Chapter 584 The Four Heroes of the South

Although Xiao Ming later believed that this report actually helped Leiden East a lot, after this report came out, it was basically ignored by Leiden East fans - they are winners, and no winner cares about the whine of a loser.

After staying in Paris for a day - mainly because Xiao Ming, as the boss, wanted to have a good romantic relationship with his wife in this romantic and loving place. Jessica was very happy about this, and the Leiden Oriental players who were in high spirits didn't care about spending more day in Paris.

Leiden Oriental, who returned to London the next day, was warmly welcomed by fans. Although Leiden Oriental won consecutive championships this season for five consecutive championships and failed to continue to defend the league championship this year, the second time in history defending the Champions League title still makes Leiden Oriental's season extremely successful.

In fact, since returning to the top league, Leiden Oriental has been considered a success every season - because they will receive a sufficient honor every season - the worst season is that they just returned to the Premier League in their first season, and they also won the European Cup of Winners and permanently collected the European Cup of Winners. This speed of winning the championship is enough to make all European giants feel ashamed.

In addition to Xiao Ming's predictive ability playing a great role in being able to achieve this miracle, and Leiden East won over a lot of superstars, Xiao Ming's generosity also played a great role.

Even if Leiden Oriental's current salary level is not the highest, it is still the top group. The maximum salary in the team is 120,000 pounds a weekly salary, and Ronaldo gets more, but in fact part of his salary is paid by Nike, so he is only one of the maximum salary players. In addition to him, the maximum salary also includes Van Nie, Gerald, Daniel, Jinklaze, Cole, Lucio, Pirlo and Ronaldo, who just re-signed the contract last year.

They are second-level players, and their weekly salary is 80,000 pounds, and the next is between 60,000 pounds and 40,000 pounds. Players in this level include all other main players and main substitutes. Campbell, Hypia, Mascherano, Marklele and others all receive this salary, while young players such as Messi, Bent, Bentley and Paul Gerrard, Holland, Perth, Zimbonda, and Sun Jihai have weekly salary ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds.

This level of salary is also among the best in the Premier League. It is precisely because of its income, fame and honor in Leiden Oriental that Xiao Ming can make his superstars and quasi-superstars willingly stay in Leiden Oriental. Of course, this has also brought huge expenses to Leiden Oriental. Now Leiden Oriental pays players' salaries and subsequent taxes every season exceed 100 million pounds, plus other expenses, each season's expenses are around 150 million pounds.

However, huge expenses will inevitably bring huge profits. Premier League tickets have always been the most expensive in the continental Europe, and London teams are the most expensive in the Premier League - outside London, Newcastle's most expensive single-game ticket is 50 pounds - and this number cannot even keep up with the ticket price of West Ham United, the younger brother of the London Premier League team. West Ham United's most expensive single-game ticket price this season is 57 pounds, but this number can only rank fourth in London. Tottenham and Arsenal are about 70 pounds, Chelsea are 60 pounds, and as for Manchester United, their most expensive single-game ticket is 39 pounds. Even the most expensive single-game ticket in London is 45 pounds.

The ticket prices of Leiden Oriental are not the most expensive in London, nor are they the cheapest in London. Their highest ticket prices are the same as Newcastle, with 50 pounds and the lowest one is twenty pounds. However, Leiden Oriental has the largest stadium in London, and the entire England is second only to Old Trafford. Therefore, they surpassed Manchester United and Arsenal in terms of ticket revenue. Last season, Leiden Oriental's ticket revenue in various competitions exceeded 50 million pounds, which is quite amazing - Manchester United is only close to 50 million pounds.

In terms of broadcasting fees, Leiden Oriental's income this season is less than 40 million pounds, but this is only in the Premier League. According to Xiao Ming's estimate, the Premier League broadcasting fees may be sold at a higher price after the end of the 2006-07 season - because at that time, according to the anti-monopoly law, the Premier League broadcasting will not be obtained by a TV station, but will be sold separately, and the price will only become higher. As long as Leiden Oriental can maintain the level of the top three, there will be no problem with the Premier League broadcasting fees exceeding 50 million pounds.

In European events, after winning the championship this season, the bonus, share and broadcasting fees for participating in the competition were more than 50 million euros. With these three major income alone, Leighton Oriental is more than enough to pay the team's salary, and it can basically make the club's books have no deficits. Of course, Leighton Oriental cannot win the Champions League championship every season, but Xiao Ming knows that as the Champions League becomes more and more prosperous, the sharing and bonus will only increase. Not to mention the expenses of 150 million pounds per season, even if it is 200 million pounds of expenses, Xiao Ming is confident that he can earn back the money from the tickets, broadcasting rights and the prize money for participating in the competition.

And Leiden Oriental's income is of course more than that.

After the construction of the Oriental Stadium has become a major tourist attraction in East London. The legendary rise of Leiden Oriental has attracted countless fans around the world, and has also made the tourism industry in the East End of London prosperous. When there is no game, there are still a steady stream of tourists to visit the Oriental Stadium. You only need only five pounds to visit the entire Oriental Stadium. If you add three pounds, you can also visit the modern home team locker room. Even if there are only 10,000 people visiting every day, it is enough to make Leiden Oriental make a fortune. You should know that there are only less than 40 home games in a season. After deducting various inconveniences, the Oriental Stadium can be at least 200 days for people to visit.

Visiting, just buying a tour ticket can earn nearly 10 million pounds in a year, not to mention that the stadium is equipped with all kinds of facilities. Do you want to buy the most authentic LAYONOUR home jersey to go back? Do you want to drink a glass of beer sold on the stadium? Do you want to buy some imitations about the honor trophy obtained by LAYONOUR to go back? Who would care about this little money? In less than a year since the stadium was built, in addition to the tickets for the tour, various small commodities combined have brought tens of millions of pounds of pure income to LAYONOUR. From this perspective, although the Oriental Stadium consumed 500 million pounds of funds, it was also absorbing countless cash at an astonishing speed...

The income of the fan community and the ancillary facilities near the stadium is not less than that of the stadium. Although most facilities are free, they attract huge passenger flow. If you have passenger flow, you will not be afraid of losing money to make money. This is an irrefutable truth.

As an international city as big as London, you are definitely not afraid of no one coming.

Leiden Oriental now has an annual income of 10 million pounds for Nike. In addition, Nike has to pay an additional 2 million pounds to pay Ronaldo's salary. At the same time, in order to obtain the right to sell fans' supplies for Leiden Oriental, Nike also needs to pay Leiden Oriental 20 million pounds each year - this figure is the same as the cash paid by Nike to Manchester United for the same reason. In addition, Leiden Oriental fan supplies stores spread across Asia, North America and most areas of Europe, Leiden Oriental's income is no less than ticket revenue in this regard.

Now Leiden Oriental has undoubtedly had all the foundation for becoming a wealthy family - huge income, numerous fan groups, outstanding players, good record, a stadium that belongs entirely to itself... It can be said that apart from the so-called long and brilliant history, Leiden Oriental has no difference compared to any wealthy family, and their current fame and strength are even higher than those traditional wealthy families.

All of this was completed in just twelve years. It would be absolutely not an exaggeration to say that Xiao Ming made Leiden East complete the path that European wealthy families took more than 100 years in just twelve years.

After three days of celebration in Leiden, the entire team of Leiden Oriental was disbanded. Players who were eligible to participate in the World Cup went to the national team to report. They were Daniel Sun, Ashley Cole, Campbell, Gerrard (England national team), Lucio, Ronaldo (Brazil national team), Marklele (France national team), Pirlo (Italian national team), Mascherano, Messi (Argentina national team), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal national team) and Van Nisstrui (Netherland national team). Leiden Oriental contributed twelve internationals to the 2006 World Cup, and they are all internationals of football powerhouses, which is worthy of the honors that Leiden Oriental has achieved now.

Xiao Ming is much easier, although he has always been one of the special guests of BBC5 and is responsible for commenting when the England national team participates in large-scale events. This is his hobby, and this approach can also make Leiden Oriental more famous - but there is still a long time before the start of the World Cup, Xiao Ming can take a comfortable vacation during this period.

However, as a club owner, Xiao Ming can go on vacation comfortably, but as a head coach, he has not been able to completely rest during this period. Leiden Oriental's current lineup is very stable and has a reasonable age structure, but the main players have begun to have aging age. Especially in the center position, four centers have been stockpiled, but they are old and small, and the four people are cruel to compete for one position. Ronaldo and Fanny are enough to make Bent and White almost unable to get a chance to play, and they can only get some opportunities in the cup.

White is a little bit good. After all, he is still young and he needs to be trained when he switches to center forward, but Darren Bent is a little unable to sit still. He is now twenty-two years old and has some fame in the Premier League. If he continues to sit on the bench, he may gradually disappear from people's sight.

So after the end of the season, Bent, who did not participate in the national team, applied for a transfer to the club - he did not ask whether he could play as the main player. Obviously, although Ronaldo and Fanny are not young, their condition is still very good. If he is the head coach, I am afraid that these two people would not have been allowed to play substitutes for him.

After thinking about it, Xiao Ming agreed to Bent's transfer application. First, he did not have his position. Although he could still play two sides, he had no chance in the competition with Ronaldo Messi and Kraze Bentley. Second, Bent's characteristics are not very consistent with Leiden Oriental's tactics. Bent has good physical fitness and fast speed, but his skills are very rough. His feeling in front of the goal is quite average. Although he scored some goals, he was the kind of hard rushing and crashing in. It was incompatible with Leiden Oriental's style of rapid transfer and coordination in the frontcourt offense. Otherwise, he would not have played less times this season than White. White was not as good as Bent on the surface, but he was a team player that Leiden Oriental needed.

After throwing Bente on the transfer list, Xiao Ming needs to find a substitute center from the transfer market. It is difficult to find this person. What he wants is not a young genius, but a person who is in his year of playing and can be used when he comes, and he is willing to be a substitute. It is best to be able to play multiple positions - such players may be even rarer than Pandas now.

However, Xiao Ming was lucky, and he really found such a person.

When the scouts sent the player's information to his desk, Xiao Ming immediately decided to introduce the player.

Ivika Olic, a Croatian, is a striker who is about to turn 27. He is currently playing for the CSKA Moscow, Russia. He just won the Russian League championship with the team. He played for Hertha Berlin for a season, but only played twice but did not score goals. His goal rate in the CSKA is not very high, scoring one goal on average, but he is active in running, willing to do dirty work on the field, and working hard.

There is nothing strange about this player in the resume. In fact, the scouts and transfer members of Leiden Oriental only found all possibilities after getting Xiao Ming's instructions to "need a substitute forward who can play when he comes", and then sent it to Xiao Ming's desk. Olic was just one of the inconspicuous choices. He was on the list just because of the reason "it's easy to buy it". However, Xiao Ming did not choose Italian Mikoli and Argentine striker Tevez, but chose this Croatian.

The reason is very simple. What he wants is not the main center, but just a substitute center. Olichi's personality is very suitable for the position of this substitute center, and Xiao Ming still remembers the performance of the Croatian striker in the 2009-10 Champions League.

After only two goals in the group stage, Olic broke out after entering the knockout match. He scored two goals in two rounds against Manchester United and scored a hat-trick against Lyon. He made his final goal only one goal short of Messi. What is more important than the goal is his fighting spirit and never giving up on the court. At the same time, he was just a substitute at Bayern before, but had no complaints. He performed well when he had the chance to play the main player - he was simply a super substitute who was not inferior to Solskjaer and Cruise.

Such a player is now in the CSKA Moscow, and his contract expires in just one and a half years (the Russian League is not a year-end). Can there be a better choice than him?

So Xiao Ming immediately notified Garni and asked him to contact Olic, who is now a member of the Croatian national team and is now training in the national team. It is very appropriate for Garni, a legend of the national team, to do this.

Garney is now responsible for Leiden Oriental's general scout in the former South and the Balkans. In recent years, he has also recommended several players to join Leiden Oriental's youth team, but there has not yet been a particularly suitable candidate. He also wants to do something to prove that his work has not been in vain. So after Xiao Ming came to him, he immediately went to do this with great enthusiasm.

However, before leaving, Garney recommended three young players.

Alexander Kolarov, 21 years old, Serbian, currently plays for Belgrade of Serbia. He is a versatile left-hander, tall, good running ability, and an excellent free kick. Garni's evaluation of him is very likely to be the next Mikhainovic.

Vedran Joel Luca can play center back and right back, and midfielder. He is twenty years old, 1.93 meters tall, with excellent confrontational ability and good defense awareness; Luca Modric, attacking midfielder, 21 years old, has excellent skills, excellent organizational ability and excellent running ability, which is quite in line with Leiden Oriental's requirements for midfield players. Both players play for Croatia's Dinamo Zagreb. He has also become the main players in the past season and performed well, helping Dinamo Zagreb win the league championship.

Garney's evaluation of these three young players is that they may not be able to become the main players of Leiden Oriental now, but it will definitely be a good investment in the future.

"I want all of these three people!" Xiao Ming's reply was very simple: "When you contact Olich, Peter will go and meet you and prepare for the transfer of these four players. Olich needs to come this season. Since the other three young players do not have their positions now, they can buy out and let them exercise in the original team for another year or let us loan to the English team to exercise. That's it."
Chapter completed!