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The UK is divided into four regions: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Among them, there are nearly 4,000 football clubs in England alone.

Almost all boys have the opportunity to receive more formal football training when they were young, which shows the influence of football here.

There has been a sensation in British football recently, because Manchester United, the top Premier League giant, has changed hands.

What makes people feel infinitely longing is that at Manchester United's latest press conference, Ferguson personally confirmed the good news that Manchester United will rebuild the women's football team!

As soon as the news came out, someone immediately saw the business opportunity.

On the second day, Zhou Buqi was going to continue to do market research, explore the development direction of "Internet + football", and get the goal first. San Dezi ran over first and told the good news.

"Our women's football team has a sponsor!"

"So fast?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised.

San Dezi said: "It's Lipton Black Tea, who expressed his willingness to spend 200,000 pounds per year to sponsor the women's football team's chest jersey advertisement, and the signing is for 5 years."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was shocked, "How much? £200,000? Weekly? Monthly?"

San Dezi twitched the corner of his mouth and gave him a complicated look, "200,000 pounds per year, this is women's football."

"What happened to the women's football?"

"It's a semi-professional league."

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly, "We are Manchester United, and also a semi-professional team?"

San Dezi said: "The most powerful team in the Premier League women's football is Arsenal. They have won all the championships they can win in the past few years. They are also a semi-professional team. Except for a few players who are full-time, most of the players have their own jobs. Work. Do you know what the highest salary for Arsenal women's football is?"

"How many?"

"Twenty thousand pounds."

"After tax deduction... there are more than 500,000 pounds a year, which is not bad." Zhou Buqi quickly completed the calculation.

San Dezi couldn't laugh or cry, "Boss, this is women's football. Don't look at it from the perspective of men's football. The 20,000 pounds I said is an annual salary."

Zhou Buqi was stunned for a moment, "The highest salary for the Arsenal women's football team is 20,000 pounds per year?"

"right."

"Shocking."

"Because it is a semi-professional operation, the best European women's football league is Germany. Well, they are the champions of the past two World Cups. The German women's football league is also a standard semi-professional league, similar to the Premier League women's football."

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide, "Didn't you say that part of the women's football in the Premier League is semi-professional?"

"Really?" San Dezi was slightly taken aback, and tentatively said, "Is there something wrong with our communication? Women's football players all have a part-time job, and football games alone can't make a living. But the best women's football players are also quite For professional players, because they will work part-time in the club, either teaching children to play in the youth training echelon, or holding a job in the club, which is considered a full-time member of the team."

"Depend on!"

Zhou Buqi felt that he was a little careless.

From this point of view, the Premier League women's football team is far inferior to the domestic women's football league environment. Domestic women's football teams are all professional teams. In last year's Women's World Cup, Qiang Rose played against a foreign non-professional team as a professional team and won fifth place. Germany are champions and England are sixth.

In this case, let the domestic women's football girls come to the UK to play... This is not going to study in a high-level football league, it is clearly technical poverty alleviation.

San Dezi said seriously: "Manchester United is right to restart the women's football program. According to statistics, women's football has been the fastest-growing sport in Europe in the past few years. The Premier League women's football team also intends to promote reform and enhance competitiveness."

Zhou kept calm.

In any case, it is necessary to choose a women's football girl from China to study abroad in the UK. After he acquired Manchester United, he will inevitably be closely watched by the domestic media and fans throughout the process, and there should be some connection no matter what.

20,000 pounds... Well, that's 200,000 Huaxia coins, which is about the same as the income of professional female football players in China. From an income point of view, it seems feasible.

Zhou Buqi called David Gill directly and talked about the women's football.

David Gill is more professional. "There have been many discussions in the Premier League. Many people suggested the development of professional women's football, but we rejected it. The time is not yet ripe."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Why? Simply put."

David Gill hesitated for a moment, "It may not be polite to say this, but this is the reality. The two countries with the best development of women's football at the end of the last century are the United States and China. The United States has a women's professional football league, and your country also has a women's professional football league. , it can also be reflected in the results. But in the past few years, the American women's professional football league has been on the verge of collapse, and the women's football league in your country... Well, I think you are also clear. In contrast, the German women's football team's performance is getting better and better , their semi-professional women's football model is being rolled out across Europe."

Zhou Buqi had communicated with Zhu Jun before, and he knew some things.

The current situation of the domestic women's football league is very sad. Most of the matches are played in a fully closed environment, and spectators are not allowed to enter the field.

Why?

Because there are spectators, the event operator has to ask security to maintain order on the scene and clean the stadium. The expenditure of this money cannot be earned back by buying tickets at all. It is simply completely closed, no audience is required, and no additional expenses are required.

Against this background, Zhou Buqi believes that it is a good thing for women's football girls to play in England. Unexpectedly, it was from a professional league to a semi-professional league...

David Gill said with a smile: "We are very confident in the development of women's football. This is the fastest-growing sport in Europe. It is the right choice for Manchester United to restart the women's football project. Last year, Arsenal's women's football net earned more than 30,000 GBP."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What about the expenditure? How much does a women's football team spend?"

"It will not exceed 1 million pounds, and the salary expenditure is not much, mainly the hardware configuration. The women's team and the men's team have to enjoy the same training facilities, medical and catering services, and use the same management system."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Are there no professional women's football players?"

David Gill said: "Yes, there have been a lot of them one after another. Especially in the German Women's Football League, there have been many professional women's football players. England's women's football developed relatively late. For the time being... maybe there are, we don't know. .”

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "Manchester United must set an example!"

"Um?"

"What is the average annual income in the UK?"

"Around £30,000."

"A group of professional women's football players should appear in the Manchester United women's football team. The annual salary of professional players is not less than 100,000 pounds. In the women's football project, the annual investment can reach 3 million pounds. Not for profit, but for the brand. This is the image of Manchester United , Just like the men's football, Manchester United's women's football must also become a banner of the Premier League, and we must introduce the best female football players in the world!"

There is no way, Zhou Buqi can only do this.

Domestic female football players are all professional players. If they want to join, Manchester United women's football must be professionalized. At least there must be a group of professional female football players with sufficient ability.

Introducing the best female football players and playing the most dazzling results is very conducive to the construction of Manchester United's global brand.

Moreover, women's football may not be unable to make money!

There is no need to think about semi-professional women's football games, and the income is very limited. But you can have commercial operations, and you can operate portrait rights! For example, choose a player from the Thai women's football team to join Manchester United, and Manchester United has unimaginable influence in Southeast Asia. At that time, she can receive a large number of endorsement orders in Southeast Asia and make money for the club.

In this regard, football people are not capable and can rely on San Dezi.

Compared with the complexity of men's football, women's football is much simpler.

Because most of the women's football leagues in the world are amateur and semi-professional, and occasionally some professional players are also very low paid. As long as Manchester United gives money and provides a professional football environment, it is enough to quickly make Manchester United women's football a success.

Zhou Buqi checked it online.

In the past few years, the Miss World Footballer has been either Brazilian player Marta or German player Birgit Prinz. Among the top three are Brazilian player Christiane and German player Lennett Lingel...

Zhou Buqi pointed at the list, "Go back and tell David Gill to buy all these players! See which female football players are popular in the media and famous, buy them all if you can! For example, buy Asen The captains of the Manchester United Women's Football Team and the Liverpool Women's Football Team have also been bought and offered professional contracts... In a word, the market must be exploded! The more interesting and controversial the better, the media must pay attention to the big moves of the Manchester United Women's Football Team."

San Dezi was relatively relaxed, and said with a smile, "OK."

Women's football is easy.

Even if you go to the arch-enemy Liverpool to poach the captain of the women's football team, you can easily poach him. In this environment in Europe, only girls who are full of love for football will choose to play football. Of course, they hope to become professional players and focus on football.

The next step is the business, which is the main purpose of San Dezi's visit today.

He has already found out about the official websites of the Premier League clubs.

Zhou Buqi looked at the list.

My heart is both happy and helpless.

The most expensive official website is Arsenal, which costs more than £5 million a year to maintain. The rich teams basically have more than 4 million pounds. Teams that are inferior do not need to operate multilingual overseas official websites, just build local official websites, and the expenses will be relatively low, generally between 1 million and 1.5 million pounds.

Zhou Buqi did a simple calculation. If we look at it by domestic standards, it may cost about 1 million yuan to operate a local official website.

Other functions on the official website are simple and easy to maintain. However, online ticket booking and online sales of official jerseys and souvenirs are relatively complicated functions, requiring several powerful technical engineers.

There are 20 teams in the Premier League, and the official websites of all teams are outsourced. In total, these 20 teams spend more than 40 million pounds on official website operations every year!

In addition, there is the official website of the Premier League. This fee is even more frightening, exceeding 8 million pounds.

After reading the list, Zhou Buqi was very emotional, "I suddenly fell in love with European football."

"Um?"

San Dezi was a little puzzled.

Zhou Buqi laughed, "It's easy to steal money!"