Chapter 38: The Wayward Character of the Local Tyrant

Jordan unconsciously followed the topic of the second to change his mind, and now it is not a matter of whether to buy a football club, but how to do a good job in the management of the club. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Jordan's right to speak was completely distorted by the second. So Jordan really had no choice, so he said casually.

"Then which club are you going to buy, it won't be Oxford United, right?"

"Hehe, you guessed it again, I'm going to buy Oxford United."

Jordan found that as long as he thought it was impossible, the choice of the second was possible, is this reverse thinking? Why is the gap between people so big? Jordan had to check it out.

"You wouldn't really, would you?"

When Jordan saw the second smiling, he was really speechless at this time, and said angrily: "Oxford United can't buy it!" ”

"Why can't Oxford United buy it?"

"Oxford's investment is not proportional to its returns. Oxford United have small stadiums and a small fan base, so are the teams still hanging around the relegation zone? Yesterday we lost 3:0! ”

"Oxford United is small, we can build a big one. There is also a large fan base, and what about a professional club in the Oxford area? The number of fans is promising. The team didn't do well and that's because I wasn't there. ”

"You're not here, do you think you're Maradona, or another ball king?"

"I'm talking about the fact that I didn't take ownership of Oxford."

"If you become the owner of Oxford United, Oxford United will soar to the sky?"

"Aren't you raising the bar? When I joined Oxford United, I must find a good coach and bring in good players, so that the team's results will be good, right? ”

"That's the ideal state. Now Oxford United itself is full of holes, and it is a sinking boat. ”

"Hey, you know Oxford United? Then tell me, why is Oxford United sinking? ”

"Oxford's commercial sponsors have all been withdrawn this year, right?"

"I know this, McLaren told me."

"Oxford United have to renovate the stadium now, and the Manor stadium doesn't meet England's requirements, you know that, right?"

"You know, I'm going to renovate and expand the stadium."

"The Manor Course is right in the heart of Huntington, an address you know better than I do. Look at how Manor Stadium has expanded. To the west is Beech Road, a parking lot and a hospital, and you can't expand it! ”

"Yes."

"To the north, that's the Azalea Lane Tourist Reserve, and you can't expand it?"

"Hmm."

"The south and east sides can be expanded, but it's not something you can tear down at your expense, and there are private villas on both sides, and there are rugby and tennis halls there. How much are you going to spend, and what connections do you have to mobilize others to demolish and give you the land? ”

"That's a problem, if it doesn't work, we'll go to other cover ball farms."

"For a new stadium, you need to buy land, you need to get approval, and you need to demolish it. The location of the new stadium must not be too far away from Huntington, otherwise the fans will not support it, and Huntington may not agree to you taking over Oxford United. ”

Jordan's stormy successive shots still did not extinguish the idea of II to buy Oxford United. According to his own thoughts, the second felt a little wrong, so he asked: "I can understand the approval of the demolition, what can you say about the rest?" ”

"Do you think that if Oxford are far away from the Huntington area, is it still a Huntington team?"

"Oxford United was originally called Huntington United, but now it's also renamed? What does that have to do with Huntington? ”

"When Huntington United changed its name to Oxford United, the fans made trouble, you may not know this, Huntington fans ridiculed Oxford City for not giving Huntington United a finger of help, but used two fingers to take away the pearl of Huntington. It's just that the Huntington United team didn't move away at the beginning, and it was still in Huntington, just changing its name to expand its influence. In this way, there are many fans who are reluctant to come to the scene to watch the game to support Oxford United, thinking that Oxford United is not Huntington United. ”

This II really knew that Uncle Hanks was an example, and the II motioned for Jordan to continue.

Also, in Maxwell's time, the elder Maxwell wanted to combine the two football clubs of Oxford United and Reading into one to form a dream team covering both regions. But the fans moved out of Huntington with the team and protested strongly. Eventually, Huntington fans formed an amateur football club, called Huntington Athletic, to counter Maxwell's genius idea. In the end, the Huntington government did not agree to move out, so that Rameswell had to stop his plans. ”

II understands where the problem is, the root of football, is the problem of fans, and he has not fully thought about it. Football is really nothing without fans, and you can't offend fans if you offend anyone. What the fans need, what they expect, why they support this club, they just need to solve it one by one, although there is a long way to go, but as long as you put your heart into it, there is nothing that cannot be done.

The second said with certainty: "This is really a problem, but there must be a way to solve it." ”

Jordan Yile, who was waiting for this sentence, said happily: "The solution is not nothing, we can buy other football clubs, and this problem will be solved." ”

"Where to buy?"

"London, there are many football clubs in London, and London is also a metropolis with great development prospects. If you can't buy West Ham United in London! ”

II knew that Jordan's professional habits had been committed again. From a business point of view, there is no club that cannot be sold, as long as the price is right. The second smiled: "Hehe, you are whimsical, why did West Ham United sell it to me, why didn't you say buy Arsenal and Tottenham?" ”

"Arsenal and Tottenham can too, why don't they sell them?" Jordan's mind didn't turn for a while, and he asked in surprise.

II sorted out his thoughts and felt that it was necessary to convince Jordan. After the Oxford United Club was bought, Jordan had to manage it, and he was the one who was in charge.

"Well, Jordan, that's right. London is a cosmopolitan city, and as long as the team achieves good results, fame and influence are world-wide, sponsors are sure to flock to it, and it is easy to succeed commercially. London's football clubs, whether they are die-hard fans of their own team or neutral fans, as long as the team has good results, it is inevitable that they will be sought after. Coupled with the help of the news media, there is no doubt that the fame and fortune of the team are easy to obtain. ”

Jordan saw that II had regained his savvy. So Jordan said, "Look, don't you see it better than any other?" ”

Nishi smiled: "The Premier League plus the two levels of League One, there are only 48 teams, so professional football clubs are also a scarce resource. The economic value and personal prestige that a professional football club brings to the team owner is promising. Can you see it, and others can't? That Arsenal boss David Dunn, if it weren't for the chairman of the boss of Arsenal's major shareholder, who knows who he is? He doesn't have as much money as I have now, but I'm a foreigner to buy it, can you be sure that he sells me? What about the others? Premier League, you count, who to buy, who wants to sell to me? ”

Jordan said: "We don't buy the Premier League, we buy League One or the first tier, don't we? ”

"If you choose to buy a low-level team and try to get promoted to the Premier League, it's a waste of time. The grassroots counterattack has won the support of local die-hard fans at most, which is still a small niche. In London, there are so many clubs, it's so easy for you to let a grassroots club take over, and under the crowding out of these big clubs, you don't buy players. Now it's up to the club to buy and sell players, isn't that an example of this? ”

"Oxford United, although it is League One, also belongs to the grassroots, right?"

"Yes, Oxford United is grassroots, but the Oxford region is a single seedling, and it doesn't involve the interests of other clubs. As long as the team is successful, needless to say, die-hard fans, are those neutral fans, who work and study at Oxford, he doesn't go to Oxford United to watch the game, where does he go to watch the game? As long as the team continues to shine, these neutral fans will slowly become Oxford United fans. ”

"Also, in London, it's not friendly with the fans of the club, which is not good for me as a foreigner. Let's say I'm the owner of Arsenal and I need to go to the government department, but I'm dealing with a Tottenham fan. Tragedy can happen, and what can be done in a day, He can give you a week. ”

"Let's say it's not good, you said you are a celebrity, I'm sorry, you came to me to do something, and you still want you to prove your identity. You say you're the owner of a club in London. They will say in their hearts, if you weren't the owner of the club, I wouldn't have embarrassed you? Well, now the problem has escalated, this is your mother, so how do you prove that your mother is your mother, isn't this disgusting? ”

Jordan was stunned for a moment and said: "The confrontation between the fans of the team, that is the charm of the derby. If it's Oxford United, it's only a nest, because no matter how successful you are, it's a lonely thing to have no opponents. ”

The second found out that Jordan was really a fan, a team in the same city, geographically together, and it was a derby. But if the same giants and influential clubs play together, isn't that also a derby? Milan is a derby, is Real Madrid Barcelona not a derby? National derby, Oxford United and Manchester United can't become the Real Madrid Barcelona of the Premier League in the future?

"The master will not be really lonely, there is really no invincible team in football, crazy for five or six years, that is the team with a relatively long sports cycle. Oxford United is not afraid of loneliness, but with me, the rise of the Oxford United team is inevitable. ”

Jordan was stunned by what the second said, and said rationally: "I feel that you have the meaning of slapping your face in it." ”

When the second heard it, was he really so cautious? Come to think of it, there's really a little bit of interest in it, you want to buy a good car, and you want to block McLaren's little lotus.

Jordan saw that the second face changed, so he said: "One person is short, and it is not a way for the two of us to discuss here, let's brainstorm and finally come up with a plan." The acquisition of the club was a big deal, and it was the first business of the "Dragon" investment company. ”

The second recognized Jordan's words, an investment that could be hundreds of millions, and the two of them decided like this, it was child's play, and they couldn't get Jordan's support. I am the boss, I can also see the future trend and dare to decide. But Jordan can't, he's a professional manager, he definitely needs to investigate, make sure it's theoretically feasible, and then make a plan and finally implement the plan.

The local tyrant said willfully: "As long as money can solve the problem, then it is not a problem!" ”