Volume 1 Chapter 601 The Catastrophe of Annihilation

When many fans think about problems, they are often easily influenced by habitual thinking.

For example, they may feel that Manchester United and Liverpool are sworn enemies on the pitch, and their management often fights with each other, and the relationship should be very bad, but in reality, the relationship between Manchester United and Liverpool's management is not bad.

In the same way, they will also feel that the management of the Premier League team has a bad relationship with each other, because they poach each other so frequently, and after many teams are poached, the management has to come out and scold a few words in the media, can such a relationship be good?

So, it's a kind of inertial thinking.

In fact, the transfer of all teams is basically a transaction that you are willing to make, you don't see him scolding in the newspaper, but maybe he is scolding at the same time, counting the money with both hands, so don't always think about things too simple and complicated, to put it bluntly, football is a business for the management of many clubs, especially the owners.

Since football is a business, the management and operation of football is clear when playing with football.

In other words, you can't bring everything that happens on the football field to the operation and management of the team, if you really have that much, sorry, you can't get a foothold in European football at all, because you will offend everyone, and in the end you will be left alone, how to play?

Business is about harmony and making money, while football matches are life and death, so they have to separate

If according to some people's ideas, these Premier League team owners get together, especially when they start discussing player transfers, the atmosphere must be very hot, arguing loudly, and even scolding, but in fact, the real situation is that in this private venue, everyone gathers together in twos and threes, holding a glass of wine in their hands, sitting on the sofa, and talking quietly.

The indescribable gentleman and indescribable demeanor of the whole venue.

It wasn't until Pete Hillwood saw that everyone was coming, that the old Englishman, and the oldest of all the Premier League managers now, walked up to the microphone on the stage and called for everyone to be quiet, and then all the voices in the stadium stopped abruptly.

Perhaps because of Arsenal's dismal results in recent years, and the relationship with many people who have privately ridiculed him as a star processing factory, Pete Hilwood stood on the stage, showing a spirit that he hadn't seen for many years, at least he was proud in his heart, because he felt that his words still had weight, at least so many people were listening to him.

"Thank you very much for taking the time to attend this gathering," Pete Hillwood said to everyone present in a thick and hoarse voice, "The main reason why I have invited everyone here is that I want to discuss one thing with you in advance, because I think this matter will be related to the future trend of the Premier League and the vital interests of the clubs." ”

The group of Jetts in the audience all remained silent and listened carefully to what Hillwood said.

"I'm sure you all know that FIFA and UEFA jointly launched the Uf5 policy, that is, in the 013 season, the policy of six local players and five foreign players in the starting line-up was fully implemented, and from the new season onwards, it has been improving year by year, and we all know why FIFA will implement this policy

The reason why FIFA implements the Uf5 policy is actually to force the major giants to focus on cultivating local players, and the purpose of this is actually to let all the giants or top league teams help the national team cultivate excellent local players for free, so as to strengthen the strength of the national team and increase the intensity and enjoyment of the national team's games.

At the end of the day, this policy is designed to enrich FIFA itself and their football associations.

Not to mention that FIFA's policy is against the constitution of the European Union, it is difficult to work, even if it is not unconstitutional, it is a huge regression for professional football leagues, because the current professional football leagues are more and more integrated, the Premier League is integrating into the European continent, and at the same time it is also technological, and other leagues are also constantly integrating.

Even, with the advent of the information age, this fusion has risen to a kind of fusion between European football and football in other regions such as South America and Africa, and you only have to look at the football leagues in Brazil and Argentina and the players they have produced, and you will see that they are gradually becoming Europeanized.

And integration requires communication, you need to have me, I need you, so foreign aid is equivalent to a medium of integration, but FIFA is now forcing that it is necessary to ensure that the domestic players must start, which is absolutely a disaster for the Premier League team, because you can imagine how many professional teams there are in the UK, and how many professional players there are in the country.

It can be said that the prosperity of the Premier League is brought about by the influx of foreign aid into the Premier League, without which there will be no popularity of the Premier League, and the restriction of foreign aid is actually suppressing the competitiveness of the Premier League.

"I received news that in order to cooperate with the new policy, the FA will implement a registration system of 25 players from the beginning of the new season, and at the same time, among the 25 registered players, eight players must be local youth players, that is, before the age of 21, there must be three years of experience in the Premier League and the Welsh League."

Pete Hillwood's remarks came as a surprise to many of the club managers present, who have not yet received news from the FA, but if that were the case, the vast majority of clubs in the Premier League would have to make major changes because they simply couldn't meet the requirements.

Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur should be considered the least affected, especially Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu's team has always attached great importance to youth training丨Eight local youth players丨For them, there is no big problem, such as Messi, Hazzard, Ramsey, Beckham, Hazzard, Cesc Fabregas, Phil Jones, Kompany, Joe Hart

Pick or choose, you can easily make up eight local youth training places, so this new policy for Tottenham Hotspur, has no effect at all, because although these players are all foreign aids, before the age of 21, they have all been trained in England and Wales for more than three years, so they are all in line with the FA's eight-man quota.

But for the rest of the Premier League, it's a disaster.

In the past, there was only one restriction on the selection of personnel in the Premier League, that is, labor certification, but if this rule is passed now, it will be equivalent to putting another tight spell on the heads of all teams, which is undoubtedly an effective weapon for the FA to fight for its own weight.

To put it bluntly, it's a game.

It's not just the FA that's playing with Premier League teams, it's also the national teams represented by FIFA, playing with the professional leagues, do you really think they're so willing to pay compensation to the internationals who play in the national team?

Don't be stupid, they are also making some demands while paying compensation, and that is the Uf5 policy

"It's an absolute disaster for the Premier League," said Pete Hillwood with some sadness.

I believe that there are many club managers present, especially Manchester City, West Ham United and other local tyrant teams, they are also very popular, and including Chelsea, Liverpool and other first-team teams with a list of about 30 people, now they must also purge some players, and at the same time, they have to consider the list of eight local youth players, and may have to introduce a group of players.

"For the time being, I don't know if the Premier League will accept it, but I think we have to react" Pete Hillwood really has a bit of a posture as a spokesperson for the Premier League teams, "Everyone knows that it has been difficult to reach a consensus on the introduction of the winter break in the Premier League, in this case, the depth of the bench of the first team can ensure the team's ability to fight on multiple fronts, but if it is limited to 25 players, then we will be at an absolute disadvantage compared to the teams on the European continent"

"Also, the restriction on the number of non-local players will lead to a decline in the competitiveness of the Premier League, and the government has raised the tax rate before, and we have understood it after taking into account the government's financial difficulties and the Olympics and so on, but now they are restricting the number of foreign players, which will cause us to lose all our advantages

Pete Hilwood also mentioned the possibility that when the team's first-team roster is limited to 25 players, there will be a lot of problems in the future, which means that when you want to bring in a player and plug the loopholes and weaknesses of the team, you will have to send a player away.

The problem is that it's easy to bring in reinforcements, but it's not necessarily necessary to send players away, especially for some big teams.

Everyone knows why it was so difficult for Chelsea to send away Shevchenko and Ballack in the first place, because their salaries were too high, when you have a list limit, these high-paid players can't get into the list, you definitely can't accept that they can't live with a salary, then the problem comes, if you want to send them away, the other party will definitely do everything possible to lower the price.

The end result is likely to be that you're not just going to have to make a cheap fire sale with a lot of bleeding, but you're also going to have to compensate the players on the salary, which is an absolute disaster for the team that sells people

Of course, the situation that Pete Hilwood said is not a big problem for Tottenham Hotspur, because the age structure of Tottenham Hotspur led by Ye Qiu is well distributed, and the salary structure of Tottenham Hotspur is also very reasonable, and there is no shortage of buyers for players.

But other teams obviously don't think so, even Manchester United and Arsenal, they will inevitably encounter these problems, and Tottenham Hotspur does not have it now, and it does not mean that they will not encounter this situation in the future

'The Premier League is gaining momentum right now, especially at a time when more and more international capital is watching the Premier League, we have won the Champions League three years in a row, and we have some of the best teams in Europe, including Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Chelsea.

When Ye Qiu heard Hillwood put Arsenal at the top, he really had the urge to laugh, Hillwood is too uplifting Arsenal, and the current Gunners can still represent the highest level of the Premier League? Don't be funny

"We now have a global reach, and then we want to further develop the global market, our goal is not to localize, but to look global, we want to focus on the international market, so we need to keep the league and the team competitive, and foreign players are undoubtedly the key to this."

The strength of England's local players is actually relatively bad, the most famous is Arsene Wenger, who spent more than 200 million pounds at Arsenal to buy more than 80 players, of which only seven players are England, but 22 are from France, and he once mentioned in an interview that the ability of English players is indeed too bad.

Of course, Wenger is obviously not talking about Gerrard, Beckham, Ferdinand and other top players in England, he is talking about the vast majority of players, the ability of English players, and England's academy! Failure, these have long been the consensus of everyone.

To put it mildly, it would be a fool's dream to build a team with local English players such as Gareth Barry and want to challenge teams such as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Inter Milan

Although Ye Qiu feels that the new policy does not have a great impact on Tottenham Hotspur, he also agrees with Hillwood's statement that this new policy is definitely a failure, and it will also limit the development momentum of the Premier League, and it may not be able to help the England national team improve its strength.

After all, good players are promoted through internal competition, but if you introduce a new policy to help some of the team's homegrown players get into the first team, or even play games, do you think that is a good thing or a bad thing for those homegrown players? I'm afraid the disadvantages will outweigh the benefits, after all, they don't have competitive pressure at all

Therefore, this New Deal is a stupid policy that the butt decided to come up with in the head, and it is not beneficial to others

If the FA really wants to strengthen the strength of the England national team, then it is very simple, you only need to increase the annual allocation of funds for youth training, and at the same time carry out a thorough reform of England's youth training system, break those bad habits in the past, and over time, the level of England's youth training will improve, the strength of the players will improve, and the strength of the national team will naturally increase.

Looking at the past, behind the improvement of the football level of all countries is the improvement of the level of youth training, just like Germany and Spain, without their strong youth training system as a backing, do you think there will be a blowout of talents in Germany and Spain?

"I've been told that the FA's new policy will be presented at the summit soon, and I think all of our Premier League teams will have to come together and make our voices heard. ”

Hillwood's appeal has also been echoed by many people, after all, this is a matter of vital interest to all of you here, so all of them are also very important.

Following Hillwood, David Gil also made a statement on behalf of Manchester United, fully supporting Hillwood, believing that Premier League teams must play their part and not let the stupid bureaucratic FA pull their nose.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, what do you Tottenham Hotspur think about this matter?" With the words of Hillwood, who returned to the main podium, Ye Qiu suddenly became the focus of attention of everyone in the audience.

Many people are envious, even jealous, because this almost represents Tottenham Hotspur's current status in the Premier League, that is, this north London team has the qualifications to be on an equal footing with Manchester United and Arsenal, the two traditional giants, and even if Arsenal is not the initiator of this rally, it is estimated that the status is not as good as Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu glanced at Peternien, and the bald man smiled at Ye Qiu, the opinions of the two giants of Tottenham Hotspur were obviously the same again, and they both chose to support Hillwood in this matter.

"We fully agree with Mr. Hillwood's proposal in this matter" Peternien stood up, representing Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur in public, "Internationalization has a future, England's local pattern is too small, and the European football market is fiercely competitive, so internationalization is the future of the Premier League"

"In fact, in the past few years, our overseas rights sales revenue has increased year by year, and the overseas rights revenue of the new season has exceeded 500 million pounds, surpassing all other leagues in Europe, and even surpassing the four major professional sports leagues in the United States, which are the most commercialized, and becoming the first sports league in the world."

Note that the £500 million mentioned by Peter Nien is a season's worth of global overseas royalties outside of the UK.

"That is to say, the overseas market has completely caught up with the local market, in this case, the new deal is a reverse, is a regression, we absolutely cannot accept such a policy, because it will bring ruin to our global marketing, and everyone should pay attention to the rise of new media and new technology, the proportion of online copyright is also increasing rapidly."

Peternion's words are to tell all the management who participated in this meeting from the practical interests that the Premier League is now facing an extremely bright future, but also extremely high income prospects, if the new policy is accepted now, it will lead to the impact of overseas markets and online marketing, and ultimately hit the actual interests of all teams in the Premier League.

Following Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Liverpool have also expressed their opinions, and they basically agree with the opinions of the previous teams, after all, this is related to the vital interests of all teams and the future benefits of the team.

After several strong teams in the Premier League have expressed their positions one after another, other middle and lower teams have no opinion, to put it bluntly, the big teams still have the chips to withstand the impact of this new deal, after all, they have a high income, and the appeal of high-level players, but the middle and lower teams are different, they can not attract high-level players, and they rely heavily on the income of the Premier League copyright, so they are even more resistant to the potential risks brought by the new deal than the big teams.

Because of this, the management of all 20 Premier League teams present reached a consensus on the spot, led by Hillwood, and Qiqi issued an appeal to the FA and the Premier League to freeze this new policy, which is still in the works.