With Michael Ashley taking the lead, many of him expressed their opinions in the conference room.

Yang Huan kept smiling, nodded, and said, "It's not unreasonable to everyone, but can you please listen to me?"

When everyone heard this, they were silent again, and they all wanted to hear what Young Master Huan was going to say.

Yang Huan also thought about it and organized his thoughts.

"As I said just now, in the professional league, it is impossible for each team to be tied in one go, and in the entire European football world, it is impossible to maintain a balance between the league and the league."

Everyone nodded, and even a very small number of people vaguely captured the meaning of Young Master Huan.

To put it simply, Young Master Huan is playing a big game of chess!

"With the increase in broadcast fees, in a new contract, Premier League relegated teams can all receive about 100 million pounds of broadcast revenue. What does this mean?"

Yang Huan smiled slightly, "I'll give you an accurate positioning. If calculated based on purchasing power, as long as the Premier League relegation team is better controlled in terms of salary structure, his purchasing power can be comparable to that of Dortmund in the Bundesliga, Naples in Serie A, and Valencia in La Liga!"

Everyone generally agrees with this point and does not have much opinion.

"That is to say, according to this new contract, our relegated teams can be on par with the mid-to-upstream teams and even the first-tier teams in other leagues."

This means that the mid-range teams in the Premier League will be able to unscrupulously poach high-quality stars from non-hero teams in other leagues.

In fact, this kind of thing has been done in the past.

However, due to objective factors such as team influence and media attention, and other leagues know that the Premier League inflation is serious, it is difficult to poach popular stars. Even if they poach, they generally put forward higher requirements in terms of transfer fees and annual salary.

It should be said that the Premier League is more or less stupid and has more money to come quickly.

But to some extent, this is also a necessity.

"The problem with the Premier League now is that mid- and lower-stream teams have the purchasing power and strength of other mid- and upper-stream teams, but the giant teams have completely lost the competition with teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and can only be forced to target the first-tier teams in other leagues, or even mid- and upper-stream teams, the strength gap within the Premier League becomes very small."

To a certain extent, Yang Huan's words also explain the dilemma faced by the Premier League in the past few years.

Especially the poor performance of the strong team in the European game.

In the final analysis, it is lack of strength!

Of course, there are many reasons for lack of strength, and even different teams have different reasons, but the whole thing is that.

The gap in internal strength of the Premier League has narrowed, resulting in fierce internal competition. Coupled with the lack of high-quality high-level stars, the giant teams have weak competition in the European arena, which directly leads to a bottleneck in the overall development of the Premier League.

When analyzing the weak competition in the Premier League, many people ignore a very important factor, that is, European football is a whole and an ecosystem that circulates each other.

When the Premier League monopolized three seats in the Champions League semi-finals for three consecutive years, what is the environment in European football?

At that time, the European debt crisis had not yet fully broken out, and the mid- and upper-level teams in the other three major European leagues still had excellent purchasing power.

At that time, the overseas copyright income of the Premier League was very small.

In the 2001-2004 season, the overseas copyright revenue of the Premier League was 178 million pounds.

During the 2004-2007 season, overseas copyrights sold for £325 million.

But in the 2007-2010 season, this number increased significantly, rising to 625 million pounds.

The 2010-2013 season doubled again, reaching 1.437 million pounds.

In the 2013-2016 season, it soared again, reaching more than 200,000 pounds.

Starting from 2016, overseas copyright revenue in the next three years is expected to exceed more than 3 billion pounds.

It should be noted that overseas copyright income is not distributed according to the land distribution model, but is divided equally between twenty teams.

In other words, in terms of this huge profit, the Premier League is absolutely equalized.

It is precisely the distribution of overseas copyrights that greatly shortens the income gap between the strong Premier League teams and the weak Premier League teams.

In the 20304 season, when the overseas copyright income was not obvious, the team with the most revenue in the Premier League was about twice that of the team with the least revenue, but now it has been shortened to 15 times.

More importantly, with the outbreak of the European debt crisis, the purchasing power of teams in other European leagues has generally declined. However, under this circumstance, the purchasing power of mid- and lower-stream teams in the Premier League has increased rapidly, which directly led to the overall strength of mid- and lower-stream teams in the Premier League, shortening the gap with the First Army.

Therefore, the problem with the Premier League is that mid- and lower-level teams have generally reached the mid- and upper-level level of Serie A, Bundesliga, and even La Liga. However, upstream teams are limited by the lack of competition with other league giant teams, lacking the attractiveness and purchasing power for the highest-level stars, making it difficult to make breakthroughs in strength.

As for why?

The answer is very simple. Professional players are also pyramid-shaped. Second-tier stars are often easier to find than first-tier stars, and first-tier stars are more than top-tier stars.

With teams such as Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich controlling the top stars, it is difficult for the Premier League giants to find a way out, and they can only be dragged into the fierce competition by the mid- and lower-level teams.

It is completely foreseeable that if the overseas copyright distribution model is not adjusted now, soon the Premier League will either have weak overseas market development due to the poor performance of the giant teams and lack of influence and attractiveness.

Or it is to further develop overseas markets and further shorten the gap between giant teams and mid- and downstream teams.

As for the extra commercial development income of the wealthy teams than the mid- and lower-stream teams, this income is not obvious compared to the expensive salary, high transfer fees, and the talent reserves that are paid to resist risks.

What's more, the so-called commercial development does not require investment.

So, what Yang Huan means now is to take this opportunity to reform overseas copyright income, divide it according to local distribution methods, appropriately expand the income gap between strong teams and weak teams, so that strong teams have the ability to compete with other strong teams in the league with the highest level of stars.

"We Chinese have an old saying that snakes cannot do without heads!"

Yang Huan said with a smile and swept everyone.

"In a league, this is the head of the strong team. If the Premier League wants to develop overseas markets, it needs a leader. There is a team that can play the influence of Premier League teams in the European arena. With outstanding results and excellent stars, it will attract the attention of fans around the world."

"Everyone knows how big the overseas market is. In recent years, we have basically relied on the old capital of the past few years. The century derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona has attracted the attention of fans all over the world. I don't need to say more, and this is exactly what we lack in the Premier League at the moment."

"In terms of purchasing power, our mid- and lower-level teams have completely beaten the mid-level teams in other leagues. In terms of tactical style, the tactical styles of the Premier League in the past few seasons have been varied, with all kinds of styles and schools, and it is wonderful."

"And what we lack is the emergence of teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich with amazing appeal in the world."

"I can guarantee that if we have a team that can go hand in hand with Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and even suppress them, the development of the Premier League will be better and better than it is now. We will be able to go to the huge overseas market and make money as much as possible."

I have to say that the blueprint outlined by Yang Huan is indeed very gratifying and reasonable.

The Premier League does lack a real leader.

There was Manchester United before, but now, Manchester United has collapsed.

Judging from the current situation, Southampton is the most promising.

Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur followed closely, and Manchester United and Arsenal will have the ability to catch up again if they seize the opportunity.

The overseas market is indeed very large, growing at a rate of 10% almost every year.

Whether in the TV, the Internet, or the mobile field, the most important thing is to have high-quality content.

Content is king, this is the consensus of everyone.

And sports events are the kings among the kings.

Today, the world, whether it is the wealthy North America and the Middle East, or Asia, which is the engine of future world economic development, or South America and Africa, still has a very stunning demand for high-quality football resources.

This is what Yang Huan said, the future overseas market is still quite amazing.

This is a big cake and a carrot that Yang Huan threw in front of all Premier League team management.

Want, or don't?

Everyone in the conference hall fell into a dead silence.

Everyone thought silently, recalling what Yang Huan said just now, looking around, looking at the colleagues around, as if they wanted to detect the other person's meaning from each other's eyes and expressions.

Support or objection?

After two or three minutes of silence, Richard Scudmore stood up from his seat.

"OK, everyone, the time is almost over!"

The CEO of the Premier League said with a solemn look on his face.

"Before everyone vote, I must say first that according to the agreement we reached with the FA, after the new contract is signed, we will increase our investment in youth training. At the same time, we are considering the introduction of a youth training policy to support mid- and lower-level league teams, which is part of the league's sustainable development plan."

The things Yang Huan mentioned before and what he is now are not seen by the Premier League masters at all.

Compared with the profits that cost tens of millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars have to stand aside.

Besides, investing in youth training will also help the entire Premier League, so after signing a new contract, everyone is more open about this aspect.

"Okay, now we'll vote!"

Richard Scudmore said in a deep voice to everyone below.

As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the conference hall suddenly became tense.

Everyone started to look left and right, and even one or two of them started to discuss, and the topic was all about whether to make reform or not.

"According to the Premier League regulations, any major decision must be voted by twenty teams and obtained two-thirds of the votes in favor before the decision is officially passed."

Speaking of this, Richard Scudmore reminded again: "In other words, the twenty teams we are present must have fourteen teams agree to the overseas copyright income reform in order to officially start the season from 2016 to 2017."

"Start the vote below!"

Scudmore himself was a little nervous because he knew that this was a major vote related to the future development of the Premier League.

He is a housekeeper and has no decision-making power, so he can only hand it over to the twenty big bosses in front of him.
Chapter completed!