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Chapter 259 European Club Summit (4)

"Okay, okay, don't argue anymore. Can't you sit down and talk in a friendly manner?" At this time, the only one who can come up to act as a peacemaker is Van Prager, who is the host of this meeting. "Chairman Morse, please control your emotions. This meeting is not a place to make you duel with Mr. Edwards."

"Okay, OK." David Morse didn't change his role just now, and thought he was having a meeting in the Premier League. Morse, who found out that he had lost his lord, wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in. After all, he now represents Liverpool Club.

In fact, everyone here agrees with Edwards' proposal just now. The expansion of the European Champions League is beneficial to most teams present. After all, a large number of strong teams pouring into the Champions League will inevitably double the already high TV broadcasting fees of the European Champions League, so the teams participating in the Champions League will naturally gain more profits than they are now.

The reason why Liverpool's David Morse expressed opposition is on the one hand because of the feud between Manchester United and Liverpool, and on the other hand, even if the Champions League expands, it will only accommodate the runner-up of the four major leagues as a test. Liverpool's league ranking this season is behind its own rival Manchester United, and now the leader in the Premier League is Newcastle, and Morse will of course express opposition.

Soon, under the auspices of Van Plague, the owners of a total of 20 clubs (6 Serie A clubs, 4 La Liga teams, 5 Premier League clubs, two Bundesliga clubs, as well as Ajax, Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain) voted on Edwards' proposal, and finally passed the resolution with 16 votes in favor, two votes against and two abstentions.

The representatives sent by UEFA to attend the meeting looked at the scene in the conference room and complained in their hearts. This unlucky guy could imagine the scene of being scolded by UEFA President Johnson when he was reporting on his work after the meeting. Although he was not the one he was scolding, it was not a good feeling!

Zhuang Mingge knew that these so-called "resolutions" made at the meeting now have no practical effect, but in this era when the Boseman Act was approaching, UEFA had to take care of the emotions of most wealthy families and compromise on these things - after all, there are one or more big families behind the wealthy families. If Johnson really doesn't care about these "public opinion", then these wealthy families could really put aside UEFA and work alone. Isn't this how the famous European Champions League was done?

(Note: In 1954, some European teams were preparing to host the UEFA Champions League, but UEFA insisted on hosting the Expo Cup, which was the predecessor of the League Cup, so they were not interested in the Champions League, which made the club have to put aside UEFA's own organization. The final result is also seen by everyone. The Champions League has always been the highest-level event among clubs, and the League Cup is a second-rate event in both the three major European Cups and the reorganized "European League".)

UEFA is just a private organization. These wealthy and powerful families can only take more effort to recreate an event by themselves. However, if the three major cup matches under UEFA will be without these wealthy families, they will be in name only. These officials and men cannot afford such economic losses.

Therefore, UEFA's attitude towards this European giant boss summit is very simple. As long as you clubs participate in the three major European Cups, everything else is easy to discuss, otherwise it would be easier to send an observer to listen...

After finishing the first issue, Arsenal boss Hillwood was unwilling to be lonely and followed Manchester United with a suggestion: He hoped that FIFA could unify the national team's match day so that the team would always be transferred away due to various inexplicable national team matches during the league, so that the team could not play in the best condition.

Good guy, these guys in the Premier League have not yet achieved results, so there are quite a few requirements. Zhuang Mingge, who sat with a vote of Italian bosses, sneered in his heart.

But that's good. With these Premier League teams rushing forward to be pioneers, they can bear less pressure on themselves.

Since there is no unified FIFA match day at this time and there are many clubs suffering from it, this issue is naturally passed unanimously.

The topics are more complicated next, and some miscellaneous things are beginning to be revealed by the bosses of these wealthy families, such as...

"Our club pays players wages, but players often suffer economic losses that they should not have due to injury to the national team. I think UEFA and FIFA should make a certain amount of compensation for players injured in national team games. It is best to formulate a regulation that allows players to have a basis to ask for compensation from the national football associations they belong to." This time the person spoke was AC Milan's boss Berlusconi. It seems that the media tycoon is full of resentment about his players being repeatedly recruited to the national team to play games.

This is true. In the view of the conceited Berlusconi, AC Milan this season is definitely capable of regaining the throne of the league championship. It is because various national teams repeatedly draw players, so Milan often cannot get the strongest lineup to play, which has led to the team now ranks second in the league.

"agree!"

"That's right! This should have been done long ago! These national teams often force our players, and the ones they sent back were still injured, which caused our team to suffer in vain!"

So, Berlusconi's proposal was successfully passed.

...

As time goes by, more and more proposals have been passed at the meeting, and cold sweat seeps out from the back of the UEFA representative.

"Cough cough..." Seeing that the theme of the meeting was almost discussed, Van Prager, who was standing on the stage to host the summit, quickly coughed twice, signaling everyone present to keep quiet. "Now I will announce the last topic of this summit, which is about establishing a strategic alliance composed of a certain number of football clubs, specifically responsible for communication with UEFA and FIFA, so that we clubs are no longer in a weak position in the competition with them, but have equal voice!"

Let me go, is it that the legendary "football utopia" - G14 organization, which was instigated by its own little butterfly, would appear four years in advance? After hearing Van Prag's words, a thought suddenly flashed through Zhuang Mingge's mind:
Chapter completed!
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