Chapter 629: It's Really Hot?
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"Football is really getting more and more profitable!"
In the chairman's stand at FedEx Stadium in Washington, James Murdoch, the prince who has been transferred to the post of head of News Corporation's North American business, sighed very much and sighed regretfully.
'If he had bought Manchester United fifteen years ago, the situation would have been completely different for us now!
The man in his early thirties, the most promising successor to the world's largest media giant, did not hide his contempt, even contempt, in his conversation.
Even if he does, in the eyes of countless people around the world, he is already quite successful.
But so what?
It didn't change his son's opinion and perception of him in the slightest!
Yes, this is the helmsman of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch.
Yang Huan looked at this guy sitting next to him with a pair of glasses and looking like a gentleman with interest, he couldn't understand what the relationship between their father and son was all about.
If you really hate him, then simply leave him and go far away, why continue to do things in News Corp.? Continue to listen to him, obey him, and even want to take over his country?
If you don't hate him, then why, from a few words, people can feel a resentment?
That's too contradictory, isn't it?
"James, you should know that it wasn't that he didn't want to, it was the British monopoly law and the rabid Manchester United fans who stopped him!" Yang Huan could only smile and defend the old man who had never been masked.
It's not that he wants to slap Murdoch's ass, but he's always been like this, saying one thing and never falsifying.
Back then, Murdoch's desire to buy Manchester United was a big news in the UK, causing an unknown number of turmoil, but in the end it was declared a failure.
Who knows, as soon as Yang Huan's words fell, James Murdoch laughed.
"My young master Huan, you should know that the so-called monopoly law, the so-called fans, shouldn't be an obstacle at all for us, right?"
Yang Huan pursed his lips and shrugged his shoulders, feeling quite depressed.
Dear, even if you are right, even if you are a vested interest recipient, you may not be able to ask you, don't say it so exposed?
Let's be a low-key, introverted, and well-behaved rich second generation, okay?
"The only explanation is that he made a huge miscalculation!"
James Murdoch is like a judge in a wig in a courtroom, putting a prisoner on trial.
Yang Huan didn't understand the relationship between their father and son more and more anyway, so he simply didn't pay attention to it.
But I have to admit that James Murdoch is not wrong at all, if Murdoch had won Manchester United fifteen years ago, the whole situation would have been completely different now, and Sky TV would have more chips in the negotiations for the broadcast rights of the Premier League.
But now, it's too late.
Even if Sky TV now offers a billion, or even two billion three billion, I am afraid it will be difficult to buy a Premier League team.
Because at that time, the biggest obstacle to the acquisition was the United Kingdom.
But now, the influence of the Premier League is all over the world!
Even News Corp., which controls the world's largest newspaper and media empire, is unlikely to be able to deceive the world.
What can Yang Huan say more about the matter between father and son?
Only silence is golden!
Beneath FedEx Stadium in Washington, a fierce football match is taking place.
Defending champions Southampton met Barcelona from La Liga.
Neymar, who had just switched to Barcelona, faced his old club in his first game after wearing the Barcelona jersey.
This undoubtedly made the media all over the world fry, just like the holidays, crazy hype for several days in a row.
After Vilanova was unable to continue as Barcelona manager due to health reasons, Rosell opted for Luis Enrique, a Barcelona partner who had not been in charge of Rome for two seasons.
Yang Huan is not familiar with Luis Enrique, and he has not heard much about it.
The only time I discussed it with Bielsa, the Argentine maniac thought that the Barcelona management was starting to be pragmatic and changeable.
It is clear that Villanova's lack of success during his tenure has irritated Russell.
But Luis Enrique is quite high-profile, and he learned Mourinho's posture enough as soon as he came, and said that there can only be one leader in Barcelona in the future, and that is him, Luis Enrique.
As soon as he heard this news from the media, Yang Huan almost burst into laughter.
This guy is a typical looking type, belonging to the classic image of being taught to be a man every minute!
Mourinho is crazy, on the one hand, because he has just won a Champions League title in Porto.
That's Porto, the team in the Portuguese Super League, is it easy?
On the other hand?
How many real big names did Chelsea have in that vote at the time?
A guy wearing the halo of a Champions League winner parachuted into Stamford Bridge and put on the halo of a savior himself, who dares to say anything more about that vote of players?
But Barcelona is a different place today!
Let's not talk about having a superstar like Messi, let's talk about Barcelona's local stars Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pique and ValdΓ©s, etc., which one of these people is easy to mess with?
Yes, you Luis Enrique are indeed the famous people of yesteryear, but so what?
In terms of honors, how do you compare to these players?
In terms of football status, a humerus general of the dream third team is enough to cut you off the horse.
As for influence, how do the stars of the 90s compare with the stars of the new century?
Now, you Luis Enrique said you were the leader of the team, so what did you do with this group?
Therefore, although it was the first warm-up match of the new season and the opening match of the International Champions Cup, Barcelona's players obviously lacked fighting spirit on the pitch, and Luis Enrique was as anxious as ants on a hot pot on the sidelines, but the players on the pitch were still grinding slowly.
What's wrong? Aren't you the leader of the team? You'd like to take a sleeve and show me!
When Yang Huan saw this scene, he already shook his head in his heart.
Southampton's squad has been greatly affected by the loss of Neymar, Gareth Bale and Vidal.
However, Suarez and Sanchez were introduced, and in terms of overall strength, they may not be weaker than last season.
The key is still that sentence, it depends on how well Bielsa runs in.
Judging from the reaction of the actual battle, we still have to continue to work hard!
Thinking of this, Yang Huan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
Sometimes, the theoretical things on paper are very good, but the actual results are difficult to meet expectations.
If this is true of Neymar and Messi, why not Southampton?
When James Murdoch heard this meaningful sigh, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he happened to be very moved, and he also sighed and shook his head vigorously.
"These days, how many people who play football are smart people?"
Yang Huan was a little strange when he heard this headless sentence, and asked, "How do you say it?" β
James Murdoch sneered, but it was clearly not aimed at Yang Huan, but at others.
"Isn't the recent vote on FIFA's right to host the World Cup very controversial?"
"Huh?" Yang Huan nodded, but it was even more strange.
"Isn't this been a controversy for three years?"
Since the end of the World Cup in South Africa, FIFA has announced that it will vote on the hosting rights of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups at the end of 2010, and the right to host two World Cups will be born at the same time.
This is the first time in FIFA's history.
Not only that, but this time it has also caused an uproar for FIFA's long-standing black-box operation.
As long as anyone with a little brain can see that Russia and Qatar won the right to host the two World Cups, the back is not clean, especially Qatar, no matter the time or place, why should the World Cup be held?
But FIFA President Sepp Blatter insisted on going his own way and resolutely awarded the World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar.
Three years have passed since this commotion, and the protests from the outside world are getting louder and louder, but what can be done?
FIFA doesn't belong to any country, to any government, who can control them?
At the beginning, the EU even had to make exceptions to many laws, including labor law, specifically for professional football, and even though there are many shady scenes in professional football, the judiciary cannot enter at all.
Therefore, no matter how the outside world protests, FIFA is unmoved, not without evidence!
James Murdoch, however, seems pessimistic.
"This time will probably be different!"
"Different?" Yang Huan was a little strange again, "Why is it different?" β
James Murdoch looked around and made sure that no one was paying attention to what they were saying, so he got closer, and said softly in a voice that only Yang Huan could hear, "The governments of the United States and Britain are already on fire!" β
"What?" Yang Huan was very surprised.
Is it really hot? Or the US-UK government?
To talk about the current world, who does not know that the United States is the super-hegemon and the world's policeman?
As for Britain, although it has long since declined, the rotten ship also has three catties of iron, how to say that it is also the iron buddy and good brother of the former world hegemon and the current world hegemon.
If you want to say that the United States and the United Kingdom, this pair of good friends have joined forces, who dares to hold it up?
"FIFA went to the death of its own, and the outside world had been protesting for three years, but Blatter was forced by the situation and pressure to launch an internal investigation, but the lawyer they hired was an American."
Speaking of this, James Murdoch shook his head and sneered, "What's even more ridiculous is that you know what? This American lawyer also has a senior FBI background, don't you think this is self-defeating? β
When Yang Huan heard this, he also felt incredulous.
Could it be that the few FIFA elders who made this decision don't know how good the FBI is?
Even if you don't know it in reality, you've always seen it in movies and TV series, right?
In addition, the United Kingdom is bidding for the 2018 World Cup, while the United States is bidding for the 2022 World Cup.
As a result, in order to prove your innocence, you went to find an American lawyer to investigate yourself?
Do you really feel like a borderless organization, a being beyond all nations and governments?
Do you really think that Americans and Britons will not hold a grudge when they lose the right to host the World Cup?
Or is Blatter arrogant enough to think he's good enough to stand up to the U.S. government?
Yang Huan can only smile bitterly at this kind of stupid thing of picking up a stone and hitting himself in the foot.
In his heart, he was secretly thinking, I am afraid that the miracle media under his command will have to quickly clear up the relationship with Blatter.
Otherwise, once Blatter is unlucky, I am afraid that he will also suffer.
Fortunately, after he acquired Infront in recent years, he has been splitting and reorganizing Infront and IMG, consciously downplaying the relationship with Blatter and FIFA.
Therefore, for Miracle Media now, it is just a matter of speeding up the planning steps.
But Yang Huan soon had a doubt.
"By the way, James, where did you get the news?"
For such an important matter, Yang Huan must be sure of the authenticity of the news.
Otherwise, if you make trouble in the end, it turns out to be a big oolong, wouldn't it become a laughing stock?
It's okay not to ask, but when he asks, James Murdoch just laughs.
"That American lawyer who was hired by FIFA told us!" r1148
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