Chapter 715 Legal Tax Avoidance
In the second minute of the No.90 game, Guardiola also made a final effort.
The last defensive midfielder Busquets was replaced, and the Spanish golden boy Bojan came off the bench.
In the last few minutes, Barcelona switched to playing four forwards desperately.
However, in reality, many times it does not mean that you can get the results you want by working hard.
Barcelona is no exception.
In the end, the game ended with Boateng breaking the football under Bojan's feet and kicking the football towards Barcelona with a big foot.
After seeing Boateng's big kick, the referee decisively blew the whistle to end the game.
In the end, Liverpool reversed Barcelona 2:1 in the second round and defeated the Spanish giants who were aiming to win the Triple Crown 4:1 in the two rounds.
The entire Anfield stadium has turned into a sea of joy, Liverpool fans are jumping and jumping, no one wants to leave the field at this time.
"Congratulations!" Guardiola was very gentlemanly. Although Barcelona was eliminated by Liverpool, he still took the initiative to shake hands with Levi.
But Li Wei did not shake hands with Guardiola, but took the initiative to hug Guardiola and said: "Many people say that your success is based on Barcelona, but I think Barcelona's success is based on you. I look forward to seeing you again next season." Let's fight!"
There was a lot of controversy when Guardiola coached Barcelona. Many people wondered why Barcelona chose Guardiola to coach Barcelona.Even some extreme fans think that Guardiola is a guy who walks through the back door, and his coaching of Barcelona will only bring decline to Barcelona.
In fact, it is no wonder that there are such voices, because Guardiola did not have any outstanding coaching results before coaching Barcelona. He only coached the Barcelona B team, which is commonly known as the youth team.
Although Guardiola led the relegated Barcelona B team to re-upgrade in the first year of coaching, but at this time the Barcelona B team is not in the Spanish second division football league, but in the fifth football league.Guardiola led Barcelona to promotion, but it was back to the third division football league.
In other words, Guardiola only brought the Barcelona B team from the semi-professional league back to the lowest professional league.
It is worth mentioning that the promotion of the Barcelona B team is not based on winning the regional league championship, but through promotion play-offs.
Guardiola then coached the Barcelona first team in the second season.
Such a result is really hard to convince others.
After Guardiola led Barcelona to win the six crowns, although some media worshiped Guardiola, there was no less media black Guardiola.Thinking that Guardiola was able to win the six crowns is not at all his credit, but because the team he coached was called Barcelona.
This kind of voice did not calm down because the longer Guardiola coached Barcelona and the more championships he won, on the contrary it became more and more intense.
There is even such an extreme voice, even a dog, sitting in Guardiola's position, can win the championship.Because the team it coaches is called Barcelona.
This kind of voice naturally also affected Barcelona's top management. They believe that the most important thing in Barcelona is the players, not the head coach.
Guardiola's departure in the future has a lot to do with the recognition of this voice by some Barcelona executives.
But Levi knew very well that after Guardiola left Barcelona.Barcelona's head coach has changed a lot, including Enrique who can lead the team to the Champions League, and Tito Vilanova who only wins the league championship, but there is no head coach who can reproduce Gua Diola's six crowns were brilliant.
Now Guardiola is a coach who has been belittled by the media.
Guardiola smiled and said, "I won't lose again next time."
Li Wei's answer was straightforward: "Speak on the football field!"
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After defeating Barcelona, the unscrupulous media decisively gave Liverpool all kinds of praise.
"Daily Mail": "Rise of the rich! Levi and his red youth guard!"
"Liverpool Echo": "Liverpool = double crown?!"
Even the "Sun" came out to advocate Liverpool: "The red torrent sweeps across Europe!"
In Li Wei's view, the report of "The Sun" is completely because there are always people who want to harm me.
This is killing!
During this period of time, Li Wei prevented all players from reading newspapers to avoid their mental imbalance.
Although this kind of requirement is unlikely to be implemented 100%, and the players read the newspaper in private, Li Wei can't control it, but at least it can reduce the influence of the newspaper on the players.
The truth that a proud soldier must be defeated, Li Wei did not instill it in the Liverpool players.
Now Liverpool is indeed four points ahead of Manchester United, but with three league rounds left, four points are not 100% safe.As long as Liverpool lose a game, the point difference will be shortened to one point again.If Liverpool is tied or even defeated on the basis of losing another game, the standings ranking will change immediately.
In the Champions League, Liverpool only got tickets to the final. How many teams entered the final but failed to win the championship.
The more famous one is Valencia, which has reached the Champions League final for two consecutive years, but only won the runner-up.
Compared with Valencia, the most famous is Leverkusen's Sanya king, the leader of the league standings, leading No.2 by five points in the last three rounds.
The German Cup reached the final against Schalke 04.
The Champions League also reached the final against Real Madrid.
As a result, it collapsed at the end of the season and became the king of Sanya with shame.
If Leverkusen might choose, they would probably rather win the third and fourth in the league, the semi-finals of the Champions League, and finally only win the German Cup championship, which is better than taking the Sanya king as the negative material.
Li Wei doesn't want Liverpool to become the double Asian king. This is definitely not a glorious defeat, but a proper shame!
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According to the usual practice, after the game against Barcelona, Li Wei announced that the team would rest the next day.
Five days later, Liverpool will play the "farmer" Fulham away, and now Fulham still has a chance to enter the top seven.In order to qualify for the European War, Fulham is definitely not the kind of mid-range team that wants nothing.
Because there was no training task, Li Wei also had a rare luxury—sleeping until he woke up naturally.
Before Levi could figure out how to spend the rest of the time, Harry Thompson, the vice chairman of the club, called.
"Benedict, are you resting today?"
Li Wei yawned, opened the curtains, and the bright sunlight outside poured into the room. "Well, so I just woke up. Harry, what's the progress of Pirlo's matter now?"
When playing against AC Milan in the Champions League, Levi had the idea of playing Pirlo, wanting to waive the signing of this world-class midfielder.
Unlike other visa-free players who have relatively high wages, Pirlo is also willing to lower wages.
Pirlo's annual salary in AC Milan is 600 million euros after tax.In the future, Pirlo joined Juventus, and the annual salary plus bonus after tax was only 400 million euros.
The pre-tax annual salary plus bonus is about 700 million euros, which is equivalent to about 560 million pounds in pounds, which is a weekly salary of [-] pounds.
However, in fact, Liverpool does not need to pay an annual salary of 560 million pounds. On the one hand, the Premier League tax rate is not as high as Italy.Italy's tax rate is 40.00% three, while the Premier League is now 40.00%, which is three percentage points lower.
The most important thing is that London is a well-known international financial center, and the UK also has many tax-free territories, such as island countries such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands.
Therefore, British football clubs have a good tax avoidance environment. Pay attention to tax avoidance, not tax evasion.Tax avoidance is the use of legal loopholes to legally evade taxes, while tax evasion is illegal.
One of the most popular forms is the "employee benefit trust".
"Employee benefit trust" is: not directly pay huge amounts of wages or bonuses to players, because these will generate high personal income taxes.Instead, the money is paid through trust companies, often offshore.The trust transfers the cash to employees in the form of long-term, interest-free loans—loans that are not taxable under British law.Naturally, the club will not let the players pay back the money, so they actually pay the players their salaries and bonuses in disguise through loans.