Chapter 318 Football School Investment Plan
At the end of the live broadcast program on CCTV, Wansheng advertised the next big move of the Tagore Wan Group.
"We will build an international football school in TJ City...... The initial investment of more than 500 million yuan...... "This is the investment project that Tagore Wan Group has planned.
Wan Sheng decided to invest in an international football school, and he discussed it with Kevin Tagore for a long time.
Kevin Tagore believes that the project will be difficult to make money for the group company, and Wan Sheng persuaded Tagore in other ways, "Kevin, you still don't know much about China's investment environment. ”
"In China, what a company or group that can make money must do is to pay taxes, and to do charity and donations...... Face work is a must, otherwise you won't have a good reputation, and reputation has a great impact on performance! ”
"Oh?" Kevin Tagore didn't understand.
"In China, 'giving people's impression' is a very important thing, so charity is a must, for example, if we make $100 million a year, then we have to give 1/10 to charity, whether it's a foundation donation, support for local education, or disaster relief donations, in short, charity is essential." ”
"We spend so much money on charity, and only the relevant departments can know about it, so we can put this money on running a football school."
"It's true that it's hard to make money running a football school, but my plan is not only that, we also want to build a team on this basis, participate in the professional league in China, and use the football school as the basis to send fresh blood to the professional team, and the outstanding players, we can also choose to sell to the big clubs in other leagues, and then the return will come."
"But can you be sure that the football school will be able to produce talent?" Kevin Tagore asked, confused.
He looked at the smile on Wan Sheng's face. Immediately understood.
Standing in front of him is Wan Sheng, the head coach of Manchester City in the Premier League, in three or four years, he has cultivated many big stars, and his vision is almost unmatched.
With the vision of Wansheng, then the football school will definitely be able to cultivate talents, maybe when the newly formed team is formed, there is no need to buy players in other teams or leagues, and the youth training of the football school can ensure everything.
Kevin Tagore got it.
This kind of business that has a good reputation and is not very likely to lose money. In addition, a large amount of investment seems to be a lot, but in fact, the idle funds transferred by the Tagovan Group to China are as much as 200 million US dollars, and I don't know what investment to make next, and it is also a good idea to invest less than half of it in football schools, not to mention, after coming to China. Several investment projects are very profitable, and when it comes, the current Tagorewan Group, the most important thing is to make money.
At last. Kevin Tagore agreed.
The chairman, the CEO, the two giants, and those who control more than 80% of the shares of the group company all agreed. The others also had no say.
After the decision was made, Kevin Tagore quickly chose a location and applied for the qualification to invest in TJ City. And in early July, it spent more than 600 million yuan to auction nearly 300 acres of commercial land.
After that, there was Wansheng's advertisement on Central TV this time.
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Generally, if there are guests who dare to advertise on CCTV, they have to be 'blocked-killed'.
However, Wansheng's approach, far from attracting disgust, has been unanimously praised. The timing of the choice of the main Wansheng is too ingenious.
China has just lost to Uzbekistan and has been eliminated from the Asian Cup for the first time in 27 years.
This is almost a big earthquake in Chinese football!
At this moment, when all the fans were disappointed with Chinese football, Wansheng promoted the Tagore Wan Group's plan to build a football school. If it is just a single football school, or a plan with a huge amount of investment, it will naturally attract the attention of all fans in China.
Chinese football lost, and the Tagore Group was going to build a football school, the former disappointed the fans, and the latter made the fans look forward to it.
Is such a huge investment in football just a hype tactic, or does Tagore really want to help Chinese football do something?
"Tagorewan Group, in the next ten years, will be committed to helping Chinese football take off, and will not hesitate to invest heavily in it......"
Wan Sheng's words have caused widespread heated discussions among the media and fans.
Soon the media began to analyze all sorts of things.
At the beginning of the analysis, of course, it was reported about the Tagorewan Group, last year, the vast majority of the assets of this investment group were still in the US stock market, but this year they changed their strategy, and almost lost money from the US stock market to the Hong Kong stock market, of which they also invested a large part of their funds in Chinese mainland industry and investment.
For example, the "Youpants" website, such as a medical device company, and then the purchase of a large piece of land, and so on.
These investments show that Tagorewan Group really wants to take root in the real industry in Chinese mainland.
Over the past few years, the Tagorewan Group has grown almost miraculously, and in a few years, they have gone from a small investment company of several million pounds to a multinational conglomerate with assets of more than a billion dollars or more.
How did they develop?
As soon as the domestic media investigated, they quickly came to the conclusion that Tagorewan Investment Group has a unique vision, almost every investment they have made a lot of money, and the development can also be described as magical.
So now, Tagore Group wants to invest in an international football school, is it also to make money?
In this regard, the media interviewed a lot of experts, professionals, and already some deadly football schools.
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Xue Weiwen, a senior researcher at CIC Consulting, said in an interview that the foundation for the development of football schools in China is relatively weak, and there are very few football schools with a high level of teaching quality.
Now there are two main models of Chinese football schools: "Luneng model" and "Evergrande model", both models have their own characteristics, "After several years of development, it is not easy for the two major football schools to survive the downturn in the football market." ”
The fee standard of the football school is very high, 400,000 tuition fees for 8 years, and it is not a joke.
Speaking of football schools, it goes back to the nineties of the last century.
Then. Football schools that were born with the reform of China's football professionalism have blossomed all over the country, but by the end of the last century, a large number of football schools have closed their doors, and the root cause is undoubtedly the deterioration of the domestic football environment, but the adherents have still achieved results.
Shandong Luneng Football School, with the strength of the club, has adhered to it for more than ten years, and has also cultivated a group of usable talents for Chinese football.
Evergrande Football School has started a new exploration, that is, a large-investment, international reserve talent training model.
Xue Weiwen said, "The operation of Evergrande Football School pursues large-scale development, regardless of the number of students. It is still the largest area occupied by the school among domestic football schools; The operation of Luneng Football School is small and fine, the number of students in the school is similar to the number of new students in Evergrande Football School, but the school area is only about 4 of Evergrande Football School, but in comparison, Luneng Football School has cultivated more talents. ”
A senior football person said, "Since the Football Association requires the club to have its own echelon, the club has also engaged in some of its own teams, but the more successful ones are Evergrande, Luneng, etc." The football schools of other clubs are currently mostly mere formalities. ”
Evergrande Football School charges more, and Luneng Football School has less tuition fees, but overall. At present, the fees of football schools are not low.
"There are fewer families in the city who can let their children play football, and more are rural families, and the high tuition fees make many parents find it unbearable." A senior football media person said. "Children who go to soccer school generally start at the age of 12 and can play at least 20 years old. Based on the annual cost of 50,000 yuan, it will cost at least 400,000 yuan in 8 years. ”
So. With the cost of education so high, football schools should make a lot of money, right?
An industry insider who has been studying football for a long time told the media that although the football schools did not disclose specific financial data, in fact, these football schools are difficult to make a profit.
Liu Jiangnan, the principal of Evergrande Football School, publicly stated in the media, "(Football School) is not profitable. Therefore, a boss who does not have a long-term vision will not run a football school. ”
At the same time, Liu Jiangnan said that he was not optimistic about the investment of Tagorewan Group, "They invest more, lose more, and it is really difficult to make money." ”
"There are some football schools and clubs in Europe that rely on the youth training system to make money, but in this regard, our regulations are not perfect, so it is difficult for us to get income, so we can only use it as a national training first, and every team is a Chinese team, and they all contribute to the country."
The principal of a football school complained.
After interviews, it became clear to the media that China's football schools are generally in a state of loss, which is mainly due to the high cost of field equipment in football schools, and the need to hire professional football coaches at a high price, and the overall operating costs are large.
So the question is, will the Tagore Group's investments be profitable?
Almost no one of the football people interviewed was optimistic, and they all made such a voice-
"If they really invest so much to build a football school, I guess bankruptcy is the only way for them."
"Maybe the Tagore Group has enough money to support them to maintain a big football school, but they certainly won't make money."
"I don't think that's the way to make money."
"They are doing charity and playing for Chinese football."
"If they do that, I will definitely admire it, maybe it's Wan Sheng, he's a great football coach, maybe he wants to do something for Chinese football?"
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Wan Sheng and Kevin Tagore laughed together as they watched the reports.
These media are almost equivalent to helping the Tagorewan Group advertise for free, and it is a charity advertisement, and the efficiency of the advertising is very good, and almost all the fans in China are paying attention to it.
How many fans are there in China?
Hundreds of millions of people dare not say, tens of millions must be there, think about it, tens of millions of fans know about the Tagore Wan Group, know that they have a good investment vision, know that they will build a football school in TJ City, this invisible attention, absolutely has great value.
Tagorwan Group has also been widely praised because the media has come to the conclusion that "what Wan Sheng said is true, Tagore Wan Group did make this investment for the development of Chinese football, and their group company's income can also support them to run a large international football school." ”
So Tagore Wan Group received attention, but also praised, Wansheng's advertising on CCTV played the best effect.
Soon a reporter interviewed Kevin Tagore, as the CEO of the Tagore Wan Group and the second largest shareholder of the group company, Kevin Tagore's interview is still very eye-catching.
In an interview, Kevin Tagore mainly said a few points -
"We don't invest in football schools for profit. Everyone knows that Wan Sheng is a football coach, and at the same time, he is also a Chinese fan, and he hopes that Chinese football can take off. Now that he has the ability, he thinks about what to do for Chinese football. ”
Then, he said to himself, "As his best friend, I will fully support his approach and ideas." I've been in China for more than half a year, I like it here, the Chinese are very kind, I think my future is also here, do something for the fans here, that's what I hope. ”
"We agreed on this issue, we quickly had a plan and we started to take action."
"In the plan, this large football school is mainly facing domestic enrollment in China, and we have the ability to achieve it, so that potential children can pay the least tuition fees to do professional training."
"As I emphasised, we don't expect to make money by running a football school, which is very unrealistic in the context of Chinese football."
"In addition, we will also consider forming a team to participate in the professional league in China......"
Hearing Kevin Tarell's words, many fans have begun to look forward to it.
A football school with a large investment scale must have a complete youth training system, and then cooperate with the formation of a team to compete in the Chinese professional league.
The overall plan is quite complete, and whether it can be realized or not will continue to look down.
Soon the media reporter asked about the 'progress', saying that for a long time, no progress at all is empty talk, in this regard, Kevin Tagore said with confidence, "We have taken hundreds of acres of vacant land in the WQ area of TJ City, which is the location of the football school. ”
The reporter asked, "Why is it located?" ”
"We have investigated and developed that it is a north-south hub with two major highways running through it, and it is also the heart of the city of TJ and the capital, and we believe that in the next ten years, it will usher in full development."
"Therefore, while building a football school, the group company is also considering a series of investment plans in the surrounding area."
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