Chapter 462: Times are different

After celebrating in Poseidon Square, the team also arrived at the Calderón Stadium and the celebratory atmosphere reached its peak again.

At the end of the day, the Atletico Madrid fans left in dissatisfaction.

The players also went home to rest.

But Gobo did not leave, and at the Calderón Stadium he was invited to the office by Cerezo, the president of Atletico Madrid.

When he pushed the door open and walked in, everyone in the office gave a standing ovation, and everyone looked at the team's head coach with reverence.

Here, in addition to Cerezo, there is the team's general manager, Gil Marin, as well as the sporting director Pitacci, as well as other members of Atletico Madrid's management.

This is basically the upper echelons of the Atletico Madrid team.

These high-ranking officials of Atletico Madrid, now they all stood up and applauded Gao Bo, which fully illustrates what his results in this season mean to Atletico Madrid.

This heralds the resurgence of Atletico Madrid, a Spanish giant, and most of the credit for all this goes to the team's manager.

Cerezo stepped forward, shook hands with Gao Bo, and embraced.

He was expressing his importance to Gao Bo.

"Fifteen years for the club's first league championship trophy, I should thank you, high!"

Gao Bo smiled: "You give me money and invite me to come, isn't it just to do this?" ”

Cerezo laughed: "That's right, Gao, I heard you, do you really plan to defend the title next season?" ”

Gao Bo nodded: "Yes!" ”

Cerezo clapped his hands: "That's what I called you for, I think, we can prepare for next season." ”

'I think we can invest more money in transfers next season, the team is in a good financial position this season, the team will be very profitable next season, we will get a bonus when we reach the Champions League.....

General manager Gil Marin began to give an overview of the team's finances.

Speaking of which, it is just a point: Atletico Madrid can invest more transfer funds next season, which is enough to support the team to show their strength in the transfer market!

"Eighty million!! We are going to invest 80 million in transfer funds!! ”

Jill Marlin is full of confidence!

The transfer budget of 80 million, even if it is not in this era, is considered the top investment in the entire European football world, of course, it cannot be compared with the old giants like Real Madrid and the oil upstarts like Manchester City, but this level is also possible for the small team at the top of the pyramid to afford.

You must know that the Premier League giants Arsenal are still reluctant to use the transfer budget of 70 million and put it in the bank to eat interest.

Atletico Madrid invests 80 million in a season as a transfer budget, which is enough to show the ambition of the club!

However, when Gao Bo listened to Jill's introduction, he shook his head.

'Now the squad is very stable, all we need next season is to bring in some useful players on the bench and not spend so much transfer fee.

Gao Bo looked at the room full of shocked people and continued.

"Next season, we only need a transfer budget of 20 million."

Gilmarin was stunned, he was surprised.

To be honest, it was the first time he had met a manager who was suspicious of the transfer funds.

Generally speaking, the manager will always complain about the lack of support from the club's management, especially in terms of transfer funds, to allow them to build a stronger squad. And the club's top brass will always complain that the manager is a loser who spends a lot of money.

This is a pair of natural enemies.

So when Gao Bo suggested that his team didn't need so much transfer money, everyone was very surprised.

Gao Bo explained: "It's good that the transfer fee is enough, we have a full squad now, the focus of the transfer is to increase the thickness of the bench, we don't need to bring in any big stars, so we don't need too much transfer fee. ”

Gao Bo paused, and continued.

"As for the rest of the money, I would recommend it as salary space for the team, we have a young squad and after this season they will definitely be targeted by the big teams, and in order to keep our players, salary is more important than camaraderie!"

What do professional players play for?

Football is their profession, it's their job, and no one gives up their salary because they love their work, so no player will refuse a raise.

The golden time of professional players is more than ten years, from 20 to 35 years old, fifteen years, which is probably the most profitable fifteen years in the life of most professional players.

Some financially conscious professional footballers will invest their money to ensure that they can have food and clothing even after retirement.

Some professional players are squandering, and when they retire and their income plummets, they don't have much money left, and finally many retired players go bankrupt and the news often appears in the news.

Gao Bo knows that the most important thing to retain players is definitely not friendship, but money!

Gil Marin looked at President Cerezo.

The adjustment of the team's salary structure is also a relatively important issue, and this is not something that Gil Marin can decide alone.

But Serezo was quite aggressive.

"You're right, Gao!" Cerezo said and looked at the other senior executives, he is the president of the club, but he is not the dictator of Atletico Madrid, he still needs the support of some other managers.

"Players are the most important asset of the club and we can't afford to let our assets slip away so easily!!"

Cerezo said.

The other executives nodded in agreement.

But they still have concerns.

Once the salary cap is broken, it's not just a season-long affair.....

"Times are different, sir!"

Gao Bo saw that there were still some people hesitating, so he spoke.

When Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid in 2009, his annual salary was as high as 12 million euros! Messi's salary has also reached more than 10 million euros! ”

"This is an era when capital is desperately pouring into football! I'm sure that in a few years, even if the transfer fee of 80 million will not be able to buy any powerful stars! ”

"This is the beginning of an era of big inflation for players, and if we don't keep these players, we won't have the money to compete with the big clubs anymore!"

"Antoine Griezmann, Sergio Aguero, Luka Modric!"

"These three players are going to stay anyway, no matter which team they go to, they are all core level players, and a salary of only three or four million euros can't keep players of this level, I am sure that a team like Manchester City will definitely dare to offer Griezmann an annual salary of 15 million euros!!"

Gao Bo said with certainty.

He knows how exaggerated the player's transfer fee will be in a few years' time!

At that time, the football market has completely become a commercial game, and a casual star is worth hundreds of millions!

Gao Bo's words caused the club's top brass to fall into a brief silence, and they did not refute Gao Bo.

Because the market development in the past two or three years has been moving in the direction that Gao Bo said, especially after some big consortia entered, the football transfer market has been expanding almost every year!

Cerezo also thought that Gao Bo's words made sense, so the club's hierarchy finally agreed to Gao Bo's request and put the excess transfer funds into the salary budget.