Rebirth

At this time, the University of London training center is relatively deserted, and the first team is disbanded, and the various echelons may still be there. At the same time, there are coaching staff members.

This is the case for football clubs. The coaching staff does not have to say about holidays. They need to lead the team during the season. During the holidays, they also need to consider the team's new season situation, such as player transfers. Arsenal is no exception.

In this regard, Li Feng is very excited, after all, the next step is to meet Arsenal's coach-Professor Wenger.This is a celebrity in the past.After the group parked their car, under the leadership of the Arsenal Chairman and a group of people, they walked into the training center mightily.

As soon as he entered the center, Li Feng met a lot of people, including the director of the training center and the coaching team of the first team, among them the professor Wenger.

"Professor Wenger, hello, I am your fan. I like the style of Arsenal playing very much. I like offensive football and beautiful football." When Li Feng saw Wenger among them, he immediately faced him. Stretched out his hand, holding his hand and smiled.

Feeling Li Feng’s enthusiasm, Wenger was immediately embarrassed, thinking, who this young man is, he is really familiar with him. Looking at the company behind a group of big guys, including the team chairman, it might not be a big political figure in the UK. The boy's son, is it a prince of the British royal family, but it doesn't seem to be the same. I haven't heard of such a handsome boy in the British royal family who is obviously mixed between East and West.

If Li Feng knew what the professor in front of him was thinking, he didn't know how he felt.

"Arsena, this is Mr. St. John Lee, a juvenile rich man from the United States. You have always heard of the Rolls-Royce acquisition that has been hotly speculated in the UK recently. This is Mr. Lee who wants to buy Rolls-Royce. "Perhaps seeing the professor's embarrassment, Wood immediately explained.

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"Coach Wenger, I also own a football team, can you talk about how to improve the team's performance?" Li Feng asked curiously as a baby, and everyone was dumbfounded.

"If a team wants to be prosperous, in addition to maintaining the competitiveness of the first team, it also needs to have a complete, healthy and scientific echelon building that can continuously deliver healthy and fresh blood to the first team. The team can last.

Take Arsenal as an example. The team needs a complete and scientific training center, a business development department, its own team home court, etc., which are the keys to a team's long-term success and so on.

Nowadays, how to keep a team competitive for a long time is not just a problem for the first team, but a whole system problem for a team."

"It turns out that my team in Los Angeles has its own home court, but the construction of each echelon, a complete training center, etc., because we have just started, are still blank, we can only take it slowly.

Philip, it seems our team is really far behind."

"Who can say no, but our major leagues have just started after all. Now that it is good to have so few teams participating in the competition, we really need to follow the healthy development of European leagues such as the Premier League." Anschutz immediately. Cooperating with Li Feng's half-truth reply.

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"By the way, Mr. Chairman, I heard that your training center still rents the training facilities of the University of London, and your Highbury Stadium is too old.

I've passed by before and saw that there are only more than 30,000 seats, which really doesn't fit the face of a rich family."Li Feng smiled and turned to Peter Hillwood.

Sure enough, as Li Feng's words fell, there was a moment of speechlessness at the scene, especially Old Wood was extremely embarrassed.

"Coach Wenger, how much do you think is needed to build a scientifically complete training center and a top-notch stadium?"

Li Feng's past life has heard that Arsenal, whether it is a world-famous training center or the Emirates Stadium, were all started under Wenger's advice. It can be said that Wenger gave Arsenal a cornerstone of healthy development. .

"If you want to fully build a complete training base, according to current estimates, it will not be less than hundreds of millions of pounds, but it can be done in installments. The first round may only cost tens of millions of pounds, and it will be able to establish a sufficient training for each echelon in London. Center, and then slowly build your own training center.

As for the stadium, a top five-star stadium depends on the number of seats. For example, if Arsenal rebuild Highbury, it is best to expand the stadium to 60,000-70,000 people. Such a stadium is enough for Arsenal. The future is built.

However, such a stadium, according to today's construction capital, etc., should not be less than 200-300 million pounds."

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Listening to Wenger's words, Li Feng felt that many people around him were inhaling. Obviously, they were all a little surprised. Today, Arsenal has no training center, and only a dilapidated Highbury Stadium.However, Li Feng felt in his heart that it is really much cheaper now. It seems that the cost of the Emirates Stadium in the previous life was nearly 500 million pounds, but it was much higher.

Today's Premier League is not the one that made global capital crazy in later generations. Today's Arsenal's annual income barely exceeds 100 million. If all kinds of expenses are removed, even a little loss every year.It's really far away to build a goal.

Obviously, Wenger has a blueprint for the team's development, but considering that he has just arrived at Arsenal now, he only mentioned the training center to the team management. The stadium is just thinking about it in his mind. This time it was brought up through Li Feng's mouth.

"In other words, if Arsenal want to complete the construction of the team, such as the establishment of a scientific training center and a new stadium, it will need to raise at least 400 million pounds. According to the current exchange rate of the British pound to the US dollar, it is almost 700 million US dollars. The pen is not a small number." Li Feng said emotionally.

"Chairman Wood, I don’t know if you Arsenal have plans to build a new training center and a new stadium, the Premier League team’s training center, I have also heard a lot, such as Manchester United’s Carrington Training Center, in the hearts of football fans all over the world. They are all considered holy places. As one of the strong teams in the Premier League, it would be a pity if Arsenal didn't have it." Hearing Li Feng's words, Professor Wenger suddenly looked at Peter Hillwood with anticipation.

At this time, Peter Hillwood and others felt that it was a mistake to take Li Feng, the rich young man, to visit Arsenal today. I don’t know if Li Feng was deliberate or unintentional. Hearing the question, they didn’t. Know how to answer.

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I want to answer'yes' straightforwardly, and I'm still calculating whether my shareholders are willing to bear the money. If I don't answer, it seems that my team is very small.Immediately following David Dunn and others beside him, he looked at each other, feeling speechless.

"John, we already have a plan for the training center, and we are going to complete it in several stages according to the team's situation. As for the new stadium, Highbury is also sufficient for the time being, and such a large sum of money is not a small amount. It can be done soon, but Highbury is indeed a bit small now, and we are also thinking of a way."

"Chairman Wood, you may not know that Mr. Anschutz runs a sports and entertainment company that runs many stadiums and stadiums across the United States. He has extensive experience in building new stadiums. Maybe you can talk about it. There may be cooperation.

This can be regarded as my ordinary Arsenal fan contributing to the team."

"Haha... John, do you have it? The construction of the arena can't be done on an impulse, and raising such a huge amount of money is still too dangerous for a team with a market value of only 120 million yuan.

You must know that to raise such funds, your team may only have to repay every year, and there is no money to buy players or anything. Without the support of the gold owner, if there is any accident, the team may go bankrupt. Up."

When Li Feng finished speaking, Anschutz became the focus of everyone, and many people stared at Anschutz expectantly.

However, the two had already negotiated, the principle of singing a red face and singing a white face, Anschutz did not hesitate to start pouring cold water, so that the people of Hillwood were darkened, thinking about it, it was really the case.And today's Arsenal market value is really only worth more than 100 million, but it is not the crazy era of later generations.

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"Unless..." Seeing everyone's cooling heart, Anschutz was happy, but he still pretended to hesitate.