The Era of Emerald

After determining the future development direction of Parma, Francesca's mood improved a lot, and immediately ordered someone to notify the other 20 Serie A clubs to hold a temporary meeting on July [-]th, and then she personally sent Zhuang Mingge Sent out of Palma's headquarters, and stood at the gate and waved goodbye to him.

Zhuang Mingge, who returned to Florence, began to prepare his speech at the upcoming professional league meeting while observing Parma's actions. He wanted to see what Francesca, who had a clear direction, would do next. Actions.

In fact, the problem that Parma currently has is very obvious, that is, after being promoted to Serie A, the Milk Legion has made a lot of signings for many years, making the team's current total salary obviously beyond the club's ability to bear.

In the original history, although Parmalat was not very generous in terms of transfer fees, they could still allocate some funds to smooth out Parma's debts. After all, player salaries at this time were not as exaggerated as they were later. At that time, Litmanning joined Barcelona with a salary of 99 million U.S. dollars as the maximum salary, not to mention that it is only 500.

However, Francesca, who finally pulled Parma out of Parmalat's banner, is naturally unable to accept capital injection from Parmalat, so she can only find ways to reduce the club's expenditure, and the first to bear the brunt is naturally the players. their wages.

Originally, if Parma wanted to smoothly reduce the total wages, there were only two ways to go.

One is to persuade high-paid players to agree to cut their salaries to stay in the team. However, in an environment where players’ salaries are generally rising, this is obviously unrealistic. A deeply affectionate veteran, who would agree to the request for a salary cut?

The other is to sell all the high-paid players in the team. This can not only effectively reduce the total wages, but also get a large transfer fee. Parma can use this money to re-introduce a batch of good seedlings for training. , and sell them for money after they have achieved results, thus forming a virtuous circle.

However, doing so is risky.After all, the main players who can get high wages in the team are basically the main players, and the last one is the main rotation level. If too many main players are sold and Parma's performance drops sharply next season, it will not be worth the loss.You know, Parma can participate in the European Champions Cup next season. As long as the team makes it to the next knockout round, the profits are quite huge.

What Francesca hopes is that Parma can steadily transition from a money-burning machine to a black shop. She doesn't want to see the team only focus on saving money and turn into a mid-lower relegation club. It is also impossible to be a black shop.Who will pay big money for your players without guaranteed results?

With the help of Zhuang Mingge, Francesca found a third solution to the club's financial problems.

Guys, do you still remember the Japanese Football Association, which is trying to get its players to play in the top European leagues?Under the lead of Zhuang Mingge, Francesca, who is sponsoring Palma all over the world, and Saburo Kawabuchi, who is eager to send a group of hopeful stars of his country to the top league for training, hit it off.After some bargaining, Parma finally announced the introduction of Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata from the Shonan Ocean Club at a low price of US$100 million.

The introduction of Hidetoshi Nakata by Parma is not worth the loss from a competitive point of view, because Ancelotti already has Croatian midfielder Stanic under his command, and then spends a non-European quota to introduce Hidetoshi Nakata with overlapping positions. No matter how you look at it, there are some resources. Wasted feeling.

Although from a purely competitive point of view, Parma did make a bad transfer, but in terms of business development, Parma has received a very rich return: after signing Hidetoshi Nakata, a large group of Japanese companies gathered in groups. The head of the team came to this small city in northern Italy and expressed their willingness to sign various commercial sponsorships with Parma Club.

Seeing this group of Japanese companies who took the initiative to send them to their door to be slaughtered, Francesca was directly stunned by this big pie, and quickly signed a big contract with these companies that she thought were "stupid people and rich money". Heaps of sponsorship deals.

Toyota bought the jersey chest ad for $500 million over three years, Sony paid $1000 million over five years to win the title of electronics supplier... and the billboards inside the Tardini Stadium were also taken over. Many Japanese companies wiped them all out at prices much higher than the market price.

With such a large amount of sponsorship money injected into the club, Francesca can finally take a breather.

And Zhuang Mingge was not idle. Although for some well-known reasons, he was unwilling to introduce Japanese players from the bottom of his heart, but he would not be troubled by money, so he signed a contract with the Japanese Football Association.

The general content of this agreement is that the Japanese Football Association can send outstanding domestic players to Florence for short-term training ranging from three months to half a year in the next five years. The training fee is proportional to the training time. For three months, it is 100 million. US dollars, if you want to stay in Florence for the first half of the year, then the Japanese Football Association will have to pay 200 million US dollars for each player in training costs.

It is Kenyon's suggestion to reduce the training cost. Due to the rapid improvement of Florence's performance in recent years, the commercial value has also increased.Therefore, under the auspices of Kenyon, many of the club's commercial sponsorship contracts now, if the price of training players is raised too high, then Japanese companies that feel that they have been severely slaughtered by the other party may give up continuing to sponsor Fiorentina. , This is a situation Kenyon does not want to see.

Huge profits can only be obtained quickly for a while, and the long flow of water is the kingly way.

And the Japanese Football Association was also unambiguous, and immediately sent Shunsuke Nakamura, who performed well in Florence in the first half of the year, to Viola, intending to let him continue his studies in this giant, and strive to stay in Europe instead of waiting for training time As soon as he arrived, he returned to the country in despair.

Although there are regulations in Serie A that do not allow trial players to participate in official matches, there is no such regulation in the youth team league. Shunsuke Nakamura and the others are fully qualified to play in the youth league in Florence, so they should adapt to the rhythm of the European league in advance up.

Other Serie A teams are drooling at the generosity of Japanese companies, but they have no way to intervene now. Parma, who took the first shot, has already eaten all the meat in the pot, and the rest of the soup is basically taken by Florence. Give it a round.

The financial resources of other Japanese companies are also limited. After spending a lot of real money to feed the two wolves of Parma and Florence, they have no plans to continue burning money.

Therefore, the Serie A clubs who were a step behind in their moves could only watch this delicious meal being divided up by Parma and Fiorentina, and then hid in the bed and blamed themselves.