Zhang Yuan couldn't help but his eyes lit up: "Mr. Pei, tell me, I would like to hear the details!"
Pei Qian took a sip of tea and sorted out his thoughts.
"First of all, we must provide a unified standard contract for all clubs and players, and at the same time strictly prohibit any yin and yang contracts."
"The standard contract allows both short-term and long-term contracts, but it can only stipulate the contract time, liquidated damages, transfer fees and salary and other basic contents, and cannot add some messy clauses to restrict the players."
"In particular, there cannot be some very vague terms, such as 'players must unconditionally cooperate with the club in conducting commercial operations', etc. This must be clearly prohibited."
"It's okay for the club to conduct commercial operations, but it must be under our supervision and cannot be unrestrained, let alone exploit players."
"Secondly, every year during the transfer period, clubs and free agents can freely contact and make commitments, but they cannot sign private contracts. Before signing, we have to arrange for each club to conduct a secret shoot to the free agents.
Conduct unified bidding.”
"During the secret auction, each club first sends out its intention and clearly states the preferred contract time, liquidated damages, salary, and additional special treatment, such as the promised playing time of the players, etc."
"Once the intention is confirmed during the secret auction, the players will be allowed to choose which team they want to go to. If both parties agree on the intention, a formal contract will be signed. As for the promises made during the secret auction, the club must abide by it and not go back on it. We will be responsible for supervising it."
"Finally, when a dispute occurs, both parties must accept our mediation, with us acting as the intermediary, allowing the players and clubs to take a step back and choose a solution acceptable to all three parties."
"Based on these principles, our dge club only absorbs players who are free agents. If the players are still within the contract period when they leave, they will pay transfer fees or liquidated damages in accordance with the minimum standards."
Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment: "Mr. Pei, isn't this a bit idealistic? Isn't it very operable?"
"What if the club doesn't accept our standard contract? Or what if they sign a yin-yang contract privately?"
"What if the club confirms its intention and then backs out?"
"The contract signed between the club and the players has legal effect. Once a dispute arises, the club can completely bypass us and file a lawsuit with the players. We have no control over this."
Pei Qian smiled slightly: "This is easy to handle."
"We made an agreement in black and white with these clubs from the beginning. If they violate the rules, they will be fined at least and banned from the competition at worst."
"If these clubs do not accept our supervision, they will not be eligible to enter the GoG League. You can also withdraw if you want. We will act as an intermediary to buy their GoG branches and sell them to other clubs interested in entering the GoG League.
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In other words, it’s okay if you don’t accept our unified management, then I won’t take you to play.
If you want to play other e-sports projects, go ahead. I will also pay for your GoG branch and sell it to others so that you will not suffer any substantial losses. But as long as you don’t agree to the supervision, don’t even think about entering this circle.
As for why Pei Qian formulated such rules, it was mainly due to three considerations.
First of all, there is only a unified standard contract, without yin and yang contracts and various additional clauses, leaving the club to do some tricks.
Many clubs offer sky-high contracts, but they are not really sky-high prices. There are many tricks in them.
For example, one of the most common phenomena is that the club cooperates with the live broadcast platform and each contributes a part of the money, but in fact it requires the players to live broadcast, which overdraws the future commercial value of the players.
The players may appear to be making money, but they may not actually be making money.
But in this way, the transfer fee will really increase. When the time comes, the dge club will get more money than before for every player sold, which is too uncomfortable.
Therefore, everyone should be less clichéd and more sincere. Raising the transfer fee so high just sounds good, but is actually meaningless.
In addition, the dge club only agreed on a minimum transfer fee, which allowed the dge club to make as little money as possible from the transfer fee.
Secondly, establishing such a regulatory agency requires recruiting a large number of personnel, and daily operating expenses are an expense; at the same time, these various regulatory regulations will definitely have the effect of dissuading some clubs.
If a club doesn't accept it and wants to withdraw, that's easy to do. Pei Qian will pay to buy their gog branch without letting them suffer. I'll make up for all your investment.
But it’s not that easy to come back after you leave.
Buying these clubs would cost another sum of money, which Pei Qian couldn't ask for.
Finally, Pei Qian does have some ideas about regulating the industry and protecting the rights of players.
Without higher-level supervision, it will never be possible to establish an equal relationship between players and clubs, because the right to speak is not at the same level at all.
Just like when ordinary wage earners face companies, they often can only vote with their feet and choose the least bad company, but they actually do not have the ability to negotiate with the company.
Only a very small number of particularly outstanding and completely irreplaceable people have bargaining power.
When the strength of the two sides is not equal, if the official does not act and remains absolutely neutral, it is actually tantamount to being biased.
Just like a boxing champion fighting an ordinary person, on the premise that neither party is clearly at fault, the third party is absolutely neutral and does not care, which is in fact letting the ordinary person die.
Therefore, Pei Qian's regulatory agency will objectively protect the rights of players, but it will not exploit the clubs. It just tells the clubs not to be greedy and not to exploit players excessively.
The club should get the transfer fee and liquidated damages, the commercial contract it should have, and the popularity and influence are not bad at all, but they can't take advantage of the loopholes to do whatever they want.
Pei Qian certainly recognizes the spirit of the contract, but this has two prerequisites: first, the contract itself must be fair, it cannot be an overlord clause, a slave contract, and cannot be based on one party's exploitation of the other party; second, the spirit of the contract must be fair.
It does not mean that the contract must never be violated, but that one is willing to bear the corresponding consequences if violated.
In short, such regulations allow dge clubs to earn less transfer fees, and at the same time they can dissuade part of the club's capital. After these clubs withdraw, they can spend a sum of money to buy their entire gog division. Wouldn't it be nice?
Moreover, the daily operation of this new regulatory agency also requires money. It would be good to recruit more people and support them, but it would be better if they could pay more.
Zhang Yuan had already taken two pieces of paper and quickly recorded what Mr. Pei had said before.
I just read these terms carefully, but I feel a little unsure.
Is it possible?
None of the major leagues in the world seem to do this.
The reason is also very simple: I don't dare or don't want to break up with the big clubs.
Big clubs bring fans, popularity and funds to the league. To be fair, the popularity of a certain event must be the result of the joint efforts of the organizers, sponsors, clubs, professional players and audiences. If any link is missing, there will be problems.
Therefore, in many cases, even if the organizer has the ability, they are unwilling to offend these big clubs. Even if a certain club actually squeezes the players, as long as they don't go too far and cause anger and resentment, most of them will give each other fifty and settle the matter.
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After all, in most cases, a player is replaceable and expendable, and the loss caused by the departure of a big club is difficult to make up for.
However, the regulations given by Mr. Pei are not very friendly to the clubs, and there must be some clubs who are not happy with it.
The unhappy result can only be to part ways and break up, because Mr. Pei has never been a person who can compromise.
It can be vaguely guessed from Mr. Pei's attitude that he really doesn't seem to care about the resources these clubs have!
Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment and said: "Mr. Pei, from an emotional point of view, I support the supervision of the league. After all, there is no rule without rules. Only when the league is formal can healthy competition be formed."
"However, if we adopt such strict control measures, many clubs will definitely be discouraged from quitting. If the losses are compared with the gains... is it cost-effective?"
"If a club is persuaded to quit, the entire league's funds, popularity, attention, etc. may be affected. If more than half of those old clubs leave, what should we do if we suffer far greater losses than gains?"
Pei Qian chuckled: "Of course it's a good deal."
Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
Since Mr. Pei was so sure, he must have seen more long-term things, so Zhang Yuan stopped asking any more questions.
"So Mr. Pei, what is the name of this new regulatory department?" Zhang Yuan asked.
Pei Qian thought for a while: "Let's call it the E-Sports Division. We can also take this opportunity to launch GoG's professional league GPL."
"Several clubs currently have priority in obtaining access qualifications, but the prerequisite is that they must accept our conditions and accept supervision."
"As for how to arrange the specific competition schedule, we will consider it after the new department is established."
Zhang Yuan nodded: "Okay, Mr. Pei."
After sending President Pei away, Zhang Yuan returned to the conference room again and read through the contents he had written down from beginning to end, trying to deduce the profound meaning of President Pei's move.
Now for Zhang Yuan, his biggest confusion is Mr. Pei's words, "Of course it's a good deal."
For the current e-sports industry, the first priority must be to make the market bigger.
Although the gog global invitational tournament has achieved good popularity, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this event obviously still has a lot of room for improvement.
There is still a lot of potential for the future.
Mr. Pei also said that if we want to launch GoG’s professional league GPL, we will obviously also want to expand the e-sports market.
But the problem is that restricting clubs with such stringent regulatory conditions is obviously contrary to this goal to some extent.
How did Mr. Pei make the choice?
Zhang Yuan began to carefully analyze every request made by President Pei.