Yang Huan never denies that everything he built was based on a premise.

He is a time traveler!

Without this premise, he would not have chosen Bielsa, nor would he have introduced a large number of outstanding potential stars with such a low price advantage to create Southampton today.

These two points can be said to be crucial.

You should know that in recent years, with the arms race between Barcelona and Real Madrid and the strong intervention of rich teams such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, the supply of talent for first-tier European football stars has become in short supply.

This is also the main reason why the transfer value of first-tier stars has been rising steadily in recent years.

According to the laws of the market economy, if it is scarce, it will naturally become expensive.

So, if Yang Huan was not a time traveler, how could Southampton buy this batch of stars?

Even if you can buy it, how much does it cost?

The giants like Manchester United keep saying they want to recover and invest so much money. Is the team formed competitive?

This is what Yang Huan mentioned, the attractiveness of Premier League teams in terms of talent resources is declining.

So what exactly caused the decline in the attractiveness of the Premier League?

Anyone who has a deep understanding of player transfers is very clear that there are many factors that affect player transfers, but the most important ones are those points.

One of the easiest to be ruled out first is the league level.

It is impossible for the popular stars in the five major leagues to go to second-rate leagues such as the Portuguese Super League and the Dutch Eredivisie.

However, when the Premier League is about the same level as La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1, the team's performance, technical and tactical style, personal salary and benefits, and the team's positioning have all become the key to determining player transfers.

From this perspective, the problem in the Premier League is very simple.

The team's performance is not ideal, the overall competition in the league is fierce, and the technical and tactical style is incompatible with the mainstream Europeans. These directly lead to the lack of attractiveness of top players in the Premier League.

You should know that in the past few years from 004 to 09, the Premier League's technical and tactical level is still quite high.

Mourinho and Benitez's playing style at that time was also considered advanced in mainland Europe. In addition, the pressure on the league competition in the Premier League was not so great at that time, so it was still very attractive to players.

So at that time, the Premier League gathered a group of popular European superstars such as Xavi Alonso, Cristiano Ronaldo, Henry, Fabregas, Vidic, and Marklele, all relying on the overall environment of the Premier League at that time.

But in the past few years, European football has undergone earth-shaking changes. Has the Premier League made any progress?

Another point is that few people probably notice, that is, the increase in the Premier League tax rate and the weakness of the pound in recent years.

As we all know, the European continent uses the euro, but the Premier League uses the British pound to settle, but the trend of the British pound in recent years is obvious to all. In addition, the British government has raised the tax rate, making the Premier League completely the league with the highest tax rate among the four major leagues.

Just imagine, under these two aspects, how much more does Premier League teams have to pay a player with the same salary as other leagues?

Skudmore is very familiar with and clear about the points mentioned by Yang Huan.

But none of these could be changed by him.

Just like the tax rate, it is related to the British government and the law. What can he do?

Also, the well-known labor certificates also leave Premier League teams helpless, right?

"Actually, I personally think that the weakness of the Premier League giants is not related to the Premier League broadcast sharing system." Yang Huan looked at Scudmore and said slowly.

Scudmore frowned when he heard it, "I don't understand very much."

This problem is not small. If it is bad and spread, it will be said to be true at any time. Young Master Huan is criticizing the distribution system of the Premier League broadcast rights, which is not a trivial matter.

"Many people say that the Premier League broadcast fee sharing system is an innovation, but in fact, it is a product that has existed since the founding of the Premier League. At that time, the interest distribution system of the English top league began to emphasize equality between the rich and the poor."

At that time, the distribution system of the top league in England seemed quite strange.

For example, you have to take out the income on the game day and the home and visiting team will be divided.

Just imagine, will those big teams be willing?

They worked hard to attract sponsorship, advertising, and attract fans, but the money they earned had to be divided with the small teams that came to play?

Why?

Oh, just because you came to me to play a game?

Mom is hippie, I don’t think you have a good attitude, it’s good if you have a poor level. Do you dare to say you want to share the money?

As a result, in the 1980s, England's top league teams began to make trouble and eventually abolished the equalization system.

However, in today's FA Cup games, there is still such a tradition, so many wealthy teams would rather play away from home in small teams. Why?

First of all, the FA Cup is not very attractive and the income is not much. If I score one point with the away team, how many cents can I leave?

But the home facilities of the Haomen team are so advanced. How much does it cost to maintain? How much does it cost to labor?

This is a complete calculation. Not to mention making money, it would be great if you can not lose money.

Therefore, when the big teams played in the FA Cup and went away, some of them simply didn't even want to score in Chengdu, so they were cheaper away teams at that time.

There is also the broadcast fee sharing.

You should know that at that time, all four levels of the English league were maintained by the broadcast fees of the top leagues.

In other words, the broadcast rights income of the League One can only be divided into half of the League One, and the League Two in the second level will be divided into 25% and the League Three and the League Four will be divided into 25% of the remaining League Two.

This is enough to make the League One team depressed.

Because compared with the high operating costs, facility maintenance costs, and player and labor salaries, the money received by small teams in low-level leagues can almost be said to be gained for nothing.

I even didn't know how many small team owners had, and the purpose of maintaining the team's survival was for this amount of money.

Because of this, the British League One teams collectively rebelled with the support of broadcasters and created the Premier League.

But in fact, even now, the Premier League still has to spend a lot of money to fund teams in low-level leagues every year, which is the conditions agreed upon since the establishment of the Premier League.

From the current perspective, the brilliant legend of English football history is precisely based on this distribution.

Therefore, Nottingham Forest can rise as a small team, create opportunities for new teams to win the championship, and successfully defend the title in the European arena, because behind Nottingham Forest is the equalization of game-day income of the big teams and the sharing of broadcast rights.

So, is this reasonable?

Does that mean that we should return to this time and revitalize English football?

From the perspective of the young team, of course, there is no doubt that it is their spring.

But for big teams, that's a nightmare.

Although this system has led to the rise of small teams and emerged with unpopularity, it has also led to the unimprovement of large teams.

As the most prosperous city in the UK, London, which has the highest consumption capacity and the hottest football market, has never achieved outstanding results in football. Why is this?

Manchester United's re-emergence was in the 1990s, and many people say it was Ferguson and the 1992 class.

But is it really that simple behind this?

Therefore, after the establishment of the Premier League team, it adjusted its profit distribution model.

This directly leads to small teams like Nottingham Forest that have no chance to compete with big cities like London, Manchester and Liverpool, so they were eliminated.

The gap between the Premier League and the teams in several other league levels is gradually widening and becoming more and more obvious.

Even within the Premier League, there are also differences. A group of teams led by Manchester United and Arsenal have risen strongly, establishing their status as a giant.

However, the distribution model of the Premier League still has the same flavor as rich and poor as the same age as the poor.

Skudmore had different opinions on Yang Huan's analysis.

"Young Master Huan, what you said is certainly correct, but you should also see that the distribution model of the Premier League is much more reasonable than that in the past."

After a pause, Scudmore said: "You know, the distribution of the League One in the past was to ignore the differences between the team's management and the objective environment, and adopt a simple and crude way to achieve the goal of equalizing the wealth. To put it simply, it is to exploit big teams and fund small teams, so that the rich are not rich, and the poor are not poor."

"But now, we recognize differentiation and encourage differentiation. Through various operational methods, we will make the big cake of the Premier League bigger and stronger, and then through reasonable distribution, the rich will become richer and the poor will become poorer, and thus all the teams in the league can be satisfied."

Yang Huan nodded, "Yes, Richard, you're right at all, but I'm not skeptical about this distribution method, but I'm explaining the fact that when the poor in the Premier League are endless, but the poor in other leagues are still poor, and our rich are not richer than the rich in other leagues, what changes will be brought about?"

This time Skudmore was silent, and he began to think about the meaning of Young Master Huan's words.

Exploitation, perhaps, should not be called exploitation, but differentiation, which is the basis of the market economy.

In the La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona's Spanish Super League two are the only teams. The two teams occupy half of the resources and interests of La Liga, so they can win other La Liga teams.

The same is true for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. With large consortiums and large state-owned enterprises, they can attract all Bundesliga players with treatment conditions that other teams cannot afford.

But they are all products of full competition in the market economy. Who can say that they are not?

"We have noticed that in the past few years, even if the Premier League is relegated, it has been able to get a very amazing broadcast share every year. This money can allow them to buy their favorite players in the transfer market, improve their competitiveness, and shorten the strength gap with top teams."

"We all know that a team needs to upgrade from a relegation level to the middle and even the middle and upper reaches, and from the middle and upper reaches, are two completely different difficulties, right?"

Skudmore finally understood what Master Huan meant.

The top four of the league is the hurdle, which is well known.

What Master Huan means is that when the downstream teams have enough purchasing power and can sign a number of over 10 million or even 20 to 30 million in the transfer market, their cost-effectiveness of the recruitment will definitely be higher than that of the strong team.

Because the bigger the stars are, the scarce they are, and the premiums are often the more outrageous they are.

But the problem now is that strong teams have encountered problems in signing and lack attractiveness, but mid- and lower-level teams do not have such problems and have signed up in large numbers. The gap in strength between the two is getting smaller and smaller, which directly leads to the internal competition in the Premier League almost reaching a tragic level.

Yes, ten years ago, there was indeed fierce competition, and the distribution was still in this mode. However, the local broadcast fee for the Premier League ten years ago was only one billion pounds in three years, but now ten years later, it is as high as more than three billion pounds, and the next contract is probably higher than this. The outside world estimates that it will definitely exceed 4.5 billion pounds.

Moreover, ten years ago, local broadcasting fees were almost all the revenue from broadcasting rights, but now, overseas markets account for one-third, and the Internet and other media platforms also account for a considerable proportion.

What happens when a Premier League relegated team can make up for the income of a giant team in other leagues?
Chapter completed!