Tottenham arrived in Dortmund, Germany at noon on April 23.

The team still arrived at Dortmund Airport on a special plane from its sponsor Qatar Airways. Although Tottenham did not deliberately push the team's itinerary and plans on the official website and mobile AP in advance, the die-hard fans of all kinds gathered at Dortmund Airport to welcome the team.

When Tottenham Hotspur walked up and down from the airport passage, there were many Tottenham Hotspur fans gathered outside from the UK and around the world, including many German Tottenham Hotspur fans. Unfortunately, they were all separated by a barbed wire from Tottenham Hotspur, but this did not affect the screams and cheers at the scene at all.

Since the airport temporarily opened an independent passage for Tottenham Hotspur to facilitate Tottenham to leave the airport without being disturbed, this time Tottenham Hotspur did not interact with all the fans who came to the scene, but there were still many fans taking photos through barbed wire.

After passing the elevator, I went directly into the bus waiting at the exit of the passage from an independent passage, and the team headed straight to the hotel.

According to the itinerary, after a period of lunch break, the team will go to Dortmund's home court, which is West Stadium, which has been renamed Signall or Iduna Park Stadium.

No matter what, Ye Qiu still likes West Stadium more and always feels that it is so familiar.

Although Tottenham Hotspur is also actively looking for major sponsors for the stadium, they are basically some billboard sponsors, but there are no sponsors. This is not that Tottenham Hotspur does not consider it, but that it cannot reach an agreement on the price.

According to the current evaluation of Peter Neon and the Ministry of Commerce of the team, with the background of this Olympic home stadium and the influence of Tottenham Hotspur, the naming rights of such a stadium must not be sold at a low price. The internal preliminary estimate is more than 50 million euros.

Considering that Real Madrid's Bernabeu and Manchester United's Old Trafford are basically at this price, Tottenham Hotspur thinks it is more in line with the positioning.

But in the end, Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium has the same fate as the Bernabeu and Old Trafford stadiums, which is too expensive. The highest bid was Qatar Airways, which is currently the team's chest advertising sponsor. The price they offered was 35 million euros a year, but Tottenham Hotspur rejected the request.

Of course, this transaction was not disclosed much. Tottenham Hotspur also gave Qatar Airways enough face in publicity and public relations, saying that the latter gave full sincerity and offered 50 million euros. However, Tottenham Hotspur was under pressure from fans, especially from die-hard fans in the UK. He invited a few famous fans, reporters and celebrities to criticize them on newspapers and TV, and then the club came out to announce that it would not consider the title of the stadium, etc.

But these are all public relations wars. The core issue is that there is no agreement on the price. Otherwise, who would give up the huge sponsorship of 50 million euros a year?

However, Tottenham Hotspur has special features. The surface of the Stratford stadium is full of display films, and the advertising effect is very ideal. Therefore, the advertising investment of the huge display films around the stadium can bring extremely generous benefits to Tottenham Hotspur, and continue to operate in depth, with huge future potential.

After all, Stratford Stadium is located in Olympic Park and is a landmark in London.

Therefore, in these aspects, Tottenham Hotspur is not in a hurry at all. Peter Neon also feels that for the time being, Tottenham Hotspur does not need to rush to sell the naming rights of the stadium and training base at a low price, but should consider more about the improvement of the business system.

After Tottenham arrived at the hotel in Dortmund, everyone had already gotten used to the rhythm of away games and returned to the hotel to rest, preparing to go to West Stadium in the evening to perform the last training class before the game.

Mauro Tasotti was discussing tomorrow night's game with the coaching staff and analysts, while Ye Qiu lay in the room for a while, squinted for a moment, and was woken up by the phone.

Twenty minutes later, he received an old friend in the room.

"Long time no see, Leo"

As soon as Ye Qiu opened the door, he saw Leo Benhack standing outside with a smile. He still had the iconic white hair, with a silvery look, and his face looked good. He stood with the chubby Roland Shepars, which always made people feel awkward.

He's too thin

"Long time no see." Leo Benhack also smiled and shook hands with Ye Qiu. Soon, Ye Qiu welcomed the two of them into the room. In order to make way for Fatty Luo, Ye Qiu had to shrink a little.

"Leo, why did you suddenly come to Dortmund from the Netherlands?" Ye Qiu sat down with Leo Benhack and Fatty Luo and asked with a smile. Although there was some conflict between Ye Qiu and Leo Benhack in the early days of Ajax, these things were resolved later. After all, everyone is adults, as long as the goals are consistent, there is nothing that cannot be reached.

Furthermore, some of the things that Leo Benhack did later made Ye Qiu feel that he really planned for Ajax. In addition, after he served as the team's technical consultant, he also supported Ye Qiu's work very much, so it is normal for them to reconcile with each other.

After Ye Qiu left Ajax, Leo Benhak also left Ajax and went to Poland to coach the Polish national team. Later, he returned to Ajax for a while and is now basically retired, so Ye Qiu was a little surprised by his visit this time.

Leo Benhack laughed, "I mainly want to go to the scene to see the showdown between Tottenham and Dortmund. I don't want to miss such a game." This is also the focus game that has attracted the most attention from the Champions League semi-finals this season, and the other is Bayern Munich vs. Barcelona.

However, it is obvious that Barcelona was already very embarrassed by Tottenham Hotspur last season. Now Heinx has made up his bold statement before the game and must beat Barcelona. In addition, Bayern Munich is in very good shape, so this game is not very suspenseful.

Although Tottenham has an advantage in strength, Tottenham has not been in good shape recently. Before the game, Klopp took the initiative to challenge Tottenham Hotspur. When the German media asked about the huge gap in the price of the two teams in this game, he smiled and said, "I am born a boxer. What my players and I like to do the most is to lose those richer than us on the court."

Ye Qiu was even more outrageous. When he held a pre-match press conference in Theoborde in London this morning, Yu Qian announced the starting lineup of the game in advance, and promised not to make adjustments before the game, and made a harsh statement, "I just see why the boxing player beat me."

The head coaches of both sides attracted the attention of fans around the world, so this duel naturally became the most eye-catching key battle in the Champions League semi-finals.

"What's the point?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile. The main reason was to watch the football game, which proved that there were secondary problems.

Leo Benhake also laughed. Ye Qiu is no longer as good as he used to be back then. Whether it is his identity, status, influence, or even his tone and momentum, he is obviously completely different from that of the past.

"I heard that you are visiting Lewandowski recently?" Leo Benhack also asked straight to the point.

Ye Qiu thought for a while and nodded, "There is indeed an investigation, but we also examine many other people, such as Mandzukic and Thomas O'Muller, Immobile in Italy, and some others."

"So, Cavani is really leaving the team." Leo Benhak is also an old fox. Not only is he knowledgeable, he can coach so many teams, and he is basically doing well, proving that this person is an old man, and he can understand it at all.

Ye Qiu smiled and said nothing, because he had no need to answer many things.

"I'll just say it." Leo Benhak saw Ye Qiu not saying it, he took the initiative to speak. "Lewandowski was promoted by me when I coached the Polish national team. At that time, he had just joined the Poznan Leh team, who had great strength in the domestic league. In the two seasons before that, he played in the C and B leagues respectively, and won the Golden Boot Awards in the C and B leagues in both seasons. He is a well-known young genius in Poland."

Ye Qiu nodded. He was more familiar with this than Leo Benhack because he had a very detailed and complete file of Lewandowski, which was also a strict requirement for Tottenham Hotspur when inspecting players.

Just kidding, the old man who sent the chief scout Peter DeVisel to the scene to watch his game in person. Is that boring to play?

"I only watched him one game and decided to recruit him into the national team. It was the first round of the Polish League UR9 season. He was a newcomer and was the team's substitute. The game lasted until 60 minutes, and both sides were tied. Lewandowski replaced the midfielder Injach, and he scored four minutes later."

Leo Benhack seemed to have returned to the scene of that game, narrating his first impression of Lewandowski, "He was twenty years old and just a little bitchy, but the feeling he gave me was shocked because he was very calm. Few young players seized the opportunity so calmly at such a critical and important moment.

"Facts have proved that my impression was not wrong later. He started three times in the first four rounds of the game and scored three goals, which was very outstanding. But more importantly, I think he has a very strong learning ability and adaptability. He has been promoted from the C League to the Class B with the halo of the Golden Boot Award, and immediately has more Golden Boot Awards, and transferred to an unfamiliar environment. He became the main player in the first season and scored fourteen goals, becoming the team's number one scorer."

"In that year, there were only two goals-scoring ability in the Polish league than Lewandowski. One was the 27-year-old Zimbabwean foreign aid Chinyama, and the other was the Polish local scorer. The 26-year-old international Krakow, who was also the best ranking in Poznan Leh in recent seasons. In the second season, they won the league championship, and Lewandowski also won the Golden Boot Award in the First Division."

Ye Qiu listened to Leo Benhack's words and agreed with his judgment. In fact, Peter DeVisel's biggest appreciation for Lewandowski lies in his super learning and adaptability, which makes Lewandowski very strongly shaped, so he was able to adapt to various tactics and environments at a young age.

Of course, in the past few years at Dortmund, Lewandowski's characteristics have basically been reflected, but the problem is that he is only twenty-four years old. With his mind and football quotient, he still has great potential to explore, which is also one of the reasons why Tottenham Hotspur focuses on him.

"His agent is former Polish international Kuharsky. After they heard that Peter Devithel was on site to inspect them, Lewandowski called me and I also learned about him, which is why I was here."

Ye Qiu listened silently, he knew that Leo Benhack wanted to learn about Tottenham Hotspur's ideas and wishes for Lewandowski. In this way, the players still tend to Tottenham Hotspur.

Lewandowski's transfer is also a very complicated event. Although he has made a lot of contributions to Dortmund's outstanding performance in the past few years, his salary is only 1.5 million euros per year, and it is pre-tax. This is indeed good for young people who came out of the Polish league, but with his outstanding performance in recent years, it is far from enough.

So the negotiations between the two sides began. After Dortmund won the league championship, several players in the team also left the team one after another, such as Shinji Kagawa and Shashin, so the Hornets had to renew their contracts. However, there were some disputes about their salary. For example, Dortmund wanted to deal with him with four million euros, but Lewandowski asked for five million euros, but Dortmund disagreed because the maximum salary at that time was Gotze's 4.6 million euros.

So Dortmund also felt that it was not worth it, so he stopped the player's contract renewal negotiations and promised Lewandowski that as long as he could find the team and was willing to pay him a transfer fee of 20 million euros, he could leave the team freely.

In fact, the problem is that in January of this year, Dortmund bought out Reus's contract from Borussia Mönchengladbach for a penalty of 17.5 million euros and gave Reus a maximum salary of up to 4 million euros. Lewandowski, the core player in the team at that time, paid less than half of Reus's.

Another point is that after buying out Reus' contract, Dortmund immediately renewed the contract with Gotze and gave a maximum salary of 4.6 million euros. However, Lewandowski's contract renewal has been delayed, and it is still not taken seriously enough.

Just imagine, a year and a half have passed, and the players' psychology will definitely not be balanced. They will want to fight, so there was a case where Gotze was bought out by Bayern Munich two days ago with a penalty for liquidated damages. Many people say Gotze is a traitor, but behind Gotze's traitor is actually closely related to Dortmund's salary structure. The contradiction was buried when Reus transferred.

This is why Ye Qiu insists on the team's salary system if he lives. If this system is broken, Dortmund will be the lesson of Tottenham Hotspur. The reason why Dortmund players such as Shinji Kagawa and Shashin are popular is because their salary is too low.

Just imagine, if Tottenham Hotspur is going to introduce Lewandowski now, with his salary of 1.5 million euros in Dortmund, the team paid him a transfer fee of 20 million euros, and once the negotiations were negotiated, the annual salary of up to 6 million euros, which is 100,000 pounds, which is about the same as Cavani before the contract renewal.

Let’s look at the next few years. If Lewandowski really plays out, and when he renews his contract in two or three years, he will be at most a weekly salary of about 150,000 pounds. At that time, Ribery was old, Messi had already increased his salary again, and the team’s salary structure was still well maintained, so this is very beneficial to Tottenham Hotspur.

With Lewandowski's strength and potential, coupled with his salary and transfer fees, it is indeed very attractive to Tottenham Hotspur, and all this is because of Dortmund's business difficulties.

The Hornets' salary budget for a season is about 70 million euros, which is less than half of Tottenham Hotspur, so Ye Qiu always felt that Klopp is indeed very awesome and not easy. It is only a matter of time before Dortmund is divided, because they lack the financial resources and courage of the giant teams.

Today's professional football is no longer suitable for small-scale operations. It basically belongs to the era of big capital, and people who have no money can't afford to play.

"Leo, I heard that after Gotze announced the launch of the termination fee and transferred to Bayern Munich, Dortmund stopped the contact between Lewandowski and Bayern Munich?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

Leo Benhack was a little confused about Ye Qiu's thoughts and nodded: "Yes, first of all, because the fans are in too intense, secondly, because Dortmund does not want to further weaken himself and strengthen Bayern Munich, and thirdly, they want to keep Lewandowski now."

Bayern Munich is indeed a great move to play. He played Dortmund in a row. He first reached an agreement with Lewandowski. In addition, the agreement between Lewandowski and Dortmund was basically finalized. Then he activated the liquidated damages for Gotze and forced a poaching, which was equivalent to digging out two pillars of Dortmund overnight.

If Dortmund wants to send the player to Bayern Munich now, that would be really stupid

However, from Lewandowski's standpoint, since the team agreed to let him choose freely, as long as he gives out 20 million euros, he can transfer freely no matter who it is. He did get Bayern Munich, so even though Gotze is forcibly poached by Bayern Munich now, Lewandowski certainly does not want to continue to stay in the team.

Everyone knows that there are only two results for staying in the team. Either continue to fulfill the previous contract and transfer freely a year later, but the salary is only 1.5 million euros before tax, or it is a renewed negotiation with the team. This means that everything he did over the past six months was completely in vain.

"If I guessed correctly, Dortmund must have offered conditions now, except for Bayern Munich." Ye Qiu said with a smile. This is actually very similar to Vidal's transfer back then, and it is all caused by Bayern Munich's wealth.

In fact, there are also cases like this. For example, when Real Madrid chairman Sanz forced his way to poach Mijatovic, who was in a hurry to announce that he would never sell players to Real Madrid. As a result, Mendeta went to Serie A, Villa went to Barcelona, ​​David Silva and Juan Mata went to the Premier League, and they just won't sell you Real Madrid.

Sometimes running a team is like opening a business. Only by being harmonious can you make money. Although you may gain some benefits in a short period of time by using certain means, in the long run, you will lose money. After all, football clubs have been operating for more than ten years, and the opposition in football sometimes becomes stronger with the accumulation of time.

Therefore, Ye Qiu often said that the kingly way created by open and open plots can last for a long time, and the domineering power created by small plots that succeed for a while will definitely not last for a long time, because the conspiracy will be exposed sooner or later.
Chapter completed!