Chapter 223: The First Round of the New Season

Hugo jumped to his feet and asked for a price increase, and other small clubs were not stupid, so they hurriedly jumped along, and they had to increase the broadcast fee, otherwise everyone would not sign and refuse to participate in the professional league games.

There are many people and great power, these clubs are inconspicuous, and many clubs even have intimate relationships with big clubs, but he said that money, who knows you, one by one, is against harming their own interests and feeding the big clubs.

Last year, the price of the Serie B teams on the national television pay channel was basically 2 million euros per team per year, and now Hugo is asking them to increase to 6 million euros, which is a big mouth, but it is always negotiable.

Galliani called Hugo angrily and seduced: "You can go with the mid-table team, I will convince the national television to give Trapani a contract that is higher than the other teams!" ”

Hugo thought about it and refused, this thing can't be done, it seems to be very good for Trapani, but in fact, this is tantamount to offending a large group of friendly troops, and it will be difficult to mix it up in the future.

"Jiagong, I'm not doing this for my own benefit! Our Italian football needs to develop, our professional league needs to develop, how can you play without our small and medium-sized teams?! The professional league must be healthy, the professional league must also be healthy, and if we don't raise the price, we small teams will not be able to develop, and it will not be good for everyone! You should find a way to convince the national TV pay channel to give everyone a little more money, the prosperity of Italian football cannot be separated from us! "Hugo said eloquently, righteously.

Galliani sneered in his heart, he just wanted to say that this is just a little fucking slippery, a little sweetness can't tempt him, and he knows the general trend very well.

As president of the professional league, he had to persuade the national television to raise its offer, and at the same time he had to persuade the clubs to negotiate well with the national television at the negotiating table to lower expectations.

Hugo made another remark in an interview with a new sports website in August, "Italy's current broadcast contract method is backward, we have to learn from the Premier League, and Serie A and Serie B should be packaged and sold!" Attracting international capital should not be limited to Italy! ”

This idea caused an uproar as soon as it came out, and small and medium-sized teams rejoiced, which is a small and medium-sized club can obtain great benefits, the Premier League's broadcast fee distribution is even, plus ranking rewards, small clubs can get a lot of income even if they are at the bottom, which is guaranteed.

Secondly, the Premier League's broadcast bid is for the whole world, Italy is not good, Italy is not a package sale, the team and the TV station are needed to negotiate one by one, and the international capital who is willing to talk to you alone is protracted, so the broadcast rights of Serie A and Serie B basically fall into the hands of domestic TV stations, which gives them the capital to blackmail small clubs.

This remark is just talk, Hugo just wants to stand up and criticize the bigwigs of the professional league, let them have some scruples, don't mess with everyone, the league suspension is not a big deal.

After these remarks, the three parties who had some scruples quickly accelerated the negotiation process, and finally reached an agreement, and a small club like Hugo and them can also get 5 million euros a year in the Serie B league.

Therefore, the curtain of the new season can be opened on September 15th.

The first opponent is Bari, who were relegated from Serie B last season, a southern team based in Puglia, and their owners behind them are the Matarese family and the president is Antonio. Matarese, who has had a good relationship with Hugo lately.

Hugo was the first to run out and propose a price increase, he was the second, he had some stories with Galliani, in the first half of this year, the election of the president of the professional league, he and Galliani were competitors, but he failed, Galliani won the position of president of the professional league, you talk about it, someone is against the professional league, how can he not stand up and help.

At least now Hugo is in a league with him, and of course no one knows how long the partnership will last.

Trapani arrived in Bari, and Matarese personally invited Hugo to dinner, and everyone had a great conversation, and everyone sat together to watch the next day's football game.

Veteran coach Zeman played his best in the first round.

The goalkeeper position is still Kameni, Kameni is exactly the type of goalkeeper that Zeman needs, with a large range of control, because Trapani's back line is pressed relatively high, mainly to keep the formation compact, a goalkeeper with a large control range is very in line with the characteristics of Trapani, Kameni is really just right under Zeman, he originally likes to attack.

At the back, the right wing-back is Bosingva, and Maggio is a player that Trapani has spent a lot of money to bring in, but he still has not been able to compete for Bosingwa in the main position, but Macho's level has also grown relatively fast, and Bosingwa is also under a lot of pressure.

With centre-back Barzagli expected to miss more than a week after suffering an ankle sprain in training, Zeman used Pepe to partner Natalie, as well as Peruso, who could play at left wing-back or centre-back.

The left wingback is Grosso, Grosso and Evra can't tell who is the main force, Zeman prefers to use Evra, but Evra is a little far behind Grosso in defense, although both are full-backs, maybe Grosso is more influenced by Italy's defensive football culture, and can get started quickly in defense, to be mature and reliable, the two of them Evra's advantage is that he is fast and has a strong impact, Grosso is better defensively, and his passing is more reliable than Evra, and Zeman will select two according to different opponents.

In the midfield, Zeman gave Miku to burst forward, resembling a forward midfielder, and behind him are the youngsters Mascherano and Mereles, these two are fast, Mascherano has shown his strength, the defensive position sense is better, the steal success rate is high, and Meireles has a balanced characteristic, good passing, and good interception.

There is another young man in the team, Padoin, whose qualifications are more average, but the advantage is that he works hard enough and is diligent, Zeman actually likes to use Padoin, but this season he intends to give Mascherano more opportunities, and his potential is higher than Padoin in Zeman's opinion.

Also in midfield is Stefano. Mauri, as well as Belluski, like Padoin, can only be used as substitutes.

The arrow that has burst forward is of course Toney, who has been Trapani's most consistent goalscorer in recent seasons, and Simeone is on the wing. Pepe occupies the position on the right, and Cristiano. Ronaldo occupies the position on the left, and this season Trapani is not enough personnel, but for the construction of Guingamp, Trapani still loaned out Ribery friendly, and there is less competition pressure in the winger position.

Zeman gradually abandoned Luriga during the summer training, not to be precise, but to put Ronaldo first, Ronaldo's personal breakthrough ability is more prominent than Luriga, and he also has a good goal efficiency and good shooting ability during the academy period, Zeman wants to temper Ronaldo into one of the team's scorers this season, Luriga and Pepe's shooting ability is not good!

Barry lost a lot of blood this summer and was relegated, of course, not everyone can share the hardships with the team, and the income will drop a lot, Matarese has no choice but to let some people go! However, even so, the outside world is not optimistic about Trapani's away trip, after all, Bari is a relegated Serie A team, most of Trapani's players are new to Serie B, and the handicap opened by the bookmaker, Bari's odds of winning are very low, only 1.34, which is obviously extremely unoptimistic about Trapani.

But these media have apparently forgotten that Trapani has a veteran coach who has been involved in Serie A football for many years.

In less than 3 minutes of the opening, the visiting Trapani gave Barry a blow, in the face of Trapani's opening crazy robbery, Bari's players were in a hurry, a big foot clearance in the backfield, and was pushed back to Barry's half by Pepe near the midfield, the opponent's No. 8 ball was not yet stable, Mascherano was quick to shoot, successfully cut off the ball at his feet, and passed to Miku, Miku did not stop the ball directly diagonally on the right side, Pepe sprinted, passed the ball in one go, Toney, a high school striker, can score so many goals every season is not in vain.

He snuggled up to the opponent's central defender in the middle, stretched his neck and pushed the ball into the door of the Barry team.

Trapani got off to a perfect start, and this goal fully demonstrated Miku's playmaking ability in the attack, he was able to anticipate the position of his teammates very well, and the passing accuracy and strength were very good, so that Pepe was fully capable of making a good pass!

After the goal, the Trapani players frantically surrounded Toney, this is the team's first goal of the new season, no one expected the goal to come so quickly!

Toney ran to the away stands with open hands to salute the Trapani fans!

The San Nicola Stadium is the home stadium of Bari, which can accommodate 65,000 spectators, and he is one of the venues for the 90 World Cup, but the number of spectators here is dismal, with less than 10,000 spectators, Bari's bad last season has made many fans lose their enthusiasm for watching the game live, and Trapani is a promoted horse, don't look at Miku, but many in the media are not very optimistic about Trapani's Serie B trip, because their net investment in the transfer market is not much at all.

On the contrary, Trapani's fans are enthusiastic after the team is promoted to Serie B, and there are at least 500 away fans at the San Nicola Stadium today.