Football giants

Chapter 769
"Judging from the current general situation, the third-party organizations that hold players are usually brokerage companies."

"In the case of selling players, not only do we have to share the player transfer fee with a third-party agency according to the shareholding ratio, but we also need to pay additional transfer agency fees and a certain percentage of commission to the brokerage company."

"Just like Harvey Garcia, when he was introduced from Real Madrid, he spent 700 million euros, which was paid by us and his agent. When he transferred to Manchester City, the transfer fee was 600 million euros, and he made a difference of 900 million euros. If we divide it according to the shares, we can have a transfer profit of 450 million euros."

"But after deducting intermediary fees, deducting commissions, and deducting a series of other follow-up costs, we only earned less than 300 million euros at most, and all the rest were earned by the broker."

Yang Huan can fully imagine this situation. After all, third-party agencies and brokers have always existed in the form of vampires, especially big brokers like Mendes, and they are not good.

But then, what Rui Costa said surprised Yang Huan.

"Master Huan, maybe you think that if you earn more than you earn, don't you all have to earn money?" The former Portuguese superstar smiled awkwardly when he said this.

Yang Huan also felt a little strange, because Rui Costa gave him the impression that he was an artist-like figure, but now, he was talking about the reality and snobbery of incomparable money. If the outside fans really knew about it, they would definitely be surprised.

"But do you know? Harvey Garcia has played for Benfica for two years. During these two years, his salary, bonuses and a series of other supporting benefits are all borne by the club. If these are also included, let's not say that we are making money in this deal, and we may even lose money."

These words really surprised Yang Huan.

Because Rui Costa made such a calculation, then Benfica really suffered a big loss.

On the contrary, it is a third-party organization that can take commissions from players' salaries, bonuses and benefits, as well as transfer fees, intermediary fees and a series of other handling fees. They also make a lot of money.

In the end, it was the club that was unlucky!

"Actually, the situation of Xavi Garcia is considered good. After all, he has made contributions to the club and the team's results are also very good. Although the players did not make money, the club has gained results."

Speaking of this, Rui Costa changed the subject, "But you know what? Players like Saviola and Garay, the club is completely in a mess."

"why?"

"Saviola was transferred from Real Madrid to Benfica in 500. He was worth [-] million euros. This money was also involved by a third-party agency, but his salary was very high. The club originally hoped that he would be able to play up his worth and then sell it for cash. Unexpectedly, his performance in Benfica was not satisfactory."

"But what is even more outrageous is that in [-], Malaga was aggressively recruiting stars in European football, and Saviola was one of them. At this time, Saviola's third-party ownership agency came to Benfica to negotiate on behalf of Malaga. They asked Benfica to allow Saviola to transfer freely."

"Benfica was finally forced by the pressure of the agent and the players. In addition, Saviola's salary was too high. It was too extravagant to stay on the bench. In the end, he had to choose to let him transfer freely. But with this deal, Benfica lost a lot, but the agent made a lot of money!"

This time, Yang Huan understood without Rui Costa's explanation.

In the past three years in Benfica, the agent took a commission from Saviola, and the money was given by Benfica. Even if Saviola performed poorly and could not play the main role, he still had to give a salary, and the agent could still take a commission.

After the free transfer to Malaga, on the surface, the third party represented by the agent also lost money, but in reality?

The commissions in the past three years have already recovered some of the costs. Free transfers to Malaga took the opportunity to ask for a big contract, plus intermediary fees, signing fees and so on. After this round, the agent did not dare to say that he made a lot of money, but at least he made a small profit.

Instead, Benfica is at a big loss!
As for the Garay mentioned by Rui Costa, he is also from Real Madrid, worth 500 million, and is still playing for Benfica, but it is said that he has signed the Zenit team in Russia in advance, worth 600 million euros.

This is too cheap for the main central defender of the Argentine national team!

It is entirely foreseeable that the Russians must have paid a lot of agency fees and commissions for the agent to operate Gareth to go to Zenit.

And Benfica was also very passive in this transaction, without autonomy, and could only be slaughtered helplessly.

"The more profitable one is Witsel. The Belgian transferred to Zenit for 4000 million euros. We can probably get about 2000 million euros. If we deduct agency fees and commissions, about 500 million euros is considered a profit."

Yang Huan could only smile wryly at this.

He really didn't expect that the so-called third-party organization was even darker than he imagined.

No wonder Atletico Madrid has cultivated so many stars for so many years and sold off one after another leading players, but the result is that they still lose money every year and cannot make ends meet.

Vieira sat on the sidelines and smiled wryly, "Master Huan, you are a giant in the Premier League. You don't know our situation. Player salaries are generally high now. If we want to fight for the revenue from the Champions League, we must attract a group of capable players. Salary and bonuses have become our heavy burden."

"It's not just our Benfica. If Porto deducts player transfers, their annual income is around 8000 million euros, but their annual expenditure is nearly 2000 million yuan, a full loss of nearly [-] million euros!"

Yang Huan still believed Vieira's words.

Many fans just see teams like Porto shine in the European arena, but they ignore that behind their eye-catching performance, they also need to bear heavy pressure, especially player salaries.

No pain no gain.

Investment may not be able to reap returns, but if you don't invest, you will definitely not be able to get returns.

Therefore, every report card of Porto in the Champions League is piled up by the heavy debts behind the club.

This is true for Porto, so is Benfica, and it is true for countless teams like them!
After straightening out this level, Yang Huan further understood why the Portuguese Super League team came to a third party in this way.

To put it bluntly, without a third-party investment agency, they don't even have money for signings!
On this side, the team has to sell the leading players to make up for the loss, but on the other side there is no money to sign in, so the choice left to the club is very simple, either to introduce a third party, or to lose strength.

The latter seems to have a lot of backbone, but these days, can backbone be eaten?
What is especially worthy of vigilance is that when a team falls into the quagmire of a vicious circle, no one can save it!

Therefore, they clearly know that cooperating with a third party is to quench their thirst, and they know that they must accept the exploitation of the third party, but they still have to accept it, because if they refuse the third party, they will only die!
And if someone wants to talk about youth training, it is even more naive.

If there is any professional club these days that pins all their hopes on the youth training camp, then this club must have died somewhere long ago, and it is impossible to survive!
To put it bluntly, youth training is a gamble on luck. No one knows what can be gained by investing so much.

It might even be nothing!
Just ask, is this mode of operation reliable?
If Yang Huan remembers correctly, Benfica still has a debt of [-] million euros!

As for Porto, there are tens of millions of debts!
Of course, don't think Vieira and Rui Costa are victims now that they are complaining.

Don't be so naive!
Maybe they, like Porto's Da Costa, are beneficiaries of this system.

Because they are them and Benfica is Benfica.

Who stipulates that if Benfica suffers a loss and is heavily in debt, they will also be unlucky?

But after this conversation, Yang Huan really has a better understanding of the Portuguese Super League.

Speaking of the advantages of the Portuguese Super League, it is also the Portuguese Super League's attraction to players from South American countries such as Brazil and Argentina, as well as their excellent scouting network in South America, which can ensure that they have an endless supply of talents.

However, in recent years, South America's economy has taken off, and the value of players has also increased. It is no longer the era when hundreds of thousands, one to two million, could poach talents.

Therefore, no matter whether it is Porto or Benfica, they cannot bear the transfer fee of several million or even tens of millions of South American players, so they can only turn to a third party for help.

Just kidding, how much is your annual income?Can afford these players?

But in the Internet age, as soon as a player shows up a little, he will be immediately noticed, and his value will also soar. It is difficult to produce high-quality and cheap goods.

Therefore, to a certain extent, third-party institutions can also be regarded as a kind of football-like venture capital.

It's just that what they invest in is people.

This kind of behavior of selling people as slaves and commodities will be banned sooner or later.

However, Yang Huan was thinking that teams such as Benfica and Porto are now in exactly the same situation as Atletico Madrid back then, relying too much on third parties, but they have a strong ability to train players and have a very good scout network.

The only thing they lack is money!
More importantly, their market value in the stock market is quite low, about 4000 to [-] million euros.

According to the current share price of Benfica, in the case of willingness to take on debt, the purchase price must be unbelievably low.

At that time, if we follow Atlético de Madrid's approach, eradicate the cancer of the third-party organization, and invest a sum of money to operate it, I believe there will be great achievements.

Thinking of this, Yang Huan knew it well, and decided to turn around and ask Zhao Yuanfang to study it carefully.

With both UEFA and FIFA vigorously cracking down on third-party ownership, the Portuguese Super League will definitely be purged, and if this opportunity can be used to win the most ideal natural springboard for South American players, it will undoubtedly be quite a good opportunity.

With this focus, Yang Huan became interested.

I grabbed Vieira and Rui Costa and asked for more inside information and news.

Benfica really hoped to cooperate with Yang Huan very much. They even mentioned the Brazilian monsters from Shakhtar Donetsk, hoping that Yang Huan could loan them to Benfica.

This immediately made Yang Huan smile wryly, there really is nothing new under the sun.

As for the purchase of Shakhtar Donetsk's demons, Yang Huan did it secretly, with Pini Zahavi, Joorabchian and Bertolucci in charge, and the transaction has just been completed not long ago.

The total price of the seven players Yang Huan hand-picked is close to 6000 million, which is quite a bargain.

But who would have thought that Benfica had already received the news just after the deal was completed.

This is true of Benfica, and it must be true of other European teams.

Damn, with the quality of this group of Brazilian players, will there be a lot of teams rushing to get them?

Thinking about it is really a headache!

(End of this chapter)