Chapter 255 The Shackles of Lazio's Development

The next day, Lazio's official website announced the news that the club had signed a professional contract with Gotze. m

In an interview with the official website, Chang Sheng described the signing in this way.

"For Lazio, this is the first big signing this summer. I am very happy that we can sign a professional contract with Gotze..."

When Gotze accepted an exclusive interview on the official website, he also said that being able to sign a contract with the club made his dream come true.

In short, it is a signing of Hello, Me, Hello, Everyone.

It's just that this news is really a bolt from the blue for those clubs that have always coveted Gotze.

When Gotze and the Lazio club did not sign a professional contract before, although Gotze said that he came to Lazio for Changsheng, so he has a good relationship with Changsheng, and it is impossible to leave Lazio.

But those clubs just don't believe it. They claim to have insight into people's hearts and are familiar with human nature. If they say it well now, it doesn't mean they will be good in the future. There are a lot of examples in the world of couples who were loving and loving when they were newly married but divorced after three months.

So they expected that Gotze's words sounded good now, and he would definitely break up with the club for one reason or another in the future.

Especially after his performance is good, the better his performance, the less likely he will be able to stay in Lazio in the end.

They firmly believed that Gotze was young and ignorant, and was fooled by Chang Sheng.

When Gotze found out that he was actually very good, he felt that the small temple of Lazio could not accommodate him. He will aspire to go to a bigger stage.

At that time, it's time for them to poach the wall.

Anyway, there are still two years left, and they don't believe that nothing will happen in these two years...

So they waited, waiting for Gotze to wake up.

In this way, they waited until Gotze turned eighteen, and now he has signed a professional contract with Lazio!

The Lazio club's official website says it's a five-year contract!

What the hell!

During these two years. Gotze rejected invitations from an unknown number of clubs, and the other party even offered to lure their family with a direct one million euros.

But Gotze ultimately refused.

He proved with practical actions that the friendship between him and Chang Sheng is unbreakable.

This allowed those two years to persevere in loosening the soil. Looking forward to the clubs that can successfully poach the wall in the end. Disappointed and heartbroken - such a delicate flower. Why did it end up on Chang Sheng's stinky shit?

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The Lazio club announced the signing of a professional contract with Gotze not long after winning the championship, which made the Lazio fans very happy.

Some Lazio fans are simply delighted by Gotze's signing.

Some other fans saw the attitude of the Lazio club.

Although they won the Triple Crown last season, Lazio did not intend to stop and move on.

Of course, they have enough reasons to sleep on the credit book. But neither the club nor the team did this.

Signing Gotze in the first place, rather than doing nothing and allowing him to be poached by other teams, speaks volumes about the Lazio club's ambitions.

They are not content with old glory.

Signing Gotze is such an attitude, which shows that Lazio has an eye on the future and they will continue to pursue championship glory.

This leaves those equally ambitious. Fans who had high hopes for Lazio were delighted.

This means that they will continue to enjoy the joy of victory and championship.

This is a double joy.

What makes fans happier than a Treble?

It is the team that still wants to win the second Triple Crown!

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Lazio is indeed an ambitious club, because both Lotito and Changsheng have ambitions.

Renewing the contract with Gotze is just a signal.

Lazio's pace of progress is not just that.

After the season ended, Chang Sheng returned to China for vacation. His wife, children and parents are all in China. Because of the trouble caused by the Uneducable faction, they have not seen each other for three months.

But before leaving, Chang Sheng had a meeting with the club's chairman Lotito and general manager Tare.

The three discussed the club's future development prospects together.

Among them, Lotito once again mentioned the new stadium plan.

In his view, the new stadium plan is urgent.

Lazio's current results are very good, and the media exposure is also high.

In addition, this season has completely destroyed the uneducable fan organization, purified the air for watching the game, and greatly improved the security situation at the scene, so that there is no need to worry about watching the game.

In line with Lazio's good results and Lazio's own pleasant style of play.

Naturally, more Lazio fans are willing to come to watch the game live.

The Olympic Stadium in Rome, which can accommodate more than 72,000 people, can accommodate 50,000 to 60,000 people every time Lazio plays at home.

You must know that this is still the number when the North Stand is closed, resulting in a large number of seats being vacant.

If the North Stand, which has traditional symbolic significance, is reopened, how many fans can it attract to watch the game live?

"I can't bear it anymore. Every time I play at home, I see the black crowd that almost covered the entire stands of the Olympic Stadium, and my heart is bleeding!" The fat Lotito beat his chest, Seems like it really hurts there.

"Our income is as high as one million euros every game day! But in the end we can only get a mere three hundred thousand euros! Most of the income goes to the extravagant Rome city council! It's a bunch of parties Moths sucking blood on us! If all the money belongs to us... our annual income can increase a lot! Because our various commercial developments are possible!"

Lotito sprays spit in his office.

Chang Sheng did not speak, but he agreed with Lotito's point of view.

Matchday income has become a shackle that restricts Lazio's continued development.

At present, Lazio's income method is not much different from other Serie A teams. It relies heavily on TV broadcast income, which has high requirements for performance.

Although Chang Sheng is not worried about the team's performance, a team will always have some ups and downs. If the performance declines, the money will be less. Immediate effect.

If the income is reduced, the investment will be less, and if the investment is less, the performance will be poor. Bad grades. Television coverage continued to decline. As income continues to decrease, investment also shrinks... This has become a vicious circle.

Let Lazio have a higher ability to resist risks. Other sources of income must be developed.

The so-called increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, first of all, you have to increase revenue, and reducing expenditure alone will not work.

The issue of TV broadcast fees cannot be solved by a club in Lazio. When the time comes, it may not be clear in ten years.

So Lazio must start from other aspects.

According to Deloitte's division of the main components of European football club revenue, it is divided into three parts.

Television broadcasts, match day revenue and commercial development.

In this regard, match day income is a flaw for Serie A teams.

Lazio is no exception.

Because none of the Serie A teams have their own stadium, most of their game day income must be handed over to the government.

Looking at it now, only match day income is where Lazio's income can increase significantly.

Now Lazio has nearly one million euros in revenue in a single game, which is considered very good in the whole of Italy.

Game day income mainly depends on ticket income. Ticket revenue is based on the number of fans watching the game.

The overall attendance rate of Serie A is not high. In the just-concluded 2009-2010 season, the average attendance rate of Serie A was 25,000, which is far lower than the 42,000 in the Bundesliga and the 30,000 in the Premier League. The average attendance rate of 4,000 people. Even La Liga's 28,000 people are much better than Serie A.

Such a poor attendance. Naturally, the game day income is not much more.

So Lazio's one million game day income can already be proud of the crowd.

But Lotito was not satisfied.

He has a big ambition.

In addition to the ticket income and broadcasting fees that should be given to the visiting team, the game day income must all belong to the Lazio club. Income of 30 million euros.

However, in order for the game day income to be fully owned by itself, Lazio must now have a stadium that is completely their own.

Just like Juventus, their new stadium, the New Alpi Stadium, is under construction and is expected to be put into use next year.

At that time, Juventus will become the first club in Serie A whose matchday income will be all owned by itself.

This alone made the eyes of many Serie A club chairmen and managers look red!

Lotito has been talking about the new stadium plan for a long time. Since he just took over the Lazio club. At that time, Lazio had not yet got rid of the debt of more than 100 million euros and might face bankruptcy at any time. Lotito had already approached the Rome City Council to sell his The new stadium and the surrounding commercial development plan.

I had no money to think about this because I had to pay off my debts.

Later, the debt was paid off, and at the request of Chang Sheng, the income and profits were invested in the infrastructure construction of the club, 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 impolite to refuse...

And Lotito is right, Lazio really needs a new stadium to become a new revenue growth point.

But the biggest problem is - it costs a lot of money to build a new stadium.

Juventus directly rebuilt and expanded the existing stadium Alpi Stadium, which cost less, only more than 100 million euros.

It is obviously impossible for Lazio to expand the new stadium on the basis of the Olympic Stadium.

They had to find another place, buy land and dig the foundation, and start from scratch.

The money spent here is not a matter of 100 to 200 million euros...

And it is impossible for Lotito to build a stadium with more than 40,000 people like Juventus.

Lotito believes that Lazio's new home stadium must accommodate at least 60,000 people.

With the current growth rate of the team's attendance, he has the confidence to make the new stadium full.

Such a large and modern stadium... the budget required must not be small.

So where is Lazio going to get such a large sum of money?