Football nukes: a pound buys a club

With the final game over, the season is over.

After briefly summarizing the successes and failures of this season and looking forward to the future, the team officially entered the vacation mode.

As the owner of the team, Zhang Chong is like the donkey of the production team who still needs to keep running, and he has to decide on many things.

The lovely Comrade Weller went looking for Zhang Chong again with the ledger.

The bills for this season have been released, and the overall profit of this season is slightly less than last season.

Compared with last season, this season's ticket revenue and game prize money have increased by hundreds of thousands of pounds, and broadcast revenue, merchandise revenue and sponsorship expenses have also increased, totaling an increase of about 100 million pounds.

However, due to the general increase in player salaries and bonuses by 30.00% after the upgrade, and the cost of Zhang Chong hiring several coaching staff members, these cost more than 120 million pounds.

Last season made a profit of 30 pounds, this season only [-] pounds.

But Zhang Chong is already very satisfied, after all, he just hoped not to lose money a few years ago.

And this summer, the team should have some action.

First of all, he is going to sell people.

Because of the emergence of Trey Keane, his first target is Obadayi.

Although he played quite well as the main left midfielder, the team needs to obtain funds now, so Zhang Chong can only say sorry.

Zhang Chong's psychological price for him is 600 million pounds.

Aubadei scored [-] goals and [-] assists in League One last season. Zhang Chong thinks he is worth the price.

However, it is only May now, and there is still some time before the transfer window opens on June 6, so he is not in a hurry.

In this offseason, he still has one more thing to do, and that is to take the coaching license test.

Although he has obtained the UEFA C-level coaching certificate before, it is only with the B-level certificate that he can truly enter the door of professional coaching.

And the b-level certificate requires a lot of team-leading practice, so he has been procrastinating until now before he is qualified.

It just so happened that there was a coaching training class starting on May 5 this year, and he decisively signed up.

This training session will last for a month and ends just as the transfer window begins, so the timing is very suitable for him.

And five or six days before that, he decided to go back to China.

In addition to seeing Lin Su, he has one more thing to do.

The fact that he led the England team to two consecutive promotions was finally discovered by domestic sports reporters. A few days ago, an article about him caused heated discussions in the sports circle.

And a sports reporter contacted him through various channels, hoping to do an exclusive interview with him.

It happened that Zhang Chong also intended to make his own next move in China, so he made an appointment with him to return to China for an interview.

The plane landed at Pudong International Airport.

The reason why he chose Shanghai this time was because Zhang Chong entrusted that reporter to contact a highly respected football senior.

That senior is in Shanghai.

After getting off the plane, Zhang Chong saw a dark-skinned middle-aged man waving a sign: "Welcome Zhang Chong back home!"

Zhang Chong waved to him, and he walked over: "Hi, I'm Song Lei, a reporter from Sports Seven."

Zhang Chong shook hands with him: "Hi, I'm Zhang Chong."

Song Lei took him into the car: "Coach Zhang, you must be exhausted from the ten-hour flight?"

Zhang Chong shook his head: "It's okay, it's okay, I slept on the plane."

Song Lei said: "Coach Zhang, since Director Xu is going to Sichuan tomorrow, I can only ask him to meet you today. I'm really sorry to make you work so hard!"

Zhang Chong smiled: "I can only stay in Shanghai for one day, and this time is just right."

Song Lei smiled and said, "Thank you for your understanding!"

More than an hour later, the car stopped in front of a hotel.

Song Lei said: "I've reserved a private room, let's go in!"

So, the two followed the waiter's guidance and came to the door of a small private room.

Pushing open the door, Zhang Chong found that there were already two people sitting inside.

One is about 70 years old, wearing glasses, with a very dignified face, he is the guide Xu Genbao who he is going to meet on this trip; the other is in his 40s, with high cheekbones and thin eyes, very distinctive looks, but he is a former Asian football player, Fan Zhiyi!

Zhang Chong was a little pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect to buy one and get one free this time. He met two big guys at once!

Especially Fan Zhiyi, but a mountain in the hearts of all professional players in China.As a former professional player, Zhang Chong naturally knew his status.

But he still controlled his emotions well and exchanged pleasantries with the two.

Director Xu Genbao looked at him carefully: "You young man is a bit interesting. You quietly set up a team and led the team to the British Championship. It's really good!"

Zhang Chong hurriedly said modestly, "Compared to seniors like you, I'm still far behind."

Fan Zhiyi interjected at this time: "Young man, work hard and strive to be promoted to the Premier League in a few years. We Chinese have not been seen in the Premier League for several years."

After finishing this sentence, the four people in the banquet fell silent.

Since Zheng Zhi and Sun Jihai left the Premier League, Chinese players have never appeared in the Premier League again.Everyone thought that this group of players was the beginning of glory, but it became the last glory.

Zhang Chong broke the silence: "Now there are two Chinese boys in my team. Their abilities are very good. When we are promoted to the Premier League, they will be able to compete in the Premier League."

Xu Genbao became interested: "Really? Is there a video of their game?"

Zhang Chong took out the USB flash drive he had prepared a long time ago: "Here are their game clips."

Xu Genbao quickly took it over: "You young man, you made a big news quietly. If we have a few more good seedlings, we still have a chance to return to the World Cup."

Zhang Chong strikes while the iron is hot: "Director Xu, to be honest, I came to see you this time because of our football youth training."

Xu Genbao's eyes lit up: "Tell me!"

Zhang Chong said: "I know that you are looking for the acquisition of a Spanish low-level league team recently, and I want to cooperate with you. At the same time, I also want to invest in building a football school there!"

But Xu Genbao not only didn't feel excited, but frowned instead: "Young man, this is not something that can be done casually, and the youth training can't tolerate the slightest joke."

Zhang Chong is very serious: "I am serious. That's why I came to you because you are one of the best youth training coaches in China."

Xu Genbao said: "Then what are you for? If you want to build a football school in Europe, there is no need to ask me to cooperate."

Zhang Chong said, "But, I want to recruit Chinese students."

Xu Genbao frowned even tighter: "Chinese students? What do you plan to do after they are trained? Send them to the European League? The restriction on nationality is enough to kill most players."

He paused, with a hint of interrogation: "Or, do you just want to use a gimmick of training abroad to engage in domestic sales?"