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On January 4, Zhou Buqi flew from Shanghai to the capital, ended his short vacation, and returned to work. In fact, based on his current situation, he has no vacation at all. He has to work even when he is on vacation. The required working hours are from 11pm to 1am every day.

For example, last night...early this morning to be precise, one of Zhou Buqi's main meetings was to communicate with Manchester United.

The winter transfer window has opened.

You can make an offer to Ajax for Suarez!

However, Manchester United's first offer of 21.5 million pounds was rejected after five days of consideration. The reason for the delay is that a competitor has joined.

In fact, this is nothing.

Bid!

Today's European football is still relatively cheap, Middle Eastern capital has not yet entered the market on a large scale, the football bubble has not blown up, and the players' worth is still very real.

Although Suarez is great, he has not proven himself in the five major leagues. After coming to Europe from South America, he only performed well in the Eredivisie, and the price will not be too high.

Zhou Buqi didn't care about the bidding, so he said it didn't matter, and he could buy it if the price was high! Manchester United and Liverpool are mortal enemies, compete with them to steal people!

Of course everyone is happy if the big boss is willing to pay.

Unexpectedly, Ferguson did not agree, "No, Manchester United should not be taken advantage of in the transfer market. Liverpool has become a second-rate team, and they can only rely on super offers to attract players. Manchester United is not Manchester City, nor is it Liverpool, Manchester United With the dignity of Manchester United."

Zhou Buqi wanted to curse after hearing this.

Depend on!

Can't you spend the money?

These British people really have a kind of arrogance in their bones, as if it is a shame to spend too much money to buy a young player.

Zhou Buqi felt deeply powerless, "What should I do?"

"No one can tease me in the transfer market." Ferguson was obviously not satisfied with Ajax's rejection of Manchester United's offer. "Suarez's offer cannot exceed 28 million pounds, and his salary cannot exceed 3.5 million pounds. One more No points will be given! Let this kid choose for himself, whether to go to Liverpool for money or join Manchester United for honor!"

The annual salary of 3.5 million pounds is about 1.8 million pounds after tax.

This kind of salary was quite high in Manchester United two years ago, ranking in the middle. However, after Boss Zhou took charge of Manchester United, he improved the salary level of the players. The annual after-tax salary of 1.8 million pounds is basically the middle and lower level of the team. For a young newcomer who has just joined, it is actually very suitable for the team. salary structure.

This is also in line with Ferguson's strong management of the team. It is impossible for a young man from the second-tier league to get more money than the heroes who have made great contributions to Manchester United in the past few years.

Zhou Buqi's negative emotions were instantly cleared, and he felt that Sir Alex Ferguson's persistence was right.

He knew that Suarez was a super killer and top player who would kill everyone in Europe in the future. He originally wanted to snatch him away even if he paid a sufficient transfer fee and a high salary.

When Ferguson said this, I suddenly realized something was wrong.

Football is not a one-person game.

This is a team game.

For a team, the most important thing is team management, which requires harmonious coexistence, friendly mutual assistance, and a standard system and fair values.

Otherwise, if you find a group of the best players, but they are full of conflicts and ulterior motives, it will be impossible to play well.

No wonder Manchester United, led by Ferguson in his previous life, could only be played by Rooney and a group of second-rate players after Cristiano Ronaldo left. It can be called the weakest giants team in Europe on paper. But even so, Ferguson was still able to lead Manchester United to win the Premier League title and also reach the Champions League final.

What he built was a firm and powerful team, and he played team football.

The balance of the team cannot be disrupted just because of a player like Suarez.

Zhou Buqi didn't say much. He expressed his unconditional support for Ferguson and listened to him at the competitive level. The big boss only provided reference suggestions.

The team's forward line is actually quite sufficient, with Rooney and Robin van Persie taking charge. This season Van Persie was only affected by the World Cup and his condition was not very good. He only scored 4 goals in 17 games.

As long as he regains his form in the second half of the season, he will still be the top forward in Europe.

Besides, it doesn’t matter even if you can’t win Suarez, there are other great forwards, such as Ibrahimovic, Lewandowski, Cavani, Aguero, Falcao, Diego Costa, Higuain... and more have a look!

Suarez is not Messi and Ronaldo, and it is not worth breaking the balance of the team for him.

Zhou Buqi supported Ferguson's opinion.

However, this does not mean that he does not want to introduce Suarez.

On the way to the capital, Zhou Buqi calculated the time and found that it should be evening in England, so he called David Gill and told him about Suarez.

David Gill hesitated for a moment and said slowly: "Ferguson's relationship with Ajax has always been bad. When he wanted to bring in Sneijder, they had already negotiated. But Ajax broke the promise and brought Sneijder. Germany was sold to Real Madrid. He didn't want Ajax to make a fortune."

Zhou Buqi said: "If possible, we should try our best to facilitate this deal. Ferguson is retiring, and he must leave a strong, complete, rich and experienced lineup for the next coach."

He didn't say the deeper reason.

In fact, on a commercial level, buying Suarez will help open up the South American market. Manchester United fans are mainly concentrated in English-speaking countries and Southeast Asia, and the South American market is almost blank.

Even now, there is no Brazilian or Argentinian in the Manchester United team.

South America has completely become the home base of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

This is not good.

Not only on a business level, but also on a competitive level.

With the development of modern football, training has become more and more scientific, unified and standardized. It is said that all the players created are modern players.

However, in addition to skills, forwards need inspiration, talent and imagination. The modern assembly line training model has almost destroyed these characteristics of players.

Ten years later, there will be almost no outstanding forwards produced in Europe. Except for a few such as Haaland and Mbappe, the younger generation is completely disconnected, the post-90s generation is completely dumb, and the post-00s generation is worse than the post-90s generation.

The newly emerged talented forwards all come from South America, which was not trained in the European modern system in their youth. The wealthy clubs are eyeing Brazil and starting to constantly grab players, even starting from children of fifteen or sixteen years old, spending tens of millions of euros. Grabbing like crazy.

In the 2022 World Cup, Brazil can even bring 9 forwards who play for top giants, and there are still several losers.

Due to the lack of presence in the South American market, Manchester United did not have the opportunity to take the lead.

Laying out the South American market is imperative!

…

When I came to the Ziweixing headquarters in the capital, I was mainly preparing for the board meeting in mid-month, summarizing last year and looking forward to this year.

The most important of these is last year's financial report.

Too detailed has not been sorted out yet.

But it doesn't matter, Zhou Buqi doesn't care about the details, as long as he has a rough figure.

Ziweixing's total revenue in 2010 was 29.61 billion yuan, divided into six parts.

New media business group: revenue 10.42 billion yuan;

WeChat Business Group: Revenue 8.42 billion yuan;

Micropoint business group: revenue of 7.27 billion yuan;

Cloud Computing Business Group: Revenue 2.31 billion yuan; (mainly paid by other departments of Ziweixing)

Central and Taiwan Business Department: revenue of 760 million yuan;

Ziweixing Engineering Institute: revenue of 430 million yuan.

Although the financial reports of the three BAT giants have not yet been made public, there is a basic prediction that Penguin's annual revenue is about 20 billion, Baidu will not exceed 10 billion, and Alibaba will only be around 5 billion.

There is no doubt that Ziweixing is already the largest Internet company in China, and this does not include the overseas business that has been divested and the revenue from its investment projects that have not been integrated.

Of course, the expenses are also high.

Traffic acquisition cost: 4.36 billion yuan;

Broadband cost: 1.16 billion yuan;

Depreciation cost: 1.42 billion yuan;

Sales, general and administrative expenses: 3.96 billion yuan;

R\u0026D expenditure: 3.38 billion yuan;

Equity incentive expenses: 630 million yuan;

Business expenses were 14.91 billion yuan, and business profits were 14.70 billion yuan.

In addition, sales tax and income tax expenditures were 2.24 billion yuan.

The interest is 720 million yuan.

…

In short, after deducting interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, other non-operating profits, equity compensation expenses, and investment expenses, Ziweixing made a net profit of 3.92 billion yuan in 2010.

The main reason is that the scale of investment is too large and there is too much capital support. It requires money to constantly acquire land to build houses and build cloud computing data centers.

If we look at it according to U.S. accounting standards, capital expenditures are not included in financial reports, but mainly consumer expenditures... Based on this calculation, Ziweixing's net profit this year can reach US$2 billion.

There is no need to have an exaggerated bubble. Based on Penguin’s current PE of 40 times, Ziweixing’s market valuation can reach US$80 billion.

Guo Pengfei came to his office to find him and said with a smile: "I have also read the financial briefing. Nie Caijun said that with the current strength of Ziweixing, it can be called the third Internet giant in the world, and its valuation can reach 100 billion US dollars. If Adding all the overseas businesses together, it’s probably not much worse than Google.”

Zhou Buqi glanced at him and said, "Are you short of money?"

"good."

Guo Pengfei laughed.

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't worry, when Jieyu Media is listed, Polaris Venture Capital will directly allocate a share of it, and we can all have a capital feast together."

Guo Pengfei laughed.

Zhou Buqi asked angrily: "Why are you giggling?"

"I'm happy."

"Okay, what do you want from me?"

"Let's talk about WeChat's development plan for the next year. I've said hello to Zhang Yiming, Meng Houkun, and Fu Hongliang. They will be here soon."

Guo Pengfei is really a bit self-assertive, so he is the only one who dares to arrange Boss Zhou like this.

Zhou Buqi agreed very much and said: "Well, chat products have a very key attribute, which is viral promotion. Whoever can take the lead and become the first in the industry will be able to firmly establish a firm foothold in the market. Helo is We have all seen the core role of the PC Internet, it is simply the mainstay. WeChat will also play the same role in the mobile Internet. Don’t worry about Mi Liao, WeChat’s main opponent this year is QChat!”