Perhaps, fans don’t have much feeling, but in the industry, they pay considerable attention to the Champions League in the 2015-2016 season, and feel that this may become a major watershed in European football again.

Why do you say so?

First of all, the overall increase in income.

European professional football is inseparable from money. It is no longer necessary to say how important income is to a team.

In the new season, as the sponsorship contracts signed by UEFA generally increase, the share and bonuses distributed to each team are also increased.

For example, in the group stage, 32 teams played six group stages. The guaranteed income was 8.6 million euros, but now it has increased to 12 million euros, which is equivalent to the appearance fee for the Champions League group stage.

Then, for every win, the prize money increased from the original one million to the current one million, and the draw was still 500,000.

In other words, theoretically, if the participating team wins six consecutive games in the group stage, they can earn a total of 20 million euros.

This is just a group stage. The prize money in the knockout and finals will generally increase, basically about 50%. The prize money for winning the championship has also increased from the original 10 million euros to 15 million euros.

According to preliminary estimates, the most basic bonus of the champion team this season will reach more than 50 million euros.

But this is just the most basic, because there is also a bonus pool share.

With the rise of British Telecom, led by the guy who unbuttoned three buttons, this old British consortium is ambitious to do a big fight and win the British local Champions League broadcast rights for the next three years at a sky-high price.

This is why Sky TV will bid for the local broadcast rights of the Premier League at a sky-high price.

Because they lost the Champions League, they could no longer lose the right to broadcast the Premier League.

The Champions League bonus pool is linked to the price of broadcasting rights purchased by TV broadcasters in the country where the team is located. Therefore, the higher the bid of BT, the higher the prize money the Premier League team participating in the Champions League can get.

It is expected that among the four Premier League teams participating in the Champions League this year, the best performers will be able to get more than 40 million, almost twice the past.

That is to say, if the Premier League team wins the Champions League again, the total prize money will exceed 100 million.

But this is just the bonus and share. If you include the sponsor income, match day income and other income brought by participating in the Champions League, it will be an even more amazing number.

If you just look at this data, you will definitely make a sound and think, Oh my God, there are too many.

Even if someone who is unknown is watching it, he will definitely curse, thinking that Southampton is too fucked and makes so much money in the Champions League, he still swears to go to compete for profits from mid- and lower-level Premier League teams. Isn’t that too unreasonable?

But what about it?

As Yang Huan has always said, there is no free lunch in this world. If you want to spread the scene, you have to pay the cost.

Many people must think it is amazing when Southampton won two consecutive Champions League titles and three consecutive Premier League titles. This team is about to go against the sky, but in fact, they do not see the various interests behind it.

For example, annual salary. In just three years since Southampton entered the Premier League, salary expenditure has been increasing at an astonishing rate almost every year. The reason is simple. The team performed well and the players shone brightly. If you want to retain people, you can give annual salary.

It’s like Hazard, who earned 100,000 pounds a week when he first joined, but what about now?

He has already received a weekly salary of 200,000 pounds. With Messi joining, in order to resist the poaching of teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​the team is preparing to start discussing a contract renewal with Hazard. It is expected that he will become the second player after Messi to have an annual salary of over 10 million.

Hazard renewed his contract, what about Suarez?

Harry Kane performed so well last season. He was going to renew his contract. How much should he pay for his annual salary?

How much should Martial give?

How much annual salary should I pay if I want Sanchez to stay in the team safely?

Pogba, Kovacic and Tony Cross are being chased by most European giants, and it is time to renew their contracts.

According to the calculations given to Yang Huan by Ron Gurley, with Messi's joining, the annual salary of the Saints will quickly increase from about 230 million euros to 300 million euros.

Even in Europe, this data is second only to Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Of course, this also includes the salary expenses of about 30 million euros for administrators and club employees.

This is still the most superstar players on the team were cultivated by Southampton themselves. If they rely solely on introduction, their annual salary would have to reach an astronomical figure!

It’s like Tottenham Hotspur’s annual salary has already caught up with Southampton, but its income is 108,000 miles away!

Therefore, the introduction of Cristiano Ronaldo was not originally supported by Yang Huan and Daniel Levi, but Prime Minister Hamad promised to inject funds, which led to the transaction. Otherwise, Tottenham Hotspur would not be able to bear it.

If the Saints want to maintain competitiveness in the Champions League, they have to run such a large lineup. But the problem is that the salary is fixed and you have to give it to them no matter what, but the results are fluctuating. God knows if you can win the championship?

If you win the championship and have a lot of income, it is certainly a good thing, but what about the bonus?

Last season, the Saints gave a prize of 60 million euros.

But if the results are not ideal, the team's expenditure will be completely wasted!

This is why Yang Huan has always said that the Champions League is a money-burning game, and it is not something that any team can afford.

It can be said that Southampton relies on this lineup and the huge salary expenditure behind it to support the Saints' competitiveness in the Premier League and the Champions League.

If it weren't for these, the saint would have been thrown aside by Sachima.

Southampton dares to introduce Messi this year because the team is very confident that it will have hope of operating income of £600 million, or £700 million, which will make the Saints the highest-paid team in history.

In this case, the salary expenditure of more than 300 million is not a big problem for the saints.

What's more, Southampton has no debts and is financially healthy, so it can afford to play.

Especially with the stable implementation of the free ticket policy and the support of long-term and stable sponsors and partners, the Saints' income is very stable, so Yang Huan dared to shout out that the Saints will adjust their business model this year.

As a result, everyone saw that the Saints not only stopped selling people this year, but instead spent 150 million euros to break into Messi. All of this was based on the team's excellent finance and management.

In the face of salary expenses that cost more than 100 million yuan or even 200 million yuan, the 100 million yuan prize money and share of the Champions League, as well as the broadcasting fee share of the Premier League, are really nothing.

Not even enough for the Saints to pay players’ salaries and bonuses!

It is precisely because we understand this principle and understand that the only standard-bearer team currently represents the Premier League and compete for the Champions League are only the Saints, so the mid- and lower-level Premier League teams will agree to reform overseas revenue.

As for Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, if they want to accumulate to the Saints, they have to first improve their fiscal revenue, club management, and team lineup strength.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, and even Chelsea are embarrassed to catch up with the Saints, but it will not work for less than four or five years.

Especially Manchester United, when the debt is not paid off, the Red Devils should not expect to turn over.

As the saying goes, the economic foundation determines the superstructure.

In the eyes of ordinary fans, the Saints are superstars and powerful.

But in Yang Huan's eyes, everything about this is money.

Didn’t there be a saying?

In the professional football field, if you leave money, you are just a hooligan when talking about everything!

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There is another big change in the Champions League this season, that is, the UEFA Champions League champion will qualify for the Champions League last season.

However, since the UEFA Europa League champion last season was Inter Milan and the Nerazzurri itself was the champion of the Serie A, this clause is useless for Inter Milan and Serie A.

This is also why the chairman of Lazio, who ranked fourth last season, said before that Inter Milan should take the initiative to lose in the last few rounds for the benefit of the Serie A, so that Juventus could win the championship, with Roma and Lazio ranked second and third.

Because of this, Inter Milan can still play in the Champions League.

But after Inter Milan won the championship, the UEFA Champions League qualification was tantamount to automatically giving up.

Another major change in the Champions League this season is from the division.

Unlike the past when relied on European War points to divide the rating, this time the rating has been adjusted.

The defending champion and the top seven European league champions are automatically ranked first and become a seed team.

The second, third and fourth are ranked according to European War points.

At first glance, there seems to be no difference, but in fact, the difference is very big.

According to the brand new rankings, Southampton, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Benfica, Monaco, St. Petersburg Zenit and Ajax have become the first team.

Among the second teams, Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Porto, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Valencia, Donetsk Miners and Manchester City are all strong teams.

The key is that in the third level, teams such as Juventus, Roma, and Lyon are all very strong, while in the fourth level, teams such as Tottenham Hotspur, Hamburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Wolfsburg are gathered.

It can be said that such distribution rules disrupted the order of the group stage in the past with distinct strength and weakness.

Because the strong teams used to have high points, they were ranked in the seed team and second level, but now, teams with low points such as Monaco, Inter Milan, St. Petersburg Zenit and Ajax appeared in the first level, which completely disrupted the traditional grouping model in the past.

Theoretically, the possibility of a death group being drawn in such a group will become very high.

And facts have also proved that Zhenzhen has emerged from the Death Group.

This time the Saints failed to continue their past good draws, winning Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Wolfsburg.

When everyone saw this lottery, they were in an uproar.

Nime, all of them are teams in the top five European leagues, and they are all strong teams.

This is simply a rhythm of dying!

Needless to say, Paris Saint-Germain, one of the strongest teams in Europe, is not inferior to Paris Saint-Germain, while Juventus and Wolfsburg are weak, but they are not without the ability to compete.

These four teams are just going to be against the will of heaven!

Yang Huan sat in the venue. After seeing the lottery results, he couldn't help but smile.

Of course he knew that UEFA did not want Southampton to defend its title again.

Just kidding, it’s already outrageous to let you defend your title once. If you win the championship again, wouldn’t it be necessary to turn the Champions League into a forbidden body for your Yang family?

Besides, you won the championship, are other teams going to play with the ball?

The Saints have never thought about winning the championship this season, so they can only steadily rank at the top, preferably in the semi-finals, that's fine.

However, if the Saints are not lucky in the lottery, Manchester City will really cry and die in the toilet.

As soon as the lottery results were released, Yang Huan clearly saw the expression on Mubarak's face singing.
Chapter completed!