Ever since he decided to leave Barcelona, Su Dong has been looking for a new team.
Stars at his level basically don't need to worry about not playing football. The difference lies in transfer fees, annual salary and other factors.
But it is precisely because of these restrictions that Su Dong has few choices, and they are basically all major wealthy families.
Manchester United had contact with Mendes, but the Glazer family showed little interest.
After successfully acquiring Manchester United, this family was heavily in debt. They wanted to suck blood from Manchester United more than they thought about how great they would make this team. To a certain extent, they were even different from Arsenal.
The situation is somewhat similar to the situation of Xiaofang. As long as they stay in the top four in the league, they basically don't have to worry about it.
But after Su Dong terminated his professional contract with Barcelona, Manchester United began to show interest.
However, Su Dong and Mendes have already had many contacts and in-depth exchanges with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga.
It can be said that Bayern is a team that has maintained close contact with Sudong from beginning to end.
Previously, they expressed their willingness to raise funds to buy Su Dong, provided that the transfer fee could be controlled within an acceptable range. Later, Su Dong terminated his contract with Barcelona, and Bayern Munich immediately became more eager.
After many discussions, it was found that the strategies of Sudong and Bayern Munich have a lot in common.
First of all, Su Dongzhi is in the Champions League, and Bayern is determined to hit a Champions League in the next two to three years.
Secondly, Bayern Munich has very healthy finances.
In terms of wealth, it cannot be compared with wealthy teams such as Chelsea and Real Madrid, but in terms of financial health, Bayern is definitely the healthiest and most sustainable giant in European football.
This is the conclusion Su Dong came to after seeing Bayern Munich's financial annual reports over the past few years.
How healthy is it?
Among the many giant teams in Europe, Bayern's revenue is only slightly worse than Manchester United in the Premier League, Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.
Interestingly, Bayern is not ranked among the many wealthy teams in Europe in terms of match-day revenue, because their ticket prices are the lowest, but this also makes Bayern's games almost full.
As for broadcasting revenue, Bayern is also the lowest among the wealthy teams, even similar to the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League.
The reason why Bayern can compete with top giants such as Real Madrid and Manchester United in terms of financial revenue is due to their excellent commercial income. In other words, in terms of earning power, Bayern is not inferior to Manchester United and Real Madrid.
A few streets in Barcelona are fine.
This is very interesting.
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"I have a question. Why is it that when I look at Bayern's financial statements, their total profit every year is tens of millions of euros, but in the end, after deducting taxes, the net profit is only two to three million euros?"
Su Dong looked at Wang Chuqing, Mendes, Ma Dawei and others in confusion, and asked the doubts in his heart.
"If it happens like this every year, it's understandable, but if it happens like this every year, I'm a little curious."
Ma Dawei also knew nothing about finance, but Wang Chuqing took the financial statement from Su Dong's hand with a smile, turned over two pages, and pointed out one of the places, "You see, the devil is in the details."
"Depreciation?" Su Dong was greatly surprised.
Looking through others, I found that this is the case every year, with tens of millions in depreciation.
In other words, depreciation has reduced the team's profits.
"Actually, Bayern is very rich. If you look at their data, labor expenses over the years, also known as salary costs, have always been controlled at about 50% of the team's revenue. This is very, very healthy.
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Wang Chuqing said with admiration, "I have looked through the financial reports of so many wealthy teams, and there are only three teams that can do this, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Bayern."
Su Dong suddenly realized, no wonder when Real Madrid sold Makelele, many people said it was to reduce salary expenses.
"Actually, Bayern and Arsenal are similar. They are both burdened with the debt of the new stadium. Especially this year, Munich 1860 can no longer afford the loans and expenses of the Allianz Arena due to financial problems, so they decided to withdraw and Bayern Munich fully acquired it.
This will increase their spending pressure, but overall, they are still very healthy."
Just as Wang Chuqing finished his analysis, Mendes chuckled and said: "Don't worry, Bayern has deposited I don't know how much money it has in the bank. Those old foxes are all misers like Grandet, they can only get in but not get out."
Su Dong and others laughed when they heard this.
The reason why he is concerned about Bayern's finances is that he wants to know whether it is possible for Bayern to support the prospect he wants, which is to form a team capable of winning three consecutive Champions League titles.
He decided to leave Barcelona. The important thing is that he felt that there was no chance of Barcelona this year.
Why is there no play?
Because after defending their title at their peak, Barcelona's players obviously started to slack off.
For example, Ronaldinho and Deco are basically unattended now.
After Tenkat left the team, Neeskens and Eusebio could not fill his vacancy. This led to Rijkaard having to do everything himself, and even had to worry about the management of the locker room, because Neeskens could not control himself.
Ronaldinho and Deco.
The two Brazilian men often go to nightclubs, which is well known in Barcelona.
After leaving Barcelona, Su Dong wanted to go to a team that could compete for three consecutive championships.
Bayern's league environment is very good, and the competitive pressure of the Bundesliga is relatively small, which allows Bayern to devote more attention to the Champions League. This is also an issue Su Dong considers.
If it's suitable in all aspects, then all that's left is Bayern's recruitment efforts.
There is a saying in European football that you may not win the championship if you burn money, but you will definitely not win the championship if you don't burn money.
After seeing that Bayern did have a strong foundation, Su Dong was relieved.
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Su Dong chose to meet with Beckenbauer and others in a manor hotel on the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal.
The entire meeting was arranged by Mendes himself. Both parties took a private plane to Lisbon and did not disclose their whereabouts during the entire process.
Four people came from Bayern, Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, Hoeness and Hopfner. On Su Dong's side, Su Dong, Wang Chuqing, Mendes and Ma Dawei came forward. Among them, Wang Chuqing was responsible for translation and
Legal related issues.
It can be said that both parties have made sufficient preparations and are sincere to each other, so the entire meeting process went very smoothly.
On behalf of Bayern Munich, Beckenbauer promised Su Dong that he would continue to invest in the future to ensure the team's competitiveness in the European arena, and at the same time, he would also build a team with Su Dong as the core.
"We hope that you can lead Bayern to achieve renaissance in the European arena in the next few years."
Beckenbauer said that Bayern has begun preparations for this, including Ribery and Modric, etc., who are Bayern Munich's signing targets.
Sudong is very familiar with Franck Ribery, who is known as the new Zidane and has shined in the World Cup, but he is a bit unfamiliar with Modric because he is not familiar with the leagues in Eastern Europe.
But it doesn't matter, Bayern prepared a video of Modric's game for him.
Su Dong also made no secret of his ambition. He said that if he went to Bayern, he would have only one purpose.
"Champions League! Champions League! Champions League!" Su Dong emphasized the important matter three times.
"You all know that I can't participate in the World Cup. The Champions League is my World Cup!"
Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, Hoeness and others all smiled and nodded. This is Su Dong's goal and also Bayern's goal.
As the leader of German football, if Bayern cannot achieve a breakthrough in performance, other Bundesliga teams will only suffer even worse.
After confirming the tone of cooperation, Beckenbauer invited Su Dong to go outside and left the specific negotiations to his agent, Hoeness and others. The reason was also very simple. What was to be discussed next were some shootings.
There is no need for them to get involved in the table matter.
That's what a broker does, it's like a firewall.
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Su Dong walked around the garden with Beckenbauer and listened to the football emperor introducing the situation of the Bundesliga.
Beckenbauer believes that the outside world has a deep misunderstanding of the Bundesliga, thinking that the Bundesliga is dominated by Bayern, but in fact it is not.
Every championship won by Bayern is very hard to come by. Once something goes wrong, it is easy to lose the championship.
Just like this season, Bayern is currently ranked fourth in the league. Is this the ranking that a dominant player in the Bundesliga should have?
"It's a little embarrassing to say it. Since the beginning of the 2000s, in the past seven years, we have won four Bundesliga championships, but we have only won one Bundesliga Golden Boot award, which is Elber."
"Even before Elber, our last winner of the Bundesliga Golden Boot was Roland Wolfart in 1991. I hope you will also be mentally prepared, that is, to score goals in the Bundesliga.
, actually it’s not that easy.”
"Did you know? The last time the Bundesliga scored more than 30 Golden Boot goals was thirty years ago. From 1997 and 1998, Kirsten won the Golden Boot for two consecutive years. It has been eight years now.
There have been eight Golden Boots in the Bundesliga, but not only have they not successfully defended their title, but no one has even been able to win it a second time.”
"Why?" Su Dong was surprised.
He really didn't pay attention to what Beckenbauer said.
"There are many reasons, including the management problems of the Bundesliga team, the stability of the club's technical and tactical problems, and the problems of two-line operations, etc. Many, in the case of Bayern, I think the team's tactical style is also part of the reason, as well as the players themselves.
It’s also a problem.”
It can be seen that Beckenbauer is not very satisfied with Roy Mackay's performance at Bayern.
"We all look forward to seeing you lead Bayern to play more attacking football, just like you did in Valencia and Barcelona, igniting our market, inspiring our fans, and also for us.
Bring more championships, including the Champions League you are looking forward to."
Su Dong felt Beckenbauer's sincerity and expectations, nodded with a smile, and stretched out his hand, "Don't worry, I have only one purpose in going to the Bundesliga, and that is to win the championship, all the championships!"
"I am convinced!" Beckenbauer firmly held Su Dong's hand.
