Chapter 503 Returning to the team and revisiting the past
A few days later, the English media photographed Mo Yang driving into the Melwood training base. As soon as the report came out, all Liverpool fans immediately felt at ease.
The team boss is back, and the club's recent problems should be alleviated.
With the closing of the Premier League transfer window, the high-profile signings of major clubs have begun to subside. However, within Liverpool, the news that players are having internal strife with the club was revealed by someone, which immediately detonated the news in the Premier League.
Big media.
Now everyone in England knows that Liverpool's main players have started a fierce negotiation battle with the club's top management, and the result is likely to be a lose-lose situation.
Mo Yang came out of the parking lot and as soon as he walked into the locker room, he realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the team.
In the past, after a happy holiday reunion, everyone would look very happy, but now Salah and others in the locker room are not in a high mood. Everyone seems a little depressed and seems to have something on their mind.
Mo Yang said hello to everyone, but was taken away by team doctor Rodri before he could ask.
"You're recovering well. It's no longer obvious that your ankle was injured!" After the examination, Rodri smiled and was full of wonder, "Yang, your physical talent is really the best among the players I have encountered in these years.
A good one, most people need at least two months of rest!"
"Haha! It's not that serious actually!" Mo Yang laughed and hurriedly changed the subject, "By the way, Rodri, is there something happening in the club that I don't know about?"
"Ho, Yang, you don't know?" Rodri exclaimed in surprise.
"Should I know?" Mo Yang blinked and asked, with a confused look on his face. He returned to China to finish filming the endorsement commercial and only reported to Liverpool early this morning.
"It's like this. The club rejected the salary increase request of Salah and others. No, the club is not willing to give Salah and others a significant salary increase..."
After listening to Rodri's account of the ins and outs, Mo Yang frowned. He never expected that something like this would happen when the new season was about to begin.
Mo Yang knew that Salah and others wanted a higher salary, but they were busy with the World Cup and wedding preparations during the holidays, so they didn't pay much attention to the follow-up of this matter.
When Salah and others attended the wedding, no one mentioned this matter. Mo Yang thought it had been successful, but he did not expect this result.
Mo Yang couldn't figure it out. The results in the 17-18 season were so good and brought huge benefits to the club, why Henry and the club's top brass didn't even agree to the players' small request.
Mo Yang really couldn’t understand!
But Mo Yang knows that once the team loses its support, the season will be over.
At the same time, in Klopp's office, Edwards, who had just arrived at the base, slammed open the office door without even knocking.
"Jurgen, tell me, was it you who leaked the news to the media?" Edwards put his hands on the table, leaned down and stared at Klopp condescendingly, his expression and behavior looked particularly angry.
Klopp looked at Edwards like an angry bull in confusion. After reacting, Klopp jumped up, pointed at Edwards's nose and yelled: "Bull shit, you are slandering!"
The aggressive Edwards was startled by Klopp's jumping up action, but he didn't notice Klopp's subtle move of flipping the phone back on the table before jumping up. He was squeezing his neck, but his aggressive momentum was already there.
A little weaker, he glared and asked, "Isn't it you?"
"Man, what good does it do me as a manager if I leak the news to the media? Can I get an extra pound from the players?"
Seeing that Edwards' attitude had improved, Klopp softened his tone and said, "Mike, when I woke up this morning, I found that the media were reporting on this matter. The first thing I thought of was that a player in our team deliberately reported the matter to the media.
, this is an attempt to use the pressure of public opinion from external media and fans to force the club to agree to their demands."
"Mike, we absolutely cannot agree to them. This is an extremely shameless act of blackmail. We should resolutely resist it!" Klopp was filled with righteous indignation and said in an angry tone. "If anyone doesn't want to play, I can just tell him to get out. At this point, I
Stand with the club!"
"You know my attitude towards leaks within the team. No matter what, players should not leak internal matters to the media! In my eyes, this is an act of betrayal!"
“Shameless!!!!!!”
Seeing Klopp's indignant look, Edwards was a little dumbfounded.
When he woke up in the morning and learned that the club's salary increase was leaked, the first thing that popped into Edwards' mind was Klopp.
This was an intuition, and coupled with the fact that this guy had a criminal record, Edwards had to doubt his domineering partner.
The last time Van Dijk's transfer was revealed to have been in private contact with players, Edwards traced the blame to Klopp during the follow-up investigation.
But now, Edwards is a little lost.
When Klopp said this, he suddenly felt that it did make sense, but who could it be?
If negotiations between players and clubs are at a standstill, there are indeed many examples of using pressure from outside public opinion to force clubs to reach an agreement.
Soon, the two sat down on the soft sofa in the office. Klopp very attentively made Edwards a cup of hot coffee, then sat down and said with a smile: "Mike, what we need to do now is to reach an agreement with the players as soon as possible.
, otherwise you will know the consequences!”
"Now our players have shown some signs that they are not energetic during the game. I think you know what is affecting them!"
"I know!"
"it is known!"
Edwards picked up his coffee and was about to take a sip when he immediately seemed extremely irritated when he heard Klopp's words, "In the past half month, we have only completed the contracts of Van Dijk and Mane, and the negotiations for other players have completely froze.
"
"Those damn vampires, the prices they charge are outrageous!"
"Did you know? Salah's agent is asking for the same 50,000-yuan weekly salary after tax as Yang."
"Arnold and Robertson want a weekly salary of £00,000 before tax, which can be doubled."
"The opinion of the group committee is very firm. They gave those players who refused to renew their contracts two options. Either the players accept the salary increase plan they offered, or they leave!" Edwards said helplessly.
Edwards is really troubled by the situation getting more and more intense now.
Others are worried about the club's poor performance, but he is worried about the team's good performance. Damn it!
Klopp didn't say much. He sat silently on the side, quietly serving as Edwards' trash can as if nothing had happened.
In fact, clubs are very restrictive in terms of salary increases. Most of them are not because of stinginess. Klopp knows this very well. They are for the healthy operation of the club and a healthy financial system.
Not every wealthy club has the ambition of Real Madrid and Barcelona where wage expenditure accounts for 65%-7% of annual revenue.
With such a high salary ratio, once the club's operations go wrong or are affected by external factors, the club's financial system will be in great danger.
But Klopp doesn't think Liverpool has this hidden danger, because Liverpool's current salary and annual revenue ratio are not high, and can even be said to be low for a wealthy club.
This year's financial report for Liverpool has come out. As expected, Liverpool's revenue in the 2017-018 season exceeded 600 million pounds.
The Premier League's broadcast share alone, with the help of Mo Yang's terrifying influence in China, brought them 180 million pounds in broadcast share from 6 Premier League games, which is the highest among all Premier League clubs.
Winning the Champions League also brought Liverpool 8.18 million euros in income.
When combined with other sponsorship and other commercial income, it just exceeded 600 million pounds.
Liverpool's current player wages and annual revenue account for only 41%, so even if this collective contract renewal is completed, this proportion will rise to 55%, but it is still far from the 70% salary accounted for revenue stipulated by UEFA.
There is still a long way to go before the proportional warning line.
As for why Liverpool's senior management set the proportion of work camps at 50% after salary increases, Klopp can probably guess some real reasons.
That is for long-term planning, and at the same time, the club is expressing its stance to the players. I can raise your salary, but it must not be how much you want. The agreement between the two parties cannot be reached when the club is forced.
Klopp was too lazy to take care of it at the beginning. This was a game between players and capital and had little to do with him as the head coach.
But now that the new season is about to begin, and the club and players are still having fun, he can't stand it anymore.
You guys are just having fun, but if it affects my performance as a team leader, don't blame me for it.
This is Klopp’s attitude!
Edwards and Klopp did not have an in-depth conversation, and soon the uninvited guest Mo Yang walked in.
After Edwards left, Mo Yang handed the physical examination report to Klopp, "Head, Andrew and Rodri agreed that my ankle has healed!"
Klopp rolled his eyes at Mo Yang, took the report, squinted and motioned for Mo Yang to sit down, and then read it carefully.
"We will start training with the team tomorrow. Let's go back and rest today! I know you didn't arrive in Liverpool until around 1 a.m. last night!" After reading the report, Klopp grinned at Mo Yang and raised the report in his hand, "This is my paragraph.
The best news I’ve ever received!”
"Boss, I want to ask about other people's contract renewal news!" Mo Yang suddenly asked.
Klopp looked at Mo Yang strangely when he heard this, and said with some humor: "Did Salah and the others ask you to inquire?"
After finishing his words, before Mo Yang could answer, Klopp shook his head helplessly, "Tell them, if there is no interference from other external factors, the club will not agree to their request, especially in this coercive situation!"
"Head, the new season is about to begin!" Mo Yang finished his words.
"Out!" Klopp shouted at Mo Yang with a smile.
Mo Yang grinned and stood up to walk out, but then stopped and looked back, saying: "Boss, you need to help them, you know, they deserve a high salary!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Mo Yang ran like a rabbit. (To be continued)