In early June, Zheng Wentong and Lin Feng appeared on the streets of Madrid, Spain, and the two of them visited the Espanyol Building acquired by Wanda Group.

The Espanyol Tower is a landmark building on the streets of Madrid, with a total of 25 floors and 117 meters, next to the Royal Palace of Spain and facing Plaza de España.

After an ongoing tug-of-war between the Wanda Group and the City of Madrid, there is no result yet. The previous city government of Madrid agreed to the demolition of the Espanyol building by Wanda Group, but was replaced by a new mayor who did not agree to Wanda's demolition and reconstruction.

More than 70,000 citizens in Madrid signed a petition against the Wanda Group's demolition of the Espanyol Building, and Madrid's request to preserve the original appearance of the building's west and two-story façade was assessed by Wanda Group as the technical difficulty of the project was extremely difficult, which made Wanda Group reluctant to do so.

Wanda had previously made concessions and agreed to complete the demolition and redevelopment with the original materials, shapes and dimensions, so that the Granvia neighborhood could be preserved in its original appearance.

The Gran Via neighborhood, where the Espanyol Building is located, has been downtown since the 30s of the 20th century, and the nearby classicism, romanticism, Gothic, Baroque, neoclassical, and various styles of buildings converge together, all of which have been completely preserved, and it is a contemporary architectural museum, and the Gran Via neighborhood is also known as the Broadway of Madrid.

Lin Feng travels to Europe for a period of time every year, and he knows the architecture of the Gran Via neighborhood very well, which is even more professional than the local tour guide.

Zheng Wentong was ashamed of himself, "What is a compound talent, I have experienced it from you, do you still have any land?" ”

Lin Feng smiled, "My university is Oxford, and it is more convenient to travel between EU member states, so as long as there is a holiday, I will travel to other European countries, the football atmosphere in Europe is very good, as long as you talk about the club he likes, he is happy to invite you to have a beer." ”

"Espanyol support Real Madrid and Madridians support Atletico Madrid. Atletico Madrid are the only team in Europe to have reached the Champions League final three times before, losing all of them. ”

"Madrid's obsession with the Champions League will help us to control Atletico Madrid. Wang Dong is more anxious, if he first controls Atletico Madrid, helps the team make a breakthrough in the Champions League, and then takes over the renovation project of the Espanyol Building, the opposition in the city will be much smaller. Lin Feng said.

Zheng Wentong explained for Wang Shoufu, "Wang Dong actually understands football, and Wanda Football Club has also won many A championships. He is different from Boss Yan of Yongfang Real Estate, Boss Yan is actually a pseudo-fan in his bones, and Yongfang Football Club won the championship in the AFC Champions League, which is actually only a Jinyuan football policy, which does not help to improve the level of domestic football. ”

"Because the big leader likes football, Boss Yan invests in football. If the big leader likes basketball, Boss Yan may invest in basketball, and Yongfang Football Club is willing to spend a lot of money to introduce foreign aid, but he is unwilling to learn from Wanda to invest in football youth training. Wanda's investment in the youth training base in Liaodong City is still at the top level in China. Zheng Wentong said.

"I have also come into contact with a lot of mainland investors on Hong Kong Island, I don't know why, I feel that their investment philosophy is very anxious, and the projects that see returns in three or five years are not considered at all, and they all like to play short-term, three months or six months, and leave with a fortune. I sometimes can't help but wonder if all these investors have borrowed money. That's why you value short-term returns? ”

"Everyone knows that only by doing a good job in football youth training can we help improve the level of football in the mainland. However, the youth training system is slow to take effect, and it can't produce results. Many football officials do not have the kind of temperament that their predecessors planted trees and later generations enjoyed the shade, and football investors like Wang Dong are a minority after all. Lin Feng said.

Zheng Wentong remembered that Wanda completely withdrew from the football industry in 22 years, and he left three years of operating funds for Liaodong Football Club, and donated the football youth training base worth 1.6 billion yuan to the later controlling party of Liaodong Football Club.

After visiting the Espanyol Building, Zheng Wentong and Lin Feng appeared at the Wanda Metropolitano Arena, the home stadium of Atletico Madrid.

Accompanied by club staff, Zheng Wentong and Lin Feng visited the 67,000-seat stadium, which has not yet been completed, and it is estimated that Atletico Madrid will only start the season with consecutive away games.

Atlético de Madrid. Host. Sienrique Serezo and CEO Miguel Angel Gil are waiting for Cheng's visit.

Wanda Group invests in Atletico Madrid, Enrique. Crezo and Miguel. Angel. Gil also appeared at the signing ceremony in Yanjing, when the richest man was given an Atletico shirt with his own name on it.

Enrique. Crezo, a wealthy Spanish man and the club's largest shareholder, was the one who sold a 20% stake in the club to Wanda Group and invested in the construction of a new stadium. Since Diego. After Simeone became the coach of Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid won two runners-up in the Champions League, the semi-finals and quarter-finals many times, and also won two league titles, which is quite good.

Enrique. Cress welcomed Zheng Wentong's visit, and everyone talked about football together, and Zheng Wentong talked about the Champions League final held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff this year, Real Madrid vs Juventus.

Enrique said that as a Spaniard, he supports Real Madrid to win the title, but as an Atletico Madrid, he wants Juventus to win the title.

Lin Feng said: "In my memory, since the reform of the Champions League, there has been no team defending the champion in the Champions League, right? In this way, Juventus' hopes of winning the championship are actually quite high. ”

Zheng Wentong disagreed with Lin Feng's opinion, "Records are used to break, Ronaldo is in good shape this year, and I am optimistic that Real Madrid will win by a big score." ”

Although Enrique is cautiously optimistic about Real Madrid, he does not believe that Real Madrid will win by a large margin. If Zheng Wentong only wants to become a minority shareholder of Atletico Madrid, then it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand football, it's just a simple financial investment anyway.

If Zheng Wentong intends to control Atletico, then Zheng Wentong must ask Enrique. Crezo and Miguel. Angel. Gil has proven that he can manage a top club like Atletico.

and Enrique. Cre's left attitude is different, Miguel. Angel. Gil is wary of Zheng Wentong's arrival, and he is worried that after Zheng Wentong enters the Atletico club, he will replace him with Lin Feng. Football clubs in Europe are like big corporations, and Miguel is naturally reluctant to lose his high-paying job as CEO of Atletico Madrid.

And as CEO of Atletico Madrid, he is also a member of Miguel. Angel. Jill's other industries bring enough exposure and help him invest in business, so there are many foreign owners in Europe's top five leagues.

After Miguel heard Zheng Wentong say that Real Madrid would become the first team to defend the title after the Champions League restructuring, he was a little unconvinced, "I know that Mr. Zheng is an outstanding investor and also owns a large-scale Internet company. The Internet industry likes to use big data and then analyze the situation of each player, but the data can only be used for reference after all, after all, players are not robots. I don't know how Mr. Zheng judged that Real Madrid could win by a big score? ”

Zheng Wentong has no interest in convincing Miguel, after all, he is only a small shareholder, and the decision is ultimately made by Enrique. Clay on his left hand.

"According to our team's assessment, Atletico Madrid currently has a market capitalization of around 300 million euros and we now hold 18% of Atletico's shares. We are also preparing to acquire a 62% stake in Atletico Madrid, becoming the controlling shareholder of Atletico Madrid, and will also take over the Wanda Group's plans to renovate the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium. ”

"I would like to make a bet with Mr. Crezo and Mr. Gil that if Real Madrid can win by a margin of more than three goals, then Mr. Crezo and Mr. Gil will sell your shares for 300 million euros. When we take over Atletico, we will invest €50 million a year to help the club with reinforcements. ”

"If Real Madrid has less than three goals against Juventus, then I will buy 15% of the shares of Atletico Madrid for 50 million euros, and I will not participate in the specific operation of the club, but just make a simple financial investment. I wonder if Mr. Crezo and Mr. Jill would be interested in making this bet with me? Zheng Wentong said slowly.

With two consecutive Champions League final defeats and investment in a new home stadium, Atletico Madrid's financial situation is not optimistic, and they were planning to bring in new outside investors. Enrique. Cress is simply hesitant whether to sell a majority stake and retain his position as a minority shareholder, or sell a small stake to ease Atletico's cash flow.

Lin Feng calculated that Tonglu Investment Fund bought 18% of Wanda's equity at a price of 55 million euros, and the team's equity was worth 305 million euros.

If Real Madrid doesn't win by a big score, then Zheng Wentong will have to buy a 15% stake in Atletico Madrid for 333 million euros, which is a full 28 million euros higher than the 18% stake held by Wanda purchased by Tonglu Investment Fund.

Enrique. Crezo and Miguel. Angel. Gil glanced at each other, they didn't know that Zheng Wentong was so optimistic about the source of confidence of Real Madrid, but they were very interested in Zheng Wentong's proposal.

If it weren't for Zheng Wentong's investment, under the introduction of the agent Mendes, they would also have been in contact with the Israeli billionaire Yin Dan. All-Flo's Quantum Pacific Group.

Yin Dan is also interested in investing in Atletico Madrid and becoming a minority shareholder of the club. They just have to wait for the outcome of the Champions League final now.

After a lapse of many years, Enrique. Speaking to the media, Crezzo said: "After Atletico Madrid lost the Champions League final in successive seasons 13-14, 15-16, I sometimes think that Atletico are just a little bit of luck away from winning the Champions League. ”

"Mr. Zheng happened to make a bet with me, and I thought to myself, if Mr. Zheng's prediction succeeds, then he can bring us good luck to Atletico Madrid! Brought us back the first Champions League title in our history, and it turned out that he did it! "Enrique. Creszo is glad that he sold most of his stake in the team.