Of course, the prize money, which is about $600,000, cannot be credited to the personal account for the time being. You can apply to claim the prize from the day after the lottery, which takes about one to two working days, and the prize you get is not the full amount after tax, but only a part of it has been deducted, and the remaining tax will be gradually paid in the following days, which is very troublesome. This is especially true for foreigners who do not live in the United States, and all kinds of laws and regulations sound like a headache, so at Raul's suggestion, Li Mudi had to pay for a professional to handle the payment, hoping to get the most prize money in the shortest possible time.

Although the amount of money earned from winning the lottery this time is close to all the net worth of the coach of Castile, who has just begun his coaching career, in the eyes of the real rich, it is at most a small amount of money, and nothing big can be done. Take the transfer fee of players as an example, although the winter transfer window rarely produces major player transactions, any transfer fee can kill all the assets of Li Mudi's family of three, counting all the organs. On January 6, the 18-year-old Gerson Santos da Silva of the Brazilian Fluminense team transferred to the Roma team for 16 million euros, which was still the price set a year ago, and the total assets of most of the Spanish Liga teams did not reach 10 million euros.

But this kind of European giants who can casually pay tens of millions for an underage boy are no longer the local tyrants in football, and the economic core of the football circle in the new century is in Asia, to be precise, in the Middle East and the Celestial Empire.

If it was the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and the American Glazer family who opened the Pandora's box of foreign invasions of European football, then the Middle Eastern energy giants that followed made this form of invasion the norm, so that the Europeans who were still somewhat indignant before died down, and Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and small and medium-sized teams in various countries became the playthings of oil tycoons.

However, with the gradual depression of the world economy, the unique development model of the Celestial Empire has gradually shown great power, and many powerful enterprises and individuals have rushed to Europe like the gold speculators of the year, waving checks and wantonly "purchasing".

In November 2015, a company called Rastar Interactive Entertainment Co., Ltd. announced that it had injected more than 60 million euros to obtain a controlling stake in RCD Espanyol in La Liga, becoming the first Celestial Empire company to control the five top European league football clubs. Prior to this, in January 2015, Wanda Group invested 45 million euros to buy a 20% stake in Atletico Madrid, which was the first time that Celestial Enterprises participated in the investment of Europe's top football club; In addition, there is a piece of news that has spread throughout the football circle, there is a Celestial Dynasty merchant group that is planning to fully acquire the La Liga Malaga club, and the previous owner is the Middle Eastern tycoon; Another La Liga team, Granada, is in the final stages of changing hands, and Jiang Lizhang, president of Celestial Double-edged Sword Sports, will spend 37 million euros to take a controlling stake in the team from the Italian Pozzo family. According to incomplete statistics, there are no less than fifteen teams in various levels of the Spanish league that are directly related to Celestial Empire Investment.

In addition to the Spanish team favored by the Chinese people, there are also Celestial Capital in several other major leagues. In December 2015, CMC invested US$400 million to buy a 13% stake in City Football Group (CFG), the parent company of Manchester City FC, becoming its second largest shareholder, which is why Xi Jinping visited Manchester City FC during his state visit to the United Kingdom; The acquisition of Aston Villa's board of directors and Celestial Empire in conjunction with Ruikang is now in the final stages and is expected to be announced in May. In addition, it is reported that a wealthy businessman surnamed Lai is in talks with West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League about the acquisition, and the progress is very impressive.

Ligue 1 and Eredivisie are also investment points for Celestial Empire businessmen, the former seven-time champion Lyon and another old French league powerhouse, Nice Club, have been linked to the Celestial Empire Investment Group, and the Hague Club in the Netherlands was wholly acquired by a group with a Celestial Empire background in 2014 and hired Gao Hongbo as an assistant coach, creating a precedent for Celestial Empire coaches to serve in Europe's top leagues.

However, when it comes to the most eye-catching team deal, it is undoubtedly the upcoming takeover of Milan's giants. At the end of 2015, Mr. Bee was kicked out by AC Milan because he failed to fulfill his previous commitment to the club, and then a large number of Celestial Empire companies appeared in the list of buyers, Wanda Group, Alibaba, Wahaha, Huawei, Baidu...... All kinds of rumors are flying. Of course, Li Mudi, who is familiar with the historical process, knows that in the end, it was indeed a group composed of several Celestial Empire companies that invested hundreds of millions of dollars to successfully enter AC Milan. The acquisition of Inter Milan is even more legendary, in March 2016, that is, two months later, Suning went to Italy to find a sports agency to negotiate cooperation business, and was advised by the other party's senior management to acquire an Italian club, so that Suning's sports strategy and layout will be qualitatively improved. Then there was a formal meeting with Inter Milan under the guidance of intermediaries, and in just over three months, the intention was turned into reality, and Suning invested 270 million euros to acquire about 70% of Inter's shares and achieved a controlling stake.

From the time mentioned above, it can be seen that the acquisition of overseas teams by Celestial Empire Capital began in the last two years, and when the economy of the entire Western world was in a quagmire, we were able to throw a lot of money everywhere, which was really so bad that we had no friends.

Li Mudi, who has been checking transfer rumors and intentions through the FM system, is naturally aware of this phenomenon, and the acquisition of the team is not mentioned for the time being, but the desire of the Celestial Dynasty team to buy world-class stars has to be admired by him. Here are a few important messages:

Hebei Huaxia Happiness is already negotiating with Roma about the transfer of Gervinho, and the offer of more than 15 million euros has been accepted, and 120 million yuan will buy an African who is nearly thirty years old?

Chelsea's Ramires is also in talks with Jiangsu Suning on a personal contract, with a transfer offer of 21 million pounds (about 24 million euros), but Chelsea did not agree, and it is estimated that the price will be higher, and the Brazilian will be 29 years old.

The hegemon of Celestial Empire football is naturally not to be outdone, Atletico Madrid's Colombian striker Jackson Martinez will celebrate his 30th birthday in the second half of the year, and the goal rate is not a little worse than the previous "Atletico Madrid strikers", and there has been a history of major injuries before, but Evergrande actually made a transfer fee offer of up to 42 million euros, is this crazy?

This is not the most exaggerated, Jiangsu Suning is introducing Ramirez at the same time, and is also talking with the Ukrainian team Donetsk miners about the transfer of Alex Teixeira Santos, and the transfer fee is as high as 50 million euros! You must know that the 26-year-old Brazilian is only valued at 30 million euros by the German football data network "Transfer Market", which is too exaggerated, even if inflation is considered, this money can be compared to Aguero's transfer to Manchester City. Teixeira has never proven himself in the world's top teams before, and his first stop in Europe after leaving Brazil was Shakhtar Donetsk.

After that, there will be 55.8 million euros of Hulk and 60 million euros of Oscar, which is more than 400 million yuan! This is not counting the additional costs such as the same exaggerated annual salary, reward terms and signing fees, Li Mudi has only one comment on this: the people of the Celestial Empire are indeed rich, and they are willful.

But is such a frenzied acquisition of Europe's top teams and the purchase of some big-name stars from their own leagues really useful for the development of Celestial Empire football? Although the former is still short and not easy to judge, it is not easy to judge, but every time the acquisition will be mentioned the goal of introducing some Celestial Empire players to the high-level league training, it seems that no team has really done it, but the old coach Xu Gengbao quietly acquired Lorca, in the face of various difficulties, he still tried his best to create conditions for domestic young players to contact advanced football concepts, and silently contributed his own strength to Celestial Empire football. As for the latter, Li Mudi is not optimistic at all, the current Celestial Empire football is not a few high-level foreign aid can play any role, and the brother league CBA, the core of each team is a foreigner, and the ranking in every technical statistic is the name of a foreigner, but it is useless to improve the overall level of national football and basketball.

Thinking that those sky-high transfer fees of hundreds of millions of yuan are likely to be in vain, Li Mudi's heart feels very uncomfortable, if our team can not only focus on the little interests in front of us, and invest all this money and energy in infrastructure construction and the training of young players. In fact, the rise of football in neighboring Japan should have been a template worth learning from, but some things in the Celestial Empire are really unclear and unclear, and there is no way to explain clearly.

The reason why I thought of these unhappy things was because Li Mudi received a call from Lao Shuai that night, and the two chatted for a long time, and then the phone ran out of battery. The old coach was a little frustrated on the phone, saying that after taking over Lorca, he realized how naïve his original idea was, and he thought that by buying a club in Spain, domestic players could come in and out at will, but in fact it was not so simple. Now that the economy in Europe is sluggish, the immigration policy is gradually tightening, especially in football, UEFA still has strict entry thresholds, and it is impossible to handle the long-term study procedures for so many people. Lao Shuai is now doing all kinds of work in order to give his children at the Shanghai training base the opportunity to come to Spain, even if they can only stay for a month, and his energy is a little unable to keep up. In this regard, Li Mudi helped come up with a few ideas, and introduced his good brother Zheng Xiaoyang to him, and the old man was very moved.

On January 17, Zheng Xiaoyang called and said that he had reached an agreement with the club to join the Lorca reserve team at the end of the month as the team's assistant coach.