Rebirth

When the Prime Minister in front of him was reading the information that Li Feng handed to others, Li Feng thought of the shock after seeing this document before. This is a survey of Chelsea and Chairman Bates.

Especially for Bates’s investigation, after looking at other people’s information, Li Feng felt that he was too pure and too particular about doing business. Looking at other people’s business, Bates’ wealth rise is a plunder of capital rise. History of style expansion.

This information was obtained when investigating Bates and his people, and after a detailed investigation, the last time Anschutz read the information from the first issue. This is already the second issue, but this Li Feng chose to collect the information.

Li Feng is very clear that although the acquisition of the team says that as long as the owner of the team says it is OK, in the real acquisition, without the government's consent, such as the FA, it will not be successful.

Originally, Li Feng was prepared to give up temporarily, but after obtaining this Bates information, Li Feng changed his doctrine and was ready to take Chelsea directly. If he can really take Chelsea and achieve his vision at the same time , Then it is far beyond the goal of his trip. For this, Li Feng really looks forward to it.

The last point is that Li Feng also has a plan on how to win the old fox Bates, the most important of which is the need for government support, especially the FA.

However, it is almost impossible for me to be unfamiliar with the place to get direct support from the FA. I can only hope for the support of the British government. This is why Li Feng showed this information to Blair.

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Having talked about this, I have to talk about the history of the old fox, Bates. For Li Feng, the first impression of Bates was that Chelsea was acquired by the Russian oligarch Abramovich, which made Bates become famous all over the world overnight. , Naturally, and Abu also became famous overnight.

In his previous life, many media reported about Bates, saying that he was a savvy businessman who bought Chelsea, which was about to go bankrupt, for 1 yuan, but sold it for a high price of 140 million US dollars and made a lot of money.

Until reading this information, Li Feng knew that for Bates, the method of selling Chelsea was too ordinary compared to the rise of his predecessor.

Ken Bates, a British businessman, is a man full of scandal and controversy.The Chelsea chairman is by no means the kind of so-called'English gentleman', he is more like a slutty and fucking bastard.

He made his fortune by acquiring some bankrupt companies, then using the tactic of getting rid of the shell, by sacrificing the interests of banks and scattered minority shareholders, he completed the accumulation of wealth predatory.

Bates’ birth can be said to be rather miserable. Since childhood, his mother died early, his father left, lived with his grandparents in a slum, and didn’t see his father until he became an adult. Because the slums where he grew up did not have parents’ training, he naturally became a typical gangster The character is as strong as a cow, and the character is rude.

After meeting his father, he went to school, dropped out of school, and got a job with his help. After that, he was lucky enough to marry the daughter of an Irish squire and spend his father-in-law's money.I have to say that this is still enviable, a little gangster-like figure marries a squire's eldest lady.

With the support of his father-in-law's family, famous cars and Chinese clothes accompanied him to enter the business world.

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Speaking of it, Bates still has a bit of foresight. After World War II, he aimed at the real estate industry and established a construction company. When his construction company was listed in Manchester, he became the chairman of a local football club-Oldham.

His purpose is not to reproduce the club's glory, but to use the football club to expand his reputation and reputation, so that the stock price of the listed company under his name soars.

On the one hand, he used the aura of the chairman of the football club to expand his expansion in the real estate field through bank loans and other means; on the other hand, although he did not have the financial resources to support the club, he blindly expanded the club and sprinted quickly, making the club look like that. What happened, it looked like it was developing well.

It is a pity that people are not as good as the sky. With the deterioration of the surrounding environment in the real estate industry, whether it is his real estate company or the club that is not developing smoothly, he is ambitious watching his career collapse and debts, Bates will look Transferred to outside the British mainland-the British Virgin Islands, one of the famous tax havens.

Before leaving the UK, Bates transferred all his company's only property to this tax haven, fled the UK, and left a mess for others to clean up.It pitted banks and a group of shareholders of all sizes in the company.

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After tossing the British mainland, at this time, Bates had taken a fancy to this tax haven and planned to invest in it to make it a real estate project plan for a tax haven that the upper echelons of Britain and the United States knew.

Then through various methods such as coercion and inducement, the British government Virgin Islands managers finally agreed to his real estate project request and authorized him to carry out the project.It's a pity that some gangsters got the project, but Bates is really not a person who can do things, and ultimately failed.

However, they are so good. They have already cashed out their own assets and shares before the failure, using all the money of the major shareholders and banks. As a result, they once again pitted the money of the banks and shareholders.

Some people and cattle are cattle here. Obviously Bates, these things are regarded as illegal and illegal behaviors in business, but they are all safe and sound, and rely on the British government's authorization to develop the Virgin Islands. To threaten the British government.

He even threatened that if he did not compensate for his investment in the Virgin Islands, he would take various measures to destroy the construction of the local municipal government and even affect the political orientation of the outlying island colonies. In the end, the British government compensated Bates to avoid the scandal. The power of attorney was recovered after a large sum of money.

In fact, the funds invested in the development of the Virgin Islands were all loans from the Bale Bank. In the end, the British government was not only responsible for the bank loans, but also accompanied a sum of funds to Bates. Bates once again succeeded in getting out of the shell, and his value soared. .

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In the 1970s, after returning to the British mainland, he went to London, the political and economic center of the United Kingdom, his hometown.At this time, Bates has a bad reputation in the business world. Although he is considered a rich man, it is a pity that no one wants to do business with him.

But Bates, who can toss people and restlessly, is not someone who gives up so easily. London has a bad local reputation, so look around. At that time, with the help of Bates’ speculative friends, he fell in love with Ireland.

He took advantage of the chaotic economy at the time in Ireland, bribed the Central Bank of Ireland to obtain a banking license and successfully opened the bank.Bates absorbs loans at high interest rates and then takes the money to develop his own business. Banks have almost become a financing channel for his personal career development. The results are predictable.

The banking business was terrible. In just one year, the Central Bank of Ireland began investigating his banking problems and eventually took him to court. Originally, Bates might face jail.

However, Bates’ gangsters and rogue attributes broke out again, and various methods of brutality and intimidation were staged again, and even bite back, thinking that if Ireland sanctions him, it would be a credibility crisis for Ireland’s poor financial system. The financial system of China has completely collapsed.

I don't know what I thought. In the end, the Central Bank of Ireland took over Bates's banking mess, but Bates left Ireland happily and succeeded again.

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In the 1980s, another opportunity was placed in front of Bates, and that was Chelsea. Chelsea was on the verge of bankruptcy. In the end, Bates only spent 1 pound and paid 600,000 pounds to get Chelsea.

It’s a pity that Chelsea at that time even lost the Stamford Bridge stadium due to the terrible conditions. It belonged to another real estate company. But how could Bates, who loves tossing people, give up and go back to Stamford Bridge through a lawsuit. It lasted for more than 10 years.

Sometimes it is really the magic of fate. At this time in the 1980s and 1990s, it was during the British economic recession. The real estate naturally plummeted, and the real estate company belonging to the stadium went bankrupt in the early 1990s.

A lawsuit lasting more than 10 years, until the real estate company went bankrupt, Bates finally got what he wanted. Through a bank auction, he obtained the right to use the stadium and surrounding land at the price of cabbage.

When he fully owned the Chelsea team and the stadium ownership, Bates once again thought of his real estate dream, and then appeared the now hot'Chelsea Village' real estate project.

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In 1992, Bates launched the “Chelsea Village” real estate project that made the entire Chelsea fans cheer: build a series of high-end hotels, tours, nightclubs, bars, shopping centers, etc., around the Stamford Bridge Stadium in London, with the Chelsea club as the center. Build a commercial football sports kingdom.

Bates has experience in playing such real estate projects. Whether it was the construction industry in Manchester City or the later Virgin Islands development plan, etc., Bates played in this way, and he also let the use of gold cicada escape the shell. It ended perfectly.

Therefore, Bates once again followed the same old pattern as before. First, he set up a real estate company called'Chelsea Village', and then transferred all the property rights of the Chelsea Club to the name of'Chelsea Village Company' through an operation of an offshore company. , And the debts of the club’s operations are still in debt to the original Chelsea club.

In other words, after such an operation, the property of the Chelsea club was transferred away. Such an operation is naturally illegal and illegal.According to British law, you will be charged with a number of economic crimes.

But the shrewd Bates had been prepared for a long time. He first won the original Chelsea's largest creditor-Royal Bank of Scotland, and then obtained a bank loan to become the start-up capital of the Chelsea Village project.

Sacrificing the interests of many small shareholders, wooing major shareholders, and relying on the status of the chairman of the Chelsea Club and the executive committee of the FA, facing the investigation of the economic sector, they were directly rejected by the FA.

The FA’s executive committee status has certain investigation immunity. This is one of the FA’s authority. This is a very good protection of status and is well used by Bates.

Another point is that when Bates was engaged in the Chelsea Village, it was at the beginning of the Premier League. For ordinary fans, Bates’ operation was nominally a debt that allowed the club to get rid of the debt. Therefore, Bates got The support of Chelsea fans.

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At this point, looking at Bates’s operation on Chelsea, do you feel familiar? In Li Feng’s view, it is almost exactly the same as the one Bates did when he first entered the market in Manchester.

Wasn't it what Bates did in Manchester? One is a real estate company, and the other is the chairman of the Oldham Club.

Using the status of Chelsea chairman to expand his reputation, the purpose is to develop the so-called Chelsea Village real estate project.Similarly, after the start of the Premier League, Bates increased investment, from Hoddle to Gullit, allowing Chelsea to become a strong second-block team in the Premier League, able to remain in the top six and even compete for the Champions League.

But in this operation, Bates hardly invested a cent of his own money, almost all money from banks and investors, or money earned by the Chelsea club itself.

The history of the previous life has long been clear, Bates’s Chelsea Village real estate project is a failed project, and eventually the Chelsea club is on the verge of bankruptcy again.

Had it not been for Abramovich's entire acquisition, Chelsea would have been ruined again in Bates' hands.Naturally, Bates himself took the capital from Abramovich and left Chelsea very smartly, allowing Bates to escape again and leave the game perfectly.

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In the many fraud-like business operations that Bates has experienced, several of Bates’ right-hand men and friends have all gone to jail, but Bates, the big boss behind the scenes, is safe and sound. I have to say that this is a miracle.

Similarly, in Li Feng’s view, this is the only reason for this strange excess in the United Kingdom. Bates has been investigated several times, but it is because of Bates’ status as the executive committee of the British Football Association. It's really a weird FA, a weird British country.