Yang Huan has never denied that everything he has built is based on a premise.

He's a traverser!

Without this premise, he would not have been able to choose Bielsa, nor would he have been able to bring in a large number of outstanding potential stars at such a low price to create the Southampton they are today.

These two points can be said to be crucial.

You must know that in recent years, with the arms race between Barcelona and Real Madrid, and with the strong intervention of local tycoons such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, the supply of talents for first-line stars in European football has been in short supply.

This is also the main reason why, in recent years, the transfer value of first-line stars has been rising.

According to the law of the market economy, if it is scarce, it will naturally be expensive.

So, if Yang Huan is not a traverser, how can Southampton buy this batch of stars?

Even if you can buy it, how much will it cost?

Giants such as Manchester United, who keep saying that they want to recover, have invested so much money, and as a result, are the teams that have been formed competitive?

This is what Yang Huan mentioned, the attractiveness of Premier League teams in terms of talent resources is declining.

So what is the reason for the decline in the Premier League's attractiveness?

Anyone who knows a lot about player transfers knows that there are many factors that affect player transfers, but those are the most important.

One of the easiest to be the first to rule out is the league level.

It is impossible for the popular stars of the five major leagues to mix in second-rate leagues such as the Portuguese Super League and the Eredivisie.

However, with the Premier League at about the same level as La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1, the team's results, technical and tactical style, personal salary package, and positioning in the team have become the key to determining the transfer of players.

Looking at it this way, the problem of the Premier League is very simple.

The team's poor results, the fierce competition in the overall league environment, and the incompatibility of technical and tactical styles with the mainstream of Europe have directly led to the lack of attraction of top players in the Premier League.

You must know that in the past few years from 04 to 09, the technical and tactical level of the Premier League is still quite high.

At that time, Mourinho and Benitez's style of play was also advanced in the European continent, and the Premier League was not so competitive at that time, so the attraction to players was still very strong.

So at that time, the Premier League gathered a number of popular European superstars such as Xavi Alonso, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Cesc Fabregas, Nemanjac Vidic, and Makelele, all of which depended on the overall environment of the Premier League at that time.

But in the past few years, European football has changed dramatically, has the Premier League improved?

Another point, which I am afraid few have noticed, is the increase in the Premier League tax rate and the weakness of the pound in recent years.

As we all know, the European continent uses the euro, but the Premier League uses the pound sterling to settle, but the trend of the pound in recent years is obvious to all, coupled with the British government has increased the tax rate, making the Premier League completely become the league with the highest tax rate among the four major leagues.

Think about it, under these two aspects, how much does it cost a Premier League team to offer a player the same salary package as other leagues?

Skudmore knows all about the points mentioned by Yang Huan, and he is relatively clear.

But none of this can be changed by him.

It's like talking about tax rates, it's about the British government and the law, what can he do?

Also, the well-known labor certification, which also makes the Premier League teams helpless, right?

"In fact, I personally believe that the weakness of the Premier League giants is inseparable from the Premier League's broadcast sharing system." Yang Huan looked at Skudmore and said slowly.

Skudmore frowned when he heard this, "I don't really understand. ”

This problem is not small, if it is not good, if it spreads, it will be said to be said at any time, Young Master Huan is criticizing the Premier League broadcast rights distribution system, it is not a trivial matter.

"A lot of people say that the Premier League's broadcast fee sharing system is an innovation, but in fact, it is a product of the Premier League's pre-existence, when the benefit distribution system of England's top league has begun to emphasize the equal wealth and poverty."

At that time, the distribution system of the English top flight seemed quite strange in its opinion.

For example, the matchday income has to be taken out, and the home and away teams are divided.

Just imagine, would those big teams be willing?

They work hard to attract sponsors, advertise, and attract fans, but the money they earn has to be shared with the small teams that come to play?

Why?

Oh, just because you came to play a game with me?

Mother hippie, I don't dislike that your level is too poor, it's good, you still dare to say that you want to share the money?

As a result, in the 80s of the last century, the teams in the English top league began to quarrel, and finally the equalization system was abolished.

But in today's FA Cup competition, there is still such a tradition, so many big teams would rather go to small teams to play away, why?

First, the FA Cup is not very attractive, the income is not much, and then one point with the away team, I will go, how many cents can I leave?

But the home facilities of the giant team are called advanced, how much does it cost to maintain? How much does it cost to do labor?

This is full of calculations, not to mention making money, it would be good if you didn't lose money.

Therefore, the big teams play the FA Cup to go away, and some simply don't want to score even points, so they are cheap away teams at that time.

There is also the sharing of broadcast fees.

You know, at that time, all four levels of the English league were maintained by the broadcast fees of the top leagues.

In other words, the broadcast rights of the League One can only be divided into half of the revenue, the second tier of League Two is divided into 25 per cent, and the third and fourth leagues are divided into the remaining 25 per cent.

That's enough to make League One teams depressed.

Because compared to the high operating costs, facility maintenance costs, and player and labor salaries of the top leagues, the money allocated to the small teams in the lower leagues can be said to be almost completely unearned.

I don't even know how many owners of small teams at that time, the purpose of maintaining the survival of the team is for this money.

Because of this, the League One team, with the support of the broadcasters, collectively rebelled and created the Premier League.

But in fact, even now, the Premier League still has to allocate a lot of money every year to support teams in the lower leagues, which is a condition that has been negotiated since the establishment of the Premier League.

From the point of view of the present, the glorious saga of English football history is precisely based on this distribution.

Therefore, Nottingham Forest can rise as a small team, can create a chance for promotion to win the championship, and can successfully defend the title in the European arena, because behind Nottingham Forest, it is the average share of the big team's game-day income and the share of broadcast rights that are nourished.

So, does that make sense?

Is it time to return to this time and reinvigorate English football?

From the point of view of the small team, of course, there is no doubt about it, it is their spring.

But for the big teams, it's a nightmare.

This kind of system has certainly created the rise of small teams and the emergence of upsets, but it has also created the unwillingness of big teams to forge ahead.

As the most prosperous big city in the United Kingdom, and at the same time the highest consumption power in the United Kingdom, London, which has the hottest ball market, has never achieved good results in football, why is this?

Manchester United's resurgence was in the nineties, and many people said it was Ferguson, the ninety-second class.

But is it really that simple behind the scenes?

Therefore, after the establishment of the Premier League team, the benefit distribution model was adjusted.

As a direct result, a small team like Nottingham Forest could not have a chance to compete with big cities like London, Manchester and Liverpool, so they were eliminated.

The gap between the Premier League and other leagues is widening and becoming more and more obvious.

Even within the Premier League, there is also a division, led by Manchester United and Arsenal, a group of teams with excellent management and excellent results have risen strongly, establishing their status as giants.

However, the distribution model of the Premier League still has the flavor of the average wealth and poverty of the year.

Regarding Yang Huan's analysis, Skudmore has a different opinion.

"Young Master Huan, what you said is certainly not wrong, but you should also see that this distribution model of the Premier League today is far more reasonable than it was back then."

After a pause, Scudmore said: "You must know that the distribution of the League One back then, in the final analysis, was to ignore the differences in team management and objective environment, and adopt a simple and crude way to achieve the goal of equalizing the wealth and poverty, simply put, it is to exploit the big teams, fund the small teams, so that the rich are not rich, and the poor are not poor." ”

"But now, we recognize differentiation and encourage differentiation, through various operating methods, to make the Premier League bigger and stronger, and then through reasonable distribution, so that the rich get richer, the poor are not poor, and then all teams in the league can be satisfied."

Yang Huan nodded, "Yes, Richard, you are not wrong at all, but I am not to doubt this set of distribution methods, but to explain the fact that when the poor in the Premier League are not poor, but the poor in other leagues are still poor, and our rich are not richer than the rich in other leagues, what changes will be bringed?" ”

At this moment, Skudmore was silent, and he also began to think about the meaning of Young Master Huan's words.

Exploitation, perhaps, should not be called exploitation, but should be called differentiation, which is the basis of the market economy.

In La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona are the only teams in the Spanish Super League, and the two teams account for half of the resources and interests of La Liga, so they can take advantage of other La Liga teams.

The same is true of Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, backed by big conglomerates, large companies, who can attract all the players in the Bundesliga on terms that other teams cannot afford.

But they are all products of full competition in the market economy, and who can say that they are not?

"We have noticed that in the past few years, even relegated teams in the Premier League have been able to get a pretty impressive share of the broadcast every year, which can allow them to buy their favorite players in the transfer market, improve their competitiveness, and shorten the gap with the top teams."

"We all know that it's very different for a team to move from relegation to mid-table or even upper middle and from mid-to-upper middle, right?"

Skudmore finally understood what Young Master Huan meant.

The top four in the league is a hurdle, which is well known.

And what Young Master Huan means is that when the downstream teams have enough purchasing power and can easily attract more than 10 million, or even 20 or 30 million in the transfer market, the cost performance of their reinforcements will definitely be higher than that of strong teams.

Because the bigger the name, the more scarce the star, the more outrageous the premium tends to be.

But the problem now is that the strong teams have encountered problems in terms of recruitment, lack of attractiveness, but the middle and lower teams do not have this problem, and they have introduced a lot of reinforcements, and the gap between the two is getting smaller and smaller, which directly leads to the internal competition of the Premier League almost to a tragic point.

Yes, ten years ago, it was indeed fiercely competitive, and the distribution was still according to this set of models, but ten years ago, the Premier League's domestic broadcast fee was only three billion pounds, but ten years later, it is as high as more than three billion pounds, and even the next contract is estimated to be higher than this, and the outside world estimates that it is definitely more than four and five billion pounds.

And a decade ago, local broadcast fees accounted for almost all of the revenue from broadcasting rights, but now, overseas markets account for a third, and the Internet and other media platforms also occupy a considerable weight.

What happens when a team relegated from the Premier League earns as much as the big teams in other leagues?

It's a very unreasonable, crazy group!