Chapter 482: Acquisition Turmoil
Smith really hates Sean's behavior of throwing money when he comes up!
It made him feel like he was betraying his faith, betraying tradition!
Sean is a devil who is destroying his spirit and will with blasphemous words, and he is being dragged into the abyss by him.
Because he's shamefully tempted!
"Sean, you're just so hateful, you can't do this!" Smith said with a pained look on his face, holding his head.
Sean grinned, laughed silently, reached out and patted Smith's arm, and said with a kind face: "Don't be like this, it's nothing, the pain is only temporary, endure it and it will pass, and all you will feel after that is refreshment!"
"You should think that your efforts are worthwhile, and you are promoting the great cause of football to the soccer desert of the United States."
"You have to let the people in that football desert appreciate the infinite charm of football, your sacrifice is great, it is worthy of praise, and you will definitely be remembered by football history!"
"Thisβ" Smith's expression gradually eased from heartache and frustration when Sean said this, "Is this really the case?" Shaun, you can't lie to me, my soul will be disturbed!"
"Of course not!" Shaun patted his chest seriously and said, "I mean, I'm Sean, and I have the largest cable network in the United States, covering 320 million people in South America."
"New Century Media has a special sports channel that broadcasts all kinds of sports programs around the world, and once I become a shareholder of Arsenal, you just have to think about it to know that I will definitely promote it throughout North America, isn't it a matter of course?"
"I'm going to promote League One and the focus will be on Arsenal, Arsenal are about to open up a whole new territory and they're going to be the club with the most fans in the world!"
"Isn't this promoting football, isn't it for the development of Arsenal?"
Being fooled by Sean like this, Smith suddenly became excited, "Yes, Sean, you are right, how did I forget, you are a media tycoon, since you like football so much, how can you not promote football!"
"I'm sacrificing for football, for England, for Arsenal, I'm great!"
As if he had found the fulcrum of faith, the guilt in Smith's heart disappeared at once.
That's $10 million!
Everyone knows what Arsenal is like now, or what English football is like.
Let's talk about today's game, Highbury Stadium has 38,500 seats, even if the ticket price is discounted, but the actual attendance is about 20,000 people, less than 60% of the attendance.
This kind of attendance, let alone making money, is simply operating at a loss, and it has been losing money for several years in a row!
The stadium is aging, the big-name stars are lost, the popularity is declining, and the stadium management has encountered great difficulties.
This is still Arsenal in London, the other teams are in worse shape, and in the whole of League One, there is not a single club that makes money.
A third of the clubs are on the verge of bankruptcy!
Although this is not the first time this kind of thing has been experienced, it is still frustrating.
Otherwise, the Hillwood family would not have released some shares, just to find someone to take the risk.
To be honest, purely from the perspective of value, 10% of the shares of the Arsenal team are not worth $1 million, and 6 million is considered high, even if you count the celebrity effect and social attributes attached to Arsenal shareholders.
After all, it's a low point for English football.
Who made Sean like to smash people with money, and he really wasn't interested in wasting years of time for an acquisition.
It's not nice to say, hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute!
Since the two reached an agreement, the atmosphere in the private room has suddenly become cheerful.
The British economy has been sluggish in recent years, and with these 10 million, the Smith family's business can usher in a turnaround, which is the main reason why he chose to agree.
After all, clubs don't bring wealth.
Sean
He didn't rush to sign a transfer agreement with Smith, just a verbal agreement first, he didn't want to alarm the people of the Hillwood family too early.
He still remembers when Kroenke bought Arsenal in his previous life, Hillwood once publicly ridiculed, "We don't need someone like him, it's unimaginable that an American would dare to try to make money from an English football club!"
Sean wants to get rid of the outside stock first, at least more than 30%.
Leaving the court, Smith, as the head snake, naturally wanted to entertain Sean, of course, more to get closer to Sean.
The people who have risen fastest in the last decade, the super-rich, the family is prominent, and the slight leakage of dander from Sean's hands is enough for Smith to eat.
Especially Sean is so generous.
After learning that Sean wanted to become a major shareholder of Arsenal, Smith volunteered to help Sean contact some local minority shareholders in London.
Danny Fiessman, Oluffirus Mendoza, Aku Wilkerson......
Even Sean is a super-rich man with a Rockefeller halo on his body, and there are two small shareholders who have a nose that is not a nose and a face when they meet.
It was as if it were a great shame to sell a stake in the English Blue Football Club to the Yankees.
Open your mouth for glory, shut up for tradition, and it is a hundred years of faith at every turn, which shows the arrogance of the British to the fullest.
The feeling given to Sean is that he is impoverished.
Of course, all this collapsed on the spot under Sean's money-throwing offensive.
In just five days, all the share transfer agreements were finalized, and Sean took 35% of Arsenal shares in one fell swoop.
Things have come to this point, and they can't hide it, although Sean has been collecting shares as quickly as possible.
An American suddenly bought a stake in an English football club, and the news was as if a nuclear bomb had been detonated directly in London.
The crowd is excited!
Arrogance is not the preserve of the wealthy class in Britain, and the whole of British society is a hanging.
Especially in the field of football, the English have always claimed to be the inventor of football, the world's number one sport, and the pride is engraved in their bones.
At the entrance of the hotel where I stayed, the water that had been blocked by the reporters who had come to me had already affected the normal business of the hotel.
But the hotel had nothing to do with this gang of uncrowned kings, not only did it not dare to drive it away, but also asked the hotel to pay for it.
This is not an era when everyone in the future world will have a channel to happen, and in the current society, you will not even be given a chance to defend yourself if you are hacked by the media.
Reporter: That's really arrogant.
For this situation, the hotel had to find Sean.
"Mr. Sean, really, really, really, really no, you must have a press conference." The general manager of the hotel was crying and mourning, so he was about to kneel for Sean.
"Why can't it be done, the Germans are coming again?" Sean looked at the hotel manager with a smirk.
"It's worse than that!" The hotel manager rushed to the window in three steps and two steps, pointed outside and said, "It's not just the reporters, it's mainly the angry fans outside, Mr. Sean."
"Look at the two streets nearby, which have been completely blocked by angry fans, and although the police are trying their best to maintain order, there have been more than 80 fan brawls in just a few hours, and many people have been injured."
Sean???
No, what the hell is a fan brawl?
Sean walked to the window and looked out, and the street was densely packed with people, like ants.
In the face of Sean's question, the hotel manager had a strange look on his face, coughed lightly and said, "It's mainly Tottenham fans who laugh at Arsenal fans."
"Laugh?" Sean spread his hands, showing that he didn't understand.
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On the street below, Arsenal's arch-rival Tottenham fans gathered and shouted at the Arsenal fans: "Hey, *** guys, Arsenal has been bought by the Yankees!"
"Beauty
Arsenal!"
"Hahahaha!"
One sentence can make Arsenal fans' eyes redden, like angry bulls.
Then came the chaos!
As an England fan, it is a shame that the team was bought by the Yankees!
This is a real blasphemy against the faith of the fans!
It's like a South Korean shouting at you that Yue Fei suddenly became a Korean, and this was recognized by the United Nations.
Tottenham fans not only laughed, but also sang it loudly on the spot, and danced live.
Murder and heartbreaking!
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"It's too much to shout at the Arsenal fans that the Yankees bought Arsenal than to point their noses and scold their mothers?" Sean listened to the hotel manager's explanation, and the green tendons on his forehead were beating, lying on the groove, what do you mean!
Doesn't this mean that one's name is equal to a grass mud horse?
It's so insulting!
Sean was angry on the spot, and he didn't know who to vent his fire on.
Tilting his head to look at the hotel manager, Sean suddenly asked, "Then whose fan are you?"
Ahem, the hotel cleaned up and coughed lightly, although the hotel is now facing *** trouble, but the smile on the hotel manager's face still can't be hidden, he raised his arm and shouted loudly, "Forever white lily!"
Sean:!
Sean is now very suspicious that the guy in front of him is actually laughing at the Arsenal people in his heart.
Damn Farke!
He's a really old man, crazy fan.
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It's not just the hotel where Sean is staying that is blocked, it's the Arsenal Club side that's even more serious.
More than 2,000 Arsenal fans directly fenced the club's gates, and various banners were put out, so that the people of the Hillwood family immediately came out to explain the current situation.
They demanded that the Hillwood family kick the Yankees off the board, and the holy English football cannot be tarnished by the stupid Yankees!
At this time, Peter Hillwood, who received the news, was also a little dumbfounded, why was the shares suddenly acquired by Sean.
To tell the truth, Peter Hillwood was confused when he learned the news, and he was confused with anger.
Arsenal were like their own children to the Hillwood family, and the child was suddenly sneaked in from behind by a rude American man, and as the father of the child, he was of course angry.
Peter Hillwood, 54, is not just the owner of Arsenal, but also a banker in the financial investment business.
If it weren't Sean who bought it, if Sean wasn't standing behind Rockefeller, Peter Hillwood would definitely have done something that he would have publicly ridiculed.
Later, the 70-year-old man still fired a map cannon to mock the Americans.
"Dunn, what do you think of the Yankee's idea?" Peter Hillwood looked at his good friend and vice president David Dunn.
Peter Hillwood is the president of the team, but he has his own job, so the actual manager of the team is David Dunn.
David Dunn is also a shareholder in the team, with a stake in Peter Hillwood.
At the same time, David Dunn was also a candy merchant.
This phenomenon is common in major European clubs, such as Real Madrid president Florentino who is also the owner of Europe's largest construction company, like AC Milan owner, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
They are all using the unrivalled influence that football brings to support their careers.
Football in Europe is not only a sport, but also deeply involved in all aspects of life, any *** in Europe must be a fan, and there is no way to win the election without a fan.
It's that serious!
"I suggest not to rush, it was too sudden, I want to appease the fans, and then talk to which Mr. Sean to see what the other party means, to achieve such a big success in such a short period of time, I believe that which Mr. Sean can't be as reckless and irritable as the legend, one
There must be some special purpose."
"That...... You go meet the Yankee first in my place. Peter Hillwood snorted.
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At the same time, Prime Minister Major was confused, "What does Sean want to do? Buying Arsenal, he thought it would cause me problems in the campaign?"
"That guy is brutal and cunning, I don't think it's that simple."
"No matter what he wants to do, if he can't do it, the fans won't like a big toy in the hands of an American who doesn't understand anything because his beliefs have become something!" Major said in a wicked manner, "Quietly mobilize the media and let our cute fans make a mess of that guy!"
"I see."
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Just as the other two sides were preparing countermeasures, the hotel manager, who finally got Sean's consent, hurriedly came down from the upper floor to arrange the press conference.
The reporter who received the news rushed in, the hotel manager was still prescient, he didn't prepare a seat at all, and more than 300 reporters rushed in, and he couldn't sit down at the scene, so let's stand.
The scene of the press conference was like a vegetable market, and before they could wait long, the back gate was pushed open, and the heavily armed security personnel wearing black combat uniforms left the establishment.
The first eight people even held explosion-proof shields in their hands and walked directly in front of the group of reporters to build a human wall.
It was the first time that most of the people here saw someone with a gun at the press conference, and many of them were startled and muttered in a low voice: "Damn rude Yankees, what do you think of this place, is this treating us reporters as ***, this is disrespectful to journalists."
While cursing, they raised their cameras and clicked to shoot.
It wasn't until it was all set up that Sean appeared at the press conference wearing a special bulletproof suit.
This suit is a laboratory product, including the shirt inside, which is made of laboratory-grade Kevlar material, which can withstand 5.56*45NATO machine gun bullets at close range.
Of course, because there is no bulletproof insert, the kinetic energy dispersion effect is not good, and it is easy to cause fractures and other hard injuries.
The main reason why the press conference was so prepared was that someone disguised himself as a reporter and killed the old Moroccan king on the spot with a camera disguised as a howitzer.
It's too convenient for a journalist to act as a killer and take a camera and aim at you openly.
This has to make Sean careful, careful, careful, so many wives and children, he has no idea of leaving it to others to take care of.
As soon as Sean appeared, the scene immediately became noisy, and many reporters shouted and asked questions, making a lot of noise, and they couldn't hear anything clearly.
Standing behind the platform where the question was asked, Sean bowed slightly to the microphone in front of him and said, "I think you all know me better, if you don't even know me, then there is no need to be a reporter, because you are too incompetent!"
"Anyone who has interviewed me knows that I have always been a friend of the media, and I can always create topics and achievements for everyone present, and today is no exception, but I am all in the media, and I must follow the rules, so please be quiet now."
There are a lot of people, and there are all kinds of people, but there are still people at the scene who are forcing Lai Lai, and they are still noisy.
Sean frowned, grabbed a microphone on the table, and held it directly in front of the speaker on one side.
"Squeak!!
The piercing sound sounded, everyone subconsciously covered their ears with their heads, and the scene finally quieted down.
"If someone is fucking noisy, don't ask me, just throw people out!" Sean had a dark face, not taking this group of uncrowned kings in his eyes at all.
He was never afraid of someone smearing him, especially in the case of groundless speculation, Sean directly sued him for bankruptcy.
Most of them are interviewing Sean for the first time, and they are very uncomfortable and too fierce.
But it is precisely because of this ferocity, because of the American soldiers around him who are loaded with guns and ammunition, even if these guys at the scene are dissatisfied, they are still honest.
Raising his hand, Sean casually clicked one, and the reporter immediately went high
"Mr. Sean, you brought such bodyguards, and they all have heavy weapons, is this legal?" Don't you think it's disrespectful to journalists?"
"Your question is good, don't ask it next time, it's a waste of time!" Sean laughed, "But I'm a kind person, so I'll answer you, if it's not legal, the London police are more anxious than you, the umbrella company is a PMC company that has obtained a legal license in the United Nations, and the company's registered security personnel are legally qualified to carry guns."
As for the issue of respect, too many murderers disguised themselves as journalists to carry out assassination operations, and last year the king of Morocco was killed by a murderer disguised as a journalist. Or did I use this kind of tight protection so that you couldn't complete the assassination, so you became dissatisfied? γ
"I have reason to doubt your motives for speaking, and I don't care which newspaper or radio station you are, give them a letter to the lawyer." Sean turned his head to Norris on the side and said, "This lawsuit will cost me 5 million in legal fees."
was worried that he couldn't find someone to kill chickens and make monkeys, so that British reporters could get to know themselves, and this guy jumped out, and Sean naturally laughed.
It's only $5 million, and buying a character who is not good at talking can avoid a lot of trouble, and Sean thinks it's worth it.
If necessary, 10 million is not impossible!
In a word, the face of the reporter who had just found fault turned white, and the press conference scene fell into a dead silence.
Reporters are not afraid of people arguing with them, the more fierce the quarrel, the better, and it can also bring traffic, and it generally doesn't matter if they shout to mail a lawyer's letter.
But they are afraid that Sean is too ruthless to take money if he doesn't pay attention to the rules, and it is too terrible to use money to smash people directly.
In this kind of public occasion, Sean said that 5 million lawyer fees, then it will definitely cost so much money, but both sides of the lawsuit must hire a lawyer, and if they are entangled, no one will spend less money.
Causing such a big loss to the company, he is absolutely miserable.
This time, the reporter who originally wanted to make things difficult for Sean immediately died down.
As if nothing had happened, Sean randomly clicked on a reporter from The Sun.
"Mr. Shaun, what gave you the idea of buying an English football club?"
"Many, number one, I'm a fan myself, and even though the United States is known as a soccer desert, there are tall cacti growing in the desert, and I'm a fan." Sean smiled and said, "I love sports, I have an NBA team, an ice hockey team, two stadiums in the United States, I think people have money, it's nothing to spend some money on their hobbies."
"It's always more meaningful to spend money on sports than to have the same yachts, wine, beautiful women, etc., which will only get boring for a long time, and I prefer to spend my spare time watching football, where every game is unknown and every game has surprises."
There was a burst of applause at the scene, regardless of whether you like Sean or not, there was nothing wrong with what he said, although everyone wanted to experience the feeling of boredom.
"Now a lot of fans out there are demonstrating*** against an American becoming a shareholder of the team, what do you think about that?"
"Football knows no borders, everyone who likes football can participate, and whether it's a Yankee or not, it's not up to me, it's English football itself."
"I also want to be a simple fan, but, the reality does not allow it, English football is sick, very sick...... " Sean said when the projection equipment that had been prepared behind him was activated, and a copy of data appeared on the big screen.
Every year since English football was banned from European competitions in 1985, data for every club has appeared on it.
The numbers don't lie, English football is going downhill and there is no end in sight, there is not a single club in the entire League One that makes money, most of them are operating at a loss, and many are on the verge of bankruptcy.
No one has ever made detailed statistics on this, and Sean suddenly did this, which instantly shocked everyone.
The decline happened little by little, boiling frogs in warm water, and no one realized how serious things were before they were exposed.
I don't know
How to solve the problems encountered by English football, but I know that no matter what method is used to solve it, he needs money, it needs a lot of money, and it just so happens that I Sean is rich, very rich, and as a fan, I am willing to contribute to my hobby and to British football."
"Maybe money is not everything, but no money is everything!"
"I don't know how much Arsenal spent all year last year, with me Sean, the budget has doubled this year!!"
is rich, it is so arrogant, and one sentence calms everyone on the scene.
I don't know if I love the team or not, but he really dares to pay for it!
At this moment, the Tottenham fans who were listening next to him were jealous, and he also wanted Tottenham to be so rich!
It's not 10 years after the Premier League was founded, and it's not the most profitable league in the world.
At this lowest point, Sean believed that he could smash the legs of all the Britons with money, and the Britons who smashed would automatically split their legs and greet him in and out with a smile on his face
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Let's just say that buying a ball is a bad one, a luxury car is driving into the door, a football is bought in reverse, a villa is close to the sea, occasionally a draw is bought and a Bugatti is opened, and the underdog is betting heavily to surpass the demolition households......
Today, it's all happening!
Japan, 100,000, is less.
Finally, ask for a wave of monthly passes!
There are only more than 1,000 monthly tickets this month, which is too few......
Kneel and beg for 2,000 monthly passes, just give one per person!