i am a football star

Chapter 6 The Liverpool Takeover
Life has to go day by day, and Liu Ting is also calm every day.

At the end of June 2007, the major leagues in Europe had long since ended. Only some Nordic leagues were still going on despite the cold weather.The Asian Cup jointly held by Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam in Southeast Asia will also start in early July, and domestic sports media have been attracted to Southeast Asia.As the runner-up of the last Asian Cup, although everyone thinks that the strength of the Chinese team has declined, the fans still have hope. What if they are lucky and come back with a championship?
Only Liu Ting knows how miserable the Chinese team is this year.

On June 6th, a relatively normal day for football, news broke out in England.

"Rich Hong Kong Chinese are about to move into Liverpool", this is the headline on the front page of the "Liverpool Echo".

The article reported: "About more than a year ago, because of the intensified global financial crisis, Liverpool owner David Morse was unable to sustain himself and expressed his willingness to sell his English giants. Buyers from all over the world asked for prices. There were Britons, rich men from other European countries, Americans, South American rich men, and Middle Eastern, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai people. Businessman Hicks and Gillett, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand. In the end, among the three parties, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand gave up the acquisition of Liverpool due to financial problems and instead aimed at Manchester City. In the competition between 'Dubai International Fund' and American businessmen, it seems that American businessmen have the upper hand. We all thought that Liverpool would become an American team.

People thought that the acquisition of the Americans would be finalized soon, but the acquisition of Liverpool was delayed again and again. Unexpectedly, there is a big reversal now.According to news from inside Liverpool, Liu Zhenghua, a rich man from Hong Kong, is about to become the owner of Liverpool. Although it was reported that Liu Zhenghua also asked for a price for Liverpool, it was nothing after that. No one expected such a result in the end.

According to the latest Forbes World Rich List, Liu Zhenghua is worth 150 billion U.S. dollars, ranking 30th in the world, about 16 billion less than the 30th place owner of Chelsea, Abramovich, but he is definitely a behemoth. "

The acquisition of Liverpool started a year ago. Many rich people are interested, but they have not been able to reach their intentions. "Liverpool Echo", as a major newspaper in England and also the mouthpiece of Liverpool Club, reported such news, then this matter is definitely not groundless.

Liverpool is an old giant in Europe. Although it has declined slightly in recent years, its influence in the world is still there. Especially in the past three years, it has reached the Champions League final twice. Everyone thinks that Liverpool will rise again. The issue of its acquisition has naturally attracted the attention of many people.

※※※

The issue of Liverpool's acquisition immediately attracted widespread attention in world football, especially in China.First of all, the paparazzi in Hong Kong, there are people guarding the door of Liu's investment company at any time, wanting to interview Liu Zhenghua.However, Liu Zhenghua has kept a low profile these years, and it would be difficult to get interviews. Some of them went directly to England. If Lin Zhenghua really bought Liverpool in the end, there will always be news there.

Although the Asian Cup is about to start, the acquisition of Liverpool by Liu Zhenghua is indeed big news, and the Chinese domestic media have also sent many people to the UK.

Liu Ting continued to live his own little life, and he is still unknown in football.

The acquisition of Liverpool was at Liu Ting's request. It may be influenced by future memories, or it may be that he experienced the miracle in Istanbul. Liu Ting became a Liverpool fan.Liu Ting was able to know what would happen in Istanbul in the summer of 05 in advance, and at the same time, he had the conditions, so naturally he would not miss such a good thing.It's a completely different feeling to experience it for yourself than to just read the dry report in the newspaper.

Therefore, Liu Ting told his grandfather about letting him buy Liverpool. Liu Ting knew how Liverpool would be played by those two Americans after they bought Liverpool.The Americans who bought Liverpool were already suspected of money laundering. They brought their gray income in the United States to Europe to wash it off. The life and death of Liverpool is none of their business.

Knowing this, it will be easier to snatch Liverpool from the Americans.The original owner of Liverpool, David Morse, has a lot of affection for Liverpool. Liverpool is their family business. When Liverpool was at its best, when the Red Army dominated Europe in those years, David Morse's father was the chairman of Liverpool. Now he is only affected by the financial crisis and has to sell Liverpool. He naturally wants to find a better home for Liverpool.Of course, money is also essential, and Europeans and Americans are very clear about it, money is money, and feelings are feelings.

Liu Ting just asked the acquisition team organized by Liu Zhenghua to collect some information about the two Americans, so that David Morse could know the true colors of the Americans, and at the same time offer a sincere price, and point out the American leveraged buyout idea, then Morse would make the right choice.

Leveraged buyout means that the Americans buy Liverpool with a loan from the bank. After the acquisition is successful, they use Liverpool as collateral to repay the loan.The price of doing this is that Liverpool will bear a large amount of debt and have to repay part of the loan every year, causing the team to become weaker and weaker, and the poor record will make the debt more and more, and a giant will become an ordinary team.

The Glazer family who bought Manchester United also used a leveraged buyout, but Manchester United is the most profitable team in the world, making a lot of money in the world every year, and Ferguson can guarantee Manchester United's performance, so the money earned every year is basically enough to repay the loan.

The two Americans also watched the Glazer family get Manchester United empty-handed.But Liverpool is not Manchester United, and does not have such a strong ability to absorb money.

※※※

Liu Ting continues to train in the spiritual illusion every night, but now he has flexibility. The long-term sandbag training makes him always pass the ball with the ball, and his muscles will remember the feeling of carrying the sandbag, and he exerts too much force.

Scientists and Liu Ting said that this is a long-term problem. As long as it can be completely corrected and flexibility is maintained, in the future, you can achieve what you want on the court.

In addition to restoring the memory of muscle strength, Liu Ting practiced his shooting skills every day. If he wants to find a new team, as a striker, his shooting skills are not good.

On July 7, Liverpool held a press conference, officially announcing that Lau Cheng-wah, a rich man from Hong Kong, China, had acquired the Premier League giants Liverpool at a price of 18 million pounds. At the same time, the team's management and head coach would not be changed, and a certain amount of funds would be provided as a transfer fee.

As the boss, Liu Zhenghua had to go to Liverpool, while Liu Ting stayed in Hong Kong.It is the result of discussions between Liu Ting and Liu Zhenghua not to change the management and head coach for the time being. Now the sudden big change will make the team turbulent, and it is very likely that the performance of the new season will plummet.

At the same time, on July 7, the Chinese team was eliminated in the group stage of the Asian Cup. This was the first time in 18 years that the Chinese team was eliminated in the group stage of the Asian Cup.

While domestic fans condemned the national team, the national team was scolded from top to bottom, and at the same time they were also concerned about Liverpool. A Chinese bought Liverpool, which is something worthy of attention.

Liu Ting is also waiting for his agent to find him a new home, because his current strength is not enough to go to Liverpool, and the current Liverpool coach Benitez does have some strength, but he is notoriously eccentric and difficult to deal with. If he goes to Liverpool like this now, Liu Ting feels that he may be on the bench for a few years.

With Liu Ting's current conditions, at most he is a youth training player who was given up by Barcelona, ​​which is not of much value at all.Perhaps in China, a young player who can enter La Masia will be considered very good, even if he is finally given up.But Liu Ting is a Monaco national, and he was very low-key when he was in La Masia, and he was unknown in China.

The time quickly jumped to the end of July. Liu Ting was going back to Europe. At the same time, he also went to discuss with his agent. European clubs began to prepare for the new season.

Although the family is rich, Liu Ting still likes to handle his own affairs, after all, he is 18 years old.

On July 7, Liu Ting got on the plane back to Europe.Liu Ting wants to fly to Paris first, where he can meet with his agent.

(End of this chapter)