Chapter 1932 Superstar Collection and Imagination
Even with Yin Jun's explanation, Ye Linqinwa still doesn't understand what the power of the media is.
The media in England is very powerful. Thousands of newspapers and TV stations, including the BBC, Sky Sports, and ESPN, have broadcast live and recorded events around the world.
In terms of football, they spare no effort to promote it.
After 20 to 30 years of continuous efforts, by 2020, 75% of the world's 3 billion football fans will watch the Premier League, and 40% of them are die-hard Premier League fans, watching one game almost every week Or multiple Premier League games.
Specifically calculated, this number is 900 million people.
A sports event with 900 million viewers, do you think it can be popular?
With such a strong influence, more than 211 countries and regions around the world will broadcast Premier League games or programs.
During the same time period, 52 countries broadcast Serie A, 50 La Liga, 24 Bundesliga, and Ligue 1 in less than 20 countries.
Did you see it?
The total number of broadcasts of these five major leagues cannot compare with the Premier League. Do you think it should be as powerful and attractive as it should be?
Broadcasting in many countries naturally brings sky-high broadcasting fees to the Premier League.
In the three years from 2016 to 2019, the local broadcast fees of the Premier League were taken away by Sky Sports’ BT Sports for a sky-high price of 5.1 billion pounds, and overseas rights were also sold for 3 billion pounds!
In other words, in these three years, the Premier League’s total revenue from broadcast fees alone has reached 10 billion U.S. dollars, an average of more than 3.3 billion U.S. dollars a year!
Even a place as small as Xiangjiang provides US$120 million in broadcast fees to the Premier League a year!
Even in the 2017-18 season, Manchester United took 148 million pounds, Manchester City 147 million pounds, Liverpool 143 million pounds, Arsenal took 141 million pounds, and Chelsea took 139 million pounds, but small teams still took more than 100 million pounds. broadcasting fees.
West Brom and Stoke City, who were destined to be relegated, also received more than 90 million pounds in broadcast fees and were relegated excitedly.
Think about it!
During the same period, the combined income of Juventus and Milan, the two top earners in Serie A, was between US$120-150 million, which is basically the same as the relegated teams in the Premier League.
This means that the players you, Juventus, can bring in, my West Brom team can also bring in, and the salary may be higher than yours!
With such a gap in income and strength, how can you make them more attractive than the Premier League?
And this situation will last for a long time.
Unless Americans develop football seriously for 20 to 30 years, no league in any country can challenge the Premier League's strong position.
Under such circumstances, if he wants to buy a football club that can increase his popularity, Yin Jun would be a fool not to buy Manchester United!
After buying the Manchester United team, Yin Jun specially invited the staff, players and coaches at the club to have a buffet together.
Although Yin Jun knows very well that this group of people may be slowly eliminated by Ferguson within the next five years, burning bridges across rivers is not what Yin Jun likes to do.
Therefore, the teenager immediately announced a salary increase, and then promised to increase investment in the team's infrastructure.
This includes the purchase of a large piece of land to build the team's training base, as well as future renovation and expansion of the Old Trafford Stadium.
The staff, players and coaches are very happy about the salary increase. Aren't they working and playing football just to make money?
Now that the world's richest man is the boss, everyone can make more money, which is definitely a good thing.
But the head coach is a little confused. Why doesn't the boss mention financial support for signings?
But he was soon relieved.
Or the boss needs to observe again to see how to invest.
In this case, I still have to work harder to gain more trust from my boss, thereby gaining more power and money to introduce players I like to improve my performance.
He didn't know that Yin Jun was prepared to invest money, but he definitely trusted Ferguson more.
If we start buying players now, wouldn't it be a waste when Ferguson comes and he doesn't like these players?
Player buying and selling is a very expensive business, costing hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds.
After one or two seasons, it won't be a big deal for a wealthy head coach to squander tens of millions of pounds.
This is what Yin Jun cannot allow.
It is a pity that the European Union has not yet been established, and there is no way to appeal the Bosman Act, allowing money to completely impact the football market.
Without the Bosman Act, the team is the boss and can treat the players how they want. The players and other clubs have no way to do anything.
So the money in Yin Jun's hand may not be useful yet.
However, a smart person like Yin Jun must know what to do.
First of all, if nothing else, if I introduce players from outside Europe first, it won’t be a big problem, right?
No matter how high the price of players imported from poor countries such as South America is, they will not be much higher.
Although there are cases of making mistakes, Yin Jun has the memory of the next 40 years. If he chooses several people, can he still choose wrongly?
When thinking of the stars of the 1980s, the first thing that comes to Yin Jun's mind is Maradona.
Ma, who was born in 1960, is a natural prodigy. He is the second world champion in football and may be the last one.
Now he is playing football in Naples, Italy. With Yin Jun's financial and material resources and some means, there is no problem at all in inviting him to play at Manchester United.
As long as Boss Ma comes to Manchester United, do we still have to worry about Manchester United's offensive power?
And Maradona is not old, he is only 25 years old this year. As long as he maintains his condition and treats injuries in time, he can play for another ten years.
Buying such a ball champion is really the dream of any team.
Not to mention that if he buys it this year, Maradona will lead Argentina to win the world championship next year and truly be crowned the king of football! !
In three to five years, the talented Maradona will bring a large number of fans to Manchester United, allowing Manchester United to take the first solid step into becoming a giant.
but……
such a pity!
What Maradona hated most was the United Kingdom, because a few years ago Argentina and the United Kingdom had a fight over the Falklands, and Argentina lost miserably.
This talented football king with a stubborn and unruly personality would definitely not want to come to England to play football.
Moreover, his most famous "Hand of God" next year and a series of remarks will make the British hate him to the bone.
How can two parties with such irreconcilable conflicts come together?
When Yin Jun bought Maradona, he was going against the whole of England. How could he develop a Manchester United?
Therefore, the young man could only regretfully give up on this world champion.
Fortunately, there are many heroes in this era, and there are still many outstanding players for Yin Jun to choose from.
Yin Jun doesn't remember many stars, but the ones he can remember are definitely superstars.
For example, in the 1980s, the teams of AC Milan and Inter Milan were famous for their "one city, two talents".
The Three Dutch Musketeers.
German Troika.
The clubs of the Dutch Three Musketeers are more famous, namely Van Basten, Gullit and Rijkaard.
Among the three, Van Basten is the forward and the most famous.
But Gullit in the midfield is also a famous midfield master, and Rijkaard, the remaining one, can play all positions except goalkeeper, and is Cruyff's most proud disciple.
Rijkaard was able to coach at Barcelona in the future because of Cruyff's support.
The German troika is Klinsmann, Matthaus and Bremer.
Klinsmann is slightly inferior to Van Basten in the forward position, but Matthäus is definitely not inferior to Rijkaard in talent, and can also play any position except goalkeeper.
Brehmer is a left back who is extremely strong defensively and offensively, with a will like steel.
Compared with him, the later Robert Callas was completely inferior.
With these six players in hand, Manchester United's 10-year dynasty can basically be expected.
No, it’s not an expectation, but it will definitely happen!
But what Yin Jun can find is not just them, but also a player. Yin Jun really wants to take him into his account.
His name is Roberto Baggio, the eternal elegant prince!
Any Chinese fans born in the 1970s or 1980s will never forget this elegant superstar. He is almost the best memory of that era.
In the forward position, he was also the only superstar in the early 1990s who could be compared with Van Basten.
Roberto Baggio, who is only 18 years old this year, happened to be bought by Fiorentina. And according to the historical trajectory, when he was bought, he would be injured and unable to play for a year. Then after playing once, he would have to rest for seven months before finally being able to play again. Rehabilitation.
It was said that he was recovering, but basically from this point on, he was already playing football with half a leg.
Yin Jun can't change his fate of injury, but if he is bought and given the best doctors and trainers, Baggio will definitely achieve greater achievements than in his previous life.
And he will definitely become a symbol of Manchester United, just like Cantona, just like Cristiano Ronaldo.
However, whether it is Baggio, the Three Musketeers, or the Troika, two things need to be met to achieve Yin Jun's wish.
The first is how Yin Jun lured them to the English League One, a second-tier league. They are all in their prime years and are very ambitious, so they will definitely not pay attention to the English League One.
Yin Jun could only try to smash it with money. Whether he could hit it or not was definitely a question.
But if you can smash one, you are a winner, and if you hit one, you will make a lot of money.
Second, and most importantly, is Ferguson willing?
Since Yin Jun agreed to let Ferguson take full control of Manchester United, he must keep his word.
If Ferguson is dissatisfied and doesn't like it, Yin Jun's purchase of these players, even if they are all Mr. Football players, will be of no use and make Ferguson unhappy.
Compared to a momentary football superstar, of course Ferguson, the head coach who can be in charge of Manchester United for decades, is more important.
It’s not like there are no head coaches who have many superstars under their control but have disappointing results.
On the football field, except for individual stars who can dominate the team, the head coach is always more important than the players!
Therefore, Yin Jun must satisfy Ferguson himself and need them.
In order to achieve this goal, Yin Jun thought of a way.
He commissioned a special investigation agency in the UK to collect information on these seven players.
Including their records, tests, evaluations by others, as well as video highlights of their on-field performance, etc.
When everything is collected, Yin Jun will ask someone to deliver it to Sir Alex.
If Sir Alex Ferguson is satisfied with anyone, Yin Jun will directly spend money to see.
If he doesn't like it, then he can only endure it and let him perform on his own.
However, according to Yin Jun's understanding of Sir Alex, he would give himself some face no matter what.
As long as you see Sir Alex Ferguson's performance when Manchester United changed hands twice, you will know that he is a very smooth person off the football field.
I just don’t know which superstars he will like?