Chapter 131 Maurice's Replacement
After the award ceremony at the Calderon Stadium, all Atlético de Madrid players took the bus to the city hall, where they were received and blessed by the mayor of Madrid.
Afterwards, the Atlético de Madrid bus went around the city to celebrate. The players stood on the roof of the bus to show the championship trophy to the fans on the street. The end of the bus was at the club's training base. When it arrived at the end, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. Still interacting with fans.
To celebrate the league championship, a lot of fireworks were set off at the training base.
That's even funnier than Christmas!
One by one Atletico Madrid got together, all celebrating the team's championship.
The half-season Atlético de Madrid fans really seemed like a dream. Last season, the team was in the middle of the league. After the club was acquired in the summer, many fans were worried that the team would collapse. .
Many fans think of the 1995-1996 season, which was the peak moment in Atletico Madrid's history. Now that the team has won two domestic championships, it means that the team is at the peak again.
So will it be the same as it was 15 years ago...
Fans are worried.
The 1995-1996 season was the pinnacle of Atletico Madrid and the beginning of the club's decline. It was like a cycle of fate. After reaching the pinnacle, there was always a decline.
At that time, Atletico Madrid's performance was not as good as a year, and even fell to the level of falling to the second division. It was a dark place in the club's history, and many fans were reluctant to look back.
Now that Atlético de Madrid has won two championships again, the cycle will continue, will it be the same?
Some fans have this concern.
In fact, long before Atletico Madrid won the league title, the hostile media had similar claims, and they used Atletico Madrid's decline 15 years ago to show that Atletico Madrid's glory will not last long.
As "Marca" said, "It's like reincarnation. Atlético de Madrid is at the top again, they have won two domestic championships, they have reached the top, and while the surface is bright, there are all kinds of problems inside. , by next season, they will have no time to worry about other things because of various problems..."
"This is fate!"
The Marca report was described by other media as 'fatalism', meaning that Atletico Madrid's good results could not last long.
Some media use the debt of Atlético de Madrid as a basis.
"Atletico Madrid's debt is still as high as 150 million euros. It is not easy for them to pay off this debt. Even if they can participate in the Champions League next season, their income will increase somewhat, but the more than 100 million euros The huge debt pressure is enough to make them collapse..."
The Aspen newspaper, which supports Atlético de Madrid, immediately refuted the huge economic capacity of the Taiwan Investment Group, "Atlético de Madrid is already a club controlled by a Chinese company, they have Taiwan Investment Group as support, and Taiwan Investment Group is divided into two groups. It belongs to the huge Tagolwan Group. According to Hong Kong media reports, the asset evaluation of the Tagolwan Group has surged by 100% in the past year due to the huge development of China's Internet, and the equity value of other companies it controls has reached nearly 30 billion US dollars..."
"This multinational investment group owns shares in many top Internet companies such as Tengxun, youku, and youbo. Recently, they have entered the Chinese real estate industry, and their capital has expanded rapidly..."
"They have become one of the world's heavyweight consortia."
"And the head coach of Atlético de Madrid, Wan Sheng, is the largest shareholder of the Tagorewan Group, and he still owns more than 20% of the shares of the Tagorewan Group..."
"Taiwan Development Investment, as a branch of Tagore Wan Group, is actually Wan Sheng and his classmates when he was studying at University College London, and his former agent, Kevin Tagore, a company controlled by the two of them. In other words, Atlético de Madrid can be said to be a club under the personal control of Wansheng..."
"As a famous Chinese on the Forbes list, how could Wansheng make Atlético de Madrid go bankrupt because of a mere 150 million euros in debt?"
"Aspen" rebuttal is quite forceful.
The entire Atlético de Madrid club looks at it this way from top to bottom. Wansheng is the head coach of the team and the biggest shareholder of the club. How could it be possible to see Atlético de Madrid go bankrupt because of a little debt?
Wansheng really doesn't care.
But Wansheng is not 'playing football' like Abramovich. For Abramovich, Chelsea is like a toy in his hand, and he can do whatever he wants.
To acquire Atlético de Madrid, Wansheng did not want to spend money to play, but wanted to really run Atlético de Madrid. Moreover, European football is a little bit impossible to play with money alone.
In 2009, UEFA passed the Financial Fair Play Act, a financial act for teams competing in UEFA competitions.
The Financial Fair Play Act is to regulate the financial behavior of various clubs, control the club's financial deficit, and impose penalties on teams that violate the regulations. Teams participating in all UEFA competitions (UEFA Champions League and Europa League) must provide financial statements for the current year and the previous two years, which are reviewed by UEFA in order to qualify for European competitions.
The two basic provisions of the Financial Fair Play Act are the balance of payments and the late fee provisions.
Break-even is to calculate the team's related income and related expenses, and the team's loss shall not exceed 5 million euros.
According to the Financial Fair Play Act, when the club receives capital injection and can fully cover the deficit, the maximum loss of the team can be 45 million euros in 2013-2015, and the maximum loss in 2015-2018 can be 30 million euros.
The income includes broadcast income, sponsorship fees, player transfer income and financial income, etc. Expenses include sales costs, wage expenses, related expenses incurred in transfers and other financial expenses.
At the same time, the Financial Fair Play Act also provides for late payment fees, and all UEFA teams participating in the competition must not have a record of default payments, including payments to clubs, players and agents.
Teams that violate the Financial Fair Play Act or fail to pass the review will be punished by UEFA, including warnings, fines, and reductions in the number of registrations for competitions. In serious cases, they will even be disqualified from UEFA competitions.
In order to give clubs some buffer time, the Financial Fair Play Act will come into effect in the 2013-2014 season.
The interpretation of the Financial Fair Play Act may sound complicated, but in fact, it simply means, "Any club can't run a deficit too much, and try to keep it profitable."
This is to promote the normal development of European football.
In other words, from the 2013-2014 season onwards, as Abramovich did, privately investing large sums of money to buy stars to strengthen the team's performance is no longer feasible.
For example, if a small club suddenly buys a large number of stars, the expenditure will increase significantly, but the income will not increase, and the deficit on the financial statement will be very high, and the club will be subject to a huge fine. Unable to participate in next year's European competitions.
In the memory of previous lives, Premier League Manchester City and French Ligue 1 Paris Saint-Germain were fined 60 million euros for violating the financial fairness policy. At the same time, the team was required to reduce wages and limit the maximum amount of a single transaction.
In addition, the number of UEFA Champions League registrations for the two teams has also been reduced from 25 to 21.
That was only in 2014, when the law was first implemented.
In order to make European football develop healthily, UEFA must continue to strengthen the management of various clubs, including the giants, and it will definitely become more stringent in the future. Only those clubs that can achieve profitability can have enough funds to buy stars. , clubs that cannot make too much profit can only buy some ordinary players.
So maintaining the healthy development of the club is very important.
Wan Sheng is very clear about this. He will not make large investments without restraint just because he doesn't care about a little money.
The second argument of the media is that Atletico Madrid has a lot of internal problems, such as Forlan, who is just leaving, and Aguero, who has always been in conflict with the head coach.
"These former Atlético Madrid players have a very tense relationship with the coach Wan Sheng, and they have performed very well in the team."
"Atlético de Madrid has undergone great changes, and this summer, they will definitely have changes." After talking about the changes in Atlético de Madrid, the media talked about Wansheng's coaching experience, "Although he is very successful, in fact , he has never coached a real giant. When the whole team and everyone is a star, dealing with the relationship between players becomes the biggest problem. Many experienced managers have fallen here, Atletico Madrid Will face the same problem soon..."
There is some basis for this claim.
Like some big clubs, the most obvious example is Real Madrid. There are too many stars in the team, and most of the manager's energy is devoted to dealing with internal problems.
But in fact, Wansheng is not a simple head coach.
Unlike other head coaches, he has absolute authority in Atlético de Madrid. Even club chairman Cerezo and CEO Jr. Hill cannot shake the position of Wansheng. He is also the actual controller of the club.
In this situation, which player would dare to say 'no' to him?
Maybe some players will be dissatisfied with Wansheng in their hearts due to the number of appearances, salary and other reasons, but they will never dare to show it openly, otherwise it will cut off their time in the team, and there is only one way to leave. .
Wansheng is also very prestigious.
Many players in the team, including Aguero, are very convinced of Wansheng's coaching ability, and clubs with very good results will have very few internal conflicts.
Atletico Madrid's performance is very good, and there will naturally be few internal conflicts.
The internal problems mentioned by the media are actually not too big of a problem when it comes to Atletico Madrid.
Atlético de Madrid is already a team on the road to success.
Those hostile media certainly don't want to see them succeed, but some insignificant remarks can't stop Wansheng from leading the team forward.
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After winning the league championship, Wansheng gave the team two days off.
The club has become very busy, they have already done work for the summer transfer, the next day, Atletico Madrid announced on the official website, "Atlético Madrid and Porto have reached an agreement on the transfer fee of James Rodriguez. Agreed, the Colombian star will sign with Atlético Madrid for five years."
In addition to announcing the transfer news, the official website of Atlético de Madrid also released some transfer details. James Rodriguez's transfer fee is 18 million euros, and the salary in the first year is 2.4 million euros. Every year There will be a 10 percent increase.
According to a salary analysis by Mundo Deportivo, “This little-known young Colombian star, whose salary has surpassed Reyes and is on par with Felipe Luis, is obviously going to be an important player for Atletico Madrid next season. "
"Aspen" has more extensive news about Atletico Madrid. Through an interview with an official of Atlético de Madrid's athletic department, they broke the news, "James Rodriguez will take over the tenth of Maurice. No. jersey! This represents the importance of Wansheng, and he may become the core of Atletico Madrid's midfield!"
The Aspen newspaper was accurate, but other media outlets scoffed.
Morris is 33 years old, and his performance is still very good. Many people think that if Morris is two years younger, he can compete with Messi in Barcelona. Morris also won the Golden Globe three years ago. Top players are not comparable to ordinary players.
In Atlético de Madrid's squad, the most important is undoubtedly Maurice.
Maurice is indeed getting old, but he can't be replaced by 'just a Colombian'. James Rodriguez's worth of 1,800 euros may explain something, but in today's European football, 18 million What's up with the euro?
"It's impossible for him to replace Morris, Wan Sheng will definitely find someone more suitable!"
So the media began to 'help' Atletico Madrid to sort out the top stars in world football, such as Messi, C-Ronaldo, Kaka, as well as talented strikers Muller, Bell, Suarez, Neymar, etc. included in the list.
"Most likely is Kaka who plays for Real Madrid and the Brazilian genius Neymar!"
The "Sun" analyzed, "Neymar's name has been linked to Atletico Madrid before, and they are likely to introduce this Brazilian talent. In addition, Kaka will also be one of the best candidates to replace Maurice..." (To be continued~^~)