The next day, Lazio’s official website announced the signing of a professional contract between the club and Gotze.
In an interview with the official website, Chang Sheng described this signing:
"For Lazio, this is the first major signing this summer. I am very happy. We can sign a professional contract with Gotze..."
In an exclusive interview with the official website, Gotze also said that being able to sign with the club made his dream come true.
All in all, it’s just a signing of hello, hello, hello, hello to everyone.
But this news is really a bolt from the blue for those clubs that have always coveted Gotze.
When Gotze did not sign a professional contract with the Lazio club before, although Gotze said that he came to Lazio just for winning, so he has a good relationship with Chang Sheng 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 know human nature well. Just because they are good now does not mean they will be good in the future.
A lot
So they expected that if Goetze talks nicely now, he will 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 it is that he can stay in Lazio in the end.
They firmly believe that Gotze was young and ignorant back then and was deceived by Chang Sheng.
When Gotze discovers that he is actually very good, he will feel that the small temple of Lazio cannot accommodate him, and he will be eager to go to a bigger stage.
At that time, it will be time for them to poach
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 official Lazio club website is talking about a five-year contract!
Damn it!
In the past two years, Gotze has rejected invitations from countless clubs. They even directly offered one million euros to seduce their family, but Gotze ultimately refused.
He proved with practical actions that the friendship between him and Chang Sheng is unbreakable
This makes those clubs who have been working tirelessly to loosen the soil for two years, hoping that they can finally succeed in poaching, are disappointed and sad. How could such a delicate flower end up being planted in the stinking piece of shit like Chang Sheng?
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Not long after Lazio won the championship, it announced that it had signed a professional contract with Gotze, which made Lazio fans very happy.
Some Lazio fans are simply happy for Gotze's signing
Other fans saw the attitude of Lazio Club.
Although they won the Triple Crown last season, Lazio has no intention of stopping and moving forward.
Of course, they have enough reasons to rest on their laurels, but no one from the club to the team has done so.
Signing Gotze at the first opportunity instead of remaining indifferent and letting him be poached by other teams shows the ambition of the Lazio club.
They are unwilling to be content with their past honors
Signing Gotze is such an attitude, showing that Lazio is focusing on the future and will continue to pursue championship glory.
This makes those fans who are also ambitious and have high hopes for Lazio happy.
This means that they will continue to enjoy the joy of victory and championship.
This is a double joy
What could make fans happier than a Triple Crown?
The team wants to win a second Triple Crown!
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Lazio is indeed an ambitious club, because both Lotito and Chang Sheng have ambitions
Renewing Gotze's contract is just a signal
Lazio's progress is more than just that
After the season ended, Chang Sheng returned to China for vacation. His wife, children, and parents are all in China. They haven't seen each other for three months because of the trouble caused by the Uncultivated Party.
But before leaving, Chang Sheng still met with the club's chairman Lotito and general manager Tare.
The three people discussed the future development prospects of the club together.
Lotito once again mentioned the new stadium plan
In his opinion, the new stadium plan is urgent.
Lazio's current results are very good and the media exposure is also very high
In addition, this season has completely destroyed the uncultivated fan organization, purifying the air for people who come to watch games, and the security situation at the scene has greatly improved, so people who come to watch games no longer need to be afraid.
In line with Lazio's good results and Lazio's own enjoyable style of play
Naturally, more Lazio fans will be willing to come and watch the game.
The Stadio Olimpico in Rome, which can accommodate more than 72,000 people, can accommodate 50,000 to 60,000 people every time Lazio plays a home game.
You must know that this is a figure after the North Stand is closed, resulting in a large number of empty seats.
If the North Stand, which has traditional symbolic significance, is reopened, how many fans can be attracted to watch the game live?
"I can't stand every home game. When I see the dark crowd, almost covering the entire stands of the Olympic Stadium, my heart is bleeding!" Lotito, who was getting fat, beat his chest, as if
It really hurts there
"Our income from various sources on each match day is as high as one million euros! But in the end, all we can get is a mere three hundred thousand euros! Most of the income goes to the Rome City Council, which is demanding too much! Those are a bunch of people
The moths that suck our blood! If all this money belongs to us... our annual income can increase a lot! Because our various business developments can be spread!"
Lotito gets sprayed with spit in the office
Chang Sheng said nothing, but he agreed with Lotito's point of view
Match day income has become a shackle restricting Lazio's continued development.
Lazio's current income method is not much different from other Serie A teams. It relies heavily on television broadcast income, which has high performance requirements.
Although it is said that the winning team does not worry about the team's performance, but a team will always have some ups and downs. If the performance declines, this money will have less immediate effect.
When the income decreases, the investment will be less. If the investment is less, the results will be poor. The TV broadcasts will continue to decrease. When the income continues to decrease, the investment will also shrink... This has become a vicious cycle.
In order for Lazio to have a higher ability to withstand risks, it must develop other sources of income.
What is called increasing revenue and reducing expenditure? First of all, you have to increase revenue. Reducing expenditure alone is not enough.
The issue of TV broadcast fees cannot be solved by Lazio club alone. When the time comes to argue, it may not be clear in ten years.
So Lazio must start from other aspects
According to Deloitte accounting firm's division of the main components of European football club revenue, it is divided into three parts
TV broadcasts, matchday revenue and commercial development
In this regard, matchday income is a flaw for Serie A teams
Lazio is no exception
Because Serie A teams don’t have their own stadiums, most of their matchday income goes to the government.
Looking at it now, only match day income is where Lazio’s income can increase significantly.
Lazio now earns nearly one million euros in a single game, which is considered very good in Italy.
Game day income mainly depends on ticket revenue, which depends 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 of Serie A was 25,000. This number is far lower than the 42,000 in the Bundesliga and the 34,000 in the Premier League.
The average attendance of even La Liga’s 28,000 people is much better than that of Serie A
With such poor attendance, game day income will naturally not be much higher.
Therefore, Lazio’s match-day income of one million is already superior to the rest.
But Lotito is not satisfied yet
He has a big ambition
In addition to the ticket revenue and broadcast fee share that should be given to the visiting team, all match day income must belong to the Lazio club. In this case, with good business development, the match day income alone is estimated to bring no less than three million dollars to Lazio every year.
Revenue of tens of millions of euros
But in order to keep the match day income completely for themselves, 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 Serie A club to own all its matchday income.
This alone makes many Serie A club presidents and managers look red-eyed!
Lotito has been talking about the new stadium plan for a long time. Since he just took over the Lazio club, Lazio has not gotten rid of the debt of more than 100 million euros and may face bankruptcy at any time. Lotito has already approached the Rome City Council to sell his new stadium.
The stadium and surrounding commercial development plans are planned
I had no money to consider this before because I had to pay off debts.
Later, the debt was paid off, and at Chang Sheng's request, the income and profits were invested in the club's infrastructure construction, such as building an echelon.
Now when Lotito proposed this plan again, Chang Sheng didn't even have an excuse to refuse.
It would be unkind to refuse again...
And Lotito is right, Lazio does need a new stadium to become a new revenue growth point
But the biggest problem is that building a new stadium costs a lot of money
Juventus is directly renovating and expanding the existing stadium Alpi Stadium, which costs less, only more than 100 million euros.
It is obviously impossible for Lazio to expand a new stadium based on the Stadio Olimpico.
They have to find another place, buy land, dig a foundation, and start from scratch
The money spent in it is not a matter of 100 or 200 million euros...
Moreover, Lotito cannot be like Juventus and only build a stadium with more than 40,000 people.
Lotito believes Lazio’s new home stadium will have a capacity of at least 60,000 people
With the current growth rate of the team's attendance, he has the confidence to fill the new stadium
The budget required for such a large and modern stadium must be quite large.
So where can Lazio get such a large amount of money? (To be continued...)