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() The meeting room of the Burleigh Club was full of people, and the heads of various departments gathered in the meeting room. The initiator of this meeting was not Richard, but the club CEO Gilauto.

break even!

This is the topic of this meeting held by Gilauto, and it is also the main thread of this meeting.

Sitting in the conference room, Li Cha didn't quite understand what Gilauto wanted to say. Hadn't he already achieved the balance of payments?Last season, the club lost nearly 1000 million. This season, Richard recovered 750 million in the transfer market, a loss of 250 million. For a Championship club, is it still called a loss?So what should Chelsea's loss of hundreds of millions in the past two years be called?Although Li Cha has never looked at the club's accounts since Moji and others came to the club, but he still knows how to do it...

Of course, Li Cha never admits that he is an idiot in club management...

He was questioning, and it was just questioning.

Gilauto sat in the meeting room and looked at everyone after sorting out the materials and said, "Everyone, today I want to talk to you about balance of payments."

"Last season, we bought Thiago? Silva, Baines, Ziegler, Sagna, Di Natale, Nocerino shared a total of 850 million. Qi, David? Nugent received a total of 750 million, Pepe as the addition of Muric, can be priced at 100 million, that is to say, in the transfer market, we have reached break even. Souvenir shop in Burleigh Contributing £30 to our profit is good, Burleigh is too small and we don’t have a bigger European presence.”

"However, the club spent a lot of money on other aspects." Gilauto glanced at everyone on the field and said: "The annual salary of the players, the construction of the club, the establishment of the Burleigh themed wine, the establishment of the glory stand, these, let us The loss is close to ten million! Moreover, I must tell everyone that this kind of constructive loss of the team must continue, otherwise we will not be able to become a big club at the international level, let alone the word 'rich'."

Li Cha, a financial idiot, finally understood that Burleigh had only reached a balance of payments in the transfer market!

"But our club is still not comparable to those big clubs in the Premier League. Our home stadium can only accommodate more than 1 people. The home stadium must be expanded to allow more fans to come in. Once the stadium is planned to open, it will be a huge investment. !"

"I'm sorry Mr. Chairman, the plan to expand the stadium is not yet mature, so the plan document has not been placed on your desk, but the source of funding must be discussed in advance."

Li Cha, who was still asking doubtfully, "why the club chairman doesn't know about such a big thing about expanding the stadium", nodded slowly after hearing Gilauto's explanation. Since it is just a plan, there is no need to declare and approve it. , so it's normal for him, the chairman of the club, to not know. He can't go through all the plans in the club one by one?

Gilauto looked at everyone and asked: "We are a club with the goal of 'not relying on shareholders' investment and relying on the club's own operation', so the first thing to solve is the funding problem for club construction. To solve the funding problem, first , we need to get the club into a state of break-even and then make the club profitable!"

"To be promoted to the British Championship, our ticket price has increased by five pounds, from the original ten pounds to fifteen pounds. Each Burleigh home game can earn us about 20 pounds. There are 23 Burleigh games per season. League home games, about 6-7 home games in England’s domestic cups, at least 2-3 home games in the UEFA Cup, and more if there are groups. That is to say, the number of home games for clubs will reach more than 30 per season. Season gate receipts will get us over $600 million, and that money...sorry, he can't be our capital. Club turf maintenance, club staff salaries, future renovations to Stanton Park will come from that money."

"That is to say, when we were not promoted to the Premier League, our club had no source of income at all, and we still had to maintain losses in the days to come. The only way to even out the losses was to sell players!"

Li Cha's complexion changed when he mentioned selling people, as if someone was going to cut his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys with a knife, he felt uncomfortable all over.

"Everyone knows that our players are the private property of Mr. Richard, and can only be sold if he agrees... If I don't want to lose my job, it's best not to think about the players..."

Gilauto drew laughter from everyone, and he laughed too.

"So, I made another plan, everyone, this is the main purpose of today's meeting, to invest in Brazil!"

Li Cha's eyes lit up instantly. Brazil is the world's largest producer of raw materials, and Brazil is the world's largest producer of player raw materials!

Almost every year in Brazil, there will be superstars worth over 2000 million, 3000 million, or even [-] million. The benefits brought by these people to Brazilian clubs and Brazilian brokerage companies are completely different from those of European players!

How many local superstars are there in Europe?Except for the top five football powers, every country can have one or two superstars on average (it's superstars).What about Brazil?What about South America?These extremely talented guys make people drool just looking at them!

"Our chairman seems to be looking forward to it. It seems that everyone is very interested in my proposal. Let me talk about my thoughts. There are now 1550 million pounds in the club's account (the remaining 800 million in the club + 750 million from the sold players. ), I decided to spend 1000 million pounds to build a football investment company in Brazil, but not in the name of Burleigh, we are not well-known, and now we can only invest in the name of Facebook, whose influence in South America far exceeds ours club."

"Establishing a football investment company is only the first step. In the next step, we have to see the opportunity to buy players, and then loan these players to local clubs in a training way, let them play games and let them grow. We can even Spend some money for their number of appearances, and even give some training fees to the Brazilian club. Of course, before the first batch of players mature, we have to do some work of buying and selling to increase profits for investment companies, which requires a lot of professional vision. The scouts have entered Brazil, but Moggi, who is far away in Belgium, can solve this problem, and he can pull out a professional scout with a strengthened company in Italy..." There was another burst of laughter in the meeting room, they liked Gilauto very much meeting style.

At this moment, Li Cha has already begun to form the first batch of lists in his mind to enter the Brazilian Football Investment Branch...

"Next, let me talk about the profit of doing so."

Gilauto took out a stack of materials in his own folder and sent them separately: "First of all, I declare that FIFA has regulations that player transfers must be completed between two clubs, and third parties are not allowed to intervene. According to this kind of regulation, facebook must establish a club in Brazil, no office building, no employees, as long as it has a license and players who can handle the lowest level of competition, we can completely become an amateur league club, so even the stadium There is no need, just lease it directly. In this way, legally, we are invulnerable.”

"With the basic guarantee, we can buy young players wantonly. There are many buyers of these players. Almost all clubs in the world are willing to buy Brazilian players. Not to mention Europe, everyone knows it well, even Vietnam, Qatar, etc. Countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, and Russia all need a lot of foreign aid, and Brazil exports 1000 players every year, not counting the number of small transfers and free transfers."

"Such a huge market share makes me envious! I want to eat it all in a greedy bite! In Brazil, a supermarket even has a football investment and transfer department. Those of us who have been involved in football all our lives can only find it in Look around, why not!"

Gilauto glanced at Li Cha and said: "Mr. Chairman, we all know that Burleigh is your lifeblood, but there are not many people who own Burleigh's shares in the board of directors of Burleigh, which may be detrimental to future development. , at least when Burleigh is in trouble, many people will not be of one mind with you, including me! So I would like to apply to the chairman of Burleigh Club and the largest shareholder of Facebook to establish this football investment company as a joint-stock company. Everyone will raise funds 70.00% of the shares of the football investment company are owned by Mr. Chairman, and the remaining 30.00% are allocated by way of investment. Mr. Chairman, do you have any comments?"

Gilauto's meaning is obvious, that is, to invest in Brazil, you must share some soup with your subordinates?Otherwise, who would go all the way to Brazil to help watch and select candidates?

Richard doesn't care about money at all, he is no longer a poor man, what he cares about are those talented Brazilian players!

"Yes, there is no problem. Everyone will invest in the shares, how to distribute the remaining 30.00% of the shares, etc. We are discussing after Vice Chairman Moji returns from Belgium, Gilauto, continue."

"Yes sir."

Gilauto took out another document: "Brazil has been divided up by many local companies in the football transfer market. We, an outsider who has just entered Brazil, will definitely be strongly rejected. The solution to this problem is, Use the network company owned by Mr. Chairman to develop a football field database and Brazilian player game video area for Brazilian football, and help the whole of Brazil to push unknown but very powerful players to the global football market. With this help as Foreshadowing, our football investment company can enter Brazil logically, and Facebook will not be entirely an entertainment website, but will attract the professional attention of Brazilian fans and club people all over the world!"

"In order to make this area of ​​the website more intuitive, we will cooperate with the world's most famous data production company to present each player with data, his height, weight, key passes, assists, goals, defensive cards The position, the success rate of steals and so on are completely presented in front of any fan or football practitioner."

"According to the above data and the actual observation of our scouts, we will have the world's largest football database of South American players! This is unimaginable for a club. With this database, our football investment industry in Brazil It will have an absolute advantage, coupled with the player video as evidence, this will be a move that will allow Burleigh to have absolute resources after entering the Premier League!"

Li Cha very much agrees with Gilauto's views, but disagrees with the fact that Brazilian players can help Burleigh gain an advantage in England, because England is about to introduce new rules for the registration of club players for the development of its own players, and there are currently 25 players in the team There will be a new clause of 17+8 in the registration list, which is a restriction on foreign aid, and it is even more unlikely that the phenomenon of multinational teams in the previous English league will appear.However, this investment is obviously very wise. Brazil is indeed a big cake in football. If Burleigh or Facebook can take a bite, then the club may really be able to speed up the pace of self-sufficiency. This is definitely a good thing for Burleigh. A good news, good news can not be better.

"I completely agree with Gilauto, in addition to drawing up the first batch of player buyout lists..."

When Li Cha handed over the list to most of the people who have been in the football industry for a lifetime, Gilauto was the first to look at the list and asked: "Neymar? Who is Neymar? Why is he the key buyout?" Object, and a 100% buyout? The new star emerging in Brazil should be Pato, Pato!"

"Girauto, don't mention Pato anymore, Burleigh won't attract him."