Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1681 Multinational Football Group
Zhu Jun, the owner of Ninetowns, was not very satisfied with Zhou Buqi, "If you want to build a multinational football group, why not simply merge Shenhua in? As for building a new team?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Shenhua is an old and strong team, and they can't afford it."

Zhu Jun was amused, "And the football team you can't afford? Whose Manchester United is it? Mine?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Shenhua is a strong team with a lot of historical heritage. It takes more money to improve results and meet the requirements of fans and local leaders. What I want to do is experimental in nature. Not necessarily good."

Zhu Jun didn't quite understand, "The grades are not good? Then what do you mean by doing this?"

Zhou Buqi said: "At least it can be regarded as looking for a possible direction for the development of the national football team. Although 99% of the possibilities are failure, you have to try it anyway. Moreover, there are advantages to starting from scratch, that is, the requirements are low, and it is difficult to do well or badly. There won't be too much pressure. Unlike Shenhua, if the grades are not good, you will be scolded."

To say that Zhu Jun is really wronged.

He is a football lover, invested a lot of money for Shenhua, and got nothing in return.When other companies acquire teams, they all have advertising attributes.

The most typical one is Evergrande.

Originally, Evergrande was only a second- and third-rate real estate company in China. After being able to become the Evergrande football team, it became well-known and became famous all over the country.

Because of the excellent football performance, the brand reputation of "Evergrande" is getting higher and higher, which has produced huge positive economic benefits.

Zhu Jun is different.

He does football, which has nothing to do with the company. He pays for it personally. It is purely a hobby and passion for football.But even if he invested so much money for Shenhua without asking for anything in return, he didn't earn a good reputation.

None of the big football bosses in China has left a good reputation. This is the most embarrassing thing, as if they are the main culprits for the failure of football to develop.

The actual situation is quite the opposite.

Just like Zhou Buqi, he doesn't want to play football in China at all.

But the big leaders called in person. He is so rich and has done so well for Manchester United, he couldn't refuse if he wanted to.

Tomorrow, Rangnick will come to Shanghai.

Zhou Buqi will have a meeting with him to communicate about the transnational football group.Today, I will go to Chongming Island Football Base to talk to Xu Genbao.

Director Xu is a real footballer.Zhu Jun likes football very much. I heard that Boss Zhou wants to do something big, and he also wants to participate in the whole process. "He has been in youth training for ten years, and it has already blossomed and borne fruit."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, I know, the East Asian team has been promoted to the middle class."

Xu Genbao trained a group of children at the Chongming Island Football Base. When these children grew up, they formed a professional football club called the East Asian Team.

Playing from the middle two, they are all a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old children, who have attracted much attention in the football circle of Shanghai.

Last season, the East Asian team successfully broke through.

The goal of this season is to reach the Chinese Super League, and General Fan was specially invited as the head coach.The European football season runs from August to May of the next year, while in China it is a natural year, from March to October.Now that it is the end of the season, General Fan is a good football player, but his level of coaching is not enough. He is too far away from surpassing the goal, and it is almost impossible.

Failure to surpass is not only a competitive loss, but also an economic loss.

The exposure of the China League One is too poor, and there are very few fans. It would be nice to have 1000 fans who buy tickets for each home court.Xu Genbao is not considered a rich man, he cannot afford to support such a professional team.

Zhu Jundao: "In the past two months, Director Xu has been in touch with me."

"Contact what?"

"He wanted to sell me the team."

"what?"

Zhou Buqi didn't know the inside story.

Zhu Jundao: "The East Asian team's financial situation is very bad, and they can't make ends meet. In order to strengthen Shenhua in the past few years, I have integrated several professional clubs. Director Xu also wants to incorporate the East Asian team."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "What do you think?"

Zhu Jun said indifferently: "The East Asian team is a bunch of kids, and their level is not high enough. Shenhua should still bring in some top players. I plan to buy some foreign aid from Europe. I must win a championship no matter what!"

Zhou Buqi said very speechlessly: "I think you have been dazzled by scolding."

Zhu Jun did not admit it, "It has nothing to do with external criticism. I simply think that the children of the East Asian team do not meet the current requirements of the Shenhua team. This is also for their own good. They are now in their seventeen, eighteen, and twenty If you are young, you need a longer period of game training. Joining Shenhua, you can only be a substitute, which is not conducive to their development."

"Young kids are fine."

Zhou Buqi hasn't met Rangnick yet, but he has talked with Hope many times and knows Rangnick's football philosophy.What he likes most is to pick a group of young children and train them according to his own tactical concepts. It takes three to five years for these children to grow up.At the same time, the team's tactical philosophy and football philosophy have also planted genes.

It's basically a real-life version of the Football Manager game.

Go nuke.

Buy some high potential small players.

Then slowly cultivate, develop into top talent, and then sell to bigger clubs.As long as this set of football ecosystem is in operation, even if the team has a steady stream of blood-making machines from youth training, reserve team to adult team, a team will be formed.

In his previous life, Rangnick, as a godfather-level tactician in Germany, was twice astonishingly relegated to the third-level team and built from scratch.

One is Hoffenheim and the other is RB Leipzig.

After years of his building, these two small-town teams have become Bundesliga powerhouses.

Zhu Jundao: "East Asia's current financial crisis is very serious. The leaders of the city took the lead and intend to merge the two clubs, Zhongbang and East Asia."

"Zhongbang?"

"It's not the Zhongbang I bought, it's a newly established small team."

"Xu Genbao agreed?"

"No." Zhu Jun smiled, "He doesn't like Zhongbang. He only has two ideas now, one is to merge with Shenhua, and the other is to go to the Super League independently. But, in fact, there is only one idea."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What is it?"

Zhu Jun said: "Sell it at a good price. Zhongbang is also a small team that is clinking poorly. If it is merged into East Asia, it will only cause additional burden. For East Asia, it must either be sold to Shenhua. Or it will succeed in the Super League. Sell ​​to other big companies that are willing to take over."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Isn't it financial difficulties? How can I go beyond without money?"

Zhu Jun hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "I don't know. New funds may be introduced, and some players may be sold. There are several good seedlings in East Asia, and many teams are interested."

Zhou Buqi immediately said: "Then we have to act as soon as possible!"

"That's it?" Zhu Jun was a little amused, "Dongya?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Almost, the new batch of young children in China, that is, the group brought up by Xu Genbao, has great potential. They should be trained well, and they should go abroad for development if they have the opportunity."

I went to Chongming Island and met Director Xu, who was in his sixtieth year.

Simple and clear, straight to the point!

Xu Genbao thought he heard it wrong, and thought that Shenhua wanted to acquire Dongya.

I heard that Boss Zhou wants to try something new in football, to be a multinational football group covering North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe, and use a unified football concept to guide these teams tactically, so as to make these teams After the team became a step-by-step promotion relationship, they couldn't help being dumbfounded.

He knew that the young boss Zhou was great, and spent huge sums of money to acquire Manchester United.

Unexpectedly, he had bigger plans for football.

This is a good thing!

Xu Genbao has been engaged in football all his life, and he is too aware of the current situation of domestic football.The level of the national football team is getting worse and worse. One of the important reasons is that players have fewer and fewer opportunities to study abroad.

In fact, there is no need to play in the five major European leagues. Even going to Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, or even going to the Korean and Japanese leagues is better than staying in the Chinese Super League.

This new football model designed by Boss Zhou is actually a tailor-made opportunity for players to study abroad.

In his previous life, after selling the East Asian team, Xu Genbao also tried this. He went to Spain to buy a second-tier team, intending to create some opportunities for domestic players to study abroad.

It can be said that the idea of ​​boss Zhou and Xu Genbao hit it off.The set of gameplay that Boss Zhou came up with is obviously more ambitious and larger-scale.

As for the price or something, it's a small matter.

Xu Genbao just briefly talked about the financial crisis of the East Asian team.It is said that when he was working as a football training base in Chongming Island in 2000, he took out a loan of 2200 million yuan, and the annual interest was as high as 140 million yuan.Tuition fees are simply not enough.

He has no choice but to accompany him to drink, sell signed footballs, sell group photos, and rely on his personal brand image to make money.

The previous years were fine.

But in the past few years, the children have grown up and played professional teams, so this is not enough.When he was in school, the children paid him the money.Now he is playing in a professional team, and he is the one who pays the children.

It's so hard.

When it came to the emotional part, Xu Genbao was in tears, saying that he was ready to sell some young players to help the East Asian team overcome the current difficulties.

This small amount of money is really nothing to Zhou Buqi.

The next day, I saw Rangnick, who was wearing black-rimmed glasses and looked refined.He is very interested in Boss Zhou's idea of ​​the football industry.

Rangnick is a standard German, and he is very interested in creating this standardized football system.

He is not too interested in money, but more interested in whether his football philosophy can continue.In Germany, there are too many football legends and football bigwigs.

Although the younger generation of German coaches are considered his disciples, they have all attended his tactical theory classes.But in terms of influence, he is much worse than those football bigwigs in Germany.

It would definitely be a great honor to follow Boss Zhou to complete this matter.

It was a coincidence to meet Xu Genbao.When Xu Genbao dominated the A-League, the football philosophy he advocated was "siege and siege", which coincided with Rangnick's philosophy.

That's it!
(End of this chapter)