Chapter 808: I'm Against It!
"Guys, it's great to be able to take the time out of your busy schedule to attend the Premier League Summit."
"First of all, let me introduce you first!"
With a gesture of Richard Scudmoore's hand, the two middle-aged men with the Burnley sign in front of them stood up and nodded to the left and right at the round table.
"These two are Burnley's representatives, John Barnaskiwicz, who is the general manager of the famous British shipping company FIS, and next to him is Burnley's chairman, Mike Glick!"
Amid the courtesy applause of the crowd, the two returned to their seats.
Burnley are neither a big team nor a big city, and the last time they returned to the Premier League was five years ago, when they were relegated in one season, and the chairman at the time was not them.
"This is the president of Leicester City, Mr. Vitsa Rakriskothorne from Thailand, next to his son, who is currently the vice-president of Leicester City."
Vitsa is a figure on the Forbes list of Thailand, ranked 11th, but is already a little famous in the Premier League.
Don't look at this Thai tycoon's glasses and look kind, just think he's a good man.
In fact, he became famous precisely because he did two very tyrant things.
Once, when he went to the home stadium of Leicester City, the private jet was parked on the side of the pitch, but the game was lost, and he was depressed, and before the game was over, he got on the private jet and drove away while everyone was stunned.
Can you imagine how tycoon this guy had to be at that time?
Another thing is that Leicester City, as the strongest team in the Championship, shouted that he would invest 180 million pounds to help the team compete for European qualification when they won the Premier League promotion.
This immediately became the laughing stock of many fans and even those in the Premier League industry.
With the strength and foundation of the Leicester City team, 180 million pounds wants to qualify for Europe?
Are you sure it's not a joke?
Therefore, as soon as this father and son from Thailand stood up, some people at the scene couldn't help but laugh.
Fortunately, the father and son didn't know why everyone was laughing, so it was nothing.
However, it has to be said that Leicester City is the most likely to be relegated from the three promoted teams this season.
The last horse to be promoted was Queen's Park Rangers, owned by a wealthy man from Malaysia, the owner of Malaysia Airlines, Tony Fernandez.
Two of the three Premier League promoted teams are owned by owners from Asia, which shows the influence of the Premier League in Asia.
As for Queens Park Rangers, they are not very strong in the Championship, but they have a well-known manager.
Former Tottenham Hotspur coach Redknapp!
Through Redknapp's relationship, Queens Park Rangers made a lot of moves as soon as they were promoted to the Premier League, such as bringing in Rio Ferdinand from Manchester United, and this transfer also surprised many people.
Yang Huan sat on the seat and looked at the three promoted horses, and couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart.
"Peter, you say, in a year's time, who of these three people will be able to sit here?"
Peter Kenyon smiled slightly, "I'm afraid it's enough, the only hope is the Leicester City team, and the rest of the Queens Park Rangers and Burnley are basically a season tour!" ”
Yang Huan nodded, he felt the same way.
"Oh, by the way, did you just propose that Tottenham Hotspur bring in John Stones and Begovic?"
"Well, yes, when I was chatting with Daniel Levy, I casually mentioned it, is there any problem?"
Yang Huan shook his head, "It's nothing, it's just that when Daniel Levy was talking to Hamad just now, I was a little strange." ”
After a pause, Yang Huan smiled again, "Actually, Tottenham Hotspur really wants to bring in these two players, or good, Chelsea can't buy Stones, and the determination to buy Ranocchia will be greater, and ...... when the time comes."
In the end, Young Master Huan couldn't help but glance at Abramovich secretly.
The Chelsea owner happened to look at him as well, and the two exchanged faces, and the Russian snorted viciously and turned his head.
"Eh, I said, I didn't play with his wife, nor did I cut off his wealth, you say, why does he always look at me unpleasantly?"
Yang Huan asked very incomprehensibly.
Just rely on our young master Huan, who loves everyone, sees flowers blooming, and sees the pink and tender little fresh meat in the car, who doesn't like it?
Why does Abramovich seem to have a hatred for his wife?
While Yang Huan was complaining, Richard Scudmore had already introduced the income of the Premier League team last season.
'This past season, a new broadcast contract came into effect, and under this contract, a total of £6 billion was sold worldwide, which is also a huge improvement from the previous one.
"According to this contract, according to the rules of the past Premier League broadcast revenue sharing, our league champions, Southampton, have earned 40 million pounds more than last season, and the income exceeded 100 million pounds!"
As soon as Skudmoor's words came out, the audience was in an uproar.
In the past two seasons, Southampton won the Premier League, but the Saints, who won both seasons, have a difference of 40 million pounds in terms of broadcast fees, which shows how powerful the new broadcast contract is.
"Not only has the income of the champion team increased, but the income of the bottom team has also increased by 25 million pounds, which means that in the past season, Cardiff, who are at the bottom of the Premier League, has similar revenue share to Southampton, who won the championship last season!"
When everyone heard this, they all sighed.
A Premier League champion with a broadcast revenue share of £100 million, which is definitely the best in European football.
Moreover, for the current Premier League team, there is no need to deliberately pursue the Champions League, because the income of the Premier League itself is quite amazing.
"The new season will be the second year of the new contract, and we will officially start the negotiation process for the next contract in six months, and before that, we all hope that the Premier League teams can get out of the British Isles and out of Europe."
Everyone is a beneficiary of the new contract, and they all understand what Scudmore means.
If the Premier League had not actively developed overseas markets in the past, would the Premier League have the current income?
"We have reached an agreement with Miracle Media that they hope that we can arrange some important competitions, such as the FA Cup final, the League Cup final, or the Community Shield, to be held overseas, which will greatly enhance our overseas influence."
"Not only that, they are also actively preparing, hoping to organize more friendly matches of Premier League teams overseas, hoping to get the active cooperation of the Premier League and the Premier League teams, I don't know what you think?"
This is also an important topic of the Chairman's Summit.
The current summer preparation is very complicated, and the warm-up matches are basically fought separately, and a lot of resources are wasted.
It's like Everton, the warm-up matches are arranged in the UK, playing with some teams in the lower leagues, not to mention the low value of the warm-up, and the income is very little, or even almost none.
But if Everton goes to Asia or North America to play a warm-up game, the appearance fee can be at least 1 million, plus the commercial value, how can it be better than playing a warm-up game in England and Europe, right?
After the great success of the International Champions Cup, Miracle Media has sufficient resources and rich experience in this area, and has no problem undertaking the overseas warm-up matches and important finals of the Premier League.
Therefore, as soon as Scudmore finished speaking, the scene began to talk in an uproar.
But suddenly, someone stood up and shouted, "I'm against it!" ”
Such a good thing, and there are still people who oppose it?
Everyone looked at it, wasn't it Abramovich?
"The current warm-up matches are arranged by each club on its own, giving autonomy, and everyone can choose the warm-up opponent to prepare for the game according to their own situation."
"However, if we cooperate with Miracle Media, our income may not increase, but we have to accept the arrangements of outsiders, and they may not think about our team, so I think that if we want to play overseas warm-up games, we can organize and organize them ourselves, and there is no need to cooperate with Miracle Media."
Abramovich's analysis still makes some sense.
Many of the people present were also nodding.
But soon, Tottenham's Daniel Levy also stood up, shook his head and said: "Roman's words are a bit taken for granted. ”
"Sure, I think?" Abramovich was not happy.
"Yes, one thing you are right about, we have also organized Premier League overseas warm-up matches and preseason matches in the past, but the effect can only be said to be relatively average, but maybe you don't know, at that time, our events were also similar to Miracle Media, but the strength is far inferior, otherwise, how can we and the Premier League alone?"
Many people present who knew the inside story immediately nodded in unison.
"I have learned about Miracle Media, they have experience in organizing events in North America, Asia and the Middle East, and the success of the International Champions Cup, I believe everyone knows about it, so I believe in their ability to operate."
"As for transplanting cup finals overseas, there is a precedent in Serie A, and the response has been overwhelming, and I think we can give it a try, and even in the foreseeable future, we can even consider arranging some important strong dialogue sessions overseas."
"Of course, we need a more professional company to be responsible for the specific operation, but what I want to say is that the importance of overseas markets is needless to say, and how to further develop overseas markets will be the key to our continued development in the future!"
When it comes to professionalism in the field of business, if you give Abramovich ten more horses, he will not be able to catch up with Daniel Levy.
So, as soon as the CEO of Tottenham Hotspur finished speaking, he immediately received support from teams such as Southampton, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City, and even many teams in the middle and lower tiers spoke out.
Don't look at their income now, but an overseas warm-up game, one or two million pounds, for them, a lot.
More importantly, actively develop overseas markets, if you can sign a few more sponsorship contracts, it will make a lot of money.
In the end, in this room, everyone except Abramovich thought that they should work with Miracle Media.
This immediately left Chelsea and Roman Abramovich alone.
"Okay, I know everyone's opinions!"
Scudmore appropriately called for a halt to the discussion.
As the CEO of the Premier League, he has to keep the atmosphere under control and avoid people breaking up.
"We will continue to talk to Miracle Media on behalf of the Premier League and try to launch this plan next summer, and even if the FA agrees, we can try this season's League Cup and FA Cup finals."
"Of course, we've always been on a voluntary basis, and if a team doesn't want to join the program, that's fine!"
With that said, Scudmore immediately moved on to the next topic.
And Abramovich also sat down indignantly.
He found that his words at this round table were becoming more and more weightless.
What a damn thing!