Zhang Yuan couldn't help but his eyes lit up: "Mr. Pei, please tell me, I'd like to hear the details!"
Pei Qian took a sip of tea and sorted out his thoughts.
"First of all, we must provide a unified standard contract for all clubs and players, and at the same time strictly prohibit any yin and yang contracts."
"Standard contracts allow short-term contracts as well. When signing a long-term contract, you can only agree on the basic contents such as contract time, liquidated damages, transfer fees and salary, and you cannot add some messy clauses to restrict the players."
"Especially there should be no very vague terms. Clauses, such as 'The players must unconditionally cooperate with the club in its commercial operations', etc., must be clearly prohibited."
"It's okay for the club to conduct commercial operations, but it must be under our supervision and cannot be ignored. There is no restraint, let alone squeezing players."
"Secondly, during the transfer period every year, clubs and free agents can freely contact and make commitments, but they cannot sign contracts privately. We will arrange for each club to conduct a unified bid for free agent players through a secret auction."
"During the secret auction, each club will first send out its intention and clearly indicate the preferred contract time, liquidated damages, and salary. , additional special treatment, such as promised playing time for the players, etc.”
“Once the intention is confirmed during the secret shooting, the players will be allowed to choose which team they want to go to. If both parties agree, a formal contract will be signed. . As for the promises made during the secret shooting, the club must abide by it and we will be responsible for supervision.”
“Finally, when a dispute occurs, both parties must accept our mediation, and we will be the intermediary between the players and the club. Each side takes a step back and chooses a plan acceptable to all three parties. "
"Based on these principles, our DGE club will only absorb players who are free agents. If the players are still within the contract period when they leave, they will be exempted. Pay the transfer fee or liquidated damages according to the minimum standard."
Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment: "Mr. Pei, isn't this a bit idealistic?"
"What if the club doesn't accept our standard contract? Or what if they sign a Yin-Yang contract privately?"
"What if the club regrets it after confirming its intention?"
"The club The contract signed with the players has legal effect. If a dispute arises, the club can completely bypass us and file a lawsuit with the players. We have no control over this." Pei Qian smiled slightly: "This is easy to handle. ”
“We made an agreement in black and white with these clubs from the beginning. If they violate the rules, they will be fined and banned from the competition.”
“If these clubs do not accept our offer. If you want to withdraw from the GOG League, we will act as an intermediary to buy out their GOG division and sell it to other clubs interested in entering the GOG League.”
In other words, it’s okay if you don’t accept our unified management, then I won’tI took you to play.
If you want to play other e-sports projects, go ahead. I will also pay for your GOG branch and sell it to others, so that you will not suffer any substantial losses, but as long as you do not agree to the supervision, Don't even think about entering this circle.
As for why Pei Qian formulated such rules, it was mainly due to three considerations.
First of all, there is only a unified standard contract, without yin and yang contracts and various additional clauses, allowing the club to do some tricks.
Many clubs offer sky-high contracts, but they are not really sky-high prices. There are many tricks in them.
For example, one of the most common phenomena is that the club cooperates with the live broadcast platform and each contributes a part of the money, but in fact it requires the players to live broadcast, which overdraws the future commercial value of the players.
On the surface, the players make money, but they may not actually make money.
But as a result, the transfer fee has really increased. At that time, the DGE club will get more money than before for every player sold, which is too uncomfortable.
So, everyone should be less clichéd and more sincere. Raising the transfer fee so high just sounds good, but is actually meaningless.
In addition, the DGE club only agreed on a minimum transfer fee, which allowed the DGE club to make as little money as possible from the transfer fee.
Secondly, establishing such a regulatory agency requires recruiting a large number of personnel, and daily operating expenses are an expense; at the same time, these various regulatory regulations will definitely have the effect of dissuading some clubs.
If there is a club that doesn’t accept it and wants to withdraw, that’s easy to do. Pei Qian will pay to buy their GOG branch without letting them suffer. I will make up for your investment. superior.
But it’s not that easy to come back after you leave.
Buying these clubs will cost another sum of money, which Pei Qian can only dream of.
Finally, Pei Qian does have some ideas to regulate the industry and protect the rights of players.
If there is no higher-level supervision, it will never be possible to establish an equal relationship between players and clubs, because the right to speak is not at the same level at all.
Just like ordinary wage earners, when facing a company, many times they can only vote with their feet and choose the least bad company, but in fact they do not have the ability to negotiate with the company. .
Only a very small number of particularly outstanding and completely irreplaceable people have bargaining power.
When the strength of the two sides is not equal, if the official does not act and remains absolutely neutral, it is actually tantamount to being biased.
Just like a boxing champion fighting an ordinary person, on the premise that neither party is clearly at fault, the third party is absolutely neutral and does not care, which is in fact letting the ordinary person die.
Therefore, Pei Qian’s regulatory agency will objectively protect the rights of players, but it will not exploit the clubs. It just tells the clubs not to be greedy and not to exploit excessively.player.
The club should receive every penny in transfer fees and liquidated damages, and it should have the commercial contracts, popularity and influence it deserves, but it can't take advantage of loopholes to do whatever it wants.
Of course Pei Qian recognizes the spirit of the contract, but there are two prerequisites for this: First, the contract itself must be fair, it cannot be an overlord clause, a slave contract, or it cannot be based on one party's exploitation of the other party ; Second, the spirit of the contract does not mean that the contract must not be violated, but that the contract is willing to bear the corresponding consequences after violation.
In short, such regulations allow DGE clubs to earn less transfer fees, and can persuade them to withdraw part of the club's capital. After these clubs withdraw, they can spend a sum of money to buy their entire GOG division. Wouldn't it be nice? ?
Moreover, the daily operation of this new regulatory agency also requires money. It would be good to recruit more people to support it, and it would be better to pay more wages.
Zhang Yuan had already taken two pieces of paper and quickly recorded what Mr. Pei had said before.
I just browsed these terms carefully, but I felt a little unsure.
Is it possible?
No major league in the world seems to do this.
The reason is also very simple. I am afraid or unwilling to break up with the big clubs.
Big clubs bring fans, popularity and funds to the league. To be fair, the popularity of a certain event must be the result of the joint efforts of the organizer, sponsors, clubs, professional players and audiences. What link is missing? Everything will go wrong.
So in many cases, even if the organizers have the ability, they are not willing to offend these big clubs. Even if a certain club actually squeezes the players, as long as they don't go too far and cause anger and resentment, most of them will be responsible. Hit the fifty big board and put things to rest.
After all, in most cases, a player is replaceable and expendable, and the loss caused by the departure of a big club is difficult to make up for.
But this rule given by Mr. Pei is really not very friendly to the clubs, and there must be some clubs that are not happy with it.
The unhappy result can only be to part ways and break up, because Mr. Pei has never been a person who can compromise.
It can be vaguely guessed from Mr. Pei’s attitude that he really doesn’t seem to care about the resources these clubs have!
Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment and said: "Mr. Pei, from an emotional point of view, I support the supervision of the league. After all, there is no rule without rules. Only when the league is formal can healthy competition be formed."
"However, if we adopt such strict control measures, many clubs will definitely be persuaded to quit. If the losses are compared with the gains...is it cost-effective?"
"If a club is persuaded to quit, the entire club will be forced to quit. The league's funding, popularity, attention, etc. may all be affected. If more than half of the established clubs leave, what will we do if the losses we suffer far outweigh the gains?" Pei Qian laughed: "Of course. A good deal."
Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment and clicked.Nodding: "Okay."
Since Mr. Pei is so sure, he must have seen more long-term things, so Zhang Yuan stopped asking any more questions.
"So Mr. Pei, what is the name of this new regulatory department?" Zhang Yuan asked.
Pei Qian thought for a while: "Let's call it the e-sports division. We can also take this opportunity to launch GOG's professional league GPL."
"The current Several clubs can get access first, but they must accept our conditions and accept supervision."
"As for the specific schedule, we will consider it after the new department is established."< /p>
Zhang Yuan nodded: "Okay, Mr. Pei."
After sending Mr. Pei away, Zhang Yuan returned to the conference room again and wrote down the contents he had written down from beginning to end. After reading it again, I wanted to deduce the deeper meaning of Mr. Pei's move.
For Zhang Yuan now, his biggest confusion is Mr. Pei's words "Of course it's a good deal."
For the current e-sports industry, the first priority must be to make the market bigger.
Although the GOG Global Invitational Tournament has achieved good popularity, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this event obviously still has a lot of room for improvement.
There is still a lot of potential for the future.
Mr. Pei also said that if GOG’s professional league GPL is to be launched, it is obviously also to expand the e-sports market.
But the problem is that restricting clubs with such strict regulatory conditions obviously runs counter to this goal to some extent.
How did Mr. Pei choose?
Zhang Yuan began to carefully analyze every request made by Mr. Pei.