Chapter 589: Catastrophic Disaster

Many fans are often easily influenced by inertial thinking when thinking about problems.

For example, they will think that Manchester United and Liverpool fight on the field and are mortal enemies. Their management often quarrels with each other, and the relationship should be very bad, but in fact, the relationship between Manchester United and Liverpool management is not bad.

Similarly, they will also think that the relationship between the management of Premier League teams is not good because they poach each other so frequently. After many teams are poached, the management will come out and curse in the media. How can such a relationship be good?

So, this is a kind of inertial thinking.

In fact, all team transfers are basically transactions that are voluntary. Don't look at him cursing fiercely in the newspaper, but maybe he is counting money with his hands while cursing, so don't always think things are too simple and complicated. To put it bluntly, football is a business for many clubs' management, especially the boss.

Since football is a business, the management and operation of football should be clearly distinguished from football games.

In other words, you can't bring everything that happens on the football field to the operation and management of the team. If you really do that, I'm sorry, you can't gain a foothold in European football at all, because you will offend everyone, and in the end you will be the only one left. How can you play?

Business is about making money through harmony, while football games are about life and death, so they have to be separated!

If some people think that these Premier League team owners get together, especially when they start discussing player transfers, the atmosphere must be very hot, with loud arguments and even cursing, but in fact, the real situation is that in this private venue, everyone gets together in twos and threes, holding a glass of wine in their hands, sitting on the sofa, and talking in a low voice.

The whole venue is indescribably gentlemanly and indescribably graceful.

It was not until Peter Hill-Wood saw that everyone who should come had come, that this British old man, who is also the most experienced manager among all the current managers in the Premier League, walked to the microphone on the stage and called on everyone to be quiet, and then all the sounds in the venue stopped abruptly.

Perhaps because of Arsenal's dismal performance in recent years and the fact that many people privately teased it as a factory for processing stars, Peter Hill-Wood stood on the stage and showed a high spirit that had not been seen for many years. At least he was proud in his heart, because he felt that his words still had weight, at least so many people were listening to him.

"Thank you very much for taking the time to attend this gathering!" Peter Hill-Wood said to everyone present with a thick hoarse voice, "The reason why I invited everyone here is mainly because I want to discuss something with you in advance, because I think this matter will be related to the future trend of the Premier League and the vital interests of each club."

The group of Jets in the audience kept silent and listened to Hill-Wood carefully.

"I believe everyone knows that FIFA and UEFA jointly launched the 6+5 policy, which means that in the 2012/2013 season, the policy of six local players and five foreign players in the starting lineup will be fully implemented. It will be implemented from the new season and will be improved year by year. We all know why FIFA will implement this policy!"

The reason why FIFA implements the 6+5 policy is actually to force all the major teams to focus on cultivating local players. The purpose of doing so is actually to allow all the major teams or teams in the top leagues to help the national team cultivate excellent local players for free, so as to strengthen the strength of the national team and increase the intensity and viewing of the national team's games.

In the final analysis, this policy is to fatten FIFA itself and its affiliated football associations.

Not to mention that this policy of FIFA violates the constitution of the European Union and is difficult to work. Even if it is not unconstitutional, it is a huge setback for professional football leagues, because the current professional football leagues are more and more focused on integration. The Premier League is integrating into the European continent and is also becoming more technical, and other leagues are also constantly integrating.

Even with the advent of the information age, this integration has risen to a kind of integration between European football and football in other regions such as South America and Africa. If you look at the football leagues in Brazil and Argentina and the players they have trained, you will find that they are gradually becoming Europeanized.

Integration requires communication, and it requires you to have me and me to have you, so foreign players are equivalent to a medium of integration, but FIFA now forcibly requires that domestic players must be guaranteed to start, which is absolutely a disaster for Premier League teams, because you can imagine how many professional teams there are in the UK and how many professional players there are in the country.

It can be said that the prosperity of the Premier League is brought about by the influx of foreign players. Without foreign players, there would be no popularity of the Premier League, and restricting foreign players actually suppresses the competitiveness of the Premier League.

"I received news that in order to cooperate with the new policy, the English Football Association will implement a registration system for 25 players from the new season. At the same time, among the 25 registered players, eight players must be local youth training, that is, before the age of 21, they must have three years of experience in the Premier League and the Welsh League."

Peter Hillwood's words surprised many club managers present. They have not received any news from the FA yet, but if this is the case, then most clubs in the Premier League will have to make major changes. adjustments because they simply cannot meet this requirement.

Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur should be considered the least affected, especially Tottenham Hotspur. Ye Qiu's team has always attached great importance to youth training. For them, eight local youth training , not a big problem, such as Messi, Hazard, Ramsey, Beckham, Hazard, Cesc Fabregas, Phil Jones, Kompany, Joe Hart

You can easily get eight places for local youth training by just picking any player. Therefore, this new policy has no effect at all on Tottenham Hotspur, because although these players are all foreign players, they are not in the second team. Before the age of eleven, they all trained in England and Wales for more than three years, so they are all eligible for the eight-man quota of the Football Association.

But for other Premier League teams, this is simply a disaster.

In the past, there was only one restriction for Premier League selections, and that was the labor certificate. But if this regulation is passed now, it will be like putting another tight spell on the heads of all teams. This is undoubtedly what the Football Association strives for. effective weapon.

To put it bluntly, this is a game.

Not only is the FA playing against the Premier League teams, but also the national teams represented by FIFA are playing against the professional leagues. Do you really think they will be so willing to pay compensation to the international players who participate in the national team games? ?

Don't be stupid, while they are paying compensation, they are also making some demands, which is the 6+5 policy!

"This is an absolute disaster for the Premier League!" Peter Hillwood said quite sadly.

I believe there are many club managers present, especially wealthy teams such as Manchester City and West Ham United. They are also very popular. Teams including Chelsea, Liverpool and other teams with a first-team roster of about 30 people are now also It is necessary to purge some players, and at the same time, eight local youth training rosters must be considered, and a group of players may have to be introduced.

"For the time being, I don't know if the Premier League will accept it, but I think we have to respond!" Peter Hillwood really acted like a spokesman for the Premier League teams. "Everyone knows that, all the time It has been difficult to reach a consensus on the introduction of the winter break in the Premier League. In this case, the thickness of the first team's bench can ensure the team's ability to fight on multiple fronts. But if it is limited to 25 people, then we Compared with teams from the European continent, we will be at an absolute disadvantage!”

"Also, limiting the number of non-local players will lead to a decline in the competitiveness of the Premier League. Previously, the government increased tax rates. We have given understanding after considering the government's financial difficulties, the Olympics and other factors, but now, If they limit the number of foreign players, we will lose all our advantages."

Peter Hillwood also mentioned the possibility that when the team's first-team roster is limited to 25 people, future transfers will encounter a lot of trouble, that is, when When you want to bring in a player to plug the loopholes and weaknesses of the team, you have to send away a player.

But the problem is that it is easy to sign players, but it is not necessarily possible to send away players, especially for some big teams.

Everyone knows why it was so difficult for Chelsea to send away Shevchenko and Ballack because their salaries were too high. When you have roster restrictions and these high-paid players cannot be included in the roster, you definitely cannot accept their salaries. If they don't work, then the problem will arise. If you want to send them away, the other party will definitely do everything possible to lower the price.

The end result is likely to be that you not only have to sell at a cheap price that will bleed a lot of money, but you also have to give some compensation in the salary of the players. This is an absolute disaster for the team that sells!

Of course, what Peter Hillwood said is not a big problem for Tottenham Hotspur, because the age structure of Tottenham Hotspur led by Ye Qiu is well distributed, and Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham's salary structure is also very reasonable, and there is no shortage of buyers for the players. Just now Tamim Al Thani made a purchase list for Ye Qiu.

But other teams obviously don't think so, even Manchester United and Arsenal. They will inevitably encounter these problems, but Tottenham Hotspur does not have it now, which does not mean that they will not encounter this situation in the future.

"The development momentum of the Premier League is very strong now, especially when more and more international capital is paying attention to the trends of the Premier League. We have won the Champions League for three consecutive years. We have players including Arsenal and Tottenham. Top European teams like Spurs, Manchester United and Chelsea.”

When Ye Qiu heard Hillwood ranking Arsenal at the top, he really had the urge to laugh. Hillwood praised Arsenal too much. Can the current Gunners represent the highest level of the Premier League? Give me a break!

"Our influence now has spread all over the world, and next we will further develop the global market. Our goal is not localization, but a global outlook. We want to focus on developing the international market, so we need to maintain the integrity of the league and the team. Competitiveness, and foreign aid is undoubtedly the key!”

The strength of local players in England is actually relatively poor. The most famous one is Wenger. He spent more than 200 million pounds to buy more than 80 players at Arsenal. Only seven of them were from England, but 22 of them were from England. He is from France, and he once mentioned in an interview that the ability of English players is indeed too bad.

Of course, what Wenger is talking about obviously does not include England's top players such as Gerrard, Beckham, Ferdinand, etc. He is talking about the vast majority of players, the ability of English players, and the failure of England's youth training. These are all This has long been the consensus of everyone.

To put it bluntly, if a team is formed with local English players such as Gareth Barry and wants to challenge teams such as Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Inter Milan, it is completely nonsense!

Although Ye Qiu feels that the new policy will not have a great impact on Tottenham Hotspur, he also strongly agrees with Hillwood's statement that this new policy is definitely a failure and will also limit the development momentum of the Premier League. It may not be able to help the England national team improve its strength.

After all, good players are promoted through internal competition, but if you introduce a new policy to help local players of some teams enter the first team or even play in the game, do you think this will be a good or bad thing for those local players? ? I'm afraid the disadvantages will outweigh the advantages. After all, they have no competitive pressure at all!

Therefore, this new policy is just a stupid policy that was thought up by a butt-headed mind and harms others but does not benefit oneself!

If the FA really wants to strengthen the England national team, it is very simple. You only need to increase the annual funding allocated to youth training, and at the same time conduct a thorough reform of England's youth training system to get rid of the bad habits of the past. As time goes by, the level of England's youth training has improved, the players' strength has improved, and the strength of the national team has naturally improved.

Looking at the past, behind the improvement of the football level of all countries is the improvement of the level of youth training, just like Germany and Spain. Without the backing of their strong youth training systems, do you think there will be a blowout in talent in Germany and Spain?

At the end of his speech, Hillwood became obviously very excited, "I have received news that this new policy of the Football Association will be proposed at the summit in the near future. I think that by that time, all our Premier League teams will , we must all unite and make our voices heard.”

Hillwood's call also received responses from many people. After all, this is an issue of vital interest to everyone here, so everyone takes it very seriously.

Following Hillwood, David Gill also made a statement on behalf of Manchester United. He fully supported Hillwood and believed that the Premier League team must play its role instead of letting the stupid bureaucratic FA pull the ball. Walk with your nose in mind.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, what do you think of this matter, Tottenham Hotspur?" With Hillwood's words, which returned to the main podium, Ye Qiu suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention.

Many people are envious, even jealous, because this almost represents Tottenham Hotspur's current position in the Premier League, that is, this north London team already has the ability to compete with Manchester United and Arsenal. The qualifications of traditional giant teams to sit on equal footing, and even if Arsenal were not the initiator of this rally, their status would probably be lower than Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu glanced at Peter Kenyon, and the bald man smiled at Ye Qiu. The two giants of Tottenham Hotspur clearly had the same opinion again, and they both chose to support Hillwood on this matter.

"We fully agree with Mr. Hillwood's proposal on this matter!" Peter Kenyon stood up and expressed his position in public on behalf of Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur, "Only internationalization has a future, and England's domestic structure is too small. , The European football market is highly competitive, so internationalization is the future of the Premier League!”

“In fact, in the past few years, our overseas copyright sales revenue has increased year by year. The overseas copyright revenue for the new season exceeded 500 million pounds, surpassing all other European leagues and even surpassing the most commercialized leagues in the United States. The major professional sports league has become the number one sports league in the world.”

Note that the £500 million Peter Kenyon mentioned is the global overseas copyright income excluding the UK for one season.

"In other words, the overseas market has completely caught up with the local market. In this case, the New Deal is a retrograde step. It is absolutely impossible for us to accept such a policy because it will bring negative consequences to our global marketing. It will be a disaster, and everyone should pay attention to the fact that with the rise of new media and new technologies, the proportion of online copyrights is also rapidly increasing. "

Peter Kenyon's words are to tell all the managers participating in this meeting from the perspective of actual interests. What the Premier League is now facing is an extremely bright and bright future, and it is also the prospect of extremely high income. , if the New Deal is accepted now, overseas markets and online marketing will be affected, which will ultimately hit the actual interests of all Premier League teams.

Following Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Liverpool also expressed their opinions one after another. They basically agreed with the opinions of the previous teams. After all, this is related to the vital interests of all teams and the team's future earnings.

After several strong teams in the Premier League expressed their opinions, other mid- and lower-level teams also had no objections. To be frank, the big teams still have bargaining chips to withstand the impact of this new policy. After all, they have high incomes and the appeal of high-level players. But the mid- and lower-level teams are different. They can neither attract high-level players nor rely heavily on the income from Premier League copyrights. Therefore, they are even more resistant to the potential risks brought by the new policy than the big teams.

Because of this, the management of all 20 Premier League teams present reached a consensus on the spot. Led by Hillwood, they all appealed to the English Football Association and the Premier League, hoping to freeze this new policy that is still in the works.