Zhuang Mingge also came to London with the team this time. This trip to London was not just to watch the semi-finals of the Winners Cup, but he had more purposes.

While still on the plane, Zhuang Mingge followed several general managers who were traveling and got angry.

...

"I said, boss, this time the team went to England to play, there is no need to call Jane Carlo and me, right?" Kennyon said helplessly while sitting on the plane to London, "I am the general manager in charge of the club's commercial operations, and the game is not within my responsibilities."

"I said, don't you want to see how the commercialization level of the Premier League has been like in the past two years? I heard that the league is very prosperous." Zhuang Mingge smiled, turned his head, looked at Kennyon and said, "Don't you want to come and check out how English clubs carry out market development?"

"Boss, you're right." Kenyon put away his helpless expression and said seriously, "So, what aspects do you think we should start with this inspection?"

"Haha, Manager Kenyon, you should have known this aspect long ago, right? You don't have to worry about any differences between us. In fact, I am a completely amateur in market development, so I am only responsible for controlling the direction of development. Just let go of the specific things... However, before that, I really want to hear your views on the current situation of English football."

Kenny, who was smart and cautious, dared not neglect the boss's seemingly random questions. After sorting out his clues, he replied: "As the birthplace of modern football, Britain has always occupied a pivotal position in the world football, and English football is the representative of British football. However, the Heisel tragedy and the Hilzburg tragedy that shocked the world have caused their clubs to be suspended for FIFA and UEFA for five years... English football, which is far from the European football center, has declined sharply in those years, and many old English clubs have begun to decline. At the same time, due to the long-term suspension, the local outstanding players in England have been faulty, which has also implicated the performance of the English national team. The English national team, which withdrew from the top European teams, even failed to obtain the right to participate in the US World Cup last year..."

"It is because of this that the British were forced to start the Premier League?" Zhuang Mingge interrupted Kenyon's memories and asked curiously.

"Yes, in a sense, it can be said that before the Premier League was founded, English football was indeed at the end of its reach."

"Uh, so that's what it is..."

Although Zhuang Mingge had also heard reports and introductions about the various reasons why the old-fashioned British founded the Premier League before, he always regarded it as the practice of the Englishman suddenly becoming enlightened and determined to break the inherent pattern and create a new situation.

Unexpectedly, under the explanation of Kenyon, Zhuang Mingge could understand how embarrassing English football was at that time.

This is not a new situation? It is simply a revolt at the end of the road!

Thinking about the miserable situation of English football at that time, it seemed that the British, who have always claimed to be gentlemen, had the courage to burn their boats. After learning from their mistakes, they completely put down their airs and launched a new league operation model.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Mingge's brain suddenly flashed with inspiration, and he felt as if he had grasped some point.

"Kenian, your words just now gave me some inspiration. I think I have found what I should inspect when I go to London this time." Zhuang Mingge patted the general manager who had outstanding abilities beside him and said.

"Well, what, boss?"

Looking at the people who were seriously aroused by the desire for knowledge, Zhuang Mingge did not directly answer the answer he thought of when the inspiration suddenly appeared, but instead raised a question to Kenyon again:

"Do you know what's the biggest difference between Premier League companies and our Serie A professional league?"

"Well, this seems that the Italian Football League includes all the teams in Serie A and Serie B, while the Premier League only includes twenty-two teams, no, twenty teams participating in the Premier League." Antonioni thought for a while and replied.

(Note: There are 22 participating teams in the Premier League before the 94-95 season.)

However, when he saw Zhuang Mingge smiling and shook his head, he knew that his answer was not correct.

Kenyon, who had been thinking for a while on the other side, replied:

"Strictly speaking, as an organization, the Italian Football League has a relatively loose system and is more like a business management organization; while the Premier League is completely different. It is a commercial company with profit-making purposes. This company has completely broken away from the jurisdiction of the FA in terms of operation and management, achieving independent operation and self-sufficiency. Moreover, under such an organizational form, twenty Premier League teams have become a powerful whole. They are like a community of interests built with a lot of money, gathering the power of twenty fists, advocating healthy competition internally, and exhaling their anger from the outside... And Serie A, although in major leagues, is still in a leading position that no one can shake, the overall function of the league has not been fully utilized. In many cases, our Serie A teams are fighting each other, sometimes even breaking each other."

"It's right!" Zhuang Mingge agreed with Kenyon's statement. "In time, Premier League teams will definitely become the biggest opponent of our Serie A team. Unfortunately, I didn't do my best to change this."

"Boss, do you want me to report to the Italian Football Association..."

Before Antonioni finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhuang Mingge:

"Not yet, Giancarlo, don't you understand our Football Association? To the extent that they are unreliable, they can steadily rank first in Europe!"

"Then we just watched the Premier League teams catching up with Serie A bit by bit?"

"So, you're still too anxious now, Giancarlo." Zhuang Mingge was speechless about the general manager's patriotic plot, but he could understand it. "It's no point to say it. We must let all Serie A teams see the benefits of the Premier League model and unite everyone together to force the Football Association to agree to this proposal."

"Forcing? You mean..."

"If the English League One had not been at the end of the game, how could you think the FA would give up the power to control the top leagues of the country?" Zhuang Mingge felt that Antonioni had done a good job in competitive, but in some aspects, he really lacked a little wisdom. "The Serie A did not have the dilemma of England back then, and it would definitely not work if there was face-to-face negotiations."

"Uh, this is true." Antonioni also agreed with Zhuang Mingge's view.
Chapter completed!