After winning the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, Manchester City was welcomed by fans when they returned to Manchester in triumph.
Especially when captain Kompany appeared holding the Club World Cup, the fans outside the Etihad Stadium went crazy and almost went crazy.
This is the first world championship in Manchester City's history!
But the real celebration came two days later in the seventeenth round of the Premier League.
Due to participating in the Club World Cup, Manchester City's sixteenth round home game against Arsenal was postponed to January, so Manchester City currently has one game less than other teams in the standings.
This has not affected Manchester City's ranking in the league, and they are still leading the way.
In the last game before Christmas, before Manchester City faced Stoke City at home, the team specially prepared a Club World Cup display event. Captain Kompany and the players held the Club World Cup and surrounded it.
Parade at the Etihad Stadium, receiving cheers and cheers from all Manchester City fans.
Sky TV also broadcast live the entire Champions League walk-around ceremony of Manchester City to congratulate Manchester City on winning the Club World Cup.
In the subsequent game, Manchester City relied on Robin van Persie's brace and Robinho's goal to defeat Stoke City 3-0. The whole process was smooth and smooth.
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After the seventeenth round of the Premier League, the league ushered in a short Christmas holiday.
But starting from the 26th, which is Boxing Day, the most devilish Christmas schedule is coming.
On the afternoon of the 26th, the afternoon of the 31st, and the evening of January 3rd, Manchester City will play three consecutive Premier League games. Their opponents are West Bromwich Albion away, Sunderland away, and Liverpool at home. All
It's all hard work.
Neither West Bromwich Albion nor Sunderland are very strong, but they are both away games.
Going away after Christmas will be a great psychological stimulus for the players, not to mention playing against Liverpool at home.
Then there will be the FA Cup third round on January 7.
This is the most speechless.
Because Manchester City drew Manchester United!
Yes, the Manchester derby will be played in the third round of the FA Cup. Is there anything more outrageous than this?
Gao Shen really didn't expect that Manchester City's luck would be so bad.
The sixty-four teams in the third round of the FA Cup happened to draw Manchester City and Manchester United together, and they were still on the most terrible schedule.
If Gary Cook hadn't personally supervised the entire lottery process, Gao Shen would have definitely suspected that it was a secret operation.
Another interesting thing is that Leeds United met Arsenal again.
Everyone is familiar with it. Last season, the White Rose met Arsenal in the third round of the FA Cup. As a result, they drew with the Gunners one to one at the Emirates Stadium, but lost in the second round after returning to home.
Gave it to the Gunners and missed promotion.
But this time, by some strange coincidence, he got it again.
The difference is that this time it's Leeds United at their home ground.
Gao Shen was really speechless about this.
But looking at it on the other hand, it seems pretty good.
At least, when Gao Shen was free and called Fernando Lucas, Rudolf Borrell and Sarri to his house for dinner, except for Sarri's bitter look on his face, Lucas and Boley
I'm in a pretty good mood.
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"You know, our Elland Road stadium was full for the League Cup game against Manchester United."
Fernando Lucas explains why he is in a good mood.
Of course Gao Shen knew, "What do you mean..."
"For cup games, we sell loose tickets, and the ticket price is set at 35 yuan. In addition to the stadium sales revenue, although part of it is given to the away fans, our income for that game reached 1.5 million.
GBP."
Leeds United's home attendance has always been very high, but it also depends on the target.
For example, after defeating Manchester United, not to mention playing Aldershot away, they didn't get much money.
Talking about this makes me very depressed.
Leeds United specifically went to discuss with Aldershot because Leeds United's home stadium has a large capacity, a good attendance rate, and fans like to watch it. If the game is played at Leeds United's home stadium, Aldershot can get a better share than at Leeds United's home stadium.
It costs more to play at your own home court.
Of course, Leeds United make more.
But Aldershot refused. The draw was their home field and they were unwilling to change it.
Later, when he played for Crystal Palace, the cost was only about one million pounds, and the attendance rate was not as good as that of Manchester United.
But the next game against Cardiff is very popular. The home game tickets have been sold out, and the team's away game tickets are also sold out. It is expected to earn a lot of money.
The FA Cup is a traditional competition and is more attractive than the League Cup.
The home game against Arsenal will definitely attract a full stadium of fans, and will generate at least more than one million pounds in match-day revenue.
Gao Shen smiled and shook his head.
Look at Lucas, then look at Sarri, this is actually the biggest difference between an operator and a head coach.
For a team like Leeds United, 1.5 million pounds is really a very high income. Since they can't win the championship anyway, why not draw a wealthy team and earn a lot of money?
This is certainly not just the idea of Leeds United, but many teams in lower leagues think so.
But Sarri will definitely quit.
Damn, who doesn’t want to advance?
If you kick out a wealthy club so early, are you going to let others live?
They all stand on their own side and can understand each other.
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Although the season is only halfway through, the team's situation this season is actually quite good.
"We have made a preliminary estimate that this season's revenue should exceed 50 million pounds," Su Qing said.
"So high?" Gao Shen was really surprised.
"Mainly because our match day revenue has skyrocketed. Match day revenue alone is expected to reach 25 million pounds or more, accounting for more than half of our revenue."
At the beginning of the season, season ticket sales alone exceeded the 10 million mark, which is unique among the English Championship teams.
And this is due to what Gao Shen said before, the season ticket return policy.
Later, many teams rushed to imitate Leeds United, but the results were not far as good as the White Rose.
Ultimately, whether this routine can work depends on both the situation and the person.
The remaining match-day income includes, in addition to individual ticket sales for each game, match-day catering sales, fan store sales, and a series of other stadium commercial facilities.
"In addition, we have done well in business operations this year, especially investment promotion, but the proportion of game day income is too heavy. Next, we will definitely increase our efforts in business operations, especially jersey sponsors. We are currently
We are actively contacting several large companies and they are all very interested."
Leeds United is currently enjoying a good momentum, and it is natural that big names such as Adidas, Nike, Puma, Kappa, and Umbro are interested in sponsoring it.
More importantly, thanks to Gao Shen's previous positioning, Leeds United's image on the Internet has been managed very well.
At Elland Road Stadium, there is even a dedicated team of five people in charge of Internet business, including social networks, video platforms, etc. There are also two people in charge of this business in the Chinese branch.
This has led to the fact that although Leeds United is a British Championship team, the number of fans on social networks has exceeded 10 million, making it more popular and well-known than many Premier League teams.
On the video platform, Leeds United’s videos are all short, quick and humorous, and are very popular among young people.
Leeds United is still in an accumulation stage, but its momentum is steadily improving.
The docking is docking, but even if Leeds United is promoted to the Premier League, don't expect to sign a big deal worth more than 10 million at once. This is unrealistic.
Leeds United positions itself as a mid-table team in the Premier League, which is in the price range of five to six million pounds.
But even so, the requirements are still very high.
Don't look at the tens of millions of dollars spent by wealthy teams. Like Juventus, it costs 13 million euros to sign with Nike, and Manchester United in the Premier League costs more than 30 million pounds, but they are wealthy teams.
In fact, in all league systems, it is winner-take-all.
The Premier League is relatively better, and other teams are equally affected. If we were in La Liga, all the other teams combined would probably not be as good as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Under such circumstances, it is still very difficult for Leeds United to sign a shirt sponsorship of five to six million pounds.
One thing that must be said is that by this season, Leeds United's revenue will exceed 50 million pounds, which itself is already making club history, because this is the figure after deducting all player transfer income.
Otherwise, it would definitely be more than this number.
In the English Championship, if you don’t count West Ham United and other relegated teams protected by the parachute policy, Leeds United’s revenue ranks first. This can also be seen that after taking charge of Leeds United for nearly a year, this team has
There have really been earth-shaking changes.
As everyone knows, professional football is all about money, and you can only play it if you have money.
But it is very, very difficult to make money when running a football club. There are not even many in the entire European football world. The vast majority of teams are struggling.
Even though Leeds United's revenue is expected to reach 50 million pounds, which looks very high, in fact, Leeds United's expenses are also very large.
Su Qing has some objections to this, because Leeds United expects salary and bonus expenditures this season to reach 40 million pounds.
This looks great, right?
With an income of 50 million pounds, as the club's largest expenditure, the salary and bonus expenses are only 40 million pounds. Doesn't that mean it can still earn 10 million pounds?
Please, don’t we also include the daily maintenance costs of the stadium and training ground, as well as the daily expenses of the administrative department?
So how much is left after all?
Don't forget, the stadium and training ground are both loaned to Leeds United by Gao Shen, but the rent has not yet been confiscated.
If Gao Shen collects the rent now, I'm sorry to say, it will be great if Leeds United can maintain a balance of payments.
This is actually where Su Qing feels the most "resentful" towards Gao Shen, saying that all Virgo men are weird.
Why?
Because originally Leeds United's salary expenditure did not need to be so much, but after Gao Shen took over, he recruited many professional talents, such as the methodology department, youth training, scouting department and big data center...
This has resulted in Leeds United's current number of employees becoming very large, and the salary expenditure is actually higher than the total salary of the players.
Excuse me, has anyone seen a club where the total salary of players is lower than that of employees?
Leeds United is it!
This is actually a hidden danger and even violates UEFA regulations.
