Volume 1 Chapter 358 Target: Tottenham!
Britain is indeed a country with a lot of humor, at least in the media.
When they want to sarcastically and humiliate a person, a football club, they tend to have an endless amount of creativity, most typically their cynicism about Husky.
However, in recent times, the British media have begun to ridicule a football club.
Last night I met a beautiful and wild girl, and she said to me, "Shame me, humiliate me as much as you want." ”
So, I bought a Tottenham shirt for her today
A little boy goes to the social aid and tells the people there that he is homeless.
"Don't you have mom and dad?" The social worker asked him.
"No, they beat me." The little boy said.
"What about your grandparents?" The social worker asked again.
"No, they fight harder"
The social worker was helpless, "Okay, then you say, where do you want to live?" ”
The little boy of "Tottenham" seemed to be prepared and replied confidently, "No one can beat anyone there"
The City Council rejected Tottenham Hotspur's plan to build a new stadium at Northumberland County Park, declaring that "we don't mind having an annual fair here, but watching a circus clown show once a week is a bit too much"
HHC TV reported in a special report, "There is news that Tesco is removing the OX badger head, a daily staple for British people, because of consumer complaints that he has now become a laughing stock because of the shell of the same color as Tottenham Hotspur." ”
"After receiving the news, the OX Badger Head Company urgently held a special meeting and decided to modify the packaging of the canned shell, and from now on, the shell of the OX Badger Head will change to the color of Arsenal."
I believe that after reading the above jokes, everyone can perceive that it is the north London team Tottenham Hotspur.
This team was once a well-known powerhouse in England's top league, and even had the opportunity to be linked to the giants, and was once regarded as the representative flag of English art football, especially in the late RU and early 90s, White Hart Lane Stadium was just like its name, playing romantic and poetic football, and once occupied the third place in the league.
That once made people hope that he would return to the top.
Many people say that Kaiserslautern won the top flight with a promoted horse is a miracle, so if it is a miracle to win the top flight with a promoted horse, then this miracle Tottenham Hotspur has already created 50 years ago
In the 490 season, Tottenham Hotspur returned to League One as the champion of League Two, and in the 50l season, he beat the then Red Devils Manchester United and won the miracle of winning the championship.
But after experiencing the peak, Tottenham Hotspur sank quickly.
Tottenham have always made the impression in English football that they dare to be the first to eat crabs, such as going public.
Tottenham Hotspur's listing dates back to the RU era a long time ago, when the FA had a hard and fast rule on the team, managers could only receive personal dividends from the club's profits, not salaries, and after the club collapsed, property could not be sold and given to other local football clubs.
However, Erwin Skoller, a real estate developer from Monte Carlo, took a fancy to Tottenham, and he became the new owner of Tottenham in 19 years by privately acquiring the club's internal bonds, but at the same time inherited a huge debt of more than 1 million pounds, and then he boldly chose to transform the club into a joint-stock company, and successfully applied for listing in 1983.
It was eight years after Tottenham went public, in 199l, that Manchester United followed suit.
At that time, there was a saying in English football, Scoler said to the then head coach of the club, Berkinshaw, "You will be an ordinary employee of Tottenham Hotspur Co., Ltd." This sentence made Berkinshaw announce his resignation and leave Tottenham Hotspur the night before the League Cup final.
Schole was furious at Tottenham, one of the most angry being his demolition of the famous West Stand, and the team's poor results in the years that followed, which led to growing dissatisfaction with him
At this time, Tottenham ushered in a more miserable combination, the new chairman is the German businessman Alan Schüger, who deals in electronic products, and Alan Schug's partner is the famous British coach Venables at the time, the two partnered to buy Tottenham from Erwin Skoller, but Schuger gave money, Venables empty gloves white wolf, and skills into shares.
As those familiar with Venables are aware, his career in English football has been marked by a series of untold scandals and farces, and his coaching career has been marked by gold and controversy.
As Alan Schulger, who was born on the street, and Venables, who was bent on treating Alan Schuger as a fat sheep and Tottenham as a tool for collecting money, the combination of the two laid the tragedy from the beginning, and finally Schuger bought the shares of Venerbulls and told him to get out, but Schuger himself fell into an embarrassing situation.
It was in this context that at the end of the 90s, the PNIC consortium appeared in front of Alan Schug, bought a part of his Spurs shares, and successfully increased his stake in Tottenham to ......
This is a very interesting number, because the United Kingdom stipulates that when it reaches 30, it must forcibly buy all the trading stocks in the market, and this consortium also has shares in many football clubs such as Glasgow Rangers in Scotland, Vicenza in Italy, Basel in Switzerland, Athens APK in Greece, Slavia Prague in the Czech Republic, and even once because Athens APK and Basel entered the Champions League group stage at the same time, Glasgow Rangers and Slavia Prague entered the League Cup at the same time, and then were targeted by UEFA.
As soon as the European Court of Justice ruled that the team that continued to let PNIC's shareholding continue to participate in the competition, it caused PNIC's share price to plummet by 40%, and the company's desire to continue to expand its stake in Tottenham had to be temporarily suspended.
It is only in recent years that PNIC has gradually expanded its stake in Tottenham, which now accounts for 54 shares
But don't expect Joe Lewis and Danny Levy to really want to run Tottenham Hotspur, the former started as a scalper, has always regarded football as a business, and the purpose of controlling so many clubs is just to make money, while Danny Levy is a Tottenham fan, but he is also a stockbroker and also came to Tottenham for business purposes.
So, for them, Tottenham Hotspur is not for sale, the key is to see how you bid.
In fact, even if Tottenham Hotspur has a good performance this season, Levi has been changing managers every year since he came to power, not only the fans are dissatisfied, but even the shareholders are very dissatisfied with this, but they are the number one shareholder, and others can't do anything about them.
Although the performance of PNIC and Levy is not satisfactory on a football level, the financial situation of this team is still quite good in terms of club management, because they are almost very rare in the Premier League and are very rare clubs without debt, and the financial situation is very healthy.
This is undoubtedly very much in line with Ye Qiu's taste, because he is not willing to spend so much money to repay debts after acquiring a football club with a lot of money, isn't this Kaizi?
Of course, it does not mean that after acquiring Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu can rest easy.
Tottenham's White Hart Lane Stadium is old, whether in terms of capacity, facilities, or even operation, it is far from keeping up with the pace of this era, if the acquisition of Tottenham Hotspur, the preparation for the construction of a new stadium must also be on the agenda, which requires a lot of investment.
Of course, don't look at the current Tottenham squad is not bad, but in fact, if Tottenham wants to compete for the Champions League place, at least it needs to strengthen the strength of the team, which requires transfer funds.
Therefore, the 400 million euros that Ye Qiu has on hand seems to be a lot, but in fact, it is very tense to spread it.
Because of this, after returning to London from the United States, Ye Qiu has always deliberately kept a low profile, he first secretly contacted PNIC, and used Eliza's connections with her to contact Joe Lewis and Danny Levy to discuss the possibility of acquisition.
After more than a month of contact and investigation, Ye Qiu got the real information and clues of Tottenham Hotspur, and at the same time gradually negotiated with the PNIC company in depth, and finally after getting the approval of the other party to sit down and talk, Ye Qiu took Eliza all the way to Tottenham.
The traffic around the White Hart Lane Stadium is not very convenient, but the surrounding area is densely populated with residential areas, and the people living in the surrounding area are basically some middle class.
This has to say some allusions to Tottenham fans.
As we all know, Tottenham Hotspur has always had a Jewish team, and past presidents and owners, including the current Joe Lewis and Danny Levy, are all Jewish, so there are many people who define Tottenham as a Jewish team, and even many Tottenham fans will play Jewish mouths in the stadium
But this argument is not very convincing.
According to the official statement of the British government, there are 10,000 Jews in Britain, and only about them are Tottenham fans, which means that even if all these fans come, there are only a few thousand.
In fact, Tottenham Hotspur used to be in the wealthy area of London, where many wealthy Jews lived and supported the development of the team, so many Jews entered the management of Tottenham, but later, with the change of the city of London, they have left Tottenham.
That's why so many people say that the real Tottenham fans should be in Kensington and Chelsea, where the rich live now, while Tottenham is now a middle-class hub.
Of course, there are still some wealthy areas, but not many.
As for saying that Tottenham's owner is Jewish, this is indeed true, but if someone seriously does a statistic, it is not difficult to find that in fact, there are many Jews in Premier League football, Abramovich is also Jewish, and there are other club shareholders, many of whom are Jewish.
This is a typical phenomenon, because Jews tend to be good at business and wealthy, so even if you are in London, in high society all over Europe, it is not uncommon to meet Jews.
In recent years, many Tottenham Hotspur fans have even shouted "IDARNY" in the stands, which used to mean the Jewish army, but later, with the poor management of the Jewish owners, it has gradually changed to the meaning of anti-Semite, because the word YID is recognized as a defamatory term for Jews.
Anti-Semitism here is not racism, but a rebellion against the Jewish boss, which is the same as other fans shouting XX Fuck off, and this explanation has been accepted by the FA.
Ye Qiu drove north from downtown London, and all he saw along the way were old British-style street-facing houses, with their parking lots on both sides of the road, leaving a road for two cars to meet in the middle.
This is the typical middle-class residential area in Britain, and the surrounding area is also the most densely populated middle-class area in London, from the north of London city to the area of Tottenham, almost densely packed with middle-class residential areas, which can be seen from the cars on both sides of the road.
Arsenal's new stadium is located in the middle of White Hart Lane and the city of London, and a very important reason for their high attendance is that the middle class living here is dense and can afford the price of Arsenal tickets.
There are many reasons why Ye Qiu selected Tottenham Hotspur, first of all, the team he wants must be in a big city, it can be London, that is the best, and then it has to be Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and other big cities, especially Birmingham's two teams Birmingham and Aston Villa have been in his consideration.
As for the other teams in London, they have either been bought, or they are in debt, or Yu Crisp's insincere overprice, which discourages Ye Qiu, and Eliza also feels that staying in London can make a difference, especially considering the London Olympics next year, this is undoubtedly a good opportunity for all London teams.
And after a few symbolic contacts, the PNIC company is not actually averse to selling the club's shares, because for them, running Tottenham Hotspur is really a big deal for them, even if Levy, who has been at the helm of Tottenham until now, fired a manager a year, the team's results have hardly made much progress, and they have performed well this season, but the goal is to qualify for the UEFA Cup.
The middle and lower teams are like this, the results are up and down, just like Everton, who finished fourth last season and reached the European Champions Cup, but this team has been fighting on two fronts this season, but the results in the Premier League have plummeted, falling directly to 14th place in the league, whether they can return to the top is still difficult to say.
It can be seen that European competitions are not necessarily a good thing for small and medium-sized teams, because this will be very strict for your team lineup, you must have a two-line squad to be able to cope with so many games, and the squad is huge, the expenditure is more, the salary pressure is great, and the club's finances are easy to have problems.
Even for a healthy team like Tottenham Hotspur, the financial problems are still very obvious and the pressure is very high, so they can't afford to buy stars, and it can even be said that they can't keep them.
Rather than this, wouldn't it be better to sell the club at a high price while someone takes over, and make a big profit?
Ye Qiu's appearance really surprised Joe Lewis and Danny Levy, because Ye Qiu was still in charge of Chelsea a year ago, but just one year later, he wanted to swallow Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League team, which was indeed both surprising and admirable to them.
However, it is clear that they prefer to adopt a cooperative situation, with the two sides maintaining the right allocation of shares, with Ye Qiu at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur as the team's head coach and also owning the team's transfer powers, while Joe Lewis and Danny Levy's PNIC are behind the scenes.
Everyone knows that Ye Qiu's coaching ability is outstanding, if he comes to coach Tottenham Hotspur, the strength of this team is rising, maybe there is a chance to enter the Champions League qualification area, and at that time, the value of the club will continue to rise, and the shares in his hands will inevitably increase significantly.
But Ye Qiu had just jumped out of the wolf's den, how could he get into the tiger's den again?
From the very beginning of the contact between the two sides, Ye Qiu clearly rejected the proposal of the PNIC company, saying that he only asked for the acquisition, and did not want to cooperate, if the PNIC company could accept Ye Qiu's acquisition terms, they could negotiate, but if they wanted to continue to insist on cooperation and refused to acquire, then Ye Qiu would look for other teams
Joe Lewis doesn't like football, and a very important reason why he bought Tottenham Hotspur in the first place is that several of his good friends are engaged in football, such as Manchester United's two major Irish shareholders, but they are now selling Manchester United's shares to the Glazer family because of conflicts with Ferguson, and Tottenham is in an awkward situation, so Joe Lewis has long had the idea of withdrawing.
Although Danny Levy is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur, he has a very low stake in PNIC, and the real decision-maker is Joe Lewis, so when Joe Lewis decides to negotiate with Ye Qiu, Danny Levy can only choose to accept it.
So, this happened when Ye Qiu took Eliza to the White Deer Lane Stadium.
Joe Lewis personally rushed back to London from the United States and sat at the White Hart Lane Stadium, while Danny Levy personally went downstairs to welcome Ye Qiu after he arrived at the White Hart Lane Stadium, and welcomed Ye Qiu and Eliza to the administrative office on the second floor of the White Hart Lane Stadium and negotiated behind closed doors.
From the negotiation lineup arranged by PNIC, Ye Qiu and Eliza can feel how much they attach importance to this negotiation, and they can indeed see their willingness to sell Tottenham shares, so the two sides did not have unnecessary greetings and politeness, and went straight to the point.
What Ye Qiu didn't expect was that from the beginning of the negotiations, Levy directly shouted a surprising sky-high price.
400 million euros