When Gao Han drove from Lafinca's home to the Chinatown training center in the southern suburbs, Technical Director Carlos Cantarero was already waiting for him in the lobby and took him directly to the executive boardroom on the second floor.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw that the general manager Armando Marcos was sitting with several guests, and the two leaders were Gao Han's old friends, Cerezo, the president of Atletico Madrid, and the general manager Little Hill.

As soon as everyone in the conference room saw Gao Han push the door in, they all stood up.

"Ha, you're such a friend that you won't let us know when you get back to Madrid. Little Hill greeted him with a smile.

Gao Han looked innocent and said with a wry smile: "I just came back to deal with some things, and I left in the past two days." ”

"If we hadn't heard about it from Javier, we wouldn't have known you were back. Cerezo also stepped forward to hug Gao Han.

The Javier in his mouth, you don't have to guess, you know, it must be Javier Matayana.

It has been ten years since Gao Han entered Atletico Madrid, and it has been ten years now.

The friendships they have made in the past ten years and the friendships they have worked hard together have made them cherish them incomparably.

"Come, I'll introduce you. Little Ciel pointed to the two strangers next to him.

"This is the president of the Spanish Professional Football League, José Luis Astiasalaan, this is the vice-president Javier Tebas Medrano, they all came to work after you left. ”

Although Gao Han has been away from La Liga for many years, Chinatown is still there, so he also knows a little about the Spanish professional league.

The two professional league powerhouses are not very old, less than fifty years old, and they are in the prime of life.

José Luis Astiazalan was a veteran legal adviser to football clubs, players and even agencies, and did a good job of taking over the mess of Real Sociedad in 2001 and quickly brought a revival to Real Sociedad, serving as vice-president of the Spanish Professional League, which was elected in 2005 and won re-election in 2009.

Compared to the chairman of La Liga, vice president Javier Tebas can be regarded as a grassroots chairman, long-term president of Huesca, in 2001 with the support of many lower league teams, entered the Spanish professional league, served as vice president, and in 2003 the famous G30 league demanded a redistribution of television broadcast revenues caused by the boycott turmoil, he is the leader, since becoming the vice president of the professional league, he has also actively campaigned for the reform of La Liga broadcasting rights.

The G30 League, which consisted of La Liga and La B teams, has been fully integrated into the Spanish professional leagues, but the battle over the distribution of broadcast rights has intensified, and now it is approaching a critical juncture.

In particular, even the tilt of stalwarts such as Sevilla, Valencia and Atletico Madrid is a huge boost.

On the phone just now, Xiao Cier had briefly explained his intention to Gao Han, and Gao Han was mentally prepared on the way here, so after meeting everyone, he exchanged a few polite words, and after sitting down with the host and guest, he went straight to the point.

They had come to seek the help of the high cold.

"Mr. Gao Han, to tell you the truth, the current situation has reached a very fatal point, Real Madrid and Barcelona have a lot of resources in their hands, they have a very generous financial income, the annual TV rights income is amazing, in 03 years, their broadcast fee income for each team is almost the sum of more than 30 middle and lower teams, and it is still the case. ”

When Javier Tebas said this, he looked a little indignant.

When he led the G30 league to compete with the Spanish Football Federation and the two big teams, the total broadcast fee of the 30 middle and lower teams in La Liga and La B was 76 million euros, while Real Madrid and Barcelona earned 72 million euros per team a year at that time, which caused a conflict.

Gao Han still remembers that the G30 League's request was that the Spanish Football Federation give the G30 League teams at least 93 million euros in broadcast fee sharing, but the Spanish Football Federation was only willing to increase it from the original 76 million euros to 84 million euros.

That incident caused a lot of uproar that year, and La Liga was postponed for a while, but then the Spanish Football Federation broke it one by one, coupled with the disagreement within the G30 alliance, many members were exhausted in the long-term and difficult negotiations, and were finally broken by the Spanish Football Federation one by one, and finally had to announce a compromise.

"Mr. Gao Han, your team has risen all the way up from the lower leagues, then you must know very well what kind of business situation the teams in the lower leagues are now, almost most of the teams are on the verge of collapse beyond their means, and the vast majority, even the middle and lower reaches of La Liga, are also difficult to maintain. ”

"But what about the two giants? They are recklessly scouring for superstars in European football, Real Madrid currently has a transfer budget of hundreds of millions on their accounts, and Barcelona is also extravagant, but their huge financial income is based on the difficult operation of many other teams in La Liga and La Liga. ”

At this point, Javier Tebas accentuated, "We must change this status quo of exploitation, we must stand up and resist!"

Gao Han had to admit in his heart that Javier Tebas was very eloquent, very convincing and infectious, which did make him feel very dissatisfied, especially the approach to the two big teams.

As the so-called Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, it is talking about the current Spanish professional league.

Under the current distribution of broadcast rights, the middle and lower teams are almost powerless against the two giant ships of Real Madrid and Barcelona, even teams like Valencia and Sevilla.

On the way here, Gao Han has filtered all the various interests in Spanish football.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are undoubtedly on the top, having signed a staggering amount of broadcast contracts with broadcasters in 2006, amounting to 1.1 billion euros in seven years, or more than 150 million euros per team per year.

Under the two giants, Atletico Madrid and Valencia signed contracts, the annual broadcast cost is only more than 46 million euros, which is still won by the Bed Legion and the Bat Army after their rapid achievements in recent years.

The remaining 16 teams share the remaining 260 million euros in revenue every year, so it is divided into the hands of promoted Malaysia Chinatown, and the broadcast income is already very small.

For mid-stream and lower-tier teams, reforming broadcast fee revenues is undoubtedly about taking food from the jaws of Real Madrid and Barcelona, which is not easy, but it is imperative, and for teams such as Atletico Madrid and Valencia, they must also break the current model of profit distribution.

It's like Atletico Madrid, which has been good enough in the past few years, and is holding Real Madrid safely, but what's the use?

After the broadcaster Pioneer Media got rid of Real Madrid and Barcelona, the attitude towards the other teams in La Liga immediately became very tough, because the initiative of the negotiations completely went in their favor, and this is very unfair to the 18 teams in La Liga except for the two giants.

This is why Sevilla president Del Nido will propose to unite 18 teams to expel Real Madrid and Barcelona from La Liga, because without these 18 teams, the two giants will not be able to play at all.

If Atletico Madrid and Valencia want to challenge the status of the two giants, they must start in the distribution of broadcast income and shorten the financial income between themselves and the two giants, otherwise, the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker, and this game will not be playable at all.

"Real Madrid's contract with Barcelona and Pioneer Media has three years left to expire under the contract signed that year, but according to the reliable information we have received, they are now considering a contract extension and are considering a longer extension. ”

Little Ciel's words made everyone present look sink.

Everyone understands that if the two giants are allowed to renew their contracts with the broadcasters at this juncture, the situation in the next few years can no longer change, and all teams can only continue to play this masochistic game with the two giants.

You don't have to think about it to know why they started negotiating a contract extension three years in advance.

Even Gao Han understood why the princes of the Eighteenth Route would rise up one after another at this time.

If you don't stand up at this time, you won't have a chance in the future.

"What are you going to do?" asked Gao Han lightly.

Javier Tebas, Little Hill and the others glanced at each other, and they all realized that there was a play, and their expressions were full of surprise.

"What we mean is to stop them from renewing their contracts first, and then to put pressure on all 18 La Liga teams to sit down and renegotiate with us, otherwise the game is over and we can still play La Liga without them. ”

Gao Han nodded, this should be the biggest bargaining chip in negotiations with the two giants.

Football matches will always have two teams against each other, for Real Madrid and Barcelona, without these 18 teams, they simply can't play, as for many people say, to go to other countries' leagues, it is even more foolish.

If nothing else, what league would be willing to accept these two teams?

The Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 all have their own fixed interest groups, and they are unlikely to accept such a big team.

You know, the membership system of Real Madrid and Barcelona itself is the same as the opening of the hanging, and the business model of Manchester United, Bayern Munich and other teams is completely different.

It should be said that asking the two giants to make a compromise should be the least difficult of the many reform plans.

"But can the Spanish Football Federation agree?" asked Gao Han with concern.

That's the crux of the matter.

Barcelona and Real Madrid can only be regarded as vested interests at best, and they are unwilling to take the initiative to reform, but the Spanish Football Federation is the opposite of reform.

According to the existing distribution model, the broadcast rights are distributed by the Spanish Football Federation, which passes hundreds of millions of euros every year, directly connecting with major sponsors, and everyone knows how much power the Football Association has.

But if it is reformed and the broadcast rights are owned by the La Liga professional league, then the Football Association will change from the original dominator to a bystander, and the original bystander professional league will become the new dominator, the only difference is that the professional league is composed of La Liga teams and works for La Liga teams.

José Luiz and Javier Tebas have been active in calling for reform, also with the aim of enabling professional leagues to come to the fore and take control of the power like the Premier League.

So, at the end of the day, it's a bloody battle of interests.

Is the Spanish Football Federation willing to step back into the background?

(End of chapter)