The Young Lion

Grand Place in Brussels, Hilton Hotel. ↑ Vertex Fiction, 2+3wx

In the business meeting room, there are a total of 19 clubs represented by the members of the g14 organization.

In addition to the 14 founding member clubs, there are 4 clubs that joined after 2002, as well as Liverpool, which returned to the top of Europe last summer.

The 19 clubs are:

From England: Millwall, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal.

From Germany: Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen.

From Spain: Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia.

From Italy: Juventus, Milan, Inter Milan.

From France: Lyon, Marseille, Paris Saint-Germain.

From the Netherlands: Ajax, PSV.

From Portugal: Porto.

In addition to representatives of the 19 clubs, UEFA Secretary-General David Taylor attended the meeting. He will wait for g14 to make a decision, and then sign an agreement with g14, or not sign.

G14 fell into internal and external troubles before and after UEFA's regime change.

The foreign trouble is naturally that Platini took office as UEFA president and began to suppress g14.

The internal worry is that the French club that had G14 first publicly expressed support for Platini during the election. At the same time, in the first half of 2007, due to the rotating chairman, Dane from Arsenal stepped down at Arsenal, and then lost the rotating chairman. Qualifications, resulting in a vacancy for the nominal leader within g14.

Carter, the representative of Millwall himself, has been in control of the situation, but at the same time, Millwall encountered a shocking murderous case in the European War. Millwall's situation within g14 is extremely embarrassing!

The subtleties of the situation are. Instead, Millwall could only remain silent. Without a specific plan and the g14 allies seeing the possibility of realizing it, it is impossible for Millwall to order g14 to protest and fight, because g14 is an interest group, not an alliance of idealists, and pure struggle is important for other g14 It is meaningless to the members, it must be the interests that can be seen and touched, and fighting for these is the reality.

Wait until the time comes for the annual replacement of the rotating chairman.

Lyon chairman Aulas, who was the first to defect in the Ligue 1 squad, became the rotating chairman, so a funny scene of monkey as king appeared inside g14.

After two summits in the second half of 2007, other giants remained silent, while Aulas believed that he could be a leader, especially Millwall's withdrawal from the European competition, just like Juventus, Dortmund and other teams that missed the European competition, in disguise. Lost the right to speak.

At today's summit, the atmosphere of the meeting was as dead as ever. It seems that most club representatives cherish words like gold and are unwilling to say a word.

Manchester United represent Gill. Real Madrid chairman Calderon, Barcelona chairman Laporta, Milan representative Galliani, Millwall representative Carter, Bayern Munich Rummenigge, etc., all representatives of these European giants remained silent.

The rotating chairman Aulas presided over the meeting, impassionedly promoting the victory of g14 at this stage!

That's right, he will regard the conditional agreement with UEFA as a victory for g14.

In the past, their players were injured in international competitions, and the club did not receive any compensation. If the head star was injured, the loss would be immeasurable. Now, UEFA and UEFA are willing to give them a certain amount of financial protection. Became a victory.

In addition, he is also expressing that there is nothing wrong with mixing with Platini...

UEFA Secretary-General Taylor attended the meeting. This was the first time he stepped into the g14 group summit. The meeting scene made him feel inexplicable.

Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Millwall, Milan, Bayern, who are supposed to have the right to speak, these giants that make up the most glorious picture of European football, are they all silent?

And Lyon, who played a role in the European war, even went so far as to say that the French team is as small as dust in the history of the Champions League!

You know, in the history of the Champions League, the Ligue 1 team has only won the championship once, Marseille in 1993!

However, Marseille that year was written into history, and it was a shocking case of match-fixing!

A page of disgrace to European football!

It is conceivable that Ligue 1 clubs should theoretically have no status and voice in g14!

In connection with France's social system and legal system, elitism is not allowed in the football field. This system is too restrictive. For example, Lyon is not allowed to build a stadium with 60,000 people, nor is it allowed to buy big names. It all comes from the French legal regulations, financial system and other factors, which lead to some inherent deficiencies in the French team itself. It doesn't matter how they play domestically, but when it comes to the European war, they are really timid. The team is as flat as water in Ligue 1, colorless and tasteless .

Thinking of this, Taylor's mood fell to the bottom.

There have long been rumors of a split within g14.

The French club supports Michel Platini, who is also a Frenchman. It is not known what deal happened behind the scenes. Perhaps Platini will promote the reform of the French local football policy, which will lead to the future of France allowing elitism in the football field. None of this matters.

The point is, let alone Lyon, even if the French teams are all tied together, it cannot represent the true core will of g14!

What Taylor is worried about is, wait a minute, if Real Madrid chairman Calderon raises objections, how will the passionate Aulas end at this time?

Does he have the courage to challenge the representatives of the Spanish giants?

How can he have the courage to unify the overall will of g14?

After Aulas finished introducing the main discussion of this meeting, Taylor also made some agreement explanations on behalf of UEFA, and then, things went more smoothly than Taylor imagined.

There were no heated arguments, no strong rebuttals from the opposition.

Representatives of the other 18 clubs, the Ligue 1 team took the lead in voting, Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille, agreed!

Ajax, PSV. Porto. The representatives of these three giants from the second-tier European leagues did not dare to speak out.

This time and that time. 10 years ago, Ajax was famous in Europe, and 10 years later, Ajax has become a top marginal team in Europe.

They belonged to the role of younger brothers who followed behind the big brother to earn a living. The top giants in g14 had never made a statement. They dared not easily pick sides, let alone follow the crowd. It must not be following clubs like Lyon and Marseille, that would be a self-deprecation!

On the England side, Carter nodded first, and then representatives of Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal agreed.

Rummenigge nods, Calderon nods, Laporta nods, Galliani nods...

Taylor's eyes widened in disbelief. I was really shocked!

So Easy?

After these giants nodded, other teams had no room to resist.

g14 internal. All 19 clubs voted unanimously to accept the agreement with UEFA!

Taylor had no choice but to interject: I may not have made this agreement clear. When signing this agreement, g14 must announce its disbandment!

No one answered him, those giants just looked at Taylor with a tepid look, as if to say: We are not blind and deaf, we can see what is in the agreement, what did you just say, we Hear it too!

Taylor looked away in embarrassment, and his mood suddenly became very comfortable and happy.

g14 compromised!

The confidant of UEFA and the big trouble is about to be removed!

There is a row of lawyers sitting by the wall of the conference room. They are the team hired by g14. To sign an agreement, it must not be an agreement with UEFA. They will sign it if they agree. What if there is a trap in the agreement?

So after the internal vote of g14 passed, the legal team got busy and began to review the terms of the agreement.

The atmosphere in the conference room was still like a pool of stagnant water, no one was whispering and chatting, everyone sat as if nothing to do with them, just waiting to sign the agreement and leave.

Lyon chairman Aulas was full of ambition at this time. He saw that everyone was silent, and he was yelled and reprimanded by Carter in person last year. At this time, he laughed and said: There is nothing wrong with UEFA's policy now. Look, Don't Liverpool and Arsenal benefit from that?

Everyone can understand the subtext in his words.

Arsenal have been able to participate in this season's Champions League due to Millwall's withdrawal from the European competition.

If it weren't for Millwall's upset and elimination of the Champions League last season, it would be hard to say whether Liverpool could win the Champions League.

hehe.

In response to Aulas, there were only chuckles from representatives of many wealthy families.

Some laughs are cold, others are obviously full of sarcasm.

Aulas made fun of himself, and after the legal team confirmed that there was no problem with the agreement, representatives of each club signed the agreement with UEFA Secretary General.

After the agreement was actually signed, Taylor let out a sigh of relief. He shook hands with representatives of various clubs, and then couldn't wait to leave to hold a press conference outside to announce this historic event.

This is UEFA's victory!

And the chaos within UEFA will also come into effect after this agreement, and disappear after the disbandment of g14!

Aulas, Marseille, and Paris Saint-Germain club representatives also got up and left. They wanted to show their faces, probably, to ask Platini for credit.

Just after they left, representatives from Ajax, PSV, and Porto also got up and prepared to leave. They just followed the crowd and didn't have any personal opinions, or even if they did, their voices were too weak. In g14 , who will listen to them?

They are even panicked, afraid of being abandoned by g14. After all, with their competitiveness, they are really not the core strength of European football.

Just as they got up, a voice sounded.

Carter said softly: Three, please stay behind, our meeting hasn't started yet.

The representatives of the three clubs stopped in their tracks, first showing puzzled expressions, then looked at the atmosphere of the scene, and quickly sat back in their seats.

Oh shit!

It's so weird!

England, Italy, Spain, Germany, the representatives of the G14 members of the four major leagues did not move!

What does Carter mean?

Isn't the meeting over?

What do you mean it hasn't started yet?

One minute later, the door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and a group of people strode into the conference room with their heads held high.

The leader walking in the middle is Aldridge in a suit and leather shoes with a confident smile on his face!

On both sides behind him, on the left is Beckenbauer, and on the right is Chelsea boss Abramovich!

Further on, there were more than a dozen people, all of whom were representatives of well-capitalized sponsors in the European sports field, as well as representatives of TV broadcasting giants!

Ajax, Eindhoven, Porto, the representatives of the three clubs were dumbfounded, and their hearts were beating like thunder. They saw that the lifeless atmosphere of the scene changed subtly with the expressions of each participant, because the expressions of the representatives of the giants , there was palpable excitement!

No matter how stupid people are, they all know what will happen next, and the representatives of the three clubs suddenly felt a chill in their hearts.

damn it!

fortunately!

Fortunately, I didn't leave with the three representatives from France!

Aldrich walked to the top chair at the long conference table and opened the boss chair, unbuttoned his suit jacket, sat down naturally, moved forward a bit, straightened his back, raised a smile, and put his right hand on the table like Knock on the door and tap on the table twice.

Dangdang

Gentlemen, now let's get down to business. (To be continued

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