Manchester United legend

Chapter 227 G14
After entering the new millennium, world football, like the economy, has entered a new stage.The world economy in the new millennium is led by Internet technology, resources have been further developed, new materials and new technologies have been continuously applied, and the overall wealth of the world has increased dramatically.

This is also a new stage in which the rapid economic development promotes the great development of the football industry.

Just in September 2000, 9 clubs including Manchester United, Real Madrid and Milan officially announced the establishment of the G14 Football League.The founding members of the group include: AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus in Italy, Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, Manchester United and Liverpool in England, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in Germany, Marseille in France, Paris Saint-Germain, Eindhoven and Ajax in the Netherlands and Porto in Portugal, a total of 14 European football clubs, so referred to as the G14 league.

The football clubs in the G14 are almost a combination of the best clubs in Europe. Together, they have won 1971 of the 29 Champions League titles since 26 - almost without losing the Champions League.

G14 represents the football interests of the top European football clubs. In 2002, it accepted four clubs: Arsenal, Leverkusen, Lyon and Valencia, expanding to 18 clubs.

Since then, G14 has been rejecting applications from Roma, Lazio, Parma, Chelsea, Hertha Berlin, Celtic, Rangers and other giants.

The original intention of the establishment of G14 is to better safeguard the interests of super clubs and better realize the interests of super clubs.Their establishment made many fans think that these 14 (later turned into 18) clubs would organize a European Super League on their own to counter UEFA's European Champions Cup.

The establishment of G14 made UEFA feel like a big enemy, with thorns in its back.In order to meet the requirements of G14 and eliminate their departure from UEFA's system, UEFA changed the UEFA Champions League system in 1999. The group stage before the quarter-finals was changed from one round to two rounds, and the participating teams were expanded to 32 teams).

After G14 got more giant clubs to join, it gradually developed to fight against UEFA and even FIFA.They have always wanted to set up a league independent of UEFA and FIFA in order to fight for more interests.

Under the pressure of G14, UEFA also reformed the European club competitions, reorganized the traditional Champions Cup, UEFA Cup, and Cup Winners' Cup into the Champions League and UEFA Cup, and revised the competition rules and quota allocation system.

Not only that, but G14 has also put pressure on FIFA. They believe that FIFA should unify the game schedule of national teams all over the world, rather than allowing countries to contact and decide games on their own.

They believe that the national teams of various countries should not "unrestrainedly" recruit club stars to play for the country, and finally let the club be responsible when the player is injured, which has seriously damaged the interests of the club.

For the World Cup, European Cup and other national team competitions organized by FIFA and UEFA, G14 even put forward the request to obtain profit sharing from them.

In response to the injury of club players due to participating in the national team competition, which caused damage to the club's performance, G14 proposed to FIFA that the national team should be responsible for this and pay the club money to make up for the loss.

The emergence and development of the G14 organization is actually a new stage in the development of giant clubs such as Manchester United. The club seeks to change the relatively weak position of the national team, UEFA, and FIFA in the football field, strive for more dominance in competitions and football commercial activities, and strive for more benefits.

The battle of interests has always been a life-and-death struggle. After Platini took office as UEFA president, he immediately waved the big stick to G14, a fast-growing opponent.

In 2007, at the tenth UEFA Congress, Platini fired violently, bluntly demanding that the organization be disbanded!The banner played by Platini is "narrowing the gap in European football". He sharply criticized the g14 league for occupying the largest income and player resources in football clubs, resulting in an increasingly difficult living environment for small and medium clubs.

He blamed the G14 organization for the crisis in the development of small and medium clubs in Europe and the deteriorating financial situation.

It has to be said that this move is extremely beautiful. The European Union and all walks of life have begun to examine the G14 organization, and public opinion has also begun to be unfavorable to these giant clubs.

While suppressing, Platini did not forget to divide, and at the same time proposed the exchange of interests.

He proposed that UEFA and national football associations will not agree to the European Super League envisioned by G14, and will restrict referees and league qualifications.

In addition, he also proposed to agree with G14 on certain opinions of the national team, and promised to help the G14 league and the national team to negotiate an agreement that the recruiting players must pay compensation to the club, but the condition of the transaction is that G14 must be dissolved.
Contradictions also emerged within G14. In addition to opposition from some clubs wanting to lead the development of the organization, more clubs also had doubts about the Super League in the face of UEFA's boycott.

In the early hours of January 2008, 1, after repeated dialogues and negotiations, the G16 announced that the league, FIFA and UEFA had signed an agreement that players recruited by the national team must pay compensation to clubs.

At the same time, G14 officially announced its disbandment, and the team will join UEFA's official football club league.

Outside of G14, Manchester United's Premier League has made greater economic progress.

英国超级联赛1999-2000年度里超级联赛俱乐部创造的产业额为77240万英镑，1998-1999年度的66970万英镑增加了15.3%。

The Premier League is likely to reach an industry scale of 2001 billion pounds in May 5.

Among them, the average turnover of each club is 3860 million pounds.That's a 1991% increase from 92-422 when the Premier League was created.

Manchester United topped the list with a turnover of £11700m.The income of the club mainly comes from the game day income tickets and other income, TV broadcast fees, and other commercial operations.

The average annual revenue per club match day is £1300 million, TV revenue is £1210 million and other commercial income is £1350 million.

The fastest growth in revenue came from television broadcasting, up 23% to £24200m.Commercial activities revenue rose 19% to £27000 million.

产品销售增长2.3%，达到9000万英镑。比赛日的收入也增长了5.3%，达到24700万英镑。占总营业的32%。

In contrast, when the Premier League just started, match day income accounted for more than 55% of total operating income, and four years ago, in 4-1995, match day income still accounted for 1996% of total operating income.

The share of match day revenue in the club's total revenue has gradually declined, which also proves that the club's revenue has expanded and its sources have further increased-the club is likely to gradually not rely on ticket revenue, but can grab more dividends through a broader commercial red ocean.

Of course, thanks to the newly signed three-year TV broadcast contract, all clubs in the Premier League have experienced a substantial increase in broadcast revenue.This has also become one of their most dependent sources of income.

Over the past season, Manchester United's profit has reached 2910 million pounds, once again becoming the most profitable club.

And there has been a trend of substantially increasing spending throughout the Premier League. This season, there are 13 Premier League clubs with losses, a substantial increase of 5 from last season.

Premier League clubs posted a pre-tax loss of £3450m.Among them, the Newcastle United club lost 1890 million pounds, and Liverpool lost 780 million pounds.

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