Chapter 467 - The Right Way to Open the Super Big
After signing Aguilar and Aduris, Maritimo immediately made an official announcement.
However, only the biggest signing in the team's history, J Ronaldo, was kept secret by the club for the time being, and paid Real Madrid a hush money of 500,000 euros, asking for temporary secrecy of the loan.
Maritimo's management was very incomprehensible to Takato's approach, but Takato's position in the club made them have to swallow their complaints.
Gao Yuan knows very well what he is doing, and he wants to maximize his benefits!
During the secret negotiations with Real Madrid, Gao Yuan instructed Yuanshuai Sports to contact sponsors in China.
Ask if sponsors can invest more if a club signs a world-class player.
Of course, companies want the clubs they sponsor to have big-name stars, so that they can further expand the brand's popularity and influence, while world-class stars are hard to come by, so they have promised to invest more as long as the players signed are big enough.
Gao Yuan didn't even have to do the math carefully to know that the additional sponsorship money he received had far exceeded the rental fee and the salary he had!
After making a lot of money financially, Gao Yuan still didn't make an official announcement to the outside world, he was waiting for a suitable time.
Every year when it comes to the preparation period of the league, the major clubs are very busy, because various commercial invitational tournaments are emerging one after another.
Especially in North America and Asia, which have a large number of local tyrants, the underdeveloped regions of football will spend a lot of money to hold some chicken rib events such as the International Champions Cup and the World Football Challenge.
For the sake of money, the major giants of European football have squeezed out precious pre-season training time and went to North America and Asia to pan for gold.
This is actually a very risky thing, because the pre-season training camp is very important, it can be said that every inch of time is an inch of gold, not only to reserve physical energy, but also to polish tactics, whether it is smooth or not determines the success or failure of the whole season.
A consistent training rhythm is an important guarantee for achieving good training results.
However, these chicken rib gold rush events have seriously damaged the team's training rhythm, the players have to fly half the world in a few days, in the case of the body has not fully recovered, play a few meaningless games, the players will be very tired physically and psychologically, and the organizers of commercial events are often not professional, various supporting facilities and training conditions are not up to standard, but also delay technical and tactical drills. There is a risk that it will be a hidden danger for the whole season.
Therefore, the football coaches of the European giants are very repulsive to these commercial events.
For example, in the summer of 2016, during the China match between Manchester United and Manchester City, Mourinho publicly complained that "the weather is terrible, the training ground in the Bird's Nest is even worse, I regret coming here".
In the end, the Manchester derby also fell abruptly.
In 2018, Jose Mourinho refused to allow Manchester United to come to China to participate in commercial competitions.
However, in general, being invited to participate in commercial competitions is an affirmation of the club's prestige and status, and it is a patent belonging to the giants.
It's one thing whether you're willing to come or not, it's another thing whether someone invites you!
Now, the accolade has finally fallen to Maritimo.
Maritimo was invited to participate in an event called "China Star European Giants Football Invitational" this summer.
The four teams participating in the competition are all teams sponsored by Chinese capital, namely Inter Milan, Wolves, Espanyol and Maritimo.
These four teams will hold a tour in Kyoto, Modu, and Yangcheng within a week.
It is 1,300 kilometers from Kyoto to the magic capital, 2,300 kilometers to Yangcheng, and 1,400 kilometers to the magic city, adding up to more than 5,000 kilometers, and it is only 2,500 kilometers from Paris to Moscow across the European continent.
Not to mention the toss of playing a game and changing places, just talking about the fatigue of traveling and driving, Gao Yuan can't stand it.
This season, his team is going to challenge for the top of Europe, and there is a lot of work for him and his players to do, and he doesn't want to waste his work on such a chicken competition.
Isn't it fragrant to find a secluded place to concentrate on cultivation with this kung fu?
However, this tournament must be participated, on the one hand, the high prize money of commercial events is exactly what the money-strapped Maritimo desperately needs. On the other hand, Maritimo's main sponsors are all domestic brands, and they also want the team to play domestically and expand the influence of their brands.
So, Gao Yuan came up with a very "chicken thief" trick.
At the tournament press conference, all four teams released their entry lists.
The other teams were all first-line mainstays, with only a few older big names absent from the tournament.
However, Maritimo announced a squad dominated by reserves. Only the "heartthrob" Wang Zi was named by the sponsor.
The media and fans present were in an uproar.
Maritimo is going to play a big name!
And in the real-time barrage comments, there was even more scolding.
"Maritimo doesn't know what his surname is, without the support of domestic fans and the input of domestic sponsors, he Maritimo is a fart!"
"Inter Milan has sent the main team of the first team, and you Maritimo can still compete with Inter Milan?"
"Maritimo is typical of picking up a bowl to eat, putting down the bowl and scolding her mother! Earning Chinese money, but looking down on Chinese football! Look down on the Chinese"
"I want to see Niu Gensheng, Pan Xinyue, Wen Jun, if they don't come, I'll see a hairy Maritimo!"
"TMD I just bought the ticket for Maritimo and refunded the ticket! Money! ”
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Just when the scolding was everywhere, the representative of Maritimo suddenly announced slowly that our lineup is based on the old and the new, and the new big-name foreign players will lead the team to this invitational tournament.
New signings? Who could it be?
The discussion in the barrage was very lively.
"What kind of big-name new signings, just Maritimo's broken team, what stars can you afford!"
"It is estimated that it is an international player in Africa or South America, and the real big names are all from the Portuguese Super League to the five major leagues, which will go from the five major leagues to the Portuguese Super League"
"Oh, I hope it's a guy I've heard the name of"
"To everyone, before the 34-year-old Dzeko joined, Maritimo's biggest name was Vukovic, haha"
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At this time, the representative of the Maritimo club said the name of the new big name under the questioning of the reporter on the scene.
"James Rodriguez!"
The scene and the barrage were silent for a moment.
Who?
What he said was...... J Ronaldo!
Oops, it smells so good!
Now no one cares whether Maritimo is the main force anymore, with J Ronaldo here, who still looks at others!
Although most of the Chinese teenagers in Maritimo did not participate, after all, there is no "heartthrob" Wang Zi!
His popularity is even hotter than the others combined, and the "Prince Guard" is more fierce than Xiao Xianrou's brainless fans!
Besides, isn't Maritimo's biggest star the head coach Takato? As long as the amazing Chinese coach is standing in the coach's box, it is already worth the ticket price!
A sudden J Ronaldo can make others remember Maritimo well, this is the charm of a super big brand!
And the unexpected official announcement is also the right way to open a super brand!