Chapter 695: Land Grabbing

"Welcome to the House of Milan!"

At the gate of the office building at Piazza Chino in Milan's Ltelo district, AC Milan vice-president Barbara Berlusconi, dressed in a flaming red dress, accompanied by bald manager Galliani, stretched out her jade hand to the guests who had just gotten out of the car.

This Audi is a special car specially designed by AC Milan to receive distinguished guests.

And this time, the guests it picked up were the acquirer from the United States, Thohir and the team behind him!

"Hello, Barbara!" Tohir's eyes were a little straight when he saw Barbara, who had been carefully dressed.

Jason Levine and Steven also got out of the car, but more often looked up at the six-story glass faΓ§ade.

Strictly speaking, it's a four-story building, because only half of the fifth floor is usable, and only a small part of the sixth floor is usable.

It is an irregular inverted trapezoidal building, with a roof slope of nearly 30 degrees, on which are placed models of five athletes running and sprinting, which has a very enterprising sportsmanship.

The exterior wall is the same as Building A and Building B in Keno Plaza, which are all gray, but with the sharp corners of the top floor as the center of the circle, a red and black circular pattern with different colors is drawn, which is considered a decoration, but it is not bad.

"Several, please inside!" Barbara is clearly confident in the team's new headquarters.

Such a headquarters, even if it is placed in the whole of European football, it is second to none.

After all, the vast majority of teams have their home stadiums, with the exception of some Serie A teams that do not own their home stadiums and build a separate headquarters outside the stadium.

Inter Milan's headquarters are located at 24 Via Durini, while AC Milan's old headquarters are at 3 Via Tulati.

Although it has only just moved in, the new headquarters has been carefully renovated.

The ground floor is home to a fan shop, bar, restaurant, and the basement is also fully utilized as a museum and trophy room for the team, while the second to fourth floors are office floors, and the higher you go, the higher you go.

So, Barbara, Berlusconi, Galliani and Braida, among others, are on the fourth floor.

The 5th and 6th floors are not in use because of the space.

When new guests arrive, it is natural to take them to the museum and trophy showroom, as is customary, to see the team's restaurant and fan shop.

During this time, Tohir also bought a few souvenirs, saying that he wanted to go back to give them to his children.

"What a nice place to work!"

Walking into the bright conference room on the fourth floor, Thohir sighed.

He had also been to Avenue-24 Duriny, which was too shabby compared to it.

Of course, some people may say that it has a lot of flavor there, but it doesn't keep up with the times at all, does it?

And Steven, who had never spoken, suddenly said without a word, "If I remember correctly, Piazza Keno should be the work of the famous Italian designer Pietro Valle, which has been planned since 1998 and has not been completed until now, including a fan-shaped plaza and three office buildings." ”

Both Tohir and Jason Levin were surprised by Steven's words, why did they suddenly show off their knowledge?

Could it be that this bike kid has a crush on Barbara?

No way?

Doesn't he like to ride a bike? Why do you like women?

But Jason Levine quickly realized the problem and immediately opened the document that AC Milan staff had just handed over, which included this building in AC Milan's fixed assets.

But it's clear that it's an AC Milan lease!

Even if they keep claiming that this is their club's asset!

No wonder I turned into the intersection just now, and saw that the decoration of the two buildings outside was almost exactly the same as this one, but one of them had been leased to South Korea's Lg Electronics as its Italian headquarters, which turned out to be the case!

Barbara was also a little embarrassed, but she reacted quickly and immediately laughed, "We signed a long-term lease contract with Keno Place, and as you can see, the value of the surrounding land has been getting higher and higher recently, and the rent has been rising, so we think the prospects for this asset are also very good." ”

Is this a plausible explanation?

Obviously not, but if you want to continue talking, you can't hold on to that!

β€œoK!” Thohir also understood, "Then let's have a good talk." ”

Barbara nodded and smiled at Thohir, "Then let's get started!" ”

Everyone found their place and sat down, and the bald manager Galliani didn't say a word from beginning to end, just with a very hypocritical, very old fox smile.

"We've been in contact with both sides before and we're very clear that we can only sell 49 percent at most, no more, because it's our responsibility to make sure that AC Milan remains in the hands of the Italians, otherwise it's hard to predict how fierce the reaction will be!"

Speaking of this, Barbara smiled slightly, "I'm sure you have also seen that not long ago, Inter Milan was just bought by investors from China, and the fans immediately caused a big riot and almost became out of control, and the same thing, we don't want to happen to AC Milan, that will damage our brand value!" ”

When Jason Levine and Steven heard this, they all leaned back and laughed.

How can this be said so high-sounding?

"Barbara, I think our sincerity, you are quite clear, one billion euros, which is fully in line with your and the outside world's valuation of AC Milan, and we have the financial resources to complete this acquisition."

Thohir's words made Barbara, who was sitting across from him, shake her head slightly, and it was obvious that AC Milan would not agree.

"Of course, if you ask for only 49 percent of the shares, then we can totally agree, but we have one request."

"What requirements?" Barbara was suddenly interested.

Berlusconi introduced foreign capital and originally planned to use Kaizi's money to run AC Milan, how could he let go of the controlling stake?

Therefore, in this negotiation transaction, as long as it does not involve a controlling stake, everything else can be negotiated.

"We want you to be able to divide the money into three parts, one part of which will be used to pay off the team's debts, and one part will be used to strengthen the team's reinforcements and strive for a stable presence in the Champions League, and the other part will be used to build a new stadium."

In these days, it is clear to all football investors that the Champions League and the new stadium are the biggest piece of fat.

"We hope that through Mr. Berlusconi, we can acquire a piece of land in the city of Milan, in addition to the construction of the new stadium, including other supporting facilities, we will be responsible for the purchase and construction of the land, after completion, the stadium will belong to the club, and the other supporting facilities will be owned by us!"

That's a big chunk of fat!

Think about it, a new stadium can accommodate about 50,000 people, on average, about one game a week, and every game day, a series of supporting commercial facilities such as shopping malls, hotels, restaurants, etc., will bring huge revenue.

Jason Levine, who has experience in nFL and nBa operations, knows this better than anyone.

And he recently used this set of chips to persuade American real estate tycoon Steven Ross to agree to take a stake in his acquisition team, who is also very interested in buying real estate projects in Italy.

Barbara sat there, frowning slightly, but her heart was silently contemplating.

According to the acquisition strategy of Tohir and others, the Berlusconi family hardly received even a penny.

Not only will you not be able to get it, but you may have to invest another amount of money to run the new course.

Otherwise, they will dilute their shares and lose their controlling stake.

But that's not the point, the real point is, where did Milan get its land now?

"Mr. Thohir, I still need to discuss your latest proposal with my team, but I think it will be very difficult if the land you are asking for must be in the city of Milan!"

"Why?" Thohir was a little surprised.

"Because there is no extra land in the city of Milan."

"The piece of land diagonally opposite the old site of the World Expo......"

Barbara immediately understood that these guys were eyeing that big piece of fat.

The guts are quite fat, and even Yang Huan dares to grab the meat in his mouth!

"You probably didn't pay attention to yesterday's newspaper news."

Tohir and Jason Levine and others all looked concerned.

"The Milan International Fair Foundation has announced yesterday that because there is only one company from China participating in the bidding, that piece of land has already been won by the other party, so I can only say that you are late!"

"What?" Jason Levine couldn't sit still.

"Didn't you say that you still have to assess your qualifications and publicize them, isn't it so fast?"

Barbara laughed in her heart, her father was right, this Jason Levine was the protagonist of the acquisition team.

"Yes, it should have been so, Mr. Levine, but you should understand that this plan will never catch up with the changes, and the early bidding is unanimously agreed upon by all the members of the General Council of the Milan International Fair Foundation."

"Why?" Steven was also frustrated.

They finally persuaded investors that they were aiming for that piece of land.

Originally, I wanted to use Berlusconi's connections and connections in Italy to snatch the land from Yang Huan's mouth, but who knew that guy would start so quickly and get it done in advance!

"According to Benettini, the president of the council, the other party plans to complete the construction and start operations before the Milan Expo in two years!"

"What?" Jason Levine almost didn't laugh out loud, "How is this possible?" ”

Barbara wasn't at all amused, "No, Mr. Levine, it's absolutely possible!" ”

When the three big men on the other side had all looked over, she smiled, "Because they contracted the project to a construction company from China!" ”

At this moment, everyone present was silent.

If there is any miracle that can be said to be created in the infrastructure industry, it must be from China's infrastructure companies.

Jason Levine was depressed and amused.

It's not that Yang Huan is funny, it's that their group of guys is funny.

Who is Yang Huan?

Just sold 10 percent of the company's shares to Apple, making $20 billion, and there is no place to spend it.

No, the headlines of all the Italian newspapers, big and small, the other day were Inter Milan, bringing in one star after another, without blinking an eye.

And now?

In less than two years, to build such a huge commercial city, only Yang Huan can be so capricious!

But just think about it, how amazing the potential value of building such a huge commercial city in such a prime location will be in the future?

It's eye-popping just to think about!

I still wanted to grab land with others at the beginning, but what happened?

Shame everyone is thrown to grandma's house!

As soon as he thought about this, Jason Levine seemed very distracted and completely uninterested.

Because from start to finish, they don't think that AC Milan is worth a billion euros.

With such an outrageous price, whoever buys it is Kaizi!

However, if you don't buy it, will the investment team that has been worked so hard to pull it over and set it up fall apart?

Especially Stephen Ross, who personally promised a lot of money, don't you want it?

At the thought of this, Jason Levine's heart warmed again.

Forget it, it's wrong!