Chapter 336: Desperate Olas
As soon as the dust settled on Tottenham's entry into the G14, the meeting began with the next topic under the guidance of the rotating chairman, David Dane, namely Rummenigge's proposal on how to punish clubs whose results have fallen sharply since joining the G14!
Originally, Rummenigge's main purpose in convening this meeting was to go through a process and absorb Tottenham into the G14 organization. Unexpectedly, Olas's gang took the initiative to jump out and make a wave of deaths, and they also took Valencia and Bayer Leverkusen as two unlucky guys. Therefore, this topic will be put on the agenda by the President of Bayern as a proposal for public discussion at this meeting!
Rummenigge has always been extremely unhappy with Valencia clubs, believing that their presence has had a huge negative impact on the prestige of the G14. Now that he was finally waiting for an opportunity to clean them out in the name of justice, Rummenigge naturally had to seize it!
Hearing David Dane's words, Soler, Calmond and the others suddenly turned to ashes. With their IQ, who would not have thought that Rummenigge's proposal was aimed at several of their teams!
In fact, Rummenigge can't be blamed for recklessly killing the killer. After all, the performance of these clubs after joining the G14 is really unconvincing!
Valencia were in a better situation, winning the La Liga and UEFA Cup double immediately after a brief slump in 02-03, so while the Bats had a rather poor season, Soler could find plenty of excuses to avoid Rummenigge's purge.
In contrast, Bayer Leverkusen and Paris Saint-Germain are in a much more dangerous situation. The former went straight to the relegation circle in the first season after becoming a full member of G14, and it was not until the last round of the league that they narrowly escaped relegation, and their poor performance almost discredited G14;
As for Paris Saint-Germain, one of the founding members of the G14, it is difficult to define this capital team as a giant club (7th in Ligue 1 in 00-01, 4th in Ligue 1 in 01-02, 11th in Ligue 1 in 02-03, runners-up in Ligue 1 in 03-04, 9th in Ligue 1 in 04-05).
Similar to Bayer Leverkusen, they are also in a similar situation as Marseille in Ligue 1 and Borussia Dortmund in Bundesliga. These clubs have also experienced a serious decline in performance in recent seasons and even missed the European competition, so they have also become the focus of Rummenigge's attack this time!
"I think they should be deprived of their qualifications as full members of the G14!" David Gill, who was the first to speak, said surprisingly, and the first sentence scared Soler and them, "In addition, I suggest that in the future, the G14 should establish a complete qualification review system, so that every club can cherish this hard-won G14 official membership even more! For example, teams that fail to qualify for the Champions League for two consecutive years, or fail to achieve the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup, will be punished by expulsion from the G14!"
"Isn't this punishment a bit too heavy?" Florentino rubbed his chin and looked a little hesitant, "Every team has to go through the transition between the old and the new, and their results will inevitably decline during this time. If they were to be expelled like this, it would not be a good thing for the prestige of the G14. So I think it's better to relax this condition a little bit. ”
In fact, the main reason why David Gill and Galeries Lafayette have such a clear divergence on this matter is that this time is likely to lead to an extremely serious imbalance in the voice of the five major leagues within G14. You know, among the unlucky ones who could be kicked out of G14, none of the clubs are from England!
Although Liverpool missed the Champions League for the second year in a row, their triumph in the UEFA Cup this season has given the Reds enough impression points - no matter how badly the UEFA Cup's influence has declined after the expansion of the Champions League, no one will dare to underestimate the team that can win the UEFA Cup!
Far from it, let's talk about Porto, the winner of the UEFA Cup in the 02-03 season. Didn't the Portuguese giants use the same core squad to win the Big Ears Cup the next season after winning the League Cup? Therefore, Liverpool, who just won the League Cup, is naturally absolutely safe in this purge operation!
Therefore, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. When the interests of the two sides are not aligned, even if the relationship is close, there will be differences or even conflicts in the handling of opinions!
In the end, a compromise proposed by George and Galliani was agreed by most of the people present: if a team failed to qualify for the Champions League for two consecutive years and failed to reach the last 16 of the UEFA Cup, it would be placed on probation and only deprived of its voting rights at the G14 meeting, and if the club on probation did not meet this criterion in the next two years, then its full G14 membership would be revoked!
In this way, in the eyes of Dreyfus, Calmond and others full of joy and gratitude, four clubs, including Marseille, Paris Saint-Germain, Dortmund, and Bayer Leverkusen, escaped the fate of being expelled from the G14 and retained their official membership qualifications!
And Leon, who has been characterized as an inner ghost by Rummenigge and others, is not so lucky. No, as soon as Dreyfus breathed a sigh of relief, Galliani openly questioned the need for Lyon to remain a full member of the G14: "There are clubs that join the G14 only to satisfy their own selfish interests and use the influence of the G14 for their own benefit. Lyon, for example, I don't see any positive contribution to our organization since becoming a member of the G14!"
"I agree with manager Galliani. Lyon has won the Ligue 1 title three times in the past four years, but their performance in the Champions League is not as good as Monaco in the same league, which is enough to show that Chairman Olas has no idea of building Lyon into a giant football club to lead the future of football, but is just using the G14 signature fox to fake the tiger. This kind of selfish club, we G14 don't need!" Seeing Galliani fire first, Rummenigge also voiced his opinion!
Seeing that Rummenigge and other bigwigs made a clear statement, and Dreyfus and others, who were lucky enough to escape, fell into the well in order to show favor to the bigwigs, and supported Galliani's decision to expel Lyon from the G14, Aulas didn't even have the idea of refuting or defending, and slumped in his chair in despair and pretended to be an ostrich - he knew that he was on the wrong side in this power struggle, and he would definitely become the target of these bigwigs!
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