Among the many small and medium-sized clubs in La Liga, there is one exception - Athletic Bilbao. For those clubs that make losses every year, Bilbao is a name that cannot be mentioned, it sounds so annoying!

Bilbao has sold stars and main players in the past few years and made more than 100 million euros. However, due to traditional restrictions, it cannot buy people to find a balance, so it has become the most terrifying club for La Liga profits.

The club was married to local chaebols at the beginning of its establishment and achieved financial freedom a hundred years ago.

The stadium and training ground are all their own. Every year, a large amount of money is invested in hardware facilities and youth training. The broadcasting is related to the stadium seating? That's great, our stadium is always full, isn't it just money... As long as Spain is not caught by a nuclear bomb, this thing has never been missing. This is the advantage of the classical membership club in the global business circles, and the wool comes from the sheep!

Compared with these leagues that have experienced countless turbulent situations, the Bundesliga is recognized as the healthiest league in Europe and even the world.

In the first half of each year, all teams qualified to participate in the Bundesliga next season, including potentially upgraded Bundesliga teams, will report the club's detailed financial figures to the German Football Professional League (DFL). Clubs that cannot pass the review will not be eligible for next season's competition.

In history, there have been veteran teams such as Red and White Essen and Aachen, which have been reduced to the amateur league due to financial problems.

The Germans are known for their careful calculations. The goal of most Bundesliga small and medium-sized teams is not to develop immediately, but to focus on the medium and long-term, and strictly implement a strategy of living within their means for the long-term stability of the club.

Small teams like Mainz and Freiburg, every summer, sell well-known players whose value is nearly saturated and difficult to retain. After recovering, they will divide the score into several parts to equalize the risks, strengthen the lineup shortcomings, or introduce potential stocks to cultivate them in order to sell at a good price in the future, thus forming a virtuous cycle.

Of course, small teams will not invest all their income in strengthening the lineup, because no matter whether they buy or sell, they will generate a commission, and it has been a significant upward trend in recent years, and the actual income of the club will be discounted;

On the other hand, income will be used for matters such as repairing, expanding the stadium, improving training bases and other infrastructure.

In short, the way of running a small German team will find a balance between current goals and long-term vision, and even focus more on the latter.

Mainz is the best example. Every summer, one core sells one core, and only one, and it’s not enough to have more. Of course, the one sold has to exchange for at least 20 to 30 million euros, and then it has to replenish new players, spending about 8 million euros.

Then we will make up for the shortcomings of last season, such as the back position, which will cost almost 8-10 million euros.

If appropriate, you can also stock up on some young monsters from other countries. The amount of stock up depends on how much the core sells. Only after the targeted reinforcement is over will the little monsters be stocked up, otherwise it will be fine.

In this way, Mainz completed the classic one-swap multiples, and many new players were young and were all young. They were trained in the team for a few years. Once they were trained as core playing styles, they would sell tens of millions. This model has been repeated over and over, ensuring Mainz’s permanent survivability.

Almost every summer, Mainz, the Bundesliga small and medium-sized team representative, is doing the same. What is the effect? ​​This Rhine Hesse small club, who has been out of the two famous coaches Klopp and Tuchel, has been playing in the Bundesliga for ten consecutive years. For Mainz, this number is definitely worthy of pride.

This year, the next door neighbor Ligue 1 has a slogan: La ligue deserts, which is literally translated as "a league of geniuses".

The implication is that geniuses are produced here, but there are no stars. All the stars are snatched by the fathers of the Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga.

Ligue 1 has always been an output-type league, relying on its own strong youth training system to train stars for other leagues to seek balance. Of course, except for the rich Paris Saint-Germain, other Ligue 1 teams cannot escape this mode, but the gameplay is big and small.

For example, Lyon, Monaco, and Lille, which rank 2 to 4 in budgets, are all ways to buy and sell high. Monaco is the number one in Europe and has long replaced Porto's black store status and is well-known.

Lyon is also a traditional "black store", with peak records. It is common to sell 150 million euros in a summer. This item alone is enough to ensure the budget for the new season. Their budget is only 120 million euros. In the future, with TV broadcasts and Champions League dividends, they will make a profit.

However, this method also contains huge risks. Monaco almost relegated. Lyon fell into a trough for a long time after the collapse of the seven-champion rule. Lille was also on the verge of relegation this year.

But in comparison, mid- and downstream Ligue 1 teams face greater risks in their business model of selling players to cash out.

Caen and Gugan are the best examples. They sold all the main players of the team, and made quick money, but at the end of the season, both teams were relegated to the same goal.

Selling at low and selling at high is the operating model that Ligue 1 small and medium-sized football clubs should master. Just like Mainz, at least one top player will be sold every season to subsidize the budget, and then rely on a strong scouting system to find a suitable stand-in to maintain combat effectiveness.

The survival model formed by the players' sale of additional TV broadcast rights has made the Ligue 1 champions live a good life. Among the 20 teams, at least 15 remain profitable, and several teams that lose money are also poorly managed due to accidents, not caused by their own operational mistakes.

However, the life of Ligue 1's knife-headed licking honey in the next few years is expected to change. In 2020, the Ligue 1 and mediapro TV broadcasting contract will take effect, with the broadcasting fee reaching 1.153 billion euros per year, an increase of 60% over the existing contract (726.5 million yuan per year). According to the existing budget standards, the TV broadcasting rights alone are enough to subsidize the season budget of most Ligue 1 teams.

The original Serie A small World Cup has gradually become lonely, but they are now implementing collective sales for broadcasts. Although they are not as popular as the Premier League, there are still tens of millions of dollars.

Those who have gone bankrupt in recent years are all low-level league teams. After all, their income in Serie A is still stable, and few Serie A teams will not make ends meet.

Moreover, the salary of small teams is very low, so there is generally no pressure. In addition, small teams basically rely on thighs to survive, and most of the promoted teams are on loan (there was a shared system in the past few years), and the expenses are not very high.

The most important thing is to create a star, such as Cagliari and Barrera, although it is not like the star factories Udinese and Atlanta, and it is enough to live a daily life.

Sassuolo is also a good example. The boss Squizzi uses his own construction company to sponsor the club, which is 15 million a year, and then builds and maintains the named municipal government stadium. The team's real expenditure is not high, but the profit is quite good.
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