"Adele, this time it's really hard for you. London Heathrow International Airport, George smiled and gave Adele a big hug, and took the luggage in the other party's hand, "Negotiating with that Scrooge in Sterling must be quite a tiring thing, right?"

Why was Elizabeth the only one with him when George attended the G14 meeting and went to Germany to see the Confederations Cup? It's not because George didn't take Adele with him because he thought Adele was an eyesore to follow her as a light bulb. It's because he needs Adele to come forward and go to the United States on the other side of the Atlantic to negotiate two deals!

"Of course!" Although she successfully completed the mission goal after some twists and turns, Adele looked extremely depressed at this time, and her words were full of resentment, "I really didn't expect that there would be such a greedy guy." In order to sell the Clippers for a higher price, he has been steadily keeping the team's salary below the salary cap, and he actually traded several high-paid players in exchange for them to increase the Clippers' book assets. If it weren't for wasting too much time with him on these things, I would definitely be able to go live and watch the Confederations Cup final with you, brother!"

The LA Galaxy and the LA Clippers, this is the main goal of Adele's trip to the United States. In order to hide people's eyes, it was announced that Adele went to the United States to inspect the development and profitability of subsidiaries such as Facebook and Twitter this year. After all, before the acquisition is completed, the fewer people know that George has the potential to further expand his sports empire and use it to open up Tottenham's market in the United States, the better!

The acquisition of LA Galaxy is not very difficult. Before Beckham's arrival, although Major League Soccer put gold on its face and claimed to be the fifth largest sports league in the United States, its own situation and commercial value were really not very good. To put it mildly, all the teams in the entire professional soccer league are not necessarily worth as much as the New York Yankees (MLB's supergiants, the clubs that occupy the top three clubs in the Forbes list of professional sports clubs by value). In such a situation, George's acquisition of the Los Angeles Galaxy, known as the "Real Madrid of the United States", naturally does not need to pay too much price.

Although in the eyes of fans, the United States is a veritable football desert, in fact, due to the huge market and developed economy of the United States, even if football can only drink a sip of soup in the gap between the four major leagues, it is enough for Tottenham to make a lot of money!

Compared to the LA Galaxy, the acquisition of the LA Clippers is much more difficult. Although Raheem Sterling's Clippers are one of the most famous bad teams in the NBA, the Clippers are still quite profitable with the big city of Los Angeles and Sterling's tight control of operating costs. Therefore, if you want to buy the Clippers from Sterling, the difficulty can be said to be quite large!

Although the Los Angeles Lakers are obviously better than the Clippers in all aspects, and Jim Buss, who is worried about the lack of funds in his hands, also welcomes George, a big financier, to take a stake in the Lakers to help him share the pressure, but at this time, George's personal will plays a considerable role. The reason is very simple, that is, he doesn't like the Lakers' star Kobe Bryant, very much!

Kobe Bryant does deserve the title of basketball superstar, and he is indeed the most capable scoring guard after Jordan's retirement, but whether it is in his past life or now, George is not very cold to this star who only has baskets in his eyes. In his opinion, if it weren't for Stern's intentional support, the old Bass got Kobe Bryant with strong thighs such as O'Neal and Gasol, and paid a huge luxury tax every year to build an All-Star team, Kobe Bryant in his previous life would not have been able to get five championship rings at all, let alone two FMVPs and one regular season MVP!

The most important thing is that George does not plan to switch to basketball when he buys an NBA team, but wants to use the NBA as a platform to expand Tottenham's influence in the United States, and then complete the goal of opening up the American market!

However, what is the similarity between an NBA team that relies on only one of its stars to score singles and the rest of his teammates are waiting to watch the show, and Tottenham, which focuses on team play? Therefore, George will not use the Los Angeles Lakers with Kobe Bryant as the core as a candidate for acquisition!

Moreover, don't look at the popularity of the Lakers in Los Angeles is much higher than that of the Clippers now, as long as the results go up and the style of play is good enough, then the Clippers' earning power will definitely not be much worse than the Lakers - the Clippers in the previous life were after the arrival of Chris Paul, with very ornamental air catches and dunks and excellent results from the Lakers to win a lot of popularity. By the time George crossed, the Clippers' market capitalization had risen to sixth in the NBA, reaching a staggering $2 billion!

So, after much deliberation, George finally decided to let Adele go to talks with Raheem Sterling about the Clippers' acquisition – he didn't want it to drag on for too long and affect Tottenham's plans to promote the US this summer!

$200 million, that's the final deal price agreed between Adele and Sterling in the Clippers deal. Although this price is a little higher for the current Clippers, George knows that he is definitely making a fortune - you know, when Sterling was forced to sell the Clippers under pressure from the league in the previous life, he sold a full $2 billion, which is ten times the price!

As for who to send to manage the Los Angeles Clippers after the change of ownership, George has already made a draft - Sam Presti, who had an outstanding performance in the position of general manager of the Thunder in his previous life, will replace Elgin Baylor, who can only choose parallel goods, and become the new general manager of the Clippers!

Although some of Presti's actions with the Thunder in his previous life were quite questionable (such as trading Harden in exchange for the declining Kevin Martin, etc.), in George's opinion, these transactions are likely to be made by Presti in order to maintain profitability (the Oklahoma City, where the Thunder are located, is too small to afford too many stars when the owner is unwilling to burn money). And now, with the big ball city of Los Angeles behind and the owner allowing a certain amount of luxury tax, Presti is bound to do even better with the Clippers!

Since George's primary purpose in buying the Clippers was to help Tottenham expand into the US market, the Clippers had to come up with a striking style of play and a stellar result. Otherwise, who cares about a bad team and which football club has a partnership?

After Adele took over the two clubs of the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Los Angeles Clippers and prepared the preliminary work for Tottenham's American Gold Rush scheduled for the end of July, George also quickly finalized a transfer - future American captain Clint Dempsey landed in the Premier League for $1.5 million and became an official member of Tottenham Hotspur!

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