Lister put down the newspaper in his hand and looked up at Merkley. Merkley looked at the newspaper in Lister's hand, shook his head and said, "I have a headache. I didn't expect that our chairman really wanted to carry out drastic reforms. I
I feel a little scared when I look at it, because I am afraid that those wealthy families will concentrate their firepower on me."
"hehe."
List has been keeping a low profile in recent times. Anyway, List has already obtained all the benefits of the change. The agent is the master of all things during the transfer period, but after the transfer period, he should not make too many decisions.
Appear in the media.
However, Lister is low-key, but his life is not monotonous at all. It is very refreshing to see you and me coming and going in European football. Because of the prosperity of the European transfer market, UEFA President Platini is the biggest
Angry. Because Platini is working on the "Financial Fair Play Policy" and has begun discussions among the UEFA executive committee. Since Platini became the president of UEFA last year, he has been the president for nearly a year and a half.
In order to pass the "Financial Fair Play Policy".
But at this time, the major European football clubs and upstarts used a series of amazing transfers to satirize Platini's new policy. This summer's transfers have made Platini
I was furious. How could they make Platini feel comfortable when they slapped him in the face so nakedly? Platini was also very courageous. The first person to criticize was Real Madrid, the No. 1 football club in the world, and UEFA.
Manchester City, the biggest upstart in the world, don't care at all about Florentino's powerful ability and influence.
"These transfers that are extremely outside the normal range are happening almost every day. These transfers are a serious challenge to the spirit of fair play and a threat to the concept of financial balance in our various competitions. Real Madrid, Manchester City and other uncontrolled transfers
The transfer will definitely disrupt the transfer market. It will also affect the orderly and long-term development of football. By then, they will all be the sinners of European football."
Who is Florentino? When he first served as the chairman of Real Madrid, it was also the time when G14 was the most arrogant. At that time, he even had the ability to talk to FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Johansson.
A person who is an equal and can be challenged directly.
Although Platini is known as the best player in French history and is the current president of UEFA, Florentino still does not take him seriously. Compared with Blatter and Johansson, Platini
, it is not at the same level at the moment. So Florentino fired back directly: "Real Madrid has money, so it buys players. Even if we take a loan, it is the money we raised ourselves and has nothing to do with UEFA."
Relationship. The loan will be repaid by Real Madrid in the future, so we don’t need European football to care."
Florentino disdains Platini. The new upstarts don't care about Platini either. Manchester City's CEO speaks very kindly and doesn't say any dirty words. But the whole article has the same meaning: I just have it.
Money, we spend our own money, it's none of your business.
Not only that, the "Daily Mirror" also criticized Platini for being inconsistent. Especially in 2007, there was news that Real Madrid was going to introduce Cesc Fabregas. Media reports at the time said that Real Madrid might use nearly 6,000
Cesc Fabregas was brought in for 10,000 euros. Platini said at the time that this was an acceptable transfer.
But Al Fahim, who had just taken over Manchester City at that time, was recruiting heavily. There was news in the media that the Middle East oil tycoon hoped to introduce the best player in world football, Kaká, for 120 million euros. At that time, Platini was
Strongly condemned Manchester City's money offensive and believed that they were the cause of the chaos in European football.
There was nothing before. But now Platini must pass the "Financial Fair Play Policy". The English media will stop working. The Premier League's youth training is originally poor, and it is not on the same level as other European leagues. The Premier League can go so far.
It does not rely on the youth training of Premier League clubs. It relies on the fact that Premier League clubs have money. It is not ordinary money. If there are still restrictions in this regard, the Premier League will not be able to maintain its current strength.
So the "Daily Mirror" caught Platini's two attitudes and asked him why he could accept Real Madrid spending a lot of money to buy people, but Manchester City in the Premier League had to be condemned by him? This made Platini quite puzzled.
It’s embarrassing, Platini has said so many things, and if you look carefully you can definitely find the inconsistencies. Not to mention Platini, if anyone sorted out what he said throughout his life, they would probably be contradictory.
Definitely not one or two, but dozens or hundreds.
So Platini said: "You're embarrassing me a little! What's the difference? I can understand why people in England are unhappy, but that's not my intention, my intention is to rationalize things."
"I don't know that Real Madrid are going to use loans to buy players this summer, so we will re-evaluate and we will. The fact is, how do we protect football? I don't think it is a good thing if a player can sell for 120 million pounds.
In an economic crisis, spending 120 million pounds to buy a player is not good for football. We oppose any signings that exceed our own financial strength, because this will not only bring danger to ourselves, but also to the development of European football.
Brings danger.”
After this blow, Platini was disgraced. Real Madrid, Manchester United, Inter Milan and other giants completely scorned Platini. They didn't care that he was the president of UEFA and bought people when they should. And the nouveau riche were even more so.
I don't have a good look on him.
After all, according to Platini's "Financial Fair Play Policy", the order of European football is basically fixed. Clubs like Manchester City, with their pitiful income, have no chance of development. Now they can
Those who make money are wealthy clubs, and the income of ordinary clubs is pitifully low. How can they compete with these wealthy clubs. Therefore, the nouveau riche completely ignore Platini and spend their money however they want.
"Actually, if I were Florentino, I would support Platini. Financial Fair Play will be of great benefit to Real Madrid without any harm."
Real Madrid is qualified to support Platini. In La Liga, Real Madrid is the most profitable. Compared with Real Madrid, La Liga clubs including Barcelona will not be Real Madrid's financial opponents. Once they start signing in
There are restrictions on the market, and Real Madrid will still be the most aggressive spender in La Liga. No other club can match Real Madrid. Real Madrid can still maintain its status by relying on their strong commercial income. And it has curried favor with Platini, saying
Maybe the so-called "godfather" is from Real Madrid.
"Although I don't have much contact with Florentino, I also know that he is not a master who can bow his head."
List nodded. What kind of person is Florentino? He is a real predator in European football. Compared with Florentino, Platini is not qualified to point fingers at him.
"By the way, Barwell, tell me exactly when the Financial Fair Play Policy will be implemented and what its specific content is."
Regarding the "Financial Fair Play Policy", Riester only has a vague understanding of it. In Riester's memory, it seems that this policy was passed in the summer of 2009. There were also several years of buffer periods and so-called observation periods. It was not until around 2014 that the policy was adopted.
Real implementation began. Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain were fined 50 million euros.
But the current situation is completely different from that in memory. First of all, Platini's strength in UEFA is different. Historically, although Platini was elected as UEFA president, he did not have an advantage within UEFA.
There are still many die-hard supporters of Johansson. They are all conservatives and oppose Platini's reforms. Therefore, Platini was not able to fully control UEFA two years after he became the president of UEFA. Many of his
The policy simply cannot be promoted.
It was two years before Platini truly took control of UEFA. There was one person who made the greatest contribution. That was the president of Spain. He was also the chairman of the UEFA Referees Committee, Villar's defection. This person turned out to be from Johansson's camp.
Later, he defected to Platini, which greatly reduced the strength of Johansson's camp. Moreover, Villar was very strong. Before serving as the chairman of the UEFA Referee Committee, he was a member of the FIFA Referee Committee. At present,
As far as UEFA is concerned, he is a powerful figure. Therefore, Platini and Villar are similar to an alliance, which stabilized the situation of UEFA. Only then did Platini’s various
reform measures.
But it is different now. Not long after Platini became the president of UEFA, he took control of the UEFA Executive Committee. Because the executive committee members from Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and Northern Europe all support Platini, so
Although not absolutely strong, Platini's position is also very stable. Villar is a loser, and of course a loser of the powerful. Seeing that Platini has the momentum, he immediately joined forces with Platini.
Cooperating with Platini, he immediately helped Platini take control of UEFA.
"It's fast. It should be passed this year."
This is not a big secret, and the relationship between List and Merkley is also a different kind of alliance. So Merkley did not hide List.
"It is estimated that the club will be given a buffer period of about two or three years, and then an observation period of about two years. It should be 12 or 13 years, and the latest will not exceed 14 years."
Merkley also revealed the contents to List. As the CEO of UEFA, Merkley has a very important position. What he revealed was basically a proposal that UEFA was about to take shape.
"kindness."
List nodded. Speaking of which, List would not like the Financial Fair Play Policy, because only when the transfer market continues to expand can agents like List make more money.
But whether you like it or not, Platini's "Financial Fair Play Policy" is beneficial to the long-term development of European football from a rational perspective. Look at German football around the 21st century. The Bundesliga spent money at that time.
Although it cannot be said to be very powerful, their club spent money well. Unfortunately, with the bankruptcy of the Kirsch Group, the entire Bundesliga fell into a trough. Many of the Bundesliga's backbones were almost destroyed in that incident. Including Dortmund
, Schalke 04 are one step away from bankruptcy.
The current strength of the Premier League relies on England's fanatical fans and high broadcast fees. However, as the economic crisis intensifies, the spending power of fans will also decrease. More importantly, once the increasingly expanded broadcast
If there is any problem with fees, the clubs in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League will also be hit hard. The bigger the bubble is now, the bigger the blow will be when the time comes.
But this policy also has its bad side. The "Bosman Act" has made European football clearly divided between strong and weak. If it weren't for the sudden rise of upstarts like Chelsea, the order of European football might have been stabilized long ago.
Now the Financial Fair Play policy has been introduced. If this policy can be strictly implemented, it will basically prevent the emergence of entities like Chelsea and Manchester City that disrupt the old order of European football.
At that time, the giants will still be the giants, and it will be basically impossible for the middle and lower-tier teams to compete with these giants. They are not as strong as the giants, their income is not as good as the giants, and their spending is restricted. Under such circumstances, they can no longer compete with the giants.
There will be no upstarts like Chelsea and Manchester City.
"You care so much about this policy?"
"Of course. I want to let the transfer market have a final madness before this policy comes out."
The rich are not afraid of this policy, but what they are most afraid of are the upstarts who have come from behind. They will definitely make all the accumulation before this policy is implemented, that is, during the buffer period.
"If Michelle knew what you were thinking, she would probably slap the table again."
"Haha. He will be his UEFA president, and I will be my agent." (To be continued...)
