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843 Leading to the Champions League final

Since Real Madrid entered the Calderon era, there are three main reasons for the decline in club profit and income.

One is the decline in commercial revenue.

Despite Qin Xiong's gold-lettered signboard, compared with the superstars gathered in the Florentino era, the attraction of Figo, Zidane, Beckham and other superstars, Real Madrid's comprehensive commercial influence has a downward trend. The decline will naturally bring about a decrease in income.

The second is that Calderon's business development ability in charge of the club has declined.

This is a question of the ability of the club management team.

The decline in this ability is comprehensive. Compared with the Florentino era, there are almost no superstars that cannot be bought. Calderon wants to buy a Kaka. Can't get this great deal either.

In terms of business operation and development, Calderon was only Florentino's assistant back then, so naturally he could not be compared with Florentino's team.

The third is the increase in club expenses.

Don’t look at Real Madrid’s two summers of operation, leaving away big-name stars such as Zidane, Beckham, and Carlos who received high salaries at the club, but Calderon’s spending on signings is very huge. Over two years spent over [-] million euros in the summer, not including the expense of bringing in the three great players from South America last winter, which was also expensive.

Coupled with the increase in expenditure costs in the overall environment of the football industry and the increase in player wages, this part of the normal expenditure has put a huge burden and pressure on the club's revenue and expenditure.

Another part of the abnormal expenditure is Calderon's accusation of being criticized by the media.

Calderon's team, including his relatives and friends, paid for many expenses in the name of the Real Madrid Club, that is, "public funds for private use"!

Perhaps the single cost of this part of the expenditure is not high, but the overall expenditure accumulated over a long period of time is still relatively large.

In this context, Real Madrid began to take the road of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure under the leadership of Calderon.

This is very different from the Real Madrid style of the Galacticos era.

Florentino believes in: spend a lot of money to do big things, big investment can have big output.

Calderon is clearly more incompetent in this regard.He can only reduce expenses and control the financial balance, but cannot bring Real Madrid more income channels in terms of income.

Because of this, Freddie wants Qin Xiong to become the highest-paid player in Real Madrid, and Calderon will frown. He doesn't think that Qin Xiong should not receive such treatment. After all, the introduction of Qin Xiong is Calderon's achievement A brilliant stroke of rich ink and heavy color.

But Calderon will have a headache.Unable to make a decision immediately, he has to deal with Freddy as much as possible without hurting the peace, and lower Qin Xiong's contract renewal conditions. Calderon still roughly understands the inside story of Qin Xiong's departure from Arsenal.

He doesn't want to consume mutual trust with Qin Xiong in the protracted negotiations.

It's just that he needs to see if Real Madrid can give Qin Xiong more spending, especially in the background that Real Madrid still needs to invest in the transfer market in the summer.

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April 4.The last game of the 27th round of La Liga was played at the Bernabéu.

Real Madrid sits at home against the Basque Lions Athletic Bilbao in the middle of the league.

Bosque sent a large number of substitutes for the game, and Real Madrid's main lineup will have to recharge their batteries and wait for the second leg of the Champions League semi-final four days later.

Perhaps it has already won the league championship in advance, and Real Madrid's substitute lineup was too relaxed in the game.

Athletic Bilbao took the game very seriously. At one time, they turned away at the Bernabeu. Bosque rarely lost his temper during the halftime break, angrily denouncing the performance of the substitute players.

His lectures gave Real Madrid a new look in the second half, after a grueling 90 minutes of fighting.Real Madrid drew with Athletic Bilbao at home.

2:2

This draw seems to be waking up the substitute players, letting them understand the gap between them and the main lineup, and it is not that they can easily defeat their opponents.

Real Madrid's main players didn't have much thought, and the league title has already fallen into their pockets.The only thing they think about now is the Champions League front.

Two days later, Liverpool arrived in Madrid.

European media unanimously pessimistically believe that Liverpool will be beaten to pieces by Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.

The fans of Real Madrid prepared well before the game and enthusiastically prepared a lot of cheering slogans. The fan organizations also agreed to create huge home pressure for Liverpool during the game and escort the team to the Champions League final this season.

On the evening of April 4th, the Bernabéu was full of seats and the noise shook the sky.

The Real Madrid generals stood in the player channel full of energy and waited for the start of the game.

Liverpool was late with a dignified look.

It seems that Benitez had a lot of content in his pre-war speeches, and he arranged a lot of content for the players.After all, Benitez is not like an inspirational coach who will give an impassioned speech.

When the players of the two teams walked into the Bernabéu stadium, the stadium reverberated with the cheers of the Real Madrid fans!

"Forward! Madrid!"

The Real Madrid players stood in the stadium for the kick-off ceremony with obvious confidence and temperament over their opponents.

"Welcome to the Bernabéu Stadium. The second leg of the 2007-2008 UEFA Champions League semi-final will be staged here. Real Madrid beat Liverpool 4:3 away in the first leg and came to the Bernabeu in the second leg. Liverpool can be described as a last stand, if they can Defeat Real Madrid and advance to the final, then they will complete what the media said: an impossible task!

Whether it can reach the Champions League final three times in four years depends on what kind of performance Liverpool will show today.

Real Madrid is obviously better than Liverpool in terms of lineup, state, and schedule pressure team physical fitness.

They secured the league title early and also won the Copa del Rey, and they turned all their focus to the Champions League.

Last weekend's league, when Liverpool dispatched most of the main force in Birmingham but failed to win the game, Real Madrid's starting players today got a rest by sitting on the sidelines.

Today has the advantage of the home court, and it is not unreasonable for Real Madrid to be favored by all parties.

Let's take a look at today's starting list.

Real Madrid starting 442.

Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas.

Defenders: Ramos, Pepe, Cannavaro, Heinze.

Midfield: Robben, Diarra, Guti, Sneijder.

Forwards: Qin Xiong, Raul.

Liverpool starting 4231.

Goalkeeper: Reina.

Defenders: Arbeloa, Carragher, Hyypia, Riise.

Midfield: Dirk, Alonso, Gerrard, Mascherano, Benayoun.

Forward: Torres.

The game is about to start, and Real Madrid will kick off first! "(To be continued~^~)