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Chapter 1409 The Age of Giants【Happy New Year everyone! 】

In recent years, a voice has gradually emerged in European football, that is, professional football is entering the era of oligarchy.

From the perspective of the club, Real Madrid has almost monopolized all the champions of the Champions League and the Club World Cup in recent years. This behemoth has suppressed the entire European football with an almost unattainable posture, and no team can match it.

From the perspective of a star, Yang Yang has dominated world football for ten years since [-]. During this process, European football has produced heroes, such as Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Ribery, Neymar, Suarez, Griezmann and a series of stars, but none of them can pick him off the throne.

This is an era of oligarchs and an era of giants.

The most obvious reaction is, if someone asks a question before the season, who will win the Champions League in the new season?
The vast majority of fans will choose no more than five teams, and they are basically those.

Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern... who else?

What is the reason that European professional football quickly entered the era of oligarchs?
The answer is simple, capital!

Strictly speaking, Florentino was in charge of Real Madrid for the first time, fully promoting the Galaxy Battleship, building Real Madrid into a top global giant, conquering fans all over the world, and European professional football began to enter the era of globalization. Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Bayern Munich and other giants with excellent business management capabilities quickly followed suit.

Abramovich entered Stamford Bridge, the Abu Dhabi consortium acquired Manchester City, and then the Qatari consortium acquired Paris Saint-Germain. The global investment shortage triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis led to the frantic influx of hot money into professional football. Coupled with the prosperity of the Internet, the pace of globalization accelerated rapidly, which led to the rapid harvest of the global market by top European teams.

In terms of the league, the Premier League has done the best. In the past few years, the Premier League's overseas copyright income has become a crucial part, and its importance is not inferior to their local copyright income.

In terms of clubs, of course, they are the giants that fans are familiar with. They have begun to use their influence and popularity to quickly open up the global market. This can be seen from their increasing operating income every year.

However, running a professional football club has not been a lucrative business, even until now.

Many people may wonder, how is this possible?
The rich teams make so much money every year. Real Madrid can earn 2000 million euros by playing three warm-up matches in Asia. Are these teams not making money?What are you kidding?
But in fact, it does not make money, at least it is far less profitable than fans imagined.

Then the question arises. On the one hand, the revenue of the wealthy teams is rising steadily, but on the other hand, the wealthy teams do not make money. Where does the money go?
The answer is simple, they have all been used to build the "moat" of the giants.

The so-called moat is the area used by wealthy teams to widen the gap with other mid- and lower-level teams.

On the one hand, the wealthy teams frantically search for high-quality star resources and invest frantically in the transfer market. Real Madrid is one of the best. In the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship at the beginning of the century, Florentino did this once. In the second year of [-], he entered the palace and introduced the top stars of the Premier League and Serie A in one go.

If it is said that in the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship at the beginning of the century, only Real Madrid was doing this, and the oligarchic trend was not as obvious as it is now, then since [-], with Real Madrid's crazy investment, Barcelona has followed suit, and the rich local teams Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have also quickly followed. This means that European star resources have become more and more concentrated.

Why is it basically inseparable from those teams to predict the Champions League champion now?
Because the best stars are on these teams.

The gathering of the best stars brings the most pleasing football, the best viewing experience for fans, and also the improvement in performance. This is an advantage that other small and medium-sized teams, even non-oligopoly teams, cannot have.

Therefore, after the legendary Leicester City team won the Premier League last season, the team fell apart very quickly.

Not only the Leicester City team, but also Dortmund and Atletico Madrid with insufficient financial resources. Didn't these teams also have their lineup quickly hollowed out by the rich teams after a season or two of explosive play?

why?
Because they are not at the top of the professional football pyramid, because they have no money!

Many people say that Manchester United has fallen, but in fact, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Manchester United rises, because this team is too rich.

As long as there are no problems in Manchester United's operations and there is no major decline in operating income, they will rise sooner or later.

Therefore, when the star resources continue to gather towards the giants, this will inevitably form a situation where the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker, and it is even stabilized.

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Star resources are only part of the moat of a giant team, or the part that fans can most easily see.

But what is more frightening than this gap is the even greater disparity behind the star resources, the part that ordinary fans cannot see, and it is also the part that Yang Yang is committed to building after injecting 5000 million euros into Ajax.

For example Real Madrid.

Many people are wondering, how did Yang Yang make the decision to lose weight for himself?
According to media reports, Real Madrid created a team of ten experts for Yang Yang, including three coaches and team doctors from Real Madrid, and one personal trainer of Yang Yang. What about the other six?

They are all the most authoritative experts in various fields in Europe, and even in the world, including nutrition experts, kinesiology experts, and human body science research authorities...

These experts, in order to formulate the most scientific training plan for Yang Yang, followed up for more than half a year, and finally came to the conclusion that it is reasonable for him to lose weight, and even clearly figured out how many kilograms to lose weight, and how Yang Yang will play next. Once any symptoms appear, he must rest immediately...

In addition, Real Madrid also specially equipped Yang Yang with a follow-up physiotherapist and nutritionist. The former is responsible for physical therapy and testing before and after training, and the latter follows Yang Yang's daily diet.

This alone is a huge expense, and in return, Yang Yang is still scoring goals so far this season, and his state is still red.

The team behind Yang Yang is completely invisible to the fans, even the media reporters who have not had in-depth contact with Real Madrid. What is even less familiar is that Real Madrid alone has 500 employees in Valdebebas.

Scary, right?

Among the 500 people, less than 100 are actually engaged in football, and the others are all experts in various industries. They are in charge of different departments, such as the director of the sports science department, the director of the health sports department, the director of the physiotherapy department, etc. The physiotherapy department is subdivided into many different small departments, and the medical department is also subdivided into many different small departments. Each small department has its own scope of responsibility and areas of expertise.

Now Real Madrid’s daily management has even been so detailed that when the team arrives away, there are already dedicated personnel to organize the hotel rooms for each player according to the living habits of each player, so that they can enter the relaxation state immediately after arriving at the hotel.

And all of this is invisible to the media and fans, but these are silently maintaining the operation of the Real Madrid club and promoting the Real Madrid team to be invincible on the football field.

This is true of Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern, and even other teams such as Atletico Madrid. Many big-name superstars are willing to switch to giants, not only because of money and fame, but also because of the support and services that giants can provide them.

In other words, they really let the players play football without distraction.

On the other hand, also in La Liga, what can the newly promoted Leganes provide to the players?
It can be said that these mid-lower teams, even Valencia, Sevilla and other strong teams, have no chance of surpassing giants such as Real Madrid and Barcelona for at least ten or twenty years, and the star resources they have cultivated through hard work will continue to gather towards the giants.

And when the team has better star resources, higher management level, and more complex and changeable tactics, it will bring an obvious problem, that is, there will be more and more games with big scores.

In the beginning, the rich and strong teams crushed the weak teams, but gradually, in the dialogue between the strong and the strong, when a certain team has a very obvious shortcoming in a certain aspect, it will immediately collapse.

Even if you don't collapse yourself, you will definitely be chased and beaten by your opponent until you collapse.

It's like Barcelona in the derby of the century tonight.

A weak defense, a struggling midfielder, an unqualified right back, and tears caused by the reluctance of the trident star to return to defense...these are very serious problems.

In the middle and lower reaches of the team, even in front of Atletico Madrid, these do not seem to be a problem, because they are not strong enough.

But in front of Real Madrid, these are the most deadly weaknesses.

Therefore, when Real Madrid kept attacking Barcelona's weakness, Barcelona couldn't even block it, and even Messi began to make some mistakes that shouldn't have happened.

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No. 40 minutes, Messi retreated to the midfield to take the ball, and wanted to rush forward.

In the past, Messi's ability to dribble was well known. When the ball reached his feet, it was basically impossible for others to break it.

But this time, under the attack of David Silva and Casemiro, Messi's ball was cut off by Casemiro, and David Silva quickly passed it to Hazard.

Hazard drove straight in with the ball, and quickly returned to the left. Yang Yang crossed the left side of the penalty area from the middle, and after catching up with Hazard's pass, he volleyed with his left foot.

The ball clung to the turf, rubbed against the left post, and got into Barcelona's goal.

Five to zero!
Big Four!
After Yang Yang scored the goal, he quickly rushed out of the court, slid and knelt all the way in front of the live broadcast camera, and yelled frantically at the live TV camera.

crazy!

The whole Camp Nou stadium is completely crazy!
All the Barcelona fans stood up from their seats, countless fans in the stands were throwing sundries down the stage, and there were deafening boos from the audience, obviously very dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half.

What does it mean to be defeated like a mountain?
This is!
(End of this chapter)