MM Racing Chapter 296 Signing Ceremony
Chapter 296 Signing Ceremony
Chapter 296 Signing Ceremony
Dortmund!
If you think he is not a giant, then some people will say that this club defeated Juventus in the 1997 Champions League final to win the Champions League.
If you think he is a wealthy family, then some people will say that this club almost went bankrupt around 2005, just like Parma now, relying on selling people to pay off debts.
If you let me say that compared with another giant in Germany "Bayern Munich", Dortmund is better than Bayern in terms of youth training, stadium atmosphere, and fan loyalty, but there is one thing Bayern is doing very well, that is, they have a manager who knows how to manage money, "Hoeness".
Hoeness is a well-known "stingy guy" in the football circle. Other giants spend a lot of money to buy people, but Hoeness even cares about hundreds of thousands of euros.At that time, the Dutch star Ma Kai transferred from "Deportivo" to Bayern. According to UEFA regulations, Ma Kai's home team in the Dutch youth training team can also receive hundreds of thousands of euros in training fees.
But Deportivo felt that Bayern should pay the money, and Bayern felt that Deportivo should pay. As a result, Bayern was willing to pay the transfer fee of 2000 million euros, but Hoeness was unwilling to pay for such a small amount of money.
But it is such a "stingy ghost" Hoeness who has gradually turned Bayern into a real "big money". Hoeness's business philosophy is not to borrow money to buy people, but how capable he is to buy big-name players.
Looking back later, Bayern fans should really thank him. The initial reason for Dortmund's debt crisis after 2005 was that it borrowed huge sums of money to buy stars such as "Amoruso", "Rosicky" and "Jan Koller" in 2001, causing the club to make ends meet.
Perhaps the lessons of that year were too painful. Since "Klopp" took office in 2008, over the years, Dortmund has insisted on only buying the right ones and not expensive ones. Many players they bought were unknown, but they all became superstars in the end.
Under this pragmatic business philosophy, after four or five years, Dortmund has risen again. In 2011 and 2012, Dortmund won the Bundesliga championship for two consecutive years, and reached the Champions League final in 2013, but lost the last goal to Bayern, which was in full swing at the time.
From the glory in the late 90s, to the bankruptcy crisis in the mid-10s of this century, and to the current rise, Dortmund is a team with a story, a foundation, and great strength.
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For any team, success is easy, but the difficulty is to maintain success. Borussia Dortmund, whose performance is advancing by leaps and bounds, has naturally become the target of European giants. Last year, the golden boy "Götze" was poached by Bayern. .
During the World Cup, Dortmund's iron triangle-head coach "Klopp", club manager "Zork", and club CEO "Watzke" met to discuss preparations for the next season.
What do you need to keep these people in the club?Not relying on money, but relying on performance. For this reason, buying players to improve their strength in the summer is a top priority. Therefore, during the World Cup in Brazil, Dortmund sent all the scouts of the club to Brazil to inspect players.
Soon Dortmund scouts provided Klopp with several people as references, namely Colombia's "James Rodriguez", Costa Rica's "Brian Ruiz", and Italy's "Imobile".
Klopp handed over the list to the club manager, and he will make contact, but once contacted, except for Immobile's club, the price is more reasonable, around 2000 million euros.Other teams are all lions. Monaco, where Rodriguez is located, needs 7000 million euros. Dortmund's transfer budget for two seasons is about the same amount.
During the World Cup group stage, Dortmund manager "Zorc" contacted almost 10 clubs back and forth, but they couldn't negotiate. Either the other party said it was not for sale, or the price was ridiculously high.
Zorc was frustrated by successive failures, and he found Klopp to have a chat.
"Jurgen (Klopp), I'm afraid I'm sorry for you. It's not that I'm not willing to spend money to buy you someone, but I don't want the tragedy of the broken funds to repeat itself,"
Klopp showed a signature smile and said: "Michael (Zorc), you don't need to say more, I am not coaching a team like Manchester City or Paris Saint-Germain, I will not ask for more than the club's budget, not even one euro."
Zorc is very pleased. After Klopp came, the team's performance has improved by leaps and bounds. However, Klopp never asked for an increase in the transfer budget.
"It's all the damn Bayern, they took Lewandowski without spending a penny, you know, if we want to find a striker of the same level in the transfer market, it will cost at least 5000 million," Zorc said.
Klopp smiled again and said, "Michael, it's not the first day we've been in the professional football circle. The law of the jungle is the most basic rule in this circle. Now the most important thing is to introduce one or two capable players as supplements."
Zorc and Klopp have worked together for many years, and he guessed what Klopp said from the tone of his speech.
"Do you have a goal?"
Klopp didn't keep his secrets anymore. He turned on the LCD TV in the office and called up the prepared video. It was the match between China and Nigeria. Zorc usually only watched the matches of strong teams. He didn't watch the matches of the Chinese team.
"Have you taken a fancy to Mikel from Nigeria?"Zork asked.
Klopp shook his head with a smile, "Don't worry, I'll talk about it after reading it."
After watching the highlights of the game for about 20 minutes, the smart Zorc smiled, "I guess you have taken a fancy to him."
After speaking, Zorke stretched out 9 fingers.
Klopp laughed and clapped his hands, "How is it?"
"Yes, the technology meets Dortmund's requirements, and more importantly, it can open up the Chinese market."
"That has to be done quickly," Klopp said.
"Why? There are still people robbing Chinese players"?
"How do you know that Bayern will not grab it? They have always wanted to explore the Asian market."
Zork suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He thought to himself: "Yes, we introduced Shinji Kagawa a few years ago, and it turned out that Bayern followed suit and introduced a Japanese one year later."
"This hateful Bayern, there are so many players in the world, but they like to rob our people, Gotze, Lewandowski, maybe they want to rob our Chinese No. 9 again."
Klopp chuckled and thought: "The method of aggressiveness is done."
After making up his mind, Zorke worked non-stop on Li Qiao's transfer, and even flew directly to Guangzhou for this.
At the beginning, Zorc offered 800 million euros, but Guangzhou Tianbao rejected it without even thinking about it. The manager of Guangzhou Tianbao said that such insulting offers should not happen in the future.
The hole card in Zork’s heart was 2000 million euros. If the price exceeded this price, he would return to China immediately. So he tried to quote the price twice, one time was 2 million, but Guangzhou Tianbao ignored him. When the price reached 1200 million, Guangzhou Tianbao let go and said that he could talk.
Negotiations were very difficult. Guangzhou Tianbao was confident. They thought they would wait until after the World Cup. Zorc knew that after the World Cup, the day lily would be cold.In the end, Zorc resorted to his trump card, 1500 million euros plus the one-year loan right of Dortmund teenager "Hoffman". You must know that Hoffman is a U21 player of the German national team.
Guangzhou Tianbao didn't care about the price difference of several million euros, but Hoffman's joining could offset the loss of Li Qiao's departure. This is the most important point, and finally the two teams reached an agreement.
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At the signing press conference on August 8st, all the major German media were present - "Kicker Magazine", "Bild" and so on. Of course, because the signing was a Chinese player, CCTV also dispatched a reporting team.
Dortmund attended the club manager "Zork", the club CEO "Watzke", and the head coach "Klopp".
On Li Qiao's side, Li Shan, Stan and Li Qiao attended.
Sitting on the signing table were Li Qiao and Zorc. The staff presented contracts, one in front of Li Qiao and the other in front of Zorc. Dortmund gave Li Qiao an annual salary of 150 million euros after tax, a 4-year contract, and a liquidated damages of 4000 million.
The final liquidated damages were originally resolutely refused by Dortmund, because they had already suffered a loss. Gotze was forcibly poached by Bayern because one of his contracts was a liquidated damages of 3700 million euros, so Bayern took the money away last summer.
But the experienced Stan insisted on adding liquidated damages, otherwise he would not sign. Stan thought that if Li Qiao played in Dortmund for two years and was spotted by other giants, it would be bad if Dortmund would not let him go.
Dortmund said that it is okay to write liquidated damages, but it needs to be priced at 1 million euros. Stein thought that was equivalent to not writing it, and still refused to agree.In the end, Dortmund, who was eager to sign someone, gave in after much deliberation, and Zorc didn't quite believe that Li Qiao would be poached soon.
When Li Qiao signed his name on the contract, flashing lights flashed in the audience. After signing, Li Qiao and Zorc drank a glass of champagne, and then Zorc took a jersey and showed it to Li Qiao.
Under the attention of thousands of people and dozens of media taking pictures, "China Joe" showed the brightest smile, "Bundesliga, here I come."
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