The UK is divided into four major regions: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Among them, there are nearly 4,000 football clubs in England.

Almost all boys have the opportunity to receive more formal football training when they were young, which shows the influence of football here.

There has been a sensation in British football recently because Manchester United, the top club in the Premier League, has changed hands.

What is particularly exciting is that at Manchester United's latest press conference, Ferguson personally confirmed the good news that Manchester United will rebuild its women's football team!

As soon as the news came out, someone immediately saw the business opportunity.

The next day, Zhou Buqi was going to continue to do market research, explore the development direction of "Internet football", and get the goal first. San Dezi came over first and told him the good news.

“We have a sponsor for our women’s football team!”

"So fast?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised.

Santoku said: "It's Lipton Black Tea. It said it is willing to pay 200,000 pounds a year to sponsor the chest jersey advertisement of the women's football team, and the contract is for 5 years."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was shocked, "How much? 200,000 pounds? Weekly? Monthly?"

Sandoko twitched the corner of his mouth and gave him a complicated look, "200,000 pounds per year, this is the women's football team."

"What happened to women's football?"

"This is a semi-professional league."

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly, "We are Manchester United and a semi-professional team?"

Sandoko said: "The most powerful team in the Premier League women's football team is Arsenal. They have won all the championships they can in the past few years. They are also a semi-professional team. Except for a few players who are full-time, most of the players have their own jobs.

Job. Do you know what the highest salary is for Arsenal women’s football team?”

"How many?"

"£20,000."

"After tax deduction...that's more than 500,000 pounds a year, which is not bad." Zhou Buqi quickly completed the calculation.

San Dezi couldn't laugh or cry, "Big boss, this is women's football, don't think about it like men's football. The 20,000 pounds I mentioned is the annual salary."

Zhou Buqi was stunned for a moment, "The highest salary for the Arsenal women's football team is 20,000 pounds per year?"

"right."

"Shocking."

"Because it is a semi-professional operation, the best-performing European Women's Football League is Germany. Well, they are the champions of the past two World Cups. The German Women's Football League is also a standard semi-professional league, similar to the Premier League Women's Football League."

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide, "Didn't you say before that part of the Premier League women's football team is semi-professional?"

"Really?" Santoku was stunned for a moment, then tentatively said, "Is there a problem with our communication? Female football players all have a part-time job, and they can't sustain their lives by football matches alone. But the best female football players are also quite capable.

For professional players, because they will work part-time in the club, either teaching children to play football in the youth training echelon, or holding a job in the club, which is considered a full-time member of the team."

"Depend on!"

Zhou Buqi felt that he was a little careless.

From this point of view, the Premier League women's football league environment is far inferior to the domestic women's football league environment. Domestic women's football teams are all professional teams. In last year's Women's World Cup, Sonorous Roses played a professional team against foreign non-professional teams and won fifth place. Germany is

Championship, England is sixth.

Under such circumstances, allowing domestic women's football girls to come to the UK to play football... is not like studying in a high-level football league. It is clearly poverty alleviation through technology.

Santoku said seriously: "Manchester United is right to restart the women's football project. Data shows that the fastest growing sport in Europe in the past few years is women's football. The Premier League women's football team also intends to promote reforms and improve competitiveness."

Zhou Buqi remained calm.

No matter what, it is necessary to select a female football girl from China to study abroad in the UK. After he acquires Manchester United, he will inevitably be closely watched by the domestic media and fans. No matter what, there should be some connection.

20,000 pounds...well, that's 200,000 Chinese currency, which is almost the same as the income of domestic professional female football players. From the income point of view, it seems feasible.

Zhou Buqi called David Gill directly and told him about the women's football team.

David Gill is much more professional. "The Premier League has had many discussions. Many people suggested developing professional women's football, but we rejected it because the time is not yet ripe."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Why? Tell me briefly."

David Gill hesitated, "It may not be polite to say this, but this is the reality. The two countries with the best development of women's football at the end of the last century are the United States and China. The United States has a women's professional football league, and your country also has a women's professional football league.

, it can also be reflected in the results. But in the past few years, the American Women's Football Professional League has been on the verge of collapse. Your country's women's football league... well, I believe you also know it. In contrast, the results of the German women's football team are getting better and better.

, their semi-professional women’s football model is being promoted across Europe.”

Zhou Buqi had communicated with Zhu Jun before, and he knew some things.

The current situation of the domestic women's football league is very bleak. Most of the games are played behind closed doors, with no spectators allowed.

Why?

Because there are spectators, the event operators have to hire security guards to maintain order on site and clean the stadium. There is no way to make back this money by buying tickets. They simply close it all, no spectators, no need

Additional expenses.

Against this background, Zhou Buqi thought it would be a good thing for women's football girls to come to England to play. Unexpectedly, they would move from a professional league to a semi-professional league...

David Gill said with a smile: "We are very confident in the development of women's football, which is the fastest-growing sports project in Europe. Manchester United is now restarting the women's football project, which is a very right choice. Last year, Arsenal's women's football team made a net profit of more than 30,000

GBP."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What about the expenditure? How much is the expenditure of a women's football team?"

"It will not exceed 1 million pounds. The salary expenses are not much, mainly hardware configuration. The women's team and the men's team must enjoy the same training facilities, medical and food services, and the same management system must be used."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Are there no professional women's football players?"

David Gill said: "Yes, many have appeared one after another. Especially in the German Women's Football League, many professional women's football players have appeared. Women's football in England developed relatively late. For the time being... there may be some, we don't know.

.”

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "Manchester United must set an example!"

"Um?"

“What is the average annual income in the UK?”

"About £30,000."

"There will be a group of professional women's football players in the Manchester United women's football team. The annual salary of professional players will not be less than 100,000 pounds. In the women's football project, the annual investment can reach 3 million pounds. We don't seek profits, just brand. This is the image of Manchester United.

, just like the men's football team, the Manchester United women's football team must also become a banner of the Premier League and introduce the best female football players in the world!"

There was no other way, Zhou Buqi could only do this.

Domestic female football players are all professional players. If you want them to join, you must move the Manchester United women's football team in a professional direction. At least there must be a group of professional female football players who are strong enough.

Introducing the best female football players and achieving the most outstanding results will be very conducive to the construction of Manchester United's global brand.

Moreover, women’s football may not be unable to make money!

You don’t have to think about semi-professional women’s football matches, as the income is very limited. However, you can have commercial operations and image rights! For example, if you choose a player from the Thai women’s football team to join Manchester United, and Manchester United has unimaginable influence in Southeast Asia, to

Then she can receive a large number of endorsement orders in Southeast Asia and make money for the club.

In this regard, football people are incompetent and can rely on Santoku.

Compared with the complexity of men's football, things in women's football are much simpler.

Because most of the women's football leagues in the world are amateur and semi-professional, and occasionally some professional players are paid very low salaries. As long as Manchester United provides money and a professional football environment, it will be enough to quickly make the Manchester United women's football team a success.

Zhou Buqi checked online.

The Miss World Football in the past few years has been either Brazilian player Marta or German player Birgit Prinz. Among the top three are Brazilian player Christiane and German player Lennet Lingle...

Zhou Buqi pointed at the list and said, "Go back and tell David Gill to buy all these players! See which female football players are popular in the media and famous, buy them all if you can! For example, Arsenal

The captains of Manchester United Women's Football Team and Liverpool Women's Football Team have also been bought and offered professional contracts... In short, we must detonate the market! The more interesting and controversial the better, let the media pay attention to the big move of Manchester United Women's Football Team."

San Dezi was more relaxed and said with a smile: "Okay."

Women's football is simple.

Even if you go to your rival Liverpool to recruit the captain of the women's football team, you can easily recruit him. In an environment like Europe, only girls who are full of love for football will choose to play football. Of course, they hope to become professional players and can focus on

in football.

The next step is to get down to business, which is the main purpose of San Dezi's visit today.

He has already investigated the official websites of Premier League clubs.

Zhou Buqi looked at the list.

I feel happy and helpless at the same time.

The most expensive official website is Arsenal, with annual maintenance costs exceeding 5 million pounds. The wealthy teams basically have more than 4 million pounds. The inferior teams do not need to operate multi-lingual overseas official websites and only build local official websites.

That's good, the cost will be relatively low, generally between 1 million and 1.5 million pounds.

Zhou Buqi made a simple calculation and found that if we use domestic standards, it may cost about 1 million yuan to operate a local official website.

Other functions on the official website are simple and easy to maintain. However, online ticket booking and online sales of official jerseys and souvenirs are relatively complex functions that require several powerful technical engineers.

All 20 teams in the Premier League have their official websites outsourced. In total, these 20 teams spend more than 40 million pounds on official website operations every year!

In addition, there is also the official website of the Premier League, and the cost is even more terrifying, exceeding 8 million pounds.

Zhou Buqi was very emotional after reading this list, "I suddenly fell in love with European football."

"Um?"

Sandoku is a bit baffled.
Chapter completed!