After understanding his current situation, Zhao Xuming sighed silently.
It seems that today's trip will be in vain.
Although Zhu Yan didn't say anything, his attitude must be very firm. This public opinion incident is simply a divine assist. If he doesn't make good use of it and cut off one or two million, then he will be derelict in his work!
In this case, the possibility of the two parties agreeing on the price now is infinitely close to zero, and they can only delay it further.
Before leaving, Zhao Xuming asked: "Mr. Zhu, can I take the liberty to ask, what is Langya Live's psychological price for the ICL broadcast rights?"
Zhu Yan smiled and said: "7 million. But don't worry, Mr. Zhao, our Langya Live Broadcast will definitely invest a lot of resources to help promote the ICL League. If this deal can be concluded, you will have a lot of hidden benefits."
Zhao Xuming said in his heart hehe.
The original bid was 7 million, but now we have spent a lot of money to promote the ICL league, and the popularity has increased significantly. But in the end, you still bid 7 million?
Let alone Eric, even Zhao Xuming would not be able to agree.
As for the "publicity resources" Zhu Yan mentioned, they are nothing more than polite words. They are all non-quantifiable things. When the time comes, giving more and less will not be a matter of Zhu Yan's words?
Real money is more practical.
After Zhu Yan spent a lot of money to buy the broadcast rights of the ICL league, he would also mobilize platform resources to promote it.
Zhao Xuming was well aware of Zhu Yan's words, but at this time, the ICL League was in the midst of a public controversy caused by Tengda. Zhao Xuming was in a weak position, so he couldn't say much. He could only smile and nod: "
Okay, then let’s give each other more consideration and hope that we can promote cooperation between our two families as soon as possible!”
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After returning to the Longyu Group headquarters, Zhao Xuming immediately rushed to the conference room without stopping.
On the way back, he received a call and Eric was waiting for him in the conference room.
In the conference room, Eric was sulking with a straight face, and the atmosphere in the whole room dropped to freezing point.
Obviously, Eric already knew about the promotional video "Butterfly".
Seeing Zhao Xuming back, he raised his head and asked, "How is it?"
Zhao Xuming shook his head slightly: "You should have seen the promotional video sent by Tengda, right? Just because of this promotional video, Langya Live is still fighting to death and is only willing to pay 7 million."
Zhao Xuming spoke very carefully, fearing that Eric would immediately slam the table and yell, "This is unreasonable."
However, Eric, whose face was as heavy as water, did not get angry. Instead, he took a deep breath and slowly calmed down.
"Sure enough, when fighting with Mr. Pei, you can't relax for a moment."
"ICL invested a huge amount of money in this promotional video. We all thought it was foolproof, but unexpectedly something went wrong."
"Let's all calm down and think about how to deal with this time."
Eric's words had a certain effect. Originally, the conference room was lifeless and everyone was shocked. However, after Eric finished speaking, the atmosphere obviously improved.
Yes, we are fighting Mr. Pei now!
When fighting with Mr. Pei, it is normal to encounter major setbacks, but it is outrageous to have smooth sailing.
At this point, for the sake of everyone’s jobs and performance bonuses, we can only rack our brains to think of ways to deal with it.
Zhao Xuming had been thinking about this matter on the way back. At this time, he already had a general idea, so he was the first to speak.
"Mr. Pei's move is so vicious, it can be called murderous."
"The most frightening thing is that he had laid this foreshadowing as early as the establishment of the GPL league, and he only brought it out against us today."
"We want to benchmark ICL against GPL, which means that as long as any aspect is not done properly, Mr. Pei will catch him and beat him severely. Player rights are the most likely to trigger topics and discussions.
If we let it go, it will definitely have a very fatal impact on the popularity of the ICL league."
"So, we must make up for this shortcoming."
Eric nodded: "Yes, that's right."
Although I am very reluctant to accept it, it is indeed the case. Such a big news broke out at the beginning of the ICL league, which has a huge impact on the popularity. If it is not handled well, it may be cool before the league starts. This is
A risk that Eric absolutely cannot accept.
Zhao Xuming continued: "Standard contracts, players' basic salary, five insurances and one housing fund, better food and accommodation conditions and health protection... If these are to be fully popularized, it will definitely not be a small number."
"On the one hand, what we want to protect is the basic rights and interests of all players, not only the main players, but also substitute players and youth training players. Over time, the little will make up the more; on the other hand, the standard contract will actually cause certain harm to the club.
Restrictions will also make them dissatisfied."
"In short... it can be solved with money, but the money spent will definitely not be small. In the early stage, a large amount of money will be invested to improve the environment of the training base and replace all equipment with new ones. In the future, players' basic salary and food expenses will continue to be spent.
, five insurances, one housing fund and other expenses. If we don’t have 20 to 30 million in the first year, I’m afraid we won’t be able to stop it.”
After hearing this number, Eric was very unhappy.
"Of course we can spend 20 to 30 million, but taking money for this reason would be outrageous!"
"If this money is spent elsewhere to promote ICL, how much heat can it create!"
"Just because of one of Mr. Pei's videos, we are going to spend 20 to 30 million and give it to these clubs to improve their training environment? Why!"
"Has Mr. Pei paid for this money?"
Zhao Xuming hesitated for a moment and replied: "Uh... I paid for it, but I didn't pay for it either."
Eric: "?"
Zhao Xuming explained: "It's like this. GPL quotas are subject to public bidding, and the auction prices are very high. A single quota was sold for 20 million. Shenhua Real Estate was the bidding king at the time and raised the GPL quota to 26 million.
.”
"The bidding results at that time were in the news, and the total price reached a sky-high price of 180 million yuan."
"Then...Mr. Pei changed hands and returned all the money."
"A large part of it is returned to these clubs, allowing them to use special funds to improve player treatment and establish youth training bases."
"So, the money is nominally paid by Mr. Pei, but in fact it is the money of each club. Although the money of each club is left to the right, these clubs are particularly grateful to Mr. Pei."
Eric: "..."
When these things happened, Eric had already been fired by Finger Company and replaced by Chretien. He was dormant in the United States, so he didn't know much about these things.
As a result, now that Zhao Xuming said this, Eric knew what kind of situation he was facing.
Mr. Pei's operation of turning his left hand into his right hand is equivalent to borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha. It improves the treatment of the players without spending a penny on himself. At the same time, the club can not only improve the training environment but also gain real popularity. He is also very grateful to Mr. Pei.
But Eric can’t do this kind of operation!
ICL's quotas are basically half-buy, half-free, and you basically don't make much money.
At present, there are ioi branches in China, and there are only a few good clubs, and their financial resources are not very strong. Zhitou Company and Longyu Group need their support, so they don’t ask for more money, and all they give is very low friendship.
Price, cabbage price.
Moreover, given the financial status of these clubs, even if Eric wanted to strangle them and ask them to spend more than 10 million to buy quotas, he probably wouldn't be able to get the money.
The GPL side actually relied on Mr. Pei’s connections to attract a lot of big capital to the game, which was equivalent to making something out of nothing. Everyone jointly contributed money to start the GPL league.
But how can Eric and Zhao Xuming have such great energy?
What's more, GOG first gained great popularity in China, and then started to prepare for GPL, which is a natural move. On the other hand, ioi, the popularity of the game is far from enough. The purpose of organizing ICL is to promote the game, which is completely the opposite.
Eric's idea is to only open a limited number of quotas in the early stage, and only let in six or seven teams. After the competition is held, the quotas will be sold one after another every season, so as to maximize profits.
But this means that when the ICL league first started, Zhidou Company basically made no money from it.
This method of GPL cannot be played by ICL.
So all in all, this large amount of money can only come from two places: either from the club, or from Zhitou Company and Longyu Group.
The club will definitely not pay for it. Why should they spend an extra two million a year to improve the player's salary? It won't do much good to the club.
So in the final analysis, the money can only come from the company!
If this money is not paid, ICL will always be a little short, and Mr. Pei will definitely have to talk about it again and again. But if this money is paid, Eric will feel too aggrieved!
Eric's face was as dark as water and he was entangled.
But after thinking about it, there is still no good way. This is like a dead end, either losing money or losing popularity.
After thinking about it, Eric still had no choice but to lose money.
Because for the ICL league, popularity equals money. If ignored, the popularity of ICL will decrease, and the effect of all the early investment will be greatly reduced, and the actual losses will be even greater.
On the other hand, if you spend money to maintain the popularity, then there is a possibility of earning back the money in the future.
After much consideration, Eric gritted his teeth and said, "We will pay for this money!"
"Immediately communicate with the various clubs in ICL and ask them to cooperate with our work. Then we will spend a lot of money on publicity, and before the public opinion storm is fully fermented, let everyone know that we are regulating the ICL ecology and protecting the rights of players.
Great effort!”
Eric knew very well that since he had to do this sooner or later, the sooner the better.
If you hesitate and let everyone discuss it, it will definitely do more harm to the popularity of ICL.
Responding faster and letting everyone see enough sincerity may turn the crisis into an opportunity, allowing ICL to leave a good impression on the audience.
Zhao Xuming nodded quickly: "I understand, I'll make arrangements right away!"