I Want to Be the King of Football

After a one-to-zero away win over Blackburn, Manchester City finally walked out of the devil's schedule at the end of April.

Although the team will continue to fight on the third front, at least it can take a breath.

After all, the next opponents are not like the Premier League teams like Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. In the Europa League, Manchester City’s opponent is the Portuguese Super League’s Benfica, and the other matchup is Porto vs. Liarel.

The quarter-finals of the Europa League this season are very interesting.

In fact, if you count Braga in the quarterfinals, you can clearly see the strength of the Portuguese Super League in the second-tier European league.

The top eight teams accounted for three seats and half of the semi-finals. The Portuguese Super League ranked first in the second-tier European league.

Before the start of the Europa League, the British media also paid attention to the Portuguese Super League. The Times even made a detailed report on the Portuguese Super League to help fans better understand the Portuguese Super League, especially Manchester City’s next opponent, Benfica.

Benfica's ability to reach the semi-finals of the Europa League is actually quite surprising.

The financial situation of this team in recent years has not been ideal.

As we all know, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon are rivals in the same city. As early as that year, when Sodong and Ronnie played for Sporting Lisbon, Mendes had a close relationship with the Green Lions, which allowed him to successfully sign Sporting Lisbon. Young players.

But it is precisely because of the relationship with Sporting Lisbon that Mendes does not have much cooperation with Benfica.

The real turning point was in 2009.

At that time, Benfica was forced to mortgage 25% of the ownership of the twelve main players in the team to the Portuguese bank due to financial crisis, in exchange for a loan of 40 million euros to repay the club’s debts.

In other words, the estimated price of these 12 main players is 160 million euros, which is actually a reasonable price.

Subsequently, the transfers of Di Maria and Ramirez proved that Benfica's players are worthy.

Of course, these two players are relatively valuable among the main players, but there are also players like Coentron and David Luiz who remain in the team, who are also very potential and capable players.

Under the circumstances at the time, Mendes made a decisive move and bought the 25% ownership of David Luiz from the bank for 4.5 million euros, plus the operation of Di Maria to Manchester City's transfer, and Ramirez's subsequent move to Chelsea, opened up the gap in cooperation with Benfica's management.

From that moment on, Mendes completely controlled the top three players in the Portuguese Super League.

It was also from that year that Mendes started his South American star program, introducing many South American stars including Falcao and Hulk from the mainland to the Portuguese Super League, using Portugal as a springboard to land in the four major European leagues.

In Mendes’ plan, Portugal has a natural affinity with South American players. The stars are more adaptable to the Portuguese Super League and can also use the Portuguese Super League to adapt to the European League. The Portuguese Super League can also use these South American players to improve their strength. , Especially some excellent players, after their debut in the Portuguese Super League, especially in the Champions League, they have shown good strength, and they are more popular with the four major league teams, so their value has naturally risen.

I have to say that this is a very smart player transfer channel.

Mendes, players, clubs and the teams of the four major leagues all got what they wanted in this chain.

Now, this chain of players has played a role. Benfica and Porto have reached the semi-finals of the Europa League, Braga has also entered the quarterfinals, and the Portuguese Super League team has risen strongly in the second-tier European leagues.

Among them, Benfica is the most outrageous.

This team is heavily in debt. It lacks money and people. The willingness to cooperate with Mendes is very strong. At the most outrageous time, Benfica even had only one Portuguese in the starting lineup of Benfica, and everything else was. Foreign aid from South America.

As early as when Mendes laid out, Su Dong already knew his plan and was very optimistic about the prospects, but he did not participate in it, but chose to stay out of the matter.

The ownership of players is indeed very profitable.

Not to mention others, just say that David Luiz moved to Manchester City. Mendes earned millions of euros from it. This is not a commission from the agent, but purely a profit from the player's ownership.

However, the world football has different attitudes towards third-party ownership of players. The Portuguese Super League recognizes it, but other leagues do not. Others are ambiguous and close one eye.

It is undeniable that this method of operation is prone to problems.

Su Dong cherishes his feathers. He has strong commercial value and bears the image of many world brands. Therefore, he is unwilling to participate in it. damage.

Now he doesn't need to worry about money at all.

The lifetime contract with the American sports brand is still under discussion. Su Dong’s offer is an unprecedented high price, let alone world football. Even in the sports world, there has never been such an astonishingly high price. The other party is still hesitating.

However, the sports brands from Germany are gearing up, just waiting for Su Dong to talk to the American brands, they will take the opportunity to enter.

With this contract alone, Su Dong would have nothing to worry about for the rest of his life.

Not to mention in the country, Su Dong's parents also left a large number of houses for him.

Up to now, Su Dong doesn’t know how many houses he has, only that Wang Chuqing has established a company to lease these houses. According to Wang Chuqing, some of the houses bought by Su Dong’s parents have been turned over. Several times, this makes Su Dong have to admire the investment vision of his parents.

In their terms, in the future, Su and Dong could spend a lifetime solely by collecting rent.

In this case, how could Su Dong bet on his own image for the part of the profits Mendes promised?

What's more, the operational risk of third-party ownership of players is also great.

It's like Benfica's Paraguayan forward Oscar Cardoso.

The 27-year-old forward performed very well last season. Benfica played forty-seven times and scored 38 goals. He was praised by the Portuguese media as the player with the strongest scoring ability in the Portuguese Super League after the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. , The limelight is no different for a while.

It can be said that, apart from being a little older, Cardoso has nothing wrong with it. It has also attracted the interest and attention of Naples, Genoa, and even Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus.

It was precisely because of this that Benfica made the decision to raise 9 million euros and buy 80% of Cardoso's ownership, which was also a very cost-effective deal at the time.

Mendes wanted to take the opportunity to cash out part of the proceeds, and Benfica's abacus also played very well, that is, let Cardoso score crazy goals for another season, cash in high positions, then can make a lot of money.

But who would have thought that not long after the start of the new season, Cardoso suffered a serious injury. So far after his comeback, Benfica has played 33 times and scored 18 goals. This report card is not bad, but There was a significant decline last season.

The age, injuries, and performance have also declined. Everyone knows that it is difficult for Cardoso to return to the top.

It is estimated that this deal still has to be rotten in his hands.

Mendes didn't care, after all, he had cashed out at a high position before, and he was lucky enough to get out, but it would be troublesome to pick up Pan Xia Benfica.

In addition to Cardoso, Benfica also introduced winger Gatan from Boca Juniors at a high price for nearly 10 million yuan. This is obviously a gamble, and this player has not shown an amazing performance so far. Not the height of Di Maria back then.

Not to mention making money, whether it will be able to pay back, this is all suspense.

On the one hand, it is his own image; on the other hand, it is too risky, so Su Dong never planned to participate.

When you have money, you take it back to your country to buy a house for your parents. Isn't it fragrant?

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Three days after playing Blackburn, Manchester City went south again, expedition to Portugal, and challenged Benfica away.

Continuous multi-line combat, coupled with the long journey south, Manchester City's state is not ideal.

Su Dong started the game and opened the scoring for Manchester City in the first half.

But in the second half, Jadel first equalized Benfica, and then Manchester City scored again with a header from Gareth Barry, once again exceeding the score.

But in the 59th minute, Cardoso scored a direct free kick and Benfica equalized again.

In the end, the two teams shook hands two to two ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Manchester City finally took away two away goals.

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In another game at the same time as Manchester City's game against Benfica, Porto played against Villarreal at home.

What surprised everyone was that with Falcao’s big four, Porto beat the Yellow Submarine 5-1 at home, and the Portuguese Super Champions played an incredible victory at their home court. .

The yellow submarine has recently focused on the competition for the top four in the league. Everyone knows this, and even some people have long believed that Villarreal is likely to abandon the Europa League, but even so, no one thought that Porto Even in the first round, he beat Villarreal 5 to 1 at home.

After the end of this peak showdown, the Portuguese media gave Porto crazy praise.

With four goals, Falcao once again proved his super scoring ability, so that Su Dong, who also participated in the Europa League semi-finals, could not help but eclipse.

The Portuguese media even said, "The era of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is coming to an end!"

"European football will usher in the era of Falcao!"

Porto's head coach Boas, who is only 33 years old, also became famous this season.

As Mourinho's right-hand man in the past, he coached Porto after flying solo. He has won the championship in domestic leagues and cups this season, and now he is short of the Europa League.

As long as they win this championship, Porto under Boas is a veritable triple crown.

Although it is only the UEFA Europa League, this is a rare achievement in the current situation of European football.

Even, to some extent, it can be said that it surpasses the Porto under Mourinho's leadership.

Of course, the premise is that Porto can win the championship.