Chapter 579: The New Boss of the Queens Park Rangers

Queens Park Rangers in Hammersmith, London. Shepard Bush in Fulham, once translated by the Chinese media as the "Royal Garden Rangers", is a football club founded in 1882 with a very long history.

It is powered by two regional football clubs "St. Youde and Chris Chapel Rangers were formed by the merger of the team, and at the beginning of their formation, most of the players were from the Queen's Park area in north-west London. So, this club always thinks that they have a little bit of royal blood.

It is a founding member of the Premier League, but its record is not good.

Historically, they have only won the FA Cup once, the League Cup once, the League Cup and the second division twice. As for the top league, the highest result is the runner-up, and that dates back to the 70s of the last century.

So this team really doesn't have any accolades.

The home stadium of Queens Park Rangers is Loftus Road, built in 1916 and one of the oldest stadiums in the Premier League. Because of the narrow seating space, it is also nicknamed "Legoland". The stadium has 18,200 seats and can accommodate up to 18,400 spectators.

The club has a large number of fans and many die-hard loyalists, selling nearly 10,000 season tickets each season, with a very high attendance.

The team's facilities are a bit old at the moment, and the youth facilities are the hardest hit. The team's youth academy has hardly produced any decent talent, and the team has not paid much attention to the academy in the past ten years. Sterling was finally cultivated and sold to Liverpool for a mere £2 million.

These materials are all made up by Ricardo recently. Just a few days ago, the deal finally came to an end, when he bought Queens Park Rangers for £41.5 million.

At the moment, he was sitting in the large conference room of the administration building, not far from the window was the training ground, which was very quiet due to the team's vacation. In front of him, sat the main staff of the club. He looked at them one by one.

Director of Operations Felipe. Bilder, director Paradini (this gentleman is Italian, a close confidant of the former president, Ricardo reminded himself), director of football Indian Bahaya, main coach Mick. Jones, the rest of the first-team coaches are Kuhl, Jepson, Ruth, Gallen, Billham, team doctors Cox and Patel, scout Randall.

As for the team's head coach, Mark . Hughes, who had already parted peacefully with the club as Ricardo prepared for a change of manager, did not come over today.

Ricardo hadn't had time to put his own man in a key position, after all, he had just completed the acquisition.

It was June, and the weather in London was very hot, but everyone was dressed more formally, after all, it was the first time they had met the team's new owners. If you want to keep your job, you need to build a good relationship with your new boss.

After waiting for a moment, Ricardo said leisurely: "Hello everyone, I think everyone should know me." But from today onwards, I'm going to be the owner of Queens Park Rangers. In the coming period, I hope that it will be a long time coming, and I will work side by side with you to make the Queens Park Rangers an established club that is one of the biggest clubs in Europe. ”

"I'm going to make some changes to the personnel of the club, but don't worry, even if we can't continue to work together, you're going to be compensated very well, I'm a very human owner."

'The goal for the new season is not to be relegated, but to get into the Champions League and try to do well in the FA Cup and League Cup.

Ricardo saw it clearly, and many people had disapproving expressions on their faces.

He smiled: "Maybe you think this goal is too ambitious. But I want to say that I myself will join this team as a player. ”

Astound. Everyone's eyes were full of shock and bewilderment.

What's wrong with you, you can't stay with the championship team and come to this promoted class to play? How many years of your youth do you think you can waste?

"Youth is short-lived, and I don't want to spend my best time in my prime to be relegated. I want to continue to play in the Champions League, lead the team to a rapid rise and be a strong contender for the league title every year. So, I've come up with my goals now: a top-four finish in the league and an FA Cup title. And next season, we will try to challenge for the league title. ”

"In order to achieve this goal, I will invest more in the team. I will inject £300 million this year and will bring in no less than £50 million in sponsorship for the team, which will greatly increase the income level of the team. In the transfer market, I'm going to spend £200 million to rebuild the squad, get a talented manager, buy stars, and £100 million to raise the club's wage structure. In addition, starting from the near future, the club will update its training facilities and youth training facilities. We want to have the best training facilities in Europe, and we have the best youth training base in the UK. ”

When Ricardo talked about £300 million, everyone in the room had red necks. God, when has the club ever seen so much money?

Even if the staff who were a little cautious and resisted the acquisition before, they shouted in their hearts at this time: "It's so fragrant!" ”

"Everyone, let's work together!" Without saying much, Ricardo quickly ended his speech and began to report to the staff.

As he listened, he thought about the club's finances.

The team's finances are surprisingly good, with no debts at the moment, and the former owner, as a shrewd Italian, was unwilling to run in debt, leaving Ricardo with no mess.

Ricardo checked the team's income and expenditure last season. Last season, the team was in the Championship, and the broadcast revenue was relatively small, barely able to maintain a break.

But this season's promotion to the Premier League, just the broadcast share can get at least 80 million pounds or more, and the team's sponsorship contract can be re-signed, even if he doesn't inject money and doesn't go around to solicit sponsorship, there will be at least 130 million pounds of income this season.

Of course, there is a lot of spending, but the team will definitely make a profit.

If Licardo joins the team as a player, his commercial value will bring the team at least £80 million a year. It's scary.

Of course, he still has to work hard to join the team, and he has to suffer a lot of losses financially. But this must be done.

To do this, he prefers to sell some of his Facebook shares.

He's serious, he's going to be in the Champions League this year, he's going to win the FA Cup or the League Cup, he's going to play in the Champions League next season, and players like him won't be satisfied with a team that doesn't have a Champions League game.

So it's going to be a lot of money this year, you're going to have to go around waving cheques to buy people, even though the team has the fighting power to be at the top of the Premier League.

Of course, he doesn't worry about buying the wrong person. Who can play in the future, and which famous young stars will hurt Zhongyong, he is clear.

At this moment, Ricardo was full of ambition.

It's so cool to play the live-action version of FM.