Chapter 387: Flying to the UAE

White Hart Lane is Tottenham's home stadium, his owner is Joe Lewis, and the team's chairman is Danny Levy. Zhou Shi is very interested in Lewis, this guy's life is the same as Kaihang, he dropped out of high school at the age of 15 without any degree in finance or economics, after earning the first pot of gold from his family, in 1992, Lewis began to get involved in foreign exchange trading, he participated in the financial predator Soros sniping the pound, from the pound plummeting "Black Wednesday" incident when the harvest of rich spoils, quietly retired. Immediately after the Mexican financial crisis in 1995, Lewis shorted the peso again, and his assets skyrocketed again. Today, Lewis owns more than 200 companies around the world, owns 135 restaurants and resorts around the world, and even owns a medical city near Lake Nona near Orlando. Now he has a net worth of about two or three billion pounds.

Soros's two major battles that became famous in the world were actually caught up by this guy Lewis, MMP, he won't be a time-traveling reborn, right?

There are really many football teams in London, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Crystal Palace, West Ham United, Fulham, Queens Park Rangers, Brentford AFC Wimbledon, Charlton, Millwall, Barnett, Leyton East, as well as Watford in the northwest of Greater London, and Milton Keynes Keynes (old Wimbledon), who has moved out of London. However, it is only the first few teams that can cross paths with Liverpool, and most of the others are free to fly in the lower leagues.

The Premier League game was stopped, but business couldn't be stopped, and seeing Joe Lewis was only incidental. After the unpleasant meeting, the transfer negotiations were left to the club's people. Luka Modric's move to Tottenham last year was worth £20 million, and he entered the Premier League at the start of last season and made 40 appearances in all competitions, scoring five goals and providing eight assists. Bale, on the other hand, moved to Tottenham for £5 million last season, but after a four-year contract extension, he has failed to win 24 consecutive league substitute appearances this season. Therefore, it was called an "inverted frieze" by fans, and some even mocked Tottenham with the "Bale curse". Hehe, it's not a problem to take Bell down first. But they didn't have time to spend here, and Mubarak of Abu Dhabi invited them to Dubai.

"Why do you say they are here, and they also sent a private jet over," Lu He

"It should be the Dubai crisis!" Zhou Shi was not very sure

"Dubai crisis? "Lu He

"When you worked with us before, didn't you want to invite us to buy a property in Dubai? I checked, and it's really good, many well-known people from all over the world buy properties here, but a bubble is a bubble after all!" Zhou Shi

Dubai is now a gold hole, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested here in a few years, and as for the debt, it should exceed $50 billion, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has lasted for more than a year, the major currencies have depreciated relatively, and inflation in the UAE is very serious. Add to that the fall in crude oil prices, and if they don't have a crisis, it's no wonder. But there is a crisis in Dubai, but there is no crisis in the UAE, they should not be in it for money!

The two discussed for a long time and were still confused, the major project they were carrying out was an AIA, not an acquisition, but the purchase of AIG's AIA shares. Unfortunately, their asking price was too high to accept, so they had no choice but to suspend the investment negotiations and instead let the Four Elephants Fund negotiate the cooperation with AIA China.

In their thoughts, the two came to Dubai, and after a little contact, they realized that they were wrong.

The Nahyan family, the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, established the Abu Dhabi consortium in early 2008 through the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Including Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi Investment Commission, IPIC, Mubadala Development Group, Abu Dhabi National Bank, Gulf First Bank, etc., and then bought a large number of assets in Europe and the United States, bought shares in Citibank, acquired the banking division of the International Investment Group, bought shares in Daimler AG, increased its stake in Petroebra, invested in Virgin Galactic and Credit Italia, etc. Manchester City's future owner, Mansour, is not really the real owner of Manchester City yet, and the acquisition of Manchester City is by Abu Dhabi United Group, a company formed to buy Barclays. Unfortunately, they did not succeed in buying Barclays, but only bought Manchester City.

This year, the Abu Dhabi consortium bought a considerable amount of various assets in Europe and the United States, and his historical mission came to an end. The Abu Dhabi consortium will also face dissolution, and the various assets acquired before this will be redistributed, and Manchester City FC will be divided into Mansour. Originally, all this had nothing to do with them, but Mubarak, the president of Mubadala Development Group, was a good friend of theirs and had various kinds of cooperation with them. Mubarak is one of the best people of Abu Dhabi's second largest family, the Mubarak family, the eldest brother of Sheikh Mansour, the confidant of Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed, and the chairman of Manchester City Club.

"???" Zhou Shi looked confused, and didn't understand at all.

"That's the way it is, there's nothing wrong with it at all!" Chen Wen said expressionlessly

"Oh, do you understand?" Zhou Shi asked Lu He

"Maybe it's to restrain each other, the eldest brother doesn't worry about the second brother, so he sends his henchmen to restrict the second brother. Or the Nahyan family in order to show the importance of Manchester City...... "Lu He

It's so complicated, the confidant of the crown prince's eldest brother went to Mansour's business to be the chairman.

"I hear that the most favored right now is Sheikh Ahmed, who is the President of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. "Chen Wen

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is the UAE Crown Welfare Fund, the largest royal fund in the world. While no one knows how much of the fund has assets – consensus estimates are between $400 billion and $800 billion, accounting for more than half of the world's sovereign wealth funds, a percentage that must have been before the investment went viral. Later data showed that the Authority's assets exceeded $800 billion. If the future Amazon is counted as an asset managed by Zhou Shi, he may also exceed this number. Now, hehe, ten Galaxy Capitals can't catch up with this one fund, don't forget that they have other assets.

Although Galaxy Capital is nowhere near as wealthy as the Nahyan family (the hereditary rulers of Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates), they have a deep cooperation with Abu Dhabi and can be regarded as an important collaborator or an important partner of Mubadala Development Company (note: ATIC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the advanced technology investment company that acquired AMD's semiconductor division, which later became GLOBALFOUNDRIES). They invest in emerging sectors such as technology and industry, aerospace and engineering, energy, and healthcare, real estate, and infrastructure. This is basically the direction of Galaxy Capital's development, and the cooperation between the two sides can be said to have great potential.

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