The leisurely life of the rich start

Edwards reminded: "Mr. Chairman, Director Harrison is still in the office now."

Zhang Da smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll call him now, thank you for your reminder."

"You are welcome, Mr. President, and thank you for your support of our work."

"No, I should thank you for the work you do for the team."

After a few polite words with Edwards, Zhang Da called Harrison.

"Mr. Chairman? Hello!"

Zhang Da said: "Director Harrison, I plan to spend 5000 million pounds from the remaining transfer funds in the summer window to expand the stadium."

Harrison said immediately: "No problem, Mr. Chairman, I will send you a quotation after the preliminary bidding is completed."

Zhang Da continued to ask: "Okay, how is the epidemic prevention work going?"

"The players and team staff have been vaccinated, and nucleic acid tests will be carried out regularly."

Harrison said truthfully, "But for fans, we have no other control methods other than requiring them to show a negative nucleic acid certificate in accordance with the FA regulations."

"In the absence of legal regulations, we cannot require fans who come to watch the game to wear masks."

Zhang Da thought for a while and asked: "What if we donate masks to home fans? Will it help?"

Harrison said helplessly: "We tried, but with little success."

"Hmm..." Zhang Da pondered, "I might have a way."

3 Chapter Twenty

"Mr. Zhang, do you mean to print the team's logo or images of the players on the outside of the mask?"

"Yes, I want to launch a Liverpool-themed mask." Zhang Da returned to the car and sat in the back seat and said, "You may not know that in Europe, masks with mission images or national flags are very popular in Huaguo now. .”

"Especially the same masks worn by athletes participating in the Olympic Games this year have sold like crazy in our country. So I want to reproduce this model in China to try."

"This should be a way to attract fans to actively wear masks..." Harrison thought for a while and said, "Mr. Chairman, it happens to be the international match day, and the team has no match tasks.

We can make a custom batch of what you say masks, find out for free to team season ticket owners, and test how it works. "

If the effect is significant, we will promote it to all Liverpool fans.

If there is little effect, we will abandon this project, so as not to waste money and manpower, what do you think? "

"That's it." Zhang Da said, "The test results must be reported to me in time."

Harrison quickly said: "Of course, Mr. Chairman!"

...

So, when the time came to September 9th, Liverpool played in a town to face AC Milan, the first opponent in the Champions League group stage.

Die-hard fans who hold team season tickets received a red mask from the security staff when they entered the stadium.

A chubby white fan looked at the back of the mask and chanted, "Hey man! God can't make me wear a mask! Friedum!"

"Relax, sir." The security inspector said, "This is a small gift from the team, thank you for your continued support to the team."

"Well, it's just why don't you send something useful?"

The fat man walked into the field muttering, and turned over the mask in his hand.

On the front of the mask, the image of Salah breaking through with the ball caught his attention instantly.

"Merciful Lord, thank you for guiding the lost believers."

The fat man carefully unwrapped the mask while muttering words.

Looking at him, it seems that he is afraid of being seen by the people around him wearing a mask.

But when he saw fans wearing various Liverpool-themed masks around him, his back suddenly straightened up.

Putting on a mask, he swaggered towards the stands.

Halfway, another Liverpool fan stopped him:

"Hey man, that mask of yours is so cool! Where did you get it?"

"It can't be bought." The fat fan shook his index finger with his left hand, and pulled out the season ticket from his pocket with his right hand. "Look, this is an exclusive benefit for season ticket fans!"

"Wow, that's awesome!" another fan enviously said. "I'm starting to regret not buying season tickets. Damn, I'm going to leave a message on the team's official website and ask them where I can buy this mask!"

"Hey, how about we add a Twitter friend? If you ask, I hope you can private message me on Twitter." The fat fan laughed, "I want to buy some too, I don't know if they designed a total of How many masks are there?"

"No problem, buddy."

...

In late September, when Zhang Dagang returned to Jinling with Cheng Mingming and others, he received a call from Harrison.

"Mr President, the response to the Liverpool-themed masks has been pretty good."

Harrison reported, "Although a few fans claim that they would rather die than wear a mask, most fans are willing to wear this mask. Fans often leave messages on the official website, asking where they can buy this mask."

Gu "At present, we have added Liverpool-themed masks to the team store, and the price is 1.5 pounds each. The sales of masks are beyond our imagination, and they are often sold out!"

"Of course, since the players' portraits are used on the masks, we need to give them some portrait rights. After all costs are thrown away, the net profit of each mask is 0.87 euros."

"This means that by selling masks, we can get more than 50% of the profit."

Zhang Da said with satisfaction, "Director Harrison, please increase production!"

Selling masks to fans can not only relieve the pressure of the epidemic, but also increase the team's profits, so why not do it?

"Of course, Mr. Chairman, we have already ordered a large number of masks!" Harrison said, "The financial department is also calculating whether it is cost-effective to acquire a mask factory to produce Liverpool-themed masks. If it is cost-effective, we are going to use it in the name of the team Buy some mask factories."

"At the same time, we have also registered a patent and trademark for these Liverpool-themed masks."

"You have done a good job." Zhang Da praised, "The mask factory can also be acquired. I think that since we have made money selling masks, other teams will not miss this business opportunity."

As for the plan of acquiring a mask factory in China and then exporting it to Europe, Zhang Da has also considered it.

But after consulting Tang Haitao and Zhang Xiang, he gave up.

In China, medical masks belong to medical machinery.

Therefore, if you want to export medical masks to China, you must spend time and money to apply for qualification certificates.

What's more, the export of medical masks has to consider factors such as tariffs, transportation costs, and time costs.

Calculated layer by layer, exporting masks to the country is not cost-effective to produce locally.

Harrison didn't know that Zhang Da had thought about it, so he focused all his attention on the pound:

"Mr. Chairman, do you mean that we can also try to manufacture masks for other Premier League teams?"

"That's right." Zhang Da nodded and said, "Moreover, not only the Premier League, but also football clubs throughout Europe may be our potential market."

"Mr. Chairman, you are so wise and mighty!" Harrison said from the bottom of his heart, "I will arrange the acquisition of the factory immediately. After that, I will send the sales results during this period, as well as the mask samples, to some of our relations Good club."

"Okay, the specific work will be handed over to you."

After receiving Zhang Da's guidance, Harrison immediately started working.

After seeing the huge sale of Liverpool's themed masks, several giants in the Premier League began to sit still.

Don't underestimate the income of 1.5 euros.

For a wealthy team whose stadium is large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Even if each home fan only buys one mask, they can earn more than £10 by selling masks every home match day.

There are 19 home games in a Premier League season.

Plus the Europa League, League Cup, FA Cup, women's games and youth teams.

After a year, it can increase the team's income by millions of pounds.

Under the epidemic situation, this income of millions is absolutely commendable!

Levy, the chairman of Tottenham, who is known for being stingy and loves to make money, took the lead in making people take action.

As a result, a local factory known as "professional OEM team-themed masks" came into Tottenham's sight.

...

Chapter 321 He changed the country

A few days later, Harrison reported back.

"Mr. Chairman, our mask factory has signed OEM contracts with three teams, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal, and the factory will produce team-themed masks for them."

"I see, you did a good job." Zhang Da said, "Did Tottenham reach an agreement with us in the end? I heard you said before that they were the first to contact you."

"Yes, Mr. Chairman." Harrison's tone was a little awkward. "This is my problem. I still underestimated Chairman Levi."

Zhang Da asked curiously, "What did he do?"

"The people he sent didn't even think about signing a contract with us." Harrison said indignantly, "They just want to see our factory, and then go back and buy the factory themselves. For this reason, they proposed that they can pay us £5000 consultancy fee from the factory."

Zhang Da's eyes widened: "Ah...5000 pounds? Are you sure you heard it right?"

The dignified members of the Premier League BIG6 actually only paid 5000 pounds.

The New Year's money sent out by someone Zhang during the Chinese New Year is more than this amount.

"Yes, Sir, £5000," said Harrison. "I decline the insulting offer."

Zhang Da said: "No problem, just refuse if you refuse. Has their factory opened yet?"

"It's already opened, and they even want to compete with us for business."

Speaking of this, Harrison's tone suddenly became lighter,

"However, none of the Premier League giants chose to cooperate with them."

"You know, Chelsea and Arsenal are Tottenham's sworn enemies, so it's impossible to take care of their business."

"As for Manchester City, after Tottenham refused to sell Kane to them in the summer, the two sides had very little contact."

"Okay, I see." Zhang Da nodded, and suddenly felt that he had forgotten his team, "What about Manchester United? They also built a factory?"

"That's not true. Manchester United found an online celebrity mask manufacturer to cooperate and withdrew from the joint team's surrounding masks." Harrison said, "However, due to the high price, the sales volume is very average."

"In addition, Portugal's Porto team has also signed an OEM contract with our factory."

"make persistent efforts!"

...

In the country, the news that the big clubs are scrambling to sell masks around the team has been spread in various media for several days.

The Sun’s news is still out of line: “According to the internal information obtained by this reporter, this craze for masks is spreading among the Premier League giants, mainly to demonstrate to the English Football Association, which opposes the establishment of the UEFA Super League.”

"Since you don't make it mandatory to wear masks to watch the game, the giants will use their own methods to make everyone wear masks."

"According to an insider who did not want to be named, the Premier League BIG6 is planning a new Premier League."

Sky Sports' report is much more serious:

"After the Liverpool team took the lead in launching team-themed masks and acquiring mask factories, the major clubs quickly followed suit. Some economists predict that the annual sales of the themed masks of the wealthy clubs is expected to exceed 500 million pounds."

"Our reporter also interviewed the executive director of Liverpool, Harrison. He told us that the plan to sell team-themed masks was first proposed by the club chairman, Mr. Zhang Da."

In China, the topic of "Fans of the country wearing masks one after another" has also been trending on Weibo.

Netizens are very curious, what kind of prehistoric power is it that can make Chinese people who have always insisted on "lying flat" after the epidemic, take the initiative to wear masks?

For such a topic with its own traffic, various self-media naturally followed up.

After a while, the news from Sky Sports was reprinted on Weibo.

"Oh, it's Mr. Zhang, it's all right."

"Mr. Zhang is really a business genius! Selling masks to Chinese people is no easier than selling combs to monks."

"Hey! This benefactor, the poor monk sees that your seal is black!"

"One thing to say, Mr. Zhang, does this count as changing the country?"