Winning the new financial era

Chapter 380 The Mysterious Guest
Then, Zhang Yida visited five clubs including Manchester City, Southampton, West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa and Wolves.

After Li Ruigang said hello, the current chairman of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour, came forward and warmly received Zhang Yida and his delegation.

Mansour is a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family with a strong background and is mainly engaged in investment in the oil field.

He owns numerous properties in the UAE, likes sports cars and horse racing, and is the chairman of the UAE Jockey Club.

In addition, private life is better protected.According to incomplete statistics, it is only known that he has 2 wives, 2 daughters and 4 sons.

The population is not very prosperous!According to local customs and the style of the royal family, how could there be only so few people in the family.

Similar to the outside evaluation, after he learned that Zhang Yida had an Ahal Tekin horse, he took the initiative to chat with Zhang Yida about horse racing.

Today is not a match day, Zhang Yida and Mansour walked on the empty Etihad Stadium, followed by a large number of entourage and security personnel.

Zhang Yida took a few glances at the magnificent bowl-shaped stadium with three floors of seats in the east, west, and south, and praised: "This stadium is pretty good, very modern!"

Mansour shook his head, "It's still a bit small. This was the Commonwealth Games stadium in the early years, and it was later transformed into Manchester City's home stadium."

Pointing to the north again, "It will be fine when the expansion of the North Stand is completed, and then it will be able to accommodate 6.2 spectators.

Not yet, it can only accommodate 5.5 people.It was originally smaller and could only accommodate 4.8 people. "

Zhang Yida nodded. The expansion of the stadium generally means more spectators, more fans, and the team has good performance and is on the way up.

Through such a small matter as the expansion of the stadium, it can also be seen that Manchester City has done well in recent years.

In fact, it is true. Manchester City's gold dollar offensive has worked. In recent years, Manchester City has been either the champion or the runner-up in the Premier League, with a lot of strength.

"I heard that the expansion of the stadium cost more than 1 million pounds?"

Mansour nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, but this is all small money. Do you know how much the City Football Group has invested in the transfer market for more than eight years since it took over Manchester City?"

"Appreciate further details!"

Zhang Yida listened attentively and acted very humble.

In football clubs, he is a complete newcomer to the industry.I came here today to learn from Mansour.

"13 billion pounds!"

Zhang Yida smiled wryly after hearing this, this is the real local tyrant!There is an oil field at home, it's up to you.

"When I bought Manchester City for 08 million pounds in 2.1, the outside world was generally not optimistic."

Facing Zhang Yida, the youngest billionaire in the world, Mansour suddenly became interested and prepared to talk about his football business experience.

He was very satisfied with Zhang Yida's serious study.

He continued: "Before I took over, Manchester City was a Premier League civilian team with the goal of relegation.

At that time, Manchester City, frequent coaching changes and lack of financial resources made it impossible for them to compete with strong teams.

The fans boycotted us saying we don't understand football and it will only ruin Manchester City.

Our colleagues laughed at us, saying that we only spend money and have no respect for football.

Anyway, very few people are optimistic about us.

As a result, in four years, we won the Premier League trophy.

Now Manchester City, the Premier League title is not our most important goal.Our goal is the Champions League.

So much money has been invested before and after, but it has not been lost in vain.

According to the 2016 football club value list released by Forbes, our Manchester City is 20 billion US dollars, second only to Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Bayern and Arsenal, ranking sixth among all football clubs. "

Zhang Yida has also seen this ranking list, and the ranking is relatively conservative, so it can only be used as a valuation reference.

Tottenham ranked No.10 above, with a valuation of 10.2 billion US dollars.

"Mr. Mansour, those people who looked down on you and laughed at you back then. I guess they want to take back what they said before."

Mansour waved his hand, "It doesn't matter anymore. The important thing is that Manchester City has proved itself, isn't it?"

"Haha, you are right!"

Who said that if you have money, you can't get results?Zhang Yida thinks that this matter can be viewed from both sides.

Generally, the rich spend money for one or two years, and if the results do not improve, they will not be able to invest; how can people like Mansour spend seven or eight years without getting results.

Of course, the national football team may be a different species.Hard to say.

Mansur's exaggerated investment method, purely from the perspective of business, must be a loss.

What he was really after was the international status of his country.He is not only a businessman, but also a politician, a member of the UAE Council of Cabinet and Minister of the UAE Head of State Affairs.

"Mr. Zhang, do you also want to buy a football team for fun?"

Zhang Yida smiled and said: "I have this idea, but I lack experience, so I will ask Mr. Mansour first."

"Then you have to be mentally prepared. The Premier League is very exclusive. It took eight years for City Football Group to slowly be accepted by the fans and the Premier League."

Zhang Yida waved his hand, "It doesn't have to be the Premier League, we are still looking for suitable targets."

"If you need help, just say, I personally like making friends from China very much."

"Haha, I also like generous and generous UAE friends."

Then Mansour talked with Zhang Yida about the Internet industry. He said that China's Internet industry has risen rapidly, which is very remarkable.

He also specifically asked about the development of Ruixiang Group and Musical.ly, and expressed his interest in investing.

Zhang Yida would definitely not refuse this kind of potential financial backer, and even invited Mansur to China for a visit.

The two chatted together for two or three hours, and had lunch together before Zhang Yida left with a harvest.

Then Zhang Yida visited four other Chinese-funded clubs one by one.

The four Chinese-funded consortiums all have considerable backgrounds.

Behind Southampton is Rheinland Holding Group, which has an A-share listed company Rheinland Sports;
West Bromwich Albion holds 88% of the shares of Yunyi Guokai, and Yunyi Guokai is a sports investment company established by the actual controller of A-share palm shares and various partners.

These two are currently in the Premier League, and the Chinese consortium spent about 2 million pounds each to successfully win.

The two clubs still welcome the arrival of Zhang Yida and his party.

Because Zhang Yida is not an unknown person in China, the reception standard is quite high.

The management of the two clubs led Zhang Yida and his party to visit their own stadiums, training grounds and other hardware facilities, and also explained the operation mode and business philosophy of their respective clubs.

Then, went to Aston Villa.

This English Championship club is very interesting. The British royal family and the British people from all over the world are fans of this club.

The Chinese shareholder that acquired the club is United Recon Group, which also owns three A-share listed companies: Lotus Health, Recon, and Tianxia Wisdom.The industry calls it Rui Kang Department.

The boss Xia Jiantong is also very powerful. He went to university at the age of 14, and is the youngest design doctor in Harvard.

A person with such a high level of academic attainment can easily move capital in A-shares.In two years, he controlled three listed companies.

Zhang Yida remembered that this guy also collapsed in his previous life and became another Boss Jia.

Boss Xia was not in the club, and Zhang Yida and his party left after visiting for a while.

Standing behind the Wolves is the Fosun Group, whose owner Guo Guangchang is known as the richest man in Shanghai.

From the operation mode of the Wolves, we can get a glimpse of the wisdom of this capital operation tycoon.

The Wolves have reached a strategic cooperation with football agent Mendes.

Mendes is not unknown either, he is the agent of Ronaldo, Di Maria, Silva, Ronaldo and many other famous stars.

He has a wide network of contacts in his hometown of Portugal, and he has brought many young Portuguese players who can play, cheap and obedient to the Wolves.

In order to give Mendes benefits, Fosun bought 20% of the latter’s brokerage company, operated Ronaldo as the spokesperson of a Chinese mobile phone brand, Mourinho as the spokesperson of a resort hotel in Sanya, and the transfer of Chinese and European players. meeting.

Boss Guo is really good at doing business, and Zhang Yida has learned it.

While Zhang Yida was inspecting various clubs, "The Sun" was also not idle.

Not only did Zhang Yida's net worth and industry become clear, but also revealed that Beckham endorsed the former's dog food brand, and that Beckham's son became a Musical.ly internet celebrity.

The editor of The Sun was very excited. Zhang Yida's age, wealth, and Chinese identity were all gimmicks.

As for why Zhang Yida came to see the boss of Tottenham?
Combining the former's worth and Beckham's star status, it is easy to analyze the result.

As for investing in the Tottenham Stadium, the possibility is slim.

In the past two years, Chinese capital has made aggressive acquisitions of football leagues at all levels in the UK. The entire UK knows the financial power of Chinese local tyrants.

Under the polish of the editor of The Sun, a report titled "300-year-old Chinese entrepreneurial genius worth US$21 billion is about to buy Tottenham" was released.

"Accompanied by David Beckham, the Internet tycoon from China came to the estate of Tottenham boss Lewis...

Given the financial difficulties facing Tottenham due to the new stadium, it is speculated that the sale of the club was being negotiated with the Chinese buyer.

Let’s take stock of the properties of this rich Chinese man, Yimin Wangjin with a market value of US$110 billion, and Yimin Wealth with a market value of US$28 billion...

He also owns the Green scooters on the streets of London, as well as the Musical.ly short video app that my son is playing.

It must be admitted that this is a very powerful rich man.At the same time, bless Bai Baihe, you are about to usher in a boss with strong assets.

I also want to sigh, the Chinese are so rich that they are about to buy out the Premier League clubs.Let’s just change the name to the Chinese Super League in the future…”

The newspaper also posted a few photos taken by William "risking his death". The faces of Zhang Yida and Beckham were clearly photographed.

When other newspapers saw this big news, they also followed up and reprinted the report.

For a time, the news spread throughout the UK.

Tottenham fans are also divided into two factions. One group thinks that it is good to introduce a powerful Internet billionaire shareholder like Zhang Yida, who can spend money to buy big-name players. The league championship and Champions League championship are no longer elusive;

The other faction is the conservatives, who believe that Levy has managed the club very well and his performance has risen steadily.A sudden change of shareholders is likely to cause fluctuations in the club's performance.

There are also some extremists who express that they do not accept foreign capital invasion and want to keep the club's British capital pure.

Levi went to work the next day, and seeing the black crowd of protesters outside the club's training ground, his good mood suddenly disappeared.

These protesting fans held various signs and chanted various slogans.

Levy had no choice but to ask the club to issue a clarification announcement, stating that the existing shareholders had no idea of ​​selling the team, and appealed to fans not to listen to rumors.

The fans don't believe it, there are real photos, and they are still fooling around here.

The protesting crowd refused to leave for a long time, and the reporters who heard the news rushed into the crowd to conduct interviews.

"Let that damned Chinese go away with his stinky money, Bai Baihe doesn't welcome him!"

A strong man with big arms and round waist shouted into the reporter's microphone.

"Tottenham is not short of money or achievements. I don't understand what Levi is thinking?"

The more sensible fans faced the camera and expressed their views in a very calm tone.

"The Chinese can only play table tennis, let's forget about football!"

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At the same time, Zhang Yida received a Chinese boss who just flew over from Italy in the hotel.

(End of this chapter)