Reborn Liverpool

Chapter 292
The heat wave of the Premier League is in the ascendant, and Liverpool will usher in the first round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals, and will go to Porto on February 2th.

Porto is a veteran Portuguese team in European football. In terms of strength, it is at most second-rate in Europe, but it has left a great reputation in European football.

The "Europe's No. [-] black shop" that is loved and hated by the major giants - the Porto football team gets rich by buying and selling players. It has been buying low and selling high to earn huge profits to maintain the team's expenses. Buy low and sell high and make a lot of money.

In recent years, this Portuguese team has always been able to discover young talents one after another from the American continent through its unique vision, and then put them on the Dragon Stadium and be tempered by the dragon flames. In the end, success shines through.

The reason why Porto can discover many young talents is not only related to their high-quality youth training, but more importantly, there is no language barrier for players from Brazil and Portuguese-speaking countries in Portugal. At the same time, Portugal’s relaxed immigration environment, This makes the Portuguese Super League a springboard for many South American players to land in the five major leagues.

Therefore, although Porto loses blood every year and replenishes new players every year, this "European black shop" can still guarantee stable results and European qualifications, which is enough to prove its strong scouting network and shrewd team management.

This season, after letting go of Militao, Hector Herrera, Oliver Torres and others, the team can still top the Portuguese Super League. Yas and others performed well and attracted the attention of European teams.

It has to be said that Porto's hematopoietic ability is really strong, and it is even more amazing to count the excellent products that Porto has produced in the past.

James Rodriguez, the famous "J Luo":
In 2010, he landed in Europe and joined Porto Football Club. During the three seasons in Porto, the Colombian contributed double-doubles in almost every season. In the 2010/2011 season, he won the Portuguese Super League, Portuguese Cup and Europa League triple crown with the team achievement.

In the summer of 2013, Ronaldo transferred to Monaco Football Club, a newly promoted local team in Ligue 4500, for 2014 million euros. Then, after winning the World Cup Golden Boot in the 8000 World Cup, he transferred to Real Madrid Football Club for [-] million euros. .

Falcao:
In 2009, the 22-year-old Falcao transferred from River Plate to Porto. During the two years in Portugal, Falcao really grew into a terrible penalty area killer with an average efficiency of 1 goal per game. In the following 2010/2011 season , Falcao even won the UEFA Cup top scorer and the Portuguese Ballon d'Or.

Falcao, who killed the Quartet, joined the La Liga powerhouse Atletico Madrid in 2011 with a transfer fee of 4000 million euros.

Deco:

In 1992, the 22-year-old Deco successfully went to the Porto club in Europe and Deco in Portugal. With his good overall view and practical skills, Deco quickly established his position in the team. O came to the team, Deco began to become the top attacking midfielder in Europe.

In 2004, Deco led the team to win the Champions League and ranked No.2 in the Golden Globe Awards that year, second only to AC Milan star Andriy Shevchenko.Therefore, Barcelona spent 2000 million euros this year, bringing the Brazilian from Porto to Barcelona.

Pepe:

Similar to Deco's experience, Pepe is also a native Brazilian, and then, later chose to play for Portugal.

In 2004, Pepe joined the Portuguese Super League giants Porto Football Club with a transfer fee of 200 million euros.Pepe played for Porto for three seasons. In 2007, La Liga giants Real Madrid signed Pepe for 3000 million euros.

Ricardo Carvalho:

Carvalho is the best product of the Portuguese super giant Porto's own youth training. Carvalho met his own Bole-Mourinho in Porto.

Since 2001, Carvalho has firmly occupied the position of Porto's main central defender. As a lagging central defender, he has achieved all the skills that a first-class central defender can possess with his not very outstanding physical condition. A typical player who "plays with his head" among the world's top central defenders.

In July 2004, Carvalho transferred from Porto to the Premier League Chelsea Football Club for 7 million euros, which broke the record for the transfer fee of a defender in the Chelsea Football Club team at that time.

Porto, as the "No. [-] black shop in Europe", has created a special path for club development with its vicious signing policy and solid youth training path.

Porto is really a very unique team in football. It is definitely not a team that focuses on youth training. It does not produce a large number of high-quality youth training products like Ajax and Southampton.

Porto is only a second-tier team in Europe, and it must be its business methods that attract the attention of fans the most.

Porto is definitely a club that knows how to sell, that is, as long as there is a suitable price, any player can be sold, but it can maintain its own results.

You may say that the Portuguese Super League is of a lower level, but don’t forget that the Portuguese Super League also has Sporting Lisbon and Benfica. In fact, Porto also faces huge competition in the Portuguese Super League.

Zhang Mai's impression of Porto is probably in the 02/03 season, Porto won the Champions League under the leadership of the madman Mourinho.

And Porto also started their extremely successful sales club model during this period, buying low and selling high became their transfer strategy.

Since Mourinho joined the team, Porto president Pinto da Costa has profited by buying young, low-cost talent and selling them to other teams at a higher price a few years later, while It will not weaken Porto's strength.

By acquiring young players with potential and reselling them, in order to keep young players playing, many players will be loaned out. Today, the Porto team has nearly 40 players, many of whom have been loaned to other teams. .

While paying wages for these players has a seemingly huge financial burden, Porto's aim is to find the next big star for long-term profit.

Porto's business model is actually called "Money ball", which is to train young players and then release them at high prices.

In fact, many teams revolve around this business model, such as Ajax, Eindhoven and other medium-sized teams. They all provide a lot of talents for today's football, but the most successful is Porto.

For example, in the summer of 04, Carvalho was sold at a high price to Chelsea, and then Pepe was bought from Marittimo immediately. After Pepe was sold in 07, Bruno Alves was transferred to the B team, and Bruno Al After Weiss sold, he bought Otamendi to replace him.Porto only spent nearly 4 million euros to acquire these four players, but they earned a total of 600 million euros for Porto, which is quite an astonishing figure.

In the history of Porto, Ronaldo is the most expensive player sold. Porto only spent nearly 700 million euros to buy him from Banfield. Three years later, he was sold to Monaco for 4500 million euros.

From the top 10 sales mentioned, Porto's total profit is calculated at 3.395 million euros, which is indeed an astonishing figure.

Since Porto implemented the "Money ball" policy, almost every year, the income exceeds the expenditure, and it is very rare to maintain good results in today's football.

From 2002/03 to 2016/17, Porto spent almost 4.41 million euros on players and received almost 8.9 million euros from sales.Their total profit during this period, only counting the sale and purchase of players, was almost 4.1 million euros.

The Porto team can be said to be a star factory, a star factory that buys low and sells high.

Zhang Mai is now preparing to score more goals on this "Europe's No. [-] black shop", because super giants such as Melo began to wake up as soon as they arrived in the Champions League knockout round, and scoring goals is as easy as picking something out of a pocket.

(End of this chapter)