Chapter 908 2021 International Football Summer Transfers (4)

As a time traveler, Bruno naturally knew that Yossi would eventually leave Barcelona, ​​including the scene where the Argentine burst into tears and spilled tissues at the press conference.

It can be said that Yosi’s story with Barcelona began with tissue paper and ended with tissue paper.

Barcelona's decision not to renew Yosi's contract is actually an inevitable result.

Simply put, the economic crisis caused by Rosell and Bartomeu encountered the new crown epidemic, making Barcelona's extensive model of living beyond one's means impossible to continue, which is the root cause of Barcelona's current brink of collapse.

A few days ago, "AS" listed the annual salaries of Barcelona's main players. The top five are Griezmann with 2100 million euros, Depay with 1800 million euros, De Jong with 1600 million euros, Coutinho with 1500 million euros, Dembele with 1500 million euros, and Busquets with 1400 million euros.

In fact, it is Bartomeu's bad strategy of not buying the best but only the most expensive that has caused the current unsustainable situation of Barcelona. Such severely overpriced contracts, including Yosi's four-year contract, are the biggest source of Barcelona's current financial black hole.

The so-called La Liga salary cap, the European Super League, and the refusal to compromise with private equity are, to put it bluntly, just excuses.

It can be said that if there had been no new crown epidemic, Yosi would have a high probability of renewing his contract with Barcelona, ​​and it would definitely be another sky-high contract.

Unfortunately, everything can't go back to the past.

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Yosi's last four-year contract was an astonishing 5.55 million euros. This contract means that Yosi's annual salary is more than the combined salary of Barcelona's top five players.

Although Yoshi has huge competitive and market value, this combination is still clearly overpriced.

Yosi's contract renewal with Barcelona with a 50% salary cut is based on this four-year contract.

According to the latest reports, Yosi has accepted Paris Saint-Germain's 2+1 contract with an annual salary of 3000 million euros and a signing fee of 3000 million euros.

After comparing the two salaries, the difference between 6900 million and 4500 million, we can clearly see the premium on Yosi's contract.

Yosi's repeated accusations against Laporta, that the condition that Yosi had to cut his salary by another 30% on top of a % pay cut in order to renew his contract, now seem to be quite reasonable.

So to put it bluntly, no matter how righteously Yosi spoke, or how tears he shed, to put it bluntly, it was just that his greed was not satisfied, that's all.

So fans should stop talking about Yosi's loyalty to Barcelona. In the eyes of the No. 1 contract holder in sports, everything is about profit. Yosi has been completely kidnapped by money and his greedy father.

To put it bluntly, even if Yosi plays for Barcelona for another two years for free, Barcelona has done its best for Yosi.

Yosi's greed is just another way of proving the stage-by-stage nature of the dream.

So, we see two sides of Yosi. On the one hand, he is dominating on the court. On the other hand, the standard he measures everything is money.

This is what Yoshi, Rockefeller, Bill Gates and other GOATs have in common.

In a sense, Yosi is destined to become a Barcelona totem, but compared with Yosi on the court, Yosi is not a true Barcelona giant, and he will never reach the heights of Cruyff or even Koeman.

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This incident with Yosi also sounded a wake-up call for Bruno: if he wants to spend the rest of his life at Manchester United and eventually become a legend of the team, many things need to change!

You know, the person with the highest salary in world football today is actually himself!

In 2017, after Yosi signed that shocking super contract with Barcelona, ​​in the summer of 2018, Manchester United owner Prince Jassim signed a new contract with Bruno in order to maintain Bruno's status as the best player in the world of football.

Initially, Jasim offered Bruno a weekly salary of 70 pounds. After all, they learned at the time that Barcelona had offered Yosi a new contract with an annual salary of 4000 million euros. But when the two parties were about to renew the contract, they learned through other channels that Yosi's actual annual salary after renewing his contract with Barcelona would exceed 7200 million euros, and there were many other clauses. Prince Jasim, who was not short of money, waved his hand and changed the contract from the previous weekly salary of 70 pounds to a weekly salary of 70 pounds after tax.

Although the contract only changed a few words, Bruno's salary was at a completely different level than before.

After all, the salary tax rate for top Premier League stars is the highest at 50%!

70 pounds after tax means that Manchester United needs to pay two salaries of 70 pounds, one for Bruno and the other for the UK tax department.

This also made Bruno's annual salary before tax as high as 7240 million pounds, equivalent to 8000 million euros!

If income such as goal bonuses and appearance fees are added, Manchester United will spend more than 1 million euros on Bruno every year!

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This is because Manchester United has been so successful in recent years, with revenue hitting record highs, that it can maintain such high expenditures.

Even in the 2020-2021 season, which was severely affected by the epidemic, Manchester United's revenue rose against the trend, exceeding 9 million pounds for the first time in history, equivalent to 10.5 billion euros, becoming the first team in history to have a season revenue of over 10 billion euros.

This is also the fourth consecutive season that Manchester United's revenue has exceeded 2017 million euros since the 2018-9 season.

With this kind of income, the team leaves other teams far behind.

According to estimates, Real Madrid, the second-highest earner, had revenue of only around 6.4 million euros last season, which is less than two-thirds of Manchester United's!

This shows that Manchester United’s success in the past few seasons has been all-round!

According to many professional organizations, with the start of the new season, the impact of the epidemic on the world will be further weakened, the stadiums will fully welcome the return of fans, and the new stadiums will be put into use. Manchester United's revenue in the upcoming 2021-2022 season is likely to further exceed 10 billion pounds!

This new home stadium of Manchester United, which cost more than 21 billion pounds, is a true dream stadium!

The stadium not only has the latest facilities and equipment, but also uses the latest technology. Many facilities have been made intelligent. Whether fans are watching the game in the stands or visiting other areas of the stadium, or players are playing on the court or preparing for the game in the locker room, they can all get the best service experience.

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Of course, this stadium has another feature, that is, it is big!

The original Old Trafford had a capacity of 76000 people, which was already one of the largest stadiums in Europe. Now the capacity of this new stadium is as high as 10 people, exceeding the capacity of the Nou Camp of 99000 people.

With the current number of Manchester United fans, as long as Manchester United can maintain its current performance in the future, the new stadium will not have to worry about not having enough fans buying tickets to watch the games.

After all, according to statistics, Manchester United has sold 2021 season tickets for the 2022-6.5 season!

This is because the total number of season tickets booked by Manchester United for the new season is only 6.5!

According to the season ticket application window on the team’s official website, the number of fans worldwide who have applied for Manchester United season tickets has reached 13!

This is enough to show how popular Old Trafford is right now.

Manchester United's upcoming debut at their new home ground, which will be the first round of the Premier League on the afternoon of August 8, will be Manchester United's first home game of the new season against Leeds United, and is destined to be an extremely hot feast.

After all, that game was a hot topic: the first show at the new home, the Rose Derby, it was simply too attractive!

Perhaps only being arranged to play against Manchester United as a debutant would be more tempting than this match.

However, given the nature of the Premier League officials, it is impossible to arrange a super match like the Manchester derby as the first show of the new season.

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While the whole world was paying attention to Yosi leaving Barcelona and joining Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United ushered in the second game of the new season: the European Super Cup against the Yellow Submarine!

As the Europa League champion last season, Villarreal, known as the Yellow Submarine, defeated many strong opponents along the way, including Arteta's Arsenal.

The head coach of Villarreal is a very talked-about figure: Unai Emery!

Since being fired by Arsenal in November 2019 due to poor performance, Emery took a break for more than half a year before returning to coach Villarreal in July 11.

As a result, at the end of this season, Emery led the team to face his old club Arsenal in the Europa League final!

Due to the poor ranking in the league, the Europa League became Arsenal's only way to advance to the Champions League. Arteta and his disciples also worked very hard, defeating strong opponents all the way and reaching the Europa League final.

Then they saw their opponents and were both dumbfounded.

As the man who led Sevilla to the Europa League title, Emery has magic in the Europa League. Although Arteta and Arsenal tried hard, they eventually lost in the penalty shootout, making Emery the number one player in the Europa League.

However, Manchester United's strength is incomparable to Arsenal's current strength. In this European Super Cup held at Windsor Park Stadium in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, Manchester United not only enjoyed home-like treatment, but also dominated the field from start to finish.

In the end, thanks to Bruno's shot and pass, as well as Harry Kane and Mbappe's goal each, Manchester United defeated the Yellow Submarine 3:1 and won the European Super Cup for the fifth consecutive time.

Yes, since Mourinho's Manchester United participated in the European Super Cup as the Europa League champion in 2017, it has won the battle of the kings of this European club competition for five consecutive years. Teams including Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Sevilla, and now Villarreal have all become defeated by Manchester United.

This is also the sixth time that Manchester United has won the European Super Cup in history. They have surpassed the Serie A giants AC Milan, which has won the tournament five times, and become the team with the most European Super Cup titles.