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Zhou Buqi's industries in the UK are mainly located in London, including the headquarters of EMI Records.

This is also the reason why he bought the team in the first place and wanted to buy Arsenal.

However, Arsenal's ownership structure is too complicated, and the Americans and Russians are competing for chips and control of Arsenal. For this reason, serious divisions occurred within Arsenal, and the boss David Dunn resigned. Wenger believed that there were policy risks in selling Arsenal to Russian oligarchs, and he refused to do so, preferring to choose the stingy American capitalists.

Things here are too complicated.

Zhou Buqi couldn't participate.

The only good thing is that he contacted David Dunn and invited him to Ziweixing Sports Digital Media Company as a football consultant.

Manchester is a far cry from London.

But there are benefits.

When tourists come to London, there are too many world-famous attractions, such as Big Ben, the Thames River, Cambridge University, Buckingham Palace...the home stadiums of Arsenal and Chelsea are not even on the list.

Manchester is different.

Old Trafford is the largest tourist attraction in Manchester. As long as you travel to Manchester, visiting Old Trafford is an essential part of your visit.

This is the city’s biggest business card.

On this day, Zhou Buqi went to watch a game at Manchester United's home court: Manchester United VS Tottenham.

There is no winter break in the Premier League.

After Manchester United went to Osaka to win the Club World Cup in December, they immediately returned to the UK to participate in the league. Their form was greatly affected, with three consecutive draws.

As a result, Manchester United is 8 points behind Liverpool in the standings.

Maybe the boss was watching the game, which gave the team excitement.

Manchester United scored in the third minute of the game. Taking advantage of a corner kick, central defender Vidic scored with a header.

Zhou Buqi was watching the game in the VIP box.

I have no choice but to go outside. I am surrounded by young and beautiful girls, Xue Baoshan, Sun Wanran, Feng Muer, and Zhen Yu who just flew over from the United States.

Zhen Yu complained a little, "I can't complete the tasks you assigned me."

"how?"

"It's too complicated and I don't have enough experience."

"No way?" Zhou Buqi was a little funny, "You were the president of Twitter, didn't you do a good job?"

Zhen Yu said distressedly: "How can it be the same? Twitter is just a small company. But here at Ziweixing, international business has been aggressive as soon as it started. Several industry lines were launched at the same time, including movies and football. I can't take care of it. "

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Senior Sister Zhen, don't be discouraged."

Zhen Yu shook her head slightly, "It's not that I'm discouraged, it's that I'm really struggling. You still want me to help you take care of the family's finances, and I'm beyond my capabilities."

"or……"

"Give me another job?"

"How about you do some supervision and review work, and become my big housekeeper. In addition to helping me manage the finances of the family foundation, you can also serve as a director of Ziweixing International Group and control the finances. And Manchester United, you also come to be a director. Well, if EMI is acquired in the future, you will also join the board of directors of EMI. By the way, there are also board seats for Marvel, Netflix, and Tesla. You will also take my place. Come on."

Zhou Buqi's arrangement was very easy.

As long as you don't end up in person, the workload is minimal.

Directors have great power but very little work. They don’t care what they do or how they do it. They just need to look at the reports and see the results. It is common for a person to serve as a director of more than a dozen listed companies at the same time.

Zhen Yu breathed a sigh of relief and was very surprised, "Do you really want to buy EMI Records?"

Zhou Buqi said: "With this idea, it can form a positive supplement to our industrial ecology."

"Are you rich?" Zhen Yu is now helping him manage the family fund and knows the inside story. "The family fund only has 100 million US dollars left in its account, and it also helps Manchester United with a loan of 600 million US dollars."

Sun Wanran and Feng Muer looked at each other and stuck out their tongues.

How scary!

As for the rich man, he owes 600 million US dollars!

Is he the richest man or the first loser?

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "It's only US$600 million. With Pluto Capital and Neptune Capital, we don't have to worry about cash flow at all."

Zhen Yu whispered: "The recent growth has been quite good. Pluto has increased by 18.7% and Neptune has increased by 14.4%. I think it can continue to rise, so it is best not to sell."

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course I can't sell it. This is a value investment and it's long-term. But it can't affect normal life. Either... or go to the bank for a loan of 1 billion or 2 billion US dollars in the name of Neptune, and then Neptune The capital will then lend this money to Fangfei Fund and repay it with future dividends.”

The United States is a financial empire, and there are endless ways to operate capital. Whether it is physical mortgage, virtual mortgage, or even personal credit mortgage, there are a variety of ways to get loans from banks.

Now that the world is going big, it is much easier to get loans than it was half a year ago.

Zhen Yu was a little worried about him and frowned slightly, "Loans are possible, but I'm afraid... you have to be careful, just in case."

"Yes, Senior Sister Zhen is right." Xue Baoshan was also very concerned, "Classmate Zhou, you must not be careless. Tai Fung Capital is so powerful. It is known as one of the four major industrial funds in Europe. It also failed to handle the loan problem. EMI records may be taken away."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "This is Britain, the birthplace of capitalism. Keynesianism, the more loans, the more benefits. Besides, in my capacity, a loan of three to five billion US dollars is a lot, isn't it?"

Zhen Yu gave him a cute look.

Xue Baoshan pursed her lips and smiled without saying a word.

Manchester United's recent game state is really bad. The game was ugly. Ferguson was yelling on the sidelines and seemed particularly angry.

Zhou Buqi was not very interested in the game and said seriously: "Senior Sister Zhen, I'm telling you the truth, you want to come to Manchester United as a director and be in charge of finance."

"Where's uncle? Where's Mr. Zhu? Also, didn't you joke that you found an assistant named Sandoku?"

"My dad is not good enough, and Zhu Jun is also very busy. San Dezi is good, he used to be the manager of Morgan's credit department, and he can be your pawn in the future."

Zhen Yu nodded gently, "Do I need to do anything?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Buy a plane."

"Didn't you buy it? You bought it in the name of Neptune. It's an Airbus A330. The price is US$150 million. I've already sent out US$120 million. I'm just waiting for the final payment to be settled at the time of delivery."

"That's for our own use. What I mean is to buy two second-hand planes and give them to Manchester United's executives. Have you heard about it? Many big companies in the United States are selling planes."

"Yeah. I know."

Of course Zhen Yu knew.

The current price of second-hand aircraft has plummeted, mainly because of the financial tsunami.

The place with the highest density of private jets is Wall Street. Many financiers even take helicopters to and from Long Island and Manhattan every day when commuting. Because the financial tsunami broke out, financial giants suffered heavy losses.

After a lot of scolding in the market, financiers were too embarrassed to fly around in private jets every day, selling planes.

Citigroup has 9 planes and wants to sell 6; Bank of America has 9 planes and wants to sell 7; Wells Fargo will only keep one plane for the CEO to use.

AIG, Manchester United's current main jersey sponsor, has 7 aircraft and 4 more are on order. After the crisis broke out, orders for new aircraft were canceled and 2 more aircraft were sold.

According to data from the Private Jet Industry, registered used private jets have increased by 352% in the past three months.

The prices of new phones are also falling, but not by much.

The supply of second-hand aircraft exceeds demand, and prices have plummeted.

Zhen Yu frowned slightly, a little confused, "Buy a plane for the team?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I'm not buying a plane for the team. The team has sponsors and a Manchester United special plane to fly on. It's a Boeing 747. I'm talking about buying it for Manchester United's executives. Traveling by civil aviation is too shabby. "

Zhen Yu was surprised, "Buy two?"

"Well, I want to reform Manchester United and split it into two parts. One part is Manchester United headquarters, mainly the traditional sports part. The other part is a newly established subsidiary, Manchester United Commercial. I am planning to replace Gilbert, the senior vice president of EMI Records. I was specially recruited to be the CEO."

"It's a bit of a luxury."

"Buying people's hearts can reduce resistance to reform."

"That's right." Zhen Yu sighed softly, "As a foreigner, it's not easy to do anything."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "It's not that difficult. This group of football guys is not difficult to deal with. From now on, when David Gill and Ferguson go to other places to discuss player transfers, they can take the club's private jet out. Logistics The guarantee is there. It doesn’t need to cost too much, just two ordinary planes, and the budget is within 20 million US dollars.”

Zhen Yu asked again: "How much money does Manchester United have on its account?"

"It's not much, it seems to be more than 50 million pounds. Broadcasting fees, match fees, etc. are all paid at the end of the season, and there will be more cash flow when the season is over."

Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied with this.

Although Manchester United's commercial development is not satisfactory, its expenditures are also very low. As long as the money is not used to pay off debts, there will be no cash flow crisis.

Zhen Yu suddenly thought of something, "What about Lu Qi? Aren't you going to make arrangements for him?"

"It has to be there."

Zhou Buqi must not be stingy about this kind of thing and must conform to the general environment. CEOs of Silicon Valley companies all have private jets as standard equipment. Some of them are purchased by themselves, and some are provided by the company.

After Musk made his first pot of gold, the first thing he did was buy a private jet.

However, the aircraft given to the land carrier cannot be as low-end as Manchester United.

Zhou Buqi said: "We have to equip Luqi with a first-class business jet, and it is a new jet. The budget cannot be less than 30 million US dollars. This matter is not urgent. We will talk about it after Ziweixing is split up. Let's first deal with Manchester United's Things are done well. By the way, Senior Sister Zhen, you will live abroad with your fiancé from now on, right?"

Zhen Yu looked indifferent and pulled her hair around her ears, "I can do it."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I will also buy you a plane so that you can travel between Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London and Manchester."

"No."

For some reason, Senior Sister Zhen Yu's mood suddenly became less high, and her brows became cold.