Chapter 804: Parma Who Doesn't Know Trading
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Among the seven sisters of the famous Serie A, six teams such as the top three teams in the north, Fiorentina and Roma are the protagonists in the transfer market. In this huge transfer market, only they poach others' share, and those players who leave are basically sold by them on their own initiative, and it is rare for them to be forcibly poached by other teams.
The reason for this situation is that, on the one hand, after signing a huge broadcast contract with the TV station and reforming some of the league's shortcomings in commercial operations, the financial situation of the Serie A teams has improved significantly compared with history, and they can get rid of the situation that they need to rely on the boss to open their pockets to maintain operations. On the other hand, because of the strong performance of Serie A teams (such as Vicenza, Fiorentina, Juventus, etc.) in the three major European cups over the years, the vast majority of people have decided that Serie A is the highest level and most competitive football league in the world, worthy of its title of "Little World Cup".
Although last season's Champions League final was played between two clubs, Manchester United and Bayern, this did not affect the prestige of Serie A. Because Fiorentina and Juventus both reached the semi-finals and both failed to exit at the last minute, fans at most lamented the bad luck of the two teams, and did not think that Manchester United and Bayern were better than Fiorentina and Juventus in terms of hard power - after all, when the two sides met in the semi-finals, it was the two teams from Serie A who had the upper hand.
The salary package is first-class in Europe, and the competitiveness of the team is also among the best in Europe, in such a situation, the players who play for these teams generally do not have the idea of leaving. Of course, if it is for more playing time or if there are really local tycoons who are willing to offer them several times their current salary, some people may consider changing jobs to a new club.
Fortunately, at this time, there is no guy like the Abu Dhabi consortium who does not treat money as money, otherwise, the teams at the top of European football will definitely not be able to escape the fate of being poached by each other.
However, this spectacle has nothing to do with the only one of the seven Serie A sisters that has not been mentioned, that is, Parma, which has been completely controlled by Francesca Tanzi. Due to the growing financial crisis within the company, the Tanzi father and son had to work frequently on the accounts to avoid the scrutiny of the accountants, so that Parmalat's losses of hundreds of millions of dollars were not made public.
So, while Parmalat still looks glamorous on the surface, the dairy giant is actually a strong outsider. Not to mention providing Parma with a large transfer fund to recruit reinforcements, as in the past, it is enough to make Francesca secretly happy that it does not ask for money to fill the shortfall.
As a result, with no financial backing from Parmalat, Francesca had to rely on television fees, prize money, tickets and other commercial income, the bulk of the club's financial revenue, to keep Parma afloat. As a result, she had to change her business strategy, abandoning the practice of bringing in well-known stars since the team was promoted to Serie A, and instead began to buy and cultivate those up-and-coming semi-finished products, and then sell them at a high price for a profit, in order to ensure the team's combat effectiveness.
Under the guidance of this business strategy, Francesca first sold Croatian midfielder Stanić, who is constantly injured and has a high salary, to Chelsea for 5.6 million pounds this summer, and then sent the team's midfield organization, Argentine wizard Veron, to Lazio manager Eriksen in exchange for 18 million euros in cash!
It has to be said here that when it comes to the club's business practices, Francesca's performance is indeed quite good, under her leadership, Parma's income in terms of team peripherals has more than quadrupled compared to when she first took over; But in the transfer market, this female Tanzi is a little unqualified.
You know, with the gradual rise of the economic bubble in recent years, the transfer fees of players have shown a trend of rising boats, and clubs such as AC Milan are recklessly throwing money in the transfer market.
However, as the de facto master of Parma, Francesca is clearly not very proficient in this skill.
Come to think of it, Fiorentina spent a huge sum of $30 million to bring in Shevchenko, and it cost a full $15 million to buy a Kaladze who could only play as a substitute for Carlos. As a result, when Parma sold Veron, a world-class striker who had already proven himself in Serie A, to Lazio, he only sold it for 1,800 euros (about 20 million US dollars), which is not much different from the price that Lazio paid for Stankovic a year ago.
Another example is another deal between Parma and Lazio that has just been made public, everyone knows that Cragnotti will definitely invest in order to strengthen his Lazio, and the big three clubs in the north are also looking for a reliable central defender and are also willing to spend money. As a result, in such a situation where many buyers could be brought together to bid, Francesca ended up selling San Sini to Lazio for only a measly 3 million euros in cash.
Even if Saint-Signi is now a veteran who is about to turn thirty-three, it stands to reason that the price should indeed be lower, but this price is inevitably too outrageous, right?
You must know that the veteran also made a great contribution to the Argentine national team reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup last year, and also reached the quarterfinals of the Champions Cup with the team as the main central defender last season and also achieved a good result of fourth place in the league.
What's more, Lazio is now in dire need of reinforcements at centre-back, and although the configuration of Glendoni and Couto and Mihajlovic is good, it is still slightly insufficient in the case of third-line operations. So, this was supposed to be an opportunity for Parma to beat Lazio, but it was lost by Francesca lightly.
Therefore, Francesca is clearly failing when it comes to selling people, and she still has a long way to go, and she can learn from it to really grow.
While Francesca was struggling to find good bargains in the transfer market, Fiorentina made another transfer. However, this time it's not a new person coming, but an old man who is planning to leave the Renaissance capital!