On May 16, Spanish national television broke out a special program that shocked all Spaniards, and one of Spain's oldest teams, Atletico Madrid, which has always been in the top three in the minds of Spaniards, changed hands. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At first, everyone thought it was fake news, because before that, there had not been any foreign invasion of Spanish football, let alone such a large club with such a long history.

However, officials from the Spanish Football Federation soon confirmed the veracity of the news on television, and Atletico Madrid, the third-fastest club in Spain, had been acquired by Zhou You from Singapore for $110 million.

The former second largest shareholder of the club, Cerezo, and the third largest shareholder also sold 11 percent of their shares to Zhou You, while Jesus, the largest shareholder of the former club, also sold 59 percent of the shares, retaining only 30 percent of the shares. As a result, Zhou You became the largest shareholder of Atletico Madrid.

The application for the deal was approved by the Football Association and only needs to wait for approval from the Spanish Ministry of Commerce. However, everyone understands that although a long-established club is involved, this is an ordinary commercial acquisition, and the Ministry of Commerce will not veto the proposal when the major shareholders have already completed the transaction.

That evening, at the entrance of Atletico Madrid's headquarters, not far from the Spanish Royal Palace, countless reporters gathered in the hope of interviewing first-hand information.

In fact, a few months ago, a reporter received news that Atletico Madrid's shareholding had changed, and that Cerezo and Abasolo had been squeezed out of the competition. However, because none of the parties admitted that Atletico Madrid is not a membership system and is not a listed company, the change in equity was not revealed, and the reporters did not continue to investigate later.

Now all of a sudden, there has been such a big change, and all along, the number one hooligan in Spanish football suddenly stopped playing, which made everyone feel a little unacceptable.

Without this chairman who laughs and scolds Mowgli and even dares to hit people directly on the field, Spanish football will be much less fun in the future.

However, these reporters are not afraid of no topic, because the new major shareholder Zhou You is a more crazy guy than the old Hill, he made his fortune by finding a treasure in Ibiza, and later four people against a gang of more than twenty people, in Indonesia he killed a dozen people alone, in addition to a number of criminal cases.

Last year, he worked with the Spanish government to earn $500 million, and later relied on that money to invest another billion dollars in Spain to build two first-class casinos.

He also dared to confront the British government and salvaged the British shipwreck HMS Royal Merchant, if it weren't for the salvage of the Victory that eased relations with the UK, he would probably still be arguing with the British government now.

Of course, in addition to these, what interests the reporter the most is that in addition to his wife, he also has two girlfriends, one is the American socialite Paris Hilton, and the other is the famous Spanish female entrepreneur Gracia Volando, whose affair has attracted the attention of countless ordinary people.

Such a new chairman, who is topical, is not as rampant as the old Hill, but he is even more powerful. He's also in Spanish football now and will definitely add a lot of topical news.

But here, everyone was disappointed, because the gates of Atletico's headquarters were closed, and no one came in or out except for the security guards who stayed behind.

It was only on the sign at the door that an announcement was made that Atletico would hold a press conference at the Marbella training base at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

At this time, most of the reporters immediately drove to Magada Honda, the Marbella training base in the western suburbs of Madrid, hoping to dig up big news there.

The Marbella training base is named after the city where the elder Hill was once mayor, but it is located in Magada Honda, a wealthy district on the western outskirts of Madrid, so it is also known as Magada Honda Training Base.

In that time and space, after the death of the old Hill, after Cerezzo became the chairman, it was renamed Espino Training Base, and finally became the Chida Training Base after being invested by the richest man in China.

However, everyone was disappointed because the training base was closed today and refused to be interviewed by the outside world. Only the reporters of the newspapers As, Marca and Maca, after receiving a phone call, returned to the newspaper headquarters with a smile on their faces.

Ace and Marca are two of Madrid's most important sports outlets, and even now that they have the support of Spanish national television, they dare not neglect to be overlooked.

Marca newspaper is okay to say, because they have a closer relationship with Real Madrid, but Ace newspaper is equivalent to Atletico Madrid's royal media, and Zhou You also needs these two local media to cheer him on, so he must be treated special and leak a little inside information to them.

In fact, Zhou was also very busy that night, from the moment he signed the contract with the elder Hill, he began to be busy learning all about Atletico Madrid.

As the largest shareholder of Atletico Madrid, he can't even know how many assets he has acquired from Atletico Madrid!

It was also at this time that he realized that a club was far from what he knew as an amateur fan.

From the data, you can know that all of Atletico's assets are far more than you know. In his mind, Atletico Madrid is nothing more than having several echelons of different ages, but in fact, the number of teams owned by Atletico Madrid is as many as seventy-five, and the total number of players exceeds 1,500.

Of course, no more than 300 of these 1,500 players need to be paid by Atletico Madrid, but even so, it amazes Zhou You. He never imagined that there would be so many players in one club!

In addition to the men's team, Atletico also has three echelons of women's football, with more than fifty female players who need to be paid.

In foreign countries, more than 50 teams have cooperated with Atletico Madrid, and more than 20 training centers and training schools have been established. These are all things that he can't imagine as an amateur fan, and it seems that they are really interlaced like mountains!

(These materials are all official website information of Atletico Madrid in 2016, which should be true and credible.) But in 2002, the scale may be a little smaller. ）

Zhou You immediately met with the team's head coach Aragonés, expressed his trust in him, and extended the team's contract with him for one year with him left for two years, and increased his annual salary by 300,000 euros.

Although the head coach who travels around is Benitez, Benitez has just led Valencia to the La Liga title this season, and he can't invite him.

As for the magic bird, who is called the world's No. 1 head coach by many pseudo-fans, his style of life and coaching style have always been disliked. He is a star among coaches, and he can be considered an excellent head coach, but Zhou You has always thought that he is more famous than powerful.

Of all the teams he has coached, the only one he has left his mark on is Chelsea, but Chelsea's iron-blooded spirit is still a legacy of the Ranieri era.

Since then, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, including Manchester United, his coaching record can only be regarded as average, but he has been touted as the first manager, and he has not left any foundation for any team to continue to develop. On the contrary, he always quickly drains a team's potential. Or succeed in one fell swoop, like Inter Milan with a huge advantage, or fail, like the experience at Real Madrid, wave your hand and leave no cloud.

Zhou You thinks the most suitable manager is Simeone, who later made Atletico Madrid rise, but Simeone is still a player, and it is still six or seven years before he becomes a coach.

The other managers either look down on them or they look down on Atletico Madrid. Therefore, it is a better choice to keep Aragonés now, after all, this is also a manager with his own distinctive characteristics.

Like Ranieri, he is good at using the players he has to make a fuss and set tactics according to the players, rather than being like a magic bird and needing players to serve the tactics.

These differences are not only related to the team's results, but also to the boss's wallet!

As for the players, except for Torres, Zhou You is not too impressed with the other players, and he does not want to interfere in the construction of the team, because this is the manager's authority.

The next day's Ace and Marca newspapers used several pages to comprehensively introduce the entire process of traveling to Atletico Madrid and the prospects for the future. There are also several interesting anecdotes deliberately designed in the middle to attract the attention of fans.

And at the press conference that started at ten o'clock, Zhou You stole all the limelight from the old Hill who hosted the press conference. In particular, Zhou You's announcement that it will invest more than $100 million this summer, of which $10 million will be used to renovate the existing training base and strengthen the medical team, and the remaining $90 million will be fully invested in the transfer market, which caused all the media present to exclaim.

For the next two days, the elder Volando served as the club's executive director as a tour agent. This is also the only agent that Zhou You has put in, and he also needs to respect the original management before he is fully familiar with the club, although most of them Zhou You thinks it is not qualified.

Real Madrid and Barcelona can earn more than $500 million a year, but Atletico Madrid is only a third or even a quarter of each other, and the gap is a little too big.

Zhou You also held two consecutive days of meetings, the first day of which was to discuss with all the officials of the Ministry of Commerce how to develop the team's business market.

Thankfully, because Atletico had previously fallen into the second division, the sponsorship contracts signed were all short-term contracts, and Atletico Madrid were promoted to the first division, and these contracts needed to be re-signed.

The first sponsorship contract that Zhou You pulled in was the chest advertisement, which was sponsored by Adelson's Sands Group, four years and 40 million US dollars, and this sponsorship also exceeded Real Madrid's 8 million, becoming the world's first, and this sponsorship also caused a huge sensation, because in any way, Atletico Madrid is not as good as Real Madrid and Manchester United, Milan These giants, and now their chest advertising has become the world's first.

(Thanks to the iron man, the reward for chasing good books, thank you two brothers.) ）

(To be continued.) )