When Gao Han drove from Rafenka's home to the Chinatown Training Center in the southern suburbs, the technical director Carlos Cantalero was already waiting for him in the lobby and took him directly to the administrative conference room on the second floor.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw General Manager Armando Marcos sitting inside with several guests, and the two leaders were Gao Han’s old friend, Atletico Madrid’s chairman Cerrezo, and General Manager Hill.

When everyone in the conference room saw Gao Han pushing the door open, they immediately stood up.

"Ha, you are such a friend. You don't even inform us when you return to Madrid." Little Hill came up with a smile.

Gao Han looked innocent and smiled bitterly: "I'm just coming back to deal with some things and I've left in the past two days."

"If I hadn't heard from Javier, we wouldn't have known that you were back." Serezo also stepped forward and hugged Gao Han.

The Javier he mentioned, you know without guessing, must be Javier Matayana.

It has been ten years since Gao Han entered Atletico Madrid.

The friendships they have made in the past ten years and the friendship they have worked hard together make them cherish them extremely.

"Come on, I'll introduce you to you." Little Hill pointed to the two strangers next to him.

"This is the president of the Spanish Professional Football League, José Luis Astiasaran, this is vice chairman Javier Tebas Medrano, they all took office after you left."

Although Gao Han has been away from La Liga for many years, Chinatown is still there, so he has some understanding of the Spanish Professional League.

The real power players in these two professional leagues are not very old, less than fifty years old, and they are at the age of being strong in the R&F.

Jose Luis Astiasaran was a senior legal counsel, whose main business was football clubs, players and even brokerage companies. He did a pretty good job. In 2001, he took over the mess of Real Sociedad and quickly brought revival to Real Sociedad. He served as vice chairman in the Spanish Professional League. He passed the election in 2005 and officially took over as chairman and won re-election in 2009.

Compared with the chairman who was born in La Liga, Vice Chairman Javier Tebas started from grassroots and served as Huesca for a long time. In 2001, he received support from many low-level league teams and entered the Spanish Professional League as vice chairman. In the strike storm caused by the famous G30 League's request for reallocation of TV broadcasting revenue in 2003, he was the leader. Since serving as vice chairman of the Professional League, he has also actively called for reform of the rights to broadcast La Liga.

The G30 League, which was composed of La Liga and Spanish Second Division teams, has been completely integrated into the Spanish Professional League, but the struggle for the distribution of broadcast rights is getting more and more intense, and now it is approaching a critical node.

Especially the tilt of the backbone forces such as Sevilla, Valencia and Atletico Madrid is a huge push.

On the phone just now, Xiao Hill had already explained his purpose to Gao Han, and Gao Han was mentally prepared on the way, so after meeting everyone, he exchanged greetings and made a few words, and after sitting down, he went straight to the topic.

They came to seek help from Gao Han on this trip.

"Mr. Gao Han, I'm going to say that the situation is now very deadly. Real Madrid and Barcelona hold a lot of resources. Their fiscal revenue is very abundant. The annual revenue of TV broadcasting rights is astonishing. In 2003, their broadcasting fee income per team was almost the sum of more than 30 mid- and downstream teams, and it is still the case now."

Javier Tebasse looked a little angry when he said this.

When he led the G30 League to challenge the Spanish Football Association and two giant teams, the total broadcast fee for the 30 La Liga and the Spanish Second Division was 76 million euros, while the annual broadcast fee income of each team of Real Madrid and Barcelona was 72 million euros, which caused conflicts.

Gao Han still remembers that the G30 League's requirement was that the Spanish Football Association gave the G30 League team a broadcast fee of at least 93 million euros, but the Spanish Football Association was only willing to increase the original 76 million euros to 84 million euros.

The incident caused a lot of controversy that year, and the La Liga was postponed for a while, but later the Spanish Football Association defeated one by one, and the internal opinions of the G30 League did not agree. Many members were exhausted in the long-term and arduous negotiations and were eventually defeated one by one by the Spanish Football Association, and they had to declare a compromise.

"Mr. Gao Han, your team has been rising from the low-level league. Then you must be very clear about what kind of operating conditions the teams in the low-level league are now. Almost most teams are on the verge of collapse of not being able to make ends meet. Most, even the middle and lower La Liga teams are still difficult to maintain."

"But what about those two giants? They are unscrupulous in European football. Real Madrid currently has a transfer budget of hundreds of millions on their account. Barcelona is also squandering, but their huge fiscal revenue is based on the difficult operation of many other teams in La Liga and the Spanish Second Division."

As he spoke, Javier Tebas emphasized his tone, "We must change this exploited status quo, we must stand up and resist!"

Gao Han had to admit in his heart that Javier Tebasse was very eloquent, very convincing and infectious, which really made him feel very dissatisfied, especially his approach to the two giant teams.

As the saying goes, the rich are smelly of wine and meat, and the road is frozen to death, which refers to the current Spanish Professional League.

Under the current broadcasting rights distribution pattern, mid- and lower-stream teams are almost powerless against the two giant ships of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​even teams like Valencia and Sevilla.

On the way here, Gao Han has filtered out all the interests in Spanish football.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are undoubtedly high-ranking. The amount of broadcast contracts they signed with broadcasters in 2006 was astonishing, with as much as 1.1 billion in seven years, and each team each year was as much as 150 million euros.

Under the two giant teams, the annual broadcast fee signed by Atletico Madrid and Valencia is only more than 46 million euros, which is what the Bedding Legion and Bat Legion have achieved after the rapid progress in recent years.

The remaining sixteen teams divide the remaining 260 million euros in revenue every year, so they are assigned to the newly promoted Chinatown, and the broadcast income is very small.

For mid- and lower-level teams, reforming broadcast fee income is undoubtedly to seize food from the tigers of Real Madrid and Barcelona. It is not easy, but it is imperative. For teams like Atletico Madrid and Valencia, they must also break the current profit distribution model.

Just like Atletico Madrid, its performance in the past few years has been excellent and it has firmly suppressed Real Madrid. But what's the use?

After the broadcaster Pioneer Media settled Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​its attitude towards other La Liga teams immediately became very tough, because the initiative in negotiations completely turned to them, and this was very unfair to the eighteen teams in La Liga except for the two giants.

This is why Sevilla President Del Nido proposed to join forces with 18 teams to drive Real Madrid and Barcelona out of the La Liga. Because of these 18 teams, the two giants could not play at all.

If Atletico Madrid and Valencia are willing to challenge the status of the two giants, they must take action in broadcasting income distribution to shorten their fiscal revenues between themselves and the two giants. Otherwise, the stronger the strong, the weaker the weaker, and this game cannot be played at all.

"According to the contract signed that year, the broadcast contract between Real Madrid and Barcelona and Pioneer Media will not expire in three years, but according to the reliable information we have received, they are now planning to renew their contracts and are considering renewing another long contract."

Xiao Hill's words made everyone present look dark.

Everyone understands that if the two major leagues and broadcasters have a longer appointment at this critical moment, the situation in the next few years will not be changed, and all teams can only continue to play this abused game with the two major leagues.

And you don’t have to think about why they started negotiating for renewal three years in advance.

Even Gao Han understood why the eighteen princes of the eighteen routes rose up at this time.

If you don’t stand up at this time, you will have no chance in the future.

"What are you going to do?" Gao Han asked lightly.

Javier Tebasse, Hill and others looked at each other, and they all realized that there was a chance and looked full of surprise.

"What we mean is to stop them from renewing their contracts first, and then jointly put pressure on all eighteen La Liga teams to demand that they have to sit down and renegotiate with us, otherwise the game will be over. Without them, our eighteen teams can still play La Liga."

Gao Han nodded. This should be the biggest bargaining chip in negotiations with the two giants.

There will always be two teams in football matches. For Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​they can't play with these eighteen teams without them. As for what many people say, going to leagues in other countries is even more unimaginable.

Not to mention anything else, which league is willing to accept these two teams?

The Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 all have their own fixed interest groups, and they cannot accept such giant teams.

You should know that the membership system of Real Madrid and Barcelona is like cheating, and the business model of teams such as Manchester United, Bayern Munich is completely different. Let me ask, will the strong teams in other leagues be so stupid that they can attract wolves into the house?

It should be said that requiring the two giant teams to make compromises should be considered the least difficult among many reform plans.

"But can the Spanish Football Association agree?" Gao Han asked with concern.

This is the key to the problem.

For a long time, the biggest obstacle to the reform of broadcasting rights has not been the two giants. Barcelona and Real Madrid can only be regarded as vested interests at best and are unwilling to take the initiative to reform, but the Spanish Football Association is the opposite of the reform.

According to the existing distribution model, the broadcasting rights are allocated by the Spanish Football Association, with hundreds of millions of euros each year and directly connected to major sponsors. Everyone knows how much power the Football Association holds.

But if the reform is made and the broadcasting rights are taken over to the La Liga Professional League, the Football Association will change from the original dominator to the bystander, and the original bystander professional league will become the new dominator. The only difference is that the professional league is composed of La Liga teams and works for the La Liga teams.

Jose Louis and Javier Tebasse are actively running and calling for reform, with the purpose of making the professional league come to the forefront and take control of the Premier League.

So, in the final analysis, this is a bloody struggle for interests.
Chapter completed!