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"So quiet and peaceful."

Cristiano Ronaldo stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, sniffed, took a step back, and threw himself on the bed with his limbs wide open: "This is heaven."

"You never said before that my home is like heaven." Carl poked people's scars mercilessly: "Even if you hate the media, you can't throw a sentence to the reporter'Yes, I did have contact with Real Madrid' and pack your luggage Fleeing to Munich. Now England has been fried, and everyone thinks that Real Madrid has made a transfer application to Manchester United for you, and you have agreed."

"They did contact me, I just don't want to lie." Ronaldo rolled on the bed and turned his head to Carl: "You saw the news so soon?"

"I have faster access than news."

Ronaldo wailed and covered his face with a pillow: "Does the boss know?"

"You said that in front of more than a dozen media, you can't expect him to know nothing."

"BOSS must hate me to death..." An annoyed and tangled voice.

"If you insist on fantasizing yourself as a poor little unloved person and constantly complaining about yourself, then I have to say that you have over-associated." Carl didn't stare at the person who kept rolling on the bed, but Open the closet and choose the clothes to wear when you go out: "As far as I know, the old man you respect the most has his own set of judgment standards, and will not sway with public opinion. And you should know that in this It is the best protection for you if he doesn't say a word on the matter."

Ronaldo was silent for a long time, then sat up suddenly: "Well, maybe you are right..."

"I was right."

Ronaldo got a stare, and then he couldn't help laughing, because he found that Karl, no matter his movements or expressions, seemed to be declaring one thing grandiosely, "I believe in the truth, and I am the truth."

What's even more absurd is that Ronaldo found that when Karl Alston straightened his spine, raised his chin slightly and spoke in a smooth tone, even if he was talking nonsense with his eyes open, it made people feel unquestionable.

'Like Sir Alex. Ronaldo couldn't help thinking, "Maybe all successful coaches have this trait, and people can't help but want to follow him."What should I call it, charisma?Yes, that's the word. '

Carl stood in front of the full-length mirror and tied his tie: "Take care of your messy hair, we should go out."

Ronaldo reflexively said: "Going out? Going to eat?" He looked at the time: "But it's only past nine o'clock in the morning and not ten o'clock in the morning." And he enjoyed two double-layer cheese beef burgers in the morning, and now Not at all hungry.If he had to eat something, he thought he needed a glass of freshly squeezed juice most at this moment, orange juice was the best, and apple juice was a bit sour.

"Let's go shopping." Carl turned around and looked at him: "If you want to live in Munich for a long time, I need to improve my living conditions immediately."

"Do you want to buy another bed?" Ronaldo touched his nose ashamedly: "Sorry for occupying your territory, maybe I can sleep on the sofa from tonight?"

"It's not furniture, I don't think there's room for another bed in this cramped apartment," Carl explained, under Ronaldo's confused gaze. "We're going to buy a house."

……

Carl finally purchased a penthouse duplex apartment with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, a huge dining room and study room, six windows with wide-open views in the living room overlooking the entire city of Munich, and a very convenient location, only ten minutes away from the club. few minutes.

I didn’t buy a single-family house because Karl lived in the house most of the time, and he didn’t like to hire a cleaner. It was too time-consuming to clean the room or the outdoor garden, and the villa area was easily destroyed. The reporter snooped, but the penthouse didn't have this trouble. Unless a helicopter was used to secretly take pictures, no one would know what he was doing in the room.

The cost of buying such an apartment in Munich, the city with the highest housing price in Germany, is not astronomical, but it is almost the same. Karl has money to buy a house, not because he made a fortune, but because Munich 1860 Re-amended some contract terms with him.

The annual salary has jumped from six figures to 200 million euros, generous winning bonuses, winning streak bonuses, bonuses for European competitions, plus last season's Bundesliga championship bonus, the club's generosity surprised Karl.

But Munich 1860 did not suddenly become generous to him for no reason.

They were using generous salary bonuses to keep Carl from jumping ship.

Karl himself hadn't thought about jumping ship.

He is not like Mourinho. The Portuguese probably have the adventurous factor inherited from the age of great navigation in their nature, so they always go to new fields to challenge themselves, but Carl, in his bones, has a kind of beginning and end. Cultural characteristics are not sticking to comfort, but not wanting to leave before doing our best.

However, the shareholders of the club don’t understand Karl’s thoughts. They just read the newspapers about the scandal between the two national teams of England and Germany and Karl, and then they began to worry. After the World Cup, German coach Klinsmann and England coach Eli Kesen both stepped down due to poor coaching performance. Regarding their successor candidates, media fans were arguing a lot before the two football associations announced.

Although the British and German football associations finally chose the former national team assistants, McClaren and Joachim Loew as the new head coaches, but the senior executives of Munich 1860 did not forget that, in countless print media votes, Karl How far ahead of Orston's voice, which made them finally belatedly realize that the head coach of their team has been well known by the public and has become the darling in the eyes of most media fans.

Even if England and Germany did not choose Carl Oston, there will always be other clubs who will take a fancy to him-who can guarantee that Oston will not be wooed by other league teams, especially when the inviter is a strong team Even when rich and powerful?

The sense of crisis suddenly hit the heart of the club chairman Orr, and he quickly realized that although the team had three years left in the contract with Carl, the treatment they gave him was too low, which did not meet the requirements of the team. The identity of a newly promoted Bundesliga champion coach, but the mismatch between income and contribution, it is easy for employees to feel dissatisfied.

So Orr gritted his teeth, persuaded most of the shareholders in the board of directors, and decisively contacted Carl's agent—the "vampire Mendes" to revise the contract.

The annual salary is 200 million euros, which makes Karl's annual income climb from the middle and lower reaches of the Bundesliga to the top.You must know that even in the current Bundesliga, there are only seven teams whose head coaches earn an annual salary of more than 100 million euros.Munich 1860 gave Karl such a generous treatment, one is because the head coach of the Bundesliga champion deserves this income, and second, it is also because the Lions will play in the Champions League next season. The club hopes that Karl can lead the team to achieve good results in the European war .

In fact, Orr really wanted to take the opportunity to change the remaining 3-year contract period to 5 years. The number 5 would make him feel more at ease, but Mendes disagreed. Qian's "vampire" refused mercilessly and said: "The remuneration can be modified, but the time limit is not, Mr. Chairman. Anyway, there are still three years in the contract period. What are you worried about? Carl's performance has been very stable. In the next three years, we will win more championships. At that time, we can re-sign a more detailed and fairer contract. Instead of being like this, every time your club finds that it is almost impossible to keep Karl, Make a repair to the contract with hindsight-to put it bluntly, you and your club lack the vision of long-term development. If you can realize the true value of Karl earlier and invest in advance, we will have already It saves the trouble of once a year."

Orr, as a businessman, never thought that he would be ashamed by what agent said, and he was at a disadvantage throughout the conversation.But now that he has experienced this emotion first-hand, he keeps his mouth shut and doesn't bother himself anymore.

……

When Karl went to apply to the club chairman for this summer's transfer funds, he suddenly discovered that the club's move to raise his salary was not only because the top management was worried that he would leave, but also because 1860 Munich was becoming rich.

Yes, rich.Just one season has passed, and the Lions have gone from being stretched to a surplus on the books.

Good grades bring good income.

Because of the excellent performance of the team in the past two seasons, the fans booked the stadium tickets for next season with great enthusiasm. It is only the beginning of July, and most of the tickets for the 7 home games of the season have been sold out——An The United Stadium can accommodate 17 people. Assuming that every game is full, based on an average of 66000 euros per ticket, the ticket revenue for a round of league home games is 25 million euros, and the ticket revenue for 165 home games throughout the year can reach 17 million euros.This has not included the ticket revenue of the Champions League group stage, because UEFA has not yet started the draw, so the ticket revenue of the Champions League is very uncertain and cannot be estimated now.

1860 Munich, as the Bundesliga champions last season, directly secured a place in the UEFA Champions League group stage. The entry bonus given by UEFA is 720 million euros. In addition, for each game played, there are different amounts depending on the results. Bonuses, plus the final revenue share of the UEFA Champions League TV broadcast, even if the Lions are eliminated in the group stage, more than 1000 million euros will be credited.It is precisely because of the fast and rich money in this competition that so many teams dream of entering the Champions League.

There is also the Bundesliga TV broadcast share in the 05-06 season. The ratings of the Munich 1860 game ranked in the middle and upper reaches of the Bundesliga, and the income was about 1600 million euros. 5.76, with a share of 2300 million euros.

TV broadcast share, tickets and event prize money are the three traditional income items, most of the middle and lower reaches of the team rely on this to survive, but for many well-known clubs, advertising sponsorship is the big part of their pockets.For a club like Manchester United that has huge influence around the world, just a 3-5 year chest advertising sponsorship contract may bring them hundreds of millions of pounds in income.

Before last season, 1860 Munich had no big sponsors. Only some small companies like shrimp soldiers and crab generals proposed to sponsor them, but the club felt that "XX Brewery" was printed on the front of the jersey for one million euros. ” or “OO Meat Company” is a bit of a shame, so the Lions have always had a bit of an empty chest.

But now, because of the excellent record last season, several large companies have begun to contact 1860 Munich to discuss sponsorship contracts, including state-owned companies such as Deutsche Postbank.

After the income suddenly increased, the club originally planned to spend more than half of it to repay the loan at the Allianz Arena, so that in a few years, 1860 Munich would be debt-free.

However, Karl thinks that the development of the team should be on the uphill road, especially in the management of football clubs. Investment does not mean that there must be returns, but there must be no returns without investment. Once, such as last season, the newly promoted 1860 Munich was so unfamiliar to other Bundesliga teams. They didn't understand the Lions' players and tactics, so they were defeated so easily and let the Lions miraculously take away champion.

But starting from next season, teams who know that the Lions are not easy to mess with will buy more players and strengthen their strength in the transfer season, especially Bayern Munich, the city rival of 1860, if they have plans this summer No one should be surprised to buy one or two players against the Lions' tactics.Munich 1860 must also improve with the progress of the opponent, because if they cannot make great strides forward, it means being left behind by the opponent.

In the end, Karl won a transfer fund of 1500 million euros for himself.

This amount of money may not be a big deal in the eyes of the rich, and it may not even be able to buy a leg of a superstar they fancy, but for 1860 Munich, this is already a huge compromise and progress.

……

In mid-July, Karl sealed two transfers at lightning speed.

One is the price of 400 million euros in the free transfer of Gastrantzl, who bought Per Mertesacker from Hannover 96.

Mertesacker is the main central defender of the national team in this year's World Cup in Germany. With a height of 1 meters, he has a good ability to control the air, but the reason why former national team coach Klinsmann favored him and recruited Mertesacker as a national player in 98 was not his size, but his fierceness. A style of play that is not afraid of confrontation, and a calm and steady performance on the court.This is also what Karl values ​​most.

Another transfer made Karl feel very fulfilled, because he finally poached Mats Hummels from Bayern.

Karl was very interested in Hummels last season. He put forward an invitation to join, but was rejected by the other party.At that time, Hummels used the fact that he had been trained in the Bayern youth training camp since he was a child, and his father was still the coordinator and chief scout of the youth team. He had a deep affection for Bayern Munich and refused to leave as an excuse to refuse Munich 1860.

Although he personally heard that Hummels expressed his loyalty to Bayern, Karl didn't take it very seriously.

Because he saw ambition and the desire to get ahead in the other person's eyes.

Carl knows that for many young players with great ambitions, loyalty and old love are empty talk, and interests and a promising future are what they value most.

Hummels has joined the Bayern youth team since 95. He was transferred to the second team last year because of his outstanding performance, and soon became the main force. His talent is very comprehensive, whether it is positioning, frontal defense or offensive ability They are all very good. Under the influence of German football's increasing emphasis on young players, Hummels very much hopes that he can play in the first team.

But what kind of team is Bayern Munich?It was a Bundesliga juggernaut with a tradition of "gathering the best players from Germany", almost as good as Real Madrid's "world superstar collectors", who are more used to looting from their opponents in the transfer market. Good international players, not promoted from the second team.

Hummels has been in Bayern for more than ten years, and it is impossible for him to be unaware of this tradition of the club.

Therefore, Karl believes that if you want to poach Hummels, a young man who has grown up in a wealthy club, is used to the big world and is very eager to succeed, using salary to seduce is a relatively low-level method. The easiest and easiest way to succeed is Show them the truth: come to 1860 Munich, you will get more chances to play than stay at Bayern, you will become famous faster, and let the world see your talent.

A young man with ambitions and dreams, such as Hummels, would not be willing to be buried.

Karl showed Hummels a lot: For example, there are many players in Munich 1860 who are as old as him, or even younger; for example, those young players, such as Ozil, Koch, Bender Brothers, etc., They have gradually become the main force in the first team; for example, Koch, who is the same age as Hummels, has joined the national team. Ozil and others have also been unanimously praised by media fans because of their high exposure rate. Unlike him, Still struggling in the second team...

In the end, it played a decisive role in convincing, one is that Munich 1860 will appear in the European arena next season, and the other is that Karl promised Hummels that if he joins the Lions, Karl will give him enough opportunities to play (without injuries). At least 17 starts in the season), this can even be written into the contract, if 1860 Munich does not allow Hummels to play enough games, he can sue the club for breach of contract.

Hummels couldn't resist the temptation to play the main force and start in the Bundesliga championship team and compete in the European arena, so he agreed to Karl and persuaded his father.

Munich 1860 immediately offered Bayern Munich an offer of 80 euros to buy their second-team main force.

Bayern Munich's first reaction was to refuse. They have cultivated Hummels for more than ten years and saw great potential in him. Of course, it is impossible to let him go easily.

Munich 1860 continued to offer, 100 million euros.

Just before Bayern Munich sneered and prepared to say no again, Hummels submitted his own transfer request.

The Bundesliga giants finally realized at this time that they had been poached by their rivals in the same city-the club manager immediately talked to the old Hummels, hoping that he would not let his son transfer to 1860 Munich.

But the old Hummels made a request to Bayern, that is: "If my son can play in the first team, of course he will not transfer to 1860."

This request made it difficult for the Bayern manager, because he had already consulted the head coach Magath, and Magath's answer was: "I don't have a place for him (Hummels) in my team yet."

Bayern can't agree to the request of Hummels and his son, and Hummels has been playing youth team games all the time. He hasn't even signed a professional contract with Bayern. If Bayern firmly disagrees with the other party's transfer application, In the end, it is possible to get nothing, so Bayern Munich can only compromise in the end, and signed a lease and buyout contract with Munich 1860, and gave up Hummels.

Carl, who was in control of all this, felt very satisfied. He needed someone to share the joy, so he bought a gift to visit the two friends lying in the ward of the Rinburgh Clinic. However, this time he brought an unexpected guest. .