Chapter 3: Encounters and Acquisitions

At 20:00, a flight from Parma to Bologna slowly fell, and Jingyang walked out with his suitcase.

Bologna, an Italian city. Located on the southern edge of the Po River Plain and the northern foot of the Apennine Mountains, it is the distribution center of agricultural products, a commercial center, and its industries are mainly food, textiles, agricultural machinery, automobiles, railway equipment and chemicals. Bologna is a historical and cultural city in northern Italy and is one of the oldest cities in Italy. Bologna is a small city, and the old town is famous for having two sister towers (one tall and one short) built in the Middle Ages.

After booking the hotel, Jingyang put his luggage into the hotel, looked at his watch at half past eight, and went out to calculate. Walking on the streets of the ancient city of Italy and looking at the pedestrians, Jingyang has some nostalgia for the scene when he was in the orphanage, Jingyang was lucky, the director of the orphanage, the teacher and others were very good, and they were like their own children, this is said to have been almost three or four years since before the rebirth, and it is unrealistic to think about these now, just when Jingyang was distracted, he bumped into a person head-on.

The person who was hit sat on the ground with a plop: "Oh, who doesn't look at people in the aisle?" "Okay, okay, let's go quickly, it's not good to sneak out this time and be known by the company." Said the girl next to the girl who was knocked down. "Really, Quan Yuli, I just said don't travel so far to travel, you just don't listen, forget it, I'm unlucky!"

However, Jing Yang didn't understand a word of the conversation between the two, because the other party spoke Korean..... Before Jingyang could apologize, he saw two girls with hats and masks quickly leave and disappear into the crowd.

This dress-up... The weather in Italy is not too cold, and it is a thick hat and a mask with a big neck, is it a certain star? Forget it, well, it's almost time, so let's go to the coffee house first.

Bologna is not big, according to the memory, Jingyang quickly found the agreed coffee house, the house was set up simple and elegant, the antique Jingyang went directly to the second floor, and recognized the person he wanted to see at a glance.

"Hello, Hernán Jorge Crespo, I'm Marco. Jingyang"

"Hello, I'm Hernán Jorge Crespo, Mr. Jingyang doesn't have to be so formal, I don't know what you invited me to do this time?"

In the past six months, Jingyang has not been idle, in addition to commercial investment, more or with some sports companies to do some cooperation, this year there is money to have connections, and Jingyang in order to know some famous hotels, this time I did not go to the home of the old professor of the Department of Physical Education of the University of Bologna, and gradually got to know some famous places in Serie A, this time I made an appointment with Crespo through the introduction of Fabio Cannavaro.

Coincidentally, his old professor in the university happened to be Cannavaro's teacher, and he successfully helped Cannavaro get the coaching qualification certificate, and several times when Jingyang went to the teacher's house, he happened to meet Cannavaro, the head coach of Guangzhou Evergrande, and the two chatted for a while and felt that it was more convenient to talk and exchanged phone numbers with each other.

In fact, Cannavaro is not only talented in football, but also has a very high emotional intelligence for dealing with people, so he can naturally know that Jingyang is rich and intends to set up a club through chatting.

"Mr. Crespo, I invited you here this time just to have a brief chat, I'm sorry to disturb you." "It's okay, Fabio and I have also talked about you, and I heard that you are interested in buying a club?" Crespo didn't procrastinate and directly made his words clear, which also saved Jingyang's trouble.

"Yes, Mr. Crespo doesn't know what you think of Parma today?" Jingyang asked with a smile. "Hey, I'm afraid it's hard for Parma to survive now, and I won't tell you the truth that the Italian Football Association has actually made a decision, and now Parma has a debt of 320 million euros, and no one is ready to take over, you know in business, Serie A is completely inferior to the Premier League and Spain, and those rich tycoons are more willing to take over Premier League teams with higher commercial value." Crespo was clearly not in a high mood when he spoke, after all, Parma was the place where their dreams began.

"I know that, Mr. Crespo, if, I mean, one day I take over Parma, would you like to return to Parma as the director of the club?" Jingyang's tone was very serious and to the point.

Crespo's eyes lit up, but then he returned to normal, "If Parma needs me one day, I think I'm willing to return, after all, this is where my dream began, but I'm afraid Parma's debt is not so easy to solve." “

"Mr. Crespo, in fact, you already understand what I mean, and you might as well say to you that I also have a certain relationship with the Italian Football Association, and you also know that after this Christmas, the Football Association will officially declare Parma bankrupt in March, and his debts will be resolved, and other aspects will also be solved by Juventus Milan and other teams, so I am going to..."

"What do you mean...... I see, since it's already corrupt, it's better to start all over again! If, as you say, if you end up buying Parma and you need me, I have no problem with that! Crespo nodded.

Jingyang stood up and shook Crespo's hand: "Thank you for your trust, then look forward to our next meeting, happy cooperation Mr. Crespo!" ”

Crespo was also very polite: "Thank you also for your trust in me, happy cooperation Mr. Jingyang." ”

Jingyang and Crespo walked out of the coffee house, and after returning to the hotel, Jingyang thought about it or gave it to his assistant Chrissy. Burton, a Ph.D. student in Harvard's Department of Finance, made a phone call.

"Burton, after Christmas, next year we will start to pull some officials in the Italian Football Federation with all my might, you know what I mean, so as not to cause problems for next summer's acquisition."

"Don't worry, boss, there is no problem, by the way, there is a little disagreement between the boss and China's cooperation, we originally proposed a cooperation plan with Tencent in four or six, but Tencent in addition to the annual agency fee hopes to be divided into five or five shares, you see?"

Jingyang thought about it, after all, the Chinese market is the main battlefield for attracting money, and if you want to enter the Chinese market, it doesn't mean how good your game is, if there is no big tree of Tencent, you just wait for trouble, and after a while, he said: "Bolton promised them, but you have to remember that the main power must be held in our hands!" ”

"Boss, I understand, there's another question Tencent wants to ask, when will our Overwatch be launched?" Burton asked. "Well, you tell them that it will be officially launched in February this year, okay, if there are no other problems, I will rest, you also have to pay attention to sleep, and you can't break your body when you make money." Jingyang said with concern.

"Thank you boss, then I won't bother you!"

After the end of the dialogue, Jingyang is full of confidence, because the reason why Overwatch in the previous life is not as good as League of Legends in China is not actually a problem such as the quality of the game, the main problem is the point card class or a one-time purchase game, the number of players in this type of game is definitely not as many as the free class to play, so after communicating with Michael Chu, the game will be open to all players for free, but the heroes and skin players can spend gold coins or recharge to buy directly, It's similar to the League of Legends model, so that Chinese players are still willing to spend money to buy new characters in order to be more handsome or experience the new characters of the game earlier.

Time flies quickly in a blink of an eye, in March, at 3:30 p.m. local time in Italy, a hearing on Parma was held, which ended in only 10 minutes, and the judge did not pronounce the verdict in court, but the general trend of Parma Club being officially declared bankrupt has been decided, and it is only left when it will be announced; Eventually, not long after the hearing, Parma officially declared bankruptcy.

Parma club president Manetti was not present at the hearing, after being arrested on suspicion of money laundering and the Italian Football Federation also announced that if there is no buyer to take over in another three months, Parma will start with the amateur league. Jingyang actually thought that if he took over at this time, although he could start fighting in the second division, it seemed a little hasty in terms of funds and personnel, and some players in the team had already left freely, and the players who had not left for the time being were either not strong or had not yet found a good home, except for Lucarelli, in this case, it was completely better to start from the amateur league, so that he had enough time to rely on the FM system to find suitable players to cultivate, In this way, Jingyang is confident that it will return to Serie A in three years, and the team will be able to operate profitably and well in less than five years.

After chatting with Crespo and others on the 20th, they all supported Jingyang's idea, after all, they knew how much money was needed to raise an empty shell club even in the Italian Second Division, so it was better to start from scratch.

In less than three months, Jingyang and the Italian Football Association can be said to be quite familiar with the insiders, July 1 at 10 a.m. The Italian Football Federation officially announced that the Parma Club was founded by Marco. Jingyang took over and Parma changed its name to Parma 1913, and Jingyang has ordered someone to explain the meaning of changing his life on the official website of Parma 1913, 1913 is the time when Parma was established, representing a hundred years of inheritance, Parma is ready to be reborn!

And at the same time, Jingyang announced to the media that Crespo was the director of Parma, and after lunch with Crespo at noon, the two came to the Tardini Stadium, except for a few young players in the youth team, only Lucarelli and a few coaches.

Jingyang held the armband of the captain of Parma in his hand, handed the captain's armband to Lucarelli in front of the whole team, and invited Lucarelli, including the coaches and youth team players who did not leave Parma, to attend tonight's dinner.