The Young Lion

Aldridge had passed midnight when he returned to London.

At home, Ewen stood in the living room and watched TV. About Millwall and Leeds United Champions League game quickly became instant hot news, battle reports, game content, post-match coach interviews, etc., the BBC football program hides the ears, several commentators are focusing on Discussing the game, but automatically skipping the racial discrimination storm, after all, this is negative for the national football image, just like the Heisel massacre, the Hissburg massacre, and countless football hooliganisms, British officials still chose to cover fire extinguishment as the first choice.

But other European media are unscrupulous, scrambling to report on the scandal in the "England Civil War" in the Champions League semi-finals!

It was at this time that the UEFA Disciplinary Committee announced that it had investigated the game after receiving the match report of the referee after the match.

The UEFA Champions League is the signature of UEFA. The importance of the semi-finals is self-evident. UEFA definitely don’t want to see a scene in the game. They will not have the mentality of watching Liz from the outside world under criticism from the outside. After all, the game is still Officially organized by UEFA.

The report of the match is sparse and ordinary, but in the statement of the investigation, keywords such as racial discrimination, riots in the stands, and clashes among fans were briefly mentioned.

UEFA, of course, hopes to calm down. If this kind of thing happens to teams in different national leagues, UEFA will really have a headache because they don’t want to make trouble, but how will the injured football team be willing to give up?

Now it's ok, both parties are England teams, UEFA is not afraid of the toss of the FA, anyway everyone should try their best to put out the fire.

Since there is another game in the semi-finals and will move to the home of Millwall, UEFA’s findings will definitely be finalized after the semi-finals.

Burt and Earl did not sleep at the moment. Andrew received a call from Arthur at night and came to Audridge to wait for him. By the way, he bought a remote control toy car for his two nephews and they played in the living room. Happy

Aldridge opened the door and went home. When he saw the article, he turned off the TV first, so that Aldridge would not feel upset.

Andrew did not play on the ground with his two nephews. Ewen led the children upstairs and coaxed them to sleep. Andrew patted his trousers and smiled at Aldridge: "Don't worry about the FA, I'll help you settle ."

He didn't know that Thompson called Aldridge directly, but judging from Aldridge's comments after the game, the FA must be dissatisfied with Aldridge.

Aldridge loosened his tie and pulled it from his neck, sneering: "Thompson will only trouble me if he doesn't want to be the chairman, there is nothing to be smoothed out."

Mo said that behind Thompson's appointment there was Andrew's support in the FA's internal contacts. Oudridge's appointment as the national team coach was finalized by Thompson's unanimous consensus.

A few months ago, it was announced that this was his credit. Aldridge was invited, and the England national team was refreshed.

If Audridge resigns, Thompson will not be able to get rid of the relationship, and the opposition within the FA will inevitably fall to his stage.

Thompson's phone call must have not been thoughtful, it is estimated to be anxious to blindly do it.

Aldridge is afraid of the chairman of the FA?

Fear of an egg, he was the last chairman to step down!

Why is there a chairman of a non-governmental department?

Andrew thought for a while and thought that Aldridge made sense.

The FA is dissatisfied, but it should be clear which is more important.

Aldridge is not upside-down, black and white, if the FA against Aldridge, I am afraid it is not worth the loss.

The two sat down on the sofa. Andrew first asked Aldrich about Ronaldinho's injury.

He is an agent, but he can't intervene in the operation of the club where the player is. The injury of the player in the critical period is an absolute secret within the club. The players themselves have no right to disclose it.

"Three to four weeks of healing."

Aldrich also got the news from the club medical department after getting off the plane. Ronaldinho was not seriously injured, but the recovery time was not short.

The next few games in the league must not be expected to be able to catch up with the Champions League final, depending on Ronaldinho's specific recovery.

Andrew feels relieved that the player under his hand, Ronaldinho is already an important star, with one leg worth at least 10 million pounds.

He told Aldridge that Arthur had "ransomed" him completely.

"Hehehe, the old castle? Believe it or not? He will be mad at most for a month, and the old man can't bear the lonely, and he still supports the elderly.

Aldridge finally smiled, and sometimes Arthur was nonsense, but it always made people happy.

Andrew frowned: "You didn't understand what he meant?"

Aldridge picked up an apple on the coffee table and began to smooth the peel with a fruit knife. He didn't think: "I'm not stupid. He is letting you put the blood of Leeds United as much as possible. It has nothing to do with me. How? "You wouldn't do this kind of thing? Impossible."

Of course, Andrew would do this kind of vampire activity. When Rivaldo landed in La Liga at the earliest, he pumped 300,000 pounds, which is not much. After all, the transfer fee is not much, Rivaldo misses the old, thanks to the old club, Andrew is also down. Generous, want to earn a good reputation, pumped 300,000 pounds, of which 200,000 pounds were privately deposited in Rivaldo's offshore center account, these years, as long as it is not involved in the transfer of Millwall, he will go from the middle With a certain percentage of commission, the players will be transferred to the player's private account, which is regarded as money to buy loyalty, so that the player's wings are not solo, or they will be seduced by their peers.

He didn’t understand the situation at Leeds United. The club operated specific revenues and expenditures. He only knew Millwall, but Millwall could not be used as a reference, so he wanted to ask Aldridge. To release the blood of Leeds United, we must first understand the situation of the other party.

He made the point clear and asked Aldridge.

"I'll give you a rough account book. Specifically, you'll figure it out yourself. Leeds United has invested more than 100 million pounds in introducing players over the years, and selling players has recovered the most, at most only 35 million pounds. And Leeds United Club operates It is a loss, because they bought a lot of players, and the salary expenditures that were paid when they signed these players were a huge sum of money, and they could not make ends meet with their operating income. But the money spent on buying players was mostly It’s a bank loan, and banks naturally charge interest, which accumulates season after season..."

Aldrich split the apple in half and gave it to Andrew. Andrew didn't take it in his hands and looked thoughtfully.

He understands the overall economic environment of the football circle, that is, the football bubble starts to burst.

Is Leeds bad luck? Still retaliated?

No, this is just the risk they should bear when they signed a huge loan with the bank to develop the club.

Throughout the football circle, this kind of team that relies on loans to develop the club is a big gamble. Although it has been brilliant for a while, but after a short period of time, the end is basically miserable.

For example, Chelsea, which is almost impossible to expose, has a debt of more than 50 million pounds. Bates’ dream of building Chelsea into a "Roman Empire" has reached a point of collapse, especially in the context of the bursting of the football economic bubble. Ci secretly peddled Chelsea, no one in the industry dared to take over, it is simply a sinkhole!

In the past few years, many businessmen still wanted to make money by controlling football clubs. Now at this stage, if they want to make money through football, that person must be crazy.

What is the bubble of football economy?

More intuitively, the financial market can be used to explain the tip of the iceberg. About 3-4 years ago, the football circle had a frenzy period for club listing. The Premier League’s big ball will issue stocks for listing and financing development. The Italian team does the same. There are also Italian bosses who preach that this is the football rule of the new era. Other clubs fail to follow suit but are outdated and will be eliminated by the era.

Listing, financing, the club has money, expand the lineup and strengthen the strength, shareholders share the money.

And 99% of the wealth the club has absorbed from the financial market comes from the fans of this team!

Only the fans will be interested in the football club stock, and the club is actually touting the loyalty of the fans.

However, there will be a series of scumbags in the financial circle that are very despicable, as long as the experienced investors in the circle can perceive it.

Some club shareholders just want to let the team go public, then sell the shares, make a fortune and leave the market, and the broker who really invests in the stock will not recommend his customers to buy this kind of football club stock.

And as the team's record can't be played, the operating performance is linked to the value of the stock, and the stock will fall.

At this stage in 2001, even fans, who love their team, rarely buy money for the team's stock. Everyone knows that it is garbage! And it's easy to be scammed!

Who knows if the club will change ownership tomorrow?

Leeds United is a team that is listed on the stock market, and once it is listed, the annual financial report will be announced. Is the operating income and loss, whether it is a profit or a loss, and the debt situation has been reversed, or is it worse than before? These are clear at a glance.

If your business is on a downward trend, stocks are even less valuable, those borrowing banks will also urge debt, and other financing channels will also close the door to you, and then fall into a desperate situation.

Aldridge didn't care about chatting with Andrew, but since he said it, he remembered the situation when he made a deal with Ritzdale.

"Speaking of speaking, I remembered that when Leeds United came to buy me, I specifically found someone to investigate the source of funds for Leeds United. Ritzdale used Leeds United's income for the next 25 years as a mortgage, mainly Tickets and TV broadcast income, mortgage to insurance companies and banks, in exchange for 60 million pounds, the specific interest rate, I do not know, but the information revealed is a word: high."

Andrew heard the words: "What did he bring back?"

Aldridge shrugged: "He has ambitions. In his opinion, as long as Leeds United can guarantee the Champions League every season, the money is not difficult to get up, but it has not caught up with the good times."

Andrew nodded, Leeds United did not catch up with the good times, the player's value was fired high, relatively, the football economic bubble has burst, but the trade-offs, Leeds United's development plan can be described as a leak in the night.

Aldrich actually means: After 10 years, £60 million is an egg for the Premier League team! Mo said that to play in the Champions League, as long as the annual relegation, 60 million pounds, relying on television broadcasts only, three seasons properly.

Andrew also recalled the scene when he was negotiating with Leeds United. Shen said: "At that time, I was not at ease. I just felt that Leeds United was really rich. Ferdinand transferred treatment. I thought the weekly salary asking price of 35,000 pounds should be followed. The opponent has been talking for a long time, and as a result, Leeds United has paid a weekly salary of 40,000 pounds! There are other players' treatment negotiations, which are higher than the upper limit of my intention to blackmail. Now think about it, Ritzdale shot generously, this is for Leeds digs graves!"

Aldridge didn’t want to hear Andrew talk about it at all, so he was upset.

Since O'Leary coached, Leeds United played a high-gloss performance in the first year, and borrowed money to introduce reinforcements in the second year. The record is not as good as Millwall, even Manchester United is not as good, but it is imitating the strength of the strong team, like Millwall purchased 50 low-end cars for the club, while Leeds United spent £600,000 a year to rent more than 70 cars. The team went around and spent extravagance.

And talking about Ferdinand headed a group of players to switch to Leeds United, Aldridge didn't hate anyone in his heart, but he was so helpless.

In this world, beating and scolding can smile and grudge, but can hinder people's fortunes. This will be endless.

Recalling Ferdinand's accent in front of him that he chose to leave for his career, Audric prefers to be a villain and believes that Ferdinand is for the huge weekly salary paid by Leeds United.