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Chapter 349 The Nerazzurri in the New Season
There are not many people Shi Hao knows in this blue-black army.The few people who made good friends with him in the youth team had already gone far away, and there was no one left in the main lineup of the Triple Crown. The only one who knew him and had a good relationship with him was the Japanese player Nagatomo Yuto up.Although Ranocchia, Andreoli and Biabiani knew him, they were not familiar with him.

Despite this, Shi Hao, who had finalized his transfer early, integrated into the team at an extremely fast speed.

A player who won the Ballon d'Or title in the gap between Messi and Ronaldo and won the Triple Crown for two consecutive seasons as a core player, who can speak Italian and doesn't put on airs, who doesn't like it?So Shi Hao integrated into the dressing room almost effortlessly, much easier than in Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea.

The fans are also very enthusiastic about Shi Hao's return, and the number of fans watching the team's training has increased dramatically.

Shi Hao wore the No. 10 jersey in the warm-up games at the beginning of the season and performed well, but Inter Milan's overall performance was poor.

However, Shi Hao's joining is equivalent to a living sign, who wouldn't want to fight alongside champion players?
Inter Milan's top scorer Mauro Icardi, who originally shouted to transfer and leave, no longer clamored to leave, and voluntarily lowered his requirements to continue negotiating a contract extension; Joao Mario, a member of the European Cup champion team who was still hesitant about the transfer, started After training in Sporting Lisbon, he was determined to join Inter Milan; Candreva and Ansaldi voluntarily cut their salaries to join.

However, the joining of Shi Hao also consumed a non-European quota. Before that, Inter Milan had already finalized the joining of Turkish left-back Elkin, so the Brazilian double demon Resu who was closely linked with Inter Milan before the transfer market opened Both Si and Barbosa could no longer join.

While recruiting soldiers, Inter Milan, with the contact of Suning Group, placed the summer training camp in China, during which they had to play against several Chinese teams.

When Inter Milan arrived in China on July 7, they were warmly welcomed by the fans at the airport, which was much more popular than any time they had come to China before.

Everyone knows why this is - on the one hand, China's top star came to Inter Milan, on the other hand, after Suning acquired 80% of Inter Milan's shares, the Chinese began to regard this team as a Chinese team.

And Inter Milan also deliberately highlighted the Chinese elements of the team. During the training period in China, Chinese names were printed on the jerseys. The stars frantically practiced Chinese signatures and a few commonly used Chinese greetings.

In the midst of the excitement, Inter Milan embarked on a journey to collect money.Tickets are sold for daily training, and they are as high as 400 yuan a piece; and for several friendly matches with Chinese teams, the lowest-level tickets are sold for 1400 yuan, which is still in short supply.

There are also various business activities, participating in TV shows...

By the time the summer training camp ends and returns to China, Inter Milan has already taken away 2100 million euros from China.Of course, the real money maker is Suning Group, which owns 80% of Inter Milan.

Moreover, during the period in China, Inter Milan also negotiated several sponsorships. Pirelli alone re-signed the contract with Inter Milan, and increased the annual sponsorship fee of 1200 million euros for the chest advertisement to 1800 million euros, surpassing the sponsorship of Juventus. Fiat.And other sponsorships have also been improved accordingly, so that the FFP problem that was originally worried by fans has basically been resolved. UEFA recognized the "Shi Hao" brand's ability to make money and allowed Suning Group to continue to inject capital into Inter Milan. transfer operation.

Inter Milan is not the only team making waves in the transfer market.In this summer transfer window, all the teams are crazy about raising the value of players to one peak after another. It is not uncommon for players to trade for more than 3000 million euros. Pogba's 1.1 million Champions League transfer fee created a billion-dollar era in football, and Higuain's 9000 million transfer to Juventus also made big news.

The most lucrative and most watched league in the world, the Premier League has secured a huge TV deal for the new season, while team revenues have soared.Perhaps it was stimulated by Leicester City's counterattack to win the championship. The transfer of the Premier League this summer can be described as hot and crazy. According to statistics, 20 of the 13 Premier League teams broke the team's signing record.The entire Premier League invested 14.1 billion euros in buying people, setting a new record. Manchester City alone spent 2.15 million euros.

Serie A also showed signs of a strong revival, investing a total of 7.7 million transfer funds, of which Inter Milan and Juventus spent 1.8 million and 1.6 million euros respectively.

After that, the Bundesliga spent a total of 5.4 million euros, and La Liga spent 4.6 million euros.The entire Ligue 1.9 cost only [-] million euros, which is only the same as the cost of a team of Inter Milan, and even less than the cost of Manchester City.

In order to make up for the gap after Shi Hao left, Chelsea also invested 1.5 million euros in buying people, 4000 million euros for Batshuayi, 3700 million euros for Kante...

There is no shortage of ridicule from the Blues fans. "Batshuayi is also worth 4000 million? Wouldn't Shi Hao be worth 2 million? In my opinion, five Batshuayis are not as good as one Shi Hao."

But there is no way, the current football is like this, the transfer value changes every day... So after watching the transfer farce this summer, Neilas have to sigh, Shi Hao's 7000 million transfer fee is really worth it... It was simply picked up for nothing.

And Shi Hao's salary is not high.Although it is the first in the team, it only has a weekly salary of 30 euros before tax. Compared with the other two Golden Globe winners Messi and Ronaldo, I don't know how much cheaper it is.It's not even as good as Oscar, who went to the Chinese Super League. Oscar's weekly salary before tax is 47 euros.

But what they didn't know was that Zhang Jindong compensated Shi Hao from other places. In mid-August, Shi Hao announced that he would become the brand spokesperson of Suning Group, with an annual sponsorship fee equivalent to 8 million euros. This sky-high endorsement contract scared many people's jaws.

The previous highest endorsement contract in football was the endorsement contract signed by Ronaldo and Nike six months ago, with an annual sponsorship fee of 2100 million euros.

Of course, Suning gave Shi Hao such a high endorsement fee. On the one hand, Shi Hao has just won the Golden Globe Award. Hao’s compensation, after all, Real Madrid offered Shi Hao a weekly salary of 45 euros before tax, and various bonuses and appearance fees were also extremely high; moreover, Shi Hao transferred to Inter Milan and could not participate in the Champions League this season, which made him All kinds of advertising expenses have shrunk a bit, and this one after another adds up, which means that he loses nearly ten million euros every year.

So when Zhang Jindong strongly invited Shi Hao to join him, he promised to compensate Shi Hao for the sponsorship fee.

(End of this chapter)