Forced, dug a mountain of gold for 20 years, and when he was about to dig up gold, he gave away the mountain of gold

At the same time, Li Zihan's arrival has also brought strong Chinese capital to Arsenal, of which Huawei Group is the fastest Chinese company, while Chinese real estate giant Wanda Group is also in talks with Arsenal about sponsorship.

Add to that the direct prize money from Arsenal's Champions League and FA Cup last season, as well as indirect income. It's not surprising that Arsenal have been able to spend so much money this season, because Arsenal really have money, but it's an accident to be able to spend so much money at once

In fact, everyone only sees that on the surface, Arsenal has always taken the line of stability and balance. They can't spend a lot of money on reinforcements every year like Real Madrid and Barcelona, so this season has spent so much, Wenger is a one-time solution to the problems left by the previous team, everyone takes a closer look to know, how much of this reinforcement is mostly spent on the midfield and backfield, there is only one Sanchez in the front, this is still after Podolski's transfer and Walcott's long-term injury was decided, if Oxlade-Chamberlain is more stable, If Walcoat is not injured, perhaps Wenger will not necessarily bring in Sanchez.

So this season spent more than 100 million reinforcements, and Wenger solved all the problems at once. In the coming seasons, he will only spend a fraction of the money to adjust and supplement individual position changes.

Now, Arsene Wenger's biggest problem is how to integrate so many newcomers into Arsenal's system, especially Sanchez, who is more embarrassed after having Li Zihan and Mesut Ozil. Mesut Ozil has the most crucial right to make the last pass outside the box, and as the biggest contributor to Arsenal's championship last season, and the most optimistic future of Arsenal fans, Li Zihan has a very huge freedom on the pitch, which must be inferior to even Mesut Ozil, the current transfer target in Arsenal history.

So a lot of the ball distribution falls into the hands of these two, and Sanchez is the kind of player who prefers to dribble the ball, if the ball is in the hands of these two for a long time, then what else does Sanchez play?

What's more, there is Cazorla, a very sharp attacking midfielder, who has a lot of control over the ball, and in the midfield and backfield, it is basically Ramsey's control of the ball

This is also a question that Wenger has on his mind, so when most of the players have already arrived, he took the team to Mallorca, Spain, for training camps and closed training.

Mallorca is warm all year round and can be described as spring-like. There is not much rain here, and at the same time, there is plenty of sunshine, which is very suitable as a training base for the team, and many teams come here every year for training.

It is worth mentioning that after Li Zihan came to Mallorca, he heard about a strange thing. A team that excelled in the Spanish second division last season has made a historic run to La Liga. They have seventy-five years of professional club history and have a perfect zero fiscal deficit. But in the end, it is very likely to be relegated to the third division of Spain, and the reason for this is because in many young Spanish football. There is a regulation that all Spanish second division clubs must have capital of 25% of the average expenditure of the Spanish second division team, which is the Spanish Football Federation and the government in order to prevent the team from maliciously going bankrupt, but the strange thing is that this regulation is about to bankrupt the new La Liga team.

Eibar is a rural team, with a population of just over 27,000 and the only football stadium that can only accommodate 6,500 people, so it is clear that the financial demands on the Spanish Football Federation and the royal family will not be met.

The current capital of Eibar is only 430,000 euros, but there are no losses or debts, and even the president of the Spanish professional league has praised them as "a model for the club".

But this model is on the verge of bankruptcy.

What's more worth mentioning is that this club has produced two world-class stars, one is the former Real Madrid midfield core, and now the Spanish midfield veteran Xavi Alonso, who has moved to Bayern Munich on a free transfer, and the other is David Silva, the current core of Manchester City's frontcourt organization!!

After learning about Eibar's situation, these two stars also came out to support Eibar, a team they joined when they were children.

According to the law, they must increase their registered capital to 2.1 million euros before the end of the registration period in La Liga, that is, within half a month, otherwise they will be relegated to the third division, and they are still short of 1.7 million euros.

Originally, Eibar insisted on not attracting overseas investment, but when the registration period was getting closer and closer and local funds could not be satisfied, the Eibar Club could only sell its shares internationally.

It is sold to the public at an average of 50 euros per share.

Interestingly, Chinese fans subscribed a lot, and Li Zihan, after knowing about it, also bought a part of the shares, and he spent half a million euros to buy 10,000 shares of this rural team.

In the final count, China has become the second largest overseas shareholder of the La Liga newcomer, behind Spanish capital and American capital, which has long been interested in football, with more than 200 Chinese fans subscribing for shares.

And Li Zihan's 10,000 shares also made him the largest shareholder of this club, the largest shareholder among individual shareholders, and the fourth largest shareholder of this club

This caught Li Zihan off guard

And Li Zihan became the owner of two teams in the blink of an eye, one of which is still a La Liga team, and can appear on the world-class La Liga stage to play against teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona

Li Zihan said in an interview with reporters: "I don't have that many ideas at all, and I don't know that I will become the fourth largest shareholder of this club. When I heard about Eibar, I thought they needed help, so I tried to help them as much as I could. 500,000 euros is not a lot for me, but that's all they have for this club. If it helps them stay in La Liga and allows their fans to see their team playing in the top flight, I think it's worth it. ”

And the editor-in-chief of a Chinese sports website also said: "Chinese bosses invest in football, either to please the top or purely invest to make money, while the idea of Chinese fans is very simple: 'Your football dream is my football dream, since the dream is only a little bit short, help him.'" I believe that Li Zihan also has such a fan idea"

For such a load. Force, oh, for this kind of thing to show their love for football, many clubs will not miss it, so it not only helps this team, but also reflects their love and dedication to football.

Real Madrid and Barcelona said that Eibar could apply for a player on the loan market for him, and after obtaining the player's consent, they would loan the player to Eibar for one season without a penny of loan fee, and the club that owned the player would also provide the player on loan with full wages and bonuses during the season

Although this approach has made several other La Liga promotion horses and teams in need of relegation dissatisfied, it is difficult for everyone to say anything, after all, this is temporary, and at the same time, such things are not new in La Liga.

At the beginning, Getafe loaned players from Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, and then there was today's mid-table team Getafe.

Seeing that this club has a relationship with his "beloved apprentice" Li Zihan, Wenger also said that Arsenal is also open to Eibar.

This was a surprise for Eibar.