Chapter 637: I Want to Enter White Deer Lane!
Arsenal is one of the largest clubs in the Premier League, having won 13 English top flight titles, 13 English FA Cup titles, and 3 English Premier League titles since the club's inception, making it the longest-standing club in the English top flight.
All fans, I'm afraid there is no one who doesn't know this Premier League team, but it is such a great Premier League team, a regular in the Champions League, but he has never won a Champions League title, and he is nicknamed "Fighting for the Four", because since Wenger took charge, Arsenal has been able to rank in the top four in all previous seasons to qualify for the Champions League, and there is no problem with participating in the Champions League to make money for the club, but it is not with the championship.
Of course, Andy is also known for picking doors, Andy is very optimistic about this team, and he has the ability to buy this club, but after reading the information, he has no appetite, the board of directors of this club is very bad, Andy doesn't want to waste any money on a group of greedy vampires.
The current valuation of the Arsenal club is 432 million pounds, about 560 million US dollars, the price is not bad, after all, it has its own new stadium, and the world reputation is also there, but to acquire more than 70 shares of white, Andy not only needs to spend much more money than the valuation, the resistance will be very large, and then the shares are too scattered, there are many people who covet this club, recently, F1 "chief director" Bernie Ecclestone has said he is interested in buying Premier League giants Arsenal FC, and Walmart's son-in-law, sports management giant Kroenke has also joined the takeover chase for Arsenal.
Andy, who is in contention, is not much worried, as long as the price is not too outrageous, it is acceptable, the bottom of the matter is that the current board of directors of Arsenal FC passed a resolution after kicking off the original director, the club must not be sold until April next year. That is to say, if you have money, you have to wait, even if you buy shares now, you will be excluded by the board of directors to watch, and what is even more speechless is that Arsenal is currently the only giant club that sells shares to fans, that is to say, only when you hold more than 90% of the shares, Andy can force the acquisition of all the shares outside, complete 100% ownership.
Thinking of the long road to acquisitions and negotiations again and again, Andy really doesn't want to deal with a group of rigid and stubborn Britons with an inexplicable sense of superiority, and Arsenal is also Wenger, and Wenger is defeated, there is such an old man in Arsenal's position is so stable, playing Jinyuan football may not necessarily play well, especially the current Arsenal team is completely a youth army, even if he takes over, the change will not be too big.
Another club that Andy is optimistic about is Tottenham Hotspur, a well-known Labour side with economic conditions comparable to the big four, but some of them have always lingered outside the big clubs. Despite having a lot of stars, the team's record is like a rollercoaster ride, and Andy knows that Tottenham has spent a total of 40 million pounds this summer to strengthen, although the Premier League's golden dollar football has been opened, but Tottenham has really spent no less money.
However, they have not been able to build on last season's fifth-place finish as expected, challenging the Premier League's traditional top four. Tottenham Hotspur smashed their glasses in the opening round of the season, as they were beaten away at promoted Sunderland and lost three of their next five games, and it was only a matter of time before the current manager was sacked.
Many people mistakenly believe that Tottenham chairman Levy is the owner of this club, but in fact, Tottenham is controlled by the British conglomerate Enic Investment Company, and the real owner is none other than the billionaire Joe Lewis, the president of the Enic Investment Company. Levi, the Jewish boss who owns a small stake in Enic, was a friend of Lewis.
In July 03, a turning point in the history of the Premier League happened: Abu came.
Russian legend Roman Abramovich pointed his finger at Stamford Bridge. Then, more foreigners, Americans, Icelanders, Thais, came in with huge checks. Up to now, half of the teams in the Premier League have fallen into the hands of foreign owners, and dollars, baht, and waves have poured into the Premier League. The revolutionary storm came suddenly, but from the very beginning, it was vigorous.
In the tide, Chelsea relied on the ruble offensive to instantly subvert the traditional order of the Premier League that Ferguson and Wenger had built up all their lives, and Mourinho became a specific hero of this particular era.
As a result of Liverpool's takeover by the Americans, three of the Premier League's four giants are already in a situation where they are controlled by foreign capital. As for Arsenal, which is currently the only one in the hands of the British, it has also become the target of foreign capital acquisition, and Kroenke's acquisition of Arsenal is still proceeding in an orderly manner.
The advent of the subprime mortgage crisis, so that relying on investment, stock futures to make a fortune Joe Lewis is also a lot of losses, especially into the British financial market in September, the government does not care, directly led to the market's thirst for cash, to say that Joe Lewis did not make a big profit before the Liverpool, and the north London rival Arsenal that has begun to explode was acquired by foreign capital, it is impossible.
Having bought Tottenham for £22 million in 2001, he would be absolutely happy to see it bought by a foreign consortium to ease his cash flow.
So last month, the Daily Mirror revealed that Tottenham boss Levy was interested in a possible takeover of the club by a foreign consortium, with the club currently valued at around £400 million, and despite their sluggish start to the season, Tottenham's finances are in good shape.
The club was announced to have a liquidity of £103.1 million and a profit of £32 million, both of which were new highs for the club. The club is also interested in buying nearby land to expand the Egret Lane course from 36,000 to 52,000 seats.
Andy is quite helpless about Tottenham's lion mouth, the key is that Wal-Mart's bastard son-in-law, in order to hit competitors, directly pushed Arsenal's valuation to 1 billion pounds, making Tottenham want to kill big accounts, but unfortunately, the world is in the subprime mortgage crisis, and when the cash is thirsty, even Wal-Mart's son-in-law has also suspended the pace of acquisition, and Tottenham, a club that is not even a giant, is naturally unpopular. In response to media enquiries, Tottenham said they were not aware of and had not received any consortium bids for the club.
The price of 400 million pounds is definitely unacceptable to Andy, even if the club's liquidity is 103.1 million pounds, it also requires Andy to spend 300 million pounds to buy Tottenham, and in the future, the desert tycoons will only spend 200 million pounds to buy Manchester City, well, although there is the factor of the exiled Thaksin giving money to buy asylum, but the price of Tottenham is still inflated, however, as long as there is an intention to sell, it is a good thing, no trouble, the negotiation only needs to face a Joe Lewis, his company holds 82% of club shares.
The reason why he entered the Premier League is mainly because the Premier League can really make money, as long as it can reach the Champions League, the club can play Jinyuan football completely self-sufficiently, and more importantly, Andy, a pseudo-fan, found Gareth Bale's name in the Tottenham player list.
Nima, this is a big diamond walking, worth 91 million euros, think about it, Andy feels happy, although he is a pseudo fan, there is no problem watching the game, but he doesn't understand the real professional things, but he knows that the player will be famous and valuable in the future, this is enough, buy it cheaply one by one, and then sell it at a sky-high price one by one, oh my God, I am excited when I think about it, and there is nothing bad about the player supermarket!
Andy, dreaming of his players' supermarket, rushed to the Newsweek Building, and as soon as he entered the office, he asked Granada, who was currently in charge of forming the sports investment company, to bring the head of the football project.
Abou also mentioned to Andy on the phone that in 2003, he also considered buying Tottenham, but the former England national team manager at the time, Christian Eriksson, persuaded Abou that if he wanted to win the league title, he should buy Chelsea, because he only needed to change half of the team. At that time, if he bought Tottenham, he would probably have to replace the entire squad.
However, now Tottenham can rank fifth in the league, I have to say that the development of Tottenham in recent years is still quite good, maybe it is a good choice to enter White Hart Lane, in this way, he is only a friend with Abu, he will become an ally of Chelsea who is isolated in the Premier League, and the sworn enemy is also Arsenal in North London.
Andy Smith will also be in the eyes of the world's 3.5 billion fans, driving his products and his sales, which is simply better than any advertisement. He doesn't have the kind of Abu who is worried all day long, afraid of being settled by the queen of the autumn, so he desperately spends money to buy fame and increase influence, what he Andy Smith wants is to exchange fame and influence for a green knife, and he wants to play the fan economy, there is always no shortage of fans in this world who chase stars for various reasons.
Thinking of this, Andy took his coffee and sipped it lightly, as if he thought of the future that he could see, and couldn't help grinning.
So when Granada, the head of the sports investment company, came in with his men and sat down, the first thing Andy said was, "I'm going to be in White Hart Lane!"