Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 404 "We will sound the clarion call to rule England again"

Goals and assists double-capped, everyone said that Xiao Liang is good.

Not only the fans from all over the world, but even the Premier League officials went off the pitch, made an edited video for Chen Xiaoliang, and promoted it on various official channels.

Richard Masters, the current chief executive of the Premier League, is in high spirits.

从2022-23赛季开始、到2024-25结束的三个赛季，当时英超与天空体育、英国电信、亚马逊三家签下了总额51亿英镑的国内转播代理，又与亚洲、北美等区域的代理商签下了53亿英镑的海外转播协议。

3 billion pounds in 104 years, which also created a single broadcast share, and the bottom team at the end of the Premier League season can also get a huge sum of 1.06 million pounds, which was 9600 million pounds in the previous contract period.

As the world enters the Internet age, there are fewer and fewer football broadcasts. The Premier League understands the truth that "free is the most expensive" and broadcasts a large number of popular matches for free. This has greatly improved in Asia and other places. Increased the ratings of genuine channels.

Although the fans who watch the game feel that they didn’t spend a penny, this is the same as the short video app that allows you to watch videos for free. These days, whoever has traffic can realize it.

The TV station bought a huge amount of broadcasting agency from the Premier League, and then sold it to the distribution channel provider, and at the same time sold the advertising space and sponsorship broadcasting space at a high price, which also created a period of time. A spectacle that no one in the fan circle knows.

At the same time, the network platforms and apps of these TV stations have also attracted a large number of registered users and active users, which has driven the broadcasting effect of other programs on the website, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Ever since, in this way, under the win-win strategy, the Premier League created the reality that the total revenue of the second-ranked La Liga could not surpass the Premier League's "dominance".

With the combination of Chen Xiaoliang, the star with the highest number of followers, and Manchester United, the most commercially successful club, coupled with the fact that the team's performance and Chen Xiaoliang's personal performance have exploded, the Premier League has significantly expanded its share in the Asian market.

Coupled with the strength of Manchester City, the rise of Harland, the strong recovery of Liverpool and Chelsea, and the massive investment of Arsenal and Newcastle, the oil capital, American capital, Asian market and the traffic era have been combined together.

In the past few days, in the new three-year broadcast negotiation, the total broadcast fee in the UK has increased from 51 billion pounds to 60 billion pounds, while the overseas market has risen sharply from 56 billion to 80 billion pounds.

This means that starting from the 2025-26 season, the bottom team can get 1.42 million pounds, and the champion team can get a staggering 2.24 million pounds!
What is really scary about the Premier League is not only the operation, but also its healthy system.

In addition to not setting the exclusive broadcast share for the giants like La Liga for Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​which ensures the interests of small and medium teams, there is also a very important policy, that is, "Golden Parachute" (Golden Parachute) ).

This clause was first born in the American business community. It is used to ensure that after the company's shareholding changes, if the original executive team is eliminated by the new shareholders, they will receive a large amount of compensation according to the contract.

In the Premier League, once a team is relegated, in addition to receiving the Premier League broadcast share this season, it will continue to receive the Premier League broadcast share after entering the English Championship.

The specific rule is to get 55% of the Premier League team's share in the first year. According to the standards of the 2022-23 season, Norwich and Watford, who were relegated before, can get about 5000 million pounds.

If you don't count the broadcast share obtained by Barcelona "sucking the blood of La Liga", the figure of 5000 million pounds is almost equivalent to the broadcast share of 6000 million euros obtained by Barcelona after winning the championship.

The problem is that this is not a comparison between the bottom of the Premier League and the other four major league champions, but the comparison with the Championship team...

If you don't return to the Premier League in the season after relegation, you can continue to get a 45% broadcast share in the second season, which is about 4000 million pounds.

If you haven't returned to the Premier League in the second season, but you have been in the Premier League for more than one season before, that is, you have succeeded in relegation once, then in the third season, you can still get an amount equivalent to 20% of the Premier League team's share.

That is to say, a team that has been relegated to the British Championship can still get almost 1.1 million pounds from the Premier League in three seasons.

This is why those newly promoted from the Premier League will buy, buy, buy, and try their best to avoid relegation.

Because once the "round tour" is lowered back, the money for the third year will not be received.

However, it would be a big mistake to think that with this money, these relegated teams can be promoted again soon.

In terms of the number of viewers, the British Championship is actually the real sixth league in Europe.

Brighton, Brentford, Crystal Palace, Wolves, Nottingham Forest, these teams did not rely on the golden parachute policy when they were promoted to the Premier League, and the newly promoted Sheffield United this season, if it is not because of this policy after relegation , the team will go bankrupt due to financial crisis.

Healthy, shared, and sustainable, these are the cornerstone concepts of the success of the Premier League. Not only was their benefit sharing not tailored for the giants, but they were also assigned to the British Championship all the way.

This is also the reason why the FA and UEFA firmly boycott the European Super League.

The wealthy game behind closed doors is destined to be unsustainable.

In view of the further growth of the Premier League this season and the fact that Chen Xiaoliang became the double football player, "Time" magazine put him on the cover, and the main title is also very straightforward - "The Era of Chen Xiaoliang", and the subtitle is "The Premier League has entered a new stage".

As a result, Chen Xiaoliang's personal income has increased sharply, and the proportion of off-field income has far exceeded his total annual salary of 2500 million pounds at Manchester United.

Because Red Star Erke made the right bet, when Adi's performance in the Red Country continued to decline for 4 consecutive years, he poached the entire football industry team. The original sponsorship contract of 4 million pounds for 200 years soared directly to 5 for 1 years. billion pounds.

This figure is higher than Messi’s endorsement of Adi’s 1800 million pounds and Ronaldo’s endorsement of Naike’s 1500 million pounds. It is second only to Neymar’s 2300 million pounds one-year contract for the endorsement of the horse. A gamble signing.

In addition, Nanshan Pizza Hut Group's endorsement of Honor of Kings has also been re-signed, rising from 5 million pounds in 200 years to 5 million pounds in 2000 years.

What Chen Xiaoliang has to do is to authorize them to produce one skin after another in the game...

There is also Laoganniang hot sauce. The sub-brand set up for Chen Xiaoliang back then was called "Little Junior Brother", but now they dare not call it that.

Mr. Guan Shuangliu is called Junior Brother?What do you think?
Suddenly, it was changed to Laoganniang No. 7 Hot Sauce, and the red color of the bottle also became the red of Manchester United. Fans laughed and called it the Chanel No. 5 of the hot sauce world.

Siwei Dihuang Wan just wanted to raise the price to renew the contract, when Huiren Shenbao came to bid.

The rest of the manufacturers don't talk about it, and the conflict with each other is so fierce.

Due to the exclusiveness of sponsorships, if you wear this brand of shoes, you can no longer wear other brands, and you can no longer wear B's watches if you wear A's watch. As a result, manufacturers continue to increase prices and fall into disorderly competition.

In the end, Da Ben Hot Wheels was the smartest. The luxury car of Bulletproof Big G had already been provided to Chen Xiaoliang, and they came up with a new idea after raising the price.

They saw what Chen Xiaoliang was thinking, and at the same time they reported the renewal of the sponsorship contract with a price increase, they "by the way" sponsored a large amount of money for the Ibiza Island Club and Chen Xiaoliang's Red National Junior Player Youth Training Camp.

According to what Rise said when signing the contract on behalf of Chen Xiaoliang, it was called: "You are really a genius."

This also allowed Erica, who is far away in Spain and has already devoted herself to the role of the team CEO, to greatly enhance her own image value.

Her title has changed from "the most beautiful athlete in the Tokyo Olympics" to "the most beautiful CEO of a European football club".

And Erica also used the sponsor's money to buy out two 18-year-old players from the Red Country youth academy. One was from Chuandu, named Hu He, who served as a left back, and the other was from Imperial Capital, named Guo Jia. , serving as a central defender.

Chen Xiaoliang really wanted to go to the scene to see the team's performance on the spot, but he really couldn't leave, and it was impossible for Manchester United to let him go.

But he still invests a considerable part of his income in youth training and his own club.

It's as much about the situation as it is about his ultimate future goals.

Of course, investing in youth training itself is a commercial project with economic value.

Once you have dealt with the off-court affairs, you have to deal with the on-court affairs.

The last double hat trick gave him the first time he had the illusion of how the training value could give so much.

The basic reward of 5 points of training plus the best reward of 5 points in the game, plus 12 points for double-wearing hats, the basic reward is 22 points of training value.

However, he achieved two hat-tricks and triggered two [rewards: this game reward × (number of goals + number of assists)].

22×6+22×6=132+132=264
Plus 8 points from two days of training, a total of 272 points!
Training value 57 → 329
Breakthrough points 12 points, 69→81
However, he didn't add the points right away, but after the second day's training, he asked Ten Hag about the tactical arrangement for the next big game-whether he should continue to play as a central midfielder or as a right winger.

Ten Hag's answer was also very ingenious, saying that he hoped that Chen Xiaoliang would continue to move flexibly in the midfield, especially with players who played on the right. However, the specific timing allowed him to adapt to the situation on the field.

That being the case, he decided to add attributes first.

Balance 16→18
Stop the ball 16→18
Training value 329 → 9
Although there is a feeling of returning to the pre-liberation overnight, it is really worthwhile to increase the high-level attribute by 4 points in one game.

Also relying on this 7-0 victory, although Manchester City beat Fulham with 3 goals in the away game, Manchester United still returned to the first place in the standings by overtaking Manchester City by 2 goal difference.

This is already the third time the two sides have exchanged top positions in the second half of the season.

After a week of training without any cup games in the middle, Manchester United headed to Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire to challenge Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium.

The 6 days of training gave Chen Xiaoliang another 24 training points (9→33)

2024 2 Month 25 Day.

Boro, led by Carrick, currently has 25 points and ranks 15th in the league, 7 points higher than the relegation zone. It is very likely to complete this year's relegation task with a small deal.

When the two teams met in the player tunnel before the game, Carrick also waited for the Manchester United players to walk out of the dressing room, and shook hands with his old teammates Rashford, Luke Shaw, Lindelof and others. Congratulations to Chen Xiaoliang for his achievements.

But off the court is off the court, and the game belongs to the game. No amount of historical origin and friendship can hold back the two sides' pursuit of points.

Another highlight of this game in the fan circle is that Carrick rented back the 30-year-old Lingard, known as the "Lin Huang", from Beckham's Miami International.

But less than 10 minutes after the opening, the fans' relay stalks in the barrage changed from "Your Lin Huang, infinitely rampant" to "Your Lin Huang, extremely desolate, retiring from old age and returning home, the future is bleak, half-old Xu Mother, if you lose all your talents at thirty, you will be exhausted, Hongchao rushing?"

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In the end, despite playing at home, Manchester United with Chen Xiaoliang is still too big for Middlesbrough.

After being swept out by Manchester United, Dean Henderson, who scolded his old owner, took the lead and resisted, but it was still difficult to stop the 1-3 loss.

Chen Xiaoliang made two consecutive blitzs in the 37th and 41st minutes of the first half. The previous time he dribbled the ball horizontally in front of the penalty area, attracting 3 people to defend and then went straight into the penalty area. After receiving the ball, Cesco turned around and shot Di Ann Henderson scores from a contra corner.

The last time was when Luke Shaw, who had returned from injury, took a left corner kick and scored with a header.

The last goal was in the 54th minute of the second half. B Fei inserted into the penalty area and received a two-point kick from the opponent's defender who was not far away.

Senegal striker Xavi Diallo, the sixth top scorer in Ligue 2000 and bought from Strasbourg for 6 million euros, took advantage of the brief confusion after ten Hag replaced a group of young players in the 81st minute. A quick point-and-shoot shot saved Misburg a little face, and let the outside world see that they still have a good chance of relegation.

至此，2月份的比赛全部结束，陈小亮也凭借这个月4场联赛3胜1平、5个进球6次助攻的不可思议的表现，毫无悬念的胜过4场同样3胜1平、进6球的哈兰德与奥斯梅恩，还有3球3助攻的穆阿尼与努涅斯，本赛季继8月、10月之后，第3次获得英超月度最佳球员。

This game gained 7 training points (33 → 40), but the best of the month triggered [reward: get breakthrough points equal to the sum of goals and assists this month]

He also gained 11 breakthrough points (81 → 92)

After the game on February 2, since 25 is a leap year, the team had an extra day off and came to Leicester on the first day of March to participate in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Leicester are currently ranked second in the English Championship, second only to Southampton. The current head coach of the team, Maresca, who was an assistant coach of Manchester City last season, does not feel that he will have a big fight with Manchester United in the FA Cup in midweek. is a meaningful goal.

They have only one goal this season, which is promotion, and the rest is training.

Ten Hag was more nervous on his side.

After this game, they will go directly to London. The original home game against Nottingham Forest on March 3 has been postponed, because they will compete with Arsenal at Wembley Stadium for the final championship of the League Cup.

And after playing Arsenal, take a rest for a day, and go to Rome to play the second round of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 knockout rounds.

In this game, the team made a large-scale rotation, Lindelof, Maguire, Eriksson, Anthony, Garnacho, McTominay started, Casemiro, Milinkovic, B Fee , Kwa, etc. are all rested.

However, the midfield is still led by Chen Xiaoliang and Benzema, and this rotation lineup is still more than enough to play against Leicester City.

In the 10th minute of the first half, Chen Xiaoliang and Eriksson took a free kick in the frontcourt. In the end, Chen Xiaoliang shot a curved ball with his right foot, which bounced off the right post.

Benzema, who was wandering behind the wall, turned around and stepped forward to grab the goalkeeper, but Danny Ward pushed the ball into the net before Danny Ward made a second save. Manchester United easily took a 1-goal lead.

In the early FIFA interpretation, this ball can be counted as an assist just like letting a teammate take the penalty kick after creating a penalty kick, but it will not be recorded in the statistics of the Premier League.

In the first minute of the opening of the second half, Chen Xiaoliang made a direct long pass to Benzema. The French veteran lobbed a light kick before the attacking goalkeeper was in place and scored his second personal goal of the game.

In the 60th minute, Ten Hag replaced all the remaining main players on the field, such as Chen Xiaoliang, with young players such as Menu and Iqbal, and made it clear that they had more control over the ball, exhausting the game time.

And Ganacho was tripped on the penalty area line in the 71st minute. The referee watched VAR for a long time, and finally gave Manchester United a penalty.

Benzema achieved it overnight, completed his first hat-trick after coming to the new team, and then clocked out of get off work, chatting easily with his teammates on the bench.

With 3 goals, the team easily advanced to the top 8 of the FA Cup.

Early the next morning, everyone assembled immediately and headed to London, leaving them only two and a half days to recover and adapt.

Arsenal, who were eliminated by Liverpool in the FA Cup, waited there early. This season, it is impossible for them to replicate the 93% top of the league last season. The League Cup and the Champions League have become more realistic goals for the championship.

Coach Arteta has called on their fans to give everything to support the team to win this championship, adding valuable experience to this group of players whose performance has fluctuated due to their youth.

And Ten Hag, who relied on the League Cup championship to secure his position as Manchester United's head coach last season, obviously didn't want the championship to be saved in another place.

Facts have proved that this year's lineup is much stronger than last year, and the club has acquired an honor machine that can help the team compete for all championships.

Chen Xiaoliang, who sat next to Ten Hag and participated in the pre-match press conference, only said:
"This game is not a clarion call for Manchester United to return to the top, but a clarion call for re-domination of English football."

(End of this chapter)