Chapter 145 The boss invites you to dinner (guarantee
Chang Sheng arrived at Chairman Flores’ house before dinner.
Although Flores is the club president of Getafe, his home is not in this poor area.
Flores is considered a rich man anyway, otherwise how could he become the boss of Getafe?
In the past, Spanish football clubs were membership-based, but most football clubs are now joint-stock economic entities.
Chinese fans don’t know much about this. They only know that Barcelona and Real Madrid are membership-based clubs, so they assume that all Spanish football clubs are membership-based. In fact, many Spanish football clubs are now joint stock companies.
But this transition is a long story.
In the era of membership system, the financial situation of most Spanish football clubs was very bad. The characteristic of membership system is that they are not responsible for making profits at all, because the law stipulates that they are not allowed to make profits, and if they make profits, it will be illegal... This sounds quite incredible,
There are also mandatory requirements not to make money, but this is the fact. Member-only clubs only spend money and do not make money. They raise the funds needed to maintain the survival and development of the club by raising membership dues. All the funds raised must be spent.
Otherwise, it will be considered as having gone into private pockets...
This has led to such a phenomenon - since member-based clubs have the natural characteristics of "the team spends money and members pay the bills", it is difficult for club leaders to tighten the string of "living within their means" on financial issues. By the 1980s
In the late 1990s, high levels of debt became a common feature of many Spanish clubs. Among them, La Liga clubs' debts reached the terrifying level of easily reaching hundreds of millions, or even billions of pesetas.
In order to save professional football clubs from their imminent economic collapse and to enable them to develop more healthily in the future, the Spanish government promulgated a special decree in 1990. According to this decree, the state first paid off the club's debts. The latter will be completed within twelve years.
The money will be repaid to the Ministry of Finance. At the same time, the club must be reorganized into a limited liability sports company and become an economic entity with a certain registered capital. The more debt the club owed before, the amount of registered capital it needs will be
The higher. The reorganization work must be completed by June 30, 1992, otherwise the punishment waiting for the club will be to be immediately forcibly demoted to Serie C or simply disbanded. The Spanish government issued such a decree in the hope that the football club will become
The company can then achieve true self-discipline at the financial level and make the club's management operations more transparent.
In order to raise registered capital, clubs have chosen to start financing by selling future shares. Most of them adopted a "three-step" strategy, that is, in April and May 1992, they sold future shares to members.
shares, which will be sold to fans in June.
The completion of this link has given the previously classical membership-based club a whole new meaning. After purchasing the shares, the status of club members and ordinary fans is elevated to shareholders - even though they are only small shareholders. In the process of purchasing shares,
Since the amount of club debt is generally huge and the funds contributed by small shareholders are very limited, it is natural that a certain tycoon will spend huge sums of money to acquire many shares and become a major shareholder. After the reorganization is completed, the major shareholder can reasonably enter the club's board of directors and become a limited shareholder.
The actual head of the responsible sports company.
Francisco Flores, a businessman in the olive oil business, naturally took this opportunity to become the owner of Getafe Club.
Of course, he himself is also an old member of the Getafe club. His love for the team will not change because of money. Just letting him control the team will make him more confident in taking Getafe to the next level.
A broader stage.
And Getafe has indeed taken off since he took charge of the team.
From the beginning, it was a small team that only lived in the regional league, and gradually climbed up.
Finally climbed to the Spanish second division. It is only one step away from the top league.
This is all the result of Flores, or in other words, the credit of the pesetas that Flores invested...
Although many fans and players are worried about the manager Mosco who has to change the club, they still respect the club's chairman Flores.
After all, this is the man who gave Getafe new life.
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Flores' home is in a villa in downtown Madrid.
His olive tree estate is in the sunny Andalusia region in southern Spain, where the best olive oil is produced in Spain.
He has a small estate there.
Among the numerous olive oil merchants in Spain, Francisco Flores is just an ordinary one.
Fortunately, Getafe is a small team, otherwise it is really hard to say whether it can sustain it for eight years with its financial resources.
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After Chang Sheng arrived at Flores' home, he first presented the gift he brought from China - a fiery red Chinese knot with a quick ceramic decoration in the middle.
This was certainly not a gift he bought just for Flores.
In fact, before Chang Sheng left, he went to the wholesale market in the city where his home was located to buy wholesale... There were big ones and small ones. The big ones cost fifteen yuan each, the small ones cost two yuan each. You can get as many as you want.
Changsheng just wholesales it and gives it away.
After returning that time, he gave one to every colleague. Of course, the players were not left behind either.
For ordinary Europeans in 2000, China was still a place full of mystery. The things Chang Sheng gave them seemed novel and interesting enough to them, and it was a good idea to receive a gift from China.
A very enviable thing.
However, Chang Sheng did not give it to Flores because there seemed to be no good reason or opportunity.
Unexpectedly, I finally gave it away.
This is the biggest one he brought back, and it's also the most beautifully crafted one. It doesn't look like something worth more than ten yuan at all.
Flores looked very happy after seeing this gift.
"This is so beautiful!" The old man couldn't put it down, and then asked the servant to hang the Chinese knot in a prominent place in the living room.
It can be seen that he likes this gift very much.
But hanging it in the most eye-catching place in the living room is more than just a gift.
This means that he values the person giving the gift.
Chang Sheng is not a fool, so he can naturally see the deeper meaning.
In fact, he never really understood why Flores was so optimistic and supportive of him.
If this is because of his performance in leading the team, then he has shown such a trend before. And his current performance is inseparable from his previous support.
Without the support of the club chairman, Chang Sheng might not be able to survive the start of the new season...
After accepting the gift, Flores introduced his family members to Chang Sheng one by one, including his wife, his eldest son, eldest daughter-in-law, younger son and younger daughter-in-law, as well as an unmarried younger daughter, and of course
Grandson and granddaughter.
The whole family is happy and happy.
Everyone greeted Chang Sheng with a smile and were very enthusiastic. He was not like the rich people who thought he was condescending and looking down on others.
This may have something to do with Chang Sheng's performance in Getafe.
Chang Sheng's coaching results with Getafe have proven his ability. If he has the strength, he will never be underestimated.
Chang Sheng greeted and greeted everyone.
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The Flores family's family dinner was quite sumptuous.
The family ate, drank, and chatted.
Everyone is very interested in the mysterious East.
Especially for children, the East seems to only appear in myths.
Now that there is an Oriental visitor in the family, they will naturally not let Chang Sheng go.
Persuading Chang Sheng talked a lot about China.
Being able to promote his motherland so directly makes Chang Sheng very talkative.
Chang Sheng seemed to be the protagonist of the meal. Everyone looked at him with interest.
Everyone's laughter sounded from time to time in the restaurant.
A meal is enjoyed by both host and guest.
However, Chang Sheng still had doubts in his heart.
Did his boss just invite him to have such a meal?
And at dinner, Flores seemed very silent and didn't speak much. Most of the time, he looked at Chang Sheng and talked. He smiled from time to time.
Chang Sheng always felt that it would not be so simple for his boss to invite him for a meal.
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After dinner, Flores invited Chang Sheng to his study to drink tea and chat.
The mentality of always winning. Maybe this is the real topic...
But Chang Sheng thought wrong. After entering the study room, Flores just chatted with himself. Of course, he mainly asked about the team's situation.
He also talked about the manager Chang Sheng hated in Moscow.
"Vicente can sue you in front of me more than once, ha!" Flores said with a smile.
Chang Sheng shrugged: "I don't think he would say anything good about me."
"Actually, I don't quite understand why your relationship with him is so bad..."
"He stretched his hand too far and reached directly into my team." Chang Sheng said.
Chang Sheng always believed that Moscow targeted him first. The matter between him and Gorka was considered an internal matter of team C. He is the head coach of team C, doesn’t he even have the power to deal with a player of team C?
We also need to let Moscow come to raise more troops to investigate the crime.
Even if Chang Sheng is not the kind of person who can swallow his anger, since Moscow is causing more trouble for him, he will naturally be more unhappy with Moscow.
The hostility between the two sides, which no one could explain at the beginning, turned into deliberate targeting.
Flores smiled and did not say who was right or wrong between Chang Sheng and Vicente.
He was not surprised by the conflict between Chang Sheng and Moscodo. Moscodo is a person with a strong desire to control, and Chang Sheng also has a very unruly personality. It would be strange if there is no conflict between these two people.
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If it had been in the past, he might have mediated, or let one of the parties leave.
But now, he has no such intention.
Because he doesn't even know if he can continue to be the president of this club.
"I have been the president of Getafe for eight years, and this year is the most promising year I have seen for the team. I heard that your goal this season is to lead the team to promotion?" Mr. Chairman looked at it with interest.
Always victorious.
Chang Sheng nodded. He felt that there was nothing to hide in front of the Chairman, who had always supported him, and the matter itself was not embarrassing. There was no need to be hesitant or covert.
"Yes. This season I want to lead Getafe to promotion to the First Division."
"How did you come up with this goal? You know we were still struggling to avoid relegation last season..."
"Because I want to see the scenery on a bigger stage." Chang Sheng replied.
After hearing Chang Sheng's answer, Getafe Club President Flores was silent for a while.
Then his eyes refocused and looked at Chang Sheng: "Have you never thought about what happens if you fail?"
"In case of failure, I think at least we don't have to worry about relegation anymore. So even if we fail, there is actually no loss for the team. Set the goal higher and start working hard. Even if we fail, I think
It would also be better than setting the goal very low, and then losing fighting spirit, right? A high enough goal can make everyone work hard for this goal and forget everything. If the goal is set too easy, everyone will lose fighting spirit and
Motivational." Chang Sheng explained all his thoughts.
Flores nodded repeatedly and felt that what Chang Sheng said made sense.
"Now it seems that your goal has been achieved. At least we don't have to worry about relegation. To be honest, Chang. Your performance has far exceeded my imagination. At first, I had the attitude of giving it a try.
I asked you to serve as the interim head coach of the first team...but I didn't expect you to do better than all of us expected. You are number one in the league..." Flores murmured, patting his thigh lightly.
Chang Sheng grinned, but didn't answer.
The two chatted casually for a few more words, and then Flores stood up to see off the guests.
When sending Chang Sheng out of the villa, Flores said to him: "I hope I can see the scene when my team is promoted to Class A. It will be quite wonderful."
Chang Sheng said with certainty: "If you asked me half a season ago, I wouldn't be able to tell you the answer for sure. But now, I can answer you, Mr. President. You can definitely see Getafe promoted.
of!"
He does have such confidence.
The team is currently ranked first in the league. Even if there are some twists and turns in the second half of the season, he is confident that the problems encountered by the team can be controlled within a controllable range.
Even if we can't win the league championship, we can at least be in the top three.
As long as you are in the top three, you can upgrade.
Flores smiled at him but said nothing.
After seeing Chang Sheng off, he turned around and returned to the house.
He thought Chang Sheng probably didn't know what he meant by what he just said.
Of course he can see Getafe being promoted to the First Division because he is confident of winning. But he may not be in his current capacity.
When Getafe was promoted to the First Division, the person sitting on the rostrum should not be me... (To be continued...)
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