Football giants

Chapter 985 The countryside surrounds the city
For the disbandment of the G14 organization, there have been many rumors outside.

Some people say that because of love and hatred, Chelsea originally wanted to join the G14 organization, but was not accepted, and finally turned to UEFA.

But this claim is not true.

In 14, the G[-] organization realized that the crisis was coming, and wanted to expand its military. The number of teams quickly increased from [-] to [-], so as to improve its ability to compete with UEFA.

Chelsea was included in the expansion list at the time.

But Peter Kenyon, who was still the chief executive of Chelsea at the time, eventually declined the invitation of G14, and even several other teams.

This sudden change eventually caused the G14 military expansion plan to be temporarily shelved, and internal morale plummeted.

Some people say that Barcelona is UEFA's inner ghost and disintegrated the G14 organization from within. Therefore, as soon as G14 was disbanded, Barcelona immediately won the Triple Crown and became the strongest team in Europe, establishing a dream three-team dynasty.

But is this claim reliable?

If there are no conflicts within the G14 organization, what big waves can be caused by Barcelona alone?
You must know that although the chairman of Barcelona Laporta was one of the vice-chairmen of the executive committee when the European Club Association was established, he did not have much say in European football, let alone, there is a chairman of the executive committee on top of him.

Even within G14, Barcelona does not have much say at all.

It can only be said that the disbandment of the G14 organization was more due to the lack of effective balance and control of internal interest conflicts, coupled with the failure of military expansion, and finally fell apart under the lure of UEFA.

Rummenigge and others have repeatedly reflected on the reasons for the disbandment of the G14 organization, and when the European Club Association was established, they learned lessons and properly delegated power to the mid- and lower-level teams.

Not only that, the European Club Association is more open and tolerant than the G14 organization.

For capital upstarts such as Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, they have all given the green light.

Because they know that if they are not accepted, sooner or later, this group of capital upstarts will use new forces to compete with the European Club Association just like Chelsea did back then.

Even the reappearance of the tragedy of the disbandment of the G14 organization may not happen.

There are also some dissidents, and the European Club Association has also absorbed them.

For example, Hannover [-] in the Bundesliga.

In the Bundesliga, no matter how you line up, the quota for entering the European Club Association will not fall to Hannover [-], right?Not to mention that before him, there are veteran teams such as Frankfurt, Wolfsburg, Hamburg and Werder Bremen.

However, this piece of pie that fell from the sky hit Hannover Nine Six.

Why him?
Because Hannover Ninety-Six is ​​a hard-core dissident in the Bundesliga, Martin Kinder is committed to abolishing a series of restrictive clauses such as the Bundesliga fifty plus one, and what is the role of this series of clauses?
That is to guarantee Bayern Munich's dominant position in the Bundesliga.

Just imagine, if the Bundesliga opens up capital and attracts the influx of foreign capital, Bayern Munich can still be in such a detached position as it is now?
The rise of Hamburg last season almost brought Bayern Munich down. If there were a few more teams, such as the Red Bull of the German second division, a Middle Eastern consortium, an American consortium, or even an African and Asian consortium, what would Bayern Munich do?
As for financial health, OK, it's very simple. In front of professional financial professionals, it's as easy as playing house.

Therefore, if the Bundesliga wants to release restrictive policies such as fifty plus one, the biggest resistance will come from Bayern Munich.

For dissidents like Hannover [-], Rummenigge believes that the best way is to bring the dissidents into their own jurisdiction.

Therefore, Hannover [-], together with Dortmund, Bayern Munich, Schalke [-] and Leverkusen, has become one of the five teams of the Bundesliga in the European Club Association.

In the past few years, the bigwigs of the European Club Association are quite satisfied with the set of rules that they have worked hard and racked their brains to establish. They are also constantly using this set of rules to absorb potential threats and continue to expand their right to speak in European football.

It should be said that they had a lot of fun and played well, until recently.

Just like all rules, as long as there are rules, there will be loopholes.

Recently, Ed Woodward of Manchester United has become very active within the organization. It seems that he is very interested in the executive committee seat of the European Club Association and has also attracted a lot of votes.

But this is not the point, because Manchester United is an old-fashioned giant team, and it doesn't matter if they become an executive committee member.

According to the current list, Arsenal is one of the four teams in UEFA's strategic committee. Even if Manchester United is elected and the Premier League occupies two of the fifteen executive committee members, that's no big deal.

The point is that in the competition for seats on the executive committee, Monaco and Inter Milan are also making efforts to win votes, and the voices are very high.

When the European Club Association was established, Inter Milan was one of the executive committee members, but it has been replaced by Juventus in recent years, and AC Milan's executive committee status has never been shaken.

Today, Inter Milan is making a comeback.

But Monaco stood up to compete with Lyon, which is a bit unexpected.

This is just the first echelon.

According to the rules, the first echelon is the league ranked first to sixth in the European Championship, and a total of five executive committee members are selected.

If you leave aside Rummenigge, the unshakable chairman of the Bundesliga, you will choose four.

Manchester United, Monaco and Inter Milan each account for one, who is the rest?

It is estimated that the veteran giants Real Madrid are most likely.

But that's also beside the point.

In the second echelon, that is, the seventh to No.15 leagues, there will be three places. As a result, Ajax in the Netherlands, Anderlecht in Belgium, and Basel in Switzerland have all come forward to compete.

You must know that the second echelon is from the leagues of Ukraine, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, and these teams are all powerful teams in the second echelon, with great reputations.

Especially Ajax, a veteran G14 team, is considered a veteran team in the European Club Association.

In the third echelon, Vienna, Austria also came forward for the election, and the voice was very loud.

Another team is likely to be Scotland's Celtic.

Then the problem arises.

What would happen if Monaco, Inter Milan, Ajax, Anderlecht, Basel and Wiener Wien all got their desired seat on the executive committee of the European Club Association?
As a result, Yang Huan held six executive committee seats!
There are fifteen seats in total, and I got six for you.

According to the regulations of the European Club Association, any decision must be approved by more than two-thirds of the members of the executive committee before it can be effective. In other words, Yang Huan has a veto right!
From now on, Yang Huan may not count on any major event in the European Club Association, but if Yang Huan doesn't nod, it definitely doesn't count. Then other teams will come to flatter you one by one to please you?
What's more, Manchester United and Arsenal are Premier League teams, who knows how closely they are related to Southampton?
Over the years, the Premier League has always had the ambition to surpass other leagues.

It can be said that Master Huan's move is simply more rogue than a rogue, encircling the city from the countryside!

Rummenigge knew before that Yang Huan was developing his own football empire in Europe, but he never paid attention to what happened to the teams that Yang Huan bought.

But not long ago, when he heard about Peter Kenyon actively operating several teams under his command to run for the executive committee, he suddenly realized and was taken aback.

Nimi, these teams were not bought casually, they were all for the executive committee seats.

It can even be said that from the first echelon to the fourth echelon, there are Yang Huan's teams, or teams that are closely related to Yang Huan.

As for the fifth echelon, it was too cost-effective for more than [-] teams to grab a seat, and it was completely ignored by Yang Huan.

Rummenigge is well aware of how powerful Peter Kenyon is in European football.

This guy's connections, resources, and ability to handle affairs are not inferior to him at all.

Therefore, Rummenigge is very clear that if Peter Kenyon has these resources under the strong support of Yang Huan, his own chairmanship may be threatened.

In this case, Rummenigge also felt that he should do something.

Therefore, he took the initiative to help contact and create conditions for Southampton to join the European Club Association.

Not only that, he also took the initiative to find Yang Huan, hoping to appease this upstart who has more and more say in European football.

But he never expected that Master Huan would remain unmoved.

He knew in his heart that Yang Huan was not as desireless as he appeared on the surface, because if he really wanted nothing, why did Peter Kenyon do so many things?

Even, how long has it been since the secret layout to now?
Therefore, it is a lie to say that he has nothing to ask for, and it can only be said that the chips he opened are not high enough.

Thinking of this, Rummenigge suddenly smiled slightly, "Master Huan, I don't know if you have heard about the reform of the UEFA executive committee?"

He can guarantee that Yang Huan must know.

Because Platini and Infantino must have told him already.

"Oh, do you want to reform?" Yang Huan was obviously pretending to be stupid.

Rummenigge secretly screamed, sure enough, this Master Huan has a lot of tricks.

"To tell the truth, Master Huan, UEFA wants to reform. I reached an agreement with them before. Among the [-] executive committee members, our club representatives will get two seats."

"Really?" Yang Huan asked pretending to be surprised.

But there was no trace of surprise in his tone?

Rummenigge is depressed, dare to say that the UEFA Executive Committee is nothing in the eyes of Master Huan!
You know, these fifteen executive committee members are in control of UEFA. The fact that the club has won two seats for an unprecedented time this time is already quite remarkable, and it is already a great victory.

As long as there is this start, and then slowly plot, slowly expand the club's influence in UEFA, who dares to say that there is no hope of controlling UEFA in the future?

You know, compared with that bunch of drunks and rice bags, this group of people in the club are capable elites!
Rummenigge knew in his heart that what Master Huan wanted this time should be this quota.

Consolation, there are only two places for the UEFA power center, and Rummenigge himself will definitely get one of them, and he has to wait for the executive committee members of the European Club Association to fight for the remaining one.

Arsenal's Gazidis, AC Milan's Gandini, CSKA Moscow's Ginner and Barcelona's Bartomeu, these four people have entered the UEFA Strategy Committee and missed the executive committee.

In other words, the remaining ten executive committee members will compete for one of the places.

Thinking of this, Rummenigge was stunned.

When the middle and lower reaches of the team have no ability, maybe even no ambition, who will compete with Master Huan for this spot?

Sure enough, when he suddenly realized, Yang Huan looked at him with a smile, and said with a domineering tone that could not be discussed: "Carl, I want the remaining spot!"

At this moment, Rummenigge didn't even have the thought of refusing!
The mystery is finally revealed!
(End of this chapter)