The Era of Emerald

() During the seven-hour long-distance flight, in addition to hurrying up to beat the jet lag, Zhuang Mingge once again went through the "Bosman Act" in his memory during this time, which was more like doing nothing.

The Bosman Act mainly consists of the following two items:

First, natural human rights - after the contract with the original club expires, the player's status will become a free player, and all personal rights belong to the player himself;

Second, free labor rights-on the basis of natural human rights, players have the right to transfer freely when the contract expires, and there is no need to pay any transfer fees for this.

When communicating with Antonioni on the phone, Zhuang Minge confirmed the content of the Bosman Act, which was born half a year ahead of schedule. The above-mentioned contents have not changed due to the "advance" of the bill.

Although Zhuang Mingge was also caught off guard by this "big event" that arrived ahead of schedule, unlike those who were completely unprepared for this big football event, as a time traveler, Zhuang Mingge has an incomparable advantage over others , that is his vision.

Knowing the development direction of football in the future, he sees the depth of this big event, which is beyond the reach of others.

What impact will the emergence of the Bosman Act have on European and even world football?When the division of football forces under the old system was in chaos under the impact of Bosman, Zhuang Mingge had already begun to rethink this question that he had thought about countless times in his mind.

Now, this problem can be divided into two aspects, one is the inherent development from Zhuang Mingge's memory, and the other is the unexpected variables brought about by the early appearance of the bill.

The impact on the memory level should not change too much. For the entire football world, especially the transfer market, the emergence of the bill will make the entire market prosperous like never before.Under the new rules, teams will compete more intensely for a favorite player.

As far as leagues and clubs are concerned, the gap between the top leagues of various countries will become more and more obvious, and the gap between rich and poor among clubs will also be further widened.The club unscrupulously introduced EU players, and used the precious foreign aid places wisely.As a result, many giants have become "international columns", and the "Galaxy Fleet", which was impossible to appear before, will also appear in international football in the near future.And after the only obstacle that prevented clubs from introducing players to transfer was abolished, Europe immediately fell into a crazy era!

Player transfer fee records have been continuously broken since the emergence of the Bosman Act, because those wealthy clubs can give full play to their financial resources to poach the players they want from other leagues, while those small clubs that are unable to resist can only Get as much transfer fee as possible from the deal to make up for their losses.

Before Bosman, the transfer fee record in world football was still $92 million created by Lentini in 1750. After the Bosman Act, the transfer fee record in international football was broken almost every year. In the summer of 2000, the transfer fee record was broken twice in just one summer!

For players, the emergence of the Bosman Act will greatly change their status as "commodities" in the past, and their wages will rise to unprecedented heights in the future.Before the Bosman Act, as the top shooter in the English league, Ian Rush's weekly salary was only 5000 pounds; and now in order to retain the core players of the team, the club has to increase the salary of the players, and the players are It is becoming more and more common in Europe for transfers to threaten clubs to raise their salaries. By the time Zhuang Mingge traveled through time, there were no less than ten people with a weekly salary of 20...

Finally, there are agents and brokerage companies. They will also become the new masters under the new rules, and they will dominate the football world, such as Mendes and Raiola later.

If the sudden "Bosman Shockwave" had only these consequences in memory, then there was no need for Zhuang Mingge to rush back to Europe in a hurry.

On the one hand, Bosman originally sued his "old club" Standard Lie, just hoping that the court would rule that the current "compensated transfer system" is illegal Transfer), probably as he himself said in an interview later: "I can't realize at all what impact this judgment will have on European football!"

After things got serious.The European Court of Justice made additional rulings with more content, especially the fatal clause of "removing the limit on foreign aid quotas within the EU", which is completely an additional product of Bosman's appeal process.

According to Zhuang Mingge's original idea, even if this fatal clause is introduced, its deterrent effect will not affect European football for a while.Because according to the development in memory, under UEFA's stubborn resistance, the Bosman Act really came into effect, and it will be delayed until the winter transfer period of 96; The players who will play will have to wait until the 95-96 season is completely over...

In fact, Zhuang Mingge also knows that most of the impact of the Bosman shock wave has a lagging nature. Those are all easy to say, but there is only one most direct shock that is difficult to avoid-that is, when the new law takes effect, A sudden and strong impact on the transfer market.

In memory, due to force majeure reasons such as UEFA's tenacious resistance and the postponement of the opening time of the transfer market, some people have made certain psychological preparations in this regard.

Zhuang Mingge also put such a psychological expectation into next year, but such a beautiful idea was completely shattered by the European Court of Justice—since the European Court of Justice made the final judgment in July of 95 instead of the ten years in memory. In February, how long can UEFA, which seems to have a tough attitude, be able to resist in this situation?

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"Giancarlo (Antonioni), how's the situation?" After getting off the plane, Zhuang Mingge rushed back to the headquarters in Florence and found Antonioni who was handling official business.

If UEFA resists, then Fiorentina can stand still; if not, then they can take some measures in advance...

"UEFA made a public response today. They also brought in FIFA and held a press conference in Bern, Switzerland, claiming that they will resolutely resist the judgment of the European Court of Justice." Antonioni replied, "But in my opinion Come on, UEFA may not be able to stand up for a long time, after all, its status as a non-governmental organization cannot oppose the official laws of the European Union."

"Hehe, it's the same as I thought, let's see how long UEFA can last." Zhuang Mingge said with a smile, "When UEFA announces its surrender, it will be a great opportunity for us to act in Florence!"

The development of the matter was as expected by Zhuang Mingge. On July 7th, Baron Camille Van Meter, the European Commissioner for Competition and Strategy, reiterated on behalf of the European Union: "Football is an economic activity and should be subject to the European Union's internal market regulations. Only by complying with the relevant regulations of the European Union can it be regarded as a legal economic activity.”

He also issued an ultimatum to UEFA, which was trying to resist to the end, demanding that "UEFA and its relevant member states must accept all judgments and rulings of the European Court of Justice in the Bosman case within a week."

Under the double pressure of the European Union and the European Court of Justice, UEFA finally officially announced that it had given up its resistance and accepted all the terms of the Bosman Act a week later, that is, on July 7st.

"For Florence, this is the best time." Sitting on the plane to the Netherlands, Zhuang Mingge said to Karin.