Chapter 13 Choosing the Next Step

It was late at night at the Ritz-Carlton, and after sleeping with Sigrid, Reeves returned to the next room and began to think about going out to play football. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Reeves is ready to stay in France for another year to prepare for going abroad, he still has a lot to work on, and he is ready to spend a year improving his game.

Therefore, the time to go abroad is next summer, when he is seventeen years old, in the top leagues of Germany, Italy, Spain and England, it is impossible to get the main position just after going at this age, he must start from the bench, and even fight to stay in the team without being loaned, Reeves does not want to waste time in useless competition with teammates, nor does he want to play for others, he just wants to compete with superstars without interference and constraints, he knows that this is the treatment that only the core has, although Reeves believes in his own strength, But he is only 16 years old, and he knows that no club will be willing to build a squad with him at the core, unless the club is his own.

Thinking of this, Reeves seemed to grasp something in his heart, "My own family? "Walking back and forth a few times on the carpet in the room, yes, my own club, selling my own Internet company is enough to buy the club. In previous lives, I often played FM (Football Manager) games, taking control of a favorite club, changing a certain calf (potential player) to his own name with a modifier, and then taking himself as the core, forming a team and sweeping across Europe.

Yes, that's right. Thinking of this, Reeves was excited, but in addition to excitement, he was also a little reluctant, reluctant to the Lille club, reluctant to the group of loyal fans, staying in Lille for so many years, and having some deep feelings for every grass and tree here, one person and one thing, his heart was naturally full of reluctance.

But he knows that staying here will not be able to realize his dream, he can buy Lille, but a team cannot change the second-rate status of Ligue 1, Ligue 1 cannot attract the attention of superstars, Paris is so rich in the future, it can't change the status of Ligue 1, let alone his money. Here, apart from a few Champions League games, he has no chance to compete with the top stars, and he can't improve, let alone conquer the Europa League and become a football king. The conquest of Europa has been a dream since I was reborn.

Although he has comforted himself like this, his reluctance is still a little heavy, Reeves can only comfort himself again, after all, he will be separated, he can't stay here for the rest of his life, and now he just left early. However, he knew that these were just excuses, so his reluctance became guilt and wanted to make up for it. In addition to monetary compensation, that is the compensation of honor.

Even if you leave, you have to leave some honor for the team, now the team is good, fight hard in the new season, do your best, and leave a championship, this is the best explanation and farewell gift, only in this way, can you fill the guilt in your heart a little.

Thinking of this, Reeves clenched his fists, well, that's all.

As for whether the club will release him, Reeves is not worried at all, and now Michelle Seydoux, the president of the Lille club, is a close friend of Reeves, as long as his father says a word, he will definitely not set up obstacles to Reeves' departure.

Pulling the curtains open to reveal the beautiful night outside, Reeves sat down on the couch, looked out the window at the starry sky, and began to think about where to go.

When it comes to the league, Reeves first thinks of Serie A, the era of the seven sisters of Serie A has had a great impact on him in the previous life, star-studded, divided, and swept across Europe. (The Serie A Seven Sisters refer to the seven teams that Italy swept through Europe and China in the late 80s and mid-90s.) They bring home a European trophy almost every year, and have held at least one place in the final of the three major European cups for 13 consecutive years.)

Although after the phone door, a large number of stars in Serie A have fled, the Italian economy has not been good in recent years, and Serie A has shown signs of decline, but it is still one of the top leagues in Europe, plus Juventus will definitely be promoted to the first division next year, and Serie A can be glorious for a few more years, Reeves does not want to miss this last train.

Thinking of this, Reeves has made up his mind that he will go to Serie A.

Regarding the team, of course, it is necessary to choose from the seven sisters, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Lazio, Fiorentina, Parma, Roma seven teams think about it one by one, well, there are not many choices, poor competitive performance, poor business conditions, lack of financial resources of the boss, to meet these three points, only the sad Parma.

In fact, Reeves's favorite is still Florence, which is the place where the god of war Batistuta once fought, but unfortunately Florence has passed the most difficult time and missed the opportunity to buy.

In the era of the "Little World Cup" in Serie A, Parma had several world-class stars such as Crespo, Veron, Cannavaro, Buffon, Thuram, Adriano and so on. He has also won the Italian Cup, the League Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup, and the UEFA Super Cup many times. In the whole of European football, Parma can be called an old powerhouse.

Now, with the imprisonment of the owner Tanzi and the collapse and reorganization of the consortium behind Parmalat Dairy Group, the big names in the Parma team have left, and the club can only rely on government trusteeship to survive. Since 2004, Parma have quickly become a third-tier team in Serie A.

And that's not even the worst of times, as Reeves remembers that Parma's finances have been deteriorating, and since December 2014, Parma has changed hands several times, first from a Russian oil tycoon, then an Albanian bag merchant, then the owner of a local food company, and the price has fallen from 8 million euros to just 1 euro.

Moreover, Parma has almost become a human market in Serie A in the future, with dozens or even hundreds of people transferring in large quantities every year. In 2013, Parma set a record of 236 players traded in the summer transfer window, and in 2014, Parma broke the new trail by trading 300 players. This is by no means a feat to celebrate, and while players share a common feature of Serie A, there are only two possibilities for wholesale transfers, either the owner is laundering money or the team is going bankrupt.

Unfortunately, Parma has both possibilities. On March 19, 2015, the Italian side held a hearing on Parma, and the then president, Manetti, was arrested on charges of money laundering and other crimes. On June 22 of the same year, Parma, which was in deep financial crisis, was still untaken by the specified date, and finally declared bankruptcy and liquidation, and finally went directly into the amateur league.

Parma is the best time to buy now, with low valuations and little debt, and in 2003 Parramat went bankrupt, Parma lost €77 million in its annual financial report, with top superstars being sold off and members of the board resigning. IN 2005-06, PARMA SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE ITALIAN NEW DEAL TO CHANGE THE NAME OF ACPARMA TO "PARMAFC", CLEARING THE ORIGINAL DEBT, WHICH IS NOW VERY HEALTHY, BUT IN A FEW YEARS, THE DEBT ALONE WILL BE PROHIBITIVE. And now the club is looking for a buyer out of government trusteeship, having intended to sell to the former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz last year, but in the end the other party gave up the offer.

Historically, next year a young Italian businessman in the machinery industry, Zilardi, bought Parma for 30 million euros.

At this price, Reeves pondered that it could be done within 40 million euros now. As for the funds, there are only two network companies that are valuable in their hands, and after thinking about it, I decided to sell Skyfriends for cash and keep Skyvoices.

The reason for selling skyfriends instead of skyvoices is very simple, skyvoices are promising, this life was developed early, all countries have registered relevant patents, business in addition to Europe, Oceania and North America has also been rolled out, the historical Twitter is missing at this time, it can be said that there is no rival in the world. And Skyfriends is not so optimistic about the money situation, with the behemoth of Facebook as a rival, the business expansion outside Europe has not been smooth, and now the business in Europe is stable, but in the history of the last life, in a few years, Facebook will invade Europe in a big way, and in the year he left, Facebook has a dominant position in Europe. So Reeves decided to sell Skyfriends for cash now, and at this time, with his position in Europe, he would definitely be able to sell it for a good price.

The day before yesterday, Reeves received news from the Skyfriends company, Murdoch's News Corp. proposed to acquire it, Reeves did not plan to make a move, and wanted to wait and see for a while, but now he is in a hurry to use the money, it seems that he can start to contact it. In the history of the last life, in 2005, MySpace, one of Europe's largest social networking sites, was acquired by Murdoch's News Corp. for $580 million. At the time, it was widely believed that News Corp. had "picked up a big bargain." Today, Reeves' Skyfriends is one of the largest social networking sites in Europe. The price will certainly be more than $580 million, not less.

It's just that the sale of Skyfriends is not something that can be completed in a month or two, and there will definitely be no funds to buy the club in the short term, which will have an impact on his plan, and his original plan in mind is: to complete the acquisition of Parma this summer, recruit during the winter break, run in the lineup, lay the foundation, and next year he will leave Lille and go to Parma to form the final piece of the puzzle, and he will be able to produce results that season.

After thinking about it, there is no other way, it seems that he can only ask his parents for help, his family can only be regarded as rich, not the top rich, and he does not have the ability to take out so much money at once, but his mother's family has this ability, and the Bonaparte family has a huge family fund, which is specially used to fund the Bonaparte people to start a business, and Reeves borrowed the start-up capital for the creation of the two companies from the family fund, and now it seems that Reeves still has to borrow some money from the fund.