Chapter 82: Someone Get Out

Flying from Spain to Kiev, then from Kiev via Spain to South America, and then back to Spain from South America - Jose and Silva flew back and forth for thousands of kilometers, and returned to Mallorca exhausted - In the process, they spent 9.5 million US dollars to sign Kaladze and Ronaldinho - especially Ronaldinho. You must know that Mallorca has not had any since the team was founded. After spending so much money on a player...

US$7.5 million may not be worth mentioning in the eyes of wealthy clubs, but for Mallorca, this is already the largest expenditure they have ever spent on a player since the team was founded.

What's more, it's a five-year contract with an annual salary of 800,000 yuan, with an annual increase of 10%. After five years, including transfer fees and wages, it will be close to 13 million U.S. dollars. This is after tax-if La Liga's tax rate is not similar. It is less than Serie A. If it is only 40%, Mallorca's expenses will be much greater.

You must know that the famous Beckham Act has not yet been implemented. What Jose introduced is not an influential superstar like Beckham. He himself is not as popular as Florentino, so in the heartache After looking at the taxes to be paid, Jose could only give up - but no matter what, no matter whether money has harmed football or not, in modern football, it is important to be able to select high-quality and cheap players, but spending money It's also more important.

How can Leeds United have the reputation of being a Young Guard without spending any money? How could Lazio win the league title if they hadn't spent a year or two continuously spending money? Of course, both families ended badly...

So, you have to be smart about spending money...

It is precisely because of this thought that Jose is still in a good mood, regardless of whether Grande thinks he is spending money randomly - I just spent it anyway, so what? As long as the team doesn't run a deficit...

After poaching Ronaldinho, the absolute core of Barcelona's future dream team, Jose didn't want to poach Real Madrid players - there has to be an equal footing, right? It's just that it's a bit difficult to dig out Real Madrid's future core...

The paths taken by Real Madrid and Barcelona are basically two extremes. Real Madrid has always bought superstars in their early years or even those who are already very old, especially since Florentino came to power, whether it is the first phase of the Galaxy Fleet. Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham and Irving, or Cristiano Ronaldo and Alonso in the second period, rarely buy half-finished products to train and train their own youth teams. This is also an important feature in building the Real Madrid brand. Under Florentino, Real Madrid began to become truly the best club of the century. Almost all superstars are proud to join Real Madrid - when Real Madrid performs well, it can make them feel that they can win championships if they go to Real Madrid. , when Real Madrid's performance is not good, they feel that they can become the hero who saves Real Madrid - the two Ronaldos are the best examples. Ronaldo went to Real Madrid because he was eager for honors, including Zidane, and Zidane went to Real Madrid. After joining Real Madrid, he won the only Champions League trophy in his club career. Ronaldo also won the only league championship trophy in Real Madrid. In the later period, Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Real Madrid, basically hoping that he could win the Champions League championship for Real Madrid, which had not won the Champions League for nearly ten consecutive years and had been the champion of the Champions League for the past five or six years. Cup champion, and finally wanted to become the best player in the world. Although when Jose was reborn, his wish had not yet been realized...

Barcelona's approach is completely opposite.

With the resignation of Nunez and the departure of Figo, Barcelona began to fall into a four-year championship gap. Gaspart, who took office this summer, can be called the stupidest president of Barcelona in 20 years. Figo moved to Real Madrid. Although it was an extremely serious blow to Barcelona, the transfer fee of nearly 60 million US dollars meant that Barcelona did not actually lose money. You must know that even at the turn of the century when the player transfer market had a serious bubble, this amount of money was definitely considered a huge amount. A huge sum of money, with Barcelona's habit of buying potential half-finished stars and reaching their peak, is enough to form a stronger team - you must know that this is Barcelona's tradition, starting from Maradona, Romario, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, and later Ronaldinho all came to Barcelona before they truly became top stars, and then became top stars in Barcelona. The backbone of the future Dream Two and Dream Three will basically be The above comes from self-cultivation, Valdes, Puyol, Pique, Xavi, Iniesta...

Jose also wants his Mallorca to be as wealthy as Real Madrid, but you know, how many Real Madrids are there in the world? There is only one club that can spend as much money as Real Madrid and has the strongest appeal.

On the contrary, this model of Barcelona can be used as a reference. Other clubs cannot learn from it because they do not have a transcendent identity like Cruyff behind them. The Premier League is trapped in its own youth training ability, and the English Football League cannot learn from it. The wrong youth training strategy has left England's young players with no successors, and the bad media environment has made young players constantly praised. In Serie A, it is commonplace to fire coaches. The first team's playing style is always uncertain, leaving the youth team leaders at a loss.

The Bundesliga team's youth training began to become quite effective after the national team's disastrous defeat. The Germans' rigor and discipline made the German Football Association raise their voices and various clubs began to vigorously cultivate youth training, which directly led to the 2010 World Cup. The blowout of German rookies before and after, speaking of this, Jose also feels that he has great admiration for the Germans - however, the Bundesliga clubs' strict implementation of the expenditure balancing strategy has also restricted their development. After all, the price of Bundesliga tickets is almost The cheapest among the four major leagues, even if their average attendance is frighteningly high, they will not earn much in ticket sales. It will be difficult to attract and retain good players with little money.

Jose himself has no such doubts. He now has most of the control of Mallorca. As his largest shareholder, it can be said that he can continue to be the coach as long as he wants. Then establish a team that is consistent with the first team. If you have a youth team system, it won't be too difficult - you know, it is not difficult to form a youth team. Professional clubs have such a system, and Mallorca's scouting system is not bad either, such as Tristan and Lu Ke was recruited from other small and medium-sized clubs by Mallorca scouts. The key is to firmly build the team and adopt the same training method as the first team. This is more difficult. After all, coaches who can stay in a club for a long time are becoming more and more popular. It is becoming more and more rare, but for Jose, this is not a problem.

Mallorca's youth training and scouting system are actually very complete. Jose is not in a hurry to make these places world-class now. He can just do it step by step. He doesn't have to worry.

In addition to its own youth training, the other point is to buy semi-finished products. This will not be a problem for Jose. At least the memory in his mind can prevent Mallorca from having to worry about not having outstanding rookies in the past ten years. After this period of time, when Mallorca is always able to cultivate outstanding players, Mallorca can also use this to attract more outstanding young players. After all, in this world, real superstars are always A small number of people can continuously attract powerful players, which is enough to make a club successful.

The foreign signings have ended. Ronaldinho and Kaladze will be able to join directly after the winter transfer window opens. However, Jose's signings are not over yet. At home, he still has some signings he wants to complete.

Of course, there is no need to worry now. The first thing he needs to solve is the problems within the team.

After Jose's high-profile return, Stankovic regretted his imminent transfer and departure, but Vazquez was just anxious...

He replaced the person he didn't like and became the head coach of Mallorca, but his results were quite average or even very bad. At this time, the person he didn't like suddenly became the largest shareholder of Mallorca - this has a strong turning point. The change confused Vazquez...

Although the elder Alemany stated at the press conference that he would still be the club's head coach, the pressure on Vazquez did not ease at all.

He was not a particularly good head coach to begin with, otherwise Jose would not have heard of his name at all in later generations. The early success of Rayo Vallecano was more due to the fact that other La Liga teams were not satisfied with Rayo Vallecano. Familiarity and good luck made him famous. After losing to Jose, his performance began to plummet, which also seriously affected his self-confidence.

Although Jose did not interfere with his team's affairs after becoming the largest shareholder of Mallorca, and did not even set foot on the first team's training ground, Vazquez still felt a huge crisis. Mallorca fans called It's been more than a day or two since Jose returned. In the past, Vazquez could still think that Jose would never come back. After all, Grande had promised him this before - but now Grande couldn't even protect himself, let alone him. …

This huge pressure put Vazquez in an extremely irritable state. When he was on the training ground, the players could feel the aura that he gave out to keep strangers away. Even though Vazquez suppressed Jose before, He had no conflict with the players on the training ground. However, less than three days after Jose returned, he quarreled with captain Ngonga on the training ground. One...

The reason is very simple, that is, Ngonga ran a little slower in the confrontation training - Ngonga is almost thirty-six years old, and it is normal to save some physical energy in training. However, in the eyes of Vazquez now, It's just disrespectful to myself, just hoping that Jose will come back soon...

After a few words, it turned into a quarrel. Although there were no reporters around and it quickly subsided after the assistant coach and other players persuaded them, the atmosphere in Mallorca's locker room became extremely tense - - You must know that even when Gomez was the coach, Mallorca's results were abysmal, but there was no conflict between the coach and the players.

At this point, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Vazquez's position has come to an end. No coach can continue to take charge with such weak control over the locker room, let alone Jose who is eyeing him. .

In the tenth round of the league, Mallorca lost 0-1 to underdog Las Palmas in an away game and fell to the 20th, which is the last place.

Vazquez, who was exhausted after the game, announced his resignation at a press conference. For him, choosing to coach Mallorca was a huge mistake.

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