Chapter 259: European Club Summit (4)
"Okay, okay, everyone don't quarrel, can't you sit down and talk about it peacefully?" At this time, the only person who can come up and act as a peacemaker is Van Praag, who is the moderator of this meeting, "Chairman Morse, please control your emotions, this meeting is not the place for you to duel with Mr. Edwards. ”
"Okay, Haode." David Morse didn't change his role just now, and thought it was a meeting in the Premier League. Morse, who found that he had lost his adult, was eager to find a crack in the ground to get into, after all, he was now representing Liverpool FC.
In fact, for Edwards' proposal just now, everyone here is quite in favor of it, the expansion of the European Champions Cup is beneficial to the vast majority of the teams present, after all, a large number of strong teams into the Champions League will inevitably double the already high TV broadcast fees of the European Champions League, so the teams participating in the Champions League will naturally be able to obtain more profits than now.
Liverpool's chairman David Morse objected, on the one hand, because of the feud between Manchester United and Liverpool, and on the other hand, because even if the Champions League was expanded, Shiyan would only include the runners-up of the four major leagues, Liverpool's league ranking this season is behind its arch-rival Manchester United, and now the leader of the Premier League is Newcastle, Morse will of course object.
Soon, under Van Praag's chairmanship, the owners of a total of 20 clubs (6 Serie A clubs, 4 La Liga teams, 5 Premier League clubs, 2 Bundesliga clubs, as well as Ajax, Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain) voted on Edwards' proposal, and the resolution was adopted by 16 votes in favor, two against and two abstentions.
The UEFA delegates sent to observe the meeting looked at the scene in the conference room, and their hearts were bitter, this unlucky guy can already imagine the scene of being scolded by UEFA's chairman Johansson when he reported after the meeting, although the object of the scolding was not him, but this feeling is not comfortable!
Zhuang Mingge knows that the so-called "resolutions" made at the current meeting have no effect in any practical sense, but in this era when the Bosman Act comes, UEFA cannot but take care of the emotions of most giants and compromise on these matters - after all, there are one or more big families behind the giants behind them, if Johansson really doesn't care about these "public opinions", then these giants are really likely to leave UEFA alone, and the famous European Champions Cup is not like this?
(Note: In 1954, some European teams were preparing to hold the European Champions Cup, but at that time, UEFA insisted on holding the Expo Cup, which was the predecessor of the League Cup, so the club was not interested in the Champions Cup, so the club had to leave UEFA to organize itself, and the results of zuihou have also been seen, the Champions League has always been the highest level of competition between clubs, and the League Cup is a second-rate event whether it is during the three major European cups or the "European League" after the restructuring.) )
UEFA is just a non-governmental organization, and it just takes a little more effort for these rich and powerful giants to recreate a tournament on their own, but if UEFA's three major cups don't have these giants, they will really exist in name only, and these officials can't afford such economic losses.
Therefore, for this summit of the owners of European giants, UEFA's attitude is very simple, as long as you clubs still participate in the three major European cups, then everything else is negotiable, otherwise it is not as simple as sending an observer to observe......
After the first issue, Arsenal owner Hillwood was not willing to be left alone, and followed Manchester United with a proposal: he wanted FIFA to unify the national team's match day, so as to avoid the fact that the team would always be withdrawn from the main players due to all kinds of inexplicable national team games in the league process, and the team could not play at its best.
Good guys, these guys in the Premier League haven't made their results yet, and they have a lot of requirements, Zhuang Mingge, who was sitting with the Italian bosses, sneered in his heart.
But that's fine, with these teams in the Premier League rushing to the front as the pioneers, you can bear a lot less pressure on your side.
Since there is no unified FIFA match day at this time, and there are quite a few clubs that have suffered from it, it is only natural that the issue was unanimously approved.
The next topic is more complicated, and some miscellaneous things began to be turned out by the bosses of these wealthy families, such as ......
"Our club pays the players' salaries, but the players often suffer undue financial losses due to injuries in the national team. I think UEFA and FIFA should pay a certain amount of compensation to players who are injured in national team matches, preferably with a regulation that gives players a basis to claim compensation from the national football federations to which they belong. This time it was AC Milan boss Silvio Berlusconi, who seems to be full of resentment about his players being repeatedly called up to play in the national team.
Indeed, in the opinion of the conceited Berlusconi, AC Milan this season is absolutely capable of regaining the league title, and it is because of the repeated transfer of players from various national teams that Milan often cannot make up the strongest team to play, which has led to the team now relegating to the second place in the league.
"Agreed!"
"That's right! This is long overdue! These national teams often forcibly transfer our players, and they still send back an injury number, so that our team suffers losses in vain! ”
As a result, Berlusconi's proposal was successfully approved.
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As time went on, more and more bills were passed at the meeting, and cold sweat broke out on the backs of UEFA representatives
"Ahem......" Seeing that the theme of the meeting had been almost discussed, Van Praag, who was standing on the stage to preside over the summit, hurriedly coughed twice and signaled everyone present to be quiet, "Now I will announce a topic of this summit, that is, about the establishment of a strategic alliance composed of a certain number of football clubs, which is responsible for communication with UEFA and FIFA, so that our clubs are no longer in a weak position in the competition with them, but have equal right to speak!" ”
Let me go, could it be that the legendary "football utopia" - the G14 organization appeared four years ahead of schedule at the instigation of its own little butterfly? After hearing Van Praag's words, such a thought suddenly flashed in Zhuang Mingge's mind:
Coach, this is not scientific!
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