Chapter 976 starts with the introduction of Messi!

After the Premier League Chairman’s Summit, Yang Huan specially invited everyone to the restaurant to enjoy a wonderful afternoon tea.

This is a big sign of the Southampton Undersea Hotel.

After the meal, after seeing off the club representatives one by one, Yang Huan took Ron Gourlay, Hamad, Daniel Levy and Mubarak to the conference room where the meeting had just been held for a small meeting.

As soon as he entered the door, Hamad could hardly hide the excitement on his face.

"Hehehe, Master Huan, we can have a great time this time!"

Isn’t it?

After the reform of the Premier League's overseas copyright revenue, the higher the ranking of the team, the more income it will earn.

Especially for teams with market appeal, the more live broadcasts they have and the higher their ranking, the greater the income gap between them and weaker teams will be, and the gap will most likely return to about twice.

According to the new division plan, the bottom team is expected to reach around 85 million pounds, while the championship team may reach around 170 million pounds. Both figures are very shocking.

But for Southampton, it's nothing.

One hundred and seventy million pounds is only about a quarter of the Saints' wealth, which is nothing.

"Hamad, you would think so, and other teams would definitely think so too. Let me tell you, the European transfer market next summer will be quite exciting, so you should prepare yourself early!"

Mubarak from Manchester City also smiled and nodded, "Master Huan, do you have any good recommendations?"

"What good introduction can I give?" Yang Huan shook his head with amusement.

"Master Huan, everyone in Europe knows that you, Master Huan, have a keen eye and you never make mistakes when you take a fancy to a player. Southampton's scouting system is a gold medal guarantee. Please give us some advice."

The transfer market is like a vast ocean, with all kinds of mud and sand mixed in, and signing players carries a huge risk.

Just like Chelsea, their recruitment efforts have suffered setbacks one after another. Neither Cuadrado nor Falcao can adapt to the team.

Therefore, Manchester City's signings in the past few years have either been to spend a lot of money to buy talented and reliable stars, or to spend a lot of money to poach players from other Premier League teams, but basically did not poach potential players.

The reason is very simple. Firstly, Manchester City's scouts are relatively weak in this aspect. Secondly, the team has high requirements and is not suitable for young players to come forward.

But in the final analysis, the first one is the main reason.

Yang Huan smiled and shook his head. "You guys at Manchester City are different from other teams. You should focus on being the rich. Spend money when you should. Don't think about being frugal. That's a virtue that only us losers should have. You rich guys don't need it!"

Hey! Mubarak almost burst out laughing!

What? You Huan Shao Ye said he was a loser? We are rich? Are you sure you are not kidding me?

"Over the past few years, the mid- and lower-tier teams in the Premier League have basically figured out their own way of playing and their own business routes. They are not stupid and know how to avoid being taken advantage of."

Relatively speaking, the signings of the mid- and lower-level Premier League teams are, to some extent, more astute than those of the top teams.

Because they have to spend every penny wisely and every signing must be valuable, otherwise the team's strength will be immediately affected, so they are also very cautious.

To some extent, what Yang Huan said was not wrong.

This kind of smart signing should be left to the mid- and lower-level teams. As for Manchester City, they should just focus on spending money on players.

As a local tycoon, you must fulfill the duties of a local tycoon!

"Master Huan, what do you think will be the reaction of other top teams if the news spreads?" Hamad asked curiously.

He looked very excited, as if he wished that the other teams would be scared to death.

When Yang Huan saw his look, he couldn't help but shook his head. He was just too naive.

"I'm telling you, they won't react."

Hamad stopped laughing immediately. "How is that possible?"

"Yeah, eat when you're supposed to, drink when you're supposed to, do what you're supposed to do, what else can you expect?"

"But aren't they nervous?" Hamad asked curiously.

"Why are you so nervous?" Yang Huan shook his head and laughed, "Do you think that with our improved financial strength, we can snatch players from Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and other teams?"

Hamad was suddenly speechless.

This is indeed difficult, because for these three teams, unless they take the initiative to let go of their players, it will be difficult for Premier League teams to poach them no matter how rich they are.

It's not about money, it's about the overall appeal of the team.

It can be said that in today's Premier League, except Southampton, no other team has such appeal.

One of the important reasons why Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur were able to poach Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo from Barcelona and Real Madrid this time is that Cristiano Ronaldo is old.

This league always needs some competition to be interesting.

Without Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi's market value will be weakened.

Barcelona is not like Real Madrid, whose capital operation is not good enough, so they came up with the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to sell Messi to cash in.

One hundred and fifty million euros, this sum of money is enough to make Barcelona happy.

But the problem is that Barcelona now has this money but cannot buy the players it wants.

They originally wanted Isco and Koke from Atletico Madrid, but Atletico Madrid refused to sell and tried their best to retain the two players.

So now Barcelona has to shift its target and look for alternatives.

Isn't it the same for Bayern Munich?

Originally, the Bundesliga giants were ambitious to get Douglas Costa and Kingsley Coman, but Hamburg refused to let go. As a result, Bayern Munich had no choice but to turn to introduce Firmino and Draxler.

It can be said that in the transfer market, there are only a few superstars, and they are hard to come by.

Yang Huan also had to be thankful that he was a time traveler. Without this identity, how could the Saints gather such a group of outstanding superstars?

For the Saints today, the most important thing to do is to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and establish their status and influence as a super giant in one fell swoop.

Start by bringing in Messi!

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Things in this world are so interesting.

When everyone in the Premier League felt that the Premier League would undergo huge changes and even have a huge impact on European football, in the eyes of the world, it seemed that no one took it seriously at all.

The Premier League did not make a big publicity about this matter, but only posted an announcement on its official website.

In addition to mentioning the reform of the distribution of the Premier League's overseas broadcasting rights, the announcement also mentioned several initiatives that the Premier League will focus on launching in the future, including ticket subsidy policies to support away fans, increasing efforts to develop youth training, subsidizing youth training for lower-level league teams, and continuing to increase investment in community and grassroots football.

At the same time, the Premier League also mentioned that the 20 teams have reached an agreement on resolving the club's wage arrears issue.

This is also something that many fans don’t understand.

That is, although the Premier League teams look glamorous, in fact, behind the glamorous appearance, there are also many unknown secrets. Withholding salaries for club staff is one of them.

Do Premier League teams have no money?

Not at all!

At least they are quite diligent in paying the players and coaches’ salaries.

However, when it comes to the issue of staff salaries, many mid- and lower-level teams have delayed payments or have not paid them in full.

This has also led to British trade unions being very dissatisfied with the practices of Premier League clubs over the past period of time.

So, this time, the Premier League reached an agreement with the 20 Premier League teams to solve this problem as soon as possible.

What’s interesting is that as soon as the announcement was made, all reporters and media immediately focused their attention on ticket subsidies and the agreement to resolve wage arrears, but they all intentionally or unintentionally ignored the reform of overseas copyright income distribution.

This move by the media naturally attracted the attention of fans, and almost everyone overlooked the most important point.

This made all the Premier League bigwigs feel angry and amused.

Damn it! It’s so frustrating that the result I negotiated with great effort was ignored.

However, it is impossible for the Premier League to publicize and promote it everywhere, because it is meaningless, isn't it?

Yang Huan didn't focus on this at all because Zhang Ning came to the UK.

But don't get me wrong, she didn't come here just for Young Master Huan.

At least, this is not the main reason.

After WeChat Video won the copyright of the Premier League, it has gradually gained some experience through operations, and has successively won the live broadcast rights of many important events such as NBA and F1, becoming a well-known online live broadcaster in China.

WeChat Video itself has also tasted the sweetness in this field.

You know, in today's era of mobile Internet, the spread of information is getting faster and faster, but copying is becoming more and more convenient, and piracy is difficult to eliminate, so free things are naturally popular.

In the past, WeChat Video has been trying to use timeliness, differentiated services and value-added services to promote user consumption, and has indeed found a path suitable for its own development.

Sports events are undoubtedly a very attractive segment.

This is also why people say that content is king and sports programs are the king of content.

Today, WeChat Video has also begun to ambitiously develop overseas markets, with East Asia and Southeast Asia being the first to be targeted. This is the area where WeChat Video will focus its efforts next.

Therefore, WeChat Video is now trying its best to obtain the live broadcast rights of the Premier League, Champions League and other European events in Southeast Asia.

It was for this purpose that Zhang Ning came to Europe in person.

Nowadays, except for the Premier League and the Champions League, the overseas copyrights of Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga and Ligue 1 are relatively cheap, which is not a problem at all for the wealthy WeChat Video.

Of course, what is more important is to have Young Master Huan to maneuver and run around.

While Yang Huan was traveling around Europe with Zhang Ning, there were also some sudden waves in the transfer market.

First, Real Madrid failed to poach Aguero from Manchester City. Manchester City suddenly announced a contract extension with Aguero, and the Argentine superstar decided to stay with the team. This made Real Madrid depressed and surprised the whole world.

Coincidentally, shortly afterwards, Manchester United also announced that De Gea would stay with the team, and Real Madrid's poaching efforts failed again.

This made fans and media reporters all over the world excited. What was going on?

The two Manchester giants actually rejected Real Madrid's poaching attempt at the same time?

What are they doing?

Fortunately, after failing to poach players from Manchester United and Manchester City, Real Madrid quickly shifted its target and immediately reached a deal with Bayern Munich to bring Lewandowski from the Bundesliga.

Although neither team announced the transfer amount, it is reported that Lewandowski's transfer fee is similar to the amount that Cristiano Ronaldo transferred to Tottenham Hotspur.

This made football fans all over the world go crazy!

Another transfer worth over 100 million, so exciting, isn’t it?

Not only that, after Real Madrid announced the introduction of Lewandowski, Florentino also reiterated that Real Madrid is still dealing with Manchester United and Manchester City and will not give up on the introduction of De Gea and Aguero.

At the same time, in order to avoid the plan failing, Real Madrid is also actively making second-hand preparations.

However, Yang Huan did not pay too much attention to the news about Real Madrid, because after taking Zhang Ning to the south coast of Spain for a nice short vacation, he returned to the UK to welcome the Community Shield.

At the same time, there was another piece of news that surprised him greatly.