Chapter 94: It's better to buy a basketball team
"It's not impossible to buy a team, it's just that you want to buy a team there? Domestic or the top five European leagues?" These words woke Chen Yu'an, they are now rich, but they still lack the means to protect their property, and the American capitalists are not pure white rabbits, if they use sports to expand their fame and influence like Abramovich, it should be much safer, right? Other people who want to do it have to consider the influence.
"Forget about the domestic ones, right? We don't have much foundation in China, and we can't play those old rivers and lakes. Zhuo Zixu's evaluation of the domestic professional league is not very high, "You can consider buying a team in the five major European leagues, if there are talented players in China, we can also introduce them to Europe, play in Europe like Yang Chen, and let them stay away from the domestic miasma, it will definitely be better." ”
"Ligue 1 aside, the gap with the other four major leagues is a bit big, Serie A has declined in the past two years, and the domestic policy environment in Italy is not very good, the team can't even have its own stadium, and commercial development is even more difficult; The head of Zhuo Zixu's analysis said, "La Liga is in the transition stage from membership to corporatization, and it is not suitable for buying teams, so it seems that the Premier League is more suitable." ”
This is also an important reason for the influx of foreign capital into the Premier League in the future, and now the acquisition of Premier League teams, if it is not for giants like Manchester United, it should not cost too much money; in 2003, Abramovic bought Chelsea only spent 80 million pounds, even if you add Chelsea's 60 million debts, a total of only 140 million pounds.
Abramovic has considered selling Chelsea for £2.5 billion, which is about 18 times the price he made at the time of the acquisition.
"But have you considered the issue of labor certification? National football players need labor certification if they want to enter the Premier League, and the players who are eligible to apply for labor certification are relatively old and have limited development potential, and young players lack national team experience, so it is difficult to apply for labor certification. "Think about it carefully, only a few people such as Sun Jihai will come out in the European arena in the future, although Dong Fangzhuo was favored by Manchester United, but he had to go to Belgium because he did not have a labor certificate.
"And don't look at the current national football team has entered the World Cup, in fact, this time it is lucky, if it weren't for South Korea and Japan as the organizers to directly enter the finals, and the draw avoided the two strong teams of Saudi Arabia and Iran, it would not be so easy to qualify. Chen Yu'an thought for a while and said, "I think that if the domestic player training system and league system do not change greatly, it will be difficult to enter the World Cup in the future. ”
In fact, until the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the national football team has missed four World Cups in a row, and the 2022 World Cup does not seem to have much hope.
"Another point is that the focus of our future business should be the United States and China, and we can't focus on the United Kingdom, so forget it!" Venture capital companies don't need to stay in the company for a long time, but it takes a lot of time to understand the latest developments in the industry and maintain contacts, and they can't often run back and forth between the Atlantic Coast.
"You are so not optimistic about the future of the national football team? Now that you have entered the World Cup, you will definitely be able to attract many children to start learning to play football, and when these children grow up, the national football team can really rise." Zhuo Zixu said a little unwillingly.
In fact, you think too much, there is a pig teammate of the Football Association, no matter how many children want to play football, it makes no sense for me to get involved in those bad things; in the future, will there be fewer things for Chinese capital to enter European football? Suning won Inter Milan, Brother Li got AC Milan, and Zheng Nanyan, the founder of Seven Days Hotel, became the largest shareholder of Nice in Ligue 1, and these have no effect on Chinese football.
"Labor certification is really a problem, if you want to develop young Chinese players, maybe the Bundesliga is relatively better, but Germany is even further away from the United States. An Sifang shook his head regretfully, in fact, he also wanted to put on the name of the team owner and say that it was a lot of style, but it was a pity that listening to Chen Yu'an's analysis was indeed a little unrealistic.
"Britain and Germany are unlikely, why don't you consider domestic teams in the United States?" Chen Yu'an suddenly thought of another talented player.
"Major League Soccer? The level of professional leagues in the United States is indeed higher than that of China, and it can attract some superstars from Europe who are about to retire to play, and if young Chinese players can enter, it is definitely better than at home! But the attraction of the American league is not high enough for them, right?" Zhuo Zixu was still thinking about football.
"No, I mean the NBA! Why don't we think about it, let's buy an NBA team?" Calculate the time, Yao Ming will participate in the NBA draft next year, Chen Yuan doesn't want to see him join the Rockets anymore, if his own team can win Yao Ming, and then help him choose the right coach and teammates, maybe Yao Ming still has hope to win the championship, and he will not retire so early.
Some things can only be cherished when they are lost, when Yao Ming was working hard in the NBA, there were a lot of Yao Hei on the Internet, but when Yao Ming retired and Yi Jianlian returned to China, Zhou Qi could not enter the Rockets squad in the development league for a long time, and then found Yao Ming's game video to see, everyone understood how precious the time was at that time.
"NBA team?" Zhuo Zixu's eyes suddenly lit up, relatively speaking, he likes basketball more than football, today he just watched the national football team enter the World Cup too excited to buy a football team, if he can buy an NBA basketball team, it can definitely make him forget about the football team for a while.
"Are NBA teams expensive?" he immediately opened his laptop and looked it up, "There are several NBA teams sold in recent years, in 1995 Cohan bought the Golden State Warriors for 119 million, Dolan bought the New York Knicks for 1.1 billion in 1997, Cuban bought the Mavericks for 285 million last year, and the Nuggets sold 450 million in the same year. ”
"If it weren't for giant teams like the Knicks and Lakers, we would have been able to win an NBA team for two or three hundred million, and we seem to be able to afford it!"
"You can think about this when you go back to the United States this time, of course, we are all laymen, and if you want to enter the NBA circle, you must be introduced by someone, so you have to meet someone first when you go back. Chen Yu'an thought of a suitable team manager.