At the end of August every year, fans around the world focus on the Grimalti Convention Center in Monaco.

Last year, Gao Han made an excuse to not participate because Manchester City missed the Champions League. However, this year UEFA not only sent an invitation letter, but also called the invitation in person. Gao Han really couldn't help but agree, and Manchester United coach Ferguson was also on the way.

The two first arrived in London, met Wenger, and then set off from London to Monaco.

Chelsea coach Scolari has something to do to return to Brazil this year and is unable to attend the lottery ceremony.

Walking together, the three of them never left football.

Since the Gunners were fourth in the Premier League last season, Wenger was once again nicknamed the fourth-class demon by fans, so Arsenal will play in the third round of qualifiers this season, which is just a piece of cake for Wenger and successfully advance to the group stage.

In this way, among the four Premier League teams this season, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea have entered the first level as seed teams, which is not a good thing for the other five seed teams.

The other five teams are Barcelona, ​​Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid and AC Milan.

These five teams are also feeling very stressed because according to the principle of avoiding the league in the group stage draw, Manchester City's group stage opponents will appear from these five teams, and no one wants to meet Manchester City in advance in the group stage.

But what is even more terrifying is that the second-tier teams, Real Madrid, Lyon, Werder Bremen, Valencia and Marseille, are all very strong. No matter who unfortunately draws these teams, it will definitely be a collapse.

Even if it is a little more unfortunate... it may be the Death Group.

Because of this, everyone in Europe's major giants before the game was in danger, but only the top three Premier League teams were gloating.

For Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea, as long as they can avoid Manchester City, they will be easy to sign.

The three arrived at the Grimalti Convention Center and immediately attracted the attention of many media reporters from all over the world outside the venue, but none of them stayed outside the venue and got off the car and entered the conference center directly.

In fact, there is no need to stay because they are well aware of the questions of the media reporters and must ask about the lottery. Gao Han avoids it because he does not want to respond directly to the storm of the La Liga strike.

As the attitude of the referee committee, coaching committee and the player union eased, the Spanish Football Association fell into a dilemma of isolation, but was still resisting, which forced the first round of La Liga in the new season to announce the postponement.

However, now, from the government, the Supreme Sports Council and the Professional League, to the referees, coaches and players, to the most ordinary fans, everyone attributes the reason for the strike to the greed of the Spanish Football Association, which puts the Spanish Football Association under great pressure now, and compromise should be a matter of time.

The professional league has even made harsh words. If the Spanish Football Association insists, it will not rule out the start of the game on its own. The few powers that the Football Association originally held will be completely deprived of, and they will be completely lost from then on, even worse than the FA.

Of course, this move is a way to remove the resources from the bottom of the pot, and there will be many problems. The professional league is just putting pressure on it and will definitely not do it unless it is absolutely necessary. However, this can clearly see the pressure of the Spanish Football Association.

As soon as Gao Han walked into the conference center, he saw Guardiola, Simeone and Emery at first sight.

They had been on the phone before and knew that Gao Han was about to arrive, so they stood at the entrance to block him.

"Ha, people who don't play in the league are indeed relatively leisurely."

When Gao Han saw them, he immediately laughed and greeted them, but there was a burst of teasing in his mouth.

"The main reason is that you are bigger brands and always make the finale."

"Isn't it? I couldn't even invite me last year."

"There's no way, I don't have the Champions League, how can I be embarrassed to come?"

The three of them immediately retorted, but as soon as the group met, they burst into laughter, which attracted a lot of attention from the audience.

They were either club bosses, famous European coaches, or European football celebrities. They were all well-known figures when they went out. But at this moment, they saw Gao Han’s circle, especially when they saw more and more people approaching, they couldn’t help but feel moved.

In just ten years, Gao Han jumped from an unknown man to the most influential figure in European football.

Not to mention anything else, among the four teams participating in the Champions League this season, Barcelona coach Guardiola is Gao Han's disciple, Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simone is Gao Han's former favorite player and strong recommendation, Valencia coach Unai Emery is also Gao Han's former right-hand assistant, and has deeply grasped the essence of Gao Han's tactical philosophy.

Three of the four major powerhouses are deeply influenced by Gao Han, which shows how profound the influence of Gao Han has on Spanish football.

As for the national team, not to mention, Aragones and Bosque highly praised Gao Han, who still holds the title of technical consultant of the Football Association on top of his head.

In addition to Spain, Inter Milan in Serie A and Bayern Munich in Bundesliga are also deeply influenced by Gao Han. These two teams are now one of the top teams in Europe, with amazing combat power.

Therefore, many media outside say that the past ten years of European football have been a decade of high cold, which is not an exaggeration.

Look at the venue, almost all the popular top coaches and all the club bosses, when they see Gao Han appear, they all move closer to the past, which shows Gao Han's influence in European football.

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The lottery ceremony and awards ceremony were still hosted by UEFA Secretary-General Infantino.

The bald man is familiar to all fans for hosting this annual event, and his opening every year is exactly the same, which is to introduce the main work of UEFA over the past year, especially the development of the Champions League.

For example, every time he would say that the Champions League has added broadcasts from several countries and regions, or the UEFA Champions League broadcast fees and team bonuses have increased, which are undoubtedly the concerns of many fans.

From Infantino's mouth, everyone learned that the Champions League prize money reached a new high last season, with Barcelona winning the championship with a record prize of 45 million euros, and Manchester United followed closely behind, ranking second with 42 million euros.

This is undoubtedly a pretty surprising transcript.

Ordinary fans often only pay attention to the outstanding results of the Premier League in terms of revenue generation, but ignore the continuous revenue generation of the Champions League. Although the growth rate is not as good as that of the Premier League, the pace is more stable and the momentum is also very strong.

More importantly, the Champions League is the most well-deserved platform in the professional league today.

The reason why Manchester United ranks second in the prize list is that the newly signed broadcast contract between England broadcaster Sky TV and UEFA has increased a lot compared to before, which has also increased the prize money for the Premier League, which has been assigned to four teams participating in the Champions League.

UEFA's bonus distribution in the Champions League is mainly composed of two parts, one part is market bonus, that is, the UEFA broadcasting rights income of the country where the team is located, and is distributed by participating teams in the country according to their results.

For example, the market bonus of the Premier League is the broadcasting fee of UEFA selling the broadcasting rights of the Champions League in England to Sky TV. Most of the income is directly distributed to four Premier League teams in the form of market bonuses.

Therefore, the higher the cost of selling the broadcasting rights, the more income the Champions League teams in their country will receive.

Of course, you also have to consider the number of participating teams.

Another part is the prize money for participating in the Champions League, which is the prize money for participating in the Champions League, such as the appearance fee for group matches, winning prizes and draw prizes, etc.

In fact, in addition to these two parts of the prize money, there is also a very important income from the game day and sponsor.

Compared with teams that only participate in the league, there are undoubtedly more competitions to participate in the Champions League, and the Champions League tickets are often the highest-selling, and fans and sponsors are also very willing to buy them, so the income of these two parts is also quite amazing.

According to last season's performance, Liverpool was eliminated from the group stage, but also received a prize of 27 million euros. Coupled with the game day income and sponsor income of the group stage, the total revenue is expected to be close to 40 million euros.

But this season, the Reds missed the Champions League and suffered heavy losses.

"To be honest, your Chinatown should compete for the Champions League as soon as possible."

Infantino made a long speech on stage, and Ferguson whispered to Gao Han in the audience.

Gao Han smiled bitterly when he heard this, "I said Jazz, you're not kind to say this. You just poached Mkhitaryan from me, and I said I wanted to compete for the Champions League qualification. Did you intend to?"

Guardiola and others, who were sitting next to the two, covered their mouths and laughed secretly, even Ferguson himself couldn't hold on.

"I'm just kindly reminding you that the Champions League is the key. Only by entering the Champions League can people be retained. And according to Spanish standards, the annual income of more than 30 million euros, what do you think?"

People go to high places and water flows to low places. Gao Han knows this truth very well.

"Do you know how much of our annual game day income is? It's less than a fraction of your Manchester United, so you asked me to compete for the Champions League?" Gao Han almost beat the old man to death. It's so painful to speak while standing.

"Haha, actually, he meant that you should stop coaching in the Premier League, hurry up and take your team." Wenger smiled and revealed the truth.

Ferguson nodded tacitly to his mortal enemy, as if saying, "The parents who gave birth to me, and the parents who knew me, Wenger."

"If you continue to stay in the Premier League, we have no chance." Ferguson admitted unwillingly.

"I must win a Champions League in Manchester City!" Gao Han said firmly.

After hearing this, Ferguson and others thought it was normal, and they thought that Gao Han would do this because he agreed to Mansour.

But only Gao Han knew in his heart that he was trying to complete the task of the champion collector in the coaching system, and he always felt that the reward after the task was completed would be very attractive.

And now, except for the Premier League and Ligue 1, he has completed everything.

Once the tasks of these two leagues are completed, Gao Han will seriously consider his future, because he has gradually discovered that with the rapid development of Chinatown, it is difficult for him to take into account both sides as before.

Just as everyone was talking in a low voice, Infantino on the stage finally ended his long speech.

The first was to hold the award ceremony for the best goalkeeper. Former Spanish national goalkeeper Subisareta came on stage to present the award, and the winner was Cesar, who played for Inter Milan. This was mainly because the goalkeepers Valdes and Asenjo of the two teams participating in the Champions League final failed to perform satisfactorily and stably, so Cesar won the award.

Cesar and Subizareta also drew eight seed teams to eight different groups respectively.

The best defender was followed closely. Barcelona took the lead this time. Pique won the award and presented him with the former German defender Bremer.

When Pique took over the Best Guard Award from Bremer, he began to enter the draw for the second team.
Chapter completed!