The three people sitting in the office of the general manager of Calderon stadium all look dignified, as if something big happened.
Since last night, Atletico Madrid beat Manchester United 2-0 away from home and won two consecutive games in the second stage of the group stage, becoming the most popular group stage breakthrough, the whole European football world has been shocked.
The media sang praises, the fans cheered, and everyone in the club was enthusiastic.
There is no doubt that this is a rare peak for Atletico Madrid in decades.
But behind this group of people who are overwhelmed by the team's achievements, there are still people who keep calm all the time.
That's Enrique serenzo!
The vice president, who usually seems a little dull, depressing and fussy, called Hill and Paul fortley to a meeting early this morning after arriving at Calderon stadium.
The first sentence is: "we are in unprecedented trouble!"
Hill and Paul fortley are obviously not out of the excitement and excitement of last night. Their first reaction is that this guy is joking. But soon, the next sentence of serezo made them realize the seriousness of the problem.
"I'm afraid it's hard for us to keep the players any longer."
The two people on the opposite side were completely stunned. The laughter on their faces turned into the seriousness of worry.
Yes, Atletico Madrid is in big trouble!
The better the team's performance and the better the players perform, the more difficult it is for Atletico Madrid to keep players.
Today's bedspread team is no longer the top three in La Liga before relegation. Once relegated, everything has come back, and without the financial support of the hill family, Atletico Madrid must be self reliant.
Don't say that as before, it's a heavy burden for Atletico Madrid to keep the existing players in the team, even if the top stars such as Vieri and Hasselbaink are recruited.
"In the past two years, the team's salary has gone up again and again, and the top salary has broken again and again. Many players have renewed their contracts every year and increased their salary every year. Up to now, the whole salary expenditure of our team has risen to the top in the Spanish League."
Serezo's words made hill and Paul futre aware of the seriousness of the problem.
Money is a problem that all professional teams have to face.
To run a team like Atletico Madrid, if you want to be self reliant, you must control your financial revenue and expenditure.
On the one hand, we need to open up the source of revenue and improve the team's financial revenue as much as possible, which depends on the sponsors, the revenue of the game day and the share of the broadcasting rights. But in the Spanish League, the share of the broadcasting rights only belongs to Real Madrid and Barcelona.
If Atletico Madrid want to fight, it can only take out long-term stable performance to have chips.
If the income of competition day is limited by Calderon stadium, Atletico Madrid has no advantage in this aspect.
As for the sponsors, with the excellent performance of the team, progress is good, but it is far from comparable with Real Madrid and Barcelona and other big teams.
In addition to open source, the team has to pay attention to saving money.
The biggest expense of a club is undoubtedly the salary of the players, which needs to be controlled.
Why is it so easy for a big team to poach players from other teams?
In addition to the broader platform, a very important reason is that the top teams can give higher salaries.
It's true that if you don't have such a big head, don't wear such a big hat.
Without sufficient financial revenue, there is no way to keep the stars.
The more potential, the more strength, the more can not stay!
"Over the past period of time, our team's performance in Europe has become more and more excellent, and the attack of the top teams has become more and more fierce, especially AC Milan, who are eager to get Kaka
"Manchester United's Peter Kenyon also contacted me to ask about the offers of Xabi Alonso and Carvalho. It is said that Ferguson is very interested in these two players
"Barcelona are also interested in Xabi Alonso and van Gaal thinks he has the strength to replace Guardiola
Serezo's words undoubtedly sounded an alarm in the hearts of the two opposite people.
The Champions League is really beautiful, but for Atletico Madrid at this stage, it is undoubtedly a hot potato.
The original meaning of the management is to focus on participation, enter the second stage of the group stage, earn some entrance fee, game bonus, and share the broadcasting fee, and make a profit.
But now the situation is different, the team is getting better and better, more and more effective, which makes the team in a dilemma.
When the team's performance goes up, the better the players perform, the easier it will be for the top teams to play.
Today's Atletico Madrid is a bit like Valencia, even worse than Valencia's situation.
At that time, a lot of rich and powerful families scrambled for mendetta, but now
Villa, Torres, Kaka, Xabi Alonso, Deco, Marcos Senna, Carvalho, Cech
That a group of big teams like wolves are going to split Atletico Madrid into pieces!
Now, in front of Atletico Madrid, there are only two ways.
If we don't deal with it carefully, the team is likely to go bankrupt, or even go back to the demotion of that year.
Or abandon the army to protect the commander-in-chief, sell a few players, in exchange for a large amount of cash, to retain a number of backbone.
I believe all rational operators know how to choose.
But the problem is that there is also a considerable risk of abandoning the army to protect the commander-in-chief.
The top teams focus on the best players in the team, which is the soul of a team. If they sell it away, they will get a large transfer fee, but the team's tactics will certainly change.
At that time, it's hard to say whether the team can remain competitive.
Like Real Madrid such a rich team, the best is not to play but dig strategy?
Far away are the manager of Tenerife baldano and the back midfield Redondo, Valencia's Mijatovic, and near are also Marco Makelele of Vigo CELTA and Flavio of La Coruna
These teams always rely on their own strong financial advantages, waving checks in their hands, sucking blood from other teams, digging high-level players, replenishing their own strength, and achieving revival in the shortest time.
As for those teams who have been poached and sucked blood, if they handle it well, they will be able to tide over the difficulties. If they don't handle it well, they will probably fall back and it will be difficult to compete with the rich teams.
The biggest difference between ordinary fans and team managers is that they look at the problem from different angles.
The former only pays attention to the high light period of the team, and always wants to improve the team's performance as soon as possible, but the latter pays more attention to the team's low point, pays more attention to improving the team's anti risk ability, and avoids or helps the team out of the low point as soon as possible.
What is often talked about by the fans, the so-called rich family background, is not reflected in the trough?
Atletico Madrid's relegation, has exhausted the team everything, now the bedspread Legion is pushed down after the reconstruction.
It's not easy, but it's also teetering and can't stand the slightest risk and impact.
This point, serezo first see through, hill and Paul futre also understand.
With the current situation of the team, it is necessary to sell a few players and retain a number of players to seek more long-term and stable development.
But if you sell your star, I'm afraid
"The cold should be understood." Paul futley is not sure.
The technical director of Atletico Madrid, the most prominent credit is bet on the high cold, so he always unconditionally support the high cold.
But serezo sighed, "I'm afraid of the cold..."
The three looked at each other, and no one could speak.
If you want to say that Atletico Madrid's most attractive team, no other than Alpine.
The most powerful team is also Alpine.
It was reported in the media that Bayern Munich intended to invite Alpine coach, and coach Heathfield strongly recommended it.
Later, it was revealed that Barcelona will re elect its president this summer. At least three candidates who are interested in running for the presidency have played the sign of high cold and promised to pay a lot of money to coach high cold once they are elected.
Previously, after playing AC Milan in the first stage, the Italian media also revealed that Inter Milan had lost patience with Cooper and intended to invite Gao to coach and take charge of meiacha.
Just this morning, the British media are still hyping that Gao Han will leave Atletico Madrid and coach the Premier League in the new season. Many teams including Liverpool have been included in it.
It is not difficult to see that the popularity of Alpine is no less than that of the top stars in European football.
In this case, can Atletico Madrid keep him?
"You have to work hard." Little hill suddenly broke the silence.
"If there is no cold, there will be no team today, so no matter what we do, even any player can go, only cold, we must try our best to stay!"
Serezo and Paul futre nodded after listening.
"I have confidence in Gao Han. As long as he is here, the team will not collapse!" Paul fortley cried out loud.
It is clear that the big three have reached a consensus.
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After beating Manchester United 2-0 away, the Champions League was temporarily suspended, but La Liga continued.
Atletico Madrid returned to Spain and immediately went away to challenge Alves.
Although the team has carried on the rotation, but the bench lineup powerful bedspread regiment still in the away game, relying on the goals of Kiko and Baptista, defeated Aravis 2-0.
But in this round, Valencia, La Coruna and Real Madrid all beat their rivals one after another, especially Real Madrid, who beat vilva 4-2 at the Bernabeu stadium.
Only Barcelona, van Gaal's team lost 3-0 to Sevilla in the Nou Camp stadium, which let the Nou Camp stadium once again burst out the fans' angry boos.
A week later, December 21, the 15th round of La Liga and the last round before Christmas.
Atletico Madrid won a 3-0 win over Santander in Calderon.
After a week's rest, the bedspread regiment was strong, fully in control of the game and won without fear or danger.
Real Madrid beat Malaga 3-2 away.
Barcelona suffered a disastrous defeat at home in the last round. This round of away games broke out, killing Real Mallorca 4-0 away. The tough van Gaal once again seized the team's decline.
The focus of this round of war, La Coruna away 1-0 victory over Valencia, in this strong dialogue, got valuable three points( (to be continued.)