Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 63 The Way to Make Money
So far, Chen Ran has won a total of 1000 million euros in winning bonuses from the system for nine Championship games and two League Cup games.

Now, he no longer has to worry about not being able to pay the players' salaries.

However, it is a pity to put so much money in the account like this, and the money must be moved.

With the arrival of Abramovich at Chelsea this summer, the golden era of football in the new century has since opened.

In the future, both players and coaches will become more and more expensive.

Now it is 2003, if someone says that the transfer fee of players will exceed 2 million euros in ten years time, they will be considered crazy.

Chen Ran's positioning for the Crystal Palace is not to become a black shop or a star processing factory like Porto, Monaco or Ajax, but to build the Crystal Palace into a wealthy club.

Therefore, whether it is to buy players or retain existing players in the future, it is necessary to spend a lot of money.

Although Chen Ran now has a system to provide winning bonuses, he still understands the principle of risk diversification, and he cannot put all his eggs in one basket.

What if one day the system no longer provides winning bonuses?
In order to prevent problems before they happen, after accumulating a certain amount of capital, Chen Ran is also planning to open up another way to make money.

In his previous life, Chen Ran was just an ordinary Chinese citizen. He didn't know that in 2003, there were any opportunities to make a lot of money in Britain.

The investment opportunities he can think of now are all the information he has accumulated over the years of being a leek in his previous life.

That's right, as a leek in the backyard of the big A in the previous life, not to mention the fact that he didn't make any money, he also paid a lot of tuition fees.

The only advantage is probably that he has developed the habit of watching the news on time every day, especially the financial news, and then drooling at the unattainable opportunities to make money in the news.

What Chen Ran regrets most is that the time of rebirth was a bit late, and he missed the opportunity to invest in Penguin before listing.

Now Penguin's entrepreneurial team has completed a 50% shareholding structure adjustment with MIH, and is preparing to go public next year.

However, after Penguin goes public, there will be a period of sideways volatility for quite a long time.

At that time, Chen Ran planned to slowly build up positions by way of fixed investment, and then hold them all the time.

It can save you worry and let Brother Ma earn money for you, why not do it?
However, it is still nearly a year before Penguin goes public next year.

It's too bad to just let the money sit in the account and wait, so find some other projects to invest in first.

Anyway, as the Crystal Palace continues to win, the money available in his hands will continue to increase, and it will not affect the plan to adopt penguins next year.

As a reborn person, Chen Ran certainly knew that now was a good opportunity to invest in Huaguo's real estate market.

But Chen Ran, who also suffered from rising house prices in his previous life, felt that he should stop helping the evildoers.

Money is a good thing, no one wants too much.

But a man can do something and not do something.

Besides, if you want to speculate in real estate, you don't have to go back to China to speculate.

London is a place where rich people all over the world are keen to buy properties.

In the previous life, apart from the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent Brexit, which caused London's house prices to drop briefly, the rest of the time, London's house prices rose almost all the way.

Funds from all over the world, for various purposes, continue to pour into London's real estate market, from residences to shops and office buildings, all of which have been speculated into the sky.

Before being reborn, Chen Ran saw a piece of news.

2021年5月19日，德国基金管理公司Deka同意以2.35亿英镑（约合21.35亿人民币）收购伦敦圣詹姆斯广场8号大楼。

The transaction price is about 3800 pounds per square foot (about 36.8 RMB per square meter)

The seller of this transaction is the Shun Tak Group, a company owned by the well-known gambling king He's family.

而当初信德集团在2017年买入伦敦圣詹姆斯广场7号大楼和8号大楼时，总收购价为2.459亿英镑（约合22.34亿人民币）。

Have you found it?In four years, the transaction price of Building No. 8 alone has almost made the He family recover the cost.

The other building, No. 7, was almost for nothing.

Now that he knew the result, Chen Ran certainly would not let go of such a good opportunity.

What's more, he still lives in a rented apartment and doesn't even have his own house in London, which really doesn't fit his current status.

Among other things, Cheryl has been living with him in this apartment since she followed him, and has never complained.

Even for Cheryl, Chen Ran felt that he should buy a better house.

It can not only add value, but also make yourself more comfortable, the best of both worlds.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran immediately contacted Stephen.

As a native Londoner, he was the perfect person for this kind of thing.

After Cheryl came home, Chen Ran told her about the plan to buy a house.

"Honey, you are amazing! I have long wanted to have a house of my own."

Cheryl screamed excitedly, hugging Chen Ran was like a passionate kiss.

The results speak for themselves, and the two had a fun and wild night.

So, in the next period of time, as long as both of them are free, Cheryl will take Chen Ran to look around the house, never tired of it.

With Stephen's help, Chen Ran also learned from those bigwigs and set up an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands to prepare for future investment tax avoidance.

Although Stephen was only an illegitimate child, his father was a real Marquis after all, and the circle he had been in contact with since childhood was either rich or noble.

Knowing that Chen Ran wanted to buy a house, Stephen quickly contacted him with many luxury houses, and even asked him if he was interested in castles.

Chen Ran was so frightened that he quickly refused sternly, that thing was not affordable to live in, and the maintenance cost was too expensive.Moreover, it has a history of hundreds of years, who knows if it will be haunted?
Picking and choosing, considering that Cheryl and I are very busy, although the houses in the suburbs are big and cheap, but the time spent on the road is too much, the two finally decided to buy a single-family house in London .

After finishing his own residence, Chen Ran asked Stephen to help him start buying small apartments near the university, one or two bedrooms.

And for this reason, a special team was set up to be responsible for acquiring, decorating, maintaining and renting out these houses.

You must know that there are many well-known universities in the UK. Every year, parents from all over the world send their children to study here.

Children who can come to the UK to study will have good family conditions. There is absolutely no need to worry about renting out the small houses near these schools.

Moreover, in order to maximize the efficiency of capital use, when purchasing these properties, Chen Ran used loans to pay for them all.

Because according to professional calculations, the rent charged for each house can not only fully cover the monthly loan repayments, but also generate considerable income.

In this way, Chen Ran has perfectly realized raising a house with a house in London.

As long as London's housing prices do not collapse, this game can be used for unlimited nesting of dolls.

The term of the loan is 20 years, and now it is 2003. By 2023, the loan for the house that Chen Ran bought in 2003 can be fully repaid.

At least until the beginning of 2022, before Chen Ran's rebirth, housing prices in London are still rising.

Maybe many years later, apart from being the owner of the Crystal Palace Club, Chen Ran also has the title of a London real estate tycoon.

(End of this chapter)