Chapter 210 I have never fought such a rich battle in my life
Chapter 210 I have never fought such a rich battle in my life
Yes, Pan Yi is already planning for next season.
At this time, the Bundesliga has finished its 24th round.
Since Hamburg played a draw and Bayern still advanced with a complete victory, the point difference between the two widened to 9 points.
Bayern currently has 20 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss with 63 points, while Hamburg has 16 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses with 54 points.
But at the same time, the gap between Hamburg and third place is also widening.
After all, this season, especially in the second half of the season, no team has performed more consistently than Bayern and Hamburg.
From third to sixth, Dortmund now has 46 points, Leverkusen has 45 points, Frankfurt has 38 points, and Schalke 04 has 36 points.
In other words, there is already an 8-point gap between Hamburg and Dortmund, which is closest to itself!
From the perspective of competing for Champions League seats, since the Bundesliga has four participating seats, compared with Frankfurt, which is ranked fifth, Hamburg's lead is as much as 16 points!
With 10 rounds left in the league, with this 16-point gap, unless Hamburg collapses immediately, it will be difficult for the following teams to catch up.
In other words, Hamburg actually already has one foot in the Champions League.
Therefore, since Yakhov came to talk to him about contract renewal today, Pan Yi would like to talk to him in advance about the budget for next season.
After purchasing and running in this season, Hamburg's current lineup is already very good, but it is only based on single-line operations this season.
If the Champions League is to be played next season and the German Cup is not given up easily, these people will definitely not be enough.
Not even with Pintus here!
Frequent double races a week, the fatigue of driving and horse racing, etc., will grind even an iron man to a needle, and his condition will have great ups and downs.
Although there are some people who are extremely talented and may be fine even after playing for a whole year - such as Barcelona veteran Pedri, such people are still in the minority after all.
Pan Yi doesn't want to be like some small and medium-sized teams that suddenly have the opportunity to play in the European competition, and then get relegated while playing.
So we need to buy people, and to buy people we have to reach out to the chairman and ask for money.
But now, Yahov finally understood what Pan Yi meant.
He smiled.
He walked forward and patted Pan Yi's shoulder gently: "Don't worry, as long as we really reach the Champions League this season, I will give you 30 million... No, 40 million for you! Also, if you
If players are sold, you can still add 100% of the income to your transfer budget in the summer window!"
This is definitely a big deal.
The reason why Yahov can be so generous is not only to make Pan Yi feel the "warmth of home" with sincerity and keep his heart, but of course because he now has money in his hands, or is about to have one.
Money.
Of course, it's not because a mine was dug under the People's Park stadium. There is such a thing as a mine under the stadium. Only a few teams can do it.
Apart from anything else, as long as Hamburg can enter the Champions League next season, even if it loses all in the group stage, it will still receive a bonus of at least 15 million euros!
And if you can win a game, it will be about 2.5 million euros, and if you draw a game, it will be 7.8 million euros.
The cumulative total is about 20 million. After all, Hamburg is now the second level of the Bundesliga. No matter how bad it is, it won't be unable to win a group stage, right?
If you can reach the top 16, top 8, or even further behind, the bonus will be even greater. For example, the quarter-final bonus is about 10 million.
Of course, this Yachov did not include it in the guaranteed income for now, and just treated it as if he only played in the group stage and went home.
Then there is the additional broadcast fee share obtained by participating in the Champions League.
This depends on the team's influence and performance, after all, these will affect the ratings.
For example, teams like Bayern, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Milan have more points.
Take AC Milan, which won the championship last season, as an example. Their bonuses and broadcast fee sharing added up to more than 75 million euros!
Although Hamburg has not achieved much in recent years, under the influence of Pan Yi and the Asian stars in the team, it is estimated that the broadcast in Asia will still be relatively popular, and it is expected that a lot of money will be shared.
Don’t count too much, it’s probably 10 million.
The total revenue here is estimated to be 30 million.
The benefits for teams participating in the Champions League go beyond this.
Because the attendance of almost every Champions League game is full, and the team earns a lot from the tickets alone.
The average ticket price for Hamburg League home games is now 38 euros, and during Champions League games it can be around 60 euros, or even more.
With 50,000 people attending each game at the People's Park Stadium, the ticket revenue for each game is more than 2.5 million.
Even if they only play three home games in the group stage, the income here will be around 10 million.
It's still the same, the further back you play, the more expensive the tickets will be and the more income you will earn.
In addition, teams that enter the Champions League will have higher bids when facing sponsors, including courtside billboards, jersey advertisements, etc., which can be sold at good prices.
It’s not too much to earn an extra ten to twenty million in total.
This is all "future" money, that is, the extra money Hamburg can get after entering the Champions League.
At present, due to Hamburg's good performance in the Bundesliga, the increase in box office, the influx of sponsors, and the increase in broadcast fees have not yet been taken into account.
In fact, if you take a closer look, the sales volume of fan stores has increased significantly, and the sales of player jerseys and peripherals have been huge worldwide...
For a while, Yachov couldn't figure out how much money he made.
Therefore, when Yakov first said "30 million", he immediately felt that he was a bit stingy.
After all, at the beginning of this season, when Hamburg was still a relegation team, he provided Pan Yi with 25 million in funds!
Now that he is going to play in the Champions League, it can be said that Pan Yi helped him earn all this money, so he might as well pay it all.
So he immediately changed his story and mentioned it to "40 million."
In fact, in Yahov's heart, it doesn't matter if Pan Yi wants more.
After all, the 25 million he paid out at the beginning of the season...
I don’t know how much it has risen now!
After Pan Yi's various precise operations, and after nearly a season of training and competition, the value of these Hamburg players has become higher and higher.
De Bruyne, Vardy, Wu Lei, Casemiro, Carvajal, Navas...
All of them are worth upwards of 10 to 20 million.
Even including Paulinho and Robertson, who only joined in the second half of the season, their values have increased by more than 100%.
There are also players such as Son Heung-min and Lin Zhijian who were originally in the Hamburg team, and their values have also increased to varying degrees.
What kind of head coach is Pan Yi?
This is Buffett in football!
To say the least, the 25 million has turned into at least 100 million.
This return on investment... tsk tsk.
Therefore, Yahov is convinced that if you give money to Pan Yi, you will never lose money, on the contrary, you will make more and more!
As for Yahov's promise, Pan Yi was quite satisfied.
Hamburg's current main structure is relatively stable. In fact, as long as some rotation players are added in a few positions, they can cope with the pressure of multi-line operations.
The price of rotating players is generally not too expensive, and Pan Yi's "eyes in the sky" can often find high-quality and cheap players, so 40 million in funds is indeed enough.
After all, this is just Hamburg, not Bayern or any rich Premier League team.
It is not easy for an ordinary Bundesliga team to spend so much money.
In addition, there will definitely be players leaving next season, so there is no problem in raising a few more million here, so the total transfer budget may reach about 50 million euros.
I, Lao Pan, have never fought such a wealthy battle in my life!
Pan Yi was already happy and naturally did not bargain with Yahov anymore.
This is settled!
As for the new contract extension, Pan Yi still insisted on fulfilling the current contract first, and said, "The salary increase given to me is not as good as leaving it to the club to use it where it is more needed." So Yachov could only give up first.
He was also moved!
Where can I find a coach like Pan Yi who is not interested in personal gain but only cares about the club?
Moreover, Pan Yi has started planning games and personnel arrangements for Hamburg next season from now on. How could he suddenly leave the team?
He really considers Hamburg his home!
So Yahov put down the stone hanging on his chest first.
As for Pan Yi, he mainly does not want to be bound by a contract.
Let’s talk about the future in the future.
Who knows what will happen in more than a year?
He wants to carve out a niche in Hamburg first and then think about the future.
Of course, we still have to wait until the end of the season to determine exactly what kind of players to buy in the next transfer window.
After all, the league is not over yet, and maybe some players will become enlightened as they continue to play, and their level will improve and they can be qualified for rotation or even the main role.
This is quite common in world football. When a new player emerges or an old tree blooms new flowers, it is equivalent to a strong signing.
By that time, Pan Yi might be able to use the transfer funds to buy some high-end goods for fun.
As for a salary increase?
As a time traveler, there are countless ways to make money, and this salary is really nothing.
He has even started his plan to make money, and it is a much easier way than betting on football.
Yes, your guess is correct.
It’s Bitcoin!
This is essential financial management knowledge for time travellers.
For a long time in 2012, the price of Bitcoin fluctuated around $10.
Since 2013, Bitcoin has entered a stage of rapid growth, and its price has rapidly increased to hundreds of dollars.
This continued until 2017, when Bitcoin reached US$20,000!
Later, it rose crazily to 30,000, 40,000, 50,000, 60,000...
Pan Yi was not very greedy in the first place. Secondly, he was afraid that buying too much would affect the market conditions of the original timeline or attract other people's attention. After he joined Hamburg, he took money to buy some Bitcoins from time to time and kept them.
Too many sex purchases.
I probably just buy a few hundred coins every once in a while when I see the price is lower today.
Over the past few months, Pan Yi probably saved about 10,000 coins, which cost him about 100,000 US dollars.
This is small money for him. Not to mention that Pan Yi's current annual salary is 1 million euros. The income from the endorsement of FM2013 is enough for him to squander.
And these 10,000 Bitcoins can then be exchanged for...
Not to mention too much, let’s just say it costs 10,000 yuan to replace it around 2017.
That’s 10,000 X 10,000 = 100 million US dollars!
Oh ho ho ho...
Getting 100 million with almost no risk at all is not more comfortable than gambling with a lot of money and then being chased by gambling companies?
It’s much easier than speculating real estate, setting up a company, etc.
This is almost like making money while lying down!
As for how to use so much money and where to use it?
Pan Yi hasn't thought about it yet.
After all, the time has not yet come and the money has not really turned into real money.
…
A week after the victory over Fürth, Hamburg ushered in the 25th round of the Bundesliga and challenged Stuttgart away.
The Hamburg players seemed a little unexcited in this game. It was an away game, and the overall performance was not satisfactory.
Stuttgart, which is still fighting for relegation this season, played very well, launching wave after wave of attacks against Hamburg amid the cheers of 60,000 fans at the Mercedes-Benz Arena.
But now Hamburg, even in a bad state, can still perform at a passable level. It will not be said that it will be beaten by the opponent, but will try its best to adjust its state during the game, and then slowly
Slowly get back on the right track.
In other words, their lower limit has been raised a lot.
This is also a clear sign that a team is slowly improving to become a strong team.
Just like a team like Huang Saren, no matter how bad their form is, they always have a basic base when playing, and they will not play too outrageously when they encounter opponents who are weaker than themselves.
After withstanding several attacks from Stuttgart, Hamburg's young players began to counterattack.
In the 78th minute, Calhanoglu, who came on as a substitute, took a corner kick. Facing his old club, Rudiger overwhelmed the opponent's defender and goalkeeper and scored with a header.
Rudiger, who came from Stuttgart's youth training, did not celebrate after scoring, and the Stuttgart fans also applauded this former child of theirs.
And this was the only goal in the game.
In the subsequent games, both sides also created a lot of opportunities, but either the shots lacked the accuracy or the goalkeepers of both sides made timely saves. In short, they never scored again.
In the end, Hamburg defeated Stuttgart 1-0 away with Rudiger's goal!
…
Four days later, in the 26th round of the Bundesliga, Hamburg faced Augsburg at home.
The situation in Augsburg is even worse than in Stuttgart.
After 25 rounds, they are ranked third from the bottom with 21 points with 4 wins, 9 draws and 12 losses, 8 points less than Stuttgart, which is ranked 14th.
But since Augsburg had tied Hamburg 0:0 at home in the first round, they wanted to repeat the same trick this time and put up a 541 defensive formation to deal with Hamburg's attack.
They let two Korean midfielders, Ji Dongyuan and Gu Jizhe, cooperate with the back line in the midfield to carry out sweeps, while only Moldes was left in the forward line to harass and counterattack.
But now Hamburg has considerable offensive ability, and it is definitely not the team that was easily confused when faced with the iron barrel formation in the first half of the season.
Due to the short interval between the two rounds, in order to avoid injuries and fatigue accumulation, Pan Yi also used rotation players such as Calhanoglu, Lin Zhijian, Westerman, and Janssen in this game, but at home
Despite the cheers of the fans, he still performed at a good level.
Less than 10 minutes into the game, Janssen's pass from the wing caused a mistake by the opponent's defender Blake. His tackle accidentally knocked the ball into his own goal.
This accident also quickly put Augsburg's pre-match plans in vain. They had to pull their line forward to try to find a chance to get a goal back.
But after taking a one-goal lead, Hamburg got better and better.
In the 35th minute of the game, Hamburg launched a quick counterattack.
Calhanoglu sent a wonderful pass from the middle. Lin Zhijian stopped the ball sideways and squeezed away the defender. He fired an angry shot from the top of the penalty area and penetrated the Augsburg goal, further expanding the score to 2:0!
While the Augsburg players were still stunned, only two minutes later, Hamburg took advantage of the victory and scored the third goal of the game.
This was another quick attack from the wing. After getting the ball, Carvajal forced a breakthrough from the bottom line, rushed into the penalty area, and assisted Paulinho, who then came in and scored another victory, 3-0!
After that, the game slowed down for both sides.
Augsburg obviously didn't want to be beaten by Hamburg like Fürth, but Pan Yi also took the initiative to let the players recover, and the fight was not so fierce.
On the premise of ensuring that we win the game, the most important thing now is not to get any unnecessary injuries!
Shortly after the start of the second half, Pan Yi replaced Berry, Bruma, Dickmeier and other substitute players. There were almost no regular starters on the field.
At this time, Hamburg's overall playing style was really affected. Augsburg took the opportunity to launch a counterattack and in the 77th minute, South Korean midfielder Koo Ja-cheol pulled a goal back with a long shot.
After the two sides continued to be in a stalemate for more than ten minutes, the game ended.
In the end, Hamburg defeated Augsburg 3:1 at home and scored three points again.
…
While Hamburg has won three consecutive victories, Bayern Munich has won a terrifying nine consecutive victories!
In other words, since the last round of the first half of the season, that is, the 17th round, they were tied 1:1 by Monchengladbach. Since the start of the second half of the season, they have not scored a single point in the Bundesliga.
Lost it.
In the past 26th round, they even defeated their strong rival Bayer Leverkusen 2:1 in an away game.
In fact, they did not win this game easily. Facing a pharmaceutical company that was at a critical moment in their fight for a Champions League spot, Bayern only broke the deadlock in the 37th minute with Gomez.
But in the 75th minute of the second half, midfielder Rolfs' shot helped Leverkusen equalize the score.
In the end, it was not until the 87th minute that Leverkusen defender Wahl Hed accidentally scored an own goal, allowing Bayern to take away three points at the Bayer Arena.
However, this defeat did not change Leverkusen's ranking in the Bundesliga standings.
They are still ranked fourth with 45 points, and the top three are still Bayern with 69 points, Hamburg with 60 points, and Dortmund with 49 points.
Frankfurt and Schalke 04 are still ranked fifth and sixth, with 39 points.
The next 27th round of the league will be very eye-catching.
Because Bayern Munich will face Hamburg at home!
This will be a head-to-head confrontation between the first and second teams in the Bundesliga. It can also be considered a battle between the two teams in the best condition this season!
Moreover, in the eyes of some people, the nine-point gap between the two is not an insurmountable gap.
What if Hamburg overthrows Bayern in the away game?
That's only a 6-point difference.
Then there are still seven games left in the game, so it is possible for some miracle or something to happen.
"The Bundesliga title race has just begun!"
“There is still hope for Hamburg to catch up!”
"Can Pan Yi create an even greater miracle?"
So said the local newspaper in Hamburg.
But Pan Yi, who was at the center of the whirlpool of public opinion, remained calm.
He understands that although Hamburg has made great progress, Bayern is now more difficult to deal with than it was in the first half of the season after getting used to the new players.
At this time, they are truly complete!
Bayern's coach Heynckes was still fine-tuning the lineup in the first half of the season in order to select the best style of play for these players. Therefore, in some games, the state was not stable and would be disrupted.
Teams like Nuremberg and Borussia drew.
Including the loss to Hamburg, it actually suffered a bit from underestimating the enemy. The players failed to form a tacit understanding and failed to respond immediately to Hamburg's midfield blocking tactics.
But in the second half of the season, there will be no such problem.
Their unbeatable record in the league in the second half of the season proves this.
More importantly, Pan Yi is a time traveler and he knows the plot of the future.
In his previous life, Bayern had only one draw in 17 games in the second half of the 2012-2013 season, a 1:1 draw with Dortmund.
And they won all the remaining 16 games!
In the game against "Old Hamburg", which is the upcoming 27th round, Bayern even slaughtered its opponent with a score of 9:2.
Now that Hamburg has Pan Yi, there will naturally be changes in this timeline. Hamburg will definitely not lose so many goals to Bayern, but Bayern's strength is there, neither increasing nor decreasing.
Moreover, even if Hamburg can really defeat Bayern in this away game and maintain a complete victory in the remaining games, there is no way to surpass the current super stable Bayern.
They scored 4:0, 3:0, 6:1, sparking and lightning all the way from Nantianmen to... No, they scored from Phil to Wolfsburg. It is hard to imagine that they would suddenly collapse and lose points.
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What's more, it is difficult for Hamburg itself to achieve a complete victory. After all, the remaining opponents include Wolfsburg, Leverkusen, and Mainz, which are more difficult opponents.
Of course, Pan Yi will not just surrender.
He still hopes to build the players' confidence in a showdown with a super giant like Bayern Munich.
Even if you can't win in the end, as long as you can perform to your due level in front of such a strong enemy, you can lay a psychological foundation for a comeback next season.
Therefore, preparations still need to be made.
It just so happens that Bayern Munich will have a match in the Champions League in a few days. Pan Yi can go to the scene to observe and see if there are any weaknesses in Bayern that can be exploited...