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First arrived in Switzerland.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu is here. The purchase of the Swiss team Zurich is almost done, and the final transaction price has been determined at 48.5 million euros.

However, a small problem arises here.

There is an additional condition in the acquisition agreement that Zurich team is not allowed to change its name!

This is a club with a century-old history. It has always been called "Zurich Team". This has become a brand and a culture. You know, this is the "City Team", representing the city of Zurich.

Although there is a stronger team in Zurich called Zurich Grasshopper, there is usually a characteristic in the football industry that the "city team" has more fans. Even among teams in the same city, the city team is weaker. .

For example, in Manchester, although Manchester United's strength and performance are far stronger than Manchester City, the number of local fans is greater than that of Manchester City.

The Zurich team is the football mecca in the city of Zurich and has the largest number of local fans. It is impossible to change the name.

For this reason, Sandoko gave an explanation, "If you want to use PPT to name the team, I am afraid that none of the strong teams in these mainstream leagues can do it. The influence of fan culture is too great."

Zhou Buqi was relatively calm, "Is there a solution?"

Santoku said: "You can buy a weak team in the third or fourth tier leagues. They have been struggling in the low-level leagues all year round, and local fans have a strong desire to rush to the high-level leagues. In order to achieve this goal, they will not Care if the team changes its name.”

"Lower league?"

"Yes, for example, if we buy another team in Portugal, if we directly buy a Portuguese Super League team, the resistance to changing the name will be too great. If we buy a fourth-tier team, the resistance from fans will be much smaller. .We strengthen our strength, improve our infrastructure, and can make any kind of adjustments at will according to our wishes."

"Level 4?"

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly. The level was too low. The level of Portugal's fourth-tier league was far inferior to that of the Chinese Super League teams.

Santoku said: "Yes, with such a low level, there is actually another advantage, that is, you can often get 100% of the equity for free, as long as you bear all the club's debts and promise to carry out a series of investments and development in the future. Mr. Rangnick is very confident. He said that as long as it is a European team, there is no need to worry about the competitive level. As long as a group of young players are bought, the team can be upgraded quickly and start from a low level. Establish the team’s tactical style.”

There really isn’t much to worry about at the competitive level.

Rangnick is known as the godfather of German football. His tactical concepts have led the trend of modern football, and he has cracked and eliminated the Spanish passing and controlling style of play.

He has too many disciples in Germany, including many famous contemporary German coaches who are his students, and several of them later won the Champions League.

Simply sending a few German technical directors or head coaches and transferring some players for free would be enough to lead this type of low-level team to take off.

The Germans' rigorous style and simple style are more reliable than those from France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

Sandoko continued: "It's really difficult to make money in football. In Portugal, there are no more than five teams that can generate profits. However, there is a model that can ensure making money."

"oh?"

Zhou Buqi, who had remained silent, suddenly became interested.

To do business, you still have to make money.

Otherwise, in the long run, we will have to rely on feelings to support... Zhou Buqi has no feelings for these bad teams. Even if he is not short of money, he does not continue to invest money in these inexplicable teams. , the possibility of blood transfusion.

In the final analysis, we still need to find a way to make money and make this PPT trendy football group self-reliant.

Sandoko said: "Low-level teams generally have no actual value, but if they are upgraded to the A or B league, they can have a greater influence and become valuable. If you buy a fourth-level team If a team is promoted to the second division in two or three years and then sold, it can make millions of euros. If it enters the first division, it can make tens of millions of euros."

Zhou Buqi would not be fooled so easily, "Can it be sold?"

"It doesn't necessarily mean selling."

Sandoku laughed.

"Um?"

"We can follow what the Glazer family did at Manchester United."

"hiss!"

Zhou Buqi took a breath of air.

sharp!

Amazing!

Sure enough, I was right. This man of three virtues really has some skills and a capitalist's wolf mentality!

For example, I went to the fourth tier of the Portuguese league and bought a team that was very difficult to run for free. Through Rangnick, he introduced a German technical team and bought a group of young people to start playing games.

After the team is promoted to the Portuguese Super League, the original group of young players have grown up and can be sold for a sum of money. This is not the most important thing. The key is that after being promoted to the top league, the team's intangible assets have been greatly improved.

Selling a team is indeed difficult.

It's too difficult to make money in this thing. Everyone loves football, but mainly they like watching football, not owning a team and working hard to run it.

However, it’s not impossible to cash out!

You can get a loan!

A Portuguese Super League team needs a loan of at least 20 million euros.

European football operates behind closed doors, has been criticized a lot, and has no openness and transparency at all. This leaves too many operational opportunities. For example, if the team buys a Manchester United player for 20 million euros, it can easily transfer the money to Manchester United.

What should we do if the Portuguese Super League team is not managed well, cannot make ends meet, and cannot repay its loans?

Two options.

Or, find a buyer, sell it to him, and make some money.

Or, the team goes bankrupt.

After being a team for a few years, I only earned the loan proceeds from those teams.

Zhou Buqi said: "You can't use upgrades, loans, or bankruptcies. This is too bad for reputation. We should still run it seriously. The football club... can still make money, and lay off all the irrelevant people."

Sandoko nodded, "No matter what, the team is promoted from a low level to a high level. This is the fastest way to achieve asset appreciation. Rangnick has such experience, you might as well let him try it."

"If it's just a trial, we should find more test sites."

"ah?"

Sandoku was slightly startled.

Zhou Buqi said: "You can buy a low-level team in France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and other developed football countries, and experiment at the same time. PPT Football Group cannot always rely on acquisitions to live, it still needs to build a team that is truly its own." A team with brand attributes.”

There is generally no need to spend money to buy a low-level team. Whoever is willing to take over is a hero.

It is impossible to make money. It may cost hundreds of thousands or millions of euros every year to pay players and rent stadiums. But as long as you successfully upgrade and are promoted to the top league, it will be an increase in asset value of hundreds of hundreds.

Sandoku is right.

Compared with making money from football business operations, the capital benefits brought by this kind of team upgrade are higher.

In this case, it is better to make a few more, and one of them will eventually escape.

For others who fail, just quit. It doesn't matter if they declare bankruptcy. It's normal for a low-level team like this to go bankrupt and they won't stop hiring.

In this way, the business structure of PPT Chaowan Football Group in Europe has been finalized.

At the top level, it is connected with Manchester United, which is equivalent to a self-operated club. There is also Hoffenheim in Germany, which is equivalent to a cooperative joint club.

The first team is Zurich, which is at the Europa League level.

Further down, there are some low-level teams all over the European continent, and a sense of hierarchy appears.

After finishing this matter, I didn’t even have time to have lunch, so I went directly to Germany.

Kurian has arrived.

It’s time to take a field trip to Lufthansa’s projects.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu also got on the plane. She mainly talked about spending money, "Britain is an island and is not connected to the European continent. Is our family also buying some real estate on the European continent?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Didn't you buy one? Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium all have luxury houses?"

Zhen Yu rolled her eyes at him and said, "To ordinary people, those beautiful villas are luxury houses, but are they luxury houses to you? Not to mention decoration and design, the area is too small. We have so many families, ordinary villas There’s no room for it at all.”

Indeed, a larger villa is only three to four hundred square meters, and it would be good to have seven or eight bedrooms.

For Boss Zhou, it’s really not enough.

He can't sleep in the same bed with seven or eight women at night, right?

It's okay to be squeezed together occasionally, but your body won't be able to handle it for a long time.

In Los Angeles and Silicon Valley in the United States, he has top-notch large estates that can accommodate dozens or hundreds of people. This is not the case here in Europe, there are no similar properties.

Anyway, every time the family went to London, it was always crowded. The most carefree time was that they had to squeeze into the same bed with eight maids at night. It can't move even if it's lying upright, it has to be laid sideways.

My parents even have to go out and stay in a hotel.

How can a family live together when they are separated?

We should find a way to solve this problem!

Zhou Buqi asked: "Are there such large estates in Europe? Are you going to buy a winery in France?"

Zhen Yu said: "Switzerland is better, with lower property taxes, only one-fifth of France. The geographical location is better, with France and Luxembourg to the west, Germany and Belgium to the east, Austria and Croatia to the west, and Spain and Italy to the south. Moreover, the environment and social atmosphere here are also good, not as chaotic as France or as rigid as Germany.”

“Are there such big houses in Switzerland?”

"Why buy a private house?"

"ah?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled.

Zhen Yu sighed softly and said helplessly: "There are so many people in the family, and there are so many little stars, especially the parents of the family... we must properly invite them to go abroad to get together. With so many people, what? Can we live in such a private house? No matter how luxurious a villa is, it won’t work.”

"What should we do?"

“Buy a hotel!”

"Ahem!"

"Buy a hotel with about 10 floors, then renovate the interior, and then stop opening it to the outside world. Only our family will live in it. It's like... just like your own palace. You can also invite some waiters to come to the lower floors. More Only our maids can go up to the higher levels."

"good idea."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu asked her to do European debt, but she was so frightened that she gave up halfway. I didn’t expect that she would be so passionate about and so good at buying a house.

Well, woman!