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Chapter 599 : Unknowingly became the team owner again

Arsenal has basically not invested in the transfer market in recent years, and the money for selling players has basically been spent on filling the shortfall.But since 7000, the foreign debt for the construction of the new stadium has been paid off, and there are still some balances, so in the summer of [-], the club finally took out the legendary [-] million euros.
Of course, the more important reason is the rise of the two local tyrants, Chelsea and Manchester City.Their money signing policy has brought an impact on the traditional Premier League. If the team wants to maintain competitiveness in the league, not to mention the championship, even if they want to get a place in the Champions League, they must have a presence in the transfer market. doing.

And Arsenal made a lot of money last season, among which the change of jersey sponsors made them earn six times more money every year.The previous sponsor was Nike, a sporting goods company that has cooperated with Arsenal for nearly 20 years, and the most expensive contract of Nike is an investment of 500 million pounds in seven years.But as soon as Puma Sports came in, it offered a sky-high price of [-] million pounds for five years.

In other words, Puma Sports alone gave Arsenal more than 700 million euros in one season. If all the money is invested in the transfer market, Arsenal will be able to introduce some bigger and more competitive stars. up.

Speaking of which, Nike Sports is the worst loser.Because they just decided not to renew their contract with Arsenal, and then Arsenal won the first Champions League trophy in the club's century-old history, as well as the FA Cup.

This made the head of strategy and advertising investment and sponsorship of Nike feel embarrassed, and at this time there is no chance to regret it, because Puma, the second largest company in Germany's sports goods, has signed a contract with Arsenal, and the sponsorship fee is higher than that of Nike before. several times higher.

And fans will say that Puma is far-sighted when they are chatting in their spare time. They booked the new Champions League champion within a short time of the season, and Nike is so stupid. It has been digging a golden mountain for 20 years, and it will be dug soon. When it was time for gold, it gave away the golden mountain.
At the same time, the joining of Li Zihan also brought a strong Chinese capital to Arsenal. Among them, Huawei Group is the fastest-moving Chinese company. At the same time, China's real estate giant Wanda Group is also negotiating sponsorship with Arsenal.

In addition to the direct bonuses from the Champions League and the FA Cup that Arsenal won last season, as well as indirect income.It is not surprising that Arsenal can spend so much money this season, because Arsenal is really rich, but it is unexpected that they can spend so much money all at once
In fact, everyone only saw on the surface that Arsenal has always followed a stable and balanced route.It is impossible for them to spend huge sums of money every year like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​so this season, Wenger has completely solved the problems left by the previous team at one time. Take a closer look You know, most of these signings are spent in the midfield and backcourt. There is only one Sanchez in the frontcourt. This was decided after Podolski's transfer and Walcott's long-term injury. Yes, if Chamberlain is more stable and Walcott is not injured, perhaps Wenger may not necessarily introduce Sanchez.

So this season spent more than [-] million signings, Wenger solved all the problems at once.He will only spend a small portion of the funds in subsequent seasons to make adjustments and supplements for individual position changes.

Now, Wenger's biggest problem is how to integrate so many newcomers into Arsenal's system, especially Sanchez. After Li Zihan and Ozil, Sanchez is more embarrassed.Ozil has the right to pass the most crucial final pass outside the penalty area, and as Arsenal's biggest contributor to winning the championship last season, it is also the most promising future for Arsenal fans. Li Zihan has a huge potential on the court. Freedom, even Ozil, the current transfer bid king in Arsenal's team history, must not be as good as him.

So a lot of ball distribution falls in the hands of these two, and Sanchez is the kind of player who prefers to take the ball. If the ball is in the hands of these two for a long time, then what else does Sanchez play?
What's more, there is Cazorla, a very sharp attacking midfielder, who has a lot of control over the ball, and in the midfield, it is basically Ramsey's control of the ball.
This is also what Wenger thought about, so when most of the players had already arrived on the team, he took the team to Mallorca, Spain for intensive training and closed training.

Mallorca is relatively warm all year round, which can be described as spring-like all the year round.There is not much rain here, and at the same time there is sufficient light, which is very suitable as a training base for the team, and many teams come here for training every year.

It is worth mentioning that after Li Zihan came to Mallorca, he heard a wonderful thing.A team that performed well in the Spanish Second Division last season has entered the La Liga stage this season.They have a 75-year professional club history with a perfect zero deficit.But in the end, it is very likely to be relegated to the third level of the Spanish league. The reason is that in many young people, Spanish football has introduced a regulation, that is, the capital of all Spanish second division clubs must reach the Spanish second division. The team's average expenditure is 20.00% five. This is the Spanish Football Association and the government's intention to prevent the team from going bankrupt, but the strange thing is that this regulation will soon bankrupt the new La Liga team.

Eibar is a rural team with a town population of just over 7000, and the only football field can only accommodate 500 people. Therefore, the financial requirements for the Spanish Football Association and the royal family are obviously impossible to achieve.

The current capital of the Eibar club is only 43 euros, but it has no losses or debts. Even the chairman of the Spanish professional league once praised them as "a model club".

But this paradigm is on the verge of bankruptcy.

What's more worth mentioning is that this club has produced two world-class stars, one is the former Real Madrid midfielder, and now the Spanish midfielder Xavi Alonso, who has gone to Bayern Munich on a free transfer, and One of them is now Manchester City's frontcourt playmaker David Silva! !

After the two stars learned of Ebar's situation, they also stood up to support Ebar, the team they had joined when they were children.

According to the law, they must increase their registered capital to 210 million euros within half a month before the deadline for the La Liga registration period, otherwise they will be relegated to the third-tier league, and they are still short of 170 million euros.

Originally, Ebar insisted not to attract overseas investment, but as the registration period was getting closer and local funds were not enough, the Ebar club could only sell its own shares internationally.

It is sold at an average of [-] euros per share.

What's interesting is that many Chinese fans subscribed. Li Zihan also bought a part of the shares after knowing this. He spent 50 euros to buy [-] shares of this country team.

In the final statistics, China has become the second largest overseas shareholder of this new La Liga team, second only to Spanish local capital and American capital, which has long taken a fancy to football. Among them, more than [-] Chinese fans have subscribed. shares.

Li Zihan's [-] shares also made him the club's largest shareholder among individual shareholders, and also the club's fourth largest shareholder.
This caught Li Zihan by surprise.
And Li Zihan became the owner of two teams in the blink of an eye, one of which is a La Liga team, able to appear on the world-class La Liga stage and play against teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona
Li Zihan said in an interview with reporters: "I don't have so many ideas at all, and I don't know that I will become the fourth largest shareholder of this club. When I heard about Eibar, I think they need help. , so I tried to help them as much as possible. 50 euros is not a lot to me, but for this club this is all their previous capital. If this can help them stay in La Liga, I think it's worth it for their fans to see their team playing at the top level."

And the editor-in-chief of a Chinese sports website also said: "Chinese bosses invest in football, either to please the high-level, or to invest purely to make money, but the idea of ​​Chinese fans is very simple: 'Your football dream is my football dream, since The dream is only a little bit short, so I will help him.' I believe that Li Zihan also has the same thoughts of the fans."

For such pretentiousness, oh. Of course, many clubs will not miss this kind of thing that shows their love for football. This not only helps the team but also reflects their love and dedication to football.

Among them, Real Madrid and Barcelona stated that Ebar can apply for players on the loan market. After obtaining the consent of the player himself, they will rent this player to Ebar for a season without charging a penny. The player's ownership club will also provide the loanee with full wages and bonuses for the season.
Although this approach dissatisfied several other La Liga newly promoted teams and teams that need to relegation, it is difficult for everyone to say anything. After all, this is temporary, and things like this in La Liga are not new.

At the beginning, Getafe borrowed players from the two giants Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, and then got the mid-range team Getafe today.

Seeing that this club is related to his "love disciple" Li Zihan, Wenger also said that Arsenal also opened the door to Eibar.

This can be described as a surprise for Eibar.