Chapter 17: New Life on the Ruins

Everyone who understands Lazio's history of suffering in the past few years will inevitably have heartfelt feelings when facing the cheering Lazio players.

This is the performance of the dawn after a long dark night.

Since 2002, Lazio has been in an economic crisis, facing the threat of relegation or bankruptcy every day.

In order to save the club, the Lazio club had to accept the fraud of the collusion of Milan and Juventus, the holy alliance, and sold their captain, the flag of Lazio, and the king of Rome, Nesta.

For the Lazio fans, it was an eternal pain and a disgrace to all of them.

But even if they put down their self-esteem and sold their captain, they still couldn't save the club.

The club is still sinking in misery.

Until they reached their peak in 2004, if it weren't for Lotito's 21 million euros, they wouldn't even be able to participate in the first division, they could only play in the second division... It's not that Lazio has never been relegated in history. But for Lazio, which has won the league championship for less than ten years, relegation is really a long-standing term...

From 2002 to 2008, for seven years, Lazio did not have the same nightmare. The nightmare is that Lazio may go bankrupt, disappear, and be relegated to the third division.

If the debt crisis is not resolved, Lazio will never become a real giant. Because no wealthy family is threatened with bankruptcy.

Now, Lazio finally solves the debt problem.

The long night is about to pass, and they wake up from the nightmare.

Lazio is about to accept her new life!

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Lotito didn't disturb the cheering of the fans in the stands. He waited for them to express their inner emotions and the sound of the scene was slightly quieter before continuing.

"The second thing..." He handed the microphone to Chang Sheng. Indicating that the second thing is related to Changsheng.

Chang Sheng took the microphone, thank you Chairman in advance.

Then he raised his head and looked at the fans in the stands.

"Second thing, guys, I have a piece of news for you..." Then he waved to the tunnel entrance.

Everyone's eyes turned there.

I saw someone running out of it.

The first person to come out is the first pick this summer, Motta.

The Brazilian midfielder takes the lead, and the players who file out behind are all players transferred this summer.

Cavani from Naples, Coentrao and Azpilicueta from Getafe, Bonucci from Inter Milan, Mirant from Juventus, and Gotze, Giroud, Candreva.

But after those guys came out, the tunnel didn't stop spitting players onto the field.

Next up is David Silva. It's Modric, it's Francisco Pavon...

It's the players who are already on the team!

Everyone who saw this scene opened their mouths in surprise.

They couldn't figure it out... Logically speaking, the second thing should be the meeting of the new players, right?

All the new aid came out, but what was it that followed?

Why are old players here?

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In the end, when more than 20 people stood in front of the reporters all the time, all the reporters were shocked!

What's happening here?

Did Lazio buy more than 20 people in one go this summer?

But they also know why they didn't arrange it indoors... Although the news hall is called "the hall". At the beginning, there was really no room for so many people...

Then Chang Sheng stood in front of them with a microphone and said to the stunned reporters: "This is the second thing. I still remember that when the transfer window just opened, it was you who were hyping Lazio's disintegration, right? ?”

Only then did the reporters realize... Chang Sheng wanted to settle accounts after the fall!

"It's you who said that Lazio can't continue its glory, right? I still remember someone using 'ruins' to describe Lazio's future. Now, the 'ruins' are right in front of your eyes."

Some of the reporters rolled their eyes... This longevity is really a vengeance, no matter when you said anything to criticize him, he can remember it accurately... I don't know if his brain is specially used to remember such things .

"Keep your eyes open, ladies and gentlemen. This is the 'ruins' of Lazio. Keep this vision firmly in your eyes and in your minds! Then, now I tell you, prepare to witness Lazio Be careful not to be frightened!"

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"Get ready to witness Lazio's new life!"

"Chang: This is Lazio's freshman!"

"Ruins? No. This is new life!"

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Although Chang Sheng sneered at the Italian media at the press conference.

But the headline still appeared in the media the next day.

The photos all use Chang Sheng standing in front of all the first-team players to introduce new students to them.

The media used the word "new student" many times, not just because Chang Sheng said it.

After they went back, they calculated how much money Lazio made from the transfer market this summer, so that they could pay off all the remaining debts in one summer...

This is not ignorance, it is shocking.

In the end, everyone came up with a very close number - 145 million!

Everyone was shocked by this number.

At first they thought they had miscalculated. For example, miscalculating the transfer fee of a certain player.

So they went back and recalculated, sending out various news reports. He even called the opposing club to verify and confirm the figures he had calculated through various public and private relationships.

This time the number is even scarier than before - 160 million!

Many reporters stopped at this point and dared not continue.

Because they were afraid that they would find out that Lazio had sold their players for 200 million euros!

That would be scary.

Selling players for 160 million is not a terrible thing. The problem is that it is scary to sell 160 million in one summer. Other clubs are accumulative, Lazio is a summer time!

And how much did they spend to buy people?

1.4 million...

So much in, but so little out.

No wonder Lotito has the confidence to say that Lazio will never be in debt.

There are many clubs who can earn a lot of transfer fees in the transfer market, but they can spend more in the blink of an eye...

Pay off the debt. Lazio still has 60 million euros in liquidity...

This is indeed a new life for Lazio.

They don't have to pay off their debts, and the money in their hands can be used for many things. For example, increasing the salary budget, such as rebuilding the youth academy - before Lotito accepted Lazio, in order to repay the debt, the then transitional chairman of the Lazio club simply sold all the youth teams including all echelons, leaving only one 18-year-old team. Underage youth team.

Because Lazio cannot afford the salaries of those echelon players and coaches, and is unwilling to continue to bear the various investments in the youth training camp. The investment in the youth training camp is not only the salary of personnel, but also the maintenance of the venue, the maintenance of training facilities and so on.

So when Lotito took over, Lazio had only three teams: the first team, the reserves and the under-18s.

Now. Maybe Lotito should consider rebuilding Lazio's once brilliant youth academy.

This youth training camp that has gone out of Nesta and Divayo should not just disappear.

In fact, what the media said is correct. At this moment, Lazio is indeed a "ruin". Except for the better results of the first team, they have nothing and nothing to do.

now. They want to rebuild a Lazio on the ruins.

This is indeed a freshman for Lazio...

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While the media were discussing Lazio's new students, inside Lazio, club president Lotito was also discussing Lazio's new students with Chang Sheng.

"We have money now, often, and the team's salary standard has also increased. I think we can build a new stadium of our own!" Lotito said vigorously.

Chang Sheng quickly waved his hand: "Don't worry, Mr. Chairman, don't worry about the new stadium..."

"Why? You know that if we have a new stadium, we can reap more benefits... The damn policy in Italy, the stadium must belong to the city council..." Lotito was very puzzled when he saw Chang Sheng's objection.

It is a good thing that the club has its own stadium. Because of this, the ticket income of each game day can be kept by oneself instead of being handed over to the city council, which is a considerable income. If you manage it well, you can earn tens of millions of dollars every year...

"The stadium needs to be built. Mr. Chairman. But not now. What we should do now is to upgrade and renovate our training facilities and rebuild our echelon. If a team wants to have long-term and sustainable development, it must have youth training You can't always expect me to find bargains in the transfer market, that's not a long-term solution..."

Yes, Chang Sheng's predictive ability will also expire. After 2012, he can basically only rely on coming to find people, which is too hard.

Therefore, the youth training camp must be re-established now.

And correspondingly, there is also the scouting system. In addition, every time the players go to an away game, it is impossible to always stay in a three-star hotel, and take the economy class, right? Lazio cannot always replace a professional sports medicine treatment team with two part-time medical consultants. In addition, considering that Lazio fans are relatively hot, they cannot always reduce security expenditures. Although they have to be exploited by the city council, it is better than causing a tragedy and being suspended in the end...

There are still many things that need to be rebuilt, and all these things cost money. 90 million yuan seems like a lot, but in fact, there is nothing left if you put it in.

So now is really not the best time to build a new stadium.

Lotito frowned.

He had to admit that what Chang Sheng said made sense.

But he is not reconciled.

From a businessman's point of view, renovating the stadium is of great benefit. Not only the stadium, but also the billion-dollar land around the stadium and ancillary commercial development plans...

He had been at war between heaven and man in his heart for a long time, and finally Chang Sheng convinced him.

He nodded: "Okay... just do as you say, Chang." (To be continued)