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During the period from May 13th to May 18th, the entire Europe was immersed in the joy of the upcoming World Cup and the excitement of looking forward to the Champions League final.

The Red Rebels began a three-day closed training and declined all media interviews. Mourinho concentrated on preparing for the Champions League final. With the return of injured players including Drogba and Kaká, the manpower The shortage problem has been solved, and Mourinho will never allow his team to fail one after another.

After losing the league title, the Red Rebels tasted the pain of Arsenal. The players fell into a low ebb, which led to the team losing again in the FA Cup final. Ronaldinho's performance was even worse, and the whole game was mediocre. .

Mourinho knows very well that the Red Rebels are now at a crossroads. They will either undergo an amazing transformation or sink. As the helmsman of the Red Rebels, he will not allow the team he is in charge to sink like this. So he ordered the seal to be sealed and began a three-day closed training.

But in these three days, a lot of things happened in the entire European football world.

First of all, the biggest thing is the exposure of the Serie A phone call. This is actually not news anymore, it is old news. It was revealed by the media as early as May 4, but with Juventus winning the championship, With Moggi's resignation and the Italian government's full involvement in the investigation, the inside story of the whole matter was revealed bit by bit.

With the exposure of the inside story, Juventus is facing severe accusations, and the punishment to be accepted is likely to be what Xiao Yu has experienced in his previous life, depriving him of the league championship this season and the previous season, and at the same time ordering relegation. This makes Juventus The stock price plummeted overnight.

In addition, the Calciopoli has also affected teams such as AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio, which has also brought an indelible stain to Serie A, especially this incident involving Juventus and AC Milan, which is almost In recent years, the flag team of Serie A has been the team, which has also made many fans disappointed with Serie A.

However, while Serie A is facing the Calciopoli crisis, the Premier League has received another piece of good news.

For two consecutive years, two teams have reached the semi-finals, and both Premier League teams have reached the finals. This is hailed by many as strong evidence of the rise of the Premier League, especially the Red Rebels' victory last year.

And this season, with the 38th round of the Premier League, the defending champion Chelsea failed to even enter the top 4 of the league. If it is because Chelsea's strength has declined sharply, then that's it, but this team has reached the top 4. After reaching the top four of the Champions League, who dares to say that their strength has declined?

In the final analysis, Chelsea's inability to enter the top 4 of the league is due to the improvement of the overall level of the Premier League, especially Manchester United's renewed efforts to occupy the 3rd place in the league. Manchester City's rapid rise into the top 4, while Droylsden overtook Arsenal. Na,

Finishing sixth in the league is also hailed as a clear proof of the improvement of the overall strength of the Premier League.

The Premier League, where all the heroes have joined together, has ushered in troubled times, and the suspense of the league championship has been kept until the last round. This has made the world's media pay attention to the Premier League. Sponsors are also flocking to the Premier League, especially in the Premier League, which has launched a set of overseas promotion strategies. At that time, the value and influence of the Premier League increased with the tide.

On May 15th, the Premier League officially announced that the domestic broadcast rights for the next three years of 07/10 have been secured!

The EU had previously interfered with the Premier League's monopoly on broadcasting rights, forcing the Premier League to divide the broadcasting rights. Finally, after negotiation, the Premier League divided the broadcasting rights into six sets, while Sky TV originally had an exclusive monopoly on the domestic Premier League broadcasting rights in the UK. With 1.614 billion pounds, the rich and powerful took over the four most valuable sets.

The emerging TV station Setanta defeated the network companies NTL and British Telecom and won the remaining two sets. For this, they had to pay up to 492 million pounds, which made the domestic broadcast fee of the Premier League as high as 2.106 billion pounds, which is far higher. past the first three years.

But this is only the domestic broadcasting rights of the Premier League. The sales of global broadcasting rights are still in full swing. In addition to the TV channels controlled by the Abu Dhabi consortium, in order to win the broadcasting rights in Arab regions such as the Middle East and North Africa, a total of 2 Billion pounds, and rising tide lifts all boats, the Premier League's overseas broadcast fees will be sold for a sky-high price, and may even reach 1 billion pounds.

The rising broadcast fees are bound to benefit the Premier League teams. They will receive a share of broadcast fees of about 20 million pounds from the Premier League every year. This money will be remitted to the club's account month by month. In addition, the club also Bonuses and broadcast fee subsidies will be received based on rankings, number of broadcasts, etc.

When the Premier League announced the sales of domestic broadcast rights, the whole world was shocked, especially Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga. Although they are also called the top five leagues in Europe, the total broadcast fees of the other four leagues are probably It is not as good as the Premier League, because the Premier League has the best overseas copyright development among the five major leagues.

This is also very close to the prediction made by Xiao Yu at the Premier League Owners Summit. After all, the overseas copyright of the Premier League now basically exceeds 1 billion pounds, especially the auctions in Asia, North America and other regions are still ongoing. The Premier League will be held in the summer. Conducting overseas pre-season games in these two regions is believed to further stimulate the sales of Premier League broadcast rights.

But for the other four major leagues, La Liga is the best, but it only has 130 million pounds. The sales of other major leagues are not very satisfactory. In addition, the Premier League has begun to actively operate mobile phone information release rights, highlight programs, Sales work in aspects such as network real-time information release.

It can be said that in terms of league business operations, the Premier League is completely ahead of other major leagues in Europe.

However, with the rapid development of commercial operations, the Premier League has not relaxed at all in the transformation of league clubs, especially the supervision of the club's financial status. It has established a professional organization and strictly controls newly promoted teams. and control.

For example, Reading, Sheffield United and Watford, who were promoted from the English Championship this season, are all facing strict financial inspections. Not only the club hardware, but also software facilities, etc. must meet the requirements of the Premier League. Granted promotion to the Premier League.

You must know that with the increase in broadcast fees, the team's promotion to the Premier League will not only bring an annual income of more than 40 million pounds, but will also play in front of audiences and fans in more than 150 countries and regions around the world. This is important for As a club, it is an invaluable asset.

It is precisely because the Premier League can create such amazing benefits that the competition in the English Championship this season is surprisingly fierce. Teams such as West Bromwich Albion, Preston, Leeds United, Crystal Palace, Wolves, etc. have all been promoted. District, but unfortunately in the end, Reading, Sheffield United and Watford were stronger and successfully promoted to the Premier League.

I believe that as the Premier League expands externally while also focusing on internal construction, the development momentum of the Premier League will become increasingly fierce, especially with the introduction of a series of regulations restricting capital operations, which will further restrict the emergence of speculative businessmen like the Glazer family. , and attract more super-rich people like Abu and the Abu Dhabi Consortium to come.

………….. At the same time that the Premier League announced the auction of broadcast rights, Eriksen immediately announced England’s 23-man temporary squad for the World Cup, although Beckham was injured and could not participate in training on time. , but Eriksson still included him in this list, which shows that the Swedes value him.

In addition, a surprising name in this list comes from the Red Rebels. Walcott, a young player who has just turned 17, was selected into this list. This is also known as Eriksen's superstition of Red Rebel players. As a major piece of evidence, many supporters of his team have expressed doubts about the list, because this list has deep traces of the Red Rebels.

The goalkeepers are Tottenham's Robinson, Norwich's Green, and Joe Hart, who is on loan to Droylsden from the Red Rebels. This English native goalkeeper has performed well in the Premier League this season, which has led to him being selected for the England squad. List.

The defenders are Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Bridge, Terry, Curtis and Carragher. Among them, Terry, Curtis and Ferdinand will be the contenders for England's main central defender. Ledley King, who originally had a big voice, was not shortlisted.

In terms of midfielder, Downing, Lampard, Gerrard, Joe Cole, Carrick, Ashley Young, Michael Johnson, Beckham and Lennon were all selected, while Hargreave from Bayern Munich Si did not appear due to injury.

On the forward line, Rooney, Owen, Ismail and Walcott.

In addition, Liverpool's substitute goalkeeper Carson, Charlton defender Luke Young, Bayern's Hargreaves and Droyden center Kitson have all been selected for the 5-man substitute list. Once the 23-man list is If a player has an accident, they will be replaced immediately.

Once Eriksen's list was released, it immediately caused an uproar in England, especially the selection of 17-year-old Theo Walcott. Many people expressed doubts, and the Red Rebels actually had 7 players in the team. Players were selected into the 23-man roster, which has to be said to be a great recognition of the Red Rebels.

Red Rebel fans expressed their appreciation for Eriksson's move and believed that the Red Rebel players deserved to enter the national team. Even Theo Walcott, who was the most questioned, was better than other England forwards. And in addition to being able to play on the left and right wings, he can also play forward. He broke the scoring records of Messi and Ismail in the Red Rebels youth training camp.

However, many fans of his team have questioned Eriksen's actions, believing that excessive superstition of the Red Rebel players will lead to the Red Rebel players having too much power in the England national team, especially since the current captains and deputy captains are Beckham and Terry, this will allow the Red Rebels to dominate the England national team.

When Eriksson faced doubts, he said that he does not select players based on his likes and dislikes, but on the players' abilities. Whether the Red Rebels players are Theo Walcott or Michael Johnson, they all They have proven their strength in the league and Champions League. Maybe they are still young and not strong enough to meet the main requirements of the national team, but they are the most suitable substitutes and represent the direction of the England national team.

The media's frenzy over the England national team's provisional roster soon came to an end, after all, it was only a provisional roster, and then they began to hype the Premier League's best lineup.

Kaka became the league's top scorer with 31 league goals, followed by Henry with 27 goals, and then Chelsea's Lampard with 21 goals, tied with Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy. There are rumors that Ruud van Nistelrooy has fallen out with Manchester United and will leave Old Trafford.

The assists leader is Didier Drogba of the Red Rebels. The Elephant King of Côte d'Ivoire ranks first with 16 assists. The second-ranked player is Kaká of the Red Rebels with 13 assists, followed by Ronaldinho with 12 assists. , as well as Manchester United veteran Giggs and Droysden's Milner tied for fourth in the assists list with 10 assists.

If the Red Rebels dominate the assists list, then when it comes to the crosses list, only one person from the Red Rebels ranks among the top 10, and that is left back Evra, while right back Maicon ranks 11th. Ronaldinho, Messi, Franck Ribery and Robben, who have heavy responsibilities on the left and right wings, were not selected.

The media generally understands that this is due to the tactics of the Red Rebels. After all, the Red Rebels' winger cutting-in tactics require the winger to reverse his foot. In addition, Mourinho requires the winger to cut inside more to participate in the attack, so the number of crosses made by the winger is Not much, otherwise, with such a powerful winger group of the Red Rebels, they would be able to dominate the cross list.

In addition to these lists, there are other interesting lists, such as the substitute list, which is divided into substitutes and substitutes. Among them, Everton's high forward Duncan Ferguson has been substituted 19 times, which is the player with the most substitute appearances in the Premier League. , while Chelsea's Joe Cole was substituted 20 times, which shows that Ancelotti is very worried about the performance of the England international.

There is also the best lineup of the season. In the 442 lineup, the goalkeeper is Cech, the defense is Evra, Terry, Carragher and Maicon, and the midfielder is Ronaldinho, Xavi Alonso, Lan Padre and Gerrard, forwards Drogba and Kaká.

Beckham missed the second half of the season due to injury, Cesc Fabregas and Michael Johnson were both inconsistent, which prevented the Red Rebels from occupying a position in the center of midfield, while Gerrard held down Messi on the right, more The reason is because Liverpool finally won the championship and Messi's performance was not stable enough.

But in the selection of the league's best newcomer, Fabregas undoubtedly won the best newcomer. The Spanish midfielder who just turned 19 is hailed as the future hope of the Red Rebels. Michael Johnson ranked Second, Micah Richards, who was loaned to Droisden by the Red Rebels, ranked third, and Ferdinand's younger brother, Anton Ferdinand, ranked fourth.

In addition, the media also listed a series of selections, which made the English media very lively. Every player was discussing who was elected and who was unfortunately defeated.

Behind this wave of selection, the Red Rebels quietly arrived in Paris, France at dusk on Monday.

(To be continued)