Football giants

Chapter 488 It's really crazy!
"Mr. Yang Huan!"

"Master Huan, you're late!"

"Oh, Master Huan, you are here, we were still thinking about you just now!"

"Master Huan, you don't need to say more, let's have dinner together tonight, I treat you, you must give me face!"

"Mr. Yang Huan, hello, I am..."

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As soon as Yang Huan walked into the conference room on the eighth floor of the Landmark Hotel, the scene suddenly became noisy.

Almost everyone stood up and gathered around Yang Huan, scrambling to be the first to show their courtesy.

No way, Southampton is a bull, what can you do?

Regardless of Southampton's current ranking in the middle of the Premier League, their performance is not very good, but in terms of earning power, it is one to one.

In the summer of this year, Southampton participated in the International Champions Cup and won the championship. After the Saints announced that the team had successively signed four sponsorship contracts from Intel, Apple, MetLife and Tommy Hilfiger.

Relying on these four contracts, Southampton can earn 1000 million pounds in revenue, 2000 to [-] million pounds per year.

But before everyone could react, not long after returning to London, Southampton announced that it had signed a sponsorship contract with Cadbury, a well-known British retail company, with an annual price of 600 million pounds.

Immediately afterwards, he re-signed a new contract with Heineken Beer, which can receive a sponsorship fee of 1000 million pounds per year.

Later, Southampton announced that they signed sponsorship contracts with the Chinese company Huawei and the American fast food company KFC.

The British Times once calculated that Southampton's annual commercial income has increased by at least 4000 million pounds after the operation this summer.

And that doesn't include Citibank's £1000 million per year, Adidas and Qatar Airways' £3000 million per year main sponsorship revenue each.

If they all add up, it will be more than 1 million pounds!

This ability to make money is on par with the entire European football world!
What's more, Southampton also announced at the new season jersey conference in early August that the Saints will cooperate with the American sponsor, the famous leading leisure brand Tommy Hilfiger, to officially launch the Saints clothing brand and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's IB9 personal brand starting next year.

This is also seen as another breakthrough in Southampton's commercial operations.

Moreover, the jersey conference in August was also well received by the outside world. In addition to Norman Foster and his friends continuing to design the Southampton jerseys, Christopher Bailey, the world's top designer who joined the Asprey and Gerrard luxury goods company last year, also designed casual series with saint elements.

These have aroused the pursuit of the media and fans, and the sales volume is very good.

Many people even believe that Southampton's commercial operation ability is not lost to Manchester United at all.

More importantly, the Saints have a very high influence among young fans.

Many media have questioned before, thinking that the Saints fans club established by Southampton may not be able to survive.

The reason is that members who paid [-] pounds to join the membership last year will not renew their payment this year.

But when the results came out in August, they slapped them in the face again.

All of the [-] members paid a membership fee of [-] pounds.

This is another income of [-] million pounds!
Now Southampton's annual income is even enough to compete with Manchester United!
Especially after being promoted to the Premier League, receiving a large share of broadcast fees, and signing several major sponsorships in the United States, Southampton's revenue capability is enough to make other Premier League teams feel jealous.

Of course, Manchester United is not bad. Signing Chevrolet's record sponsorship contract also greatly increased the income of the Red Devils.

In addition, Arsenal and Manchester City also earned a lot of money from the US International Champions Cup.

Ever since, this event naturally made other teams feel jealous.

Who doesn't want to make some extra money?

With money, more powerful stars can be introduced, the strength of the team can be improved, a better ranking can be achieved, and more money can be made, forming a virtuous circle.

Therefore, when this group of Premier League bosses, chairmen, or CEOs saw Yang Huan walking into the venue, they all licked their faces and moved towards him, as if they had completely forgotten how they targeted Southampton in the first place.

Yang Huan knew what was going on, but the so-called stretching out his hand and not hitting a smiling face meant that he was being polite to you, so you can't be too disrespectful, right?

Ever since, he smiled at everyone.

"Hi, Roman!" Yang Huan smiled and stretched out his hand towards Abramovich.

It's an embarrassment for the Russians, but with so many people, you can't lose your grace, right?

So he quickly stood up, "Hello, Mr. Yang Huan."

After Yang Huan shook hands with him politely, he walked towards his seat.

When passing by Manchester City Chairman Hosni Mubarak, the powerful manager of the Premier League leader stood up and gave Yang Huan a warm bear hug, as if he was afraid that others would not know the close relationship between the two teams.

Although Manchester City introduced Strowman from Southampton at a high price this summer, the outstanding performance of the Dutchman helped Manchester City top the Premier League standings, and the money was well spent.

"Master Huan, the faces of these guys can change really fast!"

As soon as Yang Huan sat down in his seat, Peter Kenyon came over with a smile and whispered.

"This world is so real!"

In contrast, Yang Huan was more open-minded.

As soon as Yang Huan arrived, everyone was present, and the meeting began.

As usual, there is still the chief executive of the Premier League, Richard Scudemore, who announced the topic of this meeting.

It is mainly divided into two parts.

The first part is to introduce to everyone the current situation of the Premier League and the operation of broadcast rights.

"With the strong rise of many teams and the joint efforts of everyone present, the Premier League is becoming more and more attractive."

"After hard negotiations, we finally signed a series of broadcast rights contracts with our partners."

Following Scudemore's remarks, staff members of the Premier League came out and distributed a document to everyone present, which clearly listed the specific auction situation of the Premier League broadcast rights.

These are all announced to the public, and there is nothing too fussy about them.

The focus is on broadcast costs.

"Seven domestic broadcast negotiations, bringing us £33bn in total."

As soon as Scudemore finished speaking, the scene immediately exploded.

"Wow!"

"Eight billion pounds?"

"Oh my God, am I dreaming? It's unbelievable!"

"Three seasons are 33 billion pounds, and that season is 11 billion pounds!"

"I'm dizzy, I'm dizzy, isn't there more money that each team can get?"

"Damn it, you have to stay in the Premier League no matter what!"

"Isn't it? Relegation to the English Championship, you can't even earn a fraction of the Premier League deputy squad leader, you must be relegated!"

"Transfer during the winter break, the competition must be fierce, you have to prepare quickly!"

Everyone talked a lot, but Scudemore was very satisfied with the atmosphere at the scene.

As steward of the Premier League, it's his job to keep all the bosses present happy.

Obviously, this time he did a good job!

"In addition to the local broadcasting rights, the broadcasting rights of the highlights of the competition in the next three years will be bought by BBC Television at a price of [-] million pounds!"

This once again shocked everyone present.

However, with the previous 33 billion, the current [-] million is nothing to be fussed about.

But soon someone thought of another big cake.

"Richard, what about overseas copyrights? Has it increased?"

"Yeah, the local copyright of the Premier League has been improved so much, has the overseas copyright been improved?"

When someone asked, everyone's attention immediately fell on Scudemore.

The CEO of the Premier League smiled slightly, "We are very pleased to announce that the total overseas copyright revenue in the next three years will be as high as 24 billion pounds!"

"Wow, £24 billion?!"

"My God, it's a billion pounds more than the current 14 billion pounds!"

"I'm dizzy, completely dizzy!"

Scudemore was also pleased to see the utterly ecstatic excitement of many present.

Yang Huan casually flipped through the documents in his hand. He noticed that in the overseas copyright sales of the Premier League, the Asian region accounted for the largest share, and it also grew the most, reaching one billion pounds.

You must know that in the currently executed contract of 14 billion pounds, the copyright in the Asian region is only [-] million pounds, and the growth rate is astonishing. However, Thailand has the largest share in the Asian region, reaching [-] million pounds.

It is followed by Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Indonesia.

China ranks seventh and Japan ranks tenth, which is obviously unreasonable.

It is not difficult to see that the potential to be tapped in the Asian region is still quite huge.

What caught Yang Huan's attention was that the copyrights in these two regions hadn't been negotiated yet, and it seemed that something went wrong.

Another region that caught Yang Huan's attention was the Middle East and North Africa.

Perhaps due to the impact of the international situation, the share of the Middle East and North Africa has not increased, but has decreased.

If the growth rate is the fastest, it must be South America, which has increased by more than six times, but the total is only [-] million pounds.

However, if you add Brazil's 3000 million pounds, the entire South America is only 3000 million pounds.

With the signing of this contract, only North Korea and Albania are left in the world without broadcasting the Premier League.

Needless to say, the reason for North Korea, Albania is because many countries buy Albanian satellite decoders to watch the live broadcast of the game, which affects the interests of the Premier League broadcasters, so the Premier League absolutely blocks Albania.

The cake is indeed big enough.

Judging from this contract, the Premier League champion team in the 7000-[-] season will be able to share at least [-] million pounds in broadcast fees, and even the relegated teams will have at least [-] million pounds.

This is just crazy!

Predictably, the entire Premier League will go crazy for this!

A league ranking is worth millions of pounds, who wouldn't want to grab it?

Richard Scudemore kept silent all this time, but let everyone present digest the shock and excitement brought about by this new contract. He could see that everyone was very satisfied.

Satisfying the boss is his greatest achievement.

"Then we will move on to the next session, which mainly has two issues."

After all the bosses present looked over, Scudemore continued to speak.

"As I mentioned at the last summit, UEFA is vigorously implementing the Financial Fair Play rules. It is very determined. The proportion of our Premier League debt is also quite amazing. The arrival of this new contract just gives us a chance."

Everyone present nodded after hearing this.

"But we must reach a consensus. The wages of players have increased too fast in the past few years. We must determine the rules of the game in the league."

"Otherwise, sooner or later, we will be dragged down!"

"Because it is impossible for us to maintain such an astonishing high-speed growth for every contract, it is unrealistic!"

(End of this chapter)