Chapter 548 The First World Cup!
After leading Manchester United continuously to success, Yang Xiaozhuang's position in the "Red Devils" has become increasingly unshakable. His influence is no longer limited to the team, and even the club's operations have already begun to operate with him as the core.
But... Yang Xiaozhuang's rising salary still makes Manchester United management a little headache!
Too high!
After renewing the contract again, Yang Xiaozhuang's salary has already broken the world record. The starting salary of the new contract is as high as 850,000 pounds per week, even 150,000 more than Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian star Neymar, and... this is just the beginning!
In Yang Xiaozhuang's contract, his salary will increase by 25% every year. This increase is actually insignificant for players with relatively low wages, but for Yang Xiaozhuang, who has already broken the world record for players' salaries, it is different.
According to the new contract, Yang Xiaozhuang's first year of working for Manchester United was a weekly salary of 850,000 pounds, the second year was a weekly salary of 1.0625 million pounds, the third year was 1.3281 million pounds, the fourth year was 1.66 million pounds, and until the fifth year... a weekly salary of 2.075 million pounds!
In other words, by the fifth year, Manchester United paid Yang Xiaozhuang a salary of 108 million pounds in one season!
But even so, Woodward still added a clause to the new contract, and Manchester United can renew the contract for another year according to Yang Xiaozhuang's fifth year treatment.
Is this how much money Manchester United has burned?
Of course not!
According to the ideas of Woodward and Manchester United management, this year is a "buffer period". Whether it is to find a new home for Yang Xiaozhuang or to renew his contract with God Yang, who is still in his year of playing, it will take time.
After all, Yang Xiaozhuang, who is now the world's number one star, will only have a higher position at that time, and he will never have a new player at that time. Teams like Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, and Real Madrid that are not short of money are probably willing to pay for the honor!
Even then, Manchester United may want to continue to keep Yang Xiaozhuang. Who can make Manchester United's "King" really bring endless glory to the team and club?
Or, five years later, when the huge Chinese market is developed, Manchester United's gains there can afford a "super super star" with a super high salary!
The future...who knows!?
Time flies, and another year is...
It is May 2022, and another season is over. Manchester United still performs strongly this season. They are still invincible in England, winning the championships in the Premier League, League Cup and FA Cup, and once again won the Club World Cup.
Yang Xiaozhuang broke his league goal record with 74 goals, setting a new record of 2 goals per game in the league. At the same time, in the League Cup, he won the Golden Boot again with 12 goals and 20 goals in the FA Cup. In the Champions League, Yang Xiaozhuang also won the Golden Boot with 19 goals for five consecutive years!
This season, Manchester United's "Kings" have scored 130 goals in 60 games for Manchester United. This is also the season when Yang Xiaozhuang scored the most goals and the most efficient after joining Manchester United.
However, in the Champions League this season, Manchester United met AC Milan in the quarterfinals. As a result, they were not lucky and took the initiative in the game, and were eventually "ticked" by the Italian team's defensive counterattack, and were eventually eliminated due to away goals.
AC Milan, which has a strong morale, also went up all the way. In the final, he defeated the "Blue Moon" who was also from Manchester with a defensive counterattack 1:0, and finally won the Champions League trophy.
He became the second-place runner-up in the Champions League twice in three years, and was suppressed by Manchester United in the city for five consecutive years in the Premier League. After winning five consecutive Premier League runner-ups, although the "Blue Moon" management still trusts Guardiola's coaching ability, Guardiola himself cannot tolerate it.
After the game, Guardiola refused to renew his contract with Manchester City with only one year left in his personal contract, but instead issued a personal statement that he would go all out: "Next season, if Manchester City still cannot win the Premier League or Champions League championship, I will resign from the position of Manchester City's head coach."
When Guardiola said this, it was said in front of football reporters from various European countries, which meant... an oath!
If Manchester City really doesn't win the Champions League or Premier League championship next season, then Guardiola, the amazing head coach, will really leave Manchester City!
In order to help Guardiola, Manchester City Chairman Mubarak simply expressed his support for the head coach to the reporters: "In order to help Pep, our budget in the transfer market in the new season will not be capped. We will do our best to buy any player Pep needs."
Mubarak said very clearly... Manchester City is going to burn money again!
Burning money crazy!
Moreover, this is not just a talk. Before the World Cup began, Manchester City had already finalized a major transfer deal... Mbappe!
The French Emperor Star has long been dissatisfied with Paris Saint-Germain. Although the team is not short of money and has been investing in the transfer market, and even brought a generation of superstar Messi from Barcelona to Paris, their results this season are still not ideal.
Even with many stars such as Mbappe, Neymar, Messi, Valde, Anderson, Maguire, Rabiot, Isco, Verati, Chiesa Jr., Andre Silva, Gamaldo, etc., Paris Saint-Germain's combat power has never been able to reach the top level in Europe and never be able to win the title in the Champions League.
This season, Mbappe, who has been squeezed into a lot of space, saw that he made great sacrifices, the team's performance has not improved significantly, and finally made up his mind to step out of his comfort zone.
Mbappe is very clear that no matter whether he admits it or not, the level of the Ligue 1 is really not as good as the Premier League, and even the combat effectiveness of Paris Saint-Germain is still unable to be sublimated, which is directly related to the environment he is in.
Coupled with Guardiola and Manchester City's desire for talents and the call of "Demon" Haaland, Mbappe finally made up his mind to join Manchester City.
This transfer cost Manchester City as much as 300 million pounds, and also set the latest transfer record in the world football world. There is even a prediction in the football circle that if Manchester United's "King" does not transfer in their careers, Mbappe's transfer record will be maintained for a long time.
300 million... pounds!
Mbappe's transfer fee is even higher than most European professional football clubs. Except for those prestigious top clubs, most clubs are not as valuable as him.
But Mbappe...is not the end!
Before the World Cup, under the madness of "Blue Moon" at all costs, another superstar failed to withstand their offensive, and Bayern's German midfielder Kay Hawac was won by Manchester City for 120 million pounds.
Now, with the arrival of Mbappe and Kai Hawac, the already extremely luxurious lineup of "Blue Moon" has become even more terrifying. Even its paper strength has become intuitively surpassed any team in today's world football.
What's more... Manchester City's signings are still not over yet!
Transfer information related to "Blue Moon" in the transfer market is rampant. It seems that any star who is a little famous has become Manchester City's target and there is a possibility of transfer.
However, real professionals are actually very clear that the "Blue Moon"'s heavy transfer transactions this season will not be available anymore. They have already spent £420 million. What else do you think?
Moreover, buying too many stars at once may not be beneficial to the team's combat effectiveness. Instead, it will impact Manchester City's already formed team framework, which will be quite troublesome even with Guardiola's coaching level.
Next, Guardiola and Manchester City will definitely not buy superstars. They are likely to be targeted to strengthen the players, and those powerful players will be their targets.
The "Blue Moon" showed the final madness in the transfer market, but the "Red Devils" next door still had no movement as in previous years. It's not that Manchester United had no money. The club's revenue reached 724 million pounds last season, and the club finally obtained a net profit of more than 50 million, which also made the Glazer family "extend their hands" again. After they took away 330 million pounds, Manchester United still had more than 700 million funds in their accounts!
Even after Woodward announced last season's financial report, fans had any objections to the Glazer family's money being paid. When the club has enough transfer funds, the boss makes money... It doesn't matter!
And... Solskjaer doesn't spend much money!
After Solskjaer took office, he spent very little on transfers, almost...it could be said to be nothing!
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's main expenses after coaching are in the salary of players. The more he pays attention to cultivating young players and focusing on internal potential, the better the Manchester United players will perform, and naturally... the salary will be higher and higher.
As for buying stars from outside to strengthen the team, Solskjaer doesn't agree at all. He doesn't think there is any problem with the "Red Devils" now. Isn't it just that the team failed to win the Champions League trophy this season?
What's the big problem?
This is not nonsense!
So even though Woodward repeatedly reminded Solskjaer to buy people, stars, or superstars, he was still unmoved, making Woodward a headache... If he didn't burn money hard, some of his income would be limited!
Ronaldo's performance this season is still...no!
The total number of goals scored in a season is only 6, which is basically the same level as last season. You can only score one goal in four or five games. As for assists... there is no such thing as a single one!
Now, no matter how loyal the fans are, they have to admit that Ronaldo, who is already 37 years old, is really old!
When the European football transfer is in full swing, the World Cup... is finally here!
Chapter completed!