At the end of June, Jiang Feng flew to the UK again. The training base he built for Manchester United on Mallorca has been completed and will soon be put into use after more than three months of intense construction.

This base cost Jiang Feng a lot of money, plus the money spent on the first purchase of the land, a total of more than 500 million US dollars. This is also because the construction period is relatively tight, in order to let the contractor speed up the construction of the project, Jiang Feng has spent a lot of money.

The five-square-kilometre training base includes 81 football training grounds, as well as a range of other supporting facilities. Of course, there are also several natural beach bathing areas, which are a modern training base for training and leisure. Training here not only increases the training effect, but also relaxes the players' spirits in the beautiful natural environment.

Because now Manchester United has its own special plane, most of Manchester United's training will take place here in the future. The Carrington training base in Manchester will only be a temporary training base for United before their home games.

The football-related training ground in this training base makes Jiang Feng feel most proud that it is equipped with an intelligent training system.

For example, in a free kick training venue, in this training venue, there is a holographic large screen next to it, and the screen is a 3D model of a football.

When training for free kicks, the coach in charge of free kick training will tell the players that they are playing the lower left part of the football today, so he must only play the bottom left side, and the kick will be considered a mistake if he kicks elsewhere.

At the same time, the player will also have to change into a special pair of shoes, which are also projected on the big screen, and the part of the ball he touches when he kicks the ball is also indicated in red.

The force used in the part that touches the ball is different from the force experienced by the part where the ball is hit, and the shade of color is also different.

Through this training of the player, it is clear whether he is using the correct touch part of the ball. Whether he hit the ball correctly or not only needs to look at the projection on the big screen to know.

In addition, a number of high-definition cameras were set up to film his free throws.

The last item of the training. It's just watching the video. to analyse whether there are any problems with his kicking and how they may affect the accuracy of his touch.

Of course, these tasks are done automatically by the system, and many big clubs dream of an intelligent training system that requires a lot of manpower and money that they may not be able to have. It's as easy as having a meal here.

In other football training venues, there is the same intelligent training system. Jiang Feng believes that these intelligent training systems are good for his team.

In addition to the training grounds related to football, there are also some sports training facilities that are not directly related to football. For example, it also has a modern fencing gym, a yoga gym and a martial arts gym.

These things don't seem to have anything to do with football, but in fact they have a lot to do with it, or at least it helps a lot in football training.

Take fencing, for example.

What does football have to do with fencing? Fencing and football seem to be two completely separate things. But since it's all sports, there's bound to be something interconnected. Fencing is a sport that requires very fast reflexes and quick movement of the foot. This will be very helpful for the players.

Fencing requires moving with pace in a very tight space to dodge the opponent's attacks, while also waiting for an opportunity to attack. On the football field, when a player is in possession of the ball, it is impossible to have a lot of space for him to deal with it calmly at all times. When faced with two or three people scrambling. Isn't it just in a small space like fencing? He has to be flexible with his footwork to control the ball and break through. In that case, he had to be quicker than everyone else, and fencing helped him develop that ability.

As for practicing yoga and martial arts, the help for the players should not be underestimated. Because these two sports not only exercise the player's body, but also practice yoga and martial arts can help the player understand his body better.

And it doesn't matter if it's football or being a person. It's useful to know yourself. Only by knowing his body better can he become stronger. This is actually quite mysterious, just like cultivating to the point where you can see inward, and you can see your physical condition at a glance.

Of course, yoga and martial arts will not be so magical. But it does help. Stephen Chow once made a movie called "Shaolin Football", which is a nonsensical movie. Talking about how to combine Chinese kung fu and football, it is quite popular in China, Japan and Europe. Although this combination is not realistic at present, practicing martial arts or yoga can indeed strengthen the body, and can improve people's body reflexes, strength and resistance to blows.

At this point, Jiang Feng's memory has an outstanding representative of Manchester United's team, and that is Ryan Giggs. As a winger with high physical requirements, the average person will decline significantly in his early thirties, and he will choose to retire at the age of thirty-four or five. But Ryan Giggs played until he was in his forties and was still in very good shape, which is why he continued to practice yoga.

Although the expressions are different, the essence is the same.

Since for the players

There are benefits, so why not do it? Combine the strengths of various sports, such as the pace of fencing, the body coordination of yoga, and other sports, and combine them with football...... What kind of monster would that be?

Therefore, after Jiang Feng told Ferguson about his ideas, he got his full support. He was also a player and a coach for nearly 30 years, these things, others don't say that he may not be able to consider them, but as long as they are pointed out, he naturally sees them very clearly.

Ferguson decided to make these training sessions a regular part of the team's daily routine in the future, with a fencing session and a yoga or martial arts session every week. As for the martial arts practiced, it was naturally derived by Jiang Feng from his Wuji True Technique, which he taught Ronaldo at the beginning, but with the improvement of his martial arts in the past two years, the benefits of the martial arts moves he gave to the players are more obvious.

This training base will not only be the main training base for Manchester United in the future, but it will also be open to the public during the summer. Otherwise, it's just teams from all echelons of Manchester United. I won't need more than 80 venues. It will be used as a training camp for teams interested in coming to train.

In this way, not only can this training base be used reasonably, but also bring a lot of income to Manchester United. At the same time, at the beginning of the training camp. United can also find plenty of warm-up opponents. It's a multiplier for training.

Of course, for example, those intelligent training systems are only open to Manchester United players, and Jiang Feng will not do such a stupid thing as shooting himself in the foot, because the improvement effect of those intelligent training systems on players is too obvious.

When this training base was completed and put into use. Manchester United's squad is also starting to assemble, their holiday season is over and the training camp for the new season begins.

Manchester United's pre-season camp this season has been much better than last year's. Last year, there were so many new players coming in, and half of the players were newcomers. Fortunately, Manchester United's transfer process is very fast. The training camp started very early, at the beginning of July, so that there was more than a month.

This year, the team has been more stable, with only two new signings, namely Pique from La Masia's academy and Argentine defender Cambiasso. Both of them have a high level of tactical literacy, and after entering the team, they only need to do some running-in.

In fact, because Pique is still very young. Coupled with the fact that Manchester United's first-team team is very competitive, he will not have many opportunities to play in the new season. Perhaps only Cambiasso can get more opportunities to play in the team.

When Manchester United's players assembled in Manchester, Jiang Feng, as the owner, also entertained all the players.

At this dinner, Jiang Feng once again took out the reward system for the new season. He believes this will spur these players to work harder.

Last season, Manchester United won the Champions League, the English League, the FA Cup and the League Cup. Jiang Feng offered a total of 17 million pounds in prize money, and each player contributed according to their contributions. Got at least £200,000. And the players who contributed the most, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ronaldinho, got a full 1.2 million pounds!

In the past 2oo3-2oo4 season, Manchester United spent 120 million pounds on various expenses such as wages and bonuses, which is a very horrific expenditure.

In addition, last summer, Manchester United spent a lot of money on renovating the Old Trafford stadium, expanding the stadium to 128,000 and spending a full 300 million pounds!

However, Manchester United has also made a huge amount of revenue in the past year.

The stadium is now the largest stadium in the English Professional League (128,000 seats). Manchester United's stadiums have consistently maintained one of the highest attendance rates in the league. More than 3.78 million people have visited Old Trafford this season to watch Manchester United's 19 league games, six Champions League games and five domestic cup games.

Manchester United's average total ticket revenue on a matchday is 4oo thousand. From next season, United's most expensive ticket will be £684, compared to £153 in 1991. With the increase in ticket prices, Manchester United's average ticket revenue on a UK match day next season will increase to $5oo.

Manchester United's total revenue on matchdays in the 2oo3-2oo4 season was £14o9o0,000, or 36% of all revenue. The specific income from the match day is as follows: £6.85 million for season tickets; English matches (including away) 2.42 million; European events 1ooo million; other 1ooo million; 810,000 catering on the day of the match; Cup 12oo million; Friendlies and tours 81o million.

In the 2oo3-2oo4 season, Manchester United's total revenue from media broadcasts reached 1o65o, accounting for 37% of the total revenue. The broadcast revenue is as follows: 3.27 million for domestic live broadcast in the UK, 4ooo for the Champions Cup, 1.11 million for domestic broadcast dividends in the UK, 87 million for cup broadcasting, 97 million for overseas broadcasting, 250 million for Manchester United Group's interactive channels, and 18 million for British radio.

In the 2oo3-2oo4 season, Manchester United's commercial revenue was 6.53 million, accounting for 27% of the total revenue, of which the commercial sponsorship contract income was 208o for Nike and 90000 for Vodafone (starting from 2oo4, Vodafone Communications and Manchester United began to implement a new contract, and the new contract was worth 360000 for four years).

Combining these three main sources of income, Manchester United's total revenue reached £312.7 million, with gross profit of £187.2 million before deducting inflation and player spending. ()

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