Chapter 370 Who is afraid of whom?

When Yang Huan was enjoying the unprecedented touching feeling in his own villa, far away in London, Steven Howard, the gold medal columnist of The Sun, pushed open the door of his home.

He had just returned from dinner with a senior executive of the Premier League and was now exhausted.

He sat down on the sofa, looked up at the ceiling, and soon closed his eyes.

He didn't know how much time had passed before the ringing of his cell phone woke him up.

"Hello" Steven Howard was a little helpless.

The caller ID showed Rebekah Wade, editor-in-chief of The Sun and his immediate boss.

"Steven, how is it? Have you heard any news?" the editor-in-chief on the other end of the phone asked.

Steven Howard was secretly complaining in his heart.

You don’t care whether I’m tired or not, or what time it is, but you care about tomorrow’s news. Do you have any humanity at all?

However, he had to keep these words in his heart.

The Sun is like this. The pressure is high, but the influence is also great. The employees are paid well, especially gold medal columnists like Steven Howard, whose income and influence are unmatched by other newspaper columnists.

"I did find out, but there's nothing valuable to report. I heard the negotiations have reached a stalemate."

"Why?" Rebekah Wade was a little surprised.

Steven Howard held his cell phone to his ear with one hand and pinched his frown with the other.

"It's mainly Southampton."

This team is really a hot potato, but it is a hot potato that everyone wants to fight for.

"Sky TV wants to give Southampton the treatment of the top four teams and broadcast more games of the Saints, even at the expense of reducing the live broadcast of games of teams such as Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City."

"But the Premier League's idea is to increase Southampton's live broadcasts without reducing the broadcasts of several Premier League teams, and then reorganize the seven broadcast packages."

If someone who is not familiar with the inside story, even a veteran football fan, listens to Steven Howard's words, he will be confused and will not understand how many tricks are involved.

But Rebekah Wade understood.

Once the number of live broadcasts increases, the number of live broadcasts in each of the seven broadcast packages will also increase.

In other words, broadcasters need to pay more to bid for these broadcast packages.

Sky TV is undoubtedly the most relied-upon broadcaster of the Premier League. This television organization is almost the most important source of income for the Premier League's broadcasting rights. However, in the UK, Sky TV's dependence on the Premier League's broadcasting rights is also very high.

In recent years, more and more television organizations have begun to consciously challenge Sky's leading position in the UK's pay television, and the most powerful weapon is the Premier League broadcasting rights.

This year, I heard that British Telecom intends to intervene, which is bound to lead to a struggle between the three major television organizations, EpN, British Telecom and Sky TV. In the end, the highest bidder will win.

If, under such circumstances, more live Premier League matches are broadcast, the broadcasting costs for television organizations will be even higher.

In other words, the Premier League broadcasting rights are likely to hit a new high

"According to the evaluation of the Premier League and Sky TV, Southampton's appeal in the UK is no less than that of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. In particular, the team's performance in the Europa League this season has greatly brought honor to British football and won the favor of countless local fans."

"As for high-quality resources, the three TV stations are all striving for it, and the Premier League is also striving to maximize its benefits. Therefore, the negotiations are a bit deadlocked now, but..."

After Steven Howard's scolding, Rebekah Wade immediately became a little anxious.

"But what?"

"However, judging from the current situation, regardless of whether the number of matches is increased or not, the broadcast price for a single match will definitely exceed 6.5 million pounds."

Six and a half million pounds?

Rebekah Wade calculated that even if the number of live broadcasts was not increased, the broadcasting rights for three years would exceed 3 billion pounds.

This is twice the previous broadcasting rights contract.

It can also be seen that the Premier League now holds the initiative. If the number of matches is not increased, the broadcasting fee for each match will have to be increased.

If you don't want to raise the broadcast fee for a single game, that's fine, then increase the number of broadcasts.

"Southampton is really troublesome"

When Manchester City rose before, it did not bring such trouble.

But Southampton is obviously different from Manchester City, and the Saints have more market appeal and influence.

Thinking of this, Rebekah Wade also understood that this piece of news would definitely not make the front page headlines tomorrow.

Fortunately, he made preparations for everything.

"Steven, you should go to Youtu.be now."

"Why?" Steven Howard was a little surprised.

It's so late. I'm tired and want to go to bed. Should I go to Youtu.be?

"Your old friend, Charlene Lahiri's self-media interview program [off-site] has been released."

"Really?" He was very busy today.

"I watched the show and it received a very good response, especially some of Yang Huan's words, which not only vindicated countless new fans, but also challenged some old fans' understanding of football. It was very interesting."

Steven Howard's face suddenly turned bitter.

He seemed to have understood the editor-in-chief's subtext.

"Are you planning to use this as the headline for tomorrow's headline?"

Rebekah Wade laughed helplessly, "There's nothing I can do. There's no big news today. This is the only way."

Sure enough, after laughing, Rebekah Wade said, "Go and take a look. Write a review in the evening."

Without waiting for Steven Howard to say anything more, Rebekah Wade said, "That's it," and hung up the phone.

"That's it?" Steven Howard almost cried.

What time is it now?

It's the middle of the night, and you still want me to finish my manuscript?

Are you human? Do you have humanity?

But the editor-in-chief task has come down on him, and he has to do it.

I could only take the laptop with resentment, turn it on, and log into Youtu.be directly.

Charlene Lahiri's Off-Course is recommended on the homepage of Youtube.com, click to enter.

“Wow, it’s getting so many good reviews.”

Looking at the comments under the Youtube videos, most of them are positive and full of compliments.

Occasionally there are some criticisms, but they are quickly drowned out by the praise.

How long has it been?

The hit rate has reached one million.

Steven Howard was stunned.

It turns out that being a self-media person is so popular these days?

"I am not a fan of Yang Huan. In the past, I always felt that he did not understand football."

"At least, he didn't have a deep understanding of professional football."

"It is undeniable that he is a very, very talented person. He has done many, many things and achieved great success, but in the field of football management, I have always felt that he is not successful."

"In the past, I have heard a lot of his remarks, some of which were sensational, such as offering free tickets, but in my eyes, those were more of a kind of bombastic rhetoric that was impossible to achieve."

"But after watching his interview with Charlene Lahri, I completely overturned all my previous impressions of Yang Huan. I found that he might not have a deep understanding of professional football."

"However, his sharp and forward-looking vision has led us to understand the current football context and the future development trend of professional football."

"This reminds me of one thing. He was only 22 years old, a complete young man."

"In the interview, he seemed to represent the voice of the young fans in their twenties."

"Football is a sport that belongs to fans, both old and new fans. But ultimately, its future belongs to new fans, including those fake fans who are always looked down upon by old fans."

"He was also protesting that being a fan does not mean only coming to the stadium to watch the game, or only watching and listening to the game on TV or on the radio."

"As long as you like football, as long as you have favorite players and teams that you follow, even if you never go to a game or watch a live broadcast, you are still a qualified football fan."

"His words made me feel that he was subverting our past impression of fans."

"He's also revolutionizing our understanding of professional football."

"After watching this interview program, I felt a lot, and my originally tired spirit became very excited."

"I was thinking, maybe it's not that he doesn't understand football, nor is it that he's not doing his job properly."

"But he thought too far ahead and went too far."

"But no matter what, from now on, I will start paying attention to Southampton and Yang Huan"

When Yang Huan sat in the office of the Staplewood training base, crossed his legs and read this morning's Sun, his mood, which was already extremely good due to the great enjoyment he had last night, suddenly became even better.

I couldn't stop smiling when I saw the reporter's signature below the newspaper comment.

"Steven Howard"

Yang Huan remembered that this reporter, a friend of Charlene Lahiri, had been included in Charlene Lahiri's self-media guests.

Charlene Lahiri’s self-media has recorded five episodes so far. The first episode was released yesterday and the response was very enthusiastic.

As of this morning, the hits have exceeded three million, and are expected to reach five million within 24 hours.

This is quite difficult for a self-media program.

Yang Huan took out his cell phone, opened WeChat, found Charlene Lahri, tapped the screen quickly with his fingers, and sent a message.

"Ms. Lahiri, the show has become popular. When will you fulfill the conditions you promised?"

When I think of that **'s condition, my heart warms up.

Soon, the other party responded with a blushing and cute expression, followed by a sentence.

"Can you stay out all night now?"

Yang Huan curled his lips, laughed, and replied, "A few days or nights is no problem. Tell me, when?"

"at any time"

Wow, you are quite arrogant.

Yang Huan's mind flashed with the provocative look of Charlene Lahri, and he felt a little excited.

"Why not do it now?"

"Now?"

Soon, another one came.

“I’m at work.”

Yang Huan immediately sent a smug expression, "So you still said anytime?"

She quickly responded with an angry expression as if she was going to stab him.

“Right now”

"Your home or my home?" Yang Huan immediately asked with a smile.

The other party was obviously hesitant, and after about ten seconds he replied, "My house, come if you can."

"Who is afraid of whom? The tortoise is afraid of the hammer."

After saying that, Yang Huan turned off his phone, then looked at Long Wu who was playing mobile games, and felt a little worried.

"Old Five, give me the car keys. You stay here. I'll be back soon."

The fewer people who know about stealing jade and perfume, the better.

"Master, where are you going?" Long Wu immediately turned off his phone and stood up.

Didn't we say that we should wait until Bielsa finishes his morning training session before discussing the transfer?

Why are you leaving suddenly?

This boy looks very loyal and he is determined to follow his opponent no matter what difficulties lie ahead.

Yang Huan smiled bitterly.

Sometimes being too loyal is not necessarily a good thing

"It's okay, I'm just going out for a walk, you wait for me here."

"Oh" Long Wu could only agree.

I felt puzzled. I always followed the young master wherever he went, so why did he want to act alone now?

Could it be

Under Long Wu's ambiguous and playful gaze, Yang Huan took the car keys, turned around and left.

I felt so depressed.

Why am I such a serious person, always misunderstood?

Could it be that the word "pervert" is written on my face?

It seems that the main reason is that I am too honest and don't know how to pretend.

But he didn't see that something happened on the training ground downstairs.