Chapter 22 The Wealthy Dortmund

Soon Shanghai Chongming Club started negotiations with the German club Borussia Dortmund on Yan Min's transfer. Dortmund did not make an offer at the beginning, so now the two sides need to have a unified opinion on Yan Min's worth.

Only when the money issue is resolved can other issues be discussed.

The Chinese media and fans are also paying close attention to the transfer, but both clubs have done a good job of maintaining confidentiality, so no information has been disclosed to the public through the media.

Fans can only wait for the final result.

Dortmund is not 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 Zorc's signing plan.

Without Gotze and Lewandowski, Dortmund must make signings in the midfield and forward positions to fill the vacancies left by the two.

Therefore, even if they did not meet Yan Min, Dortmund would have already launched signings in the transfer market.

In the midfield, they took a fancy to the young midfielder Mkhitaryan of Shakhtar Donetsk, and started a battle for understanding with Liverpool - this summer, Liverpool also lost their offensive core, Suarez, and was in urgent need of replacement. powerful.

At the same time, Dortmund is negotiating with the French Ligue 1 team Saint-Etienne, intending to introduce their team's top scorer, last season's Ligue 1 silver boot winner Aubameyang.

Klopp does not intend to sign a large number of players in the summer. He believes that quantity is not as important as quality. Dortmund's main players only lost Lewandowski and Gotze, so there is no need to buy a large number of new players. The current structure of the team is stable, it just needs to add personnel in certain positions.

Dortmund, who is accustomed to living a frugal life, seems to have been stimulated by Bayern Munich's continuous poaching actions, and decided to adjust its business strategy and go extravagant this summer.

For signings, they have prepared far more funds than in previous seasons. Moreover, the transfers of Gotze and Lewandowski also brought a lot of transfer funds to Dortmund. Among them, Gotze left for 38 million euros. Although Lewandowski did not have that much, he still had 25 million euros - Lewandowski's agent revealed to Bayern Munich The details of the verbal agreement between them and the Dortmund club were revealed, so Bayern Munich knew that as long as the offer reached 25 million euros, Dortmund would have to let him go, so they paid this price and were not willing to pay a penny more. It’s not that Bayern Munich is stingy, but it’s just to disgust Borussia Dortmund…

The departures of Lewandowski and Gotze brought Dortmund 63 million euros in income. This does not include last season's Champions League bonus, which is also a huge amount of income.

Add up,

Dortmund does have the capital to be willful in the transfer market this summer.

So in the end they took away Armenian star Mkhitaryan from Shakhtar Donetsk for 25 million euros, defeating competitor Liverpool.

Dortmund spent 13 million euros on Aubameyang's transfer.

The leagues Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang are in are still inferior to the Bundesliga, especially since Mkhitaryan is in the Ukrainian league. Being able to join the Bundesliga giants is Dortmund, which has just won the Champions League. I am very happy for them. is attractive.

As long as the player himself is willing, the player's club cannot afford to make any big splash.

In addition, at the position of central defender, since Brazilian central defender Santana was transferred to Schalke 04 for one million euros, Dortmund also wanted to buy someone who could serve as a substitute or rotation, so they spent 9.5 million euros from Werder Bremen have bought Greek centre-back Papastathopoulos.

Look at these transfer fee figures. Putting aside the 17 million transfer fee to buy out Reus from Monchengladbach, these three transfer fees have now set Dortmund's previous transfer fee record, even for one rotation. As a substitute centre-back, Dortmund is now willing to spend nearly 10 million euros, which was completely unimaginable before.

Dortmund may have finally realized that if they continue to operate on a shoestring, it will be difficult for them to withstand the impact from Bayern Munich.

In fact, this summer, the Dortmund club has two things to be busy with. One is transfer signings, and the other is re-signing contracts with current players in the team to increase their salaries. This is certainly not something Dortmund is willing to do, but under the threat of Bayern Munich, they have to use new contracts to rebind players. At the same time, players also have demands for salary increases. After all, they have won the league championship and the Champions League with the team. , those who have contributed their efforts and are heroes, all hope that their income can be worthy of their efforts.

The so-called professional players, of course, play football as a profession. Since it is a profession, of course, money must be discussed, and money still plays a very important role.

This is not a salary increase for one or two people, so for Dortmund, this is a huge expense.

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

The total wage budget of the 18 Bundesliga teams reached 747.6 million euros, a figure that created a historical record. The total salary budget of the 18 teams last season was 78.6 million euros, which has increased by nearly 40 million euros in the new season.

Although wage investment has increased, the Bundesliga's revenue has also increased. The total marketing revenue of the league in the new season is approximately 2.1 billion euros. In addition to some other revenue, the total revenue will definitely exceed this number.

Salary expenses account for one-third of total income, which is a very ideal proportion.

Among the 18 Bundesliga teams, Bayern Munich has the highest salary budget at 140 million euros, with per capita wages reaching 5.6 million euros.

Dortmund, which won the league and the Champions League last season, has the largest increase in salary expenditure in the new season. Their increase has reached 40%. The salary expenditure budget for the new season is 68 million euros!

This figure has exceeded Dortmund's salary expenditure before the financial crisis. At that time, the annual expenditure of 52 million euros overwhelmed the Dortmund club. It was later cut to 35 million euros and then reduced to 2,000 euros. Eight million euros.

Knowing this, let's take a look at Dortmund's salary budget for the new season, and you will know how hard Dortmund worked to ensure the team's combat effectiveness this time. They really gave up the operating ideas and methods they were accustomed to for many years.

The loss of two main players in one summer was indeed a big blow to the Dortmund club. Moreover, these two main players were poached by the same team. This team is still Dortmund's biggest competitor in the Bundesliga... These various reasons finally caused Dortmund to break out.

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

Indeed, Dortmund not only left Gotze and Lewandowski this summer, but also left some players, but none of them were Dortmund's main players. For example, forward Bittencourt was transferred to Hannover 96 for 3 million euros. Santana went to Schalke 04 for one million, Moritz Leitner was loaned to Stuttgart, and Owomoyela left the club because his contract expired.

Except for Gotze and Lewandowski, the departure of others actually has little impact on Dortmund.

In the entire Bundesliga, Dortmund, which finally has a lot of money, is not the team with the second highest salary budget. Although they are already very generous, if you think about it carefully, their salary budget is actually less than half of Bayern Munich's. The gap in financial resources between the two sides 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 new season salary budget table, the second-ranked club is Dortmund's derby rival Schalke 04. The salary budget of the "Miners" for the new season is 80 million euros. In fact, Schalke 04 has invested a lot over the years, but the results are not ideal. Maybe they should learn from their rivals in Derby. Although football is inseparable from money. It’s a huge investment, but if you just rely on burning money... I’m afraid that’s not necessarily a good thing.

Dortmund's salary budget ranks third in the Bundesliga, followed by Wolfsburg in fourth place with 50 million euros. Bayer Leverkusen ranks fifth with 48 million euros. Hamburg and Stuttgart are both tied for sixth place with €40 million. The top three in salary expenditure list are newly promoted Eintracht Braunschweig. They have 15 million, which is the least among the 18 Bundesliga teams. Freiburg and Augsburg are tied for second-last with 17 million euros.

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Dortmund, who had just returned to Germany, had corrected for less than a week before ushering in their first game of the new season-the German Super Cup. As the league champions, their opponent was the German Cup champion Bayern Munich.

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

However, Gotze will definitely miss this game due to injury.

At that time, only Lewandowski may play in the game, but whether he will be a starter or a substitute, I don’t know...