Volume 1 Chapter 359 Entering White Deer Lane
In front of the large window of the administrative office on the second floor of the White Hart Lane Stadium, Ye Qiu silently listened to Danny Levy's introduction to Tottenham Hotspur, the reason why this cunning Jew set Tottenham's price tag so high is mainly because of Manchester United.
According to outside reports, the Glazer family's purchase price for Manchester United is at least more than 800 million euros, and according to Levy, Tottenham Hotspur's market value is at least half of Manchester United, so he directly offered 400 million euros.
"As I believe you know, we are one of the few teams in the Premier League that do not have any debts" is also the proudest of Danny Levy, and at the same time, the most able bargaining chip.
With most teams in the Premier League in debt or bank loans, Tottenham Hotspur is the healthiest financially position outside of Manchester United, and Danny Levy is truly outstanding in this regard.
It is important to know that when Joe Lewis took over the team, the team was in debt of tens of millions of euros.
However, in the past few years, Tottenham Hotspur has paid off its debts at the cost of the team's declining competitiveness, and it has only improved slightly this year, currently ranking sixth in the Premier League, and according to Ye Qiu's previous life, Tottenham Hotspur's league ranking this season should be fifth, which is one step away from the Champions League qualification zone.
"Mr. Lewis, Mr. Levi" Eliza, as Ye Qiu's right-hand man this time, has long been mentally prepared for Levy's move, and all acquisition negotiations are like this, and the price is all over the place to repay the money.
"I don't deny that Tottenham Hotspur is financially healthy, but we are also very aware of the current problems faced by Tottenham Hotspur, White Hart Lane is also quite backward among all teams in the Premier League, not to mention the imperfect facilities, the capacity of 30,000 U is decent, but there is almost no possibility of home operation"
If you walk around the White Hart Lane Stadium, it is not difficult to find that the rudimentary level of this stadium will even make you think that it is just a piece of turf surrounded by stands, there are no shops that are now respected by professional teams, and there is no land around it that can be used for business.
"I believe that the first decision anyone makes when they buy Tottenham Hotspur is to prepare a new stadium"
Eliza Moon's analysis is sound, and even Levi has no way to refute it.
"Secondly, Tottenham Hotspur's training base in Siegwell is also famous for the humble in the Premier League, and I believe that with Chelsea's move to Cobham, Ziegwell should be considered the most humble training base in the Premier League, right?"
Tottenham's training base in Ziegwell is really poor, there is no geothermal heat, there is no perfect drainage system, the first team and the youth team share a single storey, and the ground area is only a pitiful training building of less than 0 square meters.
Three standard-sized courts, a small field, and an indoor training ground, but don't think it's high-tech, just cheap buildings that are held up with iron frames and covered with plastic film to shade the rain and sun.
And the entire training base is on the side of the road, not even a fence, directly separated from the hockey training ground and the college football field by an easily readable barbed wire, the latter two of which do not belong to Tottenham, but the training ground is next door to Tottenham.
In recent years, there has been a general rush of professional teams in England to build new stadiums and training bases, and many fans only remember Arsenal, but in fact, Arsenal is just one of the more famous teams in this trend, and there are countless other teams that are smashing money to build new stadiums and training bases, such as Wolves and Leicester City.
Tottenham Hotspur have been slow to do so, starting with the fact that their White Hart Lane stadium has almost zero potential and it will be difficult to continue to develop without a new stadium, and their training base is very rudimentary, not even comparable to some Championship teams.
Of course, Joe Lewis and Danny Levy cannot be blamed for this, because for the past decade or two, Tottenham Hotspur has been in a very difficult situation, internal and external difficulties, coupled with the frequent changes of managers at the club, no one will ask the management for a new training base.
It's a bit like Chelsea's Bates, who would have thought that the third-place team in the Premier League would train in a training ground like Harrington, which is not even as good as a Championship team?
"Don't talk about building a new stadium, just talk about expanding or improving the White Hart Lane stadium, I have calculated, at least more than 50UU million euros, and to build a new training base, we don't say that we want to learn from Chelsea and Arsenal, but I believe that it can't be done without 50UU million euros, and these two sums are more than l billion
After more than two years in the United States, Eliza's negotiation and skill are indeed getting more and more powerful, and her current agent company news channels can be described as pervasive, almost investigating Tottenham Hotspur clearly.
"In recent years, the economy of north London has not been ideal, more and more Tottenham Hotspur fans have moved out of the Tottenham area one after another, and the surrounding environment and security are getting worse and worse, I believe you have also experienced this, coupled with the inconvenient transportation here, the subway is just one route, which has greatly limited the development of the team."
"I also got the exact information that Tottenham have expired their contracts with shirt sponsor KAPpA and chest advertising sponsor Tomasson Tours, and anyone who takes over the team will have to find two major sponsors again."
Danny Levy listened with great interest at first, but now the more he listened, the more he felt that it was not a taste, and he didn't expect that Ye Qiu and the others had already found out all their details.
For Tottenham Hotspur, the income mainly comes from three aspects, one is the Premier League share, the second is the ticket income, and the third is the sponsorship income.
The Premier League is mainly based on the team's results, Tottenham's results in the past few years have not been very ideal, this year's results have made a breakthrough, but there is not much convincing, after all, it is only a year, and in terms of ticket income, it has always been limited by the operation of the home stadium, others still have match day stadium operating income, and some shop rentals, etc., but Tottenham only has ticket income, and other aspects are pitiful.
So, inevitably, the third largest income is very important, and the sponsorship income of chest advertising and shirt sponsorship is undoubtedly the most important, everyone knows that these are the two most important sponsorships of any team, and they are also the largest source of income for Tottenham.
Now that the contracts with the two major sponsors have expired, it is indeed a disadvantage for Tottenham in terms of negotiations.
"It's Eliza Moon" Danny Levy was so speechless that Eliza countered before Joe Lewis interjected with a smile, at least in his opinion, this is the attitude of a shrewd manager who really wants to buy a team.
It's similar to Roman Abramovich's takeover of Chelsea, come on, it's a rich man who has so much money that he has nowhere to spend it, throwing it around.
"Mr. Lewis" Ye Qiu also spoke after hearing Joe Lewis speak, "Let's have a good talk, I don't like those false, I like real things, so, we have shown our sincerity, and you should let me see your sincerity." ”
Joe Lewis nodded and smiled after hearing this, "Then may I ask Mr. Ye Qiu, you might as well make a price." ”
Ye Qiu looked at Eliza, who nodded and took over, "I received news that an American consortium has taken a fancy to Aston Villa, with an offer of less than 70UU million euros, and now there is a foreign company that wants to buy West Ham United, and the offer is around UU million euros, and now the current Premier League rankings of these two teams, Aston Villa is 16th, West Ham United is first"
Eliza's statement is actually a reminder to Joe Lewis that the club you own isn't as valuable as you think it is, and if Aston Villa's rankings aren't very convincing, what about West Ham?
This season's promoted team has a better location than Tottenham Hotspur, their stadium is close to the financial center of east London, and it is also closer to the Olympic Village, the appreciation potential and value are higher, the stadium and training base are also better, and their academy is obviously better, but investors only offer them about 90UU million euros.
Joe Lewis really had the urge to scold his mother when he heard it, it was simply a very serious information asymmetry.
He has indeed received the news that West Ham United and Aston Villa have been offered, but he doesn't know what the specific offer is, but now Eliza is so sure that with Eliza's influence in the agent circle, there should be no mistake, so the price is obviously not far from ten.
"I would like to warn you, Miss Moon, that both clubs have serious financial problems," interjected Danny Levy, who also has a stake in PNIC and whose assets Tottenham sold for at a price that also affected his assets.
Eliza Moon smiled after hearing this, in Ye Qiu's eyes, it was gentle and moving, but in the eyes of Danny Levy and Joe Lewis, it was a thorny rose, "So, I didn't say that it should be according to their price, I think 500 million euros is the most suitable." ”
"That can't be," Joe Lewis shook his head.
'Mr Lewis, I want to remind you that Tottenham's market value is very low right now. Eliza reminded.
This also poked Joe Lewis's sore spot, because he entered the market when the stock price of Tottenham was high, but in recent years, Tottenham's stock price has been declining, and even fell to 3L in 03. 71pence, now that it had picked up, he didn't want to make money at all.
Tottenham fans have been very unhappy with their business for a few years now, because they are very stingy in the transfer market, and almost every summer in the past, Tottenham fans would protest the club's stinginess with marches and leaflets, believing that the management was only thinking about financial health rather than the competitiveness of the team.
So, Tottenham's financial health has actually been achieved at the expense of the team's competitiveness.
If it is really a transaction of 500 million euros, then with the 54 shares they hold, they can get more than 80 million euros, although they can still make some money, after all, the value of the Premier League team has been rising in recent years, but this little increase still can't make them satisfied.
After a long period of negotiation between the two sides, in fact, everyone has intentions for each other, and each other can vaguely set a psychological price, Ye Qiu's side has already figured out everything about the other party, and the PNIC company is also very clear that it is absolutely impossible to kill Ye Qiu as a Kaizi, so the two sides are willing to sit down and talk, in fact, the intention is already very clear.
Ye Qiu saw that both sides fell silent with each other, and then saw that Lewis and Levy had a little idea of wanting to take the opportunity to make more money, so he couldn't help but smile, patted the table lightly, and stood up.
"Mr. Lewis, Mr. Levy, I don't like to be wordy, I don't like to bargain, so I'll buy your 54 shares for 100 million euros, and if you think it's acceptable, then we'll continue to talk in depth, and if you don't think it's okay, then I'm sorry, I'll consider other teams."
When he said this, Ye Qiu smiled confidently and said: "I believe that at this price, it should be difficult for West Ham United, Everton, Fulham, Charlton, Aston Villa, and even Newcastle to refuse my request." ”
If 100 million is used to acquire the 54 shares in his hands, then the purchase price of Tottenham Hotspur should be around 200 million euros, which is also a psychologically acceptable price for Ye Qiu, no matter how high it is, he will not agree, because the next investment is the real big one, and he is not willing to spend too much money on the acquisition.
Moreover, Tottenham is just a team that he is more satisfied with, and it is completely okay to change to other teams, such as West Ham United, such as Aston Villa, Ye Qiu wants to buy them is not impossible at all, and Tottenham is definitely not the only option.
On the contrary, it is the PNIC company, and the buyers who are really interested in Tottenham at the moment are Ye Qiu, unless they don't want to sell
Don't you really want to? They always want to sell, they just wait for the price to sell
It turns out that after three days of consideration, Joe Lewis and Danny Levy finally agreed to Ye Qiu's acquisition proposal, because it is important to know that Ye Qiu gave almost twice the price of American sports tycoon Randy Lerner's acquisition of Aston Villa, which is already a pretty good price for Tottenham Hotspur.
The acquisition agreement was reached in secrecy, and the outside world obviously did not know the news that Ye Qiu was acquiring Tottenham Hotspur, but there were still sharp-eyed reporters who captured the photos and news of Ye Qiu's frequent visits to the White Hart Lane stadium, and they also noticed that Ye Qiu appeared at the White Hart Lane stadium to watch a Tottenham game
Suddenly, the news that Ye Qiu was going to coach Tottenham Hotspur spread throughout the world.
Even though Ye Qiu has been out of the football circle for a year, his prestige and influence have not declined at all, on the contrary, with the popularity of Ye Technology, Ye Qiu has also become the idol of countless young fans, and is respected as the leader by many people who use and respect Zeus mobile phones, and his prestige is even higher than a year ago.
Of course, now Ye Qiu can be said to be worth a hundred times, Goldman Sachs once estimated that with Zeus mobile phones, as well as the websites and services launched by Ye Technology in the past two years, even if Ye Technology is not listed, the market value should be billions, and if Ye Technology is listed, Ye Qiu's worth will soar to more than 10 billion.
After all, looking at the whole world, there are not many companies with potential and prospects like Ye Technology, and with the launch of Zeus mobile phones, there is no problem with the profitability of Ye Technology, and it earns 300 million net profits by selling mobile phones alone in a month, and it is impossible to say that the market value of such a company does not soar.
Because of this, many people suspect that this is purely media hype, because with Ye Qiu's net worth today, he doesn't need to coach anymore, it is simply a thankless thing, so many people think that Ye Qiu's appearance at the White Hart Lane Stadium should just be to watch the game, after all, it is not very far from his home.
Chelsea fans were surprised that Ye Qiu appeared at the White Hart Lane stadium, but they were very angry with the management, believing that the reason why Ye Qiu would rather go to the White Hart Lane stadium of Tottenham Hotspur than come to Stamford Bridge was because of the management and Mourinho, so many Chelsea fans kept bombarding the management.
When the outside world was hype, Ye Qiu still took a low profile, encroaching step by step, and successively bought their shares from other shareholders of Tottenham Hotspur, among which the largest share was Alan Schuger, the former chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu used UU million euros to buy 14 shares in his hands.
After losing two major shareholders, Ye Qiu's stake in Tottenham Hotspur soared to UR, and then he slowly started with other small shareholders, and it took two months, and when the time entered May, he finally announced the completion of the comprehensive acquisition of Tottenham Hotspur.
In order to complete this acquisition, Ye Qiu spent a total of 210 million euros, which is related to the later stage, some small shareholders did not want to sell their shares, but were forcibly bought by Ye Qiu, and the purchase price was naturally more than expected.
However, with more than 200 million to buy Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu feels that it is still more cost-effective, especially in the next two years, more and more consortiums and funds enter the Premier League, and the value of all Premier League teams will also rise.
Of course, Ye Qiu's purchase of Tottenham Hotspur did not mean to sell it to make money, his purpose was to operate for a long time.
And since it wants to operate for a long time, then it must be laid out for a long time, and a new stadium must be built, and Ye Qiu and Eliza already have a very detailed plan and layout for this.
But at present, the most urgent thing for the team is the new training base, so Ye Qiu has let Eliza enter the White Hart Lane Stadium in advance, take charge of the administrative office, and begin to adjust the personnel of the administrative office, eliminating the weak and retaining the strong, and Eliza is also ready to transfer several marketing experts from the agent company into the management.
After all, marketing is a big source of revenue for any team.
What Ye Qiu didn't expect was that the first thing Eliza did after entering the management of Tottenham Hotspur was to take Chelsea to court.