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Chapter 305 Ou Chao?

On April 4, the second round against Paris, the Etihad Stadium.

Wang Yi has been restless recently. To be honest, the conversation with Diodona that day made Wang Yi think a lot. After all, everyone did not often talk about the topic of the European Super League before. However, not only the players, but even the coaches The players also feel that this is a fantasy. After all, European football under the operation of UEFA has been like this for many years. Yes, UEFA sucks, but is the UEFA Super League going to change?Wang Yi didn't know at all.

After the game started, Wang Yi tried his best to forget these things and not think about it, but he still remembered Wang Yi. In this game, Wang Yi had an assist but failed to score. However, Manchester City won 2-0 in the end. opponent.

Guardiola looked at Wang Yi worriedly.

On the second day after the game, Guardiola found Wang Yi.

"Wang, your performance in yesterday's game can be said to be the worst performance this season. Is it because you are not feeling well? Or is it something about your family."

Yes, Philip's recent acquisition of Arsenal has been made public by many British media, and the acquisition is already in the final stage.

So almost everyone in the world knows that Wang Yi, the fiancé of Philip's only daughter, the two-time Golden Globe winner is about to have contact with Arsenal.

"Oh no, nothing to do with the Arsenal one - I, I -"

Wang Yi hesitated a bit, but he still couldn't hold back.

"Pep, ah, what do you think of Ou Chao?"

"Ou Chao? What does that non-existent thing do?"

Wang Yi stared closely at Guardiola's face.There is nothing abnormal on the face.

Now Wang Yi is sure that Guardiola is completely unaware.

But after all, Guardiola can be regarded as his mentor.

So he hesitated.

"Pep, apart from the bosses, not many people know about this matter. In short, on the 18th, they will announce the European Super League plan."

The other side was stunned.

"Wang, are you kidding me?"

"I also think it's a joke, but I don't know anything about the European Super League, what teams are there, what kind of competitions, and how to organize them. But what is certain is that they will make an announcement on the 18th .”

For a moment, both of them were silent.

And two days later.

Ou Chao really came.

On the afternoon of the 18th, Ouchao launched its official website.

There are 15 founding clubs in total, 6 Premier League clubs, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham, 15 Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in La Liga, [-] AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus in Serie A, and the rest The three clubs have not been announced yet, but there are many reports that they will be Bayern Munich, Dortmund and Porto, but the UEFA officially stated that a total of [-] teams are the founding teams.

Wang Yi learned about it after studying the announcement carefully.

The European Super League turned out to be a combined version that was more like a league plus a cup.

The specific competition system is that 20 teams are divided into two groups, and 10 teams in each group will play home and away games, which is the league system.The fourth and fifth crossovers of each group play a play-off, and the winner plus the top three in the group stage becomes the quarter-finals; then home and away games are eliminated all the way to the final, and the champion is determined in a single game on a neutral site.

Wang Yi was at a loss, isn't this the Champions League?
But after some research, I found out that the real core is not here, but in the allocation of competition places.

The number of places in the Champions League depends entirely on your achievements in the previous season.Even if you are a century-old giant with hundreds of millions of fans, if you can't compete for the top four in the league or win the European Championship, then you can only be a spectator in the Champions League next year.It's all about grades, no exceptions.

But the European Super League is completely different. The participating teams in each season are 15 founding clubs + 5 clubs that were shortlisted based on the results of the previous year. That is to say, as many as 75% of the places are fixed to the clubs with a long history and many fans. The top giants, no matter what results they achieve in their home leagues, they will be the unshakable "***" of the European Super League.

The increased value of the entire event is obvious.Every game is basically a direct dialogue between the giants. With the addition of a huge fan base, the selection of games is tilted, and the neutral fans watching the excitement, the global ratings will inevitably crush all other club games.

Wang Yiyi read it, and to be honest, he had an irrepressible disgust for the European Super League at that time. If this is the case, it’s not that the small teams will disappear, but the game between the giants is very boring.

And this time it is said that behind it is the support of American capital.

At this time, Wang Yi saw the comments of Daily Sports on TV.

"In the planning process of the UEFA Super League this time, the roles of Real Madrid and Juventus have not changed much from the G14 period. The main difference lies in the three American bosses of Manchester United's Glazer, Liverpool's Henry, and Arsenal's Kroenke. It has played a huge role in promoting. The economic support also comes from the United States. The investment bank will provide 35 billion in funding at the beginning to help the wealthy families solve the debt crisis caused by the epidemic, and is willing to invest an additional nearly 100 billion US dollars.

The well-known Momo is of course not doing charity, what they fancy is the future commercial value of the European Super League: It is said that DAZN is ready to buy the broadcasting rights at a sky-high price of 35 billion euros per year. The overall commercial value of football will increase to about 80 billion per year in the not-too-distant future, regaining football's due status as the world's number one sport.When that day comes, it will be time for Xiaomo to recoup costs and make profits.

The top teams get more money, the fans see more high-level competitions, and the capital gets rich returns. Everyone is happy, right?
The only problem is: these very American operations will undoubtedly mean that the UEFA Super League, and even the entire European football, will be rewritten to look like American professional sports. "

On TV, Neville was speaking impassionedly.

To be honest, Wang Yi now feels that Neville is not so annoying.

"Another core issue is youth training. American sports leagues don't engage in youth training. Their youth training institutions are actually high schools and universities everywhere. But the youth training in European football comes from tens of thousands of professional, professional, and For semi-professional and amateur clubs, it is unrealistic for you to expect all countries to cooperate with American capital and turn around to engage in campus sports.

The emergence of the European Super League will have a devastating blow to the current youth training system.Although small clubs can still sell players to the European Super League in exchange for huge returns, the widening gap between the European Super League and the league and the closure of the top of the pyramid mean that the demand for high-level players has decreased.The quality of top youth training will not decline in the short term, but the number of high-level youth training and people's enthusiasm for youth training will definitely be greatly affected in the long run.So that's why I, and so many retired and active players, hate the UEFA Super League! "

(End of this chapter)