Chapter 1672 Another Unexpected Harvest

? Tottenham Hotspur played the Champions League with a relaxed attitude of accumulating Champions League experience, and focused their energy on securing the top four in the Premier League in order to continue to participate in the Champions League.

Because the fundamental difference between whether European clubs can participate in the Champions League is not whether they have the opportunity to compete for the title of European champion, but a huge amount of income from the European war.

With this money, they can buy two more world-class stars every season than those opponents who missed the Champions League. In this way, the chances of entering the Champions Cup again next season will be greatly increased.

This is the root cause of the widening gap between the Premier League's "four big families" and the rest of the teams, and in the near future, this gap may increase sharply.

Because according to the latest news released by UEFA on the eve of this season's Champions League final, which club manager David Dunn told Andy, in the next three seasons from 2009 to 2012, the average annual revenue brought by the Champions League to UEFA Will be as high as 1.1 billion euros.

You know, in the past three seasons, the average annual revenue of the Champions League was only more than 800 million euros, which has increased by nearly 300 million euros. The biggest change brought about by this is that all 32 teams participating in the Champions League will receive much more event revenue in the future than they do now.

UEFA used to distribute bonuses to teams participating in the Champions League last season as high as 600 million euros, but this season this figure will easily exceed 800 million. . .

It is particularly worth mentioning that due to the outstanding record of the Premier League teams in the Champions League in recent seasons and the high "photographing rate" in TV broadcasts, the polarization of the rich and the poor in the Premier League is particularly prominent.

You know, in UEFA’s distribution of TV broadcast revenue, the Premier League is far ahead of all leagues except Serie A with a 21% share, and the UEFA Champions League TV broadcast revenue allocated by the Premier League last season was as high as 58 million euros. If this ratio can be maintained, in the future, the TV broadcast share of the Premier League alone will reach nearly 100 million euros.

So, if you play football well, you can really make money!

Just talking about Tottenham's Champions League trip, even if they lost both games in the knockout stage and were kicked out, they would 'roll back' to London with 23 million euros, plus the Premier League's TV broadcast income, ticket income, advertising and other miscellaneous things In terms of income, the annual income can easily reach 100 to 200 million pounds.

Even Andy, who is not short of money, did not underestimate this income. You must know that this is not what it used to be, and now is a period of financial crisis.

When it comes to the success of the Premier League, no one can avoid their success in the commercial field. Especially since Abramovich entered Stamford Bridge in 2003,

The entire Premier League has set off a wave of overseas capital investment in the Premier League.

To be honest, without Abramovich leading the trend, the Premier League may not be able to develop so hotly and attract so many investors, and Andy Smith may not join this capital game.

However, with the global financial turmoil, most investors generally suffered huge financial losses. Not to mention other people, even Abramovich, who was once wealthy, has lost 15 billion U.S. dollars in personal assets in the past year.

Because of this, Chelsea, which used to invest regardless of cost in the transfer market, has become more and more "stingy" recently.

For the Premier League giants that are generally operating in debt, life is even more difficult. If the bosses no longer provide generous capital injections, they may repeat the same mistakes of breaking the capital chain, selling players for business, and then being relegated.

Therefore, the money from the Champions League is really a lot. At least, Andy will not have to spend money for Tottenham. Tottenham can enter a good financial self-circulation. This is what Andy Smith wants to see the most. What he hopes most is to own a rich football club that he doesn't have to worry about!

With the cheers and cheers from tens of thousands of Bai Lilies at the scene, although Tottenham have hidden a few main players, they are still playing impressively, at least in terms of ball possession time, led by Ronaldinho, who is experienced in European wars. . .

Andy, who didn't have much hope at first, watched some 'boring' games with a relaxed attitude, saw Ronaldinho dribbling the ball through the penalty area on the TV screen, and was tripped by an opponent player. The whistle sounded, and the referee in yellow pointed at the goal. , After a penalty kick was awarded, they danced and cheered happily.

"Haha, this is really a windfall. I knew that signing Ronaldinho would definitely be a good deal, haha..."

Looking at the joyful Andy, Carl looked back and forth between the TV and Andy's face in a daze, and asked curiously, "Is this a penalty kick?"

"Of course, a foul in the penalty area, of course it's a penalty kick, Ronaldinho fell so beautifully!" Andy clapped his hands happily and smiled, watching the Roma players who were surrounding the referee arguing on the TV screen, sighed Ronaldinho Street pose.

Ronaldinho took the penalty kick and it was done overnight!

"Ah-ah-"

The entire White Hart Lane stadium turned into a sea of ​​white jubilation. Ronaldinho ran to the side of the court, bared his teeth, stretched out his hand and made the sign of 'six', and accepted the cheers of the audience. At this moment, he was the king of White Hart Lane. .

Then the crackling teammates ran up to celebrate with him and pinned him down.

"Damn it, I really should go to the scene to watch the game. Only the scene can fully experience the frenzied atmosphere!" Andy watched the home game broadcast on TV turn into a sea of ​​joy, with deafening cheers and some depressed curses. .

Looking at the picture of the Devil's home court, although Karl doesn't understand football, he also knows that watching this kind of game live is the most enjoyable.

"Such an important game, why don't you..."

Andy gave Carl an angry look, and complained: "I'm afraid that I will fly all the way, and then lose at home. How embarrassing. The Roma team is still very strong."

"Shh-"

Carl booed Andy, picked up the beer and touched the beer in Andy's hand, took a sip, and celebrated the goal. After that, the game became a bit boring. After watching it for a few minutes, Carl really mentioned Not interested in continuing to read, he took out a document bag from his bag and handed it to Andy.

"I'm here this time because of this project—"

"What?" Andy put the beer can on the table, frowned slightly, took the file bag curiously, opened it, and saw that it was a script named "Agent Sauter".

Andy looked at Carl in surprise, shook the script in his hand, and joked, "Give me the script, it's not because someone wants to ask me to make a movie."

"Ha, if you want to make a movie, I believe that as long as you release the news, you will be inundated with scripts and phone invitations like snowflakes." Carl rolled his eyes and complained, and then began to explain.

It turns out that the script of "Agent Sauter" was tailor-made by Sony for Tom Cruise. However, Tom Cruise has accepted the olive branch offered by Universal and started filming "Mission: Impossible 4". After reading the script, I was afraid that this character would be too similar to "Mission: Impossible", a spy with the same personality and superb ability, so I directly rejected it.

This made the director of Tuao University, who was going to use this "Agent Sauter" commercial blockbuster to make a comeback, immediately angry, and directly clicked the male protagonist in the original script and replaced it with a woman.

But instead of an actress taking the lead, the producer Sony gave up again. After all, it was a big production with an investment of over 100 million U.S. dollars, and there were only a few actresses in Hollywood who could really carry this kind of big production.

The first choice must be Angelina Jolie, the queen of commercial action movies. Although the salary is expensive, the box office appeal is indeed not for bragging.

It's just that whether Julie, who just gave birth to twins, can cope with the large number of fighting and chasing action scenes in the film has become a big question.

Moreover, I am also worried that Angelina Jolie's action movies will be a bit aesthetically fatigued for the audience.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Sony is worried about losing money!

In this way, among the remaining first-line actresses who can carry the entire movie, there are not many left. Nicole Kidman is giving birth at home, and it is a big poison, unless Sony wants to court death, yes Definitely would not choose her.

In the end, he chose and chose, and locked his eyes on Charlize Theron.

Although Charlize also brought a child back last year, she soon started filming. Although her box-office poison attributes have yet to be verified, the recent films she filmed have a very good reputation.

The most important thing is that Sony hopes that with Charlize Theron as a bridge, someone can pay and cooperate with Sony to shoot this movie. After all, there is a super rich father standing behind the South African diamond.

"...So, director Philip Noyce found Focus Pictures with the script, hoping to seek cooperation?"

Andy tapped the script with his fingers, and asked with a raised eyebrow and a smile.

"Well, I've read the script, and it's pretty good. It feels like a female version of 007. I think Charlize will be very suitable. It's cool enough, and with hardcore action scenes, I think the filming effect will be very good." Carl He nodded and expressed his opinion.

"..." Andy pondered for a while, spread his fingers, pressed the script and said: "Okay, I will bring the script to her, ask her opinion, if possible, then cooperate, Sony’s goodwill still needs to be accepted.”