Plans for the 890 City Group

"Manchester City's 33rd league game in a row!"

This is the next day, the headline of many media.

Generally speaking, the media is basically a headline party, and what they are best at is to use various exaggerated and thrilling headlines to attract the audience's attention.

This time, however, there was little media rhetoric in their coverage of the match.

Because.... The fact that the league has won 33 games in a row is already extremely exaggerated.

People have become largely numb to Manchester City's victory, and they have turned over Manchester City's next opponents..... They've won all the league games and it's almost a reality.

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April 17, Etihad Stadium!

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL！！！！！！！”

The commentators on the commentary table were shouting frantically.

The tsunami-like cheers from the stands seemed to pierce the Manchester sky.

On the pitch, Manchester City players in sky-blue jerseys poured up and crushed into a heap near the corner flag area.

On the scoreboard at the stadium, the red score is prominently displayed: Manchester City 1:0 West Bromwich Albion.

Game time.... 13 minutes!!

"The scorer is..."

The DJ roared.

The fans in the stands were ready for a long time.

"Li Yuanshan !!!!!"

Manchester City fans chanted in unison.

On the court, Li Yuanshan finally stood up from the bottom of the crowd, with grass clippings from the court and some sludge on his body.

It can be seen that this game is not easy for him either.

There is no doubt that Manchester City will once again be on the bench in this game, as they will travel to Munich in three days to take on Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich away!

After the goal, Li Yuanshan was very excited, and he still had a smile on his face.

This season can be described as a season in which Li Yuanshan's career took off, although he is not the main force of the team. But the 20-year-old striker is now becoming an important rotation player in the team's forward line.

Becoming a rotation in the strongest team in Europe like Manchester City is already quite a remarkable achievement for Li Yuanshan.

His agent, Mendes, is already planning to ask City for a pay rise.

After all, in modern football, a high school striker with height and good mobility is quite scarce, and purely from the competitive aspect, Manchester City will not let go of this striker easily, let alone ...... A Chinese player, but one of the most crucial keys for Manchester City to open the Chinese market.

The head coach has Gao Bo, and the players have Li Yuanshan.

In just one or two years, Manchester City has surpassed their city rival Manchester United, surpassed the two giants of La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona, and become the European club with the largest number of fans in China.

In terms of the number of shirts sold, Manchester City alone sold more in China than the rest of the teams in Europe combined – which is a rare thing in a Chinese market that has not yet developed the habit of using genuine shirts.

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The 34th round of the league is over.

Manchester City beat West Bromwich Albion 3-1 at home to make it 34 consecutive league wins.

Before leaving for Munich, Gao Bo had a long conversation with the team's executive chairman, Soriano, for nearly four hours on the evening of the game.

Due to the unprecedented success in the Chinese market, Manchester City, or City Group, has decided to strengthen its investment in China.

City Group originally had a city club plan, and in addition to controlling Manchester City, they also owned a series of teams such as New York City and Melbourne City.

These teams can certainly be seen as satellites of Manchester City, but at the same time, they are also part of the club's community function in some of the football's remote areas.

As a result, City Group decided to make a similar investment in China, and they wanted to set up a Chinese "city team".

Soriano's plan is to buy a Chinese Super League team outright, targeting teams in Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou.

Of course, there are advantages to this approach, that is, the team can directly compete in the Chinese Super League and qualify for the Chinese Super League.

However, after communicating with Gao Bo, Soriano began to consider Gao Bo's plan.

Gao Bo is very interested in this plan, and in his opinion, the capital of the city group, Manchester City's experience in youth training, and England's strong youth coaching resources can bring some progress to Chinese football.

The premise is .... Don't combine it with the original Chinese football.

With the funds of the city group, it is completely possible to start from scratch and build a team that completely belongs to the city group from the bottom up.

"The current plan can be divided into three steps!"

In the face of several high-level executives of the city group, Gao Bo even specially prepared a PPT.

As a Chinese, he certainly wants to contribute to his country's football.

In Gao Bo's view, football is not complicated, but if football and China's human society are combined... That's complicated.

Fortunately, the city group is a "foreign monk", and they may be able to do better in the domestic football environment.

"In China, there are four first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and in addition to Shenzhen, there are teams in the Chinese Super League in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and compared to other cities, Shenzhen is undoubtedly younger, the city was just a small fishing village 30 years ago, in these 30 years, the city has developed rapidly, and young people from all over the country have poured here, making this city a city of immigrants who are very different from other cities!"

Gao Bo said.

"Therefore, I recommend Shenzhen, of course, for a variety of reasons..... The city has enough young people, has enough spending power, and at the same time.... There are also no top-flight teams here. ”

"The first step is to train local coaches." Gao Bo said, "On this basis, we will dig out our little talents and use Manchester City's youth training standards to carry out systematic youth training." ”

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"Of course, the competition is important, but unfortunately in China we don't have a quality youth league. It's a problem...," Gao Bo said, "but.... We can make up for this lack with cross-border youth exchanges, which is the second step. ”

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"The third step is to set up a team that really belongs to a city, and the players of this team come from all the neighborhoods of the city, starting from the lower leagues, if we can get a group of well-trained players in the front, it will only take a few years to get a really strong team!"

The PPT of the high wave is very long.

However, the senior management of the city group looked at each other after hearing this.

They are not Chinese, so it has nothing to do with them whether Chinese football is dead or alive.

They just want to make money.

If you follow Gao Bo's scheme..... Steady and steady, it is true that the probability of success is high, but .... The cycle is too long.

It may take at least seven or eight years to get a truly entrenched city team.

Therefore, it is normal for them to hesitate.

Gao Bo sighed in his heart.

This plan is a good thing for Chinese football, but for the city group, it is not very cost-effective.

City groups are very well funded, but they are not wronged.

No one will invest real money for seven or eight years first, and then wait for the chicken to lay eggs.

"We need to think about it, high."

A director said.

Gao Bo nodded.

It was the expected result, and he wasn't disappointed.

But... He looked at the PPT he had made for more than 30 pages, but the thoughts in his heart were irrepressibly surging.

Money....

Gao Bo thought.

My only problem is money.

Although Gao Bo now earns tens of millions of euros a year, this money is not enough to realize this huge plan....

Gao Bo shook his head.

"So... We can make a compromise. Soriano said.

"As far as I know, Shenzhen also has a team in China's second division that we can buy."

This plan has been endorsed by other high-level executives.

After all, they... not for charity.

After discussion, City Group made the decision to enter the Chinese football market.

And their base is located in Shenzhen.

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