champion professor

Chapter 194 Countdown to the New Stadium

Although Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal have been rivals in the same city derby for a hundred years, they are far inferior to Arsenal in terms of the number of championships and the time they have stayed in the top league.

Now, it may take quite a long time for the once again turbulent White Hart Lane to regain its form and catch up with its sworn enemy.

Couldn't Arsenal have improved during this time?

Although they failed to win the undefeated league championship, Arsenal's 31-game unbeaten record is still the longest unbeaten record since the new century-of course, the new century has just played for one season.

Arsenal, which is now in the limelight, has already started to prepare for the new stadium construction project.

As a veteran team, Arsenal's strength is obvious to all, and they also have a long history, not to mention that they are the team that has stayed in the top league for the longest time in the UK.

However, although their strength is strong, they have many limitations. As a result, Arsenal cannot smoothly advance on multiple fronts at the same time as Manchester United.

Their strength is only suitable for focusing on one front, or the league or the Champions League.

What is the reason?It's money!
Arsenal do not have enough money to introduce strong players, nor do they have enough money to meet the salary requirements of outstanding players.

If this continues for a long time, they will only gradually lose their competitiveness, just like Newcastle, just like Nottingham Forest, fell into the abyss of relegation.

Back then, Newcastle was also a powerful team that could compete with Manchester United for the league championship, but what about now?
Since the late 90s, Newcastle owner Sir John Hall's personal assets have shrunk sharply. In order to satisfy his personal desires, he even sold the team's assets to obtain money.

With such a boss, who expects the team to have the ambition to hit the championship again?Excellent players have left one after another, and Newcastle, which is now falling apart, almost fell into the League One this year.

Of course, the problem of Nottingham Forest is more complicated. Their city is not big and the population is not large. Although the fans are very enthusiastic, they cannot bring much income to the team.

Without enough income, even if the boss is not a loser, the club still needs to cut down on clothing and diet.

If you don't have enough money, you can't buy excellent players, and you can't keep your own youth training. The reason is as simple as that.

Nottingham Forest fell into League One after failing to adapt to the brutal competition of the Premier League.

They were the team that defended the European Champions Cup back then!
The European champions finally fell to the second tier, which is a disgrace to Nottingham Forest, and a disgrace to the whole of England!

Shao Bo naturally does not hope that Arsenal will be in such a situation in the future.

Since Arsenal moved to North London that year, they took a fancy to the large population and wealth here, which is a very good market, so what Arsenal needs to do is to expand and expand this market!

They are not like Nottingham, where the population base is not enough, even if they want to expand the stadium, they will not increase many fans.Don't forget, the famous Wembley Stadium is just on the outskirts of London, where it can accommodate at least [-] spectators!
In the last century, statistics even said that more than 1923 spectators flooded into the 24 FA Cup final!

How can Arsenal miss such a huge fan market?

Arsenal now need money to guarantee signings and maintain the team's salary, where will the money come from?

Fan supplies, jerseys, TV broadcast fees, ticket sales, sponsorship fees, commercial performances...

Among them, the three major categories are TV broadcast fees, sponsorship fees and ticket sales.

TV broadcast fees are linked to performance, but there is not much difference between Arsenal and Manchester United.Sponsorship fees require the hard work of the club's business personnel, but also rely on a certain amount of luck.

Just like the cooperation between Manchester United and Vodafone, it just happened to be in the period of rapid development of the telecommunications and Internet industries, and the sponsorship fees they signed at that time were also quite high.

And what about Arsenal?Although the MMO2 company is not short of money, when the two parties were negotiating, the entire industry had already fallen into a trough, and the sponsorship fee was naturally impossible to be higher than that of Manchester United.

The rest of the business development also requires the club to work harder, but these can only be regarded as unexpected surprises and are not stable.

The last item is the ticket income, this is the basis for maintaining the operation of a club!

The Old Trafford Stadium, which can accommodate more than [-] people at the same time, has brought huge matchday income to Manchester United.Although Arsenal is located in North London and the price of tickets is also the highest in the UK, the maximum number of fans they can accommodate is only more than [-].

The difference of more than [-] people is equivalent to Manchester United having one more Highbury Stadium than Arsenal!

Every year, the difference in ticket revenue alone is nearly 3000 million pounds!

The result of last season's statistics was 780 million pounds. This is because Arsenal's performance is better and the attendance rate is higher!

And this money means that Ferguson can sign up to tens of millions of signings every year, while Shao Bo can only select players with great future potential from remote places around the world, but they have not been valued by others, and slowly cultivate them. .

Had to build a new stadium!

Taking advantage of the team's good performance, they have to settle everything as soon as possible. In order not to be constrained by more money in the future, they can only prepare to say goodbye to Highbury.

The proposal on the construction of the new stadium has finally been passed by the board of directors. This is Shao Bo's idea since the beginning of the new century, and it has been more than a year so far.

The land price in London changes day by day. Taking advantage of the fact that the land is still cheap now, the club will build the stadium as soon as possible and buy more land to increase the number of seats.

Shao Bo still remembers the statistics he read back then. At that time, he still supported a fan, but he saw the attendance figures of major European clubs transferred from abroad in the forum.

No matter how low the results are, Arsenal's attendance rate can still be ranked among the top five in Europe!In the Emirates Stadium with tens of thousands of people, although they are working hard to compete for four, the attendance rate of the stadium is still around 99%, and it is only 5% at low tide.

You know, the capacity of the Emirates Stadium can reach more than [-] people!Shao Bo was thinking at that time, if more seats were expanded, would he get more match day ticket revenue?
I hope that their early construction can make the stadium bigger and generate more income in the future.

Arsenal was able to get the support of a large number of fans back then. In addition to playing well, the results have not been bad.Shao Bo has no confidence to learn Wenger's technical style of play-this is his unique style, but Shao Bo is willing to try his best to win for the team!
As long as there is victory, it can also attract fans!
Of course, at present, if Arsenal want to build a new stadium, they will definitely need to borrow a lot of money, which will definitely affect the team's strength and signings.

During this period, Shao Bo estimated that the time for the acquisition should be ripe. After the acquisition is completed, he will definitely solve this problem for the team.

Now he just hopes to build this stadium as soon as possible through the connections between the major directors of the club and the London government. This kind of connections is the most scarce resource for him.

If you take money, you won't be able to spend it!

Regardless of the two big local tyrants in the Premier League in later generations, Russia's Abrahimovich and the Mansour family have rich assets.But whether it is Chelsea or Manchester City, they have suffered a lot and made things difficult for the construction of a new stadium.

Chelsea, which Abrahimovic has been operating for ten years, even won the Champions League, but the stadium is still the same Stamford Bridge, but it is constantly expanding and expanding every year.

Although the cost of Manchester City's Etihad Stadium is as high as 250 million pounds, the ownership of the stadium is still no longer in their hands. They just signed a [-]-year lease with the British government. of the English government.

Moreover, this was originally built by the British government in order to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, but since Sydney took away the right to host the 2000 Olympics, the England government changed the use of this stadium to the 2002 Commonwealth Games .

Moreover, when it competed with Wembley for reconstruction funds in 1996, it also lost. The stadium that could originally accommodate more than [-] people was reduced to less than [-].

Later, Manchester City undertook the reconstruction of the stadium, which cost tens of millions of pounds, and converted the original stadium into a professional stadium. This was recognized by the English government and signed a lease with Manchester City.

Otherwise, they will continue to play at Maine Road Stadium.

A large-scale project like this requires the cooperation of the local people even if it is approved by the government.

Sensitive topics such as demolition are not the content of competitive novels, and Shao Bo has no energy to negotiate with local residents one by one. These are tasks that only old people who have worked for the club for many years can complete.

If Shao Bo bought the team now, there must be quite a few people who will hesitate because of the turmoil in the club, which will affect the construction of the new stadium.

Otherwise, with the money Shao Bo earned during the Internet bubble era, it would be enough to buy several Arsenals.

Relying on the stocks of many Internet companies such as Yahoo and Google, Shao Bo is now the richest coach among coaches, and the richest man on the Forbes sports rich list!
The construction proposal for the new stadium has been approved, and the next step is where to build, the scale and a series of derivative issues.

These are not Shao Bo's majors, and it is impossible for him to get involved here.

(End of this chapter)