Chapter 986 Spare Tire Alliance(1/2)
"Master Huan, congratulations, congratulations!"
"Give you a cup, Master Huan!"
"Come on, Master Huan, let's have a drink!"
During the UEFA party, Yang Huan became the most attention-grabbing spot in the venue.
This is not surprising at all. Who made the Saints the most dazzling team tonight?
You should know that usually this role is often played by super giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona, but now, all the strikers have been snatched away by Southampton, which makes everyone in European football deeply feel what it means to turn around.
Yang Huan was in a good mood too. He had to have a drink for almost everyone who clinked his glasses and would not refuse anyone.
Who made him not drunk for a thousand cups?
"Master Huan!"
UEFA President Platini and his right-hand man, Gianni Infantino, came over.
"Cheers!" Yang Huan smiled and clinked glasses with the two of them, and drank them all in one go.
The three of them were tacitly informed and walked out of the crowd with tacit understanding and walked to an unmanned window.
"How is it? It's very troublesome recently?" Yang Huan asked Platini with concern.
The latter looked solemn and nodded, "The situation is very unfavorable to me."
"What do you need my help?" Yang Huan asked.
Platini looked at Gianni Infantino, "Gianni will run for UEFA next."
Yang Huan looked at Infantino and nodded, "This is very good. I believe that Jenny will be elected very much."
"But next we will do our best to clear our relationship for him."
Yang Huan nodded and said, "It's right. I believe that with Janney's resume and ability, if he doesn't reveal his flaws, he will have great hopes with the full support of UEFA."
Gianni Infantino is a veritable Pratini iron rod. Before Pratini had something wrong, he even shouted that as long as Pratini was fine, he would immediately withdraw from the election.
But in the current situation, it seems that Platini will be difficult to survive. If Infantino, which UEFA vigorously launched at this time, can be successfully elected, it will be a victory for UEFA and Platini.
"If there is anything I can help, contact Peter." Yang Huan said with a smile.
"Thank you!" Both Platini and Infantino knew it well.
Peter Kenyon, the number one player under Yang Huan, is now the CEO of Miracle Football Group. The European football resources controlled by him are quite amazing, and more importantly, they are still developing at an extremely fast speed.
There are even signs of taking the center of power recently.
More importantly, Peter Kenyon and Platini have a close relationship.
Many people don’t know that European professional football is as prosperous as they see on the surface, but they never thought that under this prosperity, there are some entanglements of interest.
Has no one ever doubted over the years why Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich always poached superstars? Is it just because they have money? It's related?
One thing we must first figure out is Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich's transcendent position in European football and their amazing influence. All of this is based on the stars.
It is because of the stars and achievements that they have their current status.
If you don't believe it, then look at Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, then AC Milan in Serie A, and Juventus in a few years earlier.
As the saying goes, a phoenix that lands is not as good as a chicken.
When a giant team loses its most dazzling star and loses the halo of performance, is that still a giant team?
Is the foundation, tradition and sentiment useful?
Barcelona's situation is quite special. The top stars of this team are all produced by their own youth training, but this is just a special case. After the team's youth training grows, this team gradually adopts the method of poaching superstars, introducing Neymar and wanting to poach Suarez, which is enough to prove this.
So, Yang Huan said from the beginning that talent is the key!
Then the question is, since talents are so important and the resources of top stars are too scarce, why are they concentrated in the hands of a few teams? Why are other teams obviously rich, so why don’t they dare to dig?
As for the stars who are unwilling to transfer, hoping to play for the wealthy teams, etc., it's really not to be funny.
Making money is the purpose of professional players playing football!
Staying in a wealthy team has only one purpose, that is, to make more money.
Want to get personal honors? Can you make money?
After retiring, there are more down-and-out stars selling gold medals and trophys!
If Bailey hadn't had Nike's fondness for his commercial value and focused on building him, he wouldn't have known how poor he would have been.
Isn’t the ending of Real Madrid’s former great star Puskas worthy of alert yet?
All talking about feelings, traditions and feelings with professional football are playing the piano for cows!
In the final analysis, professional football is just two words, interests!
If Paris Saint-Germain offers Cristiano Ronaldo twice his income in Real Madrid, Yang Huan can guarantee that the Portuguese will immediately leave without saying a word.
Can Paris Saint-Germain afford the money?
No, they wanted to make it, but Real Madrid didn't sell it, they didn't dare to force it, and players and agents didn't dare to make too much trouble!
Things are that simple!
So, now, the answer is about to come out. The reason why they can control so many stars is because they have the greatest voice in the European football world, at least in the club category!
Perhaps many senior fans will remember an organization, G14.
Although the name is G14, there are actually eighteen teams because they later expanded their troops.
This organization represents the highest voice of European professional football clubs. They are like the highest top of this pyramid. If you want to join this organization, you must win a Champions League and also pass the voting of the organization's members.
Have you noticed that this is a bit like when China was about to join the WTO?
When Peter Kenyon was at Manchester United, he was the initiator of the organization and later served as the rotating chairman of the organization.
The reason why Abramovich chose Peter Kenyon was because he was interested in his connections at the top of European football, so he tried every means to poach him from Manchester United to Chelsea.
The purpose is very simple. Chelsea wants to be recognized and integrated into this group of giant teams at the top of the pyramid.
But it turns out that Chelsea failed.
However, Peter Kenyon has embarked on another path with his connections in European football.
That is Platini, who joined the newly appointed UEFA president and took office with the votes of many small national football associations.
The latter had to fulfill his campaign promises, so he had to weaken the interests of the giants. At that time, Platini's approach was to win over a group of European teams, including Chelsea, who had good strength and influence but were excluded by G14.
At the same time, Platini has also differentiated the G14 organization and has given many commitments and policies, such as subsidizing clubs for national team events, such as reforming the UEFA Champions League quotas and qualifications for the five major leagues.
Everyone knew the final result, and G14 was partially split and announced its dissolution.
But what many people don’t know is that at the same time that G14 announced its dissolution, there was a brand new organization called the European Club Association, which was announced to be born as the only official organization recognized by UEFA and FIFA.
Since its birth date, and to this day, there has been only one executive committee chairperson representing the highest power. Bayern Munich's Rummeniger and Chelsea's Peter Kenyon are one of the first three vice-chairmen.
If we use the conspiracy theory, the European Club Association was established in 2008, Bayern Munich was one of the sixteen founding clubs, and Rummeniger served as chairman of the executive committee.
So, when did Bayern Munich start to go alongside Real Madrid and Barcelona?
Of course, player transfers are quite a test of the club's ability to select talents, but in European football, in an era of such transparent information, this is no longer the most important thing.
The most important thing is to buy people!
It’s like this time, Douglas Costa and Kingsley Koeman, who want to buy burgers in Bayern Munich, will not sell burgers, so what can Bayern Munich do?
They couldn't do anything, so they could only dig Firmino and Draxler.
In recent years, with the influx of foreign capital, Premier League teams have acquired a number of veteran teams, including Peter Kenyon and Arsenal's David Dunn, as well as Manchester United's David Gill, and a group of talents who once had extensive connections in European football have gradually withdrawn, and replaced by professional managers like Ed Woodward and Gazidis.
Chelsea fired Peter Kenyon first and then fired Ron Gurley, instead of Granovskiya, who had no connections at all.
This greatly weakens the voice of the Premier League in the core center of European football.
The European Club Association divides internal members into two major groups, namely formal members and informal members.
The former consists of voting rights, while the latter does not, which is more a bit similar to the reserve team's feeling.
The person responsible for the daily operations and affairs of the European Club Association is an executive committee composed of fifteen teams.
The Premier League is also a very special existence in the European Club Association, with a total of six official member teams, which has exceeded the regulations of the European Club Association.
The six teams are Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.
Among them, Arsenal's Gazidis is also one of the executive committee of the European Club Association, but he serves as legal counsel.
There are also three informal members, namely Aston Villa, Everton and Newcastle.
Interestingly, Southampton is not even an informal member now.
Previously, many people suggested that Saints apply to join the European Club Association, start as informal membership, and then find opportunities to become a regular member.
But Yang Huan's attitude was very clear and not rare!
Isn't it?
What's so great about becoming an informal member?
The European Club Association covers more than 200 European clubs, only half of which are formal members, and the rest are informal. In the words of our Young Master Huan, this group of informal members should set up an organization themselves, called the spare tire alliance.
To be continued...