Accompanied by the enthusiastic President Luis Felipe Vieira and Rui Costa, Yang Huan visited Benfica's Stadium of Light, as well as supermarkets and other sports venues around the stadium.

Through the introduction of the two, Yang Huan somewhat learned that Benfica has also received a lot of income through the leasing of these venues, which has kept Benfica's annual income at about 100 million euros.

This is achieved without counting the transfer and purchase transactions of players, and it ranks first in the Portuguese Super League, even surpassing Porto, a player in the Portuguese Super League.

Under the introduction of President Vieira, Yang Huan also learned that Benfica had as many as 200,000 members, ranking first in Europe, and this annual membership fee alone is also a lot of income.

This is somewhat surprising.

Because of the limited influence of the entire Portuguese league, Benfica's income in terms of sponsorships and other aspects should be very small, but it is indeed quite difficult to reach such an income.

However, this may also have a lot to do with Benfica's public company.

Not only Benfica, Porto and Sporting Lisbon are also listed companies, and even the latter two are relatively early, Porto was listed as early as the nineties, while Benfica was listed in recent years because of debt.

However, like the sluggish stock performance of most football clubs after listing, Benfica's current market value is less than half of what it was when it went public, and the stock price of a single share has even fallen to less than one euro, which is a junk stock.

But they did the math, look at Porto, the share price is only 0.6 euros, and even at the end of 2012, the share price of this Portuguese Super League team even plummeted to 0.18 euros, which is unbelievable.

What's even more terrifying is that whether it is Benfica, Porto or Sporting Lisbon, no one buys their shares at all, and there is almost no liquidity, which shows that investors are not optimistic about them at all.

And it's no wonder, because the listing of a football club is itself a very deformed product.

From Premier League teams such as Manchester United, to Ajax, to Dortmund, to teams like Porto and Benfica, almost all of them went public because of debt, and as soon as they were listed, the stock price plummeted immediately.

Even a team as professional as Manchester United is not immune.

Not long ago, a Wall Street hedge fund shorted Manchester United's stock for $5 million, and the Red Devils' share price fell by 10 percent.

Just imagine, Manchester United is like this, and the other clubs are even more unbearable.

Yang Huan, accompanied by President Vieira and Rui Costa, returned to one of the conference rooms of Benfica's office after a tour around the Stadium of Light.

"Mr. Yang Huan, we very much admire your brilliant achievements in Southampton in the past few years, especially in the globalization strategy, many of the Saints' initiatives are very worthy of our learning."

Luis Felipe Vieira said very sincerely.

"I've had conversations with Peter Kenyon before, and you've had quite a successful experience setting up branch offices in the U.S., China, and the Middle East, so we're looking forward to the opportunity to work with you a lot."

"In addition, we are also very interested, and hope to be able to participate in your Miracle Media International Champions Cup at the right time, I believe Mr. Yang Huan also knows that Benfica is the second team in Europe to win the Champions League, with a long historical tradition, and in the past few years, our results have been very stable."

Yang Huan listened and nodded incessantly, "President Vieira, now the outside world is very vocal about the further expansion of the International Champions Cup, and we have been studying this plan very carefully, if we decide to expand the army, we must give priority to Benfica!" ”

"As for the cooperation between Southampton and Benfica, we also welcome it!"

Vieira also knew that this kind of thing could not be negotiated in a few words, but he didn't mind.

Just kidding, who wouldn't want to participate in Marvel Media's International Champions Cup now?

Look at the teams that participate in the competition, at least one or two million euros per summer, and even more so if they can sign sponsorship contracts in North America and Asia.

It's like Benfica, the annual income after deducting the player's transfer income is only 100 million, and the net income of playing a few games in a summer is 10 million euros, and the temptation for them is too great.

But on the one hand, Miracle Media has very high requirements for participating teams, almost all of which require the first line of teams in Europe.

Although there are also controversial teams like Monaco participating, considering the influence of Ligue 1 and the fact that Monaco has indeed performed quite eye-catching this season, everyone is relieved and feels that Miracle Media is very discerning.

However, after the expansion of the International Champions Cup, there are only 16 places in total, which is difficult to meet the needs of many big teams in Europe, so many teams in the middle and upper reaches of the four major leagues, as well as teams in the upper reaches of other leagues, are calling for further expansion.

There are even a lot of people who have come up with a plan, that is, to hold a qualifying tournament before the main competition.

The teams with excellent results in the qualifying rounds will advance to the main tournament and participate in the championship competition against the strongest teams.

This scheme has also received a lot of attention, after all, it will allow more teams to participate in the tournament, and at the same time, it will also make the competition more intense.

As for the schedule, it will be advanced from the current end of July and early August to mid-July, or even early July.

Although it may affect the team's preparation, in order to generate income, European teams are also fighting!

Yang Huan and Sun Yue and others are cautious about the International Champions Cup, after all, they have just expanded the army, and the steps are too big and it is easy to pull eggs, but the market's reaction is so hot, they must also pay attention to it and give positive feedback.

Otherwise, it's hard to guarantee that no one will set up another mountain!

Of course, the International Champions Cup has now become famous, coupled with the fact that the giants have been wiped out, it is very difficult for others to reorganize an event, coupled with the high appearance fee, which makes the threshold very high.

Even RS can't run it, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for others to gain a foothold.

Patrick Vieira is not stupid either, and of course he knows that it is impossible to get any promises with his own words, or Benfica borrowing a training base for Southampton, which is absolutely impossible.

But he is still getting closer to Yang Huan intentionally or unintentionally.

When talking about the club's operation, he vaguely, consciously or unconsciously, mentioned the issue of third-party ownership of the Portuguese Super League.

And Yang Huan also wanted to return him a favor, so he revealed it to him.

"I can guarantee that FIFA will soon work with UEFA to rectify third-party ownership, so the transformation of the Portuguese Super League team is imminent!"

"Really?" Vieira frowned.

This piece of news was nothing short of seismic to him.

Of course, it is not too surprising, after all, in the past few years, UEFA and FIFA have been constantly hearing the news of suppressing third-party ownership, but it has always been thunder and rain, is this time it is serious?

"Absolutely, I promise!" Yang Huan is very sure, "And it is very likely that it will officially take effect from next year!" ”

Vieira and Rui Costa looked at each other, both visibly panicked.

Benfica still have a few third-party players in the squad, and if they can't sell them before the ban takes effect, they will be punished by UEFA and FIFA.

Unafraid?

No kidding!

Banning Benfica from participating in the UEFA Champions League alone is enough to bring Benfica's finances to the brink of collapse!

Yang Huan looked at Vieira's face and knew what was going on.

The chaos of the Portuguese Super League team is difficult for outsiders to understand.

Not to mention anything else, even if it is the same team in the Portuguese Super League, a team like Porto can directly influence or even directly interfere with the transfer and manager appointment of other Portuguese Super League teams, which is unimaginable in other leagues.

Are you kidding?

Looking at Mourinho's resume, didn't he just find a job after being laid off, and finally went to Porto to ask for Porto's president Da Costa, and finally Da Costa arranged for Mourinho to go to Leiria as the head coach, and then took over Porto?

It's just that Mourinho is indeed tough enough and strong enough, after his eye-catching performance in Porto? Immediately escaped the Portuguese Super League, ran to Chelsea, successfully cleared his name, and transformed into a world famous coach, but even so, he was still involved in some scandals in Porto and Da Costa.

All in all, this pool of water is very deep!

"Young Master Huan, thank you for telling me such an important piece of news!"

Vieira thought for a moment before he breathed a heavy sigh, he felt that the cold winter of Portuguese football was coming.

If third-party ownership is restricted, where will the teams in the Portuguese Super League have the financial resources to bring in high-level stars?

Yang Huan saw his grim expression like Mount Tai was about to fall, and he felt a little strange in his heart.

"Luis, I've always had a question, I wonder if you can help me answer it?"

When Vieira heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "Young Master Huan told me such important news, then I have nothing to say." ”

Yang Huan nodded with satisfaction and asked, "I'm very strange, it stands to reason that you sell players every year and sell a lot of money, why do you still rely so much on a third party?" Haven't you ever thought about getting rid of the third party and going it alone? ”

After listening to Yang Huan's question, Vieira and Rui Costa glanced at each other and shook their heads helplessly.

"Young Master Huan, you don't know our situation." Rui Costa sighed with embarrassment.

"Then you can hear it!" Yang Huan asked with interest.

Because he is really interested in knowing, why is there such a strange league model in the Portuguese Super League?

Rui Costa immediately looked at Vieira as if asking, can you say, Chairman?

Vieira also weighed in his heart, maybe he felt that Young Master Huan was a person he could trust, or maybe he really wanted to get closer to Young Master Huan, so he nodded and said that he could speak.

After receiving the authorization, Rui Costa thought about it and organized his rhetoric.

"Young Master Huan, what you said about the high transfer fee is that you only heard the reports of the outside media and the official statement of the opposing club, but if you go and look at our company's financial statements, you will find the problem."

As a publicly traded company, Benfica publishes its financial statements every once in a while.

However, this is not usually the case for fans.

The most important thing for the fans is the team, and they don't care how much you earn or how much you spend.

"You mean, the transfer fee is split with a third party?"

Yang Huan thinks, isn't it strange at all?

In this model, the player is like a commodity, and a third party holds a certain amount of shares, and if you sell this commodity, you will naturally have to share it with others, isn't it very reasonable?

But Rui Costa shook his head and smiled, "It's not that simple, Young Master Huan, the specific operation is much more complicated than this." ”

This time, Yang Huan was really a little confused.

But, he's interested in figuring it out!