Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1629 Business Visiting Group

Today, as globalization becomes more and more popular, an economic crisis in a single region can trigger a worldwide financial disaster. This is the case with the subprime mortgage crisis. If the European debt crisis is not handled properly, it will end in the same way.

The whole world is watching.

Developed countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland are trying to find ways to contribute money and cooperate with the European Union to borrow money from Greece, and the central banks of various countries are also promoting currency exchange policies to jointly bear financial risks.

In this regard, domestic strength is slightly weaker.

If the government can't get through, then go to private forces.

The Entrepreneur Club took action, led by Mr. Liu himself, and brought a group of people to the EU for business exchanges and friendly visits at the private enterprise level, with the intention of strengthening China-EU cooperation.

France has also prepared a "World Entrepreneur" award, which will be awarded to Boss Liu.The previous winner was Kazuo Inamori, a legendary Japanese businessman.

Zhou Buqi also received the invitation, but he did not go to France immediately.

It wasn't him who received the award, but he made it difficult for the French to pass by.

Moreover, he still has to watch the Champions League final!

On May 5, the 13-09 UEFA Champions League final kicked off at the Bernabéu Stadium. The two sides were Inter Milan, which had already won the Serie A championship, and Manchester United, which had already won the Premier League championship.

In this game, Manchester United formed the strongest lineup, Robben also returned from injury and returned to the starting lineup.

On the front line, there is the strongest trident combination of Bell, Rooney and Robben.

The atmosphere at the Bernabéu is great.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the infrastructure in this stadium is a level better than Old Trafford.Fortunately, the season is over, and Manchester United has launched a stadium renovation plan.

This year's renovation project is mainly to strengthen and expand the South Stand.

The expected construction period will reach 5 months, and it may not be completed until November.After the completion of the project, the capacity of the Old Trafford Stadium will exceed that of the Bernabeu, which can accommodate 11 people.After completion, it is expected to bring Manchester United an additional £8.8 million in ticket sales per year.

The cost of the project is also extremely expensive, possibly reaching £6000 million.

The money is nothing to Manchester United.

Zhou Buqi has already seen Manchester United's unaudited financial report for this season, and the profit is likely to reach a new high!

Last season, Manchester United won three consecutive Premier League titles and reached the final of the Champions League. The net profit reached a staggering 9100 million pounds.This season is even more exaggerated, with revenue exceeding 4 million pounds and gross profit reaching 1.4 million pounds.

This is largely due to the business reforms carried out by boss Zhou for Manchester United, as well as the income from the newly introduced player blind box project.

Because this season’s signings cost too much, even if a large part is paid in installments, 5000 million pounds of this part of the signings will be apportioned to this season’s bill... That is to say, even if this season spends 1.5 million pounds successively Buying players such as Robben, Van Persie, Yaya Toure, Ram, Barnes in the market cannot stop the fact that Manchester United has a strong ability to make money.

This season, Manchester United's net profit is likely to reach 9300 million pounds.

Currently, Manchester United has as much as 1.9 million pounds of cash flow on its books.

From this point of view, after deducting the construction fee of 6000 million pounds and setting aside 1 million pounds of liquidity for next season, Manchester United can at least have a net transfer budget of 3000 million pounds this summer.

This is still under the condition that boss Zhou will not personally inject capital.

After reading Manchester United's financial report, Zhou Buqi was very emotional.

Football doesn't make money, but Manchester United does.

In the previous life, Manchester United was really cheated by the Glazer family. Every season, they had to spend 6000-7000 million pounds to pay the interest of the leveraged buyout.If there is still a balance, a part of the profit will be used to repay the principal of the loan.

In this life, Zhou Buqi saved Manchester United.

And Manchester United's performance in all aspects did not disappoint him.

In the Champions League final, Manchester United showed the background of a wealthy team, suppressing the audience, and launched attacks again and again around the half of Inter Milan.

The offensive is raging.

However, there are no weak teams in the Champions League final.

Mourinho's team has a strong willpower, and their defense is impeccable.In the semi-final against "Cosmos" Barcelona, ​​they won.In the final, they once again adopted a defensive and counterattack strategy, and the whole team was full of confidence.

In the first half, Manchester United attacked and Inter Milan defended, the score was 0:0.

In the second half, Manchester United continued to attack, while Inter Milan remained defensive.

Then, something happened.

Inter steals the ball from the backcourt and counterattacks directly with a long pass. Milito directly forms a semi-single shot, dunks the defender and shoots, and hits directly! 1:0, a goal!

Leading the way is Inter Milan.

After conceding the ball, Manchester United's offensive became more fierce, and the defense space was larger. Inter Milan seized the opportunity again, counterattacked again, and Milito shot neatly again.

2: 0!

There are still 20 minutes left in the game, and Inter Milan has almost sealed the victory!

No way, really no way.

In this world, no one can break through the iron barrel formation of this team.Among the Mesozoic coaches in today's football, Guardiola and Mourinho are the emperors of the South and the beggars of the North.

Guardiola breathless with a desperate offensive, Mourinho breathless with a desperate defense.

miserable.

In last year's Champions League final, Manchester United lost at the feet of the stormy Barcelona.In this year's Champions League final, Manchester United may be defeated by Inter Milan, who is defending the iron gate.

At this moment, fans all over the world finally felt a sense of trance, Ferguson was getting old.In front of the excellent coaches of the new generation, he is powerless.

In terms of team lineup strength, Manchester United may not be as good as Barcelona, ​​but it is definitely better than Inter Milan.But it's useless, this is Mu Niao's peak period, no one can stop him.

Sure enough, the 2:0 score was maintained until the end, and Manchester United finished second in the Champions League for the second consecutive season.

Morale on Manchester United's side is a bit low.

Zhou Buqi went to the hotel to encourage everyone, and hope everyone cheers up, there has never been a loser in the finals.In this game, Manchester United played much better than their opponents, besieging the audience, but lacked a little luck.

Don't be discouraged, keep going!
Ferguson talked to Boss Zhou alone, "I will not retire."

Zhou Buqi breathed a sigh of relief, "This is the only thing I'm happy about today."

Ferguson said loudly: "I know your pressure, don't worry, I will definitely win a Champions League trophy for you!"

"Thank you."

Zhou Buqi expressed his thanks.

Things are more complicated here.

The timing of Zhou Buqi's acquisition of Manchester United was embarrassing, and it was chosen in 2008.That year, under the leadership of the Glazer family, Manchester United won the Champions League.

After Zhou Buqi took over Manchester United, Manchester United lost in the finals for two consecutive seasons.

At first glance, it seems that Boss Zhou is not as good as Glazer!

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What's the problem with the lineup?"

Ferguson felt that he had never been so rich in his life, and said with a smile: "Very good, this is a very good team, many young people are still growing, and they play together for a relatively short time. Keep the current lineup and don't have For big moves, it’s good to reinforce individual positions.”

"Which location?"

"Goalkeeper."

"Well, Van der Sar is 40 years old, right?"

Ferguson said: "Yes, he will retire for one more season at most. At this age, the speed of movement will decrease and injuries will increase."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "No problem, goalkeeper! Well...then let's pay attention to the World Cup in summer, and buy good goalkeepers. As long as the players are good, don't be afraid to spend money."

The past few bosses of Manchester United were actually very stingy, otherwise Ferguson's coaching career resume could be more brilliant.

In 2005, Manchester United's goalkeeper position was short, but Ferguson's budget was only 200 million pounds.In desperation, Ferguson could only buy the 34-year-old veteran Van der Sar, and let him usher in the second spring of his career.

After the game, Zhou Buqi's plane went to Munich.

The Entrepreneur Club team has gone to Germany.

The Sino-German Entrepreneurs Roundtable was launched, visited the Potsdam Innovation Center of the SAP Group, and participated in the establishment ceremony and dinner of the Sino-German cultural exchange project...

On the second day, there were many activities, including a salon on the historical relationship between China and Germany, a luncheon at the embassy, ​​and a visit to the Bayern Munich club.

Stayed in Germany for two days, then went to the EU headquarters in Belgium.

Zhou Buqi is not a high-level executive of the Entrepreneur Club, so he is not very clear about some things, and he is not interested in inquiring about them. He just thinks that Boss Liu is leading the team, and he can follow along.

But after participating in it, I gradually tasted it, and it was not quite right.

Boss Liu is only in name, using his brand name and overseas popularity to build relationships and do some practical things. It is Boss Ma who is really running big things underneath.

There are three famous presidents in China, Ali and Penguin are private entrepreneurs.The other one is very powerful, Mr. Ma of China Merchants Bank, this is the official representative.

It is also representative of the financial system.

Zhou Buqi has heard about it, saying that 10 companies with investment and financial nature in the Entrepreneur Club have held a joint corporate meeting, hoping to join hands with relevant investment circles in Belgium, France, and Germany to jointly analyze the industry , connect the enterprise.

The investment scale of these 10 companies is as high as 1000 billion Huaxia currency.

Ordinary people may not really see anything.

But during this period of time, Zhou Buqi is operating under the financial wave of the European debt crisis. Knowing the international situation in this field, the financial systems of the whole world are focusing on Europe.

This is the national team, right?
It can be regarded as another way.

It is not convenient for Zhou Buqi to get too involved in this kind of thing. He just had a brief conversation with Mr. Ma, expressing his confidence in the stability of the European economy and the EU's recovery from the debt crisis.

Hope to help them!

Zhou Buqi didn't want to fight for power and profit in this "non-governmental organization", so he acted along with it very low-key.The first is to learn from the excellent business traditions of foreign countries; the second is to show the good image of Chinese private entrepreneur groups and convey the true voice of the Chinese business community; the third is to discover and facilitate new business cooperation opportunities.

Another thing is to help Geely mediate.

Geely has completed the acquisition of Volvo, which made many conservative Europeans have criticism.The main reason is that after the Chinese company buys Volvo, it will directly take away the technology and fire all the workers, which will make Europe miserable.

This model has been practiced by European capitalists a lot, the most typical being Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH.

At the beginning, Dior's parent company suffered heavy losses. Arnott promised not to lay off employees and promised to help the government solve this burden. The French government guaranteed him a low-interest loan and successfully completed the acquisition.After the acquisition, Arnott immediately changed his face, only kept Dior, and sold all other businesses to third-party companies!
Then, third-party companies began to lay off workers on a large scale, and tens of thousands of people lost their jobs.

The French government was stunned, so they found Arnott and wanted to sue him.Arnott plausibly said that he complied with the agreement and that he did not lay off staff. The layoffs were done by a third-party company and had nothing to do with him.French officials were fooled and played around.

This is the main task of Mr. Liu's trip to Europe. He often talks about it, saying that IBM's personal computer business was in a state of serious losses. After Lenovo's acquisition, it did not lay off employees. A huge profit was achieved.The same is true for Geely's acquisition of Volvo. Don't worry, please believe in the commitment and strength of Chinese companies.

Zhou Buqi followed the class all the time, and the harvest was quite big.

This business visit group has a very high standard, and the EU and other countries' political leaders will come forward to receive them, expressing their great welcome to European investment.

(End of this chapter)