Chinanews Client Beijing, April 1st (Zhu Liqun) From the weak Ligue 1 team Amiens to the La Liga giants Barcelona, these days, the salary reduction camp formed by European football clubs is constantly expanding. The sudden epidemic pressed the pause button for World Sports. Although the game was temporarily suspended, the club will continue to survive. Working hard to persevere is the biggest task of different individuals in the world's sports industry today.
Barcelona officially announced that all players will be paid more than 70%.
No "source" can be opened, throttling is supreme
If there is no epidemic, the five major European leagues at this time are in the heat. The deadly fight for the title and relegation made the European football scene enter the most exciting part of the season. The European Cup and Tokyo Olympic Games, which were originally planned for this summer, will also increase the popularity of world sports.
With the heat, it is a large sum of revenue. In a highly commercialized football project, it is even more important to earn profits from the golden signboard of the game. Among them, broadcast revenue, sponsorship revenue and ticketing revenue accounted for the majority. But now that the Olympics, the European Cup and other competitions have been postponed, the five major European leagues are currently suspended, and there is no "source" for major clubs to start, and throttling has become the most direct way to maintain operations.
On the 19th, the Ligue 1 relegation team Amiens announced a 16% salary cut for all employees, kicking off the salary cut for football. Then the Spaniards where Atletico Madrid and Chinese player Wu Lei have also announced the launch of "temporary employment regulations" to reduce wages. Juventus and Barcelona have made even larger salary cuts. The former announced that the players of the entire team would give up about four months' salary, while the latter reduced their salary by as much as 70%. Bayern, which has always taken a solid course in operations, also announced a 20% salary cut for players and the board.
Under the epidemic, Barcelona and Real Madrid responded in very different ways. Data map: Barcelona and Real Madrid in the La Liga "National Derby" competition.
Real Madrid's insistence on not reducing wages is just a clear stream of football at the moment, and the commitment is also an excellent "advertising" showing the team's financial strength. However, in a complex environment, no one can predict the future. Once the league can't be restarted, even the rich and powerful teams in the family may not be able to sustain the situation of continued overdraft.
Foreign media previously reported that Barcelona's salary expenditure for the whole season in Barcelona reached 501 million euros, and the salary accounted for 59% of the income. The Serie A team's Juventus salary accounted for 71% of the income. After Juventus players give up four months of salary, the team can directly save up to 90 million euros. After Barcelona's salary cut, it could save 14 million euros per month.
Under the epidemic, regardless of the size of the club, the impact has been huge, and also has its own difficulties, but the small team does not have a relatively loose room for the big team. Sports organizations like the ITTF are also hoping to survive the difficult situation through high-level pay cuts.
Data map: The countdown of the Olympic countdown card on the streets of Tokyo restarted.
Behind the game of survival: persistence is victory
After the extension of the European Cup is confirmed, UEFA President Cheferin has revealed that this will bring losses of hundreds of millions of euros. But compared to the five major European leagues in the gap, the postponed European Cup has made up for the loss to a great extent. After all, after the event is successfully held, there will be no gain this year and it will be obtained next year.
For the five major European leagues that have been interrupted, there is now a huge crisis of cancellation. At present, there are still 10 rounds of matches in each league. In addition to the Champions League, which only came to the 1/8 finals, even if it is played in a high-density manner, it will take at least one and a half months to finish. When the current league restarts is inconclusive. After the European Cup is postponed to 2021, the next season originally scheduled to start in August is also destined to be postponed for a long time.
If the season is cancelled directly, the huge loss of broadcasting fees will follow. According to previous French media reports, French television giant Canal + has written to the French Professional Football League stating that it will not pay 110 million euros for the broadcast rights of the Ligue 1 TV. If the Premier League with a higher broadcast cost ends the season, it will lose up to 762 million pounds. Under the huge income, the current motion on when the league restarts or is cancelled is a game of survival in the epidemic.
If the Premier League is cancelled, in addition to huge economic benefits, Liverpool, who currently leads the Premier League, may also lose all of their successes. Data map: Liverpool celebrate the Champions League victory.
After the Olympic Games and the European Cup are postponed, the World Club Cup, Track and Field World Championships, Swimming World Championships, Badminton World Championships, etc., which were scheduled to be held in 2021, will also be greatly affected. For the events held in 2023, how to smooth out the subsequent fluctuations caused by the postponement of the 2020 competition is a topic facing sportsmen all over the world.
However, after all, sports are an integral part of people's lives. Under special nodes, the first postponement of the 100-year Olympic Games will also carry more meaning. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said that the Tokyo Olympics is not only a demonstration of Japan, but also a mankind's victory over the epidemic. International Olympic Committee President Bach has also said that the Tokyo Olympics will be the dawn of the dark tunnel.
The fix for the Tokyo Olympics can be considered as a heart-strengthening agent at this stage. After all, with the Olympic star, after all, the entire world sports system can use it as a coordinate to adjust. It is said that persistence is victory, and in the face of the epidemic, sports organizations that can successfully reduce expenditure and open source, and even explore a new path, will undoubtedly have more room for survival in future competition. (Finish)