"Ladies and gentlemen!"

Wilkinson greeted and attracted all the attention of the venue, and then began to introduce himself, "I'm Brand Wilkinson, probably a lot of people know my name, and probably a lot of people don't know, I'm here to make an introduction." I'm Saudi, but I'm half Welsh. As he spoke, he smiled with a smile on his face, as if he felt that Welsh blood could be more amiable to everyone present.

This sentence made many people pull the corners of their mouths.

Zhang Yang is also one of them.

Although no one said it openly, the first thought of many people was: "Is this guy insulting Welsh ancestry?" ”

A tall and strong man of Welsh descent still has a certain charm, and this strange-looking guy is a bit too far-fetched to associate with Welsh blood.

Zhang Yang was used to Wilkinson's appearance, and instead he thought about Wilkinson's bloodline and nationality.

Wilkinson is half Welsh, and it stands to reason that he can obtain British citizenship, but the other party chose Saudi nationality, and Saudi Arabia does not allow dual citizenship, in other words, he gave up British citizenship since he was a child.

What do this guy's parents think?

"Maybe the Saudi blood union is a nobleman, right?" This is the only way to explain why he gave up his British citizenship in favor of becoming a Saudi.

Wilkinson's speech continued, "This Saudi Paper Group's acquisition of the shares of Millwall FC is because Prince Mossad Abdullah is very fond of football. You probably don't know the Prince of the Mossad, but he is a prince who is very fond of investing in football, runs a football club in Saudi Arabia, and loves football. He has always wanted to invest in the most professional club, the kind of club that must be found on the top stage of the world. ”

"The Premier League is the best stage and Millwall is a very professional club, and Prince Mossad has watched a lot of Millwall's games and he likes Millwall."

"In fact, our acquisition plan started last summer, but for secrecy, there has been no announcement, but now that we have completed the acquisition, I, Brand Wilkinson, as the representative of Prince Mossad, will officially start taking on the role of vice president of the club, responsible for the management of the club's operations."

At this point, Wilkinson had a beginning, and then he began to tout the Premier League and Millwall FC, "The Premier League is the most professional league in the world, in my heart it is the number one league in the world, and no other league can compare to it. ”

"On a stage like this, the competition is going to be fierce. Millwall are a rising team, I believe any league needs a new force, and the Premier League is no different, and the rise of Millwall has made the Premier League more dynamic and competitive......

"This season's Millwall, the results have surprised a lot of people, but I am not surprised at all because the manager of Millwall is a flamboyant ......"

Wilkinson's cheeky rhetoric made many people grin, and then his topic also shifted to Zhang Yang, with Zhang Yang as the core to start his speech, "Zhang Yang is a young Chinese, when I first met him, it was hard to believe that he could succeed in the football coaching industry." ”

'But we can see now that he's succeeded, and at the age of less than twenty-three, he's already leading Millwall to top of the league.'

'It's not a surprise at all because he had a successful season last season, but most people don't care about Championship level competitions. Success is here to stay, and I believe that Zhang Yang is the most important person at Millwall, he is more important than any player, more important than any staff, even more important than any director, and of course, he will be more important than me...... Because he has brought Millwall achievements and accolades that he could never have imagined! ”

Wilkinson's series of pursuits made Zhang Yang a little unable to sit still, and he regretted coming to the press conference, at this moment, many cameras shifted their perspectives and pointed to this side, and he could only show an embarrassed smile.

This is a compliment from the Saudis?

Is...... Weak explosion!

In addition to being embarrassing, there is no other effect, but Zhang Yang and everyone present understood what Wilkinson wanted to express - the change of the club's equity and senior personnel will not affect Zhang Yang's position as head coach, and the club will fully support Zhang Yang to lead the team and give him absolute trust and support.

That's comforting.

Wilkinson's next words were even more attractive, he said that in order to buy Millwall FC, Prince Mossad and his paper company have prepared nearly 100 million euros, more than half of which will be used for acquisition funds, and the remaining funds will also be invested in the club for all aspects of the club's construction and transfer funds in the summer.

Many media reporters began to settle accounts.

Prince Mossad had already spent at least 60 million euros on Millwall, but even if it reached 70 million euros, there were still 30 million euros left.

In addition, Millwall must have a lot of financial savings this season.

Millwall's home stadium is continuously full, and the ticket revenue can be three or four million euros more, plus the league ranking bonus, TV broadcast share, etc., it is easy for the income to exceed the expenditure by 10 million euros, and it may even exceed 20 million euros, in other words, Millwall will receive nearly 50 million euros in transfer funds by the summer?

Even if you say it less, it will be 40 million euros!

That's big news!

Regardless of the calculation, Millwall will certainly be one of the clubs to wave their cheques in the Premier League this summer.

This is also where Zhang Yang is gratified.

If you have enough transfer funds, the whole team will definitely be much better, unlike this season, when you meet a slightly stronger team, you will play very hard, and you will feel very tired when you win the game.

Wilkinson then made a concluding remarks and gave a speech of 'becoming vice-president and working hard to lead the club to glory', and at the end he was flushed and seemed a little emotional.

This made Zhang Yang a little confused.

"Probably the first time he's been so noticed?" Zhang Yang thought, "Or has he wanted to be vice chairman for a long time?" Or excited about the success of the press conference? ”

It's hard to say why.

After Wilkinson's speech, Zhang Yang stood up and read a paragraph to the script, which basically meant that Wilkinson was welcomed as vice chairman and that 'the change at the top will not affect the team or his work'.

Zhang Yang was really in no mood to deal with this, so he simply read according to the manuscript.

Wilkinson was grateful.

The press conference was very important to Wilkinson himself, who was seen as the spokesperson for Prince Abdullah, and who was certainly one of Prince Abdullah's most trusted people to shoulder such a heavy responsibility.

Actually, Wilkinson's background is not bad, but the relationship of blood has always been discriminated against.

Wilkinson's father was a Welshman, but his mother was a Saudi, a princess of the Saudi royal family.

Women in the Arab world have no status, the status of princesses is not very high, there are many princesses in the royal family, they are not like princes, they will be taken care of by the Saudi royal family, and they will have a great way out in business or politics, especially a few decades ago, when Saudi Arabia was still very poor and backward, and the princesses of the royal family could only be arranged to marry 'husbands who had never seen them', and they could endure polygamy, share their husband's love equally with others, and fall in love freely or something, they didn't have to think about it at all.

Wilkinson's mother fell in love with a Welshman and gave birth to a child, so you can imagine how much criticism she would have.

Wilkinson will not be small.

Saudi Arabia's growth environment is not open, he was lucky to survive, and he grew up with the talk around him, and the pressure on his back is unimaginable, and when he grows up, many people know his background and are unwilling to hire him, and in the end it was his cousin, that is, the Prince of the Mossad, who hired him.

Wilkinson has always worked hard and has become one of the people the Mossad Prince trusts, but in terms of identity, he is not even as good as an ordinary civilian, and it is very difficult to get ahead in Saudi Arabia, which pays attention to blood.

The Mossad prince could not reuse him, and could only send him abroad.

Representing Prince Mossad in London for the acquisition of a Premier League club and taking charge of the club's management until the end of the season, his only chance to pursue a good life was his only opportunity.

For Wilkinson, Britain is paradise!

There is an open environment here, he will not be discriminated against everywhere he goes, and there will be many people who respect him because of his position.

That's what matters.

You can imagine how much Wilkinson cherishes the opportunity, he must stay here in order to pursue a free life, and he must also help Prince Mossad manage the Millwall Club, at least to the satisfaction of Prince Mossad, so that no one can replace him, then he does not have to return to Saudi Arabia.

Wilkinson's nervousness and agitation are understandable.

Now that Wilkinson is the vice-president of Millwall, he is the most powerful man in the club, and the next step is to do a good job, so what is the goal?

Undoubtedly, the results!

Completing the acquisition of a club in the middle of the season is certainly to ensure the club's results, as long as it is to gain the support of the fans and also to the satisfaction of the Mossad prince.

Wilkinson couldn't help but think of Zhang Yang, he knew that the team's results this season must rely on this young and excessive Chinese.

He has great prestige among the fans.

Only by stabilizing him can the team be stable and achieve the best results!

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The next day, Zhang Yang got the good news that the club intended to re-sign his contract.

This is a raise!

Zhang Yang understood what Wilkinson meant, and at yesterday's press conference, he praised him 'unprecedentedly', and he definitely wanted to keep him.

Zhang Yang has no reason to refuse.

Wilkinson has this in mind, and it doesn't hurt him, and the salary increase is a long-awaited thing.

A season has not yet passed, and normally, even if a contract is negotiated, a new contract will start at the end of May.

Zhang Yang himself was unwilling to give up the old contract, when the original contract was signed, there were a series of bonus regulations, just the league championship bonus, there was 1 million pounds, the FA Cup champion was 300,000 pounds, and the final was 150,000 pounds, all in all, as long as the team won the league championship and the FA Cup, he could get 1.3 million pounds.

That's a lot of money!

If you sign a new contract with the club, the salary will definitely increase, but it is estimated that the annual salary can only reach the first-line level, around two or three million pounds, and even then the salary level, more than one million pounds is half a year's salary.

That would be enough to solve the current economic crisis.

Zhang Yang's economic situation is not very good, since he bought a new house, until now he is not willing to buy a car, a large part of his salary, to pay off the balance of the new house, the remaining funds are growing slowly, recently the work is relatively slow, there is no time to engage in some business and the like, which means that there is no other income.

With this bonus, the situation is completely different.

Zhang Yang feels that his income will also soar after the season, Millwall has achieved good results, and his fame has also soared, many large companies have contacted Andy, running business endorsements during the holidays, it must be an indispensable job, and the income will enter another stage at that time, he is still looking forward to it, he has been living a 'poor' life in the past, and finally he has survived a little.

Of course, the important thing is to lead the team.

That's the basics.

After Wilkinson's press conference, the outside media has been reporting on Millwall's high-level turmoil, and most people at the club have not actually felt much turmoil, except for the former chairman Grigory, who took a large sum of money and retired early, and no one else left the club.

There are also changes.

Part of Ebenezer's job was shared by several new employees, two of whom were Saudis and three were English.

From this point of view, Ebenezer was the most affected, moving from CEO to head of commercial operations.

There is a difference of one level between the two positions.

Zhang Yang and Ebenezer discussed it privately, and felt that Ebenezer could continue to work, because he was still more valued, his salary had not been reduced, and his workload had not been reduced.

Millwall FC is no better than it used to be.

Last year, Millwall Club was just a small club at the Championship level, the club's biggest asset was the value of the players, and most of the income was generated by the support of core fans.

Now it's different.

Millwall is a Premier League club, and they have won the league title, and then the club will definitely make great progress, such as expanding the stadium, opening some special shops around the area, negotiating contracts with major sponsors, etc., and if possible, it will also expand its popularity around the world, just like Manchester United, Liverpool and other teams, going to play tours in Asia and the Americas, when the time comes, the commercial department is the busiest.

Ebenezer became the head of the commercial department, and the workload and power will only be greater than before.

In addition, a very important reason for Ebenezer to stay in the club is that he holds the club's shares, even if it is only three percentage points, but he is still a shareholder of the club, especially after the club was acquired, the major shareholders have basically disappeared, Ebenezer still holds shares, and then as the club's commercial director, he will naturally be a very important figure.

Wilkinson seems to be the face of the new owner, Prince Mossad, but he is not a shareholder of the club after all, and the vice president can also be said to be self-appointed, and in the final analysis, he does not even have the right to adjust Ebenezer's work.

So Ebenezer stayed at the club, which was a pretty good decision.