Entering September, two weeks of national team competitions have begun.

This time, Yang Yang also received a call from the national team and returned to China to participate in the competition.

The opponents in the two World Cup qualifiers were not strong. They first played against Hong Kong, China, and then played against the Maldives at home.

Among them, the second game against the Maldives was originally a away game, but because the Maldives' stadium conditions could not meet the needs of the game, they voluntarily gave up their home advantage and came to China to play the game.

Since it is the top 40, the Chinese team also sent all their main players to play this time, striving to win the first place in the group as soon as possible.

The opponents are not strong. With the main players basically in place, the Chinese team is like a storm sweeping away leaves. They first played against Hong Kong, China in Shenzhen, and scored four goals in the first half. Yang Yang scored a hat-trick early and was replaced in the midfield.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Hong Kong team 6-0 and won another big victory.

Then he headed north to Chenyang. The Chinese team scored a goal in the first nine minutes, and won another goal in the 57th minute of the second half, scoring twice, and then assisted **Peng to score a long shot, helping the Chinese team beat the Maldives three-to-zero.

In two games, two wins, and six-to-zero away defeat to Bhutan in the first game, the Chinese team won all three games and did not lose a single goal.

Qatar also won three consecutive games. They defeated Maldives 1-0 away from home, then defeated Bhutan 15-0 home, and finally defeated Hong Kong, China 3-2 away. With the goal difference he had made against Bhutan, Qatar beat the Chinese team to be ranked first in the group.

This also sounded a wake-up call for the Chinese team, that is, Qatar will become a potential threat.

In October, the Chinese team will challenge Qatar away, which will undoubtedly become a key battle in the top 40s.

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After playing the national team game, Yang Yang did not stay in China. He flew with several national teammates and then flew directly from Beijing to Europe.

Just returned to his home in Madrid, Wei Zheng, agents Raiola and Guido Albes have been waiting at home for a long time, and Su Ye and Yang Yang's cousin Shen Yuzhu are accompanying him.

When Yang Yang returned home, Su Ye accompanied Shen Yuzhu out to play with the children.

"How is it? Is there any result?"

As soon as Yang Yang sat down, he asked on his head, his tone was very concerned.

This is a task he called Raiola and Wei Zheng after attending the UEFA award ceremony. They have been busy with this matter in the past half month.

"I have collected a lot of information, it should be almost done." Wei Zheng smiled.

He is now in charge of an investment team, including those who are proficient in cross-border acquisitions. With the assistance of Raiola, a super tycoon with amazing influence in European football, and the assistance of the No. 1 agent Guido Albes, the task assigned by Yang Yang is not difficult to complete.

Guido Albes has a close relationship with Yang Yang. The earliest connection between them can be traced back to when Yang Yang was still playing for Ajax. Over the years, many Chinese players have been using Guido Albes' channels, which has also made Albes make a fortune.

And this time, what Yang Yang wanted was Ajax's intelligence.

"To be honest, I can't understand why you are so interested in Ajax. The recent situation of this team is quite bad. The last time they advanced to the knockout stage from the Champions League group stage was your last year when you played for Ajax, ten years ago. Since then, they missed the Champions League group stage for four consecutive years, then won the third place in the group for five consecutive years and participated in the Europa League, and this year it stopped in the third round and could not even make the playoffs."

Raiola looked at Yang Yang in confusion. Obviously, from the perspective of a businessman, Yang Yang's interest in Ajax is difficult to understand.

"In the past few years, Ajax has been underpaid and his financial situation is not ideal. Over the years, their most important source of fiscal revenue is the Champions League and transfer income. Missing the Champions League group stage this season will have a huge blow to them, and the finances will inevitably be tighter, and it may even lead to a vicious cycle."

Raiola's analysis is not difficult to understand.

European clubs have always had few revenue channels, usually divided into three parts, game day income, commercial sponsorship and broadcast fee income, which are the three major sources of income for all European football clubs.

The Premier League has seen a huge increase in transfer fee income in recent years, but in fact, Premier League teams basically do not make money. Why?

Because of transfer investment.

If you want to ensure that you gain a foothold in the Premier League, you need to increase your investment in transfers.

It can be said that all their income from broadcasting rights has been invested in the transfer market, which is not even enough.

This is true in the Premier League, and so are teams in other leagues.

If you insist on making money, you probably should be those teams that frequently upgrade and relegate.

Very strange, right?

Just like the Premier League, from the Premier League to the Premier League, you can get tens of millions or even over 100 million pounds of income growth at once. In order to stay in the Premier League, the newly promoted teams often invest this money in the transfer market, increase the intensity of recruitment, and strive to relegate. In many cases, the increased income is not as good as the investment in the transfer market.

But there are also some newly promoted teams who do not invest in the transfer market. They do not want to relegate, but simply want to make a fortune. They are relegated in shame after one season, enjoy the protection of the Premier League parachute policy, and work hard to advance to the Super League in the Championship and make another profit.

Such a team has one in almost every league, and it is not surprising at all.

It can be said that for European football teams, each has its own way of survival.

For the teams in the second-tier European league, their way of life is different from the four major leagues in the first-tier team.

For example, Ajax, their game-day income is not high, and they are very stable, with almost no room for growth. Commercial sponsorship is limited by the influence of the league and the team, and there is not much room for growth, and the same is true for broadcast fee income.

Therefore, the prize money earned for participating in the Champions League becomes very considerable.

There is also the income from selling players in the transfer market, which is also an important source of income for teams like Ajax.

Among them, if you want to get more in the transfer market, participating in the Champions League is undoubtedly the best display platform, and the two complement each other.

Now for Ajax, the worse thing is that they have no breakthrough in their Champions League results, but are in a recession, which has led to their Champions League income becoming very, very small, and the income in the transfer market is not optimistic. They sell people almost every year in recent years, and the key is that they cannot sell at a good price.

Last summer, the team's captain and core player Blinder sold it to Manchester United for only 15 million euros. This can be said to be a bargain price. Looking back further, the midfield core Eriksson only had 12 million euros when he went to Tottenham Hotspur, the main defender Van Deville only had 5.5 million euros when he went to Paris Saint-Germain, and Alderweireld only had 6.3 million euros when he went to Atletico Madrid...

It can be said that Ajax's transfer income is also quite pitiful.

This season, Ajax missed the Champions League group stage and lost at least 20 million euros. This is quite fatal to Ajax and can even be said to be an irreparable fiscal hole.

"What's even more terrifying is that according to data from authoritative German organizations, the most valuable player in Ajax is currently goalkeeper Cilesen, with only 7 million euros." When Raiola said this, he spread his hands and seemed very helpless.

It is not difficult to see from his tone that his evaluation of Ajax is that this is a team that does not see hope.

At least there is no hope in a short period of time.

Not only that, if you miss the Champions League this season, the team's finances will be further greatly affected. Under the chain reaction, Ajax will inevitably sell people to raise money during the winter break or next summer, which will further weaken the team's competitiveness and then perform weakly...

This is what Raiola calls a vicious cycle.

It can be said that this is a considerable probability that this will happen.

...

Raiola is undoubtedly an extremely smart person, otherwise he would not be able to reach his current status. His in-depth analysis is reasonable and sounded the alarm for Yang Yang, and at the same time reminded him that Ajax is a quagmire and should be careful.

Yang Yang pondered for a while, turned to look at Guido Albes, who also wanted to hear what the Dutch agent said.

Although Guydo Albes is not Yang Yang's agent, the two have been together for many years and have a close relationship. When Yang Yang became interested in Ajax at the first time, he found Albes to find out about the situation.

"Ajax's downturn has been around for a long time. The golden generation led by you, Van der Fate, Ibrahimovic and Sneider were actually formed from the funds raised by Ajax's listing in 1998. So far, they are the only listed football club in the Netherlands, raising 113 million euros that year."

"It was with this money that they quickly formed a strong team, led by Ronald Koeman, a youth storm in European football and won a Champions League. But in fact, the clubs were operating poorly in finance in those years, including the development of the African market, and suffered heavy losses, such as Cape Town Ajax."

"Originally, they could barely maintain the afterglow of the golden generation, but they were unwilling to give up. They always wanted to regroup and win another Champions League within five years. It was the slogan Ajax shouted back then. Van Basten was also in this situation and was highly expected to come to Ajax, but what followed was a collapse."

When Guydo Albes said this, he paused for a moment and looked at Yang Yang deeply.

He knew that Yang Yang and Van Basten had a close relationship and were considering his words. He obviously did not want to describe too much about Van Basten, so as not to leave a bad impression on Yang Yang.

But some things have happened and are destined to be unchangeable.

"Although it may be unfair to Van Basten, we must admit that Ajax's decline over the years has an inseparable relationship with him."
Chapter completed!