"Ye Qiu"

"Mr. Ye Qiu"

"Hello, Mr. Ye Qiu"

When Ye Qiu took Peter Nion into the venue, everyone stood up along the way to shake hands and greet them, and some even left their seats specially. From this scene, we can see the status of Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.

The rules of the Chairman's Summit, everyone's seats are sorted by the club's name. Tottenham Hotspur is just at the bottom, only a little higher than the three teams of West Bromwich, West Ham United and Wigan Athletics, while Ye Qiu's seat is just close to the corner.

It's just a round table, so there is no so-called difference between seats.

After everyone sat down, Scudmore, as the initiator and host, stood up and gave a opening remark. First, he must thank everyone for taking the time to attend this chairman summit, and then introduce some of the things and achievements made by the Premier League in the past three months.

It mainly introduces the fiscal expenditure of the Premier League. For example, the previous resolution was passed, and the Premier League officially allocated funds to support the English youth training丨At the same time, according to past traditions, the Premier League also paid one of the funds to repair some community football venues in England, etc., many, but these are not important.

Scudmore's introduction to these aspects is very simple, and he said it in one word. After all, the Premier League will fax the details about these, and if you have any questions, the team can also call the Premier League for consultation.

After all, all Premier League teams are shareholders of the Premier League, and these expenses in the Premier League are deducted from revenue from broadcast rights and sponsors, and the rest is distributed to Premier League teams. Therefore, as shareholders, they naturally have the right to audit.

The time belonged to Scudmore was very short. He mainly introduced the newly signed broadcast rights contract and several newly signed sponsorship contracts, but there was nothing new about this. The newspapers outside introduced it, so after the start, Scudmore handed over the meeting to the hands of the twenty clubs present, and he started to listen.

After Scudmore sat down, David Jill took the lead in asking for a speech.

From this point of view, Ye Qiu could feel Manchester United's anxiety, especially the Glazer family. Because the longer the time is delayed, the more unfavorable it will be for Manchester United, especially considering the team's debt burden, Manchester United's mood for change is the most urgent.

Following closely behind is Chelsea. Abramovich was deeply tortured by salary, which also made the Russians very regretful, because Ye Qiu told him more than once that the salary structure cannot be easily abolished, and the team's salary structure cannot be completely broken in order to introduce superstars, because it will bring long-term heavy salary pressure to Chelsea.

But the Russians refused to listen and would rather let Ye Qiu resign than introduce Shevchenko and Barack. As a result, Chelsea has completely embarked on this path of no return. The Blues are currently in debt of nearly one billion pounds, which almost cost Chelsea his life.

"According to our statistics, by the 20102011 season, the total salary of the 20 Premier League teams exceeded 1.5 billion pounds, accounting for 0% of the club's revenue, and the total debt of the team was close to 3 billion pounds, which exceeded our turnover. Last season, the loss amount of the Premier League exceeded 450 million pounds."

David Jill took out his carefully prepared data, "We are all very clear that football club income mainly has three aspects, but the most important thing about expenditure is labor costs, that is, player salaries. Our income has been increasing in the past few seasons, but the increase in labor costs is faster than income is the speed of labor costs, which is already very amazing."

"According to the experience over the past few decades, labor costs are the most important expenditure of football clubs, and the proportion between it and the team's income should be controlled within 50%. If more than half is unhealthy, more than 60% is risky. If more than 0%, I believe everyone knows very well what this means."

"Let's look at the current twenty teams in the Premier League, except for Tottenham and Arsenal, the salary expenditure of all teams exceeds 55% or even exceeds 0%, reaching 9%. This is a very shocking data. Everyone, we must pay enough attention and alertness."

David Jill's words are indeed very convincing, and no one will deny the current crisis in the Premier League.

Or, look at this from another perspective, the Premier League and Sky TV are actually about killing chickens and getting eggs. How do you say it?

The Premier League has already shown its attitude. I want to attract so many stars and build the world's number one league. My salary is under great pressure and I need more income. Otherwise, I will go bankrupt. Therefore, Sky TV has to provide higher broadcast fees because the two are closely linked and coexist and interdependent. Whoever falls will not want to live.

So, the TV station made a compromise, and the broadcasting fee rose steadily. In order to transfer the pressure, the TV station transferred part of the increase in the broadcasting fee to the cost of fans watching live broadcasts.

This is an act of killing chickens and getting eggs. It is very short-sighted, but you cannot deny that if you don’t do this, you may not be able to continue playing this Premier League game.

"I have reservations about David Gill's words." Aston Villa's boss Randy Lerner stood up immediately after David Gill. "Of course, I never deny that the current salary pressure on Premier League teams is very high, and the current business model is not healthy enough, but I don't think this can be solved by a salary limit order."

David Jill stood up again, "I understand what you mean, Randy, I just feel that we must make a decision full of courage, even if this decision will make us feel uncomfortable and even suffer a big loss."

Randylna shook her head and laughed, and raised a document in her hand, "Mr. Jill, I have read this document for you. You think you can not limit the maximum salary, but the rate of salary growth should be limited. Can I assume a situation?"

After David Gill nodded in agreement, Randy Lerner continued with a smile: "Suppose our Aston Villa's salary is 100 million now, and Chelsea is 200 million. According to the growth limit of bM, we will increase by 5 million in the next season, but Chelsea can increase by 10 million. Do you think this is fair?"

Randylna's words immediately caused an uproar in the conference room. Many people, although they were bosses, did not necessarily mean that they were smart. After being mentioned by Randylna at this moment, they realized that it seemed reasonable on the surface, but the problem was that whether it was limiting the maximum salary or limiting the growth rate, it was all about ensuring the interests of the wealthy family that the stronger the stronger the weaker the weaker the weaker the interests.

"There is another situation. If Southampton or West Bromwich, we don't deny that they are financially healthy teams. If they qualify for the UEFA Cup or the Champions League this season, I'm talking about it. If, with their current salary structure, they will not be able to have enough salary to introduce higher-level players to ensure their competitiveness improves, so next season, they may be in the bottom of the league."

"It's not fair, because they scored in the Champions League and earned 10 or 20 million euros, as well as huge game-day income and commercial sponsorship income, why not allow them to sign ups and strengthen their strength to ensure they continue to stay in the Champions League?"

Randylner's words really made David Jill and others speechless because this is the fact

Whether you limit the maximum salary or the growth rate of your salary, it will eventually become the most powerful weapon for strong teams to limit the rise of weak teams, and it may not be passed in the Player Union, especially the maximum salary limit.

"Please, let's become more mature, okay?" West Bromwich's chairman Jeremy Piss stood up when he saw that the audience was speechless. "I think all teams should just take care of their own affairs. Don't pay attention to what others do, and don't want to limit others. I'm not interested in those things at all."

West Bromwich's business has almost been regarded as a model of the Premier League in the past decade.

Although they always hover between the Premier League and the English Championship, in fact, their finances have always been healthy, even if they are relegated to the English Championship, because the Premier League has so-called parachute financial protection policies for relegated teams, and West Bromwich always makes good use of these policies and will soon return to the Premier League after relegation.

This time, since he was promoted to the Premier League in the 2009 season, West Bromwich has been ranked in the middle of the Premier League in the past two seasons, with a considerable income and a steady improvement in the team's strength, but the team's finances have been well controlled.

David Jill couldn't help but stand up again, "I have to make a statement that this is not to limit other clubs to buy good players, I never mean that."

"I know," Jeremy Piss sneered, "but your proposal is guaranteeing that when we teams compete with you, we don't have enough funds to compete with you, aren't we?"

After hearing this, David Gill sat down angrily, and Jeremy Piss also sat down under the applause of many people.

Everything is no different from the past few presidential summits, and it seems that this one will end in failure.

Scudmore was helpless about this, because although he is the CEO of the Premier League, he looks more like a housekeeper, and these are the bosses, so there is really no place for him to speak here.

Just as the meeting was in a deadlock and everyone was in a state of unspeakable embarrassment, Ye Qiu slowly raised his hand, "I don't know, can I get up and say a few words?"

Everyone was a little stunned. Is it necessary to ask for instructions?

The Chairman's roundtable was originally intended to let everyone speak freely. Not to mention Ye Qiu's status, even if he is a boss of a new team, he can still stand up and speak freely.

"But I have a requirement. If I speak, please feel free to be quiet and don't let it go. I will discuss and study with everyone after I finish speaking, and let everyone give their opinions and we will negotiate again. How about it?" Ye Qiu asked politely.

"Can"

"no problem"

There were a series of statements on the court, which made Abramovich a little envious. At least he did not have the status of Ye Qiu in English football. Even though he looked very rich and rich, it was difficult to win the respect of this group of people.

Perhaps Ye Qiu is right. Only by using the kingly way and using open conspiracy can one survive for a long time in this world and win the respect of these people.

"First of all, I summarize my opinions on the speeches of David Gill, Randylner, Jeremy Pis and other gentlemen just now. I think they make sense. In fact, their speeches seem to be against each other on the surface, but in fact, the core elements they discuss are different, so if you continue to stick to such a discussion, you will not get a satisfactory result in a hundred meetings."

Ye Qiu's words were nodded by almost everyone present, because they had been talking about the issue of salary limit for many years, but they never came up with a result. Every time they ended in a quarrel.

But because of this, more people are looking forward to seeing if Ye Qiu can give some fresh suggestions.

Ye Qiu slowly walked out of his position. He didn't like to stand still and speak.

"Why do we say that everyone has a reason? First, we all sit here because we all know that players' salaries cannot continue to rise like this, just like TV agencies and media will not allow our broadcast fees to rise endlessly. What should we do if we can't control the players' salaries, but TV agencies control our broadcast fees, or fans use giving up to resist this endless charge increase?"

In fact, even the bosses who can sit here can clearly realize the current problems in the Premier League. They all know that they need to change, but the problem is that if you change, don’t touch my interests and don’t affect me.

This seems to have become a dead end.

"But I am also very clear that a one-size-fits-all policy of controlling salary growth is obviously inappropriate. We cannot adopt this system to curb the vitality of the league, because once the league loses its vitality, competition, and passion, the Premier League will also lose its charm."

Ye Qiu's words received applause this time, and some bosses and managers of mid- and downstream teams all received applause from affirmatively.

"I also have to mention that don't focus on local TV broadcasting rights. I can tell you very clearly that in the promising future, copyrights on the Internet and other aspects will become one of the three major broadcasting rights, and at least they will not lose to local copyrights and overseas copyrights."

Nowadays, the broadcast rights of the Premier League are mainly in local copyrights and overseas copyrights. Recently, these two copyrights are very heavy, but the proportion of online copyrights is relatively small, but the development speed is very fast.

"Since the establishment of the Premier League, we have been in the local copyright. In the years of the Premier League, all our teams have united and created the overall Premier League market, used our overall brand to develop overseas copyrights, and increased the income from overseas copyrights to a level that can almost be on par with local copyrights. This is a very amazing achievement."

"Overseas copyrights still have potential to be tapped, but the greater potential is the copyright of the Internet and mobile platforms. This still requires all our teams to build and develop this market together, because the Premier League is a Premier League of 20 teams. Without any team, the Premier League will be under immeasurable weakening and impact."

Ye Qiu said this, which really resonated with many people present, especially many footballers who witnessed the rapid development and rise of Britain over the past few years, such as Scudmore, and even Randy Lerner.

"I believe everyone will not deny the overall effect of the Premier League, just like Aston Villa and Mr. Randylna, your chest advertisements were not sold for a time, but this year they are worth 5 million pounds. Why? Because you have to play at least two games with several Premier League giant teams every season."

Randylna nodded and agreed, not even just the league. With more and more strong teams, the cup competition has received more and more attention, and the attendance rate has also become higher and higher. Many fans who cannot afford league tickets have turned to the cup, so the influence of the League Cup and the FA Cup has also been greatly improved in the past few seasons.

"I want to say only one thing. We are all club operators and the most important decision makers of the Premier League. We must have a sense of awareness, a sense of viewing the Premier League as a whole market. Of course, we cannot ask everyone to consider the overall interests of the Premier League first and then their own interests when thinking about problems. But I think it is understandable that we consider our own interests, but we should also consider the overall interests of the Premier League appropriately."

"The easiest truth is, if the overall Premier League market collapses and can't play anymore, how can your team continue to play?"

This is also a bloody fact. Why is La Liga always unable to rise strongly? It is because of the two superstars in the Spanish Super League.

The strength of the Heroes team has led to many people being blinded by their own decisions, thinking that it was caused by the Heroes team’s own decisions, but they did not see that if they lost the league platform, how can the Heroes team continue to play?

Manchester United, if he loses the Premier League, will he still be Manchester United?

Ye Qiu's words left everyone present speechless because he made sense, even David Gill, who originally thought Ye Qiu would strongly support the interests of the wealthy families, felt a little ashamed after hearing this because his mind was still not as good as Ye Qiu, because he was just considering the interests of Manchester United, not the interests of other teams.

"I have an opinion. I think salary cannot grow so endlessly. Our team is too serious in debt, so it is very necessary to limit the salary cap and growth rate. But at the same time, we cannot curb the development momentum and desire of mid- and lower-stream teams, so we can add some considerations, such as the team's new business income and the team's transfer income, which can be counted as salary expenses without restrictions."

"But broadcasting rights income, game day income and original commercial income are not good. Even when we consider salary expenses, we can consider the business income of this team."

Ye Qiu mentioned this only one purpose, that is, to encourage more Premier League teams to develop commercial markets, because in the Premier League, broadcast rights income and game day income are relatively stable, but commercial income has always been the weakness and deficiencies of many Premier League teams, so he believes that this method should be used to stimulate these teams.

Of course, considering the current situation of the Premier League, Ye Qiu believes that we can learn from UEFA's approach, adopt a gradual approach, and formulate a timetable.

Ye Qiu also had a very important proposal, which was to throw a mine almost throughout the meeting and directly detonate it, which was to limit the team's debt, and even proposed to crack down on the debt.

This is undoubtedly the most painful blow to a team like Chelsea, where club owners lend money to the team instead of directly injecting funds to the team. Abramovich even suspected that this was Ye Qiu's revenge on him and opposed it on the spot. After Ye Qiu's proposal ended, when Skudmore proposed twenty teams to vote, Chelsea took the lead in casting a vote against it.
Chapter completed!