Chapter 116 Wooing Liu Qidong
Abu also participated in the Atletico Madrid championship celebration, a week ago, Abu conveyed a request to meet Zhou You through the British Stephen wants to travel around, Zhou You readily agreed, and asked Atletico Madrid to send Abu an invitation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The meeting between the two of them in Madrid also attracted countless media attention. In just 20 minutes of private chat, Abu asked Zhou You about his experience in acquiring the team.
Zhou You didn't hide anything, analysing the difference between buying a successful team and a second-rate team, and suggesting to him the acquisition of Chelsea in London.
His £700 million purchase of Manchester United will certainly not have the same impact as spending more than £100 million to buy Chelsea. But Manchester United will never become his Manchester United, Chelsea can be his Chelsea.
What's more, Abu did not buy the team because he really liked football, but because he hoped to enter the mainstream of Western society through this platform. More importantly, he hopes to become his talisman through fame as well.
It would look like a team based in London is much more favourable than a team in declining Manchester. London was the economic and political center of Britain, and many of his intentions could only be realized here.
The meeting between the two men was a success, and it took only three days to return from Madrid to London, and Abu and Chelsea owner Bates held a press conference in London, announcing that Abu had bought Chelsea for £60 million and would take on all £80 million in debt.
Due to the success of Zhou Tour, Abu has not met much resistance to Chelsea in this life. He then announced that he would buy Nesta for 50 million euros and poached England coach Eriksen for a sky-high price of 5 million pounds, both of which attracted criticism from the media around the world, who thought the Russian was crazy.
Only Zhou You hid to the side and kept snickering, this madman was far from the craziest time. In order to save his life, let alone tens of millions of pounds, even hundreds of millions of pounds, Abu will not blink an eye.
Then Abu really waved the cheque and began to lure the stars, causing all the teams to be busy building fences to prevent wolves, but they shouted that the wolf was coming, but they couldn't resist the departure of the players. Although Abu failed to attract first-class stars, he grabbed a lot of second-rate stars in his hands.
Perhaps it was a little incense to travel around, he did not make a private offer to Atletico Madrid's players, and even if he wanted Atletico Madrid's stars, he only made an offer to the club according to the regular procedure.
However, Atletico now has a boss like Zhou You, who is not bad for money, and has just won the championship, and the team's squad is stable, so except for cleaning a few old players, almost no one in the team's main force wants to leave.
Zhou You only knows that this is only this year, and when Chelsea's high salary policy will affect all teams next year, at that time, a salary increase will be inevitable.
However, the good thing is that Atletico Madrid are now well-staffed and will not have to spend a lot of money on big-name stars for at least three years.
Abu's actions were met with numerous criticisms, and everyone compared him to Zhou You. After Zhou You's acquisition of Atletico Madrid, although he also spent a lot of money, everyone's worth was not inflated, and all of them were market prices.
But Abu doesn't care about all this, as long as it is the person he likes, he will raise the price of millions, or even tens of millions of euros, which makes everyone look down on him and think that this is too nouveau riche.
Although Zhou Yu has renewed the team, but the team's traditions, including the management, have remained stable, Abu is a subversive, he only has to leave Chelsea with a new name.
As soon as these various comparisons came out, Zhou You was advocated, Abu was criticized, and the media was not lively for a while.
But Zhou You has long left Europe, and has been staying in the capital during this time, wanting to form his own team of online shopping platforms.
There is no shortage of technicians, but Xiao Ma made it clear that he has too many affairs, and he doesn't know much about online shopping platforms, so he is not suitable to be a CEO.
There are not many people who can believe in Zhou You, and if you think about it, it is still suitable for Liu Qidong, the founder of JD.com.
In terms of dealing with the world, Liu Qidong is inferior to Ma Yun, and in terms of strategic vision, he is also a little worse than Ma Yun. In terms of the company's management, Ma Yun is also better. But in terms of the development of the company, at least he does practical things, not like Ma Yun.
Moreover, Jingdong's model is more trustworthy than Taobao, in the era when Taobao fakes are rampant, Jingdong has always been able to guarantee its reputation, which is not comparable to Ma Yun, who has been shouting to put an end to fakes. You must know that even the Tmall B2C mall they later established still had fake and shoddy products, which is their direct store.
Moreover, Liu Qiaodong has been building his own logistics network for ten years, which is also admired by Zhou You. Although JD.com has been losing money and cannot be compared with Ali in terms of market value, their model is actually more worth learning.
If Liu Qidong had not offended a series of Western financial institutions because of his listing, their stock prices would not have been suppressed and shorted.
I traveled around the United States at that time, but I saw with my own eyes that major financial institutions had suppressed JD.com's stock price for ten years, and reports unfavorable to JD.com were issued every three or five days, which almost halved JD.com's stock price.
Although Liu Qidong has many shortcomings, just because he formed JD.com and let JD.com always do its best in the B2C market, it is worth traveling around to take him under his umbrella.
He has no strategic vision, Zhou You has, he lacks investment vision, no one can compare to Zhou You, he has no international vision, Zhou You also has, his management style is domineering, which Zhou You and Xiao Ma can restrict.
Therefore, after Zhou You came to the capital, he asked Mr. Li of Baidu to help him make an appointment with Liu Qiaodong, who was still selling disks in Zhongguancun.
In China, traveling around has become a symbol, not to mention in the shopping mall, that is, many students and the elderly know this person. The title of the richest man in China is not an ordinary honor, and his legendary experience makes everyone curious.
At present, in the domestic market, as long as there are reports and books about travel, they are particularly popular, and many booksellers will collect information about travel everywhere, and then print a book to publish it, and the result is a lot of money.
Today's fake book stalls have more than a dozen books about travel, all of which are similar in content, but they all sell very well. This made Zhou You a little crying and laughing, this kind of thing, even him, was helpless. He can't go one by one and take each other to court.
Zhou You's secretary team received many self-recommendation calls and wanted to write an autobiography for Zhou You, but Zhou You refused without hesitation. It's not that he doesn't want to expose his private affairs, but he feels that he is only 23 years old now, and he has an autobiography, what's the matter!
Therefore, after receiving the invitation to travel around, Liu Qidong had a feeling of pie falling from the sky. If it weren't for the invitation from Baidu, and Sanchez also told Liu Qidong on the phone that he would come directly to meet on the northern edge of Houhai, Liu Qidong couldn't believe it at all.
Zhouyou's home in Houhai has also become a popular attraction, with tourists visiting the house every day. It's just that the doors are often closed, and few people are able to get inside.
Until the car stopped in the parking space at the entrance of Nan's study, Liu Qidong was still a little uncertain, he really didn't understand, what was the reason why Zhou You wanted to see him? Now he is not the head of the corporate empire in later generations, but he just opened a company in the capital and made tens of millions of rich people. But he, a rich man, is too far behind Zhou You.
A bodyguard in a white shirt walked to the front of the car and asked softly, "Is it Mr. Liu Qiaodong?" ”
"Yes...... Yes, I am Liu Qidong, and I came here to meet at the invitation of Mr. Zhou. ”
"The boss is waiting for you in the living room, please come with me."
After parking the car, Liu Qidong followed the bodyguard into Nan's study, but entered the No. 17 Courtyard A next to him through the back door. Although earned over the years
has a lot of money, and he can be called a rich man, but he still doesn't dare to count on the house here.
Along the corridor, Liu Qidong came to the living room of the main house, and Zhou You, who was nearly two meters high, stood under the eaves of the living room, and in Liu Qiaodong's eyes, he looked particularly tall.
Seeing Liu Qiaodong, Zhou You took two steps forward with a smile and said, "Welcome to Mr. Liu, there are too many reporters outside, and I can't greet him in person, it's rude." ”
"Don't dare, Mr. Zhou is too polite." Because he didn't know the purpose of the trip, Liu Qidong was up and down in his heart, and he was not good at acting too actively.
"For me, Mr. Liu is worthy of being welcomed, please ......" Zhou You gave up the door and asked Liu Qidong to enter the door sideways. Liu Qidong pushed and gave in, but he still won the tour, so he had to enter the house in fear.
As soon as he entered, he could feel the cool air from the air conditioner, but he didn't see any air conditioning outlets. The layout here is not as antique design as Liu Qidong thought, but has a little sense of leisure in the resort area.
From the outside, it looks like a courtyard house, but after entering the house, it is decorated and arranged with high-grade wood everywhere, just like the kind of water wooden house he lived in when he traveled to the Maldives.
The living room is not very large, but it is divided into three rooms, each with a slightly different style. I didn't have time to take a closer look, Liu Qiaodong was taken to the small living room on the east side by Zhou You, which is different from the casual style living room outside, it seems to be a bit of the style of the Ming Dynasty, the sofa is designed to pull the bed like a soft collapse, and you can even lie on it and chat.
"Tea or coffee?"
Liu Qidong said with a smile: "Sitting in such an environment, it is more emotional to drink tea." ”
Zhou You laughed, and a bodyguard next to him asked in a low voice, "Does Mr. Liu have any special hobbies?" Biluochun, Tieguanyin, Maojian, and Longjing are all prepared here. ”
"Just Tieguanyin......"