Richard Scudmore sat at the round table and glanced at everyone, feeling extremely stressed.
As chief executive of the Premier League, his annual salary is just under one million pounds.
But everyone sitting here represents a huge financial group with astonishing wealth.
They are all the kind of bosses who can shake up an industry with just one word.
Even if they say a word, they may lose their title as the CEO of the Premier League.
Can you not be stressed out?
Can you not be frightened?
He is so, David Bernstein is even more depressed.
He's worse than Scudmore "Everyone, thank you for attending the regular meeting of the Premier League Chairman's Summit" There was no applause, just everyone listening silently.
Scudmore seems to be used to it.
It’s hard to make this group of big bosses applaud.
"First of all, as usual at the end of the season, let me introduce the three new members to you."
Every season, there are three promoted teams in the Premier League.
In other words, three people leave and three people come in every year. this is customary "Mr David Gold, owner of West Ham United" Two years ago, when Yang Huan came to the UK, he had contact with West Ham United, but later did not acquire the team.
Instead, David Gold teamed up with a Welsh tycoon and a Norwegian investment bank to acquire West Ham United.
However, David Gold's own financial resources are not strong, with a net worth of only 250 million pounds.
"This is Mr.
Anton Zingarevich, the Russian billionaire, the owner of Reading FC."
The Russian nodded lightly towards everyone as a greeting.
Zingarevich is only 30 years old this year and is the most famous rich second generation in Russia, but his net worth is astonishing.
With a huge asset of 3.4 billion pounds, he can be called the top rich second generation in Russia.
But the most impressive thing about Zingarevich is not his wealth, but his effervescently beautiful wife.
As a Victoria's Secret model, Garcia Zingarevic has always been a unique and beautiful sight in the Reading stands.
Even a few days ago, The Sun just conducted a fan survey on who will be the most beautiful first lady in the Premier League stands in the new season.
Southampton, Reading and Liverpool ranked in the top three.
After all, the charm of the Victoria's Secret female model is not as good as that of the alluring Zhuang Ziqing.
"Finally, the boss of Southampton, Mr.
Yang Huan" When Yang Huan heard Scudmore read his name, he just smiled and remained seated.
No one else stood up to say hello, why should I stand up?
Everyone else looked at Yang Huan, surprised on the one hand by his youth.
You know, Zingarevich is only thirty years old, which is already young enough.
But in front of the older Russian rich second generation, Yang Huan looked like a pink and charming little piece of meat.
I believe there must be many people here who are not familiar with Yang Huan who are doubting that this is the boss of the Saints who has led Southampton to the Europa League in the past two years and become the most powerful newly promoted Premier League team in history.
This is too young You're simply too young to be true.
But there are also people who are in the mood of watching a show, just wanting to see how this legendary Saint boss resolves the crisis at hand.
You know, the Premier League teams have reached a very rare agreement on the issue of Southampton this time.
After briefly introducing the three new members, Scudmore began to introduce some situations in the Premier League in the past three months.
Among them, the one that attracted the most attention from everyone present was undoubtedly the beginning of 2013.
Premier League broadcast rights auction progress.
"At present, a total of five TV stations including Sky TV, British Telecom, and ESN have signed up to participate in the bidding for local broadcast rights.
In addition, the bidding for North American rights has also attracted the participation of many TV organizations including Fox, NBC, and ESN, while other overseas regions Copyrights, as well as copyright auctions on other platforms such as the Internet, will also be put on the agenda. " When Scudmore introduced this matter, he seemed very hardworking.
This is his biggest bargaining chip to secure the Premier League chairmanship "Based on our current negotiations with Sky TV and other TV organizations, this auction will still be divided into seven packages, but the number of live broadcasts will be significantly increased compared to the previous contract."
This is the result of a compromise after negotiation between the two parties.
Although Scudmore did not say it clearly, he was actually telling everyone that the Premier League broadcast rights would definitely be more generous than the previous one, and it is not impossible to double the amount rumored by the outside world.
This caused an uproar in the entire round table conference room.
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Amazing, isn't it?
David Bernstein even looked envious and jealous.
Such a big piece of cake had nothing to do with the FA.
That's an income of more than one billion pounds a year.
Scudmore glanced around, taking everyone's reactions to heart.
When he passed by Yang Huan, he found that the Southampton boss was not surprised at all and seemed completely unmoved.
This young master Huan's patience is really good.
Could it be that such a large income is not enough to tempt him?
After thinking about it, Scudmore thought it was no wonder.
There have been rumors in the outside world that Yang Huan's daily income from a gaming company alone is more than 10 million pounds.
Too profitable Although the Premier League broadcasting rights are sold for a high price, in fact, even if they are divided into winning teams, the maximum is 100 million.
"Next topic" The broadcast rights auction has not yet started.
After Scudmore briefly introduced the situation, he immediately moved to the next topic.
"Not long ago, I received another document from the Football Association.
The document mentioned that the government hopes to establish a constructive club licensing system, which will be reviewed and approved by the Football Association, and fans will also be involved in the management. ” As soon as Scudmore finished speaking, someone at the scene immediately objected loudly.
"This is absolutely impossible" The speaker was Manchester United CEO David Gill, who seemed quite indignant.
"Portsmouth has been relegated and their affairs in the Championship have nothing to do with the Premier League."
David Gill's words were immediately and enthusiastically acknowledged.
"I agree that the current system in the Premier League is very standardized and there is no need to introduce another licensing system."
"I'm afraid I'm not trying to get a license, but I'm trying to get my hands into the Premier League to make money."
"We already allocate a sum of money to the Football Association every year.
We pay so much tax every year and create so much consumption.
Isn't this enough?"
"It's too much, it's too outrageous" "If they want to force the licensing system, we will strike."
"Yes, strike" It can be seen that at this point, everyone's interests are the same.
That means the Premier League must unite to fight against the FA and the British government.
David Bernstein was embarrassed.
He felt that he was invited to participate, not to listen at all, but to be shot.
When it comes to this matter, the Football Association can be regarded as a shield for misfortune.
In the past two years, Portsmouth in the English Championship has experienced two major internal strife due to financial problems, which angered the fans of the Pompeii Legion and resulted in fans protesting against the government.
Robson, the new Sports Minister, is also dissatisfied with the fact that the Premier League is outside the jurisdiction of the Football Association.
He even said publicly that football was the worst sport regulated by the British government.
The subtext is that supervision of football will be strengthened.
Premier League broadcast rights are rising steadily, and almost every contract is soaring, but these have nothing to do with the British government and the Football Association.
Not only that, the British government and the Football Association have to invest a sum of money every year for youth training. and other matters.
It was under this circumstance that the British Ministry of Sport proposed the so-called licensing system.
But it is obvious that this matter is impossible to be passed by the Premier League.
The current Premier League has too much power, it is really deadlocked, and neither side can benefit from it.
Just look at the performance of these raging rich people.
Scudmore is also a smart man.
In inviting David Bernstein to attend this time, he actually wanted to let the FA see the reaction of the Premier League.
It would be better for the FA to retreat in the face of difficulties.
David Bernstein looked very embarrassed, but unfortunately, he had no right to speak.
Of course, when he spoke, no one listened to him.
The Football Association is an unfortunate and miserable player in the Premier League.
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"Then let's move on to the next topic."
Scudmore felt that it was almost done and cut in decisively.
The following topics are not too big of a problem, such as the plan to restructure the Premier League reserve league and the establishment of a U23 league, but these require increased investment from the club.
So the reaction was not very favorable.
Those present are all profit-seeking businessmen.
Only fools can do things that are not beneficial.
As for youth training and so on, if you have money, you will be willful.
There are good prospects everywhere in Europe.
You can’t buy anyone.
And those who have no money can only accept their fate.
Just when the topic was almost finished, David Gill, CEO of Manchester United, suddenly stood up.
The leader of the Red Devils, Yin Yin, was obviously the loudest person in this round table meeting.
Even slightly overshadowing Scudmore's suspicion.
Of course, among the people here, he is the oldest and has the most seniority.
Even if others are dissatisfied, it will be difficult to shake him.
"I think, while Mr.
Yang Huan from Southampton is here, we might as well have a good talk about the issue of Southampton jersey advertising."
When David Gill said this, everyone immediately turned their attention to Yang Huan.
Yang Huan leaned back on the soft seat and looked at everyone leisurely, smiling lightly and looking completely stress-free.
I don’t know why, but when Abramovich saw him like this, he felt angry and wanted David Gill to kill him.
David Gill is not afraid of offending anyone for the benefit of Manchester United.
"As we all know, the Premier League has regulations that all Premier League teams are not allowed to display advertisements on their jerseys.
However, Southampton's jerseys are full of advertisements, which is obviously contrary to the regulations of the Premier League."
Having said this, David Gill looked at Yang Huan, who was sitting a few people away.
"I don't know what Mr.
Yang Huan thinks about this matter."
Everyone immediately turned their attention to Yang Huan again.
There are so many people present, and I don’t know how many of them are having fun in their hearts, waiting to see the show.
In fact, whether Southampton advertises or not has nothing to do with the vast majority of people present.
If the Saints don't advertise, they may not benefit.
If they do advertise, they won't suffer any loss at all.
To put it bluntly, among the 20 teams present, the only ones that can really advertise on their jerseys to attract sponsorship are probably the giants such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City.
Southampton can barely get sponsorship. .
As for other teams, even if restrictions are really relaxed, they can't expect to attract sponsorship.
But sometimes people are like this.
What I can't do, you can't do either.
So, we can't advertise, and you Southampton can't expect to be able to advertise either.
When Yang Huan saw David Gill asking him by name, he laughed and stood up
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