In recent years, a voice has gradually emerged in European football, that is, professional football is entering the era of oligarchy.

From the club's perspective, Real Madrid has almost monopolized all the Champions League and Club World Cup championships in recent years. This behemoth has strongly suppressed the entire European football world with an almost unattainable attitude, and no team can match it.

From the perspective of stars, Yang Yang has dominated the world football for ten years since 2007. In this process, European football has produced heroes, such as Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Ribery, Neymar, Suarez, Griezmann and other stars, but none of them can pick him off the throne.

This is an era of oligarchs and a era of giants.

The most obvious reaction is that if someone asks a question before the season, who will win the Champions League in the new season?

The vast majority of fans will not choose more than five teams, and they are basically those teams.

Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern...who else?

What exactly is the reason that has quickly entered the era of oligarchy?

The answer is simple, capital!

Strictly speaking, Florentino took over Real Madrid for the first time, fully promoting the Galaxy Battleship, turning Real Madrid into a global top giant, conquering fans all over the world, and starting to see European professional football enter the era of globalization. Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Bayern Munich and other giants with excellent business management capabilities quickly followed suit.

Abramovich took over Stamford Bridge, Abu Dhabi consortium acquired Manchester City, and then Qatar consortium acquired Paris Saint-Germain. The global investment shortage caused by the subprime mortgage crisis led to a crazy influx of hot money into professional football. In addition, the prosperity of the Internet has led to a rapid acceleration of globalization, which has led to the top European teams quickly harvesting the global market.

In terms of league, the Premier League is the best one. In the past few years, the Premier League's overseas copyright income has become a crucial part, and its importance is no less than their local copyright income.

In terms of clubs, of course, the giant teams that fans are familiar with. They began to use their influence and popularity to quickly open up the global market. This can be seen from their rising operating income year by year.

However, even to this day, running a professional football club is not a profitable business.

Maybe many people will be puzzled, how is this possible?

The giant teams make so much money every year. Real Madrid can make 10 or 20 million euros in three warm-up matches in Asia. Don’t these teams make money? What are you kidding?

But in fact, it is indeed not profitable, at least it is not as profitable as fans imagine.

Then the question comes. On the one hand, the revenue of the wealthy teams is rising steadily, but on the other hand, the wealthy teams are not making money, so where has the money gone?

The answer is very simple, and they are all used to build a "moat" for wealthy teams.

The so-called moat is the area used by wealthy teams to widen the gap with other mid- and downstream teams.

On the one hand, the giant teams frantically searched for high-quality star resources and invested wildly in the transfer market. Real Madrid is one of the best. In the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship in the early 2009, Florentino did this once. He entered the palace in the second year of 2009, and introduced the top superstars in the Premier League and Serie A in one go.

If only Real Madrid was doing this in the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship at the beginning of the century, and the oligarchy trend was not as obvious as it is now, then from 2009, with Real Madrid's crazy investment, Barcelona followed closely behind, and the rich teams Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, who are not short of money, also quickly followed. This is why European star resources have become increasingly concentrated.

Why are the teams that are basically inseparable from predicting the Champions League championship now?

Because the best stars are on these teams.

The gathering of the best stars brings the most pleasing football, brings the best viewing experience to fans, and also brings improvements in performance. This is an advantage that other small and medium-sized teams, even non-oligarch teams, cannot have.

So, after last season's legendary Premier League Leicester City won the championship, the team quickly fell apart.

Not only Leicester City, but also Dortmund and Atletico Madrid, which have insufficient financial resources, have these teams quickly lost all the lineups by giant teams after a season or two outbreak?

Why?

Because they are not at the top of the professional football pyramid, because they have no money!

Many people say that Manchester United has fallen, but in fact, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Manchester United rises, because this team is too rich.

As long as Manchester United's operations do not have problems and there is no major decline in operating income, they will sooner or later rise.

Therefore, when the star resources continue to gather towards the wealthy teams, it is inevitable that the stronger the strong and the weaker the weaker, and it is even stabilized.

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Star resources are only part of the moat of the giant teams, or the part that fans are most likely to see.

But what is even more terrifying than this is the part that is even more disparate behind the star resources and cannot be seen by ordinary fans. It is also the part that Yang Yang has devoted himself to creating after injecting 50 million euros into Ajax.

For example, Real Madrid.

Many people are wondering how Yang Yang made the decision to lose weight for himself?

According to media reports, Real Madrid has created a ten-player expert group for Yang Yang, with three coaching staff and team doctors from Real Madrid, and one Yang Yang's personal coach. What about the other six people?

They are all the most authoritative experts in various fields in Europe and even the world, including nutrition experts, kinematic experts, and human body science research authority...

It was these experts who followed up for more than half a year to make the most scientific training plan for Yang Yang, and finally came to the conclusion that he could lose weight, and even made it clear how much kilograms he had to lose weight to be considered reasonable, as well as how Yang Yang would play football next, and once he had any symptoms, he would have to rest immediately...

In addition, Real Madrid also specially equipped Yang Yang with a tracking physiotherapy expert and nutritionist. The former is responsible for physical therapy and testing before and after training, while the latter tracks Yang Yang's daily diet.

This alone is a huge expense, and Yang Yang has been scoring goals so far this season and his condition is still very red.

The team behind Yang Yang is nothing that fans can't see, and even media reporters who don't have any in-depth contact with Real Madrid are not clear at all. What's even less familiar is that Real Madrid has 500 employees alone.

Very scary, right?

Among these 500 people, less than one hundred people are actually engaged in football. The others are experts from all walks of life, in charge of different departments, such as the director of the sports science department, the director of the health and sports department, the director of the physiotherapy department, etc. The physiotherapy department is subdivided into multiple different small departments, and the medical department is also subdivided into many different small departments. Each small department has its own scope of responsibility and areas of expertise.

Now Real Madrid's daily management has even been meticulous. When the team arrives on the away game, there are already special people who have sorted out the hotel rooms for each player based on the living habits of each player, so that after they arrive at the hotel, they can enter a relaxed rest state as soon as possible.

And all of this is something that the media and fans cannot see, but these are silently keeping the Real Madrid club running and pushing the Real Madrid team to be invincible on the football field.

This is true for Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern, and even Atletico Madrid and other teams. Many big-name superstars are willing to switch to giants, not just because of money and fame, but also the support and services that giants can provide them.

Or, they really let the players play football without distractions.

On the other hand, in La Liga, what can the newly promoted Leganes provide to the players?

It can be said that since the development has reached the present, these mid- and lower-level teams, even Valencia, Sevilla and other powerful teams, have not seen any opportunity to surpass the giants such as Real Madrid and Barcelona in at least ten or twenty years, and the star resources they have worked hard to cultivate will continue to gather towards the giants.

And when the team has better star resources, higher management level, and more complex and changeable tactics, it will bring about an obvious problem, that is, more and more games will be played in large scores.

At the beginning, the strong teams of the rich crushed the weak teams, but gradually, in the conversation between strong and powerful, when a team has obvious shortcomings in a certain aspect, it will immediately collapse.

Even if you don’t collapse, you will definitely be chased by your opponent until it collapses.

It's like Barcelona's Century Derby tonight.

The weak defense line, the hard-working midfielder, the failed right back, and the tear caused by the Trident superstar's unwillingness to return to defense... These are all very fatal problems.

In mid- and lower-level teams, and even in front of Atletico Madrid, these do not seem to be a problem because they are not strong enough.

But in front of Real Madrid, these are the most fatal weaknesses.

So, when Real Madrid kept attacking Barcelona's weakness, Barcelona couldn't even block it, and even Messi began to make some mistakes that shouldn't have made.

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In the 40th minute, Messi retreated to the midfield and dribbled the ball, wanting to break forward.

In the past, Messi's ability to dribble was well known. When the ball hits his feet, it is basically something that others can't leave.

But this time, under the attack of David Silva and Casemiro one by one, Messi's ball was cut off by Casemiro, and David Silva quickly passed it forward to Hazard.

Hazard drove the ball straight in and quickly returned to the left. Yang Yang penetrated the left side of the penalty area from the middle, caught up with Hazard's pass, and shot with a left foot.

The ball was close to the turf, rubbed against the left post, and entered the Barcelona goal.

Five to zero!

Happy four years!

After Yang Yang scored a goal, he quickly rushed out of the stadium, slid all the way to the front of the live broadcast camera, and shouted wildly at the live broadcast camera.

Crazy!

The entire Camp Nou Stadium went completely crazy!

All the Barcelona fans stood up from their seats, and countless fans in the stands were throwing miscellaneous items off the stage, and the whole audience was filled with deafening booing, obviously very dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half.

What does it mean to be defeated like a mountain?
Chapter completed!