To be honest, Andy didn't care much about Manchester City, which was acquired by a consortium of desert tycoons, because he was very clear about the nature of this temporary consortium, and the Manchester City club would eventually be distributed to individuals, rather than being held by a consortium of desert tycoons as it is now.

Of course, even if Manchester City FC becomes a toy for desert tycoons, it is quite a money owner, buying Manchester City for 200 million pounds and paying off all the debts previously owed to Manchester City.

Immediately attracted the attention of global public opinion with its generosity, and all the players of the team, regardless of the main substitution, each had a gold watch worth 170,000 pounds as a meeting gift, as if giving candy to a child.

British football has never seen such a bold foreign owner, so except for Manchester City, the rest of the Premier League teams are jealous and hateful, and even Manchester United coach Ferguson has a little blush to express it most bluntly: "Everyone, pay attention, the wolf is coming!"

Almost at the same time as they took over Manchester City, the desert tycoon glorified the civilian team that used to be a-for-tat confrontation with the aristocratic Manchester United. They threw a staggering amount of money to snatch Carlos Tevez from Old Trafford, Adebayor from Arsenal, Robinho from Chelsea...

And what makes the UK talk about the most is that the arrival of the desert tyrant made Chelsea owner Abou suddenly become "Little Abu".

Although these teases did not make Abu angry, they were enough to disgust him, well, very disgusting!

Andy did not refuse Abu's alliance with him, he was not as fanatical about football as Abu, nor did he have the popularity that Abu wanted from football, as long as he could make money and achieve good results, he would have won a few more championships.

Of course, all this still needs to be said to David Dunn, listen to his opinion, you can't follow the blind things you don't understand, or you will become a rich and stupid ranks, look at the Premier League a few years ago and feel that you are rich, and now the honest little Abu is looking at the current wealthy Manchester City tycoons, hehe, they all paid a lot of tuition because of blind command.

But before that, Andy still picked up the phone and called Alvitre first, "Al, tell me the details of the Desert Consortium... ”

"Okay boss, wait a minute... ”

Andy heard Al ordering his men to take the information from the other side of the microphone, and waited for about a minute.

"Boss, the desert consortium was temporarily established in January this year, gathering all its large financial institutions to set up such a temporary consortium, the core purpose of which is to buy the world's high-quality assets when the global financial crisis comes, so as to expand the investment diversity of the entire desert financial institutions.

At the same time, by buying all kinds of assets at a low price, you can also get a lot of returns through arbitrage transactions after the end of the financial tsunami, which can be regarded as a kind of behavior of robbing national assets and chasing higher commercial interests... ”

"Hehe, it seems that everyone who is not short of money wants to have a full meal in this gluttonous feast. Andy said with a smile, his eyes narrowing slightly, his eyes twinkling.

"According to the information we have, the Desert Consortium is in close contact with Barclays Bank and Citibank in the United Kingdom and may take a stake in these two banks. ”

Hearing Al's words, Andy reached out and touched his chin, groaned and asked, "What is Citibank's stock price now?"

"About $25, which is more than half of the market value in 2006... “

"Hehe, it's going to be lower, so, forget it, I'll leave it to Badstone to keep an eye on, by the way, when is Paulson coming to New York?"

"The day after tomorrow, on the morning of September 4, the two rooms will be officially taken over this weekend. ”

Andy smacked his lips a few times, hummed softly, hung up the phone, and then without hesitation, called Badstone.

"Bard, how much liquidity do you have in the company's account?"

"At present, in addition to the 10 groups that have allocated $500 million in principal for free hunting, the company mainly has three hedging teams in operation, of which $1.5 billion is used to short General Motors, $1 billion is short AIG, and $1 billion is used to short Citibank, and $4.2 billion is currently available in the account at any time. ”

Hearing Badstone's report, Andy's mouth almost smiled crookedly, he only left $6 billion for Liberty City when he allocated funds after shorting Bear Stearns, and five months later, it has now increased to $8.2 billion.

Although there is a company briefing handed to him every day, after all, it is impossible to refresh the capital details of his company for him every day, and it is definitely the happiest thing for him to hear his subordinates report making money.

You know, after he raised money to short Bear Stearns in March, he split all the $26 billion into four parts, with the largest part being $10 billion in Gaia, followed by more than 3 billion pounds in the UK branch and $2 billion in the Asian group.

Of course, he naturally has $1 billion in his private account as his pocket money.

Liberty City Investments alone has earned itself $2.2 billion in five months, and the details of the third-quarter earnings reports of other companies that will be sent in the next row will make him laugh and wake up. Of course, this is also the confidence that Alvitatre could tell him that he could mobilize 22 billion cash in three days.

"In this way, Bard, add another $2 billion to short Citibank, with 10 times leverage!"

Hearing the big boss's request, Bardstone quickly clicked on the stock price chart of Fantibank and said, "Boss, are you trying to break Citigroup's $20 support level?"

"Hehe, Bud, my appetite has always been very big, so let the team that shorted Citi be more patient and be prepared for long-term operations. Although Andy doesn't remember the specific trend of Citibank's stock price, he remembers a joke about Citibank's stock price very clearly.

"When it fell to $36, a big guy said that he could buy the bottom;

When it fell to 18 yuan, a certain big guy said that he was ready to buy it;

At that time, when it fell to 8 yuan, a certain bigwig happily said that he bought it so cheaply;

When it fell to 3 yuan, a certain big guy cried;

When it fell to 0.97 yuan, a certain big guy died... ”

Therefore, as Citibank, which shocked the world at that time, this 'penny stock' that fell below one dollar, there is really a lot of room for operation, and even just press it to bleed, and then buy it at the bottom of the backhand, tsk, don't be too hilarious!

Hanging up the phone, Andy was happy like a child in letting the boss's chair start to turn around a few times, the smile on his face became brighter and brighter, and the huge cash flow made him more and more confident in buying high-quality assets.

Of course, as for those debts, Andy can ignore them and not let them affect his good mood, besides, as long as his companies make money, he doesn't have to worry about those debts, anyway, they are all passed on to those companies.

Happy for a while, after picking up the coffee cup and drinking the coffee, I looked at the time, it was already more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I saw the London clock hanging on the wall, hesitated, or picked up the phone and called David Dunn, although it was more than 9 o'clock in the evening in London, but I don't think I would go to bed so early, you must know that this guy is also a workaholic, especially now that the Tottenham club is on the rise, he is the general manager is full of energy.

Sure enough, as Andy thought, after the phone rang twice, it was answered, and as soon as David Dunn heard that it was the big boss's call, he immediately came to his senses and began to chatter and carefully report the recent operation of the club to the big boss.

Hearing this, the corners of Andy's mouth twitched, after all, the names of the players that David Dunn said in his mouth, Andy was really blind, and he was still talking about David Dunn's fast and orderly speech, and he quickly finished reporting, and Andy also told David what Abu said on the phone.

"Hehe, boss, speaking of this, the recent British media is full of cool words, saying that the desert tyrants don't actually understand football at all, they buy a yacht today, buy a plane tomorrow, and buy a football club the day after tomorrow, purely for fun. They had so much money that they could spend on bathing, so they had nothing to do but entertain. ”。。。 ”

Hearing David Dunn's words, Andy's face darkened, and his face was very unnaturally pulling, Nima, won't this cool talk also piggyback on him, right?

Well, hearing some unnatural light coughing on the phone of the big boss, David Dunn suddenly realized something, cold sweat broke out on his forehead in confusion, and when he opened his mouth and didn't know what to do, he heard the big boss sneer: "This group of bastards, typical is envy, jealousy and hatred! After Jinyuan Football was opened by Abra, it has already become a game for the rich, okay, the alliance with Chelsea, you think about it, if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, it is not impossible." ”

"Okay, boss, I'll contact them to talk. David Dunn smiled wryly, and regretted his gaffe a little, but fortunately, the big boss was not so stingy.