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Chapter 1032 Spiritual Leader
Entering July, the transfer market is in full swing, and the La Liga schedule is also freshly released.

The first opener of the new season is between newly promoted Celta Vigo against Malaga.

Celta Vigo can also be regarded as a traditional strong team in La Liga. During the time of the handover of the century, it even stood in a position similar to the current teams such as Valencia and Sevilla.

In season [-], Celta Vigo even made it to the top [-] of the UEFA Champions League, but lost to Arsenal. They performed well in Europe, but were relegated in La Liga. Although they were promoted again after one season, they were relegated after only two seasons in La Liga this time.

Five years later, Celta Vigo rushed back to La Liga, and participated in the opening game of La Liga with Malaga, a local tycoon known as Manchester City in La Liga. This is also a highlight for experienced La Liga fans.

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Real Madrid's schedule at the start of the season is under pressure.

The first round of the league will be on August [-]th, and they will face their old enemy Valencia. This will be a difficult game. Although Real Madrid is playing at home, they must also fully consider the difficulty of the first game of the league.

However, if you look at the club's historical performance, the draw between Real Madrid and Valencia is very auspicious. The two sides have met in the first round of the league nine times in total. Among them, Real Madrid won the championship in seven seasons, and Valencia won the championship in the remaining two seasons. There is always a team that can win the championship in that season.

In the [-]-[-] season, the two sides met in the first round. Mendieta scored a penalty kick to help Valencia take the lead, but Raúl and Figo successively scored goals to help Real Madrid reverse, and Real Madrid won the championship this season. A year later, the two sides met again in the first round of the league.

Interestingly, the [-]-[-] season was Florentino's first game after taking over the chairmanship of Real Madrid, while the [-]-[-] season was Benitez's first game in charge of Valencia, and it was also Zidane's first game after joining Real Madrid.

It can be said that both sides are satisfied with the draw of the first round of the league, especially Real Madrid, but they should not be careless.

Real Madrid started this season with a lot of pressure. Two Spanish Super Cup games against Barcelona will be a tough fight, while the UEFA Super Cup will be played against Atletico Madrid. Last season, after Simeone put out a fire midway, he successfully led the Sheets to win the Europa League.

The hard work in the new season is also a big challenge for the newly reorganized Real Madrid.

In addition to the first round, the Century Derby with Barcelona was also greatly advanced.

The first Derby of the Century was scheduled for the seventh round, and the second was scheduled for the sixth round of No.20. This is different from the usual schedule of the end of November and April. After the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is greatly advanced, the impact on the Champions League will be relatively small.

For example, there will no longer be several century derby games in a row like what Real Madrid encountered last season.

Although Real Madrid's new season is under a lot of pressure, the coaching staff did not pass the pressure on to the players. Instead, the opening time of the summer training camp was a week later than before, and the summer training did not start until July [-].

This is mainly due to the fact that there are many international players in the Real Madrid team, especially those participating in the European Cup. They began to participate in the national team training at the end of May and did not finish the European Cup until the beginning of July.

After the training camp, Real Madrid will play two warm-up games in Europe, then fly to the United States for summer training, play four warm-up games, and return to Europe until mid-August. During the warm-up games in the United States, their opponents include strong teams like AC Milan.

In recent years, Real Madrid has traveled to the United States to participate in summer training games, mainly considering commercial interests.

In the latest Forbes wealth list, Real Madrid has become the most valuable club in the world with a market value of 30 billion US dollars, far surpassing other clubs. Manchester United, which ranks second, is only 22 billion US dollars. Below that are the American baseball club New York Yankees and rugby club Dallas Cowboys, both of which are [-] billion US dollars.

The soaring commercial value and the substantial increase in financial revenue all prove that Real Madrid is the richest club in world football today. However, in the transfer market this summer, Real Madrid earned as much as 2000 million from the sale, but only spent 700 million euros on the buyer, earning a total of 300 million euros. This is another astonishing sum of money.

In this regard, Real Madrid officially gave a plan early, saying that the team will start the stadium renovation this year.

According to the transformation plan provided by Real Madrid, the corner passage of the Bernabéu stadium will be removed, and the original commercial corner will also be transformed. Real Madrid will build a luxury hotel and shopping center inside the stadium, which will bring Real Madrid a steady stream of financial revenue in the future.

In order to renovate the new stadium, Real Madrid proposed to exchange part of the land with the Madrid city government to renovate the Castilla Avenue opposite the Bernabéu Stadium. This plan has been approved by the Madrid Higher Judicial Court. In addition, many banks have promised to give Real Madrid long-term low-interest loans.

In the past few years, the European economy has been sluggish and the European debt crisis has erupted. Spain’s domestic economy has also borne the brunt. Most banks have begun to tighten their monetary policy and dare not lend money easily. This has instead led to membership-based clubs like Real Madrid becoming their favorite high-quality customers. In addition, Real Madrid’s net income from the transfer market this summer has exceeded 7000 million, and they have abundant cash flow.

With the permission from the government and the loan support from the bank, Florentino was naturally recognized by the members of Real Madrid at the general meeting. After all, taking advantage of the team's three consecutive championships and a substantial increase in financial revenue, it happened to be a godsend opportunity for banks to lend at low interest rates due to the economic depression in Europe, which happened to renovate the Bernabeu Stadium.

It is expected that the stadium renovation project will start at the end of [-] and last for four years, and end in [-]. The use of the Bernabéu Stadium will not be affected during the entire construction period.

Due to the renovation of the new stadium, Real Madrid started to build a new headquarters building at the Valdebebas training base as early as the end of last season. The Spanish construction company RLH won the bid to build an office building with two stacked cuboids relying on the terrain of Valdebebas.

Once the office building is opened, Real Madrid will transfer all the offices and administrative staff of the Bernabéu Stadium to Valdebebas, and then transform the interior of the Bernabeu Stadium, which is very expensive, for commercial operations such as luxury hotels and shopping centers.

Because of this, when Real Madrid players returned to Madrid one after another in the new season and came to Valdebebas to report, everyone found that the area near the main road to the north of the training base was under intensive construction.

In just over a month, the basement has been built, and the tall tower crane can be seen from a distance.

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Yang Yang returned to Madrid from Greece the day before the summer training camp.

In the past period of time, he took his wife and children from Australia to Greece to play. He originally planned to go to Northern Europe, but Yang Yang was worried about the new season and finally returned to Madrid ahead of schedule.

During this period of time, he was immersed in the gentleness, and he got enough rest physically and mentally, and even got a little bit blessed. Yang Yang was very helpless about this, which just confirmed the saying that a broad heart makes a fat body.

When he came to Valdebebas, Yang Yang drove around the construction site, and then entered the training area of ​​the first team through the gate.

After parking in the parking lot, as soon as he got off, he saw someone smiling and looking at him, and when he looked up, it was Raul.

"Hey, Raul, why are you here?" Yang Yang was very surprised.

Raul walked forward with a smile, hugged Yang Yang, and congratulated him on his new marriage, and Yang Yang also thanked him.

When he got married before, he originally considered inviting Raul, Ronaldo and others, but because he really didn't have any close friends, and they are not Real Madrid players now, Yang Yang didn't want to bother them.

If he was still an ordinary player before, then Yang Yang would definitely invite him, because Ronaldo is his idol, but now Yang Yang no longer needs it, and if he invited Ronaldo, Raul and others, the scope of the banquet would be too large.

"How is it?" Yang Yang asked with concern.

"I heard that you are opening camp today, and I happened to be in Madrid, so I came over to have a look." Raul said with a smile, he seemed to be in a good mood.

After playing for Schalke [-] in the Bundesliga for two years, Raul moved to Al Sadd in Qatar this summer. The main reason is that the salary is high and it is relatively easy. It is the best place for retirement.

Many fans outside are still complaining about Raul, but they don't know that he is actually living a good life. On the contrary, if he stays in Real Madrid, he may have to live on the bench. He can neither play games nor receive such a high salary.

After the two met, they walked towards the training building of the first team in a polite way.

"I heard that you didn't return to the team until the end of July, why did you come so early?" Raul asked strangely.

Yang Yang shrugged helplessly, "I'm tired of playing outside, so I want to come back quickly, and there are new teammates joining, I must come and see."

Yang Yang spoke casually, but Raul listened carefully.

Eden Hazard spent 4000 million euros for Real Madrid. This money is not high or low in the transfer market this summer, but the influence is not that great.

According to the usual practice, Real Madrid will definitely hold a press conference and home appearance ceremony for him. Considering the current popularity of the Belgian, he will definitely not attract many fans to the scene. With Casillas and Ramos, the two captains and vice-captains, both going out for vacation because of participating in the European Cup final, Yang Yang chose to return early, which is undoubtedly the greatest support for Hazard.

From this point, Raul can also clearly see the maturity of Yang Yang.

For example, he was the first to send a welcome to Hazard on Twitter, and now he returns to the team ahead of schedule to participate in Hazard's joining ceremony. These are enough to prove that Yang Yang is already the spiritual leader in the Real Madrid dressing room.

And he did a great job.

In this regard, Raul is very pleased and relieved.

(End of this chapter)