Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 839 Acquisition of Manchester United

It is true that investing in casinos can make money, but with Lu Shaohua's means of making money and his wealth, there is no need to make that little money. What Lu Shaohua wants is not to make money, but to establish a relationship with the He family. After all, Macau and Hong Kong are adjacent. When Macau returned to China at the end of the year, the He family became the head of Macau, and the He family later served as the Chief Executive of Macau.

Although Lu Shaohua did not have to be afraid of the He family, Lu Shaohua thought that one more friend meant one more way. Even though he had a high status and position now, it was better for him to make more friends. Therefore, when Xiang Huaqiang proposed to invest in a casino, Lu Shaohua agreed.

In fact, it is very simple. Lu Shaohua pays the money and then gets the shares. Xiang Huaqiang will take care of other things. Lu Shaohua only needs to go to Macau when he is free and get to know someone from the He family. He doesn't have to worry about other things.

The matter was settled, and Lu Shaohua didn't want to talk about anything else. After dinner, he separated from Xiang Huaqiang. He returned to his residence and began to stay in seclusion.

Yes, Lu Shaohua went home to meditate. This was not a retreat for cultivators, but a retreat in the study, where he wrote a document about a meeting in two days, so that it could be printed out and distributed to the attendees at the meeting.

An afternoon is not too long, but it is enough for Lu Shaohua to write documents. It is worth mentioning that Lu Shaohua is used to typing on the computer whether it is writing plans or documents, so he does not need to write by hand, just tapping on the keyboard, and then directly imprinting it, and then faxing it to the group, and asking someone to make several copies.

After finishing everything, it was already past four o'clock. I woke up with sore eyes and felt a little tired, but when I looked at the time, I found that it was already late and I didn't have much time to rest. So I simply didn't rest and went downstairs to pour a glass of red wine and sat in front of the TV to watch TV.

Unfortunately, as soon as Lu Shaohua turned on the TV, he saw a football match, which made Lu Shaohua excited and looked very interested.

Before Lu Shaohua was reborn, in this life, he was busy with business and various plans all day long. When he had free time, he would watch TV to watch some international or domestic news and look for some business opportunities. As for sports, Lu Shaohua really had no interest in watching them.

But this does not mean that Lu Shaohua does not like sports. On the contrary, Lu Shaohua still likes sports very much, especially football, a men's sport. Lu Shaohua likes it very much. In his previous life, Lu Shaohua had played football for two years when he was in the first grade of junior high school. He is very interested in the sport of football.

Now, when he turned on the TV, there was a football match. Besides, he had nothing to do, so there was nothing wrong with watching a football match. More importantly, Lu Shaohua saw that the uniform of a team was red, and the logo on the chest was extremely familiar.

In Europe, there are many teams whose uniforms are red, but not many are particularly famous. Manchester United is one of them, commonly known as the Red Devils. It is a great team and one of the traditional giants in Europe.

Lu Shaohua naturally knew this team, and he also knew that the team won the Treble this year, which was extremely glorious. However, Lu Shaohua knew that in the next few years, Manchester United would enter a low period. The reason was very simple. The Glazer family entered Manchester United and acquired Manchester United with debt, leaving Ferguson, the legendary head coach, with no money to buy players, and the team's performance naturally declined.

Lu Shaohua really likes this team and starts to have some plans in his mind.

That's right, Lu Shaohua has thought about acquiring Manchester United. After all, it is too easy for him to acquire the team with his current financial resources. Also, with his financial resources, he can afford to give Ferguson 100 million or 200 million euros a year to buy players.

More importantly, Manchester United is not just a great team, its business is running very well. If Lu Shaohua sends a few people to help, it is estimated that he will not need to spend much money to keep the team running normally, and there is no need to invest too much money. Well, if it is developed to the extreme, it may be possible to make money.

In addition, Lu Shaohua was thinking about something else. Remember when the Russian financial oligarch Abramovich took over Chelsea, invested a lot of wealth and created a glorious future for Chelsea? But who knew what Abramovich was thinking?

The reason why Abramovich acquired Chelsea and invested a large amount of money was very simple, that is to squeeze into the British upper class. The result is also obvious. Abramovich succeeded and became a member of the British upper class.

If Abramovich could do it, why couldn't Lu Shaohua do it? Moreover, Lu Shaohua was eyeing Rolls-Royce. If he wanted to acquire the top British car brand, it would be much easier with his status as a member of the British upper class.

This is what Lu Shaohua is planning. It can be said that he can achieve four goals at once. The first is that after acquiring Manchester United, he can operate it well and make money. The second is that he can use it to enter the British upper class. As for the third, it is even simpler, reducing the resistance to acquiring Rolls-Royce. The last one is that Lu Shaohua really likes Manchester United. If he can acquire it, he, the boss, can also appear in the No. 1 box at Old Trafford.

Lu Shaohua was moved. He was indeed moved. So he decided to take action.

Lu Shaohua already had a plan in his mind. The next thing was to plan it out and then send people to secretly contact several bosses of Manchester United to secretly buy out his shares. Well, it would be best to do it in secret and not let the outside world know.

I still remember that when the Glazer family acquired Manchester United, there was a lot of resistance and the acquisition almost failed. Lu Shaohua would not make such a low-level mistake. He would wait until the acquisition was completed before announcing it and made many promises. I believe this would calm the public anger.

With the capabilities of Phoenix Group, although it has never been involved in football, investment is investment. Lu Shaohua puts up the money and then finds a few people who know how to manage. It is not without difficulties, and Lu Shaohua does not need to intervene at all.

Well, actually, even if Lu Shaohua wanted to intervene, he couldn't do anything, because Manchester United is Ferguson's world. Even though he is the head coach of the first team, he has prestige in Manchester United and his position is extremely solid.

Well, let Ferguson maintain his original position. However, Lu Shaohua knows that Ferguson's son runs an agency company and has made a lot of money from personal gain when buying and selling players. But those are just a small problem for Lu Shaohua. With Lu Shaohua's ability, he can send someone to acquire some evidence and then show it in front of Ferguson. I believe Sir Alex Ferguson will not dare to mess around again.

Acquisition.

After hearing these two words, Lu Shaohua did not hesitate and decided to acquire the company. He began to write a rough plan, then called Qin Sichen and asked him to find a few experts at the negotiation table under the group and take action quickly.

Of course, Lu Shaohua also set a price for Qin Sichen. In 2005, the Glazer family spent 7.6 million pounds to acquire Manchester United, but that was 6 years later. Now the price of Manchester United is at most 5 million pounds, no higher.

5 million pounds. Yes, the price Lu Shaohua offered to Qin Sichen was 5 million pounds. He didn't want any more. Of course, if the price could be less than this, Lu Shaohua would be even happier and would probably reward those negotiation experts generously.

It has to be said that Lu Shaohua is extremely efficient. Once a decision is made, he roughly wrote a plan and quickly finalized it. He then instructed Qin Sichen to find someone to do it. It can be said that it was very quick. In less than half an hour, everything was ready and action was started.

But at the same time, Lu Shaohua had to do one more thing, and that was to find Ho Ying-tung.

That's right, look for Henry Fok. Don't forget that Henry Fok is very prestigious in Hong Kong. However, many people don't know that the father and son of Henry Fok are not only very prestigious in Hong Kong, but also have considerable prestige in the UK. In the early years when Hong Kong had not yet returned to China, under British rule, Henry Fok had already established his empire and had contacts with British officials.

Even though Hong Kong has returned to China now, the Huo family still has considerable assets in the UK. If Mr. Huo can help with the acquisition of Manchester United and use his connections, the acquisition will probably be much easier.

Needless to say, Lu Shaohua called Mr. Huo's cell phone, and after the call was connected, he asked where Mr. Huo was. When Mr. Huo said he was at home, Lu Shaohua used the excuse of going out for dinner and rushed to the Huo family villa.

Hate food?

Old Master Huo stared at his phone in a daze, then burst into laughter, not for anything else, but because Lu Shaohua had come up with such a poor excuse.

Mr. Huo has known Lu Shaohua for nearly ten years. How could he not understand Lu Shaohua? Lu Shaohua would not come to his house for no reason. If there was nothing, Lu Shaohua would not drive for more than half an hour to come to his house for a meal.

But no matter what, Lu Shaohua is the son-in-law of the Huo family, and the man of the granddaughter that the old man of the Huo family loves the most. If there is anything, and Mr. Huo can help, he will do his best to help.

Lu Shaohua was straightforward. After entering the Huo family and meeting Mr. Huo Yingdong, he went straight to the point: "I want to acquire Manchester United. Please help me get some connections."

Ho Ying-tung was stunned and looked at Lu Shaohua in disbelief. He did not react for a long time. However, Ho Ying-tung knew that Lu Shaohua would never joke. If he wanted to acquire the company, he would do so. He was very forceful and was determined to succeed in the acquisition.

What Ho Ying-tung couldn't understand was why Lu Shaohua wanted to buy a football team?

Acquisition for fun? No, Fok Ying-tung did not think that Lu Shaohua would be so bored or have too much money to spend that he would buy a football team just for fun. But did Lu Shaohua have other purposes?

Huo Yingdong couldn't think of anything, so he could only shake his head helplessly, nodded, and said, "I'll mobilize my connections to help."

"That's fine." Lu Shaohua smiled and said, "Have someone prepare more food. I have 40 people here, haha..."

Lu Shaohua was very, very rude.

What else could Ho Ying-tung say? He could only agree helplessly.

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