Chapter 723: Big Trouble!
It was another sunny morning with no blue skies.
A taxi from Madrid's capital airport is speeding up the A6 motorway.
Sitting in the driver's seat is a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a slightly chubby body shape common to taxi drivers, the service attitude is good, but there are a lot of words, since I just looked at the WeChat positioning of the mobile phone, the mouth has not stopped.
"Lafinca? Oh, that's where the richest people in Madrid live, and you're going to be right here, halfway up the hill in the Lafunca neighborhood, where all the super-rich live. ”
"Eh, who the hell are you going to? Say it, maybe I know! ”
"This Lafinca, there are a lot of football stars, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Getafe live here, the last time I pulled guests in, I happened to meet Tevez moving, wow, I jumped down and asked him for an autograph as soon as possible, who made me a fan of Atletico Madrid?"
"Another time, I happened to solicit customers to the neighborhood, and I went in with an empty car for a walk, but I didn't expect to see Vidal coming out to take out the garbage, so I quickly took out my mobile phone and took a picture of it, sent it to the newspaper, and earned more than 100 euros in extra money, haha!"
"I'll tell you, it's not me who brags, I know where the stars live in the Lafinka community!"
"Well, get off the highway at the intersection a little further along, turn around, and it's Lafinca."
Russell took his two vice presidents, dressed up a little, sat in the back of the taxi, depressedly endured the non-stop noise of the taxi driver in the front row, and felt depressed in his heart.
But when he heard him say that Lafinka had arrived, he immediately followed the driver's gesture and looked over.
Sure enough, the taxi quickly turned off the highway.
As soon as you get off the highway, you will soon come to the Lafinka community.
The taxi driver is also as he said, he often comes, and he is quite familiar with the security guards at the gate of the community, and after a little checking, he let them pass.
La Finca is a well-known rich area in Madrid, here are all single-family villas, large and small, very neatly planned, but the architectural style is somewhat inconsistent, after all, some like red? The tradition of green tiles is that some prefer a modern style that is unconventional.
The road is not wide, but there are not many cars, so it is relatively fast.
After passing through the dense residential area and entering the upscale area, there is another security guard room at the foot of the mountain.
This time it's more troublesome.
After the security guard asked about the situation, he went back to the duty room to call, probably to confirm.
"It's the first time I've been here, and I've heard that any house here costs millions, and the more expensive ones cost more than 10 million euros!"
The taxi driver sat in the car, leaned down, and looked at the community in front of him from the front windshield.
In fact, you can't see anything, only a lush mountain forest, and a faint corner of the building peeking out in the gap in the woods.
"Alright, you can go up, but please slow down!"
Once passable, enter the upscale neighborhood and follow the winding serpentine path all the way up the mountain.
At every important corner or junction along the way, heavily armed security guards are on duty, and when they see their car coming up, they will immediately come out, stand up straight on the side of the road, and salute at the same time, and show them the way.
This made several people in the car very amazed.
The labor cost in Spain is so high, and the whole mountain area is so big, how much does it cost to hire these security guards alone?
The houses here are more than 10 million, which is expensive, but there are still many people who can afford them.
However, the property fee here is probably quite expensive, so it should not be affordable for anyone.
Following the security guard's direction, the taxi went all the way to a certain intersection halfway up the mountain, and saw that the security guard was already blocking the middle of the road and signaled them to turn in.
It seems that the place has arrived.
"I'm not going in, you guys can walk a little!" The taxi driver said a little depressed.
Walking in here made him feel a sense of frustration that he was ashamed of.
Russell and the others were not reluctant, anyway, they arrived at the place, so they got out of the car.
The Barcelona president had just closed the car door when he suddenly remembered something and came back again.
"Eh, aren't you a fan of Atletico Madrid?"
"Ah, yes, what's wrong?" The taxi driver nodded.
Russell smiled and pointed to the modern-style mansion not far from the intersection, "That's the mansion of your Atletico Madrid boss in Spain, remember!" ”
"What?" The taxi driver was stunned.
But Russell didn't say anything more, beckoned to the two assistants, and walked towards the intersection.
The taxi driver who stayed behind, sitting in the car, looked at the mansion in the depths of the intersection in a daze, and was stunned.
"Good morning, Mr. Russell!"
"Good morning, Mr. Ryugo!"
Russell recognized it at a glance that it was Yang Huan's bodyguard, Long Wu, who came to the gate to receive him.
"Young Master Huan has been waiting for you for a long time, he is swimming, you can go to the study first."
"Oh, good!" Russell nodded.
The three of them followed Long Wu into the mansion.
Yang Huan's mansion is a bit like a cottage in the woods, the architectural style is very unique, as if it is pieced together with various irregular geometric figures, but it is located in the woods, but it seems to be integrated into it, without destroying the overall environment and quiet atmosphere of the woods.
Just walking in here, it makes people feel a very natural and harmonious feeling, and the air is particularly fresh.
Stepping on the stairs and walking into the villa, it gives a very different feeling.
If, from the outside, the villa feels a little small, but after walking in, there is a feeling of sudden enlightenment, the space is not only not small, but very large and open.
Because the exterior walls are designed with glass curtain walls, the light is also very good, and even the corridors and entrances that should have been quite dark are very bright, especially looking at the woods outside through the glass, which makes people feel like living in the primeval jungle.
"It's amazing!" Russell couldn't help but admire.
"Yes, I didn't expect that there would be such a house in Madrid!"
"I remember, I think I've seen it in a magazine before, it should be from a famous design, and it seems that it has won some international awards!"
Who knows, as soon as Bartomeu's words fell, Yang Huan's voice sounded outside the door.
"Haha, Josep is right, this is a design by Eduardo Arroyo, which won the world's best residential design award, and was later bought and built here."
"But after the house was built, the original owner went bankrupt because of the European debt crisis, and the price of the house was too high to sell, so it dragged on, until a year ago, I heard about the house, I thought it was good, and the price was willing to give discounts, so I bought it."
Yang Huan wore a casual home sportswear, walked into the study with a smile, and beckoned everyone to sit down.
Eduardo Arroyo is one of Spain's most famous artists, not only painters, graphic artists, writers and set designers, but he did not expect that even residential architecture is so powerful, and even more respectable, he is already very old, eighty years old.
It seems that the whole home should be designed by Eduardo Arroyo, even the sofa is simple and natural, but it can be seen that both the workmanship and the materials are quite fine and valuable.
"By the way, have you had breakfast?" Yang Huan asked with a smile.
"I've eaten it!" Russell quickly replied.
Yang Huan nodded and stroked his finger at Long Wu, who immediately understood and went to ask the maid to prepare the tea.
It didn't take long for a cup of fragrant hot tea to be delivered to everyone.
"Try the tea I brought from China, you can't drink it outside!" After finishing speaking, Yang Huan nodded towards Long Wu.
The latter knew they had something to talk about, so he nodded his head and withdrew, closing the door casually.
"How? I hear you've been in trouble lately? Yang Huan looked at Russell and asked with concern.
Russell knew that he couldn't hide it from Young Master Huan, so he let out a helpless sigh and nodded.
The president of Barcelona has indeed been in big trouble lately.
In the end, it's Neymar's transfer!
In Yang Huan's previous life, Rusell's resignation was because Neymar's transfer was full of shady scenes.
Yang Huan didn't understand it before, and always felt that it seemed that Russell was greedy for money, but then he gradually understood, and it became clear that this kind of transfer related to the ownership of a third party is often difficult to explain clearly in one sentence.
This is full of a lot of gray areas, and even if Rusell stepped down later, Bartomeu came up, and with the permission of Neymar's father, all the transfer terms and contracts were made public, but there are still a lot of transfer details that have not been announced, full of doubts, and even can't be explained!
With the arrival of Yang Huan, Neymar was brought to Southampton early, and Barcelona no longer needed to hide anything to introduce Neymar, but the problem still appeared.
That is, the transfer fee is too high!
Barcelona's signing of Neymar at an astonishing price certainly exhilarated the fans, made the entire football market boil, and made Barcelona's sponsors very excited, but it was also tantamount to giving competitors a sharp weapon to attack Russell.
Because in the past few years, Rosell has been committed to cutting Barcelona's operating costs, improving the club's finances, and expanding business income, but now, signing Neymar is naturally controversial.
Not long ago, former President Laporta publicly asked Rosell to disclose the team's financial situation, but in the end he was suppressed by Rosell, after all, after Barcelona signed Neymar, both the level of competition and income are steadily improving.
But now, a new problem has arisen.
When Russell heard Yang Huan's inquiry, he immediately glanced at Bartomeu next to him, who knew that he still had to play this ugly face by himself.
As a last resort, he could only cough twice and said, "Young Master Huan, we are indeed in trouble, and for us, it is a big trouble, but for Young Master Huan, it should be just a piece of cake." ”
"What do you mean?" Yang Huan thought it was funny.
This is the right time to give me a high hat, are you enough?
However, thinking about how arrogant these two guys were when they wanted to introduce Ibrahimovic back then, but now, they have to take the initiative to come to the door, Yang Huan's mood is very happy.
'According to our agreement with Southampton, we should pay another transfer fee for Neymar in June.
Yang Huan nodded and said, "Yes!" ”
Hearing this, he actually knew it in his heart.
"But, Master Huan, it just so happens that we have a bank loan due in May, and we spent a lot of money during the winter break to bring in Llorente from Juventus, so we ......"
Speaking of which, Bartomeu was a little embarrassed and unspeakable!
"So...... We're afraid we're ...... in terms of funding But, be assured, we've done everything we can. ”
Yang Huan knows in his heart, no matter how nice Bartomeu says, in the end, Barcelona still has no money.
Frankly, Rosell can't be blamed for that.
On the one hand, Russell is indeed not Florentino, and the gap in ability between the two is not ordinarily large.
But it should also be noted that when Laporta was in charge of the team, although the results were excellent, the team's finances were quite bad.
To put it mildly, Laporta is unlucky, the heroes of the rise of the second phase of the dream, including players such as Ronaldinho, were all introduced by Russell, and the third phase of the dream just caught up with the rise of local youth training such as Messi, Iniesta, Pique and Busquets.
Without the emergence of this group of unattainable youth talents, Laporta's fate would have been quite miserable.
But who calls people lucky to catch up with the good times?
As soon as Russell came up, there were many financial problems, and the third phase of the dream also reached its peak, and the results will inevitably decline.
But even so, Russell has really done a good job in the past few years in Barcelona.
Even if there are many fans who scold him for slamming the door and accusing him of a lot of problems, it must be seen that the team's finances are indeed improving step by step, which is Rosell's biggest contribution to Barcelona.
So, I can only say that Russell's luck is really bad.