Chapter 545: YLK Agreement
News of a new Premier League alliance to be formed, and to operate separately from the FA, quickly spread around the circle and will be promoted more widely.
This has been warmly welcomed by various clubs in League One. How to determine whether a project is profitable or not? The following points are required: 1. Have a large audience. 2. Be influential enough. 3. Have a strong promotion ability. 4. There should be a broad prospect of charging. Does the envisioned Premier League have this ability? Audience?
In the UK, even if you are a pseudo-fan, he can tell you what teams are in the country, how many famous stars there are in England, and tell you the characteristics, tactics, history, and interesting facts about each team.
After all, you can hear and see this information every day, how can you not understand it.
If you don't know football in the UK, you will feel out of place in your study, work and life.
So, the audience is definitely sufficient, even if it extends to the whole of Europe.
Influence?
Is Prime Minister John Major influential?
Although he is a little stupid and is often taken out, he is also the prime minister of the British Empire, one of the five permanent members, and the leader of the second largest alliance of nations in the world after the United Nations. Influential enough all over the world. Ability to promote?
There are the world's largest and second largest media groups, News Corporation and New Century Group.
In addition to being evenly matched in North America, New Century Media has heard of the powerful force of the umbrella, and occupies a large market in South America, the Middle East, and North Africa.
After all, it's all 'fighting, passing places.'
News Corp. is also a leader in Southeast Asia and Europe.
Together, it is easy to promote the Premier League to the world.
What is the future of charging?
News Corp. and New Century alone could make the Premier League barely break even, and as long as they don't die themselves, there is no risk of bankruptcy. So, what could be the chance of this business failing? Major was unusually positive in order to salvage his image among the British public.
I personally called the bosses of the major clubs and gathered together for a round table.
Sean and Murdoch attended the meeting as owners of Arsenal and Manchester United.
Sean decided to hand over the leadership of the meeting to Major, the British here, and they were too strong.
Sean is known to be a low-key person, "Who is hosting today?"
"Do you want to give me an opinion, I don't want to look at me, I am the convener today, not necessarily the chairman." Sean smiled and spread his hands.
"Since everyone is so polite, then I will preside over it, please turn off your mobile phones and the like."
"Regarding this Premier League, I propose a plan for everyone to study."
"I said two conditions."
"First, the members of this league can talk about their own stadium advertisements, jersey advertisements, commercial activities, etc., without interfering with each other."
"Second, the TV rights will be handed over to New Century Media and News Corporation, and this broadcast rights will be tentatively set for five years, a total of 150 million pounds, and it will be distributed to everyone, and each club can get 1.5 million pounds a year."
"Of course, it is impossible to broadcast every game, after all, there are too many games, and not so many people watch them, so we don't care about the local broadcasts of each club: how many round soups you rub is your own business, and everyone will not be divided."
"When I finish speaking, whoever is in favor and who is against!" How important is that £1.5 million to the club? In the first year of the Premier League, the top goalscorer was snapped up by Blackburn Rovers for £3.6 million, setting a Premier League record, and in the same year, Manchester United signed for Eric Cantona for a transfer fee of £1.2 million.
1.5 million can buy a Cantona plus two years' salary, this price is definitely not low!
"I'm against it!" Liverpool boss David Morse said loudly.
"Legend has it that Mr. Sean doesn't like money, he does things neatly, and he is very generous, the most
I like to use money to solve problems, so that both buyers and sellers are satisfied, but is this TV broadcast right too low, 150 million pounds in five years, only 30 million a year, 20 points, which is too little!"
"In addition, I heard that Mr. Sean's mantra is fair, fair, or fucking fair, but this seemingly fair equalization is the biggest unfairness!" David Morse pushed his glasses, "The team at the top of the list has won as much as the last team, so why are you still competing for this championship?"
"Besides, Mr. Sean just said that it is impossible to broadcast every game, so who is it to broadcast?"
"Is it the most top-ranked game, the most exciting, the most crucial game."
"Some teams can't broadcast two games in a year, and some teams are broadcast more than ten or twenty times, and everyone gets the same money, is that fair?"
"Okay, I'll make the last bite!" Sean knocked on the table, "First, the broadcast fee has been raised to 250 million pounds."
"Second, 50% of all income is divided equally among the 20 teams.
"Thirdly, the other 25% will be subsidized to teams with broadcast sessions, and the remaining 25% will be distributed in descending order of ranking."
"After I finish speaking, who is in favor and who is against!" Sean stood up and looked left and right.
He really considered this from the perspective of the development of the entire league, which middle and lower reaches of the teams to support and ensure their healthy development, only relying on a few big teams, the league lost its competitiveness, which will make the league lose its development potential!
"I ......" David Morse didn't finish his sentence, and Sean squinted over, "I, yes!"
"I, I'm in favor too!" "I'm for it!"
The voice rang out, and Sean smiled and clapped softly, "Then thank you for giving me face."
Negotiation, it's that simple, you don't need to pull back and forth, it doesn't take months, everyone sits down to drink tea, chat, and things are done.
"Let's talk about the operation of the Premier League, before football-related was hosted by the FA, as we all know, these people are very bureaucratic and have become a stumbling block to the development of British football, this matter is ......" Sean looked at Prime Minister Major who had been present but did not speak, "This matter depends on our honorary chairman, the respected Prime Minister Major."
"Questions?"
"No problem!" Major knew that this was Sean's purpose in wooing him, so he naturally agreed to it.
"Good!" Sean took the lead in applauding, "I'm an American, and I've always heard that the British side has a very serious bureaucracy and procrastination, but now I don't see that way, this is surprisingly efficient!"
Everyone applauded and praised, at least tens of millions of people who can sit here are worth tens of millions, and most of them have family inheritance, but the gap with Sean must be too big.
Whether it's more than the family or the net worth.
Murdoch's net worth is the sum of everyone present except Sean, and Sean is ten times that of Murdoch!
There is no comparison.
A large part of the reason why everyone agreed so quickly was because they wanted to make friends with Sean.
Whether it is the Rockefeller family or Sean himself, the business scope spans several fields and hundreds of industries, and a little soup and water is enough for them to make a lot of money.
In comparison, football is just a platform for communication.
Well, football does play a role as a platform in European high society, and a lot of business is negotiated in this environment.
For example, the president of Real Madrid......
With that said, there are still some scraps left, such as the problem of some clubs being underfunded.
"If the rent is insufficient, you can take out a loan, don't say that I, the chairman, don't do things, and if you want to borrow as much as you want, go directly to Sean Bank." After that, Sean looked at Major and said, "Prime Minister Major, there is no problem for Sean's banking business to enter the UK."
Major only hesitated slightly, then nodded in agreement, "No problem."
The more Sean invested in the UK, the more he bonded
The more you have, you can't just take out that little notebook now.
He clearly remembered that Shaun had written in his notebook the other day that Major had scolded me three times, and I was not angry.
What kind of pervert this is!
"Resolved Perfectly!" Sean smiled and led the applause, and there was a round of applause in the conference room.
In the past, football clubs in the United Kingdom were struggling to operate, their ratings in the banking system were greatly reduced, their valuations were lowered, and it became more and more difficult to get loans, and the conditions became more and more demanding. Now Sean has solved their urgent needs. And for Sean, no one understands better than him how much value the Premier League will be in the future, not afraid of your loans, but afraid of your loans!
Sports is definitely a blue ocean, and it can also be closely integrated with the media to create greater profit margins.
Five days later......
The major clubs jointly held a press conference, and the official establishment of the Premier League was rumored for many days, which directly made the major European media crazy.
At the press conference, Major, the honorary chairman of the Premier League, appeared and personally presided over it, and gave a long talk about the purpose of the establishment of the Premier League, the measures to be made, and the way to promote it.
English football has been suppressed for many years since it was heavily punished by UEFA, and now it finally sees the opportunity to come out of the shadows and return to the top, and the majority of fans rejoice!
Major swept away the haze of heavy losses from the previous shorting of the pound and once again became the favorite of the British people.
The populace is always forgetful!
At this juncture when the Premier League is officially established and the next season officially begins, as the president of the league, he has appeared in Baghdad, the capital of YLK.
King YLK invited Sean to the succession ceremony, and there were many parties involved, but Sean was still the most important one.
Sean has multiple identities, representing Rockefeller on the one hand, his own oil company on the other, and the largest private armed forces umbrella in YLK on the other.
These identities are extremely important to the new king of YLK, and without Sean's participation, this enthronement ceremony will not seem so complete.
The fighting in YLK has stopped, and clashes are still taking place in various markets, but this does not delay the celebration on the Baghdad side.
This YSL-style succession ceremony was quite ceremonial and lasted for a whole day.
The new king, who had been tired from a long day's work, was not at rest at night. "Tomorrow we will negotiate with the major oil groups represented by this Sean first, do you think we can get the oil industry back?" The new king is alone, and the think tank around him was formed with the help of the Hashemite family.
I don't know how many people have been placed in it, anyway, the new king doesn't think that one of them is his henchman.
"Let's open it."
"How's it only seventy percent?" Before the new king, he was an ordinary person in the side branch, an ordinary person with a net worth of millions of dollars, eating, drinking and having fun all day long, how can he understand this.
"Seventy percent is from other people, and these thirty percent still have to look at his face!"
"Whose face is it?" "Him, Sean Rockefeller!"
"Sean? I finally defeated the other candidates and became king, and I still have to look at his face?" The new king looked shocked.
"Have you ever been king?" "Nope!"
"Let me tell you, when this king is a king, he has to set up a name, win over the gentry, pay taxes and donations, and they pay it, so that the people can pay the money, and the country can have taxes and run on, of course, the gentry's money must be returned in full."
"I finally became a king, I still have to win over the gentry, I have to make a name, and I have to look at his face, haven't I become a kneeling begging for food?"
"Then you have to say this, this king is really kneeling to ask for food, that's it, how many people want to kneel and don't have this door!"
"I ask you, why did I come to YLK to be king, I just can't kneel because my legs and feet are not numb."
"It turns out that if you want to stand and earn money, then you should go back to Jordan and be your rich man, in the eyes of the people, you are the king, but in Sean's eyes, you are the one who kneels and asks for food, and when you are a king, you don't know the sand.
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The think-tank guy glanced at the new king, "You're the king chosen by the Americans."
The new king, who had just ascended the throne and had reached the pinnacle of his life, seemed to be poured cold water on his head, and he instantly lost his heart and was tasteless.
On the second day of negotiations, the new king kept smiling throughout the whole process, except for the initial welcome, and after a while of politeness, he did not speak at all after the negotiations began.
He can see that he is a puppet. It's too late to see it, I was excited to patronize it before, I really thought it was *** blessed, and I walked to the peak of life.
Of course, the people in the think tank are not undercover agents sent out by Sean's side, and they are indeed fighting for the interests of the new king, they are tied together, and last night's conversation only put the new king in the right position, don't mess things up.
Young people, unsteady and always too easy to float. "I think 20% is a reasonable number!" Sean, as a representative, came up and began to frantically lower prices.
"Mr. Sean, two percent is too little, we know that the current situation is chaotic, the equipment has suffered heavy losses, and the recovery of production capacity is far away, but you also have to consider the burden on our side, not only the survival of the people in the country, but also the huge war reparations that need to be repaid."
"If we only occupy two tiers of oil production interests, then we can't even repay the war reparations, how can we get YLK back to life as soon as possible."
"A chaotic Iraq will do you nothing but increase the cost of development, and we believe that you want peace to return here."
After some bargaining, it was no different from the vegetable market, and finally got a result that both parties were satisfied with.
The two sides signed a 99-year cooperative development agreement, with BP, Shell, Rockefeller, and Sean jointly funding to help YLK resume oil production and processing, with the YLK royal family accounting for 25% of the total oil output, and then increasing by 1% every year until it occupies 60% of the total share.
Historically known as the YLK Agreement!