Chapter 769 Do You Want to Take Action?

Tottenham arrived in Dortmund, Germany at noon on April 23.

The team still took the special plane of sponsor Qatar Airways to Dortmund Airport. Although Tottenham did not deliberately push the team's itinerary and plan on the official website and mobile APP in advance, the die-hard fans gathered at Dortmund Airport to welcome the team's arrival.

When Tottenham walked out of the airport passage, many Tottenham fans from the UK and all over the world, including many German fans, gathered outside. Unfortunately, they were all separated from Tottenham by a barbed wire fence, but this did not affect the screams and cheers at the scene.

Because the airport temporarily opened an independent passage for Tottenham to facilitate Tottenham to leave the airport without interference, Tottenham did not interact with all the fans who came to the scene this time, but many fans still took pictures across the barbed wire.

After passing the elevator, they directly entered the bus waiting at the exit of the passage from an independent passage, and the team went straight to the hotel.

According to the schedule, after a break at noon, the team will go to Dortmund's home stadium, which has been renamed the Westfalenstadion, Signal Iduna Park.

In any case, Ye Qiu still prefers the Westfalenstadion, which always feels so familiar.

Although Tottenham Hotspur is also actively looking for major sponsors for the stadium, they are basically some billboard sponsors, and there is no title sponsor. It's not that Tottenham Hotspur does not consider it, but they can't reach an agreement on the price.

According to the current evaluation of Stratford Stadium by Peter Kenyon and the team's business department, with the background of this Olympic main stadium, plus Tottenham Hotspur's influence, the naming rights of such a stadium must not be sold at a low price. The internal preliminary estimate is more than 50 million euros.

Considering that Real Madrid's Bernabeu and Manchester United's Old Trafford are basically at this price, Tottenham Hotspur feels that it is still in line with the positioning.

But in the end, Tottenham's new stadium had the same fate as the Bernabeu and Old Trafford, that is, it was too expensive. The highest bidder was Qatar Airways, which is currently the team's chest advertising sponsor. They offered 35 million euros a year, but Tottenham rejected this request.

Of course, this deal was not disclosed much to the public. Tottenham gave Qatar Airways enough face in publicity and public relations, saying that the latter was sincere and offered 50 million euros, but Tottenham was under pressure from fans, especially die-hard fans in the UK. They invited several famous fans, reporters and celebrities to criticize in newspapers and TV, and then the club announced that it would not consider naming the stadium, etc.

But these are all public relations battles. The core problem is that the price cannot be negotiated. Otherwise, who would give up a huge sponsorship of 50 million euros a year?

However, Tottenham Hotspur has its own characteristics. The surface of Stratford Stadium is all display film, and the advertising effect is very ideal. Therefore, the advertising investment of the huge display film around the stadium alone can bring Tottenham Hotspur extremely rich income every year, and it will continue to operate in depth, and the future potential is huge.

After all, Stratford Stadium is located in the Olympic Park and is a landmark building in London.

Therefore, in these aspects, Tottenham Hotspur is not in a hurry at all. Peter Kenyon also feels that for the time being, Tottenham Hotspur does not need to rush to sell the naming rights of the stadium and training base at a low price, but should consider more about the improvement of the business system.

After Tottenham Hotspur arrived at the hotel in Dortmund, everyone had long been accustomed to the rhythm of away games. They returned to the hotel to rest and prepared to go to the Westfalen Stadium in the evening for the last training session before the game.

Mauro Tassotti was discussing tomorrow night's game with the coaching staff and analysts, while Ye Qiu lay in the room for a while, squinted, and was woken up by the phone.

Twenty minutes later, he received an old friend in the room.

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"Long time no see, Leo!"

As soon as Ye Qiu opened the door, he saw Leo Benhakker standing outside with a smile. He still had the iconic white hair with a touch of silver. His complexion looked good, but it was always awkward to stand with the chubby Roland Shepas.

He was too thin!

"Long time no see!" Leo Benhakker also smiled and shook hands with Ye Qiu. Soon, Ye Qiu welcomed the two of them into the room. In order to make way for Fatty Luo, Ye Qiu had to shrink a little.

"Leo, why did you suddenly come to Dortmund from the Netherlands?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile after sitting down with Leo Benhakker and Fatty Luo. Although Ye Qiu and Leo Benhakker had some conflicts in the early days of Ajax, these things were resolved later. After all, everyone is an adult. As long as the goal is the same, there is nothing that cannot be discussed.

Besides, some of the things Leo Benhakker did later made Ye Qiu feel that he was really sincere about it for Ajax. In addition, after he became the team's technical consultant, he also supported Ye Qiu's work, so it was normal for them to reconcile with each other.

After Ye Qiu left Ajax, Leo Benhak also left Ajax and went to Poland to coach the Polish national team. Later he returned to Ajax for a period of time and is now basically retired. He was in good condition, so Ye Qiu was a little surprised by his visit this time.

Leo Benhak laughed and said, "The main reason is that I want to watch the showdown between Tottenham Hotspur and Borussia Dortmund with my own eyes. I don't want to miss such a game!" This is also the most popular semi-final of the UEFA Champions League this season. One of the focus games that attracts the outside world's attention is Bayern Munich versus Barcelona.

But it is obvious that Barcelona was very embarrassed by Tottenham Hotspur last season. Now Heynckes has put down his bold words before the game and must defeat Barcelona. In addition, Bayern Munich is in very good form, so this time There is not much suspense in this game.

Although Tottenham Hotspur has the advantage in terms of strength, Tottenham Hotspur have not been in very good shape recently. Before the game, Klopp took the initiative to challenge Tottenham Hotspur. When the German media When asked about the huge price gap between the players of the two teams in this game, he smiled and said, "I was born to be a boxer. What my players and I like to do the most is to kill people on the court. Those who are richer than us!"

Ye Qiu was even more outrageous. When he held a pre-match press conference at Theobald in London this morning, he simply announced the starting lineup for the game in advance, promised not to make adjustments before the game, and dropped harsh words. , "I just want to see why that boxer can beat me!"

This tit-for-tat confrontation between the head coaches of both sides attracted the attention of fans all over the world, so this duel naturally became the most watched and key battle in the Champions League semi-finals.

"What did you want that time?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile. He mainly wanted to watch the football match, which proved that there were secondary issues.

Leo Benhak also laughed loudly. Ye Qiu is no longer what he was back then. Whether it is status, status, influence, or even the tone and momentum of his speech, it is obviously completely different from back then.

"I heard that you are inspecting Lewandowski recently?" Leo Benhak also asked straight to the point.

Ye Qiu thought for a while and nodded: "We are indeed inspecting, but we are also inspecting many other people, such as Mandzukic and Thomas Muller, Italy's Immobile, and others."

"So, Cavani is really leaving the team!" Leo Benhak is also an old fox. He is well-informed and can coach so many teams, and basically he is doing well, which proves that This guy is a seasoned guy, he knows everything.

Ye Qiu smiled and said nothing, because he didn't need to answer many things.

"I'll just say it!" Leo Benhak saw that Ye Qiu didn't say anything, so he took the initiative to speak, "Lewandowski was promoted by me when I was coaching the Polish national team. He had just joined Poland at that time. Lech Poznan is a strong team in the domestic league. In the two seasons before that, he played in the C and B leagues respectively, and won the Golden Boot Award in the C and B leagues in both seasons. , is a well-known young talent in Poland.”

Ye Qiu nodded. He was more familiar with this than Leo Benhak, because he had a very detailed and complete file on Lewandowski, which was also the subject of Tottenham Hotspur's investigation. A strict requirement for players.

Just kidding, the old man Peter DeVisel, the chief scout, was sent to the scene to watch his game in person. Is that just a boring thing?

"I only watched one of his games before I decided to recruit him to the national team. It was the first round of the 2008/09 season of the Polish League. He had just arrived and was a substitute for the team, and the game lasted for sixty minutes. It was a 1:1 draw, Lewandowski came on to replace midfielder Injac, and he scored four minutes later!”

Leo Benhak seemed to have returned to the scene of that game, describing his first impression of Lewandowski, "He was twenty years old and just starting out, but he gave me a very shocking feeling. , because he is very calm, and few young players can seize opportunities so calmly at such critical moments.”

"It turns out that my impression was correct. In the first four rounds, he started three games and came on the bench once, scoring three goals. It was a very good performance, but more importantly, I think his learning ability and adaptability He is very capable. He was promoted from the Third Division to the Second Division with the aura of the Golden Boot Award. He immediately won another Golden Boot Award. He moved to an unfamiliar environment. In the first season, he became the main force and scored 14 goals. ball and become the team’s leading scorer.”

"In that year, there were only two people in the Polish league who had better scoring ability than Lewandowski. One was the 27-year-old Zimbabwean foreign aid Chinyama, and the other was a 20-year-old Polish local scorer. Six-year-old international Kraków, that year was also the best ranking of Lech Poznan in recent seasons. In the second season, they won the league championship, and Lewandowski also won the first division. The Golden Boot Award.”

Ye Qiu listened to Leo Benhak's words and agreed with his judgment. In fact, Peter Devisser's greatest appreciation for Lewandowski was his super ability to learn and adapt. This makes Lewandowski very malleable, so he can adapt to various tactics and environments at a young age.

Of course, in the past few years in Dortmund, Lewandowski's characteristics have basically been reflected, but the problem is that he is only 24 years old. With his mind and football intelligence, he still has great potential. Digging, this is one of the reasons why Tottenham Hotspur focuses on investigating him.

"His agent is Kucharski, the former Poland international. After they heard that Peter de Wiesel was visiting them, Lewandowski gave me a call and I understood. His situation, that's why I'm here."

Ye Qiu listened silently. He knew that Leo Benhak wanted to understand Tottenham Hotspur's thoughts and wishes on behalf of Lewandowski. From this point of view, the players were still very biased towards Tottenham Hotspur.

Lewandowski's transfer is also a very complicated matter. Although he has performed well for Dortmund and made a lot of contributions in the past few years, his annual salary is only 1.5 million euros. , and that’s before tax. This is indeed good for a young man coming out of the Polish league, but with his outstanding performance in recent years, it is no longer enough.

So the negotiations between the two parties began. After Dortmund won the league championship, several players in the team also left the team one after another, such as Shinji Kagawa and Sahin. Therefore, the Hornets were about to renew their contract, but there were some disputes between the two parties in terms of salary. For example, Dortmund wanted to get him for 4 million euros, but Lewandowski asked for 5 million euros, but Dortmund did not agree because the maximum salary at the time was Gotze's 4.6 million euros.

Therefore, Dortmund also felt that it was not worthwhile, stopped the player contract renewal negotiations, and promised Lewandowski that as long as he can find a team willing to pay him a transfer fee of 20 million euros, he can leave the team freely.

In fact, the tangle of the problem still lies in the fact that Dortmund bought out Reus' contract from Monchengladbach in January 2012 for a liquidated damages of 17.5 million euros, and gave Reus as much as 4 million. The team's maximum salary was Euros, and the salary of Lewandowski, the team's core player at the time, was less than half of Royce's.

Another point is that after buying out Reus' contract, Dortmund immediately renewed Gotze's contract and gave him the team's maximum salary of 4.6 million euros, while Lewandowski's contract extension was If you keep delaying it, in the final analysis, you still don’t pay enough attention.

Just imagine, after a year and a half, the players' psychology will definitely not be balanced. They will want to fight. Therefore, two days ago, Gotze was bought out by Bayern Munich directly with liquidated damages. Many people said that Gotze was bought out by Bayern Munich with liquidated damages. Gotze is a traitor, but behind Gotze's traitor, in fact, it has a lot to do with Dortmund's salary structure. The contradiction has been buried since Royce's transfer.

This is why Ye Qiu insists on the team's salary system life and death. If this system is broken, Dortmund will serve as a lesson for Tottenham Hotspur. The reason why Dortmund players such as Shinji Kagawa and Sahin are popular is because of them. The salary is too low.

Just imagine, if Tottenham Hotspur wants to introduce Lewandowski now, with his salary of 1.5 million euros in Dortmund, after the team paid a transfer fee of 20 million euros for him, as long as one According to negotiations, the annual salary can be up to 6 million euros, which is a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds, which is similar to Cavani before the contract extension.

Looking at the next few years, if Lewandowski really performs well, when he renews his contract in two or three years, the maximum weekly salary will be about 150,000 pounds. By then, Ribery will be old, and Mei West has also raised his salary again, and the team's salary structure is still very good, so this is very beneficial to Tottenham Hotspur.

With Lewandowski's strength and potential, coupled with his salary and transfer fee, he is indeed very attractive to Tottenham Hotspur, and the reason for all this is because of Dortmund's operational difficulties .

The Hornets' salary budget for a season is about 70 million euros, which is less than half of Tottenham Hotspur's. Therefore, Ye Qiu has always felt that Klopp is indeed very good and not easy, and Dortmund was It's only a matter of time before people separate, because they lack the financial resources and courage of a wealthy team.

Today's professional football is no longer suitable for small-scale operations. It basically belongs to the era of big capital, and people without money can't afford it!

"Leo, I heard that after Gotze announced the termination of his contract and transferred to Bayern Munich, Dortmund stopped contact between Lewandowski and Bayern Munich?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

Leo Benhak was a little confused about Ye Qiu's thoughts and nodded: "Yes, firstly, it is because the fans are too emotional, and secondly, because Dortmund does not want to further weaken itself and strengthen Bayern Munich. And thirdly, they now want to keep Lewandowski!”

Bayern Munich played this trick really well. They played Dortmund around, first reached an agreement with Lewandowski, and then added the agreement between Lewandowski and Dortmund. The two sides basically finalized it, and then against Gotze. Initiating liquidated damages and forcibly poaching players is equivalent to poaching Dortmund's two pillars overnight.

If Dortmund still wants to send players to Bayern Munich now, it would be really stupid!

However, from Lewandowski's point of view, since the team has agreed to let him choose freely, as long as he pays 20 million euros, anyone can transfer freely, and he has indeed settled with Bayern Munich, so even if Gotze is now forcibly poached by Bayern Munich, Lewandowski certainly does not want to continue to stay with the team.

Everyone knows that there are only two results of staying with the team, either continue to fulfill the previous contract and transfer freely after a year, but the salary is only 1.5 million euros before tax, or reach a new contract with the team. In other words, everything he has done for more than half a year is completely in vain.

"If I am not mistaken, Dortmund must have made conditions now, except Bayern Munich!" Ye Qiu said with a smile, this is actually very similar to Vidal's transfer that year, all because of Bayern Munich's wealth.

In fact, there are such cases. For example, when Real Madrid president Sanz forced to poach Valencia's Mijatovic, the Bats were so angry that they announced that they would never sell players to Real Madrid. As a result, Mendieta went to Serie A, Villa went to Barcelona, ​​David Silva and Juan Mata went to the Premier League, and they refused to sell Real Madrid.

Sometimes running a team is like opening the door to do business. Harmony can make money. Although you may get some benefits in the short term by using certain means, in the long run, you will lose a lot of money. After all, football clubs are run for more than ten years or even decades, and the antagonism in football sometimes becomes stronger with the accumulation of time.

So Ye Qiu often said that the kingly way created by open and aboveboard conspiracy can last for a long time, and the tyranny created by the small conspiracy that succeeded for a while will definitely not last for a long time, because the conspiracy will be exposed sooner or later.

Now, for Tottenham Hotspur, there is only one question, should they take action?

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