America's Road to Fame

Chapter 230 Abu's Suggestion

After visiting Old Trafford, Chen William left Manchester and came to London.

Acquiring the Manchester United club is not something that can be achieved immediately. The Glazer family will definitely not be willing to sell it at a price that is too low. People are greedy. Even though everyone thinks that they have been sucking blood from Manchester United for so many years, they themselves said Maybe I feel that I have done a good job. You see, haven't Manchester United's results been good all the time?In addition, their family's business is very difficult now, and they definitely hope to get a bid as high as possible.

Therefore, William Chen needs to constantly release the pressure on them, just like what he saw at Old Trafford yesterday, it has been published in its newspapers and the "America Headlines" app today, and it has also caused a lot of repercussions in the United States .

In an exclusive online interview with William Chen on the mobile version of The New York Times, William Chen expressed his confidence in the acquisition of Manchester United and repeated part of what he said to David Gill yesterday.

When the reporter asked William Chen, what would happen if the Glazer family insisted on an extremely high asking price?

Chen William replied: "I believe that the investment of the Glazer family has already made enough profits. In line with the standpoint of the great club Manchester United, they will make the right choice."

It's just that what he didn't say was that if the Glazer family were really so ignorant of current affairs, they might be facing William Chen's inconvenient method.After all, Goldman Sachs and other investment banks are now allies of William Chen, and the assets needed by the Glazer family are all in the United States. They were affected by the subprime mortgage crisis and suffered serious losses.

More importantly, the Glazer family is not without competitors. In their main business, whether it is food processing or retailing, their family is only the major shareholder of the company and does not fully control it. With the help of William Chen, the second Shareholders are not without ambition to replace them.

William Chen once said that kindness is a precious quality, and only if you are capable enough can you have the right to show your kindness.But in business competition, in essence, everything is used to the extreme.

It's not just about business. The Anglo-Saxon white people in the West only put on a sanctimonious cloak and talk nonsense about freedom and equality after burning, killing and looting to earn a lot of money.

William Chen came to London mainly at the invitation of Abu to attend the banquet he specially organized for William Chen.

As a wealthy Russian businessman, Abramovich once ranked around 15th in the Forbes rich list. In this year's Forbes list, he ranks 112th with assets of about 50 billion US dollars.

Although the ranking is not high, he can be said to be one of the people with the most cash assets in the world, er, definitely not as much as William Chen.

This time I heard that William Chen came to the UK. The reason why Abramovich specially invited William Chen is that on the one hand, he owns the Premier League team Chelsea, and after investing a lot of money, Chelsea’s lineup is also very strong. The results in the past two years are good. .

In addition, his wife Dasha Zhukova invested 3 million US dollars in William Chen's No. 2000 fund, which resulted in a return of nearly 11 times, and has now turned into assets of more than 2.35 million US dollars.

This also made Dasha very surprised and pleasantly surprised, so there was a special invitation from Abu.

Abu currently lives in a villa located in Lowndes Square, London, covering an area of ​​2788 square meters.This villa, which was converted from nine adjacent apartments he bought here two years ago, is worth up to 9 million US dollars and is currently the most expensive private residence in the UK.

When William Chen arrived, the Abu couple personally welcomed him to the villa. Seeing that William Chen was very interested in his house, Abu also specially showed him the most luxurious house in Britain.

The interior layout of this villa is divided into 5 floors above ground and 3 floors underground, with entertainment room, indoor swimming pool and sauna room.In the design, Abramovich also specially equipped a study room and a game room for his five children.

The interior decoration of the entire villa is Victorian, which complements the luxurious exterior structure of the villa.

"How about it? If you want to buy a house in London, I can recommend you a good house. When I bought a house here, I didn't have less choices."

Abu's attitude was very kind, and he said with a smile on his face.

"I do have this idea, not only in London, but if you buy Manchester United, you will also buy a house in Manchester."

"In fact, it is easy to buy a house, but it is more difficult to find a suitable housekeeper here. You know, British housekeepers are very famous. If you find a good housekeeper, you will save a lot of work and be able to take care of your home. It's all right. Just like my current housekeeper, I found it after searching for a long time, and there was an element of luck in it."

For what Abu said, William Chen agrees very much. He will have residences in many places around the world in the future. The biggest problem is that the daily maintenance and maintenance of these residences requires reliable people to help him.After all, to be able to be considered by him, most of them belong to the category of luxury houses. The area is already huge, and it cannot be done by himself or two or three maids. A good housekeeper is very necessary.

Especially in countries other than the United States, it is often not possible to live several times a year, and it is easier to neglect management.

"If there is a suitable candidate, Mr. Roman must recommend it to me. I am also in need of these now." William Chen does not mind establishing contact with Abramovich through these. After all, if they buy Manchester United, both of them will be regarded as foreign owners. There will be many areas for cooperation.

"Of course, just leave it to me."

Abu said happily.

Speaking of it, there are still many topics for the two of them, and Abramovich is also a person who is good at enjoying, just like his mansion, team, private jet and the "Eclipse" super yacht, all can be talked about.

In particular, William Chen now has a private jet and has just ordered an A380 from Airbus, so he is unavoidably interested in yachts, and asked him about related matters:
"I boarded your Eclipse in the United States before, and I was really shocked. Now I also hope to own a similar yacht. I wonder if Mr. Roman has any suggestions?"

The Eclipse is currently the largest super yacht in the world, but a yacht currently under construction with a length of about 180 meters is about to take away his title of world number one, and the owner of that yacht, It was the Khalifa, brother of Manchester City boss Mansour.

Abramovich's "Eclipse" was built by the German "Blom Voss" company's shipyard in Hamburg. It began in January 2007 and took three years to complete. The cost was as high as 1 million euros. The yacht looks like a yacht fortress in terms of size and configuration.

Hearing that Chen William also had the idea of ​​buying a similar yacht, Abu naturally recommended him this shipyard, saying that he could go there to have a look if he had the opportunity, whether he built it himself or bought someone else's order, it was all right.

Of course, in terms of time, it takes much less time to get a yacht if you buy someone else's order, if you don't have very special requirements, or you must have the title of world number one.Now that the economy is in crisis, whether it is a private jet or a private yacht, there are many people who have placed orders and canceled them due to financial conditions. If William Chen really needs them, there may be many orders for him to choose from.

In this case, William Chen thought that his next stop after leaving England would be Germany.

This is a private dinner, so William Chen was only invited. After dinner with the Abramovich couple, we continued to chat. After Abramovich bought himself from Chelsea, he told William Chen many of the situations he encountered. He has a deeper understanding of the Premier League.

In the end, Abu enthusiastically persuaded William Chen to stay in his home, but William Chen politely refused.Because at this time, there are still people waiting for him in the hotel.

When William Chen returned to the presidential suite of the hotel, he saw Yang Mi waiting inside.

"Honey, you're finally back, I'm hungry."

Seeing William Chen enter the room, Yang Mi bounced over, gave him a big hug, and said.

"Didn't I ask you to go to the restaurant of the hotel to have something to eat first?"

"I don't want to wait for you."

(End of this chapter)