Football giants

Chapter 13 Taking Over the Saints
"The British media is really boring!"

In a Bentley Mulsanne speeding on the M3 highway, Yang Huan put down the newspaper in his hand and said very indignantly.

That tone sounded a kind of indescribable grievance, but it made everyone in the car feel very paradoxical.

Bored?
I'm afraid someone has duplicity!

"Ordinary people in the UK like the style of the Sun very much, which is catchy, but very entertaining." Kesh Harris is an Englishman and is very familiar with the British temper.

"The Times used to be a very rigorous newspaper, but in the UK, only the top elite would like it. It was very small and poorly managed. After being acquired by News Corporation, it immediately moved to cater to ordinary people. Now it is a newspaper that balances rigor and entertainment."

But such a newspaper still gave Yang Huan a lot of coverage, and it lasted for two or three days.

Just two days ago, when the news about Yang Huan was about to fade away, Kesh Harris was interviewed by many media in the City of London and talked about Yang Huan. He said frankly that Chinese investors intend to buy an English professional team.

In this interview, he described Yang Huan as another super rich in English football after Abramovich and the Abu Dhabi consortium, which once again caused a climax in the entire British and European media.

In less than two days, there was an endless stream of news about which wealthy team Yang Huan wanted to buy.

From the Glazer family's Manchester United, to Hicks' Liverpool, to the tragic Gunners Arsenal...

Almost all the top teams have a relationship with Yang Huan.

When these news were sent back to China, they also attracted crazy attention from the media and fans.

Once successful, Yang Huan will become the No. 1 player in the mainland to enter the English professional league!
But in fact, Yang Huan secretly won Southampton, a team in England's third tier league.

Now, he is on the highway to Southampton.

"Mr. Yang Huan, you asked me to help you contact the candidates for the head coach. I already have a few more suitable candidates on my side. Please take a look." Kesh Harris has been very busy these days, and he is very busy.

Among other things, just to help Yang Huan find a head coach, he didn't know how many relationships he used.

50 pounds is a lot, but it is not so easy to earn.

Yang Huan took the document from Kesh Harris and opened it to read.

On the first page of the document is former Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini, a Chilean engineer.

In this evaluation document, the evaluation of Pellegrini is quite high. He believes that this head coach is very suitable to lead the middle and lower teams.

However, there is also a problem. Pellegrini may not be willing to coach a League One team, especially after encountering Real Madrid's Waterloo. For the sake of value preservation, he must prove himself again in the top league.

The second is Zeman, the famous Czech marshal who is currently at home.

This head coach is definitely not as famous as Pellegrini. After all, he has never coached a wealthy team, but Yang Huan knows that he is a well-known head coach who doesn't care about his head.

Zeman has not had a job for two years, and it should not be too difficult to invite him out of the mountain.

However, he is not the world famous coach that Yang Huan asked for.

The third one is much more famous. He is currently the head coach of Bayern Munich, the Dutchman Van Gaal.

There is absolutely no doubt about Van Gaal's reputation. The world's top coaches just led Bayern Munich to the Champions League final last season. Although they lost to Mourinho's Inter Milan in the end, they were invincible in German domestic competitions. Van Gaal is most famous for his football philosophy of attacking no matter what.

But like Pellegrini's problem, Van Gaal's personality, and his Bayern Munich has just entered the right track, the possibility of switching to League One and coaching Southampton is slim.

In addition, there are other world-renowned coaches on the list, such as the head coach of the German national team Loew, the head coach of the Spanish national team Bosque, the head coach of the Chilean national team Bielsa, etc., but will these coaches come to the League One team?
On the contrary, it is more realistic for Adrianse, Michelle?

Yang Huan closed the report and passed it to Zhang Ning, while he turned his head and looked out the car window.

Outside the window, the scenery beside the highway is receding rapidly.

There are more and more trees along the road, which tells the guests on the highway that Southampton is approaching.

Southampton is a shining pearl on the south coast of England, where the Titanic departed from.

This is the second largest container cargo port in the UK and the most famous cruise terminal in the UK. It is also the famous capital of flowers and trees in the UK. Almost every household enjoys planting flowers and trees, and the most famous scenic spot in the city is the Tudor Garden.

There is a tree and a white rose in the Southampton team crest.

So, driving on the highway and seeing more and more trees means that Southampton is getting closer.

"Kash." After Yang Huan thought it over, he still had to do it himself.

After Kesh Harris agreed, he continued: "Contact someone for me."

Yang Huan is very clear about the football trend in the next few years. He must adjust Southampton within a year or two. Otherwise, it will be difficult for this team to adapt to the future football trend in the future.

Therefore, Yang Huan's first head coach after taking over the team is very important. He will determine the future direction of Southampton.

This task is not something anyone can do!

It's as if when Abramovich took over Chelsea, the most correct thing he did was to keep Ranieri, so that the latter laid a very solid foundation for Chelsea, and then further invited Mourinho, who has a similar style, and this has created the scenery of Chelsea in the past few years.

Conversely, Manchester City is full of stars, but why can't they produce results?

In the final analysis, there is still one thing, the head coach can't do it!
Now Yang Huan has three very good candidates in his mind, and he must at least get one of them.

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The core city center of Southampton is in the shape of an inverted triangle. A Itching River from south to north and a River Tester from northwest to southeast converge at the end of the inverted triangle, forming the largest cargo port in the UK after Felixstowe.

To the west of the cargo terminal is the headquarters of the International Sailing Federation, and to the north is St. Mary's Stadium in Southampton.

After Yang Huan came to Southampton, he specially asked the driver to drive them around the city, and then arrived at St. Mary's Stadium.

When Bentley arrived at St. Mary's Stadium, the club's executive chairman Nicola Cortez, who had received the news earlier, had already led people to wait at the gate. When he saw Yang Huan get off the car, he immediately went up to greet him.

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan!"

Nicola Cortez is not old, he is only 42 years old, wearing a blue suit and a red tie, his first impression is very good, but now Nicola Cortez has a somewhat worried look on his brows.

Before the club owner Katharina Liebherr sold the team, he didn't even receive any news, which made him feel betrayed, but there was nothing he could do, because he was just a migrant worker.

A new boss takes over, and he has to start worrying about his future fate.

"Hello, Mr. Cortez!" Yang Huan shook hands with him.

Accompanied by Nicola Cortes, Yang Huan and his party entered the conference room of the administrative office on the first floor of Southampton.

As soon as everyone entered, Yang Huan took the boss's seat unceremoniously, Zhang Ning, Sun Yue, and Kesh Harris sat on one side, and Nicola Cortes and the former Southampton employees sat on the other side. Everyone was clearly divided.

"I believe Mr. Cortez should have been notified!"

Kesh Harris was the first to speak, "Since yesterday, Mr. Yang Huan has officially completed the acquisition of Southampton. Therefore, from now on, everything in this team belongs to Mr. Yang Huan."

"I know." Nicholas Cortez's eyes flashed a hint of hatred, but it was not aimed at Yang Huan, but at Katharina.

Now he is like an unlucky guy waiting for the judgment of fate, a little hesitant and a little helpless.

"Mr. Yang Huan is from China, and he is not very familiar with running a team, so after completing the acquisition of Southampton, he will not plan to make too many adjustments and changes to the team's existing management, and he also very sincerely wants to keep Mr. Cortes to stay on, and everything will remain as usual."

This surprised Nicola Cortez, but he soon let it go, probably for the sake of a smooth transition.

After Yang Huan took over Southampton, he inserted both Zhang Ning and Sun Yue into the core management. The two of them are their own people. Among them, Zhang Ning is in charge of finance, and Sun Yue is in charge of news, public relations and publicity and marketing.

In this regard, Southampton's original management has no right to speak and can only accept this airborne appointment.

After making personnel arrangements, Yang Huan asked Nicola Cortes to introduce the current situation in Southampton.

It was through this introduction that he discovered the reason why Katharina was determined to sell Southampton.

"In the suburbs of Southampton, in the forest on the other side of the Test River, we have started construction of a new training base, but the budget has exceeded our expectations. It is estimated that the original 500 million pounds may be increased to more than 3000 million pounds. However, the team currently cannot spend even a penny to invest in this project."

"What?" Kesh Harris lost his voice in surprise.

The total value of Southampton is only 400 million pounds, but a training base costs 3000 million pounds?

"In the report you submitted to us, you didn't mention this project at all!" Kesh Harris was not only blaming Nicholas Cortes, but also explaining to Yang Huan that he was also a deceiver.

"All the club's asset reports have not gone through me, so I don't know." Nicola Cortez has always been excluded from Katharina's trust.

Isn't it just 3000 million pounds?
Yang Huan was very calm, smiled, and said: "It's okay, if you want to build a top giants, you must have the top training base, so I will continue to invest in this project."

In fact, this is a very common phenomenon. It is as if Ashley spent 8000 million pounds to acquire Newcastle, but after the acquisition was completed, they checked the accounts and found that Newcastle still had a debt of 7000 million pounds.

It is because of this that Ashley's offer to Newcastle has always been [-] million pounds, and he refuses to let go.

Relatively speaking, Southampton is relatively good, with no debts, and only one fixed asset investment project that needs to spend money.

Besides, fixed assets, basically, as long as they are built, they will not lose money.

After a pause, Yang Huan continued: "However, I'm not satisfied with the infrastructure team in the UK, so they withdrew them all for me. I found someone from China. I believe that whether it's price, speed, or quality, they are at least better than those in the UK."

China's infrastructure strength is world-renowned, and the Yang family is also engaged in real estate and other development projects. It is not difficult to find a trustworthy infrastructure team to come to the UK.

On the contrary, Yang Huan is more concerned about whether Southampton has the ability to enter the transfer market.

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