Chapter 650
"Welcome to Monaco City, Mr. Yang Huan!"
In the castle located halfway up the mountain in Monaco, Prince Albert, accompanied by Michel Pastor, Udruchi and Piccinini, came to the gate of the castle to greet it.
When Yang Huan got off the car, he immediately shook hands enthusiastically with the Prince of Monaco, who had completely lost his cover, and was very polite.
But I was depressed and would never come to this place anyway.
As for the reason, it is really embarrassing to say it, it is because I am lost.
Although Monaco is a small country, it is said that although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs and has everything you should have.
For example, I attach great importance to the protection of royal members, so the entire Monaco City did not even have a GPS signal, which was completely blocked. In addition, the houses here are densely built and the roads are tortuous. Even Long Wu had to admit defeat in this maze-like small city.
So, when she saw Prince Ba, Yang Huan smiled bitterly in her heart.
I won’t tell you if I get lost with you, but even if you find someone to treat me with an eight-carrying sedan chair in the future, I will never come again!
On the surface, everyone was still laughing and seemed very polite to each other.
After entering the castle, Prince Albert naturally wanted to take Yang Huan to have a good tour, look around, and introduce the princess and children to get to know each other, and finally came to a spacious oval conference room.
"Mr. Yang Huan, I am very happy to hear the news about your Yang Group's Yacht Club and our Royal Yacht Club's strong alliance. I also thank Shengxi Yachts and Aston Martin for their sponsorship of our Royal Yacht Club!"
Prince Albert smiled happily.
This cooperation was reached last year. Yang's Group joined the Royal Yacht Club of Monaco. The two sides cooperated and will build the top international high-end yacht club in five cities including Longhai, Jincheng, Ludao, Pengcheng, and Sanya.
In addition, Young Group plans to build a world's top luxury yacht club in Monaco. The project has been approved by the Monaco government, and both Sant's Yacht and Aston Martin will participate in this series of activities and projects.
Not only that, the Yang Group also successfully won a large piece of land in the golden area halfway up the mountainside of Ratilby, facing the Monaco training base, which will be used to build luxury residences. The customers mainly face wealthy people from China.
Yang Huan was not very interested in these business cooperation, so his father would arrange someone to follow up.
So, after Yang Huan chatted with him for a while, he immediately got to the point.
"Your Highness, the main purpose of my trip is to talk to you about the Monaco Club."
Prince Albert smiled after hearing this, "Mr. Yang Huan, to be honest, I am very grateful for your contribution to Monaco Football Club. We are very satisfied with the current situation of the team. Please believe that we will definitely remember your contribution!"
Yang Huan usually just heard these polite words.
"Your Highness, I'm glad to hear you say this!" Yang Huan smiled faintly, not surprised by his favor and disgrace.
"But I heard that there are people within the French Football Association who have complained about our Monaco."
Prince Albert was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at Michel Pastor and others, obviously smiling bitterly.
"I didn't expect that Mr. Yang Huan's news is so well-informed!"
Yang Huan smiled and said nothing, he was waiting for Prince Albert to speak himself.
"Yes, some people do think that Monaco's privileges should be restricted!" Prince Albert nodded.
"I believe Mr. Yang Huan must also know that the Hollande government will begin to impose a new tax called the Special Mutual Assistance Contribution Tax, which will impose this tax on employees with annual incomes of more than one million euros, with a tax rate of about 50%.
According to the calculations of the Monaco club's financial staff, once this tax rate begins, players with annual salary of more than one million euros will be paid 75% of the tax.
In other words, if any team wants to pay a player an annual after-tax salary of 1 million euros, they have to give a pre-tax salary of 1.75 million euros. This is simply like the government is snatching money from football clubs!
Because in all walks of life in France, most professional players, especially those in the Ligue 1, have annual salary of more than one million euros. Once collected, it will exceed 100 million in that year!
This matter originally had nothing to do with Monaco, because even if you pay taxes, it was a matter within France. As a foreign team, Monaco does not need to pay this tax.
In Monaco, a small country in small countries, there is almost no personal income tax!
But within the French Football League, some people suggested that Monaco's tax advantage must be limited, otherwise, Monaco's zero tax advantage will be enough to attract the world's largest superstars.
By that time, who can match the entire Ligue 1?
Prince Albert received the news just two days ago. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, Yang Huan came to him.
It can be seen that Yang Huan is also a well-informed person!
"Mr. Yang Huan, can you tell me your specific thoughts?" asked Prince Albert.
Yang Huan still did not show any anxiety or anger, but still looked calm and calm, smiling slightly and nodding to Prince Albert.
"Yes, Your Highness, I personally believe that applying high tax rates to the Ligue 1 teams will not benefit the entire league at all, and will only lead to more outstanding stars who are not allowed to escape from the Ligue 1 quickly, making the entire league even less competitive!"
Prince Albert and others nodded together.
Believe this, the government and the French Football League have definitely considered it, but they still decided to collect it.
After all, they are crazy poor!
But the Ligue 1 team has made a lot of money recently, including the TV broadcast order of more than 400 million euros sent by Al Jazeera, which is equivalent to giving it to the Ligue 1 big cake for free. They naturally want to get a share of the pie!
In the final analysis, it is still a question of how to distribute interests!
"In the past few years, foreign capital has entered the European League more and more, first in the Premier League, then La Liga, and now in the Ligue 1, I believe that there will be Serie A in the future. The benefits brought by foreign capital are obvious, especially the continuous large-scale signings of teams such as Southampton, Chelsea and Manchester City, as well as the sensational effect created, have greatly improved the influence of the league."
This statement was once again recognized by everyone present because it was a fact!
As Yang Huan said before, the club's positioning determines the success or failure of a team.
Some teams are born to win the championship, so they are willing to spend a lot of money to attract stars and strengthen their competitiveness.
Some teams are operating in a long-term and orderly manner, so they take the route of cultivating human traffickers to sell players.
Some teams are just trying to relegate.
Then, the emergence of teams like Southampton, Chelsea and Manchester City has brought a benefit.
First of all, the team felt the pressure of winning the championship, so it needed to strengthen the signings. However, because of the rich competitors, the difficulty of signings increased, and the transfer fee also increased, so the team that sold people made a profit!
Sell the star, get a generous transfer fee, then introduce suitable semi-finished products, process them, and then sell them at a high price after they become successful.
This has become the way for many mid- and downstream league teams to survive.
Just like Everton, Aston Villa, and even Tottenham Hotspurs before, didn’t they all take this route?
Therefore, the emergence of foreign-funded teams is beneficial to the entire league as long as they are well guided!
On the contrary, if foreign-funded teams are restricted and foreign capital is restricted, would it be good for the league?
Look at the Bundesliga, why can Bayern Munich buy the entire Bundesliga?
It is because they have the strongest financial resources and no one can compete with them!
Then why is Bayern Munich the strongest financial resources and so healthy in finance?
To put it bluntly, the Bundesliga prohibits foreign capital from entering or even capital operation!
It is said that it suffered a big loss more than ten years ago, but isn’t it necessary to limit capital operations?
This is called choking and slapping food, not rational management!
Therefore, Yang Huan dares to conclude that the Bundesliga continues to go like this. In another ten, twenty, or even three years, no team can keep up with the pace of European powerhouses except Bayern Munich.
Why is Bayern Munich the only one?
Because Bayern Munich regards the entire Bundesliga as its own youth training backyard and wins it!
From this we can see that closure cannot work, only openness can lead to a future!
Let me ask, if there was no early opening, could the Premier League have its current influence?
"Then the question is, whether it is foreign capital or local capital, if any league wants to grow, it must rely on stars, and stars have to pay high salaries. Without high salaries, they will run away. Therefore, the emergence of this new tax completely eliminates the possibility of leaving popular superstars in the Ligue 1!"
When Yang Huan said this, he was slightly shocked and sneered.
"The widow of former Adidas president Dreyfus is going to sell Marseille. Lyon, who has won seven consecutive championships, also expressed his willingness to sell part of the equity, and Lille and Chairman Seidu openly hawking, which proves the future trend."
When Prince Albert heard this, he naturally understood what Yang Huan meant.
That is, Yang Huan is a complete new tax opposition!
"Mr. Yang Huan, I can understand your mood, but this is the internal government affairs of France, I'm afraid..."
Yang Huan was waiting for this sentence and immediately smiled and said, "What about Monaco?"
"Monaco has no intention to collect new taxes!" Prince Albert quickly explained.
"But they want to limit Monaco's tax advantages, and at the same time they also require us to move our headquarters to France outside Monaco!" Yang Huan said without giving in.
"This is impossible, absolutely not allowed!" Prince Albert was also anxious.
Monaco Football Club has always been an exclusive team of the Monaco royal family, and even the team logo is covered with a crown.
If Monaco Football Club leaves Monaco, where would the royal family face be put?
Moreover, in the past year, Monaco has also made great progress in operating the Louis II Stadium. If Monaco can perform well in Ligue 1 and European arenas, it will definitely attract more fans.
"So, my attitude towards the new tax is that they will collect it if they like it. It has nothing to do with us, because we belong to Monaco!"
This made Prince Albert feel warm.
This is what my family says!
"But if the French Football League must require us to pay taxes according to their standards, then I will only make one choice!" Yang Huan said this, extremely powerful and loud.
Everyone present immediately looked at Yang Huan. They all realized that once this young man got angry, he was really imposing.
I really responded, if a tiger doesn’t show off, don’t think I’m a sick cat!
Chapter completed!