Zhang Yuan's eyes lit up. "President Pei, please tell me more!"

Pei Qian took a sip of tea, organizing his thoughts.

"First, we must provide all clubs and players with a unified standard contract, and strictly prohibit any yin-yang contracts."

"The standard contract allows for both short-term and long-term agreements, but can only stipulate basic content such as contract duration, breach of contract penalties, transfer fees, and salaries. It cannot add any messy clauses to restrict players."

"In particular, there cannot be any very vague clauses, such as 'Players must unconditionally cooperate with the club's commercial operations.' This must be explicitly prohibited."

"It's fine for clubs to carry out commercial operations, but they must be under our supervision. They cannot be unrestrained or exploit players."

"Secondly, during each year's transfer window, clubs and free agent players can freely contact each other and make promises, but they cannot sign contracts privately. Before signing, we will arrange for each club to bid uniformly for free agent players through a blind auction."

"During the blind auction, each club will first send out an indication of interest, clearly stating the desired contract duration, breach of contract penalties, salary, and additional special treatment, such as guaranteeing the player's playing time."

"Once the intention is confirmed during the blind auction, the player will choose which team to join, and a formal contract will be signed if both parties agree. The promises made during the blind auction must be kept by the club and cannot be reneged on. We will be responsible for supervision."

"Finally, in the event of a dispute, both parties must accept our mediation. We will act as intermediaries, allowing players and clubs to each take a step back and choose a solution acceptable to all three parties."

"Based on these principles, our DGE club will only absorb free agent players. If a player leaves while still under contract, the transfer fee or breach of contract penalty will be paid according to the minimum standard."

Zhang Yuan was stunned. "President Pei, isn't this a bit idealistic? Is it really feasible?"

"What if the clubs don't accept our standard contract? Or sign yin-yang contracts privately?"

"What if a club confirms its intention and then goes back on its word?"

"The contracts signed between clubs and players have legal effect. Once a dispute arises, the club can completely bypass us and sue the player. We can't control that."

Pei Qian smiled slightly. "That's easy to handle."

"We will agree with these clubs in black and white from the very beginning that if they violate the rules, they will be fined for minor offenses and banned for serious offenses."

"If these clubs don't accept our supervision, they won't be eligible for the GOG league. If they want to withdraw, that's fine too. We will act as intermediaries to buy their GOG division and sell it to other clubs interested in joining the GOG league."

In other words, you can choose not to accept our unified management, and we just won't play with you.

You can go play other esports projects if you want. I'll pay to buy your GOG division and sell it to someone else, so you won't suffer any substantial losses. But as long as you don't agree to supervision, don't even think about entering this circle.

As for why Pei Qian wanted to establish such rules, it was mainly based on three considerations.

First, only a unified standard contract, without yin-yang contracts and various additional clauses, can prevent clubs from playing tricks.

Many clubs offer sky-high contracts, but they aren't really sky-high prices. There are many tricks involved.

For example, a common phenomenon is that clubs cooperate with live streaming platforms, each contributing a portion of the money, but in reality, they have requirements for the player's live streaming, which is overdrafting the player's future commercial value.

Players seem to be earning money on the surface, but they may not actually be earning it.

But in this way, the transfer fee is actually raised, and DGE club will earn more money for each player sold than before, which is too uncomfortable.

Therefore, everyone should have less tricks and more sincerity. Raising the transfer fee so high just sounds good, but it's actually meaningless.

In addition, DGE club only stipulates the minimum transfer fee, which minimizes the amount of money that DGE club earns from transfer fees.

Secondly, establishing such a regulatory agency requires hiring a large number of personnel, and daily operating expenses are a cost. At the same time, these diverse regulatory rules will definitely have a deterrent effect on some clubs.

If a club doesn't accept it and wants to withdraw, that's fine too. Pei Qian will pay to buy their GOG division, so they won't suffer any losses. I'll make up for all your investment.

But once you leave, it won't be so easy to come back.

Buying these clubs will cost another sum of money, which Pei Qian is eager to do.

Finally, Pei Qian also has some ideas about regulating the industry and protecting the rights and interests of players.

Without higher-level supervision, it is impossible to establish an equal relationship between players and clubs, because the right to speak is not on the same level at all.

Just like ordinary workers facing a company, they often can only vote with their feet and choose the least bad company, but they don't actually have the ability to negotiate with the company.

Only a very small number of particularly outstanding and completely irreplaceable people have the ability to negotiate.

When the strengths of the two sides are unequal, if the official doesn't act and remains absolutely neutral, it is actually favoring one side.

It's like a boxing champion fighting an ordinary person. If a third party is absolutely neutral and doesn't interfere when neither side is clearly at fault, it is actually letting the ordinary person die.

Therefore, Pei Qian's regulatory agency will objectively protect the rights of players, but it will not exploit clubs. It will only prevent clubs from being greedy and excessively exploiting players.

Clubs will receive all the transfer fees and breach of contract penalties they deserve, and they will have all the commercial contracts, popularity, and influence they deserve. They just can't exploit loopholes and do whatever they want.

Pei Qian certainly recognizes the spirit of contract, but there are two prerequisites: first, the contract itself must be fair, not an overbearing clause or a slave contract, and it cannot be based on one party exploiting the other; second, the spirit of contract does not mean that the contract can never be violated, but that the violating party is willing to bear the corresponding consequences.

In short, such regulations will allow DGE club to earn less transfer fees, and can also deter some club capital. After these clubs withdraw, buying their entire GOG division can cost another sum of money. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Moreover, the daily operation of this new regulatory agency also requires money. It's good to hire more people and support them, and it's good to pay a little more salary.

Zhang Yuan had already taken out two pieces of paper and quickly recorded what President Pei had said earlier.

But after carefully browsing these clauses, he felt a little unsure.

Will it work?

It seems that no major league in the world has done this.

The reason is simple: they don't dare or are unwilling to break up with big clubs.

Big clubs bring fans, popularity, and funds to the league. To be fair, the popularity of a certain event is the result of the joint efforts of the organizers, sponsors, clubs, professional players, and audiences. Problems will arise if any link is missing.

Therefore, even if the organizers have this ability, they are often unwilling to offend these big clubs. Even if a certain club actually exploits players, as long as it is not too excessive and causes public outrage, most of the time, they will each take fifty strokes and settle the matter peacefully.

After all, in most cases, a player is replaceable and expendable, while the loss caused by the departure of a big club is difficult to compensate.

However, the regulations given by President Pei are really not friendly to clubs, and some clubs will definitely be unhappy.

And the result of unhappiness can only be parting ways, because President Pei has never been a person who compromises.

It can be vaguely guessed from President Pei's attitude that he doesn't seem to care about the resources controlled by these clubs!

Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment and said, "President Pei, emotionally speaking, I support supervising the league. After all, there are no rules, no circle. Only when the league is standardized can healthy competition be formed."

"However, our adoption of such strict control measures will definitely deter many clubs. Compared with the losses and gains... is it worth it?"

"If the clubs are deterred, the funds, popularity, attention, etc. of the entire league may be affected. What if most of the veteran clubs leave? What if the losses we bear are far greater than the gains?"

Pei Qian smiled. "Of course it's worth it."

Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "Okay."

Since President Pei is so sure, he must have seen more long-term things, so Zhang Yuan didn't ask any more questions.

"Then, President Pei, what is the name of this new regulatory department?" Zhang Yuan asked.

Pei Qian thought for a while. "Let's call it the Esports Division. It's a good opportunity to get the GOG professional league, GPL, up and running."

"The current few clubs can get priority access, but the premise is that they must accept our conditions and accept supervision."

"As for how to arrange the specific schedule, we will consider it after the new department is established."

Zhang Yuan nodded. "Okay, President Pei."

After seeing President Pei off, Zhang Yuan returned to the conference room and read the contents he had recorded earlier from beginning to end, wanting to deduce the deep meaning of President Pei's actions.

Now, the biggest confusion for Zhang Yuan is President Pei's phrase, "Of course it's worth it."

For the current esports industry, the first priority is definitely to make the pie bigger.

Although the GOG Global Invitational Tournament has achieved good popularity, everyone can see that this event obviously has a lot of room for improvement.

There is still a lot of potential in the future.

President Pei also said that he wants to start the GOG professional league, GPL, which is obviously also to make the esports pie bigger.

But the problem is that using such strict regulatory conditions to restrict clubs is obviously contrary to this goal to some extent.

How did President Pei make the trade-off?

Zhang Yuan began to seriously analyze each requirement put forward by President Pei.