Chapter 22: The Magnificent Dortmund

Soon Shanghai Chongming Club and German Dortmund Club started negotiations on Yan Min's transfer, Dortmund did not make an offer at the beginning, so now the two sides have to have a unified opinion on Yan Min's value. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Only when the problem of money is solved, can we talk about other issues.

The Chinese media and fans are also paying close attention to the transfer, but the two clubs have done a good job of keeping it secret, so no information has been leaked to the public through the media.

Fans can only wait for a final result.

Borussia Dortmund aren't just considering bringing in Yan Min this summer. It should be said that Yan Min was an unexpected gain, originally he was not in Klopp and Zolke's recruitment plan.

With Gotze and Robert Lewandowski gone, Dortmund will inevitably have to bring in reinforcements in midfield and up front to fill the void left by the two.

So even if they didn't meet Yan Min, Dortmund would have already launched reinforcements in the transfer market.

In midfield, they have their eye on Shakhtar Donetsk's young midfielder Mkhitaryan and are battling Liverpool for understanding - Liverpool have also lost their attacking core, Suarez, and are in dire need of reinforcements this summer.

Borussia Dortmund, meanwhile, are in talks with Ligue 1 side Saint-Etienne to bring in their top scorer, last season's Ligue 1 silver boot winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Jurgen Klopp doesn't plan to make a big splash in the summer, believing quantity is less important than quality. Borussia Dortmund's main players only lost Lewandowski and Gotze, and there is no need to buy a lot of new players. The structure of the squad is stable right now, and it only needs to be supplemented in certain positions.

Dortmund, who are accustomed to a hard life, seems to have been stimulated by Bayern Munich's continuous poaching actions, and decided to adjust their business strategy and have a luxury this summer.

In order to bring in reinforcements, they have prepared far more funds than in previous seasons. Moreover, the transfer departures of Gotze and Lewandowski have also brought a lot of transfer funds to Dortmund. Among them, Gotze left with a transfer of 38 million euros, and Lewandowski, although not so much, also has 25 million euros - Lewandowski's agent revealed to Bayern Munich the details of their verbal agreement with Dortmund club, so Bayern Munich knew that as long as the offer reached 25 million euros, Dortmund would have to release him, so they offered this price and were not willing to pay a penny more. It's not that Bayern Munich is stingy, it's to disgust the Dortmund club......

The departures of Robert Lewandowski and Gotze have brought in €63 million for Dortmund, not counting last season's Champions League winnings.

Added up, Dortmund does have the capital to be capricious in the transfer market this summer.

So in the end they took Armenian rising star Mkhitaryan from Shakhtar Donetsk for 25 million euros, beating rivals Liverpool.

In the transfer of Aubameyang, Dortmund spent 13 million euros.

Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang's league is still worse than the Bundesliga, especially Mkhitaryan's Ukrainian league, and it is very attractive to them to be able to join the Bundesliga giants or Dortmund, who has just won the Champions League.

As long as the player himself is willing, the player's club can't afford to make any big waves.

In addition, in the position of central defender, because Brazilian central defender Santana transferred to Schalke 04 for one million euros, Dortmund also had to buy someone who could be used as a substitute or rotation, so they spent 9.5 million euros to buy Greek central defender Papastathopoulos from Werder Bremen.

Looking at the figures of these transfer fees, aside from the transfer fee of 17 million to buy Reus from Borussia Mönchengladbach, these three transfer fees have now set a record for the transfer fee before Dortmund, even if it is a rotating substitute central defender, Dortmund is now willing to pay nearly 10 million euros, which was completely unimaginable before.

Borussia Dortmund may finally realise that it will be difficult for them to withstand the onslaught of Bayern Munich if they continue to operate on a small budget.

In fact, Dortmund FC has two things to do this summer, one is to transfer reinforcements, and the other is to re-sign contracts with current players and increase their salaries. Of course, this is not what Dortmund FC is willing to do, but under the threat of Bayern Munich, they have to use the new contract to rebind the players, and the players also have to ask for a salary increase, after all, they have won the league championship and the Champions League with the team, and they are heroes, and they all hope that they can be worthy of their own efforts in terms of income.

The so-called professional players, of course, take playing football as their profession, and since they are professional, of course they have to talk about money, and money still occupies a very important position.

It's not a matter of two people asking for a raise, so it's a big expense for Dortmund.

Ahead of the start of the new season, the media reported on the salary budgets of Bundesliga clubs for the new season.

The total wage budget of the 18 Bundesliga teams amounted to 747.6 million euros, a record figure. Last season's total salary budget for 18 teams was 78.6 million euros, and the new season has risen by almost 40 million euros.

While wages have increased, so has the Bundesliga's revenues, which will be around €2.1 billion in total marketing revenue for the new season, plus a few other revenues, which will certainly exceed this figure.

Payroll expenses account for one-third of total income, which is a very desirable ratio.

Among the 18 teams in the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich has the highest salary budget of 140 million euros, with an average salary of 5.6 million euros per person.

Borussia Dortmund, who won the league and Champions League last season, have seen the biggest increase in wages for the new season, with an increase of 40 per cent, and a budget of €68 million for the new season!

This figure is already more than Dortmund's wage expenditure before the financial crisis, when the annual expenditure of 52 million euros overwhelmed the club, which was later cut to 35 million euros and then reduced to 28 million euros.

Knowing this, let's take a look at Dortmund's salary budget in the new season, and we will know how hard Dortmund has worked hard to ensure the team's combat effectiveness this time, and they have really given up the operational ideas and methods that they have been accustomed to for many years.

The loss of two key players in one summer was a real blow to Borussia Dortmund. And these two main players were poached by the same team, which is also Dortmund's biggest rival in the Bundesliga...... These various reasons finally made Dortmund also break out.

Fortunately, Dortmund is not short of money now, otherwise there may be far more than a few people who will leave this summer.

Indeed, it is not only Gotze and Lewandowski that Dortmund have gone this summer, but there are also some players, but they are not Dortmund's main players, such as striker Bittencourt transferred to Hannover 96 for three million euros, Santana went to Schalke 04 for one million, Moritz Leitner was loaned to Stuttgart, and Owomoela left the club because his contract expired.

With the exception of Gotze and Lewandowski, the departure of others has had little impact on Dortmund.

And in the entire Bundesliga, Dortmund, who have finally made a big difference, is not the team with the second highest salary budget. Although they are already very generous, but if you think about it, in fact, their salary budget is less than half of Bayern Munich's, and the gap between the two sides in terms of financial resources is very obvious. In the face of such a huge gap, it is not easy for Dortmund to suppress Bayern Munich for three consecutive seasons......

In this list of wages for the new season, the club is Borussia Dortmund's derby rivals Schalke 04. The salary budget of the "Shakhtars" for the new season is 80 million euros, in fact, Schalke 04 has been very invested in these years, but the results are not ideal, maybe they should learn a good derby rival, although football is inseparable from the investment of money, but only by burning money...... I'm afraid it's not necessarily a good thing.

Dortmund's wage budget is third in the Bundesliga, followed by Wolfsburg in fourth place with 50 million euros. Bayer Leverkusen is fifth with 48 million euros. Hamburg and Stuttgart are both tied for sixth place with 40 million euros. The bottom three in the wage expenditure list are promoted Mabraunschweig, who have 15 million, the fewest of the 18 teams in the Bundesliga. Freiburg and Augsburg are tied for second to last with 17 million euros.

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Borussia Dortmund, who have just returned to Germany, have been correcting for less than a week before welcoming their first game of the new season, the German Super Cup, against Bayern Munich, the champions of the German Cup.

Originally, Gotze and Lewandowski faced their old club for the first time after moving to Bayern Munich.

However, Gotze is injured and will definitely miss the game.

Only Lewandowski may be the only one who will play in the game, but whether he will start or come off the bench is unknown......