Chapter 1276 Who is the most expensive superstar in history?
Although there was no championship trophy, Leeds United still made a triumphant return all the way.
All the fans who were traveling with the team to Newcastle either drove or took buses and chased behind the team's bus.
The drive lasted for an hour and a half, and the Leeds United team was like a long snake, winding on the A1 highway all the way south.
After arriving at Aberford, turn onto the M1 motorway and go all the way west to the southern suburbs of Leeds city, then turn onto the M621 motorway to the north.
The M621 motorway leads directly to Leeds United's Elland Road roundabout.
At this time, it was already past midnight, but Elland Road was still brightly lit.
When Leeds United went on the road, they had already received news from Leeds.
That night, at least 200,000 fans gathered around Elland Road.
There are fans not only from Leeds, but also from surrounding areas, even the entire Yorkshire, and even the north-central region of England, and the number of fans is getting bigger and bigger.
When the Leeds United bus came out of the highway and arrived at the Elland Road roundabout, we found that it was already surrounded by crazy Leeds United fans.
They all welcomed the Leeds United bus like victorious soldiers on an expedition.
Everyone was cheering crazily.
As Leeds United's performance improves, there are more and more fans not only in Leeds, but also in Yorkshire and even in the UK. This can be seen from the number of Premier League broadcasts of Leeds United this season.
So far, Leeds United has broadcast 28 games, surpassing Manchester United and Manchester City, and tied with Liverpool.
In the final round, both Leeds United and Liverpool will broadcast, so they will broadcast a total of 29 games.
This is the highest treatment in the Premier League.
What’s interesting is that these two teams also play the best style of football at the moment and are the most popular among British fans.
Now, the team has won the championship from Newcastle. Although the awards have not yet been awarded, this does not prevent Leeds United fans from celebrating. Especially when the bus entered the roundabout, more and more fans gathered over, and the scene even
Paralyzed.
In the end, Leeds United arranged for the police to clear the way, and at the same time the team used the radio to call on the fans to make way for a passage.
"In three days we will play Juventus at home."
"That will be another focus game for us this season, and there is no room for error!"
Leeds United fans also woke up one after another.
Yes, they can party and celebrate, but the team can't.
Everyone must recharge their batteries and prepare for this game against Juventus.
Kill the Bianconeri and reach the Champions League final!
After winning the title, this is Leeds United's top priority.
As a result, the fans took the initiative to give up a passage, allowing the Leeds United bus to drive out of the roundabout and go north into the AXA Centre. However, the fans who were caught up in the carnival still caroused all night outside the AXA Center and near Elland Road.
With.
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The next day, major media outlets in the UK and Europe reported the news that Leeds United had won the championship one round ahead of schedule.
The lead is not very obvious, but this is the fourth team in Premier League history to successfully defend the title.
Before Leeds United, only Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City had successfully defended the title. Even Arsenal had no precedent of successfully defending the title, which shows how difficult it is to defend the Premier League title.
Especially now, with the powerful Manchester City on one side and the eyeing Liverpool on the other, plus strong opponents such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, the competitive environment in the Premier League is quite harsh.
Leeds United can still successfully defend the title under such circumstances, which is enough to show the strong strength of this team.
More importantly, last summer, Leeds United sold many of its stars in one fell swoop.
I would like to ask, which Premier League team can do what Leeds United does, constantly selling people every year, but its performance does not fall but rises?
Everyone is speculating, what magic does Leeds United have?
As a result, the media is full of praise, publicity and analysis of Leeds United, especially the results achieved by Leeds United and the reasons behind it.
Sell people every year and achieve results every year.
If such an almost impossible thing really happens, there is only one conclusion, and that is that Leeds United does have its own uniqueness in youth training and player training.
Just like Ajax back then.
As a result, more and more Leeds United deeds have been brought out by the media, such as the scouting network all over the world, the youth training system with advanced concepts, or the outstanding coaching team, as well as the huge investment in big data centers and
The methodology department, etc., everything was brought out by the media.
For a time, Leeds United seemed to have become Europe's model top students.
The Times even believed that the rise of Leeds United represented a victory for football.
Because this White Rose does not blindly rely on investment and burning money to build a luxurious lineup and achieve success like Chelsea and Manchester City. It relies more on strong youth training to cultivate outstanding talents.
This is a bit like when Ferguson led Manchester United to success.
Back then, didn’t Ferguson train Class 92?
So soon, Pochettino was promoted and hyped by many media and fans, and was even dubbed Ferguson II. Some Manchester United fans called for the Red Devils to sign Pochettino to replace Solskjaer.
In addition to the football level, Leeds United has also achieved great success at the business level.
Since being acquired by Gao Shen, the White Rose has become an Internet celebrity team in the world of sports. It is the number one player on all major social media and is highly praised by countless fans and fans.
After years of painstaking efforts, previous US media surveys found that in the minds of young Americans under the age of 30, Leeds United is the well-deserved number one sports club, with fans far surpassing traditional giants such as Real Madrid and Manchester United.
Especially in recent years, with the improvement of Leeds United's performance, the number of fans around the world has been increasing day by day.
As an internet celebrity team, Leeds United’s business management capabilities are increasingly showing their prowess.
Previously, Deloitte conducted a survey and found that Leeds United's commercial revenue ranks among the top five in European football and is far underestimated. Moreover, this team has been operating painstakingly for many years in North America and Asia, especially China.
Football and business go hand in hand, coupled with excellent salary control, making Leeds United a business model in the eyes of UEFA.
Both UEFA President Ceferin and FIFA President Infantino have repeatedly praised Leeds United's management and football in front of the media, believing that this is a model worthy of all clubs to learn from.
Not only The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun and other British media have reported on it, but they have also praised Leeds United, believing that this team can successfully defend the title in advance and can be called the strongest team in the Premier League this season.
Team.
The key is that this team is still very young, and the star Mbappe is only 20 years old.
But The Sun also revealed that Leeds United is bound to suffer another hemorrhage this summer.
Many Spanish media have confirmed that Real Madrid is in contact with Mbappe's team. Leeds United promised the players that as long as a team is willing to pay 250 million euros for Mbappe, they can take away the French superstar.
Real Madrid is one of the few giants willing to pay this huge transfer fee for Mbappe.
Once achieved, Mbappe will surpass Neymar and become the superstar with the highest transfer fee in the history of world football.
But who is the most valuable superstar in history?
The Sun also gave its own evaluation. Even if Mbappe surpassed Neymar and became the superstar with the highest transfer fee in name, it would actually be difficult to surpass Zidane back then.
The Sun's analysis believes that in the past few years, with the promotion of globalization, the income of European clubs has also increased, and the transfer fees of players have also increased steadily, and transfer fees of over 100 million have also emerged one after another.
But in fact, if we take the club's operating income as the basis, no one has surpassed Zidane so far.
In 2001, Real Madrid's revenue was 137 million euros, but that summer, Real Madrid paid a sky-high transfer fee of 78 million euros for Zidane, accounting for 57% of Real Madrid's revenue.
This caused a huge sensation at the time.
Not to mention Real Madrid, Manchester United, the wealthy team with the highest revenue that year, only had revenue of about 170 million euros.
Now, Real Madrid's revenue exceeds 900 million, and Manchester United's revenue exceeds 700 million euros.
If you refer to the revenue of these two giant teams and the proportion of Zidane's transfer fee, then if you want to actually exceed Zidane's transfer fee, it should be at least 350 million euros.
But in fact, this is basically impossible.
Therefore, The Sun believes that even if Mbappe really transfers to Real Madrid for 250 million euros, he will surpass Zidane in terms of numbers and reach the first place in the world, but in terms of gold content, he still cannot compare with Zidane back then.
Comparable.
It is worth mentioning that Spanish newspapers Aspen and Marca, both close to Real Madrid, broke the news that Zidane will become Real Madrid's head coach in the new season.
He is the first Real Madrid coach appointed by Real Madrid's technical director Gao Shen.
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While the whole world is hyping up the news about Leeds United winning the Premier League title early and the news that Mbappe may move to Real Madrid, Leeds United quietly held closed training at the AXA Center and declined all outside interference.
interference.
Three days after traveling south from Newcastle, the team welcomed Juventus of Serie A at the Amazon Stadium.
After reversing Juventus 3-1 in the first round at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Leeds United are determined to advance to the final.
Juventus has no choice. If they still want to advance, they must score at least 3 goals on the road.
Therefore, Allegri's team launched a fierce attack from the beginning, trying to break Leeds United's goal.
The White Rose sit at home and wait for work, while responding with a solid defensive counterattack.
Mbappe opened the scoring for Leeds United with a counterattack goal in the 27th minute of the first half.
After changing sides in the second half, Juventus still continued to attack persistently, trying to create a miracle.
But then, it was Mbappe's counterattack goal that gave Leeds United another victory and locked the score at 2-0.
After that, Juventus completely lost their fighting spirit, and Leeds United also gave up on the good news. The two sides maintained the score of 2-0 until the end.
In the end, Leeds United relied on Mbappe's brace to defeat Juventus 2-0 at home. The total score was 5-1 and successfully advanced to the final. They met Manchester City, who defeated Liverpool 0-0 at home and 2-1 at home, and met in the Amazon.
court.
This is bound to be another battle between dragons and tigers!
