reborn football boss

Chapter 42
Soriano still couldn't believe it. He never thought that the young man he was chatting with just now was actually the chairman of a professional club in England. The probability of this is too small.

But he has actually heard of the Notts County club, thanks to the name of the oldest professional club in England in Notts County, although he may not know much about it, but at least he has heard of the name.

"Are you really the chairman of Notts County?" Soriano asked in disbelief.

David shrugged and said with a smile, "It's true!"

Soriano clicked his tongue in amazement, as if sighing something, but he suddenly remembered that the young chairman just invited himself to Notts County as CEO, right?
Not understanding what David meant, Soriano frowned and asked, "You want to invite me to be the CEO of Notts County? Why?"

"It's very simple. There is no CEO in Notts County yet. Most of the work is on my shoulders. It is very tiring. We talked for a long time just now, and I think you are very suitable. I hope to develop and host the team. The daily work of the club is entrusted to you." David said sincerely.

"Are you sure you're not joking?" Soriano still felt a little joking.

David shook his head and said with a smile: "If you don't believe it, we can sign the contract when we arrive in the United States, and then you can take office!"

This time Soriano was really at a loss. Although he was very moved, many determinations could not be made just because of his heart. It was related to his own future.

Although the job in the airline is very good and there will be great development in the future, this is not the life Soriano wants. He likes football and loves football. If he can work in a football-related industry, then his ideal of life should be More than half of it can be achieved.

Soriano, who was cautious, asked David many questions in the following time, and David answered them one by one without concealment, including the current situation of the club, his plans for the future of the club and the final vision.

It has to be said that David's plan for the club is very attractive, and it is difficult for Soriano to say no to Notts County.

However, Soriano, who came from a financial background, decided to think it over and discuss it with his family when he returned to Spain. Maybe they could give him better advice.

David was not in a hurry either, he knew that the choice was sometimes very difficult, as long as Soriano could move his heart and not refuse on the spot, then he would be successful today.

After the plane landed, Soriano, who was on a business trip, bid farewell to David. The two exchanged contact information. In David's view, Soriano's role as the team's CEO is already guaranteed, and he can't escape his palm.

David felt that he should say sorry to Laporta, because he probably took away the right-hand man of the future chairman of Barcelona.

Well, I have to say sorry to Manchester City, your future president is gone.

In a good mood, David put things aside and concentrated all his energy on the US stock market. This will be his biggest capital to gain a foothold in English football, and he must not mess it up.

Fortunately, history did not take an unknown turning point.

911 happened as scheduled, so after the opening of the U.S. stock market, it will definitely plummet all the way, and no one can stop it.

On September 9, the first day of trading after the September 17 attacks, the Dow Jones index fell 684.81 points that day, a drop of 7.1%. At the end of the week, the Dow Jones index fell 1369.70 points, an overall drop of 14.3 points. [-]%.

David relied on a large amount of capital and super-high leverage. A week later, when all his operations were completed, he was already holding nearly 10 billion pounds in banknotes.

I have money, I have money, I don't even know how to spend it!

This is a true portrayal of David's state of mind at this time.

In fact, I have always thought that I am a person who is easy to satisfy. If I just live by myself, maybe 100 million and 100 billion are no different to him, because as long as it is enough for him to live, the rest is just a number.

The previous plan is really on the agenda, except for the youth training camp that has already started to be built. Now, the construction of the team's new stadium and the club's new training base can be officially started at one time. I hope that in two years' time Can catch up with Notts County's new Premier League season.

If you have money, you don't have to dig and search, just do it in one step.

His thoughts involuntarily shifted back to his previous life.

In the previous life, the famous training bases in the world included Clairefontaine in France, Las Rozas in Spain, etc., but the most famous one is St. George's Park in England, which cost as much as 1.5 million pounds.

There are 11 outdoor courts, 5 of which have lighting and underground heating systems, and there is also a well-equipped indoor artificial turf court, suitable for all-weather training.The player locker room adopts the most advanced touch-screen TV and ice bath facilities; at the same time, a training ground similar in size to Wembley Stadium is replicated in the base.

This football training base also includes a five-star hotel, which is used as a place for the pre-match press conference to receive reporters; and the top floor of the five-star hotel is specially reserved for the England national team to ensure the team's pre-match training privacy.

St. George's Park not only has top training facilities but also top medical resources.Here, the medical recovery center is comparable to a large hospital and can even undertake surgical operations; five large indoor gymnasiums use NASA technology, the most famous of which is the "altitude room", which means that players can't export. You can train on the "plateau".

David really wants to build a training base according to the standards of St. George's Park, but for a club, it is a bit inappropriate. This is not a question of more money, but a waste of resources.

If only the first team and the reserve team are in the training base, then this training base may be similar to a ghost town. You know, in terms of scale, St. George's Park is more than enough to accommodate 5-6 clubs to train together.

After deliberating for a long time, David decided to give up his almost nouveau riche approach and plan the training base according to the reality of Notts County. After all, the training base is for use, but for the world to admire.

Training facilities and medical resources must not be sloppy, this must be guaranteed, but the scale of the building must be reduced accordingly, to be able to maintain the first team and reserve team, and leave enough room for maneuver.

Calculated in this way, the construction of the training base in Notts County may not cost 8000 million pounds.

Soriano, hurry up. David is extremely bored with the specific operations of these things. In his opinion, it is more interesting to watch the team's training on the training ground when he has that time.

(End of this chapter)