Little World Cup

Among the Top Five Leagues, aside from the Bundesliga starting a little later, the rest had all finished their first rounds and made their appearances.

And after the first round, the Premier League had thoroughly cemented one title for itself: the Little World Cup.

This summer, the Premier League had spent money lavishly enough to make the entire global football world green with envy.

But once the money had been poured in, the results had been immediate.

In the first round of league matches, the Premier League's global viewing figures set a new all-time record.

More than two hundred countries and regions around the world broadcast Premier League matches.

In the first round alone, total global viewership exceeded one billion.

That figure had surged by nearly forty percent compared with the same period last year.

The Premier League's broadcasting revenue had already been astronomical last season. This new season could only be described as insane.

Its three-year domestic broadcasting rights deal had sold for 5.1 billion pounds, while overseas rights had risen in value as well, bringing the total to more than eight billion pounds.

What did eight billion pounds mean?

The combined annual broadcasting revenues of Serie A, La Liga, and Ligue 1 might not even add up to that much.

And this was only the beginning.

The Premier League Alliance executives had been grinning so much these past few days that their faces were practically splitting.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two unrivaled giants of their era, had arrived in the Premier League in the same year.

One had donned Chelsea blue, while the other had returned to Manchester United.

For a league to land even one marquee superstar of that caliber would be enough to make it laugh in its dreams.

The Premier League had brought in