Chapter 255: The Shackles of Lazio's Development (Second Update)
The next day, Lazio's official website announced the signing of a professional contract between the club and Gotze.
In an interview with the official website, Chang Sheng described the signing as follows.
"For Lazio, this is the first big signing of the summer. I'm glad that we can sign a professional contract with Gotze......"
In an exclusive interview with the official website, Gotze also said that being able to sign with the club made his dream come true.
In short, it's a signing, hello, hello, everyone.
It's just that the news came as a bolt from the blue for clubs that have always coveted Götze.
Previously, when Gotze did not sign a professional contract with Lazio FC, although Gotze said that he came to Lazio for Changsheng, so he had a good relationship with Changsheng and it was impossible for him to leave Lazio.
But those clubs just don't believe it, they claim to have insight into people's hearts, they know human nature, and if they say it well now, it doesn't mean that it will be good in the future. Couples who are loving and loving when they are newly married and divorced after three months are a lot of examples in the world.
So they expected that Gotze was talking nicely now, and he would definitely part with the club for one reason or another in the future.
Especially after his performances are better, the better he plays, the less likely he is to end up staying at Lazio.
They firmly believe that Götze was young and ignorant, and that he was fooled by Chang Sheng.
When Gotze discovers that he is actually very powerful, he will feel that the small temple of Lazio cannot accommodate him. He will aspire to go to the bigger stage.
At that time, it will be time for them to dig the foot of the wall.
Anyway, there are still two years to go, and they don't believe that nothing will happen in these two years......
So they waited, for Götze to wake up.
In this way, they waited until Götze was eighteen years old, and now they signed a professional contract with Lazio!
The official Lazio club website says a five-year contract!
What the!
In the course of two years. Götze turned down offers from an unknown number of clubs, and even had the direct move of 1 million euros to tempt the family, but Götze eventually refused.
He proved with practical actions that the friendship between him and Chang Sheng is unbreakable.
This allowed those two years of perseverance to loosen the soil. Looking forward to the clubs who can finally succeed in digging into the wall. I was disappointed and heartbroken--such a delicate flower. Why did you end up stuck in Chang Sheng's stinky shit?
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Lazio FC announced the signing of a professional contract with Gotze shortly after winning the title, much to the delight of Lazio fans.
Some Lazio fans were simply happy with Gotze's signing.
Other fans saw the attitude of the Lazio club.
Although they won last season's treble, Lazio have no intention of stopping there.
Of course, they have more than enough reason to sleep on their laurels. But neither the club nor the team did that.
Signing Gotze in the first place, rather than being indifferent and allowing him to be poached by other teams, illustrates the ambition of the Lazio club.
They are not content with the glory of the past.
The signing of Gotze is such an attitude that shows that Lazio have an eye on the future and that they will continue to pursue championship glory.
This makes those equally ambitious. The fans who have high hopes for Lazio are delighted.
This means that they will continue to enjoy the joy of victory and championship.
It's a double joy.
What is more pleasing to the fans than a treble?
It's the team that wants to win the second treble!
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Lazio are indeed ambitious clubs, as both Lotito and Chang Sheng have ambitions.
The renewal of the contract with Gotze is just a signal.
Lazio is moving forward more than that.
After the season, Chang Sheng returned to China for a vacation, where his wife, children, and parents were all there. Because of the unindoctrination faction, I haven't seen each other for three months.
But before leaving, Chang Sheng met with the club's president, Lotito, and the general manager, Tare.
The three of them discussed the future of the club.
In it, Lotito again mentioned the new stadium plan.
In his opinion, the plan for a new stadium is urgent.
Lazio are doing very well and have a high level of media exposure.
In addition, the season has completely destroyed the unteachable fan organizations and purified the air for watching the game, and the security situation at the scene has been greatly improved, so that there is no need to be afraid of watching the game at the scene.
With Lazio's good results and Lazio's pleasant style of play.
Naturally, more Lazio fans will be willing to come and watch the game.
The Stadio Olimpico in Rome, which can accommodate more than 72,000 people, can do 50,000 or 60,000 people every time Lazio plays at home.
Keep in mind that this is the number after the North Stand was closed, resulting in a large number of seats being vacant.
If the traditional symbol of the North Stand were to be reopened, how many fans would be able to attract to the game?
"I can't stand it anymore, every time I play at home, I see the black crowd that almost covers the stands of the entire Olympic Stadium, and my heart is bleeding!" The fat Lotito thumped his chest as if it really hurt there.
"We earn up to 1 million euros every race day! But in the end, we were only able to get a measly 300,000 euros! The vast majority of the income goes to the excesses of the Roman City Council! That's a bunch of moths lying on top of us and sucking blood! If all the money belonged to us...... We can also increase our income a lot every year! Because of our various commercial developments, it is possible to roll out! ”
Lotito sprays saliva in her office.
Chang Sheng didn't speak, but he agreed with Lotito.
Matchday earnings have become a constraint on Lazio's continued development.
At the moment, Lazio's income method is not much different from that of other Serie A teams, relying heavily on TV revenue, which requires a high level of performance.
Although it is said that Chang Sheng does not worry about the team's results, a team will always have some ups and downs, and in case the results decline, the money will be less. Immediate results.
If the income is reduced, the investment will be less, and if the investment is less, the results will be poor. Grades are poor. Television broadcasts continue to decline. As incomes continue to decline, so do inputs...... It's a vicious circle.
It is necessary to make Lazio more resilient to risks. Other sources of income have to be developed.
The so-called open source and reduce expenditure, first of all, you have to open source, it is not enough to rely on reducing expenditure.
The issue of television broadcast fees is not something that can be solved by a Lazio club. When the time comes, it may not be clear for ten years.
So Lazio had to start with something else.
According to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's division of the main components of European football clubs' revenue, it is divided into three parts.
TV broadcasting, matchday revenues and commercial development.
In this regard, matchday earnings are a tough wound for Serie A teams.
Lazio is no exception.
Because Serie A teams don't have their own stadiums, the majority of their matchday earnings go to the government.
At the moment, matchday earnings are the only ones where Lazio's earnings can increase significantly.
Now Lazio has almost a million euros in revenue per game, which is good in the whole of Italy.
Matchday revenue is mainly based on ticket revenue. Ticket revenue looks at the number of fans who watched the game live.
In the just-concluded 2009-2010 season, the average attendance rate in Serie A was 25,000, which is far lower than the average attendance of 42,000 in the Bundesliga and 34,000 in the Premier League. Even La Liga's 28,000 people are much better than Serie A.
Such a terrible attendance. Naturally, the game-day income is not much.
So Lazio's one million matchday earnings are already impressive.
But Lotito wasn't satisfied.
He has big ambitions.
In addition to the share of ticket revenue and broadcast fees for the away team, all matchday revenue must go to Lazio FC, so that, with good commercial development, matchday revenue alone is estimated to bring in no less than 30 million euros per year.
However, in order for matchday earnings to be fully owned, Lazio must now have a stadium entirely their own.
Just like Utus, their new stadium, the New Alpi Stadium, is under construction and is expected to be ready for use next year.
At that time, Utus will be the first Serie A club to own all matchday revenue.
This alone has made the eyes of many chairmen and managers of Serie A clubs red!
Lotito has been talking about plans for a new stadium for a long time, since he first took over the club, when Lazio had not yet shaken off more than 100 million euros in debt and could face bankruptcy at any time, Lotito had already approached the Roma City Council to sell his new stadium and the surrounding commercial development plans.
Before, because I had to repay my debts, I didn't have the money to think about it.
Later, the debt was paid off, and at the request of Chang Sheng, the income and profits were invested in the club's infrastructure construction, such as the construction of the echelon.
Now, when Lotito proposed the plan again, Chang Sheng didn't even have an excuse to refuse.
It would be unkind to refuse again......
And Lotito is right, Lazio really need a new stadium to become a new revenue driver.
But the biggest problem is that it costs a lot of money to build a new stadium.
Utus is a direct addition to the existing stadium, the Alpi Stadium, at a fraction of the cost of just over 100 million euros.
It is clear that Lazio will not be able to expand the new stadium on the basis of the Stadio Olimpic.
They had to find another place, buy land, dig the foundation, and start from scratch.
The money that was thrown into it was not a matter of one or two hundred million euros......
And Lotito can't build a stadium with more than 40,000 people like Utus.
Lotito believes that Lazio's new home stadium will also have a minimum capacity of 60,000 people.
With the current rate of growth in the team's attendance, he has the confidence to keep the new stadium full.
Such a large, modern stadium...... The budget required must not be small.
So where did Lazio get such a large sum of money?