Chapter 344: The Trajectory of Change

At this point, the bidding conference for Serie A broadcasting rights has come to an end.

"Antonio, you're there!" Boss Mo happily patted Zhuang Mingge on the shoulder, this time the harvest of the professional league at the bidding conference can be said to be far beyond their expectations, and this is only the income of the domestic copyright of the Serie A league, and the overseas copyright is not included at all.

Compared with the previous broadcast contract of three years and 50 million US dollars issued by Mediaset, this big contract with an amount of more than 100 million yuan completely made many owners here realize the benefits brought to them by Serie A, the first league of Shijie.

The three-year contract will see Serie A receive up to $225 million a year in television fees, half of which will be paid upfront and split equally between the 18 teams competing in Serie A next season. In other words, the league has not yet started, and the clubs that will participate in Serie A next season have already earned $6.25 million, although this figure is nothing for the seven sisters of Serie A with deep pockets, but for those small and medium-sized clubs, this is an astronomical amount that they could not have imagined before!

For example, in 2012, when Zhuang Mingge crossed, among the 20 participating teams in Serie A, there were 11 clubs with annual salaries of less than $40 million, accounting for more than half of the entire Serie A league.

And now in 1996, just a year after the Boseman Act was implemented, the players' wages have not yet shown signs of a crazy rise, and considering the inflation and the sharp drop in the dollar exchange rate over the years, the more than $6 million is a lot of money for many Serie A teams. It could even be said that with this money, these teams will not even have to worry about paying their players next season!

Of course, don't forget that there are still more than 100 million US dollars in broadcast fees that have not been distributed, and the overseas rights of Serie A have not been sold.

Although many teams have had to reluctantly spend some of their newly acquired broadcast fees on turf and grandstand renovations due to the proposal to improve the stadium facilities passed in the previous professional league meetings, such a huge broadcast income has stimulated the Serie A transfer market this summer to some extent.

Many small and medium-sized golfers with limited financial resources will wave checks to join the wave of purchasing players as soon as they get this huge amount of money, and "seduce" their favorite players with dollars that have not yet been hot.

The first to act was Udinese, who had Bierhoff, at this time Pozzo was still very ambitious, and wanted to make Udinese and Parma and Roma become a strong team in Serie A with the ability to compete for the league title through his own efforts, until the economic bubble burst after the arrival of the new century, he changed his business policy and began to operate the club by buying low and selling high.

However, the elder Pozzo's own family does not have the same wealth as Moratti and Berlusconi, and he has limited assets and is trapped by a lack of funds, so he can only make a small deal in the transfer market every summer.

However, this is different now, after the release of the new broadcast fee distribution plan and the announcement of the lucrative results at the bidding meeting, the old Pozo, who felt confident, first used a good salary to keep the German center Bierhoff, who shone in the European Championship final. After discussing with the team's head coach Zaccheroni, the elder Pozzo was determined to make full use of the German center's aerial advantage, strengthen the team's wide attack, and also find a striker partner for the German with excellent footwork.

So, guided by this kind of recruitment, Marcio Amoruso (the one who later played for Borussia Dortmund) moved from Flamengo, and Danish attacker Martin Jorgensen also came to play for the Black Rooster a year early, and the front trident of Udinese took shape.

Udinese is vigorously engaged in team building, other Serie A teams are naturally not idle, Roma also brought in a player from Palmeiras in the Brazilian league, but unlike Udinese, the Red Wolves brought in a right-back this time, his name is Marcos Evanglista de Morales.

Of course, perhaps everyone is more familiar with his other name, which is Cafu.

And Mantovani Jr. is still playing with Sampdoria left to him by his late father, due to the team's poor results last season, Mantovani Jr. insisted on going his own way, despite everyone's opposition, sold Chiesa, the team's top scorer last season, to Parma; At the same time, Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf turned to Spanish giants Real Madrid for $8.6 million, and Ranieri seems to think he can take on the role of Real Madrid's midfield organization; Paghto, the team's main goalkeeper last season, was also gifted to AC Milan by Mantovani Jr.

After selling a number of absolute players in a row, Mantovani Jr., who is keen to manipulate player transfers, has also made several reinforcements, he has brought in Juan Verón from Argentina's Boca Juniors, French midfielder Leegler and other stars, Sampdoria's strength and bench depth have been further weakened in Mantovani Jr.'s misdeeds.

The small clubs in Serie A are not idle, Vicenza, who performed well in the league last season, is living within their means, and after getting a huge sum of $6 million, Zhuge Guidorin Jr. first spent a small sum of money to get Galliani to agree to sell half of the ownership of the two young players Koko and Ambrosini to himself, and then went to Fiorentina to get Luca Toney, who was looking for a team loan to go out for training, to Vicenza.

Napoli invited Yugoslav coach Boskov this season, although the club was in a deep financial crisis before, but after getting this life-saving money, the financial situation has eased a lot, Napoli has also introduced a lot of players, it is worth mentioning that among these players, there are GM company's Frins, Schneider and Novotny, after all, the high cost performance of German players is recognized by shijie, and the success of Inter Milan's "troika" made many Serie A teams favor German players.

GM's signing of German players has also been rekindled in Serie A under the influence of the European Championships, with Christian Ziger joining AC Milan, Jeremes flying from Munich to Rome, and Michel Ballack making the leap from Bundesliga club Chemnitz to Vicenza, where he is looking for a better tactical player than Ambrosini.

The wheel of history, with the unremitting efforts of Zhuang Mingge, has quietly undergone a lot of changes again.