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There is the European Cup this year.

Zhou Buqi had the opportunity and time to go to watch the European Cup finals, but there were too many girls around him. They generally had no interest in football, so he didn't go.

Anyway, I’ve seen it all.

In the final, Spain defeated Italy with a no-forward formation.

Pass-and-control football has reached its peak.

However, this can be regarded as the final elegy.

In the past few years, pass-and-control football has been a powerful force in Europe, and it has basically been a crushing level. Especially Barcelona, ​​which is really a level ahead of all teams.

That's almost the end.

There are so many capable people in European football, it is impossible for a passing and controlling style of play to remain invincible forever, and it will go downhill in the future. So when all the major clubs were snapping up Spanish players, Zhou Buqi kept calm and maintained the greatest respect for Klopp.

In early July, Zhou Buqi came to the UK with a large group of nearly 20 young and beautiful girls.

The moment he stepped off the yacht, Zhou Buqi felt that his legs were a little weak.

Depend on!

Although beauty is good, don’t be greedy for too much!

This is a bit too much!

Leaving them all in London and letting them wander around, play and spend whatever they wanted, Zhou Buqi, with only Sun Wanran as his personal assistant, hurriedly got up and went to Manchester.

Avoid it first.

There is no way, Boss Zhou has to be strong by nature, and he cannot let them see that he is strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

At this time, you can see the importance of Aunt Xue.

When things like this happened in the past, Aunt Xue would calmly make him some chicken soup or something to replenish his health, and would also dissuade him with a gentle voice.

Sun Wanran is actually very sensible.

However, he was young and couldn't keep up with his eyesight. He didn't notice that Boss Zhou was a little overwhelmed, so he thought he was enjoying it.

Along the way, she helped him arrange his shifts in an orderly manner, and she would favor which girl at which time... so as not to neglect anyone else, and supervise him to do a good job of spreading the rain and dew equally.

After arriving in Manchester, Zhou Buqi breathed a sigh of relief.

Aunt Xue is not here, but my mother is here.

It's better to find some comfort from my own mother to replenish and relieve my pain.

But you can't let dad know about this.

If he found out, he would be scolded all over his face, and even a dozen little goblins wouldn't be able to cope with it. It would really damage the majesty of the men of the Zhou family.

When I arrived in Manchester, I mainly focused on football.

The European Cup has just ended, and the transfer market is turbulent. All the major clubs are actively competing for players who shine in the European Cup.

Manchester United remained restrained.

The team changed too much last season. This season, we must maintain the stability of the lineup to a certain extent to welcome Klopp's second season.

Only a certain amount of minor repairs are needed.

For example, left wing.

Giggs is old, and Bell's physical attributes are not very strong, so he will always encounter injuries. The technical department made suggestions as early as April, saying that Giggs should retire and then introduce Hazard, a left winger with great potential who is very popular in Europe.

Zhou Buqi was very happy when he heard it and supported this suggestion.

But later this plan fell through.

The first is that Giggs does not want to retire. His plan is to play for one more year and retire next summer. As the leader of Manchester United's revival, the club wanted to give him the greatest respect, so the sports department could only offer him another one-year contract extension.

Secondly, there is the attitude of sports director Rangnick and head coach Klopp.

Neither of them thinks highly of Hazard.

The Belgian winger's talent, strength and potential are unparalleled and amazing. However, his professionalism does not seem to be strong enough, his life is not self-disciplined enough, his diet is not healthy enough, and most importantly, his training attitude is not serious enough.

This doesn't work.

Manchester United has established a strong "spiritual power" during the Ferguson era, with a fighting spirit from the inside out. Rangnick and Klopp have also continued such a spiritual tactical style.

A confused and careless Hazard is likely to destroy the training atmosphere of the entire team and affect the strong willpower in the locker room. He is too lazy.

It would be better not to let him affect the team.

Manchester United later abandoned this plan.

Then, Chelsea officially announced the introduction of Belgian winger Hazard.

There is also a plan to buy Korean star Son Heung-min to replace Park Ji-sung. This plan is not considered from the team's perspective, but for the club's commercial promotion.

With Son Heung-min's current level, playing as a substitute at Manchester United is enough.

It doesn’t matter whether Zhou Qi or not.

Buy Son Heung-min...at worst, his talent will be wasted, and this player with infinite brilliance in the future will just sink on the bench.

Anyway, as long as it can help Manchester United's business promotion in South Korea.

But Son Heung-min has a good father.

He is unwilling to let Son Heung-min sit on the bench with a high salary. He would rather continue to practice in the Bundesliga with a low salary and get opportunities to improve his abilities...

There is nothing more to say.

Zhou Buqi responded to the suggestion made by his second sister Shi Jingmei, saying that he could instead purchase another Asian player, Japanese player Shinji Kagawa, who currently plays for Dortmund.

It will not only help Manchester United strengthen its commercial promotion in the Japanese market, but also give Shi Jingmei's player blind boxes a chance to sell well in the Japanese market.

Klopp welcomed the deal.

He likes Shinji Kagawa very much.

This man is very polite, humble, serious in training, and his work attitude can be described as meticulous... He is a complete replica of Hazard.

In terms of skills, he is of course very different from Hazard.

But Klopp likes players who work hard and have a great catalytic effect in the locker room... From this point of view, this can be regarded as a tradition of Manchester United. From Sir Busby to Sir Alex Ferguson, they all have this kind of player. tendency.

Klopp has also carried on this tradition well.

Zhou Buqi now has a deeper understanding of European football.

Football is really more than just a technical and tactical competition on the field.

Just like many powerful European head coaches, they always overturn when they coach Real Madrid and Barcelona. The big factor is that they can't handle the relationship in the locker room... European players are actually okay, but the most difficult thing is the South American players. If you can't even manage people well, how can you let them play football?

This also made him understand why the world-famous coaches hired by the national football team always fail.

The technical and tactical level of the head coach is just superficial.

What is more important is the management of the team and the handling of locker room relations.

It's like corporate management.

On the surface, it is about managing business, doing a good job in business, and achieving beautiful results. In fact, only by managing people can business be done well.

In his previous life, Zhou Buqi always listened to European giants, such as Real Madrid, Bayern, and Liverpool, and they always talked about their own values... Zhou Buqi didn't quite understand.

What values ​​can a football club have? It's too deceptive.

Now I understand a little bit.

Manchester United's value is to manage people first, then manage things.

This is simply in line with Zhou Buqi's corporate management philosophy, and it can be said to be a match made in heaven.

As an entrepreneur who came out of the domestic IT industry, Zhou Buqi's business philosophy is of course also influenced by the mainstream business management ideas of domestic private enterprises constructed by Mr. Liu and Mr. Ma, and is firmly practiced. the continuator. I didn’t expect that it had been several years since I acquired Manchester United, but I gradually discovered that it was so consistent with Manchester United’s values.

This time Zhou Buqi calmed down.

This time when he went to Sweden, he went to see Volvo.

We also learned about the restructuring method chosen by Geely after acquiring Volvo.

Geely has done an excellent job in reorganization. The merger process of the two companies was very smooth, and the communication between the two companies was also very smooth.

But the concept behind this is completely different.

The auspicious approach is to take care of things.

Just don't do anything to the original Volvo people and ignore those Swedes. Geely just proposes an indicator and a KPI, and then lets Volvo do the work.

Don't care about people, just take care of things.

The merger would be easy, of course, and Volvo's Swedish executives would be happy and free to do so, and the restructuring would go smoothly.

Zhou Buqi really couldn't accept this model.

It's like taking apart a blind box.

It's just gambling.

Under the Geely Group, there is a black box named "Volvo". I don't know exactly what is in the black box. But at a certain point in time, a report card will be sent to the blind box.

This is such a lack of control.

It is also difficult to achieve true integration.

This is definitely not the case when reorganizing Yahoo.

If this blind box model is used, the headquarters doesn’t even know what’s inside the blind box, so how can it modify the blind box? All we can do is put forward a series of requirements and indicators for the blind boxes and let them do it themselves... Zhou Buqi doesn't believe that the people at Yahoo can transform it themselves.

Zhou Buqi did not see Rangnick or Klopp. The former went to Brazil to handle Neymar's transfer, and the latter went on vacation. At the club, he saw CEO David Gill.

First, we talked about the renovation of Old Trafford Stadium.

This summer's stadium renovation is expected to cost 75 million pounds. It will be renovated both above and below ground. The ground will need to be further strengthened and reinforced from the inside.

The amount of underground work is huge, and the entire bottom of the stadium must be hollowed out to turn it into a huge paid parking lot. Once completed, the car park is expected to bring in an income of £5 million to £8 million per year to the club.

Then, Zhou Buqi mentioned player transfer again and said: "Are you in contact with Kane from Tottenham?"

David Gill smiled and said, "I have been paying attention to him and have established a good personal relationship with his parents."

Zhou Buqi continued: "There is also the Korean Son Heung-min, we must keep an eye on him."

"Do you think so highly of him?"

"The potential is good and the commercial value is also high. The markets in South Korea and Japan are huge, so we must continue to pay attention and cultivate them in the long term."

"Preseason preparations will begin in half a month. Manchester United will have a trip to Asia." David Gill has already made arrangements. "There will be four friendly matches in China, Japan, South Korea and Thailand."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, that's good."