When I met Lord Lake, the FA Chairman, it was almost midnight. The vehicles were driving on the streets, and fans were still laughing and caring around.

"Bramble, I always want to meet you, but I never have a chance." Lord Lake had white hair, a low figure and a strong spirit. Perhaps the good performance of England's team made him in a good mood.

The president of the FA has always been under a lot of pressure. Unlike Brazil, as long as he has not won the World Cup championship and won the championship, he still has to play beautifully, otherwise the whole country will feel like the end of the world.

Jing Jian smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Lord, it's mainly because I'm still in college."

"Haha." Lord Lake took out a bottle of champagne from the car refrigerator, "Get a glass?"

"certainly."

Drinking champagne, the two chatted for a while, and Lord Lake finally expressed his opinion: "Bramble, what advice do you have for the English League?"

Jing Jian understood that Lord Rick was asking about the top leagues, and the two of them would not worry about those low-level leagues: "Slowly lagging behind the mainland, it's time to change."

"Oh, can you tell me in detail?" Lord Lake was kind.

"It's still my previous view, to form a fully commercial top league, hand it over to commercial companies' experience, increase club and player income, relax foreign aid restrictions, and promote it to the world."

This period was a period of turmoil in the entire English football. There were endless football hooligan incidents, continuous stadium tragedies, clubs banned from participating in European competitions for five years, and the chaotic game system and low level, broken stadiums and high reconstruction costs caused by 22 teams to lead to financial difficulties in most clubs, and even many English players went to the European continental leagues to play football.

Sir Rick nodded slightly. Such a situation itself is not something the arrogant British are willing to see. In fact, they also want to reform, and what they are arguing about is nothing more than the specific plan for reform.

"What do you mean? The FA manages this company?" Lord Lake asked slowly.

Naturally, we talked about the most critical point, which is one of the reasons why Lord Lake was looking for Jing Jian today.

The FA is nominally led by the royal family and has royal members as the top managers. However, just like the constitutional monarchy of Britain, the royal member is actually a role of honor, and the real power is the chairman elected by the English football circle.

The FA manages all the affairs of the English Football Association. Although it is a non-profit private institution, it has the right to say everything. In particular, the wealth of football is imaginable, and it handles a huge amount of money every year, let alone the social status it brings.

It can be said that the FA was power, money and status at that time, but I didn’t expect that a reform plan has suddenly come up - the largest money tree, the top league, actually wanted to go solo? And it set up a commercial company alone, completely out of the control of the FA? How can the FA bear this?

However, this plan has received support from almost all major clubs and put increasing pressure on the FA. At this moment, Lord Lake couldn't sit still. He took this opportunity to find Jing Jian, who proposed this plan first, and... Is everything easy to talk about?

Of course, Jing Jian heard the trap in Lord Rick's words. He smiled slightly: "I personally have no intention of depriving the FA of management functions, but the operating rights must be operated independently by a separate company."

On the issue of principle, Jing Jian will never give in. He has invested so much in Portsmouth, just waiting for the club to increase significantly after the establishment of the Premier League. How could he change his mind because of some small profits? Of course, it would be fine to give you the rights of some disciplinary committees or referee committees of the FA.

"Haha, Bramble, British football is a whole, and low-level leagues are equally important. If it is not for the leaning of funds, many low-level clubs will not survive. And this is our tradition, which you may find difficult to understand." Lord Lake is still very graceful, polite, and calm.

Does Lord Rick's words make sense? Of course, it makes sense. A large part of the role of the national football associations is to take out part of the income obtained from professional leagues and invest in youth training systems and low-level leagues that have basically no output.

This is actually very important! The youth training system and low-level leagues can continuously cultivate and emerge good seedlings. For example, at that time, outstanding young players from China Jianlibao team came to a training camp, but the entire youth training system was completely destroyed. It was simply to have a good time and die of pleasure. Not to mention, even in Jianlibao team, there were not many stars who were in the national team later.

Okay, let’s not mention Chinese football, it’s just a breeze. Faced with Lord Rick’s persuasion, Jing Jian shook his head and smiled: “Sorry, maybe it’s because he is in a different position. If a part of the profit of the commercial company supports the youth training program, I won’t object to this, but I must operate independently.”

Jing Jian’s attitude is quite firm. It’s okay to give you some money when we make money, but it’s absolutely impossible to get confused.

The problem with English football is quite serious. Their league is divided into nine levels, and there are also saying that it is ten levels or eleven levels. This shows how chaotic it is. Moreover, the four highest levels are professional leagues, with nearly 100 teams, and the cost has been tilted all the time, which has led to excessive blood draws in the top league.

In fact, just by analogy, Germany and France should have more populations than England (This is England, not Britain)? Are their leagues of all levels so exaggerated? There are only two to three professional leagues, and a few semi-professional or amateur leagues below, and there are still many youth training systems across the country, and there are even more stars emerging than England. You must know that everything has a certain degree. If you rob the rich and help the poor, it will lead to the top league being pulled into the water.

Among them, the most unbearable thing is broadcasting fees and sponsorship fees. Now the FA is adopting bundled sales, but who will watch those low-level leagues? Who will broadcast them? Although the low-level leagues also have less money, they cannot withstand the huge amount? It is equivalent to the top leagues being subsidized by inexplicably.

Seeing that the conversation was deadlocked, Rick was about to go over vaguely: "Okay then! Let's consider it after we go back and find an opportunity to communicate later."

Jing Jian's attitude was aggressive: "Unlimited discussions will only waste time and will only make English football sink step by step. I think there should be a deadline. Just use this season as the negotiation deadline! If no agreement is reached, I will contact other clubs, withdraw from the English League next season and form my own Super League!"
Chapter completed!