Soccer Card System

Chapter 460 Times Are Different (Part [-])
Chapter 462 The Times Are Different
After the celebration in the Neptune Square, the team also came to the Calderon Stadium, and the atmosphere of celebration reached its peak again.

At the end of the day's celebration, the fans of Atlético de Madrid left with more than enough to say.

The players also went home to rest.

But Gao Bo did not leave. At the Calderon Stadium, he was invited to the office by Atletico Madrid's chairman Cerezo.

When he opened the door and walked in, everyone in the office stood up and applauded, and everyone looked at the team's head coach with reverence.

Here, in addition to Cerezo, there is the team's general manager Jill Marin, as well as the sports director Pitaci, and other Atletico Madrid management personnel.

This is basically the top management of the Atletico Madrid team.

These senior officials of Atletico Madrid, now they all stood up and applauded Gao Bo, which fully explained what his achievements this season mean to Atletico Madrid.

This announced the re-emergence of Atletico Madrid, a Spanish giant, and most of the credit for this is the team's head coach.

Cerezo came forward, shook hands with Gao Bo, and embraced.

He was expressing his importance to Gao Bo.

"15 years, the club's first league championship trophy, I should thank you, high!"

Gao Bo chuckled: "You gave me money and invited me here, isn't it just to do this?"

Cerezo laughed: "That's right, Gao, it's okay if I heard you, are you really planning to defend the title next season?"

Gao Bo nodded: "Yes!"

Cerezo clapped his hands: "That's why I called you here, I think, we can prepare for next season."

"I think we can invest more money in transfers next season. The team's financial situation this season is good, and the team's income next season will be very optimistic. We have entered the Champions League, which will get a bonus..."

General manager Jill Marin on the side began to introduce the team's financial situation.

After all, I just said one thing: Atletico Madrid can invest more transfer funds next season, which is enough to support the team to flex their muscles in the transfer market!

"8000 million!!! We plan to invest 8000 million in transfer funds!!"

Jill Marin is full of confidence!

The transfer budget of 8000 million, even if it is not in this era, is considered the top investment in the entire European football. Of course, it is incomparable with the old giants like Real Madrid and the oil upstarts like Manchester City, but this level is only affordable by the few teams at the top of the pyramid.

You know, the Premier League giants Arsenal are still reluctant to use their 7000 million transfer budget, and put it in the bank to eat interest.

Atletico Madrid invests 8000 million in a season as a transfer budget, which is enough to illustrate the club's ambitions!
But after Gao Bo finished listening to Jill's introduction, he shook his head.

"Now the team's main lineup is very stable. All we need next season is to introduce some practical players on the bench. We can't spend so much transfer fee at all."

Gao Bo looked at the shocked people in the room and continued.

"Next season, we only need a transfer budget of 2000 million."

Jill Malin froze, surprised.

To be honest, this is the first time he has met a head coach who thinks he has a lot of transfer funds.

Generally speaking, the head coach always complains that the club's management does not give enough support, especially in terms of transfer funds, which cannot allow them to form a stronger lineup.And the club's top executives always complain that the head coach is a prodigal son who spends a lot of money.

This is a pair of natural enemies.

So when Gao Bo proposed that his team did not need so much transfer funds, everyone was very surprised.

Gao Bo explained: "It's good that the transfer fee is enough. Our current team has a complete lineup. The focus of the transfer is to increase the thickness of the bench. We don't need to introduce any big-name players, so we don't need too much transfer fee."

Goblin paused, then continued.

"As for the remaining money, I suggest using it as the team's salary space. Our lineup is very young. After this season, they will definitely be targeted by those big teams. In order to retain our players, salary is more important than friendship!"

What do professional players play football for?
Football is their profession and their job. No one will give up their wages because they love their work, so no player will refuse a salary increase.

The prime time of professional players is just these ten years, from 20 to 35 years old, 15 years. This is probably the most profitable 15 years of most professional players in their lives.

Some professional players with financial awareness will invest their money to ensure that they can live comfortably even after retiring.

And some professional players spend a lot of money. After they retire and their income plummets, they don't have much money left. In the end, news of the bankruptcy of many retired players often appears in the news.

Gao Bo knew that the best thing to retain players is definitely not friendship, but money!
Jill Marin looked at Chairman Cerezo.

The adjustment of the team's salary structure is also a major issue, and this is not something Jill Marin can decide alone.

But Cerezo was quite bold.

"You're right, Gao!" Cerezo said and looked at other high-level executives. He is the chairman of the club, but he is not the dictator of Atletico Madrid. He still needs the support of other managers.

"Players are the club's most important assets, we cannot let our assets be lost easily!!"

Cerezo said.

The other high-level leaders also nodded in agreement.

But they still have concerns.

Once the salary cap is broken, it is not just a matter of one season...
"Times have changed, sir!"

Gao Bo saw that some people were still hesitating, so he spoke.

"When Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid in 2009, his annual salary was as high as 1200 million euros! Messi's salary has also reached more than 1000 million euros!"

"This is an era when capital is desperately pouring into football! I'm sure that in a few years, even a transfer fee of 8000 million won't be able to buy any powerful stars!"

"This is the beginning of an era of player inflation. If we don't keep these players, we may no longer have the funds to compete with those big clubs in the future!"

"Griezmann, Aguero, Modric!"

"These three players will stay no matter what. No matter which team they go to, they are core-level players. A mere salary of 400 million euros cannot keep players of this level. I can be sure that a team like Manchester City will definitely dare to offer Griezmann an annual salary of 500 million euros!!"

Gao Bo said with certainty.

He knew how exaggerated the player's transfer fee would be in a few years!
By that time, the football market has completely turned into a commercial game, and a random star will be worth hundreds of millions!

Gao Bo's words caused the club executives to fall into a brief silence, and they did not refute Gao Bo.

Because the market development in the past two or three years has already moved in the direction Gao Bo said, especially after some big consortiums entered, the football transfer market is expanding almost every year!

Cerezo also believed that what Gao Bo said was reasonable, so the club's top management finally agreed to Gao Bo's request and put the excess transfer funds into the salary budget.

(End of this chapter)