Football giants

Chapter 407 Strike?

Richard Scudemore sat at the round table and glanced at the crowd, feeling a lot of pressure in his heart.

As chief executive of the Premier League, he also earns just under £100m a year.

But whoever sits here represents a huge consortium with astonishing wealth.

They are all the kind of masters who can shake an industry with a single word!
Even if they say the last sentence, they may lose their title as the chief executive of the Premier League.

Can you not be stressed?Can you not be trembling?
He is so, David Bernstein is even more depressed.

He's worse than Scudemore!

"Everyone, thank you for participating in the regular meeting of the Premier League Chairman's Summit!"

There was no applause, but everyone listened silently.

Scudemore seems to be used to it too. It's hard to get this group of big bosses to applaud!
"First of all, according to the practice at the end of the season, I will introduce three new members to you first!"

Every season, the Premier League will have three newly promoted horses.

In other words, every year, three people leave and three people come in.

It's customary!

"Mr. David Gold, owner of West Ham United!"

Two years ago, when Yang Huan came to the UK, he had contacted West Ham United, but he did not buy the team.

Instead, David Gold teamed up with a Welsh tycoon and a Norwegian investment bank to jointly acquire West Ham United.

However, David Gold's own financial resources are not strong, with a net worth of only 5000 million pounds.

"This is Mr. Anton Zingarevic, a rich man from Russia, the owner of the Reading team!"

The Russians nodded lightly towards the crowd as a compliment.

Zingarevic is only 30 years old this year. He is the most famous rich second generation in Russia, but his net worth is astonishing. With a huge asset of 34 billion pounds, he can be called Russia's best rich second generation.

But the most impressive thing about Zingarevic is not his wealth, but his effervescent wife.

As a signed model of Victoria's Secret, Garcia Zingarevic has always been a unique and beautiful landscape in the Reading Stand.

Even a few days ago, the Sun just did a fan survey, who will become the most beautiful first lady in the stands of the Premier League in the new season, and Southampton, Reading and Liverpool ranked the top three.

The charm of Victoria's Secret female models is still not as good as Zhuang Ziqing who is all over the country.

"Finally, the boss of Southampton, Mr. Yang Huan!"

When Yang Huan heard Scudemore read his name, he just smiled lightly and sat upright.

Why did I stand up when no one else stood up to say hello?
The others all looked at Yang Huan, surprised at his youth.

You know, Zingarevic is only 30 years old, which is young enough.

But in front of the older rich second generation of Russia, Yang Huan looked like a tender and charming little fresh meat.

I believe that there must be many people who are not familiar with Yang Huan in the room who are doubting. Is this the Saints owner who brought Southampton to the Europa League championship in the past two years and became the most powerful newly promoted Premier League team in history?

Is this too young?
It's simply too young to be ridiculous!

But there are also people who are in the mood of watching a show, just want to see how the legendary saint boss resolves the immediate crisis.

You know, the Premier League team reached a very rare agreement on the issue against Southampton this time.

After briefly introducing the three new members, Scudemore began to introduce some of the situation of the Premier League in the past three months. Among them, the one that attracted the most attention from everyone present was undoubtedly the progress of the auction of the Premier League broadcast rights since [-].

"Currently, five TV stations, including Sky TV, British Telecom, and ESPN, have signed up to participate in the local broadcast rights auction. In addition, the North American copyright auction has also attracted the participation of many TV organizations including Fox, NBC, and ESPN. Copyright auctions for copyrights in other overseas regions, as well as copyright auctions on other platforms such as the Internet, will also be put on the agenda one after another."

When Scudemore introduced this matter, he seemed to be working hard.

This is his biggest bargaining chip to secure the chairmanship of the Premier League!

"According to our current negotiation 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 negotiations between the two parties.

Although Scudemore didn't say it clearly, he was actually telling everyone that the Premier League broadcast rights would definitely be more lucrative than the previous one, and it was not impossible to double the rumored one.

This caused an uproar in the entire round table meeting room.

Amazing, isn't it?

David Bernstein was even more envious and jealous. Such a big piece of cake has nothing to do with their FA.

That's an income of more than one billion pounds a year!
Scudemore glanced around, taking everyone's reactions to heart.

When he passed by Yang Huan, he found that the boss of Southampton was not surprised at all, and he seemed completely unmoved.

This young master Huan's patience is too good, right?
Is such a large sum of income not enough to tempt him?

After thinking about it, Scudemore thought it was no wonder.

The outside world has always been rumored that Yang Huan is just a game company with a daily income of more than 1000 million pounds.

So much money!

Although the Premier League broadcasting rights are sold at a high price, in fact, even if it is the winning team, the maximum is [-] million.

"Next topic!"

The broadcasting rights auction has not yet started. After Scudemore briefly introduced the situation, he immediately moved on to the next topic.

"I received another document from the FA not long ago, which mentioned that the government hopes to establish a constructive club licensing system, which will be approved by the FA, and fans should also participate in the management."

As soon as Scudemore said this, there were loud objections at the scene.

"This is absolutely impossible!"

It was Manchester United chief executive David Gill who spoke, and he seemed quite outraged.

"Portsmouth has been relegated. What they do in the Championship has nothing to do with the Premier League!"

David? Jill's words immediately received enthusiastic approval.

"I agree that the current system of the Premier League is very standardized, and there is no need to introduce another licensing system!"

"I'm afraid I don't want to get a license, but I want to get my hands into the Premier League to make money!"

"We already set aside a certain amount of money to the FA every year. We pay so much tax and make so much consumption every year. Isn't that enough?"

"Too much, too outrageous!"

"If they try to force the licensing system, we will strike!"

"Yes, strike!"

It can be seen that on this point the interests of all are united.

That is the Premier League has to unite against the FA and the British government.

David Bernstein was embarrassed. He felt that he was invited to participate, not to observe at all, but to be shot.

Speaking of this matter, the FA can be regarded as a shield for bad luck and tragedy.

In the past two years, there have been two major infightings at Portsmouth in the Championship due to financial problems, which angered Pompeii fans and resulted in fans protesting to the government.

The new sports minister Robson is also dissatisfied with the situation where the Premier League is out of the jurisdiction of the FA.

He even said in public that football is the worst sport regulated by the British government.

The subtext is that the supervision of football will be strengthened.

The broadcasting rights of the Premier League are rising, and almost every contract is soaring, but these have nothing to do with the British government and the FA. Not only that, the British government and the FA have to invest a sum of money every year for youth training and other matters.

It is in this case that the British Ministry of Sport has proposed the so-called licensing system.

But obviously, it is impossible for this matter to be passed by the Premier League.

The power of the current Premier League is too great, it is really deadlocked, and neither side can get benefits.

Just look at the performance of these turbulent billionaires!

Scudemore is also a smart man. This time, inviting David Bernstein to attend, in fact, also has the meaning of letting the FA see the reaction of the Premier League. It is best for the FA to retreat.

David Bernstein looked very embarrassed, but he didn't have any right to speak.

Of course, he spoke, and no one listened to him.

The FA is an unlucky and tragic role in the Premier League.

"Then let's move on to the next topic." Scudemore felt that it was almost done, and cut in decisively.

The following topics are not too big a problem, such as the plan to reorganize the Premier League reserve league and the establishment of a U23 league, but these require the club to increase investment.

So the response was not very good.

Those present are all profit-seeking businessmen, only fools can do things that are not beneficial!

As for the youth training, anyway, if you have money and willfulness, there are good embryos everywhere in Europe, who can't you buy?

And those who have no money can only accept their fate.

Just when the topic was almost finished, David Gill, the CEO of Manchester United, suddenly stood up.

The vagueness of the Red Devils is obviously the loudest voice in this round table meeting.

It even overshadowed Scudemore's suspicion a bit.

Of course, among the people here, he has the oldest qualifications and the deepest qualifications. Even if other people refuse to accept it, it is difficult to shake him.

"I think, while Mr. Yang Huan from Southampton is here, let's have a good talk about the Southampton jersey advertisement!"

When David Jill said this, everyone immediately turned their attention to Yang Huan.

Yang Huan leaned back on the soft chair, looked at the crowd leisurely, smiled lightly, and looked unstressed.

For some reason, Abramovich felt angry when he saw him like this, wishing that David Jill would kill him.

David Gill is not afraid to offend 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 advertise on their jerseys. However, Southampton's jerseys are full of advertisements, which is obviously contrary to the regulations of the Premier League."

Speaking of this, David Jill 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, I don't know how many people are laughing in their hearts, waiting to see a good 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 don't necessarily benefit, and if they advertise, they don't have the slightest loss at all.

To put it bluntly, among the [-] teams present, those who really have the ability to advertise on their jerseys to attract sponsors are probably Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City. Southampton can barely get sponsorship.

As for other teams, even if the restrictions are really relaxed, they don't expect to be able to attract sponsors.

But sometimes people are like this, what I can't do, you don't even want to do it.

So, we can't advertise and you Southampton don't expect to.

When Yang Huan saw David? Jill asked him by name, he laughed and stood up.

(End of this chapter)