I build a giant in the Premier League

Chapter 56: Income Soars
Last Christmas, the Chinese in Bayswater did not have the ability or financial resources to hold an event.

This resulted in a very quiet Christmas.

This year is different.

After playing the 17th round of the Championship on the 24th, the team conducted recovery training the next morning. In the afternoon, Yang Cheng led the team to the club's new training base.

On the one hand, we will lead the players to visit the future training base, including design planning.

Yang Cheng emphasized the land on the north bank of Brent Reservoir, which will be used to build a first-team training ground and players' dormitories.

At present, the first phase of the training base is the training ground and training building for the youth team.

The players have heard a lot about this new training base, but it is the first time for most of them to see it.

This also shows the determination of the Chinese in Bayswater to operate in the long term.

If you just want to do short-term trading, there is no need to invest in heavy assets such as training bases.

Take out this money and invest it in the first team, and it will soon produce results.

But Yang Cheng is doing this now, clearly to make the players and everyone believe that the management really wants to run the club well.

After the visit, Yang Cheng took the players to the Jubilee Park Stadium to participate in a Christmas event jointly organized by the club and several surrounding kindergartens and primary schools.

This is also the first time in the history of Chinese people in Bayswater.

The main content of the event still revolves around football, and the club has carefully prepared a gift for all the children who come.

It’s a way for the club to integrate itself into the surrounding community.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, in the next few years, the area around Brent and Wembley would be a gathering place for population outflow from the core area of ​​London.

Lin Zhongqiu felt a little bit sorry for the money, but Yang Cheng planned to stick with it for a long time.

Regarding youth training, Yang Cheng also met with Dan Ashworth and others to learn about the situation.

Yang Cheng said that the club's determination to invest in youth training in the long term will not change.

“I am doing youth training with the determination that I won’t see results in five years or even 10 years!”

Just like training bases, youth training is also a business where you spend money but don’t see any results.

But this is also a move by the club to show its determination.

He has to appease everyone in the club.

As for youth training, you can take a look at Manchester City, which is run by the Abu Dhabi consortium.

Manchester City continuously invested in youth training in the early stages, and later, after the youth training produced results, the youth training players alone could be sold for a large sum of money every year. In a country like the UK where household registration books are extremely scarce, it is really good to engage in youth training.

Of course, as for making money, that is basically impossible.

……

After participating in the community activities, Yang Cheng led the team back to the city center.

Last year, the club had no money, so there were no Christmas events.

But this year is different. The team is in a very good situation and the income is also very good, so Yang Cheng naturally will not be stingy.

Long before Christmas, Yang Cheng registered every player of the first-team and arranged for their families to come to London to spend Christmas with them.

Hotels are all arranged at the nearby Royal Lancaster Hotel.

This hotel is familiar with the club and close to it, and most importantly, it offers a very low discount.

During the week around Christmas, the club will cover all round-trip airfare and hotel accommodation for the players' families.

Although the first team only has 21 players, and most of them are from their own country or neighboring countries, travel expenses are not expensive.

But this is still unique among the 24 Championship teams this season.

Since this was the first time and there was a shortage of staff, many things could not be done perfectly, but the club has shown enough sincerity.

At the very least, the players and their families can understand it.

At the Christmas dinner, everyone gathered together and Yang Cheng also announced several important decisions.

The team will add a League Cup winning bonus, which will significantly increase the club's promotion bonus.

This earned Yang Cheng warm cheers from everyone present.

It is very rare for a Championship team to reach the League Cup semi-finals.

Yang Cheng’s courage to call for winning the championship also revealed the club’s ambition.

In addition, Yang Cheng also announced that the club has signed a vehicle ordering contract with MAN, Germany's top bus manufacturer, to purchase two of the latest MAN [Lion Coach] luxury buses.

The Lion Coach is MAN's top model. The second generation was launched in 03. It won the Red Dot Design Award and the IF Design Award and is a best-seller all over the world.

Yang Cheng said that the two luxury buses purchased by the club and Mann were all carefully customized, and the price of each bus was as high as 35 pounds, or 50 euros.

Even in a luxury bus, this is considered a sky-high price.

One of the important reasons why it is so expensive is that the bus is not only fully equipped with various comfortable configurations, not to mention refrigerators, but also has a small kitchen and a small bar.

The team can even cook and eat in the car on the way to an away game.

At that time, in addition to the driver, there will also be special chefs and service staff accompanying the team.

A total of £70 was invested in the two cars, but this was just the initial stage.

The salaries of drivers, chefs, waiters, etc. are the long-term expenses.

But Yang Cheng felt it was very necessary.

The first-team players also cheered and praised the club's decision.

At present, there is no need for Chinese people in Bayswater to go abroad for competitions. If there is, they will definitely take a plane.

In the UK, starting from London, the northernmost point is Leeds, which is about 300 kilometers away. If you go to Newcastle further north, it is about 450 kilometers away.

Generally, teams travel by bus.

Even if the distance is far and the team has to take the train, buses will be arranged in advance to pick up the team at the away stadium.

So this requires two buses.

Of course, there are also some wealthier teams that choose to use private jets to travel to away games in order to ensure good results.

But generally this situation is less common.

Therefore, the bus is really very important to a team.

The buses used by the Chinese in Bayswater were previously rented and were poorly equipped.

After Yang Cheng took over, he paid a little more money and rented a better one.

But no matter what, it is not as comfortable as having the club tailor-made one.

Players will also be more adaptable to the drivers and waiters they hire themselves, and there will be fewer unexpected problems.

In this area, Yang Cheng is still willing to invest.

In addition, there are some other related investments to improve the team's hardware and software facilities.

The players on the scene also gave very positive feedback.

This made Yang Cheng very satisfied.

……

Returning to his seat, Yang Cheng sat down between Lin Zhongqiu and Xia Qing, whom he had specially invited.

"How's it going? When can you come and help me?"

Yang Chengyi sat down and asked.

Xia Qing smiled brightly, "Let me think about it again."

"Why would you even consider that? There's no future in being a financial migrant worker in a place like that."

Yang Cheng has been calling her a lot to harass her over the past period of time. Er, no, he's trying to poach her.

"Look at us. We're only halfway through the season and our revenue has skyrocketed." Yang Cheng promoted himself with some pride.

Of course Xia Qing knew this, she had even looked at the club's accounts.

The growth rate of match-day revenue is indeed very fast.

This is also due to London's population base and the number of fans.

As of now, Bayswater Chinese have played 12 home games in the league, with an average attendance of nearly 1. After deducting other costs and expenses, the match day income has earned more than 2 million pounds.

This does not include the two League Cup games against Southampton and Portsmouth, both of which were home games and were all sold out.

Although the ticket prices for these two games were lower than those for the league, the combined profit was almost £1 million.

In other words, the home revenue alone exceeded six million.

Therefore, Yang Cheng can not only organize Christmas activities, but also invite the players' families to visit London for a week, and purchase two luxury buses, all thanks to the substantial increase in revenue.

Of course, if compared with Premier League teams, it is still too insignificant.

"Listen to me, go back and write your resignation letter and hand it in." Yang Cheng urged.

Xia Qing smiled and shook her head, "Don't be ridiculous. If you really want to resign, you have to go through the process. It won't be that quick."

"Well, as you said, it's okay to follow the process. I'll wait for you!" Yang Cheng took advantage of the situation.

Xia Qing giggled again. Isn't this a rogue behavior?

Lin Zhongqiu on the side looked at Yang Cheng with resentment, then looked at Xia Qing and drank a glass of wine.

When you have a new love, you forget the old one.

So, I am just a bucket of poured water, right?

But he also had to admit that Xia Qing was indeed better than him.

Yang Cheng had already discussed this issue with Xia Qing when he invited him.

As soon as Xia Qing took office, he returned to China and worked in Yang Jianguo's real estate company.

By the way, Yang Cheng’s cheap dad is becoming more and more powerful in the country.

After Liu Xiang won the Olympic championship, he became an instant hit in the domestic market and sales skyrocketed.

It is said that during this period, the company's phone was almost blown up by dealers scrambling to join.

There is also real estate, which is said to be booming.

Yang Cheng was happy to see it happen.

He doesn't care as long as they don't come to Britain to cause trouble for him or hold him back.

……

After chatting with Xia Qing for a while and comforting the injured Lin Zhongqiu, Yang Cheng walked over and started chatting with Brian Kidd and other coaching staff, mainly about team matters.

"I think that our current coaching staff needs to be expanded. The most important thing right now is a coach who is good at improving players' skills."

Yang Cheng and Brian Kidd were talking on the side.

"Piszczek needs special training on defensive skills," Yang Cheng added.

Brian Kidd knew that Yang Cheng decided to make use of this Polish player.

After the match against Portsmouth, Yang Cheng suggested that Piszczek switch to right back.

The players reluctantly accepted it for the sake of playing time.

He played as right back in two of the last four games, and played the entire game.

The performance was very good, better than Kevin Fury, mainly in terms of offense.

But problems were also exposed, that is, the sense of position was not strong when defending and the defensive skills were insufficient.

After all, he started out as a winger and a forward.

"The next game against Manchester United, think about it, Giggs on the left and Cristiano Ronaldo on the right, what should we do?"

When Ferguson was mentioned, Brian Kidd's expression became more serious.

"Capaldi on the left is our weakness. His lack of ability is obviously exposed. I'm afraid he can't stop Cristiano Ronaldo. We can only use Danny Collins at that time." Brian Kidd suggested.

"That's right. Collins on the left doesn't have much offensive ability. What about the right? If Piszczek can't stop him, we will definitely suffer a lot."

Yang Cheng sighed again when he said this.

"Let's not talk about Manchester United, just talk about the league. Now most teams are good at playing on the wing. We must pay more defensive attention to Capaldi's side, so there can be no problems on the right side."

Capaldi's ability is indeed no longer enough to play a leading role in the Bayswater Chinese.

But there's no way, his offensive ability is still pretty good.

At this moment, Yang Cheng couldn't find a suitable candidate to fill his position.

Especially during the winter break.

So, for the time being, Capaldi needs to keep going.

This can only be supplemented at the tactical level.

Then Piszczek's position is very crucial.

Yang Cheng also had high hopes for the Poles.

"Now that you mention it, I think of someone," said Brian Kidd.

"Who?"

"Danny McGrane, Celtic's legendary captain, is capable of playing at right back and can also play as a left back."

After a pause, Brian Kidd added: "He is 54 years old this year. After retiring in 1988, he began to study coaching courses. He coached for a while from 92 to 94, but was unsuccessful. In mid-94, he went to the Celtics' youth training camp to coach until now."

"I have some friendship with him, maybe I can convince him to come over."

Yang Cheng didn't comment, "Do you think it's appropriate?"

"He was originally a right-back and is very good at developing players' skills. I think I can give it a try."

"Okay, I believe in your vision!" Yang Cheng smiled and made the decision on the spot.

Because he really didn't have any good candidates.

He asked Steve Round at Middlesbrough but was turned down.

With Brian Kidd's vision, Yang Cheng believed that Danny McGrane should not be bad.

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